Joseph Prince - Will Christians Go Through The 7-Year Tribulation?

March 1, 2026 | 27:30

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  • Joseph prince: before the worst happens on earth,
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  • The lord will return for his own.
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  • There'll be the worst time on earth
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  • That the world has ever seen.
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  • Jesus himself said, he calls it the great tribulation.
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  • Jeremiah, isaiah call it the great tribulation
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  • And also the time of jacob's trouble.
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  • Daniel, prophet daniel says a time of tribulation
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  • Like the world has never seen.
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  • It's gonna be terrible but there are those
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  • Who teach that christians, all depending,
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  • You know, some will teach that we'll be going
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  • Halfway through it and then we'll be raptured.
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  • Some say we won't be raptured until after seven years
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  • Of great tribulation and then we'll be raptured.
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  • I want to answer these questions here tonight
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  • Because people today,
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  • There are people robbing the church of her blessed hope.
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  • And i want to restore in the name of jesus
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  • The blessed hope to every heart, every child of god,
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  • To the bride of christ.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • Your bridegroom is coming.
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  • Are you listening? amen.
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  • Now there are two phases
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  • To the second coming of the lord.
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  • And people confound the two.
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  • They confound the rapture
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  • With the second coming of the lord.
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  • The lord will return after the seven years of tribulation.
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  • He will return for israel, not for the church.
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  • For the church, he will come in the rapture, amen.
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  • One out of 22 verses of the new testament
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  • Talks about the second coming of the lord.
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  • It's a mystery the church doesn't preach it more often,
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  • All right.
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  • And because they think that it's not practical,
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  • It's not gonna help people.
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  • Well, listen carefully.
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  • If you don't preach the rapture, all right,
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  • People will be robbed of their blessed hope.
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  • So pastors and leaders that are watching,
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  • Why is it that the church is not more pure than it really is?
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  • I'm talking about purity in our actions and all that.
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  • All right, we are all sanctified by the blood of jesus
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  • Once and for all.
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  • We are all righteous, all right?
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  • We cannot become unrighteous once you are righteous, amen?
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  • That is so.
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  • But our life, why is it not more pure?
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  • It's because the church has been robbed of this blessed hope.
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  • Announcer: how would you spend today
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  • If you knew tomorrow was the rapture?
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  • We've seen enough movies to have an idea,
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  • But what does the bible really say?
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  • In today's message, joseph prince unpacks
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  • This blessed hope and reveals powerful truths
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  • About the last days.
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  • When you think about the rapture,
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  • Have you ever wondered,
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  • "will i be left behind?
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  • Will the end times be filled with fear?"
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  • In his book, "ready for the rapture,"
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  • Joseph reveals why the rapture
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  • Is not a reason to fear, but a promise of peace,
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  • And now, here is pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: now what the lord has for us today is to be alert,
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  • To be awake, to realize that you are definitely
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  • In the last days, amen.
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  • And what have we got to look forward to?
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  • I want to announce to you, the lord is our bridegroom
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  • And he's coming back for his bride.
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  • Before the worst happens on earth,
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  • The lord will return for his own.
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  • There'll be the worst time on earth
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  • That the world has ever seen.
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  • Jesus himself said, he calls it the great tribulation.
  • 00:04:30.313 --> 00:04:34.684
  • Jeremiah, isaiah call it the great tribulation
  • 00:04:34.684 --> 00:04:38.354
  • And also the time of jacob's trouble.
  • 00:04:38.354 --> 00:04:42.191
  • Daniel, prophet daniel says a time of tribulation
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  • Like the world has never seen.
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  • It's gonna be terrible but there are those
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  • Who teach that christians,
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  • All depending, you know, some will teach
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  • That we'll be going halfway through it
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  • And then we'll be raptured.
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  • Some say we won't be raptured until after seven years
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  • Of great tribulation and then we'll be raptured.
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  • I want to answer these questions here tonight
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  • Because people today, there are people
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  • Robbing the church of her blessed hope.
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  • And i want to restore in the name of jesus
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  • The blessed hope
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  • To every heart, every child of god,
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  • To the bride of christ.
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  • Can i have a good amen? your bridegroom is coming.
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  • Are you listening? amen.
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  • Now there are two phases
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  • To the second coming of the lord.
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  • And people confound the two.
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  • They confound the rapture
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  • With the second coming of the lord.
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  • The lord will return after the seven years of tribulation.
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  • He will return for israel, not for the church.
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  • For the church, he will come in the rapture, amen.
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  • Matthew 24 real quick up here.
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  • "then jesus went out and departed from the temple,"
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  • Say, "the temple."
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  • "and his disciples came up to show him
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  • The buildings of the temple.
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  • And jesus said to them, 'do you not see all these things?"
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  • All these beautiful stones and all that?
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  • He says, "assuredly, i say to you,
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  • Not one stone shall be left here
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  • Upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
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  • Now he sat on the mount of olives,
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  • The disciples came to him privately, saying,
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  • 'tell us when will these things be?'"
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  • So there are three questions here.
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  • Remember, matthew 24 is spoken, listen carefully,
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  • It's gonna help you because when you read matthew 24,
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  • Which is a very long discourse
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  • Of our lord jesus, if the second coming
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  • Is not important, pray tell me,
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  • Why did jesus speak so long on it?
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  • The entire chapter 24, he spoke on his coming
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  • And the signs of that coming before he comes.
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  • Now, listen carefully.
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  • Matthew writes to the jews.
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  • We can benefit from it, of course, okay,
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  • But primarily, the gospel of matthew
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  • Is written to the jews.
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  • There are three questions here.
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  • The disciples asked jesus.
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  • Peter, james, and john, according to mark, came to him.
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  • And andrew came to him.
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  • "tell us, when will these things be?"
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  • First question.
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  • When will this temple be thrown down,
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  • All the stones be thrown down?
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  • When will these things be that you just spoke of?
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  • Number one question.
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  • Number two, "what will be the sign of your coming?"
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  • Not the rapture.
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  • They do not know about the rapture yet.
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  • Don't forget, the rapture is a mystery.
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  • They are talking about the coming of the lord
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  • At the end of the jacob's travel,
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  • Seven years of tribulation.
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  • "what will be the sign of your coming?"
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  • Number three, "and the end of the age."
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  • What is the end of the age?
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  • What is the sign of the end of the age?
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  • Three questions.
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  • So remember when he starts his long discourse,
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  • He did answer in luke, we have more of it.
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  • He did answer about 80-70 when the romans comes in.
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  • Now, some people who are preterists, they say that
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  • The entire chapter 24 has already been fulfilled.
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  • It's 80-70, all right?
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  • That cannot be because friends, the abomination of desolation
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  • Has not yet been set up in the holy place, okay?
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  • I wanna announce to you something that will help you.
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  • Matthew 24 is not for the church.
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  • It is spoken to jewish believers who will leave
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  • In the last days after the rapture.
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  • Are you listening?
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  • The signs of his second coming.
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  • In the rapture, jesus comes for us.
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  • In the second coming, he comes with us, all right?
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  • You know what's for us and with us?
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  • Don't turn this into an english class, okay?
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  • All right?
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  • So he's coming back for his bride,
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  • But he will come back with us
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  • At the end of seven years for israel, amen.
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  • And when he comes for us, all right, it's the end,
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  • In a sense, in the end of the church age
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  • Because the church is raptured.
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  • Church is not a building.
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  • Church is made of people, jew and gentile, amen,
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  • Who have received the lord.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • In the rapture, his feet does not touch down on earth.
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  • He's in the air. he calls us.
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  • We are all raptured.
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  • "now, i know that the word, pastor prince,
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  • The word 'rapture' doesn't occur in the bible and all that."
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  • Neither does trinity.
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  • But the truth does.
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  • Triune god, amen.
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  • The word "rapture" is latin for the word caught away.
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  • And the word caught away is in the bible.
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  • "harpazo" in greek.
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  • Catching away of the church, amen.
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  • Today i'm gonna show you a lot of scriptures
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  • So that you leave this place with hope in your heart.
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  • You know, nearly every book, in fact,
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  • Nearly one out of 22 verses of the new testament
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  • Talks about the second coming of the lord.
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  • It's a mystery the church doesn't preach it more often,
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  • All right.
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  • And because they think that it's not practical,
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  • It's not gonna help people.
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  • Well, listen carefully.
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  • If you don't preach the rapture, all right,
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  • People will be robbed of their blessed hope.
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  • And not only that, they will hold on
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  • To the things of the world with such a tight fist.
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  • Now yes, we are to occupy till he comes.
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  • But listen, this is the hope that purifies.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • Do you know that in 1 john, real quick, 1 john?
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  • "beloved, now we are children of god;
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  • And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.
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  • But we know that when he is revealed,
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  • We shall be like him,
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  • For we shall see him as he is.
  • 00:09:52.535 --> 00:09:54.370
  • And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself,
  • 00:09:54.370 --> 00:09:59.175
  • Just as he is pure."
  • 00:09:59.175 --> 00:10:01.077
  • So pastors and leaders that are watching,
  • 00:10:01.077 --> 00:10:02.778
  • Why is it that the church is not more pure than it really is?
  • 00:10:02.778 --> 00:10:06.482
  • I'm talking about purity in our actions and all that.
  • 00:10:06.482 --> 00:10:08.484
  • All right, we are all sanctified by the blood of jesus
  • 00:10:08.484 --> 00:10:10.720
  • Once and for all.
  • 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:12.054
  • We are all righteous, all right?
  • 00:10:12.054 --> 00:10:13.422
  • We cannot become unrighteous once you are righteous, amen?
  • 00:10:13.422 --> 00:10:15.891
  • That is so.
  • 00:10:15.891 --> 00:10:17.226
  • But our life, why is it not more pure?
  • 00:10:17.226 --> 00:10:18.728
  • It's because the church has been robbed of this blessed hope.
  • 00:10:18.728 --> 00:10:21.664
  • Where do we find the rapture?
  • 00:10:21.664 --> 00:10:22.998
  • Well, six hours after jesus sat down with the disciples
  • 00:10:22.998 --> 00:10:26.669
  • On mount of olives,
  • 00:10:26.669 --> 00:10:28.003
  • Looking at jerusalem, talking about the future.
  • 00:10:28.003 --> 00:10:30.506
  • He was in the upper room, the last supper,
  • 00:10:30.506 --> 00:10:35.044
  • And the upper room are all truths,
  • 00:10:35.044 --> 00:10:37.780
  • What we call church truths.
  • 00:10:37.780 --> 00:10:39.982
  • It's for the church, okay?
  • 00:10:39.982 --> 00:10:42.551
  • Then he told them this.
  • 00:10:42.551 --> 00:10:43.886
  • Imagine him standing down there knowing that
  • 00:10:43.886 --> 00:10:45.755
  • Even as he's speaking, he's being betrayed.
  • 00:10:45.755 --> 00:10:48.991
  • And in a few hours' time, he'll be hanging on the cross
  • 00:10:48.991 --> 00:10:52.094
  • In that last night, you know what?
  • 00:10:52.094 --> 00:10:54.096
  • Jesus looked at them and jesus says in the upper room,
  • 00:10:54.096 --> 00:10:56.298
  • "let not your heart be troubled;
  • 00:10:56.298 --> 00:10:58.134
  • You believe in god, believe also in me."
  • 00:10:58.134 --> 00:11:00.636
  • You're about to find the key to having a heart
  • 00:11:00.636 --> 00:11:03.239
  • That is not troubled.
  • 00:11:03.239 --> 00:11:05.441
  • Are you ready?
  • 00:11:05.441 --> 00:11:06.776
  • "let not your heart be troubled; you believe in god,
  • 00:11:06.776 --> 00:11:09.111
  • Believe also in me."
  • 00:11:09.111 --> 00:11:10.613
  • Now this is spoken to the church.
  • 00:11:10.613 --> 00:11:12.014
  • "in my father's house are many mansions."
  • 00:11:12.014 --> 00:11:15.451
  • He didn't say, "in my father's house
  • 00:11:15.451 --> 00:11:16.986
  • Are many huts."
  • 00:11:16.986 --> 00:11:21.257
  • Mansions.
  • 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.027
  • "in my father's house are many mansions;
  • 00:11:25.027 --> 00:11:27.463
  • If it were not so, i would have told you.
  • 00:11:27.463 --> 00:11:30.166
  • I go to prepare a place for you.
  • 00:11:30.166 --> 00:11:33.869
  • And if i go and prepare a place for you, i will come again,
  • 00:11:33.869 --> 00:11:38.107
  • I will come again and receive you to myself."
  • 00:11:38.107 --> 00:11:41.677
  • "i will come again and receive you to myself."
  • 00:11:41.677 --> 00:11:44.847
  • This is the rapture.
  • 00:11:44.847 --> 00:11:47.149
  • Are you listening? all right?
  • 00:11:47.149 --> 00:11:49.418
  • "that where i am, there you may be also."
  • 00:11:49.418 --> 00:11:51.420
  • For the first time, jesus unveiled to them a rapture.
  • 00:11:51.420 --> 00:11:55.724
  • People call it secret rapture.
  • 00:11:55.724 --> 00:11:57.059
  • You can call it what you want.
  • 00:11:57.059 --> 00:11:58.394
  • Yes, it is for his own.
  • 00:11:58.394 --> 00:12:00.429
  • Actually the rapture is nothing more
  • 00:12:00.429 --> 00:12:01.797
  • Than us having our final inheritance,
  • 00:12:01.797 --> 00:12:06.268
  • Which is a brand new body, a glorified body.
  • 00:12:06.268 --> 00:12:10.639
  • Are you listening people?
  • 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:12.007
  • Now, there are those who say that only those,
  • 00:12:12.007 --> 00:12:14.877
  • They believe in partial rapture.
  • 00:12:14.877 --> 00:12:16.879
  • Let me just establish that the grace of god teaches us
  • 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:19.949
  • To look for the blessed hope, not for death.
  • 00:12:19.949 --> 00:12:22.818
  • You know that death is not a scriptural posture
  • 00:12:22.818 --> 00:12:24.820
  • Like people say,
  • 00:12:24.820 --> 00:12:26.155
  • You know, everyone dies once and all that.
  • 00:12:26.155 --> 00:12:27.756
  • Do you know that statement is not scriptural?
  • 00:12:27.756 --> 00:12:30.059
  • It's not new testament posture.
  • 00:12:30.059 --> 00:12:31.927
  • We have to look up, not look down.
  • 00:12:31.927 --> 00:12:35.698
  • Are you listening?
  • 00:12:35.698 --> 00:12:37.032
  • Now, in the last chapter of the bible,
  • 00:12:37.032 --> 00:12:38.968
  • Jesus actually said three times,
  • 00:12:38.968 --> 00:12:41.370
  • "behold, i am coming quickly."
  • 00:12:41.370 --> 00:12:44.540
  • "behold, i am coming quickly."
  • 00:12:44.607 --> 00:12:47.042
  • "behold, i am coming quickly." show them real quick.
  • 00:12:47.109 --> 00:12:49.245
  • Last chapter of the entire bible,
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  • Chapter 22 of revelation.
  • 00:12:50.846 --> 00:12:52.381
  • "behold, i am coming quickly." all right?
  • 00:12:52.381 --> 00:12:54.683
  • Drop down verse 12.
  • 00:12:54.683 --> 00:12:56.051
  • "and behold, i am coming quickly."
  • 00:12:56.051 --> 00:12:58.520
  • All right, and last few verses of the bible, all right,
  • 00:12:58.520 --> 00:13:01.557
  • "surely i am coming quickly."
  • 00:13:01.557 --> 00:13:05.427
  • And someone says, well, 2000 years have come and gone.
  • 00:13:05.427 --> 00:13:10.099
  • Doesn't sound so quick, okay, what they miss is this.
  • 00:13:10.099 --> 00:13:14.470
  • When he said quickly, he is not referring to,
  • 00:13:14.470 --> 00:13:17.907
  • He is not referring to time.
  • 00:13:17.907 --> 00:13:21.076
  • The word "tachus" here in greek means when he comes, bang!
  • 00:13:21.076 --> 00:13:24.647
  • It will be sudden.
  • 00:13:24.647 --> 00:13:26.248
  • That's the word quickly.
  • 00:13:26.248 --> 00:13:27.583
  • Vine says swiftly.
  • 00:13:27.583 --> 00:13:28.918
  • And in 1 thessalonians where we find the rapture,
  • 00:13:28.918 --> 00:13:34.456
  • Touch on in detail.
  • 00:13:34.456 --> 00:13:35.824
  • I think i just wanna show you first in titus.
  • 00:13:35.824 --> 00:13:38.060
  • Show them titus.
  • 00:13:38.060 --> 00:13:39.395
  • "the grace of god that brings salvation has appeared
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  • To all men, teaching us that,
  • 00:13:41.530 --> 00:13:43.132
  • Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
  • 00:13:43.132 --> 00:13:44.800
  • We should live soberly, righteously,
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  • Godly in the present age."
  • 00:13:46.235 --> 00:13:47.569
  • That's what grace will teach you, amen.
  • 00:13:47.569 --> 00:13:50.039
  • It's not for us to teach. it's for grace to teach.
  • 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:53.609
  • It's for us to teach grace
  • 00:13:53.609 --> 00:13:55.544
  • And grace will teach people, amen.
  • 00:13:55.544 --> 00:13:59.081
  • And then, another thing, verse 13.
  • 00:13:59.081 --> 00:14:01.884
  • "looking for the blessed hope."
  • 00:14:01.884 --> 00:14:03.218
  • This grace will also teach us to look for the blessed hope.
  • 00:14:03.218 --> 00:14:07.022
  • "and the glorious appearing of our great god and savior,
  • 00:14:07.022 --> 00:14:10.292
  • Jesus christ."
  • 00:14:10.292 --> 00:14:12.428
  • Can you see that? can you see that?
  • 00:14:12.428 --> 00:14:14.897
  • All right? it's part of the grace teaching.
  • 00:14:14.897 --> 00:14:17.733
  • To teach people to look for the blessed hope, amen.
  • 00:14:17.733 --> 00:14:21.303
  • Now, if not all of us are gonna be raptured, okay,
  • 00:14:21.303 --> 00:14:25.341
  • I tell you this.
  • 00:14:25.341 --> 00:14:26.675
  • Unbelievers will not be raptured.
  • 00:14:26.675 --> 00:14:28.444
  • Professing christians and not possessing christians,
  • 00:14:28.444 --> 00:14:31.947
  • They profess they have eternal life,
  • 00:14:31.947 --> 00:14:33.749
  • But they don't have eternal life,
  • 00:14:33.749 --> 00:14:35.084
  • They were never saved, they will not be raptured.
  • 00:14:35.084 --> 00:14:37.319
  • But i don't believe in a partial rapture.
  • 00:14:37.319 --> 00:14:38.954
  • If you are born again, you are going up.
  • 00:14:38.954 --> 00:14:41.790
  • You don't agree with me, we can talk about it
  • 00:14:41.790 --> 00:14:43.425
  • On our way up, all right?
  • 00:14:43.425 --> 00:14:45.227
  • But whether you believe or you don't believe,
  • 00:14:45.227 --> 00:14:47.229
  • But the point is that you are robbing yourself
  • 00:14:47.229 --> 00:14:49.331
  • Of the blessed hope.
  • 00:14:49.331 --> 00:14:50.666
  • When you see the papers and the media and all that,
  • 00:14:50.666 --> 00:14:52.401
  • You are worried about what's going to happen
  • 00:14:52.401 --> 00:14:54.370
  • In the future.
  • 00:14:54.370 --> 00:14:55.704
  • What's gonna happen to your finances,
  • 00:14:55.704 --> 00:14:57.039
  • What's gonna happen to your family and all that?
  • 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.407
  • Of all the generations, we are the generation, i think,
  • 00:14:58.407 --> 00:15:00.509
  • Of any that have seen israel
  • 00:15:00.509 --> 00:15:02.511
  • Come back as a nation, we can fully expect,
  • 00:15:02.511 --> 00:15:05.114
  • Come on, that most likely it's our generation, amen?
  • 00:15:05.114 --> 00:15:09.885
  • Are you with me so far?
  • 00:15:09.885 --> 00:15:11.320
  • So those who teach that we are going through the tribulation,
  • 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:14.857
  • They don't understand that the tribulation is seven years,
  • 00:15:14.857 --> 00:15:17.326
  • The last part of daniel's prophecy
  • 00:15:17.326 --> 00:15:19.561
  • Given by the angel gabriel,
  • 00:15:19.561 --> 00:15:22.031
  • Actually seven years, it's called the time
  • 00:15:22.031 --> 00:15:23.665
  • Of jacob's trouble, a great tribulation.
  • 00:15:23.665 --> 00:15:26.268
  • And it's called the day of god's wrath
  • 00:15:26.268 --> 00:15:28.170
  • Or the day of the lord.
  • 00:15:28.170 --> 00:15:29.505
  • The day of god's wrath.
  • 00:15:29.505 --> 00:15:31.740
  • But look at 1 thessalonians chapter 1.
  • 00:15:31.740 --> 00:15:34.410
  • 1 thessalonians 1.
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  • "for they themselves declared concerning us
  • 00:15:35.811 --> 00:15:37.446
  • What manner of entry we had to you," paul is writing.
  • 00:15:37.446 --> 00:15:40.082
  • "how you turn to god from idols,"
  • 00:15:40.082 --> 00:15:41.550
  • He told the thessalonian christians,
  • 00:15:41.550 --> 00:15:43.318
  • "to serve the living and true god and to wait
  • 00:15:43.318 --> 00:15:45.788
  • For his son from heaven."
  • 00:15:45.788 --> 00:15:47.189
  • You see, i told you, almost every book in the bible
  • 00:15:47.189 --> 00:15:49.124
  • Talks about it.
  • 00:15:49.124 --> 00:15:50.459
  • "to wait for his son from heaven,
  • 00:15:50.459 --> 00:15:51.794
  • Whom he raised from the dead,
  • 00:15:51.794 --> 00:15:53.529
  • Even jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come."
  • 00:15:53.529 --> 00:15:58.200
  • Seven years is the-- those seven years
  • 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.670
  • Is known as the day of god's wrath, all right?
  • 00:16:01.670 --> 00:16:04.706
  • In these seven years, god is pouring his wrath.
  • 00:16:04.706 --> 00:16:08.577
  • We are not, we are delivered from the wrath to come.
  • 00:16:08.577 --> 00:16:11.713
  • His writing to christians when he says
  • 00:16:11.713 --> 00:16:13.682
  • "he will deliver us from the wrath to come."
  • 00:16:13.682 --> 00:16:15.284
  • He's not referring to condemnation
  • 00:16:15.284 --> 00:16:17.119
  • That they already have.
  • 00:16:17.119 --> 00:16:18.454
  • They've been delivered from eternal wrath,
  • 00:16:18.454 --> 00:16:20.189
  • From the lake of fire all of us have.
  • 00:16:20.189 --> 00:16:22.925
  • But we will be delivered from the wrath to come.
  • 00:16:22.925 --> 00:16:27.463
  • Praise god.
  • 00:16:27.463 --> 00:16:28.797
  • "i do not want you to be ignorant brethren."
  • 00:16:28.797 --> 00:16:30.499
  • So whenever the holy spirit says,
  • 00:16:30.499 --> 00:16:32.167
  • "he doesn't want us to be ignorant,"
  • 00:16:32.167 --> 00:16:33.535
  • Don't be ignorant, all right?
  • 00:16:33.535 --> 00:16:35.070
  • "i do not want you to be ignorant concerning
  • 00:16:35.070 --> 00:16:36.538
  • Those who have fallen asleep."
  • 00:16:36.538 --> 00:16:37.973
  • Fallen asleep is a term used for believers.
  • 00:16:37.973 --> 00:16:40.442
  • We don't die because jesus has conquered death.
  • 00:16:40.442 --> 00:16:43.178
  • The sting of death is gone.
  • 00:16:43.178 --> 00:16:44.646
  • But while people are waiting for jesus to come
  • 00:16:44.646 --> 00:16:46.882
  • Should they pass on, it's called fallen asleep.
  • 00:16:46.882 --> 00:16:49.852
  • So what happened to the thessalonian believers,
  • 00:16:49.852 --> 00:16:51.687
  • They had paul in their midst.
  • 00:16:51.687 --> 00:16:53.088
  • Paul actually ministered there for three weeks,
  • 00:16:53.088 --> 00:16:54.623
  • Only for three weeks.
  • 00:16:54.623 --> 00:16:55.958
  • But during the three weeks,
  • 00:16:55.958 --> 00:16:57.292
  • Paul taught them about the rapture.
  • 00:16:57.292 --> 00:16:58.627
  • Think about it.
  • 00:16:58.627 --> 00:16:59.995
  • Three weeks, he mentioned about the rapture.
  • 00:16:59.995 --> 00:17:01.396
  • But then after paul left, some of them passed on.
  • 00:17:01.396 --> 00:17:03.499
  • Their loved ones passed on.
  • 00:17:03.499 --> 00:17:04.867
  • So they thought that these loved ones,
  • 00:17:04.867 --> 00:17:06.835
  • What's going to happen to them?
  • 00:17:06.835 --> 00:17:08.170
  • Because paul says, those who are alive will be caught up.
  • 00:17:08.170 --> 00:17:10.372
  • But my loved ones have died. will they miss the rapture?
  • 00:17:10.372 --> 00:17:12.808
  • So paul wrote to them this letter saying that,
  • 00:17:12.808 --> 00:17:16.445
  • "don't sorrow as others who have no hope
  • 00:17:16.445 --> 00:17:18.180
  • Concerning your loved ones who fall asleep.
  • 00:17:18.180 --> 00:17:19.581
  • For we believe that jesus died and rose again,
  • 00:17:19.581 --> 00:17:22.651
  • Even so god will bring with him those who sleep in jesus."
  • 00:17:22.651 --> 00:17:26.221
  • Then he says, "for this we say to you by the word of the lord."
  • 00:17:26.221 --> 00:17:29.191
  • So whatever he's about to say about the rapture,
  • 00:17:29.191 --> 00:17:31.760
  • It is not a figment of his imagination.
  • 00:17:31.760 --> 00:17:35.130
  • It is the word of the lord.
  • 00:17:35.130 --> 00:17:37.432
  • I said it is the word of the lord.
  • 00:17:37.432 --> 00:17:39.101
  • "for this we say to you
  • 00:17:39.101 --> 00:17:40.435
  • By the word of the lord," all right.
  • 00:17:40.435 --> 00:17:42.738
  • He says that "we who are alive and remain
  • 00:17:42.738 --> 00:17:45.274
  • Until the coming of the lord
  • 00:17:45.274 --> 00:17:46.608
  • Will by no means precede those who are asleep."
  • 00:17:46.608 --> 00:17:49.211
  • Drop down.
  • 00:17:49.211 --> 00:17:50.546
  • "for the lord himself." i love this.
  • 00:17:50.546 --> 00:17:52.314
  • "the lord himself, himself took our infirmities
  • 00:17:52.314 --> 00:17:57.819
  • And bore our sicknesses," amen.
  • 00:17:57.819 --> 00:18:00.556
  • "the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout,
  • 00:18:00.556 --> 00:18:04.059
  • With the voice of an archangel, with the trumpet of god.
  • 00:18:04.059 --> 00:18:06.929
  • And the dead in christ will rise first.
  • 00:18:06.929 --> 00:18:09.264
  • Then we who are alive and remain shall be
  • 00:18:09.264 --> 00:18:11.767
  • Caught up together with them in the clouds
  • 00:18:11.767 --> 00:18:13.936
  • To meet the lord in the air.
  • 00:18:13.936 --> 00:18:15.571
  • And thus we shall always be with the lord.
  • 00:18:15.571 --> 00:18:17.906
  • Therefore comfort one another with these words."
  • 00:18:17.906 --> 00:18:20.309
  • Now, let's go to 1 corinthians 15, all right.
  • 00:18:20.309 --> 00:18:26.415
  • "behold, i tell you a mystery."
  • 00:18:26.415 --> 00:18:27.816
  • The rapture is a mystery.
  • 00:18:27.816 --> 00:18:29.218
  • A mystery means you can't find it in the old testament.
  • 00:18:29.218 --> 00:18:32.054
  • Even though there are experiences of rapture.
  • 00:18:32.054 --> 00:18:35.824
  • Enoch was raptured bodily.
  • 00:18:35.824 --> 00:18:38.260
  • Elijah was raptured bodily.
  • 00:18:38.260 --> 00:18:42.297
  • Remember that?
  • 00:18:42.297 --> 00:18:43.732
  • So the rapture happened in the old testament,
  • 00:18:43.732 --> 00:18:46.501
  • But now will be a wide-scale rapture
  • 00:18:46.501 --> 00:18:50.439
  • Of the church, amen?
  • 00:18:50.439 --> 00:18:52.407
  • "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye," look at me.
  • 00:18:52.407 --> 00:18:57.112
  • That's it. all right?
  • 00:18:57.112 --> 00:18:59.181
  • Was there a twinkle? oh, you missed your chance.
  • 00:18:59.181 --> 00:19:02.150
  • Anyway, "at the last trumpet.
  • 00:19:02.150 --> 00:19:05.587
  • For the trumpet will sound, and the dead
  • 00:19:05.587 --> 00:19:07.289
  • Will be raised incorruptible."
  • 00:19:07.289 --> 00:19:09.024
  • Imagine your body is incorruptible.
  • 00:19:09.024 --> 00:19:10.993
  • "and we shall be changed for this corruptible
  • 00:19:10.993 --> 00:19:12.928
  • Must put on incorruption,
  • 00:19:12.928 --> 00:19:14.496
  • And this mortal must put on immortality."
  • 00:19:14.496 --> 00:19:18.800
  • Amen, hallelujah.
  • 00:19:18.800 --> 00:19:22.070
  • And as they go on, when this corruptible
  • 00:19:22.070 --> 00:19:23.805
  • Has put on incorruption, you're gonna have
  • 00:19:23.805 --> 00:19:25.674
  • A body that is incorruptible.
  • 00:19:25.674 --> 00:19:28.277
  • Incorruptible, you cannot grow old anymore.
  • 00:19:28.277 --> 00:19:31.113
  • You cannot have disease anymore.
  • 00:19:31.113 --> 00:19:32.648
  • No more pimples, no more wrinkles, no more falling hair,
  • 00:19:32.648 --> 00:19:35.851
  • No more falling teeth, no more falling everywhere.
  • 00:19:35.851 --> 00:19:40.155
  • We have a brand new body.
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  • This corruptible will put on incorruption.
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  • And we are not floating like a spirit.
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  • We have a body. and think of this.
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  • This body here, all right?
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  • When this mortal has put on immortality,
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  • Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written:
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  • 'death is swallowed up in victory.'
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  • 'o death, where is your sting?
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  • O hades, where is your--o hell, where is your victory?'"
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  • Drop down.
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  • "the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin
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  • Is the law.
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  • But thanks be to god, who gives us the victory
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  • Through our lord jesus christ."
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  • In the context of both.
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  • Both sin and death, christ gives us the victory.
  • 00:20:16.825 --> 00:20:21.063
  • "therefore, therefore my beloved,"
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  • Why is therefore, therefore?
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  • Because of the rapture, the mystery just unveiled.
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  • "therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable,
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  • Always abounding in the work of the lord,
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  • Knowing that your labor is not in vain in the lord."
  • 00:20:35.510 --> 00:20:38.547
  • The key to having a heart that's untroubled in john 14,
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  • "let not your heart be troubled,"
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  • The next verse says, "i'll come again
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  • And receive you unto myself."
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • The bridegroom is coming.
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  • I say the bridegroom is coming for his bride.
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  • And let's look at the final chapter
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  • Of the book of revelation in closing.
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  • It says here, "i, jesus have sent--"
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  • This is the final chapter of the entire bible.
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  • "i, jesus have sent my angel to testify to you these things
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  • In the churches.
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  • I am the root and the offspring of david."
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  • Straight away, you see what?
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  • The root is something that produce his deity.
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  • He produced david, all right.
  • 00:21:23.125 --> 00:21:26.094
  • "and i am the offspring of david."
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  • I came out of david. that's his humanity.
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  • He is the deity, and he is humanity,
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  • 100% man, 100% god.
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  • "the bright and morning star."
  • 00:21:37.606 --> 00:21:39.708
  • To the church, he appears as the bright and morning star.
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  • This is the final chapter of the new testament.
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  • But the final chapter of the old testament
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  • Is malachi or malachi.
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  • And the final chapter of the entire old testament is this.
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  • "to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise
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  • With healing in his wings," s-u-n.
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  • For the church,
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  • He comes as the bright and morning star.
  • 00:22:04.433 --> 00:22:06.902
  • For israel, he comes as the sun. which one comes first in a day?
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  • The morning star or the sun?
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  • Which one comes first? you are not sure.
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  • The bright and morning star. right?
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  • In fact, it appears very early, 4 a.m., 5 a.m.
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  • You can see it already, all right?
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  • Jesus says, "i am the bright and morning star."
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  • When the world is dark, get ready.
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  • I'm coming, amen.
  • 00:22:39.067 --> 00:22:41.369
  • The world is dark right now.
  • 00:22:41.369 --> 00:22:43.772
  • In other words, he's coming for the church first.
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  • And then, all right, when it becomes like sunny,
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  • He's dealing with israel again.
  • 00:22:52.414 --> 00:22:56.084
  • And to israel, he comes as the s-u-n, okay?
  • 00:22:56.084 --> 00:23:00.555
  • So go back to revelation, the last chapter
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  • Of the entire bible.
  • 00:23:02.591 --> 00:23:04.593
  • "and the spirit and the bride say," say it.
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  • If you have never made jesus your savior and your lord,
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  • Long before you knew him, he loved you
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  • But friend, if you've never made jesus your savior and lord,
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  • Pray this prayer and in one instant,
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  • Just like our bodies will be in one instant
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  • You'll be passed from darkness into light.
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  • I believed that you died on the cross for my sins.
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  • You bore my judgment and my condemnation
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  • Because you loved me
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  • And you rose from the dead having conquered death for me.
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  • You are my lord, my savior, my lover,
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  • My bridegroom forevermore.
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  • In jesus name, amen," amen.
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  • Let us go to the house of the lord," amen.
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