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Well if you have a Bible please turn to Luke chapter 21. We're gonna do just a

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little something different this morning. I thought I'd do a little bit of a

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prophecy update and it's important to know what is going on in our world

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especially through the lens of God's Word and Jesus gives us some pretty

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awesome insight in Luke chapter 21. He tells us what's gonna happen at the end

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of the age and I don't know about you but I'm pretty excited about that and

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he's got a whole lot more to offer than anything I've ever tasted in this life

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so it's gonna be it's gonna be really good and I'm gonna use Luke kind of as

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my security blanket this morning as we go as we go through this but before we

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start let's let's pray. Father we we thank you for your Word Lord we thank

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you that that you tell us what's gonna happen before it happens and and Lord

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then when it happens it increases our faith that you are God and there is no

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other there's no one beside you Lord no one like you and you truly have no

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rivals and so Lord Jesus we ask that you would speak to our hearts on this day

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Lord that we would maybe put some of these scriptures to memory and and Lord

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that we would remember your Word and that when we see the things coming and

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the things happening in our world Lord that that we would be very aware and

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very discerning of the times and that we wouldn't be rebuked by you and so Lord

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we just offer this time up to you now pray that you'd speak to our hearts Lord

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and you by your Spirit can confirm truth to us and so give us ears to hear in

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Jesus name amen. So I'm so glad we have this book. If this if we didn't have this

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book what would be the point to anything really? Isaiah 46 verses 9 and 10 says

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this to us listen to this "remember the former things of old for I am God and

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there is no other I am God and there is none like me listen declaring the end

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from the beginning and from ancient times thanks things that are not yet

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done saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure" that's what God

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that's who God is he knows the end from the beginning and everything in between

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he knows the end of your life in the beginning of your life and everything in

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between he sees it all at the same time go chew on that one for a while right

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how do you I can't even get my mind around the gravity the weight of this

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God that we that we serve and that you and I are subject to just reminder

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you're subject to God right you're gonna stand before him naked with no excuses

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you and I are and and so prepare yourself and he will give you a garment

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he will clothe you with his righteousness and that way you don't

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have to be embarrassed when you stand before him because the Bible says that

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if you do stand before him without his righteousness you are naked but naked

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from the inside out he sees it all right and so occasionally I want to I want to

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look through these these scriptures and also kind of bring to light some of this

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stuff we see going on and and look at the things that were prophesied of old

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old and New Testament and compare that with what's happening today I can't

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remember which Bible scholar it was but he said he would have his Bible in one

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hand and the newspaper in the other hand every morning and now it's all

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electronic mostly though I just want I just want to encourage you please have a

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hard copy right this thing can't be manipulated other than it can get beat

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up but I had an old boy tell me one time I had my grandma's Bible and I mean it

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was old and it was ragged and I read a quote in fact I wrote it in the inside

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of that old Bible it says a Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to

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somebody who isn't and I thought that's a good one and so like I said I'm going

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to use Luke 21 simply because the disciples came to Jesus and asked him

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probably the same question that a lot of us have right there and then in verse

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seven they said they said teacher but when will these things be and what sign

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will there be when these things are about to take place now we are called to

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walk by faith right so Jesus doesn't give absolute date and time that things

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are gonna happen but he does tell us what's gonna happen and the chapter

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starts with an interesting story in there in chapter 21 about a widow and

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the Bible says and I well I'm gonna read it okay you never go wrong reading the

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root and he looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury

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and he saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites and so he said

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truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all for all these

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out of the abundance out of their abundance have put in offer offerings

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for God but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had years

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ago I heard her Bill Gates had given a charitable charitable donation of a

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million dollars and people were talking about it and an old guy in my our church

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there in Twin Falls he said somebody asked him said hey do you hear Bill

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Gates gave a million dollars to a certain charity could be largest donation ever

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given and he said really I thought the middle widows mites was right because it

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says notice she gave more right she gave more because they gave out of their

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abundance and that that kind of sets the stage what's important to you in this

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life when you when you really analyze your own heart and your own pursuits in

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this life what's important to you and and and I think it's important to be

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able to answer those questions you know pretty seriously and you know I don't

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know I don't know what your pursuits are but I know that Jesus will not take

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backseat to anything or anybody okay he his his place in our lives is the

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preeminence in other words it is the first place in our lives everything else

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should come after that and and he's called us to that by you know saying you

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know if you're gonna follow me you gotta lay down her life verse 5 says then

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summoned then some spoke of the temple how it was adorned with beautiful stones

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and donations and he said these things which you see the days will come in

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which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down so

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right here he gives the first prophecy he says this temple that you put all

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your stock in right you're you're putting your I don't know maybe your

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hope or your pleasure in this building it's gonna come down right kind of like

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this life that you and I try to build it's gonna come down just saying

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I got started in the ministry doing funerals and I've never seen a u-haul

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yet right and I've heard people I've heard people pompously say well if I

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can't take you with me I ain't going they're dead no you're going right and

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you ain't taking nothing with you except for maybe the either good or bad seed

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that you sowed in this life and so I think that we should prepare for that we

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know that this happened this happened in 70 AD when Titus the Romans sacked

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Jerusalem and to this day around the the wall there you see the stones are still

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piled up Jesus will challenge you and I what we put our trust in in verse 7 it

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says so they asked him saying teacher but when will these things be and what

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sign will there be when these things are about to take place and he said take

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heed that you do not be deceived for many will come in my name saying I am he

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and the time has drawn near therefore do not go after them but when you hear of

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wars and commotions do not be terrified for these things must come to pass first

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but the end will not come immediately and that's been going on for eons right

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country against country wars and rumors of wars it's been going on for a lot

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long time the first thing but he says here is interestingly enough is do not

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be deceived why did he say that because he don't want you to be deceived I know

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that's elementary that's the truth and there is in this world that we live in

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the the greatest opportunity for people to be deceived than ever before in the

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history of mankind and there are several reasons for that one reason is we live

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in a tech technological age and the ability of tech techno lot technology to

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powerfully suggest something that is unhealthy spiritually is endless

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everything from buying something to contacting the dead right and that's

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where technology is taking us it's taking us into a world that is is a

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spiritual black hole and it will suck you in that's why you need to have a

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hard copy and of course if you have a hard copy please use it there have been

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several articles out lately about via AI they say that you can contact the

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dead dead relatives and that you can talk to Jesus it is laughable Michelle

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it is laughable but the sad thing about it is so many people are starting to put

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do you realize what an open door this is you are open the door for Satan you're

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selecting you open your chest open the little door of your heart said sit and

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jump in there would you have a heyday it's exactly what you're doing you're

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dancing with demons right you are in a very very dangerous place and that's the

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scariest thing about how we live today this this AI stuff is it's it's it's

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gonna go off the rails right the Antichrist will use this in a big way I

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don't need to talk to Jesus via AI I've got his word right here right I do not

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need to try to contact him and the Bible says a lot about this you guys yes I

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realized one of the one of the things in my life that when I've lost loved ones

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is man I just want to say one more time I love you or I just want to have that

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last conversation that's why necromancy is such a big thing right people are

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fascinated with it why do you think Twilight was such a hit right it's

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that's necromancy and it's the whole desire to to contact our dead relatives

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and the Bible condemns it severely severely Leviticus chapter 19 verse 31

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says give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits do not seek after them

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to be defiled by them I am the Lord your God and and the Bible tells us in Luke

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chapter 16 right there's a great goal fixed it's fixed God fixed it and we're

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trying to jump over it and when you do that it's blasphemous right it's

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disrespectful to the to the Lord and and he brings that out I am your Lord your

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God I am and in another place Deuteronomy chapter 18 verses 10 through

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13 it says there shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or

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his daughter pass through the fire or one who practices witchcraft or a

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soothsayer or who calls up the dead for all who do these things are an

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abomination to the Lord and because of the abominations the Lord your God

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drives them out from before you you shall be blameless before the Lord your

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God and then the last one kind of finito a man or a woman who is a medium or as a

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familiar spirits shall surely be put to death they shall stone them with stones

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and their blood shall be upon them that's what God thinks about that stuff

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and we live in a society where it's all it's all acceptable no it's not it's an

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abomination to the God of heaven don't go there all my loved ones are waiting

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there I'm gonna get to see him talk to him we're gonna have a party all right I

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just got to wait they that wait upon the Lord the Bible says that you'll renew

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your strength you're gonna have a good time don't try doing something that God

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condemns right it's just it's just not right and it's it's it's a scary place

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that we're in because it's so it's it's so easy Jesus warned of being deceived

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in Matthew 24 same message Luke comes from the Gentile side Matthew comes from

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the the the Jewish side it says for false Christ and false prophets will

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rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive listen if possible even the

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elect that's why people who don't have their guard up they're done they're

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toast they're gonna get swept away in the current of spiritual darkness by the

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lies that are out there the word elect there something oh that's just talking

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about the Jews no not necessarily this scribes those who who have chosen to

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follow the Lord that has become God's choice by freely receiving him by faith

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that's what elect means it's just too easy you guys if you do not pursue him

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on purpose you won't because I'm gonna tell you something the hounds of hell

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are pursuing you right you remember when Jesus comes to Peter goes hey Peter

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Satan's asked for you by name he's asked for every one of us by name to sift us

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his wheat but thank you Jesus for that bud right but I have prayed for you he

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says our our great high priest who ever lives to make intercession for us has

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prayed for us ask him to pray for you that your faith will be stronger than

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what Satan throws at you because it's gonna do nothing but get more bizarre

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it's just gonna get more bizarre I was sharing on Wednesday night I saw a

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woman this this week and I'm just gonna oh my gosh she was so blatantly demon

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possessed I mean blatantly demon possessed I'm just going I don't even

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know if I've ever really recognized that before but I mean this woman had some

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critter a critter or critters in her and the closer we get to the coming of the

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Lord and the the shorter the enemy knows his time is the more crazy it's gonna

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get and so you better have some Jesus going on all right so the first reason

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is we live in a tech not tech age of technology that is is just spinning out

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of control it seems secondly we're at the end of the age realize we're we're

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we're in the last of the last days most people believe the last days fools from

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the time of Christ from the Ascension the birth of the church we're in the

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church age and that we are the church is alive and well when Jesus comes and

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takes his bride the church out and Paul warns Timothy in 2nd Timothy 3 1 verses

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1 through 7 it says but know this that in the last days perilous times will

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come that we're perilous can mean fierce for men will be lovers of themselves

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lovers of money boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents

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unthankful unholy unloving unforgiving slanderers without self-control brutal

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despisers of good traitors headstrong haughty lovers of pleasure rather than

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lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power and from such

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people turn away for of this sort are those who creep into households and make

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captive of gullible women loaded down with sins led away by various lusts

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always learning and never never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and

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that's what fascinates me about the church and what the church has embraced

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over the years that they just oh it's everything's cool peace love and

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brotherhood all over America right just do whatever feels good and you can

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embrace any kind of spiritual idea and we know that that's not true but notice

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what's the problem people men are lovers of themselves lovers of money and not

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lovers of God you show me a lover of God I'll show you somebody who changes the

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world that they live in right and you show me somebody who loves himself and

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loves money and are boasters and proud and blasphemers and also show you

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somebody who destroys the world that is around them so he says there don't be

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deceived test all things and hold on to what's good test the spirits John tells

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us in first John to see whether they be of God or not is it consistent with

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what's being said or what's being taught with the Word of God so many people

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don't know the Word of God so they don't know if it's consistent sure sounds good

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right I remember my brother went to a scorpions concert when he was in eighth

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grade and and his buddy says hey man do this do this Rick goes what does it mean

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he goes I don't know but it's cool right I think that's a satanic brotherhood

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sign the sign of the goat but anyway it's just it's just crazy we just we

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just blindly do these things sometimes not even thinking I know my mom was

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fascinated with horoscopes and she grew up knowing about the Bible but she

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wasn't consistently in the Bible if you're not consistently in the Bible you

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forget the Bible and you do what's in front of you she was always looking at

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that and always talking about it and I'm just doing what's up with this like I

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read a horoscope one time said don't make any bad business deals today like

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you're gonna go out and purposely make bad business deals it's stupid but it's

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suggestive and people give themselves over to it and the enemy gets a hook in

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them don't have anything to do with that now we can study the stars the is the

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astronomy and and studies of the stars is fascinating in fact years ago I heard

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dr. G James Kennedy did a powerful net message on the gospel in the stars using

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the constellations connected to the twelve tribes of Israel is it's it's

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fascinating study but it's a study it's not a worship our worship is to be to

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one the one God like Jesus told the woman at the well the father is seeking

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those who would worship him in spirit and in truth let's take another chunk

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Taylor read in verse 10 of Luke 21 he says then he said to them nation will

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rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be great

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earthquakes in various places and famines and pestilences and there will

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be fearful sights and great signs from heaven but before all these things they

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will lay their hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to the

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synagogues and prisons you will be brought before kings and rulers for my

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namesake but it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony therefore

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settle in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer for I

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will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to

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contradict or resist you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers

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relatives and friends and they will put some of you in some of you to death and

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you will be hated by all for my namesake but not a hair of your head shall be

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lost by your patience possess your souls so he starts with some stuff that's

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gonna happen from the time that he speaks all the way through great

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earthquakes in various places famines pestilences fearful sights great signs

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from heaven and so he starts with that but then he zeros in on the disciples and

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the Apostles he says they're gonna come get you I don't if you've ever read Fox's

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book of martyrs but all the all the Apostles save John were martyred they

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were killed and they were they they they did it with a smile on their face right

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because they knew their end they had come to grips with their death they had

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watched their Savior die on a cross broke their heart but then they saw him

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rise from the dead and spend 40 days with them and speak into them and their

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fear was gone their fear of death was gone is yours it needs to be it needs to

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be gone because I believe that we're living in an age where they are talking

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about stuff you guys it's like are you serious you want to kill people these

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these pestilences it kovat was a pestilence the new one that's coming so

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there everyone's talking about it it's almost like we're trying to be they're

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trying to condition us oh yeah you'll have to you know the conspiracies you

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hear pretty wild right but but the last one I heard it was it was it was

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provocative even if it's just a they said the first covert was kind of dialed

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in to attack the old kill the old some of you would agree with that maybe I

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know I had some old friends that died the next one is gonna be dialed in at

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kids because with kids they got leverage right you'll do anything for your kids

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you wouldn't want your kids to die would you you know kids die all the time

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but death has no hold should have no hold over us when you start thinking

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about those things is wow that's heavy right that's a heavy thing what would

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you do to save their life or would you just prefer to have them with Jesus

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that's kind of where the rubber meets the road isn't it it's a lot of silence

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in here right now that is very thought-provoking is it not I mean years

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ago they had the old the old end of the age movies you know thief like a thief

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in the night and one of them was they had these parents and a child and they

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took the child to the guillotine we're trying to get them to denounce Christ

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the guillotine is the thing that cuts their head off and some of you are

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sitting here and saying well I didn't come to church to hear this today but I

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just I just want to be real and people lose their kids been praying for the

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the right family Spencer's a little boy that was swept down a kind of a a flash

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flood sort of a thing there by their house and they don't they don't know if

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he's gonna make it I don't know if he's still alive or not but three years old

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praying for them but who's that little guy I belong to really when when we

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dedicated our kids the pastor he was here a couple weeks ago pastor Greg and

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when you dedicate your children at lighthouse they would make you fill out

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a form and on that form was this kid belongs to God and he's God's anytime he

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wants to take him and you had to sign off on that so if you can dedicate them

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you're really gonna dedicate him or it's just you just going through the motions

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so I don't know there's so many conspiracies out there all I need to do

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is focus on Jesus cuz I can't figure it at all I mean this this fiasco in

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Manhattan was just what a farce right and so it but it's the times we live in

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right although all the things I just read there in and in Timothy right

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telling a second Timothy there chapter 3 it's it's so true it's what we see going

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on around us even right now and so part of this prophecy that Jesus prophesies

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fulfilled but some of it is still coming right the the Bible calls the the the

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the trouble and the turmoil that the world goes through is like a like a

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birth pain right now I know some of you have have experienced birth pains and

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some of us guys have witnessed it wasn't quite as painful for me as it was for my

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wife but the intensity level and the frequency right it increases it's more

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frequent and more intense and that's what we seen we're seeing crazy storm

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cycles all over the world it snowed in Dubai guys know where Dubai is we flew

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into Dubai here about 15 years ago we got there at midnight we got out of the

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plane was a hundred and five degrees at midnight and bizarre bizarre stuff but

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Jesus said that's right he says earthquakes in various places and

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famines and pestilences and fearful sites great signs I love what he tells

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you listen I don't care what they do to you he says here verse 18 but not a hair

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of your head shall be lost I will totally preserve you through this this

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trial and this the in the killing of your body I'm gonna preserve every cell

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of your being and by your patience possess your souls we have to be

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patient in these times for several reasons because the Lord calls us to be

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to be patient and to count it all pure joy James tells us when you fall into

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various trials that's a hard thing right he says count it joy doesn't mean you

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need to do jumping jacks yeah right joy is different than happiness joy as your

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as something deep in your heart where you're you're you're at peace no matter

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what verse 20 says but when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies then know

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that its desolation is near then let those who are in Judea flee to the

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mountains let those who are in the midst of her depart and let not those who are

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in the country enter her for these are the days of vengeance that all things

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which are written may be fulfilled but woe to those who are pregnant and to

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those who are nursing babies in those days for there will be great distress in

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the land and wrath upon the people and they will fall by the edge of the sword

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and be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem will be trampled by

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Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled this is a fascinating

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scripture here and when it says when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies that's

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happened several times in the last couple thousand years it's happened in

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the last hundred years many believe that in in 1948 in 1967 that they were

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surrounded by armies and so the the tribulation that it talks talking about

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here there's two two thoughts the first thought is that it's it's when Titus did

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come in in 70 AD and demolished Jerusalem they that's when they tore it

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all the rocks down because they set fire to the temple they said not not intending

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to because Herod had just remodeled it for the last 40 years but that because

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of the gold went down between the the rocks melted and went down that's why

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they tore it stone upon stone to retrieve the gold out of the temple

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there in Jerusalem the other thought is that this is the tribulation period

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which I would have to agree with here in Luke that it is it is it says for these

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are the days of vengeance that all things which are written must be

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fulfilled but woe to those who are pregnant and nursing babies in those

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days for they will be in great distress and the land will and wrath will be upon

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this people and they will fall by the edge of the sword many believe that

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that's when the woman in Revelation flees into the wilderness Revelation 12

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6 and the woman fled into the wilderness where she had place prepared by God that

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they should feed her there for 1260 days that's the last half of the

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tribulation period so there's a seven-year tribulation period that's

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going to come people say when after the rapture of the church the church will be

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gone when the tribulation period starts right so the next thing on the prophetic

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calendar is the rapture of the church that Jesus is going to come and snatch

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his bride out that word rapture right people say oh that words not in the

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Bible no what's caught up rap to sources is Latin the or ha puzzle in the Greek

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it means to be snatched out taken out I always from being you know horse got the

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word equine isn't in the Bible either but horses so that's a set that's a sad

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argument but that's the next thing that's gonna happen right and that she's

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she's gonna be protected one-third of the Jews are gonna survive the

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tribulation period the seven-year tribulation period spoken of dance no

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called Daniel 70th week it's called Jacob's trouble it's a seven-year period

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of time and it's coming maybe faster than we think but what starts the clock

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ticking people want to know the peace treaty the Antichrist will sign a peace

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treaty with Israel with the Jews and that starts the seven-year clock because

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Daniel tells us in the middle of the week 300 1260 days in that he's gonna

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break that covenant that peace treaty he's gonna start taking over Jerusalem

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do you realize if we did not have Israel if Israel was not present with us today

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like they are we would know none of this nothing absolutely no direction no idea

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of future events it's true Missler nailed it when he said Israel is God's

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timepiece that's where time began and that's where time's gonna end and boy is

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it getting hairy over there right Netanyahu's coming and I'm probably

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getting ahead of my notes here I'm I'm already lost so they can mess they can

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mess with Israel all they want they can mess with Jerusalem all they want they

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will listen they will not be victorious they will not and it's promised in

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Zechariah 13 verses 8 9 it says and it shall come to past in all the land says

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the Lord that two-thirds right this is through the tribulation period that

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two-thirds in it shall be cut off but one-third shall be left and I will bring

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one-third through the fire will refine them as silver is refined test them as

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gold is tested they will call on my name and I will answer them I will say this

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is my people in each one will say the Lord is my God that's what that seven

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years is for is to to get the Jews attention Daniel says that specifically

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70 weeks are determined for your people 69 of those weeks are behind us there's

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only one in front of us that's the seven year tribulation period now people say

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well all right who's the Antichrist Trump he's going to jail you realize

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this guy might be the first guy ever to rule America from a jail cell now I'm

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not Satan Trump's not guilty he's probably guilty of a lot of things just

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like you and I are right but this this what they did there is just it it's it's

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a sham man it's just it's it's it's wild totally political the people see it

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I don't know the last part of this this little bit that I just read was the time

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of the Gentiles right we've we've all heard that right anybody in Bible

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circles heard the not till the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled what is Jesus

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talking about honestly I think well the Gentiles kind of ruled and reigned the

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whole Palestinian area till 1948 and so some think that the time of the Gentiles

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was completed in 1948 but there were still some skirmishes they didn't

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totally have their feet under him yet and then the 1967 war happened people

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said well now the time of the Gentiles has been fulfilled years ago I was

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listening to John course and teach he was one of my favorite Bible teachers

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and he said you know we've been in spiritual overtime since 1967 because he

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thinks the time of the Gentiles was completed then but then you have 1973

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the Yom Kippur War when they took back over Jerusalem what about now they just

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took Gaza back so those Gentiles are out the penance Palestinians are Gentiles

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just like you and I are right for most of us some there are some Jews in here

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I think or you got some got some Jewish roots interesting stuff but they're

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they're calling for this this this two-state solution it's not gonna happen

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ever there nobody wants a two-state solution except for the other countries

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and so maybe that's what this is talking about with the the time of the Gentiles

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being fulfilled all the Gentiles nations around Israel are telling trying to tell

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them what to do when the Gentiles quit meddling with Israel then maybe but

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that's only when Jesus comes so the time of the Gentiles not gonna be fulfilled

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till Jesus comes I don't know I'm not saying that doctrinally I'm just saying

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that these Gentile nations Spain Ireland and Norway have all expressed their

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intention to make official their recognition of a Palestinian state while

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dozens of countries have recognized a Palestinian state none of the major

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Western powers have done so praise the Lord because Israel don't want a

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Palestinian or a two-state solution and Palestine definitely don't want a

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two-state solution Israel I think would do it but they know that Palestine don't

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want the Palestinians don't want it they want Israel gone they don't want a

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two-state solution there is no two-state solution and God won't allow it because

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it's his and he's only sharing it with the Jews for a while in Ezekiel 38 right

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we see Russia Turkey Iran Sudan Libya come against Israel and Israel stands

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all by itself so this is gonna be really interesting Netanyahu's I think he might

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be over here right now he's gonna talk to our leaders some of them are

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questionable Mike Johnson I think he he has Israel back Israel's back I don't

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know who else in the administration I know Biden doesn't that's why Biden

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didn't want him to go into Rafa because of what they found in Rafa right the

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smuggling tunnels going into Egypt and and the US had knowledge of that so

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they say and that's that's why they didn't want him going to enter Rafa and

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I guess Netanyahu begrudgingly agreed to a ceasefire but I think that's only

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until the the Hamas you know takes a potshot and then ceasefires over but in

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in 38 it says that Russia Iran Turkey Sudan they all they call all come in

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they come against Israel they hate Israel they want to take Israel some

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think they want to do it monetary for a monetary reason which it does say in

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Ezekiel 39 that they come to take a spoil what's interesting is Erdogan

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from Turkey and Raisi from Iran were talking in January January 24th and this

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is what Raisi said he said inshallah inshallah means Allah willing the

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Zionist regime will disappear it's interesting that he said that because

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just a few days ago he's the one that disappeared yeah Raisi from Iran told

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Erdogan Allah willing the Zionist regime will disappear well Allah ain't got much

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power right because Jehovah said no you're gonna disappear and he's dead in

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that helicopter crash just 12 days ago on the 19th of May is when that chopper

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went down God does God's gonna keep doing this stuff so the whole world

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will know that he's God the whole world's gonna know he's God I don't know

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why they don't now all you have to do is look at that little strip of land from

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October 7th till now and see what has happened it's like you don't believe God

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has a hand in this you're a fool

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Ezekiel 38 23 says thus I will magnify myself and sanctify myself and I

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will be known in the eyes of many nations then they shall know that I am

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the Lord Ezekiel 39 says so I will make my holy name known in the midst of my

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people Israel and I will not let them profane my holy name anymore they

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profane it now they profaned the name of the Lord now the Jews do and that's why

427
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,880
people get so upset with me you're standing with Israel yeah I'm standing

428
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with Israel because God stands with Israel do I agree with Israel no they're

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a bunch of sinners back Tel Aviv is the gayest city in the world I don't agree

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with that he says they will profane my name no more then the nation shall know

431
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that I am the Lord the Holy One in Israel surely it is coming listen to

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this it is coming and it shall be done says the Lord God this is the day which

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I have spoken God settled said it and that settles it it is a done deal and

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00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:55,440
you either believe that or you don't he is dead serious about this stuff don't

435
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mess with these people don't mess with these land and definitely don't mess

436
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with his son because there is going to be hell to pay just saying yesterday

437
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:16,320
congressional leaders invited Netanyahu to come in and address the US lawmakers

438
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I wonder what he's gonna say right our government is so corrupt well they even

439
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:31,120
recognize what's just I mean should the should the should Netanyahu listen to

440
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anything that the Americans have to say who are they to tell them what to do

441
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:40,160
that'd be like Australia or Canada coming and telling us what to do if

442
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Mexico or China or somebody invaded us it's ridiculous now they need to totally

443
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:51,760
eliminate Hamas and it looks like it has below is next on the list they won't

444
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quit and I think that they'll do it

445
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Israel has a just cause and our our judicial system obviously is in

446
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question now after this last week and it's amazing the the corruption that is

447
00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:16,360
in our government actually I they lie when the truth would serve them better

448
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and judging from the primaries here in Eastern Idaho the last couple weeks it's

449
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:31,480
looking like we need to go down a little further we're still spiraling down

450
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:39,920
there's not a reprieve in the in the near future so either get your army

451
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:45,200
boots on and keep pressing in or we I guess we can just fold and let them have

452
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,720
everything and let them do whatever they want to do and I guess they can tell us

453
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:55,160
whatever we want to do it appears to me that tyranny has begun here in our

454
00:47:55,160 --> 00:48:10,760
country yes so what's the next step hey pastor what do we do I don't know okay

455
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:18,120
we pray we vote we let our voices be heard and if that don't work

456
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:32,920
load your Winchester I mean that's why our founders gave us the Second

457
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:40,560
Amendment right it's like oh Lord now now no people said now you Christians

458
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:47,360
you can't take up arms a whole bunch of our founders did that were believers in

459
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:57,080
Jesus right they took up arms to keep the tyranny of of England away I think

460
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:07,400
we're not far away from civil unrest and as Christians the thing that is kind of

461
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:15,040
the kicker is we're the government right in Bible times Caesar was the government

462
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right it was a dictatorship but in this government it's of for and by the people

463
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now I I want to be with the Lord I mean if I am NOT supposed to carry and weapon

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and and just be a lamb for the slaughter so be it I don't it doesn't really

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bother me I mean it's not that big a deal right I win and but if if God's

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calling me to preserve something for my kids and my grandkids now now wait a

467
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minute that kind of sounds and then they're gonna have to do that they're

468
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gonna have to do the same thing I don't know honestly I know that's something

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that we all have to be persuaded in our own mind what Paul tells us there in in

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Romans but I do know this I know that Jefferson said a little bloodletting is

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good for the Republic a little bit of bloodletting is good for the Republic

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but he's the same one that said the Republic is great if you can keep it I

473
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don't know if we can keep it when it gets this corrupt how do you reestablish

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the Constitution everybody knows it they just ignore it what's kind of like the

475
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Word of God a lot of people know the Word of God they just ignore it they're

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lovers of themselves there were lovers of money there are lovers of their own

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pursuits in this life verse 25 I'm gonna try to get through this oh wow sorry and

478
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there will be signs in the Sun and the moon and in the stars and on the earth

479
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distress of nations with perplexity the sea and the rate and the waves roaring

480
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:07,560
men's hearts failing them for fear and the expectation of those things which

481
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are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven will be shaken then they will

482
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see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory now when

483
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these things begin to happen look up and lift your heads because your redemption

484
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:29,040
draws near so signs in the heaven yes northern lights there's solar eclipses

485
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,640
there's lunar eclipses there's there's blood moons there's all those things

486
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what are those things mean don't get what all watered up about him just

487
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watch him hey signs signs the God of heaven controls the blood moons and he

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controls the eclipses and we've got to see two in the last whatever and it's a

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it's an awesome thing does it turn your heart to the Lord when you see these

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00:51:53,400 --> 00:52:04,560
things it should distress of nice nations with perplexity the idea that

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there is no way out people are feeling that way and a lot of nations around the

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world I think it's interesting that the young people in in Iran they love the

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West they love America it's the regime that calls us the great Satan because of

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the freedoms that we have little do they know they're growing wings and flying

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away these freedoms that we have so it says men's hearts failing them for fear

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00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:44,280
of those things coming upon the earth people actually dying revelations 9 6

497
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talks about a time during the tribulation when men can't even die and

498
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they want to in those days men will seek death and will not find it they will

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desire to die and death will flee from them revelation 9 6 imagine that what

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yeah

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on a little a little bit of bright news I can share some good news with you this

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was the House of Representatives on Thursday voted along bipartisan lines to

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advance legislation backing the Federal Reserve from creating its own central

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00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:28,440
bank digital currency three Democrats joined all Republicans in voting for the

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bill moderate represent or excuse me Republicans Jared or excuse me moderate

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representatives Jared Jared Golden Mary Patola and another gal I can't pronounce

507
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:48,840
her last name from Washington all Democrats they voted to have the central

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00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:56,800
bank digital currency blocked they call it an anti-surveillance state act was

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00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:03,960
led by a house majority whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota and backed by Republican

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00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:08,720
members of the House Financial Services Committee once the once the and this is

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something that when I'm gonna end here with Jesus telling us to watch and pray

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00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:17,280
this is something we need to be watching right we're watching the whole financial

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00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:23,000
world it's just it's bizarre right you got dollars and you got bricks and you

514
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,760
got Bitcoin and you got guys talking about gold what's better Bitcoin or gold

515
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:32,280
what's you know what's more fluid Bitcoin is what's more solid gold is

516
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:38,800
obviously but all the financial stuff going on when when when there's one

517
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:45,840
currency around the world hang on to your hat Fred right it's gonna get crazy

518
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:54,520
and and this seems to be a coming much faster maybe than then we think I don't

519
00:54:54,520 --> 00:55:05,920
know but it's it's coming and they actually they're they're actually

520
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:14,000
talking now about digital IDs digital IDs and I read this article it says

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governments seek to digitize their citizens in an effort to universalize

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government services while the banking while the banking travel and insurance

523
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:28,520
industry aim to create more seamless processes for their products and

524
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:34,800
services right seems good right but then they they can control your every move

525
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:40,440
they know exactly where you're at all the time so there is no privacy with

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00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,840
this stuff when it's going to be instituted and it's happening in other

527
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:50,000
nations the central digital banks are all the rage in some nations already so

528
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:54,760
we're gonna get there it's like these guys kind of said no wait a minute let's

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00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:59,800
give ourself a little time see what we do here these are all things you and I

530
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:07,080
need to be watching right don't just go about your own little thing be watching

531
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:15,880
engage in conversation with people Jesus says I'm gonna jump down to verse 34 but

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00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:20,600
take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing and and

533
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:27,360
the cares of this life for the day that day will come on you unexpectedly for it

534
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:32,240
will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth

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00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:37,240
watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all

536
00:56:37,240 --> 00:56:42,080
these things which will come to pass and to find and to stand before the Son of

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Man pray you know being a pre-tribulationist any tree pre trippers

538
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:55,840
in the house don't condemn yourself you're incriminating yourself right a

539
00:56:55,840 --> 00:57:01,920
pre-tribulationist that's that's somebody who believes that Jesus gonna

540
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,840
came take his church out but before the signing of the peace treaty that starts

541
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:15,760
the seven-year clock ticking they call us pre-tribulationist escapist well

542
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:21,400
Jesus said to pray that you escape these things coming upon the earth right so

543
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:25,960
okay that's biblical that's right in line with the teaching of Jesus you know

544
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:31,480
okay if I have to go through tribulation like I said I don't really care but it

545
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:35,440
says here pray that you counted worthy that you escape these things coming upon

546
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:45,720
the earth and so that's what I'm gonna pray for watch pray watch pray do it

547
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:50,920
every day I try to do it every day I watch and pray I first watch God's Word

548
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:56,480
right I check what's going on in the world and I'm praying watching and

549
00:57:56,480 --> 00:58:01,560
praying because you know what he's coming quickly right at the end of the

550
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:08,040
book of Revelation Jesus says it three times in chapter 20 22 three times he

551
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:16,720
he says four times actually three times in 22 once in chapter 3 chapter 3 it

552
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:22,400
says behold I am coming quickly hold fast what you have that no one may take

553
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:31,400
away your crown and then I'm gonna turn there real quick and rev rev 22 where he

554
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:38,840
says in verse verse 7 he tells us

555
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:45,720
behold I am coming quickly blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of

556
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:49,280
this book maybe you need to do a little refresher course and read the book of

557
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:55,680
the Revelation right I can't do it it just freaks me out well be freaked out

558
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:00,520
because it'll get you ready right it'll remind you that that Jesus is coming

559
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:04,480
quickly then again he interrupts in verse 12 and behold I am coming quickly

560
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:09,960
and my reward is with me to give to everyone according to his work I am the

561
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:18,640
Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last right and

562
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:24,640
last of all in verse 20 he who testifies to these things says surely I am coming

563
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:31,840
quickly and then John ends it with even so come quickly Lord Jesus you know if

564
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:43,120
if if you've got something you want to do before he comes you you're crazy

565
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:52,960
there is nothing that can compare to his coming some you know some young people I

566
00:59:52,960 --> 01:00:04,160
want to get married oh please let me you don't want to get married I won't have a

567
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:09,160
baby no yeah promise you you don't want to have a baby compared to Jesus coming

568
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:16,120
you want to get married and have a baby have you lost your mind this is so much

569
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:22,800
freer and so much more painless for Jesus to come I want to get my driver's

570
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:26,100
license believe me everybody in here doesn't want you to have your driver's

571
01:00:26,100 --> 01:00:40,360
license I mean it is really ridiculous the things we come up with right but in

572
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:48,640
comparison there is no comparison to our God amen and he's coming and he's coming

573
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:52,040
quickly I hope you're ready if you're not then do get ready right now let's

574
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:57,080
pray father thank you and I know there may be some that need to get ready and

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01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:01,640
Lord they can do that by just surrendering to you right now Lord they

576
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:05,480
can physically throw their hands of the air in their heart they just said Lord

577
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:10,040
my life is yours please take it do with it what you will forgive me of my sin I

578
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,840
turn from my sin and I turn to you with all my heart you pray that prayer and

579
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:17,760
you mean it from the bottom of your soul you're a new person and your

580
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:22,840
citizenship is in heaven the place where we all want to end up so Lord would you

581
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:27,960
be with us this week and Lord as we watch and as we pray about the things

582
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:31,840
that we see coming up on the face of the earth Lord would you give us give us a

583
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:36,080
passion to know you and to go deeper with you Lord and that that we could be

584
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:40,480
like those apostles and disciples Lord that didn't even need to prepare what

585
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:44,080
they were gonna say but you filled their mouth by your Holy Spirit Lord would you

586
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,920
do that in us Lord as we talk to our neighbors as we talk to our co-workers

587
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:52,080
Lord as we talk to you Lord that you would speak your truths into our hearts

588
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:57,720
and our minds and our souls Lord that we would be a bold fruitful people Lord

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01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:04,800
until you come we pray it in Jesus mighty name amen let's all stand