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I want to welcome you today. Have a very important broadcast I'm doing. There's been so much conversation around, are we in the end times? Where are we going? Where are we headed next? Well, I want to take a biblical perspective on this today. I want to look at what the word of God has to say, begin to analyze some of it and really bring hope to you. Because, you know, in the middle of a present and evil time, there is hope for you. There is hope for you. And God's calling you to rise up in the midst of this. This brings glory to Jesus. John 15 says that to bear much fruit and that that fruit would remain. And it doesn't matter what the climate of the culture is, what's going on globally, or anything of the sort. God is with you. Jesus is Lord. It's time to encourage yourself in the Lord and rise up under the pressure that we're facing globally, even today. All the things we see going on in the world. I want to take a moment and focus on the Word of God in the midst of it all. 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I'm going to go into today some of the most, I guess, riveting, gripping things that's coming at the end of the age where we're going. What did Jesus really say about it? Where are we headed? Well, I'm going to start out with drawing something on the whiteboard that I think will help you. It's something I draw periodically, but. But I want you to get ahold of this to understand there is a great hope. Our future is so much better than the present. Our future is so much better than what you've experienced in the past. What God has for us on the other side of the veil at the end of the end, at the end of the age is absolutely magnificent. And I'm excited to go into it. So let's do this. I'm gonna go to the board, I'm gonna draw this out, then we're gonna jump into the word of God and, and there's so much we could talk about today in the news and the media, all that. But I wanna just simply focus on what Jesus is saying at the end of the age. Where are we headed? Shout out. Going red. Shout out. Paid in full today. Thank you for being here. And let's jump into this right now. Here we go. I'm gonna go over here. Okay. When we're looking at the world and the way it's going, we've gotta recognize there is a timeline, that God has purpose for man. You recognize this, there's a timeline. We've talked about this, but it's eternity past. And let's call this eternity future. Okay? Eternity future. You know, many people discuss this is the world ancient, is the world much older than modern biblical people have said it is. You know, we have the 6000, I'll put 6k 6000 year narrative age of the earth. We also have people that believe it could be millions if not billions of years old. This is what is commonly known as the old Earth theory. And quite frankly, if this is absolutely we find out is true when we get to heaven that the earth is only 6,000 years old. That's wonderful. It doesn't shake my faith one bit. If this ends up being the narrative. This doesn't shake my faith one bit. And there's many people that argue intensely over this issue. I'm not one of those. I'm not here to argue what is right because. But I see evidence both ways and that's what makes it intriguing. I see evidence that you can stand on for a 6,000 year old Earth or evidence for millions if not billions of years old. And this is where people get into this terminology of the gap theory. I'm sure you've heard of this, the gap theory. The gap theory is where in Genesis, between chapter one, verse one and two, they say there's a gap there. And the gap could be that The Lord created the Earth, and then between verse one and verse two, he created it perfect all the things. And then between verse one and verse two could have been millions, if not billions of years, which would coincide with popular scientific studies. The way they measure stars. Some people have a theory that says God created the Earth in a snapshot, and he created it with age intact. In other words, he created Adam at the age he was. And he was. He was created that way with his age. And that's why there's rings in trees. That's why there is the solar system in the universe is spread out because God created it that way instantly. Now, the only thing about that is the only question mark I have, which doesn't refute it completely, but it makes me consider, well, then why would God hide it from us if he was doing that, if he created it instantly with all that, then why would he make us believe that it was created with that history all the way back and then not just basically tell us that plainly? The answer is that could be the case that he did do it. But it seems like he wouldn't cloak and dagger it that way to me, just looking at God's nature and His Word. But that could be what happened, or it could be 6,000 years old, or it literally could be millions or billions of years old. They're finding things. In one recent research moment I had, I was looking into the age of objects, the age of scenarios. You got things like Gobekli Tepe. You've got areas where they even found a recent structure that was either a bridge or a hut or a house, and they dated it at 400,000 years old. Now, either it's a deception or either it's real and it matches this narrative. But 400,000 years is a lot older than 6,000. But that being said, let's stick with what the Bible says. These are not make or break your faith issues. They're just interesting issues to talk about. Now, let's go into where we're headed. We realize this is the Old Testament narrative. Creation, right? Creation of man, creation of the world. Whether it's these ages or not. We recognize then that man was created. Adam and Eve. Then we go into the time of, you know, the kings, the prophets, all the things that we can talk about, the Judges, even before all that. You recognize so many things that the Lord did in these different times, as Ephesians says, in the various times and seasons. And Ephesians calls it dispensations. But when we're looking at this, you realize this is where it all was. And you're coming all the way up to then the Old Testament prophets, the major, the minor. Now when you use terms like major and minor prophet, it doesn't mean one is better than the other. It means the size of their writings. So Isaiah being a major prophet, then you realize the book of Jonah was a minor prophet. It was a smaller book. That's why you say major and minor. But when you're looking at all these things, you recognize this is what God was doing at this time. You see the kings, all of it. Then there's the law. And we recognize that Moses, so much that's going on here. And then we come into this time that is known as the current. But just before we get there, there was events that had to happen. And so we recognize there was what people call the silent years leading up to this. God is never silent, but it just wasn't recorded in history the way it was at other moments. Now we come to the most crucial and pivotal point in all of history and that is Jesus. His death, burial, resurrection. Jesus is Lord. We recognize the cross. What he did on the cross is the center point of all history. This is when everything changed. Now, it needs to be said that a lot of people think that there's no difference between the Old Testament and what we call the New Testament era. They just think the only difference between this era here, just put a bloodline between this era and this era is, is nothing but a blank page in our Bible, right? The Old Testament and the New Testament. They just think, well, that's the blank space in our Bible. No, there's a big difference. Hebrews 7 says that if the law changes, or rather I should say if the priesthood changes, there must be a change of the law. Jesus fulfilled the law of the Old Testament, came into the New, took on the priesthood in the order of Melchizedek. And when he did this, in Hebrews chapter seven, it says, it says that if the priesthood changes, the law must change. So the Old Testament law is not abolished. It's been fulfilled in Christ Jesus. He's the new high priest. So we recognize there's a difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament. The law is still very active, but if you're in Christ Jesus, the law is fulfilled. If you're in Christ, that's what you recognize. Now there's so many things I could get into and teach on this, but I'm going to go forward for the sake of what we're talking about today. It continues. So when Jesus died and was resurrected on the cross. He died for the sins of man. He died for the sins of the whole world. Those who receive him are now in him and they believe on Him. They put their faith in him. 100% God in the flesh, standing here on earth. We believe in the name of the One he sent. Now, when this happened, this created what we call the Age of Grace. The Age of Grace, you could call this the church Age. And we recognize this is where we are. This is the time that we've lived in for the past 2000 roughly years. We recognize this now when this time is happening, which it is right now. This is where we are. We've got to recognize a number of things. This is going to end with an explosion. And that explosion begins, begins. And I'm going to do a rundown on kind of where it all goes. Then I'm going to come back to this and talk about where we are. But the explosion begins with a lot of birth pangs, a lot of things leading up to it, things shaking. And suddenly the church, the ecclesia, the believers, will be caught away into the air. This is what many people say is or is not in the Bible. But I want to give you this scripture very quickly. We recognize First Thessalonians, First Thessalonians chapter 4, chapter 4, and verse 15. It says, for this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will be by no means precede those who are asleep. Verse 16. For the Lord himself, the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout. He doesn't touch down on the earth at this point. The Lord will touch down on the earth with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. And then verse 17 goes on to say, then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we will always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words. You know, the Bible tells us to comfort one another with these words. There's a lot of things doctrinally and theologically I could get into with this, but people say the word rapture is just some 1800s mechanism. That's not true because 1st Thessalonians 4 talks about it. So when you recognize this, the rapture is. They say it's not in the Bible. People say this. I appreciate that, but. But when you look in the Latin term for rapture, which is where we get, you know, the vulgate, we get things that is really the foundation of the New Testament text we're reading right now. The word harpazo, the catching away, being caught up in the air. The Latin word is rapamir and rapamere is where we get the transliteration of the word rapamir. In English we just call it rapture for the catching away. So yes, the word rapture is not in the Bible, but that's it. The mechanism is rapamere is what you see in the Latin and you see that word rapture. So we're caught away with the Lord. This is where I believe we go to the judgment seat of Christ known as the bema. I won't go way into this right now. We could another time give all the scriptures for it. But the bema seat or the judgment seat of Christ, that's what the bema seat is. It's where it's a rewards judgment. It's where he wipes away every tear. It's also the marriage supper of the lamb. Now this is what's going to be happening in this rapture narrative. When we're caught away. It says we will meet the Lord in the air. Those who are dead in Christ will rise first and we together will be caught up behind them and meet the Lord in the air. There's a lot we could get into with that, but I'm just going to keep it high level for the moment. And you also recognize we see him as he is. The scripture says when we see him, we will be made like him, for we'll see him as he is. Well, I believe that happens when we're caught away. We're going to meet the Lord in the air. We're going to meet him in the air. He does not touch the ground. In this scripture, we're meeting the Lord in the air. Now there's a lot of points of view on that, but I want to continue now. Now when we're looking at this, this is when on earth this big explosion happens as we're leading up to pressure at the end of the age. The pressure grows and grows and grows and, and at just the right time, in the nick of time, the ecclesia, the church is caught up, caught away with the Lord and then begins the seven years of tribulation. This is when the great tribulation begins. Okay, there's tribulation and great tribulation. So first of all, the first three and a half years, whenever this begins, starts tribulation. This is when the man of Sin and all of that. And the man of sin, you can recognize that he is discovered in scripture here in actually Second Thessalonians, Second Thessalonians, chapter two. I just want to give this to you very quickly. In Second Thessalonians chapter two, we see that it starts referencing in verse. Let me put on my spectacles so I can really help you with this. We recognize that in chapter 2 of 2 Thessalonians starting out in. Oh, my goodness. You know, the interesting thing about the book of Thessalonians is that when this was written by the apostle Paul, he'd been with the Thessalonians for roughly, like two weeks, two weeks roughly. And he began to break down what we would consider heavy, weighty, last days type of material. And yet here he is teaching the Thessalonians everything about eschatology, teaching them all these things. And he'd only been with them two weeks. These are new believers and he's breaking down the whole enchilada for them. But the reason Paul wrote this to the Thessalonians, and I'm going to. I'll read you the scripture right here. Second Thessalonians, Chapter two, verse one. Paul had a reason for writing this. To encourage them and solidify what he taught them. Why? Because a letter had been circulated among the churches saying that they'd already missed the second coming of the Lord. They'd already missed it. They were spreading a false doctrine about the end times. And Paul comes along to correct this. And that is the premise of this chapter. So now keep that in mind. And here's Paul now. Brethren, verse one of chapter two. Concerning the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you verse 2. Not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter. By letter. You can see it here on the screen. Don't be shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as it is from us, as though the day of Christ had already come. There's a lot of people teaching we're already in the millennial reign of Christ. We're already in this time. Because he'd already come. This was an old heresy that Paul had to confront. Even in Thessalonica. You see him dealing with it here. Notice he says, don't be troubled either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if it was from us. They signed it as if Paul was writing to them, saying, you missed the second coming. And Paul begins to correct that now. So let's Continue. Verse three. I like this verse three. Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first. Now, there's a lot of speculation over the falling away. Some people preach and believe the falling away actually means the rapture, the catching away. That's what some people believe. It means the apprehensive to be snatched away from the earth. That's what some people teach. The other side of it is that this could be a great apostasy where people run away from Jesus. They begin to renounce faith and run away because the pressure is getting so strong on the earth. It's a powerful conversation. But that sign is coming. You recognize that? And then it says right at the end of that, it could be the Rapture. It could be a great apostasy. But at the very end of this, the falling away, and then it says, the man of sin is revealed, the Son of perdition. So for the sake of looking at the whole biblical scope, the way I view it is I believe that the church will be caught away and then the man of sin will show up. Who's the man of sin? The Son of perdition. The Antichrist. The Antichrist. The man of sin. The Son of perdition. Now, when you're looking at this in verse three, it says, the man of sin is revealed, the Son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all. That is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God. This is where the third Temple narrative starts to come into view. You recognize this? Showing himself that he is God. Verse 5. I like this part. Do you not remember that he. That when I was with you, I told you these things. Verse 6. And now you know what is restraining. You see that restraining force there? Verse 6. You know what is restraining? Restraining that he may be revealed in his own time. What is restraining? And it goes on to say, verse 7. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains will do so, will do so until he is taken out of the way. Verse 8. And then the Lawless One will be revealed, the man of sin, the Son of perdition, the Lawless One will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy it at the brightness, with the brightness of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be according to the working of Satan, with all power signs and lying wonders, right? And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not Receive the love of the truth. Now, I want to say to you, we are lovers of the truth here. We love the word of God. When it talks about he who restrains the restrainer, the restraining force must be first taken out of the way before the Antichrist, the lawless man of sin, shows up. Shows up. In other words, there's a restraining force. Now, let me go back to what we're talking about here. The restraining force right here, I believe, is the New Testament Church. Some people say it's Michael the Archangel, some people say it's the Holy Spirit. But we see that the Holy Spirit is still on earth in the tribulation. So there's a number of meaning. There's 144,000 that get born again, give their life to Jesus. There's a lot we get into with that. But I simply want to say to you, I believe when you put all this scripture together, and I really lean on Rick Renner for a lot of this, you recognize that it is the church that is the restraining force. As he is, so are we in this world. Meaning we are the hands and feet of Jesus. We are the body of Christ. The body of Christ is holding back the Antichrist, the man of sin, from appearing. When we're taken out of the way, the restraining force is lifted, and suddenly we begin to recognize the man of sin. I'll write this here just under tribulation. The man of sin, the Antichrist, the lawless one, the beast, shows up. So I'll just write Antichrist. He arrives on the scene at some point after the church is taken out of the way. He cannot be revealed until the church is removed. Okay, we recognize this. The Antichrist cannot be revealed till the church is removed. The Antichrist. There we go. Yeah. So we recognize that he's revealed, the church is removed. And the first three and a half years, he brings about relative peace, safety. He makes peaceful agreements with Israel. We recognize how all that begins to unfold. And then he absolutely violates that peace, safety and breaks the covenant with Israel, or agreements. And all of it brings peace to the Middle east, apparently. And then on the second three and a half years, he goes absolutely wild. The abomination which causes desolation, he sets himself up in the temple and sits above all that is called God. That means every religion, every major religion will bow down and have to take on the lordship of the Antichrist. That means Buddha, Mohammed, all of them will begin to say, yes, this man of sin, this Antichrist figure is who we are following. And that's what you recognize in this whole scenario, the Antichrist will take authority in the earth at that point. Now, this is when we go into great tribulation. Okay, now let's just continue. What we recognize is now, at this point, this is seven years now, people argue all the way around. And you know what? We're all going to find out when we get there. I happen to believe that we're going to go up in the first load. That's what I believe. That's how I look at the word of God. But I am. I am very teachable at these things. I want to follow the word of God. And people make arguments like a Rubik's Cube from every angle. But here's the bottom line. There's pre trib, mid trib, and people believe in a post trib. There's other avenues that even people talk about strange things beyond that. But I simply want to say this. Then at the end of this, whatever your point of view is, at the end of this, Jesus then comes back to earth. Very different than the first time that he receives the people of God in the Rapture. We meet him in the air. He comes back, sets his foot down on earth. He begins to declare war against the beast, the false prophet that are now during the great tribulation. They're here when Jesus comes back. This breaks out into the battle of Armageddon. The Armageddon battle is going on, and we recognize this is taking place. Armageddon is going. And then during this moment, Jesus returns, touches down on the earth and he captures the beast and the false prophet and all this power, during the great tribulation that's going on, he defeats the enemies of the Lamb with the sword of his mouth. And then he captures the beast and the false prophet and he takes them captive. I don't know if that's going to be a time of a war tribunal, what's going to happen here. But from there, they do not go straight to the pit. They don't go straight here to the pit. They do not Pass, go collect $200. They go straight into the lake of fire. They go straight into the lake of fire. The beast and the false prophet are sent directly here by Jesus. During this time, the devil and all his fallen angels, they are cast here into the pit. They are cast into the pit. You recognize this? This is what is called the pit or hell for simple terms. After this takes place, this is important. We step into the millennial reign. Get a better marker than that, the millennial reign. Jesus sets up shop in Jerusalem. He sets up a kingdom here, and he begins to reign in the millennium. What is this? This is a thousand years that he begins to. Right. Size the earth. He begins to put things into order. The millennial reign. This is a time of a thousand years. A thousand years. So again, we see these segments, right? You recognize these segments and how they're going. This thousand years during this, when Jesus comes back, this is also the time where there's the judgment of the sheep and goats. Just getting that on there. You recognize that he deals with that in this moment. Now, when this comes to pass, Jesus sets up shop here. Now, many people say, no, the devil's been bound. The entire time he's been bound. Well, I like what one commentator says. If the devil is bound during this time and they're saying the millennial reign is actually here, and they pose it that way, well, then his chain sure is long. His change sure is long. Because there's a lot of mess going on. And it sure looks like demonic Luciferian worship is widely spreading from high places and difficult issues. If the devil's bound and we're in the millennium right now, this sure is a mess. And where's Jesus? Where's Jesus thought he was going to reign from Jerusalem. A lot of people begin to say, well, he's reigning in our hearts. It's all symbolic. I think that is absolutely nonsense. I take the Bible very serious. And the more I read it, the more I lean towards literal interpretations of much of this. Is there types and shadows? Is there prophetic nuances? Absolutely. But you have to look at it. We're watching things unfold in real time during the millennial reign. I've always asked the question, why is it that the devil gets locked up only to at the end of the millennial reign, get let back out again? Why does that happen? What's the purpose of this thousand years? I believe Jesus is finishing the agreement God made with Adam. Adam. Now, Jesus being the last Adam, he had to fix the loss and the fall after creation with Adam that led to the cross. And I believe Adam had a time frame that he was supposed to get the earth to a position. This is just Joseph Z opinion. Okay? But I believe this the more I read scripture. I believe that Jesus is finishing what was purposed for the earth to accomplish during this time. So he's finishing what Adam started. Adam gave the authority to the devil and the devil did all this mess. And suddenly Jesus comes back as the last Adam, the final Adam, and fixes everything that the devil did. That is why? He's going to begin to heal the nations, heal the land, heal the environment, begin to fix everything, have all these things taking place now. It's interesting. Those that don't worship the lamb during this time will still not receive rain, physical rain on their land. That's what the Bible says. It's an interesting time. Those who have a new bodies and are recreated in Christ Jesus image, spirit, soul, now body as we see him will become like him. For we'll see him as he is when we return to the battle of Armageddon. It means we're going to have basically superhero bodies that can do what Jesus body did, I believe. And then in agreement with that, we'll also see those that have natural mortal bodies. But there will be no death. There'll be very little death during this time. And then we get to the end of it. Now, at the very end of it, the devil is unleashed one more time and he comes back out of the pit. Because it's almost like there's a legal right to this for some reason. The legal right to this is, I believe there's a part he has to play in Adam's Adam's blessing, you know, something in this he gets released and one more time he stirs up the battle of Gog and Magog. The same thing we see here, the battle of Gog and Magog. All this that'll happen during this time will repeat itself here. The same spirit that drove Gog and Magog, Ezekiel 37, Ezekiel 38, you recognize, takes place there. Now we see a repeat of that. Gog, Magog begin to come forward. And then from the four corners of the earth, we begin to see that all these people gather together and they surround Jerusalem. Okay, they begin to surround Jerusalem and they begin to declare war. One more time on the lamb and all of us. And it's kind of interesting to think about this, you guys. We're going to be there. We will be there. And this is going to be these Gog and Magog players deceiving the nations. The devil deceiving the nations one more time. And surrounding Jerusalem. Jerusalem. We recognize that I'm going to need more room here as we go. But we're. They surround Jerusalem, all this happens. And in this instant, this is really wild. This is when God Almighty from heaven. From the heavens, from the throne of God, we could say fire comes down. Fire comes down from heaven. What a dreadful thing this would be. Fire comes down and it begins to consume, Consume the enemies of the lamb. Fire comes down. It just begins to burn and take out all these wicked players that are obeying the devil, obeying the work of his desires. In the end, God will send fire down upon them, and it will begin to consume all these enemies. He's going to burn them all right there. That's a pretty strong battle when you consider it. God sends down the fire, these things begin to take place. Boom. And you know what's protected? What is protected is all of us during this time. It's a unique thing to think that we are going to be in this battle, but we won't fight this battle. We will watch it. We're going to be in the New Jerusalem, not the New Jerusalem, but we'll be in Jerusalem. This will come down. God will consume them all. And at the end of this time, this is when God Almighty steps forward and brings about the Great White Throne Judgment. He brings about the Great White Throne Judgment. Every person, every living person is resurrected, brought forward to give an account for their life. And those who served him and those who did not serve him, there's a separation. You recognize those that did not serve him, Old New Testament, ancient antiquity, whatever. Every person that did not receive Jesus as Lord, obey God Almighty, will stand before the Lord God of Heaven in the Great White Throne Judgment. And this will be the time of judgment where the Lord says, depart, Prepare for the devil and his angels. And at this point, uniquely enough, God will send all of these people, sadly and tragically, who did not receive the Lord to the pit, to hell. At the end of that, many people say things like, well, you know, hell is temporary. Hell is not going to last forever. Well, at the end of this, we recognize Hell itself is picked up. It is absolutely picked up. Hell then is cast into the lake of fire. The whole picture, hell is cast into the lake of fire. Now, I got a lot of arrows pointing around here. I hope it makes sense. So we recognize at the end, it's all cast into the lake of fire. Hell is thrown into the lake of fire, and that's what begins to happen there. That's what takes place in that picture, sadly, is thrown into the lake of fire. And this is where it burns forever. I don't believe in the doctrine of annihilation where you can say that this comes to an end. Yes, it comes to an end when it's put here. I don't know about you, but the word forever, the smoke of their torment going up forever and ever is a pretty serious matter. And then the memory of these things will be wiped away from the righteous, be wiped away completely. So now we go beyond this and then this is when the new Jerusalem comes down. The new heaven, the new Earth, the new Jerusalem, not New Jersey, the new Jerusalem. And the new heaven is created. The new Earth is created. Now this is an interesting thing. There's so much I could get into, but for the sake of time, I'm just giving you the bullet points. Then we step into eternity future. Now, wouldn't you think God has a lot planned for that time? It's interesting. The new heaven and the new Earth, the new Jerusalem. It's going to be wild, this whole thing. I believe God will recreate heaven and earth because of the stain of the devil that he committed in heaven and earth. God's going to wipe that away. He's going to terraform, recreate all of this earth and heaven will flee before his face and it'll be recreated. And we're going to be in the new heaven, the new Earth, and we're going to rule and reign with him forever and ever in eternity future. And I think this is just amazing. And what are we going to be doing out here? Well, the Bible doesn't say a lot about it, but you know, the Bible has concealed a lot of things in the Old Testament that got revealed in the New. And I believe that we're going to see a lot of things that were concealed during this time, what the Bible's told us and we're going to be revealed in eternity future. I think it's going to be powerful. When you look at that now, all this narrative, everything we're going to experience here is truly, truly all predicated on what we do here. You know, we could say we're like right here, right? But let's just for the sake of understanding it, say we're here in the time that we're living in. What time are we living in? If you have 100 years of your life, where are you in the journey of your life? Wherever you are is the time you have here. And what you do here will be what plays out for all of this. The sacrifices, the things you do, the faithfulness before God. What you're doing here will have a massive role for what you're doing here. And this is what we've got to consider today. So where are we right now? Where are we today? What's going on? Well, I want to say to you, many people would say with all the wars, earthquakes, The pestilences, the difficulties, all the things that are, you know, really shaking, they're shaking the earth. These things are Shaking. What is this? Well, we recognize in this picture that this is Talking about Matthew 24, right at the end. These things are going to increase and increase with severity until finally it pops and that explosion happens where the restrainer is taken out of the way and then the man of sin shows up. Right now, we are here. We are right here in this space. This is where we are. This is what we've got going on. So let me talk to you from the Word of God now about this. Let's go to Matthew 24 very quickly. I want you to see this in your Bible. You recognize Jesus said it clearly that there would be. Indeed, what would there be? There would be a lot of things unfolding. So Matthew 24, starting out in verse three, the mount of Olives, the same place he's going to set his foot down when he returns. It says in verse three. Now, as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming at the end of the age? And Jesus answered and said to them, take heed that no one deceives you. He goes on to say a number of things. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ and will deceive many. Verse 6. Get ready. This is it, verse 6. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled. This is your role. Don't be troubled. We're in this right now. Don't be troubled. Jesus said, see to it, guard your heart that you are not troubled by these things. For all these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet. Verse 7. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. And verse eight, this is what I really want you to see. And these are the beginning, the beginning of sorrows. Now, there's so much more we could get into with this, but I simply want to say this to you. The beginning of sorrows. You can look into this and the nuance. And in the Greek, even is the word for birth pangs, the beginning of birth pangs. So what we're seeing right now, wars, rumors of wars, pestilences, terrible things, all of it is simply the birth pangs. Well, what are birth pangs? It's where a woman is growing in the pregnancy until finally the contractions is another word for birth pangs continues to increase to the point that you come to ultimate delivery, where the baby is birthed but leading up to that birthday is contractions that intensify towards the end of a age. That's what we have right now. So birth pangs is where we are. And it's going to get more intense. It won't get easier, it will get more intense. At least According to Matthew 24, we recognize how this is unfolding and we recognize how this is now. Here's what I want to say to you. There's one nuance I talk about sometimes in this, and it's this. Jesus prophesied these things would come to pass. We understand the whole narrative of the eschatological point of view, meaning the study of the last things that's coming about. But at the very end of the age, this is going to take place. It's going to unfold rapidly. When we get further down the row, we realize Jesus also prophesied many of these events. And there was a predicated prophetic fulfillment that happened in 70 A.D. he began to prophesy in the same instance and others, where there would not be one stone left upon another in the temple. When you see Jerusalem or you see the city surrounded by her enemies, he said, when you see these signs, do not run back into the house. Don't come down from your rooftop and run into the house. Even run for the hills. Get out of Dodge now. Don't hesitate. And then he said, how hard will it be for nursing mothers in that time? It's going to be a challenging time for that. But he says something interesting, and I think this is a takeaway. We can stand on that. You can stand on, man. Do it. Shout out. Go in red. Shout out. Paid in full as you're watching. But here's what you can stand on for the time we're in. There are days and times and set moments that only God the Father knows when Jesus is coming back. Only God the Father knows what's going to happen. And there are set times. But he does give us an interesting scripture here. In verse 20, he says, Pray that your flight may not be in the winter or on a Sabbath. Matthew 24:20. Pray. Pray. He says pray. He says pray. Look at this. Pray that your flight may not be in winter. That's a season of time. Or on a Sabbath, a specific day, pray. So what's Jesus saying? He's saying, for the allotted time, you have pray to alter some of these things. Now, you can't alter scripture. You can't alter prophecy. That is not what I'm saying. What I am saying is, if Jesus said, pray that these prophesied things come to pass. When they come to pass, pray that they don't happen on specific seasons or dates. That means our prayers might have a little more to do with the timing in the allotted time we have than we may realize. I'll leave that with you. But I simply want to encourage you when we're in this time, that's why we contend. That's why we fight. That's why we take territory. That's why I'm called to raise up a million, to win a billion. That's why right now I'm not just going, oh, well, que sera, sera. It's going to be the end. And it's just coming in its own time. I'm not doing that. I'm believing God in the middle of this time, that as these things rise, the birth pangs of nations, the birth pangs, the intensity on the culture that we're seeing, that we need to rise and pray. Pray. The prayers of the righteous avail much. Elijah was a man just like you, with a nature like you. He prayed that it would not rain and it did not rain. Then he prayed that the rain would come and the rain returned. God is saying to us, we need to be like that in the spirit of Elijah, filled with the Holy Spirit and pray and alter the narrative. In these days, you need to pray for your family. You need to pray. We're praying for you. We're praying for our partners every day. And we're believing for increase and breakthrough, that the time we have allotted to us before the prophetic fulfillment of the days God has purposed come to pass. That the time we're given, we make a kingdom impact according to the glory of Jesus. That's why we pray, that that's why we contend. I don't look at the Rapture like, why bother? He's coming back anyway. It's like a warning shot has been fired. We're in the last run, the last time we're on the track. We know we're in that last section of time. So we need to pray, we need to contend. We don't have much time. It's not a escapism, it's a get busy ism. We need to do that. So I believe this, that we're going closer and closer to this. And let me just give you just one other thought as it relates to the end and where we're going. In Matthew 25. In Matthew 25, and I'll just paraphrase it for you. I'll sum it up. Matthew 25 Starting in verse 14 and going all the way through verse 30, he begins to give a parable. And the parable is, where the kingdom of heaven. Verse 14 is like a man traveling to a far country who called his own servants and delivered his goods. And to them. And verse 15 of Matthew 25 says, and to one he gave five talents, another two, and to another one, each according to his own ability. Now you know the narrative with this. Two were faithful, one was not, and the one who was not faithful only given one talent. In verse 24. Then he who received the one talent came and said, Lord, in Matthew 25, verse 24, Lord, I knew you to be a hard man. To be a hard man, reaping where you've not sown, and gathering where you've not scattered seed. Verse 25. And I was afraid and hid your talent in the ground. Look, here is what is yours. Verse 26. But the Lord answered and said to him, you wicked, lazy servant. Wicked, lazy servant. You know, I was thinking about this recently. I was reading Hebrews 12 and talking through that narrative where Esau and Jacob, how Esau was called basically a profane and wicked person because he traded his birthright for a bowl of Stewart. And even later, when he sought after it, though he sought it with tears and bitterness, he could not receive that birthright. The covenant promise. When people are called wicked and lazy by the Lord or profane, it's often tied to those who look at the holy and treat it as common. I'm going to say that again. There are many people that when they're called wicked, lazy, or profane, such as Esau or this wicked, lazy servant, there are those who trade the holy for the common. In other words, this man, the wicked servant, this wicked, lazy servant. In Matthew 25, the parable, the master in the parable told him, you wicked, lazy servant. Why? Because this servant had said, I knew you to be a hard man. I knew you reap where you don't sow. And he was misjudging the master. He was not understanding the gift he was given of the talent. He was given one talent. He hid it. He did nothing with it. Just like Esau with the bowl of stew. He, instead of using his talent to bring glory and multiplier, put it to work, do something, instead of utilizing it. He hid in fear, misjudging the character of the giver. And many people do this today. And really what that is is misjudging the holy for the common. Anything God does for you, you need to know it's Holy, not common. The gift of God is free, but it's not cheap. Jesus paid a high price for the gift he gave you, of salvation and a destiny. Now, the good side of this parable is, we also see it, a parallel scripture to it in Luke chapter 19, 11, 27, where it talks about the parable of the Minas. So you got the parable, the talents, and the Minas, and they're really a similar thing. They're a weighty article, a gold piece, something weighty that could be exchanged for value. And it really carried weight to it. And you recognize when they did this, they exchanged these things for other things of value. In the parable of the Minas and the parable of the talents, those who did something with what they had, they not only were given rewards. In the case of the one who had 10, he received 11. Because the wicked, lazy servant had to give his talent, or his talent was taken and given to the one that had the most. In the parable, the minas, in Luke 19, the same thing, the one who only had one was given to the one that ended up with 10. And it's interesting, at the end of the parable of the minas, in Luke 19, he says, the master says, the Lord says, you've been faithful in what I've given you, faithful in little, faithful in what I offered you. You treated it as holy. You worked it, you made something out of it. He said, come, share in your master's reward. But in the parable of The Minas, Luke 19, the Lord says, you've been faithful over this. I will make you faithful over many cities. Ten cities particularly, you recognize, over cities. I'm saying this to you, that this is a reference to what God gives you. You treat it as holy, even if it seems little to you, don't treat it common. Why? I'll go to the board and tell you why. Because in Luke 19, what we're doing here with faithfulness, I believe, will play out here, particularly in the millennial reign and beyond. Could it be that the parable of Minos, talking about, you've been faithful with little, I will make you faithful with many cities. With cities? Is that an allusion to something that could be coming in the future? Is that a suggested understanding that in eternity future we may just be kings and lords? Jesus is the king of kings and the Lord of the lords. And what do kings and lords do? They rule over countries and over territories and regions and even cities. I believe it's very possible that what we're doing here with the parable of the Minas, the parable of the talents. Treating what God gives us as holy, praying that the season that we're in, some of these things don't happen with the time God's given us. We don't prematurely see it happen because we're praying people, not having it happen, as Matthew 25 says, or 24:20 talking about that it would not happen on a Sabbath or on the wintertime. I believe if we're faithful and praying, doing what he called us to do, we very well may be ruling cities, countries, regions, who knows what else in eternity future. I just want to present that to you. That is a way I look at scripture and you need to read the Bible, come to your own conclusion on it. And I want to say something to you. With all the shaking, all the things we've got going on in the world today, you need to know this. Jesus is Lord, he's with you. He's not going to leave you nor forsake you. The goodness of God is here in the land of the living. It's time to rise and shine and not shrink back in the middle of a present and evil age. Galatians 1:4 says, it is the will of God, you be delivered from a present evil age. Delivered from it. As a matter of fact, that's part of sozo and soteria. Salvation and saved, the Greek words for that. God wants you delivered. He wants you to overcome. He wants to show the powers of darkness what his church can do with Christ Jesus the Lord, empowering his people. That's awesome, man. That's good teaching. I don't care who said it. That's some good teaching right there. You know, I want to continue going forward. I want to build. I want to build with you. We have so many things coming up right around the corner. And this is why I'm so grateful for those of you who partner here, if you've been with us since the beginning of this broadcast, which is like 2017, 2018 all the way till currently, or if you just recently joined the partner family. Thank you. Really, thank you. We're doing so many things that are impacting lives. Some of them are very public, like these live broadcasts. Other things, our ministry behind the scenes that the Lord has us do on prophetic assignment quite often. And I'm so grateful you are sending us. The more you sow, the more we go partners. Thank you. And now I know there's people that can't do anything. 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