WEEKLY SERMON

Cosmic Signs

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In “Cosmic Signs,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about eternal life and hope, faith, Satanic opposition. Drawing especially from Luke 21, Matthew 24, Hosea 3, Hosea 4, the teaching emphasizes that the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.

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01
Through 08:38

Odle focuses on prayer while working through Luke 21, Matthew 24. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.

02
Through 17:16

Odle focuses on eternal life and hope while working through Luke 21, Matthew 24. The message argues that the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.

03
Through 25:54

Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Luke 21, Matthew 24, Hosea 3. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.

04
Through 34:32

Odle focuses on eternal life and hope while working through Jeremiah 12, Psalm 19, Revelation 12. The message argues that the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ. It connects this with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.

05
Through 43:10

Odle focuses on the beast system while working through Matthew 24, Revelation 12, Revelation 13. The message argues that Revelation’s beast imagery is connected with coercion, worship, and end-time deception. It connects this with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.

06
Through 51:48

Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Revelation 12, Revelation 13, Isaiah 11. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.

07
Through 1:00:26

Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.

08
Through 1:09:00

Odle focuses on spiritual vigilance while working through 2 Thessalonians 1. The message argues that believers are urged to remain sober, alert, prayerful, and ready amid spiritual danger. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.

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  1. 0:00:00

    hallelujah we worship you lord we worship you jesus king of kings and lord of lords we worship you lamb of god and lion of the tribe of judah we worship you and we thank you for your your goodness that you never sinned and you died on that cross for our sins the holy spotless lamb of god we thank you for your power that you give us through your death through your resurrection we thank you lord for salvation for healing for deliverance god we thank you for everything you provide for your people and also lord that your precious blood has made a way for us to enter into the holy place into your holy presence and lord we just worship you today we thank you today father i pray over everyone here this morning god that you would just move mightily touch them today minister god grace where they need it minister healing in their bodies healing uh in their soul or their spirit wherever they need healing i pray that healing power will flow today i pray that deliverance will flow that strongholds will begin to be broken and that deliverance will flow i pray god that you'll give us all ears to hear your word and that by receiving that engrafted word we will grow spiritually and that lord i just pray that you really open everybody's heart and ears to hear give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of you that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened so we would know the hope of your calling lord for us individually corporately fire and grace church lord other ministries here lord we must hear your voice and know your will god especially in this hour so we pray god for your grace to give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened lord we just pray that in jesus name this morning we thank you everybody say this with me this was a prayer they used to pray steve hill would have everybody at the brownsville revival pray this prayer he'd say lord jesus speak to my heart change my life in your precious name amen amen praise god got a lot to share with you this morning amen um god's just doing so many things it's just a lot of things have come to my attention in the past few weeks not that i haven't noticed some of them but i don't know i i actually saw a video on youtube this week just just going through things that have happened in 2011 and i just was like you know i remember all of these things but it was like seeing them all together was just kind of like god what is going on with 2011

  2. 0:03:00

    and so i started looking even further and just found that god god's doing some things and and this subject this morning of cosmic signs and and bible prophecy i was going to get into some other things that have been revealed over the last few years but i just feel like this morning that we're just going to deal try to deal with 2011 maybe we can get through 2011 this morning but you know i don't understand and i just have to say this i don't understand anybody that can't accept the bible as the inspired word of the living god just simply over the issue of prophecy when you see things that were written some thousands of years ago some even three four five thousand i mean just thousands of years back specific things not general prophecies we're not not talking about nostradamus generalities that have to be interpreted we're talking about specific things that god said would happen in the last days and they're happening they're happening now and they're happening more now than ever in my lifetime i've been i've been a minister god dealt with me and brought me back to him i got saved in 1979 in a little baptist church matter of fact north side baptist church over and uh over close to opelika high schools where i got saved in 1979 and really had an experience with jesus it was real but not being discipled not learning anything not you know understanding anything my parents were divorced shortly after that and then you know what kid what happens to kids that are left to themselves you know i got with the wrong crowd and and got into sin for many years and but but in 1987 god called me back through really and i'll share this i'm not ashamed to share it he called me back to him uh the first time i really heard his voice speak to me and then within several months of that i had a powerful open vision of jesus uh and the the glory of the father over him and the holy spirit descending upon him and the lord spoke to me very clearly and he said i've called you to be a prophet and i've called you into the ministry and and god made that even more clear that was in october of 1987 and then in december of 87 he made some things very clear and after that powerful things began to happen in my life i saw people saved out of satanism out of out of new age movement out of all kinds of things led my family to the lord my dad my mother my brother my sister cousins my best friends that are now ministers uh saw miracles happen deaf ears open in the name of jesus the crippled getting out of wheelchairs uh i've seen a lot in my in in the last almost now 20 25 years working on and uh but this subject is something ever since that time god's had me studying um end-time prophecy

  3. 0:06:01

    and he made it very clear to me in that vision that where he appeared to me that the time was very short now that was in 1987 when you had jesus standing in front of you in vision in an open vision and the power of god is so strong that you have to tell him to ease up or you're not going to be able to take anymore and he says time is short let me tell you i got busy in 1987. amen i can't say that i maintain that intensity as i should at times but i'm getting back on it amen praise god um we're going to look at some some things that jesus said this morning i want everybody first to take your bibles and i want you to turn to luke 21. this morning we're going to have a a really interactive time because we've got a powerpoint we're going to look at we've got a couple of videos we're going to look at short videos because i just think you know we've got some powerful things going on and and uh and god's gonna make it clear to you that the signs of not only the signs of fulfilled bible prophecy but signs in the heavens and jesus talked about that there would be signs in the heavens and uh he means of course the universe space heavenly bodies and things of that nature and in in in our world because of course um you know the earth is part of that universe right and i almost wanted to call this this morning cosmic signs and strange occurrences upon the earth because we're going to see some strange things that happen but everybody to luke luke um what'd i say 21. all right brother what do i do here that way okay it's not used to my hand yet um we'll get to that one in a minute luke 21 though let's read some verses here um let's go down to verse seven and his disciples asked him speaking to jesus master but when shall these things be and what will be the sign when these things will come to pass now of course in matthew 24 they said what will be the signs of your coming and of the end of the age or the end of the world as we know it and he said take heed that you be not deceive for many shall come in my name saying i am christ and at that time draweth near go you not out thereafter many will say i am christ and he says when that time draws near don't go after them but when you hear of wars and commotions be not terrified for these things must first come to pass but the end is not yet then he said unto them nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and great earthquakes shall be in divers places and famines and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be in heaven you ought to

  4. 0:09:02

    just i just want you to to underline that great signs shall there be in heaven that's mega signs okay notice i picked luke this morning too because it says this similar in matthew 24 but i picked luke this morning because he said here great earthquakes let me just give you a little tidbit about earthquakes people say well haven't there always been earthquakes yes there's always been earthquakes ever since man sinned i'm sure there's always been earthquakes but we've been recording earthquakes since i mean we have some recorded that go back before this but technically around 1100 a.d but if we look uh a good brother that's on television and did some research that he was talking about this week and he just asked his research assistant to look up earthquakes in every decade in just the 20th century from 1900 to 1910 and on down the line to where we are today and he had said just do 6.0 earthquakes and greater so she looked them up and like the first decade there were 35 or 40 and then the next decade maybe there was 45 to 50 and then the next decade there was you know 55 or you know to 60 and then each decade up until even from 1990 to 2000 and even in that decade there were like 62. okay now we're talking about 6.0 or greater from 2 000 to now 2011 it's been 425. now you for a whole century you average about 50 or 60 and then all of a sudden in one decade you average or you hit 425. it's almost 10 times the amount would that be telling us something now let me blow your mind anybody can look this up this is a this is a fact i looked it up actually on wikipedia this morning all right here's the fact for you i just looked up the the greatest the biggest magnitude earthquakes the top ten actually it put like 20 of them on there i think or something like that all of them were 8.0 or bigger actually i think everyone on the screen was at least 8.3 8.4.5 all the way up to the 9.5 out of the top 10 now the top 10 mega earthquakes of this century well we'll say 111 years okay the top 10 earthquakes in 11 decades 8 point or bigger five of them have happened since 2000 to now 2011. five you've got 11 decades you got the top 10 mega earthquakes

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Luke 21Matthew 24Hosea 3Hosea 4Eternal Life And HopeFaithSatanic OppositionIsrael In ProphecyBible ProphecySpiritual VigilanceThe Beast SystemEnd Times
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