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lord we ask for your presence and your glory god to touch and and to fill our lives lord we pray that the anointing of the holy spirit god will fill us and then flow through us to people that are lost that are deceived lord god i thank you that the gospel is still the power of god unto salvation i thank you lord that your words are still powerful and that they're alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword i thank you lord god that the holy spirit god touches hearts even of hardened unbelievers lord you can penetrate and save people from the uttermost lord from the furthest away in the darkest night in the darkest deception in the deepest sin lord you can touch people's lives through your word through the power of the holy spirit and lord today i pray that you touch people listening by radio that you'll touch people who hear this message that you'll touch everyone here lord and use us to win somebody to jesus well we pray that today in jesus name amen amen hallelujah you may be seated praise god we welcome you to fire in grace church this morning those of you listening by blog talk radio we welcome you to our service we've got a lot to get into this morning there's a lot going on but i want you to turn first of all to the book of philippians and we're going to look at philippians chapter 1 first and then we're going to go quite a few places i believe i was reading philippians last night and a few things really stood out to me not to mention a lot has happened this week a lot um philippians everybody there chapter 1 now of course this is paul speaking here writing to the church at philippi when he was in prison in rome his first imprisonment in rome anyway and he's talking about what's going on in the church while he's in prison and what's going on with some brethren while he's in prison and he says a few things that and matter of fact this one phrase really jumped out at me and i'll share it with you here as we read but we're going to start reading at verse 12. he said philippians 1 12 but i would you should understand brethren that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel so he's saying
even the bad things that happened to me god has used them to push the gospel even further so that my bonds in christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places now let me just say this as we read through this that at the end of the book he talks about the brethren saluting them and he's talking about even the brethren who are who are in caesar's household so even in paul's captivity even in his bondage even in his suffering even in his imprisonment he's winning caesar's household to jesus so he's saying even the bad thing that's happened to me being thrown in prison the gospel is being spread i think a lot of christians would lose their religion if they were thrown in prison right but not paul and of course he doesn't want us to right so let's keep reading verse 13 again so that my bonds in christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places and many of the brethren in the lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear some indeed preach christ even of envy and strife and some also of good will the one preached christ of contention not sincerely supposing to add affliction to my bonds but the other of love knowing that i am set for the defense of the gospel now i want to just stop right there on that phrase this morning as we get into this and just let you understand what paul is saying here he said i am set for the defense of the gospel now if you look this up in the greek it's interesting because the word set here means that basically that he had laid out his whole life to defend the gospel now i've heard preachers say and i've heard christians say well you don't have to defend the truth or you don't have to defend god or you don't have to defend the gospel but that's not what paul said here under the inspiration of the holy spirit he said i am set and the word if you look it up in the greek lexicon it doesn't just mean that he had laid himself out to defend the gospel it literally meant that he had become a foundation to defend the gospel now what is the gospel i've defined the gospel before for you and i did in my book the gospel is simply this it's everything that jesus taught his apostles taught and all the prophets of the old testament talk basically the gospel is the word of god from genesis to malachi from matthew to revelation or like we used to say from genesis to the maps right that is the gospel whenever you pick
parts out of it you take it apart it's not the gospel anymore you can't take this part out and take this part and not take this part and he said i am set for the defense of the gospel now the word defense there is the word in the greek apologia now it's where we we our modern term is apologetics where basically we give people the reasons why we believe not just blind faith but the reasons why we believe now i bring this up because i want you to understand that i believe it's not just the job of apostles and prophets and pastors and evangelists and and sunday school teachers or whatever it's not just the job of ministers to set themselves to defend the gospel um to give you an example this happened this week there's a a guy that's on facebook i won't name his name kevin and i worked with him some way back about 2009 he lived here he's moved back up north where he's from and uh but we got to witness to him on the job and so we became friends a little bit i went to his his daughter's birthday party one time and god gave me some prophetic words for this young man and he didn't get saved yet but i think god was touching his heart but since we've kind of lost track with each other i mean we just see each other you know facebook post here and there um but and normally i just kind of bypass some of the stupid things that he says on facebook but then he had to go and say something about the bible something negative about the bible basically some internet lie that shakespeare wrote the bible i'm like wow beware of the internet folks you can find anything you want right you can find any lie you can find any absurdity that exists if you want to and that's another thing if you don't want the truth you always find somebody to tell you what you want to hear they're out there right there's a lot of that going on but we started talking and of course i just began to give him facts because one of the things he said why in the world are there 40 authors to the bible and i said well i said if you think about it that god through these men who wrote the bible did it over thousands of years so he couldn't use the same guy kind of stands to reason that he might pick up somewhere else with somebody else right
but then i said you know the 40 authors thing i said you know that is also testimony of god's divine inspiration i said because you have 40 men over a period of almost 2 000 years who wrote the bible and yet they all agree on very complex theological issues i said get 10 guys in a room and tell me if they can agree on 10 theological issues it usually not going to happen you're not going to have agreement and yet over centuries of god inspiring men to write down his words they all agree on the major issues of sin how we are saved who god is that he is the creator that his messiah is jesus christ of nazareth that he is the way the truth and the life and that only by the blood of jesus washing your sins away through repentance and faith can you be saved that it's all about god wanting to restore us back to himself what we lost after creation i mean how could men of different ages of different even of theological backgrounds of different occupations of different education how could they all agree and write a book that is consistent well he didn't have much to say about that right because his very argument proves my point but then another guy chimes in and says oh a fairy tale lives forever i said well i said that may be true a fairy tale lives forever but i said you know a fairy tale is not supported by historians archaeology science and fulfilled prophecy so it kind of makes it a little different than a fairy tale right i said we even have remains and dna evidence that the giants existed so that's not even a fairy tale anymore we have the evidence we have the scientists who don't even believe the bible saying i've tested the dna of these giant skeletons and these huge skull people and it's part human and part not human we don't know what it is well guess what genesis 6 told us what it was thousands of years ago right and that's what i told him i said if it's in the bible it's a little different than a fairy tale and we got into this debate this discussion and several other people chimed in and it went on i didn't think i don't think that that my friend believed it would go for about 50 or 60 comments as it did right
we even got into the discussion of aliens this one guy was talking about aliens i said oh the bible said that they would show up too it even says the bible even says they'll show up in cylinder disc zechariah 5. i said the bible is always ahead of everything the devil comes up with i said the whole charade though all the lies shakespeare wrote the bible the bible's a fairy tale the aliens really created us all this nonsense that's in the internet world and on the history channel all this crazy nonsense said the bible was already ahead of it all now here's what blows me away and this tells you you know the bible says this this is second corinthians uh is it chapter four i'm thinking of yeah chapter four verses three and four there when it says this it says but if our gospel is hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the god of this world little g satan the god of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not today i'm going to be very honest with you after that discussion sometimes i get very sad for people who are just so deceived and blinded and lost as christians we should never rejoice when we see a lost person that deceived and blinded and believing all kind of lies and nonsense it should break our heart we should care that they are lost but there's got to be something in us that cares enough to be prepared to give a defense of the gospel um i was thinking you know one of the things and that's why i believe that god has led me over many years to teach on bible prophecy because bible prophecy is one of the things that makes the bible absolutely unique from any other religious writing and it's absolute proof that the bible is supernatural it's absolute proof that we're living in the time that jesus spoke of that would be the last days it's absolute proof and yet we have preachers and we have christians that don't talk about that don't talk about bible prophecy scares people i mean one of the guys that was in the discussion in the debate went to my facebook page and he goes oh you scare me i thought to myself good i hope i scare the hell out of you i hope i scare the sin out of you i hope i scare the unbelief out of you i hope i scare
you to follow jesus some people say well we shouldn't use fear wrong jude says this jude 22 the one little chapter of jude verses 22 and 23 says this on some have compassion making a difference others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garments spotted by the flesh you know what i don't care if you get saved by love or you get saved by fear whatever it takes to get you out of sin and close to jesus and ready for the judgment seat that's what i i believe is need for whatever you need amen fear hey listen it's not we tell people don't drink and drive because you could kill yourself or kill somebody now is that using fear yeah but it's reality right don't walk too close to the edge of that cliff because if you fall off you could die well you're putting fear in me brother i want to walk next to the edge of the cliff well i'm sorry but you need to be afraid of certain things amen there's a certain amount of fear that's a good thing if it moves you away from danger if it moves you away from sin if it moves you away from going to hell for eternity if it moves you toward jesus christ and getting ready to go to heaven that's good fear amen i mean i've been called everything a prophet of doom a fear monger scare tactics whatever dude i'm just a reporter i just report the news some of it before it happens but that's all i do is report the news right that's what blows me away i'm going to go to another verse real real quick before we look at some of the news that happened this week go to uh go to luke chapter 12. for some reason the lord specifically told me to go to this this morning when we were in praise and worship luke chapter 12. well i tell you what if folks would just listen there's a parable of jesus he spoke here it's concerning his second coming and what's sad about this this is concerning not even the unsaved this is cons this is concerning the saved luke chapter 12 we're just going to start reading from verse 35. christian don't let this be you concerning the topic we're on today see can i just say this the second coming of jesus christ the prophecies of the bible concerning
the end times concerning the great tribulation the antichrist the persecution the mark of the beast the middle east war the war of gog magog world war iii the seals the trumpets the vials of god's wrath the day called the wrath of the lamb all of that is part of the gospel if we don't preach that we're leaving out part of the gospel and the gospel ceases to be all that god intended it to be if god didn't want us to preach about it or talk about it he shouldn't have put any of it in the bible and yet i find it in every book almost in almost every book of the bible there is talk of the end of days the last days the time of great trouble the time of darkness the time that's coming on the world that will be worse than any other time in history the time of the second coming of jesus christ the rise of the antichrist the rise of great persecution the the war that's going to kill one third of mankind this it's all over the bible folks i could just go down i could name matter of fact i was reading philippians and once again he talks about in philippians it's everywhere so bible prophecy is part of this another thing let me just say this and we may turn to this verse in a minute but i believe it's matthew 16. i know it's in luke 19. but jesus said it this way a couple times he's looking at the pharisees religious people religious people people who wanted to be righteous and he's looking at them and he goes he's standing in front of him now think about it the the messiah promised by the scriptures that these men studied and meditated on and went to school to learn and were leaders of spiritual leaders of israel that were supposed to lead israel to this very point of knowing when their messiah would show up the messiah is standing in front of them he's doing miracles that never a man did he's he's healing the blind he's casting out demons he's raising the dead they all acknowledge that he's doing it he's standing in front of them and he looks at them and he says you hypocrites you can discern the weather you can look at the clouds and figure out what kind of weather it's going to be but you don't discern the time you're living in right now and listen concerning end time prophecy we're in the same place now as we were that as they were at the first coming of jesus we are full the church is full of christian people religious people who can talk about the weather who can figure out what sport team is going to win the game we can predict all kind of things we can look at all kind of things and figure them out but we look at the signs that are
happening all around us and we can't figure out it's here and let me tell you something even in our church hear me fire and grace church even in our church where i have spent a great deal of time teaching and preaching on this many of you nod your head in agreement say yes i believe that but you're living your life like it's not going to happen anytime soon and many of you hope it's not but i'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news for you but the end of days is here it's not near it's not even coming we are in it we are in the last few years of mankind as we know it will you live your life differently knowing that information or will you say what this man says oh no it's not anytime soon i'm going to ignore the signs and i'm going to keep living a lukewarm compromise sinful life let's read it see truth the truth of god's word if it doesn't change you then it's because you are resisting it oh don't don't shout me down yeah starting to get quiet in here all right let's read it luke 10 35. it's going to be a good bit to read here he said let your loins be girded about and your lights burning be on fire for god being a light and you yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord when he will return from the wedding that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him immediately blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching verily i say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meet and will come forth to serve them and if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so blessed are those servants and this know that if the good man of the house had known what hour the thief would come he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken through be ye therefore ready also for the son of man cometh at an hour when you think not now then peter chimes in jesus tells this little parable i love peter he's always wanting clarity maybe he struggled a little bit getting it i think they all the disciples struggled at times figuring out what in the world jesus was talking about and you know what they did when that happened they simply asked him they just asked him so what did peter say lord then said then peter said unto him lord
speaketh thou this parable to us or to unto all so jesus peter's asking a very important question is this for your disciples your people or is this just to the general public so jesus gives him a little more information let's see who he's talking to and the lord said who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall make ruler over his household to give them their portion of meat in due season now let me just say this the word steward here if you look it up in the greek the strong's greek dictionary it plainly defines this word steward as a minister of the gospel so what he's saying to peter is yes this is to you this is to even the apostles this is to my people this is the word to you listen he said who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall make ruler of his household to give them their portion of meat and due season so someone responsible for feeding the sheep right uh oh blessed is that servant when his lord uh whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing doing what being faithful to god feeding god's sheep meat not milk notice he said here blessed is that servant if the lord when he comes finds that serpent being faithful and feeding god's people meet a lot of preachers are in trouble i just hate to tell you but look what he says verse 45 but and if that servant not another one you talking about the preacher here he says but and if that servant say in his heart my lord he's calling jesus my lord if he says my lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to beat the men's servants and the maidens and to eat and drink and to be drunken the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour when he is not aware and will cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers question where do unbelievers go i can't hear you if you're an unbeliever at the coming of jesus christ where do you go say it louder so this guy who was a preacher feeding god's people sheep jesus said if he says in his heart my lord it's not coming right now i got plenty of time notice it says he begins to beat the men's servants and the maidens this all this means here when it says he begins to beat the men's servants and means he
began to eat and drink and be drunken he quits loving people he starts mistreating everybody around him and he gets into the sins of the flesh drunkenness which the bible says if you're a habitual drunkard you will not inherit the kingdom of god but all because he said in his heart my lord is delaying his coming he lost the hope he lost the vision he lost part of the gospel that jesus is coming he lost it he lost that truth he let it slip away from him and hear what i'm saying any time you let truth the truth of god's word slip away from you or you choose in your heart i know people all the time listen let's use a more a more relevant example that i saw you know i was i was a singles minister in a very large church about a fifteen hundred members church i led a singles ministry where i had about a hundred people in the singles ministry okay so i dealt with singles every day from the age of about 19 till some of them in their 60s right and i watched people who had lived single for a long time and were and you know i understand i was single too being lonely tired of living by themselves but here's the thing what happens so many times i saw it over and over and over and over and over again is that they knew the scripture said don't be unequally yoked with an unbeliever don't go marry an unbeliever they knew the scripture but their heart finally said i'll never find anybody they begin to doubt and so they said well i'll just settle for this unbeliever or this person that says they're a christian but i know they're really not living it and they settle because they don't want to be alone anymore and what they've done is they've opened a can of worms that's going to torment them for a long time every now and then it could turn out good and the unbeliever could end up getting saved usually doesn't work out that way but you see what i'm saying how our hearts can get discouraged or depressed or we can get an unbelief or we can start doubting something about god's word and the moment we do that our hearts shift away and we begin sliding back look what happened to this guy he was a preacher he was feeding god's people meet he was faithful but then he said in his heart my lord delays his coming and then that led to him beginning to do things whatever you believe in your heart you will begin to act out this is why i believe that the modern church in america is so lukewarm and so backslidden and so sin ridden is because they've lost the hope they've lost the
belief they've lost the reality the revelation that we are in the last days jesus is coming the signs are all around us in the news every day and in the scriptures you really have to if you're a christian and you read the bible at all or go to church at all you really have to close your eyes and close your heart and close your mind and not see it it's happening all of it's happening i look back and i remember when jesus appeared to me in that vision in in 1987 and he told me very clearly he said don't waste any time there's little time left to spare that was 1987. he was telling me time is running out be faithful that vision and that prophetic word from jesus motivated me for years and years and years to stay steady to stay the course to stay focused on the word of god and the truth to never back away to never move away from it but the scariest part of this it says those listen how many christians i got plenty of time i saw a christian guy on facebook this morning i think we got plenty of time i don't think jesus is coming back soon this guy's been in bible studies with us where i taught all of this stuff he has chosen you know why because he wants certain things in this world see what god's trying to get us to do as a church is to divorce ourselves from the world so we can be married to him because the world cheats on us it's already cheated on us it'll cheat you every time right so you can divorce the world right you can divorce the world and marry jesus and be ready for it's coming this guy who said my lord delays his coming and went back into sin it says when jesus came it was an hour he was not looking for him why because he was consumed in enjoying the pleasures of sin for a season listen i want to say this about drinking nobody's going to hell over one drink but folks most people in america don't stop at one drink and if denotal started drinking de nodal wouldn't stop at one drink i assure you i didn't know the word stop at one back in the day
you see what i'm saying i know i could let myself slip back if i didn't stay focused on the truth of the scripture because the truth is this guy right here who lost his focus on jesus and and quit being faithful to god and quit feeding god's people meat and quit looking for jesus return and quit looking at the signs of the times and started compromising and living in sin it says when jesus came back he was cut off and put in hell with the unbelievers that's kind of scary but it's in the book right why do i say all this because look folks don't be like the pharisees who were religious who had religious knowledge who had bible knowledge and yet jesus is standing there in their face and they're just blind to it you know why they were blind because jesus was religious he was wrecking all of their doctrines of men and the religious tradition he was just tearing it all around and tearing it up and it was just like he snatched the paper out of the hand and ripped it up through it at the feet oh it's just tradition forget your religious traditions forget your denominations forget all this other stuff just rip all that religion and doctrines of men just rip it up and throw it down and look at the messiah look at the word of god and accept the truth and let me tell you if you fill your heart with the word about even particularly about end time prophecies you can shake up some unbelievers world you can shake up some lukewarm backslidden christians world you can shake them up some of you've already done this at work i know you have i know you have i know you have i know you have shaking people up now let's just hold on i'm just going to go through some did you find that video all right hold on i'm going to go through some news we're going to play one video short nbc news 2007 2007 talking about to that what they believed would be happening in 2017 okay here's what's interesting all you snopes people out there think snopes is somehow god and the truth okay everybody know what snopes is y'all know something snopes is a website snow snopes is a website that everybody believes you can go to and find out if something on the internet is a hoax or not it's like everybody believes that it's somehow the word of god is the final authority on everything snopes is owned by some liberal nut cases they lie when it's they wanna lie huh
now get this the video i'm about to show you on youtube recorded somebody recorded and put on youtube is nbc news right snope says that this didn't happen this doesn't exist so that's just for you snopes folks snoke let's watch this video and then i'm going to give you some updates all right go ahead brother let me crank it up a little bit remember this is 2007 right here more now of our special coverage here tonight life in the u.s in 10 years time by that time there may be all kinds of new ways to safeguard and identify all those things that make each of us unique our faces even our fingerprints even our eyes here now with more on the future of technology nbc's tom costello the year is 2017. you're rushed to a hospital unconscious with no id or medical history but thanks to a microchip under your skin it's all there science fiction 20 years ago but a biometric reality today the technology is based on answering one simple question am i who i say i am already fingerprints and iris scans verify passenger identities at airports within 10 years that technology may be even more widespread and look for more complex facial recognition programs that scan a crowd of thousands looking for a single terrorist today's facial recognition software starts with the eyes then it maps out the contours of the face and compares that against a database of millions a database that's growing by the day what's next at the university of bath in england researchers predict big changes for consumers i think it is possible to free us completely of our wallets and keys using biometric technology if that's what people want in ten years time in fact it's already here the latest home security locks use fingerprints to control deadbolts and at the jewel oscar grocery store in chicago some customers pay using their fingerprints no paper or plastic you don't really need anything other than your hand and you already got that with you so will future department stores scan our irises like in the movie minority report then offer products cater to who we are hello mr yakimoto welcome back to the gap experts say that technology is here now the challenge is to safeguard our privacy in a brave new world tom costello nbc news alexandria virginia
now think about that here's here's one of the greatest prophecies of the bible revelation 13 right revelation 13 2 000 years ago said the day was coming the first of all there would be a united nations because that's all those beasts uniting into one he said there would be a united nations he said there would be a man come up right who would speak great things and blasphemies against god and him and another man who had two horns like a lamb who would be like a lamb but speak as a dragon it said that they would cause everyone to worship this beast and everyone would have to receive a mark in their right hand or their forehead and that without which and see this is the key it's not just any old mark it's not a tap any old tattoo it's not like the old roman slaves of war had to wear now this one says it will control all rich poor didn't matter all over the world and it will control whether you will be able to buy or sell now think about the technology that would be needed to do that also and i've shared this the word mark in the greek in revelation 13 means something engraved or etched okay a silicon microchip and i've shared this is engraved it is etched with light photo etching is what it's called okay now what's happening even since 2007 is they're making these things smaller smaller smaller smaller so i'm just going to give you one headline this week stanford university there's a video you can watch stanford university breakthrough we can now wirelessly power tiny electronic devices implanted in the body through wireless communication through wireless radio waves even deep in the body and they show where they've got these things that they can attach them in your brain in your heart on nerves in your back in your body and they can recharge them by putting up basically a wireless device close to your body and it will recharge this little device now folks where this is going they're saying that now with nanotechnology with these implantable devices they're not only going to be able to track you it's not only going to be about you buying and selling but it's going to be about altering
your mind and thought processes it's going to be about even trust me on this altering your dna so that you are not fully human anymore it is going to be attempts to enhance the human being basically to be a cyborg but see here you gotta understand something why would god say this in revelation 14 just following this he says in revelation 14 if any man takes the mark in his right hand or forehead that man that woman if anyone takes it it says they will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels forever and ever and ever there is no forgiveness there is no redemption there is no coming back from that why now i believe i understand it is going to change who you are it's going to change what you think it may even completely control your brain you may lose your free will satan is all about folks taking away free will that's why everyone that that's why we're headed toward a world government that's why we're headed toward a chip and that's why if you weren't refused to submit to this new world government the beast the antichrist and the false prophet if you refuse to submit and take this mark that's why you're marked for death because it's not a choice anymore the devil's never been about free will he wants you to bow your knee to him or die this to me this here it is i mean did y'all see that nbc news what i just read you can look it up look up stanford university wireless powered nanotechnology implants right the breakthroughs i believe that are going to happen in the next few years are going to be scary right let me just go through a few more headlines this week quickly listen to me don't pay attention here don't get too squirrely out there now it's very obvious and i won't go through the whole thing but of course you guys know i've always believed i've believed ever since i became a christian i returned to the lord and god called me to preach i've always believed that the roman catholic church was mystery babylon the great of revelation 17 and 18. i've always believed that whoever would be the final pope would be the false prophet to work with the antichrist okay
i've always believed that this is not new for me this is not a new revelation this is not new information i studied rome i studied the book of revelation i studied uh these things that that were coming down the pike and i always believe people people back then you know it was real popular to believe back then if you did believe that roman catholicism was evil and it was the great the great harlot the mystery babylon the great if you believe that a lot of people believe that the final pope would be the antichrist either now you you've got to realize that the pope is still connected to what people believe is christianity even though it's it's never been true christianity so you're not going to get muslims falling in you know just accepting him you're not going to get the new ages you're not going to get the agnostics and the atheists and all that so you have to have somebody more generic a little bit more generic or a little bit more what they call pluralistic you know just everything's okay kind of kind of person but the bible did say that the the man who would assist the antichrist that he's a beast with horns like a lamb but he speaks like a dragon i mean he appears to be like a lamb now what is a lamb a lamb is the symbol for christians we are lambs or sheep right jesus is is referred to as a lamb so he's going to look like he represents jesus represents christians but he will speak as a dragon satan is the dragon now this pope pope francis the first has gone places no other pope has really gone he stated publicly he cannot judge homosexuals he stated publicly now that even atheists will go to heaven when they die yes he has said publicly that christians true christians who hold fundamental beliefs of the bible are mentally insane and he recently said there are no true christians outside of the roman catholic church so what he's saying is all of us are bad guys now let's fast forward the bible says these two men the antichrist and the false prophet these two men will make a peace treaty with israel right and then in the middle of the seven years the last seven years that peace treaty the antichrist will break that peace treaty right it says at the very end in revelation 16 at the end when the vials are being poured out and we know that's in the end of the last three and a half years when the vials are being poured out it says that god remembers mystery babylon and he puts it
in the heart of the antichrist to destroy the roman catholic church the great now see there are people out there right now saying that the united states is mystery babylon not true at all we've also got some other misinformation people like wali chubat saying that mystery babylon is saudi arabia i'm sorry it tells us who it is the city on seven hills i mean how more specific could you get revelation 17 the city on seven hills is rome john even said it's the city that reigneth he says over the kings of the earth well he used present tense greek verb there meaning the city that was presently reigning over the earth that would have been rome he even says in verse 18 when she says i sit a queen and i am no widow the word queen in the greek is the greek word basilica that comes from the latin term basilica so literally translated i sit a basilica what is the vatican saint peter's what basilica people say oh but no no no no mystery babylon has to be the united states because we're the wealthiest country on the face of the earth and it talks about her wealth and the merchants of the world and all this stuff doing business with mystery babylon i got news for you folks the richest entity on the face of the earth is the roman catholic church bar none it owns prime property in every country of the world it has the greatest collection of art the greatest collection of gold and silver and jewels the the wealth of the roman catholic church cannot even be calculated we are 17 trillion dollars and counting in debt we're bankrupt the united states is not mystery babylon the roman catholic church she's always sown her disinformation check this out this week this week as we speak pope francis made his first trip to the middle east where did he go first he didn't go to israel first he went to jordan first now why is that significant i don't have really time to develop it this morning fully but most of you already know this but most of you don't know the study i've done since i've taught that i believe the antichrist his prince al hassan bintalal of jordan
and the reasoning why i can't go into it all this morning but as i continue to read the old testament prophets isaiah the other night i'm reading isaiah you want some end time verses some end time passages read isaiah 24 through about 28 it's all about the end times right once again he mentions listen to me he mentions the land of edom ammon and moab all right the ancient region of edom ammonia moab that actually goes from about where syria touches israel and it goes all the way down underneath into the dead sea region that's the region to the right if you're looking at a map to the east of the jordan river well guess what country takes up the land of eden ammon and moab the country of jordan can i just tell you that the bible is very very clear that the antichrist would rise out of the land of edom ammon and moab not europe you know we we the traditional teaching is that the antichrist will come from a revived roman empire and that means he will come out of europe check that for a second we like we get locked into things that we've just heard over and over and over and over and over again but if you look at a map an old map of the old roman empire it seems to go from europe and comes around here to turkey and then goes down through the middle east and then around north africa it's like a little horseshoe that was the roman empire so a revived roman empire would include the west rome europe and the east the now muslim countries and the middle east what's interesting is daniel's statue of the roman empire was the two legs of iron east and west the final kingdom has two feet guess what east and west five toes from one five toes on the other one this shows us plainly europe and the middle east will make up the beast kingdom so that means that the beast could come out of europe or the middle east well when the bible tells us he will be an assyrian that tells us he's of arab descent so that means the beast would come from the middle east not hard to figure out when you start thinking where's all the oil and what's the world concerned about oil right so if you can get a man who can bring
the arab nations together and help everybody get along for a little while make a peace treaty maybe and help everybody get along and calm everything down what do you have you have somebody that will make europe happy you have somebody that will make the rest of the world happy because the flow of oil from the middle east will now flow freely remember the black horse says don't hurt the oil in the wine we're going the black horse says we're going to bring famine and pestilence but don't hurt the oil in the wine crude oil i believe all right don't touch that one why because the economy of the whole world is based on that one thing we mess with that it's over right so what am i getting at the pope takes a rabbi and a muslim cleric to be his travel companions to his first trip to the middle east the first place he visits is jordan then this article pops up i'm just giving you some news today this article days right before right before the pope gets to the middle east this is the boston pilot this is a news a catholic news source out of boston of course and guess who they interviewed a certain jordanian prince and here's what they said here's the title jordanian prince wants pope to develop a template of hope during the trip and he begins to talk about how he this arab jordanian prince and the vatican are working together to bring peace to the region you can read it for yourself just look up the boston pilot prince hassan two s's then here's another news russia or better known in the bible as gog and magog russia decides you know we know from ezekiel 38 39 russia will join with persia or iran remember a 2600 year old prophecy russia and persia news headline this week russia plans to help iran build eight more nuclear reactors [Music] also a headline negotiations with iran
come to nothing another headline israeli general war is on the horizon you can close your eyes to it if you want to you know remember those see no evil here no evil evil monkeys remember them monkeys get put in cages and experiments done on them so i don't think it's a good idea to close your eyes and your ears and for some people be a good idea for them to close their mouths but not your eyes and your ears all right i just get that it's it's it's everywhere you just go through the headlines and everything that this book says right here everything it's happening right in front of our face i told nancy i said if we make it through the summer without israel attacking iran's nuclear facilities i will be shocked and when that happens it ain't going to be good because russia and china have vowed to get involved and we are stuck with obama that's a recipe for disaster right what does that mean for us i want to close this here what does that mean for us i was talking with somebody this week about the rapture you know this church we don't believe in a pre-tribulation rapture and we got plenty of good scriptural reasons why but what does that mean like i've said many times that's one teaching one doctrine one sermon i hope i'm wrong about but if i'm wrong we get a good surprise right if they're wrong they get a bad surprise all right but here's the deal if we're going to be here and i believe we are we need to prepare and that means we need to keep our eyes focused on jesus that means we need to get in the word as much as we possibly can that means we need to draw near to him and get spiritually as strong as we can it means we may need to make some real preparations like for gardens and things of that nature some practical real things and this i know you know you know anybody who's had surgery in here before everybody knows that the first time you have surgery it's kind of scary in it but mainly why is it scary to us because
it's the unknown we don't know what to expect and you know but the more information i'd get about it you know i just asked my doctor over and over now what are you gonna do what exactly are you gonna do to me how long am i gonna be in there what's this gonna do what's the recovery you know ask a lot of questions what can go wrong what you know and the more i knew the better i would feel about i like what i think it was i heard steve quayle say he's a preacher preacher teacher book writer guy but information is your best weapon against fear and see here's the thing folks we better believe in a supernatural god because to deliver us and to protect us and to be with us and to provide for us and to help us through what's coming it's going to take some supernatural intervention at times right see i believe i believe this i believe a lot of churches that have denied the supernatural aspect of god are going to be forced to believe it again here real soon like multiplying food you know jesus said it's john 14 12 he said the works that i do you shall do also in greater works in these to who believes right did jesus multiply the loaves in the fish but you know he wasn't the only one that did that miracle in the bible the prophet elijah did it he multiplied food guess what we may have to pray over a bag of rice to feed a bunch of people god is able amen god sent armies a whole army to get elisha and he walked out and said lord pray smite them with blindness pow they couldn't see you think about the the crazed homosexuals that came to get locked to rape the angels that were in his house what did god do he had angels shut the doors and smite them with blindness they didn't even know where to where to walk right before he ran fire god is able look there are fema camps there are plans for christians that are not good by these evil people but folks you and i don't have to go to a fema camp god could smite somebody with blindness or like when they came to get elijah the prophet he was up on the hill i love this story he sent you know a seal team beginning come down oh man of god they said he said well if i'm a man of god then let fire come down and consume you in your 50. turn them into crispy critters right so we said
the king sent another 50. same thing happened god is able to protect us and deliver us and be with us why why do i believe too that god wants his people here in the darkest toughest time not because he wants to torture us i believe he wants us here so that we can be a light to people so that we can be a witness why would he spend all this time preparing his church with information and truth and to prepare us to be enlightened and take us out at the darkest moment in history is not his heart still to win the lost who will come is not his heart to have people here who will warn people and witness to people and share jesus with people even in a dark hour i love it there was a debate on tbn one night it was irving baxter against perry stone the post-trib guy gets the pre-trip guy and it was it was a it was a great debate i think christians should have these because we can disagree and still love each other and get along but they have this debate and i love how irving ended it and i don't agree with irvin on everything but i love the way he ended the thing he said well you look at it this way we're either getting ready the church is either getting ready for the greatest disappearing act in history or we're getting ready for one of the greatest seasons of evangelism that we've ever known he said i'm preparing for the season of evangelism because when people's lives start falling apart that's when a lot of them finally fall on their knees and say hey maybe i need the truth that you have i know you've been trying to tell people this for years and i thought you were crazy but it's happening now what do i do you mark my words people will come to you and they will say just like the philippian jailer when when god shook the prison and the chains fell off and paul and silas had been praying when he shook the prison and he in the man the man before that before that earthquake before that shaking before that demonstration of god's power he was just a regular old jailer but the moment that miracle happened and he saw the earthquake and the chain followed he came in and said he fell on his knees and said what must i do to be saved we're going to see those things the mushroom cloud goes off in an american city i assure you if you've been sharing the end time prophecy truth with people they're going to come to you and say what is going on what do i need to do what is happening the world is falling apart i didn't believe this would ever happen what you have i want what you have it's going to happen that's why i'm talking about be prepared i'm not looking to get out of here i'm looking to lead somebody to jesus and if they kill me so be it
i'll be with jesus and you know what if they put my head in one of those guillotines that they have now here in america if they put my head in one of them and it's not my time it's going to break when it hits my neck if it's not my time it ain't going to happen you know they put christians in front of firing squads wow we can't kill him now will there be martyrs will christians die for their faith some yes some will do we know who that's going to be and who it's not going to be no we don't let's let's choose to be a light arm yourselves set yourself remember the scripture i started this whole thing with set yourselves to be a defense of the gospel prepare yourself to be a witness fill yourself with the word fill yourself with knowledge get ready every one of you in here can lead people to jesus i will never see or even be able to talk to everyone i don't care young old in between up and down boy girl it doesn't matter if you are armed with the truth of the gospel and you're ready to to be bold and be a defense you can lead somebody to jesus amen let's pray thank you father o lord i thank you lord i praise you lord your word is truth let us not be like the servant who said my lord delayeth is coming begin to beat the men servants and the maidens and to eat and drink and be drunken let us be people looking seeing the signs of the times and preparing for that day in that hour to be a light to let our lights be burning bright lord i pray for your people today here that's heard this message i pray for those listening by radio those who will listen to the recorded broadcast lord i ask you to touch each and every one god if they're if they're followed away if they're falling away like that man drifting off into sin and into drunkenness and the pleasures of sin first season lord begin to wake them up and call them back it's time to put that stuff away and run after the lord father i pray it today that you touch everyone in this room touch everyone and just let this truth be implanted in their hearts and their minds father right now i ask you to put on their mind somebody
that they should go talk to and be a witness to this week put somebody specific on their mind and on their heart to pray for and to talk to