Knowing Things to Come
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Dean Odle teaches that the Holy Spirit can disclose future events in order to prepare and guide believers, while repeatedly calling the church to discernment and dependence on Scripture. He combines personal visions and economic warnings with his futurist reading of Matthew 24 and Revelation, including war, disease, coercive systems, and the mark of the beast.
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Odle introduces John 16 and says the Holy Spirit may reveal future developments while guiding the church into truth. He also shares confidence that the congregation will obtain land, treating the anticipated provision as something requiring a practical step of faith.
He warns that false apostles and prophets do not cancel genuine gifts, and urges believers to pursue them within accountable local-church leadership. His remedy for counterfeit ministry is not isolation but elders, pastors, and other leaders who can test revelation within the body.
Odle recounts impressions concerning upheaval in the United States, land for the church, and possible changes involving gold-backed money. He discusses physical notes said to contain gold and counsels awareness without making a financial mechanism the church’s source of security.
He connects prophetic impressions and market language to a broader warning that economic stability can change suddenly. The bear-market discussion functions as a picture of decline and volatility rather than a promise of precise investment timing.
Revelation’s sixth trumpet and Jesus’ wars-and-rumors warning are interpreted as pointing to a catastrophic future conflict. He reads Revelation 9’s death of a third of humanity by fire alongside Matthew 24 and identifies it with a future world war.
Odle discusses public planning for unknown disease and alleges that another emergency could be used to impose stronger controls. Pandemic planning is interpreted as evidence of coordinated control; that conclusion is the speaker’s allegation, while the spiritual application is vigilance.
A recurring dream involving a Walmart distribution point is presented as a caution against traps during crisis; he also recommends ordinary emergency supplies. Flashlights, batteries, candles, food, and water are recommended as modest preparation, but he warns that dependence on a controlled supply line could bring coercion.
The sermon connects worldwide identification or access systems with a future mark and distinguishes that expectation from preterist interpretations. His futurist sequence places the mark immediately before Christ’s return and rejects the claim that these events were exhausted in AD 70.
Odle counters fear with Jesus’ promises, urging believers to love righteousness and eternal life more than physical security. Visions of heaven and hell support his argument that eternal gain outweighs temporary deprivation, imprisonment, or death.
Personal stories illustrate providential restraint and opportunity; the closing appeal is to obey when the Lord redirects a life. An open door may involve radical change, while a closed door may protect a believer; both require patient discernment rather than presumption.
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Hallelujah. Yes, Lord, we love your presence. There's nothing like you, Lord, when you're anointing your power manifest in our midst, Lord, where you witness to us when you're speaking to us. We're grateful that you promised that you would manifest yourself to those who obey you that walk with you in faith. You promised you would do that. And we thank you for it. Jesus name. Amen. Amen. You may be seen this morning. Welcome, everyone. Yes. Okay. Come and share. The Lord says darkness is coming great darkness, but his light will shine through. Just have faith as a child and he will lead you through it. Amen. Now, she has no idea what I'm preaching on this morning, but that that is it in a nutshell right there. Hallelujah. I want everybody turn in your Bibles to start back kind of where we finished last week to John chapter 16. Oh, man. John 16. I think we're going to call this today since we've been on knowing Jesus, knowing the Holy Spirit, knowing his voice was last week, but this is going to be knowing the future. We're going to talk about things to come here. And the Lord spoke directly to me this morning that I was to share both some prophetic dreams and words he's given me and some other people over the last few years, because he is telling me that these things will shortly come to pass. So you know, sometimes it's again, the Lord can speak things. Remember, the Lord gave prophets things that didn't come to pass sometimes for decades, sometimes for hundreds of years, sometimes thousands of years. But over the last, I would say, things God has started speaking to me around 2007. I'm going to share some of those with you. We didn't know the timing on those things, but they are drawing closer and closer. And we'll we'll show you that in a minute. But John, let me I guess I need to turn there. John 16. We've been talking about this verse a lot, this passage about Jesus, what he had to say about the Holy Spirit. We're going to emphasize this. Let's go to verse 13. And we'll read from there. Hallelujah. All right, let's read. Jesus said, How be it when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, he shall speak, and he will show you things to come. I think I remember last week getting you to say that out loud. He will show you things to
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come. And as the prophetic word, the Lord gave Sandra this morning, it was darkness is coming, but the Lord is going to move. And that's really what I'll say to you. Darkness is coming. But the Holy Spirit is going to move. And I'm going to share with you some specific, even some visions the Lord has given me over the last few years. And the Lord is telling me that everything is now going to soon converge and come to pass. Okay. And you need to really get ready. Now, let me share this for our church. Um, I forgot was gonna share this with you this morning. We've been praying for some time about what to do. We've been renting this building here since, uh, I think about 2015 starting downstairs and then 2018 we rented the entire building. And now we're about to outgrow this building. If everybody shows up on Sunday morning, we really don't have enough seats. So we've been praying what to do. And I feel like the Lord has been late on my heart that we were to buy some land and get ready to build something on it. Now, I think right now we can afford to buy some land. We're gonna have to believe God, trust God for the building part. And I don't know what that's gonna entail, but we're gonna take a step of faith. And I believe I know that we're gonna, we're gonna see a piece of land tomorrow is about 15.5 acres. Um, I think that the asking price is about $159,000. Of course, I've already seen the land. I almost bought it, uh, a year ago, but, uh, it wasn't time, but just long story short, if this is it, but we're, if we probably is, but we're gonna find something here pretty soon and we're gonna be doing, doing that. Now we're not gonna be, we're not in debt and we're not going to a bank. You understand that? I'm not getting in debt because all that's, all that's about to go down the tubes anyway. In fact, uh, holding money in the bank is probably not the best idea at this time. So it's time to, you know, start spending some of it and use it for things you're going to need instead of it ending up either disappearing in the bank or becoming out as worthless as toilet paper. But we'll talk about that in a minute. Um, but I just wanted to let you know that that's where we're headed. And so we'll be looking at that land tomorrow and possibly making them an offer on it and see what happens. Okay. So pray God's will be done in all of this, but I do feel like, um, we're drawing near to that time where we've got to do, we've got to do something different. So anyway, the Lord said he would speak to us. The Holy Spirit will speak to us. And we talked about hearing God's voice last week and he will show us things to come. Now, things to come means the future. God will tell you things to come. In fact, the definition of the word prophecy or to prophesize, to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying, and also to foretell things that are going to come to pass. The Holy Spirit does that. Now let's go to acts chapter two, and we're going to read this because the Lord speaks about this specifically
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in context of the last days that we're living in. Now, I know I'm going to deal with this in a few weeks, maybe next week, whatever, God willing, about the deception of this Preterism thing that says Jesus came in 70 AD. Now we've got the Tartaria deception saying the Tartarian empire was the thousand year reign of Jesus. And he came back and ruled for a thousand years and now disappeared again. Um, the nonsense that people are believing in the world is blowing my mind and how many Christians are falling for this deception. But I'm going to thoroughly debunk it here in the days ahead because it is a serious error that's taking away from paying attention to where we are and the fact that Jesus is coming. He didn't come in 70 AD. He is coming. And when his kingdom is established, it will never end. He won't disappear. Um, the short season after the millennial reign, the thousand year reign of Christ, where it says the devil is let loose out of the pit and deceives the nations again and comes to war against the camp of the saints. So let me ask you, where's this camp? Where's this camp of the saints that they're going to come after? Listen, the last God, God's going to let the devil out to round up the last little bit of rebels that are within the millennial reign. And when the moment they move against the saints, they're going to be destroyed by fire instantaneously. It's not going to be any war. It's going to be over in a moment. So don't let these people deceive you. They twist a few verses. They take some things out of context big time going to show you that. But if you're falling for that, uh, you better wake up because you're actually denying the second coming of Jesus and where we really are in Bible prophecy and you're going to be deceived. You're going to end up taking the mark of the beast because you don't believe you believe it happened with Nero. I mean, that's about the, about the foolish thing. I think that the bark is worldwide. The mark of the beast is worldwide. And if you go back, they started using currency thousands and thousands of years ago, especially in China and Asia and that part of the world. Well, guess what? Nero had no influence over that part of the world and they were buying and selling. Nero didn't enforce a mark across the world that controlled all buying and selling. I'm telling you, you bunch of people have fallen for foolish, deceptive teaching. If you're falling for this nonsense, all right, it's time to wake up and get back to the Bible about this. Jesus has not come yet, but he is coming. And remember, they said, G Peter, second, Peter three, he said, they're going to say, where is the promise of his coming? All things continue as they were, right? Especially at the end of how, you know, this is how blind some people become. They can't even see the forest for the trees. But never before have things happened or happening or in the process of happening that even could the mark of the beast wouldn't even impossible until now. But now it is. So we'll deal more with that in the days ahead. But let's ask chapter two.
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Now this is after the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out. So again, in context of being filled, baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues and then the gift of interpretation of tongues, the gift of prophecy begins to come forth. But Peter stood up when this happened and he said in verse 16, he said, But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. It shall come to pass in the last day, saith God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my spirit and they shall prophesy. Everybody see that dreams, visions, gift of prophecy. When in the first century, just with the apostles, know upon your sons and your daughters in the last days, upon the young and upon the old. Now this is important. These people that are cessationists, they are again, deceived, denying the power of the Holy Spirit, denying the gifts of the Spirit. Now let me say this before we read any further. Yes, Jesus warned us in Matthew 24 that many false prophets would rise and deceive many in the last day. So at the same time, right now, we do have many false prophets talking about traveling to the third heaven whenever they want to, talking about this great transfer of wealth. Let me tell you, any prophet that's talking about you're going to be a rich Christian, that the world's wealth is all going to be trans, they are deceived and they are deceiving you. It's a complete opposite of what the Bible says is going to happen in the last days. It's amazing though, how many people fall for that? Greg Locke's having one of those false teachers in time wealth transfer. Joseph Z prophets at his church this week. Boy, better wake up. These false prophets are everywhere, promising no evil's coming upon you. I'm going to show you that. Oh, prophesying peace. You're going to be wealthy Christian. Oh, Lord, what's the one Barry? What's his name? Barry, what's up? I don't know how you say his name. He ought to be, what's up with this? Well, he starts jerking. Oh, the wealth transfer. I'm like, let me tell you something. Prophets like that, their God is money. Their God is money, their eyes are blinded, their hearts blinded, they don't know the Bible and they are not discerning the times that we are living in. It's just that simple. And you better stop listening to him and sending them your money. All right. Now he says this, that all of this is going to happen. When God pours out his spirit in the last days, sons and daughters are going to prophesy, young men are going to see visions, old men of dream dreams. He just says, men and women are going to prophesy. I love that. And then he says this, and I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath
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