The Burden of San Francisco & the Approaching Tribulation
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In “The Burden of San Francisco & the Approaching Tribulation,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about divine judgment, repentance, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from 2 Timothy 3, Genesis 18, Galatians 5, Ephesians 5, the teaching emphasizes that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that repentance involves turning from known sin and bringing conduct into agreement with God’s word.
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Odle focuses on Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on divine judgment while working through 2 Timothy 3, Genesis 18. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. It connects this with the conviction that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on repentance while working through Galatians 5, Ephesians 5, Hebrews 9. The message argues that repentance involves turning from known sin and bringing conduct into agreement with God’s word. It connects this with the conviction that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Hebrews 9, Ezekiel 33, Revelation 17. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that repentance involves turning from known sin and bringing conduct into agreement with God’s word. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Romans 1. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Revelation 9. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on divine judgment while working through Revelation 14, Matthew 24. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. 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.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that the gospel announces Christ’s saving work and calls every hearer to repent, believe, and obey. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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the Lord you know God your word says that in that day many will call upon the name of the Lord Jesus and they will be saved Lord we want to be part of that we want to be part of lifting up the name of Jesus in the midst of that difficult time we pray for your power to fall we pray for your anointing on this service those here those not here today those listening by radio internet radio and those who will listen while we ask you to touch them moving their lives in Jesus name amen and amen you may be seated this morning we welcome you to Fire and Grace Church I'm actually going to preach this morning part three really of what I've been discussing the last few days but we're going to start well I don't know if I'll start there I don't know which you can turn to the prophet Nahum I've actually never preached out of this book in almost 30 years of preaching I've never preached out of the book of Nahum but there's a first time for everything amen really only going to look at chapter one verses 1 through 10. while you're turning there I'm going to look up something here real quick I'm entitled this this morning the burden of San Francisco and the approaching tribulation um you know I have been I guess over the last several years I've probably heard the criticism more um from people around here that I preached too much about end times that's actually come from some folks that have used to be members of this church and actually have laughed a while back but that was one of their criticisms um but this is what I say this morning when you're called to do what I'm called to do then you can determine what you ought to preach amen I have to be obedient to the Lord and sometimes it's not pleasant for me the prophets many times called their message that they had to deliver a burden sometimes it was a burden to them because it was such a heavy thing that
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they had to carry and they had to share they also said Not only was it a burden for them at times but they talked about it being a burden for whoever they needed to tell it to right the prophet Nahum he starts out his prophecy real simple he says the burden of Nineveh the book of the vision of Nahum the ecclesite because about the burden of Nineveh now we know and I've shared this before Nineveh was the capital of Assyria and the Syrian Empire and it was very very Wicked City Pagan brutal cruel they were oppressive to Israel to the people of God um when Israel rebelled God used the Assyrians to bring judgment and correction and discipline to Israel and we all know the story of Jonah I've shared that recently Jonah was sent to Nineveh about a hundred years before this he was sent to Nineveh and his message was 40 days and Nineveh will be destroyed simple message right he didn't want to deliver it it was a burden to him you know why because Jonah didn't like the ninevites he wanted God to destroy it he didn't even want to give them a warning or the opportunity that they might repent and of course God revealed that he had a bad attitude right and he disobeyed God and he ran and we all know the story got on a boat I love that story because it says he went down to tarshish and then it says he went and paid the fair of the ship and then he went down into the ship he kept going down and then the storm he gets thrown out of the boat and then he gets in the the great fish swallows him and he goes down into the depth he called the depths of hell you know some prophets have to be in the belly of the fish before they'll do what God told them to do but anyway the fish spits him out on the shores of Nineveh are close by and he goes and he goes to obey the Lord right and we all know the story The Good News see the good news we also about well the gospel is good news isn't it not always it's good news if you listen and repent it's good news if you humble yourself before God and say I'm a sinner I have sinned I deserve wrath and judgment I deserve punishment I deserve to go to hell when you can be humble enough to say yes I've sinned I've rebelled I've lived uh whether it be a life of wickedness or just a life of lukewarm uh
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apathy toward your relationship with God where God looks at lukewarm this is wickedness right but if you can humble yourself and say Lord I have sinned maybe I've been full of lust maybe I've been full of anger maybe I've been full of hate maybe I've been full of racism maybe I've been full of division and strife maybe I've been full of you know just myself just laziness you know a lot of the problems in the church worlds it's just folks are lazy that's one thing I think about doing this Sunday mornings on the radio people can lay in bed and listen you know I think it's dissuaded some people or just you know from attending church on Sunday morning but yet it's reached other people so you know it's a two-edged sword um but now the prophet here he gets a word about the destruction of Nineveh and recently I've shared that God gave me a word specifically about the destruction of San Francisco it's been one of the most um shaking prophetic words that I that the Lord's ever given me and it's been so that I can't seem to shake it off and even yesterday trying to pray and trying to prepare and trying to say God what do you want for today it just will not leave me and I sought the Lord and this morning as I got up and I think I finally went to sleep at 1 30 or 2 and I woke up at six and I got up to pray and I've never heard the Lord speak to me and say go to the book of Nahum ever in my life right and I read the first 10 verses and I understood why you know recently the lord gave me the word and I've shared it that San Francisco will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah that their sins reached to heaven and that the time of judgment is at hand that was uh what was that on the 26th January 26th two days later on January 28th if I continue to pray about it the Lord spoke to me and he said I will destroy San Francisco and Revival will follow like I did before and that's when he reminded me that just in the midst of San Francisco being destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake in the fires that followed 80 percent of the city being destroyed that the Azusa Street Revival happened to began in the same month and the Azusa Street Revival became a great Pentecostal Awakening that spread All Over America and across the world
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and many people were born again saved came to know Jesus as their lord baptized in the Holy Spirit the evidence of speaking of the tongues I mean came into the what we call the Full Gospel Pentecostal I call biblical acts Christianity book of Acts Christianity was restored in a great fashion to the entire church world uh other you know church theologians I can't remember the guy's name Vincent yeah Vincent Simmon who was uh one of the professors at Regent University studied Pentecostal history and and the effects of it and he and he stated very clearly in one of his books I think I have the book he stated that the Pentecostal movement was the fastest growing and most powerful segment of the church in the 20th century that's that's the effect of the great Azusa Street Revival but we forget many times when we talk about the Revival and the Great Harvest of souls that came in and the Miracles that happened and the in the restoration of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church and a broad broad way we forget that that that Revival came out of the midst of California an entire city being destroyed in California being shaken to its core by thousands of people dying in that and one of the one of the fact one of the I guess you would say the fathers of the Azusa Street Revival guy by the name of Frank bartleman God revealed him he was a man of prayer man of intercession said very clearly and he even spent almost all of his money to write a little track booklet and and print it and pass it out all over Los Angeles and San Francisco and that whole region of California that the earthquake there were ministers coming up saying the earthquake was just a random event it had no meaning it wasn't from God that God didn't do it and he had a clear word from God and from the scriptures that it was judgment from God San Francisco was wicked back then and that the earthquake and the destruction that followed was God's judgment and it was God's judgment to Humble us here in America to get us to repent and seek him and this is something that a lot of us don't like to look at we don't like to look at the fact that God the god that we call the god of love and mercy and forgiveness and salvation is also the god of wrath and judgment and Punishment we don't like that part we only want the good part but folks I'm here to tell you right now you can't just pick and choose out of the Bible what you think you want that's the problem in the world right now that's that's the reason Christianity is So Weak and Powerless and why another one of the reasons why God's judgment is going to fall is because we we're just
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