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And good morning everyone. You're listening to a special edition of Prophecy Quake this morning. We are not having our normal Fire and Grace Church service this morning due to some unforeseen circumstances that we won't get into, but uh decided to go ahead and uh do the broadcast this morning and get into the word because there is a lot going on. So, again, we welcome you to this uh December 21st edition of Prophecy Quake Fire and Grace Church service. I'm your host, Pastor Dean Odle. Uh we're going to dig in the word a little bit this morning, talk about some different things um that uh I've been studying and that the Lord's been revealing. Um cuz we do have a number of people. Uh I don't even know. It varies who listen on Sunday morning. And then, of course, those who uh wanted to make it to church this morning can listen in as well. So, we're going to get into the word. Let's pray this morning and we're going to get just directly into the word of God and what's going on and some things that uh uh the Lord has been uh dealing with me about preaching and teaching on. So, let's pray for a moment. Father in heaven, we thank you for this day. We thank you for your mercies, Lord. We all need your mercies, your forgiveness that can be found through the blood of Jesus Christ. We thank you for the word that you've given us, your Bible, that's true, anointed, that's real. Uh Lord, it's so specific and accurate. Lord, I thank you, God, for everything that's in it, Lord. You said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Lord, you said that Lord, heaven and earth would pass away, but your words would not pass away, that you would fulfill every jot and tittle, every every comma, every dot, every part of the word you promised to fulfill. Lord, I ask you, Lord, you just to give us grace this morning. Give me grace and the anointing uh Lord to be led by the Holy Spirit as we delve into these uh scriptures and what's going on in the world right now. Lord, I ask you to equip my brothers and sisters with your word, your truth. Father, we thank you for it and we pray for it in Jesus name. Amen. Uh just you know, before we really get into the meat of the subject this morning, I just want to say this very clearly to everyone out there and I hope that this is um you know, very very clear. Um we have, you know, as a pastor as a minister of the gospel now, you know, 20 7 28 years and I can even go back into when I was younger being a Christian. So, we're talking about 30 years plus. I'm I'm not a novice in this and I understand the Bible talks about that we will be persecuted. Uh we will be reproached and those things. But, this has just been stirring me in the past few days because uh I you know, it's funny because I watch, you know, I
I'll go on to our ministry pages on Facebook and our website and it's just amazing the ups and downs and uh the emails I get one minute from from one person that just, you know, loves the ministry and what we're doing and then, you know, a few days later the same person doesn't like us anymore and they're gone. Uh we have a kind of a revolving door situation that goes on. But, the Lord, you know, I was thinking about that one day and I don't let it bother me that much because one thing I I've said before is that, you know, I sometimes don't even like myself. And in saying that, I want to be clear that, you know, uh all of us need to have a reality check and and realize that, you know, we all have preachers and pastors and teachers and uh ministers or whoever, people that we look at as, you know, spiritually mature or elders or our leaders and all that's fine and dandy, but just remember this and I and and this goes for me and I'm saying this for me this morning. There's no such thing as a perfect messenger. Um I I think that's what what bothers me the most is when I see Christians rejecting the truth of God's word or the truth of something that's, you know, factual that's going on in the world and um I watch them reject it because they get hung up on the messenger, either a personality issue or, you know, they get hung up on uh you know, they see the person not do something they think they ought to do or teach a particular thing in a particular way. Um just just remember this. There are no perfect messengers and including uh this one behind this microphone this morning, but the message is what is important. The message of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the doctrines of Jesus Christ and the doctrines of scripture, um and what's going on with Bible prophecy, what's going on in the world. Um be sure you don't reject the message because you have an issue with a messenger, whether it be their delivery or their style or their personality or you see a flaw in them or a sin in them that they struggle with. Bottom line, there's not a perfect messenger. Uh Paul wasn't perfect. We go back and we look at him. Look at Peter uh denying Jesus. We see, you know, Abraham lying. We see David committing adultery and murder. We see uh men of God who were used as messengers were not perfect. Moses getting angry and breaking the 10 commandment that uh God had written himself in stone for uh Moses. And and we could just go down the line. Uh Samson was the lion. You know, there men of God, messengers of God uh throughout the centuries, throughout millennia. We're talking about thousands and thousands of years.
Uh God used many men and women who are who have flaws, who are imperfect. But what we need to look at more than that is the message. Is it according to the scriptures? Is it true? Is it really happening? Is it historically factual? Um we don't need to reject the message of truth, of God's word, and what he is saying now and doing now, and what he's revealing now. We don't want to miss that because we have an issue uh with the messenger. I know there's a lot of people I talked about it a little bit last week when we were getting into the subject uh when I preached the message or some people would call it teaching, but it's teaching and preaching. I kind of do a mixture of both on hearing God's voice. And you know, I there's a lot of people out there, a lot of Christian people. I'm mainly talking about Christians this morning. A lot of people that reject important truth uh because they disagree with the messenger on one or two points here and there. They won't listen to anything that that person has to say. And it's a shame because I can honestly say that many things that I've learned over the years, I've learned from men and women of God that I didn't agree with on every point. And uh also that I I knew that you know, had different struggles in their lives, and some of them even messed up pretty bad, but it didn't change the truth that they preached and the things that I gleaned and learned from them. I mean, I I learned a lot and gleaned things from Jimmy Swaggart. We know what happened to him. I I gleaned things from Kenneth Hagin. And there were parts where, you know, the prosperity message got off base. But you don't throw out every messenger because even they're off a little bit in an area or maybe they struggle or even they fall. Now God is able to forgive them and raise them up again and use them in a mighty way. I think of David being forgiven and continuing on as king and and doing great things and and being used to write even more Psalms and prophetic words and parts of scripture even after he fell into adultery with Bathsheba and committed murder and God that he repented deeply and God forgave him and God restored him and I think we we sometimes we forget that God is very patient and merciful. Some of us, especially that are strong in preaching uh repentance and holiness and we do have to preach a standard, God's standard, his word of truth about him and about, you know, obedience and doing the will of God and and trying to be separate from the world and live a as holy and obedient life as a Christian. We can't but the bottom line, the truth is is that uh we don't always do it right. Uh Christians don't and neither do uh Christian leaders. So we we always
have to remember there needs to be some mercy and grace. Now I'm not talking about tolerating somebody that seems habitual, you know, some preacher that might be in adultery or be in such gross error that he's leading the sheep astray. That's not what I'm talking about, but I'm just talking about you know, having uh a sense of mercy and patience and understanding with one another really and understanding that God uses uh imperfect people to bring a message of truth to you many times. So just keep that in mind um before you uh reject someone. Uh you know, when it gets to the subject of end time Bible prophecy, I mean, there are ministers that disagree with deeply on the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine. But, I've learned a lot from them. People like Jack Van Impe, people like Hal Lindsey, people like Perry Stone. I've learned a lot from them. I believe things that I needed to know in the scriptures that I needed to learn cuz I didn't reject them just because I disagreed with them. And there's other things, you know, along those lines. I I love uh some things I've learned some things from Irvin Baxter, but I disagree with him deeply about his idea that the Antichrist will not be Islamic and uh that he believes, you know, some things about that I think he believes and from what I've seen and heard, he believes that you have to speak in tongues to be saved. And even though I'm Pentecostal, speaking tongues and we don't I don't believe he's correct about that, but I don't throw out what the things other things that he teaches and and the messages of truth that he's brought. So, um I think in the body of Christ we've missed a lot of things that we needed to learn because we couldn't receive the flaw of or the disagreements some of the disagreements we have with the messengers. Um but, that just was on my heart very strong this morning as we get into the subject because I felt like that we should delve into this little bit more about uh the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine or what I call the pre-tribulation rapture myth um because I saw an advertisement in this last week and I've seen it several times. I've seen it on Facebook posted uh by the History Channel. I was watching uh one show on the History Channel about the search for the lost giant that I find very interesting. And I was watching that and I saw this um this advertisement for a series that's coming on the History Channel. I believe it's December 29th. Um but I don't know if it's 29th or 30th or whatever, something like that. It may be a 2-day thing, but it's a series on the Book of Revelation, the end of days, but uh primarily focusing on a pre-tribulation rapture. Now, I know and most people know that the History Channel and 99.99%
of the media is run uh by the Illuminati, by the Luciferians, by the people who are anti-Christ, anti-Christian, anti-Bible. Um and they always have an agenda. Usually, nine times out of I mean, like I said, 99 times out of 100, there's always something behind. Now, every now and then something will slip through. Um I saw a Christian website, you know, excited about that the History Channel is putting forth uh this 2-day series on the Book of Revelation and the end of days and uh the pre-trib rapture theory. And and really, this is something that I've been teaching against, this pre-trib rapture doctrine. I've been preaching against it since 1989. So, this is not a new thing for me, um but I can see in the church where um you know, there's some good signs that the truth about the rapture and when the rapture is is starting to get some traction. Um and more people are starting to see get their eyes open like I did back in 1989. But you you can really, those of you out there who are you know, believe in a pre-trib rapture doctrine, um and you see the History Channel posting or you know, getting ready on since and if they do post and advertise on Facebook, but getting ready to do a series on the Book of Revelation, pushing that, it ought to throw up a red flag to you right then and there that something is amiss here. Why would the History Channel promote um the word of God and then, you know, about Bible prophecy and the Book of Revelation and the last days and the second coming of Jesus? Why would the Illuminati antichrist media push this? Well, of course, when I saw it, I said, "Well, I know why they're pushing it." They're pushing this error of the pre-trib rapture. You say, "You You're really strong about this. Why are you so strong about this?" Because, you know, there are people out there I I've some I've gotten sick of hearing it that um oh, it doesn't matter what you believe, just be ready. Well, the problem with that is is that most people say that, but they're not ready. And most people, that's just a dismissive uh attitude so they don't have to confront the fact. Here's the deal with me. This is what I've always believed about the Bible, and that is if God took the time to inspire uh someone to write down something that became holy scripture, then it is important. I I In my prayer uh a minute ago, I quoted what Jesus said in Mark chapter 4 when he said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Now, if if Jesus quoted that, he was quoting from Deuteronomy, he was
speaking that, but it was to re-emphasize it is that every word is important in the Bible. God didn't waste his time. He put exactly what he wanted mankind to have in in Revelation and understanding. He put it in here. He didn't waste uh his breath and he didn't waste his time moving upon holy men, inspiring them to write the scriptures. He wouldn't waste his time. So, if it's in here, it's in here for a reason. And remember this, what Jesus said about the word. He said in John 17, when he was praying for his apostles and those who would believe after he said, "Sanctify them through thy word. Thy word is truth." The word of God is the truth. It's the only truth. And remember that Jesus said in John 8, "The truth you shall" He said it knows He said to the Jews that believed on him. He said, "If you continue in my word, then you are my disciples indeed and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free." Listen, partial truth is partial freedom. Partial freedom is not total free And this is our problem. We want to believe parts of the Bible and other parts of the Bible we don't want to believe. And if somebody comes along and challenges some of our wrong belief systems, we immediately want to shut them down or cast them aside or attack the messenger in some way or find their imperfection or their flaw or whatever and throw out what they're saying so we can cling to our wrong beliefs and our wrong doctrine. Listen, if something is not true, if it's not biblically correct, and I'm speaking to Christians here, if it's not biblically correct, it is not the truth and therefore you will not be free, fully free. Now, people say, "Well, you know, it doesn't really matter. Just don't pre-tribulation rapture. It doesn't really matter." Well, why did God spend so much time talking about it if it didn't matter? Now, granted, it may not have mattered for, you know, two or three generations, but but it's going to matter a whole lot for the generation in which it happens. Now, I happen to that we are in that last generation. We are in the generation that will see the end time events spoken of in the book of Revelation and in in Matthew and in the book of Daniel. I believe this is the generation Jesus said would not pass till all things were fulfilled. The generation that saw the the fulfillment of Bible prophecy when Israel became a nation again in 1948 and particularly when Israel re-took the city of Jerusalem in 1967. He said Jesus said, "When you see these things begin to come to pass." He said, "No, this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled." Matthew 24 and Luke 21. So, I have no doubt. I preached a message on my phone called The Last Generation or Are We The Last
Generation? You know, I think the signs of the times and the fulfillment of the prophecies that have been fulfilled clearly show we're in the last generation. So, if we are in the last generation, and I know a lot of Christians right now say, "Oh, they have no doubt we're in the last days." Oh, I believe you know, they'll come up to me. I believe we're in the last days. I believe we're in the end times. And they'll say something. You know what I'm finding out there about a lot of Christians is they say they believe a lot of things. But, when it comes to acting upon that faith, standing for it, preaching it, or or the actions you need to that they need to take to prove what they believe, they don't do it. But, just saying you believe something really doesn't doesn't make it faith. Faith without works is dead. You know what I'm saying? This is what James chapter two says. So, if you believe something in the Bible, you believe God has spoken to you or God has revealed something or taught you some truth in the Bible, uh whether it be about end times or the baptism of the Holy Spirit or hearing God's voice or uh holiness or repentance or whatever it may be, and you don't have corresponding actions to go with it, then you're not really walking in faith. Faith believes in the heart and then confesses with the mouth and then carries out the actions. I mean, it's just like right now. I mean, we're we're at Christmas time and I you know, I know people are spending money and buying gifts and there's nothing wrong with buying gifts for your children or for people around you. It's a nice thing. It's It's giving is a good thing. But I just know right now, you know, I know people that say they believe that we're headed into tough times, we're headed into tough economic times, going to get worse and worse. I have people tell me they believe we're in the end times and and and they're spending unbelievable amounts of money on things that aren't going to matter. And I'm I'm just blown away. I'm like, Christians, we need to wake up and we need to We say we believe something, we need to act like we believe it. Um I'm just finding that I mean, and I'm talking about I'm seeing this in Christians who are, you know, claim to be, you know, spirit-filled, on fire, walking in truth, wanting to be close to God. And I and I see the the talk coming out of their mouth. Oh, I believe it's the end times, brother. I believe it's true. But then really I think deep down most don't want to believe it's true. How close we really are. Um I think that's I think that's one of the biggest problems. I know it is with with some of young people. They don't want to believe that we're as close as we really are to the great tribulation, um you know, World War III, the war of Gog and Magog, the the persecution, the great persecution, the mark of the beast, the Antichrist, and all that stuff. They don't want to believe that because they got their own plans, they got their own agenda, they they uh you
know, they they got it in their head, well, I want to live my life and they think they think ignoring the truth or shutting it out or whatever is going to make it go away. And that's just not going to happen. It's not going to go away. Um, you know, just last night late, some of you may have seen this, some of you may not, but here here is the just a just a snippet. This is World Net Daily and they're very credible um very credible news agency. Um, Christian oriented but very uh got they have great sources and they tend to break stories long before they ever get broken in in you know most of the time the mainstream media won't even touch what they'll touch, but they'll they'll get it out and then finally they'll shame Fox or somebody into actually having to report it because, you know, they've got some good sources. But it says here, this was 7 hours ago, so um I hadn't been on in 7 hours ago, I guess it hadn't refreshed because this was last night I guess about 11:00 I saw this World Net Daily exclusive uh Russia plotting to start war on Israel. Now, for those of you who don't know Bible prophecy, you're like, well, that's startling already just to hear those words that Russia would be plotting to attack Israel. But if you know Bible prophecy and you know the prophecy in Ezekiel 38 and 39, you know that the Bible says that Gog and Magog, Magog is Russia, Gog is the chief prince of Russia. I've gone through this many times, but maybe for those of you who might be new listeners, we know that the Magog heights according to Josephus, the first century historian, said that the Greeks called them Scythians and that the ancient Scythians migrated from the Middle East up into is the Black Sea uh which is now Russia, Ukraine actually and into Russia. And then we know from Joel C. Rosenberg was doing research for his book The Ezekiel Option back in 2004 and was in Russia in Red Square and was in basically Russia's version of the Smithsonian of our Smithsonian and they have a whole section dedicated to the ancient Scythian um origins of the Russian people. Uh so Russian anthropologists and archaeologists have proven that the ancient uh Scythians are the ancient Magogites um that Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, spoke of that those are now what we would say the modern Russians. So we're told in the book of of Ezekiel 38:39, 2,600 years ago God inspired this prophet to write down that in the last days, and he said in the latter times or the last days, these final days leading up to the second coming of Jesus and the final judgment
and the great tribulation and all that stuff, he said leading up to that, he said that God, the chief prince of Magog, so the leader of Russia would join with Persia, Iran and he talked about the house of Togarmah and the north parts and many people with him and he talked about, you know, Libya and he talked about basically if you go look at all the nations, the Arab nations, the Arab / Muslim nations around the land of Israel, he said would gather together in the last days and attack Israel. And they would ascend in the clouds and come like a storm. He didn't He wrote that 2,600 years ago before airplanes that they would fly there, there would be in a massive military invasion on all sides and that Russia would be involved. And here we are in 2000 and 14 at the end of 2014, and an official says Russia is plotting to start war in Israel. I'm going to read this. Russia is preparing a contingency plan to prompt Hezbollah, which is the terrorist group in southern Lebanon, and possibly the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Syria, in a indirect military conflict with Israel. So, Russia's preparing a contingency plan to prompt Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syrian President Assad to direct a military conflict uh with Israel, according to a French official who has been apprised of the situation. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the contingency was meant to be used as a card against the West, particularly the US and the European Union, which has engaged in efforts to isolate Moscow. Um of course, economically right now. Um this past week, the US and the EU adopted tighter sanctions on the Russian economy, including restrictions on investments in the Crimea and Crimea uh with uh emphasis on Russian Black Sea oil and gas exploration and tourism. The official said there is information Russia in recent weeks successfully shipped to Hezbollah a large convoy of its Scud ballistic missiles and surface-to-air missiles. The missiles were received despite Israel's alleged attack in Syria targeting Russian shipped weapons earlier this month, the official said. Um the official said Russia has not made any decision about agitating a Hezbollah attack on Israel, but views a possible conflict in the Mideast as a card it can play in its confrontation with the West, particularly in Ukraine. Uh earlier this month, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem, I guess that's how you say that, traveled to Russia to meet with the country's President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at Russia's, uh, Black Sea resort of Sochi. Or Sochi, whatever it is, but it says
World Net reported at the time uh, that according to a source in Assad's regime, Putin and Lavrov assured Muallem that Russia won't stand for any Western attack on Assad and that the Russians pledged support and protection to the Assad regime. That pledge came in the pressure from Turkey and Saudi Arabia on the Obama administration to expand the fight against ISIS in Syria to also target Assad's forces. So, it has been leaked and it's leaked on purpose that Assad, um, that Putin is thinking about this card of attacking Israel uh, via the Arab nations around it. So, you couldn't be seeing the stage set more perfectly for the God Magog war. But now, let me get back to we we get back to that and to what we said earlier. The History Channel at this time coming out with a series on the Book of Revelation but to push the pre-trib rapture. Listen, folks, here's why this matters. The pre-trib rapture is right now really the church across the world has lost credibility. Uh, pastors have lost credibility. There's been so many scandals, the prosperity message, the mega churches, uh, pastors, uh, getting busted misusing funds, uh, getting busted in affairs. I mean, even pastors committing suicide. Um, mega churches going bankrupt, money schemes, uh, investment schemes gone and gone bad across the board. I mean the the the scandals and then and then of course I don't even consider um the Roman Catholic Church part of the true true church of Jesus Christ but the world does. And then you look at their scandal after scandal after scandal with um priests molesting children, um the Vatican's bank scandal, and so across the board you see uh the credibility of ministers and churches are really at an all-time low. Now, when you couple that with a church that is primarily in the Western world preach a pre-tribulation rapture that true Christians or believers or whatever are going to be taken out of here before all this bad stuff happens. When it doesn't happen that way, the devil the um liberal ministers that don't agree with the scriptures that should just be new agers or Buddhist but the the heat's going to come down from the media. You know, all this bad stuff is happening and didn't your pastor tell you that you'd be out of here before this bad stuff would happen?
So there's Christians that are going to face martyrdom, they're going to face they're going to see the war of Gog and Magog, this Russian uh Middle East Arab war, going to see famine, going to see economic collapse, going to see uh nuclear weapons released again in the world. But but so many Christians believe well, I'm not going to be here. I'm not going to be here, God's going to take me out of here. And then when it all starts unfolding on them, the mark of the beast, people are starting to be shipped off to prison camps, yes, in America. And when that happen, starts to happen, how many Christians, and I and I'm not talking, you know, the the Bible talks about there will be always be strong Christians and there will be weak ones. I mean, Romans 15 says it very plainly, we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. So, he tells us there's going to be strong Christians and there will be weak Christians. I have Christians that go, "Well, it's not going to affect me. If you know, if I don't get raptured first, I don't get raptured, it's not going to affect me." Well, let's just see you. But, what about the baby Christian? What about the new Christian? What about the weak Christian? Who's struggling with doubts about their faith? Struggling with doubts about the word of God? Struggling saying they believe in Jesus, maybe trying, maybe they got saved, but they just, you know, they've not had they haven't been in a good church or haven't been around some strong people and they haven't been taught things and they're they're they're, you know, get on the internet, see all this wacky crazy stuff out there attacking the Bible and attacking Christianity. What's going to happen to them? They go to a church a few times, they hear the pastor talk about a pre-tribulation rapture before all this stuff happens, you're leaving. And they start facing First thing that's going to go in these weak Christians' mind, that the devil's going to put in their mind, is that, you know what? He didn't know what he was talking about. He was wrong. Yeah, this bad stuff is happening. Yeah, the Bible talks about it, but it's not quite the way he You can't listen to this pastor anymore. Come over here and listen to Oprah. Come over here and listen to these liberal theologians. See, it's not quite like you thought it was. It's setting up weak Christians, baby Christians, and those on the fringes of Christianity who are still trying to make a decision, it will have an impact upon them. You can say all day long, I don't care if you're a preacher listening to me this morning, I don't care if you've been a Christian for a long time, you can say all day long it's not going to affect anybody. But if the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine is not true, and I don't believe it is by scripture, and I will be getting that in a second. It will have an effect. And I'm talking about an eternal effect on eternal salvation of some people. And why is that? Because it is not the truth. The truth sets you free. Free from what? Deception, lies.
It doesn't give the the truth does not give place to the devil to bring doubt. The truth of the word of God is powerful. So, let's go back. Let's let's study this for a minute. And you say, "Well, why is this important?" Again, let's ask that question. Why is it important? I'll give you the other reason why it's important. It's important because Jesus taught it. It's important because it was taught by the Old Testament prophets. It was taught by the New Testament prophets. It was taught by the Apostle John. It was taught by Peter. It was taught by Paul. It was So, it's important. You can sit there and say it's not important all day long. You know, before we you know, before we get into this and this this will just give you an example of what I'm talking about. I got an email this morning. I'm not going to give the young lady's name. Um but she is a college student. She's 20 years old. Uh she's a college student in um in Ireland. And this was amazing. This is what she said. Now, this is you know, you want to talk about trying to reach this generation and and and particularly, you know, in Ireland where the Roman Catholic Church reigned supreme and uh Europe is is really in worse shape spiritually speaking than America. And you we all know Americans, we know how bad a shape America is in spiritually. And here is this, you know, younger person um in school studying economics. Here's what she sent me this morning. She said, "Hi Dane, I remember that a while ago you posted on Facebook that you had a vision or a dream or something about the previous recession." She's talking about the 2008 financial collapse as being depicted as a baby bear. "I study economics and I'm very interested in a lot of the things that you posted. I don't know if you've heard of the magazine The Economist. However, they always seem to portray Russia as the big bear. The first time I saw the magazine using this metaphor, I immediately remembered what you posted once about baby bear being the early recession or the 2008 recession when we uh we just had and mama bear being on the way. Now, this What's so powerful about this is this is a young person that need needed to hear how the Bible is relevant. You want to talk about the Bible being relevant to society? We're living in the end times, folks. End times prophecy and this is they're relevant right now. If your church is not preaching on these things or teaching on these things, you get out and find one that does.
Because, folks, this is this is what I'm talking about. And so, you know, I I took this as an opportunity to even give her I could tell she really didn't have a lot of information. And I said, "Yes, that was a dream that the Lord Jesus gave me in 2008. At that time, I was not thinking about Russia playing a part in our economic collapse. Though, I knew that Russia was symbolized as the bear and would be a big part of the end time prophecy. And now, with their attempts to subvert the dollar via BRICS being countered by US sanctions, and the low oil prices, that Putin may get desperate enough to attack the US or Israel or both. And any attack on the US soil would cause the economy to collapse as well. But the Bible foretold the rise of a new economic system in the last days that would be cashless, and all transactions would be from an implanted mark in the right hand or forehead, Revelation 13. I said, "So, this present system will collapse to make way for the mark of the Antichrist and the coming of the world government." So, then she writes back, and she says, "Wow, I never viewed the mark as an economic system. Although, it does say it will be a mode of transaction. I never thought of it a lot. However, it does make sense." Now, now you say, "I never thought" Now, here's how important this is, and I said, "You know what? I said, "What is even more amazing is when you look at the original Greek that the Greek word that the Apostle John used for the word mark in Revelation 13, the word uh means a scratch or etching, a stamp as a badge of servitude, or a sculptured figure or statue, something graven or engraven." I said, "And it just so happens that the implantable radio frequency identification microchips that are being pushed as the next big financial transaction tool, have silicon chips in them. And silicon microchips are engraved or etched by a process called photo etching. So, the Bible was very specific and very accurate about the end time scenario. And God warns us in Revelation 14 that if anyone who takes this mark will be eternally damned in hell forever. I told her, I said, "This is why I did this so serious of an issue. Taking the mark of the beast will be a pledge of allegiance to the Antichrist and the satanic world government, and it will be a rejection of Jesus Christ and his word, the Bible. See, folks, you want to tell me this stuff's not important? What if I sat there and said, "Oh oh, you know, young lady, you don't have to worry about this. You'll be You're a Christian. You believe in Jesus. You'll be You'll be raptured out of here before any of this happens." No, she needs to know. She needs to know how the Bible foretold the economic collapse. How the Bible foretold that there will be a coming new economic system. She needs to know that that is also
going to be part of Satan's final agenda. She needs to know that she needs to resist that and not take it. Folks, all of this stuff that I'm talking about, you can believe it or not believe it, but you will face it. You will face it, and your kids will face it. And you just need to quit being fearful or sticking your head in the sand or quit trying to ignore the facts. People need the truth. And it just blessed me to get that from this young lady in Dublin, Ireland this morning. Because, you know, sometimes I get discouraged because, especially Americans, are some hard-headed folks and distracted with everything else in the world instead of what's going on. Now, let's go back to this. Let's look at this pre-trib rapture thing. Why is this so important? Well, as I said, it's important because Jesus taught it. Now, for those of you who don't know me and who may some may be listening to this as an archive program on BlogTalkRadio, we get a lot of archive listening. I'm going to tell you what the what the Lord changed me, and how it began. This was in 1989. I rededicated my life to the Lord in 1987. I and I mean fully. I went from being, you know, a habitual drunkard, sexually immoral, using drugs frequently. Um I went from just living in just total sin, violence, getting in fights, you know, just going to bars and clubs all the time, and just just living a sinful, rowdy, just flesh-controlled life. And even though I had been saved when I was young, I had fallen away from God, and and um God had just had to get a hold of me, and he had to convict me again, and I had thank thank God I had some praying uh great aunts, and a praying great grandmother, and and others who were praying for me that God would open my eyes and bring me to the truth. And when I turned 18, and I went to my first year of college, I just got worse. Um then I got a a modeling contract, and did screen tests for television movies, and then the door was opened for me going to movies, and I mean, I was going to uh you know, be rich and famous, and just be this rowdy maniac, partying maniac. And thank God that the Holy Spirit worked the situation out to take me to a place where I got He got me away from all my my bad influences, my bad friends, and my bad girlfriends, and everything else. And he got me with some Christians, and he got me to some people that would tell me the truth about Jesus, about what he expects,
about repentance from sin, about living a life that uh is dedicated to walking with God in intimacy and walking with God in obedience and holiness to the you know and and I I just thank God that he woke me up. I mean I I I every day I thank him that he didn't give up on me when I was blind, hard-headed, stubborn, living in sin that I didn't die in that backslidden state and and and and yes, I would have gone to hell. That's what the Bible says and that's what he said to me. I remember the first time I ever heard God speak to me was when he convicted 3 weeks of conviction, 3 weeks of uh this guy witnessing to me and talking to me about my drinking and my partying how God didn't wasn't going to accept that and how I had to repent and how I had to change. And I remember God speaking to me with as clear as you're sitting next to me that day I I was contemplating all this and he said, "Son, you can have everything the world has to offer. You can go to hell and use the remainder of your life for me and live forever." And at that moment I thought about it and I counted the cost and I said, "Lord, I'm going to go with you. I'm going to go to heaven. I'm going to do it right. I'm going to uh I said if I'm going to do this, I'm not going to be a hypocrite. I'm going to do it the best I can." And at that moment I made up my mind that I was leaving the modeling career and the television and the movies and the drugs and the alcohol and the immorality and I was going to do my best to repent, turn away from that and walk with Jesus and I went and prayed with my friend that had talked to me. And I asked Jesus to forgive me and to be my Lord and Savior, but from that moment on I meant business. I was going to be a Christian. So, I started reading the Bible every day, studying studying, studying, studying, reading the Bible, listening to sermons, reading sermons of other preachers like David Wilkerson, Jimmy Swaggart, and Keith Green, and just, you know, Leonard Ravenhill, and just digging in, just just studying and learning, just learning so many things. And I remember from, you know, those early Assembly of God preachers, and uh I when when the subject of the end times would come up, I already believed in it. I knew it was true. I knew it was in the Bible about end times prophecy. And from a child, I had believed that I would somehow be part of that end times um generation. I just knew it. And even as an 8-year-old child, I had a a knowing that uh I would be part of that, would be involved in it. But I remember that, you know, in my first 2 years of rededicating my life to the Lord, really about a year and a half, from 1987 to 1989, I remember that all I ever heard was the pre-trib pre-tribulation rapture doctrine, because back then, um all the TV preachers preached it. Um all the, you know, I was basically uh fellowshipping mainly with Assembly of
God, Pentecostals, and Baptists. So, all I heard was the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine. And, you know, their arguments, for the most part, seemed plausible. Um and some of the the the way they used the scriptures to to prove it, you're like, well, you know, being a young Christian and not really knowing and hearing it from every direction, you're like, okay, well, maybe this is the way it is. It is. You know, I just kind of accepted it because that was just where everybody was. So, anyway, uh fast forward, 1989, um and and throughout 1988, I had been spending a lot of time fasting, praying, studying the Bible. And uh in 1989, the Lord spoke to me and said, "Go on 7-day fast." And so, I obeyed, and I was spending time fasting and praying and no food, just liquids and uh fasting and I got to about day five and really wasn't studying at the time. I wasn't studying end times Bible prophecy. Uh it wasn't even on my my radar a lot then. I was doing a Bible study on the blood of Jesus and uh um with some young people and young people would get saved and we would cast the demons out people and doing deliverance and concerning sickness and all kind of crazy stuff was going on. So, I really wasn't real focused at that time or even thinking a lot about Bible prophecy or rapture or anything like that. I was just, you know, doing uh doing all kinds of stuff and just busy. And the Lord told me to fast the seven days. So, on day five the Holy Spirit spoke to me in my spirit. Now, I like you hear me now, but he spoke down in me just as clear as a bell and he said, "Read Matthew 24." Now, I had read Matthew 24 many times. In fact, it had been the first sermon that I ever preached in a church was in an independent Methodist Church in McDonald, Alabama and I the first sermon I ever preached was on Matthew 24 and the second coming of Jesus and that we are that last generation and uh one of my best friends came to that, but he couldn't believe that that being older was actually preaching in a church um because we never would even thought about going to church. He He came that night and he was saved after the service that night. Born again and then baptized in the Holy Spirit. He's a He's a pastor to this day. But, that was my first sermon. And so, I was familiar with Matthew 24. But, not as familiar as I needed to be. And so, I'm I'm sitting there and the Lord tells me to read Matthew 24. So, I read it and, you know, nothing jumps off the page. I don't know, you know, and so, I I go to set the Bible down and the Lord speaks to me again. He says, "Read it again." I so I look again and say, "Well, okay, Lord. I'll I'll read it again." So, I read Matthew 24 again. Well, I still didn't get anything
different. I'm like, "I've read this now." I'm sitting here thinking, "I've read this many times." I'm about to put the Bible down again. The Lord said, "Read it again." So, now I really realize, "Okay, there's something that God wants me to see and I'm not seeing it." So, I I'm reading, I'm praying, and I'm asking, "See, Lord, open my eyes. Let me see what you're trying to do." And I read it. Well, on about the fifth time through, I'm reading and it hits me. I get to uh Matthew 24 and I get to verse 29. And I remember I've read this now. This was it had to be at least my fifth time going through. I didn't know. I wasn't really counting, but that's it what I remember. And I'm sitting there right now. You want to turn to Matthew 24, you can. But this was the beginning of God opening my eyes to the truth of this. And I know he did it on purpose because he wanted me to know. He wanted me to see this and start teaching the truth. So, Matthew 24, I'm reading and I see, you know, I'm I'm reading down through, you know, the beginning of sorrows that Jesus is talking about in in the first few verses. And then it says many will betray one another. And then I get down to verse 15 and he says, you know, you will when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place. And I knew that was the Antichrist. I'm standing in the temple and I'm starting to go, "Yeah, you know, the Antichrist. This is the Antichrist coming and revealing himself, but the rapture hasn't been mentioned. And I keep reading and then there shall be great tribulation, it says in verse 21, such as this was not since the beginning of this world nor to this time nor ever shall be. So, here in Matthew 21, if you doubt the other parts were the beginning of the the seven year tribulation period. Uh he Jesus says it very plainly in verse 21 that there's the start then shall be great tribulation. He says if any man say go here is Christ or there believe it not. He talks about false Christ and false Christ arising up. So I'm reading all this and then I hit and and it's starting to get in me and then I get to verse 29 which says this, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be shaken, and then or after this shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn for they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other." Now when I read that, I saw the rapture here, the Lord sending his angels with the great sound of the trumpet gathering together his elect from all over the earth. And I saw when it happened. Jesus said it would happen immediately after the tribulation of those days.
Not before. Now since that of course many people have made this point and and at in the 1989 I heard no one, not one preacher. I have not read one book or one article or heard one sermon that revealed this. This is completely Holy Spirit revealed. Since then I've heard people try to say, "Oh, that's the second or third rapture." Or um that's the the Jews and they make up all kinds of stuff. No, friends, if you read this the way it's supposed to be read, this is Jesus gives a chronological outline of the sequence of events that will happen that will lead up to his second coming. He wouldn't get the rapture out of place. The rapture of the church, the resurrection of the righteous dead, he would not somehow forget to put that in in this project chronological event. Yes. This list, this is an outline. And so when I saw this and I and I and the Lord spoke to me again as I read verse 29 through 31. I'm reading that. And the Holy Spirit, God spoke so clearly again. And Jesus just made it clear as he could make it. He said and it was he almost did it in a I I heard him in this sarcastic tone. It was like, "How in the world how did they get before out of what I said immediately after?" And after that it was done for me. My eyes were opened to the truth and then as I began to study it out and I began to study where the the pre-tribulation rapture um believers get their ideas from, it just all began to make sense and I looked at this started comparing scripture with scripture on this and I'm like, "Wow, this is this is always been the way it was." And God, you want me to know this for a reason. And so the week anyway, what I began to discover is that the biggest argument the biggest argument to the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine is not scripture. The the in the sense of letting all the the passages that talk about the rapture or what should be called the resurrection of the righteous dead of the Christian born again Christian that what it's all the scriptures put together in context map it out perfectly. I but the the whole argument of the pre-tribulation doctrine is built on the assumption that the entire 7 years is God's day of wrath. So it's it's a real misunderstanding first of all of the day of the Lord spoken of in the Bible
and it's a misunderstanding of how God can pour out his wrath while his people are still upon the earth uh and protect them. But they don't understand that the Bible speaks of a final great day of God's wrath and in that is what we will be hidden from and it will be the same day. And that's what I the Lord recently as I started studying this again and someone sent me a question about it and I started just looking at the verse and I just realized what most people don't get what they don't understand is that there there has always been throughout history points where God has poured out his judgment and his wrath on uh the wicked. I mean, we have it the biblical examples we see where God poured out his wrath upon Egypt, we see where he poured out his wrath upon Sodom and Gomorrah. And uh the flood of Noah, I mean, we could go down the list, but let's just, you know, use Noah, I mean, uh Egypt for a second. I mean, Egypt God brought plagues similar plagues that he's going to bring in the book of Revelation that it's talking about the vials of his wrath, the plagues that begin to fall on the kingdom of Antichrist. And and upon the world, he says that he brought 10 plagues upon Egypt. Now, people forget that God raptured the children of Israel out of Egypt before the plagues and his wrath and his judgments fell upon the land of Egypt. He didn't He didn't pull them out. In fact, they didn't leave Egypt until the final plague hit. So, when the final judgment and wrath hit is when they left. And and and so, I'm sitting here going, "What is the deal with American Christians that we can't even think? What if it's not the way I've been taught? What if it's different?" And so, uh as we begin to look at that number and we'll talk about, you know, when you talk about Sodom and Gomorrah, a lot of you guys a lot of people go, "Well, now, uh God took took um Lot out of Sodom, Lot and family out of Sodom before it rained fire and brimstone." Exactly. It says that the same day that Lot went out of Sodom when it rained fire and brimstone, the same day. And we're going to find out that there's a day called the day of the Lord or the great day of God's wrath that is never referred to. In fact, as I studied this, I'm going to give you some of the nuggets that I'm I'm in the process of writing a new article on this called The Day of the Lord and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture Myth. But as I was studying this, I looked up the term for the phrase The Day of the Lord. And what I discovered was that in the King James Bible, the phrase The Day of the Lord is used 31 times in the Bible. This includes
both your in the both the Old and New Testament. It's referred to as the day of wrath four times and the day of God twice. It is called the day of darkness twice. Um but one thing is for certain, this end time day of the Lord is never used to describe the entire last 7 years, known properly known as the great tribulation or the 70 weeks of Daniel. It's never used to describe that entire period. In fact, it is one literal day. Um, and I I I can show you that in the word. We're going to look at that. But, let's just look at some of the passages that talk about this because it's mind-blowing, all right? Um, let's talk about the day of the Lord's wrath here. This is um, goodness, we'll just read There's so many of them. We're going to look at several here. And I'm just pulling up the article that I'm working on. It may turn into a book because um, I'm I'm really debating am I supposed to be a book uh, on end times Bible prophecy. Uh, and share some of these things that I think the Lord revealed, but um, let's just look at some of the New Testament passages about this day. Um, he said the apostles uh, well, we'll just look at Paul. He put it this way. And this is uh, 2 Thessalonians 1 7 through 10. He said, "And to you who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his saints." So, that right there just tells you this day is going to be a day when he comes in flaming fire. Here's how Peter put it. This is 2 Peter chapter 3. Peter said, "The Lord is not slack concerning his promises some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to us were not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repent. But the day of the Lord, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat. Now, listen to this. And the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up. So, this is This can't be talking about this the entire 7-year period. Um this day of fire, when everything in the earth will be burned up. This is the last day, the final judgment at the second coming of Jesus, at Armageddon. This day is the day of God's wrath. It's a literal day of God's intense wrath over all the world. See, and if we're going to take the scripture literally, as Jesus said about
Sodom and Gomorrah, he said, "Lot, the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, he rained fire and brimstone and destroyed them all. So will it be in the days of the coming of man." That's in Luke 17, it's in Matthew 24. What's he talking about? He's talking about here is this day of God's wrath, the same day that this day of wrath is the second coming, when the fire of God devours the entire world and destroys everything in the earth. The day that we're We'll see in a moment from the book of Revelation, the day that every mountain is brought down, and every island is brought down, and every city, all the cities of the nations are brought down. This is called the great day of God's wrath, the great day of the wrath of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. This is the great day, and the Bible is very clear that the rapture takes place on that same day, just prior to that pouring out of the great day of God's wrath. And I can prove that to you. But let's look at some of what the what the Old Testament saints say here about about the day of wrath. We read you a couple of New Testament passages. Right? I Here's what Zephaniah says. Zephaniah chapter 1 and you know, we're going to read We'll read quite a few verses here. Starting at verse 1, he says Um Oh, I think I got some verses mixed up. But this is chapter 1 of Zephaniah. But it says, "The great day of the Lord is near. It is near and hastens greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord. The mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of cloud and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, the fenced cities. Remember all the cities I'm going to show you. All The word of God is amazing because it all fits. It's all very descriptive. He says, "It is a day of of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, against the high towers. And I will lay bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord. And their blood shall be poured out as the dust and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath. But the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he will shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land." Now see, that's not going to happen at the beginning of the tribulation period. That's not going to happen throughout the 7 years. No, there is a day when God finishes every bit of his wrath and judgments over the the history. He's going to have a final day of it at the day of the Battle of Armageddon when Jesus returns. Um this is how Isaiah said it. He said here in Isaiah 13:9, "Behold the day of the Lord
cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land desolate and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it." I mean you you you you get it. It gets pretty clear. Um Now, we'll just read this real quick. This is Revelation 6:12-12 um through 17. In Revelation 6:12-17, we're about to read the sixth seal. Now, the sixth seal, if you compare the sixth seal to what Jesus said in Matthew 24 when he comes, his second coming um and the people hiding, you know, running to hide from him in the day of his wrath. He This is actually a mirror because it says the sun goes dark, the moon does not give its light, the stars fall from heaven. Um this is the same day. So, uh Matthew 24 verses 29-31 there is the same as what we're about to read in Revelation 6. It is It's the sixth seal. Listen, "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal." "And lo, there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together. Now, listen to this verse right here. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places." There's never been a day like this. "And then the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, for the great day of his wrath is come. Who shall be able to stand?'" So, here we have it again spelled out that this is a day. All right? Now, the Bible makes it very clear that the sixth and seventh seal are the second coming of Jesus Christ and the rapture. So, when it takes place, it's also very clear in the word of God that these events, the day of the Lord's wrath, the rapture, the end of the last 7 years of the second coming of Jesus Christ, and as we continue to look at this, you're going to see it very plainly, and it's very evident in the scriptures that the seventh seal, the seven trumpets, and the seven vials of Revelation all end on the same day, which is the day of the Lord's wrath and his second coming. Now, here's what's going to blow your mind. This has always been the case, right, about the rapture being on that day. Let's look at what Jesus said and how he put it. This is just amazing to me. First of all, let's let's let's read the passage that that Paul wrote about this in um This is uh 1 Corinthians 15:51-53. He said, "Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on uh incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." So, he says, "At the last trumpet is when this is going to happen." So, let me just scroll down here and get to some of these verses, because I've just got them all listed here. It's easier than me trying to look them up. That was uh Jesus said here about this. I'm trying to get to it here. Here's what we discovered. For some reason, I can't get it to scroll Here we go. Now, let's look at this. Now, I absolutely believe in the rapture. So, let's look at the rapture and how this coincides with this last day, the day of God's wrath. All right? And the last trumpet. All right, let's just read it. These are some passages uh from the Old Testament. You're going to love this. We're going to read that when we get to what Jesus said in in John 6. But, let's look at what what Job said. This is This is from the book of Job chapter 19 verses 25 through 27. He said, "For I know that my redeemer liveth." So, the redeemer is Jesus Christ, imagine. He says, "For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day." Or you could say the last day upon the earth. Uh-oh. Now, what what do you think? The last day. The Jesus the day that Jesus stands upon the earth. The second coming of Jesus Christ when Jesus puts his foot down on the Mount of Olives and the earthquakes begin and and and the earth starts splitting in every direction. The day he comes at Armageddon, the day he comes with fire to destroy all the sinners out of the land. This great day of his wrath, he says, "I know that my redeemer liveth, for he shall stand at the latter day." Not the last day. He says the latter day or the last day upon the earth. "And though after my skin worms destroy or this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." So, he's talking about that latter day that the Lord stands upon the earth. When the Lord sets his feet down upon the earth, the redeemer, Jesus Christ, is when Job said, "Though my skin my body has been in the grave, destroyed by the worms, yet in my flesh I will see God." Meaning, that is when my flesh will be resurrected. I will get a new body. It will be rejoined with my spirit and my soul, and I will stand in my flesh with a resurrected, immortal, incorruptible body. I will stand there and see God
in my flesh. That's a powerful word, but he tells us Job tells us when it happens. On the last day. You say, "Well, I don't believe that." Well, let's just keep reading. All right? Let's go down. And read what Jesus said about this. Now, what did Jesus say about it? Well, he was very clear. You can turn to if you're if you're turning in your Bibles, you can turn them to um Turn to John chapter 6. I want you to see it. This thing keeps jumping around in here. All right? Well, first let's read. Let's go to John chapter 5. Let's read this. I love this right here. Jesus said this, John 5:28-29. This is speaking of the rapture, the resurrection. And re- remember the word rapture is not used in the New Testament. It's a it's a word just man-made. We're just fine with the word trinity's not used, but we use that to describe the um the three-in-one aspect of God, that he's one God, but he has three distinct parts. Um so, it's okay to use that as a description, but the term resurrection is more of the biblical term. And this is what Jesus said in John 5:28-29. He said, "Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice and shall come forth, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. So then we have to ask the question, when does this resurrection take place? Well, this is John 6. So we go over one chapter. John 6 40, Jesus said this, "And this is the will of him that sent me that everyone which seeth the son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day." Here's what Jesus said. The last day. Folks, do you hear what he's saying? I don't care You know what? If we stop right here, that's enough. All the debate about the rapture, the pre-trib rapture, and the resurrection of the righteous, all this All this this debate about is it pre, is it mid, is it No. Jesus said it would be the last day. It agrees with what Job said that we read a minute ago in Job 19 that my I know that my redeemer lives. He will stand upon the earth on the last day and in my flesh, though the worms have eaten my flesh, I will see God. He's saying I will be resurrected and see him in my flesh that day when he stands upon the earth, that last day. It goes right along with what Jesus said right here, "And this is the will of him that sent me that everyone that seeth
the son and believeth on him." And where believeth is a continuous is a Greek uh present tense Greek verb which means continuously, ongoing, presently believe, rely, and trust on, cling to, obey, follow. It's not just have a mental uh belief that that he exists, but he says, "Everyone who believes on him may have everlasting life and Jesus said, 'And I will raise him up, I will resurrect him, I will rapture him at the last day.'" Oh, folks. It doesn't It doesn't get much clearer than that. He uses that term several times in John 6. And so, we go back to the verse that we read a minute ago uh from Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 about the day of resurrection. He said, "Behold, when I Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not sleep, but we shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, or we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." So, according to Jesus and Paul, the last day and the last trumpet both coincide with this resurrection of the righteous dead, or the rapture, as it's popularly called. Hence, the last trumpet must happen on the last day, according to the scriptures. But, hey, don't let that fry your brain just yet, okay? Let's just make a mental note of that. Right? Last trumpet. Well, let's look. Let's Let's look at what That's some more of it. So, so we we've we've shown you what we just talked about being on the last day. Now, this is what's so so vitally important that you understand here. Jesus said, we already read Matthew 24, when do we see the rapture happening? After the tribulation of those days, all right? Now, the question I got to ask you Let's go to it. I'm going to scroll down to it, because the question that starts this study again, and to delve into this again, um was the scripture in Isaiah 26. And uh gracious. If I could get this computer to behave in that way, it'd be It'd be so much better off this morning. But, go to go to Isaiah 26 and I'll put it in here. All right. We're going to look at Isaiah 26 19 through 21. Because the question that I got asked that started me to read this cuz they all been existing. I have to apologize to the brothers. I hadn't sent that forward to you yet, but uh it it started an entire article uh and maybe a book. But does Isaiah 26:19 through 21 prove the pre-tribulation rapture? Let's look at Here's the Here's a verse that does talk about the resurrection, the rapture. And it almost sounds like it's pre-trib
unless you know and understand about this great day of the Lord, the day of the Lord's wrath, the last day. And unless you put it with all the other scriptures that reveal this. So, let's read it. He says, "And I did, man." This is I'm sorry. Isaiah 26:19 through 21. "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust. He says, "For thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. And then he says, "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut the doors about thee, hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpast. For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain." So, we see here he says the dead going to be resurrected. My people resurrected. That is the rapture. That is the the resurrection. And some people have interpreted this well, it's pre-trib because he says He says, "Come He said, "Come, my people, hide yourself for a little moment until the indignation be overpast." Well, folks, there is no contradiction when you realize that the great day of God's wrath he is going to hide his people. See, the pre-tribulation rapture folks constantly are grasping at straws in hopes that they can cling to their theory. However, they do not understand the entire context of these parallel passages. See, let's look at what Isaiah 26 doesn't say. Isaiah 26 doesn't say anything about the timing of the rapture within the last 7 years. It only gives us hint that God's people will be hidden for a little moment until the indignation be overpast. And though this sounds like the escape the pre-trib rapture folks leave, it's based on the assumption that the entire 7 years is God's wrath, and that's just not the case. It also ignores all these other passages that we've looked at that clearly reveal that it's in the last day. Now, let's let's jump to this right here, and this is this is what I want to really really focus in and show you, okay? The great day of God's wrath or his great day of his indignation is the final day of the tribulation period. It is the day of the seventh seal, the seventh trumpet, and the seventh vial. Now, I know you weren't taught that, cuz everybody was taught, "Okay, we're going to have a rapture, and the history channel's going to have the rapture, and then we're going to have 7 years of tribulation, and then what's going to happen is once that 7 years of tribulation start, the seals are going to open 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, then the trumpets are going to blow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, and then we're going to have
the seven vials of wrath, and then Jesus comes, the second coming is at the end of that, but we're in heaven through all that. That's that's the pre-trib view because they say all of that is God's wrath. Well, that's just not the case because the problem is is that their theory falls apart with the one thing. How can you have the second coming of Jesus Christ spelled out between the sixth and the seventh seals in Revelation 6, clearly identical to the day that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24:29-31, his second coming and the rapture. How can you have um How can you have that depicting the end, the second coming of Jesus. Uh the great day when the sun goes dark and the moon and the every island falls in the How in the world do you have seven trumpets after that? How in the world do you have seven vials after that? That's the end. And see, this is what people have not understood about the Book of Revelation. It's why it's been a mystery because we listen to teachers, some who meant well, some who just sort of kept their mouths shut and didn't know what they were talking about. But these things and that's always I remember before I fully understood this and I would read that and I would go, "That's the second coming of Jesus. I don't get it." Until finally, you know, God used uh Irvin Baxter to point this out and click in my head and used some people before that, you know, even some folks that believe in the pre-wrath, uh even you that believe, you know, there's going to be a year or two at the end that are just God's wrath. You know, people have different theories. But what what what jumped out at me was this is the end. So, what you have what you realize is is that the seven seals are one story, picture of the last days and the things that lead up to the second coming of Jesus. But but the sixth and the seventh seal are the end, the second coming. The trumpets are another story, another picture, just like another gospel. Just like we have um four gospels that tell the same story, but from, you know, a little bit different point of view with different details. And so, that's what you get with the seven trumpets. You get the the story of the judgments of God some of the judgments of God and the things leading up to the second coming of Jesus. But, I'm going to show you we're going to compare all the the final ones, but they can get this way. The uh the seventh trumpet tells us it's it's over. It's the end. So, it it also finishes at the second coming of Jesus in Armageddon. And then you get the seven vials of wrath when in the Bible this is the only one that tells us when it starts. The the seven vials start at the three and a half year mark. So, we know it starts there, but it still ends
on the same day. See, I'm going to say this. This is something you're going to get a hold of. The great day of God's wrath, the great day of his indignation is just that. It's the final day of the tribulation period. It is the day of the of the seal, the seven trumpet, the seven vials. It is the day that all the islands disappear. All the mountains fall. It is the day that all the cities of the nation fall. It is the day of the earth's greatest earthquake. It is the day that God brings down huge hailstones on mankind. He comes to fight in Armageddon. It is the day that there's 30 minutes of silence in heaven because God is raining down fire upon the wicked, destroying uh just redoing basically the the earth is being baptized in fire. It is being shaken and baptized in fire and man wicked mankind being destroyed. And and this is what I the way I state it that as Paul stated we are raptured at the last trumpet or the seventh trumpet in a moment in the twinkling of an eye in a microsecond. But once you compare the seventh trumpet with seventh vial, you see that they happen at the same time. They describe the same event. Here's what happens at the Let's Let's just read it. The seventh vial as Jesus descend the final Armageddon at his second coming. This is what he says. Now, think about this. This is Revelation 16:15. Where we're going to start reading. It says, "Behold, I come as a thief." What? We're We're already here in the sixth vial of wrath, and he says, "Behold, I come as a thief." "Blessed is he that watches and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame." Revelation 16:16. We're going to keep reading. "And he gathered them together in the place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." "And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air." This is the seventh vial, the final vial of God's wrath. He says, "And there came a great voice out of the temple in heaven from the throne saying, 'It is done.'" Now, listen to verse verse 18. "There were voices and thunders and lightning, and there was a great earthquake, such was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great." "And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and great Babylon came into remembrance before God." This is at the end and the very end is when Babylon is destroyed, and Babylon, mystery Babylon, is Rome. And he says here that Rome comes into remembrance and is given under the cup of her wrath. Now, look at verse 20. "And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found." "And there fell upon them great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent, and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague the plague thereof was very great. Now, let's just keep reading.
You want to see this? That was the seventh vial. He talks about a great earthquake. He talks about voices and thunderings and great hail coming down. He talks about it being done. Now, let's read the seventh angel sounded the seventh trumpet. You're going to find out the seventh trumpet and the seventh vial wrath, same day, same stuff happens. Let's read. Revelation 11:15, and the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven saying, "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever." And the four and twenty elders which sat before God on their seats fell upon their faces and worshipped God saying, "We give thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and wast and art to come, because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power and hast reigned." Now, listen to this, verse 18. And the nations were angered, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead Now, here's the seventh trumpet, right? The last trumpet. He said, "And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldst give reward unto Thy servants, the prophets and to the saints that fear Thy name, small and great." Oh my goodness, Lord, here it is again. The last trumpet, here, the seventh trumpet we see not only is it the day of God's wrath, Thy wrath is come, verse 18, which is Revelation 11:18. Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, the resurrection, the rapture. And we know it's the righteous resurrection and rapture because it says that they should be judged, and that you should give reward unto your servants, the prophets and to the saints and them that fear Thy name. So, this is the same day again, and it says, "And the temple of God was opened in heaven, there was seen in the temple of the ark of his testament. Now, listen to this. The seventh trumpet, remember this? The seventh trumpet here, he says, "And there was seen in heaven the ark of his testament, there were lightning and voices and thundering and an earthquake and great hail." The same thing it says in the seventh vial of wrath that we just read a minute ago in Revelation 16:21. It says, "There were voices and lightnings and thunderings and earthquake and great hail." Both speak of the same day. The seventh I just proved to you that the sixth and seventh seal and the seventh trumpet and the seventh vial of wrath are all on the same day. And it is also the day of the dead. It is also the day of resurrection. It is the day Jesus spoke of. It is the last He said if you will only really believe on him and follow him that they will be raised up from the dead, their bodies be made immortal on the last day. That's the words of Jesus.
And that's what we're reading here. And it's amazing. And when you take when you take these out it it's just amazing when you when you when you're reading this and you read from Revelation 11 on through Revelation 16, you got to remember that Revelation 17 and 18 speak of the give the details, first of identify who the mystery Babylon is, and it's really the Roman Catholic Church. Talks about her judgment there. But if you take those out, it's just a parenthetical statement, a uh kind of a pause to describe what could happen uh to the great mystery Babylon. When you take that out and if you just read chapter, you know, reading from chapter 11 in Revelation through 16 and then jump to 19, it's a continuation of the story. Cuz Revelation 19:1 says, "And after these things." What things? The seven trumpets, seven vials, seven seals. "After these things, I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, 'Hallelujah. Salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God. Get this. For true and righteous are his judgments, for he has judged the great So, this is after the judgment of the great which did corrupt the earth with her fornication. And it says the smoke of of her fornication rises up. And then you see, right after it says, "Then, you have the bride that's clothed in white, which is the judgment seat of Christ that takes place at the seventh trumpet and seventh vial. And this is the bride's time of being hidden on the day of his wrath. It's the great hailstones fall and earthquakes cause all the cities and nations to fall. This is when the bride gets ready to accompany him Jesus at the battle of Armageddon at the end of the final day. So, whereas Isaiah mentions the rapture, Revelation 11, 16, 19, Matthew 24 pinpoint when it happens in relation to the last seven years and the final great day of God's indignation and wrath. I hope you are grasping what I'm saying. I really, really, really hope that you are getting what I'm saying. We got about 28 minutes. We're going to keep this going because there's so much here. I'm going to give you a few other verses. And this is kind of unlike um our Tuesday night show, but that's okay because we're studying the Bible this morning. So, let's let's go and say, "Okay, is there other biblical confirmation to this? Do we have other scriptures that prove this out?" Well, go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and we're going to look at verse 1. Let me just turn there myself. 2 Thessalonians Somebody else write this down. It's good. You've been preaching You've been preaching blowing up the doctrines of men. And that's okay because the truth will
set you free. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, let's read verse 1 now with this understanding that the last day is going to be the resurrection, the rapture of the church. It's going to be the great day of God's wrath. It's going to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Okay? Right before all that great wrath and great indignation is poured out on that day we're resurrected, raptured in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. We're with him for a brief moment up there as he's raining down hailstones and and then we're coming back and it's finishing the job. We're coming back with him. Right? Forward. Now, look what it says. Now, we beseech you, brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him. Oh, boy. I'm going to stop there for just a second. Do you notice what he's saying? We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto him. So, he's talking about the coming of Jesus and the rapture of the church, the resurrection of the righteous dead. And in verse 2 he says, "That you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as the that uh letter from us as that the day of Christ is at hand." First he called it again, "the day of Christ." It's a day. Oh, it's really a literal day. He says, "Look, no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." So, he said that day's not going to happen before the Antichrist shows. Now, I'll be talking about that one. But notice he puts together the second coming of Jesus and our gathering together to him. Both both things he puts together at that day. The last day. At the last trumpeting. At the last deal, at the last vial. For the massive outpouring of the wrath of God that the world has never ever experienced to the degree they're going to. This is the Bible says. This is what it says. Pretty amazing. I mean, that's what the Bible says, "Let the Bible interpret the Bible." That's why the Bible says that we must rightly divide the scriptures. We have to put the It's It's the Bible teaching and doctrine about whether it be about the resurrection,
the rapture, whichever you want to call it. Preaching this, uh teaching this, it's a puzzle. It's pieces scattered all over the Bible. And you don't get You just like if you bought a puzzle from the store, you don't get to just throw the pieces out on the table and force pieces that don't fit together. That's not the way it works. You find the pieces that fit together, and you look at them and you work them until everything fits nice and neat and clear and easy. And that's the way this is. It It's the way it is. It's the way it's always been. Folks, the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine, when you look at the history of Bible, as God moved upon the prophets in the Old Testament and the New Testament writers, God moved upon them, and we did the history of church history for the last 2,000 years, the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine was not taught until the 1800s. It's a And And it came from a 15-year-old girl getting some prophecy or vision that she had. And this was picked up by Darby, and it was picked up and put in the Scofield Reference Bible, and so it spread all over. But just because something got popular just because a doctrine got popular in the 1800s does not make it true. Does not make it truly sound doctrine. So, I'm just going to hold it up and say, Jesus is the one that said the resurrection happened on the last day. So, folks, pre-tribulation folks are wrong. Mid-tribulation rapture folks are wrong. Pre-wrath rapture people are wrong. It's the last day. Of the final 7 years. In the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, right before God rains down all of his severe wrath on that final day. The seventh trumpet, the seventh seal, the seventh trumpet, the seventh vial, they all happen at the last time. The resurrection of the righteous dead happens at the last time. And And I'm going to give you one final warning here. So, this is This is just uh It's amazing when God finally puts it all together. It took a number of years. But, God wants his people to know this truth at this time. But, Revelation chapter 20, we're going to read Now, I love this. This one This one There's no pre-trib rapture believer, minister, preacher, pastor
has ever been able to answer me the question when I asked them about this passage. Let's read it. This is Revelation 20. And we're going to read verses Oh, what are we going to read here? 1 through 6. And I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that, he must be loosed for a little season. And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But, the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. Period. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. On such the second death hath no power. But, they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years. Now, let's look over and read a little bit more. This is in verse 11. He said, "I saw Uh well, of course, at the end of the 1,000 years, the devil's loose. He starts another rebellion. Then the devil is destroyed and thrown in the lake of fire and brimstone. And then in verse 11, he says, "And I saw a great white throne, and he that sat on it from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. And they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast alive Oh, cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Now, this is after the 1,000 years. This is the second resurrection of the wicked dead. They are judged, and then hell is cast into the lake of fire. And they'll be tormented day and night forever and ever. So, there's two resurrections. This is clear scripture. It's what Jesus said in in John 5 that we read earlier. There's the resurrection of the just, and there's the resurrection of uh the unrighteous or the wicked. They happen a thousand years apart. One happened on the last day at the second coming of Jesus. Then there's the thousand-year reign of Jesus upon the earth. At the end of that thousand years, Satan is taken and cast into the lake of fire once and for all. And then the wicked dead are raised up to meet their judgment. Okay? Full judgment.
So, So, we only have two resurrections. So, here in the first few verses in Revelation 20, we see where he says that he saw those standing before God souls that had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus which had not worshipped the beast neither his image neither have received his mark upon their foreheads. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. They are part of the first resurrection. Okay? Now folks here's the question that the pre-tribers cannot answer. How in the world are believers who resisted who faced the antichrist, the mark of the beast, resisted that were beheaded, killed because they resisted worshipping the antichrist and and taking his mark. How are they in the first resurrection if there is a pre-trib rapture before the antichrist even issues the mark? How? See, it's just it's just not biblical, folks. The pre-tribulation rapture doctrine is a lie. And that's why the History Channel the Illuminati-controlled Luciferian controlled media is going to put out a special about the Book of Revelation, but they're going to preach a pre-tribulation rapture doctrine because they want people to believe believe that. Because you won't be prepared for what's coming. It's going to discredit the churches, discredit preachers. It's going to cause people to fall away. And that's why it's important. I mean, I could spend a lot more time on the ramifications and the consequences of this false doctrine and what it's going to do to people when they have to face these things. Especially in America and in Europe. I mean, American Christians and and European we're already weak in their Bible knowledge and their and their willingness to take a stand for truth. There there's the the numbers of few that are willing to really stand up for truth and and not budge. I mean just recently, you know, as disappointing as it was to see you know, I love to watch Duck Dynasty. I watch it with his my my daughter. Um you know, it's great to see a family and Christian family praying in Jesus name on TV. But but even the Robertsons, even Willie Robertson is now starting to cave in to the cultural pressures of of America and the West about homosexuality and and and caving in and you go, you know, and go, well, I just don't know. He gave a Joel Osteen answer when asked
if people choose to be gay or not. Instead of giving a biblical answer, and the answer that God would want him to give. And so and we we've got all these mega churches, we've got churches across the the the United States and America that won't even touch end times Bible prophecy, the second coming. They won't even touch it. They won't even Their people are are completely kept in the dark about where we are and what's about to happen. And what the Bible says and what the Bible God has warned us of things. He's given us clear things to look for. He said, "Look, my children, you know, what 1 Thessalonians people say, well, oh, he comes like a thief, so nobody can know. No, that's not true. He said, my children will not walk in darkness that that they will overtake them as a thief. Why? How is that possible? How is it possible when he said that in 1 Thessalonians 5, my children will not be overtaken as a thief. That day will not overtake them like that. Why? Because they will know their Bible. They will know the signs. They will know what season they're in. They will know how close it is. They will know what's happening. Here's your little hint. No, the children of this world are the ones that are going to be in darkness, who are going to be blind, who are not going to who are going to be caught completely off guard as all of these things unfold. And many of them already many of the things that have already been fulfilled have been completely people have been completely um blind to what's happening. And and and I'm going to be honest, it it breaks my heart. Last night, and this is you know, I'm getting ready for to do some more in-depth teaching and some stuff on the whole UFO alien deception that's coming. Uh to me, this is a big deal. Satan's getting ready for a big, big show to deceive mankind when it comes to this uh UFO phenomena. But uh so last night I was you know, and I talked about it a little last week on Tuesday's radio show. And I I've preached on it and I've you know, several times. But last week, I mean um I mentioned Dr. Steven Greer, who's head of the Disclosure Project. He's a surgeon, medical doctor who retired to basically be funded by the Rockefellers to um you know, he's a true believer in the whole UFO alien thing and he's deeply involved in um esoteric, occultic practices of transcendental meditation and remote viewing and astral projection and um
there's a whole lot but I I I watched he he did a documentary called Sirius uh called Sirius uh about the star Sirius and uh but it's a documentary done by him and the Disclosure Project and they're they're pushing governments whatever to expose their files on UFO phenomena and all that. But he's a true believer in all that and and I and I listened I watched the entire documentary and all these people all over the place who are using occult techniques of meditation, visualization um and techniques from Buddhism and Hinduism they're using these now to attempt to contact aliens. Uh yeah, I'm serious. They go out in the desert, sit around and do this and they've got thousands and thousands of groups that get together to meditate and visualize and try to focus and make contact with these alien beings out there in the universe and of course we know they're fallen angels and they're demons. And uh but I sit there and I I I was overwhelmed by how many people are buying into this into the false religion of UFOs and aliens and then we've got Oprah with her new lights and we've got Roma Downey and her husband with the new age belief systems and all paths lead to God and we meditate and we chant and we act like Buddhists and Muslims but we talk about Jesus and and I'm sitting here going, "Wow." We are really the deception of people throughout the world is in overdrive and the only answer to that, the only thing we can do as Christians is we have got to pray for these people and fast and be willing to give them truth, Bible truth. We can't water it down. We can't hide it uh under a bushel. We can't hide certain truths because they're controversial. See, I don't even understand a so-called preacher or Christian, "No, I don't want to get into that, brother, cuz that's controversial." Oh my lord. Man it up a little bit. You hear what I'm saying? Contro- You You're Truth is always The truth of God's word will always be controversial to those who live in error and deception or who want to stay blind and in sin. It's always going to shake things up. I've never understood pastors, "Well, I can't talk about that in front of my people. I I want to stay away from controversy." Well, what what? No. I'm not talking about having controversy just for the sake of controversy, but we don't we don't hold back truth. Guess what the
Bible talks about? Ancient civilizations before Adam. Yeah. You say, "Well, that's controversial." I don't care. The Bible talks about it, so I'm going to talk about it. The Bible talks about fallen angels and human women getting together and having creating a hybrid race of giants. I don't care. If If that sounds strange to you, that's Bible truth. I don't care if you believe a pre-trib rapture. I don't care if you believe you're once saved always saved no matter how you live. I'll give you the truth and and and hopefully um the controversy will shake you out of your blindness and deception and help you better prepare for judgment day and the second coming of Jesus Christ when you're going to stand and give an account for your life. This is serious stuff. I'm not ashamed of the gospel. You know, Jesus said this. He said not only he said those who are ashamed of me will I be ashamed of them in the in the days of the coming of the son of man. He said that those who are ashamed of me and of my words Uh-oh. Yeah. And listen, a lot of people think, "Well, that's only the red part of what Jesus said when he was No, no, no. He is God in the flesh. He when he said my words he meant from Genesis to the maps, the whole thing. If you're ashamed of his words, he will be ashamed of you at the judgment. Serious stuff. By our words we will be condemned or by our words we will be justified. Do you speak God's word, God's truth, or or is there parts of it you're ashamed of? See, I'm not ashamed to talk about demons, fallen angels, speaking in tongues, being baptized in the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, that Jesus still heals, that we should cast out demons in Jesus' name, that it's the blood of Jesus and the cross of Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. You must believe in that and confess your sins and and do your best to repent and live a holy and obedient and dedicated life as you I'm not ashamed of the gospel. The gospel, you know, there's a lot of people say, "Well, the gospel definition is good news." No, it's not. That's the definition of two words or one word. Gospel Good news, okay. I think I mean, that's just like saying, you know, that they you know, the novel Moby Dick is about a whale. Well, there's know lot more to it than that. A lot more to it. The gospel is everything that the prophets that the law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms and the New Testament, it's everything they revealed
about God and the Messiah, Jesus Christ. That's the gospel. And if you leave out part of it or you add to it things that are not in there or you are you ashamed to talk about things that are in there? Are you're afraid of controversy when it's truth? You're changing the gospel. You're preaching a different gospel. So, I hope this helped you today. I hope it helped you to learn a little something and and there's more there's more scriptures we could go to about this false pre-tribulation rapture doctrine and its ramifications and consequences. But see, if you listen to me today or you're listening to a recorded uh this is a recorded archive program later on. You have now heard the truth. You have heard passages of scripture that you cannot ignore. What are you going to do with it? I know a lot of Christians go, "Ooh, that's good, pastor. I believe that. I I'm glad you taught me the truth." But they won't share it with anybody because they're afraid of getting in the controversy. Or they're afraid people get upset with them or they're afraid they'll think they're weird or whatever. Listen, you're not walking in faith and you're not using the truth to set other captives free if you receive the truth and say you believe it but you never speak it and you never live it, you never act out on it, you never act like you believe. It's not just about what you hear. The teaching that you hear, what do you do with it? What do you do with the truth you have? You sit on it and watch TV all the time? Are you trying to share it with as many people as you can? Are you praying? Are you looking for opportunities? Are you Are you Are are you ashamed? I mean, I know people right now, there are people There's hundreds of people who view the things that I teach and preach on my Facebook page, Dena Ministries. There There's hundreds of people that view and look at it and will email me privately, "Oh, man, I appreciate what you do." Da da da da da. But they're still afraid to share what I say and things that I share. They're afraid to share them on Facebook. They're afraid. So, I don't know, you know, how many people I don't know how many people in this area come to our church or say, "Oh, we love your church. We love what you preach. We love what you stand for." But they won't become real members of our church because they're afraid. I got pastors who've shunned me in this area and in the region around. They've shunned me left and right. But a lot of them still pay attention. They'll They'll be watching. They'll look. I'll know they're looking. But they won't touch me with a 10-foot
pole. They don't want to have a Bible prophecy conference in their church. They won't say the situation. I don't know. It's too too We don't want to get into controversy. No, we just want to keep, you know, things status quo. We want to keep every everybody, you know, happy. We want to try to make everybody happy. And that's the state of church in America. We're scared to give certain truth cuz it's it's going to cause controversy. No, the truth sets people free. I'm not going to coddle people. I made up my mind. I'm not a perfect Christian. I'm not a perfect pastor, perfect preacher. I'm not some sinless, perfectly holy saint. But I know one thing. I am zealous and diligent and unafraid preaching his the truth. I've got a word. And you should, too. If you call yourself a Christian, you must be unafraid, unashamed. You should be willing to stir the pot, dive in the controversy if you have to. Um Folks, I'm telling you, Jesus is going to come back. So, we're not getting raptured out of here before the bad stuff starts. So, it's time to get in the word, prepare yourself, and prepare others for what's coming. Anyway, we're out of time. We got about a minute left. I'm going to let you go. You've been listening to a special edition of Prophecy Quake for Fire and Grace Church this morning. I'm your host, Pastor Dean Odle. We'll be uh doing something this Tuesday at 8:00 uh Central time, 8:00 p.m. Uh don't know just yet what we'll be doing, but we will be doing something. But we're out of time. God bless you. You have a great Sunday in Jesus' name. You've been listening to Prophecy Quake with Pastor Dean Odle. Be sure to join us next week, same time. And to further connect with us, go to deanodell.org or Facebook, Dean Odell Ministries.