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Matthew 24:9-28
The Messiah Reveals The Future Part 3
Good morning, it is great to be with you this beautiful
morning.
Worship….
When Jessica, my beautiful wife was pregnant with our
first child Sofia we were truly clueless to what birth
entailed.
Every pregnancy I get so anxious in that last few
months.
I always want to know what is the earliest our baby
could be born and still be healthy.
Jess will tell me any time after 37 weeks if I remember
right.
All the way up to that time, I am always asking so could
we have the baby today, and everything be okay.
We hate waiting for anything in our house.
Whenever we get to that 37-week mark, I am getting
Jess every secret remedy from every culture that has
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ever been concocted to try to get the birth process
started.
With all that effort not one of our 3 babies came as
early as 37 weeks, all the remedies were worthless,
those babies came when God was ready.
But with Sofia our first, it was about a week before the
due date, I had Jess eating 3 pineapples a day because I
heard somewhere that initiates the birth.
Well it was February 27th 2012, I just got a ministry call,
someone was broken down on the side of the road,
and needed me to come pick them up, as the person
was telling me this Jess said “oh my gosh, my water
broke!”
I hung up on the stranded young man, it was Sean
Tesch, and Jess and I were a basket case, we had no
idea what to do, I was so filled with excitement.
So I did what any man would do, I sat down real quick
to pay the bills; Jess looked at me and said “are you
serious right now!”
I didn’t know how long this process would take.
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And I wanted our bills to be paid.
So we headed down to Kaiser Fontana, now her water
breaking was the first sign that our little girl was
coming.
We knew to get ready!
Jess immediately called my little sister on the way
down, and Jacquie asked Jess are you having
contractions?
Jess never had a contraction before, she replied I think
so, there is some pressure.
My sister laughed, and said “You are not having
contractions, you would not be saying I think so.”
I told Jess you just have a very high pain tolerance, this
is going to be a piece of cake.
We made it all the way down to Fontana with smiles
on our faces.
I thought, “this is way easier then everyone makes it
sound.”
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Jess has not had any pain, not enough to even flinch a
little.
By the grace of God, we were able to get checked in,
all her little wires all hooked up.
They got her to the second room, where they told her
she would be until she was ready to deliver and they
would take her to that final room.
They asked if there was any pain, “we are good,” I told
the nurse she is a tough woman.
I assured Jess this was going to be a piece of cake.
The nurse kind of smirked, and said “call me if anything
happens,” it was as if that nurse knew what was
coming.
And something happened in that second room that
Jess nor I was ready for, it took the smiles and
excitement right out of us.
Jess tensed up, and the fear, and terror in her eyes is
something I will never forget, as tears immediately
began to come up in her eyes.
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(Hands slam pulpit) Bam!! Just like that! The very first
contraction hit.
Jess screamed, and dread and darkness came over us
like I have never felt.
I have never seen Jess in so much anguish and stress as
I did in that moment.
I was a basket case, being a man, I want to help stop
the pain, and the hopelessness of not being able to
help her overwhelmed me.
And as the night went on, the pain increased, the
frequency of those cursed contractions became closer
and closer to one another.
Now, with each birth, I have learned that those things
are all signals that an event is coming, namely the birth
of my child.
The more intense the and more frequent these
warnings are, they tell me that soon my baby will be
here.
These signals tell me to get ready, changes are coming
very quickly to our lives.
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Now last Sunday, we discussed some signs of the times
that we are in currently.
Jesus described this age as the Beginning of Sorrows, in
this Age we will see false christs, wars and rumors of
wars, in this age nation will rise against nation,
kingdom against kingdom.
There will be famines and diseases, and even
earthquakes in various places.
These things make up the age we are in.
Now Jesus said these things are the Beginning of
Sorrows, and that word Sorrows is odin in the Greek, it
literally means a pang or throe, especially of childbirth.
Now last time I was very careful not to sensationalize
these events, as many do today, making big book deals
and movie deals playing on people’s emotions and
anxieties.
We cannot look at these things in themselves as a sign
of the end, Jesus said Himself, “the end is not yet” in
verse 6 of Matthew 24
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However, we can look at frequency and intensity of
these things in terms of birth.
When these things, like contractions get more and
more severe, closer and closer to one another, then
that should trigger an awareness that something is
coming.
Now we do not know when the time of Christ’s return
to this earth is, but we do know there will be events
and signs that lead up to His return.
One of these signs as we discussed last week is the
rapture of the church.
From the disciples all the way to the modern church
era, the church is expected to live as if at any moment
Jesus will snatch us up in the clouds.
We are to look at the Age we live in, the turmoil and
travail; all of the Sorrows of this Age are there to point
us to the hope of a future Kingdom.
Paul uses this same concept in describing this Era, to
point the church in Rome to this blessed unseen hope.
He says in…
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Romans 8:18-25 For I consider that the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the
earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for
the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation
was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of
Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation
itself also will be delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of
God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans
and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not
only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of
our body. 24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope
that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for
what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not
see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
The whole earth is groaning and travailing with those
contractions and warnings that redemption and
reconciliation is coming.
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And as we approach this time of the revealing of
Christs Kingdom, the birth pains grow increasingly
louder and the intensity is more frequent.
And even we within ourselves have this uneasiness and
awareness that soon the event will be here.
These are the days of Sorrows and Travail, and soon it
will all culminate to our Kings return to earth in the
Glory of His Kingdom.
By the end of our text this morning, we will see the
fulfillment of this event.
You know when a mother holds her baby for the first
time, all of the pain and travail of childbirth is almost
all but forgotten.
So in Jesus’ Glorious Kingdom, Creation rejoice in its
restoration.
But before this, as the birth pains increase in our Age,
we will look at the Seven years after the Rapture of the
Church, and prior to the Coming of the Son of Man, the
labor pains will be like nothing this world has ever seen
before.
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And this morning as we continue in Jesus’ Olivet
Discourse, we will enter the time of the Tribulation,
also known as Jacob’s Troubles, and like I mentioned
last week, this is immediately following the departure
of the church from the earth.
This will be a worldwide event, and here in Matthew,
Jesus will be speaking to the Jews specifically, and
what they can expect during this time.
So let’s continue our study of Matthew 24…
And Jesus says in Matthew 24:9…
The Tribulation
24:9 "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation
(affliction) and kill you, and you will be hated by all
nations for My name's sake. 10 And then many will be
offended, will betray one another, and will hate one
another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and
deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will
abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he
who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this
gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world
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as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will
come.
Now that the church as we have previously determined
is not here on the earth for this time, we must then
determine who the “you” is that Jesus is talking too.
Now, in this present age, the Church Age, we are
promised persecution and hardship.
Jesus made this clear on the Sermon on the Mount
earlier in His ministry.
But Jesus is not addressing those trials we have in this
age here.
He is talking to a people group, who in the future will
be hated very specifically by all nations.
Now Christianity is right now experiencing persecution
at levels never seen before in History, but we are far
from being qualified by this statement of being hated
by all the nations.
Now as we discussed last time, here in our Age, the
spirit of Antichrist is already at work.
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Satan’s agenda, as the birth pains increase, is getting
more and more desperate; he knows very well, his
time is getting short.
He is now setting the stage for the revealing of the son
of perdition, the Antichrist.
Now, as we discussed last time, there is something in
this world, in this Age, that is restraining the full
revelation of this satanic system.
The Holy Spirit working through the church is this
restraining force against this full-uncontrolled
expression of evil that will be seen in the tribulation.
Now remember, Matthew is an evangelist to the Jews,
he is recording Jesus’ warning to the Jews here.
Jesus is pointing them to a time when the whole world
will come against the Jews.
There will be worldwide antisemitism.
This could never happen with the church present.
All true Bible believing Christians have a supernatural
love for the Jewish people.
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The Jews themselves do not completely understand
why, but we do, we know that God has chosen that
people group for special purposes, and has great and
wonderful promises for them.
God chose them to bring the Messiah through, and He
entrusted them with the Oracles of God.
The first Christian church was Hebrew, and spread to
the rest of humanity from the Jews.
God loves the Jews, and because our God loves them,
the church has an unwavering love for them.
Our Christian Nation is one of the greatest protectors
of the Nation of Israel.
Our president right now, so far has been a great
supporter of the Jews.
Now this worldwide persecution of the Jews has not
taken place, even though the spirit of the Antichrist is
at work in this age and we have seen very satanic
attempts at destroying God’s special people.
There has always been the church to stand against
those evils, the true church anyway.
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Even the evils of Nazi Germany were eventually
stopped.
And the refuge for many Jews was this Christian
Nation, the United States.
So, in the tribulation there will be worldwide
persecution of the Jews, every nation will turn against
them.
Notice Jesus says they will be persecuted in the
Tribulation for His Name’s Sake.
In this dispensation or age, the Jews on a whole do not
view Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah.
But in the Tribulation, God will turn His attention back
to the Jews, and in the midst of this time period, there
will be a national revival as the Jews turn to Jesus as
their Savior.
They will be persecuted for His Name’s sake.
Then Jesus says here in verse 10…
10 And then many will be offended, will betray one
another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many
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false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And
because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will
grow cold.
The Apostle Paul speaking to the church in
Thessalonica, trying to correct their ideas that Christ
had already raptured the church, and the second
coming was about to happen.
He describes to them what the Tribulation will look
like… And he describes to them what Jesus is talking
about here.
And although there will be a great revival among the
Jewish people and others, there will also be a Great
Falling away from Truth in the Tribulation.
Paul says it this way in…
2 Thess. 2:3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the falling away comes
first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of
perdition
You see the gospel of Jesus Christ will do the same in
the tribulation period as is does today.
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Remember Jesus said this in Luke 12:51-53
51 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth?
I tell you, not at all, but rather division. 52 For from
now on five in one house will be divided: three against
two, and two against three. 53 Father will be divided
against son and son against father, mother against
daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law
against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law."
The Gospel has always been a dividing factor in
households; it will do the same in the Tribulation.
This great revival will also be met with a great
deception.
And many will be deceived as they are today, so much
so that households will be divided.
Pride will be so set into the hearts of the people that
their love for one another will grow cold, and division
and lawlessness will sweep across this world like never
before.
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This great deception will be so powerful Jesus will later
say, if it was possible it would even deceive the elect.
Now I have theories of what it could be.
Now I want to draw your attention to the spirit of
Antichrist already at work in our world, and we see this
type of divisions already in the homes of believers.
False prophets today deceive the gullible in heart, and
whole households are divided by the pride and
arrogance of one’s belief, the love, the supernatural
bond and strength of the family unit and the
household is ripped apart by this deception already at
work in this world.
Truly Satan is readying this world for the time the
church is removed out from its midst.
So this rebellion can fully be unleashed.
This last election, in this spirit of the lawless one, we
saw the differences in the home actually ripped the
bonds between parent and child right in two.
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The disagreements in families across America have left
our nation divided, and hatred is boiling over in our
midst.
Many have taken to the streets to voice their
frustrations; children have left their households
because the divide is so sharp, forsaking the nurturing
love of their parents.
And as bad as the lawlessness is today, it will be
nothing like the tribulation, even the law enforcement
agencies will not be able to keep the peace.
And in verse 13 Jesus declares those believers in the
Tribulation who endure to the end will be saved.
It is the same promise to the believers in any age, to
hold onto their faith, even through enormous trial and
testing.
All throughout the New Testament the Christian is
encouraged to endure and hold onto the hope of what
is to come.
Your faith will see you through.
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We are instructed to not grow weary while doing good,
due season we shall reap everlasting life.
And the instruction for the believing Jews in the
Tribulation is the same here, endure.
Then in verse 14 Jesus declares this gospel of the
Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness
to all nations, and then the end will come.
Now this has been a very misunderstood verse in
church History.
And many very noble and genuine attempts to
evangelize the whole world have been spurred off this
verse.
The belief that every nation must be evangelized
before Jesus can come back has pushed many
missions’ movements to the ends of the earth.
Now the church must never relent in its mission from
taking this Gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth.
That was Jesus final instructions to His disciples and to
us as a church in Acts 1:8 right before Jesus ascended
to His throne.
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And really, there are very few places today this gospel
has not gone to in our modern time, we as a church
still have much work to do, however the ends of the
earth are being reached.
But the context of verse 14 is not the mission of the
modern missionary.
This is taking place in the Tribulation, where there will
be 3 very powerful presentations of the Gospel of the
Kingdom in the Tribulation time.
The Book of Revelation tells us in Revelation 11 there
will be two witnesses that will testify for three and half
years, the Antichrist will kill them and for three and
half days they will lay dead for all the world to see in
Jerusalem, then after those days are fulfilled God will
breath His breathe into the two witnesses.
And they will rise, and ascend to heaven, everyone will
see, and the nations will be accountable to the Gospel
of the Kingdom they presented.
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There will also be 144,000 Jewish witness that go forth
supernaturally protected and sealed by God
proclaiming this Gospel.
And if that was not enough of a testimony to the
Nations, in Revelation 14:6-7 There will be an
undeniable, supernatural presentation to all the
nations with this Gospel.
6 Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of
heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to
those who dwell on the earth — to every nation, tribe,
tongue, and people — 7 saying with a loud voice,
"Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His
judgment has come; and worship Him who made
heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water."
At the end of the tribulation, no person will be able to
stand before the judgment seat of God, and say, “I did
not know.”
God will go to great lengths to extend salvation to the
Nations, and they will be responsible for how they
respond to the Gospel.
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Then Jesus declares the end of the Tribulation will
come.
Now Jesus just gave a picture of the seven years on a
whole, and now as we often see it in scripture, He will
go back through and give even more detail of this time
period.
The tribulation is the whole seven year time period,
but within the Tribulation time, the last three and half
years will be known as the Great Tribulation.
This will be where God’s full wrath is unleashed on this
Earth, and Jesus will give special warning to the future
Jews who will be reading this account.
He will take pictures from the siege and destruction of
Jerusalem in AD 70, and from those vivid images that
the Jews would understand, He gives instruction on
how to endure to the end of the Great Tribulation.
Now remember they will be turning to Jesus, and they
will be reading the very Words we are reading today to
understand more clearly, as their eyes open to who
their Messiah is.
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There instructions will be very clear as we read next…
The Great Tribulation(Mark 13:14-23; Luke
17:23,24,37; 21:20-24)
15 "Therefore when you see the 'abomination of
desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing
in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand),
16 "then let those who are in Judea flee to the
mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go
down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let
him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.
19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those
who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray
that your flight may not be in winter or on the
Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation,
such as has not been since the beginning of the world
until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless
those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved;
but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.
23 "Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the
Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. 24 For false christs
and false prophets will rise and show great signs and
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wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See,
I have told you beforehand.
26 "Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the
desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner
rooms!' do not believe it. 27 For as the lightning
comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also
will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 For wherever
the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered
together.
Now, again Jesus is talking very specifically to the Jews
here.
He is talking about an event that will take place in
Judea, where the Jews specifically are too flee to the
mountains.
This eye opening moment for the Jews is when the
prophecy of Daniel is fulfilled.
Now I inserted a timeline of Daniel’s Seventy weeks
into your bulletin this morning.
This will give you all the details of this prophecy.
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Follow the timeline in order from Daniel chapter 9, and
you will understand with more clarity what this
triggering point is.
In short, Daniel was given a prophetic timeline in
regards to the Nation of Israel; all of this prophecy has
been fulfilled except one week.
The Hebrew word for weeks literally means sevens,
speaking of seven-year periods.
There is one set of sevens that is yet to be fulfilled, and
will be fulfilled after the rapture of the church, and
God once again turns His attention to His chosen
people.
You will see at the beginning of this final week, peace
will be made between this prince or the Antichrist,
after three and half years this peace treaty will be
broken when the an image of the Antichrist will be set
up in the midst of the Jews rebuilt temple.
The Jews are demanded to worship Satan’s
representative.
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And at this moment their eyes will open to the
deception.
Now there is no temple in Israel right now, in fact the
Romans in AD 70 did such a good job of destroying the
temple, they have trouble locating where it should
stand today.
But know this, the Jews are ready to rebuild this
Temple, where the Antichrist will set up this
abomination of desolation.
Most of the artifacts are ready; I have seen many of
them with my own eyes when I was in Israel.
You can research all this preparation by the Jews from
the Temple Institute, everything is on their website
templeinstitute.org.
The Jews are primed for a peace treaty that would
allow their temple to be restored.
Remember when we are seeing the things that are to
take place in the Tribulation Period start to manifest
themselves; we know without a doubt that the rapture
of the Church is coming even sooner.
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Every generation of the Church Era should be ready for
this Great Snatching away.
I remember looking at these temple artifacts, and
thinking my eyes are witnessing prophecy come true,
we truly live in privileged times.
Prior to 1948 Bible commentators had trouble putting
all these things together, Israel did not even exist, how
could there ever be a temple for the abomination to be
set up in.
They spiritualized or allegorically taught this stuff,
because it was beyond them on how it could ever
happen.
But now, in our day, we are seeing everything is set.
This sign that the prophet Daniel warned of, is here
again given by Jesus as the wake-up call for the Jews.
When they see this take place, they are instructed to
flee.
Because a satanic fury will sweep across the world, and
many Jews will be massacred as they put their faith in
Jesus as their Messiah.
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Again, Jesus is speaking here to the Jews, if an atomic
bomb drops on LA, although many will flee into the
wilderness, even perhaps our hometown, Jesus is not
talking about us here.
There are very geographical and cultural things said
that give precision of this being fulfilled.
I do not spiritualize anything that Jesus says very
plainly…
Look at verse 17, those who are on the housetops, this
is definitely a Middle Eastern reference.
The housetop in Israel corresponds to our front porch
or patio.
Jesus is speaking to an agrarian culture, and telling
them if they are working in the field, and they see this
sign in their rebuilt temple, they are not to take any
special precautions or to think of their possessions, but
they are instructed to flee.
Jesus warns of the trouble if this takes place on the
Sabbath, again very specific to the Jews.
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Even in Israel today it is tough to do anything on the
Sabbath; there are so many restrictions on moving
around cities and towns.
To flee for their lives might be very difficult to do if
they see the warning sign Jesus points to, as they are
signaled to flee.
We see Jesus’ care and concern as He looks forward to
this horrible time, and sees the weakest in society, and
their plight, the mothers and children trying to flee.
I imagine the pictures of the ghettos under Hitler’s
satanic oppression of the Jews.
And the mothers who were helpless to protect their
children from the evil that came upon them.
As horrible as the Nazi’s were, Jesus in verse 21 says
this time will be so deplorable and filled with such
hopelessness that there is nothing in recorded history
to even compare it too.
Jesus says in verse 22 that if those days were not
shortened, the extinction of mankind would be at
hand.
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We read in Revelation that during this time period in
the Tribulation one third of the earth’s population will
be destroyed and on another occasion one-fourth will
be wiped out.
The population of the whole world will be decimated
by war, famine, and even supernatural terrors.
There was a time when this scale of catastrophe
seemed to be allegorical or even exaggerated a bit.
Very good Bible commentators considered this all to
be symbolic in nature.
But now in recent history, man has created weapons
that can destroy the earth’s population many times
over.
Some of the nuclear war heads today are over 3,000
times more powerful than the two dropped Hiroshima
and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2.
There is no problem imagining today this kind of
devastation unleashed on humanity.
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But Jesus says in verse 22 that God will not let
humanity commit suicide and He will shorten those
days to only a period of seven years.
Jesus again emphasizes in those days there will be false
christs and false prophets deceiving many.
In verse 25, He lovingly tells them and warns them of
this.
He is instructing them to be wise and expect these
false representations of Himself.
There will be no mistaking Jesus’ return.
Look how clearly Jesus warns them…
23 "Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the
Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. 24 For false christs
and false prophets will rise and show great signs and
wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See,
I have told you beforehand. 26 "Therefore if they say
to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or
'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it.
Even today with this spirit of Antichrist at work among
our world, we see a fulfillment of this in our times.
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If anyone every tries to tell you they have found some
secret mystery, a hidden knowledge, and they have
found Jesus in some secret inner room.
Or if they draw you out to some special place that they
only are aware of.
Well, they are participating in the delusion of these
false prophets.
Jesus Himself says do not believe it.
Every time I hear one of these groups proclaim they
have found the secret date to Jesus’ coming, and they
are His chosen group that will partake in this secret
manifestation of the Messiah, my heart cringes.
Jesus Himself says there will be no mistaking His
return!
It will not be undercover or in a secret place.
Their dates always pass, and they are left to give some
mystical explanation? Because no man can know that
hour, but God the Father alone!
It is a tactic of Satan in every age, including ours.
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In the Tribulation these deceptions will be magnified,
the false christ and the false prophet will be given
power to do the supernatural, and they will captivate
the world with their deception.
Jesus tells those who are in the Tribulation very plainly
what His return will look like, and what they can
anticipate, and hold onto as a hope through this
terrible time.
27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes
to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man
be. 28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles
will be gathered together.
He will come, and it will be unmistakable as lightening
flashing in the sky.
There will be no secret gathering; the Terror of His
Judgment will fall on His enemies as the whole world’s
eyes are on the coming King of King’s and Lord of
Lord’s!
There will be a feast prepared, but not a celebratory
feast, but one that will be of terror and doom.
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Wherever the carcass is the eagles will be gathered
together.
The Book of Revelation gives a vivid description of the
aftermath of Jesus’ return, where with the sword of
His mouth He destroys His enemies…
Rev 19:17-18 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun;
and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds
that fly in the midst of heaven, "Come and gather
together for the supper of the great God, 18 that you
may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the
flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those
who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and
slave, both small and great."
Jesus’ return will not be some hidden mystery; do not
be deceived by the false teachers of our days.
The Word of God tells us plainly what the return of
Christ will look like.
He will not come humbly or lowly riding on a donkey
the next time this earth beholds its rightful King.
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Jesus will come on a mighty War Stead, a White Horse,
and the full wrath of God will be poured out on those
who rejected the Gospel of Salvation offered to them.
You will find it interesting all through the Book of
Revelation that God, so gracious and so merciful is still
looking for repentance from humanity.
What Peter says of God is true in every age…
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering
toward us, not willing that any should perish but that
all should come to repentance.
And so this morning, we have really read a message for
a future time and a future people.
For those of us who have placed our faith in Jesus
Christ, we will not be here to witness these events
unfold.
But the warnings to the Jews in Israel during the Great
Tribulation holds truths that transcend all the ages.
We are warned that deception is in this world, we
need to test and examine everything we are taught.
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Today almost all Christian Universities are liberal and
progressive in their agenda; the deception is stronger
today even among the church more than ever.
The stage is all being set for the revealing of the
Lawless one, the Antichrist, Satan’s final puppet and
masterpiece.
Be on guard.
Now, we must recognize here this morning that this
Age we are all a part of is really the sweet spot in the
timeline of History.
We are living in a time after the Cross, the fulfilment of
all of God’s promises regarding salvation.
We live in a time when we simply just have to believe
on God’s Sacrificial Lamb, His Own Son dying for our
sins.
No longer are we required to slaughter an animal, we
come by faith, in this age we believe, and we hope and
look forward to the day Jesus brings us home.
The Age of Terror and Tribulation immediately follows
our Age of Grace.
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Why would you want to wait it out before you believe
on that wonderful Name of Jesus?
If you don’t know Jesus, I believe you are here for a
reason this morning, God is giving you an opportunity
to come to Him, and freely receive salvation, there is
no greater time to come to Jesus than today.
If you are here, and that is you, the Elders and I will be
available after service, come up and pray the prayer of
salvation.
Everything that Jesus detailed in this sermon will come
true, every word.
Be spared from this time period.
If you have loved ones that are lost right now and you
desire to pray for their salvation please come forward
and pray that they see past the deception of this age.
We are here for any prayer needs you have this
morning.
The Birth Pains are getting more and more frequent;
let’s live everyday as though Jesus is coming back for
His church. Amen?
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