Spring Camp Meeting 2017

Will There Be a Secret Rapture?

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Participants: Ed Reid

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00:14 Welcome to 3ABN's Spring Camp Meeting 2017.
00:19 Exposing the Counterfeit.
00:25 Hello, and welcome once again to 3ABN's Spring Camp Meeting
00:28 and we have here people that have come
00:30 from all over the States
00:32 and even other parts of the world
00:34 to receive the blessing that God has for us here
00:37 on the 3ABN Camp Site
00:39 and we praise the Lord that you are here.
00:41 If you've been blessed, would you say amen?
00:43 Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:46 You know, one of the topics
00:48 that is of most interest to people
00:50 is the secret rapture and the title of today's,
00:55 this moment's, this hour's message is
00:57 Will There be a Secret Rapture?
01:00 It's in the form of a question and I praise the Lord
01:03 that we have Pastor G. Edward Reid with us
01:07 who will be representing this topic.
01:09 If you know Pastor Reid, you will understand
01:13 that he does thorough research, Amen?
01:15 Amen.
01:16 And he has conviction as he presents the message
01:19 that God has given him.
01:22 So in a moment, he will be coming forward.
01:24 I'd like to tell you a little bit about him.
01:26 He has served the Lord
01:27 in different aspects of ministry
01:30 in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
01:32 including evangelism, pastoral ministries,
01:36 but also he has authored several books
01:40 including Sunday is Coming, anyone read that one?
01:43 Yes. Even at the Door.
01:45 Yes. Almost Home.
01:48 Currently, he serves the Lord as assistant to the president
01:51 for Adventist World Radio in planned giving.
01:55 So Pastor Ed Reid is prepared, has been praying,
02:00 and I'm sure the Lord will use him
02:02 to bring a message from heaven to us.
02:04 Before that, we are blessed to have two young ladies
02:09 that will be sharing with us, mother and daughter,
02:12 Celestine and Farrah Barry.
02:15 And they will be bringing us to God's throne of grace
02:18 in a hymn entitled,
02:19 The Savior is Waiting.
02:21 Immediately after this,
02:23 we will have the message
02:26 that God has for us through Pastor Ed Reid.
02:28 May God bless each and every one of us.
02:52 The Savior is waiting
02:57 To enter your heart
03:02 Why don't you let Him
03:06 Come in?
03:11 There's nothing in this world
03:15 To keep you apart
03:20 What is your answer
03:24 To Him?
03:29 Time after time
03:33 He has waited before
03:38 And now
03:40 He is waiting again
03:46 To see if you're willing
03:50 To open the door
03:55 Oh, how He wants
03:58 To come in
04:16 If you'll take one step towards the Savior
04:21 My friend
04:24 You'll find
04:26 His arms open wide
04:32 Receive Him
04:34 And all of your darkness will end
04:40 Within your heart
04:43 He'll abide
04:48 Time after time
04:52 He has waited before
04:56 And now
04:58 He is waiting again
05:05 To see if you're willing
05:09 To open the door
05:14 Oh, How He wants
05:17 To come in
05:35 To see
05:37 If you're willing
05:40 To open the door
05:49 Oh, how He wants to
05:56 Come in
06:25 Amen.
06:34 Good afternoon, saints. Good afternoon.
06:37 What a busy day. Yes.
06:39 It's been a good day. Yes.
06:42 Well, I have the opportunity of talking about something
06:45 that's rather unique and like my other topic,
06:47 it's believed by lots of people,
06:50 but the idea is will there be two Second Comings,
06:53 one that's a secret and one that's visible to everyone.
06:56 So there's a lots of people who believe
06:58 that but I'm going to have a word of prayer
07:00 and ask you to bow your heads as we begin.
07:02 Heavenly Father,
07:04 I thank you for your love and blessing to each of us.
07:06 We thank you for your word to guide us.
07:07 We thank you for the blessings that we've received from you
07:09 and we pray that you help us to be faithful to the Word
07:12 and be students of it.
07:14 We pray that you will bless us as we study
07:16 this important topic this afternoon.
07:18 Guide our minds, help us to see these things clearly
07:20 in Jesus' name, Amen.
07:21 Amen.
07:24 Well, as I told you the last time
07:26 I spoke yesterday afternoon that the more evidence
07:28 you need to prove a point,
07:30 the weaker your argument, right?
07:31 Right.
07:33 So how many points do you think I'm going to give you today?
07:34 Seven. No, only five.
07:39 Because that's the less evidence,
07:41 the more we need, right?
07:43 Pretty interesting.
07:44 "The Second Coming of Christ
07:45 is going to be the most cataclysmic event
07:47 to occur on the earth since the creation
07:50 including the world-wide flood
07:51 that happened about 4,500 years ago.
07:53 A short time
07:55 before the Second Coming of Christ
07:56 maybe about two weeks or a little more
07:58 the seven last plagues will be poured out on the earth
08:01 and upon those who have the mark of the beast.
08:03 The results of these plagues
08:05 will be the death of millions of people
08:07 and virtual destruction of earth's surface
08:09 as we know it."
08:10 It will not be a secret.
08:12 As a short peak of what we will discuss
08:14 in the presentation,
08:15 I'm going to tell you
08:16 that before the Second Coming of Christ,
08:18 the world's oceans
08:19 will have been turned into blood,
08:21 thereby killing everything in them.
08:23 The greatest earthquake to occur on the earth,
08:25 a massive 10 plus earthquake
08:27 will destroy every city on the earth.
08:30 Islands will disappear into the sea,
08:31 into the bloody mess
08:33 and the great mountains of the earth
08:34 will also drift down into the landscape.
08:38 Many of the great mountains will settle into the earth
08:40 likely causing tremendous tsunamis
08:43 that impact the coastlines of the continent to be swept
08:45 over by waves of blood and dead animals.
08:48 Now, I'm going to ask you a question,
08:49 does this sound far-fetched?
08:50 No.
08:52 Well, the Bible says that and I believe it,
08:54 the time period,
08:55 the out pouring of the seven last plagues
08:57 is often referred to as the tribulation.
08:59 So I'm going to give you
09:00 a little insight today into this
09:02 so you can understand
09:03 why people believed in the Word,
09:05 the ideas came from.
09:06 Between 1995 and 2007,
09:09 the late Tim LaHaye
09:11 and his co-author Jerry B. Jenkins
09:13 wrote and published a series of 16 best-selling novels
09:17 that were called Religious Fiction novels.
09:21 Did you guys get that part? Yes.
09:23 Religious Fiction novels.
09:24 Now this is interesting because they presented
09:28 what we call the dispensation was pre-tribulation,
09:31 pre-millenial picture of the biblical apocalypse
09:33 which means that God is going to come
09:36 before the tribulation and before the millennium
09:38 and the books are known as the Left Behind series.
09:41 The book series had been adopted
09:43 into four separate feature films
09:45 including the 2004 film
09:48 starring Nicholas Cage in a movie titled Left Behind.
09:52 The Left Behind series was so popular
09:54 that the total sales for the books
09:56 have passed 45 million copies.
09:59 Excuse me, the answer is 65 million copies.
10:02 Seven of the sixteen books reached number one status
10:04 on the best seller list by the New York Times,
10:07 The USA Today and Publishers Weekly.
10:09 The late Jerry Falwell
10:10 who used to be a quite popular person
10:12 started Liberty University
10:14 and so on said of the first book
10:15 in that series,
10:16 "In terms of its impact on Christianity,
10:18 it's probably greater than
10:19 any other book in modern times outside the Bible."
10:22 Now why were these books so widely popular?
10:24 Well, the interesting thing is the answer is quite simple.
10:27 People like to avoid pain and discomfort.
10:29 Amen.
10:30 These books convey the idea
10:32 that God's people will be secretly snatched away
10:33 from the earth,
10:34 be with God during the difficult times
10:36 at the end.
10:37 Then they are going to come back
10:38 with Jesus after seven years
10:40 to reign with him on the earth for a thousand years,
10:41 the peaceful millennium.
10:43 Now, Tim LaHaye has passed away of course,
10:45 but they still have Tim LaHaye Ministries website.
10:48 And if you were to go to the website,
10:50 they have their doctoral statement
10:51 which is just very short
10:53 and I'm going to read it to you.
10:54 "We believe that Christ
10:56 will literally rapture his church prior
10:58 to the 70th-week of Daniel," now this is amazing.
11:01 "Followed by His glorious,
11:03 premillenial arrival on the earth
11:04 at least seven years later to set up
11:07 His 1,000 year kingdom rule from Jerusalem over the earth."
11:12 Now what this statement is saying is that
11:14 there will be a secret Second Coming
11:15 and this happens prior to the 70th week
11:18 of Daniel's prophecy.
11:19 Jesus comes again in a glorious manner
11:21 after seven years to set up a thousand year reign
11:24 and the big question is,
11:25 is this true according to the Bible?
11:28 Well, the short answer is no but for seven reasons.
11:30 So I'm going to present five reasons to you.
11:33 I believe they're sufficient to help you understand
11:35 how this is so significant.
11:37 The first one is that,
11:39 "To many it is shocking to discover
11:41 that neither the word rapture
11:43 nor the teaching of the secret rapture
11:45 is to be found in any Bible translation."
11:47 In addition, the secret rapture is not even mentioned
11:49 in any Christian literature before the year 1830.
11:53 So what is the idea of this prophetic...
11:57 Secret rapture idea come from?
11:59 Well, my second point is the idea
12:00 of the secret rapture
12:02 is of questionable suspect origin.
12:04 So I'm going to give you a little bit of history,
12:06 so you will understand why this is important.
12:08 "During the time of the reformation,
12:10 most of the protestant reformers identified
12:12 papal Rome as the antichrist.
12:15 Of course, this was not well received
12:16 by the papacy.
12:17 Rome countered
12:19 with a new interpretation of prophecy
12:20 in order to turn attention of the people
12:21 away from the notion that it was the antichrist power."
12:25 So everybody understands what October 31 is, don't you?
12:29 Yes. It's not Halloween.
12:32 It's Reformation Day.
12:34 This year is the 500th anniversary
12:36 Theses of the nailing of the 95
12:38 to the church doors, Wittenberg, Germany.
12:42 Kathy and I have just returned from Germany and saw that,
12:46 not that particular when we've been there before,
12:48 but to worms and I'll share a little bit with you.
12:50 Pope Leo the X,
12:52 was the pope of Rome at that time
12:55 and he had issued the 1517 indulgence.
13:00 Now indulgence as you can pay for forgiveness of sins
13:02 as you understand,
13:03 they are still being offered by the church by the way.
13:05 And it is interesting that this was the one
13:08 that was designed to be the sale of the proceeds
13:11 to help build St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
13:13 because of lavish parties with great huge birthday cakes
13:17 out of which jumped little naked boys,
13:19 this is in Leo's time, and wild boar hunting parties.
13:23 He had gone through the resources
13:25 of the Pope of the Vatican
13:27 so that the construction was halted
13:30 but not to worry,
13:31 they could go to their main money getter
13:32 and that was to sell indulgences.
13:34 So the 1517 indulgence was the greatest indulgence
13:37 that has ever been issued by the Roman Catholic Church.
13:40 It allowed you to be forgiven of all of your past sins,
13:43 all of your future sins,
13:45 the sins of all of your relatives,
13:47 if you worry enough of this,
13:48 and it was so expansive
13:50 that even forgive adultery with the Virgin Mary
13:52 if this was possible.
13:54 That was in the indulgence.
13:55 Now this is incredible.
13:56 So a man named Johann Tetzel under the direction of Pope Leo
14:00 the X came to Germany to start selling these indulgences.
14:03 And it is interesting to understand
14:05 that when the sale came to Wittenberg,
14:08 a number of people having heard
14:10 that you would spend time in purgatory,
14:12 no one ever knew how much
14:13 but you could get years off, if you get these indulgences,
14:16 but this one was different because they would forgive
14:18 every sin, no time in purgatory.
14:20 When you died, you went straight to heaven.
14:23 Now the interesting part about that is when Martin Luther
14:25 was the pastor of the Wittenberg church,
14:27 some of his members were buying the indulgences
14:30 and he was very upset about this.
14:31 So he went to his study and wrote down 95 bullet points
14:35 against the sale of indulgences.
14:37 Does everybody understand that?
14:39 Now here's what you may not know.
14:41 When he nailed them to the church door,
14:43 this is interesting because he was not desecrated
14:45 in the church that was the place in town
14:47 where you would post things of interest to people.
14:50 But they were written in Latin and no one knew Latin
14:54 except the priest and the educated people.
14:57 So he was just trying to get a discussion
14:58 going among the leaders of the church
15:00 about why this was wrong.
15:03 Someone took them down and translated them into German
15:06 and some German guy by the name of Gutenberg
15:08 had recently perfected the printing press
15:10 and they started printing
15:12 these in the German language and sent them all over Europe.
15:14 Martin Luther without intending
15:16 it became the best-selling author
15:17 in Germany almost overnight.
15:19 And this is incredible when you understand
15:21 how this all happened.
15:22 Well, the interesting thing because of it,
15:24 Pope Leo was ticked...
15:26 That's the modern term, I often think what he said.
15:29 But he decided to counsel with Luther
15:34 by some of his emissaries to retract his statements.
15:37 When he would not do it, in January of 1521,
15:41 this was 4 years after nailing the 95 Theses,
15:43 Martin Luther was excommunicated
15:45 from Roman Catholic church.
15:46 Now this is interesting because most of us have no idea
15:49 what that means.
15:50 But to a Roman Catholic it meant,
15:52 you were bound for hell
15:53 and you were going to burn in eternity
15:54 for the rest of your life.
15:56 You could not be buried in the church cemetery.
15:58 No one can have any communication with you
16:00 and so on.
16:01 Martin Luther promptly burnt the papal bull
16:04 because he had lost his fear of Rome
16:06 which was very interesting.
16:07 But it's interesting also
16:09 that he was asked later that year
16:12 probably around April to come to a diet in Worms,
16:15 Germany to give a testimony for his faith
16:18 before the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
16:22 Now, this was interesting because remember
16:24 no one was supposed to have anything to do with him
16:25 after he's excommunicated
16:27 but still he's now giving his testimony.
16:29 Now, I wish I could do a fair job
16:32 of giving you Luther's statement.
16:34 Surprised to say
16:35 that after failing to recant his books
16:38 and his message, he said,
16:41 "Here I stand.
16:42 I can do no other, may God help me."
16:44 Amen.
16:46 That was not politically correct in anyway
16:48 as you can imagine.
16:50 He was standing before
16:51 the most aghast leaders on earth.
16:55 Did you guys hear what I just said?
16:56 The leaders of the church, the leaders of the State.
16:59 Now he was, because he said he wouldn't recant,
17:02 the church leaders ran to Charles
17:03 the V who was there in room and said,
17:05 "You've heard him.
17:06 This guy is a heretic. We need to kill him."
17:08 But Charles the V had said, "I'm giving him a safe conduct.
17:11 He's going to at least get home first."
17:13 Well, you guys know what happened next.
17:15 Frederick, the Electoral Saxony
17:17 had some of his men secret him away
17:19 to the Wittenberg castle
17:20 where he was stayed for over a year.
17:22 Then he translated the New Testament into German
17:25 and that was circulated all over.
17:26 People began reading the Bible in their own language
17:27 for the first time in their lives
17:29 which is really, really quite incredible.
17:31 Now the most amazing thing is that in 1530,
17:38 Charles the V
17:39 with so many people going after reformation,
17:43 there is a point to all of this
17:44 and I'm going to get to it in just a second.
17:48 He called the diet in Augsburg Germany
17:50 and he said, "I want to hear from you guys,
17:51 why you're going with a reaffirmation
17:52 and leaving the Roman Catholic Church."
17:54 So the German princess and the leaders
17:55 of the free cities of Germany came and gave
17:58 what we call the Augsburg confession.
18:01 Ellen White says of the Augsburg confession,
18:03 It was the most glorious day in all of reformation history
18:06 and all of Christianity,
18:07 maybe of mankind in the great congress.
18:10 I think it's about page 230.
18:12 It's very, very interesting to see that.
18:14 The Augsburg confession,
18:15 by the way, contains 28 articles.
18:17 Article 28 was about Ecclesiastical power.
18:19 By the way, you can Google this
18:20 and have it up in a minute on the internet,
18:22 but you can go down to article 28
18:24 and then point 33 and this was talking about
18:27 why they were going with Luther
18:29 instead of Roman Catholic Church
18:31 and it says,
18:32 "They've taken on
18:33 too much authority for themselves.
18:35 They are boasting about changing the day of worship
18:36 from Saturday to seventh day of the week to Sunday
18:38 to first day of week,
18:39 violating the Decalogue, as it seems.
18:41 Then that's in there and this is the Lutheran creed
18:42 by the way,
18:44 most of them don't even know it's in there.
18:46 So I'm going to tell you another thing now.
18:49 The reformation was spreading so fast
18:51 that the church decided
18:53 they must do something about this
18:54 and so they created the Jesuit Order.
18:57 This is the Counter Reformation group.
18:59 Ellen White gives two pages in The Great Controversy
19:01 about the Jesuits as you can remember.
19:03 But a man named Ignatius Loyola
19:06 and another one Francis Xavier started
19:09 the Jesuits in 1540 and their job
19:12 was to overturn the reformation.
19:15 This is very interesting because they decided...
19:18 Well, I'll give you a little indication.
19:20 You remember hearing about the Council of Trent.
19:22 The Council of Trent lasted for many years
19:24 because they were trying to figure out
19:25 what to do with the reformation.
19:27 And the leaders of the church have said to their scholars,
19:30 "Take your Bible and prove Martin Luther wrong."
19:34 They kept coming back and saying,
19:35 "If we take the Bible, he's right.
19:37 So what do we do next?"
19:39 Well, that's when, you know, they came out with...
19:42 The church has more power than the Bible
19:44 because it's changed the day of worship.
19:45 It's from the council of Trent.
19:47 At any rate,
19:48 I'm going to tell you something interesting now.
19:50 In order to turn attention away from the papacy
19:53 during this time,
19:55 two main Jesuit leaders
19:57 who were theologians wrote some new theology stuff.
20:02 I'll just tell you what it is.
20:03 The Joseph Tanner in his book Daniel
20:05 and the Revelation was printed in London in 1898 stated,
20:10 "Two of her most learned doctors
20:11 set themselves to the task of being counter reformation.
20:15 One named Luis del Alcazar devoted himself
20:18 to bringing into prominence
20:19 the Preterist method of interpretation
20:21 to show that the prophecies of the antichrist
20:23 were fulfilled in the past."
20:25 Before the pope's ever ruled at Rome
20:27 and therefore could not apply to the papacy.
20:28 This is the Antiochus Epiphanes people,
20:30 you know, all that stuff.
20:32 This is the predator's method.
20:33 On the other hand,
20:35 Jesuit Francisco Ribera tried to set aside the application
20:37 of these prophecy to papal power
20:39 bringing into notice of people
20:41 what we call the futurist system
20:43 which asserts that these prophecy refer
20:45 to some time way down in the future
20:47 where some individual yet to appear
20:48 will continue for three and half years
20:50 and this is called the futurist situation.
20:54 Now here is a sad, sad statement.
20:57 It is true today.
20:58 Joseph Tanner who I just told you
21:00 wrote the book Daniel and Revelation
21:01 in London 1898 concludes his description
21:04 of these two people coming out
21:05 with new methods by saying this.
21:07 "It is a matter of deep regret that those who hold
21:11 and advocate the futurist system
21:12 at the present day.
21:14 Protestants as they are for the most part,
21:15 are helping to screen
21:17 the papacy from the detection as the antichrist."
21:20 Isn't that incredible?
21:21 I'm going to read that again.
21:23 "It's a matter of deep regret that those who hold
21:25 and advocate the futurist system
21:26 at the present day,
21:28 protestants as they are for the most part,
21:30 are helping to screen the papacy
21:31 from detection as the antichrist."
21:33 So this dual coming, Second Coming,
21:35 futurists theory takes the 70th week
21:37 of Daniel 70-week prophecy
21:39 and takes some 2000 years down in the future
21:41 and puts this number away down there.
21:42 And you only know when it begins
21:44 when the rapture occurs of course.
21:46 The tribulation to the Second Coming
21:48 was introduced around the world
21:50 to Protestants by two pastors in Great Britain.
21:53 A Scottish pastor named Edward Irving
21:56 and a John Nelson Darby,
21:57 a preacher and writer from England
21:59 were responsible for introducing
22:00 the new teaching on a larger scale.
22:02 Now here is something
22:03 that most of you are probably aware
22:05 of but the secret rapture theory
22:06 spread to the United States starting in the 1850s
22:09 where they received big boost
22:11 when Cyrus Scofield incorporated
22:13 the secret rapture ideas into his notes
22:15 in his famous
22:16 Scofield Reference Bible published in 1909.
22:19 Now most of you have
22:21 either seen the Scofield Reference Bible
22:22 or you have one.
22:23 But I'll just tell you that on a typical page,
22:25 the top half is the Bible
22:27 and the bottom half is Scofield notes
22:29 and most people who read
22:31 that believe that's part of the Bible.
22:32 When we've given bible study to people
22:34 who have these Bibles,
22:35 they will not believe anything different
22:37 than what they read in the Bible
22:38 in their Scofield reference Bible.
22:40 Now, this is interesting.
22:41 Since that time,
22:43 the theory has been widely accepted
22:44 often by people
22:45 who are unaware that this concept is not taught
22:47 in the Bible
22:48 therefore was not believed by the early Christian church
22:50 or by the Protestant reformation or reformers.
22:53 Oswald Smith was a prominent minister
22:55 in Toronto for many years.
22:57 He was the pastor of the People's Church
22:58 in Toronto, died in 1986.
23:01 He wrote 35 books and was well-known
23:03 around the world for his scholarship.
23:05 He was a prominent pastor and he wrote a book called the,
23:08 one of his 35 books, The Tribulation or Rapture.
23:11 And he stated
23:12 that he had once believed this theory
23:14 but when he began to search the scriptures for himself,
23:16 praise the Lord, he discovered
23:17 that there was not a single version
23:19 for the Bible to uphold this view.
23:20 Then he said,
23:22 "I had been taught that the Greek word
23:23 "Parousia" always referred to the rapture
23:26 and that other words were used
23:28 for the coming of Christ in glory.
23:29 But I found the idea is not true.
23:31 We might go through
23:33 all the writers of the New Testament,
23:34 we would fail to discover any indication
23:36 of the so-called two stages of our Lord's coming.
23:39 That theory had to be invented by man."
23:42 It was, I just told you how it went.
23:44 Amen.
23:45 Search and See, He says there is no verse in the Bible
23:48 that even mentions it.
23:49 So we're going to do
23:51 something interesting right now.
23:52 I want to tell you something amazing.
23:54 This is the third point and we've gone
23:58 through the first two rather quickly
23:59 because the third, fourth and fifth are more extensive.
24:02 "The great Messianic Prophecy of Daniel, chapter nine,
24:04 does not support
24:06 the seven year tribulation view."
24:08 Here is the pre-tribulation statement.
24:11 I think I've read it early but I'll just tell you.
24:13 We believe that I tell you about the tribulation statement
24:17 from, from, you know Tim LaHaye website.
24:20 Well, I'm just going to read it again,
24:22 so you'll see it.
24:23 "We believe that Christ
24:25 will literally rapture His church
24:27 which is a term not used in the Bible.
24:29 Prior to the 70th week of Daniel,
24:31 followed by His glorious premillenial arrival
24:33 on the earth at least seven years later
24:35 to set up His kingdom,
24:36 his 1,000 year kingdom rule from Jerusalem over the earth."
24:39 Now does anybody know how many times
24:41 the name Gabriel appears in the Bible?
24:46 You got to have heard of Gabriel.
24:47 Yes. Okay.
24:52 Well, there's probably a number of times
24:54 where he has actually referred
24:55 to but he is only named four times.
24:58 Now, this is interesting.
24:59 Two of them before the 70th week prophecy
25:01 and two of them
25:03 when it's about to be fulfilled.
25:04 This is amazing.
25:06 God entrusted this awesome prophecy
25:07 with the age of Gabriel.
25:09 So let's take our Bibles and we'll look at it,
25:11 we're going to look at first Daniel 8:14
25:13 and through 16.
25:16 And you're going to see this,
25:17 the first two that are mentioned.
25:21 Daniel 8:14-16.
25:25 Now as I told you yesterday,
25:26 I have the Bible verses typed into my notes
25:28 so I am just referring to my notes
25:30 as I look at it.
25:32 "And he said unto me,
25:33 unto two thousand and three hundred days,
25:35 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
25:36 Everybody got that part? Amen.
25:38 Now this is interesting
25:39 because what I'm going to tell you now
25:41 is something very amazing
25:42 and you'll be able to understand it.
25:44 Whenever you see a part-time prophecy in the Bible,
25:46 a big prophecy all the little prophecies
25:49 are meant to be part of inside of that.
25:51 I'll read it to you as a statement
25:53 the in just a moment.
25:54 Because some people say,
25:55 "Well, we know when the 70th week prophecy starts
25:57 but we don't know when the 2300 days start.
25:59 So here it is.
26:01 Look at verse 15 now.
26:02 "And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel,
26:04 had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning,
26:05 then, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
26:08 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai,
26:10 which called, and said, Gabriel,
26:12 make this man to understand the vision."
26:13 So that's the first time Gabriel is mentioned.
26:15 What was his purpose, to do what?
26:18 Understand the vision.
26:19 So now, we're going to go to 9:21.
26:22 Just probably turn to page in your Bible
26:23 and you'll be able to see it.
26:28 This is the most significant Messianic Prophecy
26:30 in all the Bible
26:32 and it's very, very incredible that we see or hear.
26:35 So it says, starting with verse 21,
26:37 this is Daniel 9:21.
26:38 "While I was speaking in prayer,
26:40 even the man Gabriel,
26:41 whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning,"
26:43 that's in Daniel 8 of course.
26:45 "Being caused to fly swiftly,
26:46 touched me about the time of the evening oblation."
26:48 Or the evening worship.
26:49 "And he informed me, and talked with me,
26:50 and said," now who's coming?
26:53 Gabriel, God's trusted servant if you please.
26:57 "Touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
26:58 And he informed me, and talked with me,
26:59 and said, now I'm coming to give you skill
27:01 and understanding and so on."
27:02 Let's go to verse 24.
27:04 "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people
27:07 and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression,
27:10 and to make an end of sins,
27:11 and to make reconciliation for iniquity,
27:13 and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
27:14 and to seal up the vision and prophecy,
27:15 and to anoint the most Holy."
27:17 So within 70 weeks
27:18 all that was supposed to happen.
27:20 Now this is interesting
27:21 because I'll just go along with you.
27:23 It says, the next one, now therefore,
27:26 "I understand from the going forth
27:27 of the command to restore and build Jerusalem."
27:29 By the way, we have all the stuff nailed down.
27:32 I was talking to somebody early today.
27:33 When you study the Adventist message,
27:35 the deeper you dig,
27:36 the more solid the foundation is.
27:37 It's just incredible.
27:39 You don't find a bunch of goofy stuff.
27:40 We got real foundation here.
27:42 So here it is.
27:43 "Know therefore and understand that there is going to be,"
27:45 what?
27:46 "Seven weeks and three score and two weeks,
27:48 the street shall be built again even in troublous times.
27:51 And after threescore and two weeks
27:52 shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:
27:55 and the people of the prince
27:56 that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary."
27:58 And so on. Now look at verse 27.
28:01 "And he shall confirm the covenant
28:02 with many for one week:
28:04 and in the midst of the week
28:05 he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease."
28:08 Now we all understand what happened
28:09 in the middle of the week, don't we?
28:11 We're going to see this in just a minute.
28:12 This is a little bit technical but I'm going to tell you
28:14 how important it is in just a second.
28:16 Let's go to the third time that Gabriel came.
28:20 Anybody know what that would be?
28:23 Luke chapter one. Luke chapter one.
28:25 This is the story of the birth of Jesus.
28:28 But first of all, we're going to look
28:29 at the birth of John the Baptist
28:32 because his job was to introduce Christ, right,
28:35 as the one who's anointed.
28:38 So Luke 1:11 to 19, "There appeared..."
28:42 By the way,
28:44 this Zacharias ministering in the temple,
28:45 father of John the Baptist.
28:47 "There appeared unto him an angel
28:48 of the Lord standing on the right side
28:49 of the altar of incense.
28:51 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled,
28:52 and fear fell upon him.
28:53 How I'd like to be doing your work,
28:55 your shopping or your kitchen and look up
28:57 and there is an angel standing there.
28:58 And this guy didn't know what to do.
29:00 He's a man on the cloth of course,
29:02 but it's kind of interesting that here is this angel.
29:04 So "The angel said to him, fear not Zacharias,
29:06 for your prayers are heard and your wife Elizabeth
29:08 will bear thee a son
29:09 and thy shall call him name John."
29:11 The accolades that John will get here
29:14 are just tremendous.
29:15 "Thou shall have joy and gladness
29:17 and many shall rejoice at his birth.
29:20 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord,
29:24 and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink,
29:26 and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost,
29:27 even from his mother's womb.
29:29 Many of the children of Israel turn
29:31 to the Lord their God."
29:32 And verse 17,
29:33 "he shall go before him
29:35 in the spirit and power of Elias,
29:36 to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,
29:37 and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,
29:39 to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
29:42 So that's very interesting how this all happened.
29:45 Then, we're going to turn the same chapter,
29:48 excuse me, verse 19.
29:51 "The angel answering said unto him,
29:53 I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God,
29:55 and am sent to speak unto thee, and to show these things."
29:57 So Gabriel is coming to talk to Zachariah,
29:59 that's the third time in the Bible.
30:01 The fourth time is same chapter Luke 1:
30:06 26-33.
30:10 "And in the sixth month,
30:11 the angel Gabriel was sent to a city of Galilee,
30:15 named Nazareth."
30:16 So here's Gabriel again.
30:17 " To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph,
30:20 of the house of David,
30:21 and the virgin's name was Mary.
30:23 28 And the angel came in unto her, and said,
30:25 Hail, thou that art highly favored,
30:26 the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women."
30:28 And so on.
30:31 "And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying,
30:33 and cast in her mind
30:34 what manner of salutation this should be."
30:37 So verse 30.
30:38 "And the angel said unto her, Fear not,
30:39 Mary: for thou hast found favor with God.
30:41 And, behold,
30:43 thou shall conceive in thy womb,
30:44 and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus.
30:46 He shall be great,
30:47 and shall be called the Son of the Highest
30:48 and the Lord God shall give him
30:50 the throne of David, his father.
30:51 He shall reign over the house
30:52 of Jacob for ever,
30:54 and of his kingdom there shall be no end."
30:56 So Gabriel comes
30:57 at the beginning of this 70 week prophecy twice
31:00 and at the end twice.
31:01 Anybody see that?
31:02 That's very interesting because this is the most precise
31:05 and significant Messianic Prophecy
31:06 in the entire Bible that outlines the timing
31:09 and of the Lord's anointed at his baptism
31:10 and his death three and a half years later
31:12 followed by the last three and a half years
31:14 of the final ministry for Israel.
31:15 Now the Bible says,
31:17 "The 70 weeks started with the going forth
31:18 of the command to restore Jerusalem
31:20 in the fall of 457 BC."
31:22 Now, it doesn't say 457 BC unless you have one Bible
31:25 that has, you know, things at the top.
31:27 But it says in Ezra 7:7,
31:30 that it'll be the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
31:33 While, we know that Artaxerxes is,
31:36 you know, I'm not, I guess, I'm a collector,
31:37 I still have some of my college, school notes
31:40 but somebody's got to collect all these stuff.
31:46 Not, not from my perspective.
31:47 But you know,
31:49 there's a archive in statistics,
31:50 department of general conference,
31:51 they have all the list,
31:53 all the meetings and minutes
31:54 of all the committees and all of that.
31:56 But anyway, we know that Artaxerxes began his reign
31:58 in 464 BC so seven years later would be what?
32:02 457, pretty interesting.
32:04 So we got that one pretty well nailed down
32:05 and we'll show you that in just a minute.
32:08 "Gabriel divided the 490 years into three segments."
32:12 What are they?
32:13 "Seven weeks, sixty two weeks, and one week.
32:16 Right, there they all are.
32:18 The first seven weeks
32:19 were the 49 years needed to complete
32:21 the restoration of the temple and the city of Jerusalem,
32:24 then they were finished in 408 BC.
32:26 The second period of 62 weeks
32:28 or 434 historic years immediately followed.
32:31 There together these first to periods total 483 years.
32:35 "Starting the fall of 457 BC, they reached to 27 AD."
32:39 So listen carefully.
32:41 "Gabriel states in God's inspired word
32:43 that Messiah the Prince
32:44 would appear in the fall of 27 AD."
32:47 Now, let's take our Bibles again
32:49 and look at Luke chapter three.
32:53 Many of you have your Bibles open
32:54 but I'm just going to add in, I didn't type in my notes.
32:56 So I'm just going to find it quickly
32:58 and read it for you.
33:00 Did I say which chapter? Three.
33:02 Chapter three. Okay, we're going to go there.
33:05 You're going to see something amazing.
33:08 Whenever we take a trip,
33:09 we take a longer little trust instrument,
33:10 we call the GPS.
33:13 A lot of the time when we fly into airports,
33:15 the rental cars are in parking garages
33:17 and when you turn on the GPS that you have with you plugged
33:21 into the cigarette lighter, it will say, "Are you inside?"
33:26 In other words, you can get the satellites.
33:28 So interestingly enough once you get outside,
33:30 they will start seeking for satellite.
33:33 So I'm going to show you something amazing here.
33:36 How many satellites does it take for you
33:37 to be located on where you are?
33:40 Three. Three.
33:41 How would you like to be located
33:42 by seven satellites?
33:44 I mean that will show you within a couple of inches
33:45 where you are, right?
33:47 So look at this.
33:48 This is one of the most amazing historical facts in the Bible.
33:52 So Luke gives us these events.
33:55 So it says,
33:56 well, I'm reading chapter 3 of Luke verse 1 and 2.
34:02 "Now in the 15th year of the reign
34:04 of Tiberius Caesar,
34:05 "so here, you know what,
34:06 Tiberius Caesar reign is 15th year.
34:09 "Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea."
34:11 Another satellite,
34:13 "Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,"
34:14 another satellite,
34:15 "And his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea,"
34:17 another satellite, "region of Trachonitis,
34:18 and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,"
34:19 and the other one.
34:21 "Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests."
34:23 Two more satellites.
34:24 "The word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias
34:26 in the wilderness.
34:27 And he began in region around Jordan,
34:29 preaching the baptism
34:31 and repentance for the remission of sins."
34:34 And this is really, really interesting
34:35 because if you look at verse 21,
34:37 something amazing happened.
34:38 Most of you probably are not aware
34:40 that John the Baptist was a very, very unique person.
34:45 His public life only lasted for six months.
34:49 Three months, he was doing his public preaching
34:51 and baptizing near the Jordan river,
34:52 the last three months of his life,
34:54 he was in solitary confinement,
34:55 and then his head was chopped off.
34:59 Jesus said of him,
35:00 "No person born of a woman
35:02 is greater than John the Baptist."
35:03 He had a job to do and he did it.
35:05 Amazing man, absolutely amazing.
35:08 So let's look at verse 21.
35:10 "When all the people were baptized,
35:11 it came to pass,
35:13 that Jesus also being baptized, and while he prayed,
35:15 the heaven was opened.
35:16 And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily shape
35:17 like a dove and a voice came from heaven,
35:19 which said, You are my beloved Son,
35:20 whom I am well pleased."
35:22 This is the anointing of Jesus.
35:23 Now, I'm going to give you a list of little more details
35:25 and then show you why this is so important.
35:29 To me, it's interesting because we have now heaven
35:35 and oh, I should tell you,
35:37 all these seven satellites point
35:39 to one only.
35:40 In other words, the only year
35:41 that's common in all these people is 27 AD.
35:44 So you got history and prophecy both pointing to 27 AD.
35:48 Jesus stepped out of the river, the Father testified,
35:50 this is My Beloved Son.
35:51 So God identified
35:52 and all the people assembled there
35:54 and to the universe,
35:55 the divine prince predicted by Daniel.
35:57 So heaven and history show us the date of 27 AD.
36:00 But what do we have left?
36:02 Remember, we have seven weeks and 62 weeks.
36:04 We have just one week left.
36:06 Now remember something amazing.
36:08 The secret rapture people want to take
36:10 that week associated with the 69 week,
36:12 take it 2000 years down in the future.
36:15 But I'll just kind of read to you
36:17 something interesting.
36:18 "When Hebrew chronologers mention
36:20 the duration of an epoch,"
36:22 which in this case is 70 weeks,
36:24 "and then followed by shorter listing,
36:26 shorter segments,
36:27 they understood to fall within the total span.
36:29 Therefore the 70 weeks of years must include the final week."
36:33 I mean, that's just very simple.
36:34 So the interesting things
36:36 Gabriel described two acts the prince will carry out.
36:37 He should perform the covenant
36:39 with many for one week or seven years,
36:40 and in the rest of the week,
36:42 he should cause the sacrifice and tribulation to cease.
36:44 Now, when you study carefully in the Bible,
36:47 you find out something amazing.
36:49 The gospels mention that Jesus observed
36:51 four Passovers.
36:53 Everybody aware of that?
36:55 These are called three, four years.
36:57 So the final week of seven years began
36:59 in 27 AD at Christ's baptism
37:01 at the time the priest of tabernacles.
37:03 His first Passover occurred
37:04 in the spring of 28 AD six months after his baptism.
37:08 He was crucified at his fourth Passover
37:10 in the spring of 31 AD
37:12 exactly three and a half years
37:14 after He began His ministry at his baptism
37:16 in autumn of 27 AD.
37:19 He died exactly in the midst
37:21 of the week predicted in prophecy.
37:24 So the reason I mentioned
37:25 all these stuff is for this reason.
37:28 "To take the last week of the 70 week prophecy away
37:30 and move it some 2000 years later
37:32 to the end of time completely destroys
37:34 the significance of the Messianic prophecy
37:37 and makes no sense mathematically, prophetically,
37:40 historically or theologically."
37:43 It is plain foolishness.
37:45 "Therefore, one of the foundation points
37:47 of the secret rapture theory
37:49 is historically and biblically untrue."
37:52 Because you need that 70th week to understand.
37:54 But it belongs way back to time of Christ.
37:56 And this is really interesting
37:57 because one of the secret rapture ideas
38:00 is that it's completely
38:03 separated down in the future.
38:05 By the way,
38:06 it's to predict Christ not the antichrist.
38:09 That's the 70th week as you know.
38:11 Okay, now,
38:13 much of this is pulled out of thin air.
38:15 But there are two Bible verses that give some idea
38:18 that there maybe a secret rapture.
38:19 So we're going to look at those two.
38:20 So you can see
38:22 that I might have written in my notes here,
38:23 so you can look them up as I tell you about them.
38:24 The first one is Matthew 24:37 to 41.
38:30 But what I want to tell you is that,
38:32 "These two frequently quoted sub passages
38:34 to support the Secret Rapture,
38:36 do not actually support it
38:37 when you read it in its context."
38:39 You guys heard the term context?
38:40 Yes.
38:41 Yeah, that's what we're looking at here.
38:43 Okay, so this was Matthew 24:37 to 41.
38:48 "But as in the days of Noah,
38:50 so shall also be the coming of the Son of man."
38:53 We talked about Noah,
38:54 the flood this morning a little bit in Sabbath School.
38:56 Now you understand something.
38:57 The people that were left behind were all dead.
39:02 Is it true? Yes.
39:03 Drowned. Okay.
39:05 " For as in the days that were before the flood
39:07 they were eating and drinking,
39:08 marrying and giving in marriage,
39:09 until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39:11 so they knew not until the flood came,
39:12 and took them all away,
39:14 so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
39:16 Nobody was dog pedaling for the how many days
39:19 the rain is coming down, you understand?
39:21 Everybody died. That was on the outside.
39:25 Now, then it says,
39:26 "They knew not until the flood came,
39:27 and took them all away,
39:29 so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
39:30 Now, here is what people get this idea
39:31 there is some secret.
39:33 Then shall two be in the field,
39:34 one shall be taken and the other left,
39:36 two women should be grinding at the mill,
39:37 and the other shall be taken,
39:38 one shall be taken and the other left.
39:40 Now it just says, in the context of Noah,
39:42 that's the way it's going to be at the second coming of Christ,
39:44 the ones that are left behind are dead.
39:47 Okay, we're going to look at one more.
39:49 Luke adds even more details.
39:50 This is Luke chapter 17. Luke chapter 17.
39:57 And we'll start with verse 26.
40:04 Everybody there? Luke 17:26.
40:07 "As it was in the days of Noah,
40:09 so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
40:12 Because they ate, they drank, they married wives,
40:14 they were given in marriage,
40:15 until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
40:16 and the flood came," and did what?
40:18 Destroyed them all.
40:20 "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot,
40:22 they did eat, they drank, they bought,
40:24 they sold, they planted, they built,
40:25 But the same day
40:26 that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire
40:28 and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
40:31 The people left behind are dead.
40:34 Okay, very interesting.
40:35 This is where he says, remember Lot's wife.
40:37 Now there's one other interesting thing
40:38 and I'll point this out to you.
40:40 Look at verse 37.
40:41 Well, first of all, I want to tell you,
40:43 we should look at where they get these verses?
40:46 Look at verse 34.
40:47 "I tell you, in that night there shall be two men
40:49 in one bed, the one shall be taken,
40:50 and the other shall be left.
40:52 Two women shall be grinding together;
40:53 the one shall be taken, and the other left.
40:55 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,
40:56 and the other left.
40:57 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord?
40:59 And he said unto them, wherever the body is,
41:00 thither will the eagles be gathered together."
41:01 Now, I'm going to tell you,
41:03 we're going to look at Jeremiah,
41:04 the fourth chapter in a few minutes
41:06 where it says, the birds of heaven,
41:07 they are all fled.
41:08 Now some of you are bird watchers.
41:10 Kathy and I have tried to be bird watchers sometimes.
41:11 We used to be more than we are now.
41:12 But I can tell you that I know enough
41:14 about birds to know that certain birds
41:15 have certain characteristics.
41:17 We have wild turkeys where we live in Tennessee.
41:19 They come right in our yard.
41:20 The interesting thing about...
41:22 You rarely see them fly but they can fly,
41:24 they can fly quite well.
41:25 They even roost up in trees, big tall oak trees.
41:27 They can fly right to the top.
41:28 If they are scared, they can fly
41:30 but most of the time they are on the ground.
41:31 Quail are on the ground.
41:32 You know, those kinds of things.
41:34 They are bush birds like brown thrashers
41:35 and towhees and those kinds of things.
41:37 The birds that fly around,
41:38 I have a tractor,
41:39 Frequently I'm mowing my fields,
41:41 the little barn ones come and try to catch insects
41:46 that fly up, you know.
41:47 Because they catch all the food in the air as you know.
41:50 But the great soaring birds,
41:51 the ones that the Bible talks
41:53 about like the eagles and the vultures
41:55 are all have one thing in common
41:57 and that is they're carnivorous.
41:59 They pick the bones of the wicked.
42:02 It's mentioned three times in the Bible.
42:04 Here fourth chapter of Jeremiah in the 19th chapter Revelation
42:09 as you likely know.
42:11 The amazing thing is that neither Matthew 24
42:14 nor Luke 17 indicate
42:15 that those who are left behind are engaged
42:17 in any activity after Coming of Christ.
42:19 In fact, the Luke passage declares
42:21 those who are left behind are destroyed
42:23 and their bodies are eaten by eagles.
42:25 So with so many texts that are misused,
42:27 we must examine carefully the context of the passage.
42:30 So I'm going to give you a 5th point now
42:32 and then we're going to look at some amazing things
42:33 what it would really be like at the Second Coming.
42:37 So the Secret Rapture theory fails to do justice
42:42 to the plain statements of scripture
42:44 that describe the final tribulation
42:46 and the Second Coming.
42:47 So here is, I'm just going to go down
42:48 through this in bullet points
42:50 and you can see some of them on the screen,
42:51 a few bullet points in summary fashion.
42:53 Bible doesn't say to people,
42:54 things are going to get better on the earth.
42:56 It says, there will be wars and strife will increase,
42:58 air goes up.
43:00 Natural disasters will increase in frequency and intensity.
43:03 Immorality will increase.
43:04 You guys think we're living at the end?
43:06 Yes.
43:07 The image to the beast will be formed.
43:09 The sea beast and the land beast
43:10 of revelation 13 cooperate.
43:12 The papers in the United States work together.
43:14 Churches, state force worship
43:15 on people contrary to God's Word.
43:17 The gospel goes to all of the world.
43:18 Praise the Lord.
43:20 The devil personates the coming of Christ as a great deception.
43:24 Jesus finishes his work of inner session
43:25 where he stands up and states, it is done.
43:29 Finally, there are fulfilled
43:31 the words Revelations 22:11, 12.
43:33 "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still:
43:35 and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still,
43:37 and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still,
43:39 and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
43:40 These words signal something amazing
43:42 and that is the close of probation.
43:46 At that time, Daniel 12:1 says, "Michael stand up,
43:50 the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:
43:52 and there shall be a time of trouble,"
43:54 just like World War I.
43:57 that's what it says?
43:59 "Like there never was since there was a nation
44:01 even at the same time."
44:02 Nothing is ever compared to it.
44:04 "And at that time, the people shall be delivered,
44:05 every one that shall be found written in the book."
44:07 Now the Book of Revelation describes God's last appeal
44:09 and we're going to look
44:11 at the three angel's messages real quickly
44:12 and then I'm going to talk to you
44:13 about what the situation will be
44:15 when we go through before Jesus comes.
44:17 Please understand something interesting.
44:20 Before Jesus comes,
44:22 everybody who leaves this earth alive
44:23 is going to go through a time when you cannot buy or sell.
44:26 You believe that's true? Yes.
44:27 Bible says it's very, very traumatic.
44:29 We have a whole presentation on that topic
44:31 but I just want to tell you something very interesting.
44:32 Don't think we're going to have
44:34 a veggie burger supper and popcorn
44:35 and the next day, you know, Jesus coming.
44:36 It's not going to be like that.
44:38 Your popcorn is not going to be sure,
44:40 just your bread and water.
44:41 That's what we're talking about here.
44:43 Okay.
44:46 Okay, let's go to Revelation 14:6-12.
44:49 I just want you to see something amazing here.
44:51 We all know
44:53 this is the three angel's messages.
44:54 But we all don't understand something interesting.
44:57 The Bible says, well,
44:59 I'll just read it from the Bible.
45:01 "I saw another angel flying..."
45:02 We're in Revelation 14 verse 6.
45:04 " in the midst of heaven,
45:06 having the everlasting gospel
45:07 to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
45:08 and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue,
45:10 and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God,
45:11 and give glory to him;
45:13 for the hour of his judgment is come:
45:14 and worship him that made" what?
45:15 "heaven, and earth, and the sea,
45:17 and the fountains of waters."
45:18 So that's talking about the creation
45:19 of the Sabbath weekly cycle.
45:21 "And there followed another angel, saying,
45:22 Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
45:24 because she made all nations drink
45:25 of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."
45:27 And verse nine is interesting."
45:29 The third angel followed them,
45:30 saying with a loud voice,
45:31 If any man worship the beast and his image,
45:33 and receive his mark
45:34 in his forehead, or in his hand.
45:35 The same person shall drink of the wine
45:37 of the wrath of God,
45:38 which is poured out without mixture."
45:40 And what is without mixture mean?
45:41 Full strength.
45:43 We're talking about...
45:44 Some of you...
45:45 You're interested like I am in spraying weeds
45:48 along your fence, roads and so on.
45:50 Well, you can get watered down weed killer
45:54 or you can get full strength stuff.
45:56 It rarely do they recommend full strength
45:58 because it is really powerful.
45:59 The single thing would crash on top of you
46:01 almost when you spray on there.
46:03 But anyway, this is without mixture.
46:05 Now, I'm going to...
46:06 This is to those who receive the mark of the beast.
46:08 So I'm going to tell you this interesting.
46:10 These three messages
46:11 of Revelation 14 are significant.
46:12 They convey that their message
46:14 will go to every person on earth.
46:15 They direct attention worship back to the Creator.
46:18 They state that the judgment has begun
46:20 and the church has apostatized and become Babylon.
46:23 Then comes the warning of those
46:24 who follow Babylon receive the mark of the beast
46:27 and will be recipients of the wrath of God.
46:29 Very interesting, full strength.
46:31 After the three angel's messages,
46:32 God sends one final message of warning
46:34 and that one is included in Revelation 18.
46:38 We're going to look at just the first three verses.
46:40 Then I'm going to want you to see something
46:41 first four verses perhaps.
46:43 Revelation 18.
46:44 The first angel's message is said
46:45 to come with loud voice.
46:47 The same is also said of the third message
46:49 but the fourth angel which is Revelation 18,
46:51 instead of flying in the midst of heaven,
46:53 it's said to come down from heaven.
46:55 This could likely mean the great outpouring
46:57 of God's Holy Spirit referred to in the Bible
46:58 as the latter reign.
47:00 The fourth angel comes with a message
47:02 that's more pointed and direct
47:03 and it has a great power
47:05 and the earth is lightened with his glory.
47:07 No such description of any message
47:08 from heaven to man
47:10 has ever found anyone like this in the Bible.
47:12 This is God's last warning message
47:14 to the world and it comes with great glory and power.
47:18 It's an awful hour in which the world's destiny
47:20 is about to be decided,
47:22 a solemn crisis
47:23 when the entire contemporaneous generation
47:26 of the human family is to pass the bounds of probation
47:29 and the last note of mercy is sounded.
47:31 So let's look at Revelation 18:1-4.
47:33 "And after these things,
47:35 I saw another angel come down from heaven,
47:36 this is not flying in mid heaven,
47:38 this is coming to the earth from the heaven,
47:39 having great power,
47:41 and the earth was lightened with his glory."
47:43 Was it just in our neighborhood?
47:45 No. On whole earth.
47:46 This is pretty amazing.
47:47 "Then he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,
47:50 Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,
47:51 and is become the habitation of devils,
47:53 and the hold of every foul spirit,
47:54 and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
47:57 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath
47:58 of her fornication, and the kings of the earth
48:00 have committed fornication with her,
48:02 and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich
48:04 through the abundance of her delicacies."
48:06 You know, verse four is very amazing.
48:08 "And I heard another voice from the heaven
48:10 saying come out of her."
48:11 What's the next two verse?
48:13 "My people." Very amazing.
48:15 Does God have people in Babylon still?
48:17 Yes. Yes.
48:18 "So you be not partakers of her sins,"
48:20 listen carefully "and that ye receive not of her plagues."
48:24 So this is amazing but you don't.
48:26 You got to come out and you're going to get
48:27 to plagues.
48:28 So I was in the capital at the General Conference
48:32 one day with Pastor Finley walking through,
48:35 getting our lunch and a lady came up and says,
48:36 "Pastor Finley, where do you think
48:38 we are in prophecy?"
48:39 And you know, the Book of Revelation
48:41 has like the seven churches and you go through, you know,
48:44 from the very beginning to later and then you start
48:46 all over again, do something different,
48:47 seals and so on.
48:49 And he said to this lady,
48:51 "I believe in Revelation chapter seven
48:53 where the angel is holding back the wings of strife
48:56 because if the angels won't do it,
48:57 then all hell will break loose on this earth."
48:59 Isn't it true? You understand.
49:00 So let's look at Revelation 7:1-3.
49:04 "And after these things I saw four angels
49:06 standing on the four corners of the earth,
49:07 holding the four winds of the earth,
49:09 that the wind should not blow on the earth,
49:11 nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
49:14 And I saw another angel ascending from the east,
49:16 having the seal of the living God:
49:18 and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels,
49:20 to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying,
49:22 Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,
49:25 till we have sealed the servants of our God
49:27 in their foreheads."
49:28 Now this is interesting.
49:30 What happens in the sculpt of The Great Controversy
49:32 after God's faithful people are sealed?
49:34 Something interesting. The answer is very simple.
49:37 The wrath of God is poured out unmixed with mercy
49:40 full strength on those who have the mark of the beast.
49:42 This is a signal of the close of probation as you know.
49:45 Revelation six closes with these words,
49:48 "For the great day of wrath is coming,
49:49 who shall be able to stand?"
49:51 Now I believe that God's people will be alive on the earth
49:54 during the seven last plagues
49:55 and I'm going to show you why right now.
49:58 For example, something interesting
50:01 just before the deliverance of God's people,
50:02 the last time from their Egyptian bondage,
50:04 God sent ten dreadful plagues upon Egypt, real plagues
50:07 and real people were involved.
50:09 Everybody believe that? Yes.
50:11 And I'm just going to go through them real quickly
50:13 so you remember.
50:15 I have these PowerPoint
50:16 but there's too many things to put up.
50:17 So you can find this from Exodus chapter 7
50:20 through 12 and make a note for yourself.
50:23 The book of Exodus 7:12.
50:26 The first plague, "All the rivers and streams
50:28 and bodies of water in Egypt will turn to blood.
50:30 All the fish died and the whole thing stank
50:32 and it lasted for seven days."
50:34 That's in Egypt.
50:35 The second plague was frogs by the zillions
50:38 came out of the river and covered
50:40 the whole landscape of Egypt.
50:41 The frogs came into the homes of the people
50:43 and into their kitchens, their bedrooms
50:44 even into their beds.
50:45 They came on to people.
50:47 How would you like to feel something on you
50:48 and a big frog is looking at you?
50:51 I don't think they were tree frogs.
50:52 I'm talking about, we at Tennessee.
50:53 We got some big frogs, great big bull frogs, you know.
50:57 Wouldn't that be something?
51:02 Moses interceded for the Egyptians
51:04 all the frogs died and was wrapped in huge heaps
51:06 and they stank.
51:08 The third plague was lice by the zillions
51:11 came from the dust of the ground.
51:12 I said zillions, by the way jillions
51:14 and zillions are both in the dictionary.
51:20 Now, that I've used it, I think they'll put it in there.
51:24 I really did look it up and they are in there.
51:28 But these lice came from the dust of the ground
51:30 and covered men and animals.
51:31 Apparently, so they could also know what was going on.
51:33 The first three plagues of Egypt also happened
51:36 in the land of Goshen as you may know.
51:38 So they would know what was going on.
51:40 But from there on they didn't.
51:41 The fourth one is swarms of flies
51:44 entered the homes of the Egyptians
51:46 unto the people on the ground where they walked,
51:48 and Moses interceded the flies, all left in one day.
51:53 The next one is very interesting as well.
51:55 Much of the livestock belonged to the Egyptians
51:57 died in one day.
51:59 Their cattle, their horses, their donkeys and so on.
52:01 Boils broke out on men is number six.
52:03 Number seven, a great hailstorm with thunder and lightening.
52:06 It was the biggest and most damaging storm
52:07 ever to occur in the history of Egypt.
52:09 Number eight is the locust covered everything.
52:11 They ate all the green, everything green
52:13 in all of Egypt.
52:14 All the trees, all the plants on the field.
52:15 Number nine was the darkness.
52:17 Couldn't see another person's face.
52:18 No one left their house for three days.
52:20 Number ten, this one is incredible
52:22 as we referred to it today already.
52:23 The death of the firstborn of all the people and animals
52:25 in Egypt except those who had the blood
52:29 on the lower lantern or on the doorpost,
52:31 you understand, the Passover lamp.
52:33 These ten plagues were not just an allegory
52:36 and I believe that in like manner,
52:37 the deliverance of God's people at the end of the world.
52:39 The seven last plagues will be poured out on the earth.
52:41 These plagues will specifically target those
52:44 who have the mark of the beast
52:46 and it will not be a pretty sight.
52:48 But I want to tell you that God's people will be here
52:51 to witness the tribulation
52:52 but they will not have it on them.
52:55 Jesus told the disciples great tribulation will come.
52:58 John said, be of good cheer, in the world
53:00 you have tribulation but I have overcome the world.
53:02 And in Acts 14:22.
53:06 "We must come through great tribulation."
53:08 And something interesting in the Book of Revelation,
53:10 there is these people with beautiful white robes
53:12 on the heaven and someone ask who are these people?
53:14 And you remember this it says in Revelation 7:14.
53:18 "These are they which came out of great tribulation,
53:19 and have washed their robes, and made them white
53:21 in the blood of the Lamb."
53:23 It's interesting that Apostle Paul tells
53:26 of his own tribulation in 2 Corinthians 11
53:28 when he says, I was beaten, I was stoned,
53:31 I was imprisoned and much more.
53:33 And he writes to the young Timothy
53:35 from his prison cell just before he was beheaded.
53:37 All that will live godly in Christ Jesus
53:38 shall suffer persecution."
53:40 It's 2 Timothy 3:12.
53:43 Now, during the time of the great inquisition,
53:46 this was 1693, a songwriter Thomas Shepherd
53:49 penned these words.
53:50 Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
53:53 and all the world go free?
53:54 No, there's a cross for everyone
53:56 and there's a cross for me.
53:58 And this is interesting.
53:59 I want to tell you about the seven last plagues quickly
54:01 as our time is running out here
54:02 but you'll be able to see them quickly.
54:04 The first plague is sores like boils
54:06 or shingles on people.
54:07 Urgent care facilities and hospital emergency rooms
54:09 will be swamped.
54:11 The second one is that the seas and oceans
54:12 turn to blood.
54:14 The Bible says the blood of the dead man
54:15 which is really clotted, congealed, and putrefying,
54:18 everything in the sea dies.
54:20 And then the next one is
54:21 the rivers and springs turn to blood.
54:23 The third plague, for they have shed the blood
54:26 of saints and prophets and thou has given them blood to drink
54:28 for they are worthy.
54:29 This is Revelation 16:6.
54:31 The fourth plague, the sun is given power to scorch men.
54:34 The sun which is so necessary for life
54:36 is now scorching men with extreme heat.
54:39 Many people die of heatstroke
54:40 and those who don't blaspheme God.
54:43 The fifth plague is dense darkness
54:44 on the seat of the beast.
54:45 Very interesting.
54:47 And it's interesting also that the sixth plague
54:49 is the drying of the river Euphrates
54:51 where it says that the support of Babylon
54:54 will be taken away.
54:55 You can read it for yourself Revelation 16:12-16.
55:00 And the seventh plague is very, very interesting
55:03 because it is a great thunder and lightening storm
55:05 and hailstorm with stones weighing 75 pounds a piece.
55:09 And some of you are old enough to remember
55:10 as I vaguely do as a little boy
55:12 that people frequently had iceboxes
55:15 instead of refrigerators years ago.
55:17 You put a big chunk of ice like 25 pounds of ice in there.
55:20 25 pounds is a big chunk. Think of 75 pounds of ice.
55:24 This is incredible, 75 pounds each.
55:27 The most severe earthquake accompanies that
55:28 to ever occur on the earth.
55:30 This is interesting because hailstorms weighing about
55:32 75 pounds, the earthquake is a ten plus.
55:35 The Bible says, every city on earth is destroyed.
55:39 This is Revelation 16:20.
55:42 The earth surface is totally wrecked.
55:44 The plagues will not fall on earth in secret.
55:46 It will be headline news worldwide.
55:48 The devastated earth will be no place
55:50 for an earthly temple of millennium
55:52 for a thousand years.
55:53 At this point, the earth will be uninhabitable.
55:56 That's why the period of time is so short as you know.
55:58 Now I just want to tell you there is much more
56:01 I can share with you but I want to tell you
56:03 in the last few minutes here that God has promised
56:05 to be with his people during that time.
56:08 Psalm 91:7-10,
56:11 "A thousand shall fall at thy side,
56:12 and ten thousand at thy right hand,
56:14 but it shall not come nigh thee.
56:15 Only with thy eye shall you behold
56:17 the reward of the wicked, because you made the Lord,
56:19 which is my refuge even the most high the habitation.
56:21 There shall no evil befall thee nor any plague
56:24 come nigh thy dwelling.
56:26 Now it's also interesting when the waters of the earth
56:28 are all failed and the food delivery system has collapsed.
56:30 God says, your bread and water will begin.
56:33 Your water will be sure. This is Isaiah 33:16.
56:36 I'm not sure it's gluten free but God will take care of us.
56:42 Now I want to tell you one final thing.
56:45 The Bible says the second coming of Christ
56:46 will be all inclusive.
56:48 "All the holy angels come from heaven," Matthew 25.
56:51 Did you hear what I said? All the angels come.
56:53 Every eye will see him,
56:55 all nations will be gathered before Him
56:57 and every man receives his award of the Lord.
56:59 All twice, every twice.
57:00 You see what I'm saying. This is amazing.
57:02 And then to make it even more exciting,
57:04 the Lord Himself will descend from heaven.
57:07 He's not giving this to the angels.
57:09 He's coming down and then he says
57:10 these amazing words, awake, awake,
57:13 you that sleeping in the dust of the earth
57:14 and He calls forth the righteous saints.
57:16 And then people begin to levitate up
57:18 from their graves and the righteous join them
57:19 to go to be with the Lord in the air.
57:21 It's an awesome time to be alive.
57:23 Thank God. Let's pray.
57:25 Our Heavenly Father, we thank You
57:26 for Your love and blessing in our lives.
57:28 Help us to be faithful to you.
57:29 Help us to not be deceived by these things
57:31 that have concocted now, our eyes away from truth.
57:33 Bless each one has been here and Your Holy Spirit guide
57:37 our lives in Jesus name.
57:38 Amen.


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