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Program Code: CR002006S
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00:02 I'm John Carter in Moscow.
00:04 In Havana, Cuba. 00:07 Now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 00:10 I'm John Carter in Petra. 00:13 Right here in Communist China. 00:16 Reporting from India. 00:18 Hi, I'm John Carter in the Solomon Islands. 00:21 I'm John Carter in Soweto. 00:23 From El Salvador. 00:26 I'm John Carter in Sydney, Australia. 00:30 Now, here's John Carter with today's message. 00:37 Welcome back to this tremendous hour. 00:41 This program is coming from Southern California. 00:44 I'm in the Carter Report Studio, 00:46 got cameras, but no camera people. 00:50 Got lots of seats here, but no people. 00:53 No audience, got a tiny skeleton crew upstairs 00:58 led by my son David. 01:00 And we're sending this program around the world 01:03 because we believe we're living in this tremendous hour. 01:08 And we believe we've come to the end times. 01:11 Now I've got something here. 01:13 I spoke about it in the last session. 01:16 We've just done an eight page Coronavirus virus bulletin, 01:21 full of very, very important facts. 01:25 Where did the COVID-19 virus come from? 01:29 What can we do about it? 01:31 Can we have hope? 01:33 How can we sort of eliminate 01:36 our chances of getting this if that is possible? 01:41 And so please write to me friend, 01:43 John Carter, P.O. Box 1900 Thousand Oaks, 01:47 California 91358. 01:49 It's here in the United States. 01:51 In Australia write to make care of my friend, 01:53 Pastor Harold Harker, down there in Terrigal. 01:59 We've got a box number there, so please write to me. 02:02 And we'll send you this eight page bulletin 02:07 on the Coronavirus. 02:09 Important facts, important information. 02:12 And it comes to you with God's blessing. 02:14 We're so glad that you tuned our way today. 02:19 Now, the texts we've been talking about is a text, 02:21 we're not gonna put it up 02:23 because we've already really gone through it, 02:25 we may refer to it later. 02:27 But there's a text in the Book of Romans 02:29 that says that knowing the times, 02:33 knowing the hour, 02:35 it is high time to awake out of sleep, 02:38 because now is our salvation nearer 02:41 than when we first believed. 02:43 It's a book, is that Book of Romans 02:45 that is full of tremendous information. 02:49 And this text tells us 02:51 that we have come to a certain time 02:53 when the prophecies are being fulfilled. 02:56 In the last session, 02:57 we spoke about some of those prophecies, 02:59 but we're gonna talk about some other things too. 03:02 The Bible says it's high time we say... 03:04 Okay, it's high time, high time for what? 03:07 The Bible says, 03:08 "It's high time to wake out of sleep." 03:11 That's what the text says, the Book of Romans, 03:13 high time to awake out of sleep. 03:16 And I say, my friend, 03:18 it's high time to awake out of sleep, 03:20 and stand on the promises of God. 03:24 You know, there's a lot of fear out there. 03:27 There's a lot of fear 03:29 in the United States of America, 03:31 where hundreds of thousands of people 03:32 have got the Coronavirus 03:34 and tens of thousands of people have died. 03:40 We didn't put up the exact figures today 03:42 because they're changing all the time. 03:44 People are dying every day. 03:48 And there's a lot of fear out there. 03:50 A lot of people are worried. 03:51 I want to say this to you. 03:53 It is high time to wake out of sleep 03:55 and stand on the promises of God. 03:59 I'm going to take my Bible. 04:00 I'm going to come over here to 2 Peter Chapter 1, 04:04 and I'm going to come to verse 4, 04:08 still finding it, 2 Peter. 04:11 What is it? Chapter 1 and verse 4. 04:16 Now, here it goes. 04:18 I want to read it to you right out of the Bible. 04:22 So you're ready for this. 04:24 It says, "By which have been given to us, 04:29 exceeding great and precious promises, 04:34 that through these you may be partakers 04:37 of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption 04:42 that is in the world through lust." 04:45 The Bible talks, my friend, the Bible talks about 04:49 great and precious promises. 04:54 It's not a case of sleeping on the premises. 04:57 It's a case of standing on the promises. 05:01 And if you stand on the promises, 05:04 you're not going to fall down. 05:06 I want to talk to you today about some of the promises. 05:09 I want to quote some of these promises. 05:11 Hebrews 13:5-6. 05:14 Just let this soak down into your soul. 05:18 "Let your conduct be without covetousness, 05:22 be content with such things as you have." 05:24 Here it is, "For he himself has said, 05:28 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' 05:33 So we may boldly say, 05:35 'The Lord is my helper, I will not fear. 05:40 What can men do to me?'" 05:44 What can the Coronavirus do to me? 05:47 If I've got God in my heart, I will not fear, 05:51 I can stand on the promises of God. 05:54 I will not be afraid. 05:58 And here's another one, another great promise. 06:00 Isaiah 40:29-31, I just love this, 06:04 Isaiah Chapter 40, 06:06 one of the greatest chapters in the Bible. 06:08 I just love Isaiah 40:29-31. 06:12 "He gives power to the weak." 06:15 Are you feeling weak today? 06:17 There's power for you. 06:19 "And to those who have no might He increases strength. 06:23 Even the youth shall faint and be weary. 06:26 And the young men shall utterly fall. 06:29 But those who wait upon the Lord 06:32 shall renew their strength, 06:33 they shall mount up with wings, like eagles, 06:37 they shall run and not be weary, 06:40 they shall walk and not faint." 06:42 My friend, if you let God take hold of you today, 06:48 He's going to put His arms around you, 06:51 and you are going to soar like an eagle. 06:55 You're going to walk, you're not going to get weary, 06:57 you're going to run and you're not going to faint 06:59 because you're going to have the breath of God 07:03 under your wings lifting you up. 07:06 So, I want to tell you folk something. 07:08 It's time for us 07:10 in this tremendous hour to stand, 07:12 to stand, to stand firmly on the promises of God. 07:16 This is no time to go to water. 07:18 This is no time to be filled with fear. 07:21 This is no time to run away. 07:23 This is a time to stand up. 07:25 And we can stand up when we're standing 07:27 on the promises of God. 07:29 Are you hearing me today? 07:33 There are two hospital ships 07:35 over here in the United States that are in active service now. 07:40 They're called Comfort and Mercy. 07:43 What names? Comfort and Mercy. 07:48 One here in LA, one in New York, 07:51 Comfort and Mercy. 07:53 The Bible tells us that comfort and mercy come from God. 07:57 They've got big red crosses. 07:59 You know who founded the Red Cross? 08:01 Christians in Switzerland. 08:05 In the 1800s, they saw all the soldiers 08:08 being killed on the battlefields 08:11 and hardly anybody there to help. 08:13 So they founded the Red Cross. 08:15 It comes from the cross of Christ. 08:19 Here you got these two beautiful big 08:22 US naval ships, Comfort and Mercy. 08:27 My friend, there's a message there from God to your heart. 08:32 He's got comfort for you, brother, sister. 08:35 He's got mercy for you. 08:38 Comfort and mercy for you, my sister. 08:41 This is not a time for us to be filled with fear. 08:44 It's a time for us to stand on the promises of God 08:49 and to feel the presence of God 08:52 in our lives. 08:56 Listen, it's high time. 08:59 What time is it the text says that knowing the time, 09:01 that now it is high time to awake out of asleep. 09:05 It is high time. 09:06 I'm telling you today, it is high time to prepare 09:10 for the coming of the Lord, and for the Great Tribulation. 09:15 And some of my Christian friends 09:16 call the coming of the Lord, the Rapture. 09:20 So we're not going to argue over that point 09:22 right here in this meeting. 09:24 But we're saying this, it is high time to prepare 09:27 for the Great Tribulation and the Rapture. 09:31 Now I know some of my dear friends, 09:32 that I've got so many friends in so many different churches, 09:35 and they say, you know, 09:38 bad things don't happen to good people. 09:42 Good people won't get the COVID-19 virus. 09:46 If I do, it's really because they're hypocrites, 09:49 they're not good people. 09:50 But the Bible tells me that 09:52 bad things happen to good people. 09:56 And I'm going to talk to you now about the Great Tribulation 09:59 because I believe 10:01 that the saints of God are going to go 10:05 through the Great Tribulation before Jesus returns. 10:09 Now please don't turn me off. 10:10 I just want you to listen to this, 10:12 and just give me an opportunity to explain this. 10:15 I'm going to come over here 10:16 to Revelation Chapter 7, Revelation 7:9. 10:21 Let me read it out of the Bible. 10:24 "After these things are looked and behold, great multitude, 10:29 which no one, which no one could number, 10:33 of all nations, tribes, peoples, 10:36 and tongues, 10:37 standing before the throne before the Lamb, 10:40 clothed with white robes, 10:41 with palm branches in their hands." 10:44 Here's a picture of God's redeemed saints. 10:49 These are God's people, this could not be plainer. 10:52 And then, if you come to verse 13 and 14. 10:56 Here you got two very powerful texts. 10:59 "Then one of the elders answered, 11:01 saying to me, 11:02 'Who are these arrayed in white robes, 11:04 where did they come from?'" Who are these people? 11:06 Who are they? Where do they come from? 11:08 Verse 14, listen now. 11:11 "So I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' 11:13 So he said to me, 11:14 'These are the ones who came out of this, 11:17 out of the Bible. 11:18 These are the ones 11:19 who came out of the Great Tribulation, 11:21 and washed their robes and made them white 11:24 in the blood of the Lamb.'" 11:28 Listen to me, brother, sister. 11:32 You can't come out of the Great Tribulation, 11:35 if you're not in the Great Tribulation. 11:39 The saints of God are in the Great Tribulation. 11:43 The saints of God are right there in the midst 11:46 of this terrible time of trouble. 11:48 The Bible says so, I just read it to you. 11:52 And then Jesus comes and delivers them. 11:59 What's hard about this? 12:01 This is the truth of the Bible. 12:04 Now I'm going to come over here 12:05 to Matthew 24:21. 12:10 Matthew 24:21-22, I want you to notice this. 12:16 Jesus said, now if Jesus said it, 12:18 that settles it. 12:20 "For then there will be great tribulation." 12:22 This is a great time of trouble. 12:25 But then there'll be great tribulation. 12:27 And people tell me, "Hey, 12:28 we don't need to worry about it, 12:29 because we're going to be raptured home to glory. 12:32 The saints don't go through the Great Tribulation. 12:34 Well, the Book of Revelation says they do, 12:37 we just read the text. 12:38 These are the ones 12:40 who came out of the Great Tribulation. 12:41 You can't come out of it if you're not in it. 12:44 What's hard about that? 12:46 Now Jesus is talking about the Great Tribulation. 12:50 Now, you may say to me, but my church, my friend, 12:53 I respect your church, 12:54 but my authority is not my church, 12:58 neither should your authority be your church. 13:01 Our authority ought to be the Holy Word of God. 13:05 Our authority is Christ 13:07 through the Holy Spirit speaking through His Word. 13:11 "But then there'll be great tribulation," 13:13 there it is, "such as has not been 13:16 since the beginning of the world 13:18 until this time, nor ever shall be. 13:22 And unless those days were shortened, 13:25 no flesh would be saved, but for the elect's sake, 13:31 those days will be shortened." 13:35 Did you hear that text? 13:38 The Bible says, 13:40 "It's going to be a tremendous time of trouble." 13:44 And if God didn't shorten those days, 13:48 no one's going to be saved. 13:50 But the Bible says, "For the sake of the elect, 13:53 those days are going to be shortened." 13:58 Now if God and the elect are God's people. 14:02 They're the people who washed their robes 14:04 and make them white in the blood of the Lamb, 14:05 as it's taught in the Bible, the elect are God's people. 14:11 It would be totally irrelevant to shorten those days 14:14 for the sake of the elect 14:16 if the elect were not 14:17 in the midst of that time of trouble. 14:21 So I'm telling you, 14:22 on the authority of the words of Jesus, 14:26 that God's people will go through 14:28 the great time of trouble. 14:30 Now notice something else that happens 14:32 in Matthew 24:29 and 30. 14:38 I want to read this to you. 14:41 Matthew 24:29 and 30. 14:49 Listen to these words. 14:51 "Immediately after the tribulation 14:53 of those days the sun will be darkened, 14:55 the moon will not give its light, 14:57 the stars will fall from heaven, 14:58 and the powers of the heavens will be shaken." 15:01 So you've got these great celestial signs. 15:04 And then it says, verse 30, 15:05 "Then the sign of the Son of Man 15:07 will appear in heaven, 15:08 then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, 15:10 and they will see the Son of Man 15:14 coming in the clouds of heaven 15:16 with power and great glory." 15:20 Please listen to me. 15:24 The Bible says, there's the time of trouble, 15:27 the Great Tribulation. 15:29 And if God didn't shorten those days, 15:31 nobody's gonna be saved, 15:33 but because God's people are there in the midst of it, 15:35 the elect, He is going to shorten those days. 15:38 Then the Bible says, 15:40 "After this great time of trouble, 15:44 there's going to be the celestial signs. 15:48 And then the next event will be 15:51 the coming of Jesus Christ." 15:54 How plain can it be? 15:57 The saints, the elect go through 16:01 the Great Tribulation. 16:03 Who said so? John Carter? 16:05 No, Jesus said so. 16:07 So you've got the great time of trouble. 16:10 And then Jesus comes. 16:14 And Jesus, hallelujah, 16:17 Jesus delivers His people, 16:22 who've gone through the Great Tribulation. 16:25 This is the word of God. 16:29 Now, I want you to think of this little statement here. 16:32 It's almost impossible to get a church member 16:36 to see a truth 16:38 when his church membership depends upon his not seeing it. 16:44 There's another statement that's like it that says, 16:46 it's almost impossible to get a person, 16:49 anyone that see the truth with some idea 16:53 if his salary depends upon his not seeing it. 17:00 And it's almost impossible, 17:01 my friend, to get a church member, 17:03 not all by any means not impossible for the elect. 17:08 It's almost impossible to get a church member to see a truth 17:10 when his church membership depends upon his not seeing it. 17:14 I'm here to tell you something today. 17:16 Our authority is not based upon the church. 17:20 Now, I've got a church, I love my church, 17:22 but my authority is not based upon my church. 17:26 All churches have made mistakes. 17:29 My authority is right here. 17:31 It is the Holy Word of a Holy God. 17:33 So the saints, the elect go through 17:36 the Great Tribulation and they are delivered 17:38 when Jesus comes the second time. 17:41 Why am I telling you this? 17:44 Because, my friend, 17:47 we've arrived at this tremendous hour 17:50 when this Great Tribulation may be starting, 17:53 and the church is going to be here. 17:57 We have arrived at this tremendous hour. 17:59 It is time to distinguish between truth and error. 18:04 It is time to follow the Bible 18:06 and lay aside by the grace of God our preconceived ideas. 18:10 I don't want you to follow me. 18:11 I want you to follow Christ. 18:14 I want you to follow the Bible. 18:17 It is time to hold on to God. 18:20 It is time to triumph over the Great Tribulation, 18:24 and finally meet Jesus when He returns. 18:29 This is the good news I'm telling you today that 18:32 Jesus is going to come back, 18:34 and Jesus is going to deliver His people, 18:38 and His people are going to come out 18:40 of this Great Tribulation. 18:43 They're going to wash their robes 18:45 in the blood of the Lamb, 18:46 and they're going to be saved. 18:49 Okay, here's another great truth. 18:52 It's high time to understand that 18:54 during this tremendous hour, 19:00 God is removing His hand of protection 19:03 which brings on the Great Tribulation. 19:07 Now this leads us to the logical question. 19:10 Does the God of the Bible send afflictions to the world? 19:15 I want you to notice this text in the Book of Lamentations. 19:21 It's a great text, this text in Lamentations. 19:24 Here it is, great text. 19:25 Terrance does such a fantastic job 19:28 putting these pictures up from 50-60 miles away, amazing. 19:32 Lamentations 3:33 says, 19:34 "He does not afflict willingly," 19:37 He has no will to do this, 19:39 "nor grieve the children of men." 19:41 God is not the author of pain, 19:45 of suffering, of cancer or death. 19:48 In a parable Jesus said, "The enemy did these things." 19:51 Some people blame God for this. 19:54 God didn't give us COVID-19. 19:57 It came from the vet markets, most likely in Wuhan, China. 20:03 Because of the violation 20:05 of the health laws of the Bible, 20:06 especially the laws of Leviticus Chapter 11, 20:10 this animal virus got into human beings 20:13 never, never blame God. 20:17 God loves us. God cares for us. 20:19 God does not afflict the children of men. 20:23 But I want you to think 20:24 of the children of Israel in the Old Testament. 20:27 Afflictions came to the children of Israel 20:30 when God removed His hand of protection. 20:36 Heard a great preacher in America, Dr. Stan Lee say, 20:40 "God protected us during the Second World War, 20:42 His hand was over us. 20:44 If we hadn't had the protection of God, 20:47 we wouldn't have won this war against the Nazis. 20:49 God had his hand over America." 20:52 But in the scriptures as God's people turn away 20:55 from God, God removes His hand of protection. 21:00 And these things come upon us. 21:05 And I think, wants you to think about it, too. 21:09 I think many of us have given up on God. 21:12 Remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 21:14 one of the greatest Christians who had ever lived, 21:17 who came out of the belly 21:19 of the beast out of the Soviet Union. 21:22 When he saw all the terrible things 21:23 that had happened to the Soviet Union, 21:25 and the terrible things 21:26 that are happening in the world, 21:28 he said, this is one of the greatest Christians. 21:30 He said, "We have forgotten God, 21:33 and all these things have befallen us." 21:36 God doesn't send tribulation. 21:38 He doesn't affect the children of men, 21:40 but we have forgotten God, 21:43 and all these things have befallen us. 21:46 He wrote that tremendous book, the Gulag Archipelago, 21:49 He received the Nobel Prize of literature 21:52 for literature in 1970. 21:54 When he came to America, he warned America 21:57 that if we turned from God, 21:59 great disasters would come upon us. 22:01 There's time, my friend, to turn back to God. 22:04 What is the time? 22:06 It is time to awake out of asleep 22:08 and seek the Lord while He may be found. 22:10 That's the time, my friend, time to wake up. 22:13 Look at Isaiah 55:6 and 7. 22:16 Isaiah 55, "Seek the Lord while He may be found, 22:21 call upon Him when while He is near, 22:24 He's near now, come now. 22:26 Let the wicked forsake his way, 22:28 and the unrighteous man his thoughts, 22:30 let him return to the Lord, He will have mercy on him, 22:34 and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. 22:38 My friend, what is the time? 22:40 It is high time to awake out of sleep. 22:41 It is time to come back to God. 22:44 It is time to come to Christ. 22:46 It is high time to understand that God's love doesn't change. 22:51 Some people think that God doesn't love us. 22:53 God's love doesn't change. 22:55 You know the story about the father in the Blitz, 22:58 in London. 23:00 The Nazis were bombing the British. 23:02 This man lost his wife. 23:04 And there he was with his little daughter. 23:06 She's lost her mother. They were in an apartment. 23:08 It was dark, it was cold. 23:10 It was black, and the bombs were falling. 23:13 The father said, "My little girl, go to sleep." 23:16 But she was crying for a mother. 23:18 She couldn't get to sleep. 23:19 So he said over and over again. 23:21 It's time to go to sleep, go to sleep. 23:23 And she would cry out in the darkness, 23:24 Daddy, are you still there? Are you still there? 23:29 We cry out in the darkness, God, are You still there? 23:32 He'd say, "I'm still here." 23:34 "Are you looking in my direction?" 23:36 Yes, I'm looking in your direction, 23:37 go to sleep. Go to sleep. 23:40 I'm here. 23:42 And I'm looking in your direction." 23:43 That's my message I want to tell you today, 23:46 my friend, from my empty studio during this pandemic. 23:49 I want you to know that 23:52 He's alive and He's looking towards you. 23:55 It is high time to believe our hour 24:00 of deliverance is at hand. 24:02 Can you say amen? 24:05 The King is coming. 24:07 We have arrived at this tremendous hour. 24:11 The prophecies are being fulfilled. 24:15 God is sending warning after warning. 24:17 He speaks to us. 24:19 In hurricanes, tornadoes, the fires, the earthquakes, 24:23 the floods, the pandemics, He says, I am coming. 24:28 What is my message? 24:32 That knowing the time 24:34 that now it is high time to awake out of sleep. 24:40 The night is far spent, almost over, 24:47 and the day is at hand. 24:50 Because, my friend, the King is coming. 24:55 Remember this, the King is coming. 25:01 And He loves you. 25:05 Why not open your heart today and say, 25:09 "Christ, come into my heart today. 25:14 I want Your salvation. 25:17 I want Your peace and I want Your paradise." 25:23 We pray this in Jesus' name. 25:27 Amen. And God bless you so much. 25:36 This is a Carter Report update on the Coronavirus. 25:40 Events around the globe 25:41 are being postponed and canceled. 25:43 We do not know how long our lives will be disrupted 25:46 but this we do know, the virus will be stopped. 25:49 Health officials have asked all of us 25:51 to use caution when traveling, wash your hands 25:54 and avoid crowds as much as possible. 25:56 The John Carter Gospel program in Manila will take place 26:00 in the near future. 26:01 Until then, may we all take refuge in the Holy Spirit 26:04 and know that God's grace 26:06 will guide us through this unsettling time. 26:09 Let us pray for a quick recovery 26:11 for those and their families touched by the virus. 26:15 As we continue to provide you 26:16 with new Carter Report programs, 26:19 know that the Lord is watching over us. 26:21 We appreciate you, our Carter Report family. 26:25 This is indeed a time 26:26 when your financial and prayerful support 26:29 will help us reach those who perhaps for the first time 26:32 are turning to God for comfort. 26:39 Time, it takes only a minute to have eternal life. 26:43 How can you get saved in a minute? 26:44 It's simple. 26:46 First believe that Jesus was the Son of God. 26:48 Second, accept His free gift of eternal life. 26:51 And then you're safe. 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