Time to open the day for another offer. 27 stars on the Verbs.
On ahead!
In OKC, myself, I plan on going and supporting them probably on Friday evening.
I probably won't be able to make, obviously Wednesday, and then Thursday I won't be able to make either.
But Friday I plan on going to that, so if you'd like to tag along with me, communicate with me, and the signal group,
you can support them in our area.
Then we have March 7th, this upcoming Saturday, is the Tulsa, Oklahoma, full-winning marathon.
We'll be meeting in Tulsa at a apartment complex. I'll send that in the signal group.
Bro John helped pick some great areas there, so we're thankful for that.
And then March 8th, the day after, will be Amen's preaching night for the evening service.
If you'd like to sign up, you can sign up to be in the back over there.
15-minute long sermons will be the max for that.
April 1st will be our Lord's Supper service. That's on a Wednesday.
April 4th, the day before Easter, we'll have a local colony marathon here in Oklahoma City, like we usually do.
May 2nd, I added a college colony marathon at OSU in Stillwater, so there will be more details to come on that.
But I know Captain Shelley was leading this idea of doing college colony marathons all over America.
And the first part of this year has been really busy, but we finally got one on the schedule for May 2nd.
So I've never done that before, but I'm really looking forward to the results there.
Then we have May 20th through the 24th, the Anti-Israel Conference, of course at Steadfast Baptist Church in Cedar Hill, Texas.
Then we have on June 17th through the 20th is the sole winning conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
And so far I know that myself and Pastor Shelley are both preaching for this conference.
So I'm really excited for that. On the right side there we have our online visitor card.
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That's going to be it for now. Since this morning let's go ahead and go to our third song together.
The third hymn this morning. We would turn to number 96. Hymn number 96. God Leads Us Along.
Hymn number 96. We'll sing there starting right on the 1st.
It's me. You're so real. No man go beyond fraud his brother in any matter because that the Lord is the avenger of all such.
We also have forewarned you and testified, for God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Be therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given us his Holy Spirit.
That I touch in brotherly love, do you mean not that I write unto you? For ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
And, indeed, ye do it for all the brethren which are in Macedonia; but we decuse you, brethren, that ye increase more and more.
And that ye study to be quiet, do your own business, and to work with your own hand, we commanded you.
That ye may walk honestly for them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep; ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring it with them.
For this we say unto you, by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord of the air. So shall we ever be with the Lord, wherefore comfort one another.
First Thessalonians chapter 4, let's start reading in verse 14.
The Bible says, For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Of course, this is the quintessential passage in the Bible that describes what was commonly known as the rapture, and we believe in the actual visible bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We don't view this as some sort of metaphor or something that's already happened.
We believe that someday the Lord will return in the air to gather together his elect.
Now the question is, when will this event happen? Because ever since the influence of men like John Nelson Darby and the Schofield Reference Bible,
they have really influenced American Christianity to believe in something known as the pre-tribulation rapture.
That is kind of just the default position that Baptists and Christians hold in America today.
That Christ basically, what that means, the pre-trib rapture, is that Christ could come at any moment, that there will be no signs necessarily of His coming, that it could happen at any moment.
You know, we've heard preachers in the last year get up and say, "It is extremely, extremely, extremely, extremely likely that Christ will come before the end of this day or this sermon."
We've heard stuff like that before. Why do they say stuff like that? Because they believe in the pre-tribulation rapture.
Now, we completely reject this view. We believe that this is an unbiblical view.
We believe that the rapture happens after the tribulation but before God's wrath.
So the title of my sermon this morning is this, "Why We Believe the Post-Trib Pre-Rath Rapture."
We just want to take our beliefs from the Bible because I submit to you that this pre-trib rapture view
does not have any basis in Scripture, that it's only just been taught from commentaries, extra-biblical books,
and you know, a lot of people in the last decade have woken up to this lie,
thanks to documentaries like "After the Tribulation" and just preaching and exposing this from God's Word,
from great preachers in the new IFB, because I even know of people who are like Southern Baptists
who go to like liberal Baptist churches that have started to question the pre-trib rapture.
I know these people personally, so that's encouraging to me.
But I wanted to show you from the Bible why we believe this.
Go to John 16, John Chapter 16.
I want to give you three reasons why we believe that it is a post-trib, pre-wrath rapture.
Now, one is just kind of a philosophical reason, and then I'll get to just the hard-hitting biblical proof later.
But number one, God's people have always gone through tribulation.
I mean, this is just, should be obvious to anyone who has eyes, to anyone that has seen anything about history,
is that God's people have always gone through tribulation.
So if that's the case, my question would be, why would the end times be an exception to that rule?
Look at John 16 verse 33, Jesus said, "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace."
Notice this, "In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
So here Christ just specifically tells his disciples that in this world they will have tribulation.
Now of course we know this is not just limited to his actual disciples, this is talking about all Christians.
And when you read the New Testament, you read the Acts of the Apostles of Jesus Christ, what do you see? Persecution.
When you read about the church at Thessalonica, how they experienced persecution.
Persecution. You read Revelation, the seven churches that are in Asia, they're experiencing persecution, tribulation.
You read just the history of this world, what Christians have gone through throughout the ages.
And what do you see? You see them going through tribulation. You see them going through persecution.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter 3, 2 Timothy chapter 3, because some would say, well, Jesus is only talking about his disciples.
Only his disciples here are going to be the ones really experiencing the brunt of that tribulation and persecution.
But we'll see that that is not the case. Look at 2 Timothy chapter 3, verse 10.
The Bible says, But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience.
Notice, persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra.
What persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
So did the Apostle Paul just get kept from any issues, problems, tribulations, persecution?
No, he went through it his entire life.
His entire life he's just going through being betrayed, being stoned, being shipwrecked, being hunted down.
But he said, "Hey, I went through all these things, but the Lord delivered me."
And I submit that it's the same thing during the end times that God's people are going through tribulation,
but in the end we're going to be delivered by the day of the Lord, the rapture.
Look at verse 12. Notice, "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
Now see, this doctrine is not a surprise to the new IFB.
You know, if you've been in a new IFB church for a while, you know, you read this and you're like,
"Yeah, this is true. All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
I submit to you, the reason why a lot of Americans just don't think that Christians go through persecution
in 2026 America is because they're not living godly.
You know, they're going to churches where hard things are not being preached,
the hard sermons aren't coming from the pulpit, they're not making bold stands
that ruffle any feathers, that get people upset, and so they don't suffer persecution.
But that's not because Christians don't suffer persecution, it's just that,
"Yay, that all that are godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
So what do you see? You see guys like Pastor Bruce Mejia preaching against the Sodomites,
and you see his church literally blown up.
You see his church literally planted with bombs by Sodomites and getting blown up in America in modern times.
This is in a third world country, right?
In California, you see Pastor Jonathan Shelley constantly getting evicted,
constantly being protested for years after years.
You know, even myself, I've had some of Sodomites stalking me for years on end at my home,
vandalizing my home, threatening my family.
If I could show you the voicemails on our church, they're gonna be screaming and cussing
and cursing us for preaching against the Sodomites, for preaching, you know,
that a man has a right to his own wife's body and vice versa.
That gets people really fired up today, too. But what does that show?
Yeah, if you live godly in Christ Jesus, you are going to suffer persecution.
The reason a lot of Americans don't understand this is because they're sitting on their butts,
doing nothing, they're not doing the big soul-winning trips, they're not going to the Philippines,
they're not going to the Bahamas, they're not shaking things up in their community.
They're dead.
And because they're dead, you know, they're not getting any persecution.
But all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Go to 1 Thessalonians 2, 1 Thessalonians chapter 2.
I'm just showing you that Christians have always gone through persecution.
1 Thessalonians chapter number 2, look at verse 14.
It says, "For ye brethren," so these are saved people,
"became followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus."
Notice this, "For ye have suffered like things of your own countrymen,
even as they have of the Jews."
Right, so he's saying, "Hey, you guys are suffering persecution
for your faith in Jesus Christ, for being righteous of your own countrymen."
And you know, we see that today in America.
Of fellow countrymen, fellow Americans, looking at independent fundamental Baptists,
new IFB preachers, and saying, "We're terrorists, we're hateful,
we're domestic terrorists, we're terrible people, we should be locked up,
you know, let the ADL come at us."
Which is what happens here, right?
They also suffered like persecution of the Jews.
What do we see today?
We definitely see Jews coming after Christians today.
Through the media, through social media censorship,
through infiltrating our government and using lawfare,
and just getting us into all these issues.
Speaking of the Jews, notice what it says there,
"who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets,
"and have persecuted us, and they please not God,
"and are contrary to all men."
You know, that verse right there,
if Baptists would actually get up and preach that,
you know, they would start suffering some persecution.
But you know, you can't even say these things
on social media today without getting banned,
without getting limited your visibility.
I mean, I posted on X this week basically just saying
that we as Americans should not allow Judaism
to enter our country, to influence our country,
that it is satanic, that they are the synagogue of Satan,
and that their religion is inviting the wrath of God
on our country.
Now look, that's just facts.
That is just biblical facts.
I didn't get up there and say something about their nose
or their tainted blood or anything like that.
It wasn't about race.
It was just about their religion.
And X, the platform of free speech,
limited my visibility, said no, no one could see this post.
This violates hate speech.
Well, you know what?
The Bible says that the Jews killed the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Jews are the murderers of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you know, Jesus took it a step further because,
hey, he said you're guilty of the blood of all the prophets.
From Abel to Zacharias, he holds the Jews responsible for it.
And notice, they please not God.
They're not God's chosen people.
They don't even please God.
God views them as antichrists because that's what the Bible says.
Notice, "and are contrary to all men."
And you know, I thank God that we live in a place that does not have an influence of Judaism.
Because our state would quickly turn into a hell hole if all of a sudden we were just surrounded by followers of Judaism.
You want proof of this, go on YouTube.
There's this documentary that was just released a few weeks ago by Tyler Olvera.
I hope I'm saying his name right.
But he shows this town in New Jersey that got completely overrun by Hasidic Jews.
Just like 90% Hasidic Jews, and they're buying like houses in neighborhoods
and turning these residential houses into synagogues.
And these people who have owned their homes in this neighborhood for forever,
all of a sudden the streets are just lined with hundreds of cars
and Jews coming in and praying in their neighborhood.
And just like they're living off of welfare.
He's going around and he's like interviewing them.
And it's like all the men are living off of welfare.
They're just studying the Torah in the synagogue.
They're sitting their wife to work while the men are just living off of welfare.
I mean it's a horrible society.
And this documentary just exposes what a terrible city it's become.
Why? Because of Jews. That's why.
The Bible says that they're contrary to all men.
And even people who are non-Christians who don't know what the Bible says about the Jews.
You know, throw them into their community and they'll quickly learn.
Oh yeah, they're terrible. Oh yeah, they're contrary to all men.
Why? Well look what they do.
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved.
To fill up their sins all the way for the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
See the Jews, they do not want to just live and let live.
They don't want to just assimilate into our country.
They want to prevent people from preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Which as a nation that was founded on Christianity, we should not allow a subversive religion.
A religion based on the rejection of Christ and oftentimes the hatred of Christ into our country.
I don't think Jews should be allowed because of their religion.
The wicked religion, go to 1 John chapter number three.
Now a lot of Baptists would never say anything close to that.
And so they'll never receive persecution from the Jews.
But you know, my name is on the ADL website literally.
Why? Because I will say what the truth about the Jews is.
That they are the synagogue of Satan, that they're anti-Christ, that they please, not God.
That they are contrary to all men, that they are trying to stop the spread of Christianity in this world.
1 John chapter 3 verse 11.
It says, "For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.
And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous.
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you."
Oh, you know, Christians, we're not going to go through tribulation.
We're not going to go through persecution.
It's like, how about the first people born of parents that ever existed?
Cain and Abel.
Like, you want to go back to when persecution started of the righteous?
The first two people born of a woman.
Cain and Abel.
And why did Cain kill Abel?
Because Abel was righteous and Cain was wicked.
That's why.
And he uses this example saying, "Hey, because that's the case, don't be surprised.
Don't marvel.
Don't be shocked if the world hates you, too."
If the wicked one hates Abel, you know what?
We're going to be hated as well.
Go to 1 Peter 4.
1 Peter chapter number 4.
See, the old IFB, the pre-trib rapture preachers, they've got a lot of cute slogans.
They've got a lot of Bible commentary written by man.
But when you actually just open up scripture and just see persecution, persecution, tribulation,
I mean, their theory really starts to fall apart.
Look at verse 12 of 1 Peter 4.
"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you, as though
some strange thing happened unto you."
Hey, we're going to go through a fiery trial.
I mean, this isn't saying like you're going to go through a little bit of issues.
Yeah, we're all going to have our ups and downs.
He's saying don't be surprised when there's a fiery trial to try you.
And you know, some men have gone through literal fiery trials.
How about William Tyndale?
I mean, William Tyndale was godly in Christ Jesus.
He wanted to translate God's Word into the common tongue, the English language.
And you know what?
The wicked Catholic Church convicted him, number one, of teaching that faith alone justifies.
Which guess what? The Bible teaches that faith alone justifies, right?
But yay, he gets convicted of that.
He was also convicted of illegally, you know, translating the Scriptures
because the Catholic Church didn't want people to have the Bible.
And you know what? He was killed and he was burned at the stake.
He went through that fiery trial.
Go, if you would, to Romans, chapter number eight.
Romans, chapter number eight.
I think the reason a lot of people reject this idea of Christians being persecuted
or going through tribulation is that they kind of view it as, well, if we go through that,
that means that God is forsaking us or God doesn't still love us or God is kind of letting us down.
But the Bible does not paint that picture whatsoever.
Look at Romans eight, verse thirty five.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
And of course, the answer is no, there's nothing that could separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus.
But so think about that.
When God's people go through tribulation, when God's people are distressed, when we are persecuted, when we have the sword coming after us,
when we're going through famine, when nakedness, you know, all these horrible things that could happen.
He's saying, does that mean that God has ceased to love us?
No, of course, he still loves us.
So us going through persecution is not, you know, an evidence that God's forsaking us or no longer loving us.
He says, as it is written, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long.
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
And some people would be like, well, if God loves us, I mean, if God's going to be with us,
why would he allow us to be killed?
And not just killed, he's saying we're killed all the day long.
We're like sheep for the slaughter.
He says, nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So, hey, going through tribulation does not mean that God doesn't love you.
In some cases, it means that God loves you even more because he counts you worthy to suffer shame and persecution for his name's sake.
Sometimes it means he loves you more because, you know what? Martyrs are going to get that martyr's crown in heaven.
You're going to have a great mansion in heaven. You're going to have great rewards in heaven.
And you know what? Jesus said to not fear those that kill the body, but afterwards there's no more that they could do.
Rather fear him that is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Hey, Jesus has redeemed our soul, our spirit, and someday we will get a glorified body, but this body will die someday.
And so if this body is killed in persecution, in tribulation, in warfare, in famine, that does not mean that God doesn't love me
because the moment I breathe my last, I'm going to wake up in heaven.
And if we make it to the day of the rapture, through the tribulation, guess what?
From that day on, no more tears, no more crying, no more pain, no more warfare, no more nakedness, no more famine, no more persecution.
It's just eternal glory with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Go to Hebrews 11. You know, that's like saying that, oh, if we go through persecution, if we go through tribulation, that means God's forsaking us.
That means God doesn't love us. Well, I ask you, does God love John the Baptist?
Did Jesus love John the Baptist? Because Jesus said that he was the greatest man born among women.
And you know how he met his end? Getting beheaded because of some stupid wager that was made by Herod.
Getting beheaded, no of course he loved him. Look at Hebrews 11 verse 36. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings.
Yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment they were stoned. They were sawn asunder. I mean that is horrific.
Imagine being sawn asunder. Were tempted, were slain with a sword.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute, afflicted, tormented of whom the world was not worthy.
God holds these people that went through persecution as being so highly regarded.
He says the world wasn't even worthy of these martyrs. The world wasn't even worthy of John the Baptist.
The world wasn't even worthy of William Tyndale. Yet through God's grace he enabled these people to do great works.
They wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth.
And these all, notice, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us.
That they without us should not be made perfect.
So hey, going through tribulation, persecution, even death, even horrific forms of death, like being sawn asunder,
that doesn't mean that God isn't with you, that God doesn't love you.
No, he might actually be providing some better thing for you.
And though those deaths would be horrific, you know, death is just a moment in time.
It's a shedding of the body. But you know what, our rewards in heaven are eternal.
And I guarantee you, there's never in this world been a persecuted Christian,
someone who suffered for the Lord Jesus Christ.
There's never been a martyr that got to heaven and regretted being martyred.
They didn't look back saying, "I wish it wouldn't have happened."
You know what, they're enjoying the benefits that they earned through that martyrdom.
You know, right now, there's reported a Christian genocide going on in Africa.
We never hear about it. We never hear about it. Why? Because we live in America.
Why? Because, you know, we've got baseball, we've got football, and we've got restaurants.
We've got coffee, and we've got money, and we've got, you know, entertainment.
And so a lot of Christians are just ignorant to the fact that persecution goes on in this world.
But, you know, someday during the Great Tribulation, it's going to be on a worldwide scale, and everyone's going to know about it.
You know, estimates say that over 50,000 to 62,000 Christians have been systematically murdered in Africa from 2009 to 2010.
That's from the Inter-Society Foundation and Genocide Watch, some NGOs.
I don't know how accurate that is, but I do know that all that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
I know that some people are going to be martyred.
I know that there are some people being killed for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Doesn't mean God doesn't love them those people will be greatly rewarded in heaven, but you know
I believe it's dangerous to teach people that Christians will not go through tribulation will not go through persecution
Here's why because when it happens it could cause people to lose faith in God
It can cause people to have their faith shaken and they think hey, you know
I was told by the preacher that we're gonna be spared from martyrdom. We're gonna be spared from famine
We're gonna be spared from persecution and then when persecution comes, you know, it might happen
They might get offended. They might stumble in their walk with God
They might think well, maybe God isn't real or maybe God doesn't love me or maybe God isn't with me
Like he promised he was that's the danger of teaching people that we won't go through tribulation
Go if you would to Matthew 13 Matthew chapter number 13 while you're turning there John 16 one
Jesus said these things have I spoken unto you that you should not be offended
They shall put you out of the synagogues yay the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God
Service why did Jesus warn hey some of you will be killed some of you will be hated some of you will be brought before
Magistrates so that they could expect it and not be offended see if we go through a really terrible time of persecution
Hopefully you could remember this sermon and remember
Oh, yeah, the Bible actually teaches that just because we die or are persecuted that doesn't mean God doesn't love us
Hey, maybe he has something better for us. You could remember that and say oh, yeah
Jesus told me that all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall serve suffer persecution
Hey, he told me don't think it's strange the fiery trial that is to try you
He told us all these things so that we won't get offended Matthew 13 20 notice
But he that received the seed into stony places
The same as he that heareth the word and anon with joy receiveth it yet hath he not root in himself
but durreth for a while for when tribulation or
Persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he is offended
So notice in this parable the author is taking for granted that you would already know that someday
Tribulation and persecution is going to arise because of the word this person is saved
They received the word with gladness, but guess what they didn't have they didn't have that deep root within themselves
They didn't have that deep-seated knowledge knowing. Hey, I've got to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might
Hey be steadfast
Unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as he know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord
You know having that deep in yourself when you go through persecution you could say oh, yeah
God already told me I'd go through this God already warned me what's gonna happen. You know, I just need to stay strong
I need to rely on him
I need to trust in the Lord with all my heart lean not unto my own understanding in all my ways acknowledge him and he will
Direct my paths. That's the attitude you need to get through tribulation
But if you've just heard your whole life, nothing bad's gonna happen
You're gonna be rich and happy and healthy and just one day
Jesus is gonna come and whisk us away in the clouds
You know just right in the middle of this sermon it could be today and boy pray for our old IFB brethren
Because when we struck Iran yesterday, I'm sure there's a lot of Baptists today that think it could be today
There's a lot of Baptist grandmas today thinking, you know, he's coming today. We got to be ready for Jesus today
Let me tell you Jesus is not coming today. He is not coming today
Why is that because number two the Bible teaches that the rapture cannot happen at any moment?
I'll prove that to you go to Matthew 24 Matthew chapter 24 now first
Let me show you what the other side would use to teach what's known as the imminent return of Christ
Eminent meaning it could happen at any time. There's no signs
There's nothing that must happen first most people believe that Jesus Christ could just come right now
Okay, Matthew 24 verse 36 Jesus said this but of that day talking about the day of the Lord
But of that day and hour knoweth no man
No, not the angels of heaven, but my father only watch therefore for ye know not what hour
Your Lord doth come but know this that if the good man of the house had known in what watched the thief would come
He would have watched it would have not suffered his house to be broken up
Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as he think not the son of man
Coming so people will go here and say see Jesus said that no one knows the day or the hour not even the Sun
Not even Jesus Christ when he was on this earth knew the day and the hour that he would return they say therefore
He could return at any moment. That is not logical and that that contradicts other places of scripture
You know because you can know that something's coming in the future and you don't necessarily know the day or the hour
But you can know hey some things have to happen first. Here's an example. What's NASA doing right now?
They're getting ready for the Artemis to launch and you know what the Artemis to launch is at some point in the future
The Artemis 3 launch is at some point in the future and you know what no one knows the day or the hour
You know why because Artemis 2 has to get that space launch system out on the launch pad and they have to do multiple
Wet tests and test. Hey is the hydrogen leaking too much and you know what?
It's failed two tests a row the launch date was already planned from before this date
They wanted to do it before but they couldn't why because they did a test it failed they did a test it failed
They're doing other tests in the future when NASA does a launch. They pick multiple launch windows because of the rotation of the earth
Okay. Yes, the earth is a globe
they have to have multiple launch windows that they choose from and you know what all the
technology has to be buttoned down and has to pass all the tests and
It has to be on a launch window and the weather has to be perfect or they will abort the mission
So it's like hey, I know in the future Artemis 2 is gonna happen, but no man knows the day or the hour
But does that mean that it could happen at any moment? I mean they can launch it right now. No, okay
Hey, I know Artemis 3 is in the future, but there's some things that have to happen first
It's called Artemis 2, right?
This is like ridiculous logic to say because we don't know the day or the hour of Christ's return
Therefore it could happen at any moment. No because the Bible says that there's some things that have to happen before launch if you will
All right, go to first Thessalonians 4 first Thessalonians 4 first Thessalonians 4 passage about the rapture
Everyone would agree. This is about the rapture verse 13 notice, but I would not have you to be ignorant brethren
Concerning them which are asleep that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope
So when an unsaved person dies, we have no hope for that person because they're in hell and you know what?
They're never going to escape. They're gonna be in hell for all the eternity, you know at the great white
They'll be resurrected to be thrown into the lake of fire
But you know what? There's no hope for that person, but he says, you know safe people
I don't want you to be ignorant concerning other safe people which have died
You know, we don't want you to be like the unsaved that have no hope
Why verse 14 for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus
Will God bring with him so the day of the Lord all those who have already died which when a believer dies
It said that they are sleeping why because you know, they're coming back
They're gonna raise again from the dead someday when the Lord returns in the air all the saints of times past are coming with him
It says in verse 15 for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain
Unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep
So whoever whatever generation lives to the day of the Lord to the day of the rapture, you know
We're not gonna be resurrected or brought up before them
They are first that they being believers who have died before us coming with the Lord Jesus Christ for the Lord himself
Shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in
Christ shall rise first so all the bodies of people who have died before us that are saved their bodies will rise
Meeting their spirits in the air for we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
With them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord
Wherefore comfort one another with these words?
I mean, this is mind-blowing to think about and you know, we actually believe the Bible here
We don't just view this as some allegory. I mean whatever generation lives to the rapture. They're gonna be saved
They're gonna be walking on this earth and one day we're just gonna be caught up
We're just gonna fly literally just start flying up into the air meet the Lord and I've always loved aviation
You know, I can't wait till the day that I fly that's gonna be awesome looking forward to that so we could all agree
This is for sure talking about the rapture. That's the context. Okay, go to the next chapter first Thessalonians five
We're not breaking context here want to show everything he says in verse 1 but of the times and the seasons brethren
You have no need that I write unto you for yourselves
Know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night again
The preacher trippers will just take this out of context without reading the rest of the chapter and they'll say hey
Christ is coming as a thief in the night. You don't know what time a thief is coming
That's the point of them just surprising you right just breaking into the house as a thief in the night
but notice he says in verse 3 for when they
shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman of child and
They shall not escape notice, but ye brethren
But you saved people are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief
So if you just kept reading Paul saying hey the coming of the Lord is
Like a thief in the night to the unsaved two people that don't know Jesus two people that don't believe in Jesus
Yeah
It's gonna be like you're in bed and all of a sudden a thief is over you, right?
Or it's gonna be like a woman and all of a sudden boom
She's in labor and you don't necessarily know the day or the hour that that's just gonna hit you all of a sudden
But he says no you are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief
You know what that means? It means that the rapture the day of the Lord is not as a thief in the night for us
It's not for Christians
He says ye are all the children of light and the children of the day
We are not of the night nor of darkness therefore
Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober right so there are things in the Bible
There are some signs that the Lord Jesus Christ gave that other inspired men of God gave to tell us
What are the signs of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and because we are not in darkness because we have spiritual vision
We could see we should be able to read the Bible and watch and see okay. This is a sign of the Lord's coming
It's not saying get outside and just watch and it could be today. It's very likely that it's today
No, no, no, it's read the Bible and watch and let's prove that go to second Thessalonians chapter 2 second Thessalonians 2
We're talking about the very same event the rapture
but what it says in verse 1 now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our
Gathering together unto him. What does that sound like sounds like 1st Thessalonians 4 sounds like the event of the rapture and he's saying
Hey, I beseech you I'm begging you. I'm imploring you pay attention
He says that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word
Nor by letter as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand. What does he say?
He says hey when we're talking about the rapture the day of the Lord don't be troubled
Don't be shaken in mind. Don't be scared. Don't crash out
Don't freak out about these things whether an angel another man or even us ourselves
Wrote you something telling you to freak out about you saying don't freak out about it
You know a lot of Baptists today today meaning literally today need to read second
Thessalonians 2 because I guarantee you in Baptist churches all over America this morning
There are people freaking out about the return of Christ. Why because we bombed Iran yesterday
Which let's be honest. That is a pretty serious event and who knows what the future could look like with geopolitics world warfare
I mean at this point anything's on the table anything can happen. We don't know but here's what I do know
I do know that Jesus Christ is not coming back today
I do know that the day of the Lord is not at hand and I'm not gonna be shaken
I'm not gonna be troubled in mine. I'm gonna go about my life serving God
You know, I'm not gonna sell my house today because Jesus is coming back tomorrow
I'm not gonna quit my job today because Jesus is coming back tomorrow. No, I'm not shaken in mine
Notice what it says verse 3 let no man deceive you by any means
Why does he have to tell us that because there's a lot of people that want to deceive you the devil wants Christians deceived
About end times events so that they will be offended. That's the whole reason Jesus saying I'm telling you you're going through this
So that you don't get offended sounds like the devil would love for Christians to be offended
And what I mean by offended is to stumble to cease in your walk with God to cease in your service from God
Because if someone goes through tribulation and they're like, oh man, God lied to me. They might turn on God
They might quit serving God. He says let no man deceive you by any means for that day
Shall not come
Except there come a falling away
First and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition
He says there's two things that must happen before the day of the Lord. The first one is the falling away now
I don't know how preach rivers twist this scripture so bad, but they'll say, you know, if you go back to the Greek
You know, this is the falling up which it's apostasia is the Greek word there and they'll say the falling away here
That's the falling up. It's like I've never seen anything fall up
Is this like some weird flat earth level science that's going on here something falling up? No, no
That's not how things fall. Okay the falling away. I mean you go from one location and you go down, right?
That's what it means to fall and yes, the Greek word
There is apostasia is very likely that what this is talking about is just a great
Departure from truth. That's what I believe that the falling way is is a great departure from truth in
General and you know, I am NOT gonna sit up here and say for a certainty
We are in the falling away right now because I don't know but I'll tell you this
There's quite a departure of truth from truth that we've seen in the last decade or so
I mean, thank God we're kind of recovering from it a little bit
But like there was a whole decade where people thought you could change genders and there still are freaks that believe that and they're idiots and morons
But that's a great departure from truth that men and women are equal in strength and in all, you know physical capabilities
That's a great departure in truth. That is crazy today. You know, we start a world just believing all sorts of insane
Nonsense. Personally, I believe it's gonna get way worse. Just my personal opinion
I personally do not believe that we are in the great falling away right now because I see a lot of positive in this world
I see a lot of people waking up on the sodomite issue
I see a lot of people waking up on the Jews, you know
And of course Jesus said that the gospel is gonna go around the world before the end comes
And so I think there's gonna be a little bit of a positive before the great falling away. I could be wrong
That's my opinion on that. But here's something that's way more clear something else that has to happen before that day comes
It's that the man of sin be
Revealed the son of perdition, right? So being revealed it's not like well the Antichrist
You know was born and he exists somewhere in this world, but no one really knows who he is
No, it's saying that the Antichrist has to be revealed. It has to be made a manifest. It has to be known
Hey, this is the Antichrist. This is the man of sin
now let me tell you that person does not exist or if he does exist he is not made known at this time and
Over the years there's always those weird YouTube videos
You know seven reasons why Barack Obama is the Antichrist and it's like he's not the Antichrist or you know
He is Elon Musk the Antichrist now Elon Musk's child whose name is like 7x1239 or 5xY
You know, let's watch that kid because that's a weird situation right there. But notice how is the man of sin revealed?
How is the Antichrist made known? Well, it says in verse 4 who opposed it and exalted himself above all that is called God
Or that is worshiped so that he as God
Sit it in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. So that is a big event
This is known as the abomination of desolation
Spoken of by Daniel the prophet and the Lord Jesus Christ
Where I believe someday there's gonna be a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem at the very look on Mount
Moriah where the Dome of the Rock is right now
and I believe that temple will be rebuilt and I believe that the Antichrist someday will set up that abomination of desolation and he
Will stand up after having his deadly wound to his head that was healed and he will get up and he will say
That he is God and you know what a lot of this world will be deceived by him
We'll worship him as God and will receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead
The mark of the beast in order to buy and sell and the Bible says that if you do that, you're cooked
You're going to hell. You have no forgiveness. You're not gonna be saved if you do that
This is talking about the abomination of desolation. Now. Look, this is not a secret event
Go if you would to Daniel chapter 9 the abomination of desolation
This is not something that could have happened last week that we weren't aware of something happening in darkness
No, no, this is a huge massive event and in Daniel
Daniel prophesies of a period of time a seven-year period of prophecy known as Daniel's 70th week
Now the midpoint of Daniel's 70th week is the abomination of desolation
So three and a half years into this last prophetic period of time
A lot of people will describe the last seven years as the tribulation
But the Bible does not call the last seven years the tribulation. It's just called Daniel's 70th week
All right
I don't have time to show you everything but in Genesis you see how Jacob fulfills his week for his wives
And it's a period of seven years you can go study that more on another time
But Daniel 9 look at verse 27
It says here and he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week and in the midst of the week
So at the halfway point he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and for the over spreading of abominations
He shall make it desolate
Even until the consummation and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate
So in the middle of Daniel 70th week the Antichrist has fully come to power
He goes into the temple which at this time the temple has
reinstituted animal sacrifices
Which is satanic and blasphemous of course because Jesus is that once-for-all sacrifice
He is the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world
But hey leave it to the Antichrist satanic Jews to bring back the animal sacrifices
And you know as a punishment for being so wicked God sends an even more wicked person to destroy Jerusalem again
Called the Antichrist. I mean Jerusalem's just constantly getting destroyed throughout history, right?
I mean 80/70 the Romans coming in and destroying the temple
You know that's kind of a shadow of things that are to come the times of the Gentiles being fulfilled the Antichrist setting standing up
He takes away the sacrifice
He puts the abomination of desolation now go to Daniel chapter 12 Daniel chapter number 12 in Daniel 12
We get a little bit more of a timeline
It says in verse number 11 and from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away in the abomination
That maketh desolate set up there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days
So from the beginning point of Daniel 70th week from the beginning portion of this prophetic period
We're not going to necessarily know exactly when that day, you know starts the calendar starts the clock
But obviously God knows and from whatever day that is to the abomination of desolation. It's
1290 days, which is about three and a half years
That's about a midpoint through one week or seven year period go to Daniel 12 look at verse number 12
It says blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days
But go thou thy way till the end be for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of days
So now we get a timeline
What I believe this to be the rapture right because he's saying go thou thy way
Till the end be for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of days
And this is a positive event because he's saying blessed is he that comes to this day right the abomination of desolation bad day
Hey
But blessed is he that comes to this specific day and how long is that day from the time that Daniel 70th week began?
To this day is one thousand three hundred and thirty five days, so you take one thousand three hundred and thirty five
You subtract that from one thousand two hundred and ninety which was gotten from verse 11, and we get 75 days
What does that tell us that tells us that the length of the great?
Tribulation is exactly 75 days long now. Here's the thing there's tribulation going on before the abomination of desolation, right?
There's warfare. There's persecution. There's famine. There's all sorts of bad things going on in the earth
But when there's a great tribulation which Jesus will go there in a little bit said it's gonna be unlike any tribulation
That's ever existed or ever will exist. How long does that part last that lasts for?
75 days what kicks off the timer the abomination of desolation now
What does this show this shows that Jesus cannot come back at any moment, right?
Because what has to happen Daniel 70th week has to happen
there has to be you know all this tribulation that goes on there has to be the antichrist getting a deadly wound and
Being healed from that there has to be a temple there has to be sacrifices happening in that temple
The antichrist has to take away those sacrifices has to set up the abomination of desolation
Implement the mark of the beast and then have another 75 days after that and then that will be the rapture
Now some people will say well, you know, well then you could figure it out
But it's like again that's at a certain point that's happening. It's kind of like again
I don't know when the Artemis to launch is gonna be but if it passes all the tests and it has launch window
Well, then we could have a pretty good idea
But as of now no man knows the day or the hour go to Matthew 24, Matthew 24
So I said number two that the Bible teaches that the rapture cannot happen at any moment
There has to be a great falling away
There has to be the man of sin being revealed number three
The Bible says that the rapture happens after the tribulation now. This is just the nail in the coffin
This is just you could close your Bibles and go home and you know, I could have started with this
But I just want to show you the principle. We're always going through persecution as God's people
Here's another fact is the Bible says a lot of things have to happen before the rapture
Here's another really great clue
The Bible literally says that the rapture happens after the tribulation Matthew 24 verse 15
Jesus said when you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation
Spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place who so readeth let him understand notice
This is an event that you're going to see it's gonna be obvious
It's gonna be manifest then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. So he gives a warning
Specifically to people dwelling in one geographic location Judea why because in Jerusalem is going to be the epicenter of the Great Tribulation
Why because that's what the Antichrist is really gonna, you know start his mark of the beast and the Great Tribulation
So he's saying hey if you're in Judea, you need to flee you need to run you need to get to the mountains
You know, don't finish your job that you're doing if you got something in the oven
Don't sit there and worry about just leave get out of there as soon as possible and whoa
Unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days, you know
I could not imagine I've never been in the military. I've never been in any, you know
Insane life-threatening combat or weird situation like that
But I could imagine that that's stressful in an in and of itself
Could you imagine taking care of a pregnant woman a breastfeeding woman having a child with you during that?
He's like woe unto you if you're in that situation
He says but pray that your flight be not in the winter
That would also be horrible if you're running and there's snow and in terrible temperatures neither on the Sabbath day for then
Shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time
No, nor ever shall be let those words sink in because we read Hebrews 11 and you know what Christians have gone through some horrific
Persecution the Catholic Church has literally burned people alive boiled people alive put people to death
You know thousands and tens of thousands Christians being killed today in Africa
There's been a lot of really bad persecution in this world, but this time it makes everything else look like child's play
It's the worst tribulation that has ever existed and that kind of makes sense
Why it's only 70 days long or 75 days long because look what he says in verse 22 and accept those days should be shortened
There should no flesh be saved for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened
So it's just gonna be so horrible
It's gonna be so just intense the level of persecution that if God did not put forth his hand to cut short those days
No flesh would be saved like the whole world would just kill each other like the whole world would just go extinct
It doesn't even say that no Christians would be saved
No flesh would be saved by the way
Just get this stupid idea out of your head that you're gonna somehow survive the tribulation by being a prepper
By buying some land in Idaho or buying yourself an underground bunker
Look, there's no escaping this level of persecution besides God blessing you
So, you know what you should be doing is you should be focusing on serving God
Pleasing God going as hard for the Lord Jesus Christ as you can because you know what by your own strength and might you are
Not gonna be able to defeat the Antichrist and his army
I mean even today in 2026 the technology is so advanced with drones with AI
I mean I I recently saw an AI program that is only being sold to law enforcement and
military that basically takes a picture of anywhere in the world and by any little detail in that picture a tree a shrub a
little piece of a road it could geolocate exactly where that picture was taken and I'm telling you like
You look at the picture. You're like, oh, there's no way it could find this out
It's like in in a corner of a dark restaurant and it finds it it could figure and I'm just telling you will not escape
The Great Tribulation by your guns by your Berkey water filter by your iodine tablets
By any of that stuff and look I'm not against being prepared a prudent man for sees the evil and hides himself
I lived in a place where winters were a survival event in and of itself and you got to prepare for winter
You got to have food water propane stove wood all that stuff. I'm not against that
But what I am against you doing is thinking that you're going to outsmart the Antichrist or out strength his armies
And we're gonna you know create a militia and fight against no, no, no, no
And at that time he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword
Jesus said you're not going to escape by your own strength
You've got to be serving the Lord during that time Matthew 24. Look at verse 29
immediately after
the tribulation of those days shall the Sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and
the powers of the heavens shall be shaken and
then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see
The son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his angels
With a great sound of a trumpet doesn't that sound like first Thessalonians 4 and they shall gather together
His elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other
I mean, this is so clear folks first Thessalonians 4 talks about hey, when are we gathered together with the Lord in the air?
Well, it's when there's a great trumpet when the trumpet of God sounds here
This happens when immediately after the tribulation of those days
The preacher of rapture has absolutely no basis in the Bible whatsoever. It is a man-made doctrine
It is not like well, maybe they might be right. No, they are a hundred percent wrong
The Bible absolutely condemns it the pre-trib rapture is false
Doctrine when pastors get up and say Jesus can come at any moment. They are lying
They are deceiving you and some of them may be deceived themselves
But you know what woe unto a pastor that doesn't study the Bible because how is it that we could figure this out?
How is it that people in their 20s and teens could figure this out?
But you got these old boomer pastors that can't figure it out
It's like read the Bible and you know what any person that teaches false doctrines should be ashamed of themselves and should correct that
And you know what we are corrected by the Bible
We need to change and you know what the old IFB needs to change on this doctrine southern Baptist you non-denominational
non-denominational Christians need to change because the Bible is so clear. How do they get around this?
Well, I'll tell you how I've heard it in person. I heard Sam get preach. This is talking about the Jews
It's just like, you know, you just make up anything you want, but that doesn't just change the reality of what the Bible says
Okay, it's like this is talking about aliens. How about that? It's like you can't just make up whatever you want, man
This is obviously talking about Christians the elect who are the election those that believe in Jesus now
Go if you would Revelation 6 now for sake of time. We didn't read everything in Matthew 24
There's a portion of this end times period known as the beginnings of sorrows where there's wars. There's rumors of wars
There's persecution. There's famines as earthquakes as bad things happening, but that maybe you could call that tribulation
But that is not the great tribulation the great tribulation
Starts at the abomination of desolation and it's unlike anything the world has ever seen in Revelation chapter 6
We have the seven seals of prophecy here of Revelation that is gonna coincide with what we see in Matthew 24
Mark 13 Luke 21
the seal the first seal notice what it says in Revelation 6 1 and I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and I
Heard as it were the noise of thunder
one of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw on behold a white horse and he that sat on him had
A bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer
So what is this referring to? I believe it's referring to the Antichrist
establishing his world dominance
Going forth and taking over the world politically and through warfare now
Are we going to know for sure when this is happening?
You're not gonna know anything for sure until the abomination of desolation
Why because there's been things in history that are kind of like this
Nebuchadnezzar ruled over a huge portion of the world
There's been Roman emperors that have risen up over huge portions of the world Adolf Hitler
I mean a lot of people and he's just like all right taking over France taking over Austria taking over
You know the Czech Republic which it was Czechoslovakia then taking over
You know Poland all these places and just like keeps going keeps going and people like what's going is this guy?
You know conquering the world here
Is this the first seal you could see how people could think that and it could even potentially happen in the future
Where there's another huge world war and it's not the last world war. Maybe there's another one after that who knows
Seal to look at verse 3 when he had opened a second seal. I heard the second beast say come and see and there went out
Another horse that was read and power was given to him that sat there on to take peace from the earth
And that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword. So what is this?
This is worldwide warfare huge huge war, which is why I said, hey, you know with what's going on right now
We don't necessarily know what's happening and anything could potentially be on the table
Is there some you know shadow figure that's starting to rise and it's starting to gain
Hegemony over the world's powers. Could that be happening in the background? It could be happening
Could we you know potentially go to a worldwide war, you know, it could happen. I'm pretty optimistic
I don't really think it's very likely but it's like when you bomb Iran when you take out there, you know leader
Could China want to join in on that could other nations want to join in on that? It's possible not trying to scare you
I'm pretty optimistic. I'm just saying it's possible seal three verse five and when he had opened the third seal
I heard the third beast say come and see and I beheld in low black horse and he that sat on him had a pair
of balances in his hand and I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say a
Measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine
what's the third seal is basically just worldwide economic collapse and just all of a sudden hyper
Inflation the purchasing power of your money is going way down to where basically a penny in the Bible represents like a day's wage
Imagine spending a whole day's work a worth of labor for just a measure of wheat
You know if you have a family to provide for you would not even be able to feed your family
With a measure of wheat for one day for one days of labor again
Would we necessarily know like this is the event no because there's been hyper inflation in this world before
There's been a huge devaluing of currency in the 1920s and 1930s in the great depression
And it wasn't limited to America. It was Germany in the Weimar Republic. It was parts of Europe having just worldwide
Economic issues, but during this time there'll be worldwide economic issues
I'm not a hundred percent convinced though that even America will necessarily suffer that much through it
Because if the United States is in times Babylon the Bible makes it pretty clear that Babylon is prospering thriving
Living deliciously being prideful up until the very day that it's destroyed
So, you know, I guess thank God that we're born in America because we might be okay during that time look at
Verse number seven. Yeah seal for verse number seven when he had opened the fourth seal
I heard the voice of the fourth beasts say come and see and I looked and behold a pale horse and his name that
Sat on him was death and hell
Followed with him and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with hunger and with
death and with the beasts of your you know, you got to think when World War is happening when
Devaluation of currency is happening and people can't eat, you know
The world is just gonna be in an unprecedented level of chaos then there's just gonna be tons of violence tons of starvation
Dying from warfare dying from disease dying from all sorts of stuff. And again, have we seen something like this before?
Yeah, it was called World War two where literally tens of millions of people died in World War two
Hey, that's just horrific. But it's like this event will be even worse
Just unprecedented levels of death and hell following with him
Why because most people are unsaved and you know during this time where so many people are dying, you know
It's like hell have enlarged herself. Hell is just being filled with the souls of unsaved
You know, it's gonna be a horrific time by the way
Don't glorify war because war is a horrific thing and war is not something to be celebrated or glorified
Yes, there are you know instances in the Bible of righteous wars and defending yourself
I'm all for that
But you know, we ought to be careful not to sit here and glorify war because you know what happens with war
Millions of people going to hell, you know
I'd rather you know go to other countries and bring them the gospel then go to other countries and bring them death and hell
And bombs and it's like yeah people make funny memes, but it's like, you know
It's not funny those hell burning in hell sending people to hell people dying children dying, you know
There's gonna be children dying in Iran this this week. That's not cool
That's not okay is like do I care about the ayatollah? No, may he rot in hell for all of eternity. He's a false prophet
He's a propagator of the Islamic religion. He's brought in all sorts of horrific things to this world. May that guy rot in hell
I don't care that he died. Hey, praise God that that loser died. But of course, you know what?
I still worry about innocent children in Iran
I still worry about innocent children in Palestine and in all these places and innocent American service members
You know, I don't want those people to be killed and there already has been American service members killed yesterday in this operation
I'm not excited about that. You know, it's so funny the the Baptist the old IV Baptist
They don't want to get excited about Bible doctrine. They don't want to talk about the tribulation
But boy do they get excited when bombs start dropping in the Middle East. Oh, then it's it's you know, American flag Sunday
Then we're gonna be clapping for our military operations
You know, that's wicked because with death comes hell and if there's anyone that should care about people going to hell shouldn't be Baptist
Shouldn't be soul winners shouldn't be Christians seal 5 look at verse 9 and we need open the fifth seal
I saw under the altar notice the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God and for the testimony
Which they held sounds like tribulation
Sounds like they were killed for being Christians and they cried with a loud voice saying how long Oh Lord
Holy and true dust down not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth
So notice everything that's happened so far that was not God pouring out his wrath. That was not God's judgment
That was the wrath of man
That was the wrath of the devil if you will or the wrath of the antichrist
But the people that were martyred that were killed they're saying God why aren't you judging it?
Why aren't you pouring out your wrath yet?
Don't you see what's happening on the earth and white robes were given unto every one of them and it was said unto them that
They should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also in their brethren that should be killed as they were
Should be fulfilled. So notice there's still more
Christians to be killed at this time that are going to be killed that are going to be martyred
Seal 6 verse 12 and I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake and the Sun
Became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became blood
Doesn't that sound like Matthew 24 that the Sun and moon are darkened before the rapture and the stars of heaven
Fell unto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs
When she is shaken of a mighty wind and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together in every mountain and island
were moved out of their places and the kings of the earth and the great men and the writ men and the chief captains and
the mighty men and every bond man and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and
Said to the rocks and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him
That sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb notice for the great day of his wrath is
Come and who shall be able to stand so notice all that
Tribulation all those first five seals that have happening was not God's wrath
It was the wrath of the Antichrist
But now with the sixth seal being broken these people are saying oh the day of his wrath is come
Meaning it's starting right now now. This is important because if you will keep your place in Revelation go to Luke 17
Jesus gave us examples of cataclysmic vents in the Old Testament that mirror what the day of the Lord is going to be like
He talked about Noah in the flood
He talked about Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah notice what Luke 17 verse 26 says
It says in verse 26 and as it was in the days of Noah
So shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man they did eat they drank they married wives
They were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all
Right. So when the wrath of God was poured out in Genesis during the worldwide flood
People are doing normal things still until that day exists, right? So here's the thing the the seals that we already went over
Yes, there's World War. Yes. There's death. Yes, there's destruction, but it's not like it's killing 100% of human beings on earth
There's still gonna be people getting married. There's still gonna be people living their lives. Just like during World War two huge
It's affecting the world, but people are still getting married people are still doing their thing
But all of a sudden there's great wrath that comes out at that same day
Notice same thing in verse 29, but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom
It rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all even thus shall it be in the day
When the son of man is revealed. So what happens no one is family they get into the ark
They're safe as soon as they're safe. The waters come and the earth floods Lot was saved righteous
Lot the Bible says as soon as Lot is dragged out of the city by the angels boy
That sounds like a picture of the rapture, right?
Lots dragged out of the city by the angels and as soon as lot gets drug out what happens fire and brimstone on the earth
Just like at the day of the Lord God's people meet the Lord in the air
He gathers together his elect from the four winds from the four corners of the earth and as soon as we're out of the picture
God pours out his wrath on that very same day
So with that go to Revelation 7 Revelation 7. What are we reading about this this sick seal here?
Look what it says in verse number 9 Revelation 7 9 after this I be held and lo a
great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues
Stood before the throne and before the lamb clothed with white robes and palms in their hand all of a sudden
There's just this huge population increase just immediately in heaven where there's just an innumerable multitude
No one can even count it of all nations kindreds tongues. Where did all these people come from?
Here's where it came from it came from the rapture. They got raptured
Let's keep reading verse 10 and cried with a loud voice saying salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and unto the land
And all the angels stood round about the throne and about the elders and the four beasts and fell before the throne on their
Faces and worshiped God saying amen
Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be unto our God forever and ever amen
And one of the elders answered saying unto me
What are these which are arrayed in white robes and whence came thee one of the 24 elders say hey?
Where where did all these people come from where did this huge innumerable multitude come from verse 14?
And I said unto him sir thou knowest and he said to me these are they which came out of great
Tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb
I mean this meets the timeline perfectly it matches Daniel 12 it matches Matthew 24
It matches 1st Thessalonians 5 it matches 2nd Thessalonians 2 it matches Luke 21
It matches mark 6 or 13. What do we see we see the abomination of desolation set up
We see great tribulation
We see the rapture and God's people are taken up and on that same day
We see God's wrath begin to be poured out last point go to 1st Thessalonians 5
The Bible teaches that God's people will not experience the wrath of God, right?
So the rapture happens after the tribulation. We will go through tribulation. Jesus told us we'll go through tribulation
Jesus told us there's things that have to happen first before the rapture
The Bible says that the rapture happens after the tribulation, but the Bible teaches that God's people will not experience the wrath of God
First Thessalonians 5 8 but let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breastplate of faith and love
Infern helmet the hope of salvation for God hath not appointed us to wrath
But to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ pre trippers will reject the post-trib rapture
They'll say hey God's people are not going through the tribulation because we're not appointed to wrath
It's like you're not using those terms appropriately no one said that we're going through the wrath of God
We don't believe that we're going through the wrath of God that would be a heresy to say hey
We are gonna experience the wrath of God no no the Bible says that we are not appointed unto wrath
And so these people just don't take the time to try to understand our position
They just want a straw man everything that we say away and just say well
We're we're not appointed to wrath so your view can't be right. Hey idiot. I never said we were going through wrath
I said we were going through tribulation and by the way, I didn't say that Jesus said that the Apostle Paul said that
Revelation said that the Apostle John said that you know, the Bible says yeah, we're not going through the wrath of God to that
I say amen
We're not going through the wrath of God
We'll never experience a single moment in hell and we'll never experience any of the vials of God's wrath or any of the trumpets
Of God's wrath go to Revelation 8 you have the tribulation the seals. We already went through that. What is the tribulation?
It's the wrath of the Antichrist
There's nothing supernatural about the tribulation
It is just the Antichrist causing hell on this earth if you will, but the wrath of God is way
different way different and in Revelation the wrath of God is described as vials being poured out and
Trumpets being blown we don't have time to go through both of those this morning
But let's just quickly look at some of the vials in Revelation 8 or I'm sorry trumpets
Yeah, in Revelation 8 verse 6 notice what it says in the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound the first angel
sounded and there followed hail and fire mingled with the blood and they were cast upon the earth and
The third part of trees was burned up and all green grass was burned up
This is way different than worldwide warfare then tribulation and persecution famine hyperinflation
Earthquakes. I mean, could you imagine we've seen some hail in Oklahoma?
Oklahoma gets some hail and it even just the natural hail we experience here can kill cattle can destroy homes can destroy
You know vehicles it could be cataclysmic in its own in its own way, you know hail but imagine hail
That's mingled with blood just imagine that you're seeing outside and just like blood is everywhere
From these balls of ice and then to make it worse to really screw with your mind these balls of ice
These bloody balls of ice are also on fire. It's mingled with fire
It's like that just defies the laws of physics. Why because this is supernatural
This is the wrath of God, you know, we've already been raptured and that's why in heaven
They're like how long Oh Lord, do you not judge those that are on the earth?
Then it's like okay
Now the great Davis wrath has come and that's why people are saying like whoa hide us from the wrath of the lamb
They're hiding in caves in dens whether they're rich men kings of the earth
It doesn't matter everyone's terrified of God at this time because when you see balls of ice on fire that are bloody falling from
The sky that'll put the fear of God into you real fast
And that's not it look at verse 8 and the second angel sounded and as it were a great mountain
Burning with fire was cast into the sea and the third part of the sea became blood
It's like is this an asteroid is this a mountain being plucked up?
I don't know, but that sounds terrifying. You know some people have a phobia
I don't know what it's called, but it's like a phobia of things that are huge. Does anyone know what that is called grand?
Oh phobia. I don't know, but it's it's a thing okay
But could you imagine you're just like on the beach and just like as far as your eyes can see this is like?
Giant mountain just comes into the sea and just destroy look it says that
Let's see
And a third part of the sea became blood that's terrifying and a third part of the creatures
Which were in the sea and had life died and the third part of the ships were destroyed and the third angel sounded and there fell
A great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains
of waters and the name of the stars called wormwood and the third part of the waters became wormwood and
Many men died of the waters because they were made bitter and the fourth angel sounded and the third part of the Sun
was smitten and the third part of the moon and the third part of the stars so as the third part of them was darkened in
The day shown not for a third part of it and the night likewise
This is supernatural
Do you imagine all of a sudden just a third part of our daylight hours are just gone and I beheld and heard an angel
Flying through the midst of heaven saying with a loud voice. Whoa. Whoa
Whoa to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels
Which are yet to sound I mean this already sounds horrible. I mean, this is a lot of wrath
This is enough to scare and just intimidate any person on earth. He's like, hey, you haven't seen anything yet
Whoa, yeah triple whoa unto you for the rest of the angels that have yet to sound and we're not even talking about the vials yet
I mean, that's just crazy the amount of wrath and you know what?
Thank God Christians will never experience this if you put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
What you are reading right now, you will never experience this, you know
We're gonna be we're gonna be in heaven cheering on the Lord Jesus Christ
Because you know what every even every liberal watered-down Christian that says no don't judge don't hate everyone
You know in heaven you're gonna have a righteous mind
You're gonna think just like God thinks and you know what?
We're all gonna be cheering on the Lord Jesus Christ together. We're gonna say yeah
You're just to judge the earth and it's like, you know, maybe the Epstein files aren't getting judged right now
But when mountains start being thrown on his island, it's just gonna be like, alright
Thank you Lord for avenging us of his blood of all the persecution that's been happening go to Matthew chapter 24
You know, I think we've proved really clearly that the pre-trib rapture is not biblical. It is not a serious argument
It's a joke of a false doctrine. There's no legit legitimacy in it whatsoever
the Bible very clearly teaches that we are going to be raptured after the tribulation and before God's wrath and
You know, I encourage you to study these things and not just hear a sermon on this and say like oh, yeah
I agree with that
You know you ought to be able to explain to someone why you believe this stuff and show people from the Bible
Why you believe this stuff because we don't want to be guilty of what previous generations have done where it's like well
I heard it in the column of the Schofield reference Bible. Well, my Bible college told me well
My pastor told me my preacher told me it's like what does the Bible say?
Let's get it from the Word of God and we need to be preparing for this event
Look at Matthew 24 verse 42 watch therefore for you know
Not what hour your Lord doth come but know this that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief
Would come he would have watched it would not have suffered his house to be broken up
Therefore be he also ready for in such an hour as he think not the son of man cometh who then is a faithful and wise
Servant whom his Lord hath made ruler over all his over his household to give them meat in due season
Lest it is that servant whom is Lord when he cometh shall find so doing we need to be watchful as Christians
We need to be paying attention. We need to be reading the Bible
We need to be viewing the signs of the times that we're in
Why because you don't want to get to this period if it is in our lifetime if in our lifetime
We experience the great tribulation. You don't want to get to that time period and then be offended
you don't want to get to the great tribulation and
Then find out about the great tribulation and all of a sudden just having to mentally prepare yourself. Whoa, we're gonna go through this
No, no, we need to know now because you know what how you act in the green tree can affect how you act in the dry
I mean if you can't serve God in the green tree if you can't contend with footmen
How are you gonna contend with horses?
You can't be three to thrive in
2026 America when we're safe and prosperous and wealthy and we have all this greatness in our land
It's like you can't serve God now
Don't kid yourself into thinking that you will serve God in the tribulation you will not and you know what?
Let's not even think too highly of ourselves because there's even people that are three to thrive right now that because of that time because that
Time is so intense will fall away and you know what I hope to God that isn't me
I want to prepare myself now. I want to strengthen myself spiritually now
I want to get deep roots in God's Word and and serve God with all my might now
So that if I'm asked to stand at that day that'll have the boldness and courage to stand
We need to get ready for this. We need to watch for this and not just like oh man
I had no idea that the tribulation is gonna happen
No, we want to be able to stand in that day and you know if God asks us to endure
Persecution tribulation distress nakedness peril sword
You know what be thou faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life
That's the attitude that we should have is to say hey
You know would I prefer for me to grow old for my kids to grow old for their children to grow old would I prefer?
That you know in the flesh. I would prefer that but you know what even so come Lord Jesus
The will of the Lord be done and you know what I'm gonna prepare as if it could happen in my lifetime because quite honestly
It could I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other
But you know what I know what the Bible says I know that it could and I want to be ready for it
I want you to be ready for it. Let's pray Lord
Thank you so much for your word and the warnings that you give us about this time period
I pray that this country would just wake up to the truth about the rapture that
Pastors would study their Bible and no longer teach lies that the rapture could happen at any moment
I pray that you'd help us to spiritually strengthen ourselves to be able to stand during this difficult time
And I pray that you just give us grace in Jesus name we pray amen