WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.560 And he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John, who bare record of the word of God, 00:04.560 --> 00:09.120 and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, 00:09.120 --> 00:12.720 and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein, 00:12.720 --> 00:18.320 for the time is at hand. John to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace be to you in peace from 00:18.320 --> 00:22.240 him which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seven spirits which are before his 00:22.240 --> 00:26.400 throne, and from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, 00:26.400 --> 00:30.640 and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his 00:30.640 --> 00:35.360 own blood, and have made us kings and priests unto God and his father. To him be glory and dominion 00:35.360 --> 00:41.200 forever and ever. Amen. Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also which 00:41.200 --> 00:47.440 pierced him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, amen. I am Alpha and 00:47.440 --> 00:51.920 Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, 00:52.000 --> 00:57.200 the Almighty. I John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom 00:57.200 --> 01:01.120 and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the 01:01.120 --> 01:05.840 testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice 01:05.840 --> 01:11.680 as of a trumpet saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, and what thou seest, 01:11.680 --> 01:15.840 write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia, unto Ephesus, and unto 01:15.840 --> 01:21.280 Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. 01:21.920 --> 01:27.040 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me, and being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks, 01:27.040 --> 01:31.360 and in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment 01:31.360 --> 01:36.400 down to the foot, and gird about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white 01:36.400 --> 01:42.240 like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet like unto fine brass, 01:42.240 --> 01:47.360 as if they burned in a furnace, and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right 01:47.440 --> 01:52.720 hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was 01:52.720 --> 01:58.960 as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, and he laid his 01:58.960 --> 02:04.240 right hand upon me, saying unto me, fear not, I am the first and the last, I am he that liveth and was 02:04.240 --> 02:10.240 dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, amen, and of the keys of hell and of death. Write the things 02:10.240 --> 02:14.720 which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. The mystery 02:14.720 --> 02:19.520 of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven 02:19.520 --> 02:23.840 stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the 02:23.840 --> 02:28.880 seven churches. Let's pray. Dear Lord God, I thank you for this opportunity to be in your house. 02:28.880 --> 02:33.040 We ask that you would fill our pastor with the Holy Spirit now as he preaches, and pray that you 02:33.040 --> 02:36.880 would use the preaching to our edification, and help us to be better Christians, in the 02:36.880 --> 02:37.680 Jesus name we pray, amen. 02:46.000 --> 02:50.160 We are in the book of Revelation this morning, and the title of my sermon this morning is Getting 02:50.160 --> 02:55.920 Revelation Right. Getting Revelation Right. This morning I want to preach on the subject of end 02:55.920 --> 03:01.680 times prophecy, and what is the proper end times position to have. Now you are in Revelation 03:01.680 --> 03:05.280 chapter one. Let's go to Revelation chapter 20, if you would. We're going to come back to Revelation 03:05.280 --> 03:11.600 chapter one later on. Let's go to Revelation chapter 20. You know a lot of people today are 03:11.600 --> 03:16.000 excited about end times prophecy. They're looking at what's going on in the news. They look at 03:16.000 --> 03:22.640 current events, and they look at certain subjects that have caught a lot of momentum, such as 03:22.640 --> 03:28.080 replacement theology, such as the subject of the Jews, and it causes them to really think about 03:28.080 --> 03:32.080 what is the end times going to look like. And unfortunately there's so much out there on the 03:32.160 --> 03:37.920 internet that's just wrong. There's so much false doctrine. There's so much heresy that is tied to 03:37.920 --> 03:42.800 the right doctrine that a lot of good Christians end up getting carried away, carried about with 03:42.800 --> 03:49.280 every wind of doctrine, heresy, bad interpretation of the book of Revelation. And this morning I just 03:49.280 --> 03:54.080 want to give you a proper understanding of this book. Now you're in Revelation chapter 20. Let's 03:54.080 --> 03:55.840 read verse number one here. It says, 04:02.080 --> 04:15.920 Now in general, when we are combating those on the other side when it comes to end times prophecy, 04:15.920 --> 04:20.560 we're typically fighting the pre-trib rapture crowd, right? Those who believe that the rapture 04:20.560 --> 04:26.480 will take place before the tribulation. It's going to be a secret rapture. No one's going to see him 04:26.480 --> 04:33.920 coming. It's closely tied to Zionism. It's closely tied to the land of Israel. And that is a very 04:33.920 --> 04:39.360 much battle that needs to be fought. But let me just say this. The majority of Christians actually 04:39.360 --> 04:45.200 are wrong about a secondary issue. And that is the timing of the rapture in relation to the millennial 04:45.200 --> 04:50.400 reign of Jesus Christ. Okay. And this is why we are in Revelation chapter 20 at this point, 04:50.960 --> 04:57.360 because of the fact that this is where we find the quintessential description of the millennial reign 04:57.360 --> 05:00.880 and specifically the fact that it's called the thousand year reign of Christ. 05:01.680 --> 05:06.880 Now you say, what's the issue there? Well, in Christianity, there is essentially three positions 05:06.880 --> 05:12.400 when it comes to end times prophecy. That is the, those who believe in all millennialism, 05:12.400 --> 05:18.880 post-millennialism and pre-millennialism. Okay. The all millennialist crowd will assert that the 05:18.880 --> 05:23.600 thousand year reign that's addressed here in Revelation chapter 20 is purely symbolic. 05:24.160 --> 05:30.720 Meaning there is a no thousand year reign of Jesus Christ. We are currently in a thousand year 05:30.720 --> 05:36.160 reign, so to speak. It's all symbolic. It's not literally a thousand years and Christ will one day 05:36.160 --> 05:43.200 return, but it's not necessarily to establish what the Bible refers to as a thousand year reign of 05:43.200 --> 05:47.680 Christ. That is the all millennialist view. And there are many Christians that actually hold to 05:47.680 --> 05:51.840 this position. And in fact, unfortunately, you know, even a lot of Catholics hold to that position 05:51.840 --> 05:57.280 as well. So whoever is saved out there who believes in this position, you guys agree with Catholics. 05:57.280 --> 06:03.440 Okay. Secondly is the post-millennialist view. Now the post-millennialist view is essentially 06:03.440 --> 06:10.320 the belief that Jesus Christ will return after worldwide spread of the gospel has been accomplished 06:10.320 --> 06:17.200 now that the world has become Christianized. Okay. You know, Christians have permeated all of society, 06:17.200 --> 06:22.080 not just through the gospel, but even through political means. Okay. Every nation becomes 06:22.080 --> 06:27.440 Christianized. They've received the gospel. You know, Christians essentially permeate all of the 06:27.440 --> 06:32.800 world. At that point, Jesus Christ returns. And I'm explaining to you why that's an extremely 06:32.800 --> 06:38.640 dangerous doctrine according to what we actually see in the Bible. Okay. The post-millennialist view 06:38.640 --> 06:44.320 is very similar to the all millennialist view. The difference being is that post-millennialists are 06:44.320 --> 06:49.920 more optimistic about the end, meaning that things are going to progressively get better 06:49.920 --> 06:55.920 as the time goes by. More people are going to be saved. More people are going to be Christianized. 06:55.920 --> 07:02.720 More nations will adhere to the Bible and to, you know, Jesus Christ, the word of God, the gospel, 07:02.720 --> 07:07.920 and so forth. And then it'll essentially climax to the point where Christ returns and then begins 07:07.920 --> 07:12.800 to reign thereafter. And again, they don't necessarily view the millennial reign as being 07:12.800 --> 07:20.480 literal. They more so view it as being symbolic of a reign of Christ that comes after the world 07:20.480 --> 07:24.800 has been Christianized. Then you have the pre-millennialist view. And we are a 07:24.800 --> 07:30.800 pre-millennial church. Okay. Now don't misunderstand what I just said because automatically people hear 07:30.800 --> 07:34.960 pre and all of a sudden it's like, well, that's bad, except when it comes to pre-workout. Amen. 07:34.960 --> 07:40.720 But like pre, they automatically think, oh, pre-tribulation. You must believe in a 07:40.720 --> 07:45.680 pre-tribulation rapture. And the answer is a resounding no. We do not believe in a pre-tribulation 07:45.680 --> 07:52.480 rapture. We do believe that the return of Christ, the second coming of Christ is before the millennial 07:52.480 --> 08:00.400 reign though. Okay. That is what a pre-millennialist is. And so we believe in a post-trib pre-wrath 08:00.400 --> 08:06.640 rapture. The pre-tribulation crowd believes in a pre-tribulation rapture, but both of these camps 08:06.720 --> 08:12.480 fall into the same category of being pre-millennial because we both agree that it happens before the 08:12.480 --> 08:17.680 millennial reign of Jesus Christ. Okay. We do not agree with the post-millennialist or the 08:17.680 --> 08:21.760 amillennialist because the amillennialist essentially view the thousand year reign as being 08:21.760 --> 08:27.680 purely symbolic, even though it says literally a thousand years. Let me just say this. Anytime you 08:27.680 --> 08:32.640 ask them, what is a thousand years symbolic of? They're like, well, this is just symbolic. 08:32.640 --> 08:37.600 What's the point of even mentioning a thousand years was just symbolic of a reign, but why 08:37.600 --> 08:41.760 specifically say a thousand years? I'll tell you why, because it's literally a thousand years. 08:41.760 --> 08:46.160 Okay. And obviously we know that when we read the book of revelation, there is a lot of 08:46.160 --> 08:53.280 symbology behind it, right? There's a lot of analogies that are being used, symbolic representation, 08:53.280 --> 08:56.800 and it just requires a little bit of common sense to tell which one is symbolic and which one is 08:57.760 --> 09:05.040 not. When you have the woman standing on the sun, symbolic. Okay. But when the Bible talks about 09:05.040 --> 09:10.960 a thousand year reign, not symbolic, that is a very specific number that the Bible is giving us here. 09:10.960 --> 09:16.080 And God requires for us to have somewhat some common sense in order to determine the difference 09:16.080 --> 09:20.480 between the two. So the amillennialists again, believe that the thousand year reign is symbolic. 09:20.480 --> 09:25.280 The post-millennialists also believe that it's symbolic, but that the world would become 09:25.280 --> 09:32.080 progressively more Christian and then Christ will return. Now, why is the post-millennialists view 09:32.080 --> 09:37.440 dangerous according to anti-Christ prophecy? Well, because according to the Bible, the Bible teaches 09:37.440 --> 09:41.120 that the world will not become increasingly more Christian. It's actually going to become 09:41.120 --> 09:48.240 increasingly more wicked and godless. And it's actually going to climax to what the Bible, 09:48.240 --> 09:54.160 what we would refer to as the new world order, meaning that once the world begins to worship 09:54.160 --> 09:59.280 the beast, you have a one world government, one world financial system and one world religion. 09:59.280 --> 10:05.360 Everyone agrees about this one man. You understand what I'm saying? At that point, you have the 10:05.360 --> 10:13.120 kingdom of the anti-Christ. So if post-millennialists are awaiting a world where everyone agrees with 10:13.120 --> 10:18.160 one another, where everything is quote unquote Christianized, well, then you can see how this 10:18.160 --> 10:23.360 pseudo religion that the anti-Christ is going to propose is going to deceive many. And here's the 10:23.360 --> 10:28.160 thing, folks, is that the Bible says that evil ministers shall wax worse and worse. 10:28.880 --> 10:32.720 My one doesn't say that things are going to get better. And I hate to break it to you. 10:32.720 --> 10:37.920 Politics are not going to help this world. Political views are not going to help this world. 10:37.920 --> 10:45.520 Wars will continue. Sin will continue. Godlessness and wickedness will abound. The love of many shall 10:45.520 --> 10:50.080 wax cold, the Bible says. The Bible doesn't teach that things are going to get progressively better. 10:50.080 --> 10:54.880 And we're not necessarily, you know, it's not that we're not optimistic. Obviously, 10:54.880 --> 10:59.840 we're optimistic in the sense that we know that Christ will return. The gospel is effective. 10:59.840 --> 11:04.800 People will get saved. But doesn't the Bible say that broad is the way that lead it to destruction 11:04.800 --> 11:10.720 and many there be which go in there at that seems to indicate that the Bible teaches that more people 11:10.720 --> 11:18.240 will be in hell than those who will be in heaven. Right. Why? Because of the fact that deception will 11:18.240 --> 11:23.280 abound. And yes, only few people will be saved. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't go on and 11:23.280 --> 11:27.680 preach the gospel. This doesn't mean we should have a fatalistic attitude towards the end, 11:27.680 --> 11:32.240 because at the end of the day, we know we can get a lot of people saved. The gospel can be preached. 11:32.240 --> 11:37.280 Reform can be made spiritually speaking. But to assert that, oh, things are just going to get 11:37.280 --> 11:41.840 better as the time goes by. It's completely false. Now, look, obviously throughout history, 11:41.840 --> 11:47.360 you have the ebb and flow. You'll have revival taking place, right? You'll have a moral 11:47.360 --> 11:51.600 reformation often taking place. However, when you look at the book of Revelation, 11:51.600 --> 11:58.080 it's very clear that things will get worse. Okay. And so we should not have a post millennialist 11:58.080 --> 12:07.280 view because it is a fairy tale. It is a, you know, it's an it's not a position that is realistic 12:07.280 --> 12:12.240 in accordance to the Bible. The Bible teaches us that Christians will be killed in the end times, 12:12.320 --> 12:17.840 that there is a literal antichrist that will rule the world. Furthermore is the post millennialist 12:17.840 --> 12:24.240 view along with the all millennialist view often have within those camps known as preterists. 12:24.240 --> 12:31.120 Okay. And preterism is the belief that most, if not all end times prophecy has already been fulfilled. 12:31.920 --> 12:36.080 Now, this is a broad spectrum when it comes to this position, because not everyone agrees even 12:36.080 --> 12:42.000 within those camps. But in general, they believe that the end times prophetic statements made in 12:42.000 --> 12:48.080 the book of Daniel, for example, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, that all of these have already been 12:48.080 --> 12:53.600 fulfilled. The only one that's not been fulfilled is the second coming of Christ. So they all 12:53.600 --> 12:58.960 generally agree that there is a second coming of Christ where they disagree is where that second 12:58.960 --> 13:03.680 coming of Christ actually is. And so the all millennialist view in the post millennialists, 13:03.680 --> 13:08.720 they don't believe in invisible rapture. Okay. They believe in the second coming of Christ, 13:08.720 --> 13:12.640 but they don't believe in a rapture. Not to us. It's like, what? Those are one in the same. 13:13.360 --> 13:18.480 Isn't that the same thing? Well, not to them. Because when we look at the Bible in first 13:18.480 --> 13:22.640 Thessalonians chapter four, we obviously know that the rapture is referring to a catching away, 13:22.640 --> 13:28.880 right? It's referring to the fact that the resurrection is essentially when Jesus Christ 13:28.880 --> 13:34.800 captures believers, takes them to heaven in a glorified state. We remain in heaven for those 13:34.800 --> 13:39.280 three and a half years. And then we return for the millennial reign of Jesus Christ in revelation 13:39.280 --> 13:44.000 chapter 20. Whereas the post millennialists and the all millennialists just deny the rapture 13:44.000 --> 13:49.760 altogether. They don't believe that's true at all. Okay. But it is true because it's actually found 13:49.760 --> 13:56.000 in the Bible. There's very explicit descriptions about the rapture. And here's their biggest gotcha 13:56.000 --> 14:01.280 moment when it comes to the rapture. Where's the word rapture in the Bible, right? And it's just 14:01.280 --> 14:05.600 like, well, if you're a Trinitarian, which we're Trinitarians, Trinity's not in the Bible, 14:05.600 --> 14:10.400 but the concept of the Trinity is, guess what? The word Bible's not even in the Bible, 14:11.280 --> 14:17.200 but you believe in it. There's nothing wrong with using terms to describe biblical concepts and 14:17.200 --> 14:22.240 doctrines, the rapture being one of them. Okay. And where do we get the term rapture from? Well, 14:22.240 --> 14:28.720 the Bible talks about being caught up, being captured, being taken away. This is essentially 14:29.280 --> 14:35.600 the imagery that we get as a bird of prey captures its prey and takes them in like manner. Jesus 14:35.600 --> 14:40.480 Christ will do the same. You know, one shall be taken and the other left. Where shall they be 14:40.480 --> 14:44.080 gathered? You know, where the body is, that's where the Eagles will be gathered together. The 14:44.080 --> 14:49.200 Bible says it's essentially given us this imagery of being captured like prey. And so that's important 14:49.200 --> 14:53.280 to know. So we are a premillennialist church. Let me give you a couple of points here regarding 14:54.000 --> 14:59.200 our premillennialist view and getting revelation right. First and foremost, let me start by saying 14:59.200 --> 15:07.200 that revelation is in chronological order. Now that's really important. Okay. Why? Because one 15:07.200 --> 15:12.080 of the strong points, which to us would be a weak point of these all millennialists and 15:12.080 --> 15:17.680 post-millennialists is that they say, well, you know, the book of revelation is not a chronological 15:17.680 --> 15:22.880 order. They're simply highlighting different events and it's kind of out of order. It's a 15:22.880 --> 15:29.760 little mixed up. And so, you know, that doesn't necessarily, uh, you know, improve your position. 15:29.760 --> 15:35.120 We just have to read revelation as just a smorgasbord of information. But the reason they 15:35.120 --> 15:39.840 have to say that is because of the fact that when you read revelation in chronological order, 15:40.480 --> 15:46.000 you obviously see that the rapture takes place after the tribulation and that Jesus Christ 15:46.000 --> 15:52.240 returns prior to the millennial reign. Now let's read here, look at verse number three again. 15:52.320 --> 15:56.560 It says, and he cast them into the bottomless pit and shut them up and set a seal upon him 15:56.560 --> 16:01.680 that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled. 16:01.680 --> 16:07.200 After that, he must be loosed for loose, the little season. And I saw thrones and they sat 16:07.200 --> 16:12.480 all then upon them and judgment was given unto them. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded 16:12.480 --> 16:17.680 for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and which had not worshiped the beast, neither 16:17.680 --> 16:22.560 his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived 16:22.560 --> 16:26.640 and reigned with Christ a thousand years. And I want you to notice verse number five here. 16:26.640 --> 16:30.880 It says, but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. 16:31.440 --> 16:38.320 This is, listen to this, the first resurrection. Now numbers are important. 16:39.360 --> 16:42.720 Thousand year rain. You know what that means? It means it's a thousand years, literally. 16:43.440 --> 16:47.360 What's the significance of the first resurrection? The implication is that there's a second 16:48.640 --> 16:52.960 if there was no other resurrection thereafter, there's no need to call it a first resurrection. 16:52.960 --> 16:59.280 Everyone understand? If he's specifically identifying a resurrection that comes first, 16:59.280 --> 17:03.120 the implication there is that there's one that's coming that's second as well. And let me explain 17:03.120 --> 17:07.120 something to you. When it comes to the book of revelation, there is a second resurrection 17:07.120 --> 17:12.240 after the millennial reign of Jesus Christ. You say, well then, you know, how do 17:12.240 --> 17:18.480 post-millennialists interpret this to be? Well, again, they believe that once the world has 17:18.480 --> 17:24.960 become Christianized, there will be a little season, which is what they get from the latter 17:24.960 --> 17:29.920 end of verse number three, where Satan is loose for a little season. Cause keep in mind the 17:29.920 --> 17:37.200 post-millennialist view interprets history as Satan being bound right now, which is a ridiculous 17:37.200 --> 17:45.680 thing to believe. To assert that Satan is currently bound right now is absolutely absurd in insanity 17:45.680 --> 17:52.000 and you're living in the clouds. This is a, that's a fairy tale to, to, to look at the world around 17:52.000 --> 17:59.280 you and all the godlessness, everything that is just so wicked, it's gay, it's just false religion 17:59.280 --> 18:03.760 all around us that permeates people are being deceived left and right. And to think that Satan 18:03.760 --> 18:10.640 is bound when he's the one responsible for all this, it's absurd. It's ludicrous. The Bible says 18:10.640 --> 18:13.920 that Satan is the God of this world who had blinded the minds of them, which believed not, 18:13.920 --> 18:17.760 lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine unto them. 18:17.760 --> 18:21.440 You know what that means? It means that the reason why there's people out there who are not saved 18:21.440 --> 18:27.200 is because Satan has blinded them. If Satan is bound, we should have everyone just getting saved 18:27.200 --> 18:32.400 left and right. You know why they're not getting saved left and right? Because the God of this world 18:32.480 --> 18:37.920 have blinded the minds of them, which believe not folks. The Bible literally says that Satan 18:37.920 --> 18:45.280 as a roaring lion walk at the bow, seeking whom he may devour. How does that equate to being bound? 18:46.640 --> 18:49.840 If Satan is bound, why is there so much false religion abounding? 18:51.360 --> 18:56.960 You know, if Satan is bound, then why, you know, does Judaism exist? 18:57.120 --> 19:06.160 Why is Islam still around? Why is there even an Epstein Island? If Satan is bound, it's nonsense 19:06.160 --> 19:10.320 to have this position is like, well, he's bound right now. And so that's why the gospel is able 19:10.320 --> 19:16.800 to get out false. There is plenty of scriptures in the New Testament that assert that Satan is 19:16.800 --> 19:24.240 still roaming now. The Bible talks about not being ignorant of his devices. The Bible talks about 19:24.240 --> 19:28.000 the fact that we don't wrestle with flesh and blood with principalities and powers with the 19:28.000 --> 19:32.880 rulers of the darkness of this world. Oh, just kidding. He's bound. How are we supposed to treat 19:32.880 --> 19:38.320 these scriptures that warn us against Satan when apparently none of them apply to us. 19:39.440 --> 19:44.080 So we're just, uh, just believe that Satan is right now and just his little holding cell 19:44.640 --> 19:49.120 and just ignore all the godlessness that's taking place right now. It's absurd. It's nonsensical. 19:49.120 --> 19:54.720 It's foolish. My friends, Satan is not bound. Now he will be bound during the millennial reign. 19:54.720 --> 20:00.240 That's what revelation 20 tells us, right? Revelation 20 specifically highlights the 20:00.240 --> 20:05.600 time after the battle of Armageddon, where Jesus Christ in his heavenly army, 20:06.400 --> 20:12.240 take on the antichrist, the false prophet in his army. He takes the antichrist and the false 20:12.240 --> 20:18.240 prophet. He cast them into the lake of fire. He destroys the army. He establishes in millennial 20:18.240 --> 20:25.360 reign. But prior to even that, he takes, uh, the devil and he bounds him in chains in hell for the 20:25.360 --> 20:31.280 bottomless pit for a thousand years later on, he's loosed for a little season, which is why you have 20:31.280 --> 20:37.280 the battle of Gog and Magog. Now here's the thing folks is the battle of Gog and Magog does not 20:37.280 --> 20:41.920 sound like the battle of Armageddon. You say, well, why are you even mentioning that? Well, 20:41.920 --> 20:48.640 because of the fact that the post-millennialist view is that what is that the little season 20:48.640 --> 20:55.120 happens prior to the second coming of Christ. So the post-millennialist view assert this, 20:55.120 --> 21:00.960 you have prosperity, the gospel being spread into all the world. Everything is Christianized, 21:00.960 --> 21:06.160 but then a little season where Satan is loose, where you have just this outright rebellion 21:06.160 --> 21:11.200 taking place, but then Jesus Christ comes, destroys them, and then he reigns thereafter. 21:11.200 --> 21:15.440 But that doesn't chronologically fit the Bible now, does it? Because the little season where 21:15.440 --> 21:21.360 he's loose in revelation 20 comes before revelation 19, which is where you have the battle of Armageddon. 21:21.920 --> 21:25.200 So when you ask him, so what is the battle of Armageddon? Well, that's when Jesus Christ 21:25.200 --> 21:29.920 destroys everything after the little season. Wait, but the little season comes in revelation 20. 21:29.920 --> 21:34.800 Yeah, but it's not in chronological order though. Oh, how convenient. So then you ask them, 21:34.800 --> 21:38.320 what about the battle of Gog and Magog? And they're like, well, that's the same thing as the battle 21:38.320 --> 21:43.200 of Armageddon. It's just symbolic. Let me just tell you this. It's easy to teach false doctrine 21:43.200 --> 21:48.560 when you just say it's all symbolic. But let me explain something to you. When you say it's symbolic, 21:48.560 --> 21:53.040 you know, that's not enough, my friends. You need to tell me what it's symbolic of and give me some 21:53.040 --> 21:59.840 substantial proof to demonstrate what the symbolic nature is all about. You know, that's not your get 21:59.840 --> 22:04.240 out of jail free card there that you can just give at any given moment when you don't have an answer 22:04.240 --> 22:11.200 to why the Lord put a thousand years, why he put the little season in revelation 20, even though 22:11.200 --> 22:16.800 the destruction of the Lord Jesus Christ towards the armies of this world happens in revelation 19. 22:16.800 --> 22:20.640 And then you have the battle of Gog and Magog later on in revelation 20. That's not chronological 22:20.640 --> 22:26.240 order. It's out of order and it doesn't make any sense. Okay. You say, why preach this? Well, 22:26.240 --> 22:33.600 because, you know, today you do have a resurgence and a revival of replacement theology. Amen. 22:34.720 --> 22:38.880 It's a good thing. It's a good thing people are waking up. And you know what? Throughout history, 22:38.880 --> 22:44.560 this happens. It comes in waves every couple of decades. You know, you have a resurgence of it, 22:44.560 --> 22:48.880 then it dies out. You still have a faithful remnant, right? And then it resurges again, 22:48.880 --> 22:54.560 then it dies out. But here's the problem is that sometimes people who believe in replacement 22:54.560 --> 22:59.920 theology, their end times prophecy is still bad though. They're still off on a lot of end times 22:59.920 --> 23:05.920 Bible prophecy. And they have such a knee jerk reaction to the preacher of rapture. They have 23:05.920 --> 23:11.040 such a knee jerk reaction to Zionism and ends up throwing them far across to the other side to 23:11.040 --> 23:17.440 believe preterism and assert, well, all this stuff in revelation already done. It's already accomplished. 23:17.440 --> 23:22.480 We don't need to really study this. It's not for us. Book of Daniel already done. Well, 23:22.480 --> 23:27.760 here's the problem with that. Okay. Because when you ask them, when was this done? They'll point 23:27.760 --> 23:33.440 to 70 AD. Now we believe in 70 AD because that's a historical event that actually took place, 23:33.440 --> 23:39.120 right? 70 AD was a legitimate event that took place. It was the judgment of God upon Jerusalem, 23:39.120 --> 23:45.120 upon the Jews, upon them. And this is where you have the Jewish diaspora where Titus comes in, 23:45.120 --> 23:50.240 destroys the temple, destroys Jerusalem for their crucifixion and rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ. 23:50.240 --> 23:56.320 Amen. Prophesied in Luke 21 and foretold throughout the Old Testament scriptures that 23:56.400 --> 24:00.880 that's exactly what would happen to them if they rejected the God of the Bible. The problem is this 24:00.880 --> 24:06.640 is that those who agree with us in that regard end up going beyond the boundaries of prophecy and say, 24:06.640 --> 24:11.760 well, everything in the book of revelation is fulfilled in 70 AD. Well, you know, here's the 24:11.760 --> 24:17.680 problem though. You know, the book of revelation was written about 95 AD. And I know you don't 24:17.680 --> 24:22.800 care about chronology, but you should care about historical chronology at least. Because if the 24:22.800 --> 24:27.040 book of revelation is written approximately around 95 AD, but you're saying that everything 24:27.040 --> 24:32.000 in the book of revelation has been fulfilled in 70 AD, what's the point of even giving us a book 24:32.000 --> 24:38.000 of revelation? The things that must shortly come to pass, not the things that are already passed. 24:40.160 --> 24:44.960 It's a book of things that must shortly come to pass, not things that have already passed. 24:45.760 --> 24:49.840 Understand? Furthermore, when you actually read the book of revelation cover to cover, 24:50.480 --> 24:57.920 you'll find some major events that preterus can explain. How about Apollyon? Symbolic of what? 24:58.720 --> 25:03.200 Now some preterus will go as far to say that Apollyon represents emperor Roman Titus in 70 AD. 25:03.760 --> 25:10.320 Okay, so there's not Dema, but this angelic entity, the destroyer, who comes with this 25:10.320 --> 25:17.280 horde of locusts to come and torment men for five months in revelation chapter nine. That's somehow 25:17.280 --> 25:24.000 symbolic of Titus coming in, destroying Jerusalem and the temple. That's what it represents there. 25:24.000 --> 25:27.840 Yeah, but here's the problem though is that emperor Roman Titus killed a lot of Jews, 25:28.800 --> 25:35.280 like just murked a lot of people there. Whereas Apollyon, they don't kill anybody. 25:35.280 --> 25:42.480 They just torment men for five months. Symbolic. Yeah, but that's symbolic. Being tormented is 25:42.480 --> 25:48.640 symbolic of death. It's nonsense, my friends. The point being here is that you need to read the book 25:48.640 --> 25:52.160 of revelation in chronological order. Now you say, well, how do you know it's in chronological order? 25:52.960 --> 25:56.560 Well, here's the thing is that when you look at the book of revelation, it's actually broken up 25:56.560 --> 26:02.560 into two parts. Okay, this is how you can best understand the book of revelation. Chapters one 26:02.560 --> 26:09.200 through 11 is the first half. Chapters 12 through 22 is the second half. Now, how do we know it's in 26:09.200 --> 26:13.200 chronological order? Because when you look at the chronology from chapters one through 11, 26:13.200 --> 26:19.200 it repeats that same chronological order from chapters 12 to 22. If it wasn't chronological 26:19.200 --> 26:24.800 order, then we would not find the same exact events from chapters 12 to 22 as highlighted in one through 26:24.800 --> 26:31.280 11. Basically demonstrating that it's in chronological order. Now, the only difference 26:31.280 --> 26:37.520 between these two halves is what? They highlight the same exact events, the same exact timeline. 26:37.520 --> 26:43.360 They just give us more details in the second half. They don't take away details. The chronology is 26:43.360 --> 26:49.040 the same. All the major events are the same, meaning the first century AD, the tribulation, 26:49.600 --> 26:56.560 the rapture, the wrath of God, the destruction of Babylon. The difference is that in the second half, 26:56.560 --> 27:01.280 the destruction of Babylon is highlighted. You have the millennial reign and the new heaven and new 27:01.280 --> 27:06.240 earth, the white throne judgment, so forth that are being talked about. So the second half is the 27:06.240 --> 27:13.600 first half expanded, but no old information is taken away. Just new information is given without 27:13.600 --> 27:18.640 ever messing with the timeline of the chronology of the first half. The point that I'm making here 27:18.640 --> 27:23.280 is that, yes, it is in chronological order, which is essentially the nail in the coffin for 27:23.280 --> 27:28.320 post-millennialists. Because again, post-millennialists will say, no, it's not in chronological order. 27:28.320 --> 27:32.240 You know, you just have different events sprinkled in different areas or whatever it may be. 27:32.240 --> 27:39.200 Wrong, wrong, because both halves literally highlight the same exact events in order, 27:39.200 --> 27:43.280 in chronological order. And so in order for you to understand the book of Revelation, 27:43.280 --> 27:49.040 you have to read it in chronological order. Chapters 1 through 11 highlights the first century AD 27:49.040 --> 27:54.720 from chapters 1 to 5. This is why you have the seven churches which are in Asia that are being 27:54.720 --> 28:01.440 addressed. Those seven churches took place when? In the first century AD. You have Revelation chapter 28:01.440 --> 28:07.360 6 that talks about the tribulation. What is the tribulation? That's the four horsemen of the 28:07.360 --> 28:13.360 apocalypse, wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, death on a massive scale, the 28:13.360 --> 28:18.160 martyrdom of Christians, and then you have the day of the Lord towards the latter end of Revelation 28:18.160 --> 28:26.000 chapter 6. Revelation 7 is 144,000 and the result of the rapture. You say, well, rapture is not found 28:26.000 --> 28:31.040 there. Yeah, but you know what is found is a great multitude in heaven which no man can number, 28:31.840 --> 28:36.240 which is exactly what's going to happen at the rapture. You're going to have a great multitude 28:36.240 --> 28:42.640 which no man can number in heaven of every tongue, every kindred, every tribe will be in heaven at 28:42.640 --> 28:51.680 that point. From Revelation chapter 8 to 11, you have essentially the wrath of God, the trumpets 28:51.680 --> 28:56.880 of God, along with essentially the battle of Armageddon taking place. And then it repeats 28:56.880 --> 29:02.800 again in Revelation chapter 12. So 1 through 11 is the first half, 12 through 22 is the second half, 29:02.800 --> 29:07.920 12 also begins with what? The first century AD with the birth of Jesus Christ. 29:09.040 --> 29:15.280 Chapter 13 is emphasizing the tribulation, but more specifically the fact that the antichrist is 29:15.280 --> 29:21.120 making war with the saints and overcoming them and instituting what we commonly refer to as the mark 29:21.120 --> 29:30.240 of the beast. Chapter 14, you have the rapture, 1516 wrath of God through the vials, 1718 you have 29:30.240 --> 29:36.720 Babylon, 19 Armageddon, 20 is the millennial reign, along with the battle of Gog and Magog, 29:36.720 --> 29:41.520 white throne judgment, then you have the new heaven and the new earth. These are chronological 29:41.520 --> 29:44.640 in order. You say, how do you memorize that? Because it's in chronological order. 29:46.640 --> 29:50.800 It's not because I'm smart, not because I have a great memory. It's because it's in chronological 29:50.800 --> 29:56.000 order, my friends. You know why post-millennialists can't do what I just did? Because it's all mixed up. 29:57.760 --> 30:01.680 You know, oh, you have, you know, the little season in Revelation 20, but the little season 30:01.680 --> 30:05.200 of Revelation 20 is actually talking about something that took place prior to Revelation 19. 30:05.760 --> 30:13.120 Wrong, wrong. But this is what happens when unsafe people try to interpret the Bible for you. 30:14.560 --> 30:19.040 Okay. Why? Because the natural man receive it, not the things of the spirit of God, 30:19.040 --> 30:21.920 neither can you know them for their spiritually discerned. They're foolishness, 30:21.920 --> 30:25.200 let's say, for the spiritually discerned and make no mistake about it. Those who hold to these 30:25.200 --> 30:28.960 positions that are not saved, they look at our position as though it's foolish. You know why? 30:28.960 --> 30:35.760 Because it's spiritually discerned, my friends. Correct your end times prophecy. Recognize that 30:35.760 --> 30:41.760 the book of Revelation is in chronological order. I already mentioned this, but Revelation also 30:41.760 --> 30:47.840 talks about two resurrections, right? You have the first resurrection taking place at the rapture. 30:47.840 --> 30:55.040 The second taking place literally at the very end. Okay. Which is after the battle of Gog and 30:55.040 --> 30:59.040 Magog, you have the white throne judgment somewhere in between that time. You have the second 30:59.040 --> 31:02.720 resurrection as noted by the fact that you have the first. Now let me prove that to you. Look at 31:02.720 --> 31:12.960 Revelation 20 again. Let's look at the wording here. Let's look at verse number four and keep 31:12.960 --> 31:19.440 in mind verse five says this is the first resurrection implication. There's also a second, 31:19.440 --> 31:25.200 right? Now let's look at the description of those who participate in that first resurrection, 31:25.200 --> 31:31.680 according to verse four. And I saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given to them. 31:31.680 --> 31:39.200 And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God. Very 31:39.200 --> 31:44.400 important there. So it specifically says that those who are part of this first resurrection 31:44.960 --> 31:52.240 are those who were beheaded, right? For what? For Jesus and for the word of God. That's what 31:52.240 --> 31:55.920 it states there. Now let's go to Revelation chapter six. Revelation chapter six. 31:59.520 --> 32:03.840 Revelation chapter six. I'm telling you right now that the fight is actually shifting from 32:04.560 --> 32:08.480 fighting the pre-tribulation rapture to now fighting the post-millennialists. 32:08.560 --> 32:13.040 Because a lot of people are already against the pre-trib rapture. They recognize it's dumb. 32:13.040 --> 32:20.880 And quite frankly, because it's associated with Zionism and the Jews being God's chosen people, 32:20.880 --> 32:25.120 people automatically just write it off and say that's wrong. Dispensationalism is wrong. 32:25.120 --> 32:30.080 So I'm just going to reject it outright. So the pre-trib rapture is just dying out completely. 32:30.640 --> 32:35.920 It's more of a boomer type of thing, okay, of a belief. And we got boomers in here that are not 32:35.920 --> 32:45.040 pre-tribbers. Props to you. Amen. You're young at heart. Amen. But it is a boomer doctrine. 32:46.640 --> 32:49.600 And the only people that believe in this stuff is like Jack Hibbs, 32:51.600 --> 32:56.800 these Calvary Chapel type people who don't know jack squat about the Bible. 32:58.400 --> 33:05.120 They can't defend it to save their lives. It's a fact. These are the only types of individuals, 33:05.120 --> 33:09.840 but the young people in those churches, in these Calvary Chapel churches, the Jack Hibbs church, 33:09.840 --> 33:14.560 and I know Greg Laurie is not a Calvary Chapel, but those types of churches, they are completely 33:14.560 --> 33:19.040 rejecting Zionism and dispensationalism, the pre-trib rapture, they're questioning, they're sick 33:19.040 --> 33:23.600 and tired of it being disseminated in their churches. And so they're looking for the truth. 33:24.160 --> 33:29.200 But they need to be careful not to go so extreme that they become a preterist, 33:29.200 --> 33:31.360 because they're just simply going from one heresy to the other. 33:32.080 --> 33:35.920 Okay. You know, it's great that you're leaving Mormonism, just don't become a Jehovah's Witness. 33:37.680 --> 33:42.880 I'm leaving Catholicism, but then you become an Orthodox. It's like, bro, you just see, well, 33:44.560 --> 33:50.560 that's not a good choice there. Okay. The right choice is, well, I need to reject this because 33:50.560 --> 33:53.920 it's not according to the Bible. So let me find something that is according to the Bible. 33:54.640 --> 34:00.960 And don't follow the crowd either. Don't follow a multitude to evil. You need to make sure that 34:00.960 --> 34:05.120 you recognize that regardless of what the multitudes are saying, you got to find out what 34:05.120 --> 34:09.280 the Word of God actually states. Because look, folks, a lot of people fall into this peer pressure 34:09.280 --> 34:14.560 too, where, oh, well, you know, you know how many people believed in this? Yeah, you know how many 34:14.560 --> 34:18.880 people were going to hell too? Like the vast majority of people in this world believe in a 34:18.880 --> 34:24.000 workspace salvation. And adding more to that crowd doesn't make a workspace salvation correct. 34:24.800 --> 34:29.600 It's not like God's like, all right, all right, all right, I'm outnumbered, you know, let's do the 34:30.000 --> 34:33.440 workspace salvation thing instead, you know, because everyone believes in it. That's not the 34:33.440 --> 34:39.360 way it works. It doesn't, it's not the way it works with any doctrine. Okay. And look, this is 34:39.360 --> 34:44.080 what the Bible says to preach the word. Listen to this, be instant in season out of season, 34:44.080 --> 34:48.800 meaning you have to believe and teach the right doctrine, whether it's popular or not. 34:49.760 --> 34:54.960 So one day replacement theology will die out. Like it won't be as popular. You better keep 34:54.960 --> 34:58.960 believing it because it's what's right to teach. It's what's right to believe in. It's what the 34:58.960 --> 35:05.120 Bible actually says. You understand? And so look at Revelation six, if you would now keep in mind, 35:05.120 --> 35:12.320 keep revelation 20 in mind regarding the first resurrection, revelation chapter six and verse 35:12.320 --> 35:17.360 number nine, it says, when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar, the souls of them who 35:17.360 --> 35:24.320 were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice 35:24.320 --> 35:29.760 saying, how long, Oh Lord, holy and true, does thou not judge and avenge our blood on them, 35:29.760 --> 35:34.720 which dwell on the earth and white roads were given unto that every one of them. And it was 35:34.720 --> 35:40.080 said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also, 35:40.080 --> 35:45.520 and their brethren that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. So revelation 20, 35:46.160 --> 35:50.000 you have the description of those in the first resurrection as being the individuals who were 35:50.000 --> 35:56.160 beheaded for the word of God lining up here with revelation chapter six versus nine through 11, 35:56.160 --> 36:00.640 those who are dying for the testimony, which they held. Okay. Now look at revelation chapter seven, 36:01.360 --> 36:07.760 revelation chapter seven and verse number nine, because this is after the tribulation. 36:07.760 --> 36:13.120 And according to the biblical chronology, the rapture takes place after the tribulation. How 36:13.120 --> 36:17.920 do we know that? Because it literally says in Matthew 24, that Jesus Christ comes after the 36:17.920 --> 36:24.880 tribulation of those days. Okay. Look at revelation seven, verse nine. And after this I beheld and lo 36:24.880 --> 36:31.760 a great multitude, which no man can number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues 36:31.760 --> 36:38.240 stood before the throne and before the lamb clothed with white robes and palms in their hands. So 36:38.240 --> 36:44.720 what do we see here? Verse nine describes this great multitude that are clothed with white robes, 36:44.720 --> 36:49.040 the same as the people in revelation six and verse 11 that are given white robes 36:49.040 --> 36:55.840 after they've been killed, after they've been martyred, right? Skip down to verse number 13. 36:56.640 --> 37:02.480 And one of the elders answered saying unto me, what are these which are arrayed in white robes? 37:02.480 --> 37:08.160 And whence came they meaning where did they come from? And I said unto him, sir, thou knowest. 37:08.160 --> 37:14.160 And he said to me, these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes 37:14.160 --> 37:19.840 and made them white in the blood of the lamb. Verse 15. Therefore are they before the throne of 37:19.840 --> 37:25.280 God and serve him day and night in the temple and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among 37:25.280 --> 37:31.200 them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore, neither shall the sun light on them, 37:31.200 --> 37:36.720 nor any heat for the lamb is in the midst of the throne that shall feed them and shall lead them 37:36.720 --> 37:40.800 unto living fountains of waters. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. What do we 37:40.800 --> 37:45.760 have here? We have that the same description given to those participating in the first 37:45.760 --> 37:50.800 resurrection in Revelation 20 being the same exact people who were beheaded and given the 37:50.800 --> 37:56.720 white robes in Revelation chapter 6. And then the elder in heaven after the rapture tells John, 37:56.720 --> 38:01.680 these are the same ones. They came out of great tribulation. What does that show us? It shows 38:01.680 --> 38:04.880 us that those in Revelation chapter 20 is referring to those in Revelation chapter 6. 38:05.840 --> 38:11.120 It's referring to those who have resurrected. So what are you trying to demonstrate? I'm trying 38:11.120 --> 38:16.480 to demonstrate the fact that the first resurrection is referring to the rapture. That's what I'm saying 38:16.480 --> 38:22.800 there. Okay. Because the rapture, when it takes place, everyone, every believer from throughout 38:22.800 --> 38:28.480 history, from the beginning of time to the end of time, who's a believer will be resurrected from 38:28.480 --> 38:31.920 the grave. And when we talk about the resurrection and the rapture, what are we referring to? 38:32.480 --> 38:35.840 We are referring, I don't want to steal my lightning for next week because next week is 38:35.840 --> 38:38.880 resurrection, right? We're going to talk about the resurrection of Christ and resurrection of 38:38.880 --> 38:43.680 believers. But the resurrection is when God literally, the Bible tells us, go to first 38:43.680 --> 38:52.880 Thessalonians chapter four, first Thessalonians chapter four, that he will change all believers 38:52.880 --> 38:58.080 in the twinkling of an eye. Right? This is what it means to resurrect. It means that we come out of 38:58.080 --> 39:03.520 the ground completely different than how we went in. That's what the resurrection is all about. 39:03.520 --> 39:09.600 That's what the rapture is. And the chronology of the rapture is that the dead in Christ shall 39:09.600 --> 39:14.400 rise first. Then we withdraw alive and remain. Okay. Look at first Thessalonians chapter four. 39:14.400 --> 39:21.920 This is the text verse to teach the rapture doctrine. It says here in Revelation, or excuse 39:21.920 --> 39:27.120 me, first Thessalonians chapter four and verse 13, but I would not have you to be ignorant, 39:27.120 --> 39:33.040 brethren concerning them, which are asleep. They sorrow not even as others, which have no hope. 39:33.600 --> 39:36.720 Now let me just explain something. When it says asleep, it doesn't mean like they're taking a nap. 39:37.360 --> 39:42.720 A sleep is just a biblical way of describing someone who is dead. Okay. And it doesn't mean 39:42.720 --> 39:48.720 that the soul is still in the body, by the way, because there are those who believe in this false 39:48.720 --> 39:54.320 doctrine of soul sleep. Then when a believer dies, the soul remains in the body, but the soul does 39:54.320 --> 39:58.400 not remain in the body because the Bible describes the soul departing from the body. 39:59.040 --> 40:05.040 And in fact, I just got finished reading this in first Kings, second Kings, where a child dies 40:05.760 --> 40:09.760 and Elijah comes and prays into God to bring the soul back into the body, 40:11.280 --> 40:16.320 showing us that the soul left the body, because that's exactly what death is. Okay. So when it 40:16.320 --> 40:22.400 says asleep, it's referring to the fact that a believer's body is asleep because one day it'll 40:22.400 --> 40:29.040 wake up in righteousness at the resurrection. Understand? Meaning that look, folks, when you die, 40:30.080 --> 40:36.240 you get buried six feet deep, that body is going to come out one day, completely glorified. 40:37.280 --> 40:44.800 So put your best suit on, make sure you have the right tux or whatever it may be, the right dress, 40:44.800 --> 40:49.600 because you're coming out, you're not staying in that grave. The damned are staying there until 40:49.600 --> 40:55.280 the white throne judgment, because at the white throne judgment, there is somewhat of a resurrection 40:55.280 --> 40:59.760 of the dead, but it's not to determine whether they're saved or not. It's to confirm their 40:59.760 --> 41:04.720 damnation. Their bodies are reunited with their souls. And the Bible tells us in Matthew chapter 41:04.720 --> 41:10.960 10, that both soul and body shall be cast into the lake of fire. Okay. And so it's kind of like the 41:10.960 --> 41:16.640 antithesis to the biblical resurrection of going to heaven, right? The difference is, is that the 41:16.640 --> 41:21.440 body and the soul reunited and they're both cast into the lake of fire. Look at what it goes on 41:21.440 --> 41:28.400 to say in verse 14, it says, for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also, 41:28.400 --> 41:35.840 which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. So he's saying, look, if you believe that Jesus Christ 41:35.840 --> 41:42.000 bodily rose from the grave, then you have to believe that the people who have passed away in 41:42.000 --> 41:46.960 the Lord are going to return again with Christ. Those doctrines are synonymous. They're like, 41:46.960 --> 41:51.520 they're attached with one with another. Okay. He says in verse 15, for this, we say into you by 41:51.520 --> 41:56.640 the word of the Lord, that we, which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not 41:56.640 --> 42:03.440 prevent them, which are asleep. What is he saying? He's saying basically, if the rapture were to take 42:03.440 --> 42:07.680 place in his time, because obviously he didn't know when the rapture was going to take place, 42:07.680 --> 42:13.600 but if it did from his perspective, he's saying, if he comes when I'm still alive, 42:13.600 --> 42:19.120 I'm not going to go before those who are dead. So there's an order of the rapture. There's an 42:19.120 --> 42:24.560 order of the resurrection. And he goes, he, he further describes it in verse 16 for the Lord 42:24.560 --> 42:30.640 himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the Trump 42:30.640 --> 42:41.840 of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Basically, Adam, Eve, all the righteous Israelites, 42:42.880 --> 42:48.720 you have, you know, King David, all believers throughout history, the dead in Christ, they will 42:48.720 --> 42:54.400 rise first. And then he says, then we, which are alive and remain shall be, listen to this caught 42:54.400 --> 43:01.920 up. What does that mean? Shall be raptured. Expand your vocabulary a little bit. It's called a 43:01.920 --> 43:10.000 synonym shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so 43:10.000 --> 43:14.880 shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore come for one another with these words. What is the same, 43:14.880 --> 43:20.080 very important that we get this down here because this chapter essentially destroys 43:20.880 --> 43:25.440 pre-trib rapture, but it also destroys the post-millennialist view as well. 43:26.160 --> 43:32.320 It just decimates both. This is why the biblical, the accurate position is a post-tribulational 43:32.320 --> 43:38.320 pre-wrath rapture. Okay. Now, how does it destroy it? Well, because we have some elements here that 43:38.320 --> 43:45.360 are being described that helps us to identify where the rapture is in the book of revelation, 43:45.440 --> 43:52.080 as well as in the gospels. Now, what are the elements? He says here that the Trump of, 43:52.080 --> 43:58.320 it talks about the Trump of God, right? The voice of the archangel. And then it talks about Jesus 43:58.320 --> 44:06.480 Christ coming in the clouds. Now that's a very important element. Why is that? Well, let's go to 44:06.480 --> 44:12.400 Acts chapter one, if you would ask chapter one, ask chapter number one. 44:14.720 --> 44:21.360 Now in revelation 19, what people interpret as being the second coming of Christ, both 44:21.360 --> 44:26.800 post-millennialist and preacher rapture, by the way, those who believe in a preacher rapture will 44:26.800 --> 44:32.000 say that the second coming of Christ actually takes place in revelation 19. Those who hold to 44:32.000 --> 44:37.680 a post-millennialist view also say that the resurrection or the second coming of Christ 44:37.680 --> 44:44.000 is in revelation 19 as well. And guess what? They're both wrong. That is not the second coming 44:44.000 --> 44:48.480 of Christ. The second coming of Christ actually takes place three and a half years prior to that, 44:48.480 --> 44:52.720 which would make revelation 19, the third coming of Christ, because if we can count, 44:53.680 --> 44:58.000 the first coming was in the first century. Second coming is in revelation six and seven. 44:58.000 --> 45:03.920 The third coming would be in revelation 19. But the main thing is this. It says that when he comes, 45:03.920 --> 45:09.040 he's going to come with clouds. This is not poetic. This is not symbolic. This is literal. 45:10.640 --> 45:16.320 How do we know that? Well, look at verse, Acts chapter one and verse nine. It says that when 45:16.320 --> 45:23.920 he had spoken these things while they beheld, he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their 45:23.920 --> 45:30.080 sight. What is referring to? This is basically the ascension of Jesus Christ. And it's basically the 45:30.080 --> 45:37.120 last time Jesus Christ commissions his disciples before he goes to heaven. And he talks about 45:37.120 --> 45:42.240 going to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the uttermost parts of the world. Ye shall receive 45:42.240 --> 45:47.920 power from on high. After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you. He is empowering them. He's helping 45:47.920 --> 45:54.640 them. And then he leaves them. Right. And it specifically says that a cloud receives him out 45:54.640 --> 46:00.560 of their sight. So when he ascends, a cloud grabs him and takes him up. Okay. Pretty cool. 46:02.000 --> 46:05.280 Yeah. That's not enough evidence though. Okay. Let's keep reading verse 10. 46:06.720 --> 46:13.120 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white 46:13.120 --> 46:20.400 apparel, which also said, ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? So, you know, 46:20.400 --> 46:23.920 these angels come and they're just like, Hey, and they're just like, 46:25.680 --> 46:29.840 that's what it means to gauge, right? They're just like, they're just like, he just left us. 46:31.040 --> 46:37.040 He says, why say you, they're gazing up into heaven. This same Jesus, which is taken up from 46:37.040 --> 46:47.280 you into heaven. And here's the key shall so come in like manner, right? As you have seen him go 46:47.280 --> 46:52.960 into heaven. Now, what is the like manner? I'll tell you what's the like manner in the clouds. 46:55.040 --> 47:01.840 So he left in the cloud. That means he's going to return in the clouds. Right. Now go to revelation 47:01.840 --> 47:07.440 chapter one, go back to revelation chapter one, where we started revelation chapter one. 47:10.560 --> 47:16.800 And we'll let's read verse seven. So what do we see in first Thessalonians chapter four? We see 47:17.840 --> 47:24.400 that he comes with clouds. Trump of God shall sound. He comes with, we shall be caught up together 47:24.400 --> 47:29.520 with him in the clouds. Acts chapter one says that he was taken up in the cloud. The angel said he 47:29.520 --> 47:34.320 shall return so in like manner, which is in the clouds. Revelation one verse seven, behold, he 47:34.320 --> 47:43.520 cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him. So two things here. The first part completely destroys 47:43.520 --> 47:48.720 the post-millennialist view. The second part destroys the preacher relation rapture view. 47:49.760 --> 47:55.360 Why? Because it says that every eye shall see him and the preacher of crowd believes, well, no, 47:55.360 --> 47:59.360 it's a secret rapture. No one's going to see him. You know, if we're going to have a church 47:59.360 --> 48:04.800 service and I'm preaching, my clothes just fall to the ground. The nude rapture. 48:06.480 --> 48:11.200 People are disappearing all over the auditorium. Planes are crashing. No one knows what happens. 48:11.200 --> 48:17.840 They think it's aliens. What a lame rapture. That rapture sucks 48:17.840 --> 48:22.720 because it's not biblical. It's not a secret. The Bible says that every eye shall see him. And why 48:22.720 --> 48:30.960 not? Why would Christ come secretly when he can come with power and glory? Oh, wait, that's what 48:30.960 --> 48:39.200 the Bible actually says, huh? When he can be visibly seen by everyone, all his enemies, right? He's not 48:39.200 --> 48:43.600 like, Hey guys, come on, let's go. Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. 48:43.600 --> 48:52.720 He's not like, you know, sorry, you know, just came to get my church real quick. 48:55.360 --> 49:01.760 No, actually, it's a, it's a lot different, isn't it? He comes with power and glory and he comes to 49:01.760 --> 49:07.600 make war. Because when he came the first time, he came very meek and lowly. The second time he's 49:07.600 --> 49:13.120 coming to just destroy. Because here's the thing, folks is the rapture is synonymous with the day 49:13.120 --> 49:18.400 of the Lord and the day of the Lord synonymous with wrath. So it's just like he comes to take his 49:18.400 --> 49:23.520 believers and it's just like, you guys are getting it when I come back. You guys are done. 49:24.480 --> 49:28.480 Let me prove it to you. He says, behold, he comes with clouds and every eye shall see him. 49:28.480 --> 49:32.880 And they also which pierced him and all the kindreds of the earth shall well because of it. 49:32.880 --> 49:40.960 Now you say, who's the day who pierced him? Jews. You mean who? It's the Jews. 49:43.360 --> 49:52.640 Brother, we all crucified. No, no, we didn't. Stop trying to make a hallmark card, a hobby lobby sign. 49:52.640 --> 49:58.560 No, we didn't all crucified Jesus Christ. He was crucified for us, but we were not there promoting 49:58.560 --> 50:02.960 the crucifixion of Christ because we believed him to be a blasphemer. It's a big difference. 50:05.280 --> 50:09.280 The ones who are saying his blood be on us and on our children, they're the ones who crucified the 50:09.280 --> 50:14.320 Lord Jesus Christ. And so when he's addressing the seven churches, which are in Asia, when he's 50:14.320 --> 50:18.640 talking to John, he says, you know, who's going to see me? They also which pierced me. 50:21.680 --> 50:26.880 He says, and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Why? Because everyone's in 50:26.880 --> 50:35.360 trouble. That's why. Go to Matthew 24, Matthew chapter 24, Matthew chapter 24, the chapters 50:35.360 --> 50:41.840 dealing with end times prophecy in the gospels is Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21. OK, and here's the 50:41.840 --> 50:46.800 important thing when it comes to those who uphold an all millennialist view or post millennialist 50:46.800 --> 50:52.480 view, because preterists are kind of sprinkled in both of those camps. OK, you know, they don't even 50:52.480 --> 50:57.360 agree with one another in that regard. There's those who are partial preterist, full preterist, 50:57.360 --> 51:03.200 but they essentially inhabit both of those crowds. And they will often say that the end times 51:03.200 --> 51:10.160 prophetic statements made in the gospels are things that have already taken place. OK, now they 51:10.160 --> 51:17.120 are right about that to a certain degree, because when you actually look at Matthew 24, Mark 13, 51:17.120 --> 51:24.720 Luke 21, one of those accounts deals primarily with the immediate destruction of Jerusalem. 51:24.720 --> 51:30.720 Right. No one can deny that. Luke 21 being one of them is the one right. Luke 21 is the 51:30.720 --> 51:35.280 quintessential chapter talking about the judgment that was going to come upon Jerusalem. 51:35.280 --> 51:40.640 Obviously, we know what happened in 70 AD. It talks about Jerusalem being compassed about with 51:40.640 --> 51:47.760 armies. Right. These be the days of vengeance. OK, but here's the problem, though, is that Luke 21 51:48.960 --> 51:56.400 gives us certain elements that didn't happen in 70 AD. Like, all right, check, check, check. 51:56.400 --> 52:01.840 Stars falling from never happened. Look, if stars fell from heaven in 70, we would know about that. 52:03.520 --> 52:06.080 Some some Roman would have been like, it was weird, you know, 52:07.680 --> 52:13.280 stars falling from heaven, men's hearts failing for fear. Right. You would find all these types 52:13.280 --> 52:17.040 of accounts, but it didn't happen because of the fact that there's a dual prophecy in Luke 21. 52:19.040 --> 52:26.240 The Lord is giving us the judgment that was to come immediately, but then also adds elements 52:26.240 --> 52:30.480 within the prophecy to indicate that the full prophecy has not yet been completed. 52:31.280 --> 52:37.280 And this is why there's three accounts of end times in the Gospels, because the immediate things 52:37.280 --> 52:44.400 that took place in Luke 21, you don't find in Matthew 24 or Mark 13. Mark 24, Luke, Mark, excuse 52:44.400 --> 52:50.880 me, Matthew 24 and Mark 13 have elements that you can only find in the book of Revelation. 52:51.360 --> 52:58.240 Understand, look at Matthew 24. And for the sake of time, I'm just going to summarize something 52:58.240 --> 53:02.640 real quick before we get into the actual passage that I want to highlight. When you read verses 53:02.640 --> 53:08.960 one through 17, you basically find the four horsemen of the apocalypse found in Revelation, 53:08.960 --> 53:14.160 chapter six. OK, it's the more accurate way to describe it is the beginning of sorrows. That's 53:14.160 --> 53:19.840 what Jesus Christ called it. Wars, rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, things of that nature. 53:19.840 --> 53:26.400 Jesus Christ highlights those in the beginning of Matthew 24. And this is what the tribulation is. 53:26.400 --> 53:32.480 OK, look what it says in verse 29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days, 53:33.280 --> 53:38.480 shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven 53:38.480 --> 53:42.400 and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. Find me an account in history where that happened. 53:42.400 --> 53:46.240 It doesn't exist. It's symbolic. 53:49.200 --> 53:57.120 You know, it's just all symbolic. You're symbolic. You symbolize a false prophet. OK. 53:59.760 --> 54:06.160 It says he comes after the tribulation of those days. Symbolic of what? There's no symbolism there. 54:06.720 --> 54:11.280 It's saying when he's coming and the tribulation that he's coming after are the elements that are 54:11.280 --> 54:15.760 clearly found in the beginning of the chapter that coincide with Revelation chapter six. 54:16.720 --> 54:23.520 OK, verse 30 says, and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven and then shall all the 54:23.520 --> 54:30.240 tribes of the earth mourn. Now, what does that coincide with? Revelation 1 7. Everyone who pierced 54:30.240 --> 54:35.600 them and all the earth shall wail because of him. That's basically referring to the tribes mourning. 54:35.600 --> 54:41.840 Now, why are people mourning when Jesus Christ comes? Because they're done. Remember all those 54:41.840 --> 54:49.360 all those anti-Christ statements that were made on X and on Facebook, all the mockery from atheists 54:49.360 --> 54:54.880 and agnostics and false religions, everyone who mocked the coming of Christ. Where is the promise 54:54.880 --> 54:59.040 of his coming? For all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. And then 54:59.040 --> 55:05.520 they see him coming, they're like, oh man, we're screwed. And then they mourn. So they mourn me like, 55:06.320 --> 55:13.040 but then they wail. That's what it means to wail. Right? That's what wailing is. 55:13.600 --> 55:15.200 If you don't know what wailing is, you don't have kids. 55:18.640 --> 55:22.800 Weeping and wailing. OK, and gnashing of gums with the kids. 55:22.800 --> 55:25.840 So he comes and they're just like all their theology is completely destroyed. 55:27.120 --> 55:34.160 All their little, you know, political ideas just doesn't matter anymore. All of their false ideologies 55:34.160 --> 55:41.360 just means nothing because there's a guy in the clouds. Right? The stars of heaven are falling. 55:41.360 --> 55:45.760 And this is why Luke 21 says that men's hearts are failing them for fear. You know what that means? 55:45.760 --> 55:49.120 Heart attacks. You never seen something like that before. 55:49.200 --> 55:54.160 There's no AI that can produce something like that. They're visibly seeing this and what are the 55:54.160 --> 56:01.040 ah, and they just die. Glad you got a kick out of that. 56:04.320 --> 56:08.400 I mean, isn't that what it says? The earth shall mourn. And they shall listen to this, 56:08.400 --> 56:18.240 see the son of man coming in the what? The clouds of heaven. And they shall see the son of man 56:18.640 --> 56:26.080 of heaven with power and great glory. So he gets this red carpet entrance. And why not? 56:27.040 --> 56:33.440 He's the Lord Jesus Christ. He's been absent for 2000 years. There's been an accumulation of blasphemy 56:34.880 --> 56:42.080 and gain saying from the other side. And now he's coming. He's like, now what? Where is thy mouth now? 56:42.400 --> 56:47.440 That's basically what it's all about. So everyone's more. So it's just like, oh, all 56:47.440 --> 56:55.200 you remember all those videos disproving the Bible? Remember all those videos disproving Jesus Christ? 56:55.840 --> 56:59.840 Oh, remember all those things you said about all those contradictions in the Bible? 57:00.640 --> 57:07.280 Remember how you mock salvation? You mock Jesus Christ? Remember how you said you would mock Jesus? 57:07.840 --> 57:13.760 Remember how you just blasphemed his name and taught heresy? Well, guess what? Pay day some day. 57:16.480 --> 57:22.240 So no, it's not a secret. He wants everyone to know he's there and they're done. 57:23.280 --> 57:28.720 Now let's keep reading here. It says, and he shall send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet. 57:29.680 --> 57:33.360 Now why is that significant? Because we find the elements of the trumpet in First Thessalonians 57:33.360 --> 57:39.280 chapter four. He shall give the sound of a trumpet the voice of the archangel, right? 57:40.880 --> 57:47.280 And they shall gather together his Jews. Oh, wait, it says elect. 57:49.600 --> 57:55.440 From the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. Now this destroys the preacher of rapture 57:55.440 --> 58:04.560 as well. Why? Because they look at our interpretation of Matthew 24 and they scoff. They scoff at it. 58:04.560 --> 58:11.200 Like, well, you're just, this is not proper hermeneutics. You're not really rightly dividing 58:11.200 --> 58:16.000 the word of truth because of the fact that it actually says he comes for his elect and the elect 58:16.000 --> 58:23.440 are the chosen people of God known as the Jews. And so Matthew 24 does not apply to us as believers. 58:23.440 --> 58:28.960 We're out of here before the tribulation. Okay. Now here's what's funny about that because, you know, 58:28.960 --> 58:36.640 they try to have this like moral high ground to us who believe in a post-trib pre-wrath rapture 58:36.640 --> 58:39.680 because they'll say, well, you know, believe in a preacher rapture is actually better 58:40.640 --> 58:44.640 because if you don't, if he can come at any moment, you're just always getting ready for his coming. 58:45.360 --> 58:49.760 Right. They're just like, you're always purifying yourself. You're always just like 58:49.760 --> 58:53.920 ready. Whereas you guys, you think he's going to come after the tribulation. So it's just like, 58:53.920 --> 58:59.520 you know, you just, you're kind of careless and reckless, but we, you know, we're always ready. 58:59.520 --> 59:05.040 We're purifying. Then why does your preaching suck so bad? Then why don't you take a righteous stand 59:05.040 --> 59:13.920 for anything? Then why aren't you bold? Why don't you preach against Jews and homos and every single, 59:13.920 --> 59:18.400 you know, wicked thing of this world? You know, if you're so ready, if you think that Christ can 59:18.400 --> 59:25.280 come at any moment, you would think you'd grow a backbone. Right. Like if we believed in a preacher 59:25.280 --> 59:30.000 rapture, you know, we would be like, you know, we need to make sure we give it our all every single 59:30.000 --> 59:37.040 day. Preach hard every single week, right? Preach hard every single week. I mean, that's, that's 59:37.040 --> 59:40.400 like what I think people would believe if they believe in a preacher rapture, but apparently 59:40.400 --> 59:44.800 it doesn't produce that now, does it? Cause the preacher crowd has some of the weakest preaching 59:44.800 --> 59:49.600 ever. You don't believe me. Go to the non-don't, not next week, because next week is Easter, 59:49.600 --> 59:56.320 but go to a non-don't church and you'll find some really weak preaching there. Some soft, 59:56.320 --> 01:00:02.240 effeminate preaching out there, preaching that can't handle any tribulation, any affliction, 01:00:02.240 --> 01:00:05.360 because we're going to be out of here before all that takes place. Oh, that's funny. I thought 01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:09.840 believing in a preacher of rapture makes you a virtuous person. It just makes you a weakling 01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:15.600 because in your mind, you're not going to be here when the hard stuff comes. That's what it is. 01:00:17.120 --> 01:00:22.080 So it doesn't produce strong Christians. It doesn't produce bold Christians. Yeah, you might 01:00:22.080 --> 01:00:28.240 have some sprinkled here and there, but in general, those who believe in a preacher relation rapture 01:00:28.240 --> 01:00:34.160 are often very soft. They can handle tribulation. They can handle any form of affliction. 01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:37.440 Why? Cause in their minds, we're going to be gone before all this takes over. 01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:43.600 Whereas the post-trip crowd, churches are being bombed. Just crazy stuff's happening. 01:00:45.600 --> 01:00:50.400 Why? Because in our minds, yeah, Christ is coming after the tribulation, 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:53.600 but I got to get ready in case the tribulation happens in my lifetime. 01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:59.760 You understand what I'm saying? The belief that the tribulation can happen in our lifetime causes 01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:06.480 us to toughen up a little bit and recognize, I can't cry when I stub my toe or something like that. 01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:12.640 I can't be a little weakling just because someone called me out on Facebook or something. 01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:17.760 Someone cussed at me at the door or whatever. Just deal with it. 01:01:20.080 --> 01:01:25.440 Oh man, I can't believe that happened to me. I'd be sad if it doesn't happen to me. 01:01:28.240 --> 01:01:33.200 Like if people aren't hating on me, they're not cussing me out, they're not threatening my life, 01:01:33.200 --> 01:01:37.120 then I might be doing something wrong. Cause ye all that will live godly in Christ Jesus 01:01:37.120 --> 01:01:40.880 shall suffer persecution. But the pre-trip crowd, they think they need to get along with everyone. 01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:46.400 They think they need to get along with everyone and please everyone and not offend everyone. 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:51.280 Folks, preach the Bible and defend someone and so be it. Let it happen. Because you know what? 01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:55.120 If the tribulation, the Bible says that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of 01:01:55.120 --> 01:02:03.280 God. We're appointed to tribulation, the Bible says. Let me tell you what the pre-trip crowd 01:02:03.280 --> 01:02:13.280 rapture lacks is endurance. They lack toughness. They lack strength because they always think 01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:16.000 everything's just going to be smooth. We're going to be gone before all this happens. 01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:19.920 If it happens in our lifetime, guess what? They're going to have a rude awakening. 01:02:20.080 --> 01:02:27.520 They're going to be the ones. Look at Matthew 24. Let me show you pre-trippers in Matthew 24. 01:02:27.520 --> 01:02:34.080 I'm going to show you the pre-trippers in Matthew 24. He says in verse 23, 01:02:34.080 --> 01:02:37.440 then if any man shall say unto you, lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not. 01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:40.480 You know who they're talking to? The pre-trippers. 01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:46.160 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets that shall show great signs and wonders 01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:52.640 in so much that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you 01:02:52.640 --> 01:02:59.360 before, wherefore, if they shall say unto you, behold, he is in the desert, go not forth. Behold, 01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:05.600 he is in the secret chambers, believe it not. So they're going to be going, he's like, hey, he came. 01:03:05.600 --> 01:03:12.720 He's over here. Come get some McDonald's. Come get some, you can get your subscriptions over here. 01:03:12.720 --> 01:03:17.200 He's already setting up his millennial reign. And they're like, oh, I don't know. And Jews are there. 01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:25.680 And the Jews are believing. You know, they're just like, 01:03:26.640 --> 01:03:31.040 run over, just ecstatic. And then they get there and there's a bunch of guillotines. 01:03:33.600 --> 01:03:36.480 And they're like, psych, should have read your Bible. 01:03:36.560 --> 01:03:43.520 Who believes any, how, how little Bible do you know when someone can just deceive by saying he's in the desert? 01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:49.360 At of all places in the world, do you think Christ would come to the desert? 01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:57.760 Secret chamber. And, you know, oh, he's in Jerusalem right now. He's in the desert. 01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:00.720 He's in the secret chamber in Jerusalem. 01:04:01.040 --> 01:04:04.400 Go take your pilgrimage. Just collect some on, just put some to death. 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:20.880 Okay. No, folks, it's not a secret. It's a visible rapture. And look what it says in verse 27, for as the lightning cometh out of the east and shine it even into the west, so shall also the coming of the son of man be lightning is visible. 01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.160 It's a great power of a flash. 01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:33.280 It's not something that happens secretly. It makes heads turn. Right? You know, when you're at home and there's like a flash of lightning, you're always late to see you're just like, 01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:48.400 was that lightning? You know, it's just like, catches your attention. Right? Well, the Bible saying here as the lightning cometh out of the east and shine it even into the west, so shall the coming of the son of man be lightning is visible. 01:04:48.480 --> 01:05:02.640 Well, the Bible saying here as the lightning cometh out of the east and shine it even into the west, so shall the coming of the son of man be. Now this could be referring to his trajectory. I would say that it's simply referring to the fact that he will be visibly seen at the rapture. 01:05:02.640 --> 01:05:13.120 Okay. He says for whatsoever the carcass is, there were the eagles we gathered together. Now they'll often, of course, just criticize this and say, no, you're wrong about this. It's a secret. 01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:24.800 Matthew 24 is only for the Jews. And it's like, well, so why do you believe in a pre trip rapture that he can come at any moment? Like, where do you get your eminency position from? They're like, oh, Matthew 24. 01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:28.160 Look at verse number. 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:38.560 Let's see here. Verse number 36. It says, but of that day and hour knoweth no man know not the angels of heaven, but my father only. So it's kind of hypocritical, is it not? 01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:43.520 They're like, Matthew 24 is only for the Jews. Where do you teach eminency from? Matthew 24. 01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:47.920 But I thought it was only for the Jews. Well, that part is only for the Jews. 01:05:48.720 --> 01:05:55.920 This part is for us right here. And then it goes back to being about the Jews and then back to being about us or whatever and so forth. 01:05:55.920 --> 01:06:00.960 You know, they got the same problem as the post millennial is, don't they? Where they read things out of chronological order. 01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:04.880 And so, you know, the Bible does not teach the eminency of Jesus Christ. 01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:10.880 Obviously, it says that no man knoweth the day or the hour, and we're not putting a date to the rapture. 01:06:10.880 --> 01:06:13.680 But we obviously know that it says he comes after the tribulation. 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:21.760 Okay, it doesn't give us a day. It doesn't give us an hour. It gives us events that take place prior to his second coming. 01:06:22.480 --> 01:06:38.480 Understand? And let me explain to you why the pre-trib crowd rapture crowd is wrong and why the post-millennialist is wrong and why they're both dangerous. 01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:41.440 Because they're both preparing people for an antichrist, that's why. 01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:46.480 We obviously see how the pre-tribbers do that, right? But the post-millennialists are the same. 01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:57.440 They're exactly the same. They're preparing people for why? Because the pre-trib crowd, they are talking about the eminency of Christ, meaning that Jesus Christ could come at any moment. 01:06:57.440 --> 01:07:01.920 But according to Bible prophecy, who's really the one that comes at any moment? It's the antichrist. 01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:03.920 Because he shows up first. 01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:14.480 And, you know, when you have these Zionists out there, and you know, obviously, when we talk about Christian Zionists, it's a very broad spectrum. 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:20.480 That have saved people in it, and a lot of people are not saved, but some are. 01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:24.480 And I know online people get upset at that. They're just like, no, none of them are saved. 01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:32.480 And most of the people who are saying this are like Catholics and Orthodox or whatever, and just people who just absolutely abhor Zionism. 01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:36.480 But folks, you can hate Zionism and still believe that there are Zionists out there that are saved. 01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:40.480 Because salvation is based upon your faith in Jesus Christ exclusively. 01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:46.480 Yeah, but how can you believe the Jews are God's chosen people will still be saved? It's called ignorance. 01:07:46.480 --> 01:07:50.480 It's called just, you just don't know the Bible. 01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:52.480 You know, that's just how it works. 01:07:52.480 --> 01:07:56.480 But here's the thing, there's obviously Zionists out there that are not saved. 01:07:56.480 --> 01:08:06.480 Okay, Amir, whatever his name is, that Jew who's talking at Jack Hibbs Church, that dude is not saved. 01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:10.480 Not only is he not saved, the guy is just a flaming false prophet. 01:08:10.480 --> 01:08:14.480 He's a heretic. He's a Judaizer. 01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:19.480 He's twofold more a child of hell because he has infiltrated a church. 01:08:19.480 --> 01:08:25.480 And yeah, you know what? I'm not for Jack Hibbs, but I'm going to tell you right now, there's probably good people at Jack Hibbs Church. 01:08:25.480 --> 01:08:27.480 I know there is. 01:08:27.480 --> 01:08:31.480 Okay, and you know what? They're being carried about with all that wind of doctrine. 01:08:31.480 --> 01:08:39.480 You had this guy, Amir, literally saying that if you don't believe the Jews are God's chosen people, you lost your salvation or you just don't have salvation at all. 01:08:39.480 --> 01:08:43.480 He's like, I don't see how God's going to let you into heaven if you don't accept Israel or whatever. 01:08:43.480 --> 01:08:47.480 And then Jack Hibbs is right there like, yep, yep, amen. 01:08:47.480 --> 01:08:51.480 Jack Hibbs sounds like you're not saved either, if you agree with that. 01:08:51.480 --> 01:08:55.480 And let me tell you something, if you agree with that, you're not saved. 01:08:55.480 --> 01:09:00.480 Because the Bible doesn't teach that, Adoshah confess with thy mouth, Israel. 01:09:00.480 --> 01:09:05.480 And believe in that heart that it was that God brought him back in 1948, thou shalt be saved. 01:09:08.480 --> 01:09:10.480 You have to believe on Christ. 01:09:11.480 --> 01:09:14.480 And again, there's people out there who believe all this stuff. 01:09:14.480 --> 01:09:21.480 But here's the thing, folks, is that most fundamental Baptists will agree that, you know, the Jews are God's chosen people. 01:09:21.480 --> 01:09:26.480 But they'll also say, but if they don't believe on Christ, they will go to hell, which I'll take that for now. 01:09:27.480 --> 01:09:33.480 The problem I have is when people start saying, like, oh, if you don't believe that, as if it's like a key doctrine of the Christian faith. 01:09:33.480 --> 01:09:35.480 It's nonsense. 01:09:35.480 --> 01:09:42.480 The point that I'm making here is that the immanency, the Bible does teach immanency, but it's the immanency of the Antichrist and not of Jesus Christ. 01:09:42.480 --> 01:09:43.480 Okay. 01:09:43.480 --> 01:09:48.480 And so the preachers are preparing people for an Antichrist, but the post-millennialists are too. 01:09:48.480 --> 01:09:49.480 Why? 01:09:50.480 --> 01:09:57.480 Because they're waiting for a world to be unified around one man, around the message of Christianity and folks that's never going to happen until the Antichrist comes. 01:09:57.480 --> 01:10:01.480 Like Christianity will never be the dominant religion of this world. 01:10:01.480 --> 01:10:03.480 It's never going to happen. 01:10:03.480 --> 01:10:05.480 I hate to break it to you, but I don't hate it. 01:10:05.480 --> 01:10:07.480 It's just not going to happen. 01:10:07.480 --> 01:10:11.480 We will be the dominant religion in the millennial reign. 01:10:11.480 --> 01:10:15.480 And again, here's the problem with post-millennialists. 01:10:15.480 --> 01:10:18.480 They want the millennialism to be the dominant religion. 01:10:18.480 --> 01:10:21.480 They want the millennial reign of Christ without Christ. 01:10:21.480 --> 01:10:29.480 Because the only way to obtain a world where everything is in subjection to Jesus Christ, the laws are Christian. 01:10:29.480 --> 01:10:32.480 All politicians are Christian. 01:10:32.480 --> 01:10:35.480 Regenerated individuals is in the millennial reign. 01:10:35.480 --> 01:10:37.480 But prior to that, it's not going to happen. 01:10:37.480 --> 01:10:38.480 You know why? 01:10:38.480 --> 01:10:43.480 Because if that were to happen today, it would be just a smorgasbord of heresy and apostasy. 01:10:43.480 --> 01:10:47.480 Because people who claim to be Christian doesn't mean they're actually Christian. 01:10:47.480 --> 01:10:54.480 Just because a political person, a politician, holds a position of leadership and claims to be Christian doesn't mean they're saved. 01:10:54.480 --> 01:11:01.480 You have Catholics, you have Orthodox there, you have Mormons. 01:11:01.480 --> 01:11:09.480 You have a wide spectrum of those who claim to be Christian, but they don't actually agree on the key doctrines of the Christian faith. 01:11:09.480 --> 01:11:13.480 That is a pseudo unity of Christianity. 01:11:13.480 --> 01:11:16.480 Or if we all just kind of agree, no! 01:11:16.480 --> 01:11:19.480 There's no kind of agreeing on these things. 01:11:19.480 --> 01:11:22.480 We need to agree in the local New Testament church. 01:11:22.480 --> 01:11:31.480 And I'm going to be, again, like I said on Thursday, I'm looking to be the mayor of California, the governor of California, in the millennial reign. 01:11:31.480 --> 01:11:34.480 I was competing with Jimenez, but not anymore. 01:11:34.480 --> 01:11:38.480 He's going to be sweeping the streets now. 01:11:38.480 --> 01:11:42.480 He's going to be the least in the kingdom of heaven now. 01:11:42.480 --> 01:11:43.480 Yeah. 01:11:43.480 --> 01:11:46.480 What do you mean, wow, that's true, it's a fact. 01:11:46.480 --> 01:11:52.480 What do you think he's going to do, do you think he's going to be his secretary or something? 01:11:52.480 --> 01:11:57.480 Stealing money in a church kind of drops you pretty low on the position there. 01:11:57.480 --> 01:12:08.480 Being a liar, a dishonest person claiming to be a pastor, and using it to gain filthy lucre and steal money into fraud missionaries, that's pretty wicked. 01:12:08.480 --> 01:12:11.480 That's evil. 01:12:11.480 --> 01:12:24.480 Lying, stealing from missionaries, just using funds in order to buy your building instead of actually, look, we need a building, but I'm never going to just grab mission funds to buy a building. 01:12:24.480 --> 01:12:27.480 It would be a very dishonest thing to do. 01:12:27.480 --> 01:12:32.480 And to say that was happening, yeah, you're pretty least in the kingdom of heaven there. 01:12:32.480 --> 01:12:39.480 And if you don't agree Jimenez, then go ahead and make a video and explain to yourself why you deserve a higher position in the millennial reign. 01:12:39.480 --> 01:12:55.480 The point that I'm making here is that, you know, the only time politics will matter, listen to me, politics will matter in this world is in the millennial reign. 01:12:55.480 --> 01:13:00.480 Not before it, at the millennial reign is when it's going to matter. 01:13:00.480 --> 01:13:04.480 And this is why we should be promoting the kingdom of God. 01:13:04.480 --> 01:13:07.480 Wait, are you against Republican? 01:13:07.480 --> 01:13:11.480 I mean, haven't you noticed? 01:13:11.480 --> 01:13:15.480 I can't be a Republican because it's too liberal for me. 01:13:15.480 --> 01:13:19.480 It's too weak. 01:13:19.480 --> 01:13:24.480 They rub shoulders with like Mormons and all types of false religions out there and they're all ecumenical. 01:13:24.480 --> 01:13:25.480 I can't handle that. 01:13:25.480 --> 01:13:27.480 That's not me. 01:13:27.480 --> 01:13:29.480 You know, that shouldn't be you either. 01:13:29.480 --> 01:13:34.480 No, they're extreme in certain areas. 01:13:34.480 --> 01:13:38.480 Let's have a politician quote Leviticus 2013 and then we'll talk. 01:13:38.480 --> 01:13:43.480 Okay, let's have a politician actually read Romans chapter one. 01:13:43.480 --> 01:13:45.480 You know, oh, let's keep them out of the restrooms. 01:13:45.480 --> 01:13:47.480 How about just keeping them out of the church? 01:13:47.480 --> 01:13:48.480 Let's just start with that. 01:13:48.480 --> 01:13:51.480 How about just reinstating the death penalty again? 01:13:51.480 --> 01:13:53.480 How about that? 01:13:53.480 --> 01:13:57.480 Yeah, but see, Magna people don't like that though. 01:13:57.480 --> 01:14:00.480 It's too mean. 01:14:00.480 --> 01:14:05.480 Anyways, we're talking about end science prophecy here. 01:14:05.480 --> 01:14:08.480 Let's see if there's anything else I want to say about this. 01:14:08.480 --> 01:14:09.480 That's pretty much it. 01:14:09.480 --> 01:14:12.480 So, you know, these are my notes right here. 01:14:12.480 --> 01:14:14.480 So that's all I got right now. 01:14:14.480 --> 01:14:20.480 The point that I'm making here is that the all-millennialist view is wrong because the thousand-year reign, 01:14:20.480 --> 01:14:23.480 there's nothing symbolic about it. 01:14:23.480 --> 01:14:25.480 You know, let's see the evidence. 01:14:25.480 --> 01:14:27.480 Let's see the receipts. 01:14:27.480 --> 01:14:32.480 If it's symbolic, then you teach me what does it symbolize? 01:14:32.480 --> 01:14:33.480 What is it a parable of? 01:14:33.480 --> 01:14:41.480 Explain to me, why does the Lord use a specific number, a thousand years, to describe this reign? 01:14:41.480 --> 01:14:43.480 And what is it symbolic of? 01:14:43.480 --> 01:14:44.480 Show me some scripture. 01:14:44.480 --> 01:14:48.480 Compare scripture to scripture to demonstrate why I'm wrong in that area. 01:14:48.480 --> 01:14:52.480 And the post-millennialists, you know, I have a bunch of scripture to demonstrate to you 01:14:52.480 --> 01:14:55.480 that the world is not going to progressively get better. 01:14:55.480 --> 01:14:59.480 And if you think the world is progressively getting better now, you're out of your mind. 01:14:59.480 --> 01:15:05.480 You know, there's never going to be a time until the very end where you'll have Republicans 01:15:05.480 --> 01:15:07.480 and Democrats actually agreeing with one another. 01:15:07.480 --> 01:15:12.480 You're not going to have that until the Antichrist takes place, until the New World Order. 01:15:12.480 --> 01:15:20.480 Because it's when the Antichrist actually takes over that globally everyone will agree on worshiping one man. 01:15:20.480 --> 01:15:21.480 How do you know that? 01:15:21.480 --> 01:15:23.480 Because that's literally what the Bible says. 01:15:23.480 --> 01:15:25.480 And in fact, let's go to Revelation 13. 01:15:25.480 --> 01:15:26.480 We'll finish there. 01:15:27.480 --> 01:15:29.480 Hope you learned something this morning. 01:15:37.480 --> 01:15:40.480 Revelation 13, verse one says, 01:15:40.480 --> 01:15:43.480 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, 01:15:43.480 --> 01:15:49.480 having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 01:15:49.480 --> 01:15:53.480 And the beast which I saw was likened to a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, 01:15:53.480 --> 01:15:57.480 and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power and his seed and great authority. 01:15:57.480 --> 01:16:01.480 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, 01:16:01.480 --> 01:16:05.480 and all the world wondered after the beast. 01:16:05.480 --> 01:16:08.480 This, by the way, flies on the face of post-millennialism, 01:16:08.480 --> 01:16:12.480 because post-millennialism asserts that all this took place in 70 AD. 01:16:12.480 --> 01:16:14.480 70 AD was a localized event. 01:16:14.480 --> 01:16:18.480 Here we see that the world wonders after the beast. 01:16:18.480 --> 01:16:20.480 Symbolic. 01:16:21.480 --> 01:16:24.480 And they worshiped the dragon, verse four, 01:16:24.480 --> 01:16:27.480 which gave power unto the beast, and they worshiped the beast saying, 01:16:27.480 --> 01:16:30.480 Who is likened to the beast, and who is able to make war with him? 01:16:30.480 --> 01:16:33.480 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, 01:16:33.480 --> 01:16:36.480 and power was given unto him to continue forwarding two months. 01:16:36.480 --> 01:16:38.480 Symbolic, right? 01:16:38.480 --> 01:16:41.480 And he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God, 01:16:41.480 --> 01:16:45.480 to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven, 01:16:45.480 --> 01:16:50.480 and it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, 01:16:50.480 --> 01:16:54.480 and power was given unto him over all kindreds and tongues and nations. 01:16:54.480 --> 01:16:58.480 Now let me point something out regarding verse seven before I finish up here. 01:16:58.480 --> 01:17:02.480 They will use this passage to say that this took place in 70 AD, 01:17:02.480 --> 01:17:06.480 because Emperor Roman Titus is picturing the Antichrist, 01:17:06.480 --> 01:17:10.480 who basically destroys Jerusalem and the temple and the Jews. 01:17:10.480 --> 01:17:12.480 Jews aren't saints. 01:17:16.480 --> 01:17:18.480 Right? 01:17:18.480 --> 01:17:22.480 Not even according to those who believe this. 01:17:22.480 --> 01:17:26.480 He says he makes war with the saints. Jews aren't saints. 01:17:26.480 --> 01:17:29.480 Why? Because they're not saved. 01:17:29.480 --> 01:17:32.480 He's close. 01:17:32.480 --> 01:17:38.480 But it says to overcome them, and power was given unto him over all kindreds 01:17:38.480 --> 01:17:44.480 and tongues and nations, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him. 01:17:44.480 --> 01:17:47.480 What does it say? It's a global thing. 01:17:47.480 --> 01:17:50.480 70 AD was localized. 01:17:50.480 --> 01:17:53.480 Jews are not saints. 01:17:53.480 --> 01:17:58.480 What is it showing us? It's demonstrating that there is a future event where this will take place. 01:17:58.480 --> 01:18:00.480 The future man of sin. 01:18:00.480 --> 01:18:02.480 The future Antichrist. 01:18:02.480 --> 01:18:05.480 And yes, Christ will return, and yes, it is the second coming, 01:18:05.480 --> 01:18:09.480 and yes, it is the resurrection, and yes, it's synonymous with the rapture. 01:18:09.480 --> 01:18:15.480 This is why it's biblical to be a premillennialist, not an amillennialist for sure, 01:18:15.480 --> 01:18:17.480 and definitely not a postmillennialist. 01:18:17.480 --> 01:18:19.480 Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word. 01:18:19.480 --> 01:18:21.480 Thank you for the explicit teachings in the Bible. 01:18:21.480 --> 01:18:23.480 Thank you for making it clear to us, Lord. 01:18:23.480 --> 01:18:26.480 And we're thankful for the book of Revelation. 01:18:26.480 --> 01:18:29.480 A lot of people avoid this book because it's obscure to them. 01:18:29.480 --> 01:18:35.480 But as the name tells us, it's meant to reveal things to us that must shortly come to pass. 01:18:35.480 --> 01:18:41.480 And I pray that you'd help us as your people to have a better understanding of it as we take on this position 01:18:41.480 --> 01:18:47.480 that the second coming of Christ is synonymous with the rapture, synonymous with the day of the Lord. 01:18:47.480 --> 01:18:53.480 And I pray that, Lord, in light of that, you'd prepare us and that we would prepare ourselves for tribulation. 01:18:53.480 --> 01:18:56.480 Help us not to throw in the towel when the going gets tough. 01:18:56.480 --> 01:19:02.480 When we go through afflictions and trials and difficulties, help us, Lord, as your people to endure tribulation. 01:19:02.480 --> 01:19:06.480 For if it so comes in our lifetime, may we not faint in the day of adversity. 01:19:06.480 --> 01:19:07.480 We love you. We thank you. 01:19:07.480 --> 01:19:09.480 Pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.