(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) Then Matthew chapter 24 then and it's been a couple of weeks as I was away last week since we're in Matthew. We're in chapter 23 last. Well if you remember Jesus really let rip on the Pharisees didn't he? He gave us all of these what I called sort of classic traits of false prophets and their varying types of false prophets. We saw the hypocrisy, the boasting, the pride, the covetousness, uneven standards, fake persona and he's calling them out isn't he? He's giving examples of their wickedness. This is direct preaching. Now whether or not you know and maybe some people think they were there at the time I don't think they were. Either way it's very biblical isn't it to do that. He's calling them out. He's making it very clear. He then makes it clear that they're going to hell okay. He made it very clear. There's no trying to save these people. I often see these sort of clowns. I've seen them before online where they're kind of talking about praying for false prophets and things like this. Look if it's a false prophet they're done. The bible's clear about that. Jesus Christ didn't go if we could just reach them and just pray for them. He said in verse 33 ye serpents ye generation of vipers how can you escape the damnation of hell? He didn't say oh you can escape how can you? That's a rhetorical question. They can't. They can't escape it. He then said in verse 35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth. He wasn't oh if only I could reach these scribes and pharisees. He then finished with a warning to Jerusalem the city and ended up saying by saying for I say unto you ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. And we're now going to move on Matthew 24 and verse 1 from what was a sort of a few chapters there we're dealing with him going into the temple and all the stuff that went on there and finishing with that sermon there and verse 1 which says and Jesus went out and departed from the temple and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple and Jesus said unto them see ye not all these things verily I say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down. I'd like to pray before we continue with this chapter. Father thank you for your word. Thank you for the clear prophecies in the Bible. Lord you make them clear and you know with a bit of just comparing and not even that chapters like this you can read on their own and learn so much about what's to come in this world. Please please help me to to just preach this accurately, boldly, clearly. Lord just fill me with your spirit. Help everyone here to really pay attention to what your your Bible's got to say. Lord what your word saying to them. Help me to just just preach exactly what you'd want me to preach and and to not preach what you wouldn't want me to preach. Lord Jesus saying pray all of this. Amen. Right so so this passage of scripture that we're in here is known as the olivert discourse which is basically an intellectual sounding way of saying it was a chat on the mount of olives okay which is really what it is the olivert discourse they like to talk about and a lot of times people like to use these terms makes them sound really well read and and theologically educated um there are there are two parallel passages to this which are mark 13 and luke 21 but we're going to stay here for the most part and really we're going to be going into the book of revelation a bit today um you know as a main main sort of turning point there um however just just a point with mark and luke's gospels with this first bit you don't really have to to turn there but they both show that it was the cost and the beauty um that the disciples were pointing out here in these first couple of verses luke 21 5 particularly which says and as some spake of the temple how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts he said and we've just seen them in verse two uh sorry in verse sorry they've shown him in verse one then jesus kind of replied to what we then see sort of from luke's perspective about the goodly stones and gifts he said see not all these things verily i say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down so he's he's telling them how it's going to be destroyed god doesn't really care much for the beautiful buildings does he god doesn't really seem to care much for that sort of stuff it's what's going on on inside the building that counts and obviously you know a church like this when we're in an industrial building an industrial estate you know sometimes you need to preach this message because people don't really get it do they they're kind of like well you know where the stained glass windows where's like where's all the kind of the comforts or the beauty behind where the graven images i mean what sort of church is this where's the steeple where's all that sort of stuff that maybe maybe people growing up are used to or maybe they're used to other stuff maybe it's like where the flashing lights where's the rock band or something else where where's kind of you know all the kind of things that look oh you know why is it not next to a train station or next to you know the bus stop whatever else well because this is what god's given us yeah this is what god's given us this is what's being provided for us and this is where god's house is and and this is where we come to worship god do you think he really cares about those beautiful church buildings out there not at all he would happily smash every single one of them all those beautiful buildings because it's very rare you'll see a beautiful church building which is actually preaching the gospel if they're not preaching the gospel they preach a false gospel really um do you think we should be looking for the most beautiful building we can in the future well if we grow enough mate we need to really just get that no what what does that matter what look obviously we want to be we want to have a place that we can respect and be happy to be in but ultimately it's what goes on the building that really counts isn't it and and really it's all going to be getting thrown down soon isn't it and here obviously you know it's sooner that we're going to see this you know in 70 a.d it all gets destroyed but verse three we're going to carry on it says and as he sat upon the mount of olives the disciples came unto him privately saying tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world did they just ask about the destruction of jerusalem no they asked about the end of the world because there are people that are called preterists out there who believe that all of this has already happened so people out there you might have stumbled across them if you kind of look at this all the stuff out there online or maybe when you talk to people who believe that we we've already all of this has happened well you talked about the end of the world i don't remember the end of the world happening anyone remember the end of the world happening no no i miss that as well and jesus obviously makes it clear and if you read this passage i don't see how you can come away with a preterist world view unless you just reject parts of the bible and take the bits you like which is sadly what a lot of a lot of false doctrine does and jesus answers said unto them take heed that no man deceive you and there is a lot of deception out there especially about this this point as well and this this sort of end times prophecy and obviously in our sort of circles we're we're you know if anyone's wondering we're what we call a new independent fundamental baptist church so we we have many similarities to the independent fundamental baptist movement you know we we believe in the fundamentals of the faith we believe in an independent church yes we're baptist yeah we and all that that should stand for and we're not talking about like the baptist union clown churches out there we're talking about real baptist independent baptist churches however there are certain things that you know define us as a new independent fundamental baptist church and obviously really kind of carrying on what should have been a forever torch of soul winning which kind of doesn't seem it's very hard to find an old independent fundamental baptist church which has much of a heart for soul winning soul winning being a big one standing on the word of god against about key issues which the the world is changing on but the word of god doesn't such as sodomy and vile affections other things like that but also something that we stand as well is that the bible is so very clear about what's going to happen in the end times and we take what's called a post-tribulation pre-wrath position which sadly so many churches which seem to a lot of them don't unfortunately some of them still seem to have the gospel right seem to be so misled on this on this topic in this issue a lot of that has come from you know the sort of false kind of study bibles you know the the scofield reference bibles things like this larkin and others with their with their big notes and graphs which people it's just so easy to go to is it rather just study the word of god for what the word of god says and that's what we're going to do tonight um he said take heed that no man deceived you know they are very deceptive i have an old pastor that i'm still on his email list you know and he sends me sends me emails and and i ignore most of them but sometimes i do and i got sent an email not long ago basically it was this long long long kind of claiming to be a study or or or uh an attack on the post-trip pre-wrath position and support for his pre-trip heresy and um i mean it was it was ridiculous i tried looking through it and and i've heard this description before some of you might have heard this called mental gymnastics and this was just a classic case of mental gymnastics and just taking verses and saying you see and verse it didn't have anything to do with his point and it was just absolutely ridiculous and what they do is they take something which is ultimately very simple and as we go through this passage those of you that maybe haven't looked at this before are going to see that and then they make it so very complicated where no one can really keep up and goes well i'm just going to have to believe what you say because because it doesn't make any sense it shouldn't be like that should it so we're going to look at that tonight they do twist and turn they deceive people and some of these look you know i'll say some of these people i don't think are out there maybe purposely trying to deceive many are and the people that obviously that were pushing this in the first place push it upon them were out to deceive um but there are others claiming all sorts of weird stuff and one of those weird things that we see out there we see a lot of full stock track there's people trying to claim that they are jesus christ but they are some form of christ he said in verse five for many shall come in my name saying i am christ and shall deceive many and there's a guy recently that haven't really looked into much i know there's a bit of preacher on him called uh tyler doko and there are many of these guys and this guy has a relatively big following from what i can tell at least an online following um he has a church doesn't he's there are other cult clowns over history that have claimed to be christ and then end up kind of doing some mass suicide or such just bizarre stuff it's all this weird stuff isn't there but there is going to be a final more legitimate deceiver that we refer to as the anti-christ so there will be many false christs and what you would call anti-christ but then there's going to be one final anti-christ we're going to turn to revelation chapter six obviously keep a finger here in matthew 24 where john talks of the seven seals which precede the wrath of god and just to make it clear okay this isn't the wrath of god at this point because some people want to call the whole thing the tribulation some want to call the whole thing the wrath of god no they're clearly distinguished and we're going to see that as we go through these passages as well like i said our position is we believe that we're going to be raptured as believers post tribulation but pre-wrath okay and they're two different things revelation six lines up nicely with matthew 24 by the way we're going to see that as well revelation chap uh chapter six and verse one reads and i saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and by the way this is you know he's kind of seen this picture of heaven up until this point and he's kind of been taken up into and this is now the beginning of the prophecy here okay he says and i saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and i heard as it were the noise of thunder one of the four beasts saying come and see and i saw him behold a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer so this first seal has someone sitting on a white horse with a bow some will call these the riders of the apocalypse there's other names which kind of gives a picture of a long-range sort of sniper kind of type individual doesn't it someone may be working in the distance in the background maybe and look of course when jesus christ returns he'll be on a white horse but this isn't the return of jesus christ okay he doesn't go forth at the beginning going forth to conquer and to conquer jesus christ when he comes that he's already conquered okay this is someone clearly counterfeiting jesus christ okay this is a counterfeit another name for that is an antichrist or the antichrist and he was given a crown which is a sign of authority isn't it some sort of leadership some sort of position and as we see he's going to eventually rise to some sort of world position of leadership he went forth conquering and conquer verse three says and when he had opened the second seal now we don't know by the way when that kind of happens do we no one knows when he goes forth to conquer to conquer and when he'd open the second seal i heard the second beast say come and see and it went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that sat there on to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword so number two the second one is more isn't it peace from the earth that they should kill one another okay then verse five says and when he'd opened the third seal i heard the third beast say come and see and i beheld a lower black horse and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand and i heard a voice in the midst of the four b say a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny and see they'll hurt not the oil and the wine now what's going on here well a penny when we cross reference back in the bible seems to be a day's wage a penny being a day's wage a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures for for a penny a day's wage approximately 100 pounds for what probably maybe will get you a loaf of bread or something else that's famine yeah that's famine that's when food is scarce very rare so number three this fur this third seal is going to be famine and then verse seven says and when he had opened the fourth seal i heard the voice of the fourth beast say come and see and i looked and behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was death and hell followed with him and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger with death and with the beasts of the earth so number four here is is basically mass death he said here he said he said to kill uh it said power over it was given over the unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger and with death that's a quarter of the earth dying i mean that sounds horrendous isn't it why does death why does hell follow because if anyone's not aware the vast majority of people are going to hell because broad is a way that leads to destruction many there be which go in there out okay which is a sad truth of life and that's not god's fault they they don't they don't want the truth do they they don't seek it and yes people aren't going out and preaching the gospel as well but look that's just a way of life isn't it so number four there we've seen mass death okay on a big scale keep a finger there and flick back to matthew 24 which gives the same order of events okay so here we're just seeing exactly the same order look at verse six in matthew 24 where jesus christ said this he said and you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet he didn't say you can avoid this did he he said these things must come to pass he didn't say if you go on enough campaigns or if you you know read enough conspiracy websites you're going to somehow inform everyone and stop it happening no these things must come to pass he said in verse seven for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places all these are the beginning of sorrows so we've got our four there haven't we we've got we've got the nation rise against nation we've got the famines we've got the pestilences we've got the earthquakes obviously before that we don't know when the antichrist has gone forth to conquer so let's go back to revelation six and see if then it continues to line up because so far it looks like we're lining up even in the order there these things must come to pass and they shall rise against nation that's our war then then we've got kingdom against kingdom that continues with that point and there should be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse place which is just strange places basically places you wouldn't normally have earthquakes okay so this isn't just oh there's an earthquake we must be in the end times no this is it's all building and loads of people are dying okay these are beginning of sorrows is what it's described as so revelation six and verse nine says and this says and when he had opened the fifth seal i saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of god and for the testimony which they held and they cried with a loud voice saying how long oh lord holy and true does thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto every one of them and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled by the way just a quick side point here while looking at this these people are in heaven these souls are in heaven is there any sin in heaven no they haven't got their flesh have they at this point so their souls are in heaven and what are these sinless now souls saying calling out to to the lord they're saying how long will you not judge and avenge our blood upon them that dwell on the earth so these sinless souls in heaven are calling for retribution from god on people yeah that doesn't jive with the world's version of christianity does it people that should just i'm just praying for those absolute you know wicked vile criminals out there just lord you know please forgive them no that's not really what what should be happening now obviously there's a difference here these are like you know the persecutors of the faith and everything else but i see them calling for that and these people are in heaven and there's no sin in heaven okay let's keep going anyway so white robes are given unto every one of them which is a picture of sinlessness by the way obviously they're not sinless themselves they're flesh but they don't have their flesh in heaven at this point uh pre pre rapture pre resurrection it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled so number five here was martyrdom wasn't it so we're seeing martyrdom here and if anyone's i wanted martyrdom just basically dying for for your faith okay and obviously for the true faith here okay back to matthew 24 in verse 9 he said then in verse 9 then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you and you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake now he's talking to his disciples here by the way this isn't this this isn't reserved for some random converts to the false wicked religion of judaism like hundreds if not over a thousand years plus later in fact multiple thousand years plus okay or or because you've got some percent apparently of blood of someone that was a false convert to judaism at some point in history it's absolutely ridiculous the pre-trip line and all this stuff that you hear all this zionism and everything else no he's talking to his disciples and i don't know about you but i'm a disciple anyone else here a disciple of the lord jesus christ yeah we've got some disciples in the room here so this applies to you okay this doesn't apply to only converts to the wicked false religion it doesn't apply to them at all that has a few bits of my life to them but they're more warnings right okay that doesn't apply to them let's keep going this clearly lines up though doesn't it so we're seeing like a real parallel here between matthew chapter 24 and revelation chapter 6 with verse 11 of revelation basically giving us a pause before the sixth seal so revelation says it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also in their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled so there's a pause then verse 12 then says after that and i beheld when he'd opened the sixth seal okay so something there's a pause in between that fifth and sixth seal there it says and lo there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs which is shaken of a mighty wind and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain island were moved out of their places and the kings of the earth and the great men the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand and by the way that's one of the many reasons that we separate tribulation from wrath okay we separate the tribulation from the wrath we're talking about the wrath now coming but this is obviously after the tribulation he's talking about the wrath is about to about to come but we'll see what has to happen before that in a second so go back to matthew 24 which fills in that pause that gap in verse 11 which said that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled so what's happening with this rest for a little season but but before we do we're just going to have a quick recap because i understand that this this sort of like sometimes you're preaching this you're like yeah you know i i know what i'm preaching here but sometimes not easy to you know it's easy to kind of go blank for a second or to drift off or something else you know and look some people here are maybe very on top of this subject heard a lot of preaching others might not have done so a quick recap verse three said as he sat upon the mount of olives the disciples came onto him privately saying tell us when these shall these things be and what shall be the sign of the coming in of the end of the world so they're asking what are the signs of the end of the world okay look there's an end of the world as we know it coming okay verse four says if jesus answers said unto them take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying i am christ you shall deceive many so it'll be false christ okay and we know that the anti-christ will go forth to conquer that's the first seal but we don't know when that's going to happen okay we don't know at what point that's begun he'll be in the shadows it seems he he's described as someone with a bow he's going to be cutting deals daniel 9 27 yet of turner says and he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week so he's going forth and he's trying to set things up in the background it seems a seven-year period by the way is what one week is and when this begins we we won't know now we may suspect things and suspect that it started at certain times i would imagine a lot of people have suspected that they're going into the end times throughout a lot of periods in history yeah i i mean can you imagine living through the first or second world war for example and many other kind of very dark times in history okay so we look many people have suspected it doesn't mean it has now there will also be it seems a daily sacrifice taking place again in jerusalem and i i want to spend too long on this because we only have limited time to get through this but um if you'd like if you're quick you could quickly turn to daniel chapter 8 and we're going to look from verses 13 to 14 where in daniel's vision here he and we're going to be coming back to matthew 24 obviously he talks of a daily sacrifice okay so daniel also is you know there's a lot of visions in daniel daniels is a bit harder to interpret obviously we go to revelation we compare it and then we start to understand it more but daniel's vision says from from chapter 8 verse 13 it says then i heard one saint speaking and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake how long shall there shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot and he said unto me unto 2 300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed so it appears there is going to be a daily sacrifice beginning again in jerusalem okay now how aware we're going to be a lot of people are kind of there's been a lot of like kind of you know what would you call it sort of false starters on this and people claiming yeah you know and these all these news reports and kind of conspiracy theories going they started the sacrifice again i don't believe that's the case maybe it will be very obvious i don't know i kind of believe that we're not really going to know for sure until we see the abomination desolation and we're going to get to that in a minute so i don't know how clear and how obvious i think it's going to be you don't have to turn to chapter 9 27 of daniel says that that in the middle of the seven-year period the sacrifice will stop with the abomination desolation and for me that's the image of the beast there so the sacrifice in the abomination of desolation we've just seen will last a total combined of 2 300 days don't worry i know this is kind of a bit bit complicated maybe but but but basically it would have it start starting around 250 days after the antichrist goes forth to conquer but we don't know when that is but if you start seeing if you know for sure and maybe that will happen we go there's a sacrifice going on they've started the daily sacrifice again that we know the antichrist went forth to conquer 250 days i would say before that however let's continue with matthew's gospel um and and don't worry if you're kind of wondering what all that was about basically these are we're going to see more signs here of of we're going into the end times verse six says he shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you be not troubled so there'll be wars and there'll be rumors of wars and there'd be wars and rumors of wars for a long time haven't there for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nations shall rise against nation nations have risen against nation a lot though haven't they so again we don't know for sure and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places so there's going to be war there's going to be famine there's going to be a quarter of the earth dead from things like illness sickness is what pestilences are earthquakes in diverse places but it's still not the end okay verse eight says all these are the beginning of sorrow then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you and you shall be hate of all nations for my name's sake so that's the martyrdom but what's next before the sixth seal before the sun and moon is dark and now you can merge that martyrdom in with this it's up to you what you think on that he said let's keep going now verse 10 says the nation and then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another so we're seeing now this gap that we saw in revelation six our little season what we're going to see happening so remember there's been war famine mass death okay we're on to christian persecution killed for the cause of christ it says many will be offended shall betray one another shall hate one another look when it comes to death a lot of people do some crazy look people betray one another when it's got nothing to do with them people betray one another for 20 quid people betray one another for all sorts you think people won't be betraying one another when it comes to to risking getting getting killed for for association with christians and things like that it's going to be a particularly hard time okay if you're saved and you're going through this this sounds horrendous again you don't have to turn in mark 13 12 the parallel passage says now the brother shall betray the brother to death and the father the son and children shall rise up against their parents and should cause them to be put to death i mean that sounds absolutely horrendous doesn't it think of that thing and for me we're just talking about really that that sad state of affairs with kind of mixtures of families where people are saved and unsaved but maybe not even necessarily always the case as well what you think save people with the flesh won't deliver up others to save their own hides everyone's got the flesh here you're not suddenly perfect because you've got to say look look look it's going to be it's going to be horrendous isn't it i mean that's a time when you want to be as close to god as possible as in the spirit as possible it says in verse 11 and many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many now like with the antichrist there are many okay we've seen again many and look there are many false prophets around anyway so again this is nothing new saying many false prophets shall arise and i mean we seem to be seeing a lot of false prophets out there i mean it's hard to find people that are just preaching the truth right but you could see you could see the apostate so-called christian i was thinking about this kind of pitting the false prophet and antichrist badge maybe on one of these and maybe going oh well we think like that one's a false prophet because really they're going to they're going to accept the antichrist aren't they and they are going to accept the false prophet so maybe they're going to try and justify it in one way well you can imagine them going well no they'll like suddenly have dug up some new like better manuscripts that'll be it oh no no we found some better manuscripts that just no one had for two thousand and something years and they're more accurate and everyone will be like oh well it must be you know because i don't really like what that word of god says i hope he doesn't say everything it says there and those those manuscripts are going well actually when it comes to the end times he's not necessarily going to come like in the clouds and the lightning from east to west it's going to be a bit different he's going to be more of a world leader you know something else and they'd be like and the antichrist was actually that kind of random guy on youtube you know i don't know you know just thinking you know these there are many false prophets many antichrists but look revelation for us with the knowledge with with the wisdom of the word of god with salvation we're not going to be deceived okay but uh turn to revelation 13 which gives us a bit more insight into this period of period of time as well before the sixth seal and second coming of christ and and the second coming of christ is the rapture we're going to see that as well in a minute revelation 13 and verse 1 says this revelation 13 1 and if you're wondering why have we jumped from revelation 6 to 13 what's happening between well well the book of revelation and if only i think many people here would be if only someone explained this to me earlier you know many people here understand this point if you just split the book of revelation into two you have one to eleven and you restart again 12 to 22 wow does it make it a lot easier to understand doesn't it and all this mental gymnastics and this bits this and it's all metal mixed up and everything no it just goes it just goes you know in a nice just timeline from one to eleven and then restarts we go 12 to 22 so then we can compare and revelation 13 gives us a bit more insight into this period and it says and i stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns upon his horns ten crowns upon his heads the name of blasphemy and this is a picture of the antichrist and his world empire okay so it is a world empire as well and the beast which i saw was like unto a leopard and his feet was the feet of a bear and his mouth as the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority and when comparing this to daniel seven especially it seems that this world empire is a sort of montage of the previous world empires something like that the the leopard kind of representing the greek the bear the medo persian the lion babylon and this being really a continuation of the roman empire it seems as well um the the dragon is satan he's behind the antichrist and it says and i saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast now bearing in mind it just said it was seven heads so for me it's kind of one of these leaders one of these seven sort of leaders of this whether they're behind the scenes or not i don't know kind of this is the point when i think he then rises to power to ultimate leadership so at this point maybe it's kind of it's a bit hard to see who really is a leader i think it would take a bit for for the world to accept a whole world leader wouldn't it but then what happens is one of his heads so one of it's just said he had seven heads in verse one is wounded to death his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast so so there's some sort of resurrection type miracle something along these lines and and what is here a kind of a false version of christ right so whether it's some sort of rising from the dead something along these lines and it results in the world's amazement so the world is going to look at this just wow you know absolutely amazing what i don't know we don't know we can speculate as to how this will be pushed and promoted and i don't know verse four says and they worship the dragon which gave power unto the beast so they're worshiping satan yeah remember the dragon satan and um you know i don't have time to go to the references to show you that today and they worship the beast saying who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with him so the vast majority of the world is going to be worshiping satan and it doesn't really surprise i think anyone's here going wow i just can't work it out maybe it's through their varying false religions i some people think there'll be this one one world really i think it's going to be a merger of it oh it's really ecumenicalism for me and it's just going to all merge you know it's all different paths of god with the antichrist being their kind of prophesied messiah of all these different false religions and you know they're wondering after him and then they say and they worship the dragon which gave power unto the beast and they worship the beast saying who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with him so they're kind of putting him as this sort of leader it's probably his final step to world power then verse 5 says and there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him to continue faulting two months so so it seems like he's going to be a gifted orator as well the blasphemies he's blaspheming whether it's not by lifting himself up as some sort of christ or god or or discrediting the god of the bible or whatever else it is and this is this is you know here this well sorry he's going to continue 40 and two months which is three and a half years so we're continuing here so this is sort of the three and a half year mark in what is the fight that daniel's 40th week the the week being the seven year period okay and really now we're going to the start of what's known as the great tribulation which is basically a 75 day it's a two and a half month period worse than anything the world's ever seen before okay and maybe that's worse in the in christian's eyes probably it says in verse 6 and he opened his mouth in blasphemy against god to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven so there we see some of that blasphemy there um and he's just obviously just just whether he's just making up all these lies whatever it is verse 7 says it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations man he's got power over all those tongue waggers and how did he get that if you watch my sermon sunday you know that's not what's happening okay it's over different different languages but but who's he making war with who is it the old saints from roman catholicism he's making words for digging up those boats all those bones that just keep multiplying and multiplying and they've seen me at every church going no it's the believers that's what a saint is a believer so he's making he's making war with with christians real christians real believers okay not he's not making war with the c of e church he's not making war with all these false stories making war with christians with believers people have their faith in christ verse 8 says and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him it looks like the majority of the earth here are going to worship him whose names are not written in the book of life as a lamb slain for the foundation of the world so these people aren't saved okay they're worshiping him because they're not saved if any man have an ear let him hear okay you have ears so you should hear and basically look if you're saved you should be listening and paying attention to this verse 10 says he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patience and the faith of the saints look we're gonna have to ride this out and wanting to kill with the sword okay but but that's not what we're called to do imagine being alive when this is going on right now and i've talked about this a bit when you look what's just going on with police forces and armies you just got more and more just reprobates reprobate just flaming sodomites just suddenly becoming in these higher positions in control it's it's not it's not a far stretch of the imagination is it to see a time when you'll be getting hunted down for your faith and killed by people that absolutely hate you because of your faith in christ and it it's going to be horrendous isn't it and i don't think you know you look at it now i mean i don't know maybe in all periods of time you could look and go yeah it's probably not a long way off but i look at things going on right now and thinking yeah i mean i'm just seeing i'm just seeing just just blatant open sodomites in the police force all over the place in in the and that's not just here over all these nations all these just wicked god haters all over the place and you're going to need some patience and faith aren't you to ride this out to keep going to not just kind of want to just go on a massacre and on a rampage because it would be in the flesh you'd just be like i just want just you know just take some down with me but you need some patience and faith to to do it he said and i beheld another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon this is a false prophet and he exercise he exercises all the power of the first beast before him and causes the earth and then which dwell there into worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed and and he do with great wonders that he didn't like you know stub his toe or something he's a deadly wound okay and he do with great wonders so that he make a fire come down from heaven on the earth and the sight of men that's gonna be amazing isn't it yeah like these wicked people you know you know the devil can give some some power to people i mean he can get people doing some miraculous stuff yeah and here obviously we're going to see like you know kind of probably like you know the upper limit of the stuff that he can do here he's got a fire coming down from heaven on earth in the sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live which with with the healing of the deadly wound is for me the starter's pistol now for the great tribulation okay this is this is when a lot of people go i knew it was him i knew it was him you're not funny he never said i knew i knew you know okay this is kind of this is this is when you can really be sure because the rest of it look there's nothing i'm i don't want to sound unprecedented but this is look we're gonna we should be looking okay we should be looking out and we're going to see why we should be looking as well why we should have our eyes over but but this is when you can be like okay now i know for sure now i know for sure it says and he had power to give life unto the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause it as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed and this is for me what's known as the abomination of desolation okay and this is the image of the beast and he causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell safe either add the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name here is wisdom let him that has understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred three score that's sixty and six six six six definitely not the covid vaccine i mean how much of that stuff was out there it's the mark of the beast did anyone see a call to the world dying before that did anyone see the wars and the and all that stuff it's so crazy isn't it yet these people are claiming biblical knowledge and the guys are like falling at their feet and really they're false prophets aren't they because they're prophesying falsely about the word of god and it doesn't come to pass you prophesy stuff and it doesn't come to pass that says you're a false prophet okay and look there was a lot of that stuff out there wasn't there a lot of that stuff and they'll continue to be so and as we go in to kind of close this time people are going that's the mark and everyone's just a lot a lot of people be confused apart of people that are grounding the word of god and they're reading the word of god and going okay let's interpret world events by the word of god not interpret the word of god by world events okay and that's a very important thing to do isn't it when we're when we're going to be studying these sorts of things especially as we get closer to the end times either us or generations to come right now go back to matthew 24 so in the shadows the archer goes forth to conquer then there's war famine a quarter of the earth dead but it's still not the end we've got christians are being martyred the false prophets are everywhere then we have this world leader making some miraculous return to life okay and now we're like whoa wait a second what's going on here okay and and obviously you know even that could be you could have people blagging you could have people going i don't know that jfk is apparently living on some island somewhere was you know it's actually the antichrist so again you know we're gonna there's we're gonna know we're gonna wait a second this is getting close and then we're gonna know for sure i think when we see that image of the beast and the mark set up so you've got the false prophet doing miracles then then the image is set up yeah okay now you can imagine that with all of this taking shape okay there's going to be believers literally just scouring conspiracy channels if they stay if you can even access that i don't know they'll probably let you access certain stuff there'll be people just kind of just trying to get you know find some comments and someone who's you know always joke about someone who's got the government papers you know find those government papers or whatever it is you know everyone's always like looking for something because instead of just just looking at the bible right and they're going to be trying to or or maybe they're going to be setting up the homesteads or looking for like that cryptocurrency that's going to survive this or or you know just get those tins of food in and you know they're going to be like trying to like find all this you know kind of way they can respond to it but what should we be doing what should be our response to all this taking place but what is it it's preaching the gospel yeah you're getting to a point where the the majority of the world's going to take the mark and then they can't get saved they're done and look this is like as we see these things happening that should be when we're like right it's like we've got to get out there we've got to get preaching we've got to get people saved not be like how can i like find a way to hide before the time when i'm told to go there is a time we're told to flee but that's not at this point that's not the beginning of sorrows so verse 12 says this because look the wickedness will make many turn cold it says and because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold so so i believe and we're going to keep reading because he is talking about soul winning here okay and really i think if you're experiencing that what i was talking about with like just probably just you can imagine how bad is it now can you imagine what it's going to be like like with with all the just freakery and weirdness and sodomy and filth and perversion and cross-dressing and all that stuff in your face being pushed on you your kids and everyone around can you imagine how and all the people supporting it because i mean how many liberal sellout just absolute brainwashed morons do we have in this world who support this stuff in this nation people you know i bet there are people you know that if you talk to them 20 years ago not even that probably and you talk to them now they've literally just like just you turned on this sort of stuff you're gonna probably find it a bit hard sometimes to have that love to go out and soul win with these people aren't you it'd be like let them die because the flesh is going to do that isn't it let's be honest oh brother ian you know that doesn't sound very christian look look you know you know what you know what chris it should be as honest yeah they should be honest we should have some integrity and not try and pretend that we're these holier than now people that are like i would still be praying for the pope you know to get saved no no because the flesh is just going to be like i don't even want to go out and get these people saved you know they're fighting these these weirdos around the house babysitting the kids and stuff like what's wrong with them you know however however we're christians and we should still have a heart for people shouldn't we and that's going to be a challenge he said and because iniquity shall abound because of all this filth everywhere the love of many shall wax cold then he said but he that shall endure and to the end the same shall be saved now in case anyone is confused about this it clearly has nothing to do with spiritual salvation okay so the enduring till the end this is talking about physically saved from death okay we're going to see what that enduring is in the next verse but verse 22 in case you're wondering says and accept those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved that's not talking about your soul but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened okay so we're talking about about being saved from basically this this martyrdom getting your head chopped off and worse yeah and everything else that's going on and who knows what they're these vile vile wicked just just foaming at the mouth freaks are due to your body after and sadly probably before you killed as well but however he said but he that shall endure and to the end the same shall be saved what's the enduring well verse 14 says and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come enduring and to the end is preaching the gospel that's the first works that's the that's the obvious the the one obvious thing as a christian you should be doing if you did nothing else but went out and preached the gospel at least you're doing something worthwhile yeah that's the obvious one that's you enduring to the end oh well i'm still going to church i still pray in the morning but i can't even open my mouth preach gospel here are you an enduring you're not enduring oh but i've just lived such a holy life but i can't even open my bible and tell someone how to get saved i can't even tell him how i got saved how can you tell him how you got saved well like yeah but i don't know the like the list of going for you don't have to do that you don't have to do that you could you could turn to john 316 and preach the gospel from that if you had to yeah look you don't have to now look this isn't again there are people there are people in this chat and i've encouraged this many times if you want to be a silent partner be a silent partner yeah great need pesca but but if you're if it came to the point where you were then on your own with some family or neighbor or friend can you preach the gospel yeah you might not be confident to go and do it on the street no worries we need pairs yeah every silent partner is half a pair however can you do it when it comes to the crunch on your own and if not why not okay because we should we should or if not that should be our goal and what we're working towards that's enduring to the end preaching the gospel he said in this gospel the kingdom shall be preaching all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come and for me the tribulation the best chance that people have of salvation i mean if there's ever a time and don't get me wrong it's going to be a wicked time there's ever a time that those that would have got saved or at least could have got saved will get saved it's during the tribulation isn't it during war during war the pride-filled people where pride would have been an issue you might just think during war when they're thinking well my money's probably not going to stop me getting bombed or stop me getting shot or stop me getting ran up they might be a little bit more open to hearing the gospel right when they're staring death in the face famine staring death of faith death the cult of the world dying you might like yeah i need to make sure i know where my soul's going right this is a time forget and you know what is it what it is as well it's a time especially with the martyrdom when those who want to live for god and do things of god for me are going to be most likely to be out doing things of god because it's a funny anomaly in life that the more that the christians are persecuted the more they go out and they grow and they spend they do things the more we go actually no i'm going to go and preach the gospel you're telling me i'm going to die for preaching of course i'm going out preaching the gospel yeah and that's that should be our response shouldn't it however there will be that issue where because of the iniquity abounding the love of many shall works cold so look we need to make sure we're out preaching the gospel this would be a receptive time for me you know that that's what that's a lot of what the great tribulation is about it's about inspiring those that that that do what have a heart for doing the things of god to go out and do things and and for me it's it's kind of that last chance for the gospel to go out throughout the whole world and look look many have done the same in history okay so i'm not trying to say that you know our sorts of churches are sort of you know some sort of pioneers or anything but we do have a revival starting of soul-winning churches in in in what is the internet age as well don't we i mean this is we're part of a revival there are more and more of churches like us freeing up all over the place that are going out and preaching the gospel on mass every week sometimes every day of the week with the bigger churches we're about to add our full soul-winning time yeah oh you're trying to puff yourself each other no i'm not trying to puff myself in the church i'm saying that we're part of a revival we're part of a group of churches they're going out and preaching the gospel in a time when we see as we get to the end times he's saying that it will go out to all the world and then you add the internet to that and then you add what really is becoming let's be honest what is english becoming more and more a universal language we're seeing this universal language and look i know sometimes you know people that aren't english get offended by this that's the truth more and more people than ever are speaking english that's going to keep growing probably like in a way greek was like in a way maybe latin was like in a way before that well maybe maybe not quite hebrew but however look it is growing isn't it english is growing it's getting out there we've got the internet we're we're preaching we're getting our message out people are finding the way getting the message out that's what it's all about that's what the tribulation is about that's what the beginning of science is about that's what we're looking out for to be like let's get out of there let's look time's running out get people saved verse uh verse 14 he said this he said and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come now don't get me wrong the gospel's already gone out to all the world okay the gospel has already gone out to all the world however it seems in this end period of time it's he's giving everyone one last chance because he's long suffering isn't he not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance and god gives everyone that last chance and he's going to do that through the soul winning churches out there and through soul winning soul winning chris is going out preaching the gospel through the message getting out through using the internet and other resources to get the message out to people and the end is finally confirmed for sure once the abomination of desolation the image of the beast for me is there in jerusalem it says in verse 15 when you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by daniel the prophet stand in the holy place who so readeth let him understand then let them which be in judia flee into the mountain so then it's time to flee okay that's the confirmation of the end now at that point we might let you off if you don't turn up for soul winning times yeah wait a second okay well look because there is a point because for me that's that is the end then okay that's kind of that's that's like you know you know for sure now you've got the abomination desolation everything else is tick tick tick tick tick it's the end now that doesn't mean it's the end that second okay you've got this sort of 75 day period however that's that's kind of when you're confirmed we're in the end i think then i think you're excused then you are enduring if you're then following what jesus is saying and he's saying flee he's saying flee he's saying get somewhere safe he says this he says in verse 17 let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes and one to them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days but pray ye that your flight be not in the winter neither on the sabbath day so he's saying like don't even come and take something out of your house if you want a rooftop let's talk about rooftops who access from outside obviously people that are in the field don't go back home to get your clothes or even to where maybe you left he's saying like once this happens he's making this point get out of there flee flee flee okay now why verse 19 and 21 to them that are with child them that give suck in those days well you know just just an obvious thing is it's going to be that much difficult fleeing isn't it going to be that much difficult if one you're pregnant or do your nursing okay and and look this isn't as well if you look at verse 20 pray that your flight be not in the winter neither on the sabbath this isn't like plan your route time is it it's not all right pack up the bags it's not okay you know get this got the sleeping bag ready got all the kind of winter shelter stuff this is just legging and you're legging in the winter that's going to be tough yeah you're going to be you're going to be legging it during the sabbath in certain parts of the world like there i'd imagine public transport getting around it's going to be a bit harder i don't know also you could also add maybe maybe a point for you know maybe that's when the mass worship of the antichrist will be on the sabbath day because let's be honest we know the sort of spirit and the sorts of people behind this sort of thing yeah so maybe that's going to be part of it as well maybe it'll be a sabbath day worship maybe it's going to be a lot harder to be able to leg it when everyone's going well why aren't you you like getting down with the sound of the psaltery and harp and all that sort of stuff you know so let's keep going verse 21 says for then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no nor ever shall be definitely not the covid vaccine yeah definitely not that and except those days should be shortened there shall no flesh be saved but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened okay so with that look i mean it's saying like no flesh i don't think he's just talking about christians maybe the whole world maybe maybe there's some mess up look you can imagine a sort of weird technology in the mark maybe that's just going to you know it's like a ticking time bomb i don't know maybe maybe it's because of the wrath of satan who doesn't care for anyone really or maybe it's just all those reprobates everywhere and the mark's going to reprobate them so there's going to be a lot of reprobates around that's going to be just yeah i don't think it's going to be an easy time to survive is it oh the way it's going to be rough who are the elect the saved okay the saved not the jews the saved paul said that you don't turn it to the church in put on therefore as the elect of god that's the church in colossi put on therefore as the elect of god holy and beloved bows of mercy's kindness humbleness of mine meekness long suffering okay we're the elect you you everyone here who's saved your elect okay so then he says in verse 23 then if any man shall sound to you lo here is christ or there believe it not for there shall arise false christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect behold i've told you before wherefore if they shall say unto you behold is in the desert go not forth behold is in the secret chambers believe it not so there's just going to be deception everywhere they're just going to want to try and get you one way or another try and coerce you into going places to be caught there'll be people coming out with all sorts of stuff it's going to be a scary time it's going to be a lot of deception out there again even more reason to just be in the word of god to know what these passages are saying to be studying out these passages verse 27 says for as the lightning cometh out the east and shineth even unto the west so shall also the coming of the son of man be so when christ comes we're going to know for sure okay we're going to know for sure there's not going to be oh well someone said he's over there someone said he's just around the corner there someone said he's oh no when when when he comes we know and you know he's not talking about one of those what's that a flash of lightning we're talking about when it comes to the east all the way to the west okay when you're like wow okay that was some lightning okay we're going to know and we'll be gathered by the way because we're going to be raptured this is the rapture for wheresoever the carcasses there will the eagles be gathered together okay gathered together and then it then says immediately after yeah after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give a light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken so right here we've got after the tribulation but we haven't got the wrath yet i think hopefully everyone here understands why we're post-tribulation pre-wrath because we believe what the bible says funnily enough verse 30 says and then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory does this line up with revelation chapter 6 then we just read let's just read that again revelation chapter 6 of verse 11 turn of revelation 6 and verse 11 and it says and white robes were given unto every one of them sorry revelation 6 11 6 and verse 11 it says and white robes are given unto every one of them and it was said unto them that they should they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled okay so we saw that little season in matthew 24 then we saw christ's return and i beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became his blood looking a bit similar doesn't it and the stars of heaven fell onto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she was shaking of a mighty wind and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain and island were moved out of their places when it's hard to even picture what what's going to be going on here and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief cats are all these very wealthy very powerful people and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man hid themselves everyone hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains fallen us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand so the wrath is about to start but first things first the elect the believers are to be gathered and raptured out of their first okay we're not appointed to wrath yes look everyone who who lives godly Christ he shall suffer like persecution okay we're gonna we're gonna go through tribulation in life okay that we promise that but we're not going to go through god's wrath okay and that's why they're clear and that's they're clearly two separate things so when they raptured out of there well we've seen it we've seen it in in matthew we're going to continue to see it however just turn over to chapter seven where where you are in revelation and chapter seven and and at the beginning of chapter seven we see the 144 000 in heaven and again we're you know for sake of time we're not going to go into that that's another seven for another day okay 144 000 are in heaven okay then we see look at verse nine so this is obviously we're continuing on from chapter six where you just were we see that there's 144 000 people already in heaven then look at verse nine where it says this in in chapter seven after this after he goes through the different tribes of 12 000 he says after this i beheld and lower a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne before the lamb clothed with white robes and had palms in their hands and cried with a loud voice saying salvation to our god which sitteth upon the throne and unto the lamb and all the angels stood round about the throne about the elders and the four beasts have fell before the throne on their face and worship god saying amen blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power might be unto our god forever and ever amen and one of the elders answered saying unto me what are these which are arrayed in white robes and whence came they and i said unto him sir thou knowest so he's asked him to see what do you know i'm going to tell you and he said to me these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb therefore they before the throne of god and serve him day and night in his temple he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them they shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore neither shall the sunlight on them nor any heat for the lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living found fountains of water and god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes that's the rapture okay that's the rapture okay that's the dead in christ rising and also those those that are alive and remain and being caught up together in the air okay and that's it and that's and it's just it just follows just chronologically clearly through the book of revelation is that the same in matthew's gospel well let's go back to matthew's gospel in chapter and verse 29 of chapter 24 where we are says this immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be dark and the moon shall not give a light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken and then shall appear the sign of the sun and man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other by the way that's like the sky there okay okay four winds north south east west okay gather together that's the rapture after the tribulation before the wrath like we've just seen lined up in in the book of revelation like we've just seen in matthew's gospel it's pretty clear isn't it okay i don't care how many mental gymnastics they do i don't care how how you know they want to take a verse from here and a verse in the old testament try and disprove just clear prophecy very clear isn't it okay so and then that is when those remaining that's when those that endured and took heed and fleed will be raptured that's the point okay that's the rapture now first corinthians 15 52 you don't have to turn this is in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raising corrupt all and we shall be changed so what a lot of these people try and do they try and go no no no that's not the rapture that's the coming and that's when the jews or something will will will then be joined together with christ but a rapture is like a secret event that happened before but it's all i mean we just keep seeing it time time again and we probably have time just quickly turn to first thessalonians in chapter four we've got time to just just have a quick quick look at again you know first thessalonians 4 and we're going to look from verse 13 just again makes it so clear we see this trumpet we see this great sound of a trumpet we saw in verse 31 of matthews gathering the elect from the four winds we saw you know the son of man coming you know in heaven coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory first corinthians 15 52 said in the moment in the twinkling of a night at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound the dead shall be raising corrupt and we shall be changed then we see here in first thessalonians and and chapter four from verse 13 but i would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep that you saw are not even as others which have no hope he's talking about those that are dead in christ for if we believe that jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in jesus will god bring with him for this we sound to you by the word of the lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which are asleep for the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of god and the dead in christ shall rise first then we which are alive remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord wherefore comfort one another with these words i mean it's clear as day isn't it clear as day and there's other places we could go it's clear as day um and we're going to finish there on matthew just in in chapter 31 there um you know it's it's i can't preach all of those words there's so much there isn't there and and you know i've preached a little bit on this subject before it's a good time to kind of preach it and and next week we'll kind of go through some other topics around that as well um but but for me you know what a great passage of scripture matthew 24 very clear isn't it it all lines up it lines up with a clear revelation prophecy as well and then as you start to look then at uh at daniel and first cecilonians you know chapter 4 it's just all lines it all just matches perfectly okay it's clear as day but i mean what's what's the what's the take-home message from it what's the take-home message that if you're looking out there and many do and you're looking around you're seeing things get worse and you're thinking it's getting worse yeah it's getting worse maybe we're not a long way off it maybe the things are getting in motion you could see a what you could see a mark system where you can't buy or sell without a mark okay that that's a cashless society that doesn't sound far off does it you could see a one world government couldn't you that doesn't sound far off okay you you you can see all this stuff happening around us you can see just apostate christianity everywhere i mean i was talking to someone here just the other day on sunday and i think like because there's a hard balance isn't there between look yeah of course there are some there are people of course there are safe people around we get a lot of people save ourselves and others do and people get saved off of of videos online people get saved off of soul winners they've been so when is obviously before ourselves and and others here however at the same time you know we also have to have to accept how bad the state of churches in this nation most nations around the world really is there are people in so many nations around this world who contact us and other and other you know churches and talk to our pastor and other pastors say like we don't even have a church we can go to that preaches of the gospel in a whole nation that's how bad it is and here a lot of us here tried to go to churches which claim to preach the gospel to find out eventually they didn't really believe the gospel and they just pretended to believe the gospel but really they believe that you've got to repent of all your sins or something else to get saved and it is that bad however what's the take-home from that is we've got a job to do aren't we we're part of a revival we're part of a a group of churches which is which have a heart for soul and we need to make sure we always continue that and as we see though those days come on more and more that's more of a reason to get out and preach the gospel more and more and more get people say get preaching and make sure that we're we're doing what god wants us to do so the gospel goes out to all the world um on that we're going to pray father thank you for your word thank you for um well matthew chapter 24 and all those other passages that just help us you know those saved those are you know have the spirit of discernment to be able to see these things and of course there are people that are misled on these things you know your children and unfortunately have just been led astray by false doctrine but there are also many deceivers out there lord there's many people trying to deceive the the masses deceive people into into all sorts of false doctrine and really to just make them apathetic apathetic towards soul winning to just think that at any time they're just going to vanish and when when you have that in your mind it doesn't really make you think about going out and getting people saved and you know we need to understand that not only do we need to get people say but we need to be serving you living for you and enduring until the end to be able to be physically saved in that time not to end up just being surplus to requirements and what's the need to protect us in the top if we're not even doing anything for you help us all to have a heart to do things for you lord to to live for you to work for you to want to preach the gospel to want to get people saved however awkward that might be however embarrassing sometimes it is however tough it sometimes is lord help us to just want to get people saved um we just pray that the rest of the week we'll go where we pray that saturday um at the start of our anniversary celebrations will go great especially with the soul winning that we plan to do in the morning um that we just have a great celebration we get out on sunday just get more and more people saved lord and more people wanting to serve you and wanting to get out and learn to do the same and just think for all this amen