WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.220 What's your name? 00:00.880 --> 00:01.240 Amen. 00:02.480 --> 00:08.400 The title of my sermon this evening is The Pre-Tribulation Rapture Debunked and I've been going through 00:08.400 --> 00:14.140 a doctrinal series for our church and we're kind of at the last few things that we have 00:14.140 --> 00:19.280 in a list of heresies or false doctrines and we're kind of like on the second to 00:19.280 --> 00:22.260 last we've got one more modalism after this, all right? 00:22.900 --> 00:27.220 But Pre-Tribulation Rapture being a false doctrine is not our doctrinal statement 00:27.220 --> 00:33.760 and I was going to spend time this evening just simply going through a particular argument 00:33.760 --> 00:36.100 for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture that I've heard. 00:36.260 --> 00:40.440 So there's someone that I grew up under, his name is Jimmy Evans, he was the pastor of a 00:40.440 --> 00:41.700 church called Trinity Fellowship Church. 00:41.820 --> 00:47.960 It's a church I grew up in my whole life and growing up as a young adult and he taught 00:47.960 --> 00:52.440 the Pre-Tribulation Rapture consistently, I mean I would argue once or twice a month 00:52.440 --> 00:57.840 like almost on a regular basis, this is a common thing that I heard growing up and I'll 00:57.840 --> 01:00.700 be honest with you, I did believe in that and I thought that that was what the Bible 01:00.700 --> 01:07.400 did teach for most of my youth, most of being raised and then I ended up trying to prove 01:07.400 --> 01:12.580 the Pre-Tribulation Rapture and I am changing my position, so you know, but I want to 01:12.580 --> 01:16.120 go through some of the arguments that he makes and just see what the Bible says 01:16.120 --> 01:21.160 on this particular issue because unfortunately in this video he claims that you can prove 01:21.160 --> 01:25.940 the Pre-Tribulation Rapture with the Bible alone, which is the right idea, you should 01:25.940 --> 01:30.020 be able to preach doctrines only from the Bible, but the problem is it doesn't exist 01:30.020 --> 01:30.920 in the Bible of course. 01:31.760 --> 01:36.660 Now this is his number one point, this is his point one of proving the Pre-Tribulation 01:36.660 --> 01:44.460 Rapture from the Bible explicitly as he says let's go to Revelation 6 verse 12, 01:44.660 --> 01:49.960 and I'd be held when he'd open the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake. 01:50.560 --> 01:57.520 So this is his proof text that there's a Pre-Tribulation Rapture and this is the statement 01:57.520 --> 02:01.620 he makes before reading this verse, he says, this is the beginning of the tribulation. 02:02.400 --> 02:07.340 I looked when he opened the sixth seal, you know that there's five numbers for six? 02:08.060 --> 02:11.960 Like this is crazy, like I was kind of just flabbergasted that I'm sitting here 02:11.960 --> 02:14.200 thinking like this guy says this is the beginning of the tribulation, 02:15.180 --> 02:19.040 tribulation equals wrath, here's the proof sixth seal. 02:19.540 --> 02:20.960 What about the first seal? 02:21.080 --> 02:21.840 What about the second seal? 02:21.940 --> 02:22.660 What about the third seal? 02:22.780 --> 02:24.840 What about all the other preceding seals? 02:25.100 --> 02:27.740 Why are we just starting in the middle of the book of Revelation? 02:27.940 --> 02:29.460 Why are we starting in verse number 12? 02:29.940 --> 02:33.640 And again his main point is this, that tribulation is the wrath of God. 02:34.520 --> 02:39.060 Now he reads this whole passage but let's just read it for ourselves as well. 02:39.460 --> 02:43.140 It says, and I'd be held when he'd open the sixth seal and lo there was a great 02:43.140 --> 02:47.100 earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as 02:47.100 --> 02:50.960 blood and the stars of heaven fell under the earth even as a fig tree cast of 02:50.960 --> 02:53.860 their untimely figs when she was shaken of a mighty wind and the heaven departed 02:53.860 --> 02:56.660 as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain island were moved 02:56.660 --> 02:59.360 out of their places and the kings of the earth and the great men and the 02:59.360 --> 03:01.660 rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bond man and 03:01.660 --> 03:05.960 every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the 03:05.960 --> 03:10.620 mountains and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us from 03:10.620 --> 03:15.260 the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb for 03:15.260 --> 03:19.380 the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand. 03:20.040 --> 03:24.600 So of course the Bible does explain there is going to be a period of time 03:24.600 --> 03:29.320 where the wrath of God is poured out on the earth and I would agree that 03:29.320 --> 03:32.620 this is the timeline when the wrath of God begins. 03:33.120 --> 03:37.480 The problem is is that it's the sixth seal and it didn't say this is 03:37.480 --> 03:41.240 when the tribulation begins it just says this is the wrath and this is what 03:41.240 --> 03:46.500 you'll notice from a pre-tribulation preacher or pastor is they'll confuse 03:46.500 --> 03:52.700 terms they'll just say things like tribulation and then point to wrath or 03:52.700 --> 03:58.220 point to wrath and call it tribulation or they'll use the tribulation to 03:58.220 --> 04:03.060 mean the whole seven year period of time and then they conflate that 04:03.060 --> 04:08.960 again with wrath and they really they depend on the audience being ignorant 04:08.960 --> 04:13.160 of what the Bible teaches. They're hoping the congregation hasn't read the Bible at 04:13.160 --> 04:17.840 all or is unfamiliar with these chapters hasn't thought about it at all and so 04:17.840 --> 04:20.480 they're just cherry picking a verse here and there and just kind of jumping 04:20.480 --> 04:24.600 around and it's confusing. You know let's let's spend some time and think 04:24.600 --> 04:30.000 about why this is not true that the tribulation is the wrath of God. Well 04:30.000 --> 04:32.680 I would say number one is we didn't even talk about the first five 04:32.680 --> 04:37.420 seals. Let's let's read a little bit preceding these verses look at verse 04:37.420 --> 04:43.520 number nine and when he'd opened the fifth seal I saw under the altar the souls 04:43.520 --> 04:48.020 of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they 04:48.020 --> 04:51.740 held and they cried to the loud voice saying how long a Lord holy and true 04:51.740 --> 04:54.980 does thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell in the earth 04:54.980 --> 04:58.180 and white robes were given to every one of them and it was said in them 04:58.180 --> 05:03.260 that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants 05:03.260 --> 05:06.080 also in their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled. 05:06.340 --> 05:13.580 So in chapter six it gives us all six seals up to this point but it doesn't 05:13.580 --> 05:17.900 necessarily give us a timeline in this specific chapter okay doesn't say 05:17.900 --> 05:21.820 exactly how long seal one is it doesn't say how long seal two is it 05:21.820 --> 05:25.820 doesn't say how long seal three is. If I were to try and be gracious 05:25.820 --> 05:30.120 under this position you would almost have to believe that all six seals are 05:30.120 --> 05:35.480 opened simultaneously to then come up with this derived meaning or derived idea 05:35.480 --> 05:40.600 that the tribulation is wrath. But here's the problem the fifth seal 05:40.600 --> 05:44.400 explicitly is telling you there's a timeline difference between it and the 05:44.400 --> 05:49.340 sixth one. It's saying hey how long are you are you gonna wait and he's 05:49.340 --> 05:52.380 like hey you still have to wait at least a little season. So we have to 05:52.380 --> 05:58.060 realize that the fifth seal and the sixth seal cannot be the exact same 05:58.060 --> 06:03.500 timeline. So if the sixth seal is the beginning of the wrath of God then what 06:03.500 --> 06:07.720 was the fifth seal? And of course we understand it because we actually 06:07.720 --> 06:11.400 understand the Bible that that's the great tribulation. So what the Bible 06:11.400 --> 06:16.620 really teaches is the first four seals tribulation. The fifth seal great 06:16.620 --> 06:21.540 tribulation. The sixth seal the wrath of God. And look Jimmy Evans is not 06:21.540 --> 06:24.340 ignorant of this because he said in the same video there's some people who 06:24.340 --> 06:28.140 believe that we're going to be raptured right before the wrath kind of a 06:28.140 --> 06:31.240 little bit around the midpoint of the tribulation of the seven year 06:31.240 --> 06:36.400 period and he's like but you know that doesn't make any sense because 06:36.400 --> 06:40.800 tribulation is wrath. Okay well you know let's keep debunking that 06:40.800 --> 06:44.280 point go to Matthew chapter number 24 go to Matthew chapter number 24 and 06:44.280 --> 06:46.600 then he has some other points that we're going to dispel here in a 06:46.600 --> 06:52.120 minute. But mostly the argument for pre-trib is just well I just don't 06:52.120 --> 06:55.700 think God would cause us to live through tribulation or I don't think God 06:55.700 --> 07:00.040 would appoint us to tribulation. But see they can't say that because the 07:00.040 --> 07:03.080 Bible doesn't say that they say well God doesn't appoint us to wrath and 07:03.080 --> 07:06.180 that is a verse in the Bible. So then they have to conflate tribulation 07:06.180 --> 07:09.580 with wrath in your mind so then they can say well I don't think God 07:09.580 --> 07:13.660 would cause us to live in a dangerous world and all this bad stuff 07:13.660 --> 07:19.420 and people are dying and it's like well aren't people dying now? What about 07:19.420 --> 07:23.320 throughout history? Has there been times of tribulation in the history? You 07:23.320 --> 07:28.300 know and it really starts to fall apart. But here's another problem is the 07:28.300 --> 07:33.080 parallels in the Bible of this particular text so we just read in 07:33.080 --> 07:38.120 Revelation 6 how the sun's darkened and the moon's not given her light and 07:38.120 --> 07:42.320 there's just all these different descriptions well that's mentioned in 07:42.320 --> 07:49.700 the book of Matthew. Now let's you know let's just see when that happens 07:49.700 --> 07:55.600 according to Matthew 24 verse 29. Immediately after the tribulation of 07:56.420 --> 07:59.540 those days saw the sun be darkened and the moon should not give her light and 07:59.540 --> 08:02.400 the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be 08:02.400 --> 08:06.980 shaken. Okay maybe I should add you keep your finger here but I'll just 08:06.980 --> 08:11.380 read for you again from Matthew or I'm sorry from Revelation chapter 08:11.380 --> 08:18.640 6 verse number 12 which is where he was pointing us to. Sorry I'm going to 08:18.640 --> 08:23.600 print the page. He said or the Bible says and behold when he had opened the 08:23.600 --> 08:27.100 sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as 08:27.100 --> 08:31.020 saffcock of hair and the moon became as blood and the stars of heaven fell 08:31.020 --> 08:36.000 under the earth. Okay isn't that exactly what it says in verse 29? The 08:36.000 --> 08:37.900 sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the 08:37.900 --> 08:40.720 stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Now 08:40.720 --> 08:44.800 it says here and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven 08:45.240 --> 08:49.960 and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the 08:49.960 --> 08:52.720 Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. So 08:52.720 --> 08:56.280 they're mourning. Okay okay what did it say in Revelation chapter number 08:56.280 --> 08:59.480 six? It said in the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich 08:59.480 --> 09:01.580 men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bottom and 09:01.580 --> 09:05.060 every free men hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the 09:05.060 --> 09:10.060 mountains and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us 09:10.060 --> 09:12.500 from the face of them that sit on the throne from the wrath of the 09:12.500 --> 09:17.020 lamb. Doesn't that kind of sound like the great men that we're seeing here? 09:17.040 --> 09:21.440 I mean what does it say here in verse 30? It says in the Son of Man of 09:21.440 --> 09:24.820 heaven and then shall the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall 09:24.820 --> 09:27.920 see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power 09:27.920 --> 09:30.560 and great glory. Isn't that exactly what we're seeing in Revelation 09:30.560 --> 09:34.540 chapter number six? And in verse 31 and he shall send his angels 09:34.540 --> 09:36.520 with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his 09:36.520 --> 09:40.700 elect from the four winds from one end of the heaven to the 09:40.700 --> 09:45.320 other. So this is what we would call the rapture. Now again the 09:45.320 --> 09:50.620 word rapture is not in the Bible. It's a derived term of just 09:50.620 --> 09:54.040 talking about something being caught up or seized up and 09:54.040 --> 09:57.140 again that's the actual language of 1st Thessalonians 09:57.140 --> 10:01.760 chapter number four is being caught up. So again this caught 10:01.760 --> 10:05.920 up is then where we derive the term quote rapture, something 10:05.920 --> 10:09.380 to be caught up, something to be seized up and again that's what 10:09.380 --> 10:12.140 we believe. We believe people that are saved and still alive 10:12.140 --> 10:15.340 physically at one point there's a point in human history where 10:15.340 --> 10:19.420 they'll be caught up together with Christ in the clouds and 10:19.420 --> 10:21.440 now does this happen? Do we all become Superman and we can 10:21.440 --> 10:25.140 fly? No. According to the biblical text the angels come 10:25.140 --> 10:28.180 and they gather us together. So then all the angels are 10:28.180 --> 10:30.760 coming and gathering. You know you could you could argue 10:30.760 --> 10:35.260 maybe it's just that God has to whittle down to where 10:35.260 --> 10:38.020 there's enough uh there's enough angels to get us up 10:38.020 --> 10:40.980 there or something. I don't know it's a joke okay but it's 10:40.980 --> 10:44.340 just like hey hey we're getting carried up there so it's 10:44.340 --> 10:46.820 just those that are alive and remain under the coming of 10:46.820 --> 10:49.540 the Lord. The angels are gonna come and the angels are 10:49.540 --> 10:52.480 gonna carry us up and we'll be together with the Lord. 10:52.560 --> 10:54.600 That's exactly what the Bible's saying and notice when 10:54.600 --> 10:56.500 is this according to Revelation uh Revelation 10:56.500 --> 11:01.500 chapter six the sixth seal. Yeah. Okay the sixth seal is 11:01.500 --> 11:04.600 the exact same timeline as this is being described. 11:05.340 --> 11:07.980 Now in verse thirty-two now learn a parable of the fig tree 11:07.980 --> 11:10.880 when his branch is yet tender and put it forth his leaves 11:10.880 --> 11:14.740 you know that summer is nigh. Revelation chapter number 11:14.740 --> 11:18.640 six is saying and the stars of heaven fell into the earth 11:18.640 --> 11:22.980 even as a fig tree cast that they're untimely figs when she 11:22.980 --> 11:25.840 is shaken of a mighty wind. I mean it's like what do you 11:25.840 --> 11:28.680 need the Bible to say here? Right. That's pretty tough. I mean it's just 11:28.680 --> 11:31.420 like point point point point point point point point 11:31.420 --> 11:35.000 just like the exact same text and verse thirty-three so 11:35.000 --> 11:37.480 likewise ye when ye shall see all these things know that it is 11:37.480 --> 11:42.880 near even at the doors. So again we have this description 11:43.560 --> 11:49.020 telling us explicitly that what that the wrath started in 11:49.020 --> 11:51.960 Revelation chapter six but what do we also have it tell us 11:51.960 --> 11:54.680 in Matthew twenty-four? It says in verse number twenty-nine 11:54.680 --> 11:58.440 immediately after the tribulation. So you know what the 11:58.440 --> 12:01.220 Bible doesn't do it doesn't conflate tribulation with 12:01.220 --> 12:05.020 wrath at all because it says leading up to this event 12:05.020 --> 12:09.500 was the tribulation after the tribulation is the wrath 12:09.950 --> 12:12.880 and the wrath started after the tribulation. 12:13.140 --> 12:16.980 So in fact Revelation six twelve clearly teaches that 12:16.980 --> 12:20.200 tribulation is not the wrath of God it's the exact opposite 12:20.200 --> 12:23.840 it's not the exact opposite but it's at least it's just the 12:23.840 --> 12:26.780 Bible is making a clear dividing line between 12:27.360 --> 12:31.740 tribulation and wrath. The reason why I would say it's 12:31.740 --> 12:34.400 opposite is because tribulation typically when the 12:34.400 --> 12:38.540 Bible is coming from the devil and from the wrath is 12:38.540 --> 12:41.500 coming from God. Now again the Bible uses the word 12:41.500 --> 12:43.600 tribulation in a broad sense sometimes the 12:43.600 --> 12:46.720 tribulation God is giving to people so tribulation just 12:46.720 --> 12:49.060 means trouble but in general the the the 12:49.060 --> 12:51.660 tribulation for the saints is coming from Satan the 12:51.660 --> 12:54.580 antichrist the wrath of God is coming from God himself 12:54.580 --> 12:58.020 okay so that's why they're kind of in a sense different 12:58.020 --> 13:01.140 things that we're talking about obviously they're both 13:01.140 --> 13:03.980 negative though so they do share in that parallel only 13:04.560 --> 13:07.560 but let's read some more in Matthew 24. Look at verse 13:07.560 --> 13:10.200 number eight the Bible says that all these are the 13:10.200 --> 13:13.840 beginning of sorrows. Verse nine then shall they 13:13.840 --> 13:16.740 deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you 13:16.740 --> 13:19.660 and you should be hated of all nations for my name's 13:19.660 --> 13:22.920 sake. You know this idea that the Christian life is 13:22.920 --> 13:26.840 one without pain without sorrow without tribulation 13:26.840 --> 13:31.500 is foreign to Scripture. It's only this like Joel 13:31.500 --> 13:35.300 Osteen blessed life version of Christianity that 13:35.300 --> 13:37.720 could somehow get away with this concept or idea 13:37.720 --> 13:40.460 that you become a Christian and it's all roses or 13:40.460 --> 13:43.240 something and of course that is a belief by some 13:43.240 --> 13:46.340 some people believe that your life is hard and 13:46.340 --> 13:49.020 everything's bad and everything's miserable and 13:49.020 --> 13:52.040 everybody has this God shaped hole in their heart 13:52.040 --> 13:55.180 and then when they get saved then everything good 13:55.180 --> 13:57.520 happens and their marriage turns into this 13:57.520 --> 13:59.820 beautiful thing and their family's perfect and 13:59.820 --> 14:02.380 they get a promotion at their work and now 14:02.380 --> 14:05.220 their 401k is flushed with cash and it's 14:05.220 --> 14:08.860 basically just the sunshine no rain every day 14:08.860 --> 14:11.180 until they're just gently taken into heaven 14:11.180 --> 14:13.980 and there's no tribulation there's no just 14:13.980 --> 14:16.700 just all good but you know that's not the 14:16.700 --> 14:20.260 bible and how are we going to be partakers of 14:20.260 --> 14:22.700 Christ's sufferings with that type of trajectory 14:23.340 --> 14:26.100 the bible teaches actually kind of a little bit 14:26.100 --> 14:28.600 different picture it paints a picture where 14:28.600 --> 14:30.480 people are going to not like it's like a country 14:30.480 --> 14:32.720 music song you know it's just like you know 14:32.720 --> 14:35.380 people are going to get mad at you it can cause 14:35.380 --> 14:38.760 marital spats it can cause division within a family 14:39.280 --> 14:41.420 you're going to have you're going to be hated of all 14:41.420 --> 14:43.700 all of all men you know you're going to be 14:43.700 --> 14:46.440 persecuted i mean what is the text saying the text is 14:46.440 --> 14:48.200 saying then shall they deliver you up to be 14:48.200 --> 14:51.440 afflicted and shall kill you that doesn't sound great 14:52.480 --> 14:56.840 that's not your quote best life now your best life is going to be 14:56.840 --> 15:01.060 a millennial reign with christ not on this life 15:01.740 --> 15:06.660 not the first the second okay and again it's it's like 15:06.660 --> 15:09.000 obviously going to cause a lot a lot of problems 15:09.000 --> 15:12.460 verse 10 and then shall many be offended and shall betray one another 15:12.460 --> 15:16.320 and shall hate one another you know because of christianity a lot of 15:16.320 --> 15:22.120 a lot of just conflict a lot of issue a lot of betrayal 15:22.700 --> 15:25.980 and and it's going to be really frustrating we're going to see family 15:25.980 --> 15:28.440 members that you would never assume turn on each other 15:29.620 --> 15:32.540 you're going to have family members turn on you you're going to see just 15:32.540 --> 15:35.280 crazy stuff happening you're going to see conflict 15:35.280 --> 15:37.460 between saved people that doesn't make sense 15:38.060 --> 15:42.040 um you know it's just kind of a sad reality but that is what the bible 15:42.040 --> 15:46.300 is teaching and of course it eventually culminates in what the bible 15:46.300 --> 15:50.060 calls great tribulation look at verse 21 for then shall 15:50.060 --> 15:54.060 be great tribulation such as was not since the 15:54.060 --> 15:57.860 beginning of the world to this time no nor ever shall be 15:57.860 --> 16:02.140 so this is according to the text the worst period of human history 16:02.640 --> 16:07.980 where there's great tribulation so you know leading up to this point 16:08.680 --> 16:12.140 it's just kind of a bloodbath of humanity is what the bible teaches 16:12.780 --> 16:16.360 then there's going to be a great tribulation where it's targeted to the 16:16.360 --> 16:19.820 saved and for this from a saved perspective the 16:19.820 --> 16:22.620 persecution against christians will be the worst at this point in human 16:22.620 --> 16:26.220 history and will never exceed such an event so this will be the worst 16:26.220 --> 16:29.920 event that's ever happened and you know of course there's all 16:29.920 --> 16:32.660 kinds of strange in times views it's not limited to 16:32.660 --> 16:35.280 pre-tribulation rapture there's there's preterism 16:35.920 --> 16:39.300 which which preterism would teach that all of these things have already happened 16:41.440 --> 16:45.340 everything everything in revelation everything in matthew has already happened 16:45.340 --> 16:47.660 and then and then it kind of like well when did that happen 16:48.360 --> 16:52.100 you know and of course they have to try and point to 70 ad 16:52.800 --> 16:56.600 as a partial fulfillment for most cases and then they say everything else 16:56.600 --> 17:00.680 was just a spiritual application it's like spiritual locusts coming from 17:00.680 --> 17:03.160 hell and and all these strange things but 17:03.160 --> 17:05.820 you know think about what it says in verse 34 17:05.820 --> 17:10.420 verily i say to you this generation shall not pass to all these things we've 17:10.420 --> 17:13.260 fulfilled what the preterist will do is he'll then say oh see 17:13.760 --> 17:17.340 that's why it had to happen in 70 ad because these people weren't going to die 17:17.340 --> 17:21.200 before it happens but i believe what the text is trying to say is it's 17:21.200 --> 17:23.600 saying that the generation that starts verse eight 17:24.200 --> 17:26.760 is the same generation that has to endure to the end 17:26.760 --> 17:30.340 okay so it's it's telling us this is not a 17:30.340 --> 17:35.620 um a historical thing it's not something that's just 17:35.620 --> 17:39.060 symbolic symbolistic of like a thousand year period of time 17:39.060 --> 17:42.960 because some people will teach oh no no this is just the book of revelation 17:42.960 --> 17:48.480 is just like the first thousand years after uh the 70 ad or something and 17:48.480 --> 17:51.240 it's just allegory no no no it's a literal event 17:51.240 --> 17:54.860 it's a real event for a specific generation for a specific timeline 17:55.520 --> 17:58.440 and it's going to happen now of course that's what we call ourselves 17:58.440 --> 18:02.220 pre millennial is that we don't believe that this stuff has happened and we 18:02.220 --> 18:04.280 don't believe that the thousand years of crisis happened 18:04.860 --> 18:08.680 people that call themselves post mill sounds cool 18:09.380 --> 18:13.140 unless you understand what they believe and again post mill means that they 18:13.140 --> 18:16.500 believe that the that uses crisis already ruled for a thousand years 18:17.820 --> 18:21.060 and so then so then you're like an even more hot water because you're like 18:21.060 --> 18:24.400 what how the heck did that happen and it's like when did that happen 18:24.400 --> 18:27.980 you know was that like the dark ages or like 18:27.980 --> 18:31.420 was that the mongolian empire was that the turkish 18:31.420 --> 18:34.480 you know empire taking over the Byzantine empire like when is this 18:34.480 --> 18:37.700 exact thousand years or whatever so then you get even 18:37.700 --> 18:40.280 weirder camps then you get a camp that's just like all 18:40.280 --> 18:43.180 history's fake it's like stay away from these people 18:43.180 --> 18:45.820 okay please have nothing to do with these people 18:45.820 --> 18:49.360 i don't want you in my church okay if you just think all of history is 18:49.360 --> 18:51.320 fake just leave okay i don't even want it 18:51.320 --> 18:54.980 these people are brain dead retards and i don't i don't want nothing to do with 18:54.980 --> 18:57.000 them it's usually a flat earth type mentality okay 18:58.120 --> 19:01.560 then then you kind of have like another group of the post mill 19:01.560 --> 19:06.380 that would say it was all an allegory and so then that then they kind of like 19:06.380 --> 19:10.520 say but i don't really know where we're at so there's kind of like i don't 19:10.520 --> 19:13.220 know and then you have another group that's just like oh i do know we're 19:13.220 --> 19:16.680 in satans little season okay who's heard of this 19:16.680 --> 19:20.320 the satans little season they'll say like oh well 19:20.320 --> 19:24.100 christ came for the first thousand years and then 19:24.100 --> 19:26.920 now in satans little season now satans little season will even go back to the 19:26.920 --> 19:28.140 group that i said don't come to my church 19:28.140 --> 19:32.540 because they'll say oh well there was this thousand years of peace and all the 19:32.540 --> 19:35.600 stuff but it wasn't recorded in history and then satan 19:35.600 --> 19:39.480 created this fake history that we all think really 19:39.480 --> 19:42.260 happened because he's trying to deceive us all and we're all now in 19:42.260 --> 19:46.040 satans little it's you're crazy okay these people are 19:46.040 --> 19:49.420 crazy and weird and i want nothing to do with them 19:49.420 --> 19:52.520 all right all the post mill stuff is just weird 19:53.400 --> 19:57.220 okay and we could spend time debunking it but i'm just kind of giving you the 19:57.220 --> 20:00.500 quick views in the in the time that we're 20:00.500 --> 20:02.460 also you know just talking about pre-tribulation 20:02.460 --> 20:06.060 okay the pre-tribulation rapture though is just the belief that 20:06.060 --> 20:10.060 before this seven-year period of these seven seals being 20:10.060 --> 20:13.420 unleashed that somehow jesus will rapture us 20:13.920 --> 20:16.920 but but here's the problem the rapture is described clearly 20:16.920 --> 20:22.260 here in verse 29 through 31 and it was after the tribulation and it's in the 20:22.260 --> 20:25.720 middle of these seals being opened so then how do you get to 20:25.720 --> 20:29.360 this pre-trib rapture that this isn't there 20:30.040 --> 20:33.580 there's only one rapture that we really have in scripture that's consistent 20:33.580 --> 20:37.260 with each other and it's always placed at the sixth seal 20:38.180 --> 20:42.040 here right where we have it in matthew 24 after the tribulation 20:42.580 --> 20:45.780 and of course if we spend the time in revelation seven and eight we see 20:46.260 --> 20:50.400 those people in heaven so it's just like it's really clear it's really consistent 20:51.500 --> 20:55.480 verse 21 talks about this great tribulation i i heard somebody that was post-trib 20:55.480 --> 20:58.680 say nowhere in the bible to say great tribulation and then i'm like well 20:59.440 --> 21:03.220 i think it was mat first or something he said something stupid about this 21:03.220 --> 21:06.380 and he's like some people call this period of time great tribulation but the bible 21:06.380 --> 21:09.100 didn't really say that and i'm like well it actually kind of does say exactly that 21:09.680 --> 21:13.080 right here okay it says there's a great tribulation period okay so 21:13.080 --> 21:18.140 be careful there's a lot of weird views out there and and i'm not saying that 21:18.820 --> 21:22.800 you have to agree with me a hundred percent on end times eschatology to come to our church or 21:22.800 --> 21:27.420 be part of our church but obviously if you're retarded you could leave okay and not because 21:27.420 --> 21:33.260 of a real thing all right a spiritual retardation okay go to revelation chapter 12 if you would 21:33.260 --> 21:38.720 revelation chapter number 12 life's too short i don't want to deal with that kind of nonsense 21:38.720 --> 21:43.220 you know a man that is an heretic after the first second i'm an issue reject you know and just 21:43.740 --> 21:49.460 reality denial is not fun it's not cool i'm not into it and those people just spend all their time 21:49.460 --> 21:53.060 watching youtube videos and you know i'm not a popular on youtube anyways all right so 21:53.720 --> 21:57.540 revelation chapter 12 look at verse number six the bible says and the woman fled in the 21:57.540 --> 22:01.920 wilderness where she had the place prepared of god they should feed her there a thousand 22:01.920 --> 22:06.360 two hundred and three square days so i want to spend a quick second explaining the bible 22:06.360 --> 22:12.080 gives us an actual timeline so we're not we're not just guessing at numbers here we believe in 22:12.080 --> 22:19.460 seven year period of time because there's what's called daniel's 70th week and week is understood 22:19.460 --> 22:22.620 in the book of daniels being a seven-year period so that's where we kind of get the idea but 22:22.620 --> 22:27.460 then the bible confirms it with other dates and times in revelation chapter 12 verse number six 22:27.460 --> 22:34.940 it clearly spells out this period of time of a thousand two hundred and three score days now this 22:34.940 --> 22:42.640 is not exactly three and a half years it's slightly less but it's a basically three and a half years 22:42.640 --> 22:47.500 okay so what is this time period that's being described well it talks about the woman the 22:47.500 --> 22:52.880 woman here is an allegory of course for mankind so this is what we know as again the first four 22:52.880 --> 23:02.120 seals the woman mankind is going to be tormented and persecuted of satan for this 1260 years but 23:02.120 --> 23:09.380 what does the bible say that god is going to you know basically in a special way protect them he's 23:09.380 --> 23:14.000 prepared a place for them they're going to feed in the wilderness somehow they're going to flee 23:14.000 --> 23:20.640 into the wilderness they're going to basically survive you know by natural resources or whatever 23:21.280 --> 23:24.980 that kind of makes sense now again i can't interpret this perfectly because i don't understand the 23:24.980 --> 23:31.660 future but it kind of makes sense that if we lived in a technocratic system a no-cash system 23:32.260 --> 23:38.700 and there's just world wars you know killing all of our supply chains and stuff that for a period 23:38.700 --> 23:43.500 of time maybe mankind has to live off the land a little bit in order to survive but according to 23:43.500 --> 23:48.060 the bible god will allow that to happen and god is preparing a place for mankind to survive 23:48.060 --> 23:55.800 the devil just wants mankind to die okay but man will not die through his efforts of full slaughter 23:56.580 --> 24:02.060 so the devil fails this is this is the whole point the devil wants to kill the woman and the 24:02.060 --> 24:08.540 devil fails he has a 1260 days to accomplish his goal he fails now the bible brings up another 24:08.540 --> 24:13.840 timeline here look at verse 13 and when the dragon saw that he had cast under the earth he 24:13.840 --> 24:18.300 persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child and to the woman were given two wings of 24:18.300 --> 24:23.260 a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness into her place where she is nourished for a time 24:23.260 --> 24:29.500 and times and half a time from the face of the serpent so we have another just kind of loose 24:29.500 --> 24:36.840 allegory of a time times plural and half a time so this is where we think of most likely the 24:36.840 --> 24:41.000 bible is interpreting us three and a half years a time being a year so you have a time that's 24:41.000 --> 24:47.400 one times meaning two and a half a time three and a half years and they're being delivered from the 24:47.400 --> 24:56.540 face of the serpent so not seeing it head on okay not directly well it says that it says in verse 24:56.540 --> 25:03.640 15 in the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her 25:03.640 --> 25:09.180 to be carried away of the flood and the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her 25:09.180 --> 25:15.640 mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of her mouth and the dragon was roth with 25:15.640 --> 25:19.300 the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of god and 25:19.300 --> 25:25.020 have the testimony of jesus christ so i was using a lot of allegory here so i don't know that we could 25:25.020 --> 25:31.460 be dogmatic about anything but at the same time i don't feel like it's all allegory because you 25:31.460 --> 25:35.500 know and then again this is just my personal interpretation you can believe whatever you 25:35.500 --> 25:40.440 want all right i personally believe that when the bible says a flood here that it's literal 25:40.980 --> 25:46.080 some people would interpret this as being an actual army and i think that's possible i'm not going 25:46.080 --> 25:50.040 to say i'm dogmatic i'm just saying this is how i lean this is my personal leaning in the text 25:50.500 --> 25:54.920 and why i say it's not an allegory is because then if it is an allegory then you have to come 25:54.920 --> 25:59.460 up with an allegory for the earth because it says that the earth opened her mouth and swallowed 25:59.460 --> 26:04.020 them up so what is the earth and your allegory i'm just going to go back to me and say the 26:04.020 --> 26:09.740 earth is the earth again so i think that the flood the flood and i think the earth is the earth 26:09.740 --> 26:14.040 now why do i personally think this well i personally believe this because god makes a big 26:14.040 --> 26:18.600 deal in genesis chapter number six through eight that he's never going to flood the earth again 26:18.600 --> 26:24.620 and destroy all of mankind again with a flood and puts a rainbow in the sky as a promise for 26:24.620 --> 26:30.100 doing that and then of course the most satanic people in the world what do they love to do 26:30.100 --> 26:35.380 they love to rub that rainbow and god's nose and just try to like make a big deal out of 26:35.380 --> 26:40.540 mock god with their little rainbow and then of course you know what the devil loves to do what 26:40.540 --> 26:48.440 does the devil always try to do he always tries to prove god wrong like hey he's trying to kill 26:48.440 --> 26:54.380 jesus with herod you know he's trying to kill baby jesus because he wants to prove god wrong 26:54.380 --> 27:01.880 he's trying to get job to curse god and prove god wrong like he's always trying to actually 27:01.880 --> 27:07.680 beat god or something that god said he wants to prove wrong so what would the devil love to do 27:07.680 --> 27:11.260 i think the devil would love to do is just flood the entire world and kill everybody 27:11.260 --> 27:16.420 and then prove god wrong that he said he was never going to flood the earth again and look 27:16.420 --> 27:23.100 this is not a wild idea that i have you could go online right now and find all kinds of scientists 27:23.100 --> 27:28.020 and environmentalists and all these people worried that there could be a global flood you know 27:28.020 --> 27:33.980 they're talking about the polar caps melting and they're talking about sea levels rising and just 27:33.980 --> 27:40.180 all this different junk that's being alluded to and it wouldn't surprise me if the devil attempted 27:40.180 --> 27:44.720 to kill mankind with the flood again because here's the thing none of us are building an ark 27:45.420 --> 27:48.780 and none of us are ever going to build an ark because god's never going to tell you to 27:48.780 --> 27:54.620 build an ark if you think god told you to build an ark you can leave as well all right go start 27:54.620 --> 27:59.220 building okay and the reason why you don't need to build an ark is because god's never going to 27:59.220 --> 28:02.960 allow the earth to ever be flooded again and he could allow the earth to open her mouth 28:02.960 --> 28:08.960 and to swallow in that flood so even if the devil convinced his minions to nuke the 28:08.960 --> 28:15.240 polar ice caps or whatever and try to raise the sea levels well it wouldn't work okay 28:15.240 --> 28:19.260 i don't think that it's saying that it wouldn't happen it could happen and think about it wouldn't 28:19.260 --> 28:22.580 that make sense logically if the devil tried through world war three to kill all mankind 28:23.660 --> 28:29.620 fails so then what's the backup plan flood the entire world fails so then what's the third 28:29.620 --> 28:35.160 backup plan well i just kill christians then that's kind of what it is now some people say 28:35.160 --> 28:39.940 no i think the flood was that three and a half year period of time with the armies going out 28:39.940 --> 28:45.680 trying to kill them and it's all allegory well you can believe that and i'm not even saying you're 28:45.680 --> 28:51.160 wrong but then you'd have to explain to me what the earth was and why it was opening and you know i 28:51.160 --> 28:56.480 kind of like my view because it also helps explain why genesis six through eight is such a big deal 28:56.480 --> 29:01.560 and why god gives that token and why the enemies are always using that to rub it in god's face 29:01.560 --> 29:07.300 and what all this means this is not my personal opinions okay just trying to give you an idea 29:07.300 --> 29:14.020 but what we are getting is a timeline we're getting a 1260 days time times and half a time 29:14.660 --> 29:20.440 and then what happens then christians are targeted this is not saying hey you're raptured out of here 29:20.440 --> 29:24.780 and the devil can't get you and there's no problem and no one's gonna ever harm christians 29:24.780 --> 29:28.820 like it's saying the exact opposite is actually saying there's a lead up and then there's a 29:28.820 --> 29:33.960 targeting which fits perfectly with what matthew said matthew said hey here's the great 29:33.960 --> 29:39.880 tribulation period and of course that's what's being described chapter 13 is what the antichrist 29:39.880 --> 29:45.060 being revealed it said that the fate we're hidden from the face of the serpent but now we're not 29:45.060 --> 29:48.540 going to be hidden from the face of the serpent now it's going to be seen we're going to be facing 29:48.540 --> 29:53.480 off with the face of the serpent because the antichrist is going to come into power he's going to 29:53.480 --> 29:59.740 inhabit be inhabited by the devil and it's going to be full opposition of the antichrist 29:59.740 --> 30:05.060 full-on in chapter number 13 and it says that he's going to make war with the saints 30:05.620 --> 30:10.960 it says right here in verse 17 war with the remnant of receipt but it says in chapter number 13 30:11.760 --> 30:17.400 i believe it says he's going to make war with the saints uh let's let's read a few verses here 30:18.060 --> 30:24.160 says in verse seven and it was given unto him to make war with the saints and overcome them 30:24.160 --> 30:28.780 and power was given him over all kenchards and tongues and nations and all that dwell upon 30:28.780 --> 30:32.980 the earth shall worship him whose names were not written in the book of the life of the lamb slain 30:32.980 --> 30:37.580 from the foundation of the world if any man have an ear let him hear he that leadeth into 30:37.580 --> 30:41.480 captivity shall go into captivity he that killed the sword must be killed with the sword here's the 30:41.480 --> 30:47.920 patience and faith of the saints so again we're not going to read the whole book of revelation 30:47.920 --> 30:53.260 but what is the bible saying it's saying that this antichrist comes into power declares 30:53.260 --> 30:59.640 himself god and how long does he have to rule verse five and power was given unto him to continue 30:59.640 --> 31:08.500 40 and two months notice to continue what continue from what from what he was doing previously the 31:08.500 --> 31:16.400 first 1260 days he was trying to kill mankind fails i personally believe there's a flood attempt 31:16.960 --> 31:24.320 fails then we have the last 42 months where he's going to be successful only against christians 31:24.320 --> 31:30.420 but he won't be ultimately successful he's having initial success right the bible is saying he's making 31:30.420 --> 31:34.960 war with saints and he's he's going to overcome the meanings he's going to kill a lot of christians 31:34.960 --> 31:39.620 okay but because god is not willing that every christian should be slaughtered this way 31:40.100 --> 31:43.940 that's why we have the rapture that's why we have jesus christ coming back in the clouds 31:43.940 --> 31:48.680 and those that have endured under the end are going to be saved from physical death 31:48.680 --> 31:54.420 and they'll be caught up together with christ in the clouds but notice the timelines we have 1260 31:54.420 --> 32:03.400 days and we have 42 months these are approximately not exactly three and a half years now in the 32:03.400 --> 32:07.940 book of daniel we also have other numbers i'm going to go there just for a quick second go to 32:07.940 --> 32:12.160 daniel chapter 12 go to daniel chapter number 12 so they're like oh you guys think 32:12.680 --> 32:19.260 that there's a rapture in the middle yeah because it's giving us timelines of middle events 32:19.260 --> 32:25.860 it's giving us 1260 days something happens at that point it's giving us 42 months to continue 32:25.860 --> 32:31.800 something's happening in those periods of time now in the book of daniel chapter number 12 verse 12 32:31.800 --> 32:39.320 it also gives us a timeline of events now it's it's pretty explicit in the book of daniel 32:39.880 --> 32:45.500 um and this is kind of the end cap of a lot of things that he's brought up but look at verse 12 32:45.940 --> 32:52.560 bless it as he that waited then come into the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days 32:52.560 --> 32:57.920 so this is this is a little bit different timeline uh actually you know i i think i got ahead of 32:57.920 --> 33:03.000 myself i want to do verse 11 first and then we'll get there and from that and from the time 33:03.000 --> 33:07.300 that the daily sacrifice should be taken away and the abomination that make a desolate set 33:07.300 --> 33:13.980 up there should be one should be a thousand two hundred and ninety days so i know i'm explaining 33:13.980 --> 33:20.520 a lot quickly but i think what the bible clearly teaches is that there will be a third temple 33:21.400 --> 33:28.280 and at this third temple there will begin animal sacrifices okay so and this is this is not even 33:28.280 --> 33:33.320 like jonathan shelly's idea this is being talked about all the time i did a debate on this where 33:33.320 --> 33:38.320 jews are saying they're trying to do this they're trying to get red heifer cattle raised in texas of 33:38.320 --> 33:46.100 all places put into israel so they can start slaughtering these animals every day they want to have 33:46.100 --> 33:50.640 a temple where they're slaughtering animals every day because here's the thing what did jews believe 33:50.640 --> 33:56.200 they don't believe that jesus was their messiah they reject him so then they need to keep 33:56.200 --> 34:01.160 following the quote old testament sacrifices so continuing the old testament sacrifices would 34:01.160 --> 34:07.120 be a denial rejection of jesus christ now why were those originally taken away because in 70 ad 34:08.160 --> 34:14.080 the romans came and stopped that of course because they rejected jesus christ and god 34:14.080 --> 34:19.180 was mad at them and punished them and then scattered them in all nations so bringing it back 34:19.720 --> 34:23.840 has nothing to do with jesus as everything to do with that anti christ spirit that was there at 34:23.840 --> 34:31.260 70 ad and it's just a rehashing of what was already going on those the sacrifices have been 34:31.260 --> 34:37.400 done away there's nothing to do with jesus anymore it's blasphemy to offer animal sacrifices 34:37.980 --> 34:43.120 to god still it's a rejection of jesus but they're going to do this for 34:44.700 --> 34:51.560 1260 days then you're going to have the abomination of desolation which is the anti christ going 34:51.560 --> 34:58.280 into the temple and saying oh now you need to stop them because i have arrived the first 34:58.280 --> 35:05.780 coming of jesus christ now again if that was true it's logical it doesn't mean it's right it's just 35:05.780 --> 35:12.680 logical that if jesus wasn't really the messiah and this was the christ coming that you would stop 35:12.680 --> 35:16.500 the animal sacrifices that's why they're stopping the animal sacrifices because in their mind this 35:16.500 --> 35:21.100 is the christ which anti christ means in place of christ so they're saying this isn't jesus is 35:21.100 --> 35:26.180 not the real one this is the real one and he's coming in and he's the anti christ and he's going 35:26.180 --> 35:31.080 to declare himself god well of course if he's god then you stop doing the animal sacrifices 35:31.580 --> 35:36.560 you have him and of course he has his own fake death burial and resurrection because the bible 35:36.560 --> 35:40.940 says he'll receive a deadly wound in the eye and then he's going to come back to life a few days 35:40.940 --> 35:45.200 later and kind of a mount gospel but here's the problem he's not dying in the cross 35:46.020 --> 35:48.600 here's the problem he's not fulfilling scripture he's not born in bethlehem 35:48.600 --> 35:53.360 he's not going to fulfill all the biblical roles it's not going to be matching what the scripture 35:53.360 --> 35:58.920 teaches and additionally jesus already came we already just we just facts jesus already came 35:58.920 --> 36:02.520 we have christianity we have the new testament all right he's going to be the man of perdition 36:02.520 --> 36:07.900 but he's going to try and emulate some of these elements this mock little resurrection claim himself 36:07.900 --> 36:13.000 god to clear everybody worship him at this very time the bible is saying here in verse 11 36:13.560 --> 36:17.380 that when the daily sacrifice should be taken away because why because the antichrist is in 36:17.380 --> 36:26.260 there saying he's god so he's taking it away from that period to the end is 1290 days so we have 1260 36:26.880 --> 36:33.860 up to it 1290 after it and this is going to give us our essentially seven year period of time 36:33.860 --> 36:41.880 so why 1335 days in verse 12 then i don't really know how preachers interpret that verse 36:41.880 --> 36:47.120 okay grok would tell us that this is some event starting at the abomination desolation to the 36:47.120 --> 36:51.980 end and it's an extra 45 days attached to the end but the problem is that doesn't really make any sense 36:51.980 --> 36:58.420 and it doesn't really add anything what i believe the bible clearly teaches is that that's 1001335 36:58.420 --> 37:03.100 days is at the beginning so it's the beginning of that seven year period which is a difference of 37:03.100 --> 37:13.100 75 days from the 1260 to the 1335 so why what's this 75 day period that will be the great 37:13.100 --> 37:19.860 tribulation that starting with this abomination of desolation now confirmation of this concept or idea 37:20.380 --> 37:27.380 is in the fact that there's a lot of biblical analogies where we see rapture type events and 37:27.380 --> 37:33.380 they all kind of match like a 53 or 50 it's like a 53 and a half percent period of time 37:33.380 --> 37:39.080 which is exactly what the 75 day period would be as well so i think you could even prove 37:39.080 --> 37:43.900 that there's a lot of examples and reasons why that period of time matches biblically 37:43.900 --> 37:49.300 you know and i'm not going to go on a long uh i'm not we're not going to do that today 37:49.300 --> 37:53.940 we could do that in another sermon but there's a lot of examples of why that fits and why there's 37:53.940 --> 37:59.020 even examples of this but to say that we're just making up stuff i mean we literally have a 37:59.020 --> 38:09.060 verse that says 1335 days and it's like hey we think that's when the rapture is 38:09.060 --> 38:13.520 no nothing to point to it's just believe me because god's not a wife beater amen 38:15.720 --> 38:20.420 well no one's no one said that god was a wife beater did i ever say that god is going to beat you 38:21.320 --> 38:26.020 no the bible is teaching that the devil's the one attacking us isn't it it's the serpent that's 38:26.020 --> 38:32.140 coming after us it's not some you know it's not god doing it so let's go to act chapter 14 38:32.140 --> 38:36.460 let's go to act chapter 14 i want to show you one more verse before i move on the first point 38:36.460 --> 38:40.820 it's the most important point because the first verse is saying hey or the first point that he's 38:40.820 --> 38:46.320 making is the tribulation is the wrath of god according to the bible these are different they're 38:46.320 --> 38:50.920 not the same timeline they're not the same events act chapter 14 look at verse number 22 this is what 38:50.920 --> 38:56.240 the apostle paul said he said confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to 38:56.240 --> 39:03.400 continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter the kingdom of god so 39:03.400 --> 39:09.020 according to the bible we have a verse here that's clearly articulating that there's much 39:09.020 --> 39:15.100 tribulation that we have to enter into okay if we have to go through much tribulation then it 39:15.100 --> 39:18.860 doesn't make sense to try and say hey god would never appoint us to a tribulation and we don't 39:18.860 --> 39:22.900 have to go through any i want to go to first the sonians chapter number five now go to first 39:22.900 --> 39:27.880 let's jump to five so point one of the pre-trib rapture for them is tribulation is not the 39:27.880 --> 39:31.620 wrath of god but then the bible clearly says hey we got to go through tribulation 39:31.620 --> 39:36.120 and that's what makes sense historically historically christians are always going through 39:36.120 --> 39:40.780 tribulation we're always being persecuted yay and all that will live godly in christ jesus 39:40.780 --> 39:47.920 shall suffer persecution okay now second point of his pre-tribulation pre-tribulation rapture 39:47.920 --> 39:53.620 is that the church is not appointed to wrath this is why it doesn't really matter at this 39:53.620 --> 39:57.100 point because we've already proved that wrath and tribulation aren't the same thing 39:57.100 --> 40:03.740 so you know what we can say yeah we believe that we're pre-wrath but of course people will say hey 40:03.740 --> 40:07.820 this is approved for the pre-trib rapture it doesn't really prove the pre-trib rapture but 40:07.820 --> 40:12.340 first the sonians chapter number five like verse nine for god had not appointed us to wrath 40:12.840 --> 40:18.380 but to obtain salvation by lord jesus christ amen i do not believe that god will pour out a wrath 40:18.380 --> 40:24.500 on anybody that's saved you know whether that be hell or whether that be hell on earth god is 40:24.500 --> 40:29.460 not going to appoint us to such a thing and so that's why we are raptured that's why we're delivered 40:29.460 --> 40:35.440 that's why we're saved um in first lesson is chapter four which is preceding this is the famous 40:36.220 --> 40:41.540 rapture passage of the bible okay first lesson in chapter number four i want to start in verse number 40:41.540 --> 40:46.960 13 but i would not have you to be ignorant brethren considering them which are asleep that you 40:46.960 --> 40:51.660 saw or not even as others which have no hope for if we believe that jesus died and rose again 40:51.660 --> 40:59.280 even so them also which sleep in jesus will god bring with them for this we say undue by the word of 40:59.280 --> 41:04.680 the lord that we which are alive and remain under the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which 41:04.680 --> 41:09.520 are asleep for the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the arch 41:09.520 --> 41:15.120 angel and with the trump of god and the dead and cry shall rise first then we which are alive 41:15.120 --> 41:18.620 and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air 41:18.620 --> 41:22.620 and so shall we ever be with the lord where for comfort one another with these words now according 41:22.620 --> 41:28.500 to the bible of course this is supposed to be comforting words and yet you know they will say 41:28.500 --> 41:33.040 well how is telling me that i'm gonna have to go through the tribulation comforting it's not 41:33.720 --> 41:37.640 but here's the thing the context is not saying all right guys you're gonna go through tribulations 41:37.640 --> 41:44.460 to be comforted the comfort is that those that have died are still gonna come to the rapture 41:44.460 --> 41:48.960 that they're gonna still be resurrected that they're not gonna miss out on the resurrection 41:49.540 --> 41:54.860 and that people that have died you're gonna still get to see and glory that's what's the comfort the 41:54.860 --> 42:01.400 comfort is hey i know that so-and-so died but you'll see them again in the resurrection that's 42:01.400 --> 42:07.720 the comfort the comfort is the context is not hey you're gonna go through this difficult 42:07.720 --> 42:12.360 tribulation be comforted by that of course no one is being comforted by that idea no one's 42:12.360 --> 42:17.320 excited about getting their head chopped off no one's excited about famine no one's excited about 42:17.320 --> 42:22.660 be hunting down no one's excited about being betrayed but you know what we're all comforted and notice 42:22.660 --> 42:29.800 again comforted what is why would you be comforted because you're not experiencing comfort you know 42:29.800 --> 42:35.080 if you're if you're being comforted you're not currently doing good because you don't need to 42:35.080 --> 42:39.020 be comforted if you're doing great like imagine someone's like i'm having the best day of my life 42:39.020 --> 42:44.840 would you like me to comfort you you know hey i'm i'm on cloud nine nothing bad's happening 42:44.840 --> 42:49.900 should i comfort you you're being comforted because of something negative what's the negative 42:49.900 --> 42:53.920 someone's died you've lost someone that you care about you lost someone that you love 42:53.920 --> 42:57.460 and so you're being comforted with the fact that hey you'll be rejoined to them 42:58.100 --> 43:01.240 that's the whole point of comfort and if you're in comfort in the bible is always 43:01.240 --> 43:07.080 comforted with tribulation itself you're being comforted of tribulation 43:07.080 --> 43:14.140 so to then say that oh god is not going to comfort you about tribulation is missing the whole 43:14.140 --> 43:20.500 point of the new testament god is constantly comforting us in tribulation tribulation of 43:20.500 --> 43:25.140 anything you know the death of a loved one or suffering or pain or woe or persecution for 43:25.140 --> 43:31.680 the cause of christ and in fact this specific uh you know book of the bible is all about 43:31.680 --> 43:38.080 tribulation you know it brings up tribulation repeatedly in this particular epistle and 43:38.080 --> 43:43.900 it's warning about tribulation that's going to happen so it would make no sense if this whole 43:43.900 --> 43:47.580 passage is telling us you're not going to go through tribulation i mean look look at a couple 43:47.580 --> 43:53.000 verses look at chapter three verse seven therefore brethren we were comforted over you 43:53.000 --> 43:55.980 in all our affliction and distress by your faith 43:56.880 --> 44:04.160 hey i was comforted you know about y'all's affliction and again it's just silly to sit here and then 44:04.160 --> 44:08.980 say like oh this is teaching that you'll never have any tribulation god would never put us through 44:08.980 --> 44:14.300 tribulation no god won't put us through wrath i get it but tribulation is expected tribulation 44:14.300 --> 44:19.620 is guaranteed if you're gonna live godly and so it's kind of silly to try and make that 44:19.620 --> 44:23.520 particular point um he's going to deliver us from the wrath of come that's what they say in verse 44:23.520 --> 44:28.640 10 look at chapter one verse 10 and to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead 44:28.640 --> 44:32.980 even jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come okay but wait a minute that doesn't say 44:32.980 --> 44:37.120 tribulation and we've already distinguished those two words so then we don't get them conflated 44:37.120 --> 44:42.100 most of the teaching on the preacher rapture it's all about just conflating tribulation to 44:42.100 --> 44:47.360 wrath once you separate these two they have nothing that they can even twist it's just all 44:47.360 --> 44:52.280 about a conflation of these terms okay go over to luke 21 go to luke 21 here's another thing that he 44:52.280 --> 44:55.940 would constantly say and this is compelling to me when i was younger and didn't know the bible very 44:55.940 --> 45:02.620 well is they would just say well god usually delivers people before he judges so you know that's 45:02.620 --> 45:06.640 why he's not going to put us through the seven years and he would say you know look at examples 45:06.640 --> 45:11.320 of noah and look at examples of lot and the bible brings these examples of and how he delivered 45:11.320 --> 45:15.260 these particular people but but i want to read this and then think about it for a second look at 45:15.260 --> 45:22.740 luke 21 verse 36 watch ye therefore and pray always that you may be kind of worthy to escape all these 45:22.740 --> 45:30.580 things that should come to pass and to stand before the son of man now you know this this 45:30.580 --> 45:38.280 only can really lend itself to a works-based salvation because think about it what is the 45:38.280 --> 45:45.680 context the context is what we have been talking about the end times and and all these you know 45:45.680 --> 45:51.920 evil things that are going to happen um he's saying hey you should be counted worthy to escape 45:51.920 --> 45:58.800 all these things that shall come to pass well wait a minute who in here is worthy 45:59.460 --> 46:04.300 you know in a salvific perspective no one where none of us are worthy so we're all 46:04.300 --> 46:11.240 saved by grace and if we're all saved by grace then wouldn't and if all the saved are going to be 46:11.240 --> 46:19.300 raptured then why am i praying to escape i wouldn't need to pray to escape if it's if every saved 46:19.300 --> 46:25.000 person is going to automatically escape so here's the thing the context couldn't be clear that not 46:25.000 --> 46:32.280 all saved will escape right i mean if you're if i'm praying i'm saying hey ask god and hope god 46:32.280 --> 46:38.020 that's going to count you worthy to the escape well then you have to then teach another heresy 46:38.020 --> 46:43.160 which would be works-based salvation because they would say like oh well you know all the saved 46:43.160 --> 46:47.200 are going to be ones that escape and see you're praying to be worthy because they think you 46:47.200 --> 46:51.780 had to be doing enough works to have been saved to then be worthy to escape because all the 46:51.780 --> 46:56.380 savering escape but we understand that not all the saved are going to escape but see we're not 46:56.380 --> 47:00.860 talking about going to heaven or hell we're talking about escaping the the afflictions of dying 47:00.860 --> 47:07.300 during this tribulation period okay but you know this this is what i like about this because i think 47:07.300 --> 47:12.280 talking about this and bringing this up is not necessarily that much fun because it's like i 47:12.280 --> 47:15.440 don't want to go through evil i don't want to go through difficulty i don't like persecution 47:15.940 --> 47:20.840 no one enjoys it but you know what the bible is kind of teaching that the best christians are 47:20.840 --> 47:26.060 the ones that are going to escape it's not saying like the worst christians it's saying hey 47:26.060 --> 47:31.500 that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that are going to come to pass 47:31.500 --> 47:36.300 so to me the bible is almost indicating that the best christians are the ones that are the most 47:36.300 --> 47:42.420 likely to end up being raptured so you know that should comfort the new ivy because hey 47:42.420 --> 47:46.460 you're like i'm going through all this difficulty we're on the front lines or constantly persecuted 47:46.460 --> 47:50.680 but then it's like god's trying to say well you know what if you're praying you're seeking 47:50.680 --> 47:54.800 the lord and you're serving him you're the guys that are going to be worthy to be counted to 47:54.800 --> 47:59.420 escape all these things whereas the person that's lawful lazy accomplishing nothing 48:00.340 --> 48:06.440 chop them block you know and again doesn't that fit almost every other passage in the bible if 48:06.440 --> 48:10.360 you're not abiding in the vine then he's just going to cast you as a branch and you'll be tossed 48:10.360 --> 48:16.260 in the fire hey if it's salt is lost to savor it's you know basically going to be trodden 48:16.260 --> 48:20.080 a foot of men and you know the bible talks about how the city is going to be trodden the 48:20.080 --> 48:23.860 foot of the gentiles you know like if you really kind of think about all these passages 48:23.860 --> 48:30.640 that we typically don't have an exact parallel for they can all apply to the end times because in 48:30.640 --> 48:34.380 the end times you could just say hey all these christians that aren't worth their salt all 48:34.380 --> 48:37.820 these christians that are hiding their light under a bushel all these christians that are not 48:37.820 --> 48:42.580 abiding in the vine all these christians that are not really serving god hey they're doing 48:42.580 --> 48:47.040 things despite the spirit of grace well there's going to be a fiery or there's going to be a 48:47.040 --> 48:52.440 judgment and fiery indignation to the adversaries and so you know it could we could literally 48:52.440 --> 48:58.180 see just tons of backslidden christians and worldly christians are there on the front lines of the 48:58.180 --> 49:04.320 slaughterhouse because there's just no point in keeping them around now if we think about that 49:04.920 --> 49:08.820 in context of the noah and the lot because that's why he's bringing this stuff up because he's 49:08.820 --> 49:14.220 bringing up noah and lot as in the days of no and the days of lot is going to be these times 49:14.220 --> 49:19.700 and he's pointing to this particular verse but but think about it was every single person 49:21.260 --> 49:28.160 unsaved when noah got on the ark like is every single person just an unsaved person except for 49:28.160 --> 49:33.500 noah and just like his few family members i don't personally believe that i don't think that makes 49:33.500 --> 49:42.600 sense but maybe maybe no is the only one worthy to escape so you know in the same way that it 49:42.600 --> 49:48.140 could be like hey this one's the only one worthy i mean think about this let's go to lot i think 49:48.140 --> 49:54.880 it's reasonable to think that maybe even his wife was saved but sees thing she turned back and wasn't 49:54.880 --> 50:00.340 really worthy to escape and she turns into a pillar of salt that's a meaningless pillar of salt and 50:00.340 --> 50:07.580 then jesus even brings it up remember lots wife you know why why why remind christians about lots 50:07.580 --> 50:11.020 wife let's just say lots wife was not saved well i don't need to even warn you about that because 50:11.020 --> 50:15.420 she was unsaved of course she was going to turn back i think the point is about the you know 50:15.420 --> 50:21.640 queer loving freak christians out there that are going to turn back and they're just like oh these 50:21.640 --> 50:27.980 poor little sodomites whatever and it's like turning us all you know worthless i don't even 50:27.980 --> 50:33.740 want to see you anymore just you know whatever but at the end of the day like the i don't think the 50:33.740 --> 50:38.660 bible through the examples of no and lot could not be interpreted through our lens of scripture 50:38.660 --> 50:43.380 totally fits totally makes sense and yeah they were delivered from the wrath of god not 50:43.380 --> 50:48.960 tribulation lot you know had to go through some persecution didn't he i mean you got guys 50:48.960 --> 50:52.620 beating on his door and you got guys like grabbing them or whatever or trying to get you know 50:52.620 --> 51:00.520 and then he's just pulled out before the fire and brimstone come even even uh noah is obviously 51:00.520 --> 51:05.860 going through some kind of evil because the whole world's just awful i mean the whole world is 51:05.860 --> 51:10.940 just terrible at that time so of course he's a preacher of righteousness and a very sinful 51:10.940 --> 51:15.160 world and i think we're going to see that exact example in the end times we're going to have 51:15.800 --> 51:20.980 few preachers of righteousness and the rest of the world is going to be a wicked hell hole 51:21.540 --> 51:25.540 just super evil everywhere but that does not mean that we can't be delivered and doesn't mean 51:25.540 --> 51:30.160 that we can't be the ones that even get raptured you know praise god i think that there's a 51:30.160 --> 51:36.800 there's a there's a recompense to those who serve god and look i'm not saying all of us i'm not 51:36.800 --> 51:41.580 saying that i wouldn't be the first beheaded because it's possible okay but i am saying that 51:41.580 --> 51:46.300 according to the bible we could pray that we would be counted worthy to escape all those things and 51:46.300 --> 51:51.020 this is what this is what i really like about this maybe this is you know maybe you're scared 51:51.020 --> 52:00.300 maybe you're a lady i want you to circle a word okay in verse 36 to escape all that's nice 52:00.980 --> 52:08.920 he did he said all he didn't say some he said all wouldn't it be nice to think hey i'm not going to 52:08.920 --> 52:13.500 go through the famine i'm not going to go through the war i'm not going to go through any of those 52:13.500 --> 52:19.360 things i'm not even getting betrayed i'm going to escape all of those things according to the bible 52:19.360 --> 52:24.780 some people could be counted worthy to escape all these things so you know what hey don't don't 52:24.780 --> 52:29.340 think that there's no reward to serving god don't think that being on the right track 52:29.340 --> 52:35.200 doesn't have its benefits because i believe that some people are going to escape all of these things 52:35.900 --> 52:40.460 and it's in there they're afraid of a boogie man they're afraid of nothing you know what we ought 52:40.460 --> 52:47.580 to fear god and not man hey there there are some people that lived in egypt that escaped all the 52:47.580 --> 52:52.400 plagues right i mean none of the plagues touched them they're living in goshen they're still 52:52.400 --> 52:57.060 getting all the blessings of god while the whole world's being plagued and tormented and 52:57.060 --> 53:02.600 tortured at the same time it's like hey believe in god believe that god can put you where he 53:02.600 --> 53:05.760 needs to put you and that god can provide for you and that you don't even have to worry about 53:05.760 --> 53:11.700 and in fact i don't i don't even think that god uh requires us to come up with some tribulation 53:11.700 --> 53:16.560 strategy you know i i listened to some sermons it was like i think it was like my manly 53:16.560 --> 53:20.060 parry or something and he was like he was like coming up with those like tribulation strategy 53:20.060 --> 53:26.260 of of storing all this food and like all of these escape plans and like all like i don't 53:26.260 --> 53:30.880 think you need that just like i don't think that i need my toddlers or five-year-old to 53:30.880 --> 53:34.140 figure out how they're going to pay the bills this week or how dinner is going to be put 53:34.140 --> 53:39.300 on the table like mom and dad got it you know and at the end of the day i think that dad's 53:39.300 --> 53:44.940 got it in the sense that like our heavenly father is got it for us he's the one that's 53:44.940 --> 53:48.980 prepared the place i mean think about the disciples and jesus they didn't even just 53:48.980 --> 53:53.260 they didn't do anything for the Passover they just showed up and then jesus is like hey 53:53.860 --> 53:57.580 go grab a donkey and then that's where we're gonna have dinner 53:58.100 --> 54:03.120 and everything was already prepared for them someone had literally prepared the entire meal 54:03.120 --> 54:08.300 the furnishings the meal everything's just ready to go they did nothing they just showed up 54:08.300 --> 54:17.020 and it's just like here's a meal for you yeah but who is it for the disciples not for the 54:17.020 --> 54:21.260 backslidden christians not for the worldly christians not for the ones doing their own 54:21.260 --> 54:26.420 thing the disciples they had a feast prepared for them that they did nothing they're just 54:26.420 --> 54:31.480 serving god get the last supper those who are doing their own thing they got to prepare their own 54:31.480 --> 54:36.520 their own way just some just some thoughts they're gonna matthew 24 again go to matthew 24 54:37.340 --> 54:42.520 he's gonna you know in his little video he's bringing up no and lot and and kind of pointing 54:42.520 --> 54:46.600 to some of these things being counted worthy to escape i don't think the counted worthy means 54:46.600 --> 54:52.280 you're saved it's that you're saved and serving god but for the work he's the work salvationist 54:52.280 --> 54:57.100 they then turn this into like another work salvation lords of salvation which of course jimmy evans 54:57.100 --> 55:02.960 teaches lords of salvation so i don't think he's saved but matthew 24 look at verse 37 55:04.740 --> 55:11.760 we'll read a little bit more of this passage it says but as the days of noah were social also 55:11.760 --> 55:15.740 the coming of the son of man be for as in the days that were before the flood they 55:15.740 --> 55:20.000 were eating and drinking marrying giving and marriage until the day that noah or no he entered 55:20.000 --> 55:24.360 into the ark and they knew not until the flood came and took them all away so shall also the 55:24.360 --> 55:30.260 coming of the son of man be now obviously the world is a vast place and people are going 55:30.260 --> 55:35.900 through different experiences i think from an american perspective this could be very literal 55:36.360 --> 55:43.460 that in america even in that first four seals that we as americans are experiencing very little 55:43.460 --> 55:52.500 ramification and that most of that experience is happening in europe okay now again i could be 55:52.500 --> 55:57.320 wrong timelines could be off i don't know my personal opinion is that the end times is 55:57.320 --> 56:03.740 going to be a war on islam now here's the thing there's some islam here but there's not a lot 56:03.740 --> 56:09.040 and if we went to full war it could be over pretty quick and most of us may not experience 56:09.040 --> 56:16.180 that much but europe is a different story and europe has a much more entrenched islamic population 56:16.720 --> 56:24.600 and they're disarmed as a population and they've rejected god for a long period of time and i think 56:24.600 --> 56:30.360 personal opinion god could be judging europe for their rejection of god by bringing them islam 56:30.360 --> 56:36.020 in that we see a third or fourth of the world dying it's because europe is just awful europe 56:36.020 --> 56:41.160 is and again you know from a soul winning perspective think about this like most of us 56:41.160 --> 56:46.980 aren't like real jazz to go to europe to go soul winning anyways because of how unreceptive 56:46.980 --> 56:53.580 and how expensive and hot and liberal and weird it is and it illegal that for the most part 56:53.580 --> 56:58.440 there's not even a lot of saints over there anyways so that for most most people during that 56:58.440 --> 57:03.700 bearded time most christians most of the zealous christians they're just not there and then the 57:03.700 --> 57:08.720 handful that are there they just kind of probably either escape or leave or whatever so it's pretty 57:08.720 --> 57:13.640 realistic to think that for most christians for the first half you know three and a half years 57:13.640 --> 57:18.980 there's not really necessarily a direct confrontation to us we're still doing our thing you know 57:18.980 --> 57:22.220 africa's still going to be africa and the caribbean's probably still being the caribbean 57:22.220 --> 57:26.860 and we can go do soul winning and do whatever and then the whole world is just struggling with 57:26.860 --> 57:32.540 that so i don't want you to think that like it couldn't be exactly like saying people are eating 57:32.540 --> 57:37.740 people in our churches are getting married i mean hey if we saw these things happening i think 57:37.740 --> 57:42.860 we could see a lot of marriages this is my personal opinion i mean these these single guys might be like 57:42.860 --> 57:48.860 well hey it's now or never you know what i mean like i know i was i know i was wanting like you 57:48.860 --> 57:53.720 know this like celebrity or whatever you know whatever they were wanting and they're just like 57:53.720 --> 58:00.600 fine you know i'll actually go with someone on my level you know because because they're 58:00.600 --> 58:05.880 kind of like a five looking for an 11 you know and it's like fine i'll take a six you know it's 58:05.880 --> 58:11.680 just like bro she's still better than you but you know whatever i mean i'm just being honest with you 58:11.680 --> 58:16.680 i could see some people and again young ladies during this time i could see them wanting a 58:16.680 --> 58:20.720 husband and wanting someone to provide and take care of them during this time so i could i could 58:20.720 --> 58:25.880 see just an explosion of marriages at this time and even in america just random people just getting 58:25.880 --> 58:30.840 married and whatever just living their life getting married young people getting married buying 58:30.840 --> 58:35.480 drinking doing all these things i mean babel on according to the bible is just having a heyday 58:35.900 --> 58:40.960 all the way to the end i mean just to the very end i mean ships over the whole world are coming 58:40.960 --> 58:46.580 to wherever babel on is and they're just having all kinds of stuff and the luxuries are not 58:46.580 --> 58:50.120 going to cease although there'll be famines and parts of the world and some people are struggling 58:50.540 --> 58:55.260 i think for some they're going to be enjoying still and still having luxuries and whatever 58:56.380 --> 59:01.920 so i don't see how this is necessarily wrong and it's just saying it wasn't until the flood came 59:01.920 --> 59:07.740 and then a judgment i think again probably if it were to happen anytime soon america's probably 59:07.740 --> 59:16.560 babel on and for the unsaved american he will have a good time all the way up until the battle 59:16.560 --> 59:22.120 of armageddon like right around that time period when the ten kings they all sin their arrows 59:22.680 --> 59:27.080 and and babel on just basically nuked off the planet and it's just a sudden destruction 59:27.500 --> 59:32.360 and they're just pretty much wiped out but for those that are saved we would have been a rapture 59:32.360 --> 59:38.600 or delivered you know three and a half years prior minus 75 days so that's just kind of just 59:38.600 --> 59:43.200 i'm just throwing out some ideas out there giving you some kind of timeline well let's go to just 59:43.200 --> 59:48.280 a few more passages and we'll finish look at verse 13 the bible says but he that shall endure under 59:48.280 --> 59:54.260 the end the same shall be saved again work salvationist love this verse but what's the context the context 59:54.260 --> 59:59.760 of the tribulation period and for and for christians going through this tribulation some will have to 59:59.760 --> 01:00:04.420 endure at the end and they'll be saved this is what jimmy ebbon says repeatedly in the in the video 01:00:04.420 --> 01:00:09.940 nowhere in the bible is it saying for christians to pray for endurance and i'm just like what what 01:00:10.460 --> 01:00:16.520 how about endure hardness as a good soldier of jesus christ how about just be be steadfast 01:00:16.520 --> 01:00:22.080 what do you think steadfast means it's talking about endurance it's talking about not being moved 01:00:22.080 --> 01:00:28.040 okay endurance is a major aspect of the christian life it's crazy to think that we don't have to endure 01:00:28.040 --> 01:00:32.960 and of course the bible is telling us to endure here so obviously we should pray for 01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:36.280 that endurance we should pray that we would escape all these things we should continue 01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:40.980 serving god and you know we shouldn't be always afraid of a bogeyman because in many cases is 01:00:40.980 --> 01:00:46.020 never going to come we should just trust god though we went to i want to go to like 01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:50.680 just revelation chapter one we'll just finish here's a couple other verses to think about 01:00:50.680 --> 01:00:58.180 roman's 1212 rejoicing in hope patient and tribulation continuing instant in prayer the 01:00:58.180 --> 01:01:01.500 bible constantly talks about tribulation how we're going to go through it but what should we 01:01:01.500 --> 01:01:06.000 do we should be patient and tribulation right whatever difficult as you go through second 01:01:06.560 --> 01:01:12.020 carinthians chapter one verses three through four talk about how god comforts us in all our 01:01:12.020 --> 01:01:16.760 tribulation so again just it's nonsense to say that these things wouldn't happen 01:01:17.700 --> 01:01:22.600 you know the bible talks about not a hair of your head being injured during these periods of 01:01:22.600 --> 01:01:25.960 time there's so much script there's so many verses we could talk about but this is what 01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:29.900 i think is funny go to revelation one and look at verse nine is this whole epistle is supposed 01:01:29.900 --> 01:01:34.360 to tell me that i'm not going to go through tribulation right from a pre-trip perspective 01:01:34.360 --> 01:01:37.300 like the whole epistles like explain to me how i'm not going to go through tribulation 01:01:37.300 --> 01:01:43.480 and then it's like verse nine i john who also i'm your brother and companion companion 01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:49.780 in tribulation i'm telling you that we're not going to be in tribulation like how am i a companion 01:01:49.780 --> 01:01:54.760 with him if he's in tribulation and i'm not in tribulation or i'm not going to go through 01:01:54.760 --> 01:01:59.620 tribulation like it's just silly he's like hey no i'm your companion in tribulation 01:01:59.620 --> 01:02:04.140 and what's what's the point because the book of revelation is going to tell us about a lot of 01:02:04.140 --> 01:02:09.820 tribulation christianity we're going through much tribulation we must through much tribulation 01:02:09.820 --> 01:02:14.860 enter into the kingdom of god better revelation seven verse 14 this is the last one i'll look at 01:02:14.860 --> 01:02:21.340 but it's just so funny let's just not confuse the terms tribulation and wrath different terms 01:02:21.940 --> 01:02:27.740 different meanings first three and a half years tribulation 75 days great tribulation 01:02:27.740 --> 01:02:34.720 the last 42 months wrath of god and again i'm minus the 75 days but sixth seal 01:02:34.720 --> 01:02:39.780 is not the first seal okay i don't know if that's a hard point for you to remember all right 01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:47.860 the sixth seal is of course we know as the rapture and we believe that's the 1335 days 01:02:47.860 --> 01:02:54.000 that's that's why it's blessed to wait until that period being patient in that tribulation 01:02:54.500 --> 01:03:00.580 enduring under the end being counted worthy to escape all these things and to be caught up with 01:03:00.580 --> 01:03:05.360 the lord and praise god even if you die you're going to still be at that same event though we're all 01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:11.820 going to be at that moment of time we're either coming with jesus christ or we're being caught up 01:03:11.820 --> 01:03:17.960 together to meet jesus christ in the air and then we'll be with him forever more we'll always 01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:23.540 be with jesus christ that's pretty cool like once we get there we'll never not be with jesus 01:03:23.540 --> 01:03:28.800 ever again we'll always be with him and we'll never not be with him our fate will turn to sight 01:03:28.800 --> 01:03:34.020 we'll have a resurrected new body we'll get to rule and reign with christ for a thousand years 01:03:34.580 --> 01:03:38.680 it's crazy to think all this has happened okay anybody that thinks that is crazy all right 01:03:39.980 --> 01:03:49.060 and and look i guess you could say like hey would it be cool to hit a button like the world's 01:03:49.060 --> 01:03:55.060 going into chaos and you can just hit a button and go to heaven yeah it sounds kind of cool but you 01:03:55.060 --> 01:04:02.420 know for a man what if i said hey you get to play in game seven of the world series or game seven 01:04:02.860 --> 01:04:09.960 of the nba finals or hey it's the super bowl and you have two options you can either play and 01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:15.520 it's going to be a tough game and you're going to get some hard hits but you can win or you 01:04:15.520 --> 01:04:21.920 can just tap a button and just get the trophy it's like you lived your whole life up to this moment to 01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:27.300 play the game it's like why wouldn't you this then play that game you kind of want to you kind of 01:04:27.300 --> 01:04:34.120 want to be in and it's like hey you can play in the game and win and score the touchdown or we 01:04:34.120 --> 01:04:37.760 can just hit the button and you'll get the trophy but these guys are going to score the 01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:42.480 touchdowns and these guys are going to be the ones that you know like i know the preacher 01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:47.960 raptor kind of sounds cool but at the same time it's also kind of like not cool because i think for 01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:53.280 most of us you know especially that like athletics it's like we've lived our whole life up to this 01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:58.480 moment we want to go through it we want to experience it we want to see it i think hey let's 01:04:58.480 --> 01:05:03.360 you know if we ask women the other side it's like hey all right you're starting the labor pains 01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:08.240 you can just hit a button and you're holding the baby all right i think someone would press 01:05:08.240 --> 01:05:12.900 that button okay i'm not don't hear wrong but you know i think there's some woman that wouldn't 01:05:12.900 --> 01:05:16.700 even want to press it they would say i kind of want to go through it and see what it was like 01:05:16.700 --> 01:05:21.160 and you know have that that experience even though it wasn't necessarily the most enjoyable 01:05:21.160 --> 01:05:27.960 experience okay and again i don't judge you if you're like but all right but at the end of the 01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:32.140 day some of us want to actually go through it some of us actually want to see it and so you 01:05:32.140 --> 01:05:38.320 know it's not just all cool or whatever that oh well the pre-trips way better not necessarily 01:05:39.140 --> 01:05:41.920 and think about it this way what if you could say hey you're going to go through that experience 01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:45.720 with no pain and you're going to escape all those things then you'd like i definitely want to press 01:05:45.720 --> 01:05:51.320 it you know there's no guarantee but you know hey pray that you're kind of worthy and of course 01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:55.880 at the end of the day what will happen verse 14 and i said to him sir thou knowest and he 01:05:55.880 --> 01:06:01.160 said it to me these are the which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes 01:06:01.160 --> 01:06:05.500 and made them white in the blood lamp there's a group of people in heaven and it's like hey 01:06:05.500 --> 01:06:09.220 where the heck did these people come from they came from great tribulation how could you then 01:06:09.220 --> 01:06:13.160 say that the people in heaven that came from great tribulation god will never put you through 01:06:13.160 --> 01:06:20.200 great tribulation he's saying this is where they came from but this is this again from a 01:06:20.200 --> 01:06:22.780 pre-tripper second this is what they teach and i'm not going to i'm not going to spend more 01:06:22.780 --> 01:06:27.040 time on this but you know there's tribulation saints it's like we all get saved and then 01:06:27.040 --> 01:06:31.540 some people later get saved and they're the tribulation ones but they sound pretty cool 01:06:31.540 --> 01:06:36.720 like you know i want to be like them again then they have to invent you know where how 01:06:36.720 --> 01:06:40.060 do they get their rapture where's their timing they can't point to these so again the preacher 01:06:40.060 --> 01:06:47.640 rapture is just wishful thinking but in a sense it's just not in the bible it doesn't make sense 01:06:47.640 --> 01:06:52.040 and it's confusing and then you screw up a lot of other passages and why it's important to 01:06:52.040 --> 01:06:56.440 believe it is because if it's going to happen we should at least prepare mentally and say hey i 01:06:56.440 --> 01:07:01.560 want to be a good soul winner now and i want to be right with god now and i want to pray that i'm 01:07:01.560 --> 01:07:05.620 counted worthy to escape i think those that are in pre-trib land and not going soul winning 01:07:06.180 --> 01:07:12.540 are not going to be ones counted worthy to escape those things so and in some sense you know they 01:07:12.540 --> 01:07:17.740 will get up there really quick by being slaughtered all right they thought it was going to be a 01:07:17.740 --> 01:07:22.160 rapture and it was a slaughtering okay so let's let's go some prayer thank you heavenly 01:07:22.160 --> 01:07:25.080 father so much for your word thank you so much for these examples i pray that we would not 01:07:25.080 --> 01:07:33.260 be afraid or scared of what the future beholds but rather we would look through with eyes with faith 01:07:34.020 --> 01:07:38.880 through the scripture that we would see that hey for some people where they're going to be counted 01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:45.380 worthy to escape i pray that we would strive for being counted worthy that we would be embrace 01:07:45.380 --> 01:07:50.140 the end times whether that happens in our life or not and that we would encourage the next 01:07:50.140 --> 01:07:55.240 generation i pray that you would help us to live our lives to the fullest and to take full advantage 01:07:55.240 --> 01:08:00.820 of the time that we have and that we would not be scared of the serpent but rather we would fear 01:08:00.820 --> 01:08:02.460 only you and in jesus name we pray amen