07/28/2021 | Are We Ready for What's Coming on the Earth? | Bishop J. E. Myers

are we ready for what's coming on the earth i told you last week that i'd be talking to you a little bit about this because of things that's been developing uh uh this week and it'll go on for a few more weeks of course and that is the olympics that's happening in japan and uh the olympics is really sort of a worldwide effort to try to bring harmony and unity to all of the nations all of our countries so they can just go there and compete in physical exercises and so forth but underneath what's happening in the world there's troubles there's troubles and while i want to be grateful for the olympics and what the efforts are there i also have to be aware of what's really happening in the world what's been developing here lately there's some things that's been happening i'm going to read something to you here out of the kiplinger report here in just a moment uh but what's been happening in the world there is that china has decided that they want to take back uh for most of the country of formosa and they want to take that country back that country was originally the chinese nationalists they were under chiang kai-shek back in world war ii and he took the people who wanted to be that is free and be democratic and be like the rest of the world he took them over to formosa and they established that country called taiwan it's called taiwan today and china eventually became what all communism china ready to call them red china and uh mau i think was the head of that and then he passed away and then they have a new one down and so forth he continues on with it trying to mix a little democracy in they took hong kong back over hong kong was a city that was chinese but it had been put in the hands of the british and the british had advanced hong kong to a great extent beyond all of the other cities in china and hong kong at excel so they left hong kong alone because the chinese communists said it is our door to the outside world and then finally they decided they wanted to take hong kong back and they did that that's still many who resent that don't like it and so forth and as long as the chinese communists sort of left hong kong to do their own thing uh everybody was happy with that but now they're tightened the device on it and saying we want you to be more communistic going to be more like like us part of us so forth now they've recently announced that they're going to take back taiwan that that's really the chinese people that belong to china as well even though it's across the stretch of water there and so forth yet they want that land in that area as well the japanese have said no way that won't ever happen we won't stand for it the u.s says we will not stand for it we are going to oppose that european countries are going to oppose that and china and china says don't stop us don't even try to stop us we're gonna take it so you understand here what i'm talking to you about underneath the the beautiful side of everything and mankind's efforts to try to be harmonious there's all of these undercover and underlying strife that continues to go on uh north korea having now the the atomic bomb or the nuclear bomb whatever if you want to call it atomic or whatever it is nuclear bomb and china standing somewhat supportive of north korea and uh now you got iran pushing to get the the the bomb as well there are certain countries that have the bomb but they all just set on it and they just keep peace and they know that there's no way anyone could ever be a winner if they ever unleashed it but folks when you have all of these countries in the world that have access to the nuclear bomb and there's friction and there's desires to achieve and grow and reach and grab and all of these things it's just a matter of time that something is going to break and trouble is going to come out now i'm not telling you that tonight to scare you i'm just telling you that that is all part of bible prophecy it's all in the bible and that it's time for it to come to pass and i'm going to show you some things tonight to let you know that we are nearing the time in which things will not always be the same but they're going to change america is changing america is changing uh america has forgotten its commitment to serve god or to be christian or to be a god-fearing nation in god we trust you know it's on coins and things like that but there's much resentment by many people in america because a miracle takes that position that stand and it's gradually shifting and changing uh i won't go into a lot of details to it but america is getting in trouble financially this is something that a lot of people don't realize now i've got an article here called the kiplinger letter i get this periodically in the mail it comes weekly but uh i'm not subscribing to it anymore this is my last issue that i got but this is what it says here this has been coming uh i used to get this when i was a young man it comes out of washington d.c it's very authentic democrats republicans all alike they all read this senators read it because these people are on the inside track of what's going on and they said this is what they said here dear client as congress okays trillions in new spending is it time to worry about the national debt they started talking about that they said that the federal debt is equal to 100 of the us gross domestic production the gross domestic production in america is what everybody collectively together were to earn in one year that's the gross uh uh the gross domestic uh production and that's what we would earn what all in other words you take everybody's salary put it all together that's what america owes we owe 100 of that figure and it's up into the trillions of dollars you can imagine it goes on to say here that that's where we are now uh congress passed early this year what they just passed about the spending will push it to 108 percent and then if president biden's proposal for several trillion more goes into effect it will go to 114 by next year uh previously the highest record they ever had was 106 of the gross domestic production which was following world war ii we had spent so much money in world war ii and that's where it was and then of course we were able to work ourselves back out over and get straight back out now it goes on to say the picture darkens in about four years as many members of the baby boom generation who are still working retire and tap social security and medicare when they start taking you know drawing medicare social security and so forth it starts to jump up with all those as debts hits 130 percent by 2026 126 of the gdp as the debt rises so does interest cost for the treasury and it goes on if nothing is done to rein it in the debt becomes truly mind-boggling as high as 260 of the gdp by mid-century 600 by the end of the century that's a long time often i realize it and we're not even thinking i'm worried about it but i'm just saying that what's happening is america is getting indebted over his head and there's only so long that they can just keep printing out money and nothing to back it up do you understand what i'm saying here is that america is getting trouble financially we're getting in trouble morally in america morally they've lost morales they've i saw on tv the other day where the medical school they're not wanting the word pregnant women to be used anymore they call it pregnant person because we don't want to make a distinction between men and women we want to like all be the same and they are changed trying to change things like that which is weird and complicated and it's not even it's not even normal uh the the areas of homosexuality and lesbianism was back in that old greek culture it developed after some time it was despised by the rest of the world and greek fell greece fell finally the romans themselves who despised the greeks for they had cities given over to that and i've talked to you about that pompeii and pompei was destroyed by mount vesuvius in 79 a.d it was just destroyed everybody that's how they know so much about it because everything that went on in that city it was like frozen in time with all the ash in the freezing and it wasn't freezing cold it was freezing hot it just annihilated everything like that now i'm just trying to tell you here that the whole world now is getting in a place and shape where it's time for us to see where we are and what is our position with god it's important that every one of us have a walk with god and a place in god and have be in touch with god more than anything in the world so when i ask this question are we ready for what's coming on the earth we can be individuals are we as individuals ready for what's coming on the earth because these things are coming now i'm going to have you go if you look on your sheet of paper there uh i i can't quite reach that over there too well so i'm going to be referring to this uh the first number one here you might even can see it too well but you've got papers in your hand i'm going to go number one here i may just call it out to you but if you look at number one here uh and i'm looking at matthew 24 1 if you'd like to turn to matthew 24 1 i'm going to read the first three verses here in that chapter of matthew matthew 1 20 1 20 chapter 24 verses 1 through 3. and but i can't reach it i mean i can't get over there yeah thank you okay that's better it's better for me if you just pull it around over here okay good thank you good okay that helps me and then i can point and so this is where we are at right here matthew 24 1 through 3. now i'm going to show you some things here i want you to notice here there are three questions and i even stated here that there are three questions about ask jesus by his disciples while overlooking the temple mount and the reason that they had done that is what jesus had just said previously to them and i'm going to read that to you here in chapter 24 verse 1. jesus went out departed from the temple and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple because they were beautiful beautiful it was zerubbabel's temple later on it was refurbished called herod's temple and it was a beautiful edifice one of the most beautiful edifices in the then known world and they showed him the temple like to say lords what a beautiful temple we have here look what jesus said in verse 2 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 this is the prophecy that jesus made that would happen to that temple and as he said upon the mount of olives now apparently they went out from the temple mount and they went across the kidron valley up on the east side of the temple mount and you can look out across from from the mount of olives you can look across the little short valley and you can see the temple mount over on the other side today uh it's the dome of the rock as you know it's the golden dome that you see there's a muslim edifice but it was the temple back then and uh verse 3 and as he sat upon the mount of olives the disciples came up to him privately asking tell us now look at this closely when shall these things be that is the destruction of the temple when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming that's another question and of the end of the world or the word world here means the end of the age that is the period of time that we are going to be in now three questions were asked here so this is what we are pointing out to you here and they asked three questions they asked the destruction of the temple a the return of christ be c the end of the world or the age and this was the three questions that they asked now i'm going just below that these questions are also recorded in mark and in luke now mark and luke it was matthew 24 mark 13 luke 21 are all about the same in other words each one of these gospel writers was recording what jesus said questions asked jesus what he stated so they each one of them talks about it but they vary a little bit they vary because each one's an individual each one's giving it like he heard it like he he he remembers it and like he was impressed to write about and so he begins to write up a note number one here luke gives the most information of the temple destruction and the disbursement of israel now they all give that information but luke gives the most thorough information on that i'm going to have you go to luke chapter 21 for just a moment and read a couple of verses to you here 21 and 20. and this is the the scripture that you see uh over here on this far right-hand side now look at verse 20 and when you shall see jerusalem he's talking about the temple destruction now in the city of jerusalem and when you shall see jerusalem compass with armies then know that the desolation thereof is nigh or near no then jesus is telling them that whenever you see the armies coming around jerusalem you know that it's going to happen look down in verse 24 i'm going to save time by just really going down jumping 24 and they that's the jews they the jewish people shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and jerusalem shall be trodden down of the gentiles notice that now he's describing here what would happen in 70 a.d folks that is exactly what happened exactly what happened the roman armies came down they surrounded that city they went inside they destroyed everything even titus the roman general the young young general he ordered this troops not to tear the temple down and josephus who records it says it was as though they never heard him he was screaming to his generals tell those men not to tear the temple down and the generals was crying to the men don't tear the temple down and they were tearing it down to the right down just like jesus prophesied he would be i'm just trying to tell you here that the word of god is always right and it always comes to pass we can bank on it praise the lord so he says here and i'm going to finish reading this 24th verse it goes on to say and jerusalem shall be trodden down of the gentiles and then it says until the times of the gentiles be fulfilled that's how long jerusalem's going to be trodden down to the gentiles until the time of the gentiles is fulfilled now i'm telling you that because the time of the gentiles is the church age and i've got that in your the church ages right number two the church age is mentioned as the times of the gentiles in luke 21 24 i just read that to you and also in romans 11 25 i'm not going to go to romans 11 25 because it says the same thing but this paul's writings and he says that the the uh that israel and jerusalem be trodden down until the time of the gentiles over the time of the gentiles folks is when god has opened the gospel up to the whole world we are gentiles the jews are those who are of abraham gentiles everybody else that's us and after the jews rejected jesus and crucified him and all those things and rejected christ then the gospel then jesus turned to the gentiles and said to those disciples go into all world preached the gospel whoever believeth is baptized should be saved who they believe or not shall be damned this is in mark and then matthew 28 19 go you know where preaching gospel baptizing name and so forth we know the name is jesus and this gospel you know what shall not depart and so forth i won't get into detail on that only to tell you this that the lord praise the lord now is still reaching the world with the gospel that's where we still are you understand that this is where we still are but we're coming down to the end of it i'm going to show you some scripture here in a moment to help us understand where we are we're coming down to the end of it and the lord said of course those things would come to pass now i'm going to have you go over with me if you would for a moment to over to uh hosea 6 2. this is mentioned in part 3 here about how long it will be found that is the time of the gentiles about how long will it be founded how about how long it will be found it's found in hosea 6 2. and i want you to look with me in hotel 6-2 because this is a very interesting before i read 62 i'm gonna this is not in your notes but i'm gonna look at uh three four this is hosea now hosea is prophesying way back 500 years before christ about what was going to happen when all this would come about look at uh three and four of hosea the children of israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and without an image an image is the temple that's the object that they would they would have not not a worship image but an object they would have that was where god was and without an ephod that's what the priests wore and without terraphim uh that's other things that they had verse five afterwards afterwards many days they shall abide like that without a temple afterwards shall the children of israel return and seek the lord their god david their king and shall fear the lord and his goodness in the latter days the latter days then when it speaks of david their king remember jesus christ was the son of david you know that blind man blind bartimaeus the son of david have mercy on me they knew that jesus was the son of david so it wasn't david the king that was speaking of jesus christ his coming and his goodness in the latter days now over here getting back to 6 2 he talks that the lord is just going to leave him he'll he won't he won't do anything he'll let him stay out there that last verse in fact chapter 5 says i will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offense and seek my face and their affliction they will seek merely now hosea 6 1-2 and it goes on to say here in these two verses come and let us return unto the lord for he hath torn he will heal us he has smitten and he will bind us up after two days everybody see that now put a ring around this verse if you've got your bibles after two days will he revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight this is talking about israel now after two days wait a minute brother meyer two days i mean that happened in 70 a.d and jude was scattered into all the world two days that's that's that's been quite a while back what he's talking about when he says two days is that each day is a thousand years you say brother myers where do you get all that from the bible i'm glad you asked we're going to go to the scripture on it praise the lord look in ii peter 3 8 2 peter 3 8 but beloved be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the lord as a thousand years and a thousand years is one day that's what that's what the lord made when he said to adam and eve in the day that you eat of this fruit you should surely die it wasn't a 24 hour day he's talking about they ate the fruit 24 hours rolled by another 24 and nobody died he said god's word must not be true no no no he wasn't talking about a 24-hour day he's talking about a dispensational day a thousand years adam lived to be 930 years and he died methuselah was the longest living person ever lived he lived to be 969 years he died but nobody ever lived beyond a thousand because in the day in the day of the heat of these figures surely that day it was a thousand years and that's what that's what this scripture is referring to two days will i revive and of course peter john peters mentioned that over here in ii peter now it also is mentioned in psalms i got another scripture there if you look at psalms 90 psalms 194 for a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is passed or as a watch of the night the watch of the night is about one third of a night in other words just a short time as far as god is concerned so when i mention over here in hosea 6 2 after two days he will revive us apparently it's talking about 2 000 years and it is it says after two days he will revive us the third day he will raise us up we shall live in his sight and when you read that over in ii peter it says a day with the lord is as a thousand years not exactly a thousand you understand but as a thousand it's right in there somewhere now anybody know how long it's been since jerusalem was destroyed we're right there at it right we're close this is if i ever started if i understand it right this is 2021 right we're in 2021 it's been 2 000 years since christ was born christ died in 30 a.d jerusalem was destroyed in the 70s right in the same same century i'm just pointing out to you here it's time for the lord to come back because that's the next major thing that's going to happen whenever these things begin to come forth now uh i'm going to go to this number five here one but know one thing exactly when jesus will return and uh i want you to look in matthew 24 36 with me matthew 24 36 praise god nobody knows when the lord is coming nobody knows exactly we've had people who we not us but in the world preachers who have tried to say jesus was going to come in a certain sister year i value him seeing where they said a certain date i think the last time i heard they was going to come i forgot what year was but they even had the date it was like december the 26th or something like that i don't know they even put the date on there i remember as a young man going to bible college up in saint paul saint paul minnesota and we'd go sometime i'd drive over to minneapolis as a big old billboard on the mississippi river there as you cross the mississippi river it says jesus is coming back on such as usually a date that was right down like maybe a month or two away and i'd go across that bridge and i'd read it and so maybe two weeks later i drove across the bridge and they changed the date they keep putting it back that's that's been that's been many moons ago because that's when i was only 17 years old when all that was going on you understand what i'm saying that people have been setting times and days nobody knows let me give you some scripture for that look at matthew 24 and 30. matthew 24 36. we'll start with that one matthew 34 24 36 but of that day and that hour knoweth no man no not the angels of heaven you are with me on that he's talking about the coming of the lord if i can back up to verse 31 you don't have that in your notes but 31 says 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 the heaven to the other that's talking about the rapture and the coming of the lord this is verse 31. now i'm going to 36 back this is what i just got through reading but of that day and hour know of no man no not the angels of heaven but my father only that means god almighty is the only one of the angels don't know look down in verse 42 watch therefore for you know not what hour your lord doth come i'm right here now in verse 42 next one is 44. therefore be also ready for in such an hour as you think not the son of man cometh there's three verses right there in one chapter that says nobody knows and for us to be watchful because nobody knows verse 50. this is a response to a short parable that jesus gave about a man who was a servant to a man and was given responsibility by his master verse 50 and the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and he was liking that parable unto jesus going away and leaving responsibilities to us to live for god walk with god be a child of god and then he's coming back now one other verse there's four verses right there in the 24th chapter chapter 25 of going to verse 13. this is one more verse watch therefore for we know neither the day nor the hour wherein the son of man cometh everybody understand what we're saying nobody knows the day of the coming of the son of man praise the lord we can know about and we know that it's time we know that after two days or after 2000 years time for the lord to come back now if we were living a thousand years ago and we looked at that verse of scripture but i'd say well the lord's not coming back yet for another thousand years but today we know it's time for him to come now number six here there will be signs of his coming everybody follow me on that there's going to be signs of his coming i want you to go to luke 21 25 with me for a moment luke 21 25 praise god and uh we were just in luke while ago and he says this and there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations everybody see that these are signs distress of nations uh this is talking about the times of the gentiles in that verse 24 just above it until the time of the gentiles be fulfilled and there should be signs of the sun and the moon and the stars and upon the earth the stress of nations perplexes the sea and the waves roaring that's tsunami tsunamis are tidal waves and that'll happen men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken i want to point out a couple of things to you verse 27 then shall they see the son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory and when all when these things begin look at that to come to pass when you begin to see these signs then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh or draweth near praise the lord and then he gives a parable about a fig tree when you see the fig tree blooming you know that it's time for the figs to come forth the figs come out whenever the it begins to bloom victory fig does that jesus likened israel into the fig tree and that's what israel is happening to do they're starting to bloom a little bit we're starting to see some things come about and happening when you begin to see that then know that we're near the time and so he says that again in verse 31 i'm still here in 20 matthew 24 i mean luke 20 uh 21 31 i'm sorry 21 31 so likewise ye when ye see these things come to pass know ye that the kingdom of god is nigh at hand or near at hand now i pointed all these things out here to show you praise the lord that we can see signs that signs will be there and god has promised us that he'd give us signs that scripture is also found in in matthew and other verses that pretty well say the same thing that's because luke and mark and matthew sometimes repeats they don't repeat but they say pretty well the same thing so rather than read everything i'm not going to try to do that now look at number seven here the lord's coming would be an everyday kind of day every day kind of day look at matthew with me going back to matthew a minute i want you to go with me at this time to uh i think is yeah go to matthew 24 and verse 37 matthew 24 37. i'm going to read 24 37. look at this very closely here this is talking about how it would be when jesus comes now that's the next major event to take place is the coming of jesus because that's what that's what they were answering here in this 24th chapter of matthew what shall be the temple destroyed that happened what shall be the sign of thy coming so jesus is talking about that everybody with you on verse 37 but as the days of noah were so shall also the coming of the son of man be for as in the days that were before the flood they're eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriages and every day kind of a day things life's just going on normally are you with me on that that's where we are right now everything's going on just normally eating drinking marriage and giving in marriage until the day the noah entered into the ark when it was going to be all over with the door no entered into the ark to be saved god put him in the ark praise the lord so that he would be saved from the flood that was coming get in the church folks amen the old ship of zion get in it praise the lord we don't we're not getting into a boat an ark but you get into the kingdom of god you get in the church i don't mean the church building and i don't mean it has to be necessarily your name on the book i'm talking about your relationship with jesus in the body of christ repent of your sins be baptized in jesus name be filled with his spirit live a god-fearing godly holy life before the lord walk with him believe in him trust in him and god will keep you praise the lord he's promised that he would moving on here very quickly and he goes on to say here that they entered into the ark verse 39 and they knew not until the flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the son of man be so disaster trouble problems everything that has looks like is on the horizon that's going to happen will happen after the rapture takes place after the lord comes verse 40 then shall two be in the field one shall be taken one should be left that's the rapture two people are working together side by side all of a sudden the rapture takes place once taken one's left it's described over in first thessalonians we'll get to that in a minute here look at verse 41 two women shall be grinding at the mill one taken one should be taken the other left so again here the rapture will take place he says in verse 42 well i won't read that one watch there but verse 41 two women should be taken now what i'm doing here is i'm showing you scripture here uh where that is talking about the lord's coming uh will be at a time when the lord will just now look at luke 17 with me for a moment i'm going to another scripture here i believe this is the verse i want this is where luke talks about the same thing he says that it wasn't days of noah associated he says that in 26 27 but in 28 he mentions also lot he mentions he gives another illustration that matthew does not give look at verse 28 here i'm looking at 1728 here of luke luke 17 28. is everybody still with me is it am i i haven't lost it yet have i got some good things to bring out here in a minute likewise also it was in the days of lot they did eat they drank they bought they sold they planted they built it notice here is everyday kind of a day and then suddenly but the same day the lot went out of sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven in other words what he's saying is that when the rapture takes place and the church is taken out amen that's when the judgments of god are going to come all of these things that we begin to see signs of them there are signs out there the things going on out here in the world they're signs to us they're not going to happen yet but when the rapture takes place they will begin to happen i'll show you a scripture on that in a moment so he goes on to say here verse 29 but the same day that lot went out of sodomian rain fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all verse 30 even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed praise the lord so i've showed you these things here to show you that god is going to send down his judgment now number eight here the lord's coming described by paul in 1st thessalonians 4. this is what we've been talking about the rapture and so forth if you go to first thessalonians 4 and many of you know this by heart it's not something you don't know look at first thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 15. everybody with me for this we say unto you by the word of the lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the lord shall not pre-event them which are asleep that word prevent is really pre-event means they will not upstage them or happen before them in other words the alive in christ will not be changed into a glorified body before the dead rise notice that they will not pre-event them which are asleep now the bible doesn't say those that are dead in christ says those are asleep in christ it's a nice way of saying that they've gone their bodies are in the grave but the spirits are with god but they're going to rise and be raised in the resurrection verse 16 for the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel this is we call it the rapture and with the trump of god and the dead in christ shall rise first that's what we were just talking about then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord it's not a wonderful hope that we have praise the lord so i'm just pointing that out to you here now this is also found very detailed uh in uh first corinthians chapter 15. i won't go into detail of that just pretty well the same thing but talks about the dead in christ being raised first and then we were july remains to be caught up to meet the lord in the air he talks about the corrupted put on in corruption and the mortal shall put on immortality corinthians you paul uses that language and when he's talking in first corinthians now let me talk to you a little bit here verse number two as we approach the end time there are three categories of unusual events that will begin to happen three things that will begin to happen now look very closely here a the earth will produce earthquakes famines tsunamis tidal waves erratic weather patterns these are things that this is something that's going to happen the earth will begin to act up this is one of the characteristics and uh i'm going to go to this one next one then i'll get we'll cover it all there be the human race will create wars and strife among nations they will begin to act up they should be fighting each other declared i want you to go to matthew 24 6 and 8. i'm reading all these to just substantiate here what we have been talking to you about matthew 24 look at verse 6 matthew 24 6. you shall hear wars and rumors of war see that you be not troubled now let me just say this to the church you're going to hear about them there's going to be conflicts there's going to be some strife and we're going to keep hearing about it just remember there are signs there are signs that we're approaching the coming of the lord and folks i'm going to say this again i don't know how to emphasize it but with all these nations i could name them off a bunch of them that have the nuclear weapon they're not going to all sit on those weapons when they've got anger and malice and hatred in their heart for another country you know that israel is in a tight spot you know that i mean syria would wipe out israel in a heartbeat they could do it and get away with they can't they know they can't because america has stood by beside israel on all those things so they won't touch israel i heard just this past week about a report that syria the country that's just north of israel syria has been digging a tunnel underneath through solid rock trying to build a tunnel underneath up into israel so they can either feed troops or whatever they want to do bombs or whatever they want to trying to do it and they've discovered that tunnel they've discovered it north korea did that with south korea many moons ago and i was in korea went to the 38th parallel where north and south korea is and went down in the south korean tunnel and went clear back to the back of the tunnel you can walk in it it's just a narrow path they got it all lit up now walk to the back to the very end where the 38th parallel actually is a spot and there is a south korean soldier guarding that spot and just on the other side of that wall is north korea this is in a tunnel north korea was digging it they discovered they went down and matched up with them and said you don't come any further you come any further here it's all over with they left that tunnel there so they could show the world what north korea was doing they were pretending walls peace with us we don't have no problem all the time they're trying to dig a tunnel under this is what syria has been doing toward israel do you understand what i'm pointing out to you here all of these little things that are happening in the world and everything and you know we do the olympics and you know teams play sports against each other this one wins and everybody claps in there and you know we're happy for our country and we won they won when they ordered but underneath all of that is the real danger that and crazy people get in places of position and in positions of authority and places of dictatorship or whatever and you don't know what they're going to decide they're going to do so i'm just trying to tell you here the world is getting in a very serious precarious situation so i'm going to read this sixth verse again to you look at it again you shall hear wars and rumors of war see that you be not troubled for these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nations shall rise against nation kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines notice that famines and pestilence and earthquakes in diverse places all these are the beginning of sorrows famines pestilence earthquakes all of these are the beginning of sorrows these are things that's coming on the earth i uh i haven't gotten into this yet but there's a place in the scriptures i may talk to you one day about it where it talks about the end time and there being a disease that will hit the world i can show you in scripture on this there's several places in the bible a disease will hit the world now i'm not saying that this pandemic that we're in right now this is the one that we've got going i'm not saying that's the one but whenever all these things begin to happen there's going to be some conflicts like that will come and it's going to come up on the earth i can show you into it you know i won't get into details on that now let me give you another verse here in 24-29 immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened this is where the sun and the moon's stars are affected and the moon shall not give her light the stars shall fall from the heaven stars shall fall from heaven the powers of the heavens shall be shaken now i can go to isaiah 13 10 and show you where it's recorded there then go to ezekiel 32 7 show you where it's recorded there these things are not just in revelations but they're also recorded in the old testament as well let me move on here there will be signs in the heavens matthew 24 29 i just read that one to you so we got signs of in the earth the human race will create wars and strife among nations and ver and see there will be signs in the heavens matthew 24. now what's happening now america is getting into more financial trouble i just talked to you about that china's recent decision to overtake taiwan japan and the us are strongly opposing this and that thing is just starting it's not even it hasn't even begin to it's nothing but ending it's just started we're going to hear more and more about that i don't know where that's going but somebody's going to be forced to back down on it if they if they keep peace and i don't know how that's going to be now i'm going to finish up with this one aperture takes place there's going to be some things that will happen on the earth i want you to go with me to revelations chapter 6. revelation chapter 6. we've been in in matthew 24 there which is the prophecies of jesus 24 luke 21 mark 13. these are all prophecies of jesus this is matt this is in revelation 6. look in one here this is where the judgments of god begin to happen now folks when the rapture takes place it's going to shake the world you know that people disappearing all over the world the bible and i could give you a lot of scripture i didn't go into all the detail because i think you understand that we do not yet know how we shall be but we should be like him if we should we shall see him as he is we'll have a glorified body like us under his glorified body you know uh we'll just suddenly would disappear two in the field one taking one left all of a sudden one's left and the other one's gone you know whatever that's the rapture after the rapture takes place there's things that will begin to come on the earth but people will be upset like what happened and there's got to be some kind of a peace brought on the world like everything's gonna be okay we're all okay we're all of us still here we're here you know just calm down that kind of a thing especially backsliders backsliders we pulling their hair they think i missed the rapture don't miss the rapture folks they'll for god serve god whatever the cause whatever the price walk with god serve the lord it's a minor thing the lord's got something great for us praise the lord he has just believe him for it now let me finish reading here verse 1 and i saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and heard as they were the noise of thunder one of the four beasts saying come to me sees these beasts were these seals were seals of judgment that's being opened verse 2 and i saw and behold a white horse this is the first seal look at this and he that sat on him had a bow but no errors and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer with no arrows just a boat which means it's a peace but a false peace what will happen following the rapture will be a false peace and let me just give you a real quick verse to go with that and uh this is found over this is this is in first thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 2. for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the lord so cometh as a thief in the night thief in the night amen and the bible talks about how all these things are coming the earth praise the lord come as a thief in the night now look at verse three there i'm looking at five and three first thessalonians five and three for when for for when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon thee upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape but ye brethren now paul is talking to the church here ye brethren are not of darkness that that day that's the coming of the lord now should overtake you as a thief ye are all the children of light the children of day you are not of the night but nor are the darkness verse 6 therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be so in verse 9 for god hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our lord jesus christ so all the wrath is going to be mentioned here in chapter six that's not for us that's for the world after we're taken out of the world all right now i'm going to read another number two here i'm going back to revelations chapter six and verse two so the first one was white horse number two verse two and it shall be only for a season and then this would be a false p verse three look at this very closely when he had opened the second seal i heard the second beast say come and see and there was went out another horse which was red and power was given unto him that set their own to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another and there was given him a great sword you got your bibles put a ring around the word great not just a sword but a great sword verse five and when he had opened the third seal i heard the third beast say come and see and behold a lower black horse it's himself him had a pair of balances in his hands that's represents famine and heard the voice in the midst of the beast say a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine the oil the wine is the rich the poor are going to get devastated here in all of this the rich can still survive a little longer but not much longer look at verse 7 and when he had opened the fourth seal i heard the voice of the four fourth beast say come and see and i looked and behold a pale horse and his name that said on him was death and hell followed with him and power look at this closely and power was given unto them over the that's the horses now the the war the famines and now death power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death and with the beast of the earth now i'm just telling you what's coming up fourth of the world fourth of the population does not survive past the eighth verse of chapter six this is after the lord has come and all these things so what i'm pointing out to you here we see the sign we see these things developing and what it tells us is simply be ready to meet the lord folks be ready to meet the lord don't don't play around with the world don't play around with sin don't play around with god in this thing this is a very important thing and the lord wants everyone else to be saved and he has a wonderful wonderful reward for those who will walk with him and serve him aren't you glad you know the lord aren't you glad he's given us a hope praise the lord that's beyond all hopes let's stand together and let's just give god the praise and let's thank him and glorify his wonderful name thank you jesus lord we love you so much lord we praise you thank you for your people thank you for these that are here tonight thank you lord for the word of god that is a light unto our feet and a lamp unto our pathway thank you jesus for your spirit that you help us to live for you and walk with your god you give us power and grace through your spirit thank you god for your love and your mercy to us god for where would we be without your love thank you for the grace of god lord for without your grace we are nothing and can do nothing and we'll be nothing but your grace has given us calvary your grace has given us lord a chance to be saved thank you lord for your love for your church we give you the praise and glory in jesus name and everybody said praise the lord let's say it real loud praise the lord god bless you your dismissal

Channel: Eastwind Pentecostal Church of Palm Bay, Florida

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Published: Wed Aug 04 2021