A Biblical View of the Future — Five Key End time Trends | Mike Bickle

to chapter 24. we'll start with this very important declaration that jesus made about the generation that he would return and preparing his people for it this was a preparation statement he was making as a shepherd father we thank you for the word of god and we ask you lord for revelation god i ask you that you would mark our hearts i ask you to raise up forerunner messengers that are prepared and are preparing other people for the unique dynamics that will be happening in the earth in that hour when you return and we thank you for it amen well again in matthew chapter 24 verse 15 jesus makes one of the most important statements about the end times and it's a statement he's making that's related to his urgency that his people be prepared they would be prepared spiritually with right understanding our focus is on seeing people prepared spiritually other people want to see people prepared physically you know they store up this or they do that but ours is much more our focus is understanding what's happening so we have confidence so we're not swept away in fear but we have courage and we know what's going on and we can be a part of the solution and not a part of the confusion because there'll be so much confusion around the nations and in this uh verse it seems uh a little bit at first you might not grasp it but this is a statement of the people of god getting prepared he says in verse 15 when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet daniel then the scripture says make sure you understand this make sure you understand this so jesus is talking about there would be a generation that would see this and when they see the abomination of desolation they would understand the implications of it but not only the implications of it when it happens in those final years but they would see the trends that daniel was talking about leading up to that horrific event called the abomination of desolation now it's interesting that by this verse jesus is pointing to the vision daniel had in daniel 11 and 12. and daniel 11 12 is the only old testament vision that jesus pointed to and he was saying this one you need to understand this one will help you in your preparation if you understand it not only in when it comes to fullness but you'll understand it as the hour is leading to that day you'll see the trends you'll know where things are going you'll grasp the implications you won't be confused you won't be overwhelmed with fear you will grasp but i told you ahead of time these things would happen and that i was in control and so of all the visions of the old testament prophets about the end times jesus only points to one i mean the other ones are valid the other ones are important but it goes make sure you know this one and that's what we're going to look at tonight just a little bit paragraph b daniel 11 and 12. now obviously the vision is bigger then we have con uh time to look at in any kind of detail but i want to alert you that this vision in 11 and 12 it's a long one it's the it's a uh one of the longest uh end time visions in the whole bible but it's the one jesus pointed to and said it's good to understand so i want to alert you to the significance of this vision now we're only going to look at one section of the vision we're going to look at what i call the abomination of desolation section because the vision has several sections to it but we're going to look at the abomination of desolation section because that's the part that jesus emphasized now i want you to understand that that generation that time frame and i believe personally we're in the early days of that generation that's why we're talking about this it's not a prophecy but i uh watching the biblical signs of the times i uh i there's very good reason to believe we're in the early days of that generation by what the bible's how it describes that hour that generation will be the most unique the most powerful the most glorious the most violent generation in history the most difficult the most powerful the most glorious i would venture to say the most important generation in human history and i believe that there are people that are live on the earth right now today maybe it's the two-year-olds i don't know maybe it's the older group they will actually see the fullness of this in their lifetime that's my personal opinion now the one of the key themes of this great vision of daniel 11 and 12 is the ultimate triumph of the people of god god's people will be victorious now the enemy wants the people of god to draw back in fear so that we contribute to the confusion and not to the solution of four people responding right paragraph c what i'm saying is we're approaching a time of which will have unprecedented trouble this generation will have more conflict more violence more escalating sin more darkness than any other generation in history but it will result in unprecedented victory for the people of god so it's the hour of our greatest victory is the hour of the church's greatest persecution but we need to settle the issue in our hearts so that we're not we're not having false expectations things are never going to go back to business as usual they're never going to go back to the way they were in the 80s and 90s terrorism is going to increase far greater than it is now social unrest is going to increase far more than it is now economic pressures are going to increase there will be reprieves but globally it will increase the pornification of culture is going to get more perverse and darker as the years unfold in the decades unfold the hate laws the discrimination against faithfulness to the word of god is going to get more intense so it's good to settle the issue that things are never ever going to be like they were before but beloved you might say wow what an hour to be alive and i would echo that back to you what an hour to be alive it's the greatest hour in history to be alive for people who love the leadership of jesus if you love jesus and his kingdom and his leadership this is your greatest hour what is coming i believe in the decades ahead paragraph b people ask the question will things get better or will things get worse because there's two camps in the body of christ or several camps one camp says it's only gonna get better another camp says it's all gonna get worse well the bible makes it clear that both the light and the darkness will increase simultaneously the wheat and the tares mature together at the end of the age so somebody asked the question well is the is the negativity is it is just gonna get in what sense is it gonna get worse everywhere no it will get worse in some places but in some places there will be the advancements of the kingdom where actually darkness recedes in light dominates in some areas of the earth will darkness just it's not going to increase in all places and it's not going to increase in all people it's not going to increase in you light is going to increase in you and there will be geographic areas that have far greater manifestations of light and others will have far greater manifestations of darkness and in the balance of whether it's better or worse we'll be praying obedient people who are honoring the leadership of jesus and calling in intercession and prayer for the release of his purpose and his kingdom the balance of what happens in what parts of the earth is in the hands of godly people faithful in an intercession before the lord now paragraph e this is uh uh uh really important verse here daniel 11 verse 32 and verse 33. matter of fact this the the portion of this vision the daniel 11 12 vision remember it's a very long vision but the portion i'm locked into tonight is the abomination of desolation section meaning daniel used the phrase twice he says when you see the abomination of desolation he starts in verse 31 chapter 11. then he describes some of the activity of what's going to be happening and then a few verses later the same angel in the same conversation with daniel he uses the term abomination of desolation again so that term is used by the angel to daniel like bookends it's uh the beginning and the end of a section of this prophecy and that section describes the trends the uh some of the most important trends of what what will be happening in the earth and i identify five of those trends well the very first description that the angel gives in this section of the prophecy that i call the abomination of desolation section because the angel starts with that phrase and a few verses later he ends with that phrase so all the verses in between is what i'm talking about here's how the angel starts after he introduces the theme the abomination of desolation he goes but know this he gives the assurance verse 32 the people who know their god they'll be strong they're not going to wilt away they're not going to just kind of fall away and retreat in some little cave in isolation trembling they're going to be strong they're going to do great exploits the power of god's going to be flowing through them verse 33 the angel continues these people will have understanding they'll grasp what is happening in the earth they will grasp where it's going they will have confidence they will have clarity because they've understood what the scripture says about that hour of history and he says and those people will impact and influence many in the nations the nations will be confused where is this going what does it mean where is it going what's it going to result in and the angel told daniel i mean right after he introduces the abomination of desolation the phrase right before he says know this the people that know god will be strong the people that know god will do great miracles the people that know god will have understanding and they'll be a source of god's light to the dark and confused people of the nations so what you want to know i mean what you want to be settled on is that you want to be a person in the pathway of growing in these things even in these hours in these days now if they these events do not come to a culmination in your life and they might not but they really might but if they don't come to fullness in your life i would say most certainly they probably will i mean nobody knows it either in the life of your children or grandchildren it's not too early to get prepared to understand these things because people of understanding won't just understand it the day before it starts escalating in a dramatic way the people of understanding they have taken jesus's exhortation he says when you see the abomination of desolation and the events related to it the events leading up to it when you see these things escalating when you see them come to fullness you will understand go to daniel chapter 11 and 12 and grasp the implications of what's going on well paragraph f the reason jesus pointed people to daniel 11 and 12 because if they understand the themes the trends of what will be happening there's five trends that i've identified one of them is negative four of them are positive but if we understand these five trends we will have courage we will have confidence we can stand for truth we can live godly in a very perverse and seductive culture and a culture that is persecuting righteousness more and more and more we can stand bold and courageous we know we win and we know where this is going even if there's pushback and persecution in the process but the people without understanding they'll yield to fear jesus said they'll be overcome with fear when a person gets overcome with fear they become irrational in their decision making the people in the nations they will have offense the offensive god offensive people god if you're in leaders if you're leading the earth why is this happening and the answer is i put it in my plan in days of old i am in control of where this is going they'll be con deception confusion all kinds of wrong responses to people who don't understand but understand this believers will be numbered among those who don't understand because they didn't take the words of jesus serious when you see the abomination of desolation again the fullness of what of that event and the trends leading to it and so they never ever took time to understand and without understanding it will be like being out in a storm out in the middle of the ocean with no compass with no light with no instruments at all i have good news for you paragraph g god is sovereign he's leading the nations in such a way that he will fill the earth with his glory a lot of folks they look at the future and they say it looks like the nations are like a train off the tracks it's it's out of control i have good news for you it's not out of control it's moving in a direction jesus is going to manifest his glory he's going to purify his people and he's going to have a victorious people who walk in triumph and love and power and righteousness paragraph h the optimum environment god is establishing the optimum environment in the cultures of the earth where darkness reaches its greatest violence reaches its greatest measure but godliness and righteousness and the power of god are the greatest measure so the greatest darkness the greatest light happening the same time that's the optimum environment for god to bring the most people to the deepest levels of love without violating their free will god is saying i'm not going to violate the free will the nations but i'm going to bring the greatest harvest of history in i'm not going to violate the free will of my people but my people are going to throw off compromise and the laodicean passivity and they're going to be red hot for me and filled with the glory of god because right now the people of god across the western nations there's so much compromise compromise has become acceptable and the lord says i have an optimum environment where hundreds of millions will get saved and my church will repent and come into the fullness of the glory of god i assure you this will happen before my son returns double page 2. now the abomination of desolation again jesus says when you see it and i believe he means the final expression of it but also the the trends and the events leading up to it which will unfold over several decades and i believe those trends are beginning now when you see this the fullness and the leading up to it then you'll know you're in that hour of history and he went on to say look up be encouraged your redemption your salvation is so close the breakthrough from heaven the ultimate breakthrough is just moments away now what is this unusual phrase the abomination of desolation mean i'm not gonna spend a lot of time on this i get a little bit in the notes but on the website i have an entire uh handout on it i spent an hour breaking it down it's quite simple and clear to follow it's a strange phrase but once you understand it it's pretty straightforward when jesus says the abomination he means something really evil there's something so evil it has its own title from heaven it's called the abomination well this abomination which will be the greatest evil that man has done again heaven itself has a title for that level of evil because it's unique and it's related to the antichrist and that abomination will lead because many will support it it will lead to the desolation of nations so what is this great evil that is embraced by millions hundreds of millions that will lead to desolation it's an evil that leads to destruction or an abomination that leads to desolation you can say it any way that you want well paragraph two the two main components are the image of the beast and the mark of the beast most of you are familiar with that term i have a little bit more on the notes i don't want to spend so much time on that it's pretty straightforward and again on our website i have a whole hour teaching with uh fairly in-depth notes on the abomination of desolation if you want more clarity on it roman numeral three daniel 11 and 12 there is no doubt that daniel 11 and 12 is the vision jesus is talking about because it's the only time in the bible besides the lips of jesus where the phrase the abomination of desolation is used it's only used twice in the whole bible both times in this one vision so it's unmistakably clear this is the vision jesus is referring to paragraph c now in this vision and again the vision has several parts to it i'm focusing only on one section i call it the abomination of desolation section it begins with that phrase and then some verses uh later it ends with that phrase i'm talking about the verses in between those two phrases now interesting paragraph c this mighty angel that's having this long conversation with daniel that's showing him these details about that generation he highlights five trends and then a moment later he repeats the five trends so he describes these five trends twice sometimes using different terminology so we get a different perspective or more information so this angel says in essence daniel the abomination of desolation is going to happen notice these five things one's negative four are positive then a few moments later he says let me tell you the same five things again one negative four positive and then he uses the phrase abomination of desolation again look at number one the first description now i'll give you the five themes the five trends that will be happening in the nations among the people of god number one people will know god there will be an increase of the knowledge of god it will be growing and escalating as we go forward number two miracles number three many many will be purified that's believers in the church revival in the church and unbelievers the lost getting converted turning away from their sin and walking in kingdom lifestyles but there will be martyrdom they'll be the greatest uh express i mean measure of martyrdom in history at that time now not all the saints will be martyred but there will be more martyrs than any time in history i don't believe it will be the majority of the church but it will be enough to where everybody will be paying attention and only people that are for real about jesus will be proclaiming his name openly but the fifth trend is that god will help some of the people there will be miracles in the midst of the persecution not everybody will be delivered but some people will be supernaturally delivered even by angels you say who's going to be delivered and who's going to be murdered you don't know but remember this the goal of our life is not to escape death that's not the goal the goal of our life is not so we never die physically that's not the goal our goal is to live in faithfulness because beloved when you cross that line into the glory of god you'll be in the presence of god you'll receive a resurrected body you'll be great forever don't don't worry about that some folks go man i just want to make sure i don't die i go well if these events are a hundred years from now you're still gonna die so that's not the goal the goal is to be faithful number two description he says the same thing in essence well let's let's read the verse in daniel 11 31-35 let's read the first description the actual words of the angel and i have it kind of edited down here then they will place there the abomination of desolation and the very first thing that happens the angel says is the people of god will grow in the knowledge of god is the meaning they'll be strong they'll do great miracles and they will be people of understanding and they will bring understanding in the midst of the confusion in their families and neighborhoods in the cities and the nations where they live they will be vessels of clarity and light to many many people but verse 34 the angel says daniel make sure they know this that they will fall there will be martyrs now when it says they will fall it doesn't mean in sin means there will be people i mean faithful believers that will be martyred this thing will really require genuineness and wholeheartedness in our faith but they shall be aided with a little help and the uh and the phrase little help means i'm gonna help some and i believe it will be thousands and thousands will like the angel opened the door for peter when he was in prison but the angel that opened the door for peter in prison and peter walked out of prison and angel opens the door but his fellow apostle james he was put to death so james died but the angel opened the door for peter what's that mean does god love james more than peter or peter more than james does he love you more if he takes you or does he love you more if he keeps you down here which is which neither of them that's not the answer god has his wisdom he has his ways so he said don't think that martyrdom will be the last word there will be i mean the that's all that will happen is martyrdom there will be supernatural help in the midst of persecution verse 35 it goes on and repeats it again some of the people of understanding some of the most faithful dedicated people with the greatest impact will be martyred but the net result is it will cause us purity they'll have a sanctifying effect purity will increase when they see some of the most faithful well-known messengers stand bold and true even unto death it will give courage to multitudes of believers around the world and they always said if they're not afraid we're not afraid it will have a sanctifying effect that says it will cause purity to increase across the nations well the angel now gives the second description it's a couple verses later this time he says basically he says the same five themes uses different terms this time he talks about increased of angelic activity that's the power of god that's miracles those are all they all go together this time he calls it great trouble instead of martyrdom this time he says the people of god will be delivered instead of helped just a little bit he repeats again many will say yes to righteousness and then he goes and repeats again the second thing he repeats there will be people of understanding they will have clarity and they will make the clarity known to other people as well so let's read what the angel says in the angels in his own words and again it's one vision one conversation the angel says to daniel the abomination of desolation that he describes it we just looked at it a moment ago a few moments later he says let me describe it again and then he ends it with that book and phrase the abomination of desolation so we know that this these two descriptions are giving us different perspectives on this glorious time frame that human history is headed for daniel chapter 12 this time the angel he says michael the archangel will arise instead of using the phrase they will do great exploits miracles he says there's going to be an increase of angelic activity because michael the archangel arising the implication is he will be actively involved in the natural affairs of what's happening in the nations him and his angels will be deeply involved there will be angelic manifestations and angelic activity beyond any other time in history but the angel told daniel there will be it will be a time of great trouble but he goes the trouble is not the last word yes some will be helped during the trouble but the trouble isn't the last word the king of kings is coming from heaven and there will be an ultimate deliverance for all the people of god an eternal full final ultimate deliverance and everything they lost to the persecution will be returned back to them in the resurrection everything a hundred-fold plus and verse three many will turn to righteousness beloved righteousness is not going to just drift away righteousness is going to seem wise and powerful the body of christ is going to cast off this laodiceans spirit of compromise that's so predominant in the western church and beyond and righteousness love-based righteousness is going to be the norm in the church again before the lord returns but it's not just that believers will repent and have a revival in the church unbelievers they will say yes to righteousness and come under jesus leadership and their lives will be transformed gloriously and thou have been delivered from the addictions and the bondages in their life stuck in darkness and perversion righteousness will increase many will be purified not a few the power of the gospel the liberating power that enables people in a fortified world far beyond where it is now it's going to be far worse sexual perversion with demons mixed with violence and murder is going to a whole other level before the lord returns but there will be hundreds of millions of young people that are walking in the liberty of purity in the face of a seductive culture wooing them to partake but they will find the liberty of the love of god and the wisdom and liberty of righteousness in their life the power of that and then daniel goes on to say verse 10 i mean the angel and the wise they all have understanding the angel emphasizes this in both of the descriptions the people of god that have chosen wisdom they will understand what's going on and this isn't just general understanding of natural things of life that's good that's what the book of proverbs is all about but when it says they will understand it means they'll understand what's happening in that hour of history from a biblical interpretation they will know what the bible says about that hour that they're living in they won't be in a a in a in a uh a cloud you know of darkness this lie that is so prominent today that you can't understand the end time themes anyway that lie is going to be banished and god will give understanding and hundreds of millions they won't buy that lie that lie was that lie was uh uh rooted in the enemy's plan to make the body of christ intimidated about the end time passages now we can't understand them why bother with it the angel told daniel it's opposite they will understand tell them to bother with it then jesus comes along he says when you see this abomination in its final expression and the trends leading up to it then the pause and the exhortation make sure you take time to understand this stuff it is understandable it's in the word we have the holy spirit it's not you might not get all the details in every nuance the main trends and events are understandable away with this lie that we can't understand it and it's not important to understand that is the enemy's agenda because people with no understanding they will be held captive to fear confusion compromise offense all kinds of deception because they won't get what's going on well let's look uh top of page three we're going to take just the next few moments we're going to look at the five trends again we're going to put them together from each of the two descriptions the angel described them a few moments later described them a second time here we're going to put them together paragraph a here's the premise the trends these trends there's events but there's trends that are bigger than just the event themselves trends that are manifest across the nations that's why i'm using this word trends they're related to key events negative and positive but they're the impact and the the influence of these events will have a global in fact uh impact in trends positive and negative ones paragraph eight the trends that will come in fullness at the time of the lord's return they are occurring now and they're going to continue to increase so the things that happen in fullness in those final years will be happening in part in those final decades but they will be increasing and increasing and increasing in their intensity of the negative and the positive let me say it again the trends that happen in fullness in the final years i'm in the final two three years leading to the lord's return will be happening in part in the final decades those three four five six decades leading up to the lord's return those trends will be happening in part but continually increasing beloved i've i've been a student of the signs of the times the biblical signs of the times what the bible says not what some other guy says what jesus said what happened what the prophets in the old testament said what the apostles said would happen and i want to tell you that we're going to have a course on this in february on on friday nights 12 weeks we're going to lock into this subject the biblical signs of the times actually there's more to say than can be said in 12 weeks but 12 weeks will give us a good jump start here's the point most of those signs in the bible are happening right now partially and they're increasing on a global level for the first time they're happening together on a global level for the first time in history now if you know those signs from the bible you are urgency things are not going to be like they used to be business as usual is over the darkness is going to get darker the violence is going to get more violent the trouble is going to get greater and more consistent the sexual immorality the hate crimes the discrimination against the truth the hostility in society against jesus is going to increase and increase and increase and in 10 years it will be much stronger than it is now and in 20 years it will be much stronger than it is in 10 years but so well signs and wonders the power of god radical believers the spirit of prayer prophecy people fearlessly with courage loving jesus with no hesitation that is going to increase in a dramatic way as well well let's look at these five and uh i've already said them all so we'll just look at them again and we'll take the words of the angel in the two different descriptions that kind of put them together here and some of the words of jesus first one we'll take the first trend which is negative there's only one trend is negative four of them are positive trend number one daniel 12 we already read it the angel the mighty angel told daniel there shall be a time of trouble and the angel said just so you're not confused i'm not talking about trouble like there's always trouble i'm talking about something unique i'm talking about something unprecedented the angel said trouble such as never was trouble beyond any time in history don't be mistaken the reason i say that some very sincere and godly scholars in the body of christ they go well the trouble has always been there they dismissed this the angel said i'm not talking about trouble like is always there i'm talking about trouble that has never been there at this level so don't allow some well-meaning scholar to dismiss this and then you think well i guess if they know hebrew and greek they must understand that verse no it is unprecedented to make sure that that angel said it just exactly the way he was supposed to jesus quotes it this is the very verse that jesus quotes he quotes in matthew chapter 24 he quotes daniel 12 he quotes this vision let's read the passage again when you see the abomination verse 15 a moment later he said there will be great tribulation or trouble and he says exactly what the angel told daniel it will be tribulation or trouble use whichever word you want such has never existed since the beginning of the world it's unprecedented it's unique so beloved we're heading the earth to a unique time of trouble it's my opinion but i believe it's an informed opinion it's not a prophecy but it's an informed opinion from the bible that we're in the early days of that time frame of that generation now a biblical generation can be a hundred years in genesis 15 when god told abraham it would be four generations he said it will be four generations 400 years so a generation can stretch out for a while so i don't know where we're at in it but i believe we're in the early days of that generation maybe we're further along than we know things could escalate very very rapidly i don't know well in that time of trouble luke 21 jesus talked about distress in the nations many implications we won't go into that right now luke 21 he said there will be distress of nations i mean we can see it we can list uh cata you know categorize all the categories of of the distress but they're all they're increasing they're increasing they're increasing rapidly he said man's heart will fade for fear but he's talking about the men who don't have understanding the men who are clouded with confusion and fear but the people of god are people of understanding they get where it's going they know there's a king orchestrating where history's going always allowing evil men to exercise their free will for a short season but it's going to come to nothing and righteousness is going to triumph in the midst of uh this time of trouble paragraph two there will be a great falling away i don't think most believers will fall away but i believe it will be millions the number is so big i don't again i don't believe it's the majority just like martyrs i don't believe the majority will be martyrs of believers but the number will be big enough and distinct enough that it shows up in several end time prophecies in other words the trend is clear enough and distinct enough and the numbers are big enough that it's in the word of god as one of the characteristic traits of that generation and i believe that that falling away is beginning even now i look back over the last 10 years there are more people that i know of today that were on fire for the lord 10 years ago and right now they're grappling with all kinds of compromising views about the word of god not really being the word of god or they've walked away from their faith and they're steeped in a were in a life of compromise i mean 10 years ago on fire for the lord committed to revival committed to prayer committed to holiness and in 10 short years not even walking with the lord or they're in the place they're not quite denied the lord many of them are well you know the bible you can't really know what it means and you know we gotta they're buying the uh what the the uh uh cultural definitions of love that are contrary to the biblical definitions of love and so they're therefore embracing all kinds of things that are anti-leadership of jesus and anti-love from the biblical point of view it's happening many young people are being swept into it beloved the great falling away is already beginning in my point of view in my from from my perspective and it's going to escalate notice what paul the uh the holy spirit told paul first timothy chapter four two thousand years ago he said the holy spirit expressly says this wow when the holy spirit expressly i mean when the holy spirit talks that's good enough i mean the holy spirit you know if he says anything it's final well he really emphasized this is what paul's saying whoa what is that that in the latter days some will depart from the faith again it won't be the majority but it will be millions and millions it'll be enough that paul highlights it under the urgency of the holy spirit it's that prominent it's that distinct they'll be giving heed to deceitful spirits doctrines of demons doctrines of demons don't appear to be doctrines of demons to the people that have them there's demonic twists demonic darkness to where old familiar truths and familiar terminologies twisted and turned where it's biblical terms but not biblical meanings with a demonic twist on it that's seducing the church the most significant in my uh opinion is the distorted grace message that's going across the with great energy biblical terminology but not the biblical meaning half truth some of it's true some of the things have truth in them powerful truths but twisted and left without the corresponding truths with it so therefore the net result being a deception many people buying into it they're using as long as people will use the word grace love justice a lot of people go well hey that's what i'm into but they don't mean what the bible means by those terms there's a demonic distortion of them notice what paul said 2000 years ago he goes and one of the things that will really stick out the culture will go into such darkness they will forbid marriage one day 10 years ago i was talking this without a leadership team and i remember one of the leaders it was 10 years ago 2005. they said what do you think this means forbid marriage i said well i think it means forbid marriage and we all laughed they said well what does that mean i go i don't know i mean it actually means there'll be places where marriage will be illegal i said i can't fathom that ten years ago i said i was a signs of the times guy back then i couldn't picture this happening i go i mean surely it can't mean forbid marriage but it's what it means beloved things have escalated so rapidly in the last two or three years there's governments there's groups political groups talking about making marriage illegal so we don't have the discrimination we don't have all the economic benefits or disadvantages related to the gay agenda and the collision and all that's going on they're saying let's do away with marriage as an institution doesn't mean the whole world will buy it but this reality is right in front of us and paul said when you in essence he didn't say just this way but the meaning when you see that happen beloved you're in a moment of escalation that is a catalytic moment you're in that time frame and it's this very issue of the supreme court's decision on legalizing gay marriage that has institutionalized immorality in our nation it has not only institutionalized it it has normalized it it is i mean there's it's been catalytic that one decision though it was beginning more and more normal immorality but this one decision will cause immorality to be presented systematically through the public school curriculum to the second and third graders as options for their life beloved where we're going to be in the media in the internet in movies in school education in 10 and 20 years is unthinkable in the realm of perversion and sexual darkness well paul linked all this together and he said there's a falling away coming many will some will depart from the face but again millions won't but millions will number three i've already talked about martyrdom let's go to the second trend supernatural ministry beloved the angel first told daniel they'll do great exploits it will be characteristic in the church for miracles of a whole other level to break loose jesus talked about greater works than these will they do that's not been fulfilled yet i mean maybe one here one there but it's not been something that we've seen in the church in any kind of consistent or major way in the nation i believe great miracles greater works than these we're going to see the ministry of jesus at a whole other level in the miracle dimension well in the second description of this this time frame the same angel he didn't say great exploits he said at that time meaning in that final hour michael will arise it doesn't mean he's going to rise in heaven he's already in heaven it means his activity in the natural realm is going to be released and discernable michael is going to be involved in an observable dramatic way in the nations an increase of angelic activity look at paragraph one under michael john the apostle comes along about 500 years after daniel and john elaborates on this idea of michael's involvement in the end time drama and he comes along and he says well let me tell you what the angel was talking about when he was daniel probably didn't get it but let me elaborate 500 years later michael is going to arise look at this daniel revelation 12 verse 7 there will be a war this is yet future that will break out in the heavenly realm michael and his angels how many angels are with michael i don't know millions i don't know millions and millions they will come into an open conflict with satan in the whole demonic realm and the demonic realm will be cast to the earth from their position their superior position of influence is in the heavens angels are in the heavenly realm demons in the heavenly realm when they're cast to the earth they're being thrust from their position of of a superior position of influence these demons but now they're on the earth and demonic activity but angels are going to be involved in a whole other way there'll be an open heaven there'll be no demonic interference in the coming and go of the angels there'll be an open heaven i mean a tremendous demonic activity yes but angelic activity as well well number two we know the outpouring of the holy spirit on all flesh now that began that prophecy i'll pour out my spirit on all flesh a very famous prophecy it was only a down payment on the book of acts and then in acts chapter 2 only 120 people that's not all flesh there's coming an hour when all flesh that means every believer every believer on the planet will have dreams and visions it won't be just that one guy over there at that one conference joel said i tell you thus says the lord the hour is coming where dreams and visions will be the norm the power of the prophetic the holy spirit signs and wonders because you're going to need it you're going to need it in that day it won't be business as usual probably page 4. the third trend the people of god will be delivered well you can read that on your own the full deliverance is at the resurrection when jesus returns i mean at the return of jesus and then the resurrection but i already mentioned there will be some that are aided and it says there'll be a little aid because there'll be hundreds of millions of believers i believe there's going to be a billion new believers in the great harvest and when the angel says some it doesn't mean one here and there i believe it means millions but still there will be millions that won't be delivered but millions that will with a supernatural breakthrough so deliverance and part in this age but in fullness ultimate resurrected bodies can you imagine having a resurrected body when jesus returns and he's going to bring heaven down to the earth the new jerusalem is coming to the earth you're going to live on this earth with a physical material resurrected body and everything you've lost in the persecution will be returned a hundredfold plus to you in this in that time and it will be i mean you'll have a physical material body on this earth that's what the resurrection is number four trent many oh i love the word many look at daniel chapter 12 many will turn to righteousness many will be purified they told me i've heard it over the years the last couple years they go well young adults you know this generation they're so into social media they can't stay focused for 90 seconds like if you've got a bible teaching you got to make it 90 seconds or shorter or you'll lose them i said i don't buy that i don't buy that at all well you know there's so much sin on the campuses and so much immorality it's normal most of the young adults are living in immorality in the church worship teams getting drunk and immorality and preachers and all kinds of things i said well i got good news for you many are going to choose righteousness and purity and the great harvest is mostly young people the great harvest isn't mostly old people it's not people 60 my age and oh there'll be a few of us getting saved most of the earth our young people just the demographics of the earth just the numbers the harvest is young people and the majority are young people i mean they will be focused they'll be dedicated they'll be radical they'll live in purity i don't believe this thing the young adults can't do it or can't pay attention or there's got so you know six phones and three of these and they don't ever know what god's saying they don't have time for the bible they don't do prayer they don't do holiness like i don't believe any of that we have a testimony of young people in our own midst that are choosing this radically this lifestyle this kingdom lifestyle and more and more choosing it and they're happening all around the nations by the way i'm talking to friends pastors of some with very large ministries they go there's young adults choosing purity and they're going deep in god and they're turning stuff off and turning things away and they're turned spending time with god and they're walking in humility and purity i said that's what the angel told daniel and i buy it there's a great harvest among the lost and a great revival among the church number five the angel said this bo in both descriptions the same phrase this is one that this is the one he said well he said the righteousness one and this one use the exact same terminology twice he goes they'll have understanding they'll under still have greater understanding of god they'll know god intimacy with god they'll know his heart the tender father and the beauty of the bridegroom king jesus they will know god like no time in history but not just they'll know god they'll know his plans in this vision when it says they'll understand again it's not talking about just general understanding of life it's talking about understanding of the crisis the unique dynamics the unique because the greatest evil the greatest darkness unique because the greatest righteousness and the greatest power are all coming together and that generation will be unique and they'll only be one group of people on the planet who grasp it they'll be all over the earth millions and millions but it'll be the body of christ who's been seeking the lord reading his word they will know where this is going they won't be confused and god says they will be teaching many in the nations you say well i'm going to teach many of the nations not everybody will teach many but collectively they will but but understand this in this hour of social media you can be an 80 year old grandma at home you can be a 12 year old in your bedroom you can get a dream from the lord you can get understanding of the scripture just in the community of believers you're a part of and with what you can do in social media you might send out something that 10 million people read you may have never taught on a microphone you've maybe never let a bible study in your life but you may send out something and the social media dynamics are and and the technology is getting more sophisticated you may have 10 million people read your blog or whatever they will be called in 5 and 10 in 20 years you don't know grandma or the junior high girl might be the one there might be somebody in between but don't say i won't touch many how do you know you won't touch many you may have the song you may write the blog you may be in the drama you may be in the prayer meetings who knows angels are going to be visiting and the word of god is going to grow in clarity i'm talking about the word of god i don't mean adding to the word of god but i mean clarity about these topics again away with this idea then it's so confusing nobody will get it that's not what the word of god says the word of god says the people of understanding will impact many and many that are in darkness and confusion they will see what's going on and receive the understanding from the faithful body of christ beloved i'm going to end with this have the worship team come up this is an hour to determine i'm going to go deep i'm going to get with radical believers a community believers that are radical that are going and radical i don't mean their expression i'm talking about their resolve to obey to stay steady to live in humility to live in obedience to study the word to turn away some of the things that so many other people are spending all their time and money on let's just stand before the lord

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Published: Fri Nov 06 2020