PEOPLE SAY TO ME, WELL, IF
THERE'S A GOD, WHY ARE THE EARTHQUAKES; IF THERE'S A GOD,
WHY THE WARS; IF THERE'S A GOD, WHY THE FAMINES; IF THERE'S A
GOD, WHY THE PLAGUES? WELL, EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHY, I CAN
TELL YOU ONE THING. NONE OF THEM TOOK GOD BY SURPRISE. THERE IS
NO FINE PRINT IN THIS. I MEAN, YOU, GOD SAID, THERE IT IS.
JESUS SAID THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. THE PLAIN-SPOKEN,
BIBLICAL WISDOM AND TIMELESS TEACHING OF ADRIAN ROGERS HAS
GONE AROUND THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY THE THOUSANDS
OF PEOPLE HE HAS TOUCHED AS PROFOUND TRUTH, SIMPLY STATED.
WE HOPE YOU'LL HAVE YOUR BIBLES READY AND STAY WITH US AS WE
PRESENT THAT PROFOUND TRUTH THROUGH TODAY'S MESSAGE. AND IF
YOU WERE ENCOURAGED BY TODAY'S MESSAGE, REMEMBER, YOU CAN
STREAM THIS MESSAGE AGAIN AND DOWNLOAD OUTLINE, NOTES, A
TRANSCRIPT AND OTHER RESOURCES TO GO ALONG WITH THIS MESSAGE,
ALL AT LWF.ORG. NOW, LET'S JOIN ADRIAN ROGERS. BE FINDING MATTHEW CHAPTER 24.
MANKIND ALWAYS WANTS TO LOOK INTO THE FUTURE. WE HAVE THE
PROGNOSTICATORS, THE GUESSERS, THE PUNDITS, THE SO-CALLED
PROPHETS, AH, OF WITHOUT DIVINE INSPIRATION, BUT THE ONLY BOOK,
THE ONLY BOOK THAT HAS A BATTING AVERAGE OF 1000 IS THE WORD OF
GOD. AND THE NEXT GREAT EVENT THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS THE
RETURN, THE LITERALLY, VISIBLE, BODILY RETURN OF OUR LORD AND
SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. AND MAY I TELL YOU THAT THIS EPISODE, THE
COMING OF CHRIST, IS A MAJOR DOCTRINE IN THE WORD OF GOD. IT
IS MENTIONED NO LESS THAN 1,200 TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND
THEN AGAIN 300 MORE TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. GOD IS TELLING US
THAT THIS SAME JESUS WHO HAS COME IS COMING AGAIN. AND WE'RE
GOING TO STUDY TODAY THE WORDS OF JESUS AS HE LEADS US ON A
JOURNEY OF PROPHECY AS WE LOOK TO OUR AGE AND THEN THROUGH OUR
AGE TO HIS COMING, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE FROM THE WORD OF
GOD THE FATE OF PLANET EARTH. NOW, IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR OUR
AGE BECAUSE THOSE OF US WHO ARE LIVING IN THIS AGE CAN SAY IT
AND MEAN IT, THE FUTURE IS HERE. AND I WANT YOU TO NOTICE, AH,
THE SETTING OF THE PROPHECY THAT WE'RE GOING TO READ. MATTHEW
CHAPTER 24, LET'S READ THE FIRST THREE VERSES, AND, AND JESUS
WENT OUT, AND DEPARTED FROM THE TEMPLE; AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME
TO HIM FOR TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE. NOW,
DON'T YOU THINK JESUS HAD SEEN THE TEMPLE BEFORE? WHY WOULD THE
DISCIPLES BE SHOWING JESUS THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE? AND
JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, SEE YE NOT ALL THESE THINGS? VERILY I SAY
UNTO YOU, THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON
ANOTHER, THAT SHALL NOT BE THROWN DOWN.' AND AS HE SAT UPON
THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND, BY THE WAY, THE MOUNT OF OLIVES LOOKS
DOWN UPON THE TEMPLE, THE DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM
PRIVATELY, SAYING, TELL US, WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? AND WHAT
SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THY COMING, AND OF THE END OF THE AGE?' NOW,
WHEN YOU KEEP THIS PROPHECY IN MIND, REMEMBER THIS IS THE
SETTING. NOW, THE TEMPLE WAS ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT. THE
TEMPLE WAS THE CENTER OF THE JEWISH LIFE, SPIRITUALLY AND
SOCIALLY. AH, ALL OF THEIR HOPES WERE BASED THERE IN THAT TEMPLE.
AND IT SAT THERE ON MOUNT MORIAH, THE TEMPLE MOUNT, LIKE A
MOUNTAIN OF GOLD. THAT'S WHAT JOSEPHUS SAID, OR LIKE A
MOUNTAIN OF SNOW. THERE AS IT DAZZLES IN THE SUN AS THE SUN
ROSE FROM THE EAST COMING OVER THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. WELL, WHY
HAD THE DISCIPLES COME OUT AND SAID, LORD, LOOK AT THE, LOOK AT
THIS TEMPLE AND THE STONES OF IT? WHY WERE THEY SHOWING HIM
THIS? WELL, IF YOU GO BACKWARD IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, JESUS HAD
MADE A PROPHECY IN, IN MATTHEW 23. LOOK IN MATTHEW 23 BEGINNING
IN VERSE 37. JESUS, COMING DOWN THAT MOUNT OF OLIVES, BEGINS TO
WEEP GREAT SALTY, COPIOUS TEARS COURSING DOWN HIS CHEEKS AS HE
LOOKS AT JERUSALEM AND THERE IS THE TEMPLE RIGHT BEFORE HIM.
HE'S COMING DOWN THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND HE SEES JERUSALEM AND
THE TEMPLE, AND HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS, O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM,
THOU THAT KILLEST THE PROPHETS, AND STONEST THEM WHICH ARE SENT
UNTO THEE, HOW OFTEN WOULD I HAVE GATHERED THY CHILDREN
TOGETHER, EVEN AS A HEN GATHERETH HER CHICKENS UNDER HER
WINGS, BUT YE WOULD NOT! BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT
THE TEMPLE, BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE. FOR I
SAY UNTO YOU, YE SHALL NOT SEE ME HENCEFORTH, TILL YE SHALL
SAY, BLESSED IS HE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.' THEY
COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS TEMPLE WOULD EVER BE DESOLATE.
AND IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT WOULD EVER BE DESOLATE. AH, BUT TO
MAKE MATTERS WORSE, JESUS SAID OF THIS TEMPLE, NOT ONE STONE
WOULD BE LEFT UPON ANOTHER. HEH, THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS. IF
YOU HAVE SEEN EVEN THE, AH, REMNANT OF THE TEMPLE, THE GREAT
STONES THAT HAVE BEEN TOSSED OFF INTO THE VALLEY, YOU SEE THESE
MASSIVE STONES AND, AND IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO THESE
DISCIPLES AT ALL. THEY SAID, JESUS, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SAYING
THIS PLACE IS GOING TO BE DESOLATE? NOT ONE STONE IS GOING
TO BE LEFT UPON ANOTHER? WELL, JESUS, LOOK AT THESE STONES.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I'VE SEEN SOME OF THOSE STONES EVEN IN THE
FOUNDATION WALL. SOME OF THOSE STONES ARE AS BIG AS THIS CARPET
HERE THAT I'M STANDING ON, LITERALLY THAT BIG. AND IF IT
WERE A STONE, IT WOULD BE THAT THICK. HOW THEY EVEN MOVED THESE
STONES INTO PLACE I CANNOT CONCEIVE BECAUSE THEY DID NOT
HAVE THE, THE, THE, THE TOOLS OF MODERN CONSTRUCTION THAT WE
HAVE. AND THEY SAID, JESUS, LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT THESE STONES.
NOW, JESUS HAD PROPHESIED DESTRUCTION, AND IT DIDN'T SEEM
REASONABLE. THE ROMANS WERE GOING TO COME AND, AH, DESTROY
JERUSALEM AND THERE WAS ALREADY, AH, THIS, AH, FOMENTING THERE OF
REBELLION AGAINST ROMAN, UH, RULE, AND, AH, JESUS ALSO
PROPHESIED THAT. AS A MATTER OF FACT, IN LUKE CHAPTER 21 AND
VERSE 20, JESUS SAID, AND WHEN YE SEE JERUSALEM COMPASSED, UH,
WITH ARMIES, KNOW YE THAT THE DESOLATION THEREOF IS NIGH. THAT
IS, THE TEMPLE IS GOING TO BE DESOLATED. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO
KNOW WHEN THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN? WHEN YOU SEE THE TEMPLE
COMPASSED ABOUT WITH ARMIES. WELL, FORTY YEARS AFTER JESUS
SAID THAT, A LITTLE LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN THE PASTOR OF THIS
CHURCH, AH, THE ROMAN ARMY UNDER TITUS CAME AND THEY COMPASSED
JERUSALEM, JUST LIKE JESUS SAID, WITH ARMIES ALL THE WAY AROUND
THE CITY. HEH, HEH, THEY SAID, WE DON'T NEED TO WASTE ANY LIVES
GOING IN THERE, AH, AND WASTE ANY ROMAN SOLDIERS' LIVES. WE'LL
JUST BUILD A CIRCLE AROUND THE CITY. THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO COME
IN. THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO GO OUT. THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO GET
ANY FOOD. AH, STARVATION STALKED THE CITY. WE'LL JUST WAIT THEM
OUT. AH, JESUS PROPHESIED ALL OF THIS. IT ALL HAPPENED. THE
ROMANS WERE NOT DESTROYERS OF TEMPLES; THE ROMANS WERE
PRESERVERS OF TEMPLES. AND TITUS HAD GIVEN ORDERS THAT THE
TEMPLE, THAT JOSEPHUS DESCRIBED LIKE A MOUNTAIN OF SNOW, WAS TO
BE LEFT UNTOUCHED. BUT SOMEBODY SHOT A FLAMING ARROW, OR
SOMETHING HAPPENED, ONE OF THE MISHAPS OF WAR, AND THOSE GREAT
CEDARS OF LEBANON BEGAN TO BURN AND THIS BUILDING WENT UP IN
FLAMES. AND IT WAS LAYERED WITH GOLD, AND IT WAS RUMORED THAT
THERE WERE HIDDEN SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBERS WITH TREASURES, AND ALL
OF THIS JUST MELTED TOGETHER AND CAVED IN ON ITSELF. THE
PLUNDERERS WENT IN THERE WITH THEIR MIGHTY CROWBARS AND
APPRISING, AH, EQUIPMENT AND BEGAN TO PRY APART THOSE STONES
ONE AT A TIME LOOKING FOR TREASURE COLLECTING MELTED GOLD
IN THE SEAMS OF THOSE CRACKS. AND WHAT JESUS SAID THAT SO MANY
PEOPLE THOUGHT WAS UNTHINKABLE, THEY SAID, LORD, IT'S JUST
UNTHINKABLE. LOOK AT THESE STONES. LOOK AT THIS. DO YOU
UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'VE SAID? JESUS KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS
SAYING. AND, FRIEND, I'VE BEEN THERE MANY TIMES TO THE TEMPLE
MOUNT, AND IF YOU LOOK FOR HEROD'S TEMPLE, YOU CAN FIND
OTHER TEMPLES. I'VE BEEN, I'VE SEEN THE RUINS OF OTHER TEMPLES.
YOU WILL NOT FIND, LISTEN TO ME, ONE STONE LEFT UPON ANOTHER, NOT
ONE, EXACTLY AS JESUS SAID. THAT OUGHT TO TEACH US SOMETHING. WE
DON'T LIVE BY REASON; WE LIVE BY REVELATION. DON'T TRY TO EXPLAIN
AWAY THE PROPHECIES OF THE WORD OF GOD. NOW, THIS IS THE SETTING
OF THIS PROPHECY CONCERNING THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.
THE SETTING IS THEY WERE, THEY WERE QUESTIONING THIS. NOW,
NOTICE THE SUBJECT OF THE PROPHECY. LOOK IN VERSE THREE,
AND AS HE SAT UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO
HIM PRIVATELY, SAYING, TELL US, ' NUMBER ONE, WHEN SHALL THESE
THINGS BE?' NUMBER TWO, WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THY
COMING?' NUMBER THREE, WHAT SHALL BE AND OF THE END OF THE
WORLD.' THE DISCIPLES ASKED THREE QUESTIONS. NUMBER, FIRST
OF ALL, WHEN WILL THIS BE? WHEN WILL THE TEMPLE BE DESTROYED?
NUMBER TWO: WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN OF THY COMING? THE WORD
COMING HERE IS THE GREEK WORD PAROUSIA AND IT MEANS HIS COMING
IN POWER AND GLORY. THAT IS, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO SET UP
YOUR KINGDOM? LORD, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE OVER AND RULE AND
REIGN? AND THEN, LAST OF ALL, WHAT, WHAT IS THE SIGN OF THE
END OF THE WORLD? THE WORD WORLD THERE LITERALLY MEANS THE END OF
THE AGE. THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE COMING TO THE END OF AN OLD AGE,
AND THE NEW AGE, THE MESSIANIC AGE WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN. SO THEY
ASKED JESUS THIS QUESTION. NOW, THESE WERE JEWISH CHRISTIANS WHO
WERE ASKING HIM THIS QUESTION, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HERE THE
SIGNS OF THE TIMES AS THEY DEAL WITH ISRAEL AND WITH THE CHURCH.
NOW, WHAT JESUS DOES HERE, JESUS LOOKS DOWN THROUGH THE TUNNEL OF
TIME AND JESUS GIVES THEM THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, THE
INTERVENING DAYS AND AGES BETWEEN THE TIME THAT THEY
EXISTED AND WHEN JESUS CHRIST IS GOING TO COME AGAIN, AND HE
GIVES THEM SEVEN MARKS. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK
ABOUT TODAY, OKAY? NOW, HERE THEY ARE. FIRST OF ALL, JESUS
SAID THE FIRST MARK IS GOING TO BE THE DECEPTIONS OF COUNTERFEIT
CHRISTS, THE DECEPTIONS OF COUNTERFEIT CHRISTS. NOW, LOOK
IN VERSES FOUR AND FIVE, AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO
THEM, TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU. FOR MANY SHALL COME
IN MY NAME, SAYING, I AM CHRIST;' AND SHALL DECEIVE
MANY.' UH, JESUS SAID, ONE OF THE MARKS OF THE LAST DAYS, THE
END OF THE AGE AND THE CONTINUING AGE, WILL BE, WILL BE
A TIME OF GREAT DECEPTION. AND SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
DECEIVED, THOUGH THE BIBLE WARNS US NOT TO BE DECEIVED. LET ME
GIVE YOU AN ANCILLARY SCRIPTURE, FIRST JOHN CHAPTER FOUR VERSES
ONE THROUGH THREE. HERE'S WHAT THE APOSTLE JOHN SAID, AND,
BELOVED, BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT, BUT TRY, OR TEST, THE
SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD, BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS
ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD. THEREBY KNOW YE THE SPIRIT OF
GOD. EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH THAT JESUS CHRIST IS
COME IN THE FLESH IS OF GOD, AND EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH NOT
THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH IS NOT OF GOD. AND THIS
IS, THIS IS THAT SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, WHEREOF, YE HAVE
HEARD THAT IT SHOULD COME, EVEN NOW ALREADY IT IS IN THE WORLD.
2,000 YEARS AGO, THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST WAS IN THE WORLD. THE
WORD ANTI-CHRIST TAKES THE WORD CHRIST AND PUTS THE PREFIX ANTI,
A-N-T-I IN FRONT OF IT. ANTI MEANS AGAINST OR INSTEAD OF. IT
CAN MEAN EITHER. AND IT MEANS REALLY BOTH. THE ANTICHRIST
COMES AGAINST THE TRUE CHRIST AND PRESENTS HIMSELF INSTEAD OF
CHRIST AND, THEREFORE, THERE'RE MANY FALSE CHRISTS AND MANY
FALSE MESSIAHS. IN THE PAST 50 YEARS NO LESS THAN 1,100 PEOPLE
HAVE PROFESSED TO BE CHRIST. I'M AMAZED AT WHAT PEOPLE WILL
BELIEVE. NOT ONLY IS THERE GOING TO BE THE DECEPTIONS OF
COUNTERFEIT CHRISTS, NUMBER TWO, THERE WILL BE THE DIVISIONS OF
CONTINUING CONFLICT. WOULD YOU THINK THAT IN 2000 YEARS MAN
WOULD HAVE SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF WOR, OF WAR, AH, HA, AH, TO MAKE
THE WORLD SAFE? WELL, AH, AS YOUNG AS I AM, I'VE HEARD SO
MANY PROMISES OF WARS TO END ALL WARS AND, AND TO BRING IN
SAFETY, AND TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FROM WAR. BUT JESUS SAID
THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. LOOK IN VERSES SIX AND SEVEN, AND YE
SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS; SEE THAT YE BE NOT
TROUBLED; FOR ALL THESE THINGS MUST COME TO PASS, BUT THE END
HAS NOT, IS NOT YET. NOW, THE WORLD, FROM THE TIME THAT JESUS
MADE THIS STATEMENT TO THIS PRESENT DAY, IN TWO MILLENNIUMS
HAS BEEN PLAGUED BY THE SPECTER OF WAR, AND WARS ARE GROWING IN
NUMBER AND WARS ARE GROWING IN INTENSITY. YOU THINK ABOUT
WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR DAY AND IN OUR AGE. THINK OF THE
CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST. CONSIDER WHAT IS HAPPENING AT
THIS MOMENT IN IRAQ. CONSIDER WHAT IS HAPPENING IN IRAN.
CONSIDER WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AFGHANISTAN. CONSIDER WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN NORTH KOREA. CONSIDER WHAT IS HAPPENING IN
RED CHINA, TO NAME SOME PLACES. IN THE 6,000 YEAR RECORDED
HISTORY OF MAN IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 600 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE
BEEN KILLED IN WAR, BUT, FRIEND, HALF OF THOSE, HALF OF THOSE
HAVE DIED SINCE 1900. HALF OF THOSE WHO'VE DIED IN 6,000 YEARS
HAVE DIED SINCE 1900. NOW, WE, WE SEEM TO FIND THESE THINGS
COMING TOGETHER IN A CLIMAX. MORE WARS HAVE BEEN SEEN BY THIS
GENERATION, THE GENERATION IN WHICH WE LIVE, THAN ANY OTHER
GENERATION. TERRORISM, HIJACKINGS, BOMBINGS,
ASSASSINATIONS, SABOTAGE, WAR. AND ALL OF THIS SEEMS TO CENTER
ULTIMATELY IN JERUSALEM. DOES THE BIBLE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY
ABOUT THAT? IT DOES INDEED. ZECHARIAH 12 VERSE TWO, BEHOLD,
I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM A CUP OF TREMBLING UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE
ROUND ABOUT, WHEN THEY SHALL BE IN SIEGE AGAINST BOTH JUDAH AND
AGAINST JERUSALEM. AND IN THAT DAY WILL I MAKE JERUSALEM A
BURDENSOME STONE FOR ALL PEOPLE; ALL THAT BURDEN THEMSELVES WITH
IT SHALL BE CUT IN PIECES, THOUGH ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE
EARTH BE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST IT. CONTINUING
CONFLICTS. DIVISIONS. NUMBER THREE: THE DISASTERS OF
CATACLYSMIC CONSEQUENCE. SKIP ON DOWN NOW, MATTHEW 24, AH, AH,
LET'S JUMP IN AGAIN, FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND
KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM; AND THERE SHALL BE, HERE THEY ARE,
HERE, HERE THE CATACLYSMS, FAMINES, AND PESTILENCES, AND
EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERS PLACES. ALL THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF
SORROWS. NOW, JESUS LOOKING DOWN THROUGH TIME SAID THERE WOULD BE
FAMINE. YOU WOULD THINK THAT PERHAPS MAN, WITH INCREASED
AGRICULTURAL SKILL AND, AH, GENETIC ENGINEERING, WOULD BE
ABLE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF FAMINE, BUT THE PROBLEM OF
FAMINE IN OUR WORLD IS REALLY TWO-FOLD. NUMBER ONE, THERE'S
THE FAILURE OF AGRICULTURE ITSELF, AND NUMBER TWO, THERE IS
THE BOTTLENECK OF DISTRIBUTION. EVEN WHEN WE HAVE THE FOOD WE
CANNOT GET THE FOOD TO THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW, AH, WHO NEED
THE FOOD. BUT BEFORE LONG, AH, WE WILL NOT HAVE THE FOOD. WE
ARE NOW LIVING ON PLANET EARTH FROM FIELD TO MOUTH. WE DON'T
HAVE GRANARIES FILLED WITH FOOD LIKE WE USED TO. A WELL-KNOWN
BIOLOGIST AND SOCIOLOGIST HAS SAID, AND I QUOTE, PLANET EARTH
IS NO LONGER A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY. WITH WORLD POPULATION
DOUBLING, AH, DOUBLING TWICE IN THE PAST CENTURY, THE WORLD'S
LAND IS BEING WORKED SO HARD FOR FOOD THAT ONE QUARTER OF THE
SOIL IS TURNING STERILE AND ERODING AWAY. THE BIBLE TEACHES
THAT IN THE TRIBULATION, WHICH MAY BE JUST A FEW YEARS AWAY,
REVELATION CHAPTER SIX VERSE SIX, THAT YOU WOULD PAY FOR A
QUART OF WHEAT 80 TO 100 DOLLARS WHICH WOULD MAKE ABOUT TWO
LOAVES OF BREAD. A FAMINE IS COMING HERE UPON THIS EARTH. AH,
CHINA, FOR EXAMPLE, WHICH WAS ONCE A NET EXPORTER OF GRAINS
HAS BECOME THE NUMBER TWO IMPORTER OF, EH, GRAINS. BUT NOT
ONLY DOES, AH, DID JESUS SPEAK OF FAMINES; JESUS SPOKE OF
PLAGUES. NOW, YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT, AH, IN 2,000 YEARS
WE WOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT PLAGUES. I CAN REMEMBER WHEN I
WAS A KID, THEY SAID, WE'VE CONQUERED POLIO, AND I THOUGHT
WELL, ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL. IT WON'T BE LONG BEFORE EVERY
DISEASE LIKE, AH, AH, POLIO AND, AH, AND, AH, SMALLPOX, AND THESE
OTHER THINGS WE, WE'LL KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THOSE. AND THEN
ALONG COMES AIDS. AND THEN ALONG COMES SARS. AND ALONG COMES
EBOLA. AND ALONG COMES THIS THING AND THAT THING. AND THEN
TO CAP ALL OF THAT OFF, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WARFARE
IS A SPECTER THAT WE FACE. JESUS SAID PLAGUES ARE GOING TO BE A
SIGN OF THE DAY IN WHICH WE LIVE. AND THEN HE MENTIONS
EARTHQUAKES, EARTHQUAKES. WELL, THAT OUGHT TO TELL US SOMETHING.
DID YOU KNOW THERE HAS BEEN A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN EARTHQUAKES
IN THE PAST, IN THE LAST DECADES? NOW, SEISMOLOGISTS
SPEAK OF SOMETHING CALLED PLATE TECTONICS. THAT IS, THERE ARE
THESE GREAT PLATES, AH, THICK, 70 MILE THICK ROCK PLATES THAT
FLOAT, FLOAT ON THE, AH, MOLTEN SURFACE OF THE EARTH. AND THESE
ROCK PLATES COME TOGETHER THERE AT POINTS WHERE THEY MEET. AND
THERE IS GREAT PRESSURE THERE. AND, AND, AH, AS THESE PLATES
MOVE JUST A LITTLE BIT, THEN WE SEE WHAT WE CALL AN EARTHQUAKE.
IT'S LIKE A BREAK UP OF ICE ON THE GREAT LAKES IN THE NORTHERN
PART OF THIS, AH, CONTINENT. SEISMOLOGY HISTORIANS HAVE
CALCULATED THAT MEGALITHIC EARTHQUAKES HAVE INCREASED OVER
2,000% SINCE COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THE NEW WORLD. AS MANY HAVE DIED
IN EARTHQUAKES IN THE LAST 40 YEARS HAD DIED IN THE PREVIOUS
120 YEARS. JESUS SAID THAT IN THE, IN THE ENSUING AGE BEFORE
HE COMES THERE WILL BE EARTHQUAKES. IT SEEMS THAT
MOTHER EARTH ITSELF IS HEATHING, AH, HEAVING IN PAIN. NOW, NUMBER
FOUR: THERE'S, THERE'S GOING TO BE, AH, THE DEFAMATION OF
COMMITTED CHRISTIANS. AH, WE'RE GOING TO BE DEFAMED IF WE LOVE
THE LORD JESUS. IT'S, IT'S ONE OF THE MARKS OF THE AGE. LOOK IN
MATTHEW 24 VERSES NINE AND 10, THEN SHALL THEY DELIVER YOU UP
TO BE AFFLICTED, AND SHALL KILL YOU; AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF
ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. AND THEN SHALL MANY BE OFFENDED,
AND SHALL BETRAY ONE ANOTHER, AND SHALL HATE ONE ANOTHER.
JESUS SAID THAT RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION WILL INCREASE AT THE
END OF THE AGE AND IT'S GOING TO BE CENTERED ON CHRISTIANITY,
THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THIS WORLD DOES NOT MIND
RELIGION, BUT IT DOES RESENT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. DID YOU KNOW
THAT MORE CHRISTIANS HAVE DIED FOR THEIR FAITH IN THE PAST
CENTURY THAN ALL OF THE OTHER CENTURIES SINCE JESUS CHRIST
HUNG ON THE CROSS? IT IS ESTIMATED THAT MORE CHRISTIANS
WERE TORTURED AND SLAIN IN TWELVE MONTHS OF WORLD WAR 2
THAN DIED UNDER ROME IN ALL OF THE EARLY CENTURIES. WE THINK OF
THOSE CHRISTIANS WHO DIED, AH, IN, WHEN JESUS CHRIST ASCENDED
TO HEAVEN AND THE CHRISTIANS WERE PERSECUTED UNDER ROME. MORE
PEOPLE HAVE DIED FOR CHRIST IN OUR GENERATION, IN OUR AGE. SOME
AUTHORITIES CLAIM THAT OVER 50 MILLION CHRISTIANS WERE
SLAUGHTERED IN RUSSIAN AND OTHER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES BECAUSE THEY
NAMED THE NAME OF CHRIST. AH, SINCE THE ASCENSION OF JESUS
CHRIST, NO GENERATION HAS SEEN SUCH WORLDWIDE PERSECUTION AS IS
NOW IN PROGRESS. OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AROUND. BIBLE-BELIEVING
CHRISTIANS ARE THE WHIPPING BOYS. THE CHRISTIAN BASHING HAS
BECOME THE FAVORITE SPORT IN NEWSPAPER, RADIO, AND
TELEVISION. CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS? IT'S, IT'S SAD TO SEE WHAT
IS HAPPENING. BUT THIS PERSECUTION IN THE LAST DAYS
WILL BE TURNED TO A WHITE-HOT HEAT, AND I WONDER HOW MANY
SUNDAY MORNING BENCHWARMERS WILL VACATE THEMSELVES FROM
BIBLE-BELIEVING CHURCHES. NOW, THERE'S GOING TO BE A
PERSECUTION OF BELIEVERS IN THE LAST DAYS AND IT'S GOING TO
SEPARATE THOSE WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS FROM THOSE WHO ARE
CULTURAL CHRISTIANS. NUMBER FIVE: THE DISTORTION OF
CHRISTLESS CULTS. LOOK, IF YOU WILL, NOW IN MATTHEW 24 VERSE
11, AND MANY FALSE PROPHETS SHALL RISE AND DECEIVE MANY.
C.K. CHESTERSON HAS POINTED OUT THAT, WHEN A MAN CEASES TO
BELIEVE IN THE ONE TRUE GOD, IT DOESN'T BELIEVE, MEAN THAT HE
BELIEVES IN NOTHING; IT MEANS THAT HE WILL BELIEVE IN
ANYTHING. NOW, WHEN THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF A PROPHET HERE, IT
DOESN'T MEAN, AH, A PERSON WHO IS EVEN RELIGIOUS. THE WORD HERE
MEANS SOMEBODY WHO SPEAKS WITH AUTHORITY. IT COULD BE A
PHILOSOPHER. IT COULD BE A COLLEGE PROFESSOR. IT COULD BE A
SCIENTIST. IT COULD BE A STATESMAN. BUT THESE ARE PEOPLE
TODAY WHO WANT TO SHAPE AND TO MOLD SOCIETY INTO ITS THINKING
AND THEY WILL DECEIVE MANY. IT'S LIKE IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH
WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS, GOD SAW THE IMAGINATIONS OF MEN'S HEARTS WAS
EVIL CONTINUALLY. THE WORD IMAGINATIONS THERE DOES NOT MEAN
DAYDREAMS, BUT IT, IT, IT SPEAKS OF CAREFULLY CRAFTED
PHILOSOPHIES. IT, IT'S A WORD THAT WAS USED TO DESCRIBE THE
MOLDING OF A PIECE OF POTTERY. AH, THESE PHILOSOPHERS ARE
TRYING TO FIT SOCIETY INTO THEIR MOLD. AND WHAT ALL OF THIS COMES
DOWN TO REALLY IS NEW AGE HUMANISM. WHEN NEW AGE HUMANISM
JUST TAKES THE TEACHING OF ALL THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND
TRIES TO SYNCHRONIZE THEM INTO ITS MYSTICAL SYSTEM. LET ME SAY
WHAT, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT ONE OF THEM SAID. WE HONOR THE TRUTH
AND BEAUTY OF ALL THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS, BELIEVING THAT EACH
HAS A SEED OF GOD, A KERNEL OF THE SPIRIT THAT UNITES US. NOW,
THE NEW AGERS BELIEVE THAT GOD REVEALED HIMSELF IN JESUS, BUT
HE ALSO REVEALED HIMSELF IN BUDDHA AND KRISHNA AND A HOST OF
OTHER PEOPLE. NOW, LET ME GIVE YOU THE, THE SIXTH SIGN THAT
JESUS SPOKE ABOUT, AND IT IS THE DISPOSITION OF, OF CARNAL
COLDNESS. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE COLD-HEARTED. NOTICE AGAIN IN
MATTHEW 24 VERSE 12, AND BECAUSE INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND, THE LOVE
OF MANY SHALL WAX COLD. NOW, WHAT BRINGS ABOUT THIS
COLD-HEARTEDNESS? IT'S THE TEACHING OF THESE FALSE
PROPHETS. THESE FALSE PROPHETS TAKE AWAY THE MORAL BASE. WHEN
YOU HAVE NO MORAL BASE, WHEN IT'S ALL RIGHT TO KILL BABIES,
WHEN, AH, IT'S ALL RIGHT TO PERFORM HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES,
WHEN IT IS ALL RIGHT TO, AH, TAKE AWAY LIFE FROM A PERSON WHO
HAS LOST CONSCIOUSNESS, AH, OR EUTHANIZE THE AGED, AH, WHY, WHY
IS THIS ALL RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU HAVE TAKEN AWAY THE FIXED
STANDARD OF RIGHT AND WRONG. AND WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY MORAL LIMITS,
YOU DESTROY THE FIRE AND THE GLOW OF TRUE LOVE AND YOU
SUBSTITUTE THAT WITH THE FALSE FIRE OF LUST, AND THEOLOGY TURNS
TO ME-OLOGY. AND, AH, THE BIBLE SAYS BECAUSE THE INIQUITY, IN,
INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL WAX COLD. WHEN YOU
HAVE A BOUNDING INIQUITY, AH, THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A CRIME WAVE,
AND THE WORD INIQUITY LITERALLY MEANS LAWLESSNESS, WHAT DO WE
DO? WE GET UNFRIENDLY. SOMEBODY KNOCKS AT YOUR DOOR AND SAYS,
LOOK, [KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK] CAN I COME IN AND USE YOUR PHONE? MY
BATTERY IS DEAD. YOU SAY, NO, I'M SORRY. YOU SEE SOMEBODY ON
THE ROAD WITH A THUMB UP. YOU HAVE AN EMPTY SEAT. YOU WANT TO
PICK THEM UP. YOU, YOU SAY, WELL, I'M AFRAID. AND YOU FIND
YOURSELF HARDENING YOUR HEART BECAUSE INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND,
THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL WAX COLD. AND OUR SOCIETY HAS REPLACED
GODLY LOVE WITH SELFISH, AH, PROTECTIONISM AND LUST. NUMBER
SEVEN, AH, THE NEXT MARK, AND I LOVE THIS ONE, THE DISCHARGE OF
CHRIST'S COMMISSION. BEFORE JESUS LEFT THIS EARTH HE GAVE US
COMMISSION, AND THE COMMISSION WAS THAT WE WERE TO TAKE THE
GOSPEL TO ALL OF THE WORLD. AND WE WERE TO GO INTO EVERY NATION
WITH THE GOSPEL. NOWHERE HAS THE BIBLE EVER TAUGHT THAT WE WERE
GOING TO WIN EVERYBODY TO CHRIST. AH, THE GOSPEL WAS NOT
GIVEN, AH, TO SAVE CIVILIZATION FROM WRECKAGE, BUT TO SAVE MEN
FROM THE WRECKAGE OF CIVILIZATION. AND, AND THE BIBLE
PROPHESIES THAT, THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE THE MASTER'S
MINORITY, THAT LITTLE FLOCK THAT'S GOING TO BE SAVED. BUT
JESUS SAID WE'RE TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE WORLD. AH,
WILL THAT BE DONE? ABSOLUTELY. IT HAS BEEN DONE. MATTHEW 24
VERSES 13 AND 14, BUT HE THAT SHALL ENDURE TO THE END, THE
SAME SHALL BE SAVED. AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE,
DOESN'T SAY OUGHT TO BE, HE SAYS, SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALL
THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS TO ALL NATIONS; AND THEN SHALL THE END
COME. AND JESUS SAID THAT IN, IN THE ENSUING TIME, FROM THE TIME
THAT HE LEFT TILL THE TIME THAT HE CAME BACK, THERE IS GOING TO
BE THE PROLIFERATION AND THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL
WORLDWIDE, WORLDWIDE. HAS THIS HAPPENED? INDEED, IT HAS!
FRIEND, THE GOSPEL HAS BEEN PREACHED IN ALL OF THE WORLD;
NOT TO EVERY PERSON, BUT INTO ALL THE WORLD, TO ALL THE ETHNIC
BY RADIO, BY TELEVISION, BY BOOKS, BY TAPES, BY LEAFLETS AND
BY CRUSADES THE WORLD HAS HEARD THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. THIS
DOES NOT MEAN ALL, EVERY INDIVIDUAL, BUT IT MEANS ALL
NATIONS HAVE HEARD THE GOSPEL. AH, DR. BILL BRIGHT WAS A
PERSONAL FRIEND OF MINE, THE FOUNDER OF CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR
CHRIST. BEFORE HE DIED, HE INVITED ME TO JOIN A CELEBRATION
OF PRAISE TO GIVE GOD ALL THE GLORY FOR THE FULFILLING OF THE
GREAT COMMISSION IN OUR AGE. AND HE SAID, AND I QUOTE, NEW LIFE
2000 HAS NOW BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN 220 COUNTRIES, REPRESENTING 98%
OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION. MORE THAN TWO BILLION PEOPLE HAVE
BEEN EXPOSED TO THE GOSPEL. AND YOU THINK OF THE JESUS FILM
ALONE. MORE THAN 850 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE VIEWED THE FILM,
WHICH HAS BEEN DUBBED INTO MORE THAN 400 LANGUAGES, MAKING IT
THE MOST WIDELY TRANSLATED FIRM IN HISTORY. I PARTICIPATED IN A
HOOKUP, AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF DOING THIS RECENTLY LAST YEAR
TO BROADCAST THROUGH THE INTERNET TO EVERY NATION ON
EARTH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. TODAY, WHAT I AM SAYING,
WHAT I'M PREACHING WILL BE TELECAST AROUND THE WORLD. THE
WOR, THE, THE SUN WILL NOT SET ON THIS MESSAGE. IT WILL GO
AROUND THE WORLD. THROUGH THE INTERNET, AH, EVERYBODY ON EARTH
HAS ACCESS IF THEY HAVE A COMPUTER AND ARE HOOKED INTO THE
NET TO HEAR THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
NOW, JESUS SAYS SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING. HE SAYS, AH, WHEN
ALL OF THESE THINGS BEGIN TO COME TO PASS. LOOK, IF YOU WILL,
IN, IN CHAPTER 24 AND VERSE EIGHT. HE SAYS, ALL THESE THINGS
ARE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS. NOW, WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT,
ALL THESE THINGS? WHEN YOU SEE ALL THE THINGS THAT I'VE
MENTIONED, WHEN, YOU SAY, PASTOR, THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
WARS. THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FAMINES. AH, THERE, THERE'S
ALWAYS BEEN PERSECUTION. YES, BUT JESUS SAID, WHEN YOU SEE ALL
THESE THINGS, ALL THESE THINGS ARE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS.
NOW, YOU LOOK AT THAT WORD SORROWS. THAT WORD SORROWS IS
THE WORD FOR BIRTH PANGS. ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE THE BEGINNING
OF BIRTH PANGS. NOW, THOSE OF US WHO ARE GENUINE FATHERS, LIKE I
AM, HA, HA, YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS WHEN YOUR WIFE BEGINS TO TALK TO
YOU ABOUT THOSE BIRTH PANGS. YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU SEE THIS THING
HAPPENING [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] AND THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU
KNOW, SOMEBODY SAID, IS YOUR WIFE EXPECTING? I SAID, NO, IT'S
A SURE THING. [AUDIENCE [LAUGHTER] YOU SEE THIS
HAPPENING. BUT THEN THAT, AH, THAT, THAT TIME HAPPENS WHEN SHE
SAYS, ADRIAN, I THINK I FELT SOMETHING. I SAID, WHOOOO!
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] AND THEN SHE SAYS, YES, I FELT SOMETHING.
THERE'S SOMETHING STIRRING. AND THEN YOU KNOW THAT WHEN THOSE
BIRTH PANGS DO WHAT? WHEN THEY MULTIPLY AND WHEN THEY
INTENSIFY, YOU KNOW SOMETHING'S ABOUT TO COME FORTH, ISN'T THAT
RIGHT? WHEN THEY MULTIPLY AND WHEN THEY INTENSIFY, YOU KNOW
SOMETHING'S ABOUT TO COME FORTH. JESUS SAID, ALL THESE THINGS ARE
THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PANGS. NOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT ON
ANY SIGN FOR JESUS TO COME. HE COULD COME AT ANY MOMENT, AND
HAS ALWAYS BEEN WILLING TO DO THAT. BUT, PRECIOUS FRIEND,
LISTEN TO ME. THE WISEST THING ANYBODY COULD DO WOULD BE TO
GIVE HIS HEART TO JESUS CHRIST IF WE KNEW JESUS CHRIST WAS NOT
COMING IN A THOUSAND YEARS. BUT WHEN WE KNOW THAT OUR LORD MAY
COME AT ANY MOMENT, AND WHEN OUR LORD HAS GIVEN US THE SIGNS OF
THE TIMES, AND WHEN OUR LORD HAS LOOKED DOWN THROUGH THE AGES AND
HELPED US TO BE AWARE, DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE WISE THING TO DO
WOULD BE TO GIVE YOUR HEART TO JESUS CHRIST? I LOVE THE BIBLE.
WE CAN TRUST THE WORD OF GOD. AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SEE ALL OF
THESE THINGS, ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT JESUS HAPPENED, I
DON'T GET STAMPEDED WHEN PEOPLE SAY TO ME, WELL, IF THERE'S A
GOD, WHY ARE THE EARTHQUAKES; IF THERE'S A GOD, WHY THE WARS; IF
THERE'S A GOD, WHY THE FAMINES; IF THERE'S A GOD, WHY THE
PLAGUES? [SLAP] WELL, EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHY, I CAN TELL
YOU ONE THING. NONE OF THEM TOOK GOD BY SURPRISE. [AUDIENCE:
AMEN] THERE IS NO FINE PRINT IN THIS. I MEAN, YOU, GOD SAID,
THERE IT IS. JESUS SAID THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. THEN
SHALL THE END COME. IF YOU STAND BEFORE GOD UNSAVED, YOU WON'T BE
ABLE TO SAY I NEVER KNEW OR I NEVER HEARD, WILL YOU? WOULD YOU
BOW YOUR HEAD IN PRAYER? HEADS ARE BOWED AND EYES ARE CLOSED.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST NOW, YOU NEED TO KNOW
HIM. PASTOR ROGERS, ARE YOU, AH, HUH, TRYING TO FRIGHTEN ME?
WOULD TO GOD I COULD. IF I COULD, I WOULD. THE BIBLE SAYS,
THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. JESUS SAID,
FEAR HIM WHO IS ABLE TO DESTROY BODY AND SOUL IN HELL. BUT I
DON'T WANT TO MERELY FRIGHTEN YOU. I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU. I
WANT TO TELL YOU THERE'S A GOD THAT LOVES YOU SO MUCH THAT HE
SENT HIS SON TO DIE FOR YOU AND HAS PROMISED TO SAVE YOU IF YOU
WOULD TRUST HIM. ARE YOU READY TO DO THAT? NOW, YOU OU, MAY
ALREADY BE A MEMBER OF THIS CHURCH. FOR SOME PEOPLE, THEY'VE
BEEN VACCINATED WITH A MILD FORM OF CHRISTIANITY AND NEVER CATCH
THE REAL DISEASE. YOU NEED TO BE SAVED. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP WON'T
SAVE YOU. A MORAL LIFE WON'T SAVE YOU. BELIEVING THE FACTS OF
THE BIBLE DON'T SAVE YOU. IT'S JESUS THAT SAVES. AND IF YOU
DON'T HAVE HIM IN YOUR HEART, I WANT YOU TO PRAY THIS PRAYER,
DEAR GOD, I KNOW THAT YOU LOVE ME AND I KNOW THAT YOU WANT TO
SAVE ME. JESUS, YOU DIED TO SAVE ME AND PROMISED TO SAVE ME IF I
WOULD TRUST YOU. I DO TRUST YOU, JESUS. I GIVE YOU MY HEART AND
LIFE AND I RECEIVE YOU NOW BY FAITH AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR.
COME INTO MY LIFE. FORGIVE ME. CLEANSE ME AND SAVE ME, AND
BEGIN NOW TO MAKE ME THE PERSON YOU WANT ME TO BE. AND HELP ME,
JESUS, TO BE WILLING TO MAKE IT PUBLIC, NOT TO BE ASHAMED OF
YOU. IN YOUR NAME I PRAY. AMEN. FRIEND, AS WE CONCLUDE THIS
MESSAGE, MAY I ASK YOU A VERY PERSONAL QUESTION, A VERY
PERTINANT QUESTION, ARE YOU SAVED? I DIDN'T ASK IF YOU WERE
RELIGIOUS, BAPTIST, METHODIST, PRESBYTERIAN, EPISCOPALIAN OR
ANYTHING ELSE, DO YOU KNOW JESUS CHRIST? IS HE A BRIGHT, LIVING
REALITY IN YOUR LIFE? IF NOT, I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS. YOU CAN
RECEIVE HIM TODAY AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND HE WILL SAVE YOU
INSTANTANEOUSLY. HE'LL BE WITH YOU CONTINUALLY AND HE WILL KEEP
YOU ETERNALLY. PRAY LIKE THIS, LORD JESUS, COME INTO MY HEART,
FORGIVE MY SIN, SAVE ME, LORD JESUS. PRAY IT AND MEAN IT. AND
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