End Times: Week One | 10.4.20

want to do something new in jesus name amen amen hey great to see you here today so glad you're here in person and all of you wherever you're at on your device we're so glad you're a part of the online church today hey today i'm going to start a series of messages and we're just going to call it end times you know i have a terrible time with titles i have great messages just terrible titles all right so i'm just going to call this end times however next week there will be a break because dan seabourn will be here in the morning next week he's going to be speaking tonight at 5 00 pm live in the service as well but i'd like to begin with isaiah chapter 46. isaiah 46 but before i jump in i want to mention something to you uh we are in we are in need of you uh right now we have eighty percent of the kids are back this is wonderful wonderful uh but only 40 of the workers and so we are we somebody said well nobody ever called me again it's interesting to me every single one of jesus disciples he recruited there were no volunteers he recruited every one of them so i'm recruiting you all right we need you we need we need help uh so so please uh get online find out how to get involved helping out in the different ministries uh but isaiah 46 and verse 10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are that are not yet done saying my counsel will stand and i will do all my pleasure so so god declares the end from the beginning he says he tells us what's going to happen before it happens right now the reason i think this is so significant is this is one of the ways that you can literally prove that the bible is a supernatural book because god says things that are going to happen centuries even millennial before they take place i remember my personal first experience when it came to end times event in bible prophecy uh i imagine it was the early 1970s and i was in a target and i was going through their book section and there was a book there called the late great planet earth by hell lindsey i don't remember how many millions of copies this thing sold but it just took off and it talked about bible prophecy now if you look at your bible 28 of your bible is prophecy all right most of that has to do with end times of that 28 most has to do with end times right in fact if you look at the bible prophecies that have come to pass it is like a mathematical improbability that it could have been foretold without someone supernaturally seeing a head and knowing what was going to happen now particularly today the the unrest that's in in our nation with the covid uh the flu the 19 flu that's going around so many people are fearful about what's going on and people are saying you know is this a sign of the end is this the end in fact the the number of people that are in fear uh absolutely i've never seen so many people so fearful now as believers let me just say that is not how we're supposed to be that is not how we're supposed to be in fact jesus said this he said now when you begin to see these things take place these things happening look up because your redemption draws nigh jesus doesn't say when you see these things begin to take place oh become fearful buy guns in dried food and move to montana and hide out get grow a garden and get a generator that is not what jesus says in fact he is saying the exact opposite he said when you see the signs of the end around you he said rejoice right lift up your head get happy because the it because what is happening is his return is near now every single new testament author without exception even if they write just one little book every one of them talks about the return of jesus so often what we're concerned about is getting to heaven right i want to get to heaven when i die i want to go to heaven right that is not really the emphasis of the bible does that happen yes but that is not the emphasis when jesus came what he didn't say was hey listen to me so you can go to heaven he said change the way you think or repent because the kingdom of god is it's here it's here right see what jesus is trying his goal is not just to get you to heaven it's to get the kingdom of heaven in you now and that it stays in you forever but you are supposed to be a manifestation and ambassador for the kingdom right now now i know whenever we talk about prophecy some people oh my goodness here they go again right now i want to read to you from first john a moment chapter 3 behold now we are the children of god and has not yet been revealed what we shall be but we know that when he is revealed that's when jesus comes back we'll be like him for we shall see him as he is the subject the return of jesus and everyone who has this hope in himself purifies himself just as he is pure now here's what this is saying this thing that that when we understand the times that we're living in and we understand bible prophecy it says you purify yourself it changes the way that you live let me just tell you you can preach don't sin don't do this don't do that don't do the next thing and everybody does it nothing changes but the bible says when we understand prophecy and the return of jesus and that we're going to give an account for the things done in the body it says and you understand he's coming and he's coming soon he says you purify yourself it changes the way that you live we do not talk about bible prophecy to have something sensational to talk about right but what we do is we talk about bible prophecy because it prepares us for the return of the lord and the bible says what happens if we purify ourselves in matthew chapter 24 jesus is giving a dissertation about end times the disciples have asked him what's going to be the sign of your return and what's going to be the sign of the end and he says now learn this parable from the fig tree now by the way the fake tree in bible prophecy is israel israel is the fig tree and you can really say it like this that israel is god's time clock when you look at what's happening in israel you can see what god is doing in the earth to learn the parable of the fig tree when its branches has already become tender and it puts forth leaves you know that summer is near so you also when you see these things know that it is near at the door assuredly i say to you that this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place heaven and earth will pass away but my word will by no means pass away now jesus is telling us to look at the fake tree look at israel 1948 after over 1800 years of not being a nation israel becomes a nation again and also if you'll notice in this dissertation jesus also talks about jerusalem being trodden down by the gentiles 1967. we're going to talk about that in just a moment but notice jesus said this generation this generation is not going to pass away and then of course the question becomes what is a generation many people look at psalms 90. now by the way psalms 90 was written by moses the children of israel have refused to go into the promised land and god said all of you who are 20 years old and above are going to die right and then moses writes psalms 90 and he says you know our days might be three score and ten or if by reason of strength four score years which is 80. so some people say well a generation is 70 or 80 years but that really was not talking about a normal situation that was written speaking specifically of a time when all the people from 20 years old and above who had rebelled against god had to go out in the desert and die however in genesis 15 and and we're going to look more at genesis 15. uh we all know genesis at the beginning of the bible right but but literally everything that god is doing today all goes back to the book of genesis in fact without understanding the book of genesis and what god did in the book of genesis we cannot know god's end time plan for today right but in genesis 15 in genesis 15 is one of the key chapters to understanding end time events the lord said to abram know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs and they will serve them and they will afflict them for 400 years in the 16th verse it says but in the fourth generation they shall return here now there it mentions 400 years and how many generations four which could make a generation how long a hundred years at least right now by the way the last time god ever said anything about how long people would live was in genesis chapter six and verse three he said my spirit will not strive with man forever for he is indeed flesh and yet his days shall be 120 years and god is saying look i'm bringing man's lifespan down to where the maximum that they can live is a 120 and by the way i want to encourage you to shoot high you say well what if i don't make it well keep trying keep working that way don't don't give up at 70. right keep shooting for the best keep shooting for the best all right now people talk what about the end of the world you know it's coming it's coming uh let me just tell you this if jesus returned today if he came back today the end of the world would not take place as in what you're thinking is the end of the world but it's not the end of the world right it is not the end of the world but what you think is the end of the world if jesus came back today would not take place for a thousand years okay so so don't worry just chill revelation chapter 20 verse two he laid hold of that dragon that old serpent who is the devil and satan and bound him for a thousand years cast him in the bottomless pit shut him up don't tell somebody shut the devil up set a seal on it so he should not deceive the nations until the thousand years were finished and after these things he'll be released for a little while then verse 4 and they will live and reign with christ for a thousand years verse five but the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished verse six but they shall be priests of god and of christ and shall reign with him for a thousand years let me get the picture five times five verses how long a thousand years in uh acts chapter six after jesus has risen from the dead look at check 6 acts 1 verse 6 the disciples say to jesus are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to israel and he's the answer is it's not for you to know the time or the season that the father is putting his own authority right and by the way every time somebody says this is when it's going to be it's not because nobody knows the day or the hour i remember 1988 some of you will remember this somebody wrote a book called 88 reasons jesus will come back in 88 1988 88 reasons and i remember getting in front of it in front of you all and saying look it will not happen i don't remember it was september 14 13 whatever the date was i said it will not happen then you know and literally people people put their pets to sleep people ran up their charge cards because they thought jesus is coming i'll be gone won't have to pay all right i i it was it was amazing the sunday before jesus was coming church attendance tripled and serious serious i mean churches were just packed we didn't know what to do right but uh jesus didn't come back right then now he is coming right but nobody knows the day or the hour and as sure as somebody sets the day in the hour all that it does is give critics an opportunity to criticize christians because somebody says this is when it's going to be well it's not going to be then because nobody knows nobody knows so five times in five verses it mentions that he we will reign with him but it will be a thousand years now after that thousand years all right peter in second peter chapter three verse 10 says but the day of the lord now let me just mention this when the bible talks about the day of the lord so many people think that it is talking about a 24-hour period it has nothing to do with the 24-hour period first of all the day of the lord includes the entire seven years of tribulation and also it includes judgment in the re-creation or renewing of the earth the day of the lord will come as a thief in the night in which the heavens will pass away and it literally means the atmosphere will pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat every element is going to melt your car is going to be gone all right if you have you're hiding some silver and gold it's going to melt it's going to be gone everything is going to melt both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up so this present earth is going to go through a refining process and after that and it is shortly after that by the way most bible scholars put it at 30 days and there's a reason for that revelation 21 i saw a new heaven a new atmosphere and a new earth the first heaven or atmosphere and earth had passed away there was no more sea then i john saw the holy city the new jerusalem coming down out of heaven from god prepared as a bride adorned for her husband i heard a loud voice from heaven saying behold the tabernacle of god is with men he'll dwell with them and they shall be his people god himself will be with them and be their god and god will wipe away every tear from their eyes and there will be no more death nor sorrow nor crying there will be no more pain for the former things have passed away and he sat on the throne said behold i make all things new and he said to me right for these words are faithful and true so after that millennial reign and there is this purging and recreation of the earth the bible calls it the eternal kingdom right the eternal kingdom it lasts for how long forever right and by the way where is it god it's right here everybody thinks i'm going to go float on a cloud where a sheet and play hard no no no no no no no no read your bible it is right here you say i never heard that before i don't care if you're catholic if you're presbyterian if you're lutheran what denomination you come from everybody believes this everybody believes this so we're not looking to go somewhere right in fact jesus continually in fact seven times in one chapter he talks about the kingdom of heaven not not not no listen not christianity is like a kingdom it is a kingdom right it's not like it it is a kingdom when jesus was crucified it said the king right the king of the jews jesus is going to come back and he told his disciples when i come back he said each of you will sit on a throne and judge the 12 tribes of israel he's going to rule from israel from jerusalem right now jesus is coming back however how many you've read the book of revelation and kind of like oh you know a little bit on the scary side you know now let me just say this the book of revelation what we find in the book of revelation is the wrath of god being poured out and i'm just going to say something right now then i'm going to show you in the bible but you will not be here right you will not be here now revelation chapter 6 verse 17 says for the great day of his wrath of his wrath has come see in the book of revelation the wrath of god is poured out revelation 19 not excuse me 9 verse 15 and the four angels who'd been prepared for that hour and day and month were released to kill a third of mankind now this is all taking place in a seven year period a third of mankind are killed in one single episode 18th verse by these plagues the three three plagues a third of man mankind will be killed this is a different bunch and by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouth so there's another third of mankind so we've got two-thirds basically of the earth's population that are going to die in a seven year period right that is not going to be a great time to be around right and again it's the wrath of god that's being poured out it says the rest of mankind we're not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands that they should not worship demons idols of gold silver brass stone wood which can neither see nor hear nor walk and they didn't repent of their murders their sorceries their sexual immorality and their flesh but as i mentioned the church is gone this is the wrath of god being poured out first thessalonians 1 10 and to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead even jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come he delivers us from the wrath to come and when you begin at revelation chapter 4 after the church is no longer mentioned right the wrath is being poured out first thessalonians 5 9 for god did not appoint us to wrath but to obtain salvation through our lord jesus christ somebody said well you just you're just preaching escapism well jesus i mean do know he's the guy who knows he is the head of the church he is the king he is the redeemer he said watch therefore and pray that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass and to stand before the son of man as jesus is giving this discourse that uh we find in matthew 24 in in luke chapter 17 jesus said as it was in the days of noah so it will be in the days of the son of man they ate they drank they married wives they were given in marriage until the day that noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them likewise as it was in the days of lot they all ate and drank they bought they sold they planted they built but on the day that lot went out of sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all and then jesus says this i love this he says remember lot's wife right she so loved where she came from that she had to look back had to look back but notice he gives us two things to look at he says it's like it was in the days of noah now noah in his family found grace in the eyes of the lord and were counted righteous and how many you know when judgment came they escaped then it says it's going to be like it was in the days of lot you know lot is living in the wicked city of sodom and two angels come and the bible says that this they're staying at last house and and the city is surrounded by men who say send them out that we can have sexual relations with them right it is extremely perverted right and we're living in a day when the lgbtq is is is a political thing but it's been politicized but it's immorality it's a picture very much like what was happening in the days of life but those angels took a lot and took lot in his family outside of the city and then judgment came jesus says it's going to be like it was in the days of noah like it was in the days of lot that's what it's going to be like in the time when he returns second thessalonians chapter 2 uh it begins to talk about end times and he's saying look i told you these things this is something that the apostle paul 2000 years ago thought was so important the church needed to know and and he's saying don't don't be shaken is if somebody if a letter comes from us or somebody says that a spirit or an angel appeared to them to the effect that the day of the lord has come and is now present this is the whis translation of the bible do not begin to allow anyone to lead you astray in any way because that day the day of the lord jesus coming back will not come except the aforementioned departure of the church to heaven comes first so what has to happen first the aforementioned departure of the church to heaven and then the man of lawlessness the antichrist is the close in his true identity the son of perdition now i know a lot of christians trying to figure out who the antichrist is don't worry you won't be here all right you got the real thing don't worry about the counterfeit right and in addition there are always going to be types there's going to be pre-types of of the antichrist coming i'm sure hitler was one right uh haman way back in the old testament was one there's going to be people you can point they've got that spirit the antichrist spirit the bible says way back in 1st john is already here and at work the spirit but eventually there will be one individual one individual and this goes on and says what he's going to do he's going to go into the temple in jerusalem which they're talking about building now right and he's going to stop the sacrifices declare himself to be god right when that happens now genesis 15 back there and again genesis 12 genesis 15 these are key key scriptures to understanding redemption and god's plan what happens is god promises him a son and an inheritance and that inheritance is the land and he says well how am i going to know and god tells them go take some animals split them in half and put them on altars now you've probably heard me talk about this before right now this to you might mean barbecue but to them to abraham it meant covenant and the way a covenant was made was altars were set up animals were split and then the two individuals would walk together and they would make promises to each other as they're walking in between literally making figure eights there's blood everywhere there's blood all over their feet as they're making promises to each other now the bible says that when it was time the sun was setting that abraham fell asleep in that a smoking torch and a burning furnace pass through the parts so literally from heaven and by the way the new testament tells us in the book of galatians that that flaming torch was jesus all right it says unto his seed were the promises made not seas as of many but one jesus jesus the christ so jesus is walking through these pieces with god the father and god's making promises to jesus and jesus making promises to god and by the way jesus is abraham's representative and they make promises and the bible says at the close of this and the same day the lord made a covenant with abraham saying so this is this is not like hey maybe we should do this this is a covenant i mean we just had communion where we're remembering the covenant that we have with god how many are glad he's not backing out on his word right he's not backing out on this either he made a covenant saying remember this is the god who said let there be light and there was light and now he is saying to abraham to your descendants i have given this land from the river egypt to the great river the river euphrates so god literally gives a divine land grant and he said part of the covenant is that i am giving to you and your descendants this land now he restates it to his son isaac and restates it again to his son jacob it's not just one time thing this was he stated again and again and again now here's what i think is interesting very often what we as christians do is we totally ignore this completely i i i remember hearing well the church is taking the place of israel right and i understand because uh john calvin said that martin luther said that now 500 years ago you would look at a map and there was no israel and you would look and you say look they're dispersed everywhere it is this could never happen it is impossible how many you know that we serve a god in which nothing is impossible and after over 1800 years god brings them back to their own land the very thing that he said that he was going to do now in the book of daniel it says this chapter 12 verse 4 but you daniel shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end uh we're gonna we're gonna look at some of daniel's prophecy in the next couple of weeks that have been still and even in just the last couple of years uh some of the things that are hidden in there for myself they finally finally i saw things i never saw before they were sealed right and so martin luther looked calvin looked others looked and they didn't see it because they were sealed until the time of the end but we are living in the time of the end we are living in those days right and by the way it says about the last times it says and many will run to and fro and knowledge shall increase how many you know travel is definitely increased knowledge has increased again what the bible said was going to happen right a hundred years ago people most people didn't travel more than a hundred miles from their birthplace and today we think nothing if in 24 hours i can be any place on the planet anywhere around things have changed right but what we still have in much of the church is we have replacement theology where people say israel doesn't make any difference at all why it's just some accident i would just say open your eyes because god made promises covenant promises that he was going to bring israel back to their own land and that would be one of the key signs of the time of the end all right so first corinthians chapter 10 verse 32 and let me let me close with this before and uh next week this is kind of like the first part of the introduction all right first corinthians 10 verse 32. give no offense either to the jew to the church or to the greek or to the church now what so often has happened is this we as the church take every prophecy in the bible and thinks it's for us but it's not right some are to the church some are to israel and they're not to the church they're to israel and others are too with greeks or the world at large and to think every prophecy that you see is about you or about the church is not right right and because of that there's been so much confusion and there has been this replacement theology right but god prophesied very very clearly and we're going to look at several of the places that in the last days he was going to bring back the nation of israel and that that would be a key key element to our understanding the end how we put it like this the end of human government end of human government is near because when jesus comes back listen he is not a democrat he is not a republican right he is the true independent all right he comes back as king of kings and lord of lords to rule the bible says with a rod of iron he's coming back to rule he's coming back to reign and he's coming back the bible says to bring salvation to those who are eagerly waiting for him would you please bow your heads for just a moment and again in this size as a group there's people in every kind of a spiritual condition you may think i've done so much but let me say this there's nothing you can do that can stop god's loving you nothing you can do can make him love you less there's nothing you can do that that would keep you from the forgiveness that god has for you no life so dark no valley so low no sin so shocking no sex so perverted no relationship so appalling no pit so deep no addiction so dreadful no life so empty that the blood of jesus cannot cleanse you forgive you make you new and give you purpose he specializes in impossibilities and i want to just say today come home to god jesus said in my father's house there's there's room there is more than enough room and if you're away from god today god is making his appeal to you through us it literally says second corinthians chapter five god is making his appeal to you today through us come back to god this is the message the bible says it says come back to god and if you're away from the lord you're not right with god and you say i want to pray a prayer and i want to submit my life to jesus and i want to receive forgiveness this is your opportunity everybody right now please just take one hand put it over your heart lift your other hand towards heaven wherever you're at online one hand over your heart lift your other hand towards heaven and pray this out loud make these words your own say oh god i believe jesus died on the cross i believe his blood paid for my sins and i believe he rose again victorious over death sin and the devil and he is coming again and i give him all of my heart in all of my life i hold nothing back jesus is my king my lord and i received the forgiveness that he purchased for me and i thank you i am a part of your kingdom today and forever in jesus name amen yes now if you just prayed that prayer would you please text yes to the number that's there on your screen 616-226-3922 and if you will do that we will be praying for you we want to help you in your new life in christ you know the bible tells us that jesus is in jerusalem he's right by the temple mount and and by the way when we go to israel hey by the way we just postponed our trip so we were planning on coming we postponed our trip that was going to take place first of march we're proposed postponing it one year and uh the reason that we're postponing the trip is because everything is in flux you could put your money down and something could change in 30 days or 60 days and we'd be losing our money and uh how many you know sometimes it's just like a one-time deal you get to go and we just could not possibly risk that and so we just postponed for one year but one of my favorite things to do when we're in jerusalem is go to the temple mount now this is where solomon's temple was this is where herod's temple this is where jesus preached all right and jesus is right outside and he's watching the people as they're going in and they're giving their offerings the bible says that many wealthy people came and put in a large amount and then there was a poor destitute widow who came and put in two very small copper coins that would not even equal a penny and jesus is watching and he says all the others gave what they would never miss but she gave extravagantly what she couldn't afford she gave all that she had as an act of worship as an act of thankfulness i'm sure she was looking uh the things that needed to be done you know offerings are used for missions and for the poor and for staff so the word can go forth and worship can they can be held but the rich gave much and she gave the smallest amount but jesus said she gave all in a heroic act of faith she gave everything that she had i'm sure she was conscious of her own needs but as an act of worship she gave everything you know a widow in those days had very few options there were no government programs but she gave that outstanding gift not to impress anybody but to worship i'm going to say something here poor people always out give rich people because poor people give what they need it's a meal it's shoes it's the rent so they're they're figuring things out many people don't need to figure it out because there's going to be plenty left over that's why almost always poor people out give richer people all right but what jesus did he saw that worship as a sacrificial gift worshiping god and he saw it and he celebrated it he celebrated it i believe this that when we worship with what we have and we sow that and worship god by sowing into the kingdom of god god always sees it and he celebrates he celebrates that worship that we give you know sometimes we we we give by lifting our hands by clapping by kneeling but there's times where the bible literally says honor or worship the lord with your substance with your substance so we want to praise but we also want to worship god with our substance ricky get over here come on i'm just mesmerized by him guys come on [Music] i believe that we as people especially a part of a church like this we we have an obligation to honor our pastors who do such an amazing job carrying the flock and pastor dwayne we thank you so much yes come on come on you guys there are three easy ways to give if you call resurrection life church your home your family you can give online you can text or you can give in the back by the entrances okay if you guys are in need of prayer we're gonna have prayer partners right here after service so come please we'd love to intercede and join with you and stand on the fact that god's going to do an amazing thing in your life all right next we have dan seaborn who will be here tonight in the ground floor you guys dancy barn always brings an awesome message i'll be there if you want to come see me i'll give you a high five or not you know i mean depending on where you're at that's okay that's okay and then the last thing guys is that i'm just so honored to to be a part of this church um i love this family you guys are amazing and i meant what i said at the beginning you guys do look good single people i'm just saying i'm doing you a favor anyways uh with that being said you guys may the lord bless you may the lord keep you may the lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you may lift his accountants on you and leave you with peace in jesus name amen be bless you guys we'll see you tonight [Music] thanks for tuning in for more information live services and prayer opportunities throughout the week go to reslife.org and stay tuned to our social media pages it was great to worship with you today and we'll see you again soon [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Sun Oct 04 2020