Has the Tribulation Begun? - Amir Tsarfati

evening great to have you here welcome to calvary i first met our guest speaker tonight i met him in israel i met him in galilee about 20 years ago when he was guiding one of our groups when i shared a tour with chuck smith and i was immediately struck by not only his spiritual fervor and his commitment to yeshua to christ but also his intellect and i knew he was a capable young man at the time and still as a young man in comparison to myself but amir is someone that i mentioned several weeks ago even a couple months ago and i said i have somebody coming who's going to help frame and help you understand what is currently happening in the middle east especially with several weeks ago months ago the rocket fire that was hemorrhaging into israel daily from the palestinian territories and fortunately we have somebody who lives in israel he's in the neighborhood and he can help us understand especially from a hebrew biblical perspective what is going on prophetically so we are blessed in albuquerque to have amir sarfati would you please welcome him to the platform is he thank you thank you thank you thank you all right before my head will get too big and i won't be able to get into my house again because only in your house you know who you really are what a wonderful opportunity to be with you all this evening [Music] i've never been to this part of new mexico the only part i i visited was raton new mexico there you go it was a quick visit from colorado just for a speaking engagement seven years ago and then back to colorado but this time i landed in albuquerque and i'm so glad you know it seems to all of us i bet that our world already reached its peak and now it's on its way down and it's picking up speed we see countries collapsing one after the other we see governments that are unable to function we see people that don't trust their government anymore we see economies collapsing we see civil unrest in so many parts of the world and not all of this not all of this had to do with covid the things that went on in south africa not long ago had nothing to do with that and and so other things that are happening in iran right now it has to do with the oppression of the arab minority in iran and that they are uprising right now and now the rest of the country is protesting against this uh regime evil regime uh we see wars in in the rest of the middle east we see wars going on also elsewhere around the world this world is on its way down but we're still here and as long as we are here there is a reason and we're here also for a season and we need to occupy until we're out of here so don't get caught up with all the bad things that are happening and get into severe depression as if this is it no we have a much greater hope this is not our home anymore you know that we have our heavenly citizenship we are now ambassadors right here on behalf of christ we're here and when he is going to wage war on this world the ambassadors normally are being called back home as you all know so we hello so i need you to all to understand this is not it for us now i truly believe that we live in the very end as john said this this is the last hour and i also truly believe that the signs are all around us but i also believe that we need to be very very careful in how we divide the word we need to rightly divide the word because we often see that all that is going on around us leads to sensationalism that leads to fear anxiety and also wrong interpretation of the scriptures and unfortunately caused quite a few people to walk away from faith and so the theme or the topic of this evening is has the tribulation begun and uh believe it or not but uh christianity is divided to those who believe that the tribulation is uh not even something that is going to happen and those who believe that the tribulation is going to happen and maybe even had begun but it is for us the church and both are wrong because the bible is very clear about it now to say that everything is great no of course not our nightmare current nightmare had begun of course in december of 2019 the end of december and into january and february we all know that this coveted 19 that's why it's called covet 19. it started at the end of 2019 and and then of course we can clearly see that we're not out of it yet different variants and different things but we still live under that big cloud we see global lockdowns all around the world sometimes for most times it's even not for the right reason we see estimated of 4 million deaths around the world most of them by the way in brazil in india other places so uh you know a lot of places got hit weaponization and division in the church we see we've i've never seen the church so divided in my entire life never ever seen families so divided never seen friends that are no longer talking to each other as i see right now the enemy has successfully breached the church our families and our friendships through covet 19. and uh we all know that in america after may 25th 2020 after the death of george floyd riots began all throughout u.s cities and of course in different countries i mean it's not it didn't stay only here it it it continued to the uk and to other places around the world and that nonsense continues as uh if that's not enough on april 14th iran announced this year the plan to enrich uranium to 60 now they want to up to 90 so we have a a jihadist country that is weeks from becoming a nuclear uh country weeks not even months that's not enough we just heard on may 10th israel was attacked for nearly two weeks by the terrorists in gaza by hamas in the islamic jihad with thousands of thousands of rockets 10 percent of their rockets fell on themselves just so you know and the other and from the other 90 90 percent of the 90 percent were actually shot down by the israeli system iron dome and they say the rumor is and because we heard it before that hamas is angry with the god of israel because he diverts the rockets from hitting israel their god diverts the rockets from hitting well and if that's not enough christianity continues to be the most persecuted faith in the world even more so today all hardly any christian is left in gaza today hardly any christian is able to to function the right way in countries such as afghanistan and iran and uh in pakistan and other places uh they're heavily persecuted even in indonesia even in malaysia in in these are the largest muslim countries on planet earth and so we're watching our world falling apart literally and yet we must remember that the question has the tribulation begun maybe is a legitimate one because we see terrible things happening all around us but is this exactly what jesus meant when he uh explained what the tribulation is going to be all about and who the tribulation is going to be uh for it's very interesting because people often mix troubles and tribulations they often think that you know any big trouble can be a legitimate beginning of the tribulation that is of course not true trouble is difficulty or problems anyone has no problems here no difficulties in life anyone is perfect here just okay good and this state of being problem free and difficulty free did you enjoy it before or were you always since you were born encountering difficulties and problems you see not everything is tribulation we must be very careful there are wars and there are rumors of wars all around the world today by the way now more than ever before i want you to know that uh us forces are under great threat right now as we speak in iraq they're very angry at the meeting that president your 46th president had with the iraqi prime minister i don't say names because um we can clearly see that uh the difference between the 45th and the 46 is staggering and i we know that by the way i'm not a political figure i'm not promoting any political party i am an israeli i don't vote here actually i i'm sure i could if i wanted but nevermind don't want to but we uh let's the rio grande okay listen it's right here no look even pandemics are nothing new even coronavirus is nothing new just you know this virus has been there for a long time pandemics were there somebody lived throughout the polio uh time anyone here if you know during the polio pandemic officials in new york city were social workers would would break into houses and take kids away from their parents did you know that of course if facebook would have existed then protests would be all over but it didn't and nobody protested the way people protested what i'm trying to say is put things in the right perspective violation of liberties and freedoms were there forever just so you know pandemics are just one of many things that jesus himself characterized the ancient the old time the accident the last days with jesus said in matthew 24 he answered the disciples that asked for the signs of the end and he says take heed that no one deceives you and then i i'm amazed because he is basically saying look regarding the end times there will be so much deception so take heed that no one deceives you for many will come in my name saying i'm the christ and will deceive many and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you're not troubled hello see that you are not troubled and then he continues and he says this he says for all these things what let's say that word again mas now why is he saying must why because we are humans we're really weak creatures look at us we can barely understand what tomorrow will bring god is above time god saw everything already so when he's telling us things must happen you know why he's telling us that because he already know it happened we are not there for them to happen he saw it happening so he's not suggesting that it could be maybe he's saying it must happen so it's not open for negotiation if things must happen they will happen whether you like it or not and by the way nobody is asking you and look what he says he says for nation will rise against nation by the way in the greek ethnos against ethnos ethnic groups it's not necessarily nationalities within one country ethnic groups will fight that's what you see in iran that's what you see in iraq that's what you see in syria that's what you see in libya that's what you see in lebanon right now the whole middle east is about ethnic groups versus ethnic groups and then he says in kingdom against kingdom empires i mean china america russia you're talking about big big and then you said there will be famines and pestilences i mean pandemics and illnesses and diseases and earthquakes in various places in in floods and flash floods have you seen what happened in germany and belgium netherlands in the last few weeks it's unprecedented and look what he says all these are the beginning of sorrow by the way tribulation is a cause of great trouble of suffering not even the word tribulation not necessarily talks about the tribulation that jesus is talking about now we must differentiate tribulations from the great tribulation that the bible is talking about and israel is the key israel is the key why because the promise or the the prophecy regarding that seven years period was not given to you it wasn't given to the nations or to the gentiles it was given by the archangel to daniel regarding israel regarding the nation of israel and the city of jerusalem daniel says 70 weeks are determined what for the angel is telling daniel for your people and for your holy city to finish the transgression to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness you see there are great things that will come at the end of this tribulation this is not for nothing it's not just to hurt the world to destroy the world no god always has in mind something much greater for us and then he says to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy one it's amazing know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build jerusalem not salt lake city until messiah the prince prince is a very important thing but messiah the prince is not the antichrist messiah the prince is the christ the mashiach and he says until he will come there will be seven weeks and 62 weeks seven weeks for that temple in jerusalem to be rebuilt and 62 more weeks for it to happen that he enters into it ladies and gentlemen weeks in the prophecy that daniel was received from the archangel and then later on gave to all of us is a period of seven biblical years and and it's amazing because here we see at the exact number of years that have to pass from the moment the decree to build jerusalem was given to the moment the messiah will enter jerusalem and it's 69 weeks 69 times seven times 360 days because it's the lunar year that's i don't know you guys change everything um six listen it's 173 880 days to the day from the moment the decree was given by arctic xerxes all the way to the entrance of jesus writing the donkey fulfilling the prophet zechariah's prophecy to the day it's 173 880 days 69 and then he says and there will be another week he says after the 62 weeks that passed from the first seven he says messiah shall be cut off but not for himself in other words he will enter into the city not to reign but to actually have an atoning death why atoning death because he's not dying for himself he didn't do anything that deserved that not for himself and the people of the prince that's a different prince who is to come in other words daniel says look jesus had to come jerusalem has to be destroyed after he's dead he's dead and the temple has to be gone and in the future from the same area where the roman empire came to destroy the temple and the city that people that prince the people who is to come to shall destroy the city and the sanctuary the end of it shall be with the flood until the end of that war desolation is determined then he that prince of that big empire a leader of a future roman empire he shall future tense he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week in other words daniel said about israel and about jerusalem the seven years that are still in the future are all about israel and about jerusalem that's what it's all about and i always tell people the tribulation is for israel's salvation that will probably the only thing that will lead to their salvation daniel says in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice an offering in other words it has to be a future time where there is another temple standing in jerusalem and in those seven years he's going to deceive israel for three and a half years and then he will stop their worship and the man to be worshipped as god as if he is god and on the wing of abomination shall be one who makes desolate even until the consummation which is determined is poured out on the desolate now so it has to be the people of israel must be back in their land jerusalem must be back in their hand and the temple must be standing is the temple standing okay good because the bible says in ii thessalonians the brethren concerning the coming of our lord jesus christ and are gathering together to him we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled either by spirit or by the word or by letter as it from us look the fake news existed then fake news they wrote letters as if it's from paul and he says don't believe that listen remember what i taught you there are things that must happen don't mix the order of things don't let them tell you as if christ already had come let no one deceive you by any mean for that day shall not come until what there has look there is no way the second coming of jesus because the day of of jesus is the the second coming of jesus cannot be before what there is going to be great apostasy first and there's going to be a the rise of the antichrist that man of sin will be revealed and the son of perdition who opposes and exalt himself above all that is called god or that is worship so that he sits as god in the temple of god showing himself that he is god believe it or not the jewish people will be the temple it's going to be in jerusalem and a world leader that maybe will be the one who will allow them to build the temple that world leader maybe for the inauguration of that building will come and actually enter that building and declare himself as god he is the antichrist he is not the christ and he it's amazing revelation 13 follows what daniel saw in previous revelations that he received then i stood on the sand of the sea and i saw a beast rising out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and on his horns ten crowns and on his head a blasphemous name now the beast which i saw was like a leopard his feet were like the feet of a bear and his mouth like the mouth of a lion the dragon gave him his power his throne and great authority satan has to have some sort of complete rule and some control over this world because god's people are gone and he will give him power throne and authority it's interesting there will be also the false prophet which many think could be the pope maybe but the bible says i saw another beast coming out of the earth that means he exists already that institution is here it's not something new and he says and he had two horns like a lamb like he has a religious appearance and and then spoke like a dragon hmm i heard some of the last sermons and look what he says and he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence and causes the earth and those who dwell in it earth dwellers remember that term to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed so we're talking about a world where there is a political figure where there is a religious figure and the religious one is is basically giving the religious authority or the religious stamp of approval for the world to worship the first beast now we're not there yet obviously well yes we see a race for one world government don't we i mean look what's going to happen i'm now i'm not a prophet i come from a non-profit organization listen but i can tell you trust in governments now is being lost not only here because of a certain mental capacity of no it's all over the world go to the uk go to france go to holland go to belgium go to go to the the scandinavian countries go to israel we have a new government the government of change what a change oh oy vey we say in hebrew or yiddish look the world stop trusting governments and you know what's gonna go to see what's going on in australia what i'm trying to say is that this system of government controlling one country is losing its essence in the eyes of hundreds of millions of people and they are going to look for something different something new a change and guess what before everything falls apart an introduction to a one world government will appeal to all of them before we're all out of here now watch this that's not in revelation it says it causes all both small and great rich and poor free and slave to receive a mark on the right hand and on their foreheads and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name we're not there yet and don't forget the most important thing biblically we are not supposed to be here when the tribulation begins second thessalonians do you not remember that when i was still with you i can imagine paul the jewish god don't you remember in that hebrew accent when i was with you i told you these things and now you know what is restraining that he may be revealed in his own time he's talking about the antichrist he says look he cannot be revealed because something is restraining him but he says look for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work lawlessness is there from genesis chapter 3. what is lawlessness the law of god is being broken and adopted that's it and then he says however he says only he capital h who now restrains will do so until he is what let's say to get taken out of the way something stops the rise of the antichrist and the complete the sheer amazing satanic rule here upon this world and it's the restrainer and if it's the person of the holy spirit the only body on planet earth that is sealed with the holy spirit is the church watch this he must be taken out of the way and then say that then he cannot be revealed until we are out of here not just out of here we're not walking we're being taken out of here hey goodbye no boom out of here now watch this and then the lawless one will be revealed whom the lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming the coming of the lawless one is according to the working of satan with all power signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because what because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved in other words as long as we were here and we shared the gospel as long as they rejected it they did not receive the love of the truth that they could be saved then we see for this reason see god is not taking pleasure in sending people to hell look because they rejected and not only rejected the bible says and they had pleasure in unrighteousness they parade in cities sensationalism is a big thing that is going on in this world in the church today look i live in this world i see what's going on we all see that governments that governors that you know bodies such as the world health organization or other cdc we all know that in many ways in many cases we know that uh the decisions are not pure uh the the the concern for the people we all know that okay but from there to start sensationalize things the road can be very short tell you an example somebody concluded online that the tribulation had begun why because corona means crown and the first rider has a crown and i'm like but corona was there also 20 years ago thank god he did not think that it's the beer festival time now think about it listen they have websites all around people christians are using this as their conclusion we are in the tribulation how sad because you know what we look so ridiculous in the eyes of of of the world revelation we see it is speaking about a crown that was given to him but that's not corona there will be a crown on the head of that rider don't take things that way and sensationalize them it's not going to work i remember a team from america media teams showed up in israel they wanted to interview me about and that was in 2017 about the sign in the stars the sign is the world going to end on september 23rd biblical prophecy of the rapture predicts the apocalypse will occur on that exact day they came to interview i destroyed their party i said i'm sorry but if you know the date of the rapture you are absolutely unbiblical no one know the day or the hour so i'm sorry but they somehow decided the right constellation of the stars revelation 12 great sign appear in heaven woman clothed with the sun with the moon under the feet and on their head a garland of 12 stars perfect no it's not how many of you here lived during y2k hello now tell me the truth how many of you bought the survival kits for y2k take a look at this uh the y2k personal survival guide wow see context matters we have to be very careful some pastors and leaders around the world are hinting that the vaccine is the mark of the beast i get questions every day if the mark if it's the mark of the beast how can it be the mark of the beast if the beast is not here how can you worship the beast if the beast is not here and then they say it's this beast system it's a new thing b system i tried to find it in the bible couldn't find it but i i can tell you one thing ipad iphone is part of that system if you go that way okay we must be very careful revelation 13 says he causes all both small and great rich and poor free and slave to receive a mark where on their right hand and or on their foreheads did you see anyone receiving the vaccine here no you see that's what i'm trying to say we must we must be very careful not to take things out of context there is the number of the beast there is the the name of the beast there is the worship of the beast yes i know we live in the end yes i can see i can smell the rise of the antichrist the stage is ready yes but remember in the middle of november when you see christmas lights that means that thanksgiving is around the corner the rapture has to happen first remember that hello how many of you are victims of the blood moons oh was i have i been attacked by people for that man see revelation 6 says i looked when he opened the sixth seal and behold there was a great earthquake and the sun became black and sackcloth of hair and the moon became like blood yes it's there but that's the sixth seal and that's not blood moons it's the moon last time i checked single not plural we must be bereans which means who were the bereans remember acts 17 the brethren immediately sent paul and silas away by night to berea and when they arrived they went into the synagogue of the jews and these were more fair-minded than those in thessalonica how in that they received the word with all readiness and searched the scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so you see we must search the scriptures not watch youtube search the scriptures not round corners search the scriptures and that's when you're ready when you when you see that the scriptures when when the bible talks about the return of the jews to the land in the end times and you see the jews return to their land hello it's true then oh i don't think they are the real jews who are they eskimos tell that to hitler he knew exactly their names their address he went after them one by one unless you know what the tribulation is you'll never know when it has begun and that's the problem people cheapen people people make the tribulation a lockdown are you kidding me are you kidding me do you know what the tribulation is all about it's a set of events considered to be god judgment on what look satanic host of heaven and the wicked people here on earth also preparing israel to accept jesus as messiah upon his return that's not what we see right now and we must remember the difference with the day of christ speaking about the return of christ to earth and the day of the lord speaking about the judgment of god upon this world we must remember that because it appears so many times and we must not mix the two the tribulation is the day of the lord ladies and gentlemen the great tribulation it has many names by the way the great tribulation it speaks on planet earth in general the wrath of god the wrath of god upon the wicked people the hour of trial it's for the saints of that era in jacob's trouble that is of course regarding israel you must remember that and not confuse those things the day of the lord has three layers first god's dealing with satan and his demons then god's dealing with the nations and then god's dealing with israel remember that it's a span of seven biblical years that can be clearly seen through the scriptures and according to daniel as i said before it is going to be the 70th week namely seven biblical years of 360 days each exactly 2500 days 2520 days now why am i saying that why numbers are so important in this case because those who say that the rapture can happen in the middle of the tribulation they actually know the day because we know exactly the length of the tribulation and if it's 2520 days then 1260 days after it begins we're being raptured we don't know the day in the hour you see understand even at the end of the tribulation doesn't make sense what's the story of god bungie john taking us up and throwing us down immediately it doesn't even make sense because jesus went to prepare a place for us there so why would we not even spend time there hello plus we've got a wedding to attend and we happen to be the bride the day of the lord the tribulation is is described in the book of isaiah in many places isaiah talks about there shall come a past in that day that the lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones and on the earth the kings of the earth and they will be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit and will be shut up in the prison after many days they will be punished you see the day of the lord also is in the book of joel by the way the book of joel is amazing it's a two-layer description of his time and what coming later i don't know if you can see that but take a look at what joe will describe first you see has anything like this happen in your days speaking about their days at that time 2700 years ago or even in the days of your fathers and then he describes the day of the lord for judah at that time and uh he's saying that in verse 15 of the first chapter but then joel goes beyond and he's talking about tell your children about it and your children tell their children and their children another generation speaking of the future the day of the lord for israel invasion of the locust looking army remember even in in revelation we are you know told about this you see this is a different thing that is going to happen in the future and the the prophets of israel could see it already it's not something that only the new testament described look at the blood moons just so you understand the next one you can clearly see that in the end times look at this set of events there will be the church age where we live now we don't know you know when we're going to be raptured but we know one thing there's going to be that um [Music] the war of ezekiel of course we can clearly see that there is a set of darkening of the of this of the sun is in joel 2 31 we see in revelation 6 we see in joel chapter 2 revelation 16 and joel 3 there's going they all will start when we are out of here you see there are always been blood moons and sun eclipses in the history but that prophetic set will begin when we are out of here what about jeremiah jeremiah talked about the people of israel for thus says the lord in chapter 30 verse 5 to 7 we have heard a voice of trembling of fear and not of peace ask now and see whether a man is even in labor with a child and i know in america but he's speaking about a real man that cannot and then look so why do i see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor and all faces turn pale alas for that day the day is great so that none is like it he's saying everything you've seen so far even the holocaust will pale compares to that day that will come upon israel but look at his promise at the very end and it is the time of jacob's trouble but he shall be saved out of it even daniel in chapter 9 spoke about it but then of course take a look in chapter 11 and in chapter 12 i would like to go straight to um well never mind let's go now to the satanic host that this time will bring punishment upon isaiah 27 verse 1 in that day the lord will with his severe sword great and strong will punish leviathan and flee and fleeing serpent leviathan the twisted serpent and he will slay the reptile that is in the sea you see all those you know satanic creatures all the all that satanic host is going to be judged on that day that that's not enough what about the nations of that time joel 3 behold in those days and at that time when i bring back the captives of judah and jerusalem i will also gather all nations and i will bring them down to the valley of jehoshaphat and i will enter into judgment with them there on the account of my people my heritage israel whom they have scattered among the nations they have also divided up my land look if god is going to punish the nations for hating israel and and and harming them how can you even think that a believer can ever hate israel and i'm saying that because i have seen enough so-called christians there are avid anti-semites and they are leading churches in the united states of america not only elsewhere and as for israel this is the time of jacob's trouble when israel as a nation will understand that men made religion and tradition cannot save them it will fail when that time will come israel will understand our torah our our interpretation of the torah and the talmud and the mishnah and the midrash our rabbis our rabbinical you know hosts they cannot give us a solution israel the bible says in hosea 5 15 i will return again to my place until they acknowledge their offense then they will seek my face in their affliction they will earnestly seek me only when israel will be in such affliction they will finally earnestly seek him and not play religion and not think that they can be saved by their own deeds and by their own mitzvahs and they can you know they can be saved by salvation by affiliation just by being jews no they will have to understand that no one comes to the father but through yeshua the messiah jesus no one jeremiah says as i quoted earlier it is a great day and it has never ever been seen before in the history and this is what i wanted to quote daniel chapter 12 verse 1 pay attention to what daniel says at that time michael shall stand up the great prince the great archangel who stands watch over the sons of your people gabriel tells daniel about michael because gabriel is from the united nations he does international affairs michael is the one that is for israel now watch this he says michael shall stand the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation do you understand what i'm trying to say everything all the genocides that israel went through will pale compares to what this time of tribulation is going to bring but this is the key here look what he says even to that time and at that time your people shall be delivered but daniel receives a bomb here he says who is going to be delivered everyone who is what found written in the book um which book the book of life who is written in the book of life the believers of in jesus do you understand what he just said he just said israel in order to be delivered will have to have its name written in the book of life which means they will have to accept their messiah so many people don't understand the severity of the tribulation that's why they call any lockdown and any vaccine or any they think it's the tribulation you don't even understand you're not even that close the tribulation is in in terms that i don't even have words to describe i mean i prepared this uh chart for you to understand more or less the seven seals seven trumpets seven bulls antichrists will rise false peace war famine death death of the fourth of the population of the world over two billion people are going to die earth heaven shaken 144 000 seals silence in heaven then we move to a third of the trees will be uh and the grass will be destroyed a third of the sea life ship destroyed a third of fresh water poison and that's just in the trumpets a third of the sun moon and stars darken and if that's not enough we have demonic locusts that joel already predicted not just revelation second woe fire and brimstone and a third of the people left are killed two prophets preach and do miracles christ's reign is foreseen but then comes the seven bowls we'll have boils all sea life is destroyed all water on planet earth are poison scourging sun will hit the people they will not even find a way to to to find remedy to i mean people will be burned from the sun deep darkness rebellious mankind curses god even though they know that he has the power to stop these things but they will blaspheme his name and not repent euphrates river dry battle of armageddon worldwide earthquake babylon destroyed huge hailstones coming from above none of this has happened all of this will happen and we are not to be here when it happens [Applause] this is the judgment of god that's the day of the lord the good news the judgment of god on the wicked people here on earth will happen after the righteous are taken away how do you know that what are you talking about willis well first thessalonians 5 9 says for god did not appoint us to wrath but to obtain salvation through our lord jesus christ did you know did you know that i read in writings of church fathers from the second century that they already believed in the rapture before the tribulation and why because they already saw the confusion that started in the church then irenaeus wrote against heresies he wrote a book book five read that but well try to read that amazing this is not an invention of the 19th century this is not some new idea that we kind of try to comfort one another with no this is scriptures and later on already understood in the second century by church fathers second thessalonians 2 7 to 8 for the mystery we read it mystery of lawlessness is already at work we know that the lawless one will be revealed only once the restrainer is taken out of the way revelation 3 10 to the to the church of phil of philadelphia says because you have kept my command to persevere i will keep you from by the way the same thing from irenaeus says from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world to test who remember earth dwellers we talked about it it will not keep us through but he will keep us from [Applause] and it's so important for me to address that because things are not going to get better i have the gift of encouragement but i will tell you you've seen nothing yet and i say that just so you understand that if you're not stay in the in the word and if you don't know you do not hold on to the promise that we have and remember he who promised is faithful he cannot change even if we are faithless he is faithful because he cannot deny himself that's the god we serve god is not waiting for your approval do you allow me to do this or that no i always tell people we live in a world where things have been already seen by god and thankfully he sent us an email with an attachment and he's telling us exactly what is going to happen by his grace isaiah 46 verses 9 and 10 i am god there is no other i am god there is none like me declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done saying my cancer shall stand and i will do all my pleasure god god is not taken by a surprise the church is not going to lose its its uh uh status as the bride just because you know there is a lockdown in australia or there is some other things going on in in america or no look things will go bad and even worse than that but we are given the mandate to occupy until he comes we were never promised the garden of roses here jesus says in this world are you sure he says you you didn't say it's going to be all wonderful he said he never lied to his disciples and he said in this world you will have tribulations but then he says but be of good cheer for i have overcome this world and i want you to know the hope of the believer is not our governments well i want the 45th back you want jesus okay trust me i come from a country that their leader was also taken and now a new government is there i want to to throw up when i see how they do things but i'm holding on these days more than ever before my heavenly citizenship my heavenly passport is ready to be stamped at any minute and remember remember remember the end times have been clearly foretold jesus was so generous with the disciples he took the time to sit with them on mount of olives and to explain things in details the olivet discourse is an amazing prophetic portion in scriptures in fact we are the only faith on that exists in the world that almost a third of its book is about future events god is not afraid to tell us what's going to happen because our god knows what's going to happen this is not maybe could be probably possibly it is a for sure thing our life and world events are two different things world events will happen whether you like it or not but the decision you make in your life will determine where you will be during those world events you understand that well i want to be here for the tribulation go ahead be my it will be easier up there without you more room why on earth would you want to go through the tribulation well i think that uh the church must suffer really what for to justify our our salvation is it about us is it about how much we suffer so we can say okay now i'm worth the salvation no you're not worth the salvation you're not good wait a minute i'm a good person no you're not all have seen and fell short of the glory of god god saved you by his grace through the atoning death and blood of jesus on the cross not because you did anything good in your life and it's only faith in him and in what he did that would give you your salvation not anything that you can add to it and works are a byproduct of your salvation they're not the the prerequisite of it you do not have to do a b c d in order to be saved he did it all you just need to believe so our hope is that very soon we're going to see our king our hope listen our hope is to see jesus christ not the antichrist remember that and our hope is that he who promised is faithful there is in for god every promise is yes and amen okay remember that there is nothing that he can ever ever uh not fulfilled if he promised so had the tribulation begun okay father i thank you for your word i thank you for your promises i thank you for the clear instructions we have in the scriptures i thank you father that if we are in your word if we are good buriens we we will be ready we will not only be ready but we will not have our joys stolen we will not have our hope stolen we will not like be like those without hope and father through your word you promised that's very soon you're going to send jesus to the cloud so we can meet him in the air and you told us comfort one another with these words so we're holding on to this promise we thank you for this hope that we have we thank you father that we're not destined to your wrath we thank you that you will take us and save us from that hour of trial that is about to come upon this world we thank you that you love your children and you want your bride not to be battered woman before she even made it to the wedding we thank you that you are about to take your bride we love you we bless you we worship you and we are so happy to know you personally as our lord and savior and we pray all of this in the matchless name of the holy one of israel the king of kings the lord of lords the lamb of god the lion of the tribe of judah emmanuel the prince of peace the one who came to die so we may live the one who has a name that is above all names the one who is the lord of peace who can give us peace now and forever here and everywhere and his name is yeshua jesus he is our salvation and only by and through and in his name we pray and all of god's people say amen amen amen amen amir sarfati today hey we're going to close in the song um amir has some books and you are he's going to be at his book table he wrote a book called israel and the church the last hour and the day approaching so let's all stand amir thank you for coming you can meet him in the foyer at his book table if you would like to do so thank you for coming can't wait to see you here there or in the air [Music] we hope you enjoyed this special service from calvary church we'd love to know how this message impacted you email us at my story at calvarynm.church and just a reminder you can support this ministry with a financial gift at calvarynm.church give thank you for joining us for this teaching from calvary church

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Published: Thu Jul 29 2021