The return of the King | Landmarks of Prophecy #2 | Pastor Doug Batchelor

want to welcome you again friends to this special series of meetings called landmark of prophecy and epic Bible adventures spectacular I hope and I think that you're gonna find that the truth of God has real power in it and the lesson tonight is of special importance because we're gonna be talking about really the climax of history which is the second coming of Jesus the title for our lesson tonight is the return of the king and a number of these lessons it's based upon this landmark a prophecy lesson and for those who are watching you'll find all the information about this at the Landmark of prophecy website and we use a question/answer format in teaching these things because we want you to be able to say what is the question then go to the Bible find the answer from the Bible and clear reasoning fill it in for yourself you'll remember a letter better and it's easier than for you to share this information with others in the future and so you don't of course when the programs are recorded you can even play the video and go through the studies with a friend and you can do it all as a package be a missionary and give my belize the lessons often use a Bible story that sometimes called historical historical is that a Bible story a composite of the word story Oracle historical it's a Bible story that teaches a theological theme and the story that we're looking at tonight comes from 2nd Kings chapter 11 probably one of the most wicked Queens in history was the daughter of Jezebel you ever heard the name Jezebel before she had a daughter that really was even worse than the mother her name was a liar and while Jezebel was willing to kill the prophets of God atholea was willing to kill her own grandchildren when her son a has I had died in battle she did not want to share the throne with anyone she seized power by trying to eliminate all of the royal seed of David and she had her grandchildren exterminated and her son e has ayah had several children but one of them who was one-year-old his name was johash actually a has Aya's sister jaha Shiba she scooped him up spirited him away and hid him the high priest guarded him in the temple of Salomon that was largely neglected during the time of Atholl aya cuz she was a pagan queen and so this baby was hidden there in the temple of God for six years while athol I ruled over the land and and she was brutal of just a fiendish dictator well finally when little Joe as he was one year old when they carried him off into the temple she thought she had exterminated all of them you know I want to pause here and and just remind you of something else you see the devil knows devil always knew that God was going to send a savior a messiah he didn't know exactly when there are three times in the Bible the devil made an effort to exterminate the royal seed to prevent the Saviour from coming once he had all the baby boys in Egypt thrown in the river but Moses escaped and became a great Saviour another time he tried to and this is the second time eliminate the royal seed of David because the prophecy said the Saviour would come through the seed of David the little joash survived the third time Roman soldiers went into Bethlehem to kill all the baby boys but Jesus escaped to Egypt and so you can see through history in the Bible that there was an effort to keep the Messiah from coming to keep the Son of God from becoming a man because the devil knew that would spell his doom if Christ came and lived a perfect life and died in our behalf then humanity could be saved well maybe more about that tomorrow so after six years the high priest jehoiada do you know the high priest Joetta actually live longer than Moses he lived one hundred and thirty years the high priest Joetta carefully trained this child knowing he would be the king they knew they couldn't hide him forever and you know your little boys have to go out and play and here he was cooped up in the temple for years probably didn't have much of a Sunday and finally the said look we need to present him even though he's young before the people and so at the end of six years of Atholl lions reign they brought in joash out they did it just as the Sabbath was beginning on the sixth day of the week and he told the people the soldiers guard the King blow the trumpets the people came to the temple they found out that a son of David had not been killed there was still a survivor they put the crown on his little head they put the testimony in his hand all the people rejoiced and they said long live the king and Athol I heard this ruckus from the palace temple wasn't far away she came running and she said treason treason and Bible tells us she was carried off and all of her supporters were destroyed and the people rejoiced and Josiah survived you know that is historical that is coming true in the future this is the son of David who is hidden in the temple of the Lord for six years when he came out of the temple the trumpets blew well the trumpets blow when Jesus comes the people rejoiced those who followed him were saved the kingdom was liberated those who followed atholea were destroyed you go to Revelation you'll find out there's this Wicked Queen in revelation 17 who persecutes the prophets and wants to destroy the royal seed it said she's called the mother of harlots in revelation 17 that's what it has on her forehead Atalaya is a type of her all through the Bible you'll see patterns that give us little pictures of the second coming one of the principal lessons that you read about in the Bible is the return of Christ it's called the day of the Lord it's the culmination of this battle between good and evil it's not going to go on forever and you just look at how things have changed in one generation of our world how much longer do you really think the world can last the way things are going now jesus said except those days be shortened no flesh would be saved now I want to be very careful I'm very clear I'm gonna talk to you tonight about two principal things maybe three how Jesus is gonna come we believe he's coming but how is he gonna come because Jesus said there'll be many false prophets and false Christ's and we don't want to be deceived we're going to talk about the nearness of his coming and some of the signs that tell us about the nearness of his coming so with that in mind I want to share with you something just it's gonna talk a little bit now about looking at the panorama of Bible stories that tell us why I think that the coming of the Lord is clear you ever heard before the Millennial week theory some of you have heard of it it's like the seven thousand year theory now this spring's from a number of scriptures and I'm going to get a few notes out here because I want to be able to give these to you straight there are several scriptures in the Bible for instance in 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 8 says a day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day and we know the Lord made the world in how many days biblically six days and he rested the seventh day a total of seven here you've got so many stories in the Bible to talk about that principle you have the Hebrews had a long farm your land for six years and you'll find that in Exodus 23 verse 10 six years you'll sell your land and gather in its produce but the seventh year you let it rest jesus said I am the sower the Word of God is the seed for six thousand years the Word of God through the prophets and patriarchs and Jesus himself and the Apostles he's been spreading it in Revelation crisis pictured coming to harvest then there's one thousand years called the Millennium you read about this in Revelation chapter 20 when the earth is desolate we live and reign with Christ and that's exactly like what you have in the Bible economy furthermore there was a law of Moses it said an exodus 21:2 if you by a Hebrew servant he'll serve six years and in the seventh year he goes free after six years he goes free so I put this chart back up on the screen here I know the media guys are trying to keep up with me I go back and forth from the slide what's he gonna say next I'm a little bit extemporaneous in my teaching so it's hard to track if we put that chart back up there you'll see that the history of man is really divided up into three phases Adam if you go by Bible creation add up the ages Adam was created somewhere around six thousand years ago Bishop Ussher x' chronology used to say 4004 BC we don't know the exact date but approximately six thousand years ago for the first two thousand years of the world's history God preaches the Gospel through the patriarchs now that was Enoch Noah Methuselah there were godly people back then they weren't Jews then two thousand four BC approximately Abraham is born for the next two thousand years God commits the Oracles of truth to the Jewish nation and you've got first of all that record in the Bible of the Hebrews and the Jews and they're being the guardians of the word then approximately four BC Jesus was born I know some of you are thinking how could Jesus be born four BC we used to always call BC before Christ now they call it before the Common Era they want to take the name Jesus out of the measurement of time but we used to all say ah no Domini the year of our Lord and how they've changed that vecerka but it that was supposed to zero we're supposed to be the year of the birth of Jesus after they established the ad BC dating method they learned a lot more from archaeology and realized King Herod the Great died about two BC or three BC he's the one that tried to kill Jesus as a baby Jesus had to be born before he died and so we and that plus it tells us more about the baptism of Jesus it correlates the leadership and the ruler several rulers we know that Jesus was born about four BC for the next two thousand years God preaches the Gospel through the church and then you've got this judgment this millennial reign that happens and it's like a 1,000 year Sabbath so you've got this pattern here a day with the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousand years as a day let me give you something else to think about God told Oh the way you know I'm saying all this and I'm not even going to the slides to talk about it so you've got approximately two thousand years from creation to Abraham you've got then about two thousand years from Abraham the age of the Jews to Christ and then you've got the last two thousand years the age that we're living in now from Jesus first coming to his second coming do you know if you go back exactly 2,000 years Jesus would be about eighteen nineteen years old right now we are two thousand years after we are living right now two thousand years between the birth and the death of Jesus which makes me think that we're right at that critical moment so when is he coming I'm not setting a date could be sooner than you think Christ said except those days be shortened no flesh would be saved could be a little later than you think Bible says God is long-suffering to us not willing that any should perish so we don't know I'd watch out for anybody that starts saying well I know you're not supposed to know but I've got to date I've got inside information and the Lord is pretty clear about that and it's been so that's 6,000 years and then it tells us in Revelation 20 it says then they live in their reign with Christ for 1,000 years that's the Millennium so you have this whole pattern here now in the Garden of Eden you remember when God told Adam and Eve if you eat from the forbidden fruit in the day that you eat thereof you will you'll surely die well Adam and Eve did sort of die spiritually the day they ate that fruit but they didn't die physically Adam lived 930 years who is the oldest man that ever lived Methuselah is technically the oldest man who ever died the oldest man who ever lived is still alive his name was Enoch because he hasn't died yet remember the story of Enoch he walked with God right his Methuselah father he's still alive that's a trick question but yeah among them people that die Methuselah was 969 years did any man make it to a thousand in the day you eat thereof a date with the Lord is like a thousand years that's not the only place it says that Psalm 90 for a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is gone Psalm 84 verse 10 for a day in your court is better than a thousand and so many Bible scholars and you know you can go from Martin Luther up through the ranks they all thought that the history of man would last about six thousand years you're living in that generation now and even if you didn't use that look at what's happening in the world man will destroy himself by the way it says that in Revelation God will destroy those that destroy the earth when he comes man is virtually destroyed the earth and we're living in that time so I've got more I can say from here but I want to get into the lesson so why don't we begin with first question in our lesson dealing with the coming king now going back to our story about Jesus coming from the temple you know it says in Hebrews chapter eight verse 1 Jesus is our high priest in the heavenly temple you can read that for yourself Jesus is the Son of David like little joash he's gonna come out of that temple right now he is our great mediator he's pleading his blood before the Father not the blood of an earthly lamb the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world it's his blood that is making atonement in the heavenly temple not an earthly temple but when that administration is over and the Ministry of Heaven is no longer taking place he will come out of his temple the trumpets will blow they'll be a shout like there was a shout among the people he will come take the kingdom and that Wicked Queen and all that follow her will be destroyed and so it's an allegory it really happened in history but it's an allegory of salvation you see what I'm saying there's a lot of others you know Revelation it talks about seven trumpets blowing when Jesus comes do you know that when Joshua took the promised land they blew seven trumpets you read those things in Revelation you're gonna find the key for unlocking Revelation is in the Old Testament stories I worry sometimes when I go to churches and all they have is a New Testament because you really need the foundation of the Old Testament to understand the prophecies so who's the king that's going to come out of this temple in heaven revelation 14 14 and you can say the answers with me and you can fill them in in your notebooks there and I looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud sat.1 like unto the Son of Man that's one of the titles that Jesus used to refer to himself having on his head a golden Brown so Jesus is that one that's gonna come question number two well Jesus come quietly when he returns now we've some of us have heard that just one day you're gonna wake up and a friend's gonna call and say have you heard what happened Jesus came and he took all the saved people and they just sort of disappeared is it quiet when Jesus comes now I'm gonna get into this a little more so stay with me please what does the Bible say for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel with the Trump of God it's a trumpet that's something that's loud you can also read in Jeremiah 25 verse 30 the Lord shall roar from on high he will utter his voice from his holy habitation he will mightily roar upon his habitation he will give a shout so as you read through the Bible you can see that the coming of the Lord is a very audible event let me give you one more Psalm 50 verse 3 our God will come and he will not keep silent it will be very tempestuous that means stormy with glory all around about him again it tells us that it's gonna be a very audible event now I want to be delicate as I go into this next little segment of our lesson study there are several different views about how the Lord is coming I believe there's going to be let me just be very clear friends pastor Doug has preached in Baptist churches Presbyterian churches Nazarene churches Methodist churches Church of God and many others I can't think of I I believe Pentecostal Assembly of God I believe there are many godly heaven-bound people in many different denominations okay everyone hear me I know there's some disagreements I have you know you welcome to disagree with me we can all disagree as Christians without being disagreeable right but I want to share with you what Christians believe for the first 1,800 years of Christian history what I'm sharing with you is not new what I'm sharing with you is old you know what's new theologically is what's sort of taking the world by storm is this whole new left-behind scenario that came up in the last few years I don't have time to give you the whole history of it but this largely grew out of the Scofield Study Bible and it's the it's a futuristic interpretation of prophecy you know now they're just releasing a new movie and left behind they had another movie in the year 2000 and this was you know just a tremendous series I actually did a program on National Geographic and Tim LaHaye was also in the same program talking about the second coming of Jesus and we were on opposite sides of this event I believe the old Protestant view that when the Lord comes the tribulation happens before he comes there are three principal views among Christians you've gotten in there's technical words they call it the pre-trib the mid-trib the post-trib and it means some air all Christians agree the Bible is very clear there's a great tribulation connected with the second coming but what happens does a tribulation happen and then Jesus comes does Jesus come in the midst of the distribution some think it's three-and-a-half years into a seven-year tribulation or does the Lord come and then the tribulation happens after he comes I'm from what was the old group it used to be the traditional view that the church is here and that's why Jesus said he that endures unto the end let me ask you does the Bible teach that God saves his people from tribulation or through tribulation Paul says it is through much tribulation in the book of Acts we enter the kingdom of God Jesus said you will be hated of all nations for my name's sake did God save Noah from the flutter through it did he save Jobe from his trials or through them what about Joseph before he reigned did Joseph go through a tribulation before he went to the throne did Moses have to suffer in the wilderness and you find that all through the Bible God often refines his people through these trials the Lord is coming for a bride without spot or wrinkle or any such thing and it's sometimes trials that alright let me give you one more point on that I could just go on and on to try and explain this the seven plagues know the ten plagues that fell on Egypt are very similar to the seven last plagues in Revelation the children of Israel God's people were they in Egypt when those ten plagues fell do you know that the first three plagues the children of Israel experienced right along with the Egyptians the last seven plagues they were preserved from just like we will be preserved from the last seven plagues but they were in Egypt when it happened he protected them from the plague the Bible says neither will any plague come nigh your dwelling in Psalm 91 so will we be in the world during this time of trouble I believe yes and I'll go on give you some other scriptures we the reason for that by the way I'm playing it safe if you're among the Christians who think that we're just gonna be raptured up before the Lord comes bless your heart we can be friends but what if you're wrong you know Peter said don't be amazed at the fiery trials that will try your faith as though some strange thing happened why am I being tried I thought I was gonna be taken away before all this happened I'm getting ready to have a faith and trust in Jesus to get us through that storm and that's really plain it's safe if if I just suddenly get raptured up I'll apologize in heaven I promise but based on what I see in the Bible we're gonna be here and the second coming of Jesus is at the end let me give you another verse Daniel chapter 12 verse 1 at that time shall Michael stand up the Great Prince that stands for the children of thy people and there will be a time of trouble such as there never has been since there was a nation even unto the same time and at that time thy people will be delivered every one who is found written in the book there's a great time of trouble Michael stands up we're here so he delivers us at the culmination of that did the children of Israel go through a trial with Esther in age I mean in the Persia they did at the end of it he saved them at the last moment so there's much more about that but I just let you know up front I think the left behind you know what it says in the first thing in the Left Behind books this is a fictitious novel it's a novel and people are building their theology on something that has been a very good sales position but it's relatively new theology now let me tell you why the Bible is clear Jesus comes like a thief right we all agree and many people say the secret rapture is because Jesus comes like a thief and he steals away the church well listen to what the Bible says read the whole verse 2nd Peter 3 verse 10 it says but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night now what happens on that day that when the Lord comes in the which the heavens will pass away with a great noise after Jesus comes like a thief does life go on for seven more years on earth the heavens pass away with a great noise the elements melt with fervent heat both the earth and the works that are in it are burned up does it sound like life goes on for seven more years after he comes like a thief there's a lot of verses like this in the Bible friends I think you need to let the Bible interpret itself and we can't let bookstores and Hollywood tell us what the Bible teaches now let me oh I wish like Joshua I could pray and the clock would stop but I can't when Jesus came the first time was the church ready or did they misunderstand the prophecies about Christ coming his own people that had Bibles misunderstood how he was coming so they were deceived and not ready has the devil changed or is it possible that he's going to try to deceive the church again about how he's coming in the second time and it's interesting he's completely flipped it over when he comes the first time he came like a lamb quietly they were winning a king that was gonna come like a lion and destroy the Romans now he's coming the next time like a lion and they got him coming quietly I said you just got switched all around again alright question number three let's look at some of the evidence from the Bible I'm gonna go quickly I hope well we could all stay together on this what other physical evidence will accompany Jesus coming according to Scripture revelation 16 verse 18 and there was a great earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth so mighty an earthquake and so great tells us as a great earthquake unlike any other earthquake people are gonna know about that right number four who will see Jesus when he comes not only you're gonna hear it you'll feel it there's an earthquake it tells us in Matthew 24 verse 30 then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory they're gonna see him come how many everybody is gonna see him come now I'm gonna answer a question in advance someone's gonna say pastor Doug if the world is round and Jesus comes how can everybody in the world see him at the same time on a round world well it didn't say at the same time people try and create problems that don't exist it's saying when he comes everyone will see it as the Lord comes and he sweeps around the circle of the earth and he catches up the saints hey everyone's gonna see him everyone alive and the redeemed will be raptured up and taken to heaven with him by the way the word rapture simply means be caught up and it's just what I'm contending is it's not a secret when they're caught up revelations 1:7 behold he comes with the clouds and it tells us every eye will see him in Acts chapter 1 when Jesus ascends to heaven the disciples are gazing up into heaven two angels appear and they say men of Galilee why do you stand here gazing up into heaven this same Jesus that was taken up from you into heaven will come in the same way you saw him go did they see him go he said he's gonna come the way you saw him go he went up in the clouds he's coming in the clouds he was real when he left he's real when he comes they saw him go they'll see him come it's not gonna be a secret we'll all see when Jesus comes that's important because there's gonna be many false Christ's and false prophets alright question number five who will be with Jesus when he returns in the clouds is he coming alone no you can read in Matthew chapter 25 verse 31 it tells us there when the Son of man shall come in his glory and how many all the holy angels didn't say some it's not a contingent all the holy angels with him then he'll sit upon the throne of his glory how many angels are there well let's just do some speculating someone wrote in and we appreciate your Bible questions I saw one question it says do we have guardian angels the word guardian angel doesn't really appear in the Bible but Jesus says they're angels speaking about children they're angels do always behold the face of my father in heaven implying that angels are assigned to people at least children and it seems to say that every idle word that we speak is somehow recorded there might even be recording angels and now there's about seven billion people in the world and so you got seven billion guardian angels and you might even have another recording angel and there are other worlds that the Lord has made he's got ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of ministering spirits think about the glory of what one angel can do you remember reading in the Bible where it says that the angel of the Lord went through the Syrian camp and killed 185 thousand soldiers in one night when an angel came and rolled away the stone from the tomb of Jesus the Roman guard fell down as though they were dead they were so overwhelmed with terror one angel can you imagine if the heavens are filled with every angel that God has and they're no longer veiling their glory do you think you're gonna need a friend to call you the next day and say did you see it see what Jesus and all the angels came yesterday did you get it no nobody's gonna be surprised by that everyone is gonna know Christ said it'll be like lightning going from one side of the sky to the other number six what will the brightness and I just touched on this what will the brightness of Jesus coming do to the living wicked now we know the saved are caught up they meet the Lord in the air you read in 1st Thessalonians 1 7 and 8 when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God you can also read the next verse in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 8 it says and then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness what destroys him the brightness of his coming so is it bright when Jesus comes everybody's gonna know it what'll happen to the righteous at his coming so we've found out what's gonna happen to the wicked 1st Thessalonians 4:16 it tells us and this verse is very clear matter of fact I recommend you read that whole chapter the dead in Christ will rise first so not only are the living caught up the dead in Christ come when Jesus comes is a resurrection does it sound like a secret of all the cemeteries break open number eight at this point what will happen to the living and resurrected Saints the dead in Christ are caught up first now don't miss that that comes up later how many resurrections are there obviously where you've got it first you at least have a second right it's a sequential number and the dead in Christ rise first lesson and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection it says in Revelation 20 what happens to the living and resurrected Saints you read in 1st Corinthians 15 verse 52 and 53 the gen she'll be raised incorruptible and we will be changed for this corruptible these bodies that get old and die this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality when Jesus comes we receive glorified immortal bodies and so we're transformed in the twinkling of an eye we're caught up when we meet the living Saints in the air and Jesus takes us back to glory behind him his left destruction the elements melt with fervent heat so the theory that life goes on for another several years after Jesus comes in glory is not biblical number nine I've got a lot to cover in this lesson after being changed what will happen to the righteous so you read again continue on here in 1st Thessalonians 4:17 it gives us more information it says then we which are alive and remain will be caught up that's where you get the word rapture it means to be caught up you ever seen where it talks about a girl that was raptured with the boyfriend it means caught up in our glorious ecstasy sort of but we're caught up with power together with them the resurrected Saints in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air now don't miss that meet the Lord we're in the air we're gonna talk more about this but a lot of false prophets and false Christ's out there you know right away if anybody shows up and knocks on your door or they you know appear somewhere in the world and they say that they are Jesus if they're touching the ground they're lying because it doesn't tell us anywhere that Jesus feet touched the ground we meet him in the air we are caught up to meet him he said I go to prepare a place for you right John chapter 14 and if I go for prayer place I'll come again receive you unto myself that where I am where I'm at my father's house I'm taking you back there he's just coming we're caught up to meet him in the air he doesn't need to walk around down here it's one of the sure ways to determine a false Christ number 10 what solemn warning does Jesus give about his second coming if you read in Matthew chapter 24 when the disciples came and they said what will be the sign of these things destruction of Jerusalem signs of your coming in the end of the world two or three times in that chapter Jesus said there'll be many false prophets and false Christ's beware of the false prophets false Christ's many will rise and say I'm Chrysler here is Chrysler there is Christ by the way if you want to study these things yourself you might jot down these chapters real quick Matthew 24 mark 13 Luke 17 Luke 21 those are the principal places where Jesus himself tells about his return you just read that for yourself and you see if it sounds like a secret when Jesus comes you just read it as Jesus said it see what you think I think it'll be pretty clear oh I know what somebody's thinking right now hope you write this down I'm not reading your mind but I just suspect someone's being and thinking this no I'm not a prophet what about that verse pastor dark that says two women are grinding in the mill one is taken one is left two men are working in the field one has taken one is left to minute sleeping in a bed one is what does that mean that sounds like maybe a secret rapture you write it down we'll talk about that and make it one of our questions maybe tomorrow I like to sprinkle amazing facts in along with the the questions this question is what solemn warning does Jesus give about his second coming watch out for false Christ's you know on our weekly radio program pastor Ross and I always start out with an amazing fact and one amazing fact that I actually learned from pastor Ross was about auto white back in 1913 many of the Eastern European nations got their independence among them was Albania and they were able to basically pick their own King well they wanted to pick King Adeem who was actually in Turkey he was a prince in Turkey they said we want him to be our King this is back before internet and television photograph radio are they at photographs I didn't have radio many of them didn't know what he looked like so all of a sudden they got a telegram from Turkey and it said King Hadean is coming and he's gonna welcome you and the people were just ecstatic and so out of the carriage the King stood and he was tall or a uniform long sword looked dignified and they were so excited and he told them that he had come he was delighted to reign over them and matter of fact he was gonna lead them in a battle against Belgrade and there they were ecstatic cuz they hated the people there and they had a coronation service and they pronounced him king and they showered him with gifts they put him in their palace and five days later they got another telegram from Turkey and said Prince Hadean has never left Turkey we don't know who this individual is he is not the king they thought it was suspicious when they said what is your royal name during the coronation he said Otto the first visit Otto that's not a Muslim name that's a German name well when they went to arrest him he had already got wind of what was going on he fled the country he had pulled off one of the greatest masquerades in history being coordinated and living like a king for a few days he was a German circus performer you can read about Otto White and he slipped away he couldn't even read her white all right and he was able to pull off his kick convinced a whole nation he was their king I can tell you the devil's a lot smarter than Otto and he's gonna be fooling the world you see the devil wants to impersonate Christ there's a lot of crazy people pretend to be Jesus but I'm concerned especially when Satan will do his masterpiece of deception and claim to be Jesus Matthew 24 now we're getting into some of the answers for question number 10 Matthew 24 verse 5 Jesus has warned us for many will come in my name saying I am Christ and do what deceive a few a few know many many is the majority most people in the world will be deceived by the Antichrist isn't that right that's where Jesus said Strait is the gate that leads to life and few find it I'm glad you're here friends because in the Bible you're gonna find the way of life another verse Matthew 24 24 and 26 jesus warned us for there will arise here he goes false Christ's and false prophets and show great signs and wonders some of these false Christ today are just coops but he said some of them will have signs and wonders in as much that if it were possible they would deceive even the very elect Bible tells us in Revelation that three unclean spirits come out of the mouth of the Beast the dragon and the false prophet and they go forth to the kings of the earth they are lying spirits performing signs and wonders so there's gonna be real supernatural powers some of these false Christ's are gonna have and then we all know about Jim Jones and David Koresh and this character Marshall Applewhite we told everybody that he was some reincarnation of Pryce and his followers were so sincere they sold everything and they committed mass suicide thinking when this comment went by they were gonna get caught up into a spaceship hiding behind the comet just and people believe that these are just crazy people and not they I'm saying that some of these individuals that think they're Christ what when the devil really uses his cunning and his power when they saying to you behold he's in the desert chambers believe it not and when they say on CNN or the news some glorious being has appeared in the Middle East he's performing miracles he looks like Jesus he's healing should we believe it I met somebody wants to claim to be Jesus and I wouldn't have thought too much about it but I was all by myself living in a cave up in the mountains and it was a little unnerving at the time I was a baby Christian and I just started reading the Bible I knew a little bit but I didn't know very much and I lived by myself like a hermit up there my cave was right by the creek so people hiking up this canyon kind of had to go by my cave into my yard one day came this guy hiking is about six feet tall even build brown hair down to his shoulders beard hazel eyes he sat and talked to me for a little while I had my campfire and he perfectly serious he said to me I am Jesus now I've met some Spanish friends named Jesus before and I wasn't sure if he meant that just the name and I don't remember exactly how I asked him and he said I am Jesus and now that's really okay it's kind of scary because first of all I had all this range of emotions going through my mind I thought I'm up here in the mountains with his lunatic now what do you do is here is just sitting me and him up in the Maggie's in my cave that was my home how do you kick a guy out of your cave especially on a public trip and I said I thought but if it is Jesus I don't want to insult them you know I mean all kinds of things go through your mind that's all I said um if that's true why did you say in the Bible that you're coming in the clouds he said well that's absolutely true he says that's how I'm coming from most people for the general public but I'm appearing to certain special people individually he had a clever answer for everything and I dunno I was nice to the guy in part I was tormented I'm thinking you know that should I say just get out of here or maybe he just needs a little help and if I'm nice to him I can help him I thought maybe it is Jesus I got to be careful all this is going through my mind and but he stayed in my cave for two and a half days he was a slob he ate all my food he didn't do any work I finally had to evict Jesus from my cave and then a few days later I saw him walking around in Palm Springs I was down in town and he had found someone following him around there was his tall hippie that's a tall this is Jesus he found his first apostle and then a few days later I saw him again on the streets and he had one of his front teeth knocked out he got not entirely offended somebody and I felt so much better because I know Jesus has all his teeth right so so there really are people out there but I'm worried about the ones that really have power that are gonna deceive number 11 what will prevent the righteous from being to see how are we gonna know you know when I was studying with his fellow up in the cave I fortunately had enough Scripture he couldn't answer and I noticed he was kind of dancing around and I thought he doesn't know the Bible there's something wrong here Isaiah 8 verse 20 and here's the answer to that question how do we know it says to the law into the testimony that's the law in the prophets the Word of God if they do not speak according to this word there's what no light how much light no light in them keep in mind that the devil does he know how to quote the Bible and there's a lot of false prophets even in the religious world we all know that and some of them are just out begging for money and they know how to quote the Bible and so you need to know is everything adding up because anybody can quote a little bit of Scripture a lot of atheists know how to quote a few verses but if they're not going according to the entire Word of God there's something wrong number 12 would it be safe to go in to see a false Christ now someone says hey you got to come out in the desert there's this guy meeting out there what does the Bible say Matthew chapter 24 verse 26 jesus said wherefore if they see n2u behold he's in the desert go not forth someone calls you up and says you got to check this out Jesus is on TV right now go to channel such-and-such I wouldn't even turn the channel and look because devil knows how to use hypnosis and TV has actually been proven to be a very effective means of hypnosis advertising agencies have been using it that way to make you buy things you don't need for years right watch all these commercials you're buying stuff you don't need or want sort of being programmed number thirteen what can we know about the time of Jesus coming Matthew 24 verse 36 it tells us there but of that day and that hour knoweth no man not no not even the angels of heaven but my father only now someone's right down the question Jesus said he didn't even know the day in the hour of his coming does he know now write that down we'll talk about that but Jesus was pretty clear he says not even the Sun but my father only so is God the Father keeping a secret from Jesus I'm not going to tell you your rights we'll talk about that another one Matthew 24 33 it says when you shall see all these things we may not know the day in the hour but Christ said know that it is near at the doors so there's a there's a an array there's a bouquet of signs that God gives us in his word and as these signs begin to line up we can know that the time is near does the Lord want that day to overtake us as a thief 2nd Thessalonians chapter 5 says you are not children of the night you are children of the day that day should not overtake you as a thief it is going to overtake the rest of the world as a thief when the Bible says he's coming as a thief it does not mean that it's gonna surprise the church we should know when we may not know the day an hour but we're gonna know when it's near he wants us to lift up our heads and look now let's look at some of the signs very quickly Jesus said among the things that will happen he said there's gonna be pestilence in divers places have you seen anything in the news lately about plagues and pestilence this is a bolide scare and I've been in western Africa and I'll just tell you I I frankly think they're gonna get the Ebola thing under control it's a tragedy how many people are dying there and and it's just getting the Sanitation things under control but really the kind of test ones that I'm thinking about is what happened in 1918 1919 most of you are not alive back then and that's when they have a killer flu between 30 and 50 million people died we're talking now thousands in Africa the plagues of Jesus is talking about our pandemics millions are dying he said there'll be war and rumor of war there'll be natural disasters and we see these things matter of fact this mount ontake just about a month before our seminar here there was a volcano exploded in Japan did you remember hearing about that I think they so far recovered 56 bodies but that's really nothing compared to what happened during the tsunami in Japan and what happened during the tsunami and the earthquake Indonesia I've been there on the beach in Madras I've been D Indonesia and there are millions of people there and we have no idea the scope of suffering that these things brought to those parts of the world not to mention the earthquake in Haiti seven on the Richter scale do you know let me just give you a quote I got this from last week ago the geologic Society of America let me read this to you between 2004 and 2014 18 earthquakes with magnitudes of 8.0 are more rattled subduction zones around the globe that's an increase of 265 percent over the average rate in the previous century this is not coming from a religious group even those who are studying what's happening to the earth the same things are happening quicker now Jesus talks about his second coming being like birth pains that the whole world groans and travails waiting for deliverance and you know that when a lady is great with child and she's expecting you don't know the day in the hour always do you unless you're planning on inducing the old-fashioned way they said when the Apple is right it'll drop and one of the signs was all of a sudden she'd get a sharp pain hopefully after nine months and then 20 minutes later another one and you might call the doctor and say oh I think I'm having a baby I'll say how far a part of your pains so many dear couples the first baby they make ten trips to the hospital before the baby ever shows up this is it he says no let's not go back but when then they say how far apart when they become closer together and more intense you know something's getting ready to be delivered and what we're seeing happen in the world today is an increase of frequency and intensity there have always been Wars but we haven't always had nuclear weapons they've always been plagues but we've not always had the means like airplanes to spread them around the world in a week there's always been a lot of these things but let me give you another sign this I just read National Geographic I think three weeks ago and I dropped it into my notes you know half of the world's wildlife has been lost in the past 40 years half of the wildlife in the world compared to 40 years ago is gone God will destroy those at destroy the earth immorality and violence is another sign Jesus said in the last days we are concerned of course about wars and rumors of wars and we certainly have that but every day in America youth die more youth die in gang violence than fighting in Foreign Wars that's pretty frightening you don't hear much about it in the news but it's a fact and then Jesus said evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse the methods for delivering evil are just you know one reason that I think Jesus is coming there's many reasons I believe he's coming soon is Jesus Daniel chapter 12 said many will run to and fro and knowledge will increase you're living in a generation now where knowledge has increased more than in all of the history of man combined in just this last twenty years they're probably still people sitting here listening to me right now that used to ride horses to get around used to read by kerosene light I did actually at one time remember when there wasn't anything like a television some of you so young you don't even remember what a VCR is let alone an eight-track look at what's happened to technology in one generation Daniel said in Daniel 12 many will run to and fro knowledge will increase more knowledge the Internet is sort of a tree of good and evil it can do a lot of good and it does a lot of evil and as a pastor deal with a lot of people that struggle with pornography and it's tearing families apart in addition I know it's politically incorrect but if I had told you 40 years ago that we would be saying there's no difference between a man and woman and marriage could be one man with one man one man with one woman two women or one man with four wives haven't we seen that happening in our culture is that what God described as his plan Jesus said Luke 17 28 as it was in the days of lot even so will it be when the Son of Man is revealed what was it like in the days of lot do I need to spell that out or was it just just blatant immorality on ashamed clamoring for acceptance and attention and he said that's one of the signs look at the population of the world wow I haven't been to India and China I'll just tell you there's a whole lot of people there matter of fact I've come back from China and I think 300 million North America that's nothing you go to a country with 1.3 billion people Shanghai I was in Shanghai this year 24 million people in that city I grew up in New York City and it was like driving in New York City for forever and you're still there you couldn't get out it was amazing they estimate I remember when there were 3 billion people in the world some of you remember that and it just continues to grow and now we're at 7 billion by the year 2050 there'll be nine point five billion and we're certainly running short on certain resources political instability another sign Russia seems to be grasping more power there's terrible strife in the Middle East with a number of Islamic countries and you just look at the turmoil in the world around us the nations were angry the time of your áthis comment says in revelation do you know the world spends right now over a hundred million dollars an hour on soldiers ammunition and war machines Jesus said they'll be wars and rumors of wars and I don't want to frighten you but you know those nuclear weapons that we supposedly scale back they're still out there and we have great concern not only is Iran trying to develop a weapon we all know that but what if some of these renegade or rogue countries or powers like Isis if they get a weapon and make it expired at Israel do you think they'll hesitate you see the brutality of what they'll do on television do an innocent person and it just makes you shudder to think it's only the grace of God that is keeping the world from imploding right now says in revelation his angels are holding back the winds of strife number 14 I've got to hasten to my last question here what will the Angels do at Jesus second coming Matthew 24 verse 31 his angels shall gather together his elect from the four winds of heaven from one end of heaven to the other they're gonna gather together we'll be caught up to meet the Lord in the air number 15 since we're living just before Jesus second coming how should we relate to this solemn and this glorious event should we be afraid of Christ's coming the Bible says it's a blessed event Jesus tells us don't wait to the last minute to get ready like you do with your taxes you don't want to wait and see some people try and figure out what the date is so they think you know I'm gonna live for the devil until the last minute then I'll get ready no if you love the Lord you don't do that it says in Matthew 24:44 therefore be ye ready jesus said for in such an hour that you think not the Son of Man comes it might surprise people such an hours you do not think number 16 how will people be rewarded at Jesus Second Coming answer Revelation chapter 22 verse 12 he said behold I come quickly to give every man his reward according as his work shall be were saved by grace but we're rewarded by our works because your works will illustrate if the grace of God is really alive in your heart number 17 what will the wicked say when Jesus returns now stay with me this is a long verse Revelation chapter 6 verse 15 and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man they said to the mountains and the rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand that's the big event in history friends Jesus is coming and the question is who will be prepared for his coming he wants everybody to be ready the Bible says God is not willing that any should perish the Lord who would have all men to be saved revelation 22 said whosoever will let him come and take the water of life freely right God doesn't want anyone to perish jesus said whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life he wants you that's why you're here that's why you're listening or watching he wants you to know he's coming back and if Jesus is coming soon what should be more important than preparing for eternity wouldn't that be the priority what are the righteous gonna say when Jesus comes isaiah 25 verse 9 they're not gonna be sad they're gonna be thrilled with great glory they'll say lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us do you believe he can save you friends you can be ready it goes on to say we will rejoice and be glad in his salvation so why is Jesus coming to destroy everybody what's the purpose of his second coming John 14 verse 3 he says I will come again and receive you unto myself he's coming back for us the wicked are destroyed by the brightness of his coming but the main reason for coming he says I've gone to prepare a place for you and I will receive you unto myself that where I am you might be also we will live with God isn't that wonderful what a joy friends he wants us to be ready he's not gonna forget about us you know I love history and one of the great stories of history was the great raid that took place in 1945 at a POWs camp in the Philippines called Cabot Wong there a number of soldiers as well as civilians had been imprisoned by the Japanese for years and they had been starving dying from malnutrition they were tortured in the camps and as MacArthur was landing with his troops in the Philippines they were afraid that the Japanese would execute all the POWs before they could be liberated so they asked the Army Rangers for volunteers who would be willing to go in and to redeem and to save these people a hundred Army Rangers along with some Philippine volunteer guerrillas they went in they stormed the camp at night and they affected this great liberation and they say virtually all of the POWs they put their lives on the line the whole Exodus story is how God saves his people from prison Jesus came to set the captives free do you think he's gonna leave us in this world that is just festering with sin he said I will come again he came the first time is he gonna come again the second time do you want to be ready friends I want you to pray about this John sings and then we'll close with prayer together [Music] oh the marketplace is empty no more traffic in the streets all the bills tools are silent no more time to harvest weeds busy housewives sees their labor in the courtrooms nor did meat work on earth is all suspended as the key comes through the I can hear the chants Rumble I can see the Barking frog the flurry of God's trumpet stun spell the and of sand railroads at now unfolding head and grandstands holy place Heaven's choirs now assemble start to see [Music] the key is coming guess the key is coming I just heard the trumpets sounding and now his face I see the king yes he's called me the key is coming up praise God yes praise God praise God he's come for me [Music] thank you John Thank You Kelly do you believe in friends I don't know about you but as they say I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired I want the Lord to come and Jesus never breaks his word says heaven and earth will pass away my word will not pass away he came on time the first time he's gonna come on time the second time he wants you to be ready and don't forget this simple truth he could come for us before he comes for everybody else if our lives end so don't wait until you figure out on a time line when you think the second coming is he wants you to be ready now because every breath every heartbeat is a gift from God this life is temporary we all know it friends amen I want to be ready how about you why don't you bow your heads with me let's ask him father in heaven we just thank you that you called us to be ready we thank you for the series and the hearts that you're touching and we pray as we gather together and study your word that you'll work miracles in our lives bless each of these people be with them in their homes and their families and their health help us be ready right now by accepting Jesus in our lives by surrendering to you that we can look up when you come with joy we pray in his name Amen god bless you friends don't forget our next study tomorrow night the rebellious Prince you won't want to miss it it's gonna be one of the most interesting I think you'll find it very entertaining as well bring your friends and your enemies now don't forget god bless you Pastor John dunloe McCain he's also pastor he will have some CDs and he'll be out in the foyer if you'd like to shake his hand we'll look forward to meeting you god bless you have a good evening

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Length: 61min 32sec (3692 seconds)

Published: Fri May 29 2015