Where Are We Living in Prophetic Time

Let's pray, Dear heavenly Father, help us to be committed, obedient,

loving prophecy, loving gospel believing Christians. So we honor you

on the eve of the Advent, open our minds to

see in Jesus' name. Amen, Now I'm grateful. I'm getting

up at fifteen till because we're going to need it today.

Our Bible study sermon, because it's a combination of the two,

is going to require some focus here. But some people

have asked, where are we living in prophetic time? How

many of you been following the news with Iran, the

possibility of a nuclear weapon, the fear of an economic catastrophe,

all of this. Isn't that really what we live with

every day in the news? Yes or no? And let's

face it, people are asking the question where do we

live in prophetic time? How close is the coming of

the Lord? Is it far or is it near? And friends,

I'm going to say this as a defining statement before

we start our study. Since nine eleven, which occurred in

the year two thousand and one, we have been living

in the age of fear that Jesus predicted in Luke

twenty one. Take your Bible's turn with me Luke twenty one,

verse twenty five. Christ here is speaking to his disciples

just before his crucifixion. He said, there will be signs

in the sun and moon, and stars, and upon the earth.

Distress of nations. Do we have distress of nations today? Yes,

in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

men fainting, with fear and with foreboding. The Greek word

as apoia that means no way out, a fear that

comes when you cannot find an exit strategy, with foreboding

of what is coming on the world, for the powers

of the heavens will be shaken. There is so much

here in these verses we want to unpack it today. Friends,

The most constant sight you can see at night in

the heavens are the stars, the galaxies, and the constellations.

We would never think of them moving. The Bible teaches us, though,

that one day the foundations of the earth will burst open,

the islands will sink into the sea, the cities, the

great nations will fall at the second coming of Christ.

But that's not all. The Bible also teaches us that

the powers of the heavens will be shaken. I like

to go to this slide here. Next slide on our screen,

Ellen Harmon White, you'll see her picture on the left.

She had an amazing vision in eighteen forty eight when

the great revolutions of Europe hit, which are predicted precisely

in the seventh Trump of the Revelation. She says, and

I'd like to just make this statement concerning her. The

vicious attacks on Ellen White as a prophet are often

focused and presented as intelligent. Now, I'm going to tell

you about an offshoot magazine you can ignore. It's called

Spectrum Magazine. It's a radical offshoot magazine that detegrates the

prophetic teachings of this church. And very often intellectuals will

hide behind that magazine and is a website that mirrors

are called a today that has nothing to do with adventism.

It's very very negative toward our prophetic message and mission,

and we should avoid any kind of offshoots in our

message that gets us diverted from prophetic truth. So, however,

any credible understanding of Ellen White's ministry must carefully consider

the phenomena of biblical chaostic technique universally manifest in her writings.

Doctor Ron Duprey has been a researcher to demonstrate that

there are numerous micro structures that are chiast. Know what

I mean by giastic. That's where the beginning and the

end match, moving toward a center, and they're scattered throughout

the Bible because it is the signature, one of the

signatures of divine inspiration. Well, the same is true of

the writings of Ellen White. They are chiastic. Now, the

devil hated this so much that he actually counterfeited it

at the time of the end, and that counterfeit came

in the writings of Joseph Smith. In nineteen sixty three,

John Welch, an attorney, discovered chiastic writings in the Boogamarmat

and David Noel Friedman, famous New Testament scholar, affirmed that

they're the real thing. But here's the problem. Those structures

are a counterfeit of the real because they were given

at one time, not through the mind of the prophet.

They were given through the spectacles. He saw it. He

just dictated what they were doing, and so they were

engineered to mimic the true Sister White's structures appear after

the fact. They're not compass positional they're inspirational. And when

material is organized as a final product, divine structures appear

and it breaks a time space boundary because documents that

were written again in different times, arranged in the future

come together as chiastic and there's more phenomena what we

call panel block. But for our purposes here today, I

want Derek, I want you to help us read page

forty one of early writings, which describes the shaking of

the powers of Heaven. It was a vision that was

received in eighteen forty eight when the great Revolutions of

Europe hit. Will go to the next slide and we'll

just leave it there and Derek, you can read off

it again as close as you need to be. Yeah,

Derek reads better than me. That's why I asked him

to come here and do it.

December sixteenth, eighteen forty eight. The Lord gave me a

vision of the shaking of the powers of the heaven.

And I saw that when the Lord said heaven is

given the sign recorded by Matthew, Mark and Luke, he

meant heaven, and when he said Earth, he meant earth.

The powers of Heaven are the Sun, moon and stars.

They rule in the heavens. The powers of Earth are

those that rule on the Earth. The powers of Heaven

will be shaken at the voice of God. Then the sun, moon,

and the stars will be moved out of their places.

They will not pass away, but be shaken by the

voice of God. Dark, heavy clouds came up and clashed

against each other. The atmosphere parted and rolled back. Then

we could look up through the open space in Orion.

Whence came the voice of God. The Holy City will

come down through that open space. I saw that the

powers of Earth are now being shaken, and the events

come in order war, war and rumors of war, sword, famine,

and pestilence. First to shake the powers of the Earth.

Then the voice of God was shake the sun, moon,

and stars and this earth. Also I saw that the

shaking of the powers in Europe is not, as some teach,

the shaking of the powers of Heaven, but it is

the shaking of the angry nations.

Thank you Derek so much for that. Now you just

heard two paragraphs. There are five embedded structures in here.

You're looking at the beginning of the end moving toward

a center. It matches. I'm not going to go through

that in detail. Here you can see it, but there

are two microstructures within the two halves. There's a panel

block that moves from left to right into the next

vision that was not written at this time, but arranged

later in the future. Now, it's impossible to do any

of this unless God Almighty, who knows the future, can

arrange it. What I want to draw your attention to

is simply the fact that this vision pointed to the

time of Christ that started after eighteen forty four, in

which the great collapse of the nations occurred and we

had a time and history where we no longer have

a church state, fusion of the Middle Ages. Let's move

to the next slide. Now, if you're to go through

all these elements, which I'm not going to do, it

bring you to the chastic center, which is the atmosphere

parted and rolled back. We could look up through the

open space and Orian. We talked about this two weeks

ago when I was preaching. The open space in Orian

is indicated in Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy as

the place in which the rebellion came from the fools.

The word Orian and Hebrew means fool. The fools came

who conquered Earth, who deceived Adam and Eve, and Christ

is coming from the throne room of God. That great

emerald rainbow in space, in that open space in Orian

which is Masier object forty two, the great Orion nebula

to take us to the throne of God. Now, in

Chaiastic technique, the beginning and the end, meeting the middle,

the shakings of the powers of the heaven. You see

at the beginning, at the end of shaking the powers

of the heavens. In the middle, the atmosphere rolled back,

and we could look up through the open space and Orion.

God is sending his Sun through a wormhole. He's not

moving through space and time faster than the speed of light.

If he'd do that, he'd have to go back in time.

That's not what he's doing. There'll be an open space.

The book Relation says, the sky will be rolled up

like a scroll, the heavens will be shaken, and through

that corridor we will see the Sun of God coming

in power and glory at the end of the age.

Now she wrote this before they could detect the colors

of the Irion nebula. And God has revealed to us

that we are very near the place of his celestial throne.

The sun, moon, and stars will move out of their places,

and Jesus will come. And the book Revelation says the

sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and through

that corridor of space. In time, Jesus will return to

our planet in the Age of Fear, like a roaring lion,

to conquer the nations. How many of you are looking

forward to the coming of Christ, friends, We should want

it because it will be sweet as honey. We will

live forever and ever. We will enjoy eternal delights, kindness, love,

mental expansion. We will see the future unfold, and it

will never go back to the old Age of fear.

Revelation one, verse seven says this very clearly. It says, behold,

he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will

see him. No secret rapture, false theory of Christ's second coming.

Everyone who pierced him. There'll be a special resurrection for

Caiaphas and those who condemn Jesus, and all the tribes

of the earth will wail on account of them. Even so,

a meant Christ is coming as a global event to

end the Old Age of Fear and to bring about

a new beginning in Luke twenty one, twenty five, Jesus

said that there would be signs in the sun, moon,

and stars, followed by paralyzing international fear. Who we are

living in that many believe that cosmic signs are still future,

But they're not. The signs in the heavens that Jesus

is talking about and Luke twenty one have already happened.

They are behind us. The cosmic signs that precede the

age of fear have already come, and most Christians do

not even know that it has happened. We are blind

to the signs of the times Luke twenty one, twenty five.

And there will be signs in the sun, the moon,

and the stars, and upon the earth, distress of nations

in perplexity at the roaring of the sea. Jesus in

the Gospel of Matthew all of the discourse gave us

a parallel account, giving us the exact timing for the

cosmic signs Matthew twenty four, verse twenty nine. Immediately, what

does it say in the Bible, immediately after the tribulation

of those days? The sun will be darkened, the moon

will not give its light, the stars will fall from

heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And we know in the Book of Revelations, like a

fig tree scattering its fruit, the falling stars. Revelation six

also gives us this account. The days that Jesus is

talking about are found in Daniel eleven thirty three. In fact,

Jesus discourses in both Matthew twenty four and Luke twenty

one are commentaries on Daniel chapter eleven, a chapter that

is not well studied by many. Seventh the Evenists. Today

we focus on Daniel two, Daniel seven, Day eight, but

we don't realize there is a rich treasure trove in

Daniel eleven. Here's a brief outline of Daniel eleven. I'm

gonna give you an air place. How many of you

ever been an airplane? Notice you can see almost everything

if you're high enough. Right now, we're not gonna look

at the details. We're gonna get the big picture, and

I'm gonna walk you through it. And don't get discouraged

if you don't remember everything, because you can always go

to Angels in the Glen dot Org and you can

go through every one of these chapters in a video

presentation Daniel eleven dot one Angels and the Glen dot

Org glenn Is one ind and Daniel eleven one. We

see Derias the Mead, followed in verse two by the

Kingdom of Persia. So you start the King of the North,

King of the South discourse right away. You have Drias

the Mead, you have Persia. It starts back then, and

then at the end of verse two you see the

Kingdom of Greece. That's the next world empire that follows

me to Persia. In verse three, Greece is divided up

after the death of Alexander the Great, the Great King,

into four kingdoms, and then the four kingdoms in verses

five and six collapse into the King of the North,

the Northern Kingdom of the Seleucid Greek Empire, which absorbs Cassander,

Lysimachus and the Seleucid realms into a single kingdom three

fourths of Alexander's conquest, and the Southern Kingdom of Egypt,

which is Greek after Alexander the Ptolmaic Egyptian Empire one

fourth of Alexander the Great's conquest. So three fourths of

the Greek Empire are divided for the North, one fourth

for the South, and guests who lives between the King

of the North and King of the South. And Day

eleven Judea, God's people. They're at the center of the earth.

According to Ezekiel, they are always in the crosshairs of

the North and the South, which is really the right

and the left, because these powers are still with us

in principle. Some of us like, you know, voting to

the left, others like voting to the right. But the

truth is we should recognize that there are two opposing

powers that go back and forth, the liberals and the conservatives,

the right and the left. The King of the North,

King of the South, King of the North right, King

of the North, right the right, King of the South,

the left. They duke it out for a few hundred

years as political empires, until the Seleucide empire to the

north is replaced by a new King of the North.

So you have a switch out occurring for both the

King of the North King of the South in day eleven.

So in verse sixteen that switch out occurs. The text

says he who comes against him, and that's Antichus the third,

who is the last king of this Greek powerful superstate

before Rome comes against him and overtakes the authority of

the Seleucide king an Tiascas the third the Great, and

the new king of the North becomes the Roman Empire

that will rise to ascendency, that will eventually annex Syria

in six four BC, that with Pompey himself will come

into Judea and absorb it, and Christ will be born

under Roman authority, not Greek authority. Tyakas Epiphanes four, who

follows in tiag Is the third of the Grade, was

neither great. He's not a great horn or nothing like it,

as some people postulate, but he was. He reached out.

He reached out to destroy the people of God around

Judea and Palestine. And Judas Maccabeus, who never lost a

battle in his life until he signed a peace treaty

with Rome, fulfilling the prophecy of Danie eleven that there

would be a peace treaty. And when he did that

a year lady was dead on the battlefield. Because he

was no longer relying on Michael the Great Prince, who

was the pre existent Christ, the Son of God, the

eternal Son of God. He was relying on an alliance

with the Roman Empire, and at that point Judea came

under Satanic control. In the verses follow verse sixteen, the

twisted tale of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra leads to the

death of Julius Caesar in verse nineteen, and then in

verse twenty Augustus Caesar taxes the land of Palestine. He

sends a tax oppressor throughout the jewel of the Kingdom,

and in Luke knowing Daniel Levin is very careful to

record that Augustus Caesar attacks the whole world and the

place of Bethlehem, where Jesus would be born. After the

death of Augustus Caesar, in a time of peace, another

despicable king arose in verse twenty one. Suetonius calls him

by that very name in his Lives of the Caesars,

a despicable king, a perverted king who abused children and others.

He rose in verse twenty one, and he attacks the

Prince of the Covenant in verse twenty two. Christ was

born in the reign of Augustus Caesar. Christ was baptist

ties in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar. Christ died

in the eighteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, fulfilling verse twenty

two of Daniel eleven. Now this new phase of the

King of the North is Tiberius Caesar. So we have

an anchor point in verse twenty two. Verse twenty two

is the Prince of the Covenant is also broken at

the time of Tiberius Caesar. Now there's a chiastic relationship

in Daniel eleven, just like we saw in Ellomite's vision.

There we see in Down ten twenty one we see Michael,

your Prince the Book of Truth. At the end of

the discourse in Daniel twelve to one, Michael the Great

Prince found written in the book. So we have Michael

the Prince the book, Michael the Prince the book. And

as that structure moves toward a center, the center is

verse twenty two, the Prince of the Covenant broken. Also

prince who is Michael, the Great Prince who protects God's

people in every age, is the one who hangs on

Calvary's cross. At the center of the kiasm, which is

a cross. A chiasm is a cross kind of linguistic structure.

At the center of the chiastic cross is the cross

of Jesus Christ. And verse twenty two, the Prince of

the Covenant, So the prince is Michael. On each side

it is the Prince of the coven in the middle.

The book on each side is the Covenant in the middle.

So book nds meet in the middle. This new phase

of the King of the North is Tiberius Caesar. And

the prince that is broken is the Hero in the

Book of Daniel, the Prince of princes, the Prince of

the Covenant, Mashiah, Nagib, Messiah, Prince one like the Son

of God in the in the Fiery Furnace of Daniel three,

I could go on. This Dani eleven two is a

anchor point. It is the chiastic poetic center of the

vision of the King of the North and the King

of the South. The Cross of Christ is at the

heart of Bible prophecy. Both kings are impostors, though the

King of the North king of the South. They are

impostors of Jesus Christ, the prince who in Daniel seven,

at the end of the days will come before God

Almighty in the most holy place. And he already has

come there to receive his kingdom in the marriage judgment.

And when he receives his Kingdom, one name at a time,

confessing his people as he promised in Revelation chapter three,

before the Father and the Holy Angels in the Judgment.

Then he will come to give us our reward. He

will come to end the old age of fear. And

the Book of Daniel is so clear about it. And

now I'm going to do another little that does their.

Two websites I'd like to draw your attention to. One

is Historicism dot org. Have you ever heard of that? Well,

the author of that website sitting right here, doctor Frank Hardy.

It has had a profound impact on my study of

the Book of Daniel, especially his exit Jesus of Daniel eleven,

very very insightful. And the other one is Angels in

the Glen dot org that Elder John Dom has started here,

which interfaces in a very practical way with videos and

booklets how to track through these prophetic subjects. Now for

our purposes here, both the King of the North, King

of the cell are impostors of the true king who

is coming, Jesus Christ, the Melchzedec king who will rule

the Fifth Kingdom of Daniel. Dany eleven twenty two clearly

describes the cross of Christ. So let's look at it.

Armies shall be utterly swept away before him. That's Tiberius Caesar.

He conquered Germania and other realms. He extended the Roman

Empire and broken But look what happens in his reign

here of Tiberia Caesar and the Prince of the Covenant.

Also he breaks nations, and Christ dies of a broken

heart on the cross of Calvary as the mighty Prince

and protector of God's people. The nation that signed the

alliance with Rome crucified with the help of Rome, the

Son of God, and Christ was crucified under perhaps what

is the most corrupt, the most immoral emperor Rome ever had,

in my opinion, based on the evidence in summary Daniel

eleven one starts with the meatle Persian Empire in the

sixth century, and it moves to Greece than Rome. We

can see that, and it finds its chiastic sinner right

here in verse twenty two with the cross of Jesus Christ,

where the Prince of the Covenant, our Savior, who said,

this is the blood of the Covenant shed for you.

He died eighty thirty one, fulfilling Bible prophecy the rest

of the vision, not vision, the rest of the discourse.

This is not a vision because Daniels hearing this. The

rest of the discourse focuses on the tribulation that happened

in the Middle Ages that leads up to the time

of the end. It backs up a little bit. It

shows us how Judea came under the authority of Rome,

and once and then once the king of the South

Egypt is defeateing BC thirty one Battle of Actium, it

focuses on what would happen until the return to the South,

which occurred in two ninety seven AD, when dial Cletian

came into Egypt. It's verse twenty nine. And then it

took rockets into the Middle Ages, and so we have

the whole history of the world is in this single

chapter in the Bible. Let me ask you a question,

how many of you would like to be able to

master world history in two days? Are with me? Okay,

I'm gonna give you now. You can do this by

Angels and the Glen dot org or doctor Hardy's website,

which will help with the more technical details. But fray,

if you go to Danel two, you have an outline

of prophetic history. Daniel seven gives us a little more,

but you need to Daniel eleven, you have it. All

that matters as far as God is concerned, is pretty

much imposed in brief, in one page of your Bible.

How do you like that? I mean, God is smart.

He knew that we don't like reading lots of books.

He knew that we didn't have to, you know, become

PhDs to understand the Bible. So he took the entire

sum of prophetic history and he put it on a page.

And you know, in school you call that cheat notes.

If you had a page and you knew everything, you'd

be ahead. So what chapter is the chapter we need

to be digging into with danel two, seven and eight

Daniel eleven exactly. Now, the rest of the vision, not vision.

The rest of the discourse focuses on the tribulation that

happened in mid Ages that leads up to the time

of the end. Let me prove it to you. Now

we've just established the Daniel eleven two is the Cross

of Christ. Right, you are you with me? Okay? All right? Now,

let's turn to Dwann eleven forty Let's just skip ahead.

Dan eleven forty, So as we get a slide at

the time of the what and now, I'm not going

to ask you to understand everything in forty and forty

one today, but I want you to zero in on

the phrase the time of the end. How many of

you see that in verse forty with me? At the

time of the end, the king of the South, she'll

attack him, but the King of the North charroch upon

him like a whirlwind. Now, Egypt was defeated in BC

thirty one by Octavian Augustus Caesar. It never became a

kingdom ever since it was gone. There was an uprising

in Egypt in two ninety seven the Diocletian took Constantine

down to suppress, exactly three hundred and sixty years after

the annexation of Syria in sixty four BC, which was

the fattest provincial realm of the Roman Empire by hegemony

secured after Antiochus the Third. It was later so when

it was brought into the Roman Empire in sixty four BC,

it was simply assuming the fact that it had already

been under the Roman Empire for a while, and so

at the time of the end, the King of the

South shill attack him. Now that's not Egypt, what is

it now? In seventeen ninety eight, at the end of

the twelve and sixty years, there was a nation that

went down to Egypt and conquered Egypt. For the year

seventeen ninety eight, it was in charge of Egypt. And

guess what European nation that was that blew the nose

off the Sphinx. And it was France and was Napoleon.

Bonaparte was the general who went down. God wanted to

make sure that France was in charge of Egypt at

the end of the twelve and sixty years, which is

anchored in verse forty. The time of the End brings

us to the end of the Middle Ages and the

French Revolution. The old order was busting up and a

new world was on the march. Secularism was taken over

the old order and the French patterned their revolution after Egypt.

They changed their calendar system to the ancient Egyptian calendar.

They spoke in terms of third freemire of day whatever,

that's an Egyptian calendar and revolutionary France was Egypt reborn

at the time of the End, and it collided with

the medieval papacy in seventeen ninety eight, if a filled

Bible prophecy by taking pious the sixth captive, which is

prophesied specifically in Revelation thirteen, that the papacy would go

into captivity just before or in tandem with the rise

of a lamb like beast power the United States of

America seventeen ninety eight. And it's amazing Jacques Philippot and

other Protestant expositors of scripture got it right. They predicted

that he predicted that France would bring down the old order.

He got Revelation eleven right, and just coming up to

this time period, they got seventeen ninety eight right. And

when France took the medieval church state system of Rome down,

Bible students around the world realize that we are living

at the time of the end, and the Book of

Daniel has been unsealed, and they begin to study the

Book of Daniels and missionary societies. Bible translations exploded. The

whole world came alive with people trying to prepare the

nations for the second coming to Christ. All that's encapsulated

verse forty. But the King of the Mars shall rush

upon him like a whirlwind, chariots and horsemouth, many ships.

He should come into country shall overflow and pass through.

I'm not going to execute that for you, but we

see here an expansion of power which does not occupy,

but overflows and passes through. Verse forty one. He shall

come into the Glorious Land now after seventeen ninety eight.

The glorious Land is not literal local Palestine. The Glorious

Land is a people, a movement restored at the end

of the Midia evil captivity. Wherever God's people are at

on the face of earth, who follow His truth, who

keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus,

who keep the Seventh day Sabbath, honored by the Savior,

commanded at Mount Sinai, set aside by the Roman Church

in the Middle Ages. Wherever there is a gospel believing commandment,

keeping people enfeebled and defective as they may be, that place,

that church, wherever it meets in His name, honoring His

law and the Gospel, there is the Glorious Land. And

so in verse forty one, the attack against the Glorious

Land is an attack against the remnant people of God

at the time of the end, and it says, and

many will fall. Now that phrase in verse forty one

is a repetition of what happened in Dane eleven thirty

three when many fell in the persecutions of the Middle

Ages through captivity and plunder, flame and sword for so

many days, the days of the medieval persecution. Dane eleven

twenty two is the Cross of Christ, and Daniel eleven

forty is the time of the end. Can you work

with me on that? What's Daniel eleven twenty two the

cross of Christ, Prince of the Covenant broken? And what's

Daniel eleven forty the time of the end? Now those

are anchor points. With those anchor points, you can understand more.

And Dane eleven the days of tribulation that Jesus is

talking about are the days of tribulation between Daniel eleven

twenty two and Daniel eleven forty, between the Cross of

Christ in verse twenty two and the time of the

end of verse forty. The actual fact is that the

Christian Church had a little mini tribulation leading up to

the destruction of Jerusalem that mirrored. It was a prototype

that would happen on a larger scale in the destruction

of God's temple, the treading down of the host of

God's people during the Middle Ages. Now we call that

time between verse twenty two the Cross of Christ eighty

thirty one, established by the seventy week propsy Dane nine

and Daniel eleven forty the time of the End seventeen

ninety eight. We call that time in the middle. What

do we call it? The Middle Ages? That's right, So

it's between the cross and the end that we have

the Middle Ages. Dane eleven thirty one and Dan eleven

thirty three are right smack in the middle, between the

cross and the time of the End in the narrative.

So let's look at verse thirty one. Daniel eleven thirty one.

Forces from him, that's the king of the North. This

would be Rome really in principle, from Theodosius the Great

to Justinian. It would be a mix of things. Forces.

It could also be argued seeds if you point the

Hebrew differently, which should be infiltration and political. Both forces

from him shall app here and profane the temple and fortress,

and shall take away the hat to me the daily

The word offering is not in the original Hebrew, and

they shall set up And what does it say, though

you can read it with me, they shall set up

the abomination that makes desolate. Let's say it. I hate

saying it. The abomination that makes desola would repeat after me,

all right? So what verses the abomination that makes desolate

in It's not verse twenty two, it's not verse forty.

It's verse thirty one in the Middle Ages. So that's

how you can kind of get that. Now, Christ taught

that the abomination of desolation would come in after his

death on the cross, his burial, in his resurrection, and

that it would be a serious threat to the gospel,

just before the gospel would be preached in the whole

world Matthew twenty four, fourteen fifteen, next slide, And this

Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached where throughout the

whole world has a testimony to all nations. Then the

end will come now here it is verse fifteen. So

when you see the desolating sacrilege, and that's the same

phrase the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet

Daniels standing in the Holy Place, you can't understand prophecy.

It's impossible, is that what Jesus says, does he say that, now?

What does he say? Let the reader understand that means

a Bible preacher needs to walk you through it so

you can understand. Is that alright with you? Okay, you're

doing all right? Okay, I celebrate that. Jesus is very

clear in these verses the abomination of desolation would be

a threat to the Gospel at the time of the end.

It would move out of the Middle Ages into the future.

In the Book of Daniel, the abomination of desolation comes

after the cross of Christ in Dane eleven twenty two,

before the time of the end in Day eleven forty.

In fact, it's nine verses after the cross in verse

twenty two. It's ten verses before the time of the

end in verse forty. There's no missing it. The abomination

of desolation comes in the Middle Ages. It is a

direct attack on the Gospel of Jesus Christ at the

time of the end. And in the Book of Revelation,

Jesus identified the abomination of desolation as a city that

sits on seven hills or mountains. Revelation seventeen. He talks

with the city that has dominion the kings of the earth.

John sees a Harlot church city system built on seven

mountains seven hills, that seduces the kings of the earth,

that mixes church and state, and dominates world affairs with

false theology, that has murdered the saints of God in

the Middle Ages, and that is drunk with error spiritualism,

re alien and unable and unwilling to understand Bible prophecy

so people can be saved. This Harlot is a woman

church system who will never be married to Jesus Christ

in the Judgment, because she is not his church anymore.

His people are there, but the system is not his anymore.

Israel left the wilderness for the Promised Land. Did they

get to the Promised Land? Yes? Or no? Did they

they did? The Harlot Church in Revelation of seventeen writes

a beast in the wilderness at the time of the end,

but she never gets to the promised Land because she's

in love with the kings of the earth. She's in

love with the riches of the world. She will have

nothing of Jesus Christ and his second coming. In the

Book of Relation, the Harlot Church who rides the beast

is called the Mother of abominations, and that makes her,

by definition the abomination of desolation that was set up

in the Middle Ages Revelations seventeen five and six. And

on her forehead was written a name of Mystery Babbling,

the great mother of Harlots and Avers's abominations, verse six.

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of

the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

And when I saw her, I marveled greatly. This power

here identified as a church system that is the mother

of all the churches that came out of the Reformation

who still follow Rome. By giving feality to Rome, by

the violation of the Sabbath, the teaching the Law of

God has been set aside and compromise. The martyrs of

the Middle Ages were killed by this Harlot church system.

Fifty to two hundred million people died at the hands

and influence of the Harlot church. Revelation seventeen nine. This

calls for mind with wisdom the seven heads or seven

mountains in which the woman is seated. There is only

one city on earth today that influences world politics, that

has founded on the seven hills or seven mountains that

Rome was founded on and that is the Vatican City

of Rome, the Church state City of Rome, Revelation seventeen eighteen.

And the woman that you saw is the great city

which has dominion over the kings of the earth. Now

I'm not talking here today about good, lovely Christian people

in the Roman Catholic Church who love the Lord. I

know they're there, I've seen them. Know. I have good

friends who are faithful within their understandings, who love the

Lord Jesus and the doing the best they can. They

do not realize that the day is coming Revelation eighteen

when God will say, come out of her my people.

And that call has begun in principle in the Second

Angel's message. And so we're not better people than these

dear people. In fact, I find that some of the

most committed Christians I've ever met are Roman Catholic Christians,

and I love them dearly as brothers and sisters and

their love for the Lord. I was in India when

we had an evangelistic meeting. There a dear Catholic nun

was waiting for me. She saw my picture. I just

lost the person dearest of my heart, who took the

place of my mother in my life Alan Halleck. And

I arrived and she was praying for me, and I said,

what's your name? She says, my name is Mother Hope.

She gave me the Latin Mother of Spray or something

like that, Latin or Italian. I went not good at either,

and I thought them, said, why would she be praying

for me? Because the Holy Spirit put it in her

heart to love me, and she prayed us through those meetings,

and she accepted the Gospels. She never understood in those meetings,

but she was led of the Holy Spirit long before.

So don't tell me people are bad because they belonged

to a system that's corrupted. They're not. And the Lord

will say, come out of her my people. John saw

the abomination of desolation. It was the Harlot Church city

of Rome, that corrupt political, religious state city that seduced

the kings of the earth, built on seven hills. He

marveled greatly because of what he saw. Daniel eleven. The

abomination of desolation comes from Dane eleven twenty two, which

is the Cross of Christ. Dan eleven forty, which is

the time of the end. Let's look at it again.

Dane eleven thirty one forces from him, the King of

the North shall appear and profane the temple and the fortress.

They shall take away the daily burnt offering is not

in the Hebrew, and they shall set up the abomination

that makes desolin. I'm not going to go into the

daily too much here, but let me give you one verse.

How many of you know the Lord's prayer? Come on

our father, who are in heaven? What hell would be

your name? Now, God's name, God's law. Same thing in

the Bible. The name goes in the forehead. The law

goes in the forehead. The law is a description of

God's character. I am who I am as Yahweh's name,

God's Law, God's name. Same thing. Now where was I?

It's got a Now the Lord's prayer, How would be

thy name, which means thy law, thy kingdom? Come? See

God's kingdom doesn't come. Let's reverence his name, which is

as well, Thy will be done where on earth as

it is in Heaven. Give us this day are ah.

Now look, these people in the Western Empire that were

overtaken by Rome didn't have much theology of the Heavenly

Sanctuary at all, but they had a Bible in their hands.

That was translated by woeful of. I mean his name

means little wolf, who was a convert to Christ from

the Gothic peoples. And they developed Christianity as it began

to grow based on the Bible. So guess what Rome

took away from them? It took the Bible from these

Western Christians who kept the seventh day Sabbath up to

the sixth century. It took it away. The Daily was

removed Ephesians two twenty one. Paul is very clear that

the Church of Jesus Christ is the temple God. The

only temple on earth after seventy a d is the

Church of Christ. The attack against the sanctuary fortress the

temple is an attack against the Christian Bible. Believing Christians

of the Western Empire. There were three kingdoms that were

Christianized that were brought down. According to Daniel seven, the

abomination of desolation Friends is a direct attack on the Gospel,

the Law of God, and the true Church faithful to

the Bible. In the Middle Ages, Christ said in Matthew

twenty four to nine that immediately after the tribulation of

those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will

not give its light, the stars will fall. The tribulation

of those days is not the final tribulation. The tribulation

of those days is the one in Daniel eleven thirty three.

So look at Daniel eleven thirty three, very quickly, just

turn to it. Next light, Daniel eleven thirty three, next light,

There it is. And those among the people who are

wise shall make many understand, but they shall fall how

by sword, by flame, by captivity. It's the captivity of

the Christian Church in Middle Ages and plunder for some days,

or for days prophetic days meaning years. The Book of

Relation will tell us that's twelve hundred and sixty years

in oppression. Daniel, say, it's twelve hundred and ninety years

in terms of captivity. The captivity the Christian Church occurred

in the Middle Ages, and many godly Christians died by sword,

flame and plunder. How many people today? And said pastor,

I don't know if I can go to your church

or any other church. I mean, I really don't want

to give to the church. I don't have time to

study the Bible. I just want to hear the right stuff,

so I can, you know, feel good? Go home? Are

those the kind of people that will die when persecution

hits this country. No, you won't stand for Christ unless

you stand for Christ right now. They gave their lives

for the truth. Most Christians today do not know that

the cosmic sciens have come and gone, and we are

now living in the world of fear that Jesus predicted.

Let me quickly take you through them. The last recorded

martyrdom in France occurred in the year seventeen sixty seven.

Jesus said, immediately following the Tribulation of those days, meaning

the Middle Ages, the sun will be darkened, the moon

will be turned to blood. Immediately following the persecutions of

the Middle Ages, believers in North America were experiencing massive

religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening. Thousands were

the First and Second Great Awakenings. Thousands were studying the

prophecies of Daniel and the Gospel at the time of

the End after seventeen ninety eight, before they were having conversions.

The Second Great Awakening that followed seventeen ninety eight was

the greatest religious revival in the history of the world

since Apostolic times. Until now. These godly Christians were students

of Bible prophecy. They experienced the ensuing the Book of Daniel.

In the year seventeen ninety eight, they had figured it out,

and around that time the cosmic signs appeared just in time.

Just after the persecutions ended in seventeen sixty seven, the

signs appeared just as Jesus had predicted. On May nineteen,

seventeen eighty, the sun was blotted out for one day

over North America. With this great awakening was occurring. There

is no present explanation for what happened that day. The

night that night, the moon hung in the sky red

its blood, but the day didn't happen that day. People

thought it was the end of the world. Historians have

called it the Great Dark Day. The only thing they

can relate it to is the darkness of Egypt and

the plagues. The chickens and the cows went home to roost.

People were everywhere were crying out in tear. It was

the end of the world. Abraham Lincoln saw it, and

he looked up and he noticed the constellations were still there,

so he felt like it wasn't the end of the world.

He was pretty smart, but boy, it was something for

eight to nine hours. Excuse me, no wrong event that's

excuse me. Back up. The chickens and the cows went

home to rouse the people everywhere. The Massachusetts legislature can

broke up because they thought it was the end of

the world. The next event relates to Lincoln. A few

years later. On November thirteen, eighteen thirty three, the largest

meteorite shower in human history occurred, the Great Lionid Meteorite Storm,

one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand falling stars

per hour for eight hours plus. It looked as if

every star in the sky was falling. It looked as

if the end of the world had come. People thought

of the Bible the fig trees scattering its fruit. It

came from a single point scattering stars. And all of

these signs were understood by Bible students and many faiths

to be the predicted signs of Luke twenty four Matthew

Luke twenty one, Matthew twenty four, Revelation six. Since the

Second Rate Awakening, the world has been a dangerous place

to live ever since. In eighteen forty eight, one nation

after another revolted in Europe, bringing the Old Order to

an end. Nationalism was on the rise and religion was waning,

secularism was moving in the Great Revolutions of eighteen forty

eight actually had a direct impact on the rise of

modern spiritualism, and they led to World War One, and

then World War two, and finally the Cold War. The

world lived in fear of mutually assured nuclear destruction. When

the Cold War came to an end on December twenty sixth,

nineteen ninety one, it was replaced by nine to eleven.

The attack on New York City September eleven, two thousand

and one. I think I'll give I may I have

a typo here, two thousand and one, So I have

a TYPEO there. The War on Terror. How many of

you saw that the trade towers come down. From that

point on, It's all about security, because fear is the

biggest enemy. Go back to verse twenty one, Luke twenty one,

Verse twenty five. There will be signs the sun, moon

and stars upon the earth, distress of nations in perplexity.

Now that's the great from eighteen forty eight, World War one,

World War two, War three, the roy and the seed,

nations at strife, and the waves, men fainting with fear.

That's our time with the foreboding no way out in

Greek of what is coming on the world, for the

powers of the heavens will be shaken. That's the second coming,

and then they will see the Sun of Man coming

in a cloud with power and great glory. The tribulation

days of the Middle Ages are followed by the cosmic

signs in the first and second Great Awakenings. The Great

Dark Day on May nineteen, seventeen eighty and the moon

that turned to blood was followed by the following of

the stars November thirteenth, eighteen thirty three. And these cosmic

signs are followed by the distress of nations and the

great revolutions of eighteen forty eight, World War one and

World War two, and then the Cold War and then

the War on Terror, the age of fear that immediately

precedes the sudden coming of Christ and Luke twenty one six,

Jesus says men's hearts fainting them with fear and foreboding

what's coming in the world. Terrorists with nuclear weapons are

the single greatest fear people in power have to day period,

wiping out entire cities just like that in a flash

of light and heat. I have read and I'm aware

that special forces in this country, because it's in the press,

have stopped this from happening, have actually prevented nuclear material

from getting in the wrong hands and thracks from getting

in the wrong hands. It could wipe out half a continent.

It's by a thread. Western civilization hangs. The Greek word

foreboding is literally no way out. We are living a

time which is no way out. We need help from

the outside to fix what's wrong on the inside, because

the world's a mess. But guess what, our lives can

be a mess too. We can let fear overtake us

so that we are not ready. We don't live for Christ,

we don't share Christ Loke twenty one twenty seven again.

And then they will see the Son of Man coming

in a cloud. How, how, how with power great glory? Now,

when these things begin to place take place, look up

and raise your heads, because your redemption is where it's

drawing near. And he told them a parable look at

the fig tree and all the trees. As soon as

they come out and leave, you see for yourselves, and

know that the summer is already near. Go to verse

thirty four. Now here's the warning for us. Today as

we wrap this up, but take heed to yourselves lest

your hearts be wid What does it say there way

down and with what kind of things dissipation, drunkenness, and

the cares of this life, that that day come upon

you suddling like a snare. Friends, we need to get

the alcohol out of the church. I mean, forget the

social drinking. It doesn't work for the sudden coming. Nor

does any kind of drug abuse or you know, get

the get the caffeine out of your life. You don't

need a stimulant to live for the Lord. You need

the Holy Spirit. You know, the cares of this life. Yeah,

you got to earn a living, You've got to have

a fire for a one k. But don't focus on that.

Focus on the Church and watch your soul thrive. He

says that that day come upon you suddenly like a snare.

If you're so busy trying to survive, you're not living

for thirty five. For it will come upon all who

dwell upon the face of the whole earth. It will

not be a secret rapture, It'll be a global events.

But watch that all times. So do we let the

Lord out of her life? Or do we keep Jesus

every day of our life through consecration and prayer and

study the Word of God. It's that praying that you

may have strength to escape all these things that will

take place and to stand before the Son of Man.

We're living before jesus second coming. We cannot fool around.

In fact, I like to look at two verses and

I'm gonna read them. I'm going to tell you right now,

we're at next verse, next slide. We are living in

Dany eleven forty. We have been there for two hundred

and twenty eight years. That's where we live in Revelation thirteen,

verse eleven. Next verse Revelation thirteen eleven. We are living

just before the mark of the beast as a lamb

like Christian America will one day become oppressive. We live

right there in verse eleven. That's where we are at

in prophetic time. So, dear heart, I would challenge you,

in the love of God, don't sell your soul for

a pot of porridge. I mean, don't turn church into

something that shouldn't be just a big entertainment game. Let

the Lord save you and your family. Get into the

Word of God. Surrender your life to the Lord and

to watch him take over. Now, before we sing our

closing song and they're gonna come up, I'm gonna personally,

as I stand before you, ask the Lord to recommit

my life to Jesus because I need a recommitment. I

need it. So I'm raising my hands and saying, Lord,

I recommit my life to you. If you want to

stand with me and recommit your life to Jesus, stand

with me right now and just say, Lord, I need you.

I got stuff I need to overcome. I need to

be abiding in you. I want to be saved and

God will save you. Let's have our song. Let's start

right into the thing and we'll pray, Dear Heavenly Father. Oh,

we want to be ready. There's not anything good in us.

We are sinners. We're not going to claim perfectionism here.

But thank you Lord for the Cross of Christ. Thank

you for right now righteousness in Jesus. That's good enough

for the judgment day and every day of our lives.

And thank you for the Holy Spirit, Lord, the Lord

who is the spirit that we can have Christ in us,

the hope of glory. For Lord, when you come back,

we're going to throw our crowns at your feet because

we're not worthy. But we want you to come back.

We want to live in a land that's right. Make

us right here. Give us obedience, but not legalistic obedience. Obedience, love, kindness,

surrender to the principles of the law of God. Why

because Jesus died for his Lord, because of our Savior,

Bless him, Bless his name and Father. It could be

that there's someone here right now who needs to be

baptized into Christ and they know it. You know who

you are. You meet me or Elder John Dom or

Elder Irvin John right afterwards. Lord, let him meet us

and we'll do our best to help him get there.

Raise your hand to heaven if that's you, Raise your

hand if you know that now, Father, as we end

to day, I say thank you for loving your people.

Send 'em home. We went a little long to day,

but we got a chance to see where we are

at in prophetic time. Thank you in Jesus name. Amen,