The Time of the End and the End

Let's pray. Dear heavenly Father, we thank you for Jesus,

the great Shepherd of the sheep. We're grateful that we

live at the time of the end where we can

benefit from prophetic truth. Be ready for your coming. Help

us to know what it means to be ready in

Jesus' name. Amen. There was once a very wealthy and

wise gentleman who decided to visit a school for the

poor that was full of children with huge potential. He

wanted to give a very special prize to the one

child whose desk he would find the best in perfect

order when he would return to inspect the school in

the future. Do I have any neat freaks here? Your

desk is always perfect? No one's volunteer. How many of

you are like me? It's all over the place. Okay,

that's me. I just have a hard time with being

ultra neat. My wife wants to put things in order

and help me with this. Make sure the rags hanging right.

Praise the Lord for Diana. But this wealthy gentleman came

to the school as planned, and he shared his intentions

with all the children and the teachers. Also. The children

were very excited at the possibility that one of them

could win a very expensive prize from the wealthy and

wise gentleman. And just before he left the school, the

children clambered around him and pressed him hard as they

asked him the question, dear sir, when will you return?

He paused for a moment, he said that I cannot tell.

The children's eyes fell, their faces brooded as they looked

so disappointed. They were sure the wise and wealthy gentlemen

would tell them when he would return so they could

be ready for his return. Full of optimism, Suddenly one

little girl piped up with a gleam in her eye

and a kick in her feet and joy in her face.

She was noteworthy at the school for having a very

messy desk, and perhaps the messiest desk of all. She

exclaimed that she was so excited that she could win

the expensive prize offered by the wealthy and wise gentleman.

But at that moment the other children turned to her

and sneered at her. Then you know what do we say?

When they said, oh right, they said you why your

desk is always the worst of all. And so they

all laughed at her as they frowned at her for

thinking that she could win the prize. You will never

win the prize. You're so messy, you'll never win. So

give up. And then later, her face stiff and with

resolved to release a smile as she had a certain

aha something went on inside her mind. She said, oh,

but I mean to clean it first the first of

every week. If I cleaned it the first every week,

that'll work. Then another said to her, but suppose the

wealthy and wise gentleman should come at the end of

the week. She thought for a moment, then she answered back,

then I will clean it every morning. And then another

came back and said, but maybe he'll come at the

end of the day. For a moment, the little girl

was silent and not sure what she would say, for

what she would do with that last reply. And then

a smile came upon her face, with a gleam of

hope in her eye that was true and certain, and

she finally figured it out. She said, I know what

I'll do. I'll just keep it clean all the time,

all the time. Many people are waiting for the second

coming of Jesus, for the right signals to get ready

for the coming of Christ. Many people are waiting for

the right signals to get ready for the coming of Christ,

but in the meantime they're just waiting around and doing

nothing about getting ready. They're excited about the coming, but

they're not preparing for the coming. Can you feel that

in the times in which we're living, we're living in

that kind of an era. They think that if they

know when Jesus will return, they'll be ready for his return.

But so they study Bible prophecy, which is hugely important.

Do you realize we're living in a post prophetic era

in the Christian Church and in Adventism, that when we

should be engaged in prophetic truth, when we should be

studying the Bible, engaging and sharing and growing, there is

a coldness, a latescy, and lethargy that has come upon

the masses. It is fulfilling the prophecy and great controversy

that says, when the test approaches, a large class that

have professed faith in the Third Angel's message but have

not been sanctified by the beatings to the truth, including

men of pleasing address, would leave the message of God

for the last days because they have compromised their life

with the world. Now, friends, we cannot afford to go

down the slippery slope of just giving in to the

pressures of the world culture around us. To be saved

at the end, we must be engaged Bible committed, Bible

believing Christians, or we're gonna find ourselves unprepared. Dear heart,

God has not given us the prophecies to know when

to be ready? Did you hear me? He hasn't. God

has given us the prophecies to know how to be ready.

Do you get the difference not to know when, but

to know how? Turning your bibles to Mark thirteen thirty

two thirty seven, Christ is speaking, and we need to

listen to Jesus this morning, he says, But of that

day and of that hour, no one knows, not even

the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

That's an amazing statement. In our New Testament, when Christ

was on earth, he gave up his powers of prediction.

He did not know the future because he had surrendered

his godlike powers to function at the human sphere, and

so the knowledge of the future while he was walking

on earth was reserved in the mind of his father.

But here Christ tells us that when he was on

earth he didn't know the time of his return. But

he sure said it's important to be ready. Verse thirty three.

He said, take heed, watch, for you do not know

when the time will come. The Greek says literally, see

and stay awake, for you do not know when the

time will come. Christ is saying that Bible prophecy will

not make us smart enough to know when he is coming.

I've heard people get out and they do the calculations

the Jubileese seven seven feasts, and then they say He's

coming on such a day, such a year. We just

don't know. Friend. He could come next year, he could

come this year, but things would have to move fast.

One thing is for certain. When he comes, we will

not be expecting it. It will suddenly come upon the world.

Events will marshal, human circumstances will change. There'll be a

sudden urgency, and many of those who thought they should

be ready will not be ready because they did not prepare.

They were not watching as Jesus told. So we need

to watch and pray and stay awake, because friends, Jesus

is coming. We tend to sleep as Christians and drift

into the world, snoring as we lose our way and

our walk with God. It's so easy to let the

environment and attitudes around us shape us instead of God's

word and God's calling. Now, one thing I'm proud of

right now, our kids are gathered at the Lithicum Church

for pathfinders, and our children need Christian associations in this place,

and we need those associations here. But we have a

good segment of our church that's at the Jessup Prison

and other places ministering to those who need Christ out there.

So church is not just about being here. Church is

about going where we need to be to make a

difference in the cause of God. Christ told his disciples

in Mark fourteen thirty eight in the garden of Gaucinity

to watch and to pray. They fell asleep in the garden.

Jesus prayed for his disciples. He prayed for the whole

world in the garden. His disciples fell asleep, and they

didn't pray for him or for themselves. They were just sleeping.

We stay by praying for ourselves and for others. A

praying Christian is a staying awake kind of Christian. A

praying Christian is not sleeping, is not going into the world.

Culture doesn't say, well, what can I get by with

what will make me feel comfortable. How can I sacrifice

my morals, my principles so I feel good about the

time that I'm living in. So I settle it, and

the keyword I me, my my needs takes over. Christ

continues in verse thirty four. It is like a man

going on a journey when he leaves home and puts

his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands

the doorkeeper to be on the watch. In the church,

there are doorkeepers and there are workers, but there are

no bystanders. In God's plan. Every member of the church

is called depositive Christian action and sincere service in the

church as a worker for God. Did you hear that? Now?

If you think the Lord would have you come to

church and just sit here and not make a difference

in your sphere by doing something significant for others, you've

missed it. God calls us to be engaged, working for

the church, working outside for our community, fighting new and

bold ways to share Jesus, to help people, and in

so doing to grow. We stay awake by praying for

ourselves and working for others. Verse thirty four. It's like

a man going on a journey when he leaves. Actually,

excuse me here, give me a second. Jesus said, it's

like a man going on journey, and that man, in

the parable is Jesus himself, who goes away. Friends. Because

Jesus has gone to heaven, we must watch by praying earnestly.

Ministers are called to do more than just work in

the church. Aren't ministers called to exhort others to be

ready for the coming of the Lord? Yes? Or no.

Should a Bible minister be studying his Bible in the

middle of the weak more than the rest of the church. Yes,

But what if a Bible minister is busy doing the

work of the church members when the church members are

called to do the work of the Lord, so the

minister can be a doorkeeper. Then something's wrong, isn't there.

So if you've settled into a stance in your life

where you don't feel like it really matters to make

a difference in the church, you're hurting the ministry of

the church as well. Now, there are things that I

do at reaching Hearts I'd like to quit doing because

it's not my calling. But I have as a minister.

I step into the gap to help and to serve

in areas of need. When the membership of the church

has failed to serve, you'll find Pastor Mike there. Why

because I believe in being in the gap. But friends,

if we are to be fully healthy in our church,

we are to be engaged. We must find our place

of service. We must stay in that place of service.

We must be committed to make a difference in that

place of service for the sake of God, not the pastor,

but for jesus sake. So, since no one knows when

Jesus will come, we are to watch and to be

ready every day until Jesus comes back. Is that right?

We're not called to be groggy Christians, lazy Christians, victim Christians,

but engaged Christians Verse thirty five. Watch therefore, for you

do not know when the Master of the house will

come in the evening, or at midnight, or at cock

crow in the morning, lest he comes suddenly, and that's

the keywords, suddenly, and find you asleep. Now, if Christ

were to come right now, I ask you this question,

would he find you asleep? Don't raise your hand. Would

he find you asleep? Would he find you unengaged in

winning others? Would he find you not participating in worship

as you should not engaged in Sabbath school early at church.

He's setting aside your time so you don't even bother

with prayer meetings or small groups in your life. Would

he find you sleeping? Key question here? Verse thirty five

He said, watch therefore, lest he comes sudding and find

you asleep. Jesus uses a verb of ongoing action. The

Greek indicates that you should keep on watching because of

the uncertainty of the time. If God told us when,

we wouldn't watch all the time. If God told us

when he is coming, we wouldn't watch all the time.

We wouldn't have faith at any time to be ready.

He's I ask you, what is Jesus advising for all

of us here to do? What do we need to do?

Verse thirty seven. He summarizes the chief concern of the

parable and what I say to you, I say to all.

What's the key word at the very end of the

verse watch, The Greek literally says what I say to you,

I say to all. Keep on staying awake is what

the Greek says. So when you feel like falling asleep

in your Christian experience, the Bible is saying, keep on

staying awake. Jesus was clear. Every moment of every day

is the time to be ready for the second coming.

Don't plan to get ready in the evening. Don't plan

to get ready just on Saturday mornings. We should live

highly engage, looking for the King of God, ready for

Jesus' return period. Dear heart, God has not given us prophecy.

You know when to be ready. God has given us prophecy.

You know how to be ready. There is a moral

purpose to Bible prophecy. Bible prophecy he is meant to

awaken the conscience. So we will pray more, work more,

and when prophecy is rightly understood, we will stay awake

by praying and engaging our world for Jesus Christ. Have

you ever had a time in your life where you

left the Lord and you slipped away? Anybody here every

time like that? Anybody I have. I've had to re

engage as a minister. You know I can overwork and

that I can lose my sense of God's presence in

my life and not be engaged in what really matters.

And what I have found in my life is that

I need Jesus every single men of the day. And

you know what we need to do to make that happen.

We need to be praying all through the day, lifting

our lives and hearts to the Lord, praying for others

when we meet them, so that we are abiding and

awake all day long. Have you ever struggled with a sin?

It was hard to overcome? Don't say what it is? Okay,

only a few. The rest of you are just perfect

saints out there. I'm just highly impressed with you. I'm

just kidding. You cannot be sinning when you are praying.

Am I right? You cannot be sinning when you are praying.

You want to overcome tobacco, alcohol, You want to overcome

that viewing habit that you have. Pray, pray it away.

That's how you resist the devil. When we are awake,

we are praying. Kind of Christians. There are sixty six

books in the Bible, and only one book in the

Bible specifically uses the phrase the time of the end.

How many of you feel like we are living in

the time of the end. You can just feel it.

Angry Christians, whereas they should there should be calm Christians.

The world is angry. There are sixty six books in

the Bible, and only one book in the Bible specifically

uses the phrase the time of the end. The Book

of Daniel is the special book in the Bible that

uses this expression, the time of the end. You'll look

and you'll only find it there. Daniel, this is it

six times that I can find, and there are only

two times when he gets pretty close to using it,

but he doesn't use it. I would like to look

at the two times first, which where he gets close,

and then the six times. Let's move through our bibles together, Daniel,

one verse five, let's read it. The king assigned them

a daily portion of the rich food which the king

ate and of the wine which he drank. They were

to be educated for three years, and at the end

of that time they were to stand before the king.

Daniel gets pretty close to using the term the time

of the end. Here the text is translated at the

end of that time in the revised standard. In the story,

they were to eat the king's food, and then they

were to stand before the king. Daniel knew that the

king's food would not help them be ready to stand

before the king, so he needed a different kind of

food so he could stand before the King and not

be ashamed of his education. So what you eat matters

with your mind, your emotions, and other things. In the Bible,

bread represents the word of God. Man shall not live

by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from

the mouth of God. Daniel ate the right kind of

food so he could stand before the king. Now I'm

gonna ask you the question, are you eating the right

kind of food in your life for entertainment and the like,

or so you can stand before the king? Is the

Bible a book that matters to you? Do you have

a devotional life? Are you engaged with Christ? You see,

there's this lesson in the story. When Jesus comes back,

we will have to stand before the king, and based

on the story of Daniel, we should be eating the

right kind of food, the daily word of God, and

of course good food represents that. In the illustration, we

live in a time in Bible believing people aren't Bible

believing anymore. They're substituting entertainment for Bible growth. I'm always

horrified when I hear churches they gather around coffee tables

and they use caffeine to have fellowship before they have

a worship. Service, and there are churches around here that

do that. Do you know that scientific research has demonstrated

the caffeine lowers your ability to have spiritual perception. That's

been demonstrated through studies that if you want to not

be spiritual, just drink a bunch of caffeine. Didn't know that,

did you? You know what? Caffeine is a precursor. I'm

doing a health window here. Caffeine is a precursor to addictions.

It sets the body to become addicted to other substances.

When I first became a Christian, I had a hard

time with caffeine. I drank these doctor peppers. Anybody, well,

don't raise your hand on that one. I drank doctor

peppers off the charts and Coca Cola's and this kind

of thing, and I would drink it to stay up

late at night. I'd jump on a trampoline, get myself

all in he jetty because the caffeine would make me wired.

She didn't mean to do this, but I'm gonna. I'm

gonna assure this. When I was at a church a

number of years ago, I was jittery for about six months,

and I couldn't figure out why. She gave me the supplement,

and the supplement had green tea in it, and he

pumped me full of caffeine. We read the directions, Oh no,

what have we done? The pastor was like this, My

hands were going like this. I couldn't And so don't

think that things don't matter. But we look at the

music that we that we listened to today. We have

young people today who can't tolerate a Him in the

church anymore. They can't tolerate to him. We are when

we teach our children that we can only sing songs

that they like rather than songs that they need. What

we are doing is preparing a generation for the fire,

because the great music of Christianity it's meant to change

and transform the life of our children. And you know,

we should sing buoyantly and happily because Jesus is coming again.

And yes, there's a place for some contemporary music well chosen,

but a lot of it isn't any good out there.

And I'm not trying to pick on anybody here. I mean,

like Jesus loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know

then me me me I I I in the song

all the time. There's a reason why the music of

hymnity has passed the test of time because it works,

It converts people, It brings people to Christ. Our children

need to learn to sing, to play the guitar. Now

at the evangelistic meeting, I actually did a special music

at the evangelist to meet. I couldn't believe it. Daniel,

you put this, You pressure me rightly so, but I

would like to see young people with guitars singing the

great hymns, the music of God and the way that

angels would gather, and so that we are not compromised

as Christian believers. The second time, Daniel gets real close

to using the term the time of the ends in

Daniel one to eighteen. At the end of the time,

when the king had commanded that they should be brought

in the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before

and Abuganezer. Now in this verse, Daniel and his friends

appear before the king at the end of the time.

The same will happen for us at the end time

of the end. We will appear before the king. We

will answer to the king. These two get close, but

they don't use the term exactly the time of the end. Now,

let's look at the six now that use the exact term,

the time of the end number one, Time of the

end number one Daniel eight seventeen. So he came near

where I stood, and when he came, I was frightened

and fell upon my face. And he said to me,

understand with son of man, that the vision is for

what does it say? Now? The vision he's talking about

is the twenty three hundred year vision, the Hodzone vision,

the longest prophecy in the Bible that goes from the

autumn of four to fifty seven BC and reaches to

the year eighteen forty four. He says that vision is

for the time of the end. Do you realize that

since the year eighteen forty four we've been living in

the time of the end? In fact, based on Daniel,

since the year seventeen ninety eight, we have been living

in the time of the end. Yet many people scratch

their head, what is that pastor talking about? What? Because

we're not studying as we should. This is Daniel eight,

and Daniel has had just seen the longest time prophecy

in the Bible, the twenty three hundred year long prophecy

that John dom here elder John dom laid out in

our evangelistic series. And then Daniel saw Jesus Christ as

the mare, the vision the appearance of the Mighty Man

in Daniel eight fifteen, that which is the seventy Weeks,

the first part of the twenty three hundred year prophecy.

He saw Gabriel. When he saw them both, he got

real scared. He didn't know what to do. And don't

tell me that angels only look comfortable around people. Don't

tell me there's sweet little things. He was horrified when

he stood before this majestic, powerful being. When you see

an angel in armor for real, you get scared. The

angel Gabriel said, understand, Prophecy has not been given us

to make us smart. Prophecy has been given to us

to give us understanding that we would not acquire on

our own. In the Book of Daniel, the wise will

understand because they have come to understand the prophecy as

it is in Jesus. I've heard people say, well, pastor Mike,

you know all these prophecies, the beasts of Daniel, revelation,

why do they matter? Let me ask you this question.

Does Jesus matter to you? Does he all right? Jesus

gave them because he's telling you how to be ready,

how to know the future through symbolism. So when a

person walks away from the study of prophetic truth, they

are walking away from what the Bible calls in Revelation

nineteen ten, the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.

The lion roars when prophetic truth is revealed, and thus

we learn and we grow. So the angels telling Daniel

that the twenty three hundred year long prophecy is for

the time of the end, so we can understand, and

that means there will be a restored people at the

time of the end, a people of understanding, a people

who live for God, who surrender their sins, who are

being cleansed and prepared to stand before the King at

the second coming. Look at Daniel eight fourteen with me. Now,

this verse here created the Seventh day Adventist Church. And

he said to me, for two thousand, three hundred evenings

in mornings meaning days, what's a Bible day evening morning cycle?

And we know you can figure out what a day is,

because no time prophecy in the Bible would work unless

it's a full twenty four hour period, because if you

split the days in half, and you make two days

out of one, and all that you don't really have

a consistent prophetic time pattern. So the evenings and mornings

was a way in which the ancient Jewish people, led

by God, described a full twenty four hour day. Then

the sanctuaration will be restored to its rightful state. Now

the Hebrew is knitztak. The core Hebrew verb there is zdek.

Say it with me, so I'm not repeating myself. Zdik

say it zdek. Now, can you think of a name

in the Bible that has zeddek in it? Mail kez zedek, malkezedek,

melkezedec means king of righteousness. So the verb translated restored

here is the verb that literally means to be made righteous,

to be zedicd. It can be translated three ways in

terms of righteousness, to cleanse. It can be translated to

restore or to reconsecrate, which means to make it righteous. Now,

what the Bible is getting at here is this is

that the end of the twenty three hundred year prophecy

that reaches down to the year eighteen forty four, that's

when Jesus comes before his Father as the new Melkezedek

as the King of Righteousness, the great high Priest of Heaven,

and he receives the final kingdom from his father in

the judgment, and then he gives the kingdom to us.

So this time Prophecy points to the restoration of all

things before the second Coming. The angels tell him that Daniel,

that God's Kingdom judgment will begin in that year, in

the year eighteen forty four, and that God himself will

restore his church, his people in heaven itself, so that

the final Kingdom of God will take the Gospel to

the world and Jesus will come in glory to people

who have been transformed and changed. You know, I don't

know about you, but I don't want to be a Christian.

It's not cleansed, restored or vindicated. What about you. I

don't want to say, Lord, you know, I want to

still hang on to this sin, that sin, do that

and whatever, and then say, please take me to heaven. Prayers,

Our Lord, get that stuff out of my life. Help

me to live for you right now. Help me not

to be compromised in my life. I'm a weak human being.

Give me Jesus now. Older John Dom laid out this

prophecy so well in our evangelistic meeting, the twenty three

hundred year of God's own vision that reaches to the

judgment in heaven when Christ comes to the Ancient of

days to confess our names before the Father. And then

the first part of that was the seventy weeks, the

four ninety years, the Mare, the appearance of Jesus, and

his death on the cross. And this is the overarching

time prophecy that gives us the framework for understanding Daniel revelation.

Every Christian should know this prophecy and work to understand it.

The next verse in Daniel that concerns the time of

the end tells us that satanic anger will come at

God's people as the church nears the time of the end.

Have you ever felt like the devil is angry at

you in life? Do you ever feel like he's going

after you? Time of the end? Two in Daniel Danelate

nineteen is the verse he said, Behold, I will make

known to you what shall be at the latter end

of the indignation, for it pertains to the appointed time

of the end. Now, what's the indignation in the Book

of Daniel. The indignation is the time times two times

and half a time, and the latter part of the

indignation is the half a time. It's a twelve hundred

and sixty year prophecy because each of those years has

so many months twelve months, twelve, twelve, twelve and six,

forty two months, thirty days, forty two times thirty twelve

hundred and sixty days, twelve and sixty years. That's Bible math.

The latter part is the last half year when the

persecutions of the Middle Ages went off the scales. Millions

of people died leading up to the time of the

End in seventeen ninety eight. And the point is the

devil hated the church enough that in the Middle Ages

he sought to destroy it and wipe it off the

face of the earth. Peter says in Onest Peter five eight,

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary of the Devil prows

around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Now.

I had a friend named Dan. He's now dead. He

was an evangelist. He was of a different mindset in

a different time. He worked for amazing facts. He told

me a story once when he was at a zoo.

He had no fear, he had no boundaries. There was

a lion there and there was a just some bars,

not like a glass wall, and the lion came close

to the bars and he stuck his hand to pet

the lion on its head. Don't do that, Okay, he did,

he was petting the lion, said the lion just gobbled

his hand. So his hand was in the mouth of

the lion. And what does the lion want to do?

He wanted to gobble up the hand. This is what

Dani and did. He took his hand, bawled up his fist,

shoved it deep into the lion's throat, and then started

to pull it out. And just as he pulled it out,

the lion roared and tore his hand, and it was safe.

Don't ever do it, Dan, did you see? A lion

is angry, seeking whom it can devour. Satan is angry

at you. We are to be sober and watchful by praying,

because Satan wants to destroy us, our family and our children.

Now I'm going to say this, if you're a parent

and you are coming to church and you're living a

double life, and your children see it, you're hurting your family,

your children, clean out the television viewing. If you have

a sin you're struggling with, ask God for help, ask

me to pray. Let's get the victory over those things.

Your children need to see committed converted parents in your life.

You need it too. Daniel calls the time that leads

up to the time of the end the latter end

of the indignation relation twelve seventeen. Why is Satan angry

with God's people at the time of the end? This

is a watershed verse Revelation twelve seventeen. The dragon was

wroth n It's an old King James's word. What does

it mean? Wroth angry with the woman symbolizing God's people

connected to the heavenly Jerusalem. He went to make war

with the remnant of her seed. The seed is Jesus.

The remnant are those that are faithful to Jesus in

history and at the time of the end. And here

are the characteristics which keep the commandments of God. Does

obedience matter based on that verse? Yes or no? It matters?

And have the what the testimony of Jesus does have

a relationship with Jesus matter? Based on this verse? Friends,

we need to be obedient Bible believing commandment, keeping people

who love Jesus by faith to be ready for end

time events. The devil hates people like this. Notice that

Satan is angry at these two things at the time

of the end. So what do you say. Let's get

on our knees. Let's ask God to help us obey

and to be with Christ the time of the end.

Number three and Daniel eleven thirty five. I like this,

and the eleven thirty five, and some of those who

are wise show what. Now, not everybody who's faithful dies

of martyr's death, but some do to refine and to

cleanse them and to make them white. And it's talking

about the Middle Ages. Millions of people, thousands died to

be faithful to Jesus Christ in the Middle Ages, persecuted, burned,

torn to pieces by the church, fused with the state,

and to make them white until the time of the end.

And the majority of it happened after just a few

years before seventeen ninety eight, when we call the counter

Reformation era, until the time of the end, for it

is yet for the time appointed. So the Bible says,

great persecutre in the Middle Ages. Daniel's telling us here

that God allows trouble to come into our lives to

purify us, to make us white and refine us. I

don't know if you ever been on TV and you

watch those televangelists, they say, if you just send the

money in, God will bless you and all that you

ever hear that you've heard it. And I once called

somebody out on the radio here. I was preaching it

up on the radio and someone got mad at me.

You just attacked my favorite preacher. I said, didn't mean to,

didn't work, but he had a theology. You know, you

just kind of pray over a cloth and you touch

something and you send money to his ministry, and then

God's going to open it up, make you rich and

all this stuff. And they get rich doing that because

people fall for it. What if I were to tell

you that if you become a Christian that your life

will make it really hard. If you keep the seventh

day Sabbath, you may have to lose your job and

get a new job. If you are faithful to not

drink with your old drinking buddies, they may turn on

you and try to destroy your reputation. If you try

to take the right position morally. That person may try

to entangle you that you may have to struggle to overcome,

and there's a price to pay. Is it still worth it?

Is Jesus worth the struggle, and say that's what the

Lord asks of us Matthew five, three to six. It

takes spiritual poverty, not a sense of greatness, to be

an overcomer. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs

will be the Kingdom of heaven. Does it say that?

What is say is the king of heaven. Friends, when

you get on your knees and you're struggling with God

and you ask God to give you grace in your life,

it's at that moment you're accepted by Heaven. The Kingdom

of Heaven belongs to a person like that right now

in their life. Verse five. Blessed are the meek, for

they shall inherit the earth. Well, there goes arrogance. We

don't need it. Number six. Verse six, Blessed to those

who hunger and thirst or righteousness, and they shall be satisfied.

If you want to live for the Lord, if you

want to obey the Lord, you want to follow the Lord.

You're hungering and thirstying for the Lord. You will be

satisfied in your life. God will bless your business in time.

God will bless your life in time. You may have

a hard time getting there, but in the end you'll

have God's blessing, not your blessing. Time of the End

number four is in Dany eleven forteen forty one. At

the time of the End, the king of the South

shall attack him, But the King of the Norse shall

rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen,

with many ships. He shall come into countries and shall

overflow and pass through. And then verse forty one, he

shall come into the glorious land, and tens of thousands

shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand.

Eat in Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.

I'm not going to exegete all of that with you,

but I'm going to get to the heart of it.

In the Bible and Bible prophecy, the king of the

South is Egypt. In the context the new Egypt at

the time of the end is France. In seventeen ninety eight,

why the French went to Egypt, Napoleon Brute with a

cannon ball the story goes blew the nose off the sphinx,

but they took the obelisk, the language, the culture, they

translated hieroglyphics, and they transformed French society, so it'd be

the new Egypt at the time of the end. Fulfilling

Bible prophecy, Revolutionary France represented the rebirth of a materialistic,

godless worldview like that which the ancient Egyptians held. The

Book of Daniel teaches that at the time of the End,

it began in the year seventeen ninety eight, at the

end of the twelve hundred and sixty year Prophecy and

Daniel twelve six and Angel asks the man in Lenin,

how long for the end of the wonders of the

persecutions of the Middle Ages? And the answer comes in

verse seven, it is a time times and half of

times now. The man in Lenin who's walking on the

water is Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. Who walked

on the water in the New Testament is easy? Jesus did. Well.

Guess who walks on water? Here Jesus, and he's standing

over the waters. He's swearing that God would save his church.

At the time of the end, and he says it

would be for a time times and half a time,

which is forty two months, twelve and sixty days a

day for year twelve hundred and sixty years. And then

when the shattering of the power of the Holy People

has come to an end, the persecutions have ended, then

all these things will happen. God will start moving in

in time history. He'll start engaging the church again. Bible

prophecy will come online, men and women will be alive,

and the truth will be moving. That's what he says,

And so Jesus himself promised the appearance of the Great

Advent movement in our time. The Roman Church system rose

when the Siege of Rome lifted in the spring of

five point thirty eight a d. And ended in the

spring of seventeen ninety eight. That's that twelve hundred and

sixty year time prophecy. When France, as new King of

the South, gored the Roman Church state system in seventeen

ninety eight, exactly twelve one hundred and sixty years to

the month when that system was established as a church

state kingdom in the buddh of Italy, the world moved

from a corrupt religion to a satanic secularism. It moved

from insincere belief to sincere belief but deadly. It moved

from church and state to justice state without God or

the Church. We call that the humanistic, materialistic era of nationalism.

And when that happened, the great Revivals occurred. As religion

was shutting down in the Old World in Europe, it

was coming alive in the First and Second Great Awakenings

in America, which would finally lead to the Great Advent Awaking,

where men and women would be studying day to late

fourteen the longest time prophecy in the Book of Daniel,

and they would realize that Jesus is coming. They would

move from post millennialism to pre millennialism. In the middle

of the eighteen hundreds. The time of the end would

come upon the world in eighteen forty four, at the

end of the twenty three hundred year prophecy, God restored

his church on earth with Bible truth and Bible prophecy.

There is a reason why the remnant Church keeps all

the commandments of God. God's commandments. They are His Covenant,

his Holy Covenant, and the Ten Commandments, His name, his character,

who he is, can Christ return for a church at

the time of the end that says we're gonna pick

and choose which commandments we keep. All right, Let's say

you have a church that says thou shalt not kill,

and they say we're gonna kill anyway. Could God come

back to that church? No? What about the fourth commandment?

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. The fourth

commandment friends the Sabbath in any ways is the question

to unite the hearts of God's dear waiting saints. It's

the one commandment where God says, remember, because when you

remember it, you remember Jesus. When Christ died on Good Friday,

he rested on the Sabbath day before he died. He

said it is finished. He reached back into time. He

embraced what he said at creation and the creation of

the Sabbath. The one who made us saved us, and

he affirmed Sabbath rest again because of the Cross and

the Gospel. Dear heart, if you're trying to work your

way to heaven the Sabbath, it's God's way of saying

that we are finished by faith before we start. We

rest in the finished work of God. We do not

make ourselves ready we rest in God, who is our King.

Time of the end number five and Daniel twelve four.

But you Daniels shut up the words and sealed the book.

And what does the Bible say until the time then

day's talking about the Book of Daniel. Many shall run

to and fro. And what will increase knowledge? So what

book would be online at the time of the end

with people all over the world sharing it? Based on this,

The Book of Daniel exactly the time of the end

began the year seventeen ninety eight. A few years later,

in eighteen forty four, there was a people of just

a fifty fifty people that weathered the great disappointment correctly,

who understood the longest time prophecy in the Bible, who

grew in their knowledge of God. We are empowered today

because of their sacrifice and witness. The Book of Danie

was unsealed in the year seventeen ninety eight. At the

time of the end. There's only one book in the

Bible that Jesus says you better study at the time

of the end. Turned to Matthew twenty four. Now like

the way that it says this, he who endures to

the end that could be he and she who endure

to the end will be what. Now do you like

that said, well, I don't want to be saved. You

hear anyone saying I don't want to be saved? How

many want to be saved? I'm in the wanna be

saved group. Okay, Now look at how in verse fourteen

and this gospel that means the good news of the Kingdom. Now,

what's the gospel Jesus The first importance. Jesus died for

our sins. He was buried to do what to take

them away? Based on one Corinthians fifteen, and he was

raised in Romans four twenty five four hour justification, acceptance.

The death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ takes

care of your sins. So this gospel of the Kingdom

will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony

to all nations, and then the end will come. Now

go to verse fifteen. So when you see the desolating

sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel standing in the

Holy place, don't bother to read prophecy like all those

preachers are telling you. Is that what he's saying? What

did he say? Let the reader. Understand, Friends, we're meant

to understand the Book of Daniel. This is why Angels

in the Glen dot Org is a huge contribution to

our church. At this time, we're meant to understand it. Friend.

We need the Cross of Christ to be ready for

the coming of Lord. We need the Book of Daniel

to help us become engaged with Bible truth and to

grasp the times in which we live. Time of the end.

Number six in Daniel twelve nine, the last one he said,

go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up

and sealed until what time. We wait till the verse

appears on the screen Daniel twelve nine. Next slide there

he said, go your way, Daniel, for the words are

shut up and sealed until what time. So the book

we're talking about is meant to be disclosed and understood

in our time. I have spent more time in my ministry,

in small groups at my house and other places, opening

up the Book of Daniel than any other thing because

of this verse. Because I have seen that when men

and women study the prophecies of Daniel, they come into

a love relationship with Jesus, They grasp the times in

which we live. They want to live and be right

and save their families. It's a transforming thing. And I

have found that young people and others who just want

to have their Christian experience based around going to a

Christian rock concert somewhere, or they want to go to

some gathering where where they compromise themselves and they call

it christ it doesn't grow them at all to be

ready for the coming of the Lord. But young people

who went through reaching hearts, who went through the books

of Dan Revelation, stayed and grew and became vibrant, secure

Christians in the church. And I would rather work with

the few rather than the many to get an outcome

like that, because that's what God is calling us to do.

We are living in a divinely appointed time of pure opportunity.

We can know that Jesus Christ is coming, we can

understand his word and we can be saved. Dear heart,

God has not given us the prophet he's a when

to be ready. God has given us the prophecies to

know how to be ready. How many of you realize

that you're weak? You're just weak, You're not strong, and

you want to be ready. Raise your hand if you're

I'm raising mind. Do you realize that Jesus Christ died

for you to give you everything you need? Seize the prize,

go for it. Don't surrender to lazy Christianity. Be engaged, share, grow, love,

live because we're living at the time of the end,

and the end is coming, and it is a new

beginning with Jesus God, bless you do, your heavenly Father.

Would be a bummer if we were lost, if we

didn't make it because we just fell in love with

a certain television program, or we fell in love with alcohol,

or we allowed to sin to take over our lives.

What's grateful, what's really good, is that you're merciful, you're patient,

you love us. You're not willing that he should perish,

but all should come to repentance. It's repentant Christians that'll

be saved, not strong Christians, not powerful Christians. You know,

the meek, the lowly, the broken, the humble. And so, Lord,

I pray right now there's someone here, maybe more than one,

who is struggling to overcome. They don't want to be

a slave to that which has overcome them. And Lord,

I'm going to ask them, as we bow our heads,

just raise your hand to God and say, God, that's me.

It's me. I'm struggling with that thing. And Lord, you

know what it is, and no one else needs to

know right now. But I just pray that Lord, you'll

lead that person to get on their knees, to be

broken up, to cling to Jesus, to look in their

children's eyes and others and say what matters most is

being right and saving my family at the time of

the end. And Lord, people are making good steps in

progress when they come to church. Lord, but give them victory,

Give us all victory. May there be no rancor, no anger,

no resentment in this church. Lord, may be lived for others,

for the salvation of every human being. And thank you

that Jesus did that for us. In Jesus name, Amen,