Sermon
"The Rider on the White Horse" Revelation 6 Verse 1 & 2 (Midweek)
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Revelation chapter 6 verse one and two tonight, 2 verses only.
Revelation 6 chapter mention
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He's going to deal with certain individual.
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Now I saw when the Lamb Jesus, so we're in heaven.
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Remember when the Lamb opened one of the seals?
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We know what the seal is scroll title deed of planet Earth and
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he breaks open the seal and I heard one of the four living
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creatures, the cherubim though around the throne remember
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saying with a voice like Thunder.
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Imagine having a voice that sounds like Thunder come and
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see. Actually in the in the original
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Greek it just says come, come. And I looked and behold, a White
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Horse. He who sat on it had a bow and a
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crown was given to him. So he was given the position to
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rule and he went out conquering and to conquer.
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So who is this rider on the White Horse?
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There are some who've tried to tie him into that being the
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second coming of Jesus Christ, who in Revelation 19 he comes
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riding in on a White Horse and they go wow, see it's the same,
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must be same horse, same guy. No?
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And some real problems exist if you believe that firstly, the
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coming of Jesus on a White Horse does not happen until chapter
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19, which is at the end of the tribulation period, seven years
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judgement, outpouring of God's judgement and wrath upon the
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planet earth. The White Horse in chapter 6 is
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followed by the red horse of war, which we'll get into on
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Sunday, and then the Black Horse of famine and the White Horse of
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death. Jesus doesn't bring famine,
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death and war with him when he on his return.
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Jesus, remember, in 19, is coming to what?
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Abolish war? He's the Prince of Peace.
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When he comes back, the prophet says they shall beat their
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swords into ploughshares, their Spears into pruning hooks, and
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they shall study war no more. Be the end of war.
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There will be an agricultural surplus at the coming of Christ
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when Jesus returns. Speaking of that day, the
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prophet Isaiah said, and Isaiah 5155 verse one, ho everyone that
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first come you to the waters, He that has no money come.
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You buy and eat. Yes, come buy wine and milk
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without money, without price, because during the tribulation
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period, those things won't be available.
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You'll only be able to buy and sell if you have the mark.
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And if you have the mark, you're going to go to hell, you're not
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going to go to heaven. And only the rich will be able
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to delve into wine and luxurious items like that.
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So the White Horse rider in chapter 6, verses 1 and 2 is
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what's known as the Antichrist. The word anti means basically in
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place of so he's a counterfeit, he's a pretend.
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He's doing everything that he can to look like the real thing.
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That's what counterfeit is, isn't it?
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You know, I don't know about you, but when colour
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photocopiers came out, everyone, I, I did used to get the balls
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and cents and photocopy them because it came out.
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Look at that, load my wallet up and go check out that baby, see
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how much money's in there. And I was all counterfeit.
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No one else used to do that. Well anyway.
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And so it's to look like the real, but it's not the real.
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And so the Antichrist, he is going to deceive.
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That's his art craft. He's going to deceive the world
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into thinking that he is the Messiah, Antichrist, the
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counterfeit Christ, and thus it would only be fitting that he
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comes with the disguise of the White Horse.
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That's why he comes with a White Horse, because the White Horse,
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when he first comes into rule, means he'll bring a period, only
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a short period, but initially he'll bring a period of
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seemingly peace, the cessation of war, not like the peace that
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Christ is going to bring where he ends war completely.
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So have you, as you look at the counterfeit, you see how well
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that fits with the whole picture.
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Now, some of you might say, well, OK, well, why are we even
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looking at the Antichrist? Why are we studying the
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Antichrist? I mean, we should be just
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looking for the Jesus for Jesus Christ, absolutely.
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But here's the deal. The Bible says in Two
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Corinthians 2 Timothy 316 that all Scripture is given by
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inspiration and the Bible tells us all these things about the
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Antichrist. He's mentioned and Daniel he's
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mentioned back back as far back as Genesis and through we have
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spirits of Antichrist. We have types of all the way
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through. Then we have him in great
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detail. So the Bible has him here.
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So that's why we study him. Why?
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Because the Bible tells us to go and look at him don't know about
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him. This rider on the White Horse
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will have personally the power of Satan working through him and
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he is given that's the crown that he has rule of the world by
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Satan. Adam lost it when he disobeyed
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God and he obeyed Satan. Satan then became Small G, the
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God of this world in charge. When Jesus was driven into the
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wilderness, 40 days and 40 nights, Satan offered him the
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world because he could. He owned it.
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He ran it. Gee, if you just bow down and
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worship me, Jesus said, I ain't going to do that.
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But he gives this power to this person, this individual who is a
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man. He's not a super creature, he's
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a man, but he has empowered. He's a man, but he's empowered
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by the power of Satan, and the Antichrist will have a very
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gifted charisma that will warm the Western world's political
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leaders and the masses, the people along with them, the
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world leaders will go this guy, hear him speak, listen to him.
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He is amazing, he is brilliant, he is intelligent, and what he
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says will work. It will it will happen and the
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people of the world will go along with the governments.
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He will be one of the most gifted orators the world will
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have ever seen or heard. In Daniel Chapter 7 versus verse
Daniel 7 chapter mention
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8, Daniel is writing in his writing of this period of the
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Antichrist, and he says I was considering the horns and there
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was another horn a little 1 coming up among them, for whom
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before whom three of the four first horns were plucked out by
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the roots. This is Speaking of empires,
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nations. The reformed Roman Empire, the
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only empire that was not defeated.
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Babylonians were defeated, Persians defeated them, and
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Persians were defeated. The Greeks defeated them and the
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Romans came. The Romans defeated the Greeks,
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but the Romans just fell apart. And so Daniel tells us that this
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world leader is going to come from a reformed.
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If you read through Daniel carefully, A reformed, A
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renewed, a reinvigorated Roman Empire of the European Union.
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We call the Union today. You go to Europe now you can
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travel across all the border. The borders are down.
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You're in Europe, EU citizen. They have EU currency, they have
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EU parliament. And here Daniel is saying that
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three of the nations that are part of the EU as we see it
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today will just surrender completely their rule.
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They just say we don't need a Prime Minister, we don't need to
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come you, you run us. You're just so good.
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We give absolute sovereignty over to you.
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So that's these horns. And then this little horn in
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this horn where eyes like the eyes of a man, a mouth speaking
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pompous words, pompous words. He man, he can just rattle off.
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He can, he can speak. Now, you remember when Obama
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came to power in the US, the gift that Obama had was his
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oration. He just, he just drew people his
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capacity to speak. He was a world leader.
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Well, he's going to make Obama sound like a kindergarten kid
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with a stutter, a mouse speaking pompous words is Daniel 7/25.
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He shall speak pompous words against the Most high.
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He will be speaking words saying we don't need any sovereignty or
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God or whatever spirit we can I, I'll tell you what we're going
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to. This is how we're going to
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change the world. You speak pompous words against
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the Most high. Somehow the Antichrist will
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rationally also is a problem. Explain the sudden disappearance
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of millions of Christians around the world because the Antichrist
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is not going to come to power. The first horse rider in chapter
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6, he's not coming to power because in chapter 4,
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Revelation, the church is raptured.
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John is in heaven. He sees the throne.
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Then in chapter 5, we celebrate the church is in heaven, singing
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a song that only the church can do.
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We talked about that on Sunday from every tribe, tongue, and
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nation. It's not the Jews, it's the
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church. And then because the church is
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in heaven now, the Antichrist is allowed by God to take over this
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position, this rule, and he will come up with an explanation that
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will describe the disappearance, Lord willing, of all of us
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gathered here tonight. Somehow he'll weave it into his
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propaganda. Now, propaganda.
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I want to tell you I how long I went to Germany.
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Last year I went to Nuremberg and I wanted to go to Germany
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specifically because I wanted to know how could such a an amazing
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intelligent nation, Germans turn into a Holocaust nation?
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How could that happen? What drove them?
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And I learnt when we learnt, when we're in Germany, in
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Nuremberg in particular, the power of propaganda.
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It was what drove and drove and trained and and and taught and
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drilled the people until by the time, so 12 years old, you're in
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part, you join the Workers Party.
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So everyone's working. And the reason that we're all
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working and the reason Germany has lost all their land, the
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reason that they're poor, the reason that we happen to do this
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is because the Jews caused World War One.
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The Jews now run all the money in the world.
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We're starving, we're poor and it was a Jews fault for World
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War One. That's why we lost all their
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land. That's why we're doing this.
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And then at the age of 14, you then join Hitler Youth and the
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Hitler Youth, you're becoming a paramilitary.
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And it's the Jews that might have made you, your parents who
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suffered and died during World War One.
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And and it was the Jews that caused the conflict.
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And that's why we're having to stir up, we've been just robbed,
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we've been pillaged and it was the Jews fault.
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And then by the age of 18, they're automatically gone into
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the army. So by the time they're 18 and
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they're in the army, they're ready to kill every Jew.
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They have a hatred and it's propaganda.
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It was Goebbels and all those crew, They actually worked at
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it. The way they plan the events.
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You see them in in some of the news reels and it's followed on
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from the Roman Empire and they have the banners.
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And they would have, yeah, a lot of Bavarians are not the blonde
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headed and blue eyed people. Most of the senior officers in
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the German army and the SS were not that way inclined.
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They're quite large because they eat, drink, drink a lot of beer
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and eat a lot of sausages and stuff like that.
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Pork that was. So they were over in the dark.
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And so in the front was choreographed blonde hair,
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blonde hair, 6 foot, 6 foot blue eye.
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Come here to the front film this film.
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That's why they filmed it all. And they would at Nuremberg,
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where they had this great yearly event, Hitler would then have
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the lights go up around this huge area, this fear, with this
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hundreds of thousands of people who've been trained in.
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And they would set the lights up and done at night to make it
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look like a cathedral, a church service.
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So much so was the power required.
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They had to actually build a powerhouse nearby just to run it
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for that service. We visited the powerhouse and
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and then Hitler would come out and they looked upon him and the
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way the light shone. He's the Messiah.
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He was the Messiah for Germany. And when John talks about the
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spirit of Antichrist coming to the world, Hitler and so on and
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go back and go back in time right through.
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And that's the spirit of Antichrist.
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But this is the Antichrist. This is the one.
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They're all types and shadows, but this fella and somehow he
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will convince the remaining world population after the
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church has been raptured that God has judged the Christians
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think about this for allegedly being and doesn't it fit in with
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today's time being too intolerant?
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We're not loving anymore us Christians who are in the word
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of God. I mean, we don't tolerate.
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We haven't adapted, we haven't changed.
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We're bigots with this with that and too judge mental So God got
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rid of him yeah now he has the opportunity to say with his
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false prophet he is right hand man his gobbles who's going to
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be gifted and be able to call fire down from heaven.
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Paul tells us he will say what we'll do now in place now that
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they're gone, we can start a world of faith because we don't
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need that sort of religion. We'll have a world faith.
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And the false prophet healed. The American people go, wow, he
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is the Messiah. The false prophet will call fire
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down from heaven and point to the Antichrist, and people go
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and they'll worship him as the Antichrist, the Messiah, in
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place of the original. Since Christians all over the
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world will disappear instantaneously.
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He can explain that God has punished them.
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Now he must commit to one in unity and government, in
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religion or faith. And also, now that they've gone
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peace, the other ones, it was them that all caused all the
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wars. And often have you heard that?
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Secondly, his platform the White Horse brings is peace.
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As I said, he doesn't come on in a harsh way.
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He comes with peace, he says. And by the way, I'm going to
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call Israel together, the Muslim nations, they've been at war for
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years. I have a way that we can bring
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them together. We can finally solve the
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conflict. And isn't that what wouldn't
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someone now be? You know, who's has Gaza going
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to be sorted out? It's all right taking on Hamas,
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but now who's going to run Gaza? What is Israel's going to have
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to man it Just, you know, put sentries on, have a buffer zone,
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military buffer zone. How?
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How's that going to exist? And so right this moment, you
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see and look at the world, it is primed for this man because
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he'll bring a piece even Donald Trump can't do.
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He'll have the power and the charisma and the deception to
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bring peace to the Middle East. And every U.S.
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President has for years tried to resolve.
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That's why they have Camp David try to resolve the problem of
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Israel and the Middle East. And here's the deal.
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Israel's been at war since October 12th, 2021.
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But they've been at war longer, haven't they?
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They've had wars since 1948, since they got home, the 67 six
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day war and so on and so on. They've been at war.
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Read today of another poor young guy and IDF 19 year old died in
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Gaza fighting for freedom just fighting he's he's part of call
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out. He's 19 years of age.
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He's dead today, just a young man.
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He died and Israel wants peace. We see that within don't they?
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We see protests, hostages in the war.
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We want the hostages want them come home.
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And you know what so does the rest of the world.
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Doesn't the rest of the world want peace?
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Isn't every nation God? Can't we just, can't we just
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sort this out because no one can.
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But what else does Israel desire?
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It desires something that they haven't had since 70AD.
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If we could rebuild the Temple, we can't even go up and prey on
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the Temple Mount at the moment. So it's not allowed for Jews to
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do that at that moment. At this moment when you and I go
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up on the Temple Mount, when we've gone there, Muslims
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control that area, that 35 acre lot, because there stands the
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Dome of the Rock. It's interesting.
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It's a holy site. But when you prey on the Dome of
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the Rock, if you're Muslim, you know where you face Mecca, You
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don't face the Dome of the Rock. So what do the Arabs and the
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Muslims want? They want those in Israel.
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That they feel belong to them. And you know, 2 million of the
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8.5 million, 9 million Israelis are Arabs.
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It's 2,000,000 Arabs of the 8 million Jews, I'm sorry, Israel,
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Israelis. So you can be Arab Israelis, 2
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million of them. So what do the Arabs and the
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Muslims want? They want those in Israel that
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they feel belong to them, areas like those in Gaza, the Golan.
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And So what does the Antichrist, what will he do as he comes on
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the White Horse? He says, I'll allow you to
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rebuild the temple. The Jews go, really, how's that
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going to happen? Or I'll sort that out.
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He goes to the Muslims. He says, look, this is what
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we'll do. Plenty of room on the 35 acres.
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We can build the temple and that's where I believe the
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original site will be as we've been there on the dime of the
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tablets. Remember, we went there.
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It's the place where it's open to the to the rock underneath.
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It's away from the dime of the rock and it's in line with the
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gate where Jesus will come in. We can build the temple there.
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Revelation Chapter 11 tells us go and measure, but don't go out
Revelation 11 chapter mention
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to the core of the Gentiles because I've given that over.
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That area's been given over. So you can build the temple,
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keep the dime of the rock, put a wall down there.
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But to do that, Israel, this is what you need to do.
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You release your control over Gaza and better give and take
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the goal. I know it's so Israel says so we
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can build a temple. Go on the temple, man.
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Wow, Gaza, yeah, you guys look out, but and everyone's happy.
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And the Antichrist goes, look what I've done.
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And the world goes someone, I'm just saying this.
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The world looks at this man and thinks he truly is the Messiah,
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especially the Jews, because if you talk to any Jew today,
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they're waiting for the Messiah. They don't accept Jesus Christ
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as the Messiah. Why?
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Because their Messiah will be a man.
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How will they know when their Messiah comes?
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Because they'll tell you, as they have said to me.
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He we will recognise our Messiah because he will be the man who
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allows us to rebuild the temple word for word.
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They're not looking for Jesus, they're looking for this guy and
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this guy in Daniel. Daniel says he'll make an
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arrangement, 7 year, We're going to have a seven year peace
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agreement. Build the temple.
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Doesn't take very long now to build the temple with all the
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modern equipment, the Jews, you will get to it.
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We get the money, up it goes. We got the priests, we go all
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within, everything ready to go. It's all ready to go now.
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Build the temple, 3 1/2 years, everything's just fantastic.
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And then 3 1/2 years into he breaks halfway through this
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covenant period, he walks into the temple, the Antichrist, he
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sits down and he says stop all the sacrifices.
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Now you sacrifice to me, I'm God.
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And to make sure I'm going to put an image of me here in here
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and now, and everyone's going to have my mark upon their hand.
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And you'll worship me. And if you don't worship me as
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God, you'll die. You won't be able to eat, work,
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buy anything, live anywhere, travel, nothing, unless you
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worship me. That's the story.
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How will the world be seduced by this man, you world leader?
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Well, people are growing increasingly desperate for
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peace, aren't they? And they want to avoid war at
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all costs. No one wants to send their kids
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to war, do they? So they will quickly become
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seduced by this smooth talking the Antichrist whose demonic
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influence will cause people to believe his lie that he's the
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false Messiah. Paul prophesied that this would
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happen. He said in the last days we're
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living in because people will have refused to believe the
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truth of the God of the gospel, Jesus Christ.
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And the church is gone and now what's left are unbelievers.
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Church is out of the scene and the Antichrist comes into the
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scene. They those people will be quick
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to believe the lie of Satan and the strong delusion that is
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coming upon the world here Paul's words of that event, 2
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Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9, the coming of the lawless one.
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That's another name for him is according to the working of
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Satan with all power signs and lying wonders.
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And that's why I want to impress upon you watch today as the
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church soon we'll get more and more looking for signs and
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wonders preparing. They'll deny the word of God.
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Things will happen and people go, oh, see where that's
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happening? I know the Bible doesn't speak
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about it. Oh well, it just happened.
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I experienced it. No, the Bible doesn't say that.
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That's right. I don't care.
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This is what's happening. More lying signs and wonders
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because any sign of wonder, we've looked at that on
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Wednesday night. Remember, what's it for?
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For the building up and edifying of the body of Christ.
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They're the true gifts of the Spirit, but the working of Saint
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with all power signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous
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deception among those who perish.
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That's the non believers left after the rapture of the church
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because they did not receive and here's Paul says the love of the
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truth. I don't want Jesus Christ.
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We don't want that religion. We want our we want what this
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guy's given us that they might be saved, that they might be
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saved. I want salvation.
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I want to live how I want this guy let me live how I want.
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And for this reason it goes on to say Paul says God will send
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them a worldwide unbelievers strong delusion.
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God allows this is coming from God now that they should believe
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the lie. It's kind of like Pharaoh over
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and over and over. He's had his chance.
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Moses would come, let my people go.
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Moses would come, no, let my people go.
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Pharaoh's heart harden, harden hard until God said I've
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hardened his heart now this is what's going to happen.
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His heart's set now. And for this reason, God will
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send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie that
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they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth.
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Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life but had
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pleasure and that's the difference in unrighteousness.
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Romans chapter 1 Why do people sin and reject Jesus Christ?
Romans 1 chapter mention
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Because they it says Paul says they suppress the truth.
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I want to I want to I want to sleep around.
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I want to just have one person I I want to, I want to do what I
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want to do what I want to do it. I don't want anyone telling me
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what I should do. I want to I want I love sin, I
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enjoy sin. That's why they sin.
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And so I've got on page two of five pages, so I'm going to have
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to wrap this up. We'll do the other pages some
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other time. But chapters 2 and three deal
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with the church. Chapter 1 John sees Jesus in all
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his glory, describing chapter 2 and three, the church period
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from Pentecost until the last days.
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Chapter 4 The church has raptured.
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John has taken up in heaven. He sees the throne of God.
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We then move into the things that will take place after these
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things. After the church is taken up in
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chapter 5 we find the church in heaven seeing the worthiness of
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the Lamb to take the scroll. Read the words for yourself.
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Chapter 5. The only people that can sing
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that song are you and I, the church.
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And Jesus takes the scroll of the Lamb, breaks the seal.
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He's redeemed us by his blood out of every kindred tongue,
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people and nation. And so now with the church in
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heaven, John has been telling us what he sees in heaven because
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that's where we are. And now we take a seat, and now
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John turns and he begins to describe now as he, Jesus,
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breaks the seal, the things that are happening upon earth.
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So now from chapter 6 all the way through to chapter 19 is a
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view from the stands of heaven. That's why you read this.
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And the church is never mentioned once from that period
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and during that period. And that's why as the
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tribulation begins, it's also called the day of Jacob's
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troubles. Zechariah 14 One behold, the day
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of the Lord is coming, Zechariah said Jeremiah chapter 30, verse
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7. Alas, for that day is great, so
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that none is like it. It is the time of Jacob's
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trouble. Matthew 2422 Jesus said, unless
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those days, unless it was just cut down, that seven years, it
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was any longer, unless there was those days was shortened no
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flesh, there'd be none left saved.
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But for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened.
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Chapter 6 begins the events of the tribulation that shall come
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upon mankind who has rebelled. Remember, didn't want the lie,
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didn't want the Messiah, didn't want to be saved, like to live
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in unrighteousness. So they God says, OK, you don't
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want me, then I'll give you what you want.
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That's the worst thing that God could ever do to you.
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When God allows you to have your way, that's a horrific thing.
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You always want to receive the chastisement of the Lord.
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The chastisement of the Lord tells you he loves you and he
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cares for you. He wants to correct you.
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But when God in chapter 1 of Romans and then through the
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chapter 2, it says God sees the world and they're rejecting him,
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He says OK, and it says God gives them over to their
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reprobate mind. He says I'll let you have your
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way. That's the judgement of God.
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When God lets you have your way, that's a terrible thing.
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That's a terrible thing. And so chapter 6, and it's told
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it's called a time of great trouble because for Israel it
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will be a time of great trouble, but also a time of great
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conversion.