End Times // Revealing of the Antichrist - Man of Sin (Geoff Smith)

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We appreciate to what you guys do and you're sharing of talents

and skills that you've the Lord's.

Given you a lit, some open. Our Bibles as we will continue

our study of the end times. And today Jeff Smith has kind of

come down from Auckland to share the word with us this afternoon

and for you. I'm out, Jeff, I just like to

pray for you. And thank you for coming down

and being willing to share the word that the lord has laid on

your heart. It me Father, we thank you we.

Thank you that we have this privilege to come here now and

open your word Lord. What joy that is to us.

And Lord, we thank you for the message that you have laid on

Jeff's heart. He thank you for his willingness

to share and his obedience to come and to bring that to us.

We Lord, we pray that you will continue to give him the words

this year, but Lobby also pray that our hearts will be open to

receive and to listen and to take heed of the word of God.

So we just can't commit this time to you now and we thank you

for it in Jesus name. Amen.

Thank you so much Jeff. It's an absolute Delight to be

with you this afternoon. When Andrew Linton first

contacted me and asked, if I would be happy to be part of a

series on end times. I didn't even have to pray about

it. And if I did, it was the

shortest prayer meeting I ever had.

It's so lovely to be in a group of believers.

Who You Are? Interested in what the Bible has

to say about the end times. when I was a boy, you know, back when

the crust of the Earth was still warm We used to sing a lot.

It was a bit more limited than it is today.

If it wasn't in the red book at never got sung at night and if

it wasn't in the green book, never got sung in the morning.

But between the Green Balkan, the red book, there was a lot to

sing about and a lot of it was about The future.

Is a land that is fairer than day.

And by faith, I can see it afar where the father Waits over the

way. To prepare us a Dwelling Place

there. We're marching to Zion.

Beautiful, beautiful, Zion T. I know if you're under 60, you

won't remember these songs but that's okay.

Back then we were going someplace.

We were marching to Zion. you know, we get caught up thinking

about the impact of the past It was Sigmund.

Freud who said to us, that what you are today is the result of

what happened to you when you were young.

You were made to eat broccoli and carrots.

And now you are psychologically Disturbed and that's the reason

why you've got clipped Mania and charges for shoplifting.

It's not to do with you now, it's to do with what happened

before and everyone bought that line.

Sigmund Freud as you know, was an Austrian psychiatrist. and

everyone bought that line because Well, if explained at

least a little bit, they hoped of why things were the way they

were. Until they got in the middle of

World War Two. World War one was done and

dusted and then Along Came World War Two.

And another psychiatrist by the name of Victor Frankl.

Who wrote a very important book about the meaning of life.

He said, if we are the product of our past, And this tomorrow

will be our past. God, help us.

And Viktor Frankl, did a study in the concentration camps of

the Third Reich where he was incarcerated. and he found out

that the people who survived in the people who gave up and

succumb, Were distinguished. By their hope. one line didn't

have any and so they gave up but the men who were thinking of

their sweethearts, And her children.

The Men Who were thinking of when the war is done, they would

run on home into the arms of their wives.

Those were the men who dug in deep And had courage. and there,

The Men Who lasted and eventually went home. you see

the truth is, it's not the past that really matters.

It's the future. And that's why the Lord Jesus

continually directed our attention to the Future.

That's why the Bible has so much to say about the future.

It's not that you're a victim of the past.

No, sir your face is toward the future of which the Bible speaks

and that's where you get your courage and that's where you

find your peace and that's what makes you different from

everyone else because now you have motivation and you are

waiting for that wonderful day. When you see the Savior face to

face, And he says, well done, good and faithful servant.

And so it's lovely for me to come here and be part of this

series on the future vitally important.

The future controls the present. Never forget it. so, I'm rather

glad And the future for us, as Believers is filled with hope

true. It's good, man.

You can say I'm in a little louder as the time progresses.

I thought you might have had indigestion and we're just

clearing your throat after lunch in the Bible is Filled with hope

everyone's looking for hope. You know, they look at Putin and

they look at what's happening in the Ukraine.

They look what's happening in China.

They look at the problem over Taiwan.

They look at the problems in Africa.

I look at the problems in Europe and everyone is on the edge of

their seats saying what in the world is going to happen?

Well, the Bible tells us what's going to happen and and and it

takes us right to the end in the Book of Revelation and not just

their right throughout the scripture, but it gives us a

Vista of the future. And the Bible tells us that when

all is done and dusted, and when the dust of the wars have

settled, we have a bright tomorrow.

Amen. Amen.

We have a bright tomorrow. When you look into the Book of

Revelation, or I did it in, the sauna will have no tomorrow.

When you look into the Book of Revelation, the Bright Tomorrow,

essentially focuses on two things.

The first is a Thousand-Year Kingdom on this earth.

Now we believe I take it, if we're reading this book

correctly, that we're expecting the Lord Jesus to come again.

Amen! Amen, we call it the second

coming. Now that's important.

Because if there's a second coming must have been a first

coming. That's simple enough, no Sunday

afternoon, it's warm. We don't want to work too hard.

So if this is a second coming, there must have been a first

coming. And the first coming is when the

Lord Jesus left, heaven and came to Earth.

And he came to Earth, and he was here on this planet for 33

years. That's the first coming.

Now, if the second coming, it's got to be more of the same.

The first coming was from Heaven to Earth.

The second coming is from Heaven to Earth.

Only this time, if we're reading Revelation, 20 correctly, he

will be here for a thousand years and he will establish a

reign of righteousness and peace.

And who, in the name of seven, bald cats doesn't want that.

I do, I'm over this world. Every morning, I wake up reach

out for the cell phone, look at the BBC News and think what else

can go wrong, really? And truly.

And so we anticipate the second coming of Christ to Earth to

establish his kingdom and bright tomorrow.

Your badge in their Kingdom. You know, by the time, the first

generation of born in that Kingdom.

They won't have a clue about the world that you, and I lived in.

No, we live in a world where there is Ram raids where there's

brutality with his corruption with his drugs, with as rape

with this incest, where there's elder abuse.

Will we live in a sick and sad world?

But the first generation in that Thousand-Year Kingdom won't have

a clue about the world. We lived in, they'll be living

in a world, the like of which this planet has not seen since

the days of the Garden of Eden. And if we talk to them about

Sin, they want to know what it's about.

You know, they'll be no cell phones and there will be no

pornography. I was driving through Korea,

happy Road, the other night and I saw a shop called peaches and

cream. I thought it was for desserts

and turns outs for adult stuff as Brazen as you like right

there. You know, here's his a dairy,

and here's a sex shop, anyone have any of that stuff?

There'll be no pornography, they'll be no magazines like

that. There will be no channels that

you can get privately. And and and feed on that stuff.

So it'll be gone. People won't be tempted the way

you and I attempted here. Sinners in your face there.

No, sir. He'll be raining with a rod of

iron in the Kingdom of righteousness and peace.

Wow, that's fantastic. But there's more When that

kingdoms finished, there's an eternal Kingdom coming.

We're in righteousness lives at home.

Don't you like that righteousness will be at home in

the Kingdom that will last forever and ever and ever.

So the Thousand-Year Kingdom, if you like is a vestibule into the

Eternal Kingdom that's coming, it's a little taste of what's

around the corner. Now that's an important Kingdom

because in that Kingdom, all the covenants that God had made with

the nation of Israel will be fulfilled in that Kingdom, Jesus

will reign supreme and he will succeed where Adam and Eve

failed. And the second Adam will rule

and reign in glory. It's gonna be fantastic.

So that Thousand-Year kingdom is just to eat taste.

You know, when I was a kid, Sunday's were important, you

won't believe it, but only the dairy and the Bowser remember we

called it, the Bowser, that's a gas station.

Only the dairy and the Bowser were open on the Sunday,

everything else shut on Friday night.

Now it was peaceful but it was as boring as all get-out.

I got to tell you there was nothing happening anywhere in

these motor and That's the way it was well after church, you

would go home. If you ran out of milk, you

stopped at the dairy on the way home and you made.

Sure there was no Christian looking at you and you sneaked

in under the covers. And you got a bottle of milk and

you didn't dare by The Herald or any other worldly extra and your

hightailed it back into the car and home you win.

And they're at home was a roast of lamb, remember those days

when lamb was cheaper than chicken?

Back, then chickens were expensive.

You only had them when important people came to dinner and

there's a kid. I can remember the days when we

had chicken, I didn't look up and say these people don't.

Look that important. I got to tell you that the rest

of the time you had lamb, the reverse of today and you'd open

the door as she went home from church and You could smell the

mint, you could smell the Rosemary.

Hmm. And there was a pot of gravy

that mom had made before we went to church.

And it was simmering on the stove and then Dad would take

the Lamb of roast and had put it on the carving board and Head

Start into it. And he'd get down to those

crispy bits on the shank end. You know what I'm talking about.

And then he would cut a little bit off.

Now up until then it's anticipation.

Smells so good. But when he cut the little bit

off and put it on the carving fork and gave it to you.

Well, that was a foretaste. There's a difference between

anticipation and a foretaste. The foretaste is when you've got

the lamb between your teeth and your thinking is more to come,

now, that's a millennial Kingdom.

Right now, we read the word and we anticipate, but when the

kingdom comes and the Lord Jesus returns, he's carving off a

little bit of paradise, and he saying taste this.

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Around the corner, there is an

eternal world where all the wrongs will be righted.

And righteousness will reign forever.

Wow, we got a bright tomorrow. Fanta while the Bible is

optimistic. It's also realistic.

Before the second coming of Christ as big trouble.

We're longing for the bright tomorrow.

But before that, the Bible says, this going to be a time of big

trouble and so Revelation, 20 and 21, and 22, take you into

the millennial Kingdom and Beyond into that wonderful City,

the Jerusalem, that is above, and it describes all the glory

of that Heavenly City before that you've got to go through

chapters 6 through 18. Oh that's big.

Trouble. You start reading this and you

think holy smoke. I'm never read anything like

this before. Look at what God is going to do

to the world. We call this the tribulation

period. Things will get much worse.

Before they get better. But things will eventually get

much better after they got worse.

This seven-year period. According to the Book of Daniel

and the Book of Revelation, involves these judgments seven,

seal judgments, seven, trumpet, judgments seven Bowl, judgments.

And these judgments are poured out on the whole world.

No one will escape. The reason that God is going to

pour these judgments out on the whole world, is because the

world has earned it This is the wages of sin, paying a premium

price. The nations of this world that

were meant to govern the the, the nations of the world, the

governments that were meant to govern them have abandoned God.

Long time ago, it's all gone out the window.

Back when I was a boy you knew you were born.

A boy cuz they dressed you in blue.

And you knew you were a girl because they dressed you in pink

now. If they had any doubt it was

kind of a murky orange and and they weren't sure And now we're

in a weird world. Everything nailed down is coming

loose. Everything that used to be rock.

Solid has been smashed to pieces. it's not that we've

stopped thinking, it's that they've taken away the stuff we

used to think with That's what's happened?

And now we're in a sad world and eventually.

God is going to say gentlemen, it's closing time.

You've had your day. Now, this is my day.

And the Book of Revelation doesn't beat around the bush.

It spends all of those chapters from chapter 6, through to

chapter 18, describing the most incredible suffering and

judgment. That is going to come upon this

world and the dominant personality in the middle of it.

All Is the man, the Bible calls the Antichrist.

I looked for a picture this morning to put up Antichrist.

It blew me away. They were all of these demonic

kind of looking things that were weird and they had long

fingernails and long teeth and sunken eyes.

And just to look at them reminded you of your baby

pictures. Well, that's a trick of the

devil. I mean anyone who saw that would

save your Antichrist, I know your mother.

But Antichrist as the Bible describes him.

Isn't that kind of figure, you know, that's what the world

does. It takes the devil makes them

into a cartoon character with a forked tail and with horns and a

pitchfork as if anyone believed in that stuff and they do the

same with Antichrist. Now Antichrist I think is going

to look like the most amazing person we've ever seen.

I think he's probably going to be tall and handsome but that's

where our similarities finish and I think we would be better

to call him mr. Suave.

Or this guy's going to have golden lips.

This guy's going to have eyes that can see through any

situation. And we read about him in the

Bible. In three major sections. in

Daniel, he's described in chapter 7, chapter 8 and chapter

11 and chapter 9 As the little horn now that makes you want to

know more than that. Why is he called the little

horn? And then, when you get to the

book of the Revelation in Chapter 13 and then chapter 17,

he's called The Beast. And then when you get into the

third major chapter and second Thessalonians chapter 2, he's

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called the man of sin and there's a reason for that.

It's because he's promoting sin. It's because he's full of sin

and because he's the instrument of Satan in a way that no other

human being has been He is the man of sin.

Now, I wish that we had ours together so we could go through

this because the subject material is so extensive.

We don't have it but you have a Bible will take a reading in

Daniel chapter 7. If you bought half a Bible, you

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got the wrong Hearth. I can guarantee you.

So you need an Old Testament to balance the New Testament, as we

look at the person of antichrist.

Daniel chapter 7. This is a long reading.

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But it's far more important for you.

And I to hear the word of God, then to hear me.

And the first year of belshazzar, King of Babylon,

Daniel had a dream and Visions passed through his mind as he

was lying on his bed. He wrote down the substance of

his dream. Daniel said in my vision at

night, I looked and there before me were the Four Winds of

Heaven, churning up the great sea four.

Great beasts each different from the others came up out of the

sea. The first was like a lion and

that had The wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were

torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on

two feet like a man and the heart of a man was given to it.

And there before me was a second beast which looked like a bear.

It was raised up on one of its sides and had three ribs in its

mouth between its teeth. It was told get up and eat your

fill of Flesh. After that, I looked and there

before me was another Beast, one that looked like a leopard and

on its back had had four wings. Like those of a bird this Beast

had four heads and it was given authority to rule.

After that, in my vision at night, I looked.

And there before me was a fourth Beast, terrifying, and

frightening, and very powerful. It had large iron teeth, it

crushed, and devoured, its victims, and Trampled Under

Foot, whatever was left. And it was different from all

the former beasts and it had ten horns.

While there was thinking about the horns there, before me was

another horn, a little one, which came up among them and

three of the first horns were uprooted before it, this horn

had many eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth.

That spoke boastfully as I looked Thrones were set in place

and the Ancient of Days took his seat.

His clothing was as white as snow.

The hair of his head was white. Cool.

His throne was flaming with fire and it's Wheels were.

All Ablaze a river of fire was flowing.

Coming out from before him and thousands upon thousands

attended him Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand stood before him.

This is God, the father and the court was seated in the books

were opened that will connect you through to the Book of

Revelation chapter 20, then I continued to watch because

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because of the boastful words, the horn was speaking.

That's a little horn. Now What's Happening Here is

that Daniel has seen the kingdoms of this world as they

have the Empire's that rule the world, one after the other.

And this final one after the kingdoms of Babylon, after the

kingdom of Greece, after the kingdom of medo-persia is the

kingdom of Rome this terrifying. Buying Kingdom the fourth Beast.

It says in verse 7, terrifying and frightening, and very

powerful. And it had ten horns.

And and these ten horns it turns out at 10 Kings.

So there is an Empire that's going to exist future from the

vision of Daniel, that is going to be terrifyingly strong than

any of the other kingdoms, the world has seen.

And and it's going to have ten horns on the top of its head and

eventually Lee, there's going to be a little horn that's going to

come up displace. Three of the ten horns and then

that little horn is going to rule.

That's what verse 11 is about. Then I continued to watch

because of the boastful words, the horn was speaking.

That's the little horn, I kept looking until the Beast was

slain and its body destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.

The other beasts had been stripped of their Authority but

were allowed to live for a period of time.

This is the empires of Babylon of Greece of medo-persia, and

then of Rome and in my vision at night, I looked and there before

me was one like a son of man coming with the Clouds Of

Heaven. This is the Lord Jesus.

He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his

presence. He was given Authority Glory,

Sovereign power, All Peoples, and Nations, and Men of every

language worshipped him. His Dominion is an everlasting

Dominion that will not pass away.

Hallelujah. And his kingdom is one that will

never be destroyed. I Daniel was troubled in spirit

and the visions that pass through my mind Disturbed, me, I

approached one of those standing there and asked him, the true

meaning of all this. So he told me and gave me the

interpretation of these things. The four Great beasts are four

kingdoms that will rise from the Earth but the Saints of the most

high will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever.

Yes. Forever and ever.

So one day Messiah is going to return, he's going to establish

his kingdom and there will be no other kingdoms that Kingdom will

last forever and ever. And you and I will be part of

it. Then I wanted to know the true

meaning of the fourth Beast, which was different from all the

others, and most terrifying, with its iron teeth and bronze

claws. The Beast that crushed and

devoured, its victims, and trampled, underfoot whatever was

left. What an apt description of the

Roman Empire. Verse 20.

I also wanted to know about the 10 horns on its head and about

the other horn that came up before, which three of them

fell, the horn that looked more imposing than the others and

that had eyes and a mouth. That spoke boastfully.

As I watched this horn was Waging War against the Saints

and defeating them until the Ancient of Days, came and

pronounced judgment in favor of the Saints of the most high.

And the time came when they possess the kingdom, he gave me

this explanation. The fourth Beast is a fourth

Kingdom that will appear on Earth.

It will be different from the other kingdoms and will devour

the whole earth, trembling it down and crushing it.

Then the ten horns are Ten Kings who will come from this Kingdom

as has never happened yet, in the ancient Roman Empire,

because the word of God must be be fulfilled.

This is yet to happen, otherwise scripture isn't true.

Then the ten coins are Ten Kings who will come from this Kingdom

after them. Another king will arise

different from the earlier ones, he will subdue three kings.

This is a man. We call Antichrist.

He will speak against the most high and oppresses Saints, and

tried to change the set X and the laws.

The Saints will be handed over to.

Him for a time times and half a time, three and a half years or

1260 days, but the court will sit and his power in this

lovely. His power will be taken away and

completely destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty power and

greatness of the kingdoms. Under the whole heaven will be

handed over to the Saints. The people of the most high, his

kingdom will be an everlasting Kingdom.

Mm and all rulers will worship and Obey him.

This is the end of the matter. Don't you love it.

So, here is the rise of the Roman Empire and then suddenly,

we see another phase of the Roman Empire, where there are

Ten Kings in attend, Kingdom Confederacy.

And then out of them comes this little horn, ten horns.

But up comes a little Horn displaces, three of the original

horns, three of the original Kings.

And then he is the guy who takes over and rules for three and a

half years and he imposes his strength on the whole world.

Now as we go through scripture, we find that this is called

Antichrist. The interesting thing is

Antichrist is only found five times in the Bible all of them

in the letters of First John and second John.

And so when it comes to Antichrist, these are the

defining versus he talks about Antichrist with a small.

A, there are many antichrists that have gone out into the

world. These are the people who are

opposed Christ, anyone who opposes Christ the Bible would

call an antichrist. But then John talks about in

first John 2:18 the Antichrist and this is Antichrist with a

1 John 2:18

capital A and he is anticipating here a real person not just a

movement but a real individual called the capital A Antichrist

who is coming and John writes to his readers and says you know

that Antichrist is On his way, many small antichrists have gone

out into the world, but the big gun is just around the corner

and what do we mean when we call him?

And he Christ, we mean, first of all that he is against Christ

but we mean more than that, we mean that he is going to come

into the world as if he were Christ.

In other words, he's going to establish a kingdom.

He's going to rule, he's going to Act, as if he were the

Messiah, he's going to claim to be Messiah as you go through.

Daniel 8, Daniel 9. Daniel 11, as you go into

Revelation, 13, Revelation 17, much more stuff than we can deal

with this evening. You will find that.

He works lying wonders and lying miracles in order to credential

eyes himself as the legitimate ruler of the world.

Now, you can see this old setting up here, we are in kind

of a paralysis. We're saying what in the world

is going to happen next in the fun to be alive and watch all

this? When you know, the end of the

story? There's, you know, my friends

don't like going to the movies with me cuz I never get it.

I'm the dumb boy, who annoys everyone and said, well, what do

you say that for? Why is he doing this?

I never ever get it, but when I get to the end of the story, and

I see what happened, then I can go back and watch the movie

again because I understand what's going on.

Well, that's the position that we're in, we've seen the end.

End of the story, there's going to be a kingdom that comes that

will never pass away and it doesn't belong to Antichrist.

It belongs to the Christ Jesus himself and he's going to

establish his kingdom and that Kingdom will last forever and

ever. Its initial form is a foretaste

but just around the corner is eternity and he will reign

forever and ever. And we as the Saints of the most

Whilst I will reign with him. So put a smile on your dial.

Come on. I want.

I want to see some enjoyment at this point.

This is our future, it's wonderful.

Don't worry about dying. You're going to come back.

Abraham will be in this Kingdom. David will be.

In this Kingdom. Moses will be in this Kingdom.

Elijah will be in this Kingdom, you.

And I will be part of this Kingdom.

It's a fantastic story. This guy.

Guy is going to be against Christ and think he is Christ.

So there are the three Central passages.

First point I want to leave with you.

Let's go fast, he's a real person.

When the Bible speaks about him, it says he will subdue.

He will speak, he will subdue. He will speak.

He will confirm the man of lawlessness, the man doomed to

destruction. He will exalt himself.

So what the Bible is predicting is that there is a human being

tucked away somewhere. He may be alive today, No one

knows where we've got his profile from scripture but we

can't identify him and that was the same with the Lord Jesus.

We got his profile from the Old Testament, but not on Testament.

Didn't say in his name will be called Jesus of Nazareth.

No, no, you have to wait for Matthew chapter. 14.

That one know we had the profile.

Well, it's the same as Antichrist.

We've got the profile and he's a real person.

He's probably a gentile. He arises out of the sea

Revelation 13:1 of the nation's. He comes from the city of Seven

Revelation 13:1

Hills, that's the ancient name for Rome.

The ruler is from the people who will destroy Jerusalem in ad 70.

That was wrong. He makes a covenant with Israel

that ensures Gentile protection. Would you have believed it

Netanyahu is back? Lives.

Trust knows that a week and politics is not long.

Anything Can Happen who would have thought after they all

climbed all over Netanyahu. And said he was corrupt and

everything else, who would have thought that the Israeli people

would have voted him back in well.

So now we're back again. You see, we've gone from the

liberal on this side to a right winger on this side, who is

going to push Jewish nationalism who believes in resettling, the

occupied territories, who doesn't believe in a to nation

state, who's going to get right up the nose of most of the

world's. Ders.

And this is going to force a confrontation.

Well eventually Antichrist is going to come along so I can

solve the problem and he sits down and he makes a peace

Covenant with the nation of Israel last for three and a half

years and then he ditches them and becomes their Arch

persecutor It's an amazing story.

The story of scripture, he's the last ruler in the times of the

Gentiles and he shows no regard for the gods of his fathers.

He has a thoroughly secular irreligious individual, but then

that's the way the world is. He's energized by Satan.

If you thought Satan had a grip on Judas, try this guy.

The coming of the Lawless lamp one will be in accordance with

the work of Satan. Displayed and all kinds of can

defeat miracles signs and wonders.

Hey, it's time to sort out what you think about signs and

wonders. Because the church is so

gullible today, thou by this guy Hook Line & Sinker because they

don't know what a real Miracle is.

They think that Satan can do what God can do.

And and this guy, I'll serve up some pretty spectacular stuff.

He gets his authority from Satan, he's energized by Satan

and then eventually sets himself up in God's Temple.

Proclaiming himself to be God, second Thessalonians 2, And he

will become very strong, Daniel says, but not by his own power.

He will rule the whole world. Revelation 13:7, his

Revelation 13:7

headquarters will be in Europe, Revelation, 17:8, 29.

He's going to be intelligent persuasive.

This is no Dumbo. Daniel 720 Hill ruled by

International consent, he will work by deceit.

He will control the world economy, and if you do not have

the mark of the beast, you will not be able to buy or sell.

I'm expecting that in the tribulation period though, I

will not be here, you know, I'm pre-trib, I'm pre Mill.

I'm pre-trib and I'm prepared and I like it that way, but

he'll control the world economy. For those who are left behind,

if you don't have the mark of the beast, I'm I'm expecting.

You will starve to death. I'm expecting one of the huge

problems of the tribulation period will be starvation of all

of the people who refuse the mark of the beast because you

will not be able to buy or sell you won't have a job, you won't

have income, you won't have food.

And he will make and break a peace treaty with Israel.

You can expect us. This is just around the corner.

This is Antichrist but his kingdom will not last long.

Seven years and then the heavens will part.

And the rider of the right hall, White Horse will return and

Christ shall descend with all of the Holy Angels and with the

Saints who have gone before and then his kingdom comes.

This is a real guy called Antichrist.

His just around the corner. He's going to inflict terrible

suffering in the world and particularly on the Jewish

people. But we are Christians.

So, we've given enough time and attention to him.

Always some prophecy Buffs. Go.

You'd think they're waiting for Antichrist.

We're not. We're waiting for Christ.

He's already drawn us to him through the work of his spirit.

And we're just waiting for that wonderful moment when the

trumpet will sound and they'll be the call of the archangel.

And will be gone out of here. To inherit a kingdom.

That we will share in forever and ever and ever.

Now, listen to me, if that doesn't light your fire, your

wood is wet. We are people.

Of the coming King. And our hearts are homesick for

the Savior. We thank you our father for this

book. That draws the side, the curtain

for the future. A, we are terrified of what we

read in the Book of Revelation. And yet, we know that you have

washed the world out before and you will do it again.

We thank you our father for the hope we have.

Of the trumpet call of God. And the dead in Christ shall

rise and we who are left and remain shall be caught up and we

shall be together forever. now, for the people around us, give

us a passion for them. Give us a hunger to reach them.

And to explain to them what's going to happen to this world

until Jesus returns with his kingdom.

We bring you our afternoon Worship in the lovely name of

our savior. And for filling our hearts with

hope. We thank you.

In Jesus name, amen.