Trumpets Sounding (9/8/2024)

We did our,

100 mile bike ride for missions.

It was very exciting.

It wasn't exciting.

One guy rode

by me one time and and, and at

the I was kind of keeping I was

in the rear, kind of keeping everybody, because

people would have flats.

As I'm saying that, there's 20 bicycles riding

by outside.

That is odd. So,

kind of keeping up the rear and kind

of, you know, if somebody has a flat

and that happened, if somebody broke their chain,

which was me.

So

this guy this one this guy was kind

of dropping back. And as he was come

back, I'm just riding beside him encouraging him.

But when he first dropped back out, I

could hear him saying, just keep pedaling. Just

keep pedaling.

I was like, that's a sad place to

be.

Because that was like mile 4.

Yeah, it wasn't.

One of the things I wanted to mention

is that that,

Liz,

Josh and Liz and I were the 3

from our church that were doing this, and

Liz finished the entire

100 miles.

She's the first girl that has done this

for, in all of our district rights.

I think last year, she did like 80

or something like that.

And,

and some of the rest did 60 something.

100 ks is what they did instead of

a 100 miles. And, but she finished and

and she wasn't like coming in drag and

praying that Lord would take her kind of

thing. And she was coming in she was

coming in okay. And so it was

it was good.

Also I want to continue to remind

you, please pray for Israel. Guys, all the

stuff that is happening just this week,

the president of Turkey, Erdogan,

or whatever you say his name,

he

he is building a coalition,

trying to build a coalition with all the

Arab States

that,

all the Arab countries

to combine together

against

Israel. This is,

this is like a whole another level, right?

And and and

here's part of the deal with this. There

has you have to process that

everything that is going on there, including this

this week that that Turkey is doing now,

all of this is looking a whole lot

more like Ezekiel 38 every day.

Okay? So you you gotta keep your eyes

on that kind of stuff. When that goes

down, and I'm gonna talk about that a

little bit here, but when that goes down,

guys, everything

now that that to me, this is the

way I see it. It's like the plug

is pulled and everything is draining.

We're in the end times, like like tribulation

time frame kind of stuff. And I'll explain

that because I'm gonna be speaking about that

this morning. But but, but to really be

praying, praying for Israel, guys, our responsibility is

to pray for them. Now,

get ahead of myself. So, you know, we've

been we've been trying to build we're we're

not going to be able to build this

week. We just can't I mean, this this

month this what is what year? We're not

going to be able to build this year.

We've been trying to get the financing. It

just didn't work out again. Although, I did

get an interesting call. Just throw this out

here as a little teaser that probably

won't happen. But

I got a call from a group that

is interested in financing our building.

And it's interestingly,

it is

a group, a company

that is being run by

a guy I went to college with and

have stayed very close friends with

over the last 35

years.

And, it was just he just, out of

the blue, said, hey, do you would you

like us to finance your building?

I was like, is this a joke? Because

I've known you for a long time and,

you know, I so I don't know. That

may not play out. I'm not, you know,

if it's God, it's God. If it's not,

you know, that's fine too.

Rezone the property out here so that we

can sell it,

so that we can build. Right? We still

need about 2,000,000, to do this and that

would potentially,

give us that extra 2,000,000. Alright. Which is

which is kind of what we're trying to

borrow, but more and stuff like that. So,

so with that, when you do the rezoning,

they because there was a lot of emails

and stuff sent to the city, the city

set up a meeting here Thursday night

for,

us to hear from the community.

Okay? I didn't tell you guys

because I didn't necessarily want you here.

Couple people that riled up a lot of

the community, and they do not want us

to do anything with the property out here.

And I'm not making this up. This is

the things they said. We they sent these

to us in emails and then people said

this in the meeting

that they don't want us to put in

a porn shop,

a

liquor store,

a marijuana

dispensary.

So I finally said,

do you have a clue who we are

as a church?

How does that benefit

our children?

You know, that kind of thing. And it

and it was, it was a little spicy.

They they came after us pretty good, came

after me quite a bit.

But for the most part, like, 98%, I

kept my cool.

I did snippet 1 person one time. Just

you're just like, whatever. You know? But,

so with that, we're gonna kinda go back

to the drawing board and see if there's

a way that we could still do what

we wanna do and

and the the zoning is what was bothering

them. It's too wide of a zoning. You

can put anything in there. We explained,

we sell the property. We can put any

covenant we want on that property.

They can only build

what we allow them to build,

or we won't sell it.

And nobody was buying that. Nobody was, no.

That's not how it works. I'm like, but

it does work that way. And so that's

the law. But either way, we're gonna try

to maybe change the zoning, make it something

that'll the community would be more comfortable with.

We're not really sure,

but, man, there was just a lot of

angry people,

really going after us. Now since then, interestingly,

I've gotten a lot of messages, emails, got

a few last night I was answering. People

were saying, I was in the meeting, and

I I feel bad about how they treated

you.

And, this is a good church, and our

kids have gone to VBS and those kind

of things. And so so it wasn't all

bad, but it was all bad in the

meeting. So

but we'll just keep you posted on that.

If if we do change the zoning, it

won't be it won't be a long process.

We're already right there. We could just change

the the lettering

and, and fix it. So, alright. I'm gonna

be speaking

this morning about

the the tribulation

and the rapture.

I don't usually get that response, but

but, and and here's the thing. There's a

few things I I wanna do. Part of

the reason I do it, I do it

every time this year, this time of year.

I do it every year this time of

year because

of, the fall feasts, and I'm gonna explain

all that.

But I I really do believe in a

pre tribulation rapture, and I'm gonna explain why.

But I know there's different people throughout our

church, I would say, a good handful,

that don't believe,

in a pre tribulation. They believe mid

or post tribulation.

And so I am gonna try to convince

you you're wrong and that I'm right this

morning. But

with that being said,

always say it so that we understand. Because

we don't we this is not a 100%.

You can't just say we know for sure

exactly this way it goes because it hasn't

happened.

Enough ambiguity within scripture for a couple of

reasons that I'll explain, which makes it a

little challenging to pinpoint exactly. So with that,

my my stance is always I believe a

100%

in a pre tribulation rapture until the tribulation

starts.

And then I a 100%

believe in a mid tribulation rapture

until day 1 after the mid, and then

I am

completely and at that point, we're all on

board with a post tribulation

rapture. Right? Okay.

Now with that being said, I do believe

strongly in in pre tribulation rapture, and I

think there's a lot of reasons. So usually,

I go over the timelines.

What I mean by the timelines is,

the Lord said that once Israel becomes a

nation again, that that generation will not pass

away until he comes back.

And,

and Psalms says that,

that that a generation, are we a full

generation of of human being is 70 to

80 years. Okay. 1948,

we are in year 76

of

that time frame. And so

and I do believe that that 70, 80

years is given to us by God as

one of the visuals that we're supposed to

understand

and recognize that, Jesus is going to come

back during that 7 to 80 years. I

believe that pretty strongly. I don't, you know,

at at year 81, I'll relook at my

numbers.

But I do believe that. I do think

that that's true. Now usually, I focus on

some of that. I'm gonna focus on a

little bit different things,

this time looking at

I always always look at the feasts

because that's the key to the whole thing.

The feasts are the key. So I'm gonna

go to Colossians chapter 2 verse 16.

Colossians 2:16

Says, don't let anyone condemn you for what

you eat or drink or for not celebrating

certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or

Sabbaths.

This scripture. 1 is that,

when

when this was said,

most of the church at that time was

Jewish. Like, overwhelmingly, most was Jewish. There were

some Gentiles starting to come in because Luke

had written the book of Acts, and the

book of Acts is very much like a

a white paper on why Gentiles could be

a part of this thing. But but this

but it was mostly Jewish. And so what

he was trying to say

here is they were picking on all the

new kids coming in, and, and they they,

you know, they weren't going by all the

feasts or whatever. And Paul was explaining,

as did Peter and a lot of other

things, is you don't have to go by

the feasts. The feasts have been fulfilled in

Christ.

As long as you understand Jesus, you don't

have to fulfill the feasts. Okay?

And so that and now and this is

important too because there are some different groups.

Now these are mostly what you would call

Hebrewist today,

but they are woven throughout the Messianic,

Jewish church

to a detriment of the messianic Jewish church.

And they are trying to pull,

the Jewish groups, specifically messianic Jews

back into old testament law just like just

like Peter did, telling them they have to

be circumcised. You're the one who revealed to

us through the vision that God gave you

that they don't need to do that anymore.

For a Christian. That that's the messianic part.

Jesus fulfilled all that. There's no there's no

restrictions of of how you have to fulfill

the feast and all this stuff. And this

is part of

what Paul is saying here. You don't have

to you don't have to do all of

that stuff. Okay? And when somebody tells you

that you do, go to this scripture, remind

yourself that they are preaching something that is

not with scripture.

Okay? I pick on these things all the

time. I every now and then I have

somebody come along that tells me I can't

eat bacon. And I'm like, the bible tells

me I can.

Specifically tells me I can.

It shows it.

Eat bacon. I mean, doesn't use the word

bacon probably.

So so here's the thing with this. There

is another side to this and this is

just as important.

It says that these feasts and things are

a shadow are shadows

of the reality to come

and that Jesus Christ himself is that reality.

Now, if you're not careful, what you do

is you say, okay, all these old testament

feasts bring us up to Jesus,

dying on the cross, he is the reality

of that. He has fulfilled all of that

theme of the Old Testament is Jesus is

coming. That's the point of the whole thing.

If

you get that, you get the you get

the Old Testament. You understand

Jesus is coming. The theme of the new

testament

is Jesus is coming again. He is still

the reality

that these feasts are talking about. And some

of the stuff that has not happened yet,

Old Testament first. Because why? Jesus is still

the reality.

So even though you don't have to

go by all the feast and celebrate the

the the festivals and all that stuff, it's

very I think it's

I think it's very naive to think you

don't need to know the information.

Because the information

is still telling us about stuff that has

not happened yet.

This is important.

Okay?

So let me let me go through

the feast. You have the spring feast, and

I'm gonna show you a couple of things

this year you probably haven't

heard before.

That you've got the the spring feasts. Okay.

The the two names we'll focus on, but

there's others,

simple,

understanding of Passover is, the Egyptians

were had made slaves of the Israelites, and

Israelites are calling out to God. And God

says, okay, I'll deliver you. You've sent Moses.

Moses comes in the 10 plagues.

And the 10th plague

is,

I'm gonna kill all of the firstborn,

in the families,

of every family. It doesn't matter who Egyptian

is, it doesn't matter. But here's how you,

save yourself

from this destruction.

As you take a lamb, and there were

some criteria on that, take a lamb and

how they made bread, all of this stuff

is important in the story. And this is

what we do every year at at our

spring seder

dinner here at the church because it's a

celebration of Passover, but with all of the

understanding of Jesus being fulfilled and explained.

K? So you take the lamb, you kill

the lamb, you take the blood of the

lamb and you put it over your doorpost

or you cover your house with the blood

of the lamb, and that saves you from

death.

Okay?

Then they all left after that. So when

John the Baptist is is, baptizing Jesus

and Jesus comes walking up, he says, behold

the lamb of God

that takes away the sins of the world.

Every person there immediately knew and everybody that

that's had any Jewish background

knew immediately even when we write it and

they read it now, that that meant

that Jesus

is that lamb in Exodus

that is the Passover lamb. And this is

a feast and a and a

festival that is celebrated

every single year at in the spring during

Passover.

We now have changed that a little bit

and come up with something actually,

it's a different thing.

We call it Easter.

K. It's not exactly because it's been changed

enough that it doesn't put the focus on

all this, but that's where Easter came from

was the concept of Passover.

And yes, it was changed and twisted by

different,

religious groups and things like that. And then

a bunny got involved and a bunch of,

you know, chocolate eggs and stuff like that.

Did the the that's where it came from.

And so every year for for about 3000

years, the Jews have celebrated passover. What is

the point of passover?

That they are looking forward to the Messiah

coming. They're looking back and realizing that that

that little animal lamb

is going to be fulfilled someday in a

Messiah. That's why at Passover, there is a

Messiah's cup. Every single time you do Passover,

you have a messiah's cup and nobody drinks

out of that cup.

Nobody drinks out of that cup

because it's the messiah's cup. Now, Jesus,

when he dies on the cross,

he died

on Passover.

That is not coincidence.

In fact, the Lord had planned for him

to die on Passover

before

Passover happened.

Jesus had been

ordained,

anointed to die on Passover.

Okay? This is this is vitally important. That's

why they did all that. They didn't do

all of that and then, oh, by the

way, that would be a great time for

Jesus to die.

They did all of that to set up

that Jesus was going to die

on that day. And so they've been practicing

this and and celebrating this for 3000 years.

Now then,

50 days after Passover

is a festival

called Pentecost. They've been doing this a long

time. If if you're only a New Testament

reader, first that's a bad idea because you

don't understand the big picture.

But you think that Pentecost is what happens

on acts chapter 2.

Acts 2 · chapter mention

It is not what happens on acts chapter

Acts 2 · chapter mention

2. It was fulfilled

on acts chapter 2 of a festival that

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they had been celebrating

for literally centuries upon centuries.

Okay. These were all festivals and feasts that

God established

and said, practice these every year. And the

the

the feast or the festival of Pentecost

the reason it was called Pentecost is 50

days after

Passover.

Beginning

of

the harvest. This is when everybody started the

the, the, planting and and

harvesting season,

okay, like springtime. That's what it is. Now,

it is not coincidence that the Holy Spirit,

when it says in acts 1 verse 8,

Acts 1:8

and you will receive power after the Holy

Spirit has come upon you,

Jerusalem, Jadais, Samarian to the ends of the

earth. That that is the day the Holy

Spirit chooses

to pour in

for the first time in human history, to

pour into people rather than using people

by his power. This is what John says

when he says,

later he will be,

in you. Right now he's with you. Later

he will be in you.

For the first time, the Holy Spirit is

now

empowering or indwelling believers,

right? They're already believers.

They're already Christians. And now, he empowers

Christians.

And he does it consistently, constantly,

as a in our Christian life. That is

the day the holy spirit, entered into human

existence this way, the day that the harvest

begins. This is part of the reason for

the speaking in tongues, Right? What are we

supposed to be doing? We're supposed to be

going and telling people

about Jesus. And speaking in tongues is not

only a constant reminder, but it's the process

of how we're being empowered and filled. And

so we're we're speaking in tongues, we're praying

in tongues, and that is the vehicle

that takes the gospel to the world.

None of that is coincidence. Every single element

of this is is vitally important and it's

and it's all part of the bigger story

that started way back in the old testament.

Alright?

Now, those are the spring,

festivals. Then you come through the summer,

through the time frame of the,

planting seeds, sowing seeds, those kind of things.

And you come to the end of the

harvest.

Okay.

This is where

you have 3

basic feasts. You have the feast of trumpets,

which is the end of the harvest. They

blow a bunch of trumpets and everybody comes

in and the harvest is now over.

Coincidence.

Okay? Then you have the Feast of Tabernacles

which is I'm sorry,

the day of atonement which is today we

call

it Yom Yom Kippur

is

ready for the Lord to return. Okay? Then

you have the feast of tabernacles which is

everybody goes outside the city and camps in

tents outside the city.

So and it's called tabernacling.

When they do that, it is to remind

them that they are temporary residents on this

earth.

That's the point of this.

None of this is coincidence.

K? Those are the fall festivals. The reason

the reason I'm preaching the sermon today

is because that starts this year in October

3rd and goes those 3 feasts go through,

October 24th, from October 3rd to October 24th.

And why am I doing it now? Because

I want you at least to be ready

if the rapture happens this year. Because I

believe

that's the time frame of the year that

the rapture is going to appear.

Right?

Not necessarily this year, but I will get

back to you.

The rapture I believe I believe that everything

in scripture is showing

dies on the cross on Passover, holy spirits

poured out on Pentecost. In fact, when I

was growing up, I heard this regularly.

I would hear

the poster, whatever.

When it talks about in Acts chapter 2

Acts 2 · chapter mention

that everybody was in 1 quarter, everybody was

unit in unity,

then the Holy Spirit was poured out. That

is not the right way to look at

that scripture. Okay? It is not. But usually,

the pastor is trying to preach a message

because there's a lot of disunity in the

church and he wants to bring unity and

he's using the big one that's the empowerment

of the holy spirit so that everybody will

get along and specifically get along with him.

That I really believe that's the reason that

was preached because being in one accord had

nothing to do with when the holy spirit

was being poured.

Key ingredient to

when the Holy Spirit's poured out? The day

on the calendar called Pentecost. That was the

day that the Holy Spirit was going to

be poured out.

Whether people were unified or

not,

it was gonna be on that day.

Okay? Anybody that was in unity with the

Lord were gonna be filled with the Holy

Spirit. That's all you had to have. Alright?

Now,

let me back up just a little bit

and mention

that the time frame now that that is

called the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of

Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles, that's all

kind of been included together.

And that has been called It's now being

called Rosh Hashanah.

Now, that's a Jewish tradition that is not

biblical.

Okay? Jewish tradition is RashaShana.

But there's some problems with this that I

think has been a little bit of deception

over over the cent over the millennial

of

deception here. And let me you'll get it

when I explain this. Rasha,

shaana is the celebration

of the new year, the Jewish new year.

So that's the beginning of the year.

They in fact, when they go around, they

they shout out Shana Tova,

and then

they will,

bless you. Happy new year. Okay? Now, this

is the reason they do that is because

they consider this new year.

But there's some problems with that.

One is,

the biggest one is in scripture

in Exodus chapter 12,

Exodus 12 · chapter mention

it specifically

says that passover is the beginning of the

year,

not the feast of trumpets. Rosh Hashanah is

not a word in the bible. Okay. That's

a Jewish creation. That's a Jewish tradition.

They still celebrate the 3 feasts in the

fall, but they've included them together to call

Rosh Hashanah.

But the the beginning of the year according

to Exodus 12 is Passover. You say does

that matter? Yes.

Because 7 months later,

the 7th month

is the Feast of Tabernacles

or the the, I'm sorry, the feast of

trumpets begins this. That is the 7th month

of the year. To me, there's there's not

a coincidence

that creation is 7 days.

6 days God's God rests.

The earth is I mean, people on the

earth since Adam and Eve I don't want

to explain all that. But just since Adam

and Eve till now

is,

right at 6000 years.

The 7th is God's,

completion

finality

of these things,

and that's the 7th month. Well that was

changed. So so mentally people are not processing

nowadays.

The fact that the Feast of Trumpets

is gonna be on the 7th month, they

say that's the 1st month.

But the 1st month is actually the beginning

of the story, the day Jesus dies on

the cross.

That's the 1st month. That's their new year.

But they changed this.

Now

here is,

here's where we're gonna go with this. I

wanna show you that Well, first, I I

strongly believe So the feast of trumpets,

they blow the trumpets, everybody comes in,

from the from the harvest.

Guys,

that's that's the rapture.

That's This thing is over.

No more harvesting.

We're done. We're in the we're in the

season of planting and harvesting right now. This

is when Jesus says, look on the fields

now

for their wide under harvest. That means go

now into the to the fields. Go now

to talk because he's talking about the lost

there. He's not talking about anything else. He's

talking about people that need him as their

savior. Go into the fields now. Guys, that's

in the time frame we're in. When Jesus

blows the trumpets or he doesn't, but he

has, Michael blow the trumpets. When Michael blows

the trumpets,

we're we're done. The harvest is over.

The raptures happen. Harvest is over. And we're

gonna go be with Jesus. And then we

have day of atonement, the repentance,

and then,

the,

piece of tabernacles reminding us that we're all

that we're all temporarily

here on this earth.

Verse 51. But let me reveal to you

a wonderful secret.

We will not all die, but we will

all be transformed. It will happen in a

moment.

That's important.

An instantaneous moment is part of the description

that the Lord gives us. Why? Because it's

part of the importance

of the story. It will happen in a

moment in the blink of an eye when

the last trumpet is blown.

Soon as the last one is done, we're

gone.

Okay.

For when the trumpet sounds, those who have

died will be raised to live forever. And

we who are living will also be transformed.

For our dying bodies must be transformed into

bodies that will never die.

Our mortal bodies must be transformed

into immortal bodies.

Okay.

1st Thessalonians

chapter 4.

And and by the way, that's

how does that happen? When does that happen?

We don't know how he transforms us, but

when does that happen? When we're raptured and

and and we're with Jesus

and he takes us and presents us this

is Ephesians 5. When he presents us to

God the father as pure and spotless without

any sin with no blemish,

he presents us to God the father. This

is when that happens.

K. This is all important in time sequence.

There is not a place that this is

gonna happen later and I'm gonna show you

that. K.

And then

verse 17. Then together with them,

everybody that's being raptured,

we who are still alive and remain on

the earth will be caught up in the

clouds

in the clouds

to meet the Lord in the air.

This is important. I'm gonna show you the

scripture in a second that

the second coming, Jesus is not in the

clouds.

Unknown. It's going to be immediately at the

end of the tribulation that Jesus comes down

and he puts his feet on the earth.

He's not taking us anywhere. He's not meeting

us in the air.

None of these things are happening. It is

a very succinctly

described moment where Jesus comes to the earth

and puts his feet on the earth.

Okay? He's not he's not in the air

at this point. But this right here says

that we will meet him. We are caught

up in the clouds to meet the Lord

in the air.

That does not happen at the end of

the tribulation.

There is nowhere of a description

of this happening in the at the end

of the tribulation.

Nowhere does Jesus hang out in the clouds

and wait for us. Nowhere does Jesus hang

out in the clouds and wait for us.

Nowhere does Jesus hang out in the hang

out in the clouds and wait for us.

This rapture is totally different. Now,

there's also the mid tribulation thing, and I

think that one has the least amount of

scriptures to back it up. There's 2 kinds

of mid tribulation thought. 1 is, there's 2

kinds of

There's 2 kinds of mid tribulation thought. One

is,

they don't call themselves mid tribulation. They call

themselves pre tribulation, but it happens at the

three and a half year mark because the

great tribulation

is the second half of the 3 years.

The tribulation

is the first half. First three and a

half years is called tribulation.

2nd half is called the great tribulation. And

so they say, well, Jesus is going to

come back before the great tribulation.

The problem is,

the tribulation is 7 years long.

You can't Even though scripture does differentiate between

the two halves, it's all called the tribulation.

So that argument to me has no legitimacy

whatsoever.

The other one is, we believe in the

mid tribulation because Jesus,

deceiving the people.

He's he's he's literally filled with satan. That's

when he desecrates the temple and that's when

everybody is raptured. The problem with that is

we know exactly the day once the tribulation

starts. We know exactly to the day when

that's gonna happen.

It's exactly three and a half years. So

this unexpectedly,

you won't know what's happening. I'm gonna show

you some scripture more about this. That can't

apply.

So to me, the mid trib is not

working really on any level.

Okay? And I think the post tribulation rapture

people are confusing,

Jesus' second coming and things like the battle

of Armageddon

with the with Ezekiel 38. I'll explain some

of that.

K. So we will be caught up in

the clouds to meet the Lord in the

air. Then we will be with the Lord

forever.

So encourage each other with these words.

Encourage each other. Now,

there was a mindset back when I was

growing up.

Well, it actually began to change around the

late eighties, early nineties.

When the church got this this big push,

it happened for

good well, it's still happening at some level.

But there was this big push that we

don't the church doesn't want to scare anybody

into serving Jesus.

Because when I grew up, nobody worried about.

We didn't mind scaring you to death to

get you saved.

The rapture is about to happen right now,

you know. I'm not making this up. I

know different pastors that would literally, while they

were preaching about the rapture,

they would have somebody stand in the back

and blow a horn real loud. Just

Just to get a Oh, Jesus. I just

You know,

that

So

here's my thing with this. Okay, guys?

Let me let me say it this way.

If you have children, take your child. Pick

a child I don't want them to be

scared or have their feelings hurt. I'm not

willing for that to happen to get them

to

heaven.

A major contribution to me standing here right

now is repenting many times over the years

because I thought the rapture was about to

take place. The idea

Do you know Paul,

rapture

was about to take place. The idea Do

you know Paul thought the rapture was gonna

take place during his time frame? Do you

know every generation is supposed to think that

way? Every single generation is supposed to think

the rapture is gonna happen in my lifetime.

This is part of the reason that the

that the that the pre tribulation

rapture makes so much sense in this arena

is when people say to me, I don't

believe in a pre tribulation rapture because even

Paul thought it was going to happen in

his lifetime.

Do you realize those are opposite mindsets?

If Paul thought it was gonna happen in

his lifetime,

but the tribulation

had not happened and and Israel had not

fallen to become a nation again,

meaning in 78, Israel fell, but had not

become a nation again, then how are those

things supposed to be fulfilled for Paul to

believe it was gonna happen in his lifetime?

The reason Paul thought it was gonna happen

in his lifetime is because the rapture was

gonna happen before those other things happened. But

the rapture was going to happen. And he

thought this very strongly. You can see in

scripture. Okay? Zechariah chapter 14 verse 4.

Zechariah 14:4

On that day,

his feet will stand on the Mount of

Olives, East of Jerusalem. And the Mount of

Olives will split apart making a wide valley

running from east to west. Half the mountain

will move toward the north and half toward

the south. Guys, this is the second coming

of Jesus and he is not waiting in

the clouds. He comes and plants his feet

on the earth and the mountain splits apart.

And then we see where the right after

this is where the millennial reign starts. There

is no place that the Lord meets us

in the air, takes a cigar, gives us

our new bodies. None of those things are

happening at this point.

Those things have already happened.

Okay?

And first Thessalonians 5 also talks about the

fact that whatever is holding the Antichrist back

from taking over the earth

is gonna be taken away. Guys, that's the

church.

In fact, somebody mentioned to me after, first

serve I think it was cookie. Mentioned to

me after first service, if the there's no

way because you've heard me say this stuff.

There's no way they're we're having an election.

There's no way they're gonna let,

even if we have an election, Trump's not

gonna be allowed into the White House as

the president. Here's something most people are not

processing.

The vice president is the one who ratifies

the election.

Process that for a second.

She's the one running for president,

but she ratifies the election.

They're not letting that man in the White

House. They are

not. If they don't kill him first, they're

not. And and Cookie said, well if the

whole church raptures this October,

she will win the election.

That's legit right there. You should write that

down.

Jesus is coming and that's Kamala's.

That that should be her platform, right?

None of the Christians will be here. I'm

winning. Alright. So

same thing as the rapture. It is total

different language. It's no one knows the day

of their hour, but we know exactly when

the second coming is going to

happen. Once the tribulation starts, we know the

day.

Unexpected.

Now, you explain to me how we've been

living in the tribulation for 7 years, and

it's unexpected. Are you

Are you following me?

Okay. And here's here's another big one. Let's

let's go to this one.

Okay. Matthew chapter 24 verse 30. And then

Matthew 24:30

at the last

and then at last the sign of the

Son of Man is coming will appear in

the heavens. Now why is God tell us

this stuff unless he wants us to study

it? Try to figure it out. I don't

think you're gonna get all the details. I

don't think we're gonna, totally understand this until

it's happening. Like the day the tribulation starts,

we're gonna know that. If you're still here,

I won't be with you. But if you're

still here,

you're gonna know because,

Israel signs the peace treaty. You know the

exact day the tribulation is gonna start.

There's not gonna be any question on this.

3a half and 3a half. There's no doubt

about that. So we'll know exactly when the

tribulation starts because he tells us it starts

with the signing of the peace treaty.

Sometime before that, the rapture is gonna take

place. Look at this.

The son of man of coming will appear

in the heavens and there will be deep

mourning among all the peoples of the earth.

And they will see the son of man

coming on the clouds of heaven with great

with power and great glory. And he will

send out his angels

with a mighty blast of a trumpet and

they will gather his chosen ones from all

over the world. Where is Jesus at this

time?

The clouds of heaven.

That's second coming. He is in the clouds

of heaven. He sends out the angels to

gather everybody. That's called the rapture from the

farthest ends of heaven and earth. Verse 36,

this is this is amazing, cool this is

this is amazing, cool this is this is

key.

Right. You're not going to know the exact

day of the rapture. You're going to know

a time frame. You're going to He's saying,

look at all this stuff. Like when Jesus

says the

I think Cookie sends it to me.

If

you see the this is for sailors, and

I was one, but I forgot this.

If you see the red sky at night,

there's a storm coming. You know, when Jesus

says that, right? He says, this is how

you're going to know end time stuff. Pay

attention because I am giving you signs to

know.

Study this to know,

but you're not going to know the day

or the hour. Okay?

Now, here's here's important.

When the son of man returns, it will

be like it was in Noah's day.

In those days before the flood, people were

enjoying banquets and parties

and weddings right up to the time Noah

entered his boat.

Now, here's a

thing.

If the rapture does not happen until after

the tribulation,

does that mean the tribulation

is enjoying banquets and parties and weddings?

Think about what I'm saying.

That's not the tribulation I read about in

the bible. We're

just living life as normal. That's part of

the reason it's saying that. We're just going

through life as normal. Everything's okay. Everything is

good. And people are not aware that the

end is about to happen.

That is not the tribulation.

That is before the tribulation.

Once the church is raptured, it starts all

this other stuff, the signing of the peace

treaty, all these other things. And that is

the tribulation. And there is nobody that's not

going to know we're in the tribulation

because it gets very, very bad. It is

not hanging out as life as usual and

having parties. Happen

till after the tribulation, what do you do

with all these scriptures? What do you do

with this one specifically? People didn't realize what

was going to happen until the flood came

and swept them all away.

People are not going to realize what is

happening until the rapture happens.

And then they're gonna know

the stuff that's going on. And that is

what it would be when the son of

man

Now, I'm some time lines. I really

they all come up to the borders of

Israel and they're all threatening Israel. I keep

having people ask is is what's happening in

the Middle East right now Ezekiel 38? No.

It can't be because all of these people

are not come to the borders. Israel is

actually going and chasing Hamas and Hezbollah

into these countries. K? 2 total different stories.

Now, when all these countries come up, it

says that that that literally it's,

the way we see it described, it's got

to be millions of people that are coming

up from all these Arab countries and surrounding

Israel and about to attack Israel and God

destroys all of their armies and their military

leaders.

Israelites don't pick up a sword. They don't

do anything. God destroys them all.

That has not happened yet. But even with

everything that,

Turkey is doing right now, these countries are

setting up.

These countries are setting up. I do think

it's interesting

that the border between Gaza and Egypt right

now, the Philadelphia Corridor,

They're trying to make an agreement that maybe,

some of the

the soldiers of Saudi Arabia

may be policing that border instead because

Egypt actually has a pretty decent

alliance

with our friendship with Israel right now.

Not part of the group of all of

the countries around Israel that fight in Ezekiel

38. They're the only country that doesn't. K?

Now, why am I saying all this? I

think

actually is all the

countries come up to Israel, God kills all

of those soldiers and raptures the church in

the same day.

Deep

that God sent wild animals to eat them

or they would have been there

even longer than the many months that it

describes in scripture.

And then you have the whole world. And

this has always been the philosophy.

This is the normal thinking. Is the whole

world signs a peace treaty with Israel because

and this is the normal narrative. Is the

whole world is against Israel and Israel is

in a place of weakness. Guys, I don't

believe that. I've been saying this for the

last couple years. I don't think Israel will

be in a place of weakness. Why? Because

I think Ezekiel 38 happens before the tribulation.

Wiped out, and God sends animals to eat

them. They all of these,

Muslim countries, these Arab countries don't have military

anymore. Who's

in the driver's

seat?

Come to the table and say,

moment. So

they come to Israel and say, we'd like

to make a peace treaty. And Israel, being

who Israel is, will make the peace

treaty with

Israel they

Egypt attacked and Syria attacked and e and

Israel went into, into Egypt and they could

have destroyed Egypt on that day. They could

have marched straight into Cairo. Look at your

history books.

They could have gone straight into Cairo and

taken Cairo out and destroyed Egypt, but they

didn't.

America was putting pressure on them and so

they backed off and Egypt,

and by the way, that's the last time

Egypt has really gone after Israel.

We're gonna we're we're sorry Israel. Let's sign

this peace treaty. I believe Israel says, yes.

Let's sign the peace treaty and we're gonna

be rebuilding our temple.

Okay?

So you're going to need to move the

Dome of the Rock

because that's where we're going to build it.

Who's going to stop them?

Right now, you've got all these armies going

to stop them. Dedicate the temple. That's the

three and a half year mark. He's filled

with Satan and he desecrates the temple.

This? Guys, anytime we study this stuff, it

should bring you to one conclusion. Remember theme

of the old testament, Jesus is coming. Theme

of the new testament, Jesus is coming again.

As Jesus is coming and the church needs

to take this very seriously.

The church needs to take the rapture very

seriously.

Anytime but except the pre tribulation rapture, everybody

knows. So if we don't get raptured and

the tribulation starts, everybody on the planet knows.

Okay. Now we gotta get serious.

That's not what the days of Noah mentality

is. It says, you better be serious ahead

of time. The the 10 virgins, you better

have your your lamps ready to go ahead

of time.

I think that there are people that are

waiting because they've been taught mid or post

trib. I think they're waiting for the tribulation

to start because I don't have to serve

Jesus until then.

Think about that one.

All right. That's also why he says you'll

never know the day or the hour. I

planned that.

I planned

that.

So

I'm

gonna

So guys,

here's here's the reality.

When? Right now. Somebody asked me, a few

months back, do you think that,

with everything happening,

the rapture

might actually take place this year?

I do believe it's gonna be before the

80 years is up. I do believe that.

I said, do you believe it'll take place

this year? Guys, for the first time in

my whole life, I've literally thought with everything

setting up the way that it is, this

actually could be the year.

But, yeah, I mean, that's not bad. Remember,

it says encourage each other with this.

Encourage each other.

But I I really believe that is a

doable thing. And and and you've never heard

me say that before. I always say it's

gonna be this time of year,

but I don't know what. But for the

first time, I'm feeling like we're we're in

the we're in the downslide here.

And so I'm not saying that to scare

you, although if that happens, that's good too.

But here's the reason I'm saying it. It's

not even necessarily for all of us, but

we're gonna start here,

is to say, Jesus, we need you to

be our savior. That's the point. If you

study all this stuff

ad nauseam and you don't arrive at the

conclusion that you need Jesus

in your life controlling everything, protecting you, covering

you, you've missed the whole point.

That's the reason for this.

So what I'd like to do this morning

is I like us to pray.

I'd like us to get saved.

K?

I'd like us to to pray our sinners

prayer together.

So I'm already a Christian.

I guess you could just keep your mouth

shut then and don't.

I wouldn't think that's a good idea.

But let's just pray together and just ask

Jesus to be our God. Doesn't that make

sense?

Shouldn't these things propel us toward this?

Right? So repeat this with me if you'd

like to and let's just let's just pray.

Lord God,

we need you.

I need you as my savior as my

savior. I ask you to cover me with

the blood of Jesus

and make me right with you.

Forgive me of anything I've ever done

that's not pleasing to you.

And I wanna spend the rest of my

life

serving you.

In Jesus name, I pray.

God, thank you for this amazing gift of

salvation.

Thank you for grace. Thank you for mercy.

Thank you for loving us enough

that you gave everything so that we could

know you.

God, with with everybody in this room, even

if they believe

different about the rapture, Lord, we still all

need to serve you right now today.

Lord, that we've gotta have you.

So be our God.

We relinquish the throne and we turn it

over to you.

In the name of Jesus.

God, and we ask you to send us

to our neighbors.

Send us to our coworkers,

anoint us to speak to them,

knowing that our time is getting shorter every

single day.

God, we thank you.

Lord, continue to be with the Huizingas.

Bless them in every single way. And, Lord,

help to continue to connect them to different

ones of us throughout our church

that, we'll pray,

we'll support them, we'll we'll give,

and God, that they're gonna continue to be

successful in the things you're