Sermon
05/20/26 Pastor Doug Daniels
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Transcript
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Well, good evening, Lord of Hosts Church. Good evening, Lord
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of Hosts Church. Oh, I know you guys can do better than that.
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Good evening, Lord of Hosts Church. Jesus is in the house.
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Give Him praise.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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We have victory by the power of Your precious blood.
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Our slates have been wiped clean. We've been made new,
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resurrected by the resurrected King.
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(Speaking In Tongues)
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You can just pray on your heavenly language right now.
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(Speaking In Tongues)
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(Speaking In Tongues)
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Wow, thank you, Holy Spirit. This was as clear as day, but is
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there anybody in this room that's dealing with estranged
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family members? You have strain in your relationship with a
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family member, father, brother, sister, uncle, sister, parent,
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is there anybody in this room, maybe that's you watching
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online, that you have an estranged family member, and I
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feel the Lord says that he's going to repair it, and it's
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right now in this atmosphere. But before you start clapping,
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this is the other thing that he said. This is a season, as
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Pastor Hank mentioned, of rededication. But it's not
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rededication of our actions, it's rededication of our hearts.
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This is not a season about external acts or deeds, but this
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is about your internal motives and the things that we've
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harbored inside of our hearts.
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And the Lord says, "If you will come and confess, "I will make
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everything new." So this is altar call for the bold and the
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dangerous. If you're willing to be vulnerable, say, "Look, you
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know what, pastor? "Please pray for my heart. "I desire for my
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heart to be made new." And you that are watching online, you
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can join with us because the spirit is not limited by
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physical space. There's no time and space in the heavenly realm.
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So even in this place right now, in your living room, in your
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car, wherever it is, hopefully you're not looking at the phone
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while you're driving in your car, but you're listening. The
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spirit will touch your heart too if you will just be willing to
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say, you know what, God, deal with my heart first. I give you
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my heart back and I promise you that strained relationship, that
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brokenness in the family, God is going to restore it. It's a
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matter of principle. When we give our hearts to God, then it
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gives him authorization to fulfill our heart's desires. And
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I know that every person that is in this line and on camera, your
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heart's desires for your families to be made whole, amen.
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Pastor Keith, would you mind praying for the online while I
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go down here and pray? But right now in this moment, before I
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come down, just release it, whatever you're harboring,
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whatever the situation is, I know a lot of you have tried out
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of your own strength to make things right. You've tried out
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of your own strength to do the right thing, but this is not
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about the season of your own strength. This is about God's
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grace, which is I can't, therefore you must. Amen.
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Lord, I thank you.
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You are the God who heals the brokenhearted. You are
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the one who restores and places the spirit in the power of love
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and replaces the power of hate and darkness. You replace the
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voices of jealousy and fear with the confidence of faith and
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assurance. You replace the joy of the Lord, which is our
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strength. For those watching and those listening, Lord God, open
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their eyes to see your peace that's now flowing into their
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hearts, that they might know and be assured inside with the
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confidence that you, Lord God, are the restorer and the
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finisher of the work that you have begun even now in their
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hearts now and forevermore. I thank you for it, Lord. Amen.
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Father, we thank you that we have given our hearts to you,
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Father. And therefore, you are a God that should not lie, but you
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are fulfilling our heart's desire. You are meeting our
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every need. And you said, Lord, that yes, this decade was about
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the children, but it was also about the people. A reuniting, a
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reconciliation, a reconnecting. Father, I thank you that every
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work of discord, every work of divisiveness, hardheartedness,
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bitterness, it is broken from this moment forward as we invoke
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the power of your blood over each and every person, over
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every family member, for you are the God of generations. And you
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are restoring it all back into yourself. Receive that now
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online. And I declare that this upcoming holiday season, as we
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go through the rest of the year, is gonna be the best one yet
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that you've had with your family. Amen. All right, well,
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Pastor Doug is gonna have a powerful message tonight. If you
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can just shake hands in the room, meet somebody, ask them,
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"Hey, what's your favorite snack?" I don't know. Thank you.
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Amen.
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This is a series, I guess, turned into that, a series of
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don'ts. I wondered about that, I thought, you know, how can you
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make it a series of don'ts? And yet, I guess God started it. You
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know, the commandments start with don'ts. So I guess I'm
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carrying that on. So does anyone remember? The first don't is
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don't be a thief. Don't be a thief, Ephesians chapter four.
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The next don't was don't be stingy. Second Corinthians nine.
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He who sows bountifully reaps bountifully. The next don't was,
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"Don't be a fool." Mark 10 tells about the rich young ruler
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walking away just before he could have heard the desire of
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the heart of God to be blessed beyond measure. But he walked
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away. He was a fool. And the last one comes from Deuteronomy.
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We'll go back to the Old Testament. In Deut it says, in
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chapter 8 it tells us, God is getting the people ready to
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march into their promised land. Now they aren't there yet. He's
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telling them about the process of getting into his promised
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land and becoming a great nation. And in the midst of
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that, in verse eight, he says, "Beware that thou forget not."
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Don't forget. Don't forget. Well, you might
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say, you might be in a place where you're saying, "I'm still
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believing for this promise. "I'm believing for that promise." And
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so were they. But God was already warning them, don't
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forget. And some of us are walking in blessings and
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empowerment and a place of God's overflow in our life. But don't
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forget. Don't forget. Beware, be alert, figure it out. Don't
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forget. Don't forget. Don't forget. And then he says it and
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concludes in verse 18 with this. "But thou shall remember the
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Lord thy God, for he has given the power to get wealth, to
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establish his covenant, to bring his truth." Don't forget, it's
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not all about you, it's about him. And when you make it about
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him, he'll make it about you. The more you make it about him,
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the more he makes it about you. Because that opens the door for
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him to bless you with every spiritual blessing that heavenly
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places in Christ Jesus. Beyond measure. But don't forget, don't
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forget where it all begins, where it all started from. His
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blessing, his benefit, his desire to do good for you. You
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can put the giving information up on the screen. If you need an
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envelope, you can ask for one. Be prepared to give. Be quick to
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give. Be ready to give. And don't be a thief. Don't be
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stingy. Don't be a fool. And do not forget, because the more you
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remember, the more you activate the power of His blessing. You
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can stand up with me and we'll pray together and decree.
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Father, I release the authority of the name of Jesus Christ over
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each and every giver, here and online, that they might receive
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the benefit of the power of your hand upon their giving, because
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they remember you and identify with your blessing, your
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promises and your power. And now Father God, restore unto them
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your wealth, your riches and reveal to the world that you are
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God. And I declare it in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. You may give.
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Do their job. Hallelujah. We don't have a Micah here, do we,
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tonight? In the room. Micah. Micah. Micah? Oh, come down
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here, Micah. I forgot. Matthew's son, Micah. Hey, God has a word
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for you, Micah, tonight. and he says, "You have a calling, and
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you have a destiny on you, and you're gonna do great things for
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God." And he's instructing you tonight to always keep close to
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him. Stay close to your own natural father, because he'll
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guide you, he'll direct you. God will use your daddy to guide
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you, to direct you, to show you what to do. You follow him
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because he's an example of Jesus in your life. And when you
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follow dad, you're gonna be led towards God in a closer
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relationship. And this is jumping away in the future, but
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God's saying he's already prepared your life's mate, the
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one that someday you're going to marry when you get older. Dad
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doesn't want me to talk about that yet, I know. It's a long
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ways off. But time goes fast. And he's prepared the one that
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you will connect with. And she's someone you're not going to have
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to drag along and move along into. She's going to be as
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excited about the faith, about the destiny of God in your life
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as you are, and what you intend to do. So you just keep
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following Him. You keep pressing towards a mark. You keep doing
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what Jesus instructs you to do. And you can hear the Holy
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Spirit, because He talks to you. And you have ability to listen
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and see. And you have perception that's beyond your years. And
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God says He's going to use that in a special way, because you
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have what the Bible talks about, I believe, the gift of
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discernment of spirits. And that means that you can discern
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things in people and things in the room. You can discern things
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and understand them where other people don't have that gifting
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necessarily. So it's a special thing, it's a special calling on
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your life. You'd be blessed in Jesus' name. Everyone say Micah.
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Micah. Be blessed. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you for coming
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tonight. Hallelujah. Praise God. Well, this has been, that last
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song, just kinda, the anointing was so strong on that, and then
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the transition and everything. I'm almost ready just to say
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we've had church, pack it up, but how many of you wanna hear
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something about Revelation tonight? Okay, I'll try and,
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we're moving through. I didn't think this series would take
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this long, but I'm trying to just give you a broad overview
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of Revelation so that I develop a hunger for you to study and
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learn of the things of the end times because it's important to
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know it. And we'll talk a little bit about that tonight. But I do
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want to start, I can't review everything that we've covered in
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the past because then if I do, I don't know if it takes up the
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whole new message, we never get anywhere and make it ground. But
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I do wanna just go back to my chart again, the end time event
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timeline, and talk about where we're at right now for someone
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that might just be tuning in tonight for the first time. I
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want this message to stand on its own and mean something to
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you, even if you haven't heard the previous messages. But let's
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just look at where we're at, if you'll put that on the back
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screen, please. So, we've talked about Revelation 1 through 3,
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that's the church age that we're living in right now in this
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present time, and it's described in this Revelation chapters 1
Revelation 1 chapter mention
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through 3 with the seven letters to the seven churches. John
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wrote this book of Revelation while he was on the, exiled on
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the Isle of Patmos. And then we move to Revelation 4 and 5, and
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that is discussing the rapture of the church. We'll talk a
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little more about the rapture tonight the difference between
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the rapture and the second coming because there's still
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confusion in the minds of even clergy about those two events
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and they get them interchanged and a little bit mixed up and
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then it's confusing for people. But after the church is
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raptured, we have the seven year tribulation period. That's
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Revelation six through 18. And that's what we concluded last
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week on May 6th, I think it was. So if you wanted to go back to
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April 29th and May 6th, you could see what we talked about
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concerning the seven-year tribulation, the judgments that
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fall during that period of time, but also God's grace and mercy
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that's shown through the tribulation. And then tonight
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we're going to start on Revelation 19. We can't cover
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the full chapter, but we're going to read part of it and
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talk about the second coming. And that's really where we're at
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tonight. In the future, when we have time, I'll be going into
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the thousand-year millennial reign, what happens there in the
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great white throne judgment, and then the new Jerusalem or new
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heaven and new earth in Revelation 20 through 22. So
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that kind of gives you an update as to where we're at on the
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timeline. As a preview to what we're going into tonight, the
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second coming of Christ to earth, we're going to see, first
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of all, that Jesus returns from heaven as a conquering king.
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He's accompanied by the armies of heaven, which will include
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us, those of us that are saved and either die in a safe
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condition and go, our spirit goes to heaven, our bodies
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remain here, and then when the rapture of the church happens,
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our bodies are resurrected. Or if you're alive, when the
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rapture happens, then you'll go to be with him then. That's the
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army of heaven that's coming back with Jesus that we're gonna
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talk about tonight. And then number two, the kings of the
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earth and the armies of the Antichrist gather at the Valley
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of Armageddon, which is also called the Valley of Jezreel. We
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showed a picture of that last week. And that is the final
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catastrophic conflict that happens in Israel. So where
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Jesus is the conquering king and defeating the armies of the
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Antichrist. And then we also see that it's not a prolonged
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military conflict. It isn't even going to last as long as this
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current war that we're in now, which has been what, two or
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three months? This battle is going to be over very quickly in
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the same day that it starts. And Christ will defeat the opposing
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armies instantly with the word of his mouth. So I wanted to
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continue to clarify a little bit about when we discuss the second
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coming, as I mentioned, which is Christ's physical return to the
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earth. And it is a distinct separate event from what we
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refer to as the rapture of the church. And like I mentioned,
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even clergy sometimes use those terms interchangeably and talk
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about the second coming and they're really referring to the
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rapture. Well, some people I do understand talk about the second
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coming happening in two phases. And that kind of makes sense too
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because the rapture could be the first phase of the second
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coming, but Jesus really doesn't come to earth at the rapture.
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He's coming in the clouds. So when the second coming happens,
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we will be with him and he actually ascends to earth at
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that point. So it's just a distinction that I wanted to
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make sure we all understand here since we've been studying this
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quite a while. So let's just review another graphic that I
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want you to see, which kind of breaks down the difference
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between the rapture and the second coming and compares the
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two, if you'll put that up on the screen next. I'm not sure if
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this is gonna be readable from where you're at. So, this says
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rapture versus second coming, it kinda got cut off up there, but
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that's what that's saying. Left side referring to the rapture.
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Basic, couple scriptures that are key explaining the rapture,
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1 Thessalonians 4:16 through 17 and 1 Corinthians 15:51 and 52.
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In this, number one, Christ comes for his own. We talked
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about that. Christ comes for the bride. He's the bridegroom
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coming for the bride. And as we look at what happens during the
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second coming, Christ comes back with his own, that we will be
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accompanying him at that point. We'll talk more about that.
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Number two, Christ appears in the air, as I've said. Christ
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comes as a loving bridegroom, number three. And only his own
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see him when he comes. We know that as far as the second
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coming, we're gonna look at that scripture tonight, the Bible
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tells us that every eye shall see him. So when he comes back
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on the white horse and we are following him as the army of
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Christ, every eye in the world will see Christ come back at
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that point in time. So number five here says it's a time of
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great joy for believers. Of course, that's true. Number six,
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a secret disappearance. Number six, on the opposite side, a
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public appearance because every eye is seeing him. Now, as far
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as number six on this particular graphic, calling it a secret
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disappearance, I don't know that I can 100% doctrinally prove
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that. I didn't put this slide together that I found this and
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felt it applied. That's one that it makes sense that it could be
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a secret disappearance. First Thessalonians 4.17 says, "When
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we are caught up with Christ in the air, "together to meet the
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Lord in the air, "we shall always be with the Lord." So
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that word caught up was translated caught up from a
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Greek word that is harpazo. And that harpazo means to seize, to
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take away by force, or to snatch. And it's a powerful,
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sudden, decisive action. If you look at Matthew 11, 12, that
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same word, harpazo, is used there when it talks about take
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it by force. Until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers
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violence and the violent take it by force. So it means it's a
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forceful, sudden action. That same word is used on the caught
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up or take up or snatching away or the catch up or what we refer
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to as the rapture. So 1 Corinthians 15, 52 says, "This
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will occur in a moment in the twinkling of an eye." So we know
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it's gonna happen quickly. So maybe it possibly will be a
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secret disappearance. I mean, one second you are here and you
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might be in a restaurant with other people and you're gone.
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And they think you got up and went to the restroom and they
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didn't notice it, you know, but you're raptured. So it could be
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a secret disappearance. I'm just not, I'm not gonna say that's
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100% Bible. That's somewhat speculation, but either way,
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you're gone in an instant, however that happens. We know
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that's true. And then number seven, the focus is on the Lord
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and his church at that point in time. And of course, when Jesus
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comes back at the second coming, the focus is gonna be on Israel
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and his kingdom. Jesus is coming back to defeat the Antichrist
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and his armies, and then set up his millennial kingdom on earth
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at that point in time. So that's the contrast there. And I just
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thought that slide kind of helped to understand that a
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little better. And so when people talk about the rapture
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and the second coming, if they're confused on that, that
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should help you to explain it a little bit better. But let's go
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ahead and look at Revelation 19 as we begin tonight. And I'm
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gonna start with verse 11 and read through verse 16. We're
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gonna read quite a bit of scripture tonight. And I think
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it'll help us clarify some of the details in the second
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coming. So Revelation 19, starting with verse 11, it says,
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"Now I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse. "And he
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who sat on him was called Faithful and True. "And in
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righteousness he judges and makes war. "His eyes were like
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the flame of fire and on his head were many crowns. He had a
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name written that no one knew except himself. He was clothed
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with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of
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God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and
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clean, followed him on white horses. Now out of his mouth
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goes a sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations;
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and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself
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treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of the
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Almighty God. And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name
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written, "King of Kings and Lord of Lords." So Christ's second
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coming is a major doctrine in the Bible. I might have
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mentioned this last time. The second coming is mentioned more
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than 300 times in the 270 chapters in the New Testament.
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So it's a dominant theme. Next to the subject of faith,
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Christ's second coming is the most dominant theme in the New
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Testament. Scripture actually records 25 times when Jesus
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himself directly talked about his return to the earth. And of
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course, during this church age, the age of grace that we're
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living in now, we have people in the world that have scoffed at
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the possibility of Christ's return and say, "Oh, that could
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never happen." And really, due to his mercy, Christ has held
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back judgment on these scoffers, giving them time to come to
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repentance. For 2 Peter 3:9 tells us that. It says, "The
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Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count
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slackness. But he's longsuffering toward us, not
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willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
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repentance." So he's allowed that wickedness to run its
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course. But we'll see tonight in chapter 19, this is a timeframe
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when the wicked have come to their final end. This is the end
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for them. Christ's second coming is God's final judgment of the
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rulers of darkness. The time has now arrived when God reclaims
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the planet Earth from Satan's grip once and for all. And Satan
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will never have authority on the earth from there on. Revelation
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1.7 says, "Behold, he's coming with clouds, and every eye will
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see him, even they who pierced him. And all the tribes of the
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earth will mourn because of him, even so. Amen." That's
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Revelation 1.7. Every eye will see him when he appears. We
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talked about that earlier. Christ coming on a white horse
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will symbolize his glorious victory over God's enemies.
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Historically, victorious Roman generals rode white horses, or
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they would have the white horses pull their chariots at least,
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when they would enter cities coming back in triumph after a
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victory. And you'll remember that Revelation 6.2 also
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describes the Antichrist coming on a white horse. And we
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mentioned that he does this as a counterfeit to Jesus Christ.
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Christ will destroy the beast, the Antichrist, the false
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prophet, at the second coming. Now when Jesus returns on a
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white horse, he's representing righteous judgment, purity, and
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absolute victory over his enemies. Revelation 19.11, I
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want to read that again. We just read it. "Now I saw heaven
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opened, and behold, a white horse, "and he who sat on him
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was called Faithful and True, "and in righteousness he judges
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and makes war." So in this verse, John's seeing all of
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heaven open. He sees Christ seated on a white horse, ready
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for his departure from heaven, as a warrior and a king. Jesus
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is coming in righteousness to judge and make war, as we talked
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about. Now, Christ is described by a number of titles in the
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passage that we read. I wanna look at that just so that you
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can kinda see the titles that Jesus has in this chapter 19.
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Basically in verses 11, 12, and 13, and then finally in 16, it
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talks about him being faithful, being true. It says he has a
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name written that no man knew but himself. He is called the
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Word of God. And finally, King of Kings and Lord of Lords in
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verse 16. And we'll talk about those in just a little more
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detail here. Number one, he's called faithful. That means he's
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trustworthy or one that can be relied on. He's faithful to keep
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all of his promises. Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass
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away, "but my words shall not pass away." Amen. And number
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two, he's true. Verse 11 says this. He's genuine or true. What
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Christ said is the full truth. It's the opposite of what Satan
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tries to tell us. His job is to deceive and lie to us. That's
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all he ever does is deceive and lie. But Christ tells us the
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truth. Jesus promised to bring peace and social justice,
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political justice to mankind, and he will perfectly deliver
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what he's told us that he's going to do. Now, I think it's
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interesting that Jesus confirms once again that he and his word
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are faithful and true. In John chapter 114, John explicitly
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reveals, and you'll remember this, Jesus is the word that
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became flesh and made his dwelling among us. So Jesus is
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the word that became flesh. So in other words, you could say
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the word and Jesus are really the same. And what Jesus
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declares is true. So that means his word is true. And what Jesus
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says is going to take place, it will take place. He's called
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faithful and true. And this kind of relates back to what I was
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sharing earlier. I talked about the fact that Bible scholars
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estimate that the Bible contains over 3,000 prophetic statements
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in the entire book of the Bible. And over 2,500 of those
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prophecies have already been fulfilled to the letter. And
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that excites me, just to think about that. With that kind of a
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track record, there's absolute certainty that the next 500
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prophetic statements or prophecies will be fulfilled.
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It's amazing. One of our human problems is that God doesn't
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always work on our time schedules. And we discussed the
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fact that the Bible predicts, or predicted, I should say, that
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Jerusalem was going to be a stone of stumbling in the end
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times. How many of you were here when we talked about that, that
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Jerusalem has been prophesied so many times about coming back and
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being restored as a nation? And we looked at Zechariah 12,
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verses two and three, and the prophecy that came from
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Zechariah came 2,500 years ago, and that prophetic word that
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came 2,500 years ago would not have been possible except for
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the events that have happened during the last hundred years.
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If you had visited Israel, Ken, back a hundred years ago, I know
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you're not quite that old, you probably couldn't have done
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that, but let's just say you could have visited Israel a
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hundred years ago, you would have looked at a desolate
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nation, really desert, and you'd say, "There's no way that could
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become a prosperous agricultural oasis that it is in that little
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country the size of New Jersey." And they're one of the top
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producers of agriculture. They export. You'd think they'd just
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produce enough to keep their country going, but that little
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nation produces enough to export fruit and ag products. And
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technologically, they are so far advanced of other nations in the
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Middle East in the way that they can produce and have very little
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loss on their crops. There's a certain percentage. Pastor Keith
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could tell me that as a farmer, or ex-farmer, or being involved
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with farms. You know, when you harvest a crop, there's a
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certain percentage that you lose. You don't get it all.
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Well, the Israelis, I don't even remember the percentage, but
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they are excellent at that, and they keep more of their produced
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crop and send it off for export than any other nation like that.
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And it's amazing what they do. So my point is that Zechariah
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and Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel, you know, some people
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think, well, they had pizza dreams because they prophesied
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all this stuff and that could have never happened. Well, 78
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years ago, May 14th, 1948, Israel became a nation again.
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And those men that people joked and laughed about and scoffed
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about and said they were stupid for what they prophesied, now
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it's proven true. Actually, there were 12 Old Testament
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prophets that explicitly prophesied the return of the
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nation of Israel to their homeland. So it's kind of
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interesting as you study that out. But have you noticed
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sometimes that God's timetable is not our timetable? How many
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of you ever found yourselves saying, you know, Lord, I give
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you till noon on Friday to get this accomplished in my life,
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and if you don't do it by then, I'm just gonna go ahead and take
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it in my own hands because you're not acting fast enough.
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(Congregation Laughing)
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Well, remember when Mary and Martha's brother, Lazarus, died?
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You can read about it in John chapter 11. The message came to
John 11 chapter mention
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Jesus while he was at the Jordan River and they said, "Come
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quickly, Jesus. The one that you love is dying." And Jesus didn't
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respond immediately. He actually stayed at Jordan, laid on his
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hammock, relaxed, got some sunshine, and worked on his tan.
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I don't know what he did for sure, but the Bible tells us
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that he stayed there in Jordan for two days. And then it was a
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two-day journey to get to Bethany. So there was actually a
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four-day lapse from the time that he got the message that
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Lazarus was sick and dying to the time that he arrived. And
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when he got close to Bethany, Martha heard that Jesus was
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approaching, and she found out where he was at and ran out to
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him. And she said, "Lord, if you'd only been here, my brother
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would not have died." Because Lazarus had actually passed away
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during those four days. Basically, she was telling
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Jesus, "You're too late." So why did Jesus hang around for a
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couple days at the Jordan instead of heading right to
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Bethany to take care of this situation? Why didn't He respond
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immediately? And I believe it's because His desire was to do
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much more than just heal Lazarus. It was to show the
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power of God in raising him from the dead. After he had been dead
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for four days, that was even a greater miracle. And often God
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delays His answers that He might do much more than what we're
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even asking for. That's why Pastor Hank always encourages us
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to give prophetic words time to breathe. Give them some time to
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breathe. Don't call them faults just because they don't happen
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in a week. Give them time to pass. We've seen things, Pastor
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Anthony, that Pastor prophesied like 15 or 20 years ago that you
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pulled up those old prophecies from the, I don't know if they
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were the 90s or early 2000s or whatever, early 2000s anyway,
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and we have record of those, and they just came to pass. But when
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you guys heard them at the time, those of you that were in the
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audience, you might have thought, oh, that's gonna come
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next year or this year or whatever, but it took 10, 15
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years sometimes for those things to come to pass. How would you
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like to have been one of the Old Testament prophets and it took
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2,500 years for Israel to become a nation after it was
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prophesied? No wonder many of them were stoned as false
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prophets. It's like, hmm. Well, as humans, we're very time
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conscious, and we think everything has to be immediate.
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We have to stop that way of thinking that if it doesn't
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happen tomorrow, it's not going to happen. That's not true.
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Well, back to Revelation 19. I kind of got off on that a little
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bit. But looking at the titles of Christ again, if you want to
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put that back up for me. So we looked at faithful and true, and
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then number three, he had a name written that no man knew but he
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himself. Revelation 19:11 through 12. I want to reread
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that again if you'll put that up. Revelation 19:11 through 12
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says, "Now I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse. And he
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who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in
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righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes were like a
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flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He had a name
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written that no one knew except himself." So it seems that John
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was able to see a name on Christ, but we don't know if it
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was written on his garment or what, but it was evidently
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incomprehensible to him. He couldn't make out the name, but
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it's evidently supposed to be a mystery until every eye beholds
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his coming and people will find out what that name is. And then
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number four, he's called the Word of God. That's in verse 13,
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Revelation 19, 13 says, "He was clothed with a robe dipped in
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blood and his name is called the Word of God." So Christ is the
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eternal word who became flesh and dwelt among mankind. We
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talked about that a little bit earlier. Christ is the word. He
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is the complete personal manifestation of God and the
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full final revelation of God. At the second coming, the one that
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spoke the universe into existence will destroy the beast
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and his empire by the word of his mouth. Now, number five, he
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has a name written on his robe and his thigh, King of Kings and
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Lord of Lords. Let's look at that. Revelation 19, 16 says,
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"And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, King
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of Kings and Lord of Lords." This title is a summation of
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Christ's rightful claim to reign and rule over all of creation
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with absolute sovereignty. Here we see our mighty Jesus with the
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title of King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It's not only written
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on his robe, Bob, but it's written on his thigh. Did you
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know Jesus has a tat?
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(Audience Laughing)
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King of Kings and Lord of Lords tattooed on his thigh. And I
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know some of you have asked us as pastors of the church, is it
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okay for a Christian to have a tattoo? All I can tell you is
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Jesus has a tattoo. So you can take it from there, what you
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want to do. The Word of God is true. It says, "Faith that he
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has written on his thigh, King of kings and Lord of lords."
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Amen. I wonder what color that tattoo is, if it's a deep blue
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or has a red, you know. Everyone seems to have those deep blue
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tattoos, you know. But I don't have any tattoos, but now maybe
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Eileen will let me get one because I proved to you it's
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scriptural. I wonder if Pastor Hank would ever get a tattoo. I
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don't think so. But let's reread this text scripture in full
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tonight. I wanna go back over this whole scripture and look at
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a couple things in addition to what we've talked about already
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as far as these titles. So I just believe we kinda gotta keep
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digesting because there's a lot in this particular passage. It
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says, "Now I saw heaven open and behold a white horse and he who
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sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness
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he judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire
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and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name
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written that no one knew except himself. He was clothed with a
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robe dipped in blood and his name is called the Word of God.
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And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and
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clean, followed him on white horses. Now out of his mouth,
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the mouth of Jesus, goes a sharp sword, that with it he should
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strike the nations. And he himself will rule them with a
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rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness
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and wrath of Almighty God. And he has on his robe and written
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on his thigh in a name written, "King of kings and Lord of
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lords." So not only do we see those five titles of Christ
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here, but we also see John describing Christ's appearance
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at his return. Verse 12 tells us that his eyes were like a flame
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of fire. This penetrating gaze that's described here in the
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eyes of Christ will expose and exterminate all the
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unrighteousness. Christ will wear many crowns on his head.
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This denotes his royalty and his majestic position as sovereign
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king of kings over heaven and earth. Verse 14 explains that
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armies of believers will accompany Christ at his return.
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Let's look at Revelation 19, verse 14. And in the armies of
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heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on
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white horses. This great army that accompanies Christ will
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include believers from the church age, this age that we're
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in now currently, the New Testament believers, people that
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have died, been buried, their spirits went to heaven because
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they were believers, their spirits are in heaven now. But
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then when the rapture happens, their bodies will be brought
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together with their spirits. There'll be a recreated body.
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And then those of us that are alive on the earth during the
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time of the rapture that go at that point are part of those
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believers that are in heaven. The Old Testament believers will
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be part of this army. I'm not gonna give you the verses now,
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but Jude 14 and 15 and Daniel 12, one through two talks about
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the Old Testament believers as being part of this group that
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comes back with Christ. And then also the tribulation saints that
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were martyred for their faith. During the tribulation period,
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we talked about the fact that the gospel goes forth during the
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tribulation. And those people that got saved during that
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tribulation time were at the very end of the tribulation now,
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talking about the Battle of Armageddon. But we talked about
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the fact that God's mercy ran through the tribulation period.
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And not only did God assign 144,000 Jewish evangelists to
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evangelize the world, he sent the two witnesses, which we
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believe are Moses and Elijah, to be on the earth 1,260 days
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before they're killed. They were evangelizing, prophesying,
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trying to get people saved. And then if that didn't work, we
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also looked at the fact that God sends an angel that goes around
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the entire earth in every nation, every tribe, every
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individual, hears the gospel. But if they choose to refuse it,
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after all that evangelism, they missed the rapture, they're in
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the tribulation period, if they choose to refuse it, they're
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gonna be there at the end, and this'll be the end for them. The
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wicked that have chosen to refuse God are gonna see
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judgment. They've made it through the tribulation. Some of
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them shook their fist at God and were killed during the
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tribulation. So some of those people are already dead. They
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have no more chance. But the tribulation saints, those that
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said, you know what, I'm not gonna take the mark of the
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beast. I'm not gonna serve the Antichrist. I confess my sin, I
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accept Jesus at this time. They might've been martyred at that
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point in time. And then their spirit will go to heaven, but
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they'll come back with Jesus when he comes at this time.
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We'll all return with our glorified bodies. Hallelujah.
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And guess what? We're all gonna be riding white horses. So God
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evidently has a big supply of white horses that are ready for
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this event. All the believers in heaven will accompany Christ at
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this monumental time of the second coming. We're all gonna
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be riding white horses. This is gonna be exciting. Some of you
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might be thinking, but Pastor Doug, I've never ridden a horse.
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Well, you will on that day. And you're gonna be okay. God
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doesn't forget anything. He has this under control. If some of
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you require horseback riding, training, I'm sure Jesus will
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provide that free of charge during your time in heaven
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before we come back. If you need those lessons. Your white horse
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isn't gonna buck you off or take you on a wild chase. Nothing is
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gonna slow down or hinder this great assignment of us following
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Jesus back to earth on our white horses. You know, I remember the
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first time I ever got on a horse and it's about the only thing I
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remember from being, I was telling Eileen, you know, I was
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about five years old at the time and I don't even remember much
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about being five. I kind of remember the place that we lived
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and this was an acreage. My brother had a small horse, it
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was a Pinto horse, brown and white, and his name was Dusty.
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And I remember it vividly though that they put me on this horse
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and I was gonna just, I think they were just gonna lead me
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around the front of the acreage there and there was a busy
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highway right in front of our acreage. And all I can remember
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is it was just me and the horse. I don't even know if I knew what
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the reins were for a horse. I don't even know what I knew. But
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all I can remember is that horse got spooked somehow and it took
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off towards that highway. And it was a busy highway that was
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going out. We were a quarter of a mile outside of the city
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limits. And so there were cars that were moving along pretty
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fast. And so that horse took off. Unfortunately, either my
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dad or my brother-- I don't even remember who it was-- got the
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horse stopped before I reached the highway there. And so
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otherwise, I may not even be here today preaching to you
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because that was a long time ago. But that was my experience
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with Dusty. And hallelujah, well, back to verse 14. The
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armies in heaven clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed
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him on white horses, hallelujah. The verse describes those
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returning with Christ as wearing fine linen, clean and white. And
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that symbolizes the righteousness of Christ produced
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in the lives of the believer. As his followers, redeemed
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believers, are clothed in the garments of salvation and they
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wear robes of righteousness. Isaiah 61:10 declares, "I will
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greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall exult in my God, for
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he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has
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covered me with the robe of his righteousness." Hallelujah.
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Thank you, Jesus. There's so many things in this. I wish I
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could have had time to go into it. Just, you know, we see Jesus
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and it talks about his robe being dipped in blood. When he
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came the first time as Savior, he was spotted with his own
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blood. The time when he comes back at the second coming, the
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reason it-- and we'll talk a little more about what happens
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at the Battle of Armageddon, but he is splattered with blood
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because of the battle. And it's the blood of others, not his
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blood. And there's some significance to that, but I've
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got to move on. Revelation 19, let's read 15 through 19.
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Revelation chapter 19:15 through 19. I'm kind of reading
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a lot of scripture tonight, but I think it'll help us to keep
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this straight. From his mouth came a sharp sword to strike
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down the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He will
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release the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty, like juice flowing
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from a wine press. That juice flowing from a wine press is an
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explanation of like grapes being trampled and in a wine press.
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That's what's gonna happen during this great battle of
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Armageddon. The blood is gonna flow. We'll talk about that
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more, but where are we? From his mother, okay. On his robe at his
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thigh was written the title, King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
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continue on. Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, shouting to
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the vultures flying high in the sky, come, gather together for
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the great banquet God has prepared. Come and eat the flesh
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of kings, generals, and strong warriors, of horses and their
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riders, and of all humanity, both free and slave, small and
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great. Then I saw the beast and the kings of the world and their
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armies gathered together to fight against the one sitting on
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the horse and his army. This passage explains that the beast,
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the Antichrist, and the kings of the earth and their armies are
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gonna gather together to make war against Christ and his
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armies. Verse 15 explains that out of Christ's mouth goes a
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sharp sword that will strike down the nations. Christ is the
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warrior will simply speak and consume Antichrist and his army
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with the word of his mouth. We as followers aren't gonna really
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have to fight in this battle, Christ does it. It comes from
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the word of his mouth, it consumes his enemies. And it's
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verified in second, I love to have other scriptures that
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verify what we read in the book of Revelation because it gives
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us a little different look at it or more insight to it. And 2
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Thessalonians 2:8 talks about this. It says, "Then the man of
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lawlessness will be revealed." That's talking about the
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Antichrist. "But the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of
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his mouth and destroy him by the splendor of his coming." That's
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what will happen to the Antichrist. "And after Christ
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smites the nations," according to verse 15, "He shall rule them
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with a rod of iron. His rule over the nations will be in
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total authority, demanding that every nation conform to his
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righteous standards. Lawlessness will be handled swiftly and
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justly." It's a monarchy at that point. Everyone reports to
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Jesus. And if there's some unrighteous act or wickedness
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that goes on during that millennial period, which there
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again I'm getting ahead of myself, that's for another time.
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But Jesus will put that down quickly and he's in control. The
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rod described in Revelation 19:15 is made of iron and
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biblical scholars interpret the rod of iron as denoting
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absolute, unbreakable power and divine justice. And that's what
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produces peace in the world. The word rod means to shepherd.
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Psalm 23:4, we see the shepherd uses his rod to bring correction
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and comfort to the sheep. We see the term shepherds used to
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describe Christ several times in the New Testament. But I want to
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look at three quickly tonight in John 10, Christ is the good
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shepherd. He says, "I am the good shepherd." The good
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shepherd gives his life for the sheep. And then in Hebrews 13,
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Christ is described as the great shepherd. First, he's described
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as a good shepherd. This verse, he's described as a great
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shepherd. Hebrews 13:20 says, "Now may the God of peace who
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brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great shepherd of
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the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant."
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Hallelujah. Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord
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Jesus from the dead, that great shepherd of the sheep through
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the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in
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every good work to do his will, working in you what is well
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pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory
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forever and ever. Amen. He's the great shepherd who through his
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grace and mercy provided himself as a sacrifice so that we could
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live. And then finally, we see Peter instructing the elders on
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how to oversee their congregation. In 1 Peter chapter
1 Peter 5 chapter mention
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5, Jesus is referred to as the chief shepherd. 1 Peter
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5, verses 2 through 4, he's instructing the elders at
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that point in time on how to pastor their flocks. And he
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says, "Shepherd the flock of God, which is among you, serving
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as overseers, not by compulsion, but willingly, not for dishonest
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gain, but eagerly. Nor as being lords over those entrusted to
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you, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief
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shepherd," there's the word, "The chief shepherd appears,"
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Jesus, "You will receive the crown of glory that does not
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fade away." So Pastor Keith, Pastor Anthony, Pastor Doug, we
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have to shepherd our sheep. That includes Pastor Hank and Pastor
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Brenda, it includes anyone that's called as a pastor. You
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have to do it with integrity. Not lording over the people that
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God's given you, but doing it not for, what does it say, for
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dishonest gain. You know, there are pastors that are just in it
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for the money. That's called a hireling. They're only in it for
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the money. They don't care whether they feed the sheep.
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That's why they don't care whether they give their sheep
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truth. They'll modify the word of God just to try and make
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their life easier. And what this scripture is saying is that if
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pastors follow this teaching and they are treating their sheep in
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a good way with integrity, being examples to the flock, there's a
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reward. The Bible also says there's higher judgment, Pastor
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Keith and Pastor Anthony. We are held to a higher level of
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judgment. Someday at the judgment of Christ, if we don't
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do what we should as pastors, we don't treat the people well,
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we're gonna be judged for that. We're held to a higher standard.
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But it also says, thank God, and I'm hoping we get that, there's
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a reward, there's a reward for us if we treat our people
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rightly, amen. So my whole point to this was, not to talk about
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pastoring necessarily, but just to say Jesus is referred to as
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the chief shepherd there, because the other pastors that
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are on the earth doing the work of God, they're under shepherds,
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really. Jesus is the chief shepherd. He's the one we report
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to. Hallelujah. Well, I'm trying to see where to go here. Oh,
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let's quote Pastor David Jeremiah. I think this is good.
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He said this, you can put this up on the screen if you want to.
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He says, "When Christ returns, and only then will the angels'
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message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled, peace on
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earth, goodwill towards men." Amen. That's when it'll happen.
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At that point, when Christ returns, then the angels'
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message, given so many centuries ago, will actually be fulfilled.
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Well, let's read on to, we're gonna move on here. I'm getting
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ready to conclude fairly soon here. Revelation 19, verses 17
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through 19. It says, "Then I saw an angel standing in the sun,
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shouting to the vultures flying high in the sky, 'Come, gather
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together for the great banquet God has prepared. Come and eat
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the flesh of the kings, generals, and strong warriors of
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the horses, and the riders of all humanity, both free and
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slave, small and great.' Then I saw the beast and the kings of
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the world and their armies gathered together to fight
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against the one sitting on the horse and his army. Here we see
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a picture of what happens following the great battle of
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Armageddon. It's a gross scene. It's intense. But it's what will
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happen. John saw an angel standing in the sun. It doesn't
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mean he's actually standing in the sun. It means the sun is in
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the background. It's a bright sun. And John saw the angel
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standing there in the brightness of the sun. And the angel yells
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out with a loud voice, and he alerts all the vultures in the
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air to come to the great supper. These vultures are assigned to
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eat the flesh of the kings, the captains, the mighty men, the
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horses, and all men, free and enslaved, small and great. Now,
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we didn't have time tonight to discuss every passage of
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Revelation 19 in detail, but you need to understand this. It is
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gross to discuss it. But the last part of verse 15 states
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that Jesus will release the fierce wrath of God, the
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Almighty, like juice flowing from a wine press. I mentioned
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that, like squeezing grapes from a wine press. And I think it's
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Revelation 14, 20 that tells us that the blood will flow as high
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as the horse's bridle. But can you imagine a 200 million man
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army? You know, I attended the Promise Keepers, what was that
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called, Eileen? 1997, I believe. There was a million men
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estimated to be at the Promise Keepers march. Now it just
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escapes me. It was in Washington, D.C. on the Mall.
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What was that? The Million Man March, is that what it was? I
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don't know if that's what it was. I don't think that's right.
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It was a Promise Keepers event, if any of you heard of Promise
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Keepers. It's kind of gone now, I think. But anyway, Pastor Hank
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was at that with me and a group of probably a couple hundred men
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flew out there and did that on a, and it was a Sunday, Saturday
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event, I believe it was. We got back late Saturday night, we did
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a one-day trip. But what was I gonna say? Oh, there was a
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million men on the mall. And I'd never seen a million men in one
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place before. And it was like amazing to me. I mean, it was as
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far as I could see, there were men. A million men in one place
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is a lot of men. There's going to be 200 million men at the
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army at the Battle of Armageddon. And can you imagine
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the amount of blood when 200 million men and their horses are
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slaughtered? No wonder it runs as deep as the horse's bridle.
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Well, the vultures are called at that point to a mighty feast.
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The vultures descend swiftly upon the decaying flesh and the
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army of the Antichrist, and they quickly devour it. The intense
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carnage from this battle. It's amazing what that will be like.
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But the Bible tells us these ugly birds will feed on the
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decaying carcasses of millions of men and their horses that
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attempted to fight for the Antichrist. Now, another point
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to note here is that sin and wickedness is judged here, like
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we've talked about. And the other thing that I think is
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really interesting is there's, really it doesn't matter what
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the classification of the person is that's involved in this
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battle. It says that it made a point to say it's kings and
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captains and mighty men and horses and all men, the free and
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enslaved, the small and the great, they're all going to be
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there. God's judgment is not reserved for a certain class of
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people. If they failed to respond to God, they've
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disobeyed God, never accepted his grace and mercy, they'll be
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judged at that point in time. It doesn't matter what their
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station in life is. And here during our time on earth, we see
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individuals that maybe are extremely wealthy or they have
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high positions, you know, and they get by for a period of
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time, you know, and they, you know, we all know they should go
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to jail for the evil deeds that they've done, but maybe they
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have a way to buy it off or maybe because of their power or
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their prestige or their name or whatever it is, they don't end
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up in jail. They just keep on going. Well, that's gonna come
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to an end at this point in time because there won't be anyone
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that's excluded from this. It doesn't matter if your name is
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Rockefeller or if your name is Smith. You're gonna be involved
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in that situation and this is judgment time. It doesn't matter
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what your class is. The good news is, of course, if we judge
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ourselves now, we can be on the right side of judgment and we
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don't have to think about these things. But it is important to
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know what's going to happen. How many of you are enjoying just
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kind of understanding the timeline? Even though we have to
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talk about some things that aren't really comfortable, it's
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good to know the timeline of how these things are going to happen
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and what God's mercy and redemption and plan has been all
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along to get people to turn. But if they refuse, they have free
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will. It's their choice. God does not send anyone to hell. We
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send ourselves there because of our own free will. And people, I
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have opportunity after opportunity to receive God's
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mercy. Well, as we conclude Revelation 19 with the last
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three verses, I wanna read 19 through 21. And it says, "Then I
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saw the beast and the kings of the world and their armies
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gathered together to fight against the one sitting on the
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horse and his army. And the beast was captured, and with him
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the false prophet, who did mighty miracles on the behalf of
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the beast, miracles that deceived all who had accepted
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the mark of the beast and had worshipped the statue. Both the
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beast and his false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake
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of the burning sulfur. Their entire army was killed by the
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sharp sword that came from the mouth of the one riding the
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white horse, the mouth of Jesus. And the vultures all gorged
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themselves on the dead bodies. The final destiny of this
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satanic team is certain. Both the beast and the false prophet
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are cast into the lake of fire. And maybe in the future we'll
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talk about the lake of fire. It's an eternal burning fire.
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It's not a consuming fire where people are just killed and gone.
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No, they burn forever. Forever torture and pain. After the
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Lord's completed His judgment, He'll establish the millennial
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kingdom on the earth, and those that return with Him will be
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made priests of God and reign with Him during that millennial
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kingdom. But that's the subject for another time. We'll talk
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about the millennium and what happens during that time. I'm
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not sure, is it Eddie or Brandon that comes tonight? Whoever it
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is, you can come now. We're going to wind up here. But I
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want to close with this. I want us to think about the tremendous
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contrast between the second coming when Christ comes back
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with the church and contrast that to the first time that
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Jesus came and how he rode into Jerusalem in a lowly state
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sitting on a borrowed donkey. And I think you have that
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picture for me there of Jesus coming in on the donkey. That
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first ride didn't last too long. It was a fleeting moment of
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glory on his way to the cross. The cheers soon turned to
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hateful cries. They yelled at him and they said, "If you're
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the son of God, save yourself." And they yelled, "You claim to
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save others, "but you can't save yourself, Jesus." And the man
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who was king for a short time suffered and bled and died. It
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was all part of a merciful master plan that God put in
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place to save the world. John 3:16, "For God so loved the
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world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
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believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
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life." That was the master plan. The Jewish people would not
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accept Jesus as their Messiah, even though he fulfilled all
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their prophecies about a suffering Savior. Isaiah
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foretold this. Let's look at Isaiah 53, verses 5 through 7. I
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want you to see this. It says, "But he was wounded for our
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transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The
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chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we
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are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We've turned
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everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the
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iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted,
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yet he opened not his mouth. He was led as a lamb to the
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slaughter and as a sheep before its shearer is silent, so he
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opened not his mouth. That's Isaiah's prophecy from Isaiah
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53. The first time Jesus rode in, he rode into town as a
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suffering Savior sent to redeem fallen men. He rode in on a
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donkey but carried out a cross. He had a hero's welcome but he
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died a criminal's death. But at the second coming of Jesus,
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Jesus is gonna ride again. The next time Jesus rides, he will
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fulfill Isaiah's second set of prophecies concerning the
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Messiah. Let's read that. That comes from Isaiah 9, verses six
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and seven. It says, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son
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is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder, and
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his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty
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God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his
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government and peace, there will be no end. Upon the throne of
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David and over his kingdom, to order it and establish it with
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judgment and justice. From that time forward, even forever, the
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zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this." The next time
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Jesus rides, things are going to be 100% different. He'll no
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longer be a temporary king riding on a donkey. He'll come
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in the clouds in great glory as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
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He's not coming as king for a day, but he's going to be coming
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as king for all eternity. He's coming on a white horse carrying
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a sword. He'll have crowns on his head and fire in his eyes,
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and he's coming to rule and reign. Yes, he's going to write
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again, but we will be with him as part of the army of Christ,
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and it's going to be an awesome day. God's going to restore all
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things to their original perfect state, erasing sin, death, and
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suffering, and there's only one way to enlist in that army
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that's accepting the shed blood of Jesus Christ and making him
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the Lord of your life. You know, you can't participate in this
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second mission of Christ if you refuse to accept what he did in
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his first mission. You can't reign with him in the future if
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you don't let Jesus redeem you from sin right now. You won't
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ride with him in the future if you haven't bowed your knee to
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him in the present. Philippians 2, verses 8 through 11 says, and
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being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and
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became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the
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cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and given him the
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name which is above every name. And at that name of Jesus, every
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knee should bow, of those in heaven and of those on earth and
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of those under the earth. And that every tongue should confess
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that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. The King is
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coming. It's up to us to determine on which side we'll be
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the next time Jesus rides. Will we come with him back at the
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second coming? Will we be part of that army? You can determine
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that. Or you could be one of those left behind in the
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tribulation period, or even at the Battle of Armageddon, who
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knows? Shaking your fist at God saying, "You know what? I don't
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believe." But how can you not believe? When 2,500 prophecies
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have already come to pass, believe me, He's coming again.
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He's coming in the rapture to take the bride of Christ with
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Him. And with all my heart, that's where I want us to be. I
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don't want to be left behind. Like someone said, I want to go
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in the first load. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Why don't we stand?
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Father, thank you for this opportunity to open your word.
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Thank you that we have a better understanding, hopefully, of
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Revelation chapter 19, and the fact that you're coming again a
Revelation 19 chapter mention
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second time to this earth to rule and reign in righteousness.
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And Lord, you're so merciful, but yet you are a righteous God.
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And you say you will judge the wicked. We all deserve judgment,
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Lord, but thank you for the mercy of Christ that you came
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the first time, you gave your life as a humble servant just so
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that we could have eternal life with you. What a sacrifice, what
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a Savior. We thank you for that tonight. And I'm gonna ask the
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tech team if you'll put up on the screen a phone number. If
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for some reason we have someone watching tonight and you're not
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100% sure that Jesus is your Lord, you're not 100% sure that
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you've made the decision to serve Christ, I'm gonna ask you
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to call that number and our prayer team will pray with you.
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All you need to do is call on the Lord and he will save you.
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and determine that you will follow Him and His will for your
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life. And all things are made new, the Bible says. That's a
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new birth experience, and you can experience that right where
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you're at, watching online. You can call our number 24 hours a
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day and receive Christ, and that's the most important thing,
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the most important decision you could ever make so that you can
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be on the right side of judgment. If we judge ourselves
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now, we don't have to be judged in the future. And thank you for
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that. Hallelujah. And you know, I just want to say this, when
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the transition happened tonight and Pastor Anthony was
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ministering, I'm just so proud of those of you that responded,
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'cause sometimes it's not easy to do that, but to say that you
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have some offense, or I'm not even sure what the word was,
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with those in the family. I think it's Matthew chapter 6.
Matthew 6 chapter mention
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The Bible tells us that if we are not willing to forgive and
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lay those things down, Jesus won't forgive us. We cannot
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carry unforgiveness in ourselves. And there were many
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of you up here, and I don't know if you're carrying unforgiveness
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or if you were just here because you have a tender heart. I don't
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know. Only Jesus knows that. But the fact that you were willing
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to respond to that and say, you know what, I don't want any
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ought with my family. Jesus is proud of you. And we're proud of
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you. So thank you for that. And I'm done tonight. Thank you for
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coming. God bless you. Don't forget to be in the house
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Sunday. Dr. Bob Rogers will be here, and it'll be a great day.
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And Mr. Pentecost himself will be in the house, so don't miss
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that. Thank you for coming tonight have
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a wonderful evening.