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The Joseph Generation | James Lee

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  1. I was on my way back two weeks ago from Germany.

  2. I was in Italy, then Germany for business meetings.

  3. And then I came back and I was not, I was adjusting to the

  4. time. I wasn't able to sleep.

  5. And then there was 1 evening I, I was having this vision or

  6. vision or dream and I don't know, whatever you call it.

  7. And I woke up and I and I go on my knees and I started to pray

  8. and I went straight to the laptop because it was such a

  9. revelation. I have no idea whether it is

  10. from the Holy Spirit, whatever it is, I'm not saying anything.

  11. I'm just saying I'm going to share with you what I've

  12. discovered because right from the start in Genesis, right from

  13. the start, we have you read the word in the beginning, God, but

  14. you also read in a few chapters later the devil.

  15. So there is God, there is also the devil.

  16. And then later you read there is good and there is evil.

  17. There is light and there is darkness.

  18. It's just like in farming, There is good microbes, there's bad

  19. microbes. I better be careful.

  20. There are a lot of nice, good expert farmers over here.

  21. There is a constant war between good and evil.

  22. The bad wants to destroy the good and the good just wants to

  23. survive. But they cannot eradicate the

  24. bad. Just like you have a garden,

  25. just when you think you pluck out all the weeds, you left it

  26. alone for a couple of weeks or couple of months, and the next

  27. thing you see all the weeds coming back again.

  28. So you cannot eradicate evil right away, and as as I was

  29. told, I'm subjected to correction in farming.

  30. In order to fight the bad microbes, you need to overwhelm

  31. them with the good microbes, am I correct?

  32. I better check with him. And so likewise, I think it is

  33. very applicable. If you want to suppress evil

  34. corruption in any country, you need to overwhelm them with the

  35. godly people, especially in government.

  36. Yeah, because these two will continue to exist side by side

  37. and this war will always continue until Jesus return to

  38. restore His Kingdom's authority once and for all.

  39. There is no more such thing as evil for the next 1000 years.

  40. And what happens in the unseen world, in the unseen world of

  41. the microbes, is the same as our present world.

  42. S Eitan wants to you know who is S Eitan, right?

  43. When you put the word together, it is Satan.

  44. So Satan is a Chinese S Eitan. He wants to destroy God's

  45. people. He wants to destroy the Jews,

  46. and he wants to destroy Christians.

  47. Yeah. And this is what Paul wrote to

  48. the efficient church. And he says, for we do not

  49. wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the principalities,

  50. against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this

  51. age, against spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly

  52. places. In other words, Paul is telling

  53. the church, look here, there is a war going on up there that is

  54. unseen, that is invisible. That is nothing going to do with

  55. physical warfare. You can't fight them with

  56. weapons, OK? And Mr. SA Tan is going around

  57. waging a war to win the hearts and minds of people, especially

  58. the young people. And you know, what is his

  59. method? His method, broadly speaking,

  60. OK, is pain and gain. What is pain?

  61. Persecutions. What is gain?

  62. Temptations, lawlessness, that is his basic approach and it

  63. always works. That is why he never changed

  64. much. So lawlessness is pervading

  65. through the world right now. What is lawlessness?

  66. He offer what you want. He caters to your carnal

  67. desires, your freshly desires, unlimited, uncontrolled desires.

  68. That's what he offers you. This is what Paul wrote and he

  69. continued in the next church and he says, so I said walk in the

  70. Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh, for

  71. the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the

  72. Spirit what is contrary to the flesh, and they are in conflict

  73. with each other so that you are not to do whatever you want and

  74. love to do. There is this invisible conflict

  75. going on between the Spirit and the flesh and that is why Paul

  76. says the only way to fight this evil is walk by the Spirit, Be

  77. guided by the Holy Spirit. Allow your spiritual GPS to be

  78. guided by Heaven's Porter and not always be on your TikTok and

  79. your Facebook. You understand what I'm talking

  80. about? Yeah, I am so happy that my

  81. phone, my mobile phone is very special.

  82. I ordered it from from US actually, but they came from

  83. Hong Kong, which means China. And this is a Google Pixel

  84. phone, but there is no Google insight.

  85. We call it the Google phone. Yeah, nothing.

  86. No Google insight. And I'm glad this phone, I don't

  87. download Facebook, I don't download YouTube, I don't

  88. download. I only have necessary apps

  89. inside because I don't want to be distracted.

  90. Too many things in this world are distracting us.

  91. When you go family gathering, everybody is sticking up a

  92. phone. Nobody is talking to each other

  93. anymore. Am I not correct?

  94. Am I telling you something strange?

  95. I think it only happens in Singapore.

  96. Are you Filip? You Filipinos are real great

  97. people. And so and he continues, he give

  98. a list of what is are the works of the flesh and what deposits

  99. sexual immorality, impurity, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,

  100. discord, jealousy, any name. And he says what those who

  101. continue to do such a thing will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

  102. Be very careful. You may not make it if you

  103. continue to live a life of the carnal way.

  104. So let me explain to you. I'm a electrical guy.

  105. I'm, I'm not when, when my son and I go to meetings and you

  106. know, I will always introduce them.

  107. My son is an engineer. I am engineer NEAR, I'm near the

  108. engine. So here's the real deal.

  109. So if you and I know those days, we used to have this crazy

  110. fluorescent tube and to use the fluorescent tube, you need to

  111. have a about us. And I am from the old school.

  112. We are one of the largest importers of this from Europe to

  113. Singapore and to South East Asia.

  114. So this is how the fluorescent tube works.

  115. Let me explain. OK, this is the secretary.

  116. If you are engineer, you roughly know your AC supply, OK goes in,

  117. it goes through the we call it the choke.

  118. Why they call it the chook? American call it the current

  119. limiting device. Why they it's to limit the

  120. current going in? Because you know why the

  121. fluorescent tube without this chook will draw too much

  122. current. So if it draws too much current,

  123. the chook is the one that prevents this tube from drawing

  124. too much. It's a very hungry thing.

  125. We, you know, by our own flesh, we are the same.

  126. If we are offered everything unlimited, we will consume

  127. everything unlimited, and then we will go.

  128. And then you know what happened. If without the choke, you know

  129. what happened, this tube will light up very bright.

  130. Oh, you enjoy yourself very extinguished by itself.

  131. And so the choke is like the Holy Spirit.

  132. It limits the current that you are supposed to draw.

  133. OK. And this is where my business,

  134. this is where I make a lot of money from them.

  135. So, so this choke limits the current according to the

  136. specification of the tube. So if you are a four feet tube,

  137. this device will give you only the current that is meant for

  138. the four feet tube. If you are a 2 feet tube, this

  139. device will only give you and limit the current of a 2 feet

  140. tube. Why?

  141. So that you can have a longer life span, useful life.

  142. And so this is like a spiritual walk.

  143. If you are totally unbreeded and uncontrolled, yeah, I know

  144. you're going to enjoy yourself very bright.

  145. Next thing you're extinguished. We need the Holy Spirit.

  146. He is the current limiting device for all of us.

  147. Yeah, something like that. And the same thing goes the next

  148. slide. And so Christ talks about the

  149. last days and he provide us with a lot of info from Matthew 24,

  150. Mark chapter 13, Luke 21. And all those all the signs of

    Mark 13 chapter mention

  151. his second coming and Satan method continue to be the same

  152. pain and gain in the last days. And here there will be a lot of

  153. persecutions in the last days, but there will also be a lot of

  154. lawlessness. So the better continues, the

  155. unseen better continues all the way into the last days until

  156. Christ return and do a regime change.

  157. In the last days Jesus talks about lawlessness will increase

  158. because lawlessness. Lawlessness is the same as the

  159. whole list of the works of the flesh.

  160. They will increase and the love of many will grow cold.

  161. The Internet is one source of lawlessness.

  162. It promotes the unlimited drawing of the current.

  163. If you're not careful, you get suck into it and you will not

  164. inherit the Kingdom of God. And in the another translation

  165. it says and because lawlessness shall have been multiplied and

  166. it is multiplying right now, and the NIVNIRV and NIV both they

  167. say it is evil shall increase, wickedness shall increase.

  168. And the Greek word for lawlessness, alumnia, that means

  169. it's against the law. Basically, it's against the law.

  170. And this word in Greek is not just going against the law of

  171. the country. I mean, it's ridiculous.

  172. Sorry. You know, in the US when you see

  173. people going against the law enforcement officers, it's

  174. ridiculous. It's not just going against the

  175. law of the country. It is also going against the law

  176. of nature, the law of anything. The boy can become girl, girl

  177. can become boy. And this is exactly what Paul is

  178. talking about in the next slide. And he says don't let anyone

  179. deceive you for that day. That means the coming of Christ

  180. will not happen until you see two key events.

  181. And one of the key events is the man, the rebellion take place.

  182. That is the apostasy of the church, which is already

  183. happening in US, in UK where the churches are turning to LGBT.

  184. OK. And now we are watching Who is

  185. this man of lawlessness promoting the flesh, promoting

  186. the frozen tube without the ballast?

  187. He's coming, but we don't know who yet.

  188. Surely not me. I'm a good guy.

  189. Of course we are seeing that in the US through the we call them

  190. the Demon Crack party. Demons.

  191. And also the Labour Party in the UK there are just crazy, like

  192. what Trump called them crazy. Sorry, I don't quite like Trump,

  193. but I think he's doing a great job.

  194. He's a nightmare for the LGBTS. So you see, lawlessness means

  195. there is no scarcity of sex within marriage.

  196. Premarital sex is being promoted.

  197. It's a free sex world and it results in so many abortions in

  198. America. Looks like 2024 went beyond

  199. 1,000,000 unborn babies. And look at this girl.

  200. She decided to be a she's such a lovely looking girl.

  201. You look as she removed her breasts just to be a boy.

  202. This is the kind of evil that is going on and it's spreading and

  203. it's coming over to this part of the world.

  204. That's right. And you know, when my friends in

  205. Singapore are always James, why are you so concerned about what

  206. goes on in America? I say, look here.

  207. Whatever happens in America spreads all over the world.

  208. Trust me. Look at McDonald's everywhere

  209. now. Oh, isn't it true?

  210. Yeah. So what are we supposed to do?

  211. This is what the message is all about.

  212. Be very careful. Walk by the Spirit.

  213. The thing is this, it appears right now that the whole world

  214. is moving towards the same direction of lawlessness, and

  215. the easy way is for us to flow along that.

  216. The difficult way and the harder way is to follow Jesus all the

  217. way. And there is no in between, no

  218. compromise. That's right, You remember this,

  219. the story about Jesus talking about the broad gate and the

  220. narrow gate. And finally towards the end of

  221. his parable, he, he says that in the last days there will be a

  222. lot of people who will come before me.

  223. And he says, Lord, Lord, I have cast out demons.

  224. How can you don't know me? I'm on YouTube.

  225. I'm a mega church. You know, it cannot be.

  226. You don't know me. It's impossible.

  227. My name is Jacob. I shouldn't be using my own

  228. name. Oh, this is oh, that's bad.

  229. And Jesus says I don't know you. These are prominent guys.

  230. And he says depart from me. You who practice lawlessness,

  231. NIV calls it evildoers because lawlessness is as good as evil

  232. doing. And this word lawlessness comes

  233. from the same Greek word anomia. Outwardly these guys are calling

  234. him Lord, Lord, Lord. You know, somebody was saying,

  235. how do you tell you can you can tell the pretenders and the

  236. genuine ones, where where can you find them?

  237. They say in the church. Yeah, because many were

  238. professed Lord, Lord, but they'd really never meant to make him

  239. Lord. And so these other people,

  240. outwardly, they call him Lord. I remember my American founding

  241. pastor used to say this. If you, if he is not the Lord of

  242. all, he is not the Lord at all. I think you must have heard that

  243. before, right? So when you call him Lord, you

  244. have to mean it. But even though you don't mean

  245. it, it doesn't really matter because the test will come

  246. because Jesus at the end of the parable in Matthew Chapter 7,

    Matthew 7 chapter mention

  247. there will be the storm test that is coming.

  248. The rain, the flood, the wind is going to come and only those who

  249. built their lives upon the rock, the genuine followers of Christ,

  250. they will be able to withstand it.

  251. And Paul warning to those who continue to want to sin and they

  252. make it very clear the consequences.

  253. Verse 24, can you see and God gave them up.

  254. Verse 26, God give them up, and verse 28 God give them over.

  255. It's a very scary thing to continue to want to sin.

  256. It's a very scary thing when God give us up.

  257. If you continue to grieve the Holy Spirit, if you continue to

  258. want to. Entertain lawlessness the flesh

  259. God one day is going to say bye bye to you.

  260. And not only that, the last verse 28 is even worse and God

  261. will give them over. In other words, since you want

  262. to continue this way, I will allow you this way.

  263. I help you along and make you even worse.

  264. Be very careful. I was 25 years old some 20 years

  265. ago, you know, and I know. How is it like, yeah, there are

  266. a lot of temptations even in my time.

  267. But it is very scary when God gave us up.

  268. We don't want that to happen. Sometimes it's good that we talk

  269. about the wrath of God, not just the love of God.

  270. The problem in today is we always kick off with the Gospel

  271. of John 316 for God so loved the world, but we've forgotten John

  272. 313 all the way down. How this verse 16 come about.

  273. That is the reason why we are doing hermeneutics with

  274. everybody. Always take the context, the

  275. passage. Why are we talking about the

  276. love of God only? It is understood He loves us

  277. because the love of God is not the problem.

  278. We are the problem. We have the flesh to worry

  279. about. We have the lawlessness to

  280. tackle. We should be talking about this

  281. more because the love of God is constant.

  282. We we are not constant. And so it's about time we start

  283. talking about hell, but you don't talk about anymore.

  284. And Paul, make it very clear. Those who continue in the flesh

  285. will not inherit the Kingdom of God means you inherit the

  286. Kingdom of Satan. You end up in hell.

  287. You know, in Singapore, we call it don't pray, play.

  288. That means don't play around. Yeah, OK.

  289. That is our colloquial way. Don't mess around.

  290. Don't play. Play OK and the next slide and

  291. Paul continue. He's very strong on this, you

  292. know, Paul continue and he says do not be deceived.

  293. Don't you ever think God is mock, OK, Whatever a man sows,

  294. he will also reap. But he who sows to the flesh

  295. will reap corruption, but he will sow to the Spirit will of

  296. the Spirit leap, leap life everlasting.

  297. And he encourages us in verse 9. But let us not grow weary.

  298. Let us not be tired. Let us not give up.

  299. Oh, this one, give up on me. Let us not give up, OK?

  300. For in due season there will be a time we're going to enjoy the

  301. fruits of our labour. And there are people who thinks

  302. that they can mock God, they can mock the church by living a life

  303. of uncontrolled flesh kind of ways.

  304. You know, some people, they are offended by the pastor.

  305. Ah, I decided to leave the church.

  306. I go on drinking. I go on visit all kinds of

  307. institutions except the mental institutions.

  308. And they continue to do whatever they want.

  309. They think they are mocking God. Oh, there will be consequences.

  310. Next slide. Look at this young man over here

  311. just few days ago he went to court few days only.

  312. This was reported last year he was charged 110.

  313. Bright young men, future doctor living in Melbourne.

  314. He have hidden cameras in the hospitals, changing rooms,

  315. bathing area for all the females.

  316. He was catering to the flesh and he thought he can get away with

  317. it. Oh, your sin will find you out.

  318. That's right, right. These are the consequences.

  319. Whatever you reap, whatever you sow, you reap.

  320. You may sow something now that you think you enjoy, but it will

  321. come back to haunt you. OK, but while all these are

  322. going on, it appears that we are in a very green environment.

  323. But God have given us examples of hope from the Scriptures and

  324. today I call this the Joseph generation that God is going to

  325. raise up. And when I told a pastor about

  326. Joseph generation, he got a shock.

  327. See that was the same thing that the Lord spoke to him.

  328. And now in my dream and my vision, whatever, somehow it

  329. connects in the last days, Joseph in the first book where

  330. one young man called Joseph, one man that God has provided us as

  331. a role model. He refused to give in to

  332. lawlessness and the temptation of free sex.

  333. But he suffered and yet he passed the test And see Mrs.

  334. Potiphar one day. Notice this young man was well

  335. built and handsome like me. She tames him with free sex.

  336. Now Can you imagine if you are alone with this hardly dressed

  337. woman? It's very, very difficult to

  338. resist temptation, but he decided not to.

  339. He fled, and this is what he said.

  340. My master has put me in charge of almost everything.

  341. Now he doesn't have to worry about anything in the house.

  342. He trusts me to take care of everything he owns.

  343. No one in this house in higher position than I am.

  344. My master hasn't held anything back from me except you.

  345. You are his wife. Can you recognize that you are

  346. his wife? You don't.

  347. There must be some rules. There must be some limitations

  348. to whatever you want to do. You don't get involved with

  349. someone's else's wife. How could I do such an evil

  350. thing like that? And how could I see it against

  351. God? Now you see, you notice this one

  352. thing that actually from here we discover 2 very important values

  353. of integrity #1 he values earthly relationship, OK?

  354. And that is very critical. You know, these are the guys

  355. that we want to look for when we want to hire someone who

  356. recognise the boss. And he's grateful to the boss

  357. for breaking him up to this level.

  358. And he wants to remain faithful. And he will not do such an evil

  359. thing as to try to encroach into his private relationship with

  360. his wife. Husband and wife relationship is

  361. sacred. Are you hearing me when I.

  362. Oh, sorry. I don't have my ring anymore

  363. because the ring is. The ring is too tight.

  364. I'm surprised I put on weight. Yeah.

  365. So. So my wife tell me to take it

  366. up. So with her permission, I took

  367. it up. I'm in the business world.

  368. There are a lot of temptations. One Indonesian businessman, very

  369. rich guy. My boss told me you better sit

  370. down with him. He likes you.

  371. You better have dinner with him. OK, Dinner, Ken.

  372. And after dinner he insists that I go with him to those

  373. nightclubs. Youngers dancing naked.

  374. I said, you want me to go, boss? You go.

  375. No, no, no, you go. OK, I go.

  376. I swallow my saliva. So you know what I did?

  377. I went to the nightclub together with this business guy.

  378. The first I saw the stage there I sat my back facing the stage

  379. and throughout the so-called entertainment time with all the

  380. food I eat the food, I never turn back.

  381. And then he would say to me, why are you not turning back to

  382. look? You should be enjoyed.

  383. I said, you know, my dear friend, I really told you I

  384. enjoy your company very much. I mean, you are a good guy.

  385. I like to do business with you. But you know, I don't need all

  386. this. It's OK.

  387. And besides, I'm married. I have a wife.

  388. Please understand. You know, too.

  389. One woman is enough trouble. A woman better forgive me.

  390. I, I, I I don't mean it. The second very important values

  391. of integrity is he values his heavenly relationship with God.

  392. He do not want to offend God. He do not want to have a rupture

  393. of relationship between the one that he loved, the one that had

  394. brought him through trust and promotion as well.

  395. He will not want to hurt God. I think many times it's very,

  396. very, very important that we have these two critical values

  397. of godly integrity that will see us through.

  398. And Joseph becomes a model of uncompromising purity and one

  399. that never lose hope even though he's being accused wrongly and

  400. God finally fulfill his God-given dream.

  401. He was promoted to be #2 and just when he was about to give

  402. up his dream, you remember he even called his first son.

  403. What is his first son? Name your son.

  404. No, no, Manessa. You know what's Manessa?

  405. Forget. Forget.

  406. I don't think you like to call your son forget.

  407. You forget everything. He forget because you know why

  408. He says God has made me forget about all my sufferings.

  409. I don't want to remember it anymore.

  410. But do you really think God may he forget?

  411. No, it was the next chapter you read carefully.

  412. His brothers appear again. But it is a God-given dream.

  413. He will make it come to pass. And his brothers came and bowed

  414. down before him. Ladies and gentlemen, when God

  415. give you a dream, you will go through difficult times

  416. sometimes, but never give up. And there are a lot of young

  417. people over here today. God has granted you dreams about

  418. what He's going to use you for in the future.

  419. Don't give up. Don't let temptations come along

  420. the way to get you into trouble. And I am believing that in the

  421. last days God is going to raise up more Joseph.

  422. They refuse to submit themselves to the pains, that is

  423. persecution, and they refuse to submit themselves to the gains,

  424. temptation and lawlessness. And then in my so-called vision,

  425. suddenly I was led to this passage.

  426. Revelations chapter 14 verse one to four and then John says I

    Revelation 14 chapter mention

  427. look and there in front of me was the land.

  428. He was standing at Mount Zion. That means he already had

  429. returned. OK.

  430. With him were 144,000 people. Written on the foreheads were

  431. his name and his father's name and they had not committed

  432. sexual sins with women. They had kept themselves pure,

  433. their mouths told no life integrity again. 144,000 Jewish

  434. young men Genesis chapter 1 you have one young man in the last

    Genesis 1 chapter mention

  435. days. 144,000 Joseph. Just when we think we are going

  436. to be overwhelmed by evil and lawlessness, God has his

  437. randoms. And so these are the Jewish

  438. people. Let me continue.

  439. There is another kind of Joseph generation that are non Jewish

  440. as well. And when I began to look at

  441. scriptures, I discovered that in Revelations Chapter 7, right

    Revelation 7 chapter mention

  442. after the 144,000 are being announced in Chapter 7 and then

  443. jump over to chapter 14. That's why sometimes Revelation

  444. can make you very confused. That is why I avoid studying the

  445. book of Revelations that I ask your pastor to do it.

  446. He's more intellectual than me. I'm very confused.

  447. And so Chapter 7 talks about the inauguration of the 144,000.

  448. And after the inauguration of this so-called Joseph

  449. generation, later you discover that there is another

  450. generation, the multitudes and multitudes that he cannot even

  451. count. And he says that these are the

  452. ones who came out of the great tribulation.

  453. They are dressed in their their in their white robes.

  454. They came out from the great tribulation.

  455. That means it is after the tribulation already.

  456. It's after Jesus return. Who are these guys that are

  457. beyond count? You can't number them and and

  458. John recorded for us. They are from different tribes,

  459. different countries, different tongues, so many of them

  460. millions I believe. Who are these people?

  461. What we know is that they suffer, they go through thirst,

  462. they go through hunger but they survive the 3.5 years great

  463. tribulation and they were rewarded.

  464. They were dressed in white robe and God recognised them.

  465. And I am of the opinion Revelations Chapter 7 verse 14,

    Revelation 7:14

  466. this group of multitudes of Saints have to be the same group

  467. found in Matthew chapter 24 where Jesus says those who

    Matthew 24 chapter mention

  468. endure to the end. These are the multitudes and

  469. multitudes and the millions of Saints around the world that God

  470. is raising up. They refuse to submit to Satan's

  471. pain and gains, and they endure to the end.

  472. And if you read the context and I was running through again and

  473. again, I was praying about it. And so towards the end, Jesus

  474. says because lawlessness shall abound.

  475. We read this already, but he who endures to the end shall be

  476. saved. Endures what I mean not just

  477. your wife, but you have to endure temptation.

  478. You have to endure lawlessness, you have to endure persecutions,

  479. endure to the end. The end of what?

  480. The end of the 3.5 years. So Revelations Chapter 7, verse

    Revelation 7:14

  481. 14 are likely to be these guys who endure to the end.

  482. They are like Joseph. They refuse to budget.

  483. They refuse to be part of the B system.

  484. They don't want to get jacked. I'm sorry.

  485. I'm not jacked because I was almost jacked.

  486. You know the mRNA, but I didn't thank God.

  487. My wife got a revelation. Actually, it's not revelation.

  488. Actually, I show him, show her the video, but her friends show

  489. her the same video that she listened to her friends.

  490. She don't listen to me. And then you read the next

  491. verse, NCV. Another version says those

  492. people who kept their faith until the end will be safe.

  493. But what are they kept safe for? For what there is a purpose and

  494. this is where the next verse comes in and this gospel of the

  495. Kingdom, these are the guys that God is going to use for the last

  496. days massive Holy Spirit revival around the world because these

  497. are the guys that refuse to budget.

  498. These are the guys that are the Joseph generation, OK,

  499. Persecution will not affect them.

  500. Temptation will not affect them. They are the guys that choose to

  501. walk the narrow gate and, and you know something, God will use

  502. the last days persecutions and the temptations to sieve up the

  503. wolves among the ship. And then when they are being

  504. done away with, God unleashes those people who are ready to

  505. endure to the end. And they will be the one that

  506. this gospel, the Kingdom will be pitched to the whole world and

  507. the God will use them for this massive evangelism.

  508. And these are the Joseph generation that God is looking

  509. for. The non Jews.

  510. Do you see the flow? I never saw it until I further

  511. study after that so-called dream that I have.

  512. And so it is very encouraging for us to know we are not alone.

  513. We are not alone. I have testimonies after

  514. testimonies because we support church planters in persecuted

  515. area in India, Indonesia, oh Pakistan.

  516. I forget to mention tough and these are the guys that we

  517. salute them. They endure to the end very

  518. tough. We visit them, we know how is it

  519. like and after those who endure to the end and after the gospel

  520. is being preached to the whole world after this non Jews Joseph

  521. generation rise up and begin to reach out and then the end come

  522. and then later you ever discover where Jesus himself said

  523. immediately after the tribulation, the Son of man

  524. comes and then he gathered the elect and you look at the word

  525. elect. Don't get confused, OK, The

  526. Greek word it's very hard to pronounce.

  527. Go mine. It's a go mine, OK.

  528. Just remember it is like a selection process.

  529. It is not as though it is an arbitrary approach in the

  530. political context, election or to be chosen.

  531. It's not a one way thing, it's a two way thing, OK.

  532. There is a call and there are those who respond to this call

  533. and that is what election is all about.

  534. And it's like the Army, for example, in the Army we're going

  535. to recruit commandos. And what happened?

  536. Those who answer the call, they join in, they go through the

  537. course and if they survive the test, the commander or the

  538. defence minister, ladies and gentlemen, today I present to

  539. you those chosen ones because they survive the test.

  540. So there are two way, there is a call and there are those who

  541. answer the call and it is the same as what Paul in his first

  542. sermon in Acts chapter 2, verse 21, whoever calls on the name of

    Acts 2:21

  543. the Lord. You see there is this response

  544. to the core and as many as the Lord our God called verse 39.

  545. So you see it's a two way process.

  546. It's not a one way where God only choose.

  547. It is very clear when Jesus said it.

  548. That is why he says in Matthew chapter 20 verse 16 and 22 verse

    Matthew 20:16

  549. 14 and he says many are called, few are chosen right, some are

  550. frozen. So now we understand you can,

  551. you can answer the call, but if you don't endure to the end, you

  552. are not selected, you're not part of it, you're not meant to

  553. be it, or maybe you just refuse to be, to be enduring to the

  554. end. And So what will occur

  555. immediately after the tribulation, immediately after

  556. the tribulation, those multitudes who have gone through

  557. the tribulation, these are the guys that are the one that

  558. endures to the end. So now I'm going to end my my

  559. presentation, my thesis, so to say.

  560. OK, there are some Bible school lecturer here.

  561. I hope you pass me. There is this link which I see

  562. it's my opinion. There is this link between the

  563. first book and the last book. The first book tells us there is

  564. one man, a Jewish young man, that refused to give way to

  565. lawlessness. He refused to give way to free

  566. sex. He suffered, but he passed the

  567. test. He endured to the end.

  568. And he gives us a picture of consecration, purity, godliness,

  569. sanctifications and holiness. And this link all the way to the

  570. last book, 144,000 Jewish young men that God is raising up.

  571. Like Joseph, they refused to have any sexual sins.

  572. They kept themselves pure, untainted, uncompromised, fully

  573. consecrated to him. And in between, before the last

  574. days, Jesus told us there is another group, non Jewish,

  575. multitudes, uncountable. And these are the millions of

  576. people that God is also raising up.

  577. And they will be the one that will be used for the last bit,

  578. last days evangelism. Wow.

  579. And I think there is a link. So the first book reveals 1

  580. Joseph, the last book reveals to us we are not alone. 144,000

  581. Joseph. And in between God is going to

  582. raise up more than just that millions uncountable in the last

  583. days. And ladies and gentlemen, young

  584. people, listen to me carefully. God is calling you to be the

  585. Joseph generation, but you are going to stand the test of pain

  586. and also gain. But I'm telling you it's worth

  587. it. Why do I say that?

  588. You look at the current world situation, it is the young

  589. people that are making the impact.

  590. In Bangladesh, they overthrew the government, in Nepal, the

  591. same and now in Iran. And many of them are Christians

  592. who are dying at the hands of Ayatollah.

  593. And then in the US you have Charlie Cook.

  594. God is raising up young people and I think there is a model in

  595. the Philippines. Next line, you know this guy,

  596. he's the vice mayor of Quezon City.

  597. This guy, his mum is a pastor and he is totally transparent.

  598. He opened up all his books on the Internet.

  599. Anybody can see how much money he spent.

  600. Who are the the open open tenders given?

  601. No such thing as closed tender phone call.

  602. Hey, hello. You know you couldn't express no

  603. such thing. Everything is open.

  604. This guy is making an impact and you do Bible studies in the

  605. office. God is calling you guys.

  606. Young people, don't fall for the devil's skin.

  607. Keep yourself pure. I want to go back to election

  608. again. Don't ever think that election.

  609. I mean, that is what you have the Calvinist, you have the

  610. harmonist and I believe both are correct.

  611. Yeah, I believe both are correct.

  612. You cannot explain just Calvinism alone.

  613. You going to explain harmonism as well.

  614. But if you just based on Calvinism, God have already

  615. decided who he wants and he has and he is arbitrary selecting

  616. hey, you, what are you good looking guy?

  617. You're in and you what are you pretty looking?

  618. You're in me gone. There is there is a standard

  619. process. God is an organised God.

  620. Just look at the universe from the day God created the

  621. universe. You don't see the moon come

  622. crashing towards the earth. It stays within the orbit.

  623. You look at the solar system, God is an organised God.

  624. There is a process and one of the process I believe is he who

  625. endures to the end. And this is the process.

  626. We are the elect if we choose to endure to the end.

  627. And so ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to just wrap this up with

  628. The Last Light. Just remember what Rand

  629. Hartbourne cases when he was very young as a kid, he went to

  630. the altar and he knelt down and this is what he prayed.

  631. Lord, help me to mind in the beginning what matters in the

  632. end. In other words, what you start

  633. now better think about what is going to end.

  634. Don't just think about the beginning, the fun, OK, the

  635. gains, think about the pain later.

  636. So ladies and gentlemen, God wants all of us to be part of

  637. this Joseph generation. If you want to feed the hungry,

  638. you must first have purity before God can use us to help

  639. the last days people. God is looking for an untainted

  640. Joseph generation.