Okay, last week we talked about the rapture of the church. We're not going to talk about that anymore. However, I need to mention one thing concerning the rapture of the church, which is going to take place hopefully soon, but we don't know when it's going to take place. Could be another hundred years, another thousand. I really don't have any idea, but I do know that that is the very next event on God's timetable is the rapture of the church when he takes his church home. at one time there will anybody be left behind and then when he does he is going to begin he is going to usher in the seven-year tribulation the judgment or the wrath of God it's going to happen there's no doubt about it but you and I will not have to be here we will not have to suffer the the the number six six six the mark of the beach you don't have to worry about it not going to happen you don't have to worry about all the judgments God's going to bring one year if you won't be here However, turn if you will, the second crank is chapter five. We need to cover a couple of things here before we continue in our messages on the signs of the times and boy, are there a lot of them. If you can't see him, you must be blind, but there are so many things going on that makes me think that the anti-crisis right around the corner. As a matter of fact, I think he's not ever mind. Right around the corner. Second crank is chapter five, if you will. The rapture is going to take place. The entire church is going to be up in heaven with the Lord Jesus Christ and in second print in chapter 5, verse 9. Let's go to verse 8. We are confident, I say, and willing, rather, to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. I don't know about you, but that's the way I feel, especially when I get up some warnings and want to go to bed some night. The absent from this old beat-up body, wherefore we labor that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. Remember a couple weeks ago we gave you three bulletins? Some of the bulletins were empty. Well that represents a lot of Christian's lives. They're just plain empty. They don't do anything for the Lord, spend all their time worrying about what I can do for me, but never do anything for the Lord. In verse 10, every Christian, this represents you and me if you trusted Christ as your Savior. This is you pay attention to this if you will, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. Only the Christian, the saved born again Christian, will appear before the judgment seat of Christ. The lost will not. The lost will appear at the great white throne judgment, but not the judgment seat of Christ. For every, as you were, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that he has done whether it be good or bad. By the way, this tells you some one thing. If you're a saved Christian, there's a good chance you're going to do bad things. You're going to do good things, but you're going to do bad things. There's no such thing as a perfect Christian. You're going to fail. You're going to file up. You're going to send. But you know what? Just pick yourself up and keep plugging away, right? And then someday when you stand before the judgment seat of Christ, then you'll get rewarded for what you do. Well, there'd be good or bad, but you know what? The more good you do, the more good rewards you're going to get. Amen? I'm looking forward to that. I know I haven't done nearly enough, but just keep trying. Just keep plugging away. And in this present life, I hope I'm accepted of him. I don't must be. I don't know, he put me up here for some reason. I don't know why, but spread my life. I should have been dead many, many times. I don't know how many cars I've wrecked and every other thing that I've done, fell out of trees and jumped off of this and did this. But still here, so must be doing something. But in the meantime, until this takes place, we're living in the signs of the times and we're working up to, working up to the coming of the anti-Christ. You ought to be able to see it on the horizon. I do. Let me tell you some things that Old Satan, some organizations that he's got prepared that are preparing us for the coming anti-Christ and the seven-year tribulation, the wrath of God. They are, one of them, is communism. Communism is preparing for the way of God. Another one is the New World Order. Do you ever hear that? When the late George Bush senior, not late, the late president, George Bush senior said we're trying to bring about a one world order he couldn't believe how many people he offended. When he realized how many people he offended he didn't realize there was that many people against the one world order or the new world order whichever one you want to call it. The new age movement which is God is in everybody. God is in you. One of the little lives of Satan in Genesis chapter 3 he told Eve you'll be as God And how many people do they think they're God? The first time I walked into a Baptist college, everybody in there thought they were God. I couldn't believe it. They glowed like light bulbs. Unreal. The NEA, National Education Association. By the way, if you've got a family member in the National Education Association, don't get mad at me. But it's an ungodly organization to bring around the fall of your children. What do you think happened to Jeffrey Thomas? What do you think happened to all those young people who walk into schools with guns and kill people? You know why? Evolution taught them to do that. There is no God, no accountability. Human life is useless. Evolution taught them that. How about the builder Burgers? You hear that? Trial admiral commission? These are all organizations brought about by Satan to bring in his new world order. and you know, Satan's busier and you and I will ever be. And then there's the Federal Reserve Board. Do you ever hear that? They're going to protect you, right? Well, first of all, it's not federal. Doesn't belong to the government. There is no reserve. The only money they have belongs to them. Doesn't belong to you. And if the economy in the United States of America fails, do you get any money in the bank? That's tough. Federal Reserve Board's not going to do a darn thing for you. Mark it down. It's an ungodly anti-American organization. How about Greenpeace? You ever hear that? Greenpeace, they're going to preserve the planet. And then, of course, there's the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, one of the most ungodly organizations in the world, brought about by Satan. Did you? They were in Iraq? The EPA? Yeah, what were they? Oh, well, yeah Yeah, the environmental protection agent one of the groups of promotes global warming Global warming is a lie It's not true. It's a lie one of the things that our voice trying to promote and Hollywood gave him an award for it And Chris he said it I don't know the weather that it just took place. He can't. It's the new weather patterns that are going on at home. Oh yeah, well. Yeah, he'll explain it. He will somehow, he'll explain it away. It won't be scientific. You know, one thing he said was I got to tell you this. He said there were 2,000 people in the United Nations, 2,000 scientists that were four global warming. You know what, he was a liar. There were two. The other 1998 or what the 990, whatever comes to, were just ordinary people, they weren't science at all. Al Gore is the biggest liar, the biggest hypocrite, the biggest deceiver I've ever seen, and I hope he gets elected as president because this country is insurgency. I'm serious. I hope he does. And all those people in Hollywood, the one thing voted in, the little jerk called the pieces. You know what? You've got to come and die. And then of course, there's the animal protective league. We'll talk a little bit more about that in the next few weeks, American Civil Liberties Union. And all of these are just the beginning. By the way, I've got literature in my library at home on every one of these organizations. I know what they're all about, but you know what, do I worry about it? No. Should I know about it? Yes. I have a perfect track. Is it what you call it? A conspiracy? Yes. Should I worry about it? No. It will happen. God is going to bring it about. It will happen. And God's time, the Antichrist will be revealed, Satan will be behind it. And it's real. And if you can't see it today, you have to be absolutely nuts. Turn over to Little Matthew, Chapter 24. If you will. At you, Chapter 24, Verse 3, and as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, I get a kick out of this, by the way, when the Lord Jesus Christ comes back to set up His kingdom, He's going to stand on the Mount of Olives. In the meantime, He was sitting on the Mount of Olives. You know, Lord's awesome, isn't He? When He wrote His word, He knew exactly what He was doing. The disciples came under Him privately, saying, Tell us when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Thy coming and the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, First warning, take heed that no man deceive you. You know something? If you're a saved born-again Christian, take heed that nobody deceives you. You know how to do that? Read the Bible. Study the Bible. Read it. Study it. And He says, For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ and shall receive many. Boy is that happening? We shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are being not troubled for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. What does this mean? Let me explain it to you. These first verses, verse 4, 5, 6, particularly verses 5 and 6, have to do with the first half of the beginning of the seven-year tribulation, notice what it says in the last part of verse 6. These shangs shall come to pass, but the end, the end of what? The end of the seven-year tribulation is not yet. Then he says, no, see if you will, verse 7. This is going to be what takes place at the beginning of the seven-year tribulation. The first three and a half years are going to be terrible. There are going to be plagues. Listen to what he says, for nations shall rise against nations. You have, you see wars and rumors of wars now? Wait until the church is taken home and the Lord usheres in the seven-year tribulation. his wrath, his judgment, there's going to be war all over the planet. Wars up on wars. Kingdom against Kingdom. Let me ask you something. Let me explain what that means if I may. Kingdom against Kingdom. You can see that today, can't you? I don't know if you can or not. You're able to. Look at Mexico. Mexico has opened up the border into the United States of America and they've actually told their people to come in. They've actually told them. go into America and you know what? The politicians in America have tied the hands of the people on our borders so they can't do anything. What does all this bring about? Well, it's bringing about a one-world border. You know what's going to happen when we get all the Mexicans and all these other people illegally in the United States of America? It won't be in America anymore. Why? There won't be any citizenship. Half of the people in this country won't be citizens, going to be part of the one world community. Mark it down, it's taken place. That's what's going on today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, hey, you know what? I'm glad you brought that up because somebody gave me an article here this morning. I think it was bought. Yeah. Here, Ray, Australia. I didn't read this whole thing, but just the first page. Listen to this. Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia. Awesome. Yeah. What's wrong with the United States of America? They can send a message to the Pope. I hope he never does. I hope he sticks to it. I hope he throws in people out. You know what? This is the United States of America built on God in the Bible, not the Muslim Koran. And I don't know if you've ever read the Koran, but it's not the same God as the Bible. The Quran is divinely inspired by Satan. I've read it. I know what it says. I've read it a couple of times. It contradicts the Bible. It's not the word of God. It's demonically inspired. And I'm a baggrey with him. Pick them dudes out of the United States of America, but it'll never happen. Thank you. I'm glad you brought that up. Give me your opportunity to read that. On down if you will. King them against kingdom. Now let me explain something else to you if I may. Why would there be kingdom against kingdom in the beginning of the seven year tribulation? The reason is very simple. Mark this down, remember this, when the antichrist takes over the United States of America he will have ten kings under him. These ten kings will rule the entire world. You know what? Look on your map one of these days and ask yourself how many confidence are there in the world. Yeah, you divide those continents up and you add a little bit more to them. Take France, let me give an example. Mexico, the United States of America and Canada. I firmly believe that one of the kings under the anti-Christ will rule this entire part of this world, one king. Then of course you've got Europe divided up into two different sections, then of course you've got Africa, etc., etc., India. You've got all these continents and all all these different places. The Antichrist will have ten kings and I'm sorry I'll go or you will not be one of them. Hillary, needle with you. I hate to tell you this Hillary. You sweet little thing you. You will not be one of them. You think you're something Hillary but when the Antichrist comes along you'll be nothing. And by the way let me point something out that if the rapture took place today I'm going to tell you two people that I know definitely are not going. Hillary and Al Gore. Gee, I hate to tell you this. Now you may like them. You may have voted for them. You may think there's something else. I don't. Back to the Bible, if you will. That's enough of that. I'm not sure if anybody stays in this church. The way I talk down on them. And there shall be kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be families and pestilences. And earthquakes in various places. Let me ask you something. Why will there be famines and pestilence during the seven-year tribulation? No order. It's going to be forced to do basilries. Punishment? Well, all those are good answers, but the basic answer is the Holy Spirit will be gone. The Holy Spirit, you don't want works in the world today? The Holy Spirit. Now, that doesn't mean you have a right to roll around on the floor and speak in tongues. That's not how it works. the Holy Spirit when Jesus Christ left this earth all the way back 2000 years ago. He sent the Holy Spirit down and the Holy Spirit is the restrainer. Now hold your place here. We're going to come back and go over to 2nd Thessalonians if you will. 2nd Thessalonians. We're going to go back to Matthew here briefly shortly. But go to 2nd Thessalonians chapter So look in verse 1, if you will. Now we will be seated by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto Him. What is that? The rapture. Very good. That you do not soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us, that the day of your Bible may save the day of Christ. That's a mis-translation. It should be the day of the Lord is at hand or present. Let me tell you what happened, and we'll go on. I've explained this to you before. But somebody had wrote a letter to the church in Peson, Micah, signed a Paul's name to it, and told them they were in the tribulation period. Wrong. They were not. And so he's Paul wrote them this letter and said, don't be disturbed by a letter as from us. It's not true. Then he goes on to say, let no man deceive you by any means. For that day, that is the day of the Lord, shall not come, except there come a, falling away first, which is the apostasyah. I'm not going to get into all that. But the Greek were apostasyah. They falling away first and that man of sin, the Antichrist, be revealed to Son of Predition. What's he saying? He's saying first of all, day will not take place until the church is gone. That's what he said. We will be gathered together. And then will the man of sand be revealed? You and I will never know who the anti-Christ is. I won't see him. We won't see him. We may know who he is, but we don't know who he is. He said, what do you mean by that? Well, he may be on the scene today. may be an important politician, he may be, who do you say? Somebody say I'll go. Possible. Anyhow. There's a lot of them, they're all over the place, yeah. Who opposes verse four and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he asks God, sit in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. The Antichrist, remember you not that, by the way, let me point something else out. The Antichrist Satan does not want you not to believe in God. He wants you to believe in God, but he wants you to believe he is God, that's the difference. Okay, remember you not, Paul said that when I was with you, I told you these things. And now you know what, withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time, what is that withholdeth the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the withholdeth the restrainer for the mystery of an equity that's already worked. Only he, you might mark this in your Bible, the Holy Spirit, who now let us will continue to let until he, the Holy Spirit, be taken out of the way. The Holy Spirit is the a hinderer. He's the one who now lets. He's the one who holds back a Satan and the anti-Christ and the Satanic organizations that are trying to control the world, bring about a new world order under an evolutionary concept. God did not create. There is no God we evolved. Yeah, right. You evolved. All right. And then in verse 8, and then after a Holy Spirit is taken out of the way, then shall that wicked one be revealed. Isn't that easy to understand? Then shall that wicked one be revealed after the Holy Spirit is taken out of the way. Turn back to Matthew if you will. Notice verse 8, once again, notice that the famines, pestilences, earthquakes, and diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Do you know something? The food will not not grow if God isn't behind it. You know why the United States of America feeds half of the world? We feed half of the world, maybe more than that, because God has blessed this country. Why is he blessed this country? Because there are so many people able to preach, go to church, read and study the Bible, talk about the Lord Jesus Christ. He's blessed this country one day. He will not do that. I'm surprised he does it today. I really am. he does. There will not be any food to grow. One other thing, and then we're going to talk about this in the next few weeks, the next coming weeks, and that is this. Everything that man has done in the world today will come back to hunting. Everything, let me give you one example here. If I can find it over in Isaiah, I'll give you one example here. If I can find it. Oh, yeah. Isaiah chapter 54, verse 17, if you will. Listen to what God says about the nation of Israel and the world around it. Now remember, Israel Jerusalem is the center of all prophecy geographically. Listen what God said. No weapon that is formed against the Israel shall prosper. And every tongue that shall rise against the enjudgment thou shall condemn. Don't ever speak anything bad against Israel. I think it's mistake. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. Notice that this is the heritage. Israel is the heritage of the servants, me, you of the Lord. Listen. If it wasn't for Israel, there would be no Jesus Christ, no Bible, no church, no salvation, no nothing, no ever say anything against Israel, it's a mistake. Anybody that has formed a weapon against Israel shall not prosper. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is from me, say it, the Lord. Now back to Matthew, if you will. Actually, let's go to Luke chapter 21. Just over here to Luke chapter 21. Luke chapter 21 adds a little more to Matthew, But I was watching something the other day in a place called Tuello, Tuello, I think it is. I don't know where it is. I think it's in New Mexico. There are tons and tons of nerve gas and mustard gas in storage. The United States developed and manufactured right after the First World War leading up the Second World War, every country has developed these big gases. If one tenth of that gas was let loose, it would wipe out the population of the entire world. Let me ask you a question, why did the United States manufacture this gas? It's stupid. And you know something over history history has proved that every weapon of war that has ever been has been used. These gases right right now they can destroy, probably they said seven tons a day if they work hard at it. Why? I saw this on the history channel the other day. What's credible? It's absolutely credible. Actually, Rob called… I can answer that question. Good. And I can tell you that I can show you the tribe by their tongue, the tongue of tongue containers, that the whole of Kenan-Blood is via. I worked there. I was crawling on top of it. I can work with a guy that, when he's in love with their yeast, he has asked, we also have an island in the South Pacific, but the whole island is nothing but sapfile. It's real then, isn't it? It's real. It's real. And there are millions, not just a couple of barrels of it, millions of tons, but it's contained then plant in metal containers that are like a gas cylinder. They have to be that strong. The problem is, they're stuck in the wrong. Yeah, I'll say what they say out of it. You can say it's great. You only raise it. That's what it's all about. Don't throw one. No, it's not. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. Really? Yeah. Well anyhow, that's amazing because they have to have, and there's one place in two that they were talking about in particular. They had to create and develop machines to get rid of the gas. So this machine picks up the cylinder, takes it into a enclosed compartment, punctures the cylinder, and then the furnaces, which goes up to something like 2500 degrees, burns it. That's the only way to get rid of it at that temperature, otherwise it will dissipate in the air and kill millions of people. people, but they said that they get rid of it probably if they work at it seven tons a day. There's millions of tons. What happens? If one of those cylinders rust through, which they are doing, it is a problem. It's a valid problem. What if they rust through? Now, I brought all this up for a reason. I brought all this up for a reason. Let's go here to Luke chapter 21 and then I'm going to show you something in Revelation. Verse 8, once again the warning, Luke chapter 21, take heed that you be not deceived. For many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ and the time draw up near. Go ye not therefore after them. So when ye shall hear of wars and commotions be not terrified. Now remember, he's talking to the nation of Israel. He's going to take place. He's saying to the nation of Israel. Remember, the gospels are not new testament books. He said, yeah, they were part of the New Testament. I know that, but they are a record of old testament prophecy. They are not part of the church, but he's saying, listen to the nation of Israel. Be not terrified for these things must first come to pass, but the end of the seven-year tribulation is not yet. Then sent in them, nations shall rise against nation. We just read that, King of the Inch Kingdom. Earthquakes shall be in various places, famines, pestilence, fearful sites, great signs shall there be from heaven. It's going to be a fearful time, fearful sites and great signs. And before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to sin and go up to prisons and so forth. And then he says, on down here, in verse 15, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to, your Bible may say, gain say, which really means contradict or withstand. You know something? Nobody can withstand the Bible. Are you afraid to tell somebody how to be saved you're afraid they're going to say something to you. Are you afraid to do that? You know what the Bible says? They cannot withstand you. They may not want to hear it. They might not accept it, but they cannot withstand you. Before you die tell somebody how to be saved. That's the only hope this world has. You know the lost person will never look at things the way God wants them to. Turn over to Revelation chapter six, and then we'll just read a couple of verses here and then we'll close. Whoever you will, verse five, Revelation chapter six, verse five. Remember what we said about the Holy Spirit being removed and Jesus Christ said in Matthew chapter 24, there shall be pestilence and famine in various places. Why? Because the Holy Spirit will be gone. Your gardens won't grow, ladies and gentlemen. You might have a can of peas in the basement somewhere, but once those are gone, what are you going to do? And whenever this takes place, there will be no food, guess what? People will be killing each other. They will kill each other for a piece of meat, a loaf of bread. It's going to be a terrible, terrible time. Verse 5, Revelation chapter 6, and when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third be say, come and see, and I be held in a low-aid black course, which represents death, by the way. And he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. Everything's going to be weighed. that you won't be able to buy anything for nothing. You've got to pay for one way or the other, a set of balances. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four BC, a measure of wheat for a penny, a measure of wheat for a penny. You want to break a loaf of bread during the seven year tribulation, it'll cost you a day's wage. That's basically what it's saying. A penny was a day's wage when this was written. You want to bake a loaf of bread, a measure of wheat, three measures of barley for a penny. And see, they'll hurt not the oil in the wine. Now, we're going to look at some of this next week. I'm not going to go any further, but let me just say this. All of the bombs and all of the things that man has created, when they attacked Israel and is equal chapter 38, they're going to use these things. And I'm going to tell you something. Their chemical warfare and the chemical things that are stored are going to explode. They're going to be destroyed with bombs. And guess what? It's going to destroy. I want you to go down here to one verse, if you will. I want to read one verse to you in verse 8, Revelation chapter 6. And I looked and behold a pale horse which represents death. And his name to set on him was death and health followed him. And power was again on him over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword. People are going to be murdering each other after the, when the seven-year tribulation begins, they're going to be murdering each other for, look what they're doing today. You know why? There will not be any God, the Holy Spirit will be gone, evolution will be the big thing, all these things are going to, with sword and with hunger and with death and with the beast of the earth. One fourth part of the earth, imagine that. I got a little note in my Bible that says that probably about 15 years ago it was about 10 million people. I don't know how many it's going to be today, but if it took place today, remember when Hitler killed 6 million Jews plus Christians? It's going to be at least double that. 12 million people are going to be murdered, killed, they're going to kill each other. And part of the reason is man did it to himself. says, you know what? You believe in global warming? I'll warm the earth for you and he will. We're going to look a little more that next week. You believe in that crap? I'm going to warm it up for you. It'll get warm. So you believe I didn't create the heavens in the earth. You believe that you're polluting the earth. You believe I'm not in charge? Okay, I'll show you. You're having trouble breathing now. You just wait. And it's a terrible thing. All these people murdering people all over the world and I was watching Bill O'Reilly said I don't think the state has the right to put people to death. You idiot. You idiot. If you don't put these murders and these rapists to death, what's the message you're going to send? Yeah it's okay to kill. God says you really think it's okay to kill. You just wait until the seven-year tribulation. You'll be killing each other. Mother's father's sisters, brothers, and you'll be killing each other. It's going to be a terrible thing. Mankind is bringing about his own destruction. And if you look at the world today, you ought to be able to see it taking place. So you really believe in evolution, huh? Jeffrey Dahmer did. Light didn't mean anything to him. He was no accountability. God said, well, if that's where you want it. When I remove my Holy Spirit, there's going to be no accountability. You're going to kill each other. It's going to be a terrible, terrible time. And if you You can't see it building up to it today. You have to be completely blind, don't you? Just look at the signs of the times. I don't know how God waits. I don't know how He puts up with some of the things. I don't know how He puts up with me, but He does. I think the reason is, He's God. It's a good thing I'm not God. It's a good thing some of the Baptist knew I knew weren't God, because they were, nobody to go to heaven. Self-righteous bunch of idiots. Anyway, I think we're all bad. I'm not condemning everybody. Just about everybody. Anyway, guess what? Jesus Christ died on the cross for me. Didn't he die on the cross for you? This is how it works. God said, I'm a sinner. This hand represents me. This is my sin. Gotta be paid for, right? Roman 6.23, the wages of sin is death, or Jesus Christ died on the cross. He paid for my sin 2,000 years ago all I have to do is believe it. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. I've been looking at some tapes quite a man by the name of Kent Holbein, and he goes to Romans chapter 10 and says, call on the Lord. Well, he's a smart man, smarter than I am, but I don't agree with that. The Bible says, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be safe. Isn't that simple? That's what God said. We're going to look next week at the lie of Satan. Second person on you said that they shall believe the lie. And the lie is found in Genesis chapter 3. We're going to take a look at that probably. Most people in the world they believe the lie. And we're going to take a look at that. In the meantime, are you going to have them when you die? It's pretty simple, isn't it? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and your sins are paid just like that. And then you're out of here when the tribulation comes and what a glorious thing that's going to be. Let's have word of parable close. Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, we thank You for Christ. Salvation, His blood covered my sin. All I have to do to avoid the anti-Christ, the seven-year tribulation, to put my faith in Christ. He's still the king, still God, still the boss. Sorry, I'll go where you're not at. Jesus Christ is God. You're not. And what a wonderful thing it is. I thank God. He's not. I thank God Christ. Just put your faith in Him. And there's no Like in Christ's name, hear that?