ESCHATOLOGY

The speaker welcomes the audience to a new series of programs about end-time events. They mention that these days are intense and will become more so. They encourage listeners to stay tuned for mind-blowing details and unique perspectives on scriptures. The current program discusses eschatology and the importance of understanding it. They talk about the concept of being surrounded by a cloud of witnesses and the need to run the race set before them. The speaker emphasizes the significance of Jesus and how he lives in believers as the body of Christ. They mention that it all starts at the cross and that Jesus will come again to the earth. They refer to prophecies about Israel being torn and stricken, but also being healed and raised up. The speaker suggests that the second coming may occur around 2032. They remind listeners to be watchful for signs leading up to this event. Well, hello there, friends. I want to welcome you to the first program in the next series of programs. I'm really excited about what God is revealing and also doing in these perilous days that are upon us, days that are about to intensify, in fact. Beginning next week we'll be speaking about several scriptures in a way that you've never heard before, probably, and that message will continue for a while. You'll hear some ideas that you've probably never thought about before, some mind-blowing details. So my prayer is that you will stay with me throughout the coming programs. Today, however, is a program that will show you why the following programs are so important. Today I'll be talking about what theologians refer to as eschatology or the end-time events. These are exciting days, I think, in which we live, and you'll be astounded at what the Bible is revealing to us. So let's tighten our belts and get underway. Hallelujah. Father, I thank you now, and I praise you for what you're about to do. Jesus, shine your light upon all of us. Speak through me, God, and touch the listeners to this program today in a mighty, mighty way. I want to start the program today with three words. Behold the Lamb. Behold the Lamb. Hebrews chapter 12 in verses 1 and 2. This is a New King James Version I'm reading. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight in the sin which doth so easily beset us, or easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus. Behold the Lamb. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. My friend, as the children of God, we are surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses. Look at Hebrews chapter 11, for example, the great hall of faith. Many of them reside in that one chapter. Many of these witnesses in this great cloud of witnesses are residing in that one chapter. Also the ones who have passed on before you and me, our loved ones, our mothers and dads and sisters and brothers and so forth. They passed on before us, but they very well may be closer than we think. We just don't know. There's one thing for sure. We're in a race in this world, and it's time for either moving forward or falling back. And the only way we'll ever win that race is, unbelievably, when we stop trying. In Galatians chapter 2 verses 17 through 20, Paul said, But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are also found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin? Certainly not, Paul said, for if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. You need to remember that, and I need to keep that in mind. I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. And then this is the verse I really wanted to get to right here. Verse 20, I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. First Corinthians chapter 12, verse 27 says, Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. Romans chapter 12 in verse 1, Paul again says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. You see, my friend, it all begins with Jesus, but the Lord is omnipresent. He's in all places at the same time. And Christian, he wants to live in you, and he wants to live in me, and that's why we are called the body of Christ. He wants to use our body so that he might live again on the earth. But God gave us free will, and therefore it's up to us to allow him to live in us or not. And all of this became possible at the cross. It all starts at the cross. Hallelujah. Jesus died on the cross in 32 A.D. That was 1,992 years ago. And this same Jesus who was born in Bethlehem is about to come again to this earth. According to the word of God, it's time. It's time for Christians to rise and shine. It's time. Jesus is ready to split the eastern skies. God is wrapping things up, my dear friend, today. And we, according to what the Bible appears to be telling us, will be the generation to see the return of the Lord once again to the earth. Just listen to the prophet Hosea. In Hosea chapter 6, in verses 1 through 3, Come and let us return to the Lord, for he has torn, but he will heal us. He has stricken, but he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, that we may live in his sight. Hallelujah. And then he says, Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning, and he will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain of the earth. Now I want to ask you a question. When was Israel torn and stricken? Oh, my friend, Israel had tried to keep that old covenant of the law, but man can't keep that law, so they failed. God had given it to them on Mount Sinai, when Moses was the leader on earth. And God gave them the law, but he didn't give them the law to keep. He gave that law for them to break. Man cannot keep that law, so he had to break it to know that he needed a savior. They had descended to the time where they were about to kill the Creator God. They had sought the Messiah for 1,500 years. They had waited those 1,500 years for him to arrive, but now he was here, and they would have him nailed to a tree, the cross of Jesus Christ. That was as low as they could possibly go, and all of this represented Israel on the left side of the cross. The left side of the cross is the side of law, the side of the old covenant. This was where Israel was torn and stricken. Now then, that was when they were torn and stricken. Now, when would Israel be healed? Matthew chapter 27, verses 45 through 53 says, Now the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness all over the world, all over the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lemme see bachtaneh, that is, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Some of those who stood there when they heard that said, This man is calling for Elijah. And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and offered it to Jesus to drink. The rest said, Let him alone, let us see if Elijah will come and save him. And in verse 50, this is the important verse I want us to see, Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And 51, Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Not from bottom to top. Man didn't do it. God did it. God reached down. God the Father reached down and tore that four-inch thick fabric in two from top to bottom. And the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. And coming out of the graves after his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. Jesus hung on that cross alone. Even God the Father himself had turned his back on the Lord. Israel and all the world had no clue what was happening. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. Jesus came not to live first and then to die, but he came to die first and then to live. He did live on the earth before the cross in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but he lived as a mere human being and not as God. But hallelujah, after the cross, he lived as God Almighty. And he's still alive today and will be alive forevermore. And when Jesus breathed his last breath, the veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom by God the Father. The Jews were set free at that time from the old covenant of law and were set out on a new covenant of grace, hallelujah. The veil God tore from top to bottom had barred man for 1,500 years, but he was now, this veil was now removed. The Messiah had breathed his last breath. They were the cause of him being on that tree. And this is what I call the right side of the cross. The left side represented failure of Israel attempting to keep the old covenant of law. Now, however, the right side is when Israel and all humanity were free to live as the children of God in his presence. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. And then we go back to Hosea verse 2, and it tells us that after two days, the Jews would be revived. On the third day, they would be raised up and would live in his sight. I'll say more about that in just a moment, but first, let's listen to Peter, 2 Peter chapter 3 and verses 8 and 9. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack in concerning his promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. God is declaring, then, that after two days, or two thousand years, Israel would be revived. On the third day, they would be raised up to live in his sight. Again, remember, Jesus was crucified in 32 A.D. Two thousand years from that day is 2032 A.D. We live in 2024. And at the second coming, Israel will be raised up to live in his sight, in the sight of God. Thus, the indication the Bible gives of the second coming is around 2032. Do you hear that? 2032. Jesus said that we could not know the day nor the hour, but he did tell us to watch for the preceding signs. In Matthew chapter 24, verses 36 through 42. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in the days before the flood they were eating, and drinking, and marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark. And he did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Then two will be in the field, one taking the other lift. Two women will be grinding at the mill. One will be taken in the other lift. And then Jesus said the important words, Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. Using all of the biblical statements that we have just read, we are pointed to 2032 as a possible date of the second coming of Jesus Christ to the world. Treating then what the Bible tells us, the second coming of Christ will be in about eight years from today. But that's not all. The rapture of the church will occur seven years before that. Hallelujah, seven years before that. Let's look now at Revelation chapter 4, verses 1 and 2. This is when the rapture takes place. According to the book of Revelation, which lasts for seven years, from the rapture of the church to the second coming of Jesus Christ, a period of seven years, the rapture occurs seven years prior to the second coming. Then to be in harmony with what the Bible declares, the rapture could occur in 2025. Glory to God, my friends, that's next year. And that's what the Bible is saying. Now, let's look quickly again at Hosea chapter 2. In the scripture, Israel is told that after 2000 years, God would revive them. That happens on the right side of the cross, that's for sure. But it is consummated as well when the Antichrist stands in the temple of God in Jerusalem. Mark chapter 13 and verse 14 says, So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, let the reader understand. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. My friends, when this happens, all Israel will understand that they have been waiting for the wrong Messiah. Thus their eyes will be opened. They will be revived. Hallelujah. Hosea tells us that on the third day he will raise Israel up, so they may live in his sight. This is in reference to the second coming of Christ to the earth. That happens in Revelation chapter 19. Let's read verses 11 through 16. John said, Now I saw heaven opened, and, behold, a white horse. And he who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name was called the Word of God. And the armors in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses. And hallelujah, that's going to be you and me, my Christian friend. We'll be riding our white horses along with Jesus, coming back in this second coming to the earth, and watch him destroy all the works of the devil with the sword that comes from his mouth. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that he should use it to strike the nations, and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, listen to this, King of kings and Lord of lords. When Israel became disillusioned at the Antichrist, they were awakened. Now when they see Jesus coming in the clouds, they will be given new life and will live in his sight forever. Oh hallelujah. Isn't God wonderful, my friend? We may be the generation to see Christ coming to the earth for the second time. Now then, let's speculate, speculate a little bit. What if, I'm saying what if Donald Trump wins the presidency? He'll be sworn into office, as all presidents are, on January the 20th. Donald Trump will be sworn in if he wins the presidency on January 20, 2025. Then when he begins his four year term as president, just what if at that time the rapture of the church occurs? Oh hallelujah. Now President Trump is a Christian. He will be caught away with the church to meet Jesus in the air. And so the church will be gone and the new reigned in president will be gone. There'll be no president in the United States. There'll be no Christians for the liberal left to crucify or persecute. He'll be caught away with the church to meet Jesus in the air. And then our country, that's already falling apart, will have no president and no Christians to harass ever again. Can you imagine all the turmoil and the destructive things that will be going on this earth while we are in heaven seated at the, oh the hallelujah, the marriage of the Lamb. Be alive forevermore. In closing this message today, my friends, let me just ask you to hear what the Bible is telling us. These were not my words. I read them from the Bible. So let God be true and every man a liar. In Romans chapter 3 verses 1 through 4 we read, what advantage then has the Jew or what advantage the prophet of circumcision? Much in every way, Paul said, chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. But what if some of them did not believe? Would their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not, Paul said. Indeed, let God be true and every man a liar, as it is written that you may be justified in your words and may overcome when you are judged. Notice here that we will only be justified in our words if we allow our words to flow with his. My friends, that is exactly what I have intended to do in this program today. I wanted to take the scriptures that told us what God said and just use those. Yes, I commented, but I used his words. Therefore, we need to listen to what the Bible is saying and not what any person says or theological group is trying to push. Let me conclude with this final note now. In Hosea chapter 6 verse 2 the prophet had said, On the third day God would raise up Israel so that they could live in his sight. This is the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ on the earth. Do you realize, my friend, that the end we see here is also mirroring the story of creation? Let's read three passages in Genesis chapters 1 and 2. And indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. And in chapter 2 verses 1 through 3, Thus the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made. God created the heavens and the earth in six days, and then he rested on the seventh. The creation occurred about 6,000 years ago. It's not what these so-called scientists, I say so-called scientists say. They say that we came with an explosion about 13.7 billions of years ago, and they go from there. But God created the heavens and the earth about 6,000 years ago. 2,000 years later Abraham lived. That's two days later. 2,000 years after that Jesus lived. That's two days after Abraham. Then 2,000 years after that the church age is coming to a close in our day. That's two days after Jesus. So that is 6,000 years or six days. Now it's time for God to rest, and it's also time for us to go home and the millennial reign to begin. Hallelujah! In Revelation chapter 20 verses 1 through 4 we read, Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and he bound him for a thousand years. That's the millennial years of reign. And he cast him into the bottomless pit, and he shut him up. Hallelujah! And he set a seal on him so that he could not deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. After the millennial reign the devil will be let loose a little while, but then he will be cast into the lake of fire. After these things he must be released for a little while. And I saw thrones, and they that sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Who is that? It's not the angels, it's the church of the living God, the church of Jesus Christ. And then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and had not worshipped the beast or his image, had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. And so the history of man on earth, my friend, is coming to a close. We are apparently about not only to see, but to be a part of that climactic event. I want to ask you in closing this program today, are you ready? I hope so. I hope you've asked Jesus to give you new life. If you haven't, you can do that now. All you do is make the decision that you need the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, and he will come in to you. He's ready and willing to open that door. He said he's standing at the door, and he's knocking on the door, but the door latches on the inside and not the outside. The Lord won't break that door down to get to you, but if you just open that door and say, Come in, Lord, he is ready and willing to come into your life, and you will be given new life, and you will become a child of God. Well, my friends, that's all I've got today, and I hope you have received what God wants you to get today. So, dear listener, what I gave you is from the Bible, and I hope you receive it as from the Bible and not from this speaker, and hallelujah, when you do, you will be blessed. May God bless you until next Friday at this same time.