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00:40 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:42 I'm Chris Shelton, your host. 00:44 I want to thank you for tuning in. 00:46 Today, we are beginning a two-part series entitled 00:49 "National Apostasy Followed by National Ruin." 00:52 I thought I would begin by googling the definition 00:55 of the word apostasy. 00:57 And it read, "The abandonment 00:59 or renunciation of a religious or political belief." 01:02 And, oh, how well that definition fits 01:05 many of our churches 01:07 and our nation at this very moment. 01:10 National apostasy followed by national ruin. 01:13 For years we have focused 01:15 upon biblical pillars of our faith 01:17 that our churches have turned their backs upon. 01:20 This series will be no different. 01:23 And in this first message, 01:24 we will also examine current events in our nation, 01:27 the United States of America, in light of Bible prophecy. 01:31 The US is a country 01:33 that is very rapidly being torn apart 01:36 by waves of anarchy, looting and violent murders, 01:41 and a strong push towards socialism 01:43 with a movement to disband our capitalistic society. 01:48 Is the Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy 01:50 have anything to say about these events 01:52 or where these events may be leading each of us? 01:55 You bet they do. 01:57 And we are looking forward to what the Lord has placed 02:00 upon Pastor Kenny's heart to share with us, why? 02:04 So that we may know where our allegiance must lie 02:07 if heaven is to be our home. 02:09 We need to understand this message 02:11 so that we are not deceived by the apostasies in the church 02:15 or in our nation as the line between them is being blurred. 02:20 As Protestant churches are becoming 02:22 more and more involved in politics, 02:25 we need to understand warnings 02:28 that God has given us in His Word, 02:30 and the Spirit of Prophecy, 02:32 so that we are not totally shocked 02:35 when these events bring about a time of trouble 02:38 for each of God's children. 02:41 A time when all of our earthly support 02:44 will be completely severed. 02:47 And one such warning is found 02:49 in the Book of Revelation 18:1-5 02:53 and we're going to jump to verse 8 and it reads, 02:56 "And after these things I saw another angel come down 02:59 from heaven, having great power, 03:02 and the earth was lighted with His glory. 03:04 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, 03:07 'Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, 03:10 and is become the habitation of devils, 03:13 and the hold of every foul spirit, 03:15 and a cage of every unclean and hated bird. 03:19 For all the nations have drunk of the wine 03:23 of the wrath of her fornication, 03:25 and the kings of the earth 03:26 have committed fornication with her, 03:29 and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich 03:32 through the abundance of her delicacies. 03:36 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 03:38 'Come out of her, my people, 03:40 that ye be not partakers of her sins, 03:43 and that ye receive not of her plagues. 03:46 For her sins have reached unto heaven, 03:49 and God hath remembered her iniquities. 03:52 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, 03:56 and mourning, and famine, 03:57 and she shall be utterly burned with fire: 04:01 for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.'" 04:05 God is urgently, urgently calling for us 04:09 to come out of her, come out of her 04:11 if we are His people, 04:13 so that we will avoid the judgments 04:15 that are to fall in this world as a result of this apostasy. 04:20 So please stay tuned as we join Pastor Kenny Shelton 04:24 to learn more about the national 04:26 and spiritual apostasy 04:28 so that we will be able to rightly discern 04:31 between right and wrong. 04:32 But first, let's visit 3ABN 04:34 and listen to Brother Ben Lingle 04:36 as he plays "Father God." 07:16 Thank you for joining us once again here 07:18 at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 07:19 We do appreciate you so very much. 07:21 We appreciate your cards, your letters 07:23 and your support to get this message 07:25 around the world. 07:26 We have the opportunity, 07:28 praise God to get this message around, 07:30 think about around the world. 07:32 Not just within these walls but around the world, 07:36 which is the gospel commission going to all the world 07:39 and what preach the gospel give the good news, 07:41 the salvation and the coming of Jesus Christ. 07:44 And so we live in an incredible time 07:46 of earth's history that we need to be 07:47 deep in the study of the Word of God, 07:49 so that we as God's people will realize 07:52 what we need to be doing, 07:54 not as a works thing, but what we need to be doing, 07:56 prepare our hearts 07:58 and our life for His soon coming. 07:59 I certainly feel a need to once again to pray. 08:01 Again, I know that many of you kneel 08:03 and pray where you can when you're at home. 08:05 Some of you going down the road, 08:06 somebody else's driving and they pray. 08:08 They say we're just praying with you all the time. 08:09 Thank you for that, continue to pray, we need that. 08:12 So I'm going to kneel over here 08:13 and I just ask that maybe you can kneel 08:15 or you just pray with me. 08:19 Merciful Father in heaven, 08:20 thank You for the privilege of prayer, 08:22 Lord, we invite Thy sweet Holy Spirit. 08:23 Lord, we need to illuminate 08:25 these beautiful truths of Your Word. 08:27 Lord, help us to realize these are not just words, 08:29 these are warning messages we need. 08:31 We need the patience, we need love, 08:33 we need encouragement, we need the understanding. 08:36 And so we invite Your Holy Spirit 08:37 to come near to each of our hearts 08:39 in our lives right now. 08:40 And impress these things that we need to know 08:42 and to learn and to put into operation 08:44 before You shall come 08:45 Thank You for every viewer, every listener. 08:47 In Jesus' name, amen. 08:50 We're going to be talking about today, 08:51 I hope you brought your Bible or pencil or paper with you. 08:53 National apostasy. 08:55 National apostasy is followed by what? 08:58 By national ruin. 08:59 So when you talk about apostasy, that's not good. 09:02 When you talk about ruin, that's not good. 09:05 So we need to find out what causes all of this, 09:07 we're going to be looking at this study 09:09 and spending a little time on. 09:10 This is going to be the first part of two parts 09:13 because there's so much material, 09:15 but we're going to try to condense it down. 09:17 Then notice this, this two-part series, 09:19 there's going to be several questions 09:21 that must be asked and answers 09:24 that must be given because, you know, 09:27 we are living in the timeframe 09:29 of what this subject is talking about. 09:32 Remember, we're living what? In this hour right now. 09:35 And so these questions in case 09:36 maybe you've never encountered them before, 09:39 or maybe you've been through many, many times. 09:41 It does not hurt to go over these things and to learn. 09:44 I'm not up here just talking 09:46 because I don't have anything else to do. 09:48 I believe the Lord has given a message 09:50 that His people, His church needs to hear. 09:52 Why? 09:53 Because these are serious times that we're living in 09:58 and they're going to become, may I use this, 10:00 more serious day by day, because all of us can see that 10:05 things are changing, it seems hourly, 10:08 moment by moment and it's not getting better, 10:10 because the Bible says going to wax worse and worse. 10:13 There's more shenanigans being pulled. 10:15 I'm telling right now, there's more things 10:17 that's being done by dark of night, 10:18 as it were, than I've ever seen 10:20 in the history of this world or since I have been here. 10:24 We're talking about the future. 10:26 The future could be hours, it could be days, 10:30 it could be weeks, even months. 10:32 But we need to realize these things are happening 10:34 rather quickly, all the things that we've seen. 10:37 So what we're going to be going over in this study 10:39 and then the next study 10:41 is what is this national apostasy 10:44 followed by national ruin. 10:47 That's talking about your country 10:48 that you're living in. 10:50 And as I mentioned just previous to this, 10:52 we're not going to spend a lot of time 10:53 on the other at the time and so on and so forth. 10:55 But we need to what? 10:57 We're talking about the Fourth of July and all this. 10:59 We're going to be concentrating on the Word of God. 11:02 Two, we're going to ask a question, 11:03 is America right now forming an image to the beast? 11:08 Three, what is the most important work 11:11 in the world? 11:13 Think about that for a moment, 11:14 what is the most important work in the world? 11:18 Four, there is a crisis in this church. 11:22 Why? 11:23 Because of the false doctrines 11:25 and teachings that are being taught even in the pulpit, 11:28 and certainly from church to church. 11:30 Now remember, it's a crisis. 11:32 It's not just, oh, well, it's just that. 11:34 When I'm talking up here, we're talking about an urgency. 11:37 We're talking about something that we need to know that 11:38 we need to understand 11:40 because the devil is trying to camouflage 11:42 all of these things and to deceive. 11:45 Number five, notice this, will there come a time 11:48 when every earthly support will be cut off from you 11:52 if you are a follower of Jesus Christ? 11:55 You know, a lot of people say, "Well, yeah, we understand." 11:57 And lot of people say, "Well, I didn't know that." 11:59 So what will your position be 12:01 if every earthly support is cut off? 12:03 If you're not able to receive your social security? 12:06 If you're not able to receive your retirement? 12:09 If you're not receiving money from anything or anybody, 12:11 how will you react? 12:12 What will you do? 12:16 I'm saying this based on the Word of God, 12:19 the United States will see 12:21 a devastating famine in the land, 12:24 not only for the Word of God, 12:25 but I'm talking about food to eat and, of course, 12:27 of other nations around the world. 12:29 Again, we're going to answer these 12:31 and looking them up as we go along. 12:32 And then again, we just mentioned 12:34 and always I should mention this 12:35 from the pulpit every time is remember, 12:37 now is the time to get out of the cities 12:39 because they are corrupt. 12:41 There's no doubt about it. 12:44 And maybe we'll think about this, is it time? 12:47 Is it time that maybe we've got rid 12:50 of some of the possessions that we have? 12:53 Is it time? 12:55 Do we maybe have too many things 12:57 that's keeping us occupied 12:59 even though they may be good within themselves, 13:02 there is a time that 13:03 we need to get rid of some things 13:04 before the time, 13:06 a real big time of trouble before Jesus comes. 13:08 And last number nine, should we be able to 13:11 or should we be able to grow our own food? 13:16 It's very important, is it? 13:18 We're going to answer 13:19 some of these questions as we go along. 13:21 But right now I just want to go back again, 13:22 national apostasy followed by national ruin. 13:26 Just a few points of what's been going on 13:28 the last few weeks here. 13:30 And I pray that you'll be able to see this 13:31 in light of Bible prophecy. 13:34 If not, it's just another newscast 13:36 and I'm not up here to be a newscaster. 13:38 I wanted to prompt you 13:39 to be able to open your heart and your mind and say, 13:41 "Okay, these things are taking place. 13:44 And I'll just mention maybe a line and line 13:45 move on and move on and move on. 13:47 Notice this. Why? 13:48 Times are uncertain 13:50 as we will know especially with the COVID-19. 13:53 It's changing every day, thoughts are changing, 13:55 but things are happening. 13:56 They're looking for a second bout, 13:58 all kinds of things to keep this country shut down 14:01 so that we can't move forward. 14:02 So we loot, the economy will go out. 14:05 And so we need to keep that in mind right now. 14:07 There's uncertainty about it, 14:08 but there's certainty in the Word of God. 14:12 Seattle, we realize there was, where there was, you know, 14:16 they took several city blocks. 14:18 That was, no, they come in, the police took it back. 14:21 But it's interesting 14:23 in that created place that they made, 14:25 it was supposed to be a police free. 14:28 No police were allowed. 14:29 Kind of interesting to think about in our country 14:31 where there was rape 14:32 and where there was murder and where there was 14:34 destruction on every hand 14:37 but the police were not allowed. 14:38 What kind of a country is this? 14:42 Huh? A lot of statues bit the dust. 14:48 They're down. A lot of history came down. 14:53 And lot of threats of many more of this yet to come down. 14:58 I see socialism working 15:00 in our country, Marxist agenda. 15:05 I've heard people say actually say 15:06 in this country they had rather lived, 15:09 is it okay to be bold in it? 15:11 You know, we're looking at it. 15:12 They say we'd rather live under communism. 15:14 This is people that I know. 15:16 They said they'd rather live in communism than to, you know, 15:20 live under the rule of Trump again for four years. 15:23 What is wrong? You know what is? 15:24 Because they have not lived in that state of communism. 15:30 Can you imagine so statements being made? 15:33 What has happened to our thinking? 15:38 I mean, it's coming to the point 15:40 where there's a changing of the names of the NFL, 15:44 you can no longer want to be called Washington Redskins. 15:47 I didn't know anything was wrong with red skin. 15:51 I didn't know anything was wrong with black skin. 15:53 I didn't know anything was wrong with white skin. 15:56 I want to be as a Christian color blind. 15:59 This is a way that it's supposed to be. 16:01 But it's getting to be so personal 16:02 right now that the NFL, 16:04 the owners are afraid if they don't change it, 16:07 they're not going to have any people attending the games 16:09 and the players. 16:11 And so they're having all kinds of problems 16:12 or so we're running scared. 16:14 And not only the Washington Redskins, 16:17 but Kansas City Chiefs. 16:19 Can't say that anymore because of racism. 16:25 The Atlanta Braves 16:27 going to have to change their name. 16:28 They're talking about it here, the Cleveland Indians. 16:32 You can't say that 16:33 because everything is a racist remark. 16:37 Hmm. 16:38 And then hundreds, 16:40 literally hundreds of big time companies. 16:43 Sport is maybe who create sports stuff 16:46 and sports agenda and teams 16:48 and even celebrities are responding 16:50 to these protests 16:52 by giving money, big money to the protesters. 16:58 Even, now take this, 16:59 even the mascots are being challenged. 17:04 You can't have this kind of a mascot, you know, 17:07 some kind of a team. 17:08 So that's being challenged. 17:10 And even right now you're looking at 17:13 they're renaming many military bases. 17:18 Huh, or, you know, think about it. 17:20 These bases which have been there for, well, 17:23 over hundreds of years, 17:24 some that I have been to personally 17:26 when I was in the service. 17:27 Some of those will have to be changed 17:29 because some people are unhappy with the name. 17:34 Some of the military bases. Yes, yes. 17:39 So I'm talking to the audience if you want to know here, 17:41 some people are, yeah, questioning. 17:43 Yeah. 17:46 They're wanting to rename those things. 17:48 And they're talking about quite a few of them 17:50 and they're even talking about renaming some city. 17:53 I'm just letting you see how far this thing has gone. 17:56 They're wanting to rename some cities now, you know, 17:59 some capitals or certain towns, whatever it might be. 18:02 An example is the latest what? 18:03 Columbus, they're taking down all statues of Columbus 18:06 and so on and so forth. 18:07 Now, they want to rename that 18:08 no longer can it be Columbus, Ohio. 18:12 And thousands of people have signed a petition 18:15 and said they want 18:16 to have the capital name, Flavor town. 18:21 Flavor town. 18:24 To back up one of the chefs, I forget who he is on TV. 18:27 Yeah, one even mentioned that name, 18:29 be name Chef Boyardee. 18:31 But this was some man who has a television program, 18:34 whatever and he's chef and so he was born there. 18:36 So thousands, last I know, I know it was 25,000, 50,000 18:40 whatever is saying right now, let's name it Flavor town. 18:44 Huh, interesting. 18:49 Is these things, I'm just mentioning a few, 18:52 is it really about social justice? 18:55 That's the way it was supposed to start. 18:58 But is it really about social justice anymore? 19:01 I mean, we've got right now, we say, 19:03 we're needing police changes, 19:05 we need to reform we understand that. 19:08 There's been a great push 19:09 for climate change as you well know. 19:11 There's a great push going on for Sunday laws, 19:15 they're being pushed. 19:16 The economy, job situation, unemployment, 19:20 this country is in dire need of something or someone 19:24 and I don't believe it's another leader. 19:26 I believe it's Jesus Christ, don't you? 19:28 Absolutely, yes. 19:30 And it even goes a little farther 19:32 and just update so you understand 19:34 and again look at it in the light of what's going on 19:36 because, you know, men's heart 19:38 are failing them for fear we understand, 19:39 but also men's minds are failing 19:42 because they have not the guidance 19:43 of the Holy Spirit of the Living God 19:46 to guide them and make the right decision 19:48 based on the Word of God, not emotions, not feeling, 19:51 not what has happened or going to happen, 19:53 but based on the Word of God is so important. 19:56 They're even saying right now 19:58 that seems that before 19:59 each game of the first week of the NFL. 20:01 Some of you've heard this. 20:02 Before the game, right, the first game of the NFL, 20:05 a new song is going to be played. 20:06 They've got together and said, "Look, we're no longer happy. 20:09 You know, with the Star-Spangled Banner. 20:12 We want another one. 20:14 It's called Lift Every Voice and Sing. 20:17 Not that the song is bad, but notice this, 20:19 Lift Every Voice and Sing is considered to be, 20:23 notice this, the black national anthem. 20:28 The black national anthem. 20:29 It started in 1900s actually, you know, 20:32 and so on and so forth. 20:34 It goes on and it fits the bill. 20:36 So they're going to be playing that. 20:37 Now, listen, I'm not saying good or bad. 20:39 That's according to ESPN report says this. 20:43 Also notices this, it doesn't stop there. 20:45 See, I'm looking at where will this stuff stop? 20:49 How far is it going to go? 20:52 Or has it went too far that we never can back up again. 20:56 I'm under the impression it will not, 20:57 we'll not be able to back up, 20:59 that this world will never be the same. 21:02 Never be the same as what's happened 21:05 in just a few four, three or four months. 21:10 And I'm not happy about that. 21:11 And I'm sure you're not happy about that. 21:12 There are many of us 21:14 we will not take a positional stance. 21:16 There are those at least in the world, 21:18 if they believe in something, 21:19 they take a positional stance on it. 21:21 And they try to make a change 21:22 as long as we do it the right way. 21:25 But you know, we can, you can be shoved and pushed, 21:27 and so on and so forth. 21:28 And some of us say nothing. 21:29 When it comes to the Word of God, 21:31 we need to take a stand on this. 21:32 But notice what these, 21:34 the Players Association says this. 21:36 They're working with the league, 21:38 the league of players, 21:39 and they want to put stuff on the jerseys. 21:42 They want to put instead of their own name on the back, 21:44 like you recognize that ballplayer 21:45 because there's a name on the back. 21:47 They said, "Now let's go farther with that. 21:51 Let's put some of the so-called victims by the police." 21:55 Police have been brutal, so they've been, 21:56 and that's true in a sense, we understand that. 22:00 The jerseys could have names like George Floyd on the back. 22:06 It could have... 22:08 is that Breonna Taylor? 22:11 Yeah, Taylor. Yeah. 22:13 Or on the back, 22:15 or it could be Black Lives Matter 22:19 on the back of their jersey. 22:20 Or it could be, I can't breathe. 22:25 And another one I'd like to put on there 22:26 if you don't mind, 22:27 if everybody's putting their two cents worth, 22:29 and I'll put a penny in. 22:31 I've said it before and I'll continue to say it 22:33 by the grace of God that we need to put 22:35 on the back of our jerseys All Lives Matter. 22:40 Did you get it? All Lives Matter. 22:43 It's not trying to take away 22:44 from anything anyone's trying to accomplish 22:46 if you do it in the right way. 22:48 It's all lives matter. But you know what? 22:50 A lot of times, we don't have the courage 22:52 to stand up and say that. 22:57 But if you watch the football game 22:59 or some of the sports sometimes some of us, 23:01 if we have a chance to watch a few minutes of a game, 23:03 we'd like to watch a game 23:05 and not be reminded of the brutal stuff 23:07 that's taken place and continues to take place. 23:11 And all of this stuff on the back 23:12 will simply be a reminder. 23:13 Other people say there need to be a reminder 23:15 if we're going to get changed. 23:17 But it's just the way that we go about it. 23:21 I know that all lives matter. 23:22 As a Christian, we need to understand that 23:24 because Calvary says so. 23:27 I'm not doing it from prejudice. 23:28 I'm not doing it because I have an axe to grind. 23:31 It's because Calvary proves that 23:33 every life makes a difference. 23:35 Ain't that what's it all about? Jesus says so. 23:41 Let's kind of start here with some more 23:44 when we're talking about national apostasy 23:46 followed by natural or nation natural, yeah, ruin. 23:55 We're told that errors will be coming in to the church. 24:00 When you have a lot of problems, 24:02 we realize that even in the world 24:03 is because we've drifted away from the Word of God. 24:08 Because this is our standard, isn't it right? 24:10 This is our standard. 24:12 This is what we realize that this helps us to, you know, 24:14 not only get along in the world, 24:16 but certainly we say get along with heaven. 24:19 This is a standard of righteousness 24:20 that we need to be going to, 24:22 but we realize then as error come in 24:25 and then we begin to take changes, 24:27 it's a crisis time. 24:29 And I say, you know, 24:30 and I'll try to do it nicely that in our church, 24:33 there is a crisis in our church. 24:36 There's probably a crisis in 24:37 and probably in all churches today. 24:41 And we know that this was going to take place 24:43 because there was a vision 24:44 given to Sister White that told when these, 24:47 the crisis time with doctrine comes in 24:49 that we are to meet it head on. 24:52 See, some of us have a hard time 24:53 meeting things head on. 24:55 We don't want when there's trouble, 24:57 we want to back up. 24:58 We want to sit down. 25:00 We don't want to take a stance on it. 25:03 But we are to meet it head on when it comes in. 25:06 So I'm going to just read this vision 25:08 that was given found 25:10 in Second Selected Message 205 and 6. 25:13 Second Selected Messages 205 and 6. 25:16 See, this is nothing new. 25:17 We were warned in advance, these things will take place, 25:20 just what we're talking about now in this vision. 25:24 Notice what it says. 25:25 And some of you, I'm sure have read it 25:26 many times before, but it says, "One night a scene 25:29 was clearly presented before me. 25:33 A vessel was upon the waters. 25:36 It was in a heavy fog. 25:38 Suddenly the lookout cried, 'Iceberg just ahead.' 25:44 There towering high 25:45 above the ship was a gigantic iceberg. 25:50 An authoritative voice cried out, 'Meet it.' 25:56 There was not a moment to, you know, in moments we've had, 25:59 we couldn't hesitate. 26:02 It was time for instant action.'" 26:05 And I believe we are in the time 26:06 for instant action right now. 26:09 "The engineer said this, 'Put on full steam.'" 26:14 Interesting, if you think you're going to hit something, 26:16 usually we hit the brakes. 26:18 We want to stop. 26:20 Here the one who was running it. 26:22 The captain as it were, the authoritative voice said, 26:26 "'Put full steam ahead.' 26:31 And the man at the wheel steered the ship straight," 26:35 notice this, "into the iceberg.'" 26:38 Didn't try to deflect, 26:39 didn't try to go a different way 26:41 but straight into the iceberg. 26:43 "With a crash she struck the ice. 26:47 There was a fearful shock. 26:50 The iceberg broke into many pieces, 26:54 falling with a noise like thunder to the deck. 26:59 The passengers were violently 27:01 shaken by the force of the collision. 27:04 But no lives were lost. 27:08 The vessel was injured but not beyond repair. 27:12 She rebounded from the contact, trembling from stem to stern, 27:18 like a living creature. 27:21 She moved forward on her way." 27:25 My, what does this mean? Well, notice how it goes on. 27:27 It says, "Well, 27:29 I know the meaning of this representation. 27:32 I had my orders." 27:34 I wonder if maybe you have your orders. 27:36 You receive your orders not from man, 27:38 but you receive your orders from God. 27:40 You receive your orders 27:41 from the Holy Spirit of the Living God 27:43 of what you ought to be doing. 27:44 You may be doing 27:46 something a little different than I'm doing, 27:47 but it's in harmony with the Word of God, 27:48 that's okay. 27:50 But some people leave, everybody should do 27:51 what they do and how they do it. 27:54 Some people say don't be so bold, other people say, 27:56 you know, don't be so loud. 27:57 Other people, don't be so quiet, blah, blah. 27:59 Just do what God has asked you to do and be faithful. 28:02 I had my order, she says here, 28:04 "I heard the words like a voice from our captain, 28:08 'Meet it.'" 28:11 I know what my duty, I know what my duty was. 28:14 There was not a moment to lose. 28:17 That night I was up at 1 o'clock in the morning, 28:21 writing as fast as my hand could pass over the paper. 28:26 For the next few nights I worked early and late 28:30 preparing, preparing for our people 28:34 the instruction given me, notice this, 28:37 regarding the errors that were coming in among us. 28:42 So put it in that, you know in that, 28:45 yeah, light if you will. 28:46 Put it in, you know, 28:47 just look the error, error was coming in. 28:51 We have to meet error how? Head on. 28:55 You can't back away from it. You can't deny it. 28:58 You have to meet it head on with it, 28:59 thus saith the Lord. 29:02 So God has warned us 29:03 these things will come in and the results, 29:05 we're seeing them out in the world 29:07 and we're seeing them in the church. 29:10 National apostasy is followed by national ruin. 29:14 Your Bible, turn with me to Isaiah 26:9-10 which is, 29:18 you know, it was our reading, scripture reading for today. 29:21 But these are powerful verses Isaiah 26:9-10. 29:26 The Bible says, man, 29:28 I tell you we stand on holy ground 29:30 and good ground and powerful ground 29:32 when we read from the Word of God. 29:35 God's Word says, well, 29:38 you may not be excited about today, 29:39 but I'm excited about it. 29:41 This is a time to be excited about it. 29:43 Why? 29:44 Because we're coming together to what? 29:45 Charge our spiritual batteries 29:47 that we may go out and warn the world. 29:49 It's not just the pastor's job, it's not just the elder's job. 29:52 It's every one of your jobs. It's my job. 29:55 It's every church members' job is to warn. 29:58 You may not like confrontation, but you have to hit it head on. 30:02 We don't like errors in the church, 30:03 so we have to hit them head on 30:05 and deal with them with the thus saith the Lord. 30:08 Yeah, we're going to be accountable 30:10 for all of those things if we do not. 30:13 So we meet it head on. 30:14 Notice, "When thy judgments are in the earth..." 30:17 as read in our scripture texts today. 30:19 When the judgments are what? 30:21 When the judgments are in the earth. 30:23 Now, can we say today, so let's identify, 30:25 do we believe that 30:26 the judgments are in the earth today? 30:29 See, beyond a shadow of a doubt, 30:30 the judgments of God 30:31 are falling on the earth right now 30:33 in so many different areas, 30:34 in so many different ways right now. 30:36 Men are running around like demons 30:38 and not men at all. 30:40 The demons are taking over the minds 30:42 of those who are not dedicated to Jesus Christ. 30:45 You either take the side of Christ 30:47 and keep your sanity, 30:49 or you give your mind over to the devil and you go insane. 30:52 Is that okay? That's true as it can be. 30:56 And so that's what we're dealing with. 30:58 We're not dealing, we say, well, 30:59 surely these people will act right. 31:00 Surely they'll do the right thing. 31:02 No, they've got the mind of the enemy 31:04 rather than the mind of Christ. 31:05 That's why they're doing this thing. 31:06 It's unbelievable what's happening, 31:08 what's going on, 31:09 and the changes that are demanded 31:11 and the changes that will continue 31:12 to be demanded 31:13 until this country is torn apart. 31:17 Some of you might say, enjoy your Fourth of July, 31:19 because you may never see another one. 31:22 Because there's talk about changing that too. 31:31 Man, that should make us stop and think for 31:33 when the judgments are in the earth. 31:37 The inhabitants of the earth will learn what? 31:41 Righteousness. 31:43 The judgments in the earth, 31:44 the things that we're seeing right now, 31:46 surely to peach, to drive us to our knees. 31:48 Surely should drive us 31:50 to open the Word of the Living God 31:51 and say what is going on. 31:53 Even if you don't know, but even if you do know 31:55 God's going to open more things to your mind, 31:58 it's going to be open. 32:00 Light's going to come. 32:01 You may see it so clear today. But you know what? 32:03 There's those sitting beside you 32:04 that don't see as clear as that. 32:07 You know, they've not been reading the Word, 32:08 they've not been studying, right? 32:10 The whole Spirit of the Living God 32:12 is not inside of them. 32:14 They may pretend they may be in church, 32:15 they may be giving, 32:16 they may be doing all these things, 32:18 but they've never really 32:19 committed fully their life to Jesus Christ, 32:21 they're still piddling around with the things 32:22 that have drawn them away from God, 32:25 which has to be given up as you well know. 32:28 The things that we see, 32:30 the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness 32:33 but notice this. 32:34 You say, well, let's have mercy, 32:35 let's have mercy on those wicked, 32:37 let's have mercy. 32:38 Yes, we all love mercy, praise God for mercy. 32:39 I wouldn't be here 32:41 if it wasn't for the mercy of God. 32:43 But notice what it says. 32:45 It says, "Let favor be shown to the wicked." 32:48 Now what does that mean? 32:49 What if we stop here that mercy be shown to the wicked, 32:52 but notice it, 32:53 "Yet will he not learn righteousness?" 32:59 You show mercy, but he's not going to learn it 33:01 because he doesn't want it. 33:03 He's already committed, he's already. 33:05 The conscience is already severed 33:07 seared with a hot iron. 33:10 There's not that they do things like there's no conscience. 33:12 There's, you know, what? 33:14 And we're giving him that like there's no conscience, 33:16 because there's no price to pay. 33:18 They've done all these things that they've been doing 33:20 and you're in the country, it's like no price to pay. 33:23 You can throw a rope around something, 33:24 you can pull it down if you want to, 33:25 you can, you know, 33:27 graffiti it all you want to do, you can burn the police cars, 33:29 you get to throw bricks 33:30 and hit the police if you want to do it. 33:32 You can you can steal six blocks of city. 33:35 You follow what I'm saying here 33:36 instead of your own little thing 33:38 and we let it go for weeks and weeks 33:39 rather than crush it just like that. 33:43 No. 33:46 You can do all those things, you can protest, right? 33:48 You can go by the hundreds and the thousands 33:50 and you have close contact with each other 33:52 and it's okay, but you can't go to church. 33:56 You can only have 10. 33:59 Well, I'm glad we didn't listen. 34:03 Think about it. 34:05 It's always the devil 34:07 is opening up as it were the valve 34:10 here to the world and the wicked but see, 34:12 but then when it comes to the Christians, 34:14 he's shutting it down. 34:17 He's doing his best to shut it down. 34:19 That's why I say today, if there's anybody who's, 34:22 you know, missed church service because they're so worried 34:24 about going out 34:25 and celebrating the Fourth, shame on you. 34:27 Is that okay to say? 34:30 See, nobody wants to say that 34:32 because people get angry, but if you do, you just do. 34:35 If your heart's right with God, you will not. 34:37 There are many and I'll guarantee 34:38 in the Seventh-day Adventist Church 34:41 that are out doing other things on the Sabbath day 34:44 rather than attending church 34:45 and studying and trying to learn 34:47 what hour that we're in 34:49 to be ready for the coming of Jesus. 34:50 Something is wrong. 34:52 Error has come in, 34:55 and we've done nothing about it. 34:57 When you said the wicked, 34:59 they're not going to learn righteousness 35:00 because they've committed themselves 35:02 and they stand under the banner of the devil. 35:04 You stand under one or the other, 35:06 there's no middle ground, you know that. 35:09 This passage of Scripture is dealing with, 35:11 this was after the flood. 35:13 Notice, "When God had released them 35:16 from the judgments, 35:18 but the world again rebelled against the Lord. 35:22 Twice this took place by the people before the flood, 35:26 and then the descendants of Noah. 35:29 They rejected the covenant that God had made with them 35:32 as His people and His laws." 35:36 Rejection. 35:38 The world has become, in my opinion, 35:41 just like it was when Pharaoh was confronted by Moses. 35:46 Man, what a confrontation that must have been. 35:48 Man to have been there to be able to witness that, 35:51 a confrontation. 35:53 Here comes, you know, we look at the Moses, 35:56 and he goes before Pharaoh, a great king, 35:59 life and death as it were in his hands. 36:02 But yet he trembled. 36:03 I believe he trembled when Moses walked in there, 36:05 don't you? 36:07 He knew there was something. 36:08 He knew about the God of heaven. 36:10 Now keep this in mind. He knew. 36:12 He was not dumb in any form 36:14 or fashion to the God of heaven, 36:16 but yet there was a stubbornness about him 36:18 like there is in people in the church 36:20 and people in the world. 36:21 There is a stubbornness, 36:23 there's a hard headedness going on, 36:26 because when Moses came before him, 36:28 he didn't say, "I have a message for you. 36:31 I'm not coming for you today and say, 36:33 I have a message for you. 36:34 I say, God has a message for you." 36:37 God has a message 36:38 for every one of His children today. 36:40 Every person on this planet, God has a message, 36:43 there is no doubt about it. 36:45 And so he approached the Pharaoh, man, 36:48 what boldness is that, 36:50 he didn't want to do it as you well know. 36:51 He didn't want to lead 36:53 the children of Israel out of Egypt either, did he? 36:55 But he did what? 36:56 After he had a communion with God, 36:58 he just said, listen, 36:59 we need to have a communion with God. 37:01 When you sit down to have a communion with God, 37:03 then God let you know what He wants you to do. 37:05 We need to get up and just do it. 37:06 Well, the world laughs at you or not, 37:08 whether they care about you or not, 37:10 you do what God asked you to do. 37:11 I want to encourage you 37:13 with that today, if nothing else. 37:15 Do what God has asked you to do. 37:17 And most certainly 37:19 it must harmonize certainly with the Scripture. 37:23 But when you know when Moses came in, he said, 37:26 "I have a message from more or less Jehovah, 37:29 God of Israel" Man, what, what language? 37:33 I have a message, right, from Jehovah, 37:37 the God of Israel. 37:38 And I say, just like today, 37:41 when God sends His messages to us, 37:44 it is not in ignorance of the true God of heaven 37:48 that causes people to reject it. 37:50 It's simply a hatred and a defiance of God 37:54 and rules and laws and obedience. 37:56 That's what it's all about. 37:58 So we might say like Pharaoh today, 38:01 we might too when he said, I've got a message from God. 38:04 Oh, Pharaoh stood right up and what did he say right here? 38:07 "Who is? Who is Jehovah?" 38:11 That means the Lord, right? 38:13 "Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice?" 38:15 The world is saying that over and over and over, 38:18 we say it in the church pews today, 38:19 when we're asked to do 38:21 what the Bible already says to do. 38:23 God has laid everything on and we'll say, 38:25 "Well, this is what God wants us to do." 38:26 Who's Jehovah? 38:28 Who is the Lord that I should do what He says 38:31 or I should obey His voice. 38:33 And then he even got bolder, Exodus, Exodus 5:2, 38:36 he says, "I know not Jehovah. 38:39 I know not the Lord." 38:40 Let me tell you, 38:41 whether people say it or not today, 38:43 you can tell it in their life, they know not Jehovah. 38:45 They know not Jehovah by their actions, 38:47 by their words, by their deeds, 38:48 the way they treat one another. 38:49 Man, what a wonderful... 38:51 Oh, I want to say delicious world 38:52 this would be if we all love God supremely 38:55 and our fellowman as ourself. 38:57 But we don't. 38:59 We don't love God, 39:00 and we don't love our fellowman. 39:01 That's why we're going through this mess. 39:03 We backed away from a thus saith the Lord. 39:05 Who is the Lord that I should obey Him. 39:09 Pharaoh knew who the Lord was. 39:12 He knew Him well. 39:15 But he was, had hatred 39:17 and defiance of the God of heaven. 39:21 When God brought these judgments against Egypt, 39:27 and He did it in the plagues, you remember? 39:29 He gave time, listen, for each one of them to work. 39:33 Ain't God wonderful? 39:35 When He brought these plagues, can I say judgments? 39:38 When He brought these judgments 39:40 before Egypt because God loved Egypt. 39:43 He loved Pharaoh, and He wanted to reach them. 39:47 But when He brought each one of these little plagues, 39:50 these judgments, He gave time 39:53 and evidence for them to do His work, 39:56 that simply that 39:57 they might submit to God and do. 40:00 Well, listen, when they submitted, 40:02 they would escape the judgments that were coming. 40:05 If you want to escape the judgments 40:07 that are still yet to come and they will be, oh more 40:09 or so more severe than they are right now. 40:12 We must submit to God Almighty. 40:15 We must submit to His will 40:17 and His way and to the laws of God 40:19 which man has thrown out 40:22 and they put in their place the laws of men, 40:24 insane men. 40:29 God gave them time but like now rebellion. 40:35 We rebel, and I guess I hear a lot of about the, 40:37 we talk about the rule of law. 40:40 We all need to be under the rule of law 40:41 and yet what do we do? 40:43 We throw God's law out, we throw man's law out, 40:45 we throw every kind of law, everything out. 40:52 But you know what? 40:54 What I sense right now is what the devil's plan... 41:00 that he has for this country, it's backfiring. 41:04 I want to say some positive about, 41:06 it's backfiring to this sense because of what? 41:08 And through all of this, 41:10 it has so entered into the heart of men, 41:14 women and children that they don't understand it 41:16 and they say, 41:18 I need a better knowledge of God. 41:20 I want to know what's going on in the world. 41:22 Man, women to be there for these people, 41:25 be there for your neighbors. 41:26 Have a word in due season that will encourage them 41:29 and strengthen them to do what needs to be done. 41:32 And yet what are we doing? 41:33 Remember that's a knowledge of God 41:35 is spreading as people are looking 41:37 for answers right now. 41:40 See, God always takes a bad situation, 41:42 He always just what? 41:43 There's something good always that God does, 41:46 and again, he's trying to get it out. 41:48 And so while Pharaoh 41:49 and all the other people in the world, 41:50 people in the world today are acting up and acting ugly. 41:53 God is spreading some good news and people are saying, 41:55 "What in the world's going on. 41:58 What is going on in this world, we want to know." 42:03 Because they know what they see going on. 42:06 And what's being done in this world 42:07 they don't want it. 42:09 Are you sensing that? 42:11 They don't want, they're tired of it. 42:14 You have the mind of Christ. 42:15 I'm telling you can see through all of this thing 42:17 what the enemy is trying to do. 42:19 So what is this national apostasy 42:22 that causes national ruin? 42:26 I'm going to read article from Review and Herald, 1218. 42:29 This is written in 1888. 42:32 Listen carefully. 42:34 "A time is coming." A time is what? 42:37 "A time is coming when the law of God," 42:39 notice this, 42:40 "in a special sense is to be made," what? 42:43 "Void in our land." 42:45 How many times have Adventists said this over the years? 42:49 How many years I've been in a church 42:50 and I've heard it over and over and over. 42:51 But I'm telling you right now, 42:53 it seems to make more sense now than it did five minutes ago. 42:59 Hope you catch that. 43:01 It seems to make more sense right now. 43:03 Time is coming when the law of God is what? 43:06 In a special senses to make, made void in our land. 43:10 Keep that under your hat. 43:12 Keep it in your mind. 43:13 Keep it in your heart when you see exactly 43:15 what the enemy is attacking right now. 43:17 Exactly what's going on in the world today 43:19 that man, right, is working, working, 43:21 the devil is working to make 43:22 void the law of God in the land. 43:26 So don't be shocked about it. 43:28 Don't try to come up with all kinds of. 43:30 I had a friend one time say, I said, 43:31 "What are you going to do 43:33 when the Sunday laws come into existence if you are alive?" 43:36 Well, I've already thought about that. 43:38 See people got smart. See, they already. 43:42 I said, "How smart are you?" Said, "I'm pretty smart. 43:44 I've already thought about 43:45 because a lot of crazy things are going to happen 43:47 before Jesus comes." 43:49 He's referring to the Sunday law. 43:50 Are you still with me? 43:53 So he'd already thought 43:54 it through just in case this happens. 43:58 I don't have to say that they were right 43:59 and probably Bible prophecy is right. 44:02 I'll just say a lot of crazy things 44:05 are happening in the world. 44:09 Scripture says this in Psalms 119:126. 44:12 Listen carefully. Psalms what? 44:14 119:126. Come on, church. 44:16 This is a time that 44:17 we need to rise to the occasion. 44:18 This is a time, right, 44:20 we need to fluff it right on up 44:21 because this is our message for today. 44:24 Remember, national apostasy is what? 44:27 That causes national ruin. 44:29 It's when the Sunday law is passed. 44:31 Did you get it? 44:32 And when that is passed, 44:34 that's going to be the end of this world. 44:37 This is going to be the end, but things will transpire 44:39 before it takes place we understand. 44:41 But Psalms 119:126 says, 44:44 "It is time for thee Lord, to work," for what? 44:47 "For they have made void thy law." 44:51 How did He know it way back then? 44:53 He said, "It's time for you to work, Lord." 44:54 What? 44:55 God said, "I'm going to work when man rises up 44:57 and they pass this law here 44:59 and it begins to affect My people 45:00 for standing for what is truth, I will rise off the throne, 45:03 I will begin to work in their behalf. 45:05 And you can be assured God will, 45:06 but I'm telling you, we're going to be 45:08 going through some things 45:09 that's going to test your experience. 45:12 It's time for you to work, notice this, 45:13 listen to the word, 45:14 "For they, they have made," what? 45:18 "Void thy law." 45:21 Now, I have to ask a question is, 45:23 who are they? 45:25 You ever heard somebody say, "Well, they said." 45:28 Have you heard that? 45:30 Well, they said this about you, I say real quick, who are they? 45:34 Don't you? Who are they? 45:37 Well, I can't tell because they said not to say. 45:40 Fool you with it. Come on. 45:42 Nobody tell anything that you won't stand behind. 45:45 Isn't that right? 45:47 But tell you something you can go tell somebody else 45:48 that's what he said, I'll stand with it. 45:51 Don't tell somebody something dirty, dark 45:53 and you don't know anything about it 45:54 and then try to say, don't mention I said it. 45:59 Come on now. Who are they? 46:02 Let me put it in a nutshell real quick, 46:04 we realize when the Protestant churches... 46:07 What kind of church do you go to? 46:09 We talk about Catholic church, 46:10 we talk about a Protestant church, do we not? 46:13 Which one are you under? 46:15 You under the Catholic Church, you under Catholicism, 46:17 you under Protestantism? 46:20 We call ourselves Protestants, do we not? 46:22 Yeah, Protestant does what? 46:25 Yeah, and in the right way you protest, isn't that right? 46:27 What do we protest? We protest what? 46:30 The lies of Catholicism, do we not? 46:32 The things that's going on in the world today we protest. 46:34 We protest by doing what? 46:36 One man told one time said, well, you don't, 46:37 you don't protest enough. 46:39 My, my, my, my, my, I said every time, listen, 46:42 every time you present the truth, 46:45 you are protesting error. 46:47 Did you get it? 46:49 Every time you present truth, you are protesting error. 46:53 And by God's grace we are presenting truth. 46:55 We are protesting error, 46:58 and the foundation of the error 47:00 and explaining where it all came from, 47:02 and how God says to depart from that. 47:05 So when the Protestant churches, right? 47:08 Unite together with the state, 47:10 church and state coming together 47:12 to make mandatory a false religion. 47:15 Did we get that? 47:17 This is they. Who are they? 47:20 It's time for, right, 47:21 for you to work for they have what? 47:24 They have made void thy law. 47:26 They are the Protestant churches 47:28 uniting together with the state, 47:29 certainly the papacy 47:32 to make mandatory a false religion. 47:35 Let me read it little clear here 47:37 from the article called Signs of the Times 322 47:41 and 1910, notice the verse. 47:44 Now listen, it doesn't matter to me 47:46 how where this comes from or how old it is. 47:49 Truth never what? Thank you. 47:53 Somebody from the gallery said truth never changes. 47:58 See, this should make you excited. 47:59 You say, "I know what truth is." 48:01 And somebody challenges you with and say, 48:02 "Yeah, but now it's different." 48:04 No, truth never what? Truth never changes. 48:07 The devil changes, the world changes, 48:09 our attitude changes sometime, but God does not change. 48:13 Anything that's went out of his mouth, 48:14 he cannot change. He's going to alter why? 48:16 Because it is truth. 48:19 Signs of the Times 3-22-1910. 48:23 This is saying just what I just mentioned to you. 48:25 "When the state shall use 48:26 its power to enforce the decrees 48:30 and sustain the institutions of the church." 48:33 Are those things taking place? 48:35 Are they taking place right now? 48:37 Huh? Yeah. 48:39 To enforce the decree they have, 48:40 now notice this, and sustain the institution. 48:43 Realize how much government money 48:44 is given to sustain our institutions? 48:48 Oh, my. Yes. 48:54 They're already doing that. 48:55 Then, notice, "Then will Protestant America 48:59 have formed an image to the papacy. 49:03 There will be national apostasy," what? 49:06 "Again which will end in national ruin." 49:11 Do you see what's happening what's taking place right now? 49:13 This is already here. 49:15 It's just a matter of maybe a John Henry 49:16 as it were a signature. 49:22 Now let's go back to we kind of skipped over 49:24 just a moment ago, 49:25 Review and Herald, 12-18-1888. 49:28 We just touched on it. 49:29 But I want to get a little deeper 49:31 if you allow me to do it 49:32 in some of the time we have left, 49:33 not very many minutes. 49:37 "A time is coming 49:39 when the law of God in a special sense, 49:41 to be made void," where? 49:42 "In our land. "Notice this, goes on now. 49:45 "The rulers of our nation will, by legislative enactments, 49:50 enforce Sunday law, and thus God's people," 49:53 notice this, "God's people 49:54 will be brought into great peril." 49:56 See, I'm concerned about this. 49:58 You should be concerned about it 50:00 if you love somebody beside yourself. 50:03 Is that right to do? 50:06 See, a lot of time, 50:07 we don't have to worry about all that 50:09 because all we do is love ourselves 50:10 and all we cared about is ourselves. 50:11 But when I read this right here, 50:13 I became concerned, 50:14 because when this is passed legislative action, 50:17 God's people will be in great peril. 50:23 "When our nation, in the legislative councils, 50:26 shall enact laws to bind the conscience of men 50:30 in regard to their religious privileges, 50:33 that means enforcing Sunday observance, 50:37 and bringing oppressive power to bear 50:39 against those who keep the seventh day Sabbath." 50:42 What kind of power? 50:43 Oppressive power, the Bible is clear, right? 50:47 Oppressive power has always been 50:48 against those who wanted to follow Jesus 50:50 with all of their heart. 50:52 The identifying marks 50:53 that keep the commandments of God 50:55 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 50:56 The devil is angry with that church. 50:58 He wants oppressive power to bear against 51:00 those who keep the seventh day Sabbath. 51:02 The law of God, to every intense 51:05 and purpose be made void in our land. 51:08 And the same thing goes again, even in this article, 51:11 it says national apostasy will follow national ruin. 51:15 We are so close. Only God can hold it back. 51:19 Only God knows the time, as I said, it could be days, 51:21 it could be weeks, it could be... 51:22 Only God knows. 51:24 But when it comes to this point, 51:26 and you'll notice it because of the climate change, 51:29 you'll know it because of the economy that's going on, 51:31 you'll notice it because the unemployment 51:33 that people with no work about 40 some million people. 51:36 What a mess that we are in. 51:37 We are printing money now with nothing to back it up. 51:40 Keep the printing presses going all the time, 51:42 because everybody just keep hopefully 51:43 something's going to happen. 51:45 You know, and I know that 51:46 the leadership of this country know it much better than 51:49 we know what a mess that we are in. 51:51 And only God can bring us out of it. 51:53 If God sees not, then we're going to see 51:54 these things happen rather quickly. 51:56 And what will be your response? 51:58 What will be my response? 51:59 Because there's going to be 52:00 some oppressive power going against them. 52:02 There's going to be great peril, 52:04 you're going to be placed in it. 52:06 What are you going to do? What am I going to do? 52:10 You trust God enough? 52:16 We have to believe that 52:17 there are events taking place in the world 52:20 that Bible prophecy has predicted, 52:23 it will take place, 52:25 so that we can know, so that we can be warned, 52:27 so that we can warn other people. 52:30 I'm going to read once again here 52:31 about three minutes and something left. 52:32 Come on, hang with me. That went very fast for me. 52:35 I'm sorry if it went slow for you. 52:39 This time went rather quickly for me. 52:43 You see others are busy, oh, I'm glad, I mean, 52:45 I'm glad when it's over. Well, you know what? 52:47 We need to get down our knees and ask God to help us. 52:50 Isn't that right? Yeah, this is solemn times. 52:56 Review and Herald, 4-23-1889, notice this. 53:00 Notice, "Events will be brought about in the earth's history 53:05 that will fulfill the predictions 53:07 of prophecy of these last days." 53:11 Do we see those things happening right now? 53:14 Revelation 13. 53:16 Protestantism coming up, as we mentioned, 53:18 like a lamb and then begins to speak 53:20 as the dragon, the papacy. 53:23 United States speaking 53:24 as the dragon against those who love Jesus. 53:28 Taking away freedom of religion 53:31 and your conscience and freedom of press. 53:34 These are all gone. I say it over and over. 53:36 And I'll continue to say it, 53:37 we do not have that right anymore. 53:39 And again, that's why I read some of the things 53:41 that I did to say, you don't have that right. 53:44 You think, yeah, you think you do, you do not. 53:46 They've circumvented around every one 53:49 of our Bill of Rights in our Constitution. 53:50 Again, over and over 53:52 we have none of those things anymore. 53:53 But yet they try to use it when it's convenient for them. 53:57 And when it's not, they work their way around that 53:59 we have not, we cannot, you cannot... 54:01 Some of the things we're talking about right now 54:03 before too long it's going to be what? 54:04 You can't do it. 54:07 It is in other countries, Sweden, Canada and so on, 54:09 they call it hate crime. 54:10 You can't talk about the papacy, 54:12 you can't talk about the mark of the beast. 54:13 You can't talk about the image to the beast 54:15 without using and going through Bible prophecy of the papacy. 54:18 You can't do it 54:19 because it's going to be a hate crime. 54:20 You will be arrested for talking about things 54:22 that God has put in His Word, 54:24 but you won't be arrested for tearing down, 54:25 right, statues, you won't be arrested 54:27 for defacing and killing and raping all people, 54:29 the thing that's going on in the world today. 54:31 You would be nicely politely asked to leave. 54:36 Something's not right. 54:37 And I know the devil seems to be in charge of this, 54:41 but God has another plan. 54:45 Again, I'm going to say it. 54:46 Again, I've said it over and over in many of the message 54:48 and I'll do it here before we close the minute 54:50 and something left. 54:51 Remember, the image 54:53 to the beast will be what? 54:59 It's going to be in operation before Jesus comes. 55:05 It's going to be formed before probation closes. 55:11 And then that is going to be the great test for the world 55:14 and for the people in this church. 55:17 They're not honoring the Sabbath, 55:18 you're not going to want to honor it 55:19 when there's going to be some penalties to pay. 55:22 Right now we need to learn to honor the way 55:23 God said to honor not doing thine own pleasure 55:25 on my holy day. 55:29 But it's going to be an issue just before Jesus comes. 55:32 That's why we're seeing not only the papacy, 55:34 but Protestants. 55:35 And because, again, climate change 55:36 and the economy and everything that's going on 55:38 that people are talking, 55:39 we need one day greenhouse gases, all this stuff. 55:42 Yeah. The Sabbath question. 55:44 It's either going to be God's day 55:47 or the papacy's day. 55:48 You're going to have to decide. 55:50 We have a lot more stuff to carry, 55:51 to go on here and to read, 55:53 but we're not going to do that right now 55:54 because we're running out of time. 55:55 But I do want to have a quick prayer with you 55:57 and those of you who are watching 55:58 and those listening, 56:00 I'm going to kneel right here and have prayer. 56:01 Shall we pray together? 56:02 Merciful Father in heaven, again, 56:04 thank You for Your precious Word. 56:05 Thank You for Your love. Thank You for the Holy Spirit 56:07 impressing minds and hearts right now 56:08 what we need to be doing 56:09 to get ready for Your soon coming, Lord, 56:11 help us not just to hear but help us to do 56:13 something about it with Your help. 56:15 We thank You in Jesus' name, amen. 56:19 Hello and welcome back. 56:21 These are sobering times. 56:22 And as a people of God, we must wake up. 56:25 We must prepare by filling our hearts 56:27 and our minds with the truth of God's Word 56:30 in order to not fall into the deceptions 56:32 that are closing in all around us. 56:35 The message you just listened to was entitled 56:37 "National Apostasy Followed by National Ruin," part one. 56:42 How much time we have left to prepare? 56:44 We don't know. 56:46 The Bible says in the last part of 2 Corinthians 6:2 56:50 that now is the accepted time. 56:53 Behold, now is the day of salvation. 56:55 Friends, don't put off until tomorrow 56:58 what the Lord is impressing upon your heart to do today. 57:01 And if it is your desire, we want to help you, 57:04 we're making this series available to you 57:07 for a love gift of just $15 or more. 57:10 So if you would like to have it, 57:12 we want to send it to you. 57:14 All you need to do is contact us here at 57:16 Behold The Lamb Ministries 57:18 at (618) 942-5044, that's Central Time, 57:23 or you may write to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:25 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:30 You may email us at 57:32 BeholdTheLambMinistries @Yahoo.com 57:34 Visit us on our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 57:39 This message will also be uploaded on our YouTube 57:41 so you can go there, you can listen to it again 57:44 if you like. 57:45 But remember, we cannot be here with you 57:47 unless you help us by your prayers 57:49 and financial support. 57:51 So may our Lord continue to richly bless you. |
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