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00:20 Hello, friends,
00:21 welcome to our Wednesday night Bible study 00:23 here at the 3ABN Worship Center. 00:25 We are continuing on 00:27 "The Formulation of the Secret Rapture." 00:30 Thank you for taking the time to tune in. 00:32 And all you need for this program is a Bible, 00:36 some time which is about 57 minutes. 00:39 You'll need a lesson also and I'll tell you 00:40 in just a moment how to get a copy of that. 00:43 But thank you for just pausing in the evening 00:46 to join us wherever you are in the world, 00:49 it may not be evening and maybe morning, 00:50 we just appreciate all you do 00:52 as you pray for us here at 3ABN. 00:55 Before we go any further though, 00:57 we're going to have our theme song 00:58 but first we're going to have our prayer, 00:59 and then I'll tell you 01:01 how to get a copy of the lesson. 01:02 Let's bow our heads together. 01:03 Loving Father in heaven, 01:05 we thank You so much for Your goodness, 01:06 Your mercy, and Your truth. 01:08 We pray that You will guide our hearts 01:10 and minds tonight as we study Your Word. 01:12 Give us wisdom from above. 01:14 Give us an understanding from Your Word. 01:17 And may all the praise and glory go to you, 01:19 in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:23 Now, to get a copy of the lesson, 01:24 go to the following website, 01:26 asf.3abn.org 01:29 and download lesson number 42. 01:32 What number did I say? 01:34 Lesson number 42, 01:35 "The Formulation of the Secret Rapture." 01:39 Very, very interesting lesson. 01:41 It's based on the reality 01:42 that hundreds of years ago someone, 01:46 and you'll find out tonight 01:47 if you missed the first episode, 01:49 someone formulated a teaching 01:51 that's widely embraced in Christianity today 01:55 that has no Bible support, 01:57 and millions of Christians have embraced it. 02:00 They're looking for this event to take place. 02:02 But without Bible support, 02:03 it's nothing more than a theory. 02:06 And so tonight we're going to unfold 02:07 what that theory is and what the Bible teaches 02:09 about the true Second Coming of Jesus. 02:11 But before we do that, 02:13 let's sing our theme song together. 02:14 And that is "Victory in Jesus." 02:26 I heard an old, old story 02:30 How the Savior came from glory 02:33 How He gave His life on Calvary 02:37 To save a wretch like me 02:41 I heard about His groaning 02:45 Of His precious blood's atoning 02:49 Then I repented of my sin 02:52 And won the victory 02:56 O victory in Jesus 03:00 My Savior, forever 03:04 He sought me and bought me 03:07 With His redeeming blood 03:11 He loved me ere I knew Him 03:15 And all my love is due Him 03:19 He plunged me to victory 03:23 Beneath the cleansing flood 03:26 I heard about a mansion 03:30 He has built for me in glory 03:34 And I heard about the streets of gold 03:38 Beyond the crystal sea 03:41 About the angels singing 03:45 And the old redemption story 03:49 And some sweet day 03:51 I'll sing up there 03:53 The song of victory 03:55 Key change. 03:57 O victory in Jesus 04:00 My Savior, forever 04:04 He sought me and bought me 04:08 With His redeeming blood 04:12 He loved me ere I knew Him 04:15 And all my love is due Him 04:19 He plunged me to victory 04:23 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:27 He plunged me to victory 04:31 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:37 Amen. 04:39 Our topic tonight is 04:40 "The Truth about the Secret Rapture," 04:43 or more specifically 04:44 "The Formulation of the Secret Rapture." 04:47 The question is, does God operate in secret? 04:53 Now we know 04:55 that He has made a promise in His Word 04:58 that whatever is going to happen, 05:00 His people are going to know about it 05:02 before it takes place. 05:05 Go with me to the Book of Amos. 05:07 Amos Chapter 3. 05:10 If you can't find Amos, 05:11 Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos. 05:15 All right? 05:17 Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, or go to Obadiah 05:21 and go one book back. 05:23 Depends on how well you know your Bible. 05:25 Amos 3:6. 05:32 Let's see what the Bible says 05:33 about how secretive God really is. 05:39 The very first word in Amos 3:7 is what word? 05:43 Surely. 05:45 What is the word? 05:46 Surely, 3:7. 05:48 "Surely the Lord God does," how much? 05:52 "Nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants, 05:57 the prophets." 05:59 So are there secrets? 06:01 Yes or no? 06:02 Yes. 06:03 Okay, I just went to... 06:06 But does He reveal them? 06:07 Yes or no? Yeah, okay. 06:08 There are secrets, 06:10 meaning the Lord has a timetable, 06:14 but what we are short of 06:16 is if there's an event that's going to happen, 06:18 is He going to reveal it before it happens? 06:21 Yes. 06:22 He says, surely, the Lord God does how much? 06:25 Nothing. 06:26 Nothing is going to happen unless He first reveals it 06:30 to His servants the prophets. 06:32 And what does the servants, the prophets do? 06:35 They reveal it. 06:36 They warn individuals, as was the case in Noah's day. 06:40 Was the flood coming? 06:42 Who did He tell? 06:45 Noah. And who did Noah tell? 06:46 Everyone else. 06:48 For 120 years Noah preached the flood was coming. 06:51 Okay, when Sodom and Gomorrah was about to be destroyed, 06:54 did He tell anyone? 06:56 Yes, he told Lot and his family, 06:58 and they tried to warn, but did anybody listen? 07:01 No. 07:02 When Nineveh was up for judgment, 07:04 who did the Lord tell? 07:06 Jonah. Did Jonah tell anybody? 07:08 He told the whole city and 120,000 people repented. 07:12 And you will find 07:13 that continual cadence throughout the scriptures. 07:15 Just before any event takes place, 07:17 the Lord always warns of the coming judgment. 07:21 He never wants to sneak up on us. 07:24 He doesn't want the most glorious event 07:26 of the ages, 07:27 the Second Coming to be a secret event. 07:30 Matter of fact, let's go to the Book of Acts Chapter 1. 07:35 Acts Chapter 1, 07:36 because we're talking about the Second Coming, 07:38 the return of Jesus. 07:41 Now, the world knows that Jesus came the first time, 07:44 that was not a secret, 07:47 that was outlined in the Bible. 07:50 Many of the minor prophets, 07:51 major prophets talked about the coming of Jesus, 07:53 Isaiah predicted it 700 years before it came, 07:56 some prophets 300 years, some 500 years. 07:59 Some even further back than that. 08:01 You find in the writings of Moses in Genesis 3:15-17, 08:05 the Lord gave Moses an understanding 08:07 that the seed would come. 08:11 And then Paul in Galatians 4:4 says, 08:13 "When the fullness of time had come, 08:14 God sent forth his Son." 08:16 But look at Acts Chapter 1. 08:18 And this in particular is going to be referring 08:20 to the Second Coming of Jesus. 08:23 Jesus is with His disciples on the Mount of Olives. 08:28 And He is now going to depart. 08:32 And let's look at verse 9. 08:35 Acts 1:9. 08:40 The Bible says, 08:41 "Now when he had spoken these things," 08:44 that is when he told them 08:45 that they were going to receive the power 08:47 that the Holy Spirit's going to come upon them. 08:49 In verse 9, it says, 08:51 "When he had spoken these things, 08:53 while they watched, while they watched, 08:58 he was taken up 08:59 and a cloud received him out of their sight." 09:03 What received him? 09:04 A cloud. 09:06 Look at verse 10. 09:08 "And while they look steadfastly 09:10 or while their eyes were fixed towards," where? 09:13 "Towards heaven. 09:15 As he went up, 09:18 behold," how many men? 09:20 "Two men stood by them in white apparel, 09:23 who said, Men of Galilee, 09:27 why do you stand gazing up into heaven?" 09:30 And this is the key. 09:31 "This same Jesus, 09:34 who was taken up from you into heaven, 09:37 will come, will so come in like man as you," what? 09:42 "As you have seen or as you saw Him go." 09:45 Did they see Him go? 09:47 And what does the Bible say? 09:48 He's going to come back the way He left. 09:50 Yannick share your Bible. 09:52 Put in the middle there. 09:53 Yeah, share your Bible. 09:55 Put your Bible in the middle. 09:57 A little bit of housekeeping. 10:00 So did they see Jesus leave? 10:03 Did the angels say that He was coming back 10:05 the same way? 10:07 Did they see Him go? 10:09 And the assurance was the same way 10:11 you saw Him go, He's coming back. 10:13 Now let's look at another passage 10:15 in the Bible. 10:17 Where do you think I'm going? 10:18 Revelation Chapter 1, Revelation Chapter 1, 10:22 and we're going to look together 10:24 at a very powerful verse. 10:26 Revelation 1:7. 10:30 Remember He left with clouds, 10:32 clouds received Him out of their sight. 10:35 Remember that? 10:36 And those clouds were angels. 10:38 You look at that in Matthew Chapter 25. 10:41 You find the angels, 10:43 He will come with the clouds of heaven. 10:46 But look at Revelation 1:7. 10:49 And this is the fulfillment of Acts 1:9-11. 10:53 "Behold together, He is coming with," what? 10:56 "Clouds and every eye will see Him." 11:02 How many eyes? 11:04 Every eye. 11:05 Is that going to be a secret event? 11:08 Can every eye see the 4th of July fireworks? 11:11 No, only if you are there. 11:14 If they had 4th of July fireworks 11:15 in New York and you're in Thompsonville, 11:17 you're not going to see it. 11:18 If they have it in Thompsonville 11:19 and you live in New York, you're not going to see it. 11:21 But when Jesus comes back, how many eyes are gonna see it? 11:24 Every eye will see Him, not only every eye alive, 11:28 but the Bible says, and they also who pierced Him. 11:31 That means when Jesus died, they adjured Him. 11:35 They said, "Are you the Christ?" 11:37 They kept pushing Him to announce 11:39 whether or not He was divine. 11:40 He says, "I am. 11:42 And you will see Me coming in the clouds of heaven 11:43 with power and great glory." 11:45 So those who persecuted Him, that's what the Bible says. 11:48 And they also which pierced Him. 11:51 Those who were involved in the persecution 11:53 and the crucifixion of Jesus 11:55 will see Him when He comes back. 11:56 So it's not going to even be a secret to them. 11:58 They're going to be raised for this special introduction, 12:03 which I wouldn't want to be a part of. 12:06 I want to see Jesus coming in peace, right? 12:08 But it says, and then notice, 12:10 "And all the tribes of the earth will mourn 12:15 because of him even so," what's the next word? 12:18 "Amen." 12:20 So is it going to be secret? 12:22 How many eyes are going to see Him? 12:24 Let's go to Revelation Chapter 16. 12:27 Let's see what's going to happen. 12:28 I'm just giving you some precursor because 12:30 for some reason, somebody is teaching, 12:33 it's going to be a secret. 12:35 And so far, we haven't found any scriptural support 12:38 for the secret return. 12:41 Let's go to Revelation 16. 12:42 Remember, it says, 12:43 "All the tribes of the earth will mourn," 12:46 meaning those that are going to mourn 12:48 are going to mourn for a particular reason. 12:50 Let's see why they're going to mourn. 12:52 I said Revelation Chapter what? 12:54 I meant Chapter 6. 12:56 I heard myself say 16. 12:58 And I just corrected myself. 13:01 Revelation Chapter 6. 13:03 And let's look at verse 14. 13:07 All right? 13:08 See who's going to be mourning. 13:10 And the Bible says in verse 14, 13:13 "Then the sky receded as a scroll 13:17 when it is rolled up or rolled together. 13:19 And every mountain and island were moved out of its place, 13:24 and the kings of the earth, and the great men, 13:27 the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, 13:31 every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves 13:36 and in the rocks of the mountains." 13:38 And look what they said. 13:40 And said to the mountains and the rocks, 13:43 you know, you got to be nervous 13:44 when you start talking to inanimate objects. 13:47 "Fall on us," what did they say, 13:50 "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him 13:53 who sits on the throne." 13:55 Will they see His face? 13:56 Yes or no? 13:57 Of course, they're saying, we don't want to see His face. 13:59 Hide us, this is not an invisible event. 14:02 "Hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne 14:07 and from the wrath of the lamb, 14:08 for the great day of His wrath has come." 14:12 And what is the question? 14:13 Who shall be able to stand? 14:15 So is it going to be secret? 14:17 It's going to be so unsecret 14:20 that the people that are mourning 14:22 or talking to rocks and mountains saying, 14:24 "Do something?" 14:25 We don't want to see this lamb. 14:27 You see to those who are saved, He's a lamb. 14:30 But to those, he's the peaceful lamb, 14:33 but to those who are not saved, he's the lamb of wrath. 14:36 It's amazing how you can look at a lamb 14:38 and think that he is a wrathful lamb 14:40 when you are not in right 14:42 walk with God or harmony with Him, 14:44 you see Him quite differently. 14:46 He means something completely different. 14:48 Now, so far we've read... 14:50 We've read Amos 3:7. 14:53 We've read Acts 1:9-11. 14:56 We've read Revelation 1:7. 14:59 And we've read Revelation 6:14-17. 15:03 And so far, the Bible has not said 15:07 that the coming of Jesus is going to be a secret. 15:09 Am I correct? 15:10 Let's try to find out what happened. 15:11 Now, we're going to do a quick review. 15:13 But let's start with question number 12. 15:15 Question number 12, 15:17 and it will be on your syllabus, 15:18 and it will appear on the screen 15:19 for those of you who are at home. 15:22 Here's the question. 15:23 We were talking about the unfolding 15:24 of the secret rapture. 15:26 And what I'm going to do today 15:27 is I'm going to give you a little timeline, 15:30 just so if you missed the last program, 15:32 you'll get the timeline of how it started, 15:35 and how it progressed through the ages. 15:38 And these answers are, matter of fact, 15:40 they are on the prior program, but here it is, 15:43 talking about the contributors to the secret rapture. 15:46 "Who was the largest modern Contributor 15:49 to the Secret Rapture?" 15:51 Let's look at the answer. 15:52 And this by the way is historical. 15:55 His name is Cyrus Ingerson Scofield 15:58 or Ingerson Scofield. 16:00 He was an American theologian and by the way, 16:03 look at the year he introduced this theory, 16:05 what year was it? 16:08 If you know anything about Adventist history, 16:09 1843 is a very significant year. 16:12 It was around the time that the preaching 16:14 of the second advent of Jesus was being broadcast 16:17 throughout North America and other parts of the world, 16:20 the visible coming of Jesus. 16:22 But at that time, this American theologian, 16:25 he was the one that popularized futurism, 16:30 dispensationalism, 16:32 and fundamentalist Christianity, 16:34 meaning they had this belief 16:36 that there were different dispensations, 16:39 one of law, one of grace, 16:41 one of the secret rapture, 16:43 one of the earthly reign of Jesus 16:45 and then one of the visible coming of Christ. 16:47 They taught that there were different ways 16:48 that the Lord dealt with people in different ages. 16:50 But let me ask you the question. 16:52 What does the Bible say about the Lord, 16:54 "He is the same," when? 16:56 Yesterday, today, and forever. 16:58 He's always the same. 16:59 He doesn't change. 17:01 But this is how the secret rapture 17:06 was inserted into America. 17:09 Many of the other contributors... 17:10 And we'll see that in just a moment. 17:12 Many of the other contributors 17:14 were in different parts of the world, 17:16 in South America, in different parts of Europe, 17:19 but it had not yet made an inroad in America. 17:21 But Cyrus I. 17:23 Scofield, notice this, 17:24 I'll give you some further information 17:26 about the Secret Rapture, 17:27 Cyrus Ingerson Scofield embraced Darby's 17:31 or Ribera's teaching on the Secret Rapture, 17:34 and created the annotated Scofield Reference Bible. 17:38 Have you heard of the Scofield Reference Bible? 17:40 Here are three representations 17:41 of the Scofield Reference Bibles. 17:44 You have the one to the far left, 17:45 the purple one, 17:46 that's the New International Version. 17:48 The one in the middle is the New King James Version, 17:50 and the black one is the King James Version. 17:53 And each of these Bibles now, 17:55 the Bible when it comes from Genesis to Revelation, 17:57 it's fine, 17:59 but he inserted column notes, 18:03 study notes. 18:05 And those study notes led people to beliefs 18:08 that were not supported by Scripture. 18:10 I'll give you an example as to whether 18:11 or not your Bible has been affected by that. 18:14 If you have a Bible at home, go with me to Acts Chapter 20. 18:18 Matter of fact, let me just do this quick test, all right? 18:22 And see if... 18:23 And by the way, 18:25 let me make a point here as I go on. 18:26 It is important 18:27 to let the Bible speak for itself. 18:29 Can I get an amen? 18:31 The Bible doesn't need annotation. 18:33 And you'll notice. 18:34 Let me see if it has it in here anywhere 18:36 because sometimes these notes, 18:38 okay, praise God from whom all blessings flow. 18:43 My Bible is not an annotated Scofield Reference Bible. 18:47 I'll say myself, hallelujah. 18:49 That means, when you look at certain Bible verses, 18:52 in your Bible, 18:53 if you have a Bible that was affected 18:55 by the annotation of Scofield, 18:57 Revelation 1:10, 18:59 look at what it says in Revelation 1:10. 19:02 Let's see that. 19:04 Oh, I take that back. 19:07 My Revelation 1:10 has Scofield's annotation in it. 19:12 Look at Revelation 1:10. 19:13 I want you to see something. 19:15 This is how you'll know whether or not you have a Bible 19:18 that has been affected by Scofield's annotation. 19:21 Revelation 1:10 reads as follows. 19:24 "I was in the spirit on the," what day? 19:28 "The Lord's Day." 19:29 Now next to the word or the phrase, 19:31 "The Lord's Day," do you see a little R? 19:33 A reference. 19:35 Any of your Bibles have that? 19:37 No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. 19:40 If your Bible has a little reference, 19:42 if it has a little R, 19:43 and then and it points you to Acts 20:7, 19:48 like my Bible does. 19:51 If you go to Acts 20:7, notice, Scofield, 19:55 not only did he teach about the secret rapture, 19:58 but his annotations will make people think 20:00 that the first day of the week is the Lord's Day. 20:05 Notice, Revelation 1:10 says, 20:08 "I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day." 20:10 And the annotation says, 20:11 now go to Acts 20:7 to see what day that is. 20:16 Yours has it, Marlena? 20:17 Okay, yours has it. Okay. 20:19 Notice it says, Acts 20:7, right? 20:22 You'll be amazed how many Bibles 20:24 that has been inserted in. 20:26 Let's go to Acts 20:7. 20:29 This is a sidebar, but just to get you to understand, 20:31 how Bibles have been affected. 20:34 And people that pick up a Bible and say, 20:37 I want to study it. 20:38 And I want to study my annotated notes. 20:40 They'll read their Bibles and they say, 20:41 "Oh, the Lord's Day is Acts 20:7. 20:45 Let's see what that says. 20:48 Acts 20:7, 20:49 "Now on the first day of the week, 20:52 when the disciples came together to break bread, 20:54 Paul ready to depart the next day, 20:57 spoke to them and continued his message 21:00 until midnight." 21:01 Now what day did he point out? 21:03 Acts 20:7, what? First day. 21:06 But does it say Lord's Day? 21:08 No, but the trick is to make you think 21:12 that because it's in the Bible, that it's legit. 21:16 Let me make a point right away. 21:17 Are you ready for it? 21:18 Caution, 21:20 watch out for the annotation. 21:24 When the verses don't say Lord's Day 21:27 in both places, 21:29 do not connect the annotation to the Word of God 21:32 when the annotation is done by man. 21:36 If you follow the Bible, 21:38 you'll let the Bible speak for itself. 21:40 Now let's find out what day is the Lord's Day. 21:42 Now, this is completely off topic, 21:44 but I want to make this very, very clear, okay? 21:46 Let's go to Isaiah 58. 21:48 Okay? 21:50 Isaiah 58. 21:55 So and now what I'm going to do, 21:57 we just read Revelation 1:10. 21:59 Now, we're going to look at Isaiah Chapter 58. 22:01 And we're going to see what the Bible says. 22:03 Not what the annotated note says, 22:06 but what the Bible points out. 22:09 Isaiah 58. 22:11 Look at... 22:13 Okay. 22:14 Isaiah 58:13. 22:18 You ready? Look at it. 22:21 "If you turn away your foot 22:26 from the," what day? 22:28 "Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on," what? 22:31 My what? "Holy day." 22:33 What day did the Lord identify as His holy day? 22:36 The Sabbath. 22:37 And he says, 22:39 "And call the Sabbath a delight, 22:42 the Holy Day of the Lord," 22:44 what day did he say was the Sabbath day? 22:47 It's the holy day, twice in that verse. 22:50 He says, My holy day, 22:54 then he speaks about Sabbath twice. 22:56 And then he says, the Holy Day of the Lord, 22:59 so what day is the Lord's day? 23:02 The Sabbath. One more reference. 23:04 Are you ready? 23:05 Let's see New Testament 23:07 because there's some people that are so poisoned. 23:09 There's some people that have been so tainted 23:11 by their church's teachings 23:13 that they say, "Well, that's Old Testament, 23:14 it must have changed in the New Testament." 23:16 Let's go to Mark Chapter 2. 23:18 Let's go to Mark Chapter 2. 23:20 It's amazing how just to prove a point, 23:23 let's let the Bible speak for itself one more time. 23:27 Mark Chapter 2. 23:29 And here I am. 23:32 I'm reading verse 27 23:35 and verse 28. 23:39 Okay, Mark 2:27. 23:42 Here it is. 23:44 Verse 27. 23:46 He said to them, 23:48 "The Sabbath was made for," who? 23:50 "Man." And not man for the Sabbath. 23:53 "Therefore, the Son of Man is also," what? 23:57 "Lord of the Sabbath." 24:00 Who's Lord of the Sabbath? 24:03 Tell me. 24:05 Jesus is. 24:06 So is the Sabbath belonging to the Lord? 24:09 Because He is Lord of the Sabbath, 24:12 clear unequivocal definition. 24:16 It's very clear. 24:17 So instead of reading the annotation, 24:19 let the Bible speak for itself. 24:21 What do we say? 24:23 Okay, now let's go back to the screen. 24:25 I want you to see this. 24:26 So the Scofield Chain Reference Bibles, 24:28 these are three of the popular ones. 24:30 It goes on further on the screen to point out 24:33 the Scofield Bible and study notes. 24:36 Here are the things that are taught in that, 24:38 non-biblical teachings, the Gap Theory, 24:42 we talked about that, the 70 weeks, it points, 24:45 pushes one week all the way to the future. 24:47 The other one, Restoration of the Nation of Israel, 24:50 today, right now, 24:52 what's affecting evangelical America. 24:54 I'm going to be clear, can I be clear? 24:56 What's affecting evangelicals in America 24:59 is somehow they think 25:00 that we've got to have 25:03 the embassy in Israel, in Jerusalem, 25:07 because that's where Jesus is coming back. 25:10 No, He's not coming back to the Old Jerusalem, 25:13 we are going to the New Jerusalem. 25:16 Right? 25:17 But this is all the dispensational teachings, 25:20 and the other one is the conversion of the Jews. 25:23 They're thinking that during the Secret Rapture, 25:25 the Jews are going to be converted, 25:26 the world's going to be converted, 25:28 everything is going to be, it's not scriptural. 25:31 Conversion takes place now. 25:32 When the Lord comes back, there will be no conversions. 25:36 Am I correct? 25:38 It also teaches in the annotated Bible, 25:40 it teaches something else, 25:41 the pre-tribulation rapture, 25:45 and the millennial earthly reign of Jesus. 25:48 I was recently at a music show, 25:51 when I say music, equipment, 25:53 sound equipment, lighting, cameras, 25:56 video equipment, all that, 25:57 and I was speaking to a Jewish man 26:00 who was checking me out. 26:01 I bought something at a cash register 26:03 and he was checking me out. 26:04 And I said to him, I said, "Hello," 26:08 and his name was Daniel. 26:09 My name is John. 26:10 I said, "Hello, Daniel." 26:12 He said, "Hello, fella." 26:13 I'd say, maybe in his early 70s, 26:15 nice, rich gray beard. 26:18 And I said him, "I keep the Sabbath like you do." 26:20 He said, "Really?" 26:22 And I said, "I don't need unclean foods 26:23 just like you don't." 26:25 "Really?" 26:26 He said to me, "Why?" 26:28 I said, "Because the Bible teaches against that." 26:31 I said, "But we do differ on one thing." 26:33 He said, "What is that?" 26:35 I said, "We believe... 26:36 I believe in the Messiah, 26:38 and you're looking forward to the Messiah." 26:40 And he said, "If the Messiah had already come, 26:43 the whole world would have been converted 26:45 and everything would have been right." 26:47 I said, "That's what the disciples also believed." 26:50 Will you at this time restore Jerusalem? 26:53 Well, that's what Merlin, 26:54 that's what the dispensationalists teach, 26:57 that when the rapture happens, 26:59 the Jews are going to be converted, 27:01 and these 144,000 Jews 27:03 are going to preach to the world 27:05 and turn the world upside down. 27:06 But that's not in Scripture. 27:08 But you'll see that's what's in the Scofield Bible 27:11 and study notes. 27:12 Now let's do a quick review. 27:13 Are you ready? 27:15 Let's look at this quick review, 27:16 what we pointed out in the first program, 27:17 and I'm going to take some time to walk through this. 27:19 Bring that up on the screen for me. 27:21 We talked about the Formulation 27:23 of the Secret Rapture, and where it came from. 27:26 Let's follow, let's walk together. 27:27 Here it is. 27:28 To the far left, I know it's kind of small. 27:30 You have futurism, 27:32 was first formulated by Francisco Ribera, 27:35 in the year 1585. 27:37 He was commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church. 27:39 In 1585, 27:41 he formulated this theory called futurism. 27:44 But the very next one, 27:46 St. Robert Bellarmine, 27:49 he was made a saint 27:52 in 1930 years after he died, 27:55 he embraced futurism, right? 27:58 He embraced futurism, he was born in 1542. 28:00 He embraced the theory of Francisco Ribera 28:03 and began to propagate it. 28:05 Then the next one is Dr. S. R. Maitland. 28:08 He was the one 28:09 that was the keeper of the transcripts in England. 28:13 And in reading these transcripts, 28:16 he republished in 1593, 28:18 the teachings of Francisco Ribera 28:22 about 40 years earlier. 28:23 But now the bigger jump, the very next person, 28:26 Manuel Lacunza, 28:28 Manuel Lacunza, he was a South American, 28:33 a Chilean Jesuit. 28:36 And in that year, 28:38 he published his beliefs on futurism in a manuscript, 28:42 and he believed 28:43 same as the other three prior to him, 28:45 but notice about 200 years later, 28:48 but he published his under a Jewish name 28:52 that covered his actual identity. 28:57 Let's go to the next one. 28:59 Then in 1830, 29:00 a lady by the name of Margaret McDonald. 29:02 She said she received a vision 29:04 claiming that the rapture was true, 29:06 the secret rapture would really occur. 29:08 But examining what she, what she believed by the Bible, 29:12 they found no biblical support. 29:14 Then, the pre-tribulation rapture in 1832 29:17 was taught by Reverend Edward Irving. 29:19 It had not made its way to America yet. 29:21 That's in 1832, 29:23 then to the 1830s, John and Darby, 29:25 Darbyism very popular in Europe. 29:28 Well, he popularized the dispensationalism theory, 29:31 which included the secret rapture. 29:33 But then we get down to the person I just mentioned, 29:35 Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, 29:38 which made it to America in the 1843. 29:43 So that's the trek right now, 29:45 we are at that point, 29:46 but now let's look at something. 29:48 Let's look at the next question. 29:49 Did you get that? 29:51 It was covered in our lesson. 29:52 We walk through that on the prior lessons, 29:54 and if you didn't get that, 29:55 you'll be able to get that back. 29:57 This will be uploaded and you'll see it. 29:59 But now, this is a very powerful question. 30:03 "What popular author 30:05 impacted the 1980s 30:08 with his secret rapture predictions?" 30:12 Okay, I heard somebody say it. 30:14 Here's the answer. 30:16 Harold Lee, 30:18 known as Hal Lindsey. 30:21 He popularized Christian Zionism 30:24 and also dispensationalism. 30:27 You may remember the book that he wrote. 30:29 Here's a copy of it. 30:30 There's a picture of it actually, 30:32 "The Late Great Planet Earth," 30:33 remember that, anybody old enough? 30:36 That book was, that book flew off the shelf. 30:38 Fifteen million copies at that time 30:41 was a huge circulation, 30:43 15 million copies. 30:45 And I remember hearing him on TV 30:47 and on the radio, 30:49 back then television was not like it is now. 30:51 And he was talking about 30:53 how the rapture would take place. 30:54 And what he kept on doing every time the date passed, 30:57 he'd pick another date, and another date, 31:00 and another date, and another date. 31:02 And Time Magazine did an article 31:04 observing the continual setting of dates 31:07 by Hal Lindsey. 31:08 Here's that article, Time Magazine, 31:11 May 20, 2011. 31:14 What's amazing about this 31:15 is they put this out around the time 31:18 that another prediction failed. 31:20 This is amazing. 31:22 "If you follow Hal Lindsey, 31:24 you've probably changed the "end of the world" date 31:27 in your calendar several times. 31:30 His Late Great Planet Earth, 31:32 which was the best selling nonfiction book of the 1970's 31:37 predicted that the world would end sometime 31:40 before December 31. 31:41 What year? 1988. 31:44 His later books though less specific, 31:47 suggested that believers not plan 31:49 on being on earth past the what? 31:52 1980s and then the 1990s 31:55 and, of course, the 2000s. 31:58 But Lindsey did more than just 32:00 wrongly predict the end of days, 32:03 he popularized a genre of prophecy books. 32:08 So what he did was instead of... 32:11 We were living in California, I remember at that time, 32:14 we were in the Bay Area in the North Bay, 32:17 and we were in the 1990s. 32:21 When we heard somebody had picked the date, 32:25 Hal Lindsey had picked the date again. 32:26 And then when it passed, 32:28 the article that came out says 99, 32:31 2000, again it faded off. 32:33 In other words, pick a date. 32:34 It'll happen eventually, but it never happened. 32:38 But now, 32:40 this is one more point in history. 32:43 So did you write that down? 32:46 What was his name? 32:48 Hal Lindsey. 32:49 Okay, now we're going to the next question. 32:52 Question number 14. Question number 14. 32:58 And by the way, much of this is history 33:00 that I'm walking you through. 33:01 "Who made the greatest modern impact 33:05 teaching the secret rapture?" 33:08 Who made the greatest modern impact 33:11 teaching the secret rapture? 33:14 Here's the answer. 33:16 Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. 33:20 Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. 33:25 One is a theologian, the other one is a writer. 33:28 They dramatized the secret rapture 33:30 through books and movies. 33:32 And by the way, 33:34 I have a little typo there, but that's okay. 33:35 We understand the reality of it. 33:37 These are two of the books. 33:40 We were living then in Fairfield, California 33:43 when these books came out. 33:46 My wife and I remember that very well. 33:48 There were Christians standing on the side of the highway. 33:51 Look at that next slide. 33:52 There were Christians standing on the side of the highway. 33:55 And these books that were made popular 33:58 based on what Tim LaHaye taught, 34:00 what, Hal Lindsey taught, notice what it says, 34:04 "Tribulation Force and Left Behind." 34:07 Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, 34:09 and they sold an estimated 75 million. 34:14 Now, was it not only in books for adults, 34:17 but if any of you has a copy of that book, 34:19 if anyone has a copy of that book at home, 34:21 do me a favor. 34:22 Here's what I'd like you to do. 34:24 Go get that book off the shelf, and turn it around to the back 34:27 and look to the bottom left close to the spine of the book. 34:30 And you see these two words. 34:32 You see this word, fiction. 34:36 Fiction. 34:37 I did that when I went to a Christian bookstore, 34:39 I was standing in a Christian bookstore, 34:41 and they had the entire set of the Left Behind, 34:44 The Tribulation Force. 34:47 And this was also popularized in movie form. 34:51 It's still, you can still download it on Netflix 34:53 or whatever new movie service. 34:55 Every now and then they do an update. 34:59 The most recent one I think about maybe 10 years ago, 35:02 a person by the name of Nicolas Cage, 35:04 he starred in that and a number of other popular actors. 35:07 I never saw it because I know it's a theory. 35:09 And the problem with watching movies 35:10 that are based on the Bible is it's not based on the Bible, 35:15 like Noah's Ark. 35:16 Somebody told me watch Noah's Ark. 35:17 It's not based on the Bible. I didn't watch it. 35:20 Even the Ten Commandments, it's all as it is, 35:22 it's not based on the Bible. 35:24 They always fictionalize it. 35:25 However, this theory doesn't even exist. 35:28 On the back of these books, 35:30 I should have done a copy of that. 35:32 It says fiction on the bottom right. 35:34 And there were Christian 35:35 standing up on the side of the highway 35:37 in our community, with banners and flags, 35:40 giving out tickets to come to their churches 35:43 to watch the movie Left Behind. 35:46 But you know what's been left behind 35:47 in this whole teaching? 35:49 The truth. 35:51 The only thing that was left behind 35:52 in the Left Behind theory is what? 35:55 The truth. 35:59 But somehow people believe it, 36:02 they embrace it. 36:04 So did you write that down for number 14? 36:07 Who made the greatest modern impact 36:09 teaching the secret rapture? 36:10 Did you write the names down. 36:12 Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. 36:14 And they got their inspiration from Hal Lindsey's books, 36:18 The Late Great Planet Earth. 36:21 National Geographics 36:23 did an article on this and did a... 36:25 They actually did a one hour special. 36:27 You might want to look that up 36:29 on the secret rapture, 36:32 a theory that is not based on the Bible. 36:35 And they said millions of Christians 36:37 have embraced the teaching 36:38 that has no scriptural foundation. 36:40 And we're going to go to the Bible 36:41 in just a moment to see what the Bible says about it. 36:43 We began by laying some text down, 36:45 but the danger in believing 36:49 what the Bible doesn't teach is this. 36:52 It is not going to happen. 36:55 What did I just say? 36:56 It's not going to happen. 36:59 It's a theory. 37:00 There are Christians today. 37:01 That's where you get this phrase from. 37:03 It could happen any day now. 37:06 Any day now. 37:08 They don't follow Bible prophecy. 37:10 They don't follow Bible timeline. 37:11 So to them, it could happen any moment. 37:15 You see popularized pictures. 37:17 I've seen pictures in Christian bookstores 37:19 where the plane is crashing, cars are running into building, 37:22 people disappear at the breakfast table. 37:24 The postman, all of a sudden he's delivering letters 37:26 and the letters drop because he's gone. 37:28 Cars run into your house, 37:30 and there's just sand on the ground. 37:32 These are not taught by the Bible, 37:34 Can I get an amen somewhere? 37:36 It's not taught in the Bible, 37:37 but Satan... 37:40 He does such a good job 37:43 of taking certain scriptures and twisting them 37:47 to make them appear to teach 37:51 what these theories claim to support, 37:53 but they do not support that. 37:55 Let's look at the next question. 37:57 Let's look at the next question. 37:59 Number 15. 38:00 And then we're going to dive into the Bible 38:01 right after this one. 38:03 All right, number 15. 38:05 Who failed...? 38:07 "Who failed in the most recent predicted date 38:12 for the secret rapture?" 38:15 Okay, does anybody know his name? 38:17 Harold Camping, 38:20 preacher and radio host. 38:22 He's deceased now. 38:24 He predicted the date 38:25 he says of the secret rapture. 38:30 My wife and I just so happened to be... 38:33 Look at this next slide. 38:34 We just so happened to be in California during that time, 38:38 and Judgment Day, 38:40 May 21, 2011. 38:42 We were driving on to the Bay Bridge. 38:46 And we saw to the left on these big posters, 38:49 "The world is ending." 38:51 The world is coming to an end, and they picked the date, 38:53 May 21, 2011. 38:56 So we drove over to the radio station 38:59 Family Radio in Oakland, 39:01 and we drove into the parking lot, 39:03 it was obviously closed, 39:05 because they were waiting for the rapture to take place. 39:08 And we just heard the radio in the background. 39:10 We saw a truck in the parking lot. 39:12 And on the side of the truck it had, 39:14 "World ending May 21, 2011." 39:17 Well, what they didn't know is our anniversary is May 22, 39:22 the day after that, 39:24 and not that the world 39:26 is not going to end before somebody's anniversary, 39:28 but I knew it was not based on the Bible. 39:30 And I said, "Honey, 39:32 we'll be able to celebrate our anniversary tomorrow, 39:34 because the world is not ending today." 39:37 And how do I know that? 39:38 Because it's not based on God's Word. 39:40 And the sad reality... 39:42 Did you write that down? 39:43 Who made the last public push for the secret rapture? 39:47 Harold Camping, and you know, 39:50 that was not the first time but this one was so devastating 39:54 that he never really recovered his reputation after that. 39:57 He was never formed. 39:59 He was never fully restored in the eyes of credibility 40:02 because you know what happened. 40:03 People so believed him 40:05 that some of them sold their houses, 40:07 sold their businesses, 40:08 they pumped money into the radio station 40:11 to get this news out, and the day came, 40:14 and the day went, and the world kept on going on. 40:18 And that was how many years ago? 40:20 That was about eight years ago. 40:22 But as we said earlier, 40:24 the Lord before He does anything, 40:25 He's going to reveal it to His servants, the prophets. 40:28 Now let's look at what the Bible says. 40:30 Let's look at this very brief chart 40:31 that I put together about the most recent ones. 40:34 We have 1970, Late Great Planet Earth, 40:38 Hal Lindsey, 1995, 40:40 Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, and 2011, 40:43 The Secret Rapture with Harold Camping. 40:46 But the next question is, 40:47 bring in the next slide up for me. 40:48 The next question is, 40:50 does the Bible teach the secret rapture? 40:52 And how many of you know the answer? 40:53 What's the answer? 40:55 The answer is absolutely not. 40:57 Absolutely not. 40:59 So now what we're going to do is go to the Bible 41:02 and find out what the Bible teaches. 41:05 All right, let's go to the first 41:07 of these three questions. 41:10 Question number 16. Question number 16. 41:15 And the question is, 41:17 what warning did Jesus give concerning His second coming? 41:22 What warning did He give? 41:24 Let's go to Matthew Chapter 24. 41:27 Matthew Chapter 24. 41:37 Okay. 41:42 Matthew Chapter 24, 41:44 and we're gonna look at verse 4 together. 41:49 Okay, notice what He said. 41:52 Perfect words of Jesus, can we read that together? 41:56 Here we are, or let us read that together 41:59 "And Jesus answered and said to them," what? 42:02 "Take heed that no one deceives you." 42:06 If you look at the context of Matthew Chapter 24, 42:11 if you go back to verse 1 to 3, 42:14 actually, verse 3 is the most significant. 42:17 Now as he sat on the Mount of Olives, 42:20 the disciples came to him privately saying, 42:24 tell us when will these things be? 42:27 And what will be the sign of your coming 42:30 in at the end of the age? 42:32 What sign did they ask for the sign of what? 42:35 What sign did they ask for, the sign of what? 42:38 The Sign of the coming of the Lord. 42:39 They said, tell us what is the sign of your coming 42:43 and of the end of the age, 42:45 or the end of the world as the King James Version says. 42:48 So notice, Jesus use words 42:52 that are indicative of what's happening today. 42:55 He said, take heed that no one does, what? 42:58 And when we look at that chart from 1585 to the present, 43:04 over and over and over and over 43:06 again a theory has been taught 43:09 that people are being deceived by. 43:10 There are millions of Christians today, 43:12 that for some reason or the other. 43:16 They'll see what the Bible says, 43:18 and they will prefer the theory over the Bible. 43:23 Look at Matthew 24:27. 43:28 The Lord made it clear 43:30 how His second coming is going to be. 43:33 Notice this, Matthew 24:27. 43:38 We read, 43:39 "For as the lightning 43:43 comes from the east 43:45 and flashes to the west, 43:48 so also will the coming of the Son of man be." 43:52 You ever saw lightning before? 43:55 Is lightning secret? 43:57 Matter of fact, lightning appears at the darkest night. 44:01 Sometimes we're sleeping at night 44:02 and our curtains are closed. 44:04 And we see that lightning. 44:06 What do you wait for after lightning flashes? 44:09 What do you wait for next? 44:11 Thunder. 44:12 And depending on how bright it was, 44:14 you wait for the intensity of the thunder. 44:18 The Lord is saying, "My return is going to be 44:22 as visible as the lightning flashing 44:24 from the east, 44:26 all the way to the west." 44:30 But not only that 44:32 He says in verse 24. 44:34 Look at that in the Bible. 44:37 Once again, He's continually warning 44:39 about the possibility of deception. 44:41 He says, "For false christs 44:44 and false prophets will rise 44:48 and show great signs and wonders 44:51 as to deceive," 44:54 what's the next two words? 44:56 "If possible," Yannick, share your Bible. 44:59 In the middle. 45:01 Yeah, yeah, share it again. 45:04 If possible, what are the next two words? 45:07 "If possible, the very elect." 45:10 So will the elect be deceived, yes or no? 45:14 Because it's not possible, why? 45:15 Because the elect are informed about the coming of the Lord. 45:20 They're not in the dark about the coming of the Lord. 45:27 Let's look at verse 11. 45:29 Once again, He makes it clear, 45:32 "Then many false prophets will rise up 45:35 and," do what? 45:37 "Deceive many." 45:39 Now the question is, why will they be deceived, 45:41 is a big question. 45:43 Let's go now in the Bible. 45:44 I want to see these 45:46 before I show you the last few verses I have. 45:47 The question is why will they be deceived? 45:50 Go with me now to 2 Timothy. 45:54 Second book of Timothy. 46:01 I am so amazed. 46:03 Because today Christianity is very popular, 46:06 but what's not popular? 46:08 What's not popular? 46:10 Truth is... 46:11 Going to churches is popular, 46:13 Christian entertainment is popular, 46:15 Christian music is popular, Christian movies are popular, 46:18 Christian songs are popular. 46:21 But the truth for whatever reason 46:25 is not popular. 46:28 And we know why. 46:30 Okay, 46:32 2 Timothy Chapter 4. 46:37 Here I am. 46:40 Okay, I'm gonna read through a number of verses. 46:42 I'll start with 2, verse 2. 46:45 What are the first three words, so say it together? 46:48 "Preach the word! 46:50 Be ready or be instant in season and" what? 46:54 "Out of season. 46:55 Convince, rebuke, exhort 46:58 with all longsuffering and" what else? 47:01 "Teaching or doctrine." 47:02 And look at this, verse 3. 47:07 "For the time will come," 47:08 can we modify that just a little bit, 47:10 for the time has come. 47:13 We're living in that time friends. 47:15 "For the time will come 47:16 when they will not endure," what? 47:19 "Sound," do you know the word sound means. 47:22 The word sound means whole, that means complete. 47:25 That means words of integrity, that means the whole story. 47:29 They won't endure the whole story, 47:32 but look what they're going to do. 47:35 But according to their own desires, 47:37 because they have itching ears, 47:40 they will heap up for themselves, teachers, 47:43 and they will turn their ears away from the truth 47:47 and be turned aside to what? 47:49 To fables. 47:50 Now, I want to just bring this text out 47:52 very quickly here because, 47:54 you know, when I looked at this the other day, 47:56 I'm gonna go ahead and show in context 47:59 and I'm going to change my translation here to the NIV 48:02 because when I looked at this the other day, 48:03 it was amazing to me. 48:05 I was showing a lady by the name of Ramona, 48:09 this text in the NIV. 48:12 And she may remember that. 48:15 And it was amazing how the Bible brings this out. 48:18 I've gotta look it up here. 48:20 2 Timothy Chapter 4, 48:23 and I'm gonna read it to you. 48:24 And it's amazing how it is put in the NIV. 48:28 All right, 48:29 I'm gonna read verse 3 and verse 4 in the NIV. 48:33 "For the time will come 48:35 when men will not put up with sound doctrine." 48:40 Is that amazing? 48:42 "Instead to suit their own desires 48:45 they will gather around them 48:48 a great number of teachers, 48:51 to say what their itching ears want to hear." 48:54 Isn't that amazing? 48:56 And this is in verse 4, 48:57 "They will turn their ears away from the truth 49:00 and turn aside to myths." 49:03 Are we living in that day and age? 49:05 It's hard to tell people the truth in Christianity. 49:10 I mean, if you go to the bank and the teller says, 49:14 you have $40 in your account, 49:17 and you say, what happened to my money? 49:20 They say you have $40 in your account. 49:22 You said, that's not true. 49:23 They say, well, according to me is true. 49:25 What would you say? 49:27 I'm just telling you what I think you need to hear. 49:30 Well, it may be more than 40. 49:31 But I'm telling you there's $40 in your account, 49:33 would you be satisfied? 49:35 Come on, what would you say? 49:37 Get another teller. 49:39 Get the manager. 49:40 I have a receipt from the machine 49:41 that says I have X amount of dollars, 49:43 but she's telling me I have 40 bucks. 49:45 You wouldn't tolerate that. 49:47 But let's go to the next step. 49:48 You pause and I remember being in Oakland, California 49:51 number of years ago, 49:52 my wife and I were looking for the Oakland bus station. 49:56 We didn't know where it was. 49:58 And a police officer, we said, well, surely he should know. 50:01 We waved him down and I said, 50:04 "Officer where's the bus station?" 50:06 He said and he pointed that way. 50:07 And when he walked away, we were about to drive away. 50:10 And transients, a guy that looked like 50:12 he hadn't been home for a long time, 50:15 trying to be respectful. 50:17 You can see he lived on the streets. 50:18 He said, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, 50:20 and we thought he was going to ask for food or money. 50:23 He said, "Ain't that the way." 50:26 I said, "What do you mean?" 50:28 He, ain't the away, is that way. 50:31 And he said it with pretty broken language. 50:33 I said, well, "How do you know?" 50:34 He said, "I go every day." 50:38 He know where it was. 50:39 So here's my point, 50:42 because they look like they know 50:44 don't take their word for it, 50:48 because preachers are hired. 50:51 Let's go to 2 Corinthians. 50:54 The devil's got him some ministers. 50:57 It's a sad reality, but we are... 51:02 2 Corinthians Chapter 11, 51:05 and then we're gonna dive to the last three scriptures. 51:07 2 Corinthians Chapter 11. 51:09 Look at this, verse 13. 51:11 So because they look the part do not mean 51:14 that they are telling you the truth. 51:18 You got to know it for you, the Word of God is your guide. 51:21 Look at verse 13, 51:23 "For such a false apostles, 51:26 deceitful workers, 51:28 transforming themselves into apostles of Christ." 51:33 I was shaken a few weeks ago 51:34 when I was listening to a Sunday morning show. 51:38 We were at on the road for 3ABN in the hotel in Michigan, 51:42 and I turned on Sunday morning and there on television 51:44 a preacher that I had listened to many times, 51:47 and he was saying, 51:48 how would you like it when the world, 51:50 what would you think if the world was 51:52 all of a sudden taken over by 144,000 evangelists? 51:55 And I thought that'd be great. 51:58 He said that's what's going to happen 52:00 when the secret rapture takes place. 52:01 And I said, no, you didn't just say that. 52:04 And my estimation of him just went like this... 52:08 Reputable preacher, 52:10 wonderful man, had beautiful teachings. 52:13 And I thought either he doesn't know 52:16 or he knows and just doesn't embrace it. 52:19 But look what it goes on and say in verse 14, 52:22 "And no wonder! 52:24 For Satan himself transformed himself 52:27 into an angel of light." 52:28 Verse 15, "Therefore, it is no great thing 52:32 if his ministers also do," what? 52:35 "Transform themselves 52:37 into ministers of righteousness, 52:40 whose end will be according to their work? 52:44 So the Bible is in essence saying, 52:46 according to their works false apostles, 52:48 but they looked apart. 52:50 Ministers but Satan himself looks like an angel of light. 52:53 Always check it out by the word. 52:55 Together, always check it out by God's Word 52:59 and not one scripture, but upon... 53:01 Notice what we did earlier one, two, three. 53:03 Just follow them all. 53:05 Let's go to the very next question. 53:09 Question number 17. 53:11 "How does the Bible describe the nature 53:14 of the return of Jesus?" 53:16 Let's go to Psalm 15:3. 53:19 How does the Bible describe the nature 53:21 of the return of Jesus? 53:22 Here's what it says together, "Our God shall come, 53:26 and shall not," what? 53:28 "Keep silent, 53:30 a fire shall devour before Him, 53:34 and it shall be very," what? 53:35 "Tempestuous all around Him." 53:38 Is it going to be silent? Yes or no? 53:41 It's gonna be the loudest event of the ages. 53:44 It's gonna be earth shaking. 53:45 Islands and mountains are going to move out of their places. 53:48 The heavens are going to depart as a scroll. 53:50 We read that earlier. 53:51 It's not gonna be a silent event. 53:54 Look at number 18. 53:57 "How does the return of Jesus affect the earth?" 54:02 2 Peter 3:10. 54:05 Let's go there. 54:06 2 Peter 3:10, the Bible says, 54:10 "But the day of the Lord will come as a" what? 54:13 "Thief in the night." 54:14 You don't know the date. 54:16 It's gonna come upon men unaware. 54:17 "In which the heavens will pass away with a," what? 54:20 "Great noise." 54:22 But it's not gonna be silent, 54:24 "And the elements will melt with," what? 54:26 "Fervent heat, both the earth 54:30 and the works that are in it will be," what? 54:33 "Burned up." 54:34 Notice, heavens passing away with a great noise, 54:38 elements melting with fervent heat, 54:41 the earth is on fire, the works are being burned up. 54:43 Is that secret? Come on, yes or no? 54:45 Absolutely not. 54:47 So, friends, let the Bible be the only guide. 54:49 Let's look at another one. 54:52 Question number 19. 54:54 Let's look at question number... 54:56 "What is the method that Jesus will use 54:58 to gather the saints to heaven?" 55:02 Matthew 24:31. 55:05 Here's what the Bible says. 55:07 It says clearly, "And he will send His," what? 55:11 "Angels with a great sound of a trumpet, 55:14 and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, 55:20 from one end of heaven to the," what? 55:23 "To the other." 55:24 Is that going to be an invisible event? 55:26 No. 55:28 He's gonna send His angels, they're gonna go... 55:29 In the Bible, when it says, 55:31 from one end of the earth to the other, 55:32 or from one end of heaven to the other. 55:34 It means everywhere where the people of God are. 55:38 They're gonna be gathered together. 55:41 But now the most beautiful passage 55:43 of them all, culminating this. 55:44 Question number 20. 55:46 Let's go ahead and hit this one. 55:47 Question number 20. 55:49 Praise God for His Word. 55:52 The Bible says, "How do we know 55:55 that the return of Jesus will not be a secret?" 55:58 Oh, I tell you, what a powerful passage. 56:00 Here it is, 56:01 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18. 56:06 How do we know that it will not be secret? 56:08 Here it is, 56:09 beautiful, "For the Lord Himself 56:11 will descend from heaven with a," what? 56:13 "Shout," that's audible, 56:15 "with a voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. 56:19 And the dead in Christ will do," what? 56:21 "Rise first." 56:22 A resurrection is going to take place, 56:24 is going to be audible. 56:25 It's gonna be a voice, it's gonna be a trumpet. 56:27 Then verse 17, 56:29 "Then we who are alive and remain 56:32 shall be caught up together with them in the clouds 56:36 to meet the Lord," where? 56:38 In the air." 56:39 There's gonna be a resurrection. 56:41 People are gonna be ascending not souls, but people, 56:44 "And thus we shall always," what? 56:47 "Be with the Lord." 56:49 And then verse 18, it winds it up by saying this, 56:52 "Therefore comfort one another with these words." 56:57 Can we say amen? 56:59 Is the coming of Jesus going to be a secret? 57:01 Yes or no? 57:02 Is it gonna be audible? 57:04 Is it gonna shake the earth? 57:06 Is there gonna be fire? 57:07 Is there gonna be a resurrection? 57:09 Will the islands move? 57:11 Will people be running to the rocks and the mountains? 57:14 Is it gonna be an invisible event? 57:16 Will they see Him coming back? 57:18 Will He come back with angels? 57:20 Will there be a resurrection? 57:21 Will there be an earthquake? 57:23 Will the kings and the mighty men 57:24 and the rich men, the captains be 57:25 running from Him? 57:27 How my friends can you believe it's going to be secret? 57:32 How can somebody convince you 57:34 that Jesus is gonna come back and say, let's go. 57:38 Shh, let's go. 57:42 No! 57:44 The only thing that's going to be secret 57:46 is people that ignore the signs 57:49 like the flood will not know He's coming back. 57:52 Friends, let me tell you, 57:54 if it doesn't make sense, keep studying, 57:56 one day it will come into A Sharper Focus. 58:00 God bless you. |
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