Behold the Lamb Presents

Prepare to Save Your Families.

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00:39 Let's pray.
00:41 I'm gonna kneel up here and pray.
00:42 Let's pray that Holy Spirit will guide us today.
00:47 Merciful God in heaven,
00:49 again, we thank You for the privilege
00:50 for being able to break the bread of life.
00:54 Again, how wonderful it is to be able to open the pages
00:56 of this beautiful book,
00:58 to be able to behold Jesus, the Lamb of God,
01:01 to be able to hold the prophecies
01:03 that tell us the hour in which we are living,
01:05 and as we examine Your Word this morning,
01:07 we pray for an outpouring of Thy Holy Spirit
01:10 upon each one of us.
01:12 If there be someone who are languishing,
01:13 someone maybe he's just a little fallen asleep
01:15 that You awake us all up,
01:17 the hour in which we are living,
01:19 help us to realize You're soon to come
01:21 regardless of how it looks in the world today.
01:24 Bless as we pray with Thy Spirit,
01:26 may minds and hearts now be clear and clean,
01:29 and we lay our sins and our shortcomings
01:32 and our problems before You right now
01:35 and ask us that You'd cleanse us
01:37 by Your blood, in Jesus' name, amen.
01:44 I know you brought your Bible with you,
01:45 it's important that we do, at least a pencil and a paper.
01:49 We are going to be covering the next few times together.
01:52 It's gonna be a subject that's, it's near and dear to my heart
01:56 as I was looking through this week
01:57 and I really believe the Holy Spirit impressed
02:01 that there's lot of things that we need to be going over.
02:04 We need to be going over things that are happening
02:07 not only in the world but how we fit
02:10 in the plan that God has for His last day children,
02:14 and so I just entitled this,
02:16 the Holy Spirit has entitled the subject today,
02:20 "Prepare to save your families."
02:23 Prepare to save your families.
02:28 Now we realize everybody should be
02:29 part of the family of God, right,
02:31 so is everybody out there, but prepare...
02:33 There's something called prepare
02:36 that I don't know that we are doing,
02:38 but we may need to be reminding
02:40 of what this preparation really means.
02:42 So prepare to save your families.
02:46 Turn with me, if you will,
02:47 as we start our subject for today
02:49 in the Book of James.
02:52 Sister Mary, it's good to see you,
02:53 I see you coming in.
02:54 You think I can't see that far but I can.
02:57 All right. Praise the Lord.
03:00 Turn with me to the Book of James.
03:02 These are familiar passage of scripture,
03:05 but you are going to see how they fit
03:07 as we study this interesting subject.
03:10 What is the subject?
03:11 Prepare to save your families.
03:15 And listen, men, specifically I'm talking to you.
03:19 Man have responsibility as the house band, the husband,
03:24 to work, to save their families because there are things
03:28 that can be done that will help us
03:32 during the little time of trouble
03:34 and the trouble is approaching this land rapidly,
03:37 and there are things
03:39 that we need to be reminded of that God does
03:40 so that we'll get on the right track.
03:42 God gives...
03:43 Do you believe that God gives warnings?
03:45 Oh, yes.
03:46 He gives us warning in His book in James Chapter 5,
03:49 and if you don't mind, I usually don't read so much
03:52 but I'm going to read verses 1-8 and give it oral.
03:55 You read along with me as quickly as you can.
03:57 Why?
03:58 Because these are challenging words.
04:01 These are words that will challenge your heart,
04:04 your mind, where you are at
04:05 in your relationship with Christ.
04:08 There are words of rebuke to individuals
04:12 that may not be you, may not be me in a sense
04:14 but there are words of rebuke
04:16 that we need to look at closely.
04:19 James Chapter 5 starting with verse 1.
04:20 It says, "Go to now, ye rich men," and do what?
04:25 "Weep and howl for your miseries
04:29 that shall come upon you."
04:30 So we're looking at miseries are coming upon.
04:32 These are things we don't want to look at.
04:35 These are things I don't want to hear,
04:36 miseries coming.
04:37 We have enough misery it seems like.
04:39 But we're just beginning the edges of things
04:43 that are coming upon God's people,
04:45 and if we are not prepared we will turn on God,
04:48 we will turn on this message,
04:50 and we'll look for an easy way out.
04:53 Here God is specifically looking at the rich man
04:56 or the man who wants to be rich.
04:58 He said, "Go and weep."
04:59 There are reasons.
05:00 There's different ways to be rich.
05:02 Notice verse 2.
05:04 "Your riches are" what?
05:05 "Corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
05:09 Your gold and your silver is cankered,
05:12 and the rust of them shall be a witness against you,
05:16 and shall eat your flesh as it were" what?
05:19 "Fire.
05:20 Ye have heaped treasure together
05:23 for the last days."
05:24 If it had time, how interesting it would be
05:27 to look at the gold, the silver, the word cankered,
05:29 the witness, the flesh, the fire,
05:31 and treasures heaped together for the last days.
05:35 There are messages and sermons that will go for hours
05:38 on these things as we look at not only the physical
05:41 but the spiritual.
05:43 Notice verse 4,
05:44 "Behold, the hire of the laborer
05:46 who have reaped down your fields,
05:48 which have you kept back by" what?
05:50 "Fraud, it crieth, the cries of them
05:54 which have reaped are entered
05:55 into the ears of the Lord of the Sabaoth."
05:59 Notice, "Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth,
06:03 and have been wanton, ye have nourished your hearts,
06:06 as a day in slaughter."
06:08 Verse 6, "Ye have condemned and killed the just,
06:12 and he doth not resist you."
06:14 "Be patient therefore, brethren,
06:16 unto the coming of the Lord."
06:17 What's the word?
06:19 "Be patient, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
06:21 Behold, the husbandman waiteth
06:23 for the precious fruit of the earth,
06:25 hath long patience for it,
06:27 until he receive the early and latter rain."
06:31 Notice verse 8, probably one of the most familiar
06:33 to most of you.
06:35 It says, "Be ye also patient,
06:38 notice, stablish your hearts,
06:41 for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh."
06:43 How we sing it, how we pray it, how we talk about it?
06:47 Drawing nigh, right?
06:48 The coming of the Lord, draweth nigh.
06:51 And so how sad the majority of the world today
06:53 does not realize the coming of the Lord is drawing nigh,
06:57 it's near every day,
06:58 every day is one less day here on this planet,
07:03 but we need to be patient.
07:05 Here we find James, notice what he's doing.
07:08 It's a stern rebuke that he's giving
07:10 here in these verses.
07:13 It's addressing those who are seeking riches.
07:17 Now you'll say, "Well, now what's wrong
07:19 with seeking some riches?"
07:20 Notice.
07:22 They're seeking riches without a thought
07:25 of what God has in mind for them.
07:27 They're not thinking,
07:29 "This is what God would have me to do.
07:31 This is what I want."
07:33 And there we begin to get in trouble when I want,
07:36 and forget what God has planned for us.
07:39 What has He planned for my life?
07:41 What is His plan for you?
07:42 How often do we pray, "Oh, Lord, I want,"
07:45 rather than, "Lord, what would You have me?
07:48 Where would You have me to be?
07:49 What would You be have me to do in these closing days,
07:52 hours of earth's history?"
07:55 The apostle here is referring to the insecurity of the rich.
08:01 Did you realize that some of it...
08:03 It doesn't seem like if you watch him on TV,
08:05 they have rich, they have the homes,
08:07 they have everything,
08:08 you know, right at their fingertips,
08:10 and it seems like they're secured,
08:11 but most rich people are insecure.
08:14 They're insecure, they're still looking,
08:16 they're still searching, they're still wandering,
08:18 they're worried about their money,
08:19 they're still worried about their investments,
08:21 they're worried about everything
08:22 except what God would have them to do.
08:25 See, this insecurity surrounds the rich man.
08:30 And the Bible says here, James is warning us
08:34 that the tension will increase.
08:36 Did anybody get that?
08:38 The tension on the rich and getting richer
08:42 is going to increase the coming of the Lord,
08:46 that's kind of interesting thought.
08:48 Large sums of money will do what?
08:52 James is saying here,
08:53 "All these large sums of money that you have
08:55 in all these different banks at the coming of the Lord
08:58 will bear witness against you
08:59 that you have not taken that and put it into the Lord's work
09:02 to save souls."
09:04 Is somebody with me? You're always nice.
09:06 "We'll have it in the bank. We'll have it over here."
09:08 Well, that bears witness in the judgment.
09:11 Look at all of that in there.
09:12 Why did you put it in there?
09:13 Why did you store in this bank?
09:15 Why wasn't it put back into my vineyard?
09:17 Why wasn't it put in my coffers?
09:20 You know, we need to realize and plan our life that
09:23 as we near the end that our coffers are somewhat bare,
09:27 that everything God has given to us,
09:29 we personally have put back into the work.
09:33 It is not your children's responsibility,
09:36 it doesn't belong to them,
09:38 the blessings have not come to them,
09:39 it's what God has given you
09:41 and you are accountable for that.
09:43 Just don't leave and bestick your head in the sand and say,
09:45 "Now kids, go ahead, you have it now,
09:47 you deserve it."
09:49 That's not a fact.
09:51 God will hold you and hold me accountable
09:54 for what He has given us
09:57 and no one is to take that responsibility,
09:59 and we're supposed to take most of what we have
10:03 and put it back into the cause of God
10:05 and let Him take care of us as we get older.
10:07 Got an interesting thought and very test of our faith.
10:12 It really will test our faith
10:14 because what, where is our faith.
10:16 Many times our faith is in our checkbook, see?
10:20 And if we didn't have it in there,
10:21 then we have to exercise faith in God.
10:25 So large sums of money will bear witness
10:27 in the judgment, where the winning of souls.
10:31 The Bible says here, James says,
10:33 "There's going to be destruction,"
10:34 he's talking about hell fire,
10:36 not only of material things that will go
10:38 but he says are the soul and the body will burn in hell.
10:42 That's pretty clear to me.
10:45 It says it's going to be an interesting time.
10:47 Greed and oppression,
10:50 we find it really coming to the top right now
10:53 in the hour that we are living.
10:55 It's a high point as it were in the world
10:58 just before the coming of Jesus.
11:01 But here the article says we are to establish our faith,
11:05 establish our hearts.
11:09 If we ever needed our hearts established
11:12 sound right now, firm foundation,
11:14 it is this moment, this is...
11:17 It's not for tomorrow or yesterday, for today,
11:21 when it says establish the heart,
11:22 it is simply saying
11:24 that we need to set fast our hearts,
11:27 we need to brace our hearts, certainly with the love
11:31 and faith of Christ.
11:33 We need to make stable.
11:35 You realize we live in such an unstable world.
11:39 I mean, we like to feel like things are stable.
11:41 We like to feel like we're in charge.
11:43 But you know what? You are not.
11:45 We like to feel like we're in charge.
11:47 Yeah, we can make decision, do different things.
11:48 But let me tell you here, right,
11:50 there is one who is in charge,
11:52 and He's saying to us right now,
11:54 things are unraveling and unraveling quick,
11:57 and you need to have your hearts charged up
12:00 as it were with the spirit of the living God inside of us
12:04 and begin to trust Him, make stable your life.
12:09 That's why I was, you know, thrilled my heart this morning
12:11 when I heard someone say,
12:12 "I felt like my first obligation
12:15 was to go to church first
12:16 and then somebody get it.
12:20 My first obligation is to go to church
12:24 and then wherever I go
12:26 must be pleasing in the sight of God,
12:28 especially on the Sabbath."
12:29 Now well, then I'll go out and do this and do that.
12:31 No.
12:32 We know what the Word says about Sabbath keeping,
12:34 we need to honor that or we're breaking the Sabbath.
12:36 So it's...
12:38 We look at it and say, "My first obligation
12:39 is I go to church to meet with God."
12:42 How embarrassing that is we put something before,
12:45 if you think about it?
12:47 Because He's promised to be here.
12:49 I thoroughly believe through the representative,
12:51 His Holy Spirit that He is here,
12:54 and who one of us would want to hold right
12:57 the Holy Spirit and say,
12:58 "I've got something else to do and I'll get to you later."
13:03 Ooh, what audacity?
13:05 Surely no one would do that.
13:07 We need to be established in the faith.
13:09 We need to have priorities.
13:11 Going to do church first, then...
13:14 Remember he says, we have to put Him first
13:17 and then all these, what?
13:19 Then all these other things will be added.
13:22 We are in an unsettled state of society.
13:27 This world is unsettled.
13:29 It's breaking apart.
13:31 And sometime, we have forgotten that.
13:33 Listen, I can say today, our cities are in trouble.
13:39 Our cities especially are in trouble.
13:42 I'll name three things that's in trouble,
13:43 and you'll see.
13:45 Our cities are in trouble, people are in trouble,
13:49 our nations are in trouble.
13:52 These are easily to identify as you read the Word of God
13:56 and just listen to the news.
13:58 This is not something to sneeze at as it were just like,
14:00 "Oh, yeah, I heard it before."
14:02 We need to pay attention
14:03 because we will be covering things in here
14:05 that I believe that will help us
14:08 as we look at last day events,
14:10 things that are happening and what we should be doing,
14:14 and things that maybe we have forgotten.
14:16 You'll say,
14:17 "Well, I'm not so much worried about the cities."
14:19 May I just read a couple of verses,
14:21 and that would be back into the beginning
14:23 in the Book of Genesis,
14:24 notice with me in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 19.
14:28 So go back with me to the Book of what? Genesis 19.
14:33 Okay, and then we're going to just read two verses there,
14:35 4 and 5.
14:37 Genesis 19:4, 5.
14:41 Now remember, what are we reading?
14:43 We're reading, right, the Word.
14:47 We're reading God.
14:48 God is speaking to you and to me here in His Word.
14:53 It's not someone else.
14:54 It's God speaking here.
14:55 These are warnings, these are examples
14:58 because we need to realize our cities are in trouble.
15:01 Here it says, Genesis 19:4, 5.
15:04 The Bible says, "But before they lay down,
15:07 the men of the city, even the men of Sodom,
15:10 compassed the house round, both old and young,
15:12 all the people went from every quarter.
15:15 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him,
15:17 'Where are the men
15:19 which came in to thee this night?
15:20 Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.'"
15:24 What is this saying right here?
15:25 Our cities are in trouble.
15:27 This is not just in the Book of Genesis
15:30 This is just not for a Lot.
15:31 This is going on day-by-day, 24/7.
15:36 In some place in the world this is going on
15:38 as we've seen who came in.
15:40 Now let's bring them on now.
15:41 We want to have our way with things.
15:42 We want to do what we want to do.
15:44 Our cities are in trouble
15:46 and God's going to punish the cities
15:48 as we see there in verse 29 of the same chapter.
15:52 Genesis 19 verse what?
15:55 29.
15:57 Here's what the Word of God says.
15:59 "It came to pass, when God destroyed the" what?
16:02 "The cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham,
16:06 sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow,
16:09 when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt."
16:12 God said, "Because of the foolishness,
16:15 the audacity of the things that were going on
16:17 that the cities are in trouble."
16:20 And it's worse now than it was back then,
16:22 no doubt in my mind, at least on a vast scale.
16:26 And God draw.
16:27 He destroyed the cities.
16:29 And you think that our cities are just going to continue
16:31 to stand until Jesus comes.
16:33 We're going to see devastation in the cities.
16:36 We're going to see whole cities destroyed
16:38 before the coming of the Lord.
16:41 Somebody needs to get that
16:42 because as soon as that happens,
16:43 some people have heart attacks,
16:45 and they'll just die, and they'll just say,
16:46 "Well, we've never dreamt this is going to happen."
16:48 The Bible has said it, it's going to happen,
16:51 it's happening.
16:52 I'm telling you friends right now
16:53 because, well,
16:55 God is not going to just turn His back and walk off.
16:58 He didn't do it then.
16:59 The cities are in trouble.
17:01 The people are in trouble.
17:02 Go with me to New Testament quickly.
17:05 1 Corinthians, we're going to go Chapter 10.
17:07 1 Corinthians 10:9-11.
17:11 It says, "Neither let us tempt Christ,
17:14 as some of them also tempted, and were,"
17:17 now notice the word, were what?
17:20 "They were destroyed of serpents."
17:22 So you know the story what was going on here,
17:24 but don't tempt God, it says.
17:27 Don't throw your stuff in God's face.
17:32 God's not to be trifled with.
17:35 What He has said He will do.
17:37 Notice this, "Let's not temp Christ,"
17:39 notice this,
17:41 "as they were destroyed of serpents."
17:43 Neither do what?
17:45 "Don't murmur ye, as some of them also murmured,
17:47 and were destroyed of the destroyer."
17:49 There's many times, there's too many of us
17:51 rather than praising God are murmuring.
17:53 We're complaining
17:54 because we think we have hardship,
17:56 things are going bad.
17:58 Well, you don't live in other parts of the world
17:59 where things are really tough.
18:01 You're like kings and queens around here.
18:03 Even though we just...
18:04 Think about it.
18:06 Remember, if you have an automobile,
18:10 you are in the top 5% of the wealth of the world
18:14 if you have an automobile.
18:15 That shows there's lot of millions
18:17 and billions of people that do not
18:20 but because we're here and it's a normal thing,
18:21 we're raised with it, this is what we've seen,
18:23 we think it's normal although, it's not.
18:27 You think you're not wealthy.
18:28 Well, we don't have.
18:30 You have a roof over your head, you have food,
18:31 you have clothes.
18:33 Bible says sometimes...
18:35 We murmur too much, we complain, and notice, what?
18:39 "And they were destroyed of the destroyer."
18:43 Notice what the word still is saying
18:44 because we're not doing the right thing,
18:46 there is destruction that lies ahead,
18:49 there was destruction then.
18:51 And notice verse 11,
18:53 "Now all these things happened unto them for" what?
18:56 "These were examples,
18:58 they are written for our admonition,
19:00 upon whom the ends of the world are come."
19:03 We are at the end of the world.
19:04 These are things we have to look back and say,
19:06 "Here's what God did then."
19:08 He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
19:10 It's going to happen again,
19:12 even though we don't think so.
19:13 We think maybe a new president here,
19:15 give us all new hope
19:17 and he's going to turn the world upside down.
19:18 Some of us need to rethink the issues.
19:21 There may be things done out of order,
19:23 things different than ever been before,
19:25 but I can guarantee you this, this is all the plan
19:28 that the enemy has in which we will see
19:30 the church and state coming together
19:32 and we'll see Sunday laws.
19:34 Some of us better wake up with that thought.
19:36 Sunday laws are around the corner.
19:37 We have to realize it.
19:40 These are issues that we need to keep
19:42 for our mind.
19:43 Nations are in trouble, cities are in trouble.
19:47 What else is in trouble?
19:48 People are in trouble.
19:50 Who else is in trouble?
19:52 Nations are in trouble.
19:54 Jeremiah Chapter 48, quickly.
19:56 Jeremiah Chapter 48,
19:57 here's what the Word of God says.
19:59 Jeremiah 48:42.
20:02 "And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,
20:07 because he hath magnified himself against the" what?
20:11 "Against the Lord." The Moabites.
20:13 What does he say?
20:14 You're going to be destroyed for what reason?
20:18 "Moab shall be destroyed from being a people."
20:21 It's like...
20:22 Is it not like wiping out a nation?
20:24 Wiping out a...
20:25 Because he hath magnified himself against God.
20:29 Any of us magnify our self against God,
20:32 you can look for destruction,
20:34 and you can look for a rough path
20:35 until that destruction comes.
20:37 God is warning us.
20:39 But yet at the same time, when we see that
20:41 there are cities in trouble, people are in trouble,
20:44 nations are in trouble,
20:46 we have these voices everywhere saying, "Peace and safety."
20:50 What is that? A sign.
20:52 1 Thessalonians 5:3.
20:54 "Peace and safety, sudden destruction cometh."
20:57 Do we realize when destruction really comes,
21:00 it will be suddenly, it will be like, "Oh, man."
21:03 We should be ready for it.
21:05 We should realize it can happen any day, any hour, any moment.
21:10 That's why Jesus said,
21:11 we need to watch and we need to pray,
21:13 we need to be ready, so that we're not overwhelmed.
21:17 I'm talking about overwhelmed with the things
21:18 that will happen.
21:20 I can sense myself, I don't know about you.
21:22 If I'm not close to Jesus, I'm going to be overwhelmed.
21:26 That's how ugly it's going to get.
21:29 It's not going to be like, "Take it or leave it."
21:30 Or, "I don't want to get involved.
21:32 I'll go on about my business."
21:33 No.
21:35 You're going to be right in the middle of it.
21:36 You will be right in the middle of it.
21:37 I will be right in the middle of it.
21:39 Little book called Last Day Events,
21:42 page 11 tells us this.
21:43 Listen carefully, listen.
21:46 And you've read it many times, I'm sure.
21:47 "The present time is a time of overwhelming interest
21:52 to all living."
21:53 So the time that we're living in is what?
21:55 It's interest to all people.
21:57 Tell me that your congressmen and your senators
22:00 and your president as it were,
22:02 people in high positions, and you are lawyers,
22:04 legislators are not interested in what's going on.
22:07 They're all looking for a cure.
22:09 They're all looking for answers.
22:11 If nothing else, they'd like to have it,
22:12 so that they can build a name for themselves, we found out,
22:15 or name something after us.
22:20 Everybody is interested because, let me tell you,
22:23 if you could talk to some of these individuals
22:25 in high places
22:27 that know what's going on in the world today,
22:29 it would blow your mind and it would blow my mind.
22:33 It really would
22:34 because they know things you do not know
22:36 and I do not know except for what the Word of God says.
22:40 They know they could blow any moment, sky high.
22:44 Your world can change in a moment.
22:47 That's why God said to be ready.
22:50 It's an overwhelming interest to all living.
22:52 Here it says,
22:54 "Rulers and statesmen, men of authority,
22:57 thinking men and women of all classes,
23:01 have their attention,"
23:02 notice this, "their attention fixed upon the events
23:07 taking place about us.
23:09 They are watching the relations that exist
23:12 amongst the nations."
23:15 Do you notice that even on the news,
23:17 every day, every morning,
23:19 if you turn it on, whatever, they're talking about
23:22 what happened last night or the day before,
23:24 and there's tension between what?
23:27 Nations.
23:28 Sure, we talk about people,
23:30 but there's one nation as it were
23:31 maybe threatening the other.
23:33 One's keeping a secret or other is collaborating,
23:36 doing different things.
23:37 But they're going against each other,
23:39 and then that puts, what, other nations.
23:41 I'm either going to take his side
23:42 or I'll take his side.
23:44 And you realize what a mess,
23:48 you realize what a mess in the world
23:49 that there is today with the technology,
23:52 with the implements of war
23:55 that could absolutely turn this world upside down
23:57 in a matter of couple of minutes.
24:01 I mean, we hadn't even dug into,
24:03 when you talk about thermal warfare,
24:06 you know, and all these other things and stuff
24:07 that some are even trying on several people.
24:11 Some of the stuff that's being tried right now.
24:16 It's very interesting.
24:17 Everybody is looking
24:19 about what's existing among the nations right now,
24:21 and they don't know where to turn,
24:23 but many of the world are starting to turn their eyes
24:25 toward United States of America
24:27 because they're in Bible prophecy.
24:29 The world will look to United States of America.
24:33 Our image to our beast.
24:35 We need to be very careful
24:37 because this all leading up to right now.
24:41 Review and Herald, 11/24/1904.
24:44 "The time of trouble
24:46 which is to increase until the end."
24:48 The time of what?
24:49 The trouble will do what? Decrease?
24:51 No, it's going to increase until the end.
24:54 "It is very near at hand.
24:56 We have no time to lose.
24:58 The world is stirred with the spirit of war.
25:02 Prophecies of the 11th chapter of Daniel
25:05 have almost reached their final fulfillment."
25:09 Hope somebody hears that.
25:11 Almost reached their final fulfillment.
25:15 Prophecies reaching their final fulfillment
25:19 where they're at the very end, at the very last,
25:23 there's very little more.
25:26 The Bible says in Luke, New Testament,
25:28 turn with me, quickly, Luke,
25:29 I'll try to cover some things quickly,
25:31 Luke.
25:33 Got to stay focused to church,
25:35 this is what it's all about right now,
25:36 it's a reminder for what's going on.
25:38 Luke Chapter 21.
25:40 Luke Chapter 21, I'm going to read 25-28.
25:45 I mean, you talk about prophecies,
25:47 you talk about time that can be spent
25:50 here in these things proving where we're at
25:54 in earth's history right here,
25:55 if we had time to do it, but notice what the Bible said.
25:59 Luke 21:25, "There shall be signs in" what?
26:03 "Sun, and in the moon, and in the stars,
26:05 and upon the earth distress of" what?
26:07 "Nations," and what's the word?
26:09 "Perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring."
26:11 Man, we see all that.
26:13 "Men's hearts failing them for" what?
26:15 "Fear, for looking after those things
26:17 which are coming on the earth,
26:19 for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."
26:22 Man, what a time that we're living in.
26:23 Notice this,
26:25 "And they shall see the Son of man coming"
26:26 where?
26:28 "In the clouds with power and great glory."
26:31 Notice that.
26:32 "And when these things begin to come to pass,"
26:34 then what do we need to do?
26:36 "Look up, it says, lift up your heads,
26:39 "for your redemption draweth nigh."
26:43 When all of these things begin to take place,
26:45 men's heart failing them for fear...
26:48 You realize that's already happened
26:50 to a lot of folks because of money situation,
26:53 because of things that have happened,
26:55 because of things that they fear
26:57 that's going to happen, they have heart attacks,
26:59 they'd actually die, the stress is too much.
27:02 The love of the world has just encircled them
27:05 and they can't stand the thought of losing
27:07 which they have accumulated, they say.
27:10 There shall be signs
27:11 in the sun, the moon, and the stars.
27:13 People say, "Well, that could be repeated,"
27:14 but I guarantee you, those prophecies right there,
27:17 number one, first application have already taken place.
27:20 Is somebody still with me?
27:21 Sign in the suns, and the moon, and the stars.
27:24 Remember the falling of the star,
27:25 and great earthquake.
27:27 We know these things are happening,
27:28 blood turning to moon.
27:29 We have to realize that
27:31 where we're at in the stream of time,
27:33 men's hearts failing them for fear.
27:35 Our hearts need to be fearful in that sense
27:39 that the coming of Jesus is near, even at the door,
27:41 and Lord, what are we doing
27:44 to warn the world of Your coming?
27:45 What are we doing?
27:49 A manuscript, it's called manuscript number 40.
27:52 This was written in 1897.
27:55 Manuscript 40, written in 1897.
27:58 It says "The scenes that transpire
28:01 at the destruction..."
28:02 Somebody needs to listen to this now.
28:04 No, nobody wants to listen.
28:11 I'm going to talk about illustration here,
28:13 Brother Bobby, about the destruction of Jerusalem.
28:17 Destruction of Jerusalem, we know it's been repeated
28:19 hundreds and thousands of times,
28:21 at least for Adventists ought to know
28:23 the destruction of Jerusalem was a horrible mess
28:26 that...
28:28 Parents boiled and ate their own children.
28:31 Are you still with me?
28:33 That's how bad.
28:34 They boiled and ate their own children.
28:38 They were starving to death,
28:40 there was nothing they could do.
28:42 They were trying to chew, gnawing on leather,
28:44 weren't they, Brother Marty?
28:45 Anything to gnaw, to chew on, screaming, and all of a sudden,
28:48 they weren't in the right minds
28:50 because all they could think about is food,
28:51 and then they began to boil and eat their children.
28:54 So this is comparison to that.
28:56 Listen carefully, at the coming,
28:58 before Jesus comes,
29:02 "The scenes that transpired at the destruction of Jerusalem
29:06 will be repeated at the great
29:11 and terrible day of the Lord,
29:14 but in a more fearful manner."
29:20 I can't quite get all of that.
29:24 I can't get all of that.
29:26 I can't comprehend all that took place in Jerusalem,
29:28 what's written about it.
29:31 But it's going to take place in a more fearful manner.
29:36 The scenes will be repeated.
29:38 So what do we think this is going to be?
29:39 This be an easy thing?
29:40 We wonder, "Well, we'll wake up,
29:42 and Jesus is going to come.
29:43 Man, we're going to be, you know, taken away."
29:45 Some say raptured away, some say, we go back to heaven.
29:49 There's things that will take place
29:50 that's going to try your relationship
29:53 with Christ and mine to see whether
29:55 heaven really is going to be our home or not.
30:00 Lord's not going to take us up there so we can,
30:02 you know, infect heaven.
30:04 Victory has to be gained, it has to be gained down here.
30:07 Victory over sin in our life, over every area.
30:12 I'd be up there protesting if I was an angel right now
30:14 looking down this mess.
30:16 Somebody now with me.
30:19 You're an angel and you could look down on this world
30:21 to see what's going on and say, "You mean, he's coming up,
30:23 and she's coming up, I want Alice joined."
30:26 I want out of here because I...
30:29 Unless there's a change,
30:31 it's going to be just a biggest mess up there,
30:32 and we know the Bible says not going to happen again.
30:34 So victory has to be gained.
30:38 In this march toward the one world government,
30:43 and we might as well wake up.
30:44 We talked about it in the '80s and the '90s for a long time,
30:47 one world government,
30:49 because really pushing for a one world government.
30:50 You know, even some of the presidents
30:52 talks about one world government.
30:53 It's not a surprise, you know?
30:55 Right in, you know, early of this nation, you know?
31:00 It's still one world government,
31:02 they're still thinking about a one world power.
31:05 You know, still thinking,
31:06 when they look back in the Bible,
31:07 Babylon, Medo-Persian, Greece, and Rome,
31:10 they had the one world empire,
31:11 and they're still thinking in terms of.
31:14 And they realize those who can hold the finances
31:17 can hold the world.
31:19 It's about finances.
31:22 And there's people who are at work
31:24 in secret places.
31:27 We're in a march toward that one world government.
31:31 And men are devising ways to conceal their plans.
31:35 Notice, conceal them,
31:36 the real purpose of what's coming our way.
31:42 Why?
31:43 If they can seal it, and we don't understand it,
31:46 we'll accept it without protest.
31:51 We'll just be smiling and singing, and say,
31:53 "This is a wonderful thing."
31:54 When it's disastrous,
31:57 we'll accept it without question.
32:00 We face serious problems today
32:06 and just one is the debasement
32:08 of our currency that we have.
32:13 The dollar bill is just not worth much,
32:17 and we're still printing them and passing them out,
32:19 there's nothing to back them up,
32:22 and any moment, inflation can happen
32:26 as it's happened before.
32:27 And God has given warning after warning
32:30 of how fast it can inflate and then all the economy,
32:34 everything will fall apart, all the stuff that we rely on,
32:37 we'll think, "Oh, how wonderful."
32:38 No, it's going to pass away.
32:40 I mean, I've heard it for years and years
32:43 about the currency reform, what we need to be doing
32:46 because we're in such a mess.
32:50 And when you hear currency reform
32:52 or we need to change things around,
32:54 and you notice how the dollar bill
32:56 is just about out of whack now,
32:58 and everything deals with cards,
33:00 computers, everything is online.
33:04 Get rid of money, huh?
33:08 Currency reform.
33:09 Do you realize when they talk about the currency reform,
33:12 they're actually talking about...
33:14 It's a fancy name for state bankruptcy.
33:18 Think about how many states are bankrupt.
33:24 Yeah.
33:25 Over, and over, and over.
33:27 So these are things that's written,
33:28 you know, 150 years ago,
33:30 and then we look at today and say
33:31 we're right in the middle of it.
33:34 These are signs of the times.
33:36 So that just simply means something's going to happen,
33:39 great drastic things are going to be taking place.
33:42 And when it happens, I guarantee you this.
33:45 When it happens, it's going to be very quick,
33:50 it's going to hit hard,
33:54 and it's going to make void, listen carefully,
33:55 you'll make void probably of most of everybody
33:58 who have savings in the bank,
34:00 it will take that away from you too.
34:04 It could wipe out all public and private bonds.
34:09 It could wipe out most pensions.
34:13 All annuities, all endowments.
34:16 You look at it, it could wipe it out.
34:18 All the things that we hold on to,
34:21 they say, now we're secure,
34:23 the Lord is going to allow us to say,
34:25 "No, he's our security, he's our security"
34:31 because long as we count on these things,
34:34 we love the world and the things in the world.
34:36 Everybody likes to be secure.
34:39 I like to have money in the bank too.
34:40 I like to be able to smile, "Oh, this is all good,"
34:43 but I realize it's going to be taken one of these days,
34:46 and remember, when it's taken,
34:47 then that means you've hoarded it,
34:49 that means you've been sitting on it,
34:51 and that means it's going to rust as it were,
34:53 and it's going to be doomed in the hell of fire,
34:55 and you're going to be accountable
34:57 because you didn't put in the Lord's work,
34:58 or I didn't put in the Lord's work.
35:02 All of these things.
35:04 But, you know, here's what I've heard,
35:05 somebody stay with me, I've heard this,
35:07 somebody said to me, "I have an answer."
35:10 I've got to answer for that.
35:12 I believe some of these things.
35:14 Some of your leading economists say,
35:15 yes, yes, yes, this is going to happen.
35:18 Don't know when but you know when it is?
35:21 When the Lord just releases those angels,
35:23 you know, who are still holding back.
35:25 When God says this it's right, it will be right, it will...
35:28 Don't think it's not going to happen
35:29 because it is going to happen.
35:31 Some say I have the answer to this.
35:33 You know what they said?
35:34 I put my money in gold and silver.
35:37 Don't have the paper stuff.
35:39 I've got it in gold and silver,
35:42 and I put it in a safe deposit box I have in the bank.
35:46 I want you to think with me, if you look back in history,
35:49 look back and you see
35:51 when there was a sudden change in the banking,
35:54 something happened almost like overnight,
35:56 it was always on a weekend.
36:00 See?
36:01 They didn't want you rushing, you know,
36:03 for the bank hours are open
36:04 because people start taking things out...
36:07 And the banks are closed.
36:09 Think about that.
36:10 Takes place over the weekend, and then,
36:12 "Oh, wait till Monday morning, Brother Mark,
36:15 we're going to get our safe deposit key.
36:17 We're going to take our key, we're going to run down there
36:19 and we're going to get our gold and silver out of there."
36:23 You run down there, but you know what?
36:25 You're not going to be able to open
36:26 that safe deposit box
36:28 because there will be a government agent
36:30 right there watching you.
36:32 He will go with you too right there
36:34 and then you're going to be in trouble again.
36:37 Interesting.
36:39 Our point is, there's nothing that's,
36:41 you know, foolproof around here.
36:43 Only on God's side, only doing the right thing
36:47 is your safety and your security.
36:50 There's nothing else that can be done
36:52 because God is allowing it in His mercy.
36:54 I really believe to eliminate some of these things.
36:58 According to the Bible, I say,
36:59 and according to the leading economist,
37:02 there's three things that are clear
37:04 and all closely related.
37:05 Number one, our government is past the point of no return.
37:08 Is somebody still with me?
37:10 Our government is past the point of what?
37:12 No return.
37:14 There's no fixing this country.
37:16 As bad as I want to hear, it can be fixed,
37:19 and everybody's going to be happy,
37:20 and everybody's going to be fed,
37:22 and have a place to live, I love to hear that,
37:24 but I know it can't
37:25 because the Bible says it can't.
37:27 It's not going to happen.
37:28 The devil wants you to think that it is
37:31 to get you on the wrong side.
37:33 There's no way.
37:36 Number two, the dollar is doomed,
37:38 it is doomed.
37:40 Only God is holding things right now
37:42 until He decides to let loose.
37:45 With that in mind closely related is
37:48 we will find our economy will collapse,
37:51 it will collapse.
37:52 How else do you think
37:53 there are going to be the mark of the beast,
37:55 and then the cards, and you'll not be able to buy,
37:57 and you'll not be able to sell for a period of time.
38:00 These all play into this thing that we have to be aware of
38:05 as we see them taking place and changes, thinking about,
38:08 "Ooh, that's another step closer."
38:14 Remember, this one world government
38:16 works on deception.
38:19 The devil works on what?
38:21 He works on deception.
38:24 And what does that means?
38:25 Just conceal the purpose, the real thing
38:28 what's really going on.
38:29 Give you example, just give you example.
38:31 Here there's a painting.
38:32 I'm talking about a painting now,
38:34 just a painting hanging on a wall of a man.
38:37 This is how you can be fooled.
38:38 Is somebody still here?
38:40 This is how it is.
38:41 There's a famous painting of a man,
38:42 and this man is in prison, he's in a cell.
38:47 So painting of this man, you can see the bars,
38:49 you see him in this cell,
38:51 he's seated on some straw,
38:55 he's chained to the wall,
38:59 yet, he smiles, he laughs,
39:04 and he sings.
39:05 Why?
39:07 He's convinced that he's a king.
39:10 He's convinced that he is a king of an empire.
39:15 His cell is his palace.
39:18 Interesting.
39:19 The straw he sets on is his throne.
39:24 The rags that he wears is his royal robe.
39:29 The prison guards are his soldiers.
39:34 He's very deceived,
39:37 but he continues on.
39:41 Now that may be way out there, but you know what?
39:44 What an illustration of the United States of America
39:49 and Christianity.
39:51 What an illustration?
39:53 How deceived we are and certainly can be?
39:59 Just as deceived as that man in that cell,
40:02 but there's no reason for us to be.
40:06 U.S. News and Report magazine,
40:08 we know that one from years ago.
40:10 This was October 29th, 1979, stay with me a few minutes.
40:13 Notice this.
40:16 Here's what it said.
40:18 It said the dollar was worth $0.24.
40:23 This is in 1979, said the dollar was worth what?
40:26 $0.24.
40:28 And this was based upon, their information was based
40:32 in 1945 dollar being worth 100 cents.
40:37 They based it in 1945 that was worth 100 cents.
40:41 Of course, it wasn't, and it hasn't been since 1933,
40:46 that's proven fact, when it was removed from the...
40:49 We talk about the gold standard where you could exchange $5
40:54 as it were for $5 gold piece.
40:58 Now that's pretty good exchange.
40:59 You take $5 bill,
41:00 that means it's worth $5
41:02 as you get $5 worth of gold.
41:07 But many say today that the dollar
41:09 can't go a whole lot lower
41:11 and still maintain it as currency.
41:14 Something will have to be done.
41:18 If it goes much lower, some big disaster happens,
41:21 there will be a currency change.
41:23 And the Bible says in Proverbs 29:18,
41:26 you notice it, "Where there is no vision,"
41:28 what happens?
41:30 "Where there is no vision, the people," what?
41:32 "They perish," is what the Bible said.
41:34 They perish because what?
41:36 Then he says because thou has rejected knowledge,
41:40 I'll also reject you.
41:42 So when knowledge comes out,
41:43 when we hear things and yet we refuse these things
41:46 because we don't want to accept them,
41:48 God says in result,
41:49 "I'm going to have to reject you
41:51 because I sent knowledge your way,
41:53 and you hear these things, you can read these things,
41:56 you can be studying these things,
41:58 but you will not listen,
41:59 there's nothing else I can do for you."
42:02 We do not want to be rejected by God.
42:04 I will also reject thee...
42:05 That's in the Bible.
42:08 U.S. News and World Report again,
42:10 September 15th, 1980,
42:12 listen carefully, some of these.
42:14 This is a report called, "A national identity card."
42:18 Please keep in mind
42:20 because it's not talked about so much
42:22 doesn't mean it's not still in the works.
42:25 This stuff was talked about red hot for years,
42:30 and somehow we've kind of like,
42:31 "Well, it's not going to happen."
42:32 The devil once talked about it and then make it like it's not,
42:35 you know, of interest anymore, and then all the sudden, boom,
42:38 here it's put on, you notice what it says.
42:40 It said that, "The U.S. government
42:41 is contemplating."
42:43 This is what the U.S. News and World Report said.
42:46 It said that, "The U.S. government
42:47 is contemplating
42:49 issuing an all purpose identity card."
42:52 An all of what?
42:54 An all purpose. There's a reason, all purpose.
42:56 "And unless an individual has this card,
42:58 he will not be able to work
43:02 or transact business of any kind."
43:05 Do you see where it's leading?
43:06 That's what it...
43:08 What does it read in Revelation 13:16, 17?
43:11 It says, you will not be able to buy or sell,
43:13 save you had the mark.
43:15 It's leading up to...
43:16 They already know things are already in place
43:19 that will you not be able to what?
43:20 You can't work without the card,
43:23 you can't transact business, you cannot buy,
43:26 and you cannot sell unless you have this card.
43:30 Think about it, my friend how cold?
43:31 And that's exactly the way it's going to come and unfold.
43:34 You will know that.
43:36 Revelation 18 talks about that.
43:38 Let's just turn, I'll just read one more quickly
43:39 in case maybe we've forgotten this now.
43:41 I know it's getting late but just a couple minutes.
43:44 Revelation chapter 18, and again, the Bible says this.
43:47 Revelation 18:21, starting with 21 says,
43:51 "A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone,
43:54 and cast it into the sea, saying,
43:55 'Thus with violence shall that
43:57 great city of Babylon be thrown down,
43:59 and shall be found no more at all.'"
44:01 Remember, not only we're talking ancient Babylon,
44:03 we're talking spiritual Babylon today.
44:06 Think about it.
44:07 "And the voice of the harpers, and musicians, and pipers,
44:09 and trumpeters, shall be heard no more."
44:11 No more warnings, no more of any, you know,
44:14 get ready, get ready, get ready because they've all been given.
44:16 Notice this, no more at all.
44:18 "No craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be,
44:20 shall be found any more in thee,
44:22 and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more,"
44:25 there is a time coming when it's all over.
44:29 "And the light of a candle still shine no more in thee,
44:32 and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride
44:34 shall be heard no more at all in thee,
44:36 for thy merchants
44:38 were the great men of the earth"
44:40 notice this, "for by thy
44:43 sorceries were all nations" what?
44:45 "Deceived."
44:46 The witch craft of the devil, the enemy himself working what?
44:49 Miracle.
44:51 The nation is deceived by the devil, by the enemy.
44:55 "And in her was found the blood of the prophets, and of saints,
44:57 and of all that were slain upon the earth."
45:00 You know, enemy is a killer.
45:02 And you know why? He's no different.
45:03 He's out to kill you, he's out to kill me.
45:07 He wants to get rid of you because you love Jesus.
45:09 You need not be afraid of him.
45:11 Jesus is your protector.
45:14 The Bible says,
45:15 we'll not be able to buy or sell.
45:18 Laws are going to be passed to secure obedience,
45:24 you see, to the dictates of the image to the beasts
45:28 which we need to be aware of, we need to be steady,
45:30 if you don't realize what this is all about.
45:32 And it certainly then ends in a death decree.
45:35 This is how serious the enemy is.
45:39 According to these passages if we had time to study more,
45:41 and you read, The Great Controversy,
45:44 page 443 through 448, how interesting it will be,
45:48 you'll find state and church will unite,
45:54 and they're going to do what?
45:55 What will they do?
45:57 Once they unite together,
45:58 it is going to be a loss of religious liberty,
46:02 and freedom, certainly of speech,
46:04 and then persecution on the minority,
46:08 persecution on the minority.
46:09 Tell me Seventh-day Adventists are not a minority.
46:12 It's all said and done.
46:13 Persecution will come.
46:15 Persecution has always come on the minority
46:18 through the history of this country.
46:21 When there's a group that's set,
46:22 they want to get rid of them.
46:24 When these people over here join together,
46:26 they always want to get the smaller group over here.
46:29 Nothing different, remember that.
46:32 Revelation 13:12, we can't read it right now.
46:34 But notice what it says,
46:35 "And he exerciseth all the power
46:37 of the first beast before him," Revelation 13:12,
46:40 "And causeth the earth and them
46:42 which dwell therein shall worship the first beast,
46:45 whose deadly wound was healed."
46:47 That would be the papacy, wouldn't it?
46:50 Yeah.
46:52 Just talking about the president,
46:53 just had to have a, you know,
46:55 meeting with, like all the presidents,
46:57 like if you meet with the pope.
46:59 You know, let's be fair about it.
47:00 Let's protest this.
47:01 He should be meeting with all the other
47:04 pastors of all faiths or something, shouldn't he?
47:07 Why is it always the pope?
47:10 John, why is it always the pope?
47:13 Yeah, makes it throw your hand on the pope.
47:15 No, he's no different than anybody else.
47:16 He put his pants on one leg at a time like the rest of us.
47:20 No, it's okay, it's all right
47:21 because that's the way that it is.
47:23 But why is that that way?
47:25 Because the enemy has set it up that way,
47:27 that's why.
47:28 Because all the world will wander after the beast
47:31 and there are those whose names are not written
47:33 in the Lamb's book of life.
47:35 This is what it's all about.
47:36 This is what it's leading up to right now.
47:38 We can see it.
47:40 Manuscript 135, 1902, says, "The time is coming,"
47:44 Manuscript, 135, 1902,
47:47 "The time is coming when God's people
47:49 will feel the hand of persecution
47:51 because they keep holy the seventh day."
47:53 They are going to find what?
47:55 Persecution because they keep holy
47:57 the seventh day of the week.
47:59 Letter 38, 1892, listen carefully.
48:04 Letter 38, 1892.
48:06 "Satan has 1,000 mask batteries
48:09 which will be opened up on the loyal commandment
48:12 keeping people of God to compel them
48:15 to violate conscience."
48:18 Didn't say violate anything,
48:19 go out and do something with their hands, right?
48:21 Just to violate the conscience.
48:23 "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
48:27 He has what?
48:28 He has to say he has a 1000 mask batteries.
48:31 In other words, he has plans, deceptive plans
48:35 to get you and me off of the track.
48:39 The enemy will use wealth and money, we know it,
48:41 to destroy the world.
48:45 As I mentioned, the economists differ
48:47 on their explanation of how a country
48:49 leaves the term of, notice this,
48:51 how they leave the term of inflation
48:53 and they use hyper inflation, that's an interesting word,
48:57 and then enters the talk about here,
48:59 the stratosphere of this hyper inflation,
49:02 these are regular, quickly.
49:04 Economists don't even know how to explain it.
49:06 They don't know, they're just thinking,
49:08 they're hoping, "Everything's going good,"
49:09 and they're trying, and they're very...
49:10 Listen, if you get on there as some common economist
49:13 and you don't give somewhat of a positive to the nation
49:16 as we've seen in times past, you don't get on there anymore.
49:20 You get scolded and reprimanded,
49:23 and you better change your approach
49:26 because they know the people will panic,
49:27 and run and try to take their money out,
49:29 and you really have a collapse.
49:31 Time magazine, 3/10/1980, says this.
49:35 This is the former Federal Reserve chairman,
49:39 Arthur Burns, he said this.
49:41 "At that time, it appears that anything is better
49:44 than holding money.
49:46 People start putting everything into tangible goods
49:50 they can find."
49:51 When they see that it's folding all up,
49:54 they're grabbing all their money,
49:55 they're trying to buy something that's tangible, anything,
49:57 they don't want to hold on to the money anymore,
49:58 they see it's useless.
50:00 The Bible said what? Give it to the bats.
50:01 That's where it's gone.
50:03 It's useless anymore.
50:05 Here, you have the Federal Reserve chairman
50:08 saying this.
50:09 It is by far back as 1980 saying be careful.
50:11 This is what's going to happen.
50:13 Let me give you couple of examples
50:14 before we close.
50:15 In Germany.
50:18 You say, "Well, this can never happen."
50:19 In Germany, between World War I,
50:22 are we there,
50:23 World War I and World War II, example, right?
50:27 Think about it.
50:29 They suffered, listen carefully,
50:30 4 trillion percent inflation.
50:35 World War I and World War II,
50:36 they suffered a 4 trillion percent inflation.
50:40 We're worried about one, two, three, or four.
50:43 Some of us are ruined if it goes...
50:44 Where we borrow money on 4% and they raise at 8%,
50:48 we can't make the payment.
50:49 Somebody not with me?
50:51 Four little percent, we're in trouble.
50:55 Yeah. You know?
50:57 And used to, you could only get a car loan for three years.
51:01 Now you get them for, what, six or seven,
51:03 or so and they just brand, it's not even worth anything,
51:05 any time you.
51:07 Things are changing.
51:10 Notice how that reads.
51:12 How could something like this happen?
51:16 Think about it.
51:18 Four trillion percent.
51:20 Time magazine, 3/10/1980, says this.
51:23 Example.
51:25 "In 1914, in Germany,
51:27 you could buy a pound of butter for 1.5 Marks.
51:31 You could buy a pound of butter for what?
51:33 One and a half Marks.
51:36 In 1918, so you have close to four years,
51:40 is sold for three Marks.
51:42 So there you would have to say,
51:43 okay, that's slow inflation, isn't it?
51:45 That's slow inflation.
51:48 But notice, in the spring of 1922,
51:52 a pound of butter
51:54 sold for 2,400 Marks.
51:58 That's called galloping, right, inflation.
52:01 Did you get it?
52:02 Two thousand four hundred.
52:04 Now, notice.
52:05 In the summer of 1922, we're talking months,
52:08 futile months here, you know,
52:10 a pound of butter sold for 150,000 Marks.
52:16 Pound of butter, 150,000 Marks, hyper inflation.
52:21 We went summer, now we go
52:23 just to the fall of the same year, 1922.
52:26 A pound of butter
52:28 sold for six billion Marks.
52:33 In a matter a few months, Mark,
52:34 it's sold for six billion Marks,
52:39 or 1.5 million
52:44 American dollars
52:46 for a pound of butter.
52:48 You tell me that country weren't in trouble.
52:53 You tell me they weren't in trouble.
52:55 Yes.
52:58 So the government's thought was,
53:01 "We'll print some Marks," their money,
53:04 "We'll print them."
53:05 And so they began to print them
53:07 in one million dollar denominations.
53:12 You know, we have $20 or a $100.
53:14 They printed them in one million.
53:16 That way they didn't have to have, you know,
53:18 big stacks of them.
53:22 But it still meant, when you went to buy groceries,
53:26 and you've seen this probably in magazines
53:28 and different things,
53:30 you had to take your money in a wheelbarrow.
53:35 You had to have a wheelbarrow of money in the marketplace
53:37 to buy a loaf of bread
53:41 because it sold for
53:42 168 billion Marks.
53:47 A loaf of bread.
53:51 Interesting point.
53:53 When we reach this hyperinflation like this,
53:57 wouldn't it just be easier
53:58 to have some common one little card
54:03 rather than all just going around on wheelbarrows.
54:07 Wouldn't it be interesting? Just think.
54:11 Just a single card for all of our transactions,
54:14 all of our information on it.
54:18 Second Selected Messages, 354 says,
54:21 "Let every man be wide awake for himself,
54:25 and try to save his family...
54:30 God will reveal from point to point
54:33 what to do next."
54:36 You know, it's our sermon title,
54:37 what it is?
54:43 We need to try save our family.
54:47 And here, the spirit of prophecy says,
54:48 "Let every man be wide awake for himself,
54:51 and try to save his family."
54:53 And if he does that, God will reveal
54:55 from step to step what he has to do.
54:58 If you're not trying, he's not going...
55:00 I'm telling you, he won't reveal it.
55:02 He will not reveal
55:04 if you're not willing to follow him step by step.
55:08 Wouldn't it be nice that we would say, you know,
55:10 we need to just put it out
55:12 before the Lord as we close today?
55:14 This part of... There's much more coming.
55:16 You're going to see a lot more inflation,
55:17 you're going to see a whole lot more that could go on,
55:20 that can happen overnight, and that can change,
55:22 that hopefully would change your heart, my heart, my life,
55:26 so that we can be ready.
55:28 We need to reach out.
55:30 We need to be prepared to help save our families
55:34 because a lot of them have no idea what's going on.
55:35 They don't go to church, they don't pray,
55:37 they don't study the Word of God.
55:41 We need to realize this
55:45 has taken place in earth's history.
55:47 Remember, history will be what?
55:49 Repeated.
55:50 It's going to be worse than it was
55:52 destruction of Jerusalem.
55:54 Think about it. Worse.
55:58 And so we need maybe a relationship
56:00 that we do not have with Christ, right now.
56:04 If you don't have it, I guarantee you,
56:05 you can't hold on.
56:07 You just can't hold on unless you love Him
56:09 with your whole heart, your mind and soul.
56:12 Unless you put Him first,
56:15 unless you say, I like it too,
56:19 "Church first,
56:20 and then the other things later," that means what?
56:24 God first.
56:25 Putting God first and all these other things
56:28 will be added unto you.
56:30 Step by step, I will reveal a plan
56:32 for your life if you're willing.
56:37 And I want to be willing.
56:39 I don't want to be called with all that stuff
56:40 that will come back in the judgment to say, "Ah."
56:44 Remember, that that you've held on to
56:47 will be the very evidence that caused you,
56:49 just kind of be this playing with to be burnt,
56:52 to be burned in hell.
56:54 There's the evidence.
56:57 I don't need any evidence, I want mine wiped clean.
56:59 I don't know about you.
57:01 By the grace of God,
57:02 how many would like to say with me today,
57:03 "You know, I want this,
57:05 I want to know this information,
57:07 I want to be able to pass it on,
57:08 I want to be ready, I want to be prepared.
57:11 I want the knowledge that only God can give.
57:15 Then I want to be able to walk in.
57:17 I want him to reveal step by step
57:20 what I need to do to be ready for His coming."


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