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00:40 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:42 I'm Chris Shelton, 00:43 I want to thank you for tuning in. 00:45 This is the second message of a two-part series entitled 00:49 "National Apostasy Followed by National Ruin." 00:52 Based upon the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, 00:55 a great time of trouble is coming upon our land. 00:59 We are witnessing signs of this time 01:02 being formed as apostasy and violent anarchy 01:05 are continuing to occur before our very eyes. 01:10 This time of trouble is most certainly 01:12 a continuation of the great controversy 01:14 between Christ and His angels, and the devil and his angels. 01:19 This war began in heaven over the law of God 01:22 and it will continue to be battled in our world 01:25 over that same Ten Commandment law. 01:28 As this battle is ramping up and becoming more apparent, 01:32 God has given us instructions of preparations 01:36 such as where we're to live, 01:38 and how we are to stand even though our stance 01:42 will bring about persecution before Christ's second coming. 01:46 We cannot afford, friends, to relax and be non-committal 01:50 during this warfare. 01:51 We must live up to every ray of light 01:55 that God is showing us 01:56 as we dig for this information throughout His Word 02:00 and an attitude of prayer and supplication. 02:03 We are called to be watchmen, 02:05 we must sound an alarm 02:07 in order to wake up those whom we love. 02:10 National apostasy followed by national ruin. 02:14 Is it possible that satanic agencies 02:17 are indeed behind an orchestrated movement 02:20 in this apostasy from God's law? 02:23 Is it possible that satanic agencies 02:26 are also behind the apostasy 02:28 in our nation to set up a place, 02:31 a different mindset and laws in our land 02:35 that will attempt to force God's people to adopt changes 02:39 that directly contradict the law of God? 02:43 Are these the steps 02:45 that will be morphing Protestant churches, 02:48 and the legislation of this nation 02:51 into fully becoming the image of the beast? 02:55 Let's quickly read a couple of verses 02:58 from the Book of Revelation 03:00 to remind ourselves of the danger 03:02 that this image of the beast represents to God's people 03:06 and to all people, for that matter. 03:08 Revelation 13:15 reads, 03:11 "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, 03:15 that the image of the beast should both speak, 03:18 and cause that as many 03:20 as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." 03:26 Going on in Revelation 14:11. 03:29 We read, 03:30 "And the smoke of their torment 03:32 ascendeth up for ever and ever, 03:34 and they have no rest day nor night, 03:37 who worship the beast and his image, 03:40 and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." 03:44 Friends, praise God for His warnings, 03:47 praise Him for prophecy and for messages 03:51 such as Pastor Kenny, 03:52 who are messengers such as Pastor Kenny, 03:56 who are willing by the grace of God, 03:59 and the power and the strength of God 04:01 to present these strong messages 04:03 in order that we might hear, learn and prepare 04:06 so that we will be saved. 04:09 But before we join Pastor Kenny Shelton 04:11 for this message, 04:12 National Apostasy Followed by National Ruin, part two. 04:16 Let's visit 3ABN 04:18 and listen to Brother Ben Lingle as he plays, 04:21 "O Come to the Altar." 07:19 Thank you very much for joining us here 07:20 at Behold the Lamb Ministry. 07:22 We appreciate you so very much. 07:24 Our title for today 07:25 we're going to be talking about here 07:27 is national apostasy followed by national ruin. 07:31 Those are big words, but we discussed it. 07:33 This is a two-part series, 07:34 we discussed it in-depth a little bit more last time 07:37 we came together on part one. 07:38 So if you missed that, 07:40 you may want to call in and get that part. 07:41 So you can put these two together, 07:43 this will be part two. 07:44 And again, we want to say 07:45 how much we appreciate you, thank you for your cards, 07:47 thank you for your letters, thank you for your support, 07:50 you know, this couldn't go forth without you. 07:51 So we kind of want to get together here 07:54 and get this message to the whole world. 07:56 Had the opportunity to reach literally thousands 07:58 and thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of people 08:02 because you help us to do that. 08:04 We're very grateful and thankful. 08:05 Continue to keep those cards and letters coming. 08:07 If we can do something for you, please let us know. 08:09 Again, we're going to be talking about 08:11 national apostasy followed by national ruin. 08:14 And we're going to go over a couple of things 08:15 after we have prayer. 08:16 So I invite you, as many of you say you do, 08:19 you pray with us every time we pray, you pray. 08:21 Thank you for doing that. 08:23 I'm going to kneel up here, let's pray together, shall we? 08:27 Merciful Father in heaven, 08:28 thank You for today 08:29 this privilege that we have 08:31 to dig deep into Your Word 08:32 by the grace and power of the Holy Spirit. 08:34 Lord, we just invite you 08:35 to open our hearts and our minds and our ears 08:37 and to be here with us. 08:39 We pray that we'll only hear what we need to hear. 08:41 And we'll be able to hear those things 08:42 that will lead us closer to heaven. 08:44 Help us to realize the time that we're living, 08:46 we can't continue on down the same road 08:48 that we've been going for many, many years, 08:49 no changes, nothing taking place. 08:51 But now we need to be, 08:52 have all things become new in our hearts and our minds. 08:55 Thank you for hearing. Thank you for answering prayer. 08:57 Thank you for every individual. 08:59 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 09:03 Now remember, were several questions 09:04 that I threw out to you last time on part number one, 09:07 and we answered some of those questions. 09:09 And so let me just go over those right now. 09:12 And we'll do, I think there was like nine of them. 09:14 You know, again, what is, you know, 09:16 this national apostasy followed by national ruin? 09:19 What does that really mean? 09:21 Two, is America right now forming an image to the beast? 09:26 Three, what is the most important work in the world? 09:31 These are questions you know. 09:32 As crisis, a crisis within the church is here 09:36 because there's errors that have been creeping in. 09:40 And number five, 09:41 will, notice it, 09:43 will it ever come a time 09:44 that earthly support is going to be cut off 09:46 from God's people. 09:48 See if we believe that, 09:49 then we need to be preparing, ain't that right? 09:50 So we'll talk about that in a moment. 09:52 I believe this and based on God's Word, 09:54 based on the Spirit of Prophecy, 09:56 famine will hit the United States of America 09:58 in a very big, ugly way. 10:00 And not only America, but the world. 10:03 We've talked a lot about, 10:04 we'll mention out of the cities a good time to do it. 10:07 We'll know when to do it and how to do it. 10:09 And should we be, listen, 10:11 should we be is a time 10:12 that we should be get rid of some of the things 10:15 that God has loaned us? 10:17 Is it time to get rid of some of our personal possessions 10:20 and if we don't, what might happen? 10:22 And number nine, 10:24 should we, you know, 10:25 should we be able to grow our own food? 10:28 Will there come a time that we should grow? 10:29 There's a lot of people nodding up who will say, 10:31 "Yes, we should." 10:32 But you really, do with this in mind 10:34 we have to realize these things 10:36 will maybe be a possibility in the very near future. 10:41 And it was said just a little while back 10:42 just about it's time to rise and what? 10:45 To rise and shine, right? 10:47 Because we know that Jesus is coming. 10:49 Lines are being drawn every day, we know that. 10:53 We either stand on the side of God, 10:55 or we stand on the crazy side of this world. 10:58 And things are getting crazier day by day. 11:02 Have you noticed that? 11:03 Getting crazier. 11:05 You know, I've repeated this many times. 11:07 But I think it needs to be repeated 11:09 again and again and again until we really get it. 11:12 We're living in such a time of earth's history 11:15 that God's people cannot be silent at this time. 11:19 Now remember a lot, a lot of times we get silent, 11:22 we're maybe approached with some kind of an issue 11:25 or somebody challenges over here 11:27 or we don't want to cause trouble. 11:29 We don't want to, you know, get in any kind of hot water. 11:31 So we say nothing and we do nothing. 11:34 But we're living in such a time 11:35 that devil is attacking God's people. 11:39 Error is attacking God's people. 11:41 What are we to do when we see these things 11:44 getting closer to us? 11:46 And that God's law is being attacked? 11:48 Should we be a little silent? Should we be reserved? 11:51 Or should we form a warfare against the enemy? 11:54 This is found in Review and Herald, 1-1 in 1889. 11:59 Listen to that 1889, this was written. 12:02 Here we go. It's very simple. It's very pointed. 12:05 But it says, 12:06 "Let not the commandment keeping people of God 12:09 be silent at this time." 12:12 Now I could stop there, I'm not going to. 12:14 But remember, let not the commandment people, 12:17 right, keeping people of God be silent at this time. 12:21 There's a reason those as we read on. 12:23 "As though we gracefully accepted the situation. 12:28 There is a prospect before us of waging a continuous war." 12:33 What is it? 12:34 Before us, we realize what has come. 12:36 See, as long as it's kind of peace and safety, 12:38 and setback and relax, 12:40 most of us are happy with that 12:41 because we don't want it to change. 12:43 This is what's taking place right now. 12:45 And that's going to get worse as we go. 12:47 Most of us will be seated and will remain seated, 12:49 will follow the image to the beast, 12:51 will follow the papacy, 12:52 will follow all the things in the world 12:54 because we have not made the moves 12:55 that God has asked us to make. 12:57 The changes right now we need to be making. 13:01 And you will find, they may be very simple, 13:03 but you will be as kings and queens 13:05 in this mess that the world 13:06 is getting ready on the verge right now. 13:08 We need to hear it over and over. 13:10 We're going to go over some of those things. 13:12 Remember, we must rise there. 13:14 We must wage a continuous war, 13:17 notice this, oh, if I do that, though, I may get in trouble. 13:20 That's right. 13:21 This article says at the risk of imprisonment. 13:25 At the risk of losing property that could be your home. 13:29 It could be your job. Notice this. 13:30 Even life itself, what? 13:33 To defend the law of God. 13:36 What's all issue about? 13:38 Defending the law of God, right? 13:41 God's law is being challenged in the world, 13:43 is being made void. 13:44 And God said He needs people that will stand up. 13:46 He wants us to stand up right now. 13:48 But it may, it will cost you. 13:51 See most of us don't want anything to cost us. 13:53 We like everything just come easy come easy go. 13:57 Now notice it which is being made void by the laws of what? 14:00 By the laws of men. 14:01 It's time for the Lord to work 14:03 for they have made void Thy law. 14:06 That is coming. 14:07 But it seems like, Lord have mercy. 14:09 It seems like it would just excite us so much 14:12 to realize that we're in this hour. 14:15 We couldn't say this 10 years ago, 14:16 we couldn't say it five years ago. 14:18 We couldn't say yesterday like we can say it today. 14:22 Instead of getting discouraged about it, 14:24 as we see what men are doing behind closed doors, 14:27 as we see what's taking place in the world, 14:29 instead of getting all just depressed 14:31 and we have to realize, 14:32 this is when we lift up our heads, 14:34 our redemption is drawing nigh. 14:37 This is the time to be living, but it's not. 14:39 We're living in the crazy world, 14:41 we just admitted. 14:43 And again, getting crazier all the time. 14:46 But here in these last days, 14:47 God has a people 14:49 He's going to give them the most important work 14:51 that can be given mortals. 14:53 Now, if God is going to give us that most important work, 14:56 I want to know what that work is. 15:00 See, I had one amen, will there be two? 15:03 Now, all right. 15:04 So this is what it's all about, is it? 15:06 If God has given us the most important work 15:09 that people can do human beings, 15:10 I do want to know what that is. 15:13 It's just simple answer. 15:14 There's no doubt about it. 15:15 But still yet we need to know right here, 15:17 right now I'm going to read, 15:18 we'll talk a little bit more about that in just a moment, 15:20 I hit it a little more on the head. 15:21 But I want to read something right now, 15:23 this is called Three testimonies 247. 15:26 We're going to be accountable. Now notice this. 15:29 In the balances of the sanctuary... 15:32 Now listen, I'm going to get a little personal here. 15:34 You may not be a Seventh-day Adventist 15:36 or whatever it might be here. 15:37 But I believe that, notice this, 15:39 "In the balances of the sanctuary, 15:41 the Seventh-day Adventist Church is to be weighed." 15:45 Interesting, 15:46 the Adventist Church is going to be weighed 15:48 for the privileges and opportunities 15:51 that God has given us. 15:53 When God gives you a privilege, 15:55 He gives you an opportunity to do something, 15:57 He weighs it out. 15:58 What are we going to do 16:00 with these privileges and opportunities 16:01 that God gives us every day, 16:03 life and health and strength and home and, 16:05 you know, a job or whatever means. 16:07 What are we doing with all the stuff 16:08 that God has loaned to us? 16:10 You don't own a thing, 16:12 I don't own a thing, it all belongs to God. 16:13 Is that not right? 16:17 So in the balances of the sanctuary. 16:20 God says this in Zephaniah 1:12. 16:23 "And it shall come to pass at that time, 16:26 that I will search Jerusalem with candles." 16:30 God's telling us something very important right here. 16:32 The time is coming. 16:33 He's going to be closely searching mankind, 16:37 His life and His deeds, His thoughts and His actions. 16:41 Wow, reading on, notice, 16:44 "I will search Jerusalem, He said, with candles, 16:47 and I'll punish that, notice this, 16:49 men that are settled on their lees." 16:52 God said I'm going to punish men 16:55 who are settled on their lees. 16:57 I thought about settle on my lees. 16:58 I thought must be settled on your backside. 17:00 Can I say that? 17:02 Is that okay? 17:04 Well, that's what it is, I thought. 17:06 But, you know, you look up the word, 17:08 it's a little bit different original language, 17:10 it means He's going to, 17:11 He's going to make those pay 17:12 who have hardened their minds against truth. 17:17 They've hardened, they just sit by. 17:21 Their heart is hardened against sin 17:23 and wanting to change. 17:24 They're lazy spiritually. 17:28 We cannot afford to relax. 17:32 When I see Christians, 17:33 as it were, 17:34 especially those of you who know prophecy 17:37 begin to be relaxed, 17:39 then there's something wrong. 17:41 This is a very anxious time as it were, 17:44 because of what's taking place. 17:47 And what will soon take place in your home 17:49 maybe in your family, 17:50 with your property, with your job. 17:53 Remember, things will happen. 17:54 They'll happen very quickly. 17:56 But we begin warning after warning 17:57 for many, many, many, many years now. 18:00 We cannot afford to relax the warfare, now notice, 18:04 this side of heaven. 18:05 We get to heaven, we can relax 18:07 but and in this world, 18:09 we have to show signs of progress. 18:12 You know, when you're working somewhere, 18:14 the boss likes to see progress, does he not? 18:17 He likes to see signs of that 18:19 you're catching on as you're doing work, 18:20 that you're doing more work than you used to 18:22 when you first came there. 18:25 Living up, we call spiritually living up to all the light 18:28 that God has given us. 18:31 If everyone here would be truthful today, 18:34 really truthful. 18:35 You can do it in your own mind. 18:37 You don't have to do it out loud 18:38 where everybody knows. 18:39 But God knows already. 18:41 Are we living up to every ray of light 18:42 that God has shown us? 18:43 Most of us would be walking out the door 18:45 turning our back because we are not. 18:49 Maybe no one here. 18:51 But let me challenge the thinking. 18:54 That's not such a hard question, 18:56 Brother Herb, that's not a hard question. 18:58 Are we living up to all the light? 19:00 Now it doesn't mean we're not confused on this, 19:02 or maybe a little bit on that. 19:03 But to the best of our thinking and our ability, 19:05 we're living up to what we understand 19:07 maybe is light, 19:09 and certainly God can make it to where we can understand. 19:11 There's no doubt about that. 19:13 But are we really living up to those privileges God has be. 19:16 There's a word here that we have to think about here. 19:19 And I see it in the church is complacency. 19:23 We're complacent sometime many times. 19:25 And that is the greatest enemy of the Christian. 19:29 Today, that's a great enemy of a Christian is complacency. 19:32 We're just kind of, you know, 19:34 we're floating along with the group and, you know, 19:37 whatever somebody says, well, it sounds good to 19:39 me, as long as we can have, you know, 19:41 good fellowship and eat and carry on. 19:43 We don't worry about doing the work of Christ. 19:47 Now what is the most important work 19:49 that's ever been given to mortals? 19:51 We addressed it just a little bit earlier. 19:53 Now I want to read it 19:54 from Nine Testimonies 19 of what it is. 19:58 We talked about it. 19:59 "In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists have been set 20:03 in the world as watchmen and light bearers." 20:08 Seventh-day Adventists have been set what? 20:10 As, hello everybody, 20:13 watchmen and light bearers to give the light to the world. 20:18 If I made this be so bold 20:20 and it's too bold for some maybe, 20:22 you know, some time, but I, you know, 20:24 I look at as God has in the beginning. 20:26 He had, did He not? 20:27 His chosen people were Israel, were they not? 20:29 Israel, right? 20:30 The Old Testament, right? 20:32 Israel kind of failed a little bit, didn't they? 20:33 Right. 20:35 Then we got in the New Testament, 20:36 what do we have? 20:38 Who was God's chosen people? 20:40 We got to say the Jews? 20:43 The Jews, right? 20:45 Then they failed, they crucified Christ. 20:46 And then what? 20:47 Then there's another group that's come in and take over 20:49 who would keep the commandments of God 20:51 and had the testimony of Jesus. 20:53 And there's only one group left is Seventh-day Adventist. 20:57 Israel, the Jews 20:59 and should be Seventh-day Adventist, 21:02 because they are the ones 21:03 what God has chosen over the path 21:05 is to reveal what? 21:06 His law is right to hold up. 21:09 And who else does that in the world, 21:10 most of them say it's done away with 21:11 or we don't need it anymore. 21:14 Now with that, just in mind, 21:15 you may have difference of opinion, 21:17 or different thoughts of that. 21:18 With that in mind, I want you to continue to listen. 21:20 We are watchmen 21:21 because we should have been studying the Word of God 21:23 to know when the thief is going to come in. 21:28 We should know what the thief is up to. 21:31 We should know when he's knocking at the door. 21:33 We should know 21:35 when he's creeping through the back door 21:36 or out the back door. 21:38 But sometimes we don't because we really not read. 21:40 We spend more time doing a lot of other things 21:42 than we do in the Word of God. 21:44 And I'm just simply say, 21:45 I'm not trying to criticize or condemn, it will cost us. 21:49 It will cost us. 21:51 It may cost us heaven, 21:53 if anything takes priority over the Word of God. 21:57 Watchmen and light bearers, 21:59 Isaiah 21:6 says, he said, 22:02 "Go set a watchman," 22:05 you remember that watchman and, 22:06 "let him declare what he seeth." 22:10 God said to set what? 22:13 Set watchmen. 22:15 And then the watchmen are looking around, 22:17 and then God says to them, declare what you see. 22:20 We see a lot of watchmen on there that's blind. 22:23 They're not seeing very much. 22:25 There's a lot of watchmen on the walls 22:27 that will care more about a retirement check 22:28 than they do about doing what God asked them to do. 22:32 It's my personal opinion. 22:35 There's a lot of watchmen on the wall 22:37 that need not be watchmen 22:38 because God never set you there. 22:40 You got up there on your own. 22:43 Because if you're God's watchmen, 22:44 let me tell you when things are going, 22:46 there's something that's going on. 22:48 There's something going on in this world. 22:51 There's a lot going on in this world. 22:53 And if we've got watchman now, 22:54 whether he's elder, or pastor, or teacher, 22:55 whoever it might be a member of this church, 22:57 and you don't see anything going on, 22:59 may God have mercy on your soul. 23:01 Is it okay to do that? 23:03 I mean, that's what I really believe with my heart. 23:05 God have mercy on us. 23:08 So many things that are happening, 23:10 let him declare what he's seeing, what you see. 23:13 And you ask some of the pastors, 23:14 teachers today in the pulpit, 23:15 they're not really seeing anything. 23:18 What they're seeing is, well, 23:19 pour some more money into the ministry, 23:20 and boy, a 10-fold and 50-fold and 100-fold and... 23:27 Here I go again, right? 23:31 Instead of saying, I see the enemy. 23:35 I see the image to the beast. 23:36 I see the Sunday law is coming. 23:37 I see all this stuff that's happening. 23:39 So plain, 23:41 and you can see it through the things 23:42 that's being worked out right now. 23:45 Reading on, 1919 says this. 23:48 They, we're talking about 23:49 the Seventh-day Adventists in the world 23:51 as watchmen and what? 23:53 Light bearers. 23:54 "They've been given a work of the most solemn import. 23:59 The proclamation of," 24:01 you guessed it, 24:02 "the first, second and third angels' message" 24:05 of Revelation 14:6-12. 24:07 We have been given the commission 24:09 to proclaim the last message to go to the world. 24:13 The last warning message to give to the world 24:16 before Jesus comes, 24:18 a message that will purify a people. 24:21 A message that will be set aside 24:23 that we can read and we can study 24:24 that we're in the judgment hour of God. 24:27 Go back to the one that made heaven and earth and the sea. 24:29 Go back to the seventh day Sabbath, right? 24:31 Second angels' message, 24:33 come out of her my people, come out of Babylon. 24:36 Babylon is confusion. 24:38 Babylon's all over the place. 24:39 Babylon's sometime in here among us. 24:41 When we spot Babylon, 24:43 we need to kick Babylon back out. 24:45 Is that too bold? 24:47 Not trying to, I'm just, 24:48 I want us to think you cannot let Babylon 24:50 these things inside the church 24:51 and expect it to be God's Church. 24:54 You can't let apostasy in the church 24:56 and expect it to be God's Church. 24:59 It just cannot be. 25:00 God is purifying and perfecting a people. 25:03 We know we will be found. 25:05 We know there's a shaking going on. 25:07 We have been giving awesome responsibility 25:11 of giving the three angels' message. 25:14 Reading on, notice what it says, 25:15 "There is no other work of so great importance." 25:19 Now do I need to repeat that? 25:21 Three angels' message, 25:23 it's warning, 25:24 the third angels' message is warning against what? 25:26 Image to the beast, the mark of the beast. 25:27 Most of the world has no idea what the mark of the beast is. 25:30 Somebody said I heard, who said it? 25:32 Somebody said here today, "Well, well, that's COVID-19." 25:35 That's COVID-19. 25:37 Somebody wake up. 25:38 No, bless their hearts. They may be honest in heart. 25:40 I'm not trying to laugh at them. 25:41 I'm just saying my lands of love. 25:42 It has to do with how many times 25:44 we have to say it. 25:45 It has to do with who we worship. 25:47 Every time in Scripture has to do with worship, 25:49 with worship, with worship, 25:51 who is it you give your allegiance to? 25:53 Is it going to be to God? 25:54 Or is it going to be to, you know, another form, 25:56 Catholicism? 25:57 Is it going to be Protestantism? 25:59 What is it going to be? 26:00 This is where we are at. 26:02 "There's no other work of so great importance. 26:06 They, us, we are to allow," 26:09 listen carefully, we are to allow what? 26:10 "Nothing else to absorb the attention 26:15 of the most solemn truths ever entrusted to mortals. 26:20 They have been given to us to proclaim to the world." 26:24 Now what's supposed to occupy our mind? 26:27 Nothing but the giving of what? 26:29 Three angels' message 26:30 but all the time we're sitting around idle, 26:32 doing nothing arguing about stupid. 26:33 Can I say stupid? 26:35 Stupid stuff that doesn't amount to a hill of beans, 26:37 has nothing to do with me getting to heaven or not. 26:39 You see, they're not salvation issues. 26:42 We're discussing a certain color blue 26:44 is it right color or blue is different. 26:48 We're arguing in the church, 26:49 church is being split over the color of carpet. 26:52 The color of paint is chosen. 26:55 We should have a unity of spirit, 26:58 things that matter. 27:00 Don't get sidetracked on sidetrack issues, 27:02 they're all over the place, 27:04 they will come in by the dozens if you allow them. 27:07 I want to by the grace of God, 27:09 you should be praying and I'm praying, 27:10 we see false could be able to come into the door, 27:12 we will be able to spot it. 27:14 By the grace of God we'll be able to, you know, 27:17 combat it by knowing what Scripture has to say 27:19 and will follow Scripture and Spirit of Prophecy. 27:23 This is so important in this hour. 27:25 This is the only thing that's going to save us 27:29 of the crisis that we are in. 27:31 Well, you say well, surely that's clear. 27:33 Maybe it's not clear enough. 27:34 Let me read Eight Testimonies, page 302 says this, 27:39 "The solemn message that has been given," 27:42 now that solemn a message 27:44 referring to the Book of Revelation, 27:45 and certainly Daniel, 27:46 "are to occupy the first place in the minds of God's people." 27:51 If it's not occupying, 27:53 maybe it's because you don't understand it 27:54 or whatever at the time. 27:56 But those of us who are supposed to understand this, 27:57 if it's not occupying the first place, 27:59 I would be bold enough to say, 28:01 because you're not God's people. 28:05 Not trying to read and judge anybody. 28:07 And I'm just simply saying, because it says here, 28:09 if we understand the message we have to give, 28:11 it will occupy the first place in the minds of God's people. 28:17 Nothing else has to take the place of that. 28:21 But, you know, sometime we're challenged 28:22 because we have those 28:24 who are supposed to know the truth. 28:28 And then we see them start to apostatize. 28:31 They turn away from the truth. 28:33 We've had great confidence in them. 28:34 Could be pastors, leaders, teachers, a friend. 28:37 They've known these beautiful truths, 28:38 but what are they? 28:40 They turned aside 28:41 and that begins to affect our thinking. 28:45 It has an influence on our thinking. 28:47 But notice what this talks about here this article. 28:51 If someone question, if someone you believe in, 28:54 turns their back on this message, 28:56 what should you do? 28:57 Then they go into apostasy. 29:00 Four Testimonies, 595. 29:02 4T, 595 says this, 29:05 "Ministers who preach the truth 29:07 with all zeal and earnestness may apostatize 29:12 and join the ranks of the enemy. 29:17 Hmm. 29:18 But does this turn the truth of God into a lie?" 29:22 Because they changed 29:23 it does not change the truth of God into a lie. 29:26 They might change 29:27 because they took their eyes off of Christ. 29:29 They may have changed 29:30 because they didn't want to do it anymore. 29:32 They may have changed because they got burnt out. 29:35 Is somebody with me? 29:36 You can kill a good pastor 29:37 as well as you can it, you know, 29:40 we're not so good. 29:42 Why? 29:44 Because we won't, well, 29:45 we don't want to follow thus saith the Lord. 29:47 We're just always throwing in junk 29:49 when we should be taking junk out. 29:52 Getting things down to the simple 29:53 thus saith the Lord. 29:56 Notice what it says this, the truth. 29:59 "The faith 30:00 and the feeling of men may change. 30:03 But I love this, the truth of God what? 30:06 Never changes. 30:08 Notice this. 30:09 "The third angels' message is sounding." 30:12 And notice, 30:13 this is where it's kind of interesting. 30:15 "And third angels' message is infallible." 30:18 We hear that term applied to the pope, 30:21 papacy all the time. 30:23 But he's fallible, ain't he? 30:24 He makes, he can make a mistake. 30:26 He's a sinner just like we are. 30:30 If he's going to be saved, 30:31 he's going to be saved by grace through faith, 30:33 just like the rest of us. 30:36 But not this message, 30:38 because it was given us to us by God, 30:41 the angels flying in the midst of heaven. 30:44 What a message that we have. 30:47 Acts of the Apostles, 599, quickly. 30:48 Acts of the Apostles, 599, 30:51 "We who are living in the age, this age have a work to do." 30:56 Those of us what? 30:58 If we're living in this age, we have a work to do. 31:00 But you know what? 31:02 I'm afraid that some of us are not picking up that work. 31:05 We don't even know what the work is. 31:07 We don't know what the message is. 31:09 We're not studying to show ourselves approved unto God, 31:11 not trying to get on to her. 31:13 I'm just simply saying, 31:14 these are reasons why people won't make it to heaven. 31:16 I want you to make it there. I want to be there. 31:18 It may not pertain to anybody that's here, 31:20 but there'll be millions. 31:22 I'm telling you, 31:23 will listen to these videos and these tapes 31:25 that's going to hit it right on the head for them. 31:27 They're going to make a change. 31:30 The truth changes people. 31:35 Hmm. 31:36 God's people should know the difference 31:41 between lie and the truth. 31:44 We should know the truth. 31:45 We may not be able to explain it all but immediately 31:47 we should be able to sense 31:49 by the power of the Holy Spirit. 31:52 1 John 4:6 just a simple statement there, 31:55 1 John 4:6 says, 31:56 "Hereby know we the spirit of truth 32:00 and the spirit of error." 32:04 God's people know what? 32:06 Spirit of truth, but they also can detect what? 32:09 Error. 32:11 That's why we need to know the word here. 32:15 We're entering on a work here we have to do this work 32:18 that will be guided by the Holy Spirit 32:20 of the Living God. 32:22 You cannot go wrong, 32:24 but self has to be put out of the equation. 32:26 Let the Holy Spirit lead, guide and direct. 32:29 What if the Holy Spirit says, 32:30 right, what we need to do give up 32:32 whatever it might be in this world, 32:33 be willing to put it on the altar. 32:37 The enemy is, I'm telling you, he's working. 32:42 We have a message to give and when you give that message, 32:44 the enemy is not happy. 32:49 He sees the church begin to grow, 32:51 so he begins to allow and bring in error. 32:55 None of us here want to be accountable 32:57 right to God to say, well, we brought some error in. 33:00 Maybe no one will do it on purpose, 33:02 but the enemy then brings error in 33:04 and I know he uses people. 33:10 It might be shocking 33:13 and you know sometime we need to be shocked. 33:16 Hello, 33:18 we need to be shocked sometime. 33:21 Shocked, I mean shocked with the Word of God, 33:23 shocked with what's going on 33:25 because we've set so long idly by in a sleepy state 33:29 that God sometime has to shake us and shock us. 33:32 But I mentioned there one of the points 33:33 we're talking about, 33:35 there is a crisis among the people of God 33:38 because error has come into the church. 33:44 Error has what? 33:46 Error has come into the church. 33:48 It's at a crisis point. 33:51 Hmm. 33:55 How could error come into the church? 33:57 May I just suggest one little point? 33:59 Maybe it's because the watchmen on the wall 34:01 are not really watchman. 34:04 They're just buying some time. 34:08 They like the title. 34:11 They like the prestige. 34:14 They like to be referred to as, 34:16 you know, 34:19 rather than just a watchman on the wall of Zion 34:21 and watching what the enemy 34:23 is trying to tear the church apart. 34:27 And we noticed that 34:28 and again if you missed the first part, 34:30 you missed it because we went over a vision 34:33 you remember in First Selected Messages, 205 and 6. 34:37 We went through that 34:38 about Ellen White had this about apostasy 34:40 coming in the church and it was a boat, 34:42 you remember the boat was sailing down through there 34:44 and it was getting ready to hit an iceberg, 34:45 you remember that? 34:47 It was, oh no, we gonna tear the boat across, 34:49 and as it were, the captain said, 34:51 "Hit it head on." 34:53 How are we to hit error in the church and apostasy? 34:55 You hit it head on. 34:56 You don't mickey mouse around with it. 34:58 You don't dillydally around with it, 34:59 because when you're dillydallying, 35:01 the enemy's planning somewhere else. 35:02 Just greet it and this is what God says, 35:05 well, we don't want to hurt this with. 35:07 We're not here to hurt anybody. 35:10 We're here to advocate God's Word. 35:11 And God's people will line up with the Word of God, 35:14 or God's people will find themselves 35:15 going on down the road. 35:16 You don't have to send them down there. 35:18 They don't want to line up. 35:19 They want to live their own life. 35:21 But what a mistake that is, 35:22 since we're so close to the end of time. 35:26 Hmm. 35:29 It continues to get worse, it doesn't get better. 35:33 You realize it's getting so bad, 35:34 we weep every day. 35:36 Let me just throw this out to you. 35:38 Every day when we're going down the road, 35:40 when you're driving a car, when you're at the workplace, 35:42 you are meeting the enemy head on through someone else. 35:46 Did you get it? 35:47 We are meeting the enemy head on. 35:50 The enemy is looking at you every day 35:52 through the eyes of an individual 35:53 you may work with 35:55 that's never made a commitment to Jesus Christ. 35:56 These are demons from hell. 36:00 This is how it's getting here. 36:01 I'll read you a few things here in a moment. 36:03 And are we really ready? 36:06 Do we really have that relationship with Christ, 36:08 a strong relationship 36:11 that we'll be able to make it through here? 36:13 Are we really ready? 36:14 And let me tell you, 36:15 you know where it's happening most 36:17 is where the demons are in human form 36:19 in the cities. 36:21 Let me just share something with you. 36:22 Eight Testimonies, 42, 36:26 "Satan's agencies in human form 36:30 are on the ground." 36:33 And when you're in suburbs that they say, you know, 36:35 get a warning and a blast come, the enemy's on the ground. 36:39 What do you do? 36:41 Well, I want to sleep a little bit longer. 36:43 You rally to the call, you get the weapon, 36:45 ain't that right? 36:47 And right now it's saying right now. 36:48 Right now, Satan's agencies 36:50 are on the ground in human form, 36:52 because they've taken over human beings 36:56 who have not given their life to Christ. 36:58 Remember, if your mind is not given 100% to God, 37:01 the enemy will take it. 37:03 Does that make sense? 37:07 I mean, that's pretty heavy duty. 37:08 I understand that. 37:10 But remember, the enemy doesn't have to have 37:11 but just a little bitty wedge. 37:12 And he gets in, ain't that right? 37:14 Again, you have a glass right full of water. 37:16 And just takes one drop of poison to poison 37:18 the whole thing, ain't that right? 37:21 Let me read on, notice this. 37:23 Men have confederated to oppose the Lord of hosts. 37:29 What's the enemy job? 37:30 Always just to get to, 37:32 always try to tear God's work apart and God's people. 37:33 Here it say, 37:35 Satanic agencies are, listen, are in every city. 37:40 Satanic agencies, 37:41 that doesn't mean they're not here in the country, 37:43 Lord have mercy. 37:46 But there's just more people there 37:47 and there's more demons there. 37:49 And you can see the upheaval of it right now 37:52 of what's going on. 37:56 There's not a man of God 37:57 or a woman of God or a child of God 37:59 that's in some of these protest marches 38:01 and some of them here 38:02 who are causing danger and hurting 38:04 and killing other people 38:05 and burning other people's property, 38:06 ruining other people's life and business. 38:08 A child of God will not do that. 38:12 They won't. 38:13 You can't do it if you're a child of God. 38:15 You say, 38:17 "Oh, that's being judgmental." 38:18 By their fruits you shall know them. 38:19 That is the work of the enemy, force is the work of the enemy. 38:22 The Bible says you love God supremely 38:24 and your fellowman. 38:25 If you love your fellowman supremely, 38:27 how can you do that to your fellowman? 38:28 You cannot. 38:30 And so the enemy has taken over and I may continue to read, 38:33 Satanic agencies, notice this, right? 38:36 "In every city, 38:38 they're busily organizing into parties 38:42 with those who opposed the law of God." 38:46 Huh. 38:47 Professed, did you get the word professed? 38:50 "Professed saints," 38:52 that means they're not. 38:54 They just make a profession, like many Christians do today. 38:58 Well, I belong to the church. I'm a Christian. 38:59 I belong to blah, blah... 39:01 Professed Christians and unbelievers, 39:04 "avowed unbelievers take their stand 39:07 with these parties." 39:10 And then I like the last part, she says here, 39:13 "This is no time 39:15 for the people of God to be weaklings." 39:20 This is no time 39:21 for the people of God to be sissies. 39:26 I say that nicely. 39:28 This is no time for the people of God, 39:31 not to have a backbone. 39:34 This is no time for the people of God 39:37 to say I don't understand the Word. 39:40 This is the time that we stand tall 39:42 and we're ready to fight the good fight of faith. 39:45 He said, 39:46 "I'll fight your battles for you." 39:48 He said, 39:49 "I'll recall those things that you need 39:50 if you put it in your mind to begin with." 39:52 But if you got all this foolishness 90% 39:54 of the time on your mind, 39:55 that's what's going to come out. 39:57 You know that. 39:58 This is no time for weaklings. 40:01 There's a sifting going on, there's a fire. 40:04 And the fire is doing away 40:05 with those who will not stand up and say, 40:07 "No, I want Jesus on my side, I need something, 40:10 fire retardant, because it's getting hot. 40:15 To be a Christian, 40:17 it's getting hotter all the time." 40:21 Testimonies to Ministers, backing this up, 117 and 18. 40:24 I'm not going to read all that. 40:25 But I'd like for you to read those, 40:26 both those pages, 40:28 Testimonies to Ministers, 117 and 118 says right here, 40:30 notice this. 40:32 Listen 40:33 "Heathen deities," 40:35 I just said about here Satan's agencies in human form. 40:40 Demons. 40:41 Now it's going on and said, heathen. 40:44 The heathen lands, we think about, you know. 40:46 "Heathen deities will manifest their signal power, 40:50 and will exhibit themselves 40:52 before the cities of this world." 40:56 Lo and behold, if that's not happening. 40:59 Is it not? 41:01 Heathen deities. 41:05 They're showing signal of power right now. 41:07 They're exhibiting themselves 41:09 before the cities of the world right now. 41:12 And you know what? We can't figure it out. 41:13 We're trying to, we've got an issue here, 41:15 and there's a spiritual issue. 41:18 But we're trying to deal with laws of the land 41:20 and through government and all, 41:21 it means heart changes what needs to take place. 41:25 Five Testimonies, 698, 41:27 reading on, notice what it says. 41:29 5T, 698. 41:31 "It was by the display of supernatural power, 41:36 in making the serpent," 41:37 remember, 41:38 "his medium that caused the fall of" 41:41 whom? 41:42 "Adam and Eve in the garden." 41:44 What was it? 41:46 It was a display of supernatural power 41:49 that we've just been talking about here, 41:51 they get together to manifest begin to show power. 41:55 That's what he did in the garden. 41:56 You remember so far as his power extends, 42:00 listen to this, 42:01 as far as his power extends, 42:03 the enemy will work actual miracles. 42:08 I don't want anybody to be fool. 42:09 I've heard said before, well, 42:11 he can't perform any actual miracles. 42:13 Yes, he can. 42:14 But praise. 42:16 Oh, praise God, there's a limit. 42:19 There wasn't a limit, 42:20 he'd tear you up and tear me up 42:22 in a matter of seconds. 42:23 Did you get it? 42:25 He's out to kill, steal and destroy, 42:27 and that's a fact. 42:28 You're here because God says you can be here. 42:32 You're not here by any other strength, 42:33 the enemy and all that hosts, 42:34 the demons and devils of hell by the billions 42:37 would tear you from limb to limb. 42:39 Can I say that? 42:41 But God says, 42:42 "No, they're mine." 42:44 No man can take them out of the hand. 42:46 Only way you get out of God's hands 42:48 is you decide you want to crawl out. 42:49 And you know what? 42:50 There may be some people need to go ahead and crawl out 42:52 and get it over with. 42:54 If we're not going to do the right thing, 42:56 we just cause anxiety and problems 42:58 with the people of God who want to do the right thing. 43:04 The enemy then can perform certain miracles. 43:07 But God says , 43:08 "You can only do so much." 43:10 Isn't that wonderful? 43:11 God says you can only do so much 43:13 because it would begin to confuse 43:14 even God's people in our little minds. 43:18 And so God sets a limit on what the enemy can do. 43:20 Praise God for that. 43:25 And so what he can't do, 43:27 actually, 43:28 he deceives and makes you, oh, come on church. 43:32 He makes you think that he can do it. 43:35 It's by deception, is it not? 43:37 Yes. 43:42 How far does this enemy go? 43:45 How far does Satan go 43:46 with these miracles and deceptions? 43:48 Let me just read it 43:50 from the Great Controversy quickly, 43:51 you understand it well. 43:52 624, Great Controversy, 624. 43:55 You know this, it says, 43:57 "As the crowning act 43:59 in the great drama of deception," 44:01 what happens? 44:02 Satan himself will," what? 44:04 "Impersonate Christ or personate Christ." 44:07 As the crowning act, Satan is going to do what? 44:10 He's going to personate, 44:12 he's going to pretend to be Jesus Christ. 44:14 My! 44:16 Notice it, you say, "Well, I don't know." 44:17 Read 2 Corinthians 11:13 and 14, 44:20 "As the enemy comes as an angel of light." 44:23 Hmm. 44:25 But notice and I'll go expand on just a little bit 44:27 if we have more time to do it. 44:29 Because way Satan does, 44:31 "In different parts of the earth, 44:33 Satan will manifest himself among men 44:36 as a majestic being of dazzling brightness, 44:40 resembling the description of the Son of God 44:44 given by John in Revelation." 44:47 Man, if you don't know the Word, 44:49 you will be fooled. 44:51 You will be fooled. 44:54 He manifests himself, 44:57 but he does it 44:58 in different places of the earth. 45:00 And again we mentioned 45:01 maybe in little moment we have more time but if not, 45:03 then my Bible says 45:04 when Jesus comes in Revelation 1:7, 45:06 every eye shall glory, every eye shall see Him. 45:12 Matthew 24:27, 45:14 "As the lightning shineth east and also unto the west, 45:17 so shall the coming of the Son of man be." 45:19 When Jesus comes every eye shall see Him. 45:22 He will encircle this globe up here, 45:23 but when the devil comes down here, 45:25 he just appears in different places. 45:27 This should help you to understand then, right? 45:29 So we're not, you know, confused about the issue. 45:33 That's the crowning act. 45:34 Let me just read, you say, "Well, I'm not sure." 45:37 I'm going to turn the Book of Revelation. 45:38 You can do it with, Revelation Chapter 1. 45:40 Can we read that? We take a couple of minutes. 45:42 Revelation Chapter 1, 45:44 I think so very, very important. 45:45 Revelation Chapter 1, 45:47 because this is how the devil is going to appear. 45:49 Here's how he's going to appear. 45:51 You'll say, 45:52 "Well, that's what the Bible said that this is, 45:53 this is how Jesus is going to appear. 45:55 So you have to realize what he says and what he does, 45:57 we'll approach that in just a moment. 45:59 I don't want anybody here to be fooled. 46:00 I don't want to be fooled. 46:02 Revelation 1:13 and 14, the Bible says. 46:07 And notice this, 46:09 "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks 46:12 are like unto the Son of," 46:13 what? 46:15 "One like the Son of man, clothed with a," 46:18 what kind of a garment? 46:19 "A garment down to his foot, 46:21 girt with his paps with a golden girdle." 46:23 Verse 14, notice this, 46:25 "His head and his hairs were white like wool, 46:31 as white as snow, 46:33 his eyes were as flames of fire, 46:37 his feet were like fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace, 46:42 and His voice as the sound of many waters." 46:46 What a description that John, 46:48 bless his heart had to put in language 46:49 we might be able to understand just a little bit. 46:52 But remember all this curtails and much more 46:56 the enemy is going to, it's going to be exactly. 47:01 Is it possible we might be fooled? 47:04 Is it possible here? 47:07 Well, let's go and do a little more study here. 47:12 Because when the enemy comes, 47:14 he's going to be doing several things, 47:16 and we'll read it, he's going to do some healing. 47:19 And I'm going to say it again, 47:21 he's going to be doing some lying. 47:24 He's not going to stop that. 47:26 Yeah, notice what it is. 47:27 On what point will Satan not agree with Christ? 47:30 Because you think, well, this is what the Bible said. 47:33 But now, this one that seems to be Jesus, 47:35 He's saying something different. 47:38 Fundamentals of Education, 47:39 47 and 472. 47:45 Notice what it says, 47:47 "Christ will be personified." 47:51 Huh. 47:53 You know what that means? 47:54 Christ will be personified. 47:56 It means to be 47:57 and a perfect example of Christ. 48:01 Outward appearance, do you get it? 48:03 Not of the mind, not of the heart. 48:05 But everything that you see will 48:08 be what ascribed in the Word of God. 48:11 So now, there must be a way that we can tell. 48:13 Right? 48:15 There has to be a way that we can tell. 48:17 But the article says, 48:20 "But on," 48:21 notice this, there will be a, 48:22 "on one point there will be a marked distinction. 48:27 Satan will turn the people 48:30 away from the law of God." 48:34 This is very important, 48:36 because you may not be able to tell by the features, 48:39 but you'll be able to tell about what he says. 48:42 It would not harmonize was Scripture. 48:46 And, of course, we cannot be confused. 48:48 The Great Controversy, 625 says this. 48:50 "And further," 48:52 we mentioned, 48:53 "Satan is not permitted 48:54 to counterfeit the manner of Christ's advent." 48:58 Isn't that beautiful? 49:00 Satan cannot coming 49:01 in the clouds of glory with angels, 49:03 because we would be fooled. 49:06 Yeah. 49:07 Yeah, that's right. 49:09 When He comes a second time, 49:10 His feet doesn't touch the ground. 49:11 But when the enemy comes, his feet touch the ground, 49:13 and he appears in different places at once. 49:16 Since the enemy cannot come 49:20 as Christ does in the clouds from heaven, 49:24 how does he reveal himself then? 49:26 We talked about it here. 49:27 Notice, in Great Controversy, 624, 49:31 it said we just talked about while ago, he reveals himself, 49:33 "In different parts of the earth, 49:37 Satan will magnify himself among men." 49:44 Wow. 49:47 Now notice too, 49:48 what does Satan do and what does he say 49:51 while impersonating Christ? 49:53 This will help us. 49:54 We just have six minutes or so, don't get excited. 49:56 Come on now. 49:57 This is very, very important 49:58 because if you don't, you will be fooled. 50:00 I'm going to be fooled if I don't know these things 50:03 because what the mind sees 50:05 and the eye sees will be overwhelming. 50:09 You've never seen anything like it in your whole life. 50:14 No, he can't watch it. 50:15 You know, it says go to the secret chambers 50:17 do this or that. 50:18 When he comes every eye is going to see and we know, 50:20 but notice what Great Controversy, 624 says, 50:23 "When Satan comes, he begins to heal diseases." 50:28 Keep these things in mind as we go 50:30 so that we're not fooled. 50:31 And notice that, he does that. 50:33 He heals diseases and then, notice it. 50:35 He claims to have changed the Sabbath to Sunday. 50:40 You think that won't be overwhelming 50:42 to most people who believe it anyway? 50:45 The enemy is going to say after healing 50:47 all manner of diseases as it were. 50:49 Dazzling brightness and shining 50:51 and just like you just can't figure it out, 50:53 except you know, he didn't come in the clouds of glory. 50:55 He just showed up at this place and he showed up over there, 50:58 right then and there you know he's false. 51:01 When Christ comes a second time is in, 51:02 His feet does not touch the ground, right? 51:06 1 Thessalonians 4:16, right, says, 51:07 "The dead in Christ rise," what?" 51:09 First. 51:10 We which are alive and remain will be caught up 51:12 to meet Him in the air, 51:13 so shall we ever be with the Lord." 51:15 We go back for the thousand years, 51:16 after thousand years we come back, 51:17 the New Jerusalem comes back. 51:19 City comes down, right? 51:21 And then surrounded, 51:22 the wicked come up second resurrection, 51:24 Revelation 20. 51:25 And then fire comes down 51:27 from God out of heaven and destroys. 51:28 Just put it real quickly there. 51:32 It says here, he says, 51:33 "I've changed the Sabbath to Sunday. 51:36 And he commands all," 51:38 notice the all 51:39 "to hallowed the day which he has blessed." 51:43 He knows that God blessed the seventh day. 51:46 When God blesses something, it can't be changed or altered, 51:48 can it not? 51:49 They can't. But he says now what? 51:51 I've changed it. 51:53 I've blessed this day. Isn't that interesting? 51:55 I find in my Bible in Daniel 7:25, 51:58 the Bible said this enemy, 52:00 this power, right, 52:01 working through the papacy at the time, 52:02 he shall think to change times and laws. 52:06 See, devil's exposing himself right here 52:08 is he's the one 52:10 that worked through the papacy to make this law. 52:12 Did you get it? 52:15 He said, "I changed it." 52:17 But he uses man and powers and things 52:19 to get his work done. 52:21 That's heavy duty. Yes, absolutely. 52:23 Deception and lies. 52:25 Quickly, only three minutes and so left in. 52:28 Will there ever come a time 52:29 when every earthly supports going to be cut off? 52:32 If you are faithful, we say, 52:33 "Oh, I know it's going to happen. 52:34 It's going to happen." 52:36 You got to be faithful first. 52:39 Then you'll see every error. 52:41 How you're going to be though 52:42 when you don't have a check coming in? 52:43 How you going to be? How's your wife going to act? 52:46 You don't have food on the table, 52:47 how's the kids going to act 52:48 when there's no food on the table? 52:50 Right now, if there's just a little short time 52:52 and don't have money 52:54 to pay a car payment or whatever it is, 52:55 the husband and wife are fighting, 52:56 the kids are leaving home. 52:58 Okay. 53:00 It doesn't take much is what I'm saying. 53:02 But when it gets down to the real McCoy like this, 53:05 there's no beans in the cupboard. 53:08 Desire of Ages 121 says quickly. 53:10 "In the last great conflict of the controversy with Satan 53:13 those who are loyal to God 53:14 will see every earthly support cut off. 53:17 Every earthly support will be cut off. 53:21 Support is going to be withdrawn 53:23 from those who proclaim God's holy standard, 53:26 the commandments of God, Second Selected Messages 380. 53:29 2 SM 380. 53:31 And we could read Joel 1:15 if we had time to do it. 53:34 It talks about the meat offerings 53:36 and the drink offerings. 53:37 They're cut off, notice, from the house of the Lord. 53:40 That means the priest and the ministers mourn. 53:42 Why? 53:43 Because that's where they got their, 53:45 made their living. 53:46 It means the times coming that's all over, 53:48 you don't get it anymore. 53:50 We are appointed to a sword and to famine and pestilence. 53:56 I don't, can't read all the stuff. 53:58 Now Joel 1:15-18 says that, 54:01 "Alas for the day! 54:02 For the day of the Lord is in hand. 54:04 The seed is rotten under the clods, 54:07 the garners are laid desolate, 54:09 the barns are broken down, the corn is withered, 54:13 the herds of cattle are perplexed 54:15 because they have no pasture." 54:19 Certainly applied to Joel in his day 54:22 but, oh, man what a prediction 54:24 right to the final day of judgment 54:26 when Jesus comes. 54:28 Joel 2:1 simply says what? 54:30 "Blow the trumpet in Zion. 54:33 Sound the whole alarm in my holy mountain." 54:36 Man, don't be satisfied with your spiritual condition. 54:39 Never sit back and just say I'm happy the way that I am. 54:44 No. 54:45 We need to be ever moving onward and forward 54:47 by the grace and power of God to do what He's asked us to do. 54:50 And yes, it will cost. 54:52 Yes, it will cost you. 54:53 Heaven's going to cost, but you know what? 54:55 It's worth it. 54:57 It will be worth it someday when we shall see Jesus. 55:02 No time for sleeping, we must awake. 55:04 I wish we had time to get it, 55:05 talk about getting out of the cities. 55:07 It's time now that we get out. 55:08 It's time that we're able to grow our own food. 55:11 Because we realize 55:12 it's going to be a very big issue 55:13 in the very near future. 55:16 May God help us to see the importance of it. 55:18 Let me have a quick prayer with you. 55:20 Have time to finish it 55:21 with a little quick prayer together 55:23 as we go out right now. 55:24 Let's just pray together. 55:26 Loving Father in heaven, we thank You for Your Word. 55:28 Thank You for the power of the Word. 55:29 Thank You for reminding us of who You are and who we are, 55:32 and that we need to be ready. 55:33 Thank You for hearing, thank You for answering prayer, 55:35 decisions that are made right now 55:36 in Jesus' name, amen. 55:39 Hello and welcome back. 55:41 Our hope must be fixed 55:43 upon the end of this war over God's law 55:46 while our lives are brought into an extreme test 55:50 of faithfulness to God's Word. 55:52 Faithfulness to His law. 55:54 And in particular, 55:55 the fourth commandment 55:56 that deals with the keeping of God's Sabbath 55:59 since that is the commandment 56:01 that men have forgotten in opposition 56:03 to God's command to remember. 56:06 Please take the time necessary to know God's Word, 56:11 to allow His law to be written 56:13 upon our hearts and in our minds 56:16 so that we will stand for the truth, 56:18 even though it will cut us off from our earthly support. 56:22 Think about this, 56:24 Pastor Kenny just brought this out in his message to you, 56:28 but we are not the first people 56:30 to face such trial and temptations. 56:32 Think back to the three Hebrews that stood 56:35 and would not bow 56:37 and worship to King Nebuchadnezzar's statue 56:39 and the Daniel who did not stop nor hide his praying 56:42 to the Most High God in heaven 56:45 and so on are the examples in Scripture. 56:48 We are no better than those Christians 56:50 who have come before us, 56:52 who endured imprisonment, torture, death, 56:55 preferring to stand for truth 56:57 rather than to sin for a short season. 57:01 Our world is rapidly changing and rapidly coming to an end. 57:05 We must have a relationship with Christ 57:07 that we do not now have. 57:10 God's standard is holy 57:11 and His people will stand for Him 57:14 in holy righteousness. 57:15 God will, Christ will never leave us, 57:18 He will never forsake us. 57:20 If you've made that decision to follow Him 57:22 and you'd like to have this two-part series 57:24 entitled National Apostasy Followed by National Ruin, 57:28 we would love to send it to you 57:30 for a love gift of just $15 or more. 57:33 Won't you call us here in the United States 57:36 at (618) 942-5044, 57:39 Central Time, 57:40 or you may write to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:43 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:48 Visit us on our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 57:52 May the Lord bless you. |
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