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00:38 Hello, friends, and welcome once again
00:40 to Behold the Lamb Presents. 00:42 I'm Chris Shelton, 00:43 I want to thank you for joining us. 00:45 Our message for today is entitled, Indicators. 00:48 We have indicators that 00:50 show the change in temperature, oil pressure, steam pressure, 00:54 traffic light indicators that show the rider way, 00:58 burglar alarms that indicate that 01:00 we have well unwanted guests in our homes or our businesses, 01:04 and the list could go on and on. 01:07 But did you know that God 01:08 has prophetically left indicators 01:11 in His Word to signify about 01:14 where we are in the stream of time 01:16 before the Second Coming of Christ? 01:18 We often refer to these indicators 01:20 as signs of the times. 01:23 Today, Pastor Kenny Shelton will be covering 01:25 the signs of the times that we need to be fully aware of 01:29 if we are to be ready for the soon coming of Christ 01:33 and all that His coming entails. 01:35 So let's join Pastor Kenny Shelton 01:38 as he reveals the indicators that 01:40 currently need our full attention. 01:43 But first, let's listen to a song that's entitled, 01:46 The Lower Lights Be Burning, 01:48 as sung by Sandra Entermann. 02:05 Brightly beams 02:08 Our Father's mercy 02:12 From His lighthouse 02:16 Evermore 02:19 But to us 02:23 He gives the keeping 02:27 Of the lights 02:30 Along the shore 02:34 Let the lower 02:38 Lights be burning! 02:42 Send a gleam 02:45 Across the wave! 02:49 Some poor fainting, 02:53 Struggling seaman 02:57 You may rescue, 03:03 you may save 03:18 Dark the night of sin has settled 03:25 Loud the angry billows roar 03:32 Eager eyes are watching, longing 03:39 For the lights 03:41 Along the shore 03:46 Let the lower lights 03:51 be burning! 03:53 Send a gleam 03:57 Across the wave! 04:01 Some poor fainting, 04:04 Struggling seaman 04:08 You may rescue, 04:11 You may save 04:15 Trim your feeble lamp, 04:20 My brother! 04:22 Some poor seaman, 04:26 Tempest-tossed 04:30 Trying now to find the harbor 04:36 In the darkness 04:39 May be lost 04:44 Let the lower lights 04:48 Be burning! 04:51 Send a gleam 04:54 Across the wave! 04:58 Some poor fainting, 05:03 Struggling seaman 05:06 You may rescue, 05:08 You may save 05:13 Let the lower lights 05:17 Be burning! 05:20 Send a gleam 05:24 Across the wave! 05:28 Some poor fainting, 05:32 Struggling seaman 05:35 You may rescue, 05:38 You may save 05:43 You may rescue, 05:49 You may save 06:10 Thank you for joining us once again 06:11 here at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 06:13 As always, we appreciate the time 06:15 that you spend, your cards, your letter, your support 06:18 and keeping again this message around the world, 06:20 and we like to say we couldn't do it without you. 06:22 We realize the Holy Spirit is doing the work, 06:24 but Holy Spirit uses people 06:26 and thank you for letting him use each one of you. 06:29 We appreciate so very much the Spirit of the Living God. 06:33 God has a message for us today. 06:35 He has one I'm telling you every day of our life. 06:38 We're going to be talking about one today. 06:40 It's very simple 06:42 when you look at the indicators. 06:45 What does all that mean? 06:47 Well, we're going to find out 06:48 about indicators here in just a moment. 06:50 But you know, we're going to have prayer, 06:51 we're going to be praying, 06:53 right, for the power of the Holy Spirit 06:54 to come upon each and every one of us, 06:56 to help us to realize that 06:58 this world is in the biggest mess 07:00 that maybe it's ever been in. 07:03 And that, may that demands that 07:05 something be done in our own personal lives 07:09 and positional stances that we must take. 07:12 And we cannot anymore stand idly by 07:15 and just kind of let the world go by and say, 07:17 "Well, it's all going to work its way out." 07:20 There's things that we can be doing 07:21 as God's people to be ready for His coming. 07:24 So again, thank you for joining us. 07:25 And we just pray, 07:26 anything we can do for you, folks, 07:28 you'll give us a call, or we can do to 07:29 send you some books and different things. 07:31 And we'll be reading out of the Great Controversy 07:33 a little bit today, too. 07:34 So I want you to, you know, be very well aware of that. 07:37 But I'm going to have prayer right now. 07:39 Where you can you can kneel with me. 07:40 And if you can't do that, then just pray. 07:42 Would you please? 07:46 Merciful Father in heaven, 07:47 we thank You for the privilege of prayer, 07:48 we thank You that we can call You our Father. 07:51 We come before thee because we sense 07:52 our need of the power of the Holy Spirit. 07:55 Lord, we look deep within our own self 07:57 and we find we have 07:58 nothing good to which to give Thy people. 08:01 But we know that You do. 08:03 So we want to empty ourselves of self 08:05 and be filled with the Spirit of the Living God, 08:07 that words that will be spoken today 08:09 will penetrate the heart, 08:10 the mind, the lives of each, of every one of your children, 08:13 who you have seen fit to bring here today. 08:15 It's not an accident that those who are here are here. 08:19 So we pray that our ears and hearts 08:20 and minds will be open that 08:21 You will speak to us words of life, 08:23 words of warning, and that we may be encouraged 08:27 and not discouraged in this hour that 08:28 we're living in, in Jesus' name. 08:30 Amen. 08:38 I may start something like this, 08:40 people are afraid. 08:44 People are afraid. 08:47 I've talked to several, 08:49 I know that you have too, and the bottom line, 08:51 you know if they're searching more 08:53 for relationship with Christ, or maybe they don't have one. 08:55 And even those who say, I talked to guy yesterday. 08:59 He said, "Well, I don't care 09:00 what happens in the world, I'm bound for heaven." 09:02 Well, good. That's good news. 09:05 Maybe we should be very positive about 09:07 our relationship with Christ, that we are bound for heaven. 09:11 But we need to be careful that 09:12 enemy loves for you to say that. 09:15 Well, we're just bound for heaven 09:17 and we're going to make, oh praise God, 09:18 certainly the way has been prepared. 09:20 His blood is, you know, 09:21 is powerful enough to cleanse us 09:23 from all unrighteous and sin. 09:24 But are we really ready for the coming of Jesus? 09:27 I'm going to be talking about indicators, 09:29 and I believe we live in a time 09:30 where there's a lot of indicators 09:32 that tell us where we are at. 09:34 Interesting people ask 09:36 questions things like, you know, 09:38 how long will it be before Jesus gets here? 09:41 And I think they're honest in heart 09:43 when they asked these things, 09:45 but yet the Bible doesn't give a definite time. 09:47 True? 09:49 We don't know, man doesn't know 09:50 the day or the hour of the coming of Jesus, 09:52 but he can know it's what? 09:54 It's near even at the door. 09:57 He doesn't want to surprise you, 09:58 He doesn't want to surprise me, 10:00 and all the things 10:02 that are unraveling right now before us, 10:04 we should be much well aware that something big, 10:10 something dynamic, something that is, 10:13 we've never experienced before is getting ready to, 10:16 I want to say blow up in our face. 10:19 And we need to be on guard rather than set back and say, 10:23 "I've heard it before." 10:26 Here in this church, 10:28 we need to hear it over and over 10:29 and over the warning of the coming of Jesus, 10:32 and the indicators that are there 10:34 that might help us to, 10:35 you know, to really get excited about His coming. 10:38 And as He's coming, 10:39 these things are going to take place, 10:41 our work is going to 10:42 become more difficult than it's ever been before. 10:46 The enemy is as a roaring lion, he's not going to let off. 10:49 He's going to bite you if he can. 10:51 We need the Word of God, we need the truth. 10:54 We need the armor of God on. 10:56 We, many as a people, as a world, we are afraid. 11:00 Many people have forgotten the principles 11:04 upon which this country was founded upon. 11:07 We have forgotten those things. 11:09 And we looking around and say that simply life and liberty, 11:13 the pursuit of happiness, and we're looking about life. 11:16 Some people don't want to live anymore. 11:18 Liberty, apparently all gone, and the pursuit of happiness. 11:24 If the government tells you can. 11:27 Somebody think with me. 11:29 These things that were founded upon, 11:31 they're supposed to be God given to us a country 11:33 that was raised that 11:34 we could come here for freedom of conscience, 11:37 freedom of worship somehow is turning around. 11:42 Politicians are taking liberties 11:44 that are not theirs to take. 11:48 And there are court cases, 11:51 there's going to be hundreds of those things. 11:55 So what do we do as a people 11:59 when we have read and we were taught in school, 12:01 that the government is by the people 12:04 and for the people? 12:07 I don't want you to become discouraged with it. 12:08 This is not for or against the government. 12:12 It's this simple things that 12:13 we have to look at how God set it up, 12:16 and what's happening to our country that we love. 12:21 I want to read just a few things. 12:22 And I want to make sense to you. 12:25 And then, by the grace of God point out some other points, 12:28 I believe that will take us in a direction 12:31 that will help us see again and again. 12:34 Remember, when Noah preached, how long did he preach? 12:38 Hundred and twenty years. 12:40 Different messages I guess. 12:43 He stayed on the same one. 12:44 So some of you want to get on to him, 12:46 you go ahead. 12:47 I've got over 100 years to keep. 12:50 All right. Same message, you follow me? 12:54 Yeah. 12:55 Never get discouraged 12:56 when we're studying the Books of Daniel 12:58 and Revelation and prophecy. 13:00 Do not get discouraged with that. 13:02 That's where your head needs to be. 13:04 That's where my head needs to be that 13:07 things are revealed that God said, "I reveal them. 13:10 I'm giving you a revelation of Myself, 13:13 of things that are shortly to take place." 13:16 That sound like a warning to me, 13:18 one of love and one of encouragement, I like that. 13:22 As we think back, 13:23 we think about our Constitution is guaranteed, 13:26 we say, our religious freedom 13:28 is guaranteed, they say. 13:30 We can worship God 13:32 according to the dictates of our conscience, 13:34 we are told, 13:35 but yet I see some things that are happening. 13:39 And so I refer to the Great Controversy. 13:41 Now the Bible we can go through and we will do that, 13:44 we'll be studying Book of Revelation Chapter 13, 13:46 we look at the first beast, we look at second beast. 13:49 Think about this, of all the countries 13:52 that are mentioned in Scripture. 13:55 You know, you talk about Babylon, Medo-Persia, 13:56 Greece and Rome, 13:58 all the big places of the world, 14:00 surely before Jesus comes, 14:02 there's something going to happen 14:04 in the United States of America that would bring it 14:06 into the Bible and Bible prophecy. 14:09 There's no country ever been like it before. 14:12 Surely it's mentioned in here. 14:14 Surely, it's told how it would be set up. 14:16 Surely it's told how it would end up speaking. 14:20 It makes sense. 14:23 And so we want to discover that more today 14:25 The Great Controversy, 205 and 6 says this. 14:28 And I like this, it says, we must return 14:30 because we're having such problems, 14:32 and we're having problems 14:33 because we've gotten away from the Word of God. 14:35 Are you still with me? That's our problem. 14:37 We've gotten away from a thus saith the Lord 14:40 and I'm hearing too much about thus saith the man. 14:43 I don't care about thus saith the man. 14:45 I'm talking about myself up here. 14:48 You check everything that said, 14:49 you see whether it be so in the Word of God. 14:52 And sometime we have to lay aside 14:54 our preconceived ideas in order to get to that point. 14:59 But the Great Controversy says this, 15:00 but it's talking about the reformation. 15:02 And I hope you know a little about the reformation. 15:04 Some of you certainly know much more about than I do. 15:07 But I praise God for the reformation. 15:10 There needed to be and there needs to be 15:11 a reformation today. 15:14 God's Church is Laodicea. 15:17 It's lukewarm. 15:19 Yeah, sleeping, song some zees. 15:24 And we don't want to be bothered the majority. 15:28 So we must return, this article says, 15:30 we must return to the Protestant principle. 15:35 Remember, Protestant means you protest Catholicism? 15:38 Is that okay to say that? 15:40 That's what a Protestant is. 15:42 So if you're... 15:43 Well, I almost said, 15:44 if you're too yellow to do that, 15:46 and I won't do that from the pulpit. 15:47 Pray for my brother, Jan, you know how. 15:50 If you don't have the spiritual backbone. 15:53 Right? 15:54 This is why the reformation came about. 15:58 Protest, about changing, right? 16:01 The Word of God, 16:03 and things that were happening back then. 16:05 And then the Protestant says this, 16:06 what we need to do is go back to the Bible 16:09 and the Bible only as our rule of faith. 16:13 Does that make sense? 16:15 Let's get back to the rule of our faith. 16:18 Satan still working through every means, 16:21 which he can to control that and destroy religious liberty. 16:27 See, part of this talk today on religious liberty, 16:30 freedom of religion, 16:32 and some people say, "Oh, let's be careful 16:33 we don't throw things out there." 16:34 Listen, I don't care what you throw out there today. 16:36 I believe this has some meaning. 16:38 Something's going on in the world, 16:39 no matter how ridiculous that it is, 16:42 that we should be able to draw from that and say, 16:44 "Look, the Bible say there's going to be 16:45 some odd things 16:47 that's going to take place before Jesus comes." 16:50 Now, when we see these odd things, 16:53 the strange things taking place, 16:55 don't tell me anybody here, don't you think, 16:57 somebody tell me there strange things 16:58 is taking place in this country. 17:00 If we can't say that, I'm just going to sit down, 17:02 I just might as well just sit down 17:03 if you can't see that 17:04 there're strange things taking place. 17:06 There's things that you say, 17:08 I be careful again, anybody should be able to see. 17:13 Anybody with any sense ought to be able to see 17:16 that things strange and unpredictable 17:19 are taking place, unpredictable people, 17:23 like their mind is gone, 17:26 that maybe the enemy has taken it over. 17:27 And you're trying to say a seven or eight year old 17:29 could look at it and say, "We need to go this direction." 17:32 I'm just, strange things that 17:34 we're told will take place in the Bible. 17:38 So what should I do when I see these things? 17:40 Sit down, be quiet, say nothing. 17:43 Great Controversy, again, 17:44 page 452 says this, we should do all in our power. 17:48 And I look at myself and I'd be thinking, 17:50 "Am I really doing all in my power to do 17:54 what God would have me to do right now?" 17:55 Some of us are not, 17:57 we're sitting back on a recliner, 17:58 we're doing nothing. 17:59 We agree that these things are taking place, 18:01 and we kind of believe it. 18:02 But we need to do all in our power 18:05 when we see, notice this, 18:06 that there are measures are being taken to restrict, 18:11 restrict what? 18:12 Liberty of conscience, our freedoms. 18:16 When we see these things taking place, 18:17 we need to do all that we can to, 18:20 right, fight against that. 18:24 Conscience. 18:26 I don't want somebody else to be my conscience. 18:30 If you let your conscience go, the devil is going to take it, 18:32 if you know what I mean. 18:33 Somebody is going to occupy your mind 18:36 and is today the way it always has been, 18:38 either the Holy Spirit occupies it 18:40 or the devil occupies it. 18:42 There's no two other ways around it. 18:43 If there's other way 18:45 I may try to get there, but there's not. 18:49 Jesus made it very simple 18:50 when He said He who is not with Me 18:53 is that makes you say that, 18:56 "Oh, well, these people here they're not really with this." 18:59 One way or the other, that's what the Bible said. 19:02 And so we need to follow what the Bible said, 19:04 because remember, the reformation said 19:05 we need to get back to what? 19:07 And we know this, the Bible and the Bible only or truths. 19:11 I've often said I don't care 19:12 where truth comes from as long as it's truth. 19:16 I'll try to laugh it up by the grace of God. 19:19 Truth is truth. 19:20 Truth is from God, there's no doubt about it. 19:23 When we see that our religious liberty 19:26 is being restricted, 19:27 we need to do something about it. 19:30 Many people won't understand this. 19:32 There's a book of Daniel Chapter 12, 19:33 somewhere around verse 10, somewhere around there says, 19:36 "The wicked will not understand." 19:38 No matter what you do, 19:39 no matter how you try to get this out, 19:41 the wicked is not going to understand 19:42 where you're coming from. 19:44 They don't want to understand where you're coming from. 19:46 But my Bible talks about here, 19:48 there's going to be those who will, but the wise will. 19:52 Right? The wise will. 19:54 How are you wise? 19:55 Because of the power of the Holy Spirit. 19:57 Holy Spirit is going to show 19:58 you these things that will take place. 20:00 God has promised you that 20:02 He'll bring no surprise right upon you. 20:04 He's going to warn you first of these things 20:06 that are happening. 20:09 And you say, "Well, you know, 20:10 I get tired of hearing about it." 20:12 Well, that's too bad. 20:15 Love you all. 20:18 Love and kisses, right? 20:19 Hugs. 20:21 People want to hear that, ain't that right? 20:24 If I didn't love and I didn't care, 20:25 I certainly find something else to talk about. 20:29 But I know we'll talk something we talk about, 20:31 we risk losing friends. 20:33 And people get angry 20:35 and they leave and they don't come back. 20:38 But there's something 20:39 and I believe that the Holy Spirit 20:40 impresses the mind 20:42 when you're praying about, God, what do the people need? 20:44 And what do I need? 20:46 I never pray for what does the people need 20:48 before I pray, what do I need? 20:50 I might help them 20:52 along their way in the same time 20:53 help me to find eternal life. 20:56 There's a little book 20:57 I've read a paragraph out of the light 20:59 called Mount of Blessings, page 33. 21:02 And this gives me encouragement 'cause it says 21:04 the minds of the people need to be agitated. 21:07 I've been called an agitator a lot of times, 21:10 and I'm getting where I kind of like it. 21:14 He's agitating. 21:16 You better, you know what? 21:17 You agitate somebody you're going to wake them up. 21:20 Ain't that right? 21:21 When you're just speaking smooth things 21:23 and patting them on the head and loving, 21:25 they all go to, everybody goes to sleep. 21:27 I'm not talking about in a bad way at all. 21:29 I'm talking about agitate the things 21:31 that are going on in the world. 21:32 Notice this, why? 21:34 Why do you think these things are going on like 21:36 they are in the world? 21:37 Because God's trying to get your attention and mine. 21:40 Let me finish reading this. Notice it says here. 21:42 Yeah, but why is all this stuff happening? 21:44 Every controversy, every reproach, 21:49 every effort to restrict liberty of conscience 21:53 is God's means of awakening 21:56 minds that otherwise might slumber. 22:00 God's using these things that's going on. 22:03 So I'm saying God is in control, right? 22:05 God is using these things, 22:07 not to wake up our minds to say, 22:09 "Brother Mark, do you know this? 22:11 Brother Kenny, do you know this?" 22:13 Yeah. 22:15 These are things, God is using them. 22:17 The devil thinks I'm going to use it 22:19 and destroy God's people. 22:20 It's to wake God's people up. 22:23 We must realize in this great conflict we are in. 22:26 And all of these little things 22:28 that are happening in the world. 22:30 And things that are soon to come 22:32 is so laid out so plain, 22:34 that most people, even pastors 22:36 and teachers and churches and everyone, 22:38 they stay out of Daniel, 22:39 they stay out of Revelation, because what? 22:41 It reveals the future, 22:43 reveals things that are happening. 22:44 And they say you can't understand it. 22:46 Well, why would a God that loves me wants me in heaven, 22:48 put something in a book that we can understand? 22:51 Does that make sense? 22:53 That does make sense. He wants us to understand. 22:55 But He's saying to you, 22:56 the serious ones will get down and do some digging. 22:58 And when you dig a little bit, and you hit a hard ground, 23:01 those that shovel down and go get a pick. 23:03 My dad used to call, he used to call it, 23:05 he said, "Go give me that mattocks." 23:08 Said, "Go get you a what?" "Go get that mattocks. 23:12 Don't you know what a mattocks is? 23:16 No, I'm like, it's kind of, you know, 23:17 a pick on one side, 23:19 and then the little deal on the inside." 23:21 Okay, you know, get something 23:23 and whatever the ground how hard it gets, 23:25 and get something that will break that ground. 23:28 Because that's were going to be where the truth is at. 23:30 It's going to be hidden. 23:32 And the ones will find it 23:34 are the ones that serious about it. 23:36 The ones that are getting up in the morning, 23:38 the ones who are studying the Word of God, 23:39 the ones who won't let the situations of the world 23:41 discourage you, 23:43 because you're going to go to the Word of God 23:45 to know that you've already won by the grace of God. 23:48 Regardless of what happens, 23:50 God says your bread and water will be sure. 23:53 I don't know where my house payments coming. 23:55 Well you've made it for 40 years, come on. 23:58 That makes sense. 24:00 He never left you. You're still here. 24:02 You still have plenty to eat, you got roof over your head, 24:04 you have a car or whatever it might be. 24:06 God has been good to you. 24:07 He's been good to me. 24:09 He will continue is if we be obedient to Him. 24:12 Notice this, we'll talk about 24:13 Great Controversy again 592 says, 24:16 in free America, it's where I like to see it, 24:18 rulers and legislators, 24:20 see if somebody can disagree with this, 24:22 rulers and legislators in order to secure public favor 24:26 will yield to the popular demand. 24:29 And we're talking about 24:30 enforcing of Sunday laws 24:32 and different laws they're doing. 24:33 It says, and liberty of conscience 24:35 which He has cost 24:37 so great a sacrifice will no longer be respected. 24:40 If we are not in that time right now, 24:43 we will never get there. 24:45 Did you get that? Great sacrilege. 24:48 Liberty of conscience, 24:49 it doesn't matter about it anymore. 24:51 It's what somebody says, 24:53 it's what law somebody can pass and this is going to be best 24:57 they say for the whole world if we do this thing. 25:01 You know, Satan's method to gain control of the world, 25:04 listen, there's always compulsion. 25:07 It's always through fear. 25:09 It's always through force, 25:11 you know, this is the way he operates. 25:12 So when somebody is trying to use force 25:14 to get you to do something, 25:16 you think by the grace of God you shouldn't have to do. 25:20 It is the voice of the dragon. 25:22 It is the voice of the devil, fear and force. 25:25 And that's both in, listen, that's in religious field, 25:27 as well as the secular field. 25:30 We hear that a lot at churches, 25:31 I'm going to throw a little bit of fear at you. 25:33 Well, if you don't do this, 25:35 well, you're not going to have this position that position, 25:36 well, then I won't have that position then. 25:39 Don't go against the conscience. 25:41 See, man tries to enforce human laws 25:46 in defiance of the law of God. 25:48 Notice some of the things that are being passed right now 25:51 and becoming law and, 25:52 you know, contested in the courts, 25:55 even though we find out, 25:56 they're really against the laws of God. 26:00 Think about it. 26:02 So we have to stay with the laws of God, man, 26:04 when they, right, when they cross back and forth, 26:06 what are you going to choose? 26:09 You know, you to me, you have a choice. 26:11 Oh, glory, whether you want to take a shot 26:14 or you don't want to. 26:16 Listen today, it's buckling down right now. 26:18 Again, this is talking about our freedoms. 26:21 This is not just a bunch of hype, 26:23 and oh, listen, just for 30 minutes, 26:27 I just sat down, I turned the news on 26:29 and I jotted these things down. 26:30 Just 30 minutes. That's this week. 26:32 Now remember, what will you throw out today, 26:36 you will find if it's hit hard by the American people, 26:39 the one's leadership, they change again. 26:43 Does anybody get that? 26:44 So we're saying today is what this says, tomorrow, 26:47 it may say something completely different 26:49 because what? 26:50 People say, well, that's not, 26:52 we just read where they want to be popular, 26:54 they want to be reelected, they're trying to tell you 26:57 what you want to hear so they can be reelected. 26:59 Again, how sad. 27:01 Every day is becoming more intense 27:06 than it was the day before, 27:07 our freedoms are being challenged. 27:10 They're being challenged 27:12 by powers not even delegated 27:16 to the federal government. 27:18 See we've got powers here delegated by Jesus Christ, 27:21 let's use those. 27:22 Let's stand firm on these right now. 27:24 This is not whether I agree with the party, 27:26 that's in the party, that's not in, 27:27 I don't care about the parties. 27:29 I compare, I care about 27:30 what God has said in His Word, 27:32 but also see that we are told that 27:34 our Constitution repudiated, right? 27:38 It's going to be completely done away with 27:40 not throw it out, not burn it, 27:42 but every principle of our Constitution, 27:44 this smart men, the lawyers have found a way what? 27:47 They found around everyone, and they found a way around it. 27:50 They can do it just by one thing, 27:52 a national health crisis. 27:54 Are you still with me? 27:58 It could be climate change, and national emergency. 28:04 Everything that you say you hold dear, 28:06 that will protect you is out the window. 28:09 So just keep that in mind. 28:11 Well, I'm going to be protected. 28:12 Only protection you have and I have is God, right? 28:15 God will protect you. 28:17 I'm going to be your shield and your buckler. 28:18 I'm the one that's going to take care of you. 28:20 Come unto me all you guys are heavy laden, 28:23 and I will give you 28:24 the rest that we're looking for. 28:25 Praise God for that. 28:29 But when you can bypass these things that 28:31 we've held sacred through the years, 28:35 implementing powers that 28:36 we have no right to do it that will be contested in court 28:39 in the very near future, they can't find enough lawyers 28:42 there're so many lawsuits going on. 28:47 I didn't get in the wrong business. 28:51 The courts are going to decide. 28:53 Your president just said it. 28:55 No somebody said, "Well, now where did you heard?" 28:57 I heard this myself. 29:00 Is that okay? 29:01 You'd like to hear things yourself. 29:03 You know the president said this week. 29:07 Remember, he said we have a pandemic. 29:11 Notice what he says, 29:12 "It's a pandemic of the unvaccinated." 29:17 If you didn't hear it, so sorry. 29:20 We have a pandemic. 29:22 He said the pandemic is 29:23 with those who are unvaccinated. 29:26 Man, you better listen, he means business, 29:28 something's going to happen. 29:29 Where are you going to stand? 29:32 He had just announced a sweeping, you know, 29:35 some laws mandate, vaccine mandates. 29:39 You know, he says as 29:40 he gets all these things out there announces 29:43 he's sweeping COVID-19 vaccine mandates. 29:47 He said this. 29:48 He said, "My patience is wearing thin." 29:52 Did you hear it? Somebody heard that. 29:54 My patience is running thin. 29:57 Now I don't want anybody to cut that 29:58 out of what I just said right. 29:59 If somebody cut well, that's a little bit too harsh. 30:01 No, he said that. 30:02 You can go back and you can get it. 30:05 What is he saying when he said, 30:06 I know when I say my patience is getting thin 30:08 for one of the kids at home, 30:10 I'm already got the belt off. 30:14 Are you still with me? 30:15 I've already got the belt off, 30:16 that means I probably without any change, 30:18 I'm going to start beating somebody. 30:19 All right. 30:22 His patience are running thin. 30:26 He said these new mandates, if we can get everything 30:28 all pushed through is going to affect 30:30 over 100 million people. 30:32 Are you going to be in that? 30:33 Are you going to be involved in that? 30:34 Or throw it out as well as the conspiracy theory? 30:37 Baloney. 30:38 Can I say that too? 30:40 Is that a French word? What is that? 30:43 I better be careful what I say 30:44 if I don't know the meaning, right? 30:46 But you know, we can all understand that. 30:48 What do you mean it's going to affect 100 million people? 30:52 And then he said, 30:53 what I like to do when I'm going to pass 30:55 is if you employ 100 people, 30:59 you're going to be made to take. 31:00 If you have 100 people in your employee 31:01 that you have to take the vaccine. 31:04 And if they don't, 31:06 then they start to refuse the employers, 31:07 they can fine the employer $14,000 for every offense. 31:14 They're going to make it to where you just give in. 31:17 Unless you're really convicted by the grace of God 31:20 what you're doing, and willing to give your life 31:23 for just like Jesus is willing to give His life, 31:26 that we would rather die than knowingly sin. 31:28 We need to come to that point 31:30 because the pressure is going to be too great 31:32 if they continue to push the way it's pushing. 31:35 How many employers and some business 31:37 with 100 employees 31:38 could afford $14,000 every offense? 31:41 There could be hundreds of those. 31:43 And the government knows you can't do that. 31:45 That's why they're putting, 31:46 that's just the beginning of sorrows, 31:48 as you will know. 31:50 And they say, "Well, 31:52 if you still don't want to go along, 31:53 then actually we're going to 31:54 give you a COVID test every week, 31:56 and so on so forth." 31:57 In other words, your life's going to be 31:58 very tough where you're at, 32:00 because you're causing some problems. 32:04 My wife mentioned there before, 32:05 and I'm believing it too, I'm going to be very careful. 32:07 I think we have to be careful 32:08 because, you know, just the question, 32:10 who's really spreading it now? 32:14 Hello, who's really spreading it? 32:18 The ones who've been vaccinated or the ones unvaccinated? 32:22 Come on. 32:23 I just, you got to think, you can't just be closed. 32:25 No. 32:29 They're being threatened of loss of jobs. 32:36 They're using fear tactics. 32:41 They even pay you to take a shot. 32:43 Are you still with me? 32:47 And they'll put your name, I'm gonna say in a hat. 32:50 They're gonna put your name in a hat for drawing, 32:52 you can be a millionaire. 32:54 Put your name in a hat, 32:56 you draw it out, you're a rich man. 32:58 Well, they buried him next week but look, 33:01 leave it at that, figure that one out later. 33:06 Go get a shot, put your name in the jackpot, 33:08 it was going to be good. 33:10 But the, you know, the medical workers, 33:12 those who are dealing with Medicare and Medicaid 33:15 and so on, he said we need to make sure 33:17 that they are all going to be required to take the vaccine. 33:20 Remember what was today, 33:22 what was yesterday could be changed tomorrow. 33:25 Then how much stink is raised in there? 33:28 Here's my, but I'll just give you 33:29 my little position on it 33:31 if you don't mind and we need to go on. 33:32 This is just things I want you to think about here. 33:35 I've heard it said an awful lot 33:36 and maybe it's time that I said it. 33:38 It's my body and it's my choice. 33:41 Anybody still with me? 33:43 It's my body and my choice. 33:45 Now they don't mind using that 33:47 when it comes to abortion and different things, 33:49 there's still death involved. 33:50 It's funny how they won't, still my body, still my choice, 33:53 what country do I live in? 33:56 Indicators. 33:58 Webster said indicator is a person 34:00 or thing that indicates any kind of 34:03 a device like a gauge or some kind of a dial 34:06 or something that measures something. 34:08 It's the beginning of something or it's the end of something. 34:11 And you know in Matthew 34:13 we read there a text, what was that, Matthew 16? 34:17 Yeah, Matthew 16, I mean, 34:20 what, how powerful that Jesus, right, 34:23 Jesus was talking to those fair Sadducees 34:26 and the Pharisees and whoever, 34:28 the hypocrites, He said, "Man, you know everything 34:30 about the weather and you know 34:31 what's going to be for tomorrow, 34:33 you know all these things, 34:34 but you don't know the signs of the times." 34:36 We know everything. 34:37 We think we know everything, do we not? 34:40 We get these indicators here, on our car. 34:43 A turn signal is an indicator. 34:46 When I'm behind somebody, when you indicate 34:47 you're going to make a right hand turn, 34:49 please by the grace of God make a right hand and not left. 34:53 You follow what I'm saying? 34:55 Or don't go down for two or three miles down the road 34:57 with that blinker going on. 34:58 I don't know if you're going to turn 34:59 or if you're not go to turn. 35:01 And then by the time you decide 35:02 you're going to turn in, I'm passing you. 35:04 You see what I mean? Indicators. 35:07 God said there's indicators. 35:09 He said, you folks know all about this stuff in the world. 35:12 A streetlight, right, yeah, red, 35:15 and you know, and yellow and green. 35:20 Green always meant go to me. 35:21 Now, we don't know what it means. 35:24 That can change too. 35:27 Signs and indicators. Pharisees. 35:33 Did they not realize what they were saying right, 35:35 then, what Jesus was saying to them 35:38 was an indicator of the signs of the time? 35:41 That was an indicator. 35:42 Show us a sign, show us 35:44 some of these reasons here of heaven, 35:46 not realizing that their attitude 35:48 toward Christ as the Messiah 35:51 was an indicator sign of the time. 35:54 They said, show us what? 35:56 Show some miracles, show some signs and wonders. 36:01 Somebody simple went through my mind, 36:04 at that point in time He shown all kinds of 36:07 signs and miracles and wonders for several years, had He not? 36:11 Sure He had been. What would He have been doing? 36:13 He would heal, He healed all manner of diseases, 36:15 He cast out demons, right? 36:17 He raised the dead back to life again. 36:20 Oh, well, I mean, what more would you really want? 36:22 He controlled nature, 36:24 He talked to the waves in the sea 36:25 and they obeyed Him. 36:27 We're the only outfits that 36:29 don't obey Jesus Christ is a human race, 36:31 the animals will do it, nature will do it, 36:34 but we as human beings think we know more than God. 36:39 He cast out the demons. 36:42 The demons recognized Him. 36:44 They were around and saw 36:46 all these things but yet they said, 36:47 "Well, show us something." 36:49 Oh, I think you could classify this 36:53 as signs from heaven. 36:55 They didn't want the evidence. 36:56 They said they wanted evidence, 36:58 but yet they didn't want evidence. 36:59 You meet and you study with people all the time, 37:00 says give us some evidence about 37:02 what you're talking about. 37:03 You give all kinds of evidence from the Word of God, 37:04 and they still say, 37:06 "Well, no, I'm not going that route." 37:08 They refuse to acknowledge Jesus as a Son of God. 37:14 Remember Hosea, was it Hosea 4:6 says, 37:18 "The people are destroyed for lack of, good, 37:20 for lack of knowledge, 37:22 because you have rejected knowledge, 37:24 God said, I'm going to reject you." 37:26 Knowledge has come. 37:28 We live in a day and a time 37:29 where the books of Daniel is open, Revelation, 37:31 we can study Bibles in every house, 37:33 you can see something all the time, 37:35 you can read about Jesus, you can study about Jesus, 37:37 all kinds of things are going on, 37:38 but we're lacking that we have, 37:40 we don't want the knowledge anymore. 37:43 He said you reject that, I'm going to reject you. 37:47 And I think it even went too far, 37:48 He said, and then I'm going to reject your children. 37:52 My! 37:53 What an awesome time that we live in? 37:57 Jesus is the light of the world 37:59 what I read in the Bible right here. 38:02 It's funny, everybody can discern all these other things. 38:08 Today, I mean, we do all kinds of things 38:12 we discern. 38:13 You have some people they discern 38:15 who's got the top hit song. 38:18 Well, I might as well go sit down, 38:19 there's just no use to go on. 38:21 I'm getting tired. 38:23 There are people yet, ain't that true? 38:26 Even Christians, they know who's got the top worldly song, 38:30 they know the top 10 or the top 100. 38:34 They know what's the hot TV show 38:36 and what's not. 38:39 They know whose gets married in Hollywood 38:42 and who's divorced in Hollywood 38:44 and everybody else's business but their own. 38:48 How do they know these things? 38:50 Because they are followers of these things. 38:52 We will know 38:54 if we were followers of Jesus Christ. 38:56 Instead of wasting all of our time to say well, 38:59 you know, I know. 39:02 I had a friend one time 39:04 he about anybody, any baseball player 39:05 you could name and he named a lot of them. 39:07 He knew their batting average. 39:09 He knew how long they've been in the Major League. 39:10 He knew everything about them. 39:11 Scripture he didn't know, signs of the time. 39:15 This is a wicked and adulterous generation. 39:17 Jesus said that it was. 39:20 Adulterous situation and wicked 39:23 because of the moral and the spiritual perception. 39:27 Adulterous is 39:28 because we've chosen another leader than Jesus Christ. 39:32 Spiritual adultery. 39:34 Charles Spurgeon, people know him, 39:36 an old time preacher. 39:37 They say, oh, well, Charles Spurgeon, 39:38 he said this one time, little out of characteristic 39:41 and some of the stuff I've read and so on, 39:42 but notice what he said, he made this remark. 39:44 He said, "The time will come 39:46 when instead of the shepherds feeding the sheep, 39:51 the church will have clowns entertaining the goats." 39:56 I may have to repeat that, that's way too deep. 40:00 That was a heavy statement for him, I would assume. 40:02 For me it might be heavy. 40:04 Jesus said He's going to feed the sheep. 40:06 You remember, but He said now what, 40:07 people somebody getting on the pulpit, they're clowns. 40:11 Sheep can't be fed by the clowns, 40:12 only the goats can. 40:16 They're not going to make it to heaven, you know that. 40:20 What's happened to America? 40:22 What's happened to our... 40:23 My dad always talked about 40:25 just give me somebody to work with me that 40:27 just has good common sense. 40:29 They don't have to be smart, don't have to have brain, 40:30 don't have to have anything, 40:32 nothing wrong with all that stuff, 40:33 they haven't educated the book, 40:35 but just give me somebody with good common sense, 40:36 I can work with him. 40:38 What's happened to 40:39 the good common sense here in America? 40:41 What's happened to our God in this country? 40:44 What's happened to our faith? 40:47 What's happened to our families? 40:49 My! What's happened to our country? 40:52 What's happened to our freedoms? 40:56 You say, "Well, I haven't really thought about." 40:58 What's wrong? Where you been? 41:01 Give you just quick couple examples. 41:03 According to this is the sgtreport.com 2021, 41:09 you've heard this I'm sure, 41:11 Facebook wants to run everything in this world. 41:15 Now they're, according to this report, 41:17 they said they want to control the Christian worship service. 41:21 Man, if we're not in trouble, and you know what? 41:23 Probably millions will go for this because 41:25 they don't have to get their lazy... 41:30 They don't have to get themselves out of bed, 41:31 they just turn something on and we don't have to go in. 41:35 You know what I'm saying? 41:36 The counterfeit running rampant. 41:40 They want to control the Christian works, 41:42 the worship service. 41:44 Now let me read it, but it says this, 41:47 now remember, we want to control 41:48 the Christian Services. 41:50 But here they said this, 41:52 that posting verses from the King James Version Bible. 41:56 If you're posting some King James Version Bible, 41:59 it says goes against the community standard. 42:04 You want them run in your service? 42:07 You say not. 42:09 They go on to say, notice this, 42:11 we have these standards 42:13 to prevent false advertising and fraud 42:19 and security breaches. 42:21 I say, "Come on, come on, now. 42:22 Come on somebody here that now?" 42:25 Now, they had trouble with one guy 42:28 who made a post 42:29 or we call it a tweet or whatever. 42:31 I'm getting tired here in this tweet business, 42:32 man, tweet, tweet drive me crazy. 42:35 Ain't you? Somebody's tweeting. 42:37 I always thought birds tweet. 42:40 You know what I'm talking about now. 42:42 Some of them are more worthless than bird tweets. 42:46 Well, here's the trouble they had, 42:48 I think, well, here's the trouble they had. 42:50 And they took this guy off 42:52 because he quoted Proverbs 20:1. 42:56 Listen, "Wine is a," what? 42:58 "A mocker, strong drink is raging, 43:01 whosoever deceiveth thereby is not wise." 43:05 That shouldn't be taken off. 43:07 They want to run your church service 43:08 but you can't say this. 43:11 They said it was just wrong. 43:12 You can't say that. Really? 43:16 To me, you say that's not a big deal. 43:18 Where is it all headed as it begins to 43:20 try to take your religion away from you, 43:23 your freedom of conscience and voice and speech 43:26 which we should value to the very last? 43:30 Man, look at the other countries 43:31 in times past, look what's happened. 43:32 We're right in the footsteps right now. 43:34 We're right on the verge. 43:35 We're doing socialistic things right now. 43:38 Is somebody's still with me? Is that too deep? 43:41 No, it's not, you know that. 43:45 It's not the land of the free, I wish it was. 43:49 But the Bible is clear in Revelation 13:11-18. 43:54 You see, right there's a beast 43:56 that's coming up out of the earth. 43:57 I wish we had a whole lot more time. 43:59 Let's just tell you quickly, we'll get more into this 44:01 as we only have ten minutes or so left. 44:03 Coming up out of the earth, 44:04 that's the United States in Bible prophecy. 44:07 It comes up as a lamb with two horns. 44:09 But, notice this, it comes up in that freedom, 44:11 it comes up in a place not very, you know, 44:13 not very people wasn't populated. 44:16 When the first beast, 44:17 it was a papacy that came up, right, Revelation 13:1-10. 44:20 It come up in heavy populated area, 44:22 it came up out of the water. 44:23 Revelation 17:50, 44:25 "The waters which thou sawest 44:26 are peoples and multitudes and nations. 44:29 So this is different, 44:30 a country that came up 44:31 for escape for religious freedom 44:33 because of the persecution 44:34 during the Dark Ages in the old world. 44:37 But it says after a time 44:39 it begins to speak like the dragon. 44:42 Are we not there? 44:44 It's speaking as a dragon right now. 44:45 That's what concerns me. 44:47 That's what, you know, I'm concerned about it. 44:49 Why? Because people don't know this. 44:51 They don't study these things. 44:53 And they're encouraged not to study that. 44:54 I'm encouraging you to study them. 44:58 Everybody sees it, are attacking free press 45:00 and free speech and free conscience, 45:03 freedom of religion. 45:05 It should upset us, there's no doubt about it. 45:10 I don't want the tweets 45:12 and all these other things that are going on Facebook 45:14 to control any part to do with religion. 45:18 All you have to do, they said, we want to do that because look 45:20 what we've done in the political world 45:22 and in society. 45:24 Yeah, look what they've done. 45:25 Yeah, big tech religion coming together converging. 45:30 Yeah, they said 45:31 we want to move your servers to the internet. 45:37 What kind of a trap has been set for millions of people? 45:41 Whether it's aware or unaware, there's a trap. 45:46 And many are choosing the wrong side 45:48 because there are no warnings and no signs, 45:51 nobody blowing the trumpet. 45:55 People are doing wrong, some know they are 45:57 and others don't know that they're doing. 45:59 It reminds me of something you know, we always say, 46:01 "Well, I knew but I went ahead and did it." 46:03 You may have been one of those at one time. 46:04 I've done some of those things, I knew better. 46:08 I might use a story, 46:09 you might have heard of it, the crocodile. 46:12 Crocodile he offers 46:13 a monkey a ride on his back across the river. 46:22 Only, eventually, he ate the monkey. 46:26 Yeah. 46:30 Before that, the monkey was surprised 46:31 he was going to get eaten. 46:34 The crocodile just simple responds, 46:36 looks at him and says, 46:38 "You knew I was a crocodile, and you knew I like monkeys." 46:43 Isn't that kind of like put it in there like today, you know? 46:46 We know where it's headed. 46:49 We were told was going to take place. 46:52 Even in the political film in the Bible way before it 46:56 and yet we cannot put them together 46:57 or we refuse. 46:58 I tell you what? 47:00 The crocodile is going to eat you. 47:02 According to cbnnews.com it says again, 47:06 social media giant 47:08 Twitter temporary suspended a Christian, 47:10 notice this, I got to get this. 47:12 Oh my, Lord, have mercy. 47:13 Suspended the Christian radio hosts, 47:16 a tweet again, Lord have mercy pray, 47:19 for posting a tweet describing 47:21 a New Zealand transgender weightlifter as a man. 47:26 He was suspended from Twitter 47:27 because there's a New Zealand man 47:29 that was a weightlifter. 47:30 He's transgender. 47:32 So you have to be careful. 47:35 You can't say heavy, you can't say fat, 47:36 you can't say skinny, 47:38 you can't say crazy. 47:43 You know, not that you want to, 47:45 I'm just simply saying 47:48 you can't do it, in transgender, 47:49 you just can't do it. 47:50 He said and this guy started fighting back 47:52 and he said wait a minute, 47:54 "The reason they blocked my tweet," he said, 47:58 they said, "This is reason I blocked your tweet is 48:01 because you violate our rules against hateful conduct." 48:07 So for this guy, radio host calling 48:09 this transgender a man, and he was. 48:16 I'll leave it. 48:19 They say it's a hateful conduct 48:20 so we're going to take that down. 48:21 But notice, the man that was blocked 48:24 come back and said, "It's because I stated, listen, 48:27 that he was a biological male, 48:31 and a biological male is a man." 48:33 Yeah. 48:36 See, some of us are a little bit quiet, 48:37 afraid to take a stand on it like well, 48:39 we need to be careful somebody is going to jump us, 48:41 don't worry about it. 48:42 Biological man is a male. 48:46 He might think 48:47 he's something else that's too bad. 48:49 Bottom line, 48:51 he said the biological man is still a man. 48:56 He said even if Twitter 48:57 doesn't like it, ain't that right? 49:00 And so I'm encouraging 49:02 the biological men today that might 49:05 think you're something else, 49:07 you stay out of the women's dressing room. 49:10 You biological men, 49:12 you stay out of the ladies showers. 49:15 Biological man, 49:20 why don't you compete against the men 49:22 and quit competing against the women? 49:27 I'm not trying to pick on all this, 49:28 I'm saying, this is reality. 49:29 These are things that are going on 49:31 and so we think 49:32 we're saying in this world, right? 49:34 We're saying in this world and we take it to the courts 49:37 and those are supposed to be saying say, 49:38 "Well he felt like he was a girl today 49:40 so go on in there." 49:41 No. 49:46 Is that too much or I just leave it there, 49:47 you guys can't take it? 49:48 I know, you can't take no more. 49:50 No, you... I'm serious about it. 49:57 How would you like it if you had 50:00 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 year old girls, 50:02 and they're in their girl PE class, 50:04 and here comes, 50:06 oh, Joe, because he feels a little feminine today. 50:10 I'll just join them. No, throw him out. 50:18 Yeah, he wouldn't even get close to the door 50:20 if I was there. 50:24 I know it's too much 50:25 you don't want to talk about it. 50:27 Still, what I'm saying 50:28 is this stuff is happening in our country. 50:32 And that's what we're totally saying would fall apart. 50:36 The men will no longer think properly anymore. 50:40 What's happened here in America, 50:42 a place that God has raised for religious freedom, 50:45 using Bible for the Word of God, 50:48 for the foundation? 50:52 Something we can find out that tells us what sin is. 50:56 Call sin by its right name without fear of retaliation. 51:02 In my own opinion, 51:03 I know when it started, it started 51:05 when they started taking the Ten Commandments 51:06 out of the schools. 51:07 I think it really started 51:09 when they begin to say you can't read 51:10 the Bible anymore in school, 51:12 you can't have any Bible studies in school. 51:13 We really don't want you even talking about Jesus at school. 51:15 And when they take prayer out of the school, 51:18 when you do all that, you've taken God out of it, 51:20 you've taken Him out of our country. 51:23 We pushed Him out, don't you think 51:24 He's going to say 51:26 one of these days, that's enough? 51:27 I mean, I really believe what, 51:28 how far can you, I don't wanna say it nice, 51:30 how far can you push God? 51:32 He allows us to push Him and push Him 51:35 because of His mercy and His grace. 51:37 But one of these days 51:38 He's going to stand up and say that's it. 51:40 He's going to say it one of these days, 51:41 and are we ready for that? 51:45 We're going to close here in a couple of minutes here. 51:46 I just want to try to read something here I wrote down 51:48 if that'll be good to think about. 51:53 Again we talked about our country 51:54 is going to repudiate you know, 51:56 every principle of its Constitution, 51:58 as a Protestant and Republican government, 52:02 Five Testimonies 9 says this, notice, 52:03 "Our ministers," 52:05 I'm picking on the ministers right now, 52:07 "are not doing their whole duty. 52:09 The attention of the people should be called to 52:11 the momentous events which is so," right? 52:16 Which is so near at hand. 52:18 The signs of the time should be kept fresh before their minds. 52:23 They will say, "Well, we don't want to hear." 52:24 It should be kept fresh before everybody's mind of 52:27 what we're living, 52:28 just as a reminder, this is not normal. 52:30 The Bible has condemned 52:32 this stuff as sin, all this lying. 52:33 You get on TV right now all you hear is Joe Blow lied, 52:36 and she lied, and he lied, and they lied on top of a lie. 52:39 And what are we supposed to believe? 52:42 Isaiah 26:21, as we close this. 52:46 Don't be surprised that these great decisive things, 52:49 and the last movements 52:50 will be rapid one so quick it will make your head swim. 52:53 Jesus said, "Behold, 52:55 the Lord cometh out of his place 52:58 to punish the inhabitants of the earth 53:01 for their iniquity. 53:03 The earth also shall disclose her blood, 53:07 and shall no more cover her slain." 53:10 Probation is closing 53:11 for the United States of America, 53:14 for the land of opportunity and free. 53:18 And if you lost sight of that today, 53:20 I pray by the grace of God 53:21 that you regain the sight to say, 53:23 "God is still with us." 53:25 We are willing to be obedient to 53:27 what He has said in His Word. 53:29 He says, "I will heal your backsliding." 53:33 I want to be healed. 53:34 If I've taken a step backwards, 53:36 I want to take two steps forward. 53:39 Because rulers and statesmen, 53:41 men who occupy positions of trust and authority, 53:45 have their attention fixed 53:46 upon the events taking place in our land. 53:49 They're watching the strange, 53:50 restless relations that exist among the nations. 53:54 The world is on the verge of a stupendous crisis. 53:59 Who's watching these things? 54:01 Our leaders are stating, 54:02 they know much better than you and I, 54:04 all the stuff is going on in the world today. 54:05 Their mind is like, "Oh, what are they going to do?" 54:08 I want to pray for those of you 54:09 who are at home as we close, 54:11 I want to pray for myself too, 54:12 I need wisdom, I need courage, 54:15 I need faith and strength to be able to endure. 54:19 Because many of these things, 54:20 we realize what they say, will come back to haunt you. 54:24 They will say, "He said, they said." 54:28 Do you see that in the news nowadays? 54:30 He said this before, two years ago he said this, 54:32 now he's saying this. 54:35 We have to believe in what 54:37 we're teaching and what we're preaching, 54:39 and back it up by the Word of God. 54:41 And I know you want to be ready for that day. 54:44 I want to be ready for that day. 54:47 Remember, we always say if you miss heaven, 54:48 you missed your reason for being here. 54:50 There's no reason to be here 54:51 if you're not going to repopulate heaven. 54:53 So make that decision for Him today. 54:54 Let's pray, shall we? 54:57 Loving Father in heaven, again, all we can do is say 55:01 thank You praise Your holy name. 55:03 Thank You that You're bringing 55:05 just little tidbits of all these things 55:07 that are happening in the world, 55:08 it's just too much. 55:10 Can't cover, take hours and hours and hours, 55:12 just to scrape through just a little bit. 55:14 Because You said the last movements 55:16 would be rapid ones 55:17 that happen so quick and so fast. 55:19 It's going to try to catch the people by surprise. 55:22 But, Lord, I pray through the power of thy Holy Spirit, 55:23 this group, and many other groups 55:25 around the world will not be caught by surprise. 55:28 They're going to be preparing based upon their study, 55:31 based upon what they're hearing, 55:32 based upon what they're seeing in the world, 55:35 that they need to be ready for the soon coming of Jesus. 55:39 We're in the judgment hour, it's soon to close. 55:42 Probation is going to close, 55:44 no one else will ever come to Jesus. 55:46 Then He's going to roar back and take His people home. 55:48 Help us to be ready for that great day in Jesus' name. 55:50 Amen. 55:52 Hello, and welcome back. 55:54 Praise God for His promises 55:56 such as one that is found in Amos 3:7, 56:00 where we can read that God will do nothing unless 56:03 He reveals it through His prophets first. 56:06 And I guarantee that most of us 56:08 are just simply not spending enough time 56:11 in the Word of God as we should. 56:13 I hope that this message will encourage you that 56:16 the indicators are proclaiming that 56:18 the time of Christ's second coming is at hand. 56:22 The pressure is increasing 56:24 upon the inhabitants of this world signaling. 56:27 It is signaling that 56:29 something major is about to happen. 56:31 So I want to encourage you 56:33 to spend more time in God's Word, 56:35 spend more time reading books such as this one, 56:38 the Great Controversy that 56:40 I want to offer to you today for free. 56:43 We will give you this book. 56:45 All you have to do is call and ask for it. 56:47 This book will also reveal indicators, 56:50 and what we should be expecting in the near future. 56:54 Friends, we would love, 56:55 as I just mentioned, to send you this book, 56:57 all you need to do is call and request it. 56:59 And should you also 57:01 like to have today's message entitled Indicators, 57:04 we would love to send you that 57:06 for a love gift of just $8 or more as well. 57:10 Our phone number here in the US is (618) 942-5044. 57:15 And always remember that 57:17 Central Time or you may also mail in your request 57:20 to Behold the Lamb Ministries, PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois. 57:25 And I want to just mention to you here too, 57:27 that we love your encouraging letters 57:30 and your support that 57:31 you mail into as many of you every month, 57:34 sometimes more than once a month. 57:37 And again that is PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:43 You may also email us 57:44 at contact@behold thelambministries.com 57:48 or visit us on our website at beholdthelambministries.com 57:52 and don't forget to hit the subscribe button 57:56 on our Behold the Lamb Ministries' 57:58 YouTube channel, and just simply share 58:01 important messages that we release weekly. 58:03 In fact, I had a call from a viewer that 58:06 lives in Georgia just this morning. 58:09 And she says, "Tell your husband 58:10 he's right on target. 58:12 I'm going to share, share, share this message." 58:14 I hope you feel the same way. 58:16 And thank you again for your prayers 58:18 and your financial support of Behold the Lamb Ministries. 58:21 So until next time, friends, 58:22 may our precious Lord 58:24 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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