Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001615A
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00:13 Now this is Part Two, just finished Part One.
00:16 We gave you seven great signs. 00:20 We're going to talk now 00:22 about The Last Great International Sign 00:26 Before the Great Battle of Armageddon. 00:29 This is beyond being important. 00:34 I'm going to take my Bible 00:35 and I am going to turn to the book of apocalypses, 00:38 that's the Book of Revelation, 00:39 Chapter 14 and verse 6 and onward. 00:43 And I want each of you folks to notice this. 00:46 Revelation 14:6 and onward, 00:52 I've some amazing material to share with you. 00:57 "Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, 01:00 having the everlasting gospel to preach to those 01:02 who dwell on the earth to every nation, 01:04 tribe, tongue, and people, 01:07 saying with a loud voice, 01:09 'Fear God and give glory to Him, 01:11 for the hour of His judgment has come, 01:14 and worship Him who made heaven and earth, 01:16 the sea and springs of water.' 01:19 And another angel followed, saying, 01:20 'Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, 01:23 because she has made all nations drink of the wine 01:27 of the wrath of her fornication.' 01:30 Then a third angel followed them, 01:32 saying with a loud voice, 01:36 'If anyone worships the beast and his image, 01:39 and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, 01:44 he himself shall also drink 01:46 of the wine of the wrath of God, 01:52 which is poured out full strength 01:54 into the cup of His indignation. 01:57 He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone 02:02 in the presence of the holy angels 02:05 and in the presence of the Lamb. 02:09 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; 02:14 and they have no rest day or night, 02:17 who worship the beast and his image, 02:19 and whoever receives the mark of his name." 02:24 Now next verse is the opposite of the Mark of the Beast, 02:29 "Here is the patience of the saints; 02:32 here are those who keep the commandments of God 02:36 and the faith of Jesus." 02:39 Now, a moment ago, we read verse 16, 02:43 and verse 16 was a picture of the harvest, 02:47 which is a time of separation. 02:50 And that takes place basically, 02:53 at the same time as the Battle of Armageddon. 02:56 Are you with me? 02:58 Now listen carefully to this, 03:01 I say this all of my Roman Catholic friends, 03:05 my Protestant friends, my atheistic friends. 03:10 The Bible teaches 03:12 that before the end of the world, 03:17 God sends a great get-ready message. 03:25 It is that message that prepares 03:27 men and women like you and me 03:31 for the harvest of the coming of Christ. 03:36 Now people say, 03:39 "Oh, you wouldn't really wanna talk about all this stuff, 03:41 would you, it's pretty strong?" 03:44 I say to those people, 03:46 "Tell me why God put it there?" 03:50 It is written down there 03:52 so that God will have a people ready when He returns. 03:58 Now I want you to notice 04:00 the difference fascists of this message. 04:03 The first one is, the Gospel, 04:07 gonna put this up here so that you could see it. 04:09 Message number one, 04:11 I saw another angel 04:13 or a great messenger and it says, 04:16 he's preaching the everlasting gospel. 04:21 Now listen very carefully to me, 04:24 what on earth is this gospel? 04:31 Because the Bible makes it very, very plain 04:35 that you cannot be ready for the Battle of Armageddon 04:38 or the harvest unless you understand the gospel? 04:42 What is the gospel? 04:43 Listen carefully, 04:44 the gospel is the good news that God loves you. 04:49 He's not mad with us, He loves us. 04:52 God is not a force, God is a person. 04:58 The Bible teaches us, this is pretty hard to me, 05:00 that the almighty Christ who made the stars, 05:04 want you to think about this. 05:06 You may find it incomprehensible, 05:08 the almighty God, who made the stars, 05:11 who's nestled for nine months 05:14 in the womb of a peasant girl... 05:19 he must love the human race. 05:23 The Bible says that God became a man 05:27 and his name was Jesus. 05:29 He was the kindest, strongest, best person who ever lived. 05:36 He was not religious, 05:40 as we think of religion. 05:45 The Bible teaches, 05:48 in a way that you and I can't understand, 05:51 that this God in Christ 05:53 who was nestled for nine months 05:56 in the womb of a peasant girl, 06:01 died on the cross. 06:04 When he died on the cross, 06:05 in some incomprehensible way, 06:08 he bore the sin of the world 06:11 so that you and I could be saved, 06:13 that's the gospel. 06:14 The gospel is not about this world 06:17 because this world is good. 06:20 The gospel is not about us, the gospel is about God, 06:24 it is a good use of God. 06:26 And perhaps, not perhaps, 06:27 but the greatest text in the Bible, 06:29 I want you to notice it. 06:31 It is John 3:16-17, 06:35 which is the very hart of the Bible. 06:38 John 3:16-17, and Jesus said this, 06:45 "For God so loved the world 06:47 that He gave His only begotten Son, 06:50 that whoever believes in Him should not perish 06:52 but have everlasting life." 06:54 So God did not send His son into the world 06:58 to condemn the world. 07:00 No. 07:01 But that the world through him might be saved. 07:08 The gospel teaches this, please believe this. 07:13 The gospel teaches this, the God is so good, 07:17 and so gracious, and so kind 07:20 that if you and I come to God 07:22 in true faith and true repentance, 07:25 God will forgive all our sins, 07:29 because you can't get to heaven 07:30 if you carrying a burden of sin. 07:34 There will be no hypocrites in heaven. 07:38 And we've told in the Book of Isaiah, 07:40 and this one of the greatest of all texts, 07:43 it is found in Isaiah 55, 07:46 were it talks about 07:47 the greatness of the love of God. 07:49 Isaiah 55, and I want you to notice this, 07:53 this is in Old Testament. 07:55 And Isaiah is actually called the gospel prophet. 07:58 The Bible says 08:00 "Seek the Lord while He may be found, 08:02 call upon Him while He is near. 08:04 Let the wicked forsake his way, 08:06 and the unrighteous man his thoughts; 08:09 let him return to the Lord, 08:11 and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, 08:14 for He will abundantly pardon. 08:16 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, 08:18 nor are your ways My ways,' says the Lord. 08:21 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 08:24 so are My ways higher than your ways, 08:27 And My thoughts than your thoughts." 08:29 The Bible says, if a person is a wicked man... 08:35 and in the side of a holy God world, wicked. 08:39 The Bible teaches we're all sinners. 08:44 The Bible teaches, 08:45 we've all fallen short of the glory of God. 08:48 None of us have got a right to be saved, you see. 08:52 But the Bible says, 08:55 if a person comes to God, 08:57 and if he forsakes his sin, the Bible says, 09:00 God does not only just pardons his sins, 09:04 He abundantly pardons it. 09:07 So if a person comes into this meeting today 09:10 and he's a murderer, and he's liar, 09:13 and he's a cheat, and he's a thief. 09:20 And there are plenty of those. 09:22 But he comes in to this meeting, 09:23 he's a murderer. 09:25 Like the man in Russia, that I've baptized, 09:27 who is the head of Russian mafia. 09:30 His hands were stained crimson with the blood men and women. 09:34 But if a person comes to Christ, 09:37 personally to Christ, 09:39 and forsakes his evil way, 09:41 and Christ had for mercy, 09:43 God forgives him. 09:45 And that person then 09:47 is a candidate for the kingdom of God 09:50 and when Christ comes, he will be saved. 09:53 That my friend is a gospel of God. 09:57 And the heart of God's last great message 10:01 that is preached by the three messengers 10:04 is the gospel of Christ. 10:06 The second part is the judgment hour message. 10:10 Revelation 14:7, 10:14 the first part is the gospel 10:16 and the second part is the judgment. 10:18 "Saying with a loud voice, 10:20 'Fear God and give glory to Him, 10:23 for the hour of His judgment has come, 10:26 and worship Him who made heaven and earth, 10:28 the sea and springs of water.' 10:31 "The Bible teaches us, now I want you to hear this, 10:34 those of you who're watching it on television, 10:36 want this to sink down into the molecules of your mind. 10:43 We can get away with your lot of things in this life. 10:48 But the Bible tells us that ultimately, 10:50 we are accountable 10:53 to the great God of the judgment. 10:58 And this world has God and appointment 11:02 before the judgment power of God. 11:07 When people think that they can fornicate, 11:13 and every other sin in the book, 11:16 lie, and cheat, and steal, and prevaricate, 11:20 and every other sin, 11:24 and somehow they have some right to be saved, 11:28 they're deluded. 11:31 The Bible tell us 11:33 that while the Christ on the cross died for us, 11:36 the Bible teaches 11:38 that there is a judgment day. 11:44 And ultimately, we're accountable to God. 11:48 It's not what the church thinks about you 11:51 or your spouse thinks about you, 11:53 it's what God knows about you. 11:56 And God knows what you are thinking 11:59 as you're sitting here now. 12:03 So He's laughing about that. 12:07 God know what you thinking right now, it's true. 12:11 The third part of this message is found in Revelation 14:7, 12:16 I want you to notice this, the first is the Gospel, 12:20 the second one was the Judgment Hour Message, 12:23 and third one was Worship the Creator. 12:30 Listen carefully, 12:34 this generation has been brainwashed by the idea... 12:39 Listen, this is what has taught in every American university, 12:44 every Australian, every British university, 12:47 the world's greatest lie, 12:50 and destroying the world. 12:52 It's taught that man is the product 12:56 of time plus matter 12:59 plus chance. 13:03 That there is no creator God, 13:07 that the universe did banged itself into existence, 13:13 there is no God. 13:18 And of course, 13:21 it was some people who believed this. 13:24 There are millions in America today 13:26 who are being brainwashed with this idea. 13:29 But let me tell you, 13:31 there was a great experiment were people believe this. 13:36 And that was great Russian atheistic experiment. 13:42 I personally stood in cemeteries 13:45 where there are tens of thousands of people 13:48 who were murdered and buried in those cemeteries. 13:52 I've gone to cemeteries in Ukraine, 13:56 where the pictures of people are up on the trees. 14:01 I've spoken in a great theater, where Khrushchev said, 14:06 God was dead, 14:07 and I was taken down into the bowls of that theater. 14:12 In the heart of downtown Kiev, 14:15 where so many people were tortured by the atheists 14:19 that the blood seeped 14:20 out through the rocks and the bricks 14:23 and ran down the streets. 14:27 Don't tell me it makes no difference 14:29 whether you believe or not. 14:33 The atheists, 14:35 and the atheists hate to hear this 14:38 but it is the truth, and I need to be honest, 14:41 and face up to it. 14:42 But when atheism was in control of Russia, 14:46 because man was simply a machine or an animal, 14:51 time plus matter plus chance equals us. 14:57 They put to death 50 million people, 50 million. 15:01 The Chinese put to death millions more, 15:05 the Cambodians, millions and millions, 15:08 because man was nothing, 15:10 that's why one philosopher said, 15:13 "God died in the 19th century and man died in the 20th." 15:18 The death of God always leads to the death of man. 15:24 And as a part of God's great last message, 15:26 there is a message that says, 15:28 you're unique, you're distinct, you're glorious, 15:32 you're made in the image of God. 15:35 Worship the creator. 15:39 The fourth part of that message Revelation 14:8, 15:43 and it warns up against the system which is called 15:47 in the scriptures Mystic Babylon. 15:54 Text says, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, 16:00 that might city. 16:02 What's is it talking about? 16:03 I've been to Babylon on many occasions. 16:06 Babylon was almost 16:09 the originator 16:11 of all the occultic, 16:16 twisted aversions 16:19 that have infiltrated the human race. 16:23 It started in Babylon. 16:25 We are going to see one day in these meetings as it takes. 16:29 "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, 16:32 because she has made all nations 16:34 drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." 16:38 And once people drink the wine of Babylon 16:42 they become drunk and they can't think straight. 16:46 That is why they find it so very hard 16:49 to understand the prophecies of the Bible, 16:51 because they've drunk of the wine of Babylon. 16:56 And we shall see in later meetings, 17:00 the Babylon is an amalgamation 17:05 of all the religions 17:09 of the world, 17:12 including a form of Christianity 17:17 that has nothing to do with Christ 17:20 but masquerades in the Christian church. 17:26 It is Babylon. 17:28 The Bible says, if you're in Babylon, 17:30 you need to get of it. 17:33 The fifth part of message is 17:35 a warning against the Antichrist, 17:37 Revelation 14:11. 17:41 The next part, Antichrist deceives. 17:46 I want you to notice it. 17:50 "Then a third angel followed them, 17:51 saying with a loud voice, 17:52 'If anyone worships the beast and his image, 17:57 and receives his mark on his forehead 18:01 or on his hand, 18:02 he himself shall also drink 18:05 of the wrath of God, 18:08 which is poured out full strength 18:09 into the cup of His indignation. 18:12 He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone 18:15 in the presence of the Holy Angels 18:17 and in the presence of the Lamb. 18:19 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; 18:23 and they have no rest day or night, 18:26 who worship the beast and his image, 18:28 and whoever receives the mark of his name." 18:30 You will say to me. 18:33 Would you teach that? 18:36 You better believe it. 18:40 It is a mark of God's last 18:44 saving message to the world. 18:48 Listen to what I'm going to say. 18:54 This message talks about, gonna give lectures on this. 19:01 Why I'm, I doing it? 19:02 Because the Bible says, you got to do it. 19:06 And failure to do it, 19:08 his high treason against the God of heaven 19:11 and cowardice before the foe. 19:17 Do I do this in public? 19:19 Yes, before millions. 19:21 Yes, before millions. 19:23 I've done it before millions. 19:26 Why? 19:27 Because I've happen to have convictions 19:31 and I believe 19:35 in the word of God. 19:37 How can you dispute this? 19:40 The Lord has coming and God sent to the world 19:43 a great threefold message. 19:44 Some will say, 19:46 "Oh, we shouldn't talk about it. 19:48 We may offend somebody." 19:50 Would you like to know the person 19:52 I'm afraid of offending? 19:54 And that's almighty God, 19:57 you see, almighty God. 19:59 Now, the Antichrist 20:03 is two-faced monster. 20:09 The Bible teaches that the Antichrist lurks 20:16 in the bosom of the church. 20:19 I will talk about this. 20:21 Coming up soon. 20:23 The great Antichrist, who is he? 20:28 The Bible says that this great pal 20:31 with all this beauty and his charm 20:35 will take deluded 20:37 a gullible populous of people 20:44 who've lost their way. 20:48 And so we're going to talk about this 20:50 because it's part of God's last message 20:54 to prepare our people for coming of the Lord. 20:57 And I wish to say as one great present 21:00 of United States of America said, 21:03 when America was facing a great crisis, he said, 21:08 "I would soon perish 21:12 in a cause I know would triumph, 21:14 than triumph in a cause that I know would perish." 21:21 And of cause of truth is going to triumph. 21:27 Now here is the next point, 21:32 point number six, here it is. 21:35 It says, keep the commandments. 21:37 Revelation 14:12 says, 21:43 "Here is the patience of the saints; 21:45 here are those who keep the commandments of God 21:49 and the faith of Jesus." 21:52 And I'm not Naive. 21:56 I recognize better than most 21:59 that the commandments 22:01 have become exceedingly unpopular. 22:05 One great American said recently, 22:09 you know of whom I'm speaking, 22:11 he said at the white house to the president, 22:15 to his face, he said, 22:17 "America is like 22:22 Rome in a last days." 22:25 He said, "We are drowning in a sea of immorality." 22:34 And you can have a Supreme Court 22:36 and they can say what they like, 22:38 it makes no difference to God and His word, 22:42 you see. 22:44 And God's word is not judged by the Supreme Court, 22:47 the Supreme Court is judged by God's word. 22:50 And the Bible says, in the last days, 22:52 God is going to have a message that goes to the world 22:56 and it will say, keep my commandments, 22:58 keep the law about marriage. 23:02 You hear this? 23:04 Keep the law about marriage. 23:06 Keep the law about the commandments, 23:09 and the Sabbath, and everything. 23:13 And I've discovered something this, 23:16 if you wanna have a long happy life, 23:21 if you wanna live long... 23:25 then you need to keep his commandments. 23:30 There's a wonderful story in the Bible, 23:32 we're gonna look up the text 23:35 as we don't have time. 23:36 It's a story of the woman that is bleeding, 23:41 cancer or some terrible disease, 23:45 Jesus was going along. 23:48 And with a trembling finger of faith, 23:50 she reached out and touched him. 23:53 And Jesus turned round and asked 23:55 a rather ridiculous question, He said who touched me? 23:59 The disciples who knew everything of course, 24:02 they said, everybody is touching you. 24:05 But Jesus just said, no, someone has touched me. 24:07 He could tell the difference 24:08 between a casual glance and the touch of faith. 24:12 And he said, somebody has touched me. 24:14 And a woman came forward and she said, 24:17 "I touched you." 24:19 And he said, "Woman, your faith has made you well, 24:23 go in peace 24:24 and be healed of your infirmity." 24:27 What we need more than anything else, my friend, 24:32 is not more religion, we need more of Christ, 24:36 and we need to touch him. 24:39 You know that's what we need. 24:42 I'm convinced, I believe it, 24:47 it burns in my soul... 24:52 I believe we're entering upon the climax time 24:56 in the history of the world. 24:59 I believe the prophecies are being fulfilled, 25:02 and I'm convinced that the next great event 25:07 is going to be the coming of Christ. 25:09 I believe this. 25:11 I believe He's is going to make a new heaven 25:15 and He's going to make a new earth. 25:19 I believe that some bad news 25:22 we hear on the news is really the good news, 25:29 because God is going to have a brand new world, 25:35 a brand new universe 25:39 for a brand new people. 25:42 Amen. 25:44 I believe this. 25:46 And the good news is that you and I 25:50 can be part of the kingdom of God. 27:57 For a copy of today's program, 27:59 please contact us at P.O. 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