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00:02 I'm John Carter in Moscow.
00:04 In Havana, Cuba. 00:07 Now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 00:10 I'm John Carter in Petra. 00:13 Right here in Communist China. 00:16 Reporting from India. 00:18 Hi, I'm John Carter in the Solomon Islands. 00:21 I'm John Carter in Soweto. 00:24 From El Salvador. 00:26 I'm John Carter in Sydney, Australia. 00:29 John Carter tells us how to survive the end times. 00:37 Welcome back to "How to Survive the End Times." 00:40 We've been talking about 00:41 the Great Tribulation and the elect. 00:45 So this is just a follow on 00:46 from the last segment of the program. 00:49 This is the second part. 00:50 I'm going to give you right now seven great prophetic signs. 00:54 I'm just going to give this to you. 00:55 We're not gonna turn up all the texts 00:57 because we don't have time. 00:58 This is going to be a sort of a summary, 01:00 seven great prophetic signs. 01:04 A brief summary, number one, 01:06 "The gospel to the whole wide world," 01:09 Jesus said. 01:11 Now, we don't need to turn up all these texts, Jesus said, 01:13 "The gospel is going to be preached in all the world 01:16 as a witness unto all nations, 01:19 then the end is going to come." 01:22 I've seen this prophecy being fulfilled. 01:26 The most unlikely place for this prophecy 01:28 to be fulfilled is China, 01:30 where they will soon be more Christians 01:32 than in the United States of America, 01:34 "The gospel to the world," sign number one. 01:37 Sign number two, "Destroyers of the earth." 01:40 And there's a text that most folks have never heard of. 01:43 Revelation 11:18, 01:45 I've got lots of folks who say to me, 01:47 "I don't believe in destruction of the earth. 01:50 I don't believe that man is destroying the earth." 01:53 I say to those folks, 01:55 apparently you just don't read your Bible, 01:58 because in Revelation Chapter 11:18, says 02:01 that God is going to destroy those people 02:04 who destroy the earth, actually says this. 02:08 And the Greek word 02:09 for destroy has a couple of meanings. 02:11 And one of those words is pollute the earth. 02:15 And so before the end of time comes, 02:18 mankind is going to destroy the earth, 02:20 and he's going to pollute the earth. 02:23 This is a sign of the end. 02:25 Number three is terrorism. 02:29 Yeah, this is the great text, 02:31 he's going to destroy those that... 02:34 Here it is, here, "Fear your name, 02:36 and he shall destroy those who destroy the earth." 02:39 But the next text, the next point 02:41 I wanna make is worldwide terrorism. 02:46 I want us to see this now, worldwide terrorism. 02:49 And we got a text here. 02:51 It's 2 Timothy Chapter 3. 02:53 And it talks, this is quite astounding. 02:56 It talks about religious terrorism. 02:59 Now, you go read it sometime it talks about 03:02 religious terrorism as a sign of the end. 03:05 Sign number four, 03:07 "The collapse of traditional morality." 03:11 Matthew 24 says, 03:12 that is going to get so, so really bad in the last days, 03:17 that the world is going to become 03:19 as it was in the days of Noah before the flood. 03:22 And when the world got so stinking, 03:25 and so, so really bad my friends, 03:28 God sent a worldwide flood and took them all away. 03:32 And in the Book of Jude, 03:34 it talks about the world becoming as it was 03:36 in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, 03:39 where they would be, hey, 03:41 this is terribly politically incorrect 03:43 what I'm gonna say, 03:44 but people will become obsessed with perverted sex. 03:51 This is a sign of the times. 03:53 Remember what Jesus said, 03:55 "The flood came and took them all away." 03:58 And sign number five 03:59 is the, "Rise in the rule of Antichrist, 04:02 a Pseudo-Christian power." 04:07 Now you can go to most churches most of your life, 04:09 and you'll never hear these prophecies explained. 04:13 It's an amazing thing. 04:14 Even the people 04:16 who profess to be the people of God 04:18 no longer seem to preach these things. 04:21 But in the Book of Daniel, it talks about 04:24 the coming of a combination of church and state, 04:29 a Pseudo-Christian power, 04:31 who will take peace from the earth. 04:34 I believe that this power is on the earth today, 04:38 and he's doing his work today. 04:40 Revelation 13 talks about the same thing, 04:44 the rise of a Pseudo-Christian power. 04:47 Sign number six, "Spiritism and evil spirits." 04:52 Next time we do a TV program here, 04:54 I'm going to talk about 04:56 the origin 04:58 and the end of evil. 05:03 I believe in a personal devil. 05:07 I believe there's a being by the name of Satan or Satan, 05:12 Lucifer. 05:13 And in the Book of Revelation Chapter 9 05:17 and Revelation Chapter 16, 05:18 it talks about these awful demonic creatures 05:23 that come up out of the bottomless pit. 05:26 Most people read this, 05:27 they got no idea what it's talking about. 05:30 It talks about these creatures that come up out of the bottom 05:33 of a bottomless pit and they're like scorpions. 05:39 They've got a sting in their tail. 05:42 It is an apocalyptic picture portrayal of demonism 05:47 that takes over the earth in the last days. 05:51 I mean, without God, this is pretty scary stuff, 05:54 pretty scary stuff. 05:57 Sign number seven, "The United States raised up 06:00 by the power of God to be a bastion of freedom, 06:04 the last great superpower 06:06 and the collapse of freedom." 06:11 In Revelation Chapter 13, it talks about a power 06:14 that doesn't come up out of the sea 06:16 representing the peoples of the earth. 06:18 But it comes up in a new part of the world. 06:22 And it comes up like a lamb representing the gospel, 06:26 and the power ends up speaking like a dragon 06:30 or the devil himself. 06:34 A power that will take peace from the earth 06:36 and bring about the union 06:39 of church and state. 06:43 Now, many people today in the United States of America 06:46 have never heard of what a theocracy is. 06:49 And we've got millions of Americans today who say, 06:53 "In the name of God, we want Jesus to be 06:56 the head of our nation. 06:57 Hallelujah. Praise God. 07:00 We want the union of church and state, we want Jesus." 07:06 Well, I want Jesus too, 07:08 but not the head of the government. 07:12 Because once you get away from the great truth 07:15 of the separation of church and state, 07:18 you step back into the Dark Ages, 07:21 and in the Dark Ages, 07:22 millions of people were put to death. 07:25 And, my friend, why is it that so many people 07:28 in this great land of the United States of America 07:33 have lost their sense of identity? 07:37 Don't they remember what America was raised up for? 07:41 Don't they remember how America came into being? 07:46 People escaped the persecutions of the old world. 07:50 And they came to this country 07:52 because they wanted a church without a pope 07:57 and a state without a king. 08:01 And the greatness of America 08:03 was the separation of church and state 08:06 so that everybody could worship or not worship, 08:11 according to the dictates of conscience. 08:15 But the Bible says, "This is going to change." 08:22 This is the most politically incorrect sermon 08:24 you ever going to hear. 08:27 I'm telling you, 08:28 but I believe we're living in a time 08:30 when church and state are going to join together 08:34 and persecute 08:36 those who think differently. 08:40 That's one of the great signs. 08:44 "And the groundwork is being laid. 08:47 The land that speaks as a dragon." 08:50 Every person who was watching the telecast 08:52 and everybody in our great little studio 08:54 here in California 08:56 knows about the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. 09:00 You all know that this, these people are not believers, 09:02 they're not students of the Bible. 09:06 And when they look at the world, 09:08 and when they look at what's happening in the world, 09:11 and when they look at 09:13 the proliferation of nuclear weapons, 09:17 they have put the doomsday clock 09:19 at 2 minutes to midnight. 09:23 These are not raving preachers, these are not evangelists. 09:28 These are, I was gonna say, cold-blooded, 09:31 at least cool headed scientists, 09:35 and they believe that the clock 09:37 is now facing 2 minutes to midnight. 09:42 And what is amazing to me 09:44 and to many, many other people 09:46 that in this time of tremendous peril, 09:50 the church, the Christian church 09:53 seems to be completely asleep. 09:56 And it's talking platitudes. 10:00 And so I believe we've come to the end times. 10:03 And the Great Tribulation is about 10:05 to burst upon the world. 10:06 I believe this. 10:07 People have asked me, "Why don't you just retire, 10:10 you've done enough?" 10:11 But I say, "I can never do enough for Jesus." 10:14 They say, "Why don't you go and sit on the beach?" 10:17 Well, I'm tempted too. 10:20 But, I want to tell you, folk, something. 10:23 The Lord is coming. 10:25 And the question is, are you ready? 10:28 Now we come to the third part of this talk. 10:31 The End Times Survived. 10:34 How to survive the Great Tribulation? 10:37 And I say it absolutely emphatically 10:39 on the basis of the teachings of Jesus, 10:43 you will be here. 10:45 I'm gonna prove it to you. 10:47 I don't want to annoy or upset my dear friends 10:50 who believe that the rapture takes place 10:53 and all the saints of God are raptured home to glory. 10:56 I don't believe that 10:58 because I don't believe it's taught in the Bible. 11:00 I believe it's a very popular idea. 11:03 I believe it's a very, very comforting idea. 11:07 But Jesus said, 11:09 "Unless those days were shortened, 11:12 no one would survive it." 11:14 But he says, "For the sake of the elect, 11:17 those days are going to be shortened." 11:19 Therefore, Jesus said 11:20 that the elect are going to be right here 11:23 when the tribulation comes. 11:25 I'm going to try to prove this to you. 11:27 And I think I can prove it to you. 11:28 I want you to come now to Revelation 7:9. 11:33 I'm going to show you some stuff and ask you 11:34 just to think about it. 11:36 Don't just get mad with me without a good reason. 11:40 Revelation 7:9, 11:44 I want you please just go 11:45 and check it out in the scriptures. 11:47 Would you please indulge me? 11:50 Revelation 7:9, 11:52 "After these things I looked, and behold, 11:54 a great multitude." 11:56 I want you to put these thoughts in your head. 11:58 "A great multitude which no one could number 12:01 of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues," 12:04 God's got a big family, 12:06 "standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, 12:09 clothed with white robes, 12:11 with palm branches in their hands." 12:14 Listen, let me just try to get these truths out there today. 12:19 In the last days, God is going to have 12:21 a great multitude of people saved. 12:24 And the Bible says, "This great multitude 12:27 is composed of people from every nation, 12:31 on the face of the earth." 12:33 Just wants you to hear this and to believe it. 12:36 Listen to me. 12:39 In the Old Testament, the focus was the Jewish people 12:42 God's chosen nation. 12:45 I'm going to say something now, 12:47 which is going to antagonize the rest of you, 12:50 who haven't been antagonized and turned off so far. 12:53 Here it is. 12:57 In the Old Testament, 12:58 the focus was the Jewish people, 13:00 God's chosen nation. 13:02 But I'm here to tell you today that 13:03 God no longer has a chosen nation. 13:07 He's got His people in every nation. 13:10 Now listen, "In the New Testament, 13:13 the focus is on people from every nation, 13:17 Jews and Gentiles. 13:20 Many miss this truth 13:22 and are trapped in racism." 13:26 They say, "No, you gotta go to such and such a country. 13:30 That's where God's chosen people are." 13:32 No, that's an insidious form of racism. 13:38 God no longer has a special nation. 13:41 God has special people in every nation. 13:45 And this is what the Bible teaches. 13:47 Now, I want to show you something, 13:48 I want you to come over here to Romans 9:8, 13:52 dear hearts and gentle people. 13:53 Romans 9:8, 13:58 Romans Chapter 9 14:01 and I want you to notice it in verse 8. 14:03 This is the great Jewish scholar Paul talking, 14:08 "That is, 14:09 those who are the children of the flesh, 14:14 these are not the children of God." 14:17 Hey, "That is, 14:22 those who are the children of the flesh, 14:24 these are not 14:27 the children of God, 14:29 but the children of the promise are counted as the seed." 14:34 Your nationality doesn't count anymore. 14:40 As far as God is concerned, and it says, 14:43 "The children of the flesh, 14:45 these are not the children of God." 14:51 In the Old Testament, 14:54 the Jewish people were the special nation. 14:57 They were the fleshly 14:59 descendants of Abraham. 15:04 And the rest were cast out, sort of, they were gentiles. 15:09 But Paul, the greatest Jewish scholar 15:11 apart from my Lord who's ever lived, said, 15:14 "The children of the flesh, 15:16 they are not the people of God, 15:19 but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." 15:23 So if you believe in Jesus, He's the promise. 15:27 If you believe in Jesus, if you believe in Jesus, 15:31 you're counted for the seed. 15:36 So it's not the flesh. 15:39 It's the spirit. 15:42 Who said it? 15:43 Paul said it. 15:46 The Bible says, we read the text. 15:49 There's going to be a great multitude 15:50 saved in the last days. 15:52 People from Los Angeles, 15:54 that shows you there are miracles, 15:56 people, people and I've worked there 16:00 for many, many years. 16:01 People from Los Angeles, 16:02 and I've met some great saints in Los Angeles. 16:06 People from Los Angeles, New York, 16:12 Chicago, Moscow, London, Sydney, 16:16 Beijing, San Salvador, 16:19 San Francisco, 16:22 Mexico City, Havana, 16:24 and every other city, town, village 16:26 on the face of the earth. 16:30 God doesn't have a nation, 16:32 He's got His people in every nation. 16:35 In America, in Australia, 16:38 in Canada, in Great Britain, 16:40 in Brazil, in Israel, in Germany, 16:44 Spain, Russia, Ukraine 16:45 and your nation. 16:50 Not your nationality, white people, brown people, 16:54 black people, God's remnant people, 16:58 now come back to Revelation 7:13, 14, 17:01 don't get mad with me because I'm teaching the Bible. 17:04 Some people say, 17:06 "This is not what I'm taught in church." 17:07 Well, I really don't care. 17:09 I wanna go and see what the Bible teaches. 17:12 Revelation 7:13, 14, 17:18 Revelation 7:13, 14. 17:23 So here we have, we've been talking 17:25 about the great multitude of every nation. 17:29 Verse 13, and 14, 17:30 "Then one of the elders answered, 17:32 saying to me, 17:35 'Who are these arrayed in white robes, 17:37 where did they come from?'" 17:38 Where did this great multitude come from? 17:40 This is the question. 17:43 Here's a picture of this great multitude. 17:48 The Gentiles and Jews, and callithumpians, 17:51 and Russians and Americans, and Australians and Chileans, 17:55 every person who trusts in Christ. 17:59 Here what I'm saying, if you don't trust in Christ 18:03 and follow His word, 18:05 you are not a child of God. 18:10 And if you believe the Bible, you can never ever be a racist 18:14 and think that because of the color of your skin, 18:16 you're better than other people. 18:20 You know, that's a lie of the devil. 18:23 People say, "But Jesus," 18:27 I've heard people say this to me, 18:28 "But Jesus was an Englishman." 18:35 Jesus was an Englishman? 18:36 Yeah, well, in all the pictures 18:37 he looks as English as English can be. 18:41 Jesus was a Jew. 18:44 Jesus came from Palestine. 18:49 Jesus was the brother to the Arab. 18:55 No, no. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 18:58 You know, we're drowning today 19:00 in a sea of ignorance, I'm afraid to say. 19:04 Look at Revelation 7, I hope you're not one of them. 19:09 Of course, you're not. 19:10 Revelation 7:13 and 14, 19:14 "Then one of the elders answered, 19:16 saying to me, 19:18 'Who are these arrayed in white robes, 19:19 where did they come from?'" 19:21 This great multitude. 19:22 "And I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' 19:24 So he said to me, 'These are the ones 19:26 who came out of the great tribulation, 19:30 and washed their robes and made them white 19:32 in the blood of the Lamb.'" 19:33 The people who are saved, 19:35 who survived the great time of trouble, 19:39 the great tribulation. 19:42 These people who are made up of people 19:44 from every nation, 19:46 it says, "These are the ones 19:48 who came out of the great tribulation." 19:51 Hey, how could they have come out 19:54 of the great tribulation 19:56 is they've been raptured home to glory? 19:59 Anybody ever think about that before? 20:01 Oh, but my past I don't care. 20:05 My authority is not the church, not some TV evangelist. 20:10 My authority is it is written, 20:14 the Word of God, my friend. 20:17 Now here is the secret to their salvation. 20:22 They are in Christ. 20:24 They came out of the Great Tribulation. 20:25 You can't come out of something if you're not already in it. 20:28 Come on. Let's think this through. 20:31 I asked Paul the prisoner, the secret of his endurance. 20:35 He said, "I clung to Christ. 20:38 I recall the words of Scripture 20:39 that I'd studied and memorized." 20:44 What about you? 20:46 You memorize Scripture? 20:47 All right, you are conformist? 20:51 Whitewashed, brainwashed. 20:56 He said, I refuse to give up hope. 20:57 I prayed for my enemies. 20:59 I'm going to quote a great statement 21:01 from a great book written here in America many years ago 21:05 called The Great Controversy. 21:07 Many people read it, many people don't follow it, 21:10 because it's inconvenient. 21:13 "But God will have a people upon the earth 21:15 to maintain the Bible, 21:16 and the Bible only, as a standard of all doctrines 21:19 and the basis of all reforms." 21:21 That's why I say to you 21:22 in these meetings Sola Scriptura. 21:25 Don't say to me, the church says. 21:29 I don't follow the pope, 21:31 either the one in Rome, or your own personal one. 21:36 "The opinions of learned men, that deductions of science, 21:41 the creeds or decisions of ecclesiastical councils, 21:44 as numerous and discordant as are the churches 21:47 which they represent, 21:49 the voice of the majority - 21:52 not one nor all of these should be 21:54 regarded as evidence for 21:55 or against any point of religious faith. 21:58 Before accepting any doctrine or precept, 22:01 we should demand a plain 22:03 'Thus saith the Lord' in its support. 22:06 Satan is constantly endeavoring to attract attention 22:10 to man in the place of God. 22:14 He leads the people to look to bishops, 22:17 to pastors, to professors of theology as their guides, 22:22 instead of searching the scriptures 22:24 to learn their duty for themselves." 22:27 Think to yourself. Amen. 22:30 "Then, by controlling the minds of these leaders, 22:33 he can influence the multitudes according to His will." 22:38 And you know, it's true. 22:40 I want you to notice this text Revelation 12:11. 22:44 Revelation 12:11. 22:47 Come on, let's open the text. 22:48 Revelation 12:11, "And they overcame him." 22:52 The saints in the last days. 22:54 "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb 22:58 and by the word other of their testimony, 23:00 and they did not love their lives to the death." 23:02 They owe that came through the blood of the Lamb. 23:07 They knew Christ. 23:10 They weren't conformists. 23:11 They weren't wimps. 23:14 They weren't deluded. 23:15 They weren't simple minded. 23:18 Christ is the Lamb of God. 23:21 It was Pastor Murga, great friend of mine in Kiev, 23:25 Ukraine. 23:26 Five years thrown into a hellhole in prison. 23:29 Here is a picture of Pastor Mrs. Murga 23:32 with Beverley and me. 23:34 He was told, just inform we'll let you out. 23:38 He said, "Never, never, never, 23:39 stubborn, good to be stubborn for God." 23:42 Don't be a wimp. 23:44 I said, "What gave you strength?" 23:45 He said, "Faith in Jesus, faith in His redemption, 23:48 faith in His love and grace. 23:51 I had a personal faith in Jesus. 23:53 I studied the scriptures." 23:57 That's how he overcame his time of trouble. 24:00 Pastor Kulakov, the church in Russia 24:03 sent to Siberia, 24:05 five years in the forest and mines of Siberia 24:08 because he was a Christian. 24:11 Most Christians today are too lazy to get out of bed 24:13 and go to church. 24:16 What am I gonna say when they meet these people 24:17 if they ever do? 24:21 Cold, hungry he would not surrender. 24:23 Why Pastor Murga? 24:24 Faith in Jesus. 24:26 I held on to Jesus. 24:28 I had God's word in my heart. 24:30 Then read it again, Revelation 7:9, 24:34 Revelation 7:9. 24:37 Here is the text. 24:39 "After these things I looked, and behold, 24:41 a great multitude which no one good number, 24:43 of all nations, tribes, peoples, 24:45 and tongues standing before the throne 24:48 and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, 24:50 having palm branches in their hands," 24:52 their home and glory. 24:55 It's a great multitude made up of every nation. 24:59 In Revelation 7:13 and 14, look at this 25:02 because I guarantee you've never read it 25:04 or thought it through. 25:06 Revelation 7, "Then one of the elders answered, 25:08 saying to me, 25:09 'Who are these arrayed in white robes, 25:11 where did they come from?' 25:13 I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' 25:15 So he said to me, 'These are the ones 25:17 who came out of the great tribulation,'" 25:19 you can't come out of it unless you're in it, 25:23 "and washed their robes and made them white 25:26 in the blood of the Lamb." 25:31 That's how you survive it 25:33 by being a nonconformist for Jesus. 25:37 Not by being a wimp, 25:40 but by being a man or a woman of God. 25:44 And my appeal is very simple today. 25:49 Believe in Jesus. 25:52 Believe in Jesus 25:56 and read 25:58 and study the Word 26:00 for yourself. 26:04 In the name of the Father and of the Son 26:10 and of the Holy Spirit 26:13 and for His glory. 26:16 Amen and amen. 26:22 The Antichrist is in the temple of God. 26:28 I will read you the actual words 26:30 of the great Roman Catholic Church. 26:35 More than a billion people pray to the dead. 26:40 But the Bible talks very plainly about 26:43 good angels and bad angles. 26:48 Why on earth were you and I born? 26:57 This DVD series from John Carter will be yours 27:00 with a gift of $50 US or $70 Australian. 27:03 Write to us at the address on the screen. 27:05 Visit cartereport.org, 27:07 your home for inspirational teaching. 27:22 Time, it takes only a minute to have eternal life. 27:26 How can you get saved in a minute? 27:28 It's simple. 27:29 First believe that Jesus was the Son of God. 27:32 Second, accept His free gift of eternal life, 27:35 and then you're saved. 27:37 It's not hard. 27:38 It doesn't take any time. 27:40 You can be saved in a minute right now. 27:43 Pray with me, Lord God, I realize that I am a sinner. 27:47 My sin has separated me from You. 27:49 I accept that Your Son Jesus Christ died for me. 27:52 I ask Jesus into my heart. 27:55 If you prayed this prayer, you are saved. 27:57 The next thing to do is tell someone, 28:00 fellowship with other followers of Jesus, 28:03 get baptized, read your Bible and pray. 28:06 Choices, we make them every day all day. 28:10 The most important choice you will make in your life 28:13 is whether to choose eternal life 28:15 or let it pass you by. 28:17 If you'd like more information about your new life, 28:19 call the number and visit our website. 28:25 For a copy of today's program, please contact us 28:28 at P.O. 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