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00:01 Three Angels Broadcasting Network
00:02 is pleased to bring you something better, 00:06 a faith inspiring picture of a loving God 00:09 from the Book of Hebrews. 00:11 Welcome to 3ABN's 00:13 Virtual Homecoming Camp Meeting. 00:16 Amen. 00:17 Welcome back to 3ABN Fall Homecoming Camp Meeting. 00:20 Were you blessed by Pastor John's sermons 00:22 just a couple of minutes ago? 00:24 I can hear you at home saying amen. 00:25 I know we have been here at 3ABN. 00:28 What a blessing to be able to participate with you. 00:30 You're part of our family at home and thank you again, 00:33 for your prayers and financial support 00:34 for your ministry, for God's ministry 00:37 as it reaches the world with the message of truth. 00:41 This hour, we're going to be blessed 00:42 with a powerful message from Pastor Kenny Shelton. 00:45 And I just have to say that I appreciate 00:47 Pastor Kenny Shelton so very much. 00:49 As many of you know, he was with Mr. Danny 00:52 as 3ABN started over 37 years ago. 00:55 I've never asked him this question, 00:57 but I'm sure both of them have hammered 00:59 many a nail here at 3ABN 01:01 as they've constructed these buildings here. 01:04 But you know, most importantly, Pastor Kenny, 01:07 he's a man of the Word. 01:09 He's a man whose heart beats evangelism. 01:13 He's the man who believes in preaching 01:16 the undiluted three angels' messages 01:18 of Revelation Chapter 14, and the entire Bible. 01:22 But most importantly, 01:24 he's a follower of Jesus Christ. 01:26 You know I appreciate he and his wife, Sister Chris, 01:30 they're the speaker, director, president, 01:32 whatever you want to call it of Behold the Lamb Ministries. 01:35 I asked him, I said, "What do I call you? 01:37 What's your title?" 01:38 He said, "Greg, I do everything, 01:40 but most importantly I follow Jesus Christ." 01:42 I just appreciate their servant attitude, 01:45 always willing to help. 01:46 They're here at 3ABN and many times 01:48 I've had the opportunity of sitting under his tutelage. 01:52 He's a man of wisdom and the Lord has blessed him 01:55 with incredible gifts and talents. 01:57 We're so blessed that he's here 01:58 going to be able to present this message to us today 02:01 from the Word of God. 02:03 But before he comes and share us, 02:04 we're going to be blessed with music with Tammy Chance, 02:07 which is his sister 02:09 and, of course, Mr. Danny's sister, 02:10 and Ryan Day, and they'll be doing a wonderful piece, 02:13 More Than Wonderful. 02:15 Thank you, Brother Tim. You're at the piano as well. 02:17 God bless. 02:34 He promised us 02:37 That He would be a counselor 02:41 A mighty God 02:44 And the Prince of Peace 02:49 He promised us 02:51 That He would be a Father 02:56 And love us with love 02:59 That would not cease 03:04 Well, I've tried Him 03:07 And found His promises are true 03:12 He's everything He said 03:16 That He would be 03:20 The finest words I know 03:23 Could not begin to tell 03:27 Jesus just how much 03:30 He really means to me 03:38 For He's more 03:43 Wonderful 03:46 Than my mind can conceive 03:50 He's more wonderful 03:53 Than my heart can believe 03:57 He goes beyond 04:00 My highest hopes 04:03 And fondest dreams 04:11 He's everything 04:15 That my soul ever longed for 04:19 Everything He's promised 04:22 And so much more 04:26 He's more than amazing 04:28 More than amazing 04:29 More than marvelous 04:31 More than marvelous 04:33 More than miraculous 04:34 More than miraculous could ever be 04:39 He's more than wonderful 04:44 That's what Jesus is to me 04:55 I stand amazed when I think 04:58 That the King of Glory 05:02 Would come to dwell 05:05 Within the heart of man 05:10 And I marvel just to know 05:13 He really loves me 05:17 When I think of who He is, 05:20 And who I am 05:26 For He's more 05:31 Wonderful 05:33 Than my mind can conceive 05:37 He's more wonderful 05:41 Than my heart can believe 05:45 He goes beyond 05:48 My highest Hopes 05:50 And fondest dreams 05:58 He's everything 06:00 He's everything 06:02 That my soul ever longed for 06:07 Everything that He's promised 06:10 And so much more 06:13 He's more than amazing 06:15 More than amazing 06:17 More than marvelous 06:18 More than marvelous 06:20 More than miraculous 06:22 More than miraculous could ever be 06:26 He's more than wonderful 06:30 More than wonderful 06:34 That's what Jesus 06:38 Is to me 06:58 Amen. 07:00 Thank you. 07:03 Praise the Lord, isn't God good? 07:05 More than wonderful. 07:07 Praise God for that. 07:08 I tell you that just set my heart a glow, 07:10 to realize He is more than wonderful. 07:13 Greetings again, 3ABN camp meeting. 07:15 We're so glad that each and every one of you 07:16 who've tuned in, 07:17 we're here today to study the Word of God together. 07:20 And so, I pray that you've brought your Bible 07:22 and you have pencil and pens or whatever and take notes. 07:25 Sometime they tell me I go a little bit quickly 07:27 but hey, there's a lot to cover in the Word of God. 07:31 We're gonna be talking about prophecies unsealed, 07:34 and we're going to talk about hope for the future. 07:36 So if you're looking for what's going on in the world, 07:39 you're looking and saying, 07:40 "I wanna have hope for the future." 07:42 This would be the place to stay right now. 07:44 But always before we study, we pray. 07:47 I know we prayed behind the stage, 07:51 a lot of people have been praying, 07:53 but I always like just to pray one more time 07:54 because I feel like I really need it. 07:56 So I'm going to kneel over here and pray 07:57 and I'd ask that you pray with me please. 08:01 Merciful Father in heaven, 08:03 thank You for the privilege of prayer. 08:04 Thank You that we can call you our Father. 08:05 Today we come before Thee 08:07 because we are in need desperately of a Savior. 08:10 We're in need of heavenly wisdom. 08:11 We pray for the outpouring of Thy Holy Spirit. 08:13 Lord, touch Your people. 08:15 Open hearts, open minds, 08:16 help us to realize the hour in which we live, 08:18 that Jesus is soon to come and we need to be ready. 08:21 Prepare, prepare, prepare. 08:23 Thank You, Lord, for each one 08:24 who's tuned and each one who's watching, 08:26 may this message be one that will touch every heart 08:28 and we thank You in Jesus' name. 08:30 Amen. 08:33 You have your Bible, just go ahead and get ready. 08:34 We'll be turning in the Book of Daniel. 08:36 We're gonna read several verses there in just a moment. 08:38 But you know, as we were praying and studying about 08:40 what the Lord would have us to present, 08:43 this message came to... 08:45 I think the Holy Spirit brought this message 08:47 to my mind and heart prophecies unsealed and again, 08:51 you talk about prophetic visions. 08:54 Are we in need of people of visions? 08:56 Do we need visions? Do we need prophecy? 08:59 Do we need, you know, to know what's happening in the world? 09:01 Do we really need to know what's going to happen, 09:03 so that we might be prepared? 09:05 Well, if you do, again, we're going to be studying 09:07 a little bit about that right now. 09:09 Take your Bible and turn with me 09:11 to the Book of Daniel. 09:12 Daniel Chapter 12. 09:13 We're going to read a couple... 09:15 I think maybe five verses if you just will. 09:16 Five verses that I believe will be a blessing to you. 09:19 Now, remember, these things are important. 09:21 We're not up here just to waste time. 09:22 We're up here to try to revive by the grace of God 09:25 and the Holy Spirit. 09:26 The hour that we're living in is a fantastic hour, 09:31 in which I believe that everyone can play a part 09:33 who wants to play a part in the finishing of the work. 09:36 To me, it's an exciting time in which to live 09:38 and I pray this exciting time to each one of you today. 09:42 Daniel Chapter 12. 09:43 Listen carefully, every verse here. 09:45 Again, five verses we're gonna begin 09:47 with verse number 3. 09:49 Notice how it reads, it talks about here, 09:51 it says there, "And they that be wise." 09:54 Is there anyone here that's wise today? 09:56 Well by the grace of God. 09:57 "If any be wise," notice this, "they shall shine 10:00 as the brightness of the firmament, 10:01 and they that turn many to righteousness 10:04 as the stars forever and ever." 10:07 Verse 4, "But thou, oh Daniel," 10:09 notice this is where we're going, 10:11 "shut up the words and seal the book, 10:14 even to the time of the end." 10:16 The Bible says, "Many shall run to and fro, 10:19 knowledge shall be increased." 10:21 Skip with me, please to verse 9, 10:23 notice says and he said, 10:25 "Go thy way, Daniel, 10:26 for the words are," notice this what? 10:28 "The words are closed up." 10:29 Yeah, they're closed up until what? 10:32 "Till the time of the end." 10:34 We're going to emphasize that over and over in our study 10:36 these words that we're talking about today, 10:38 they were sealed for a time, 10:40 but they were for the time of the end. 10:41 And many of us believe 10:43 we are in the end times right now. 10:44 So that means they're for us. 10:46 Verse 10, it says here, 10:48 "Many shall be purified and made white, tried, 10:52 but the wicked shall do wickedly." 10:54 Notice this. 10:55 "None of the wicked shall understand, 10:57 but the wise shall understand." 11:00 Verse 13, the last verse here, 11:01 says, "But go thou thy way till the end be 11:04 for thou shall rest and stand in thy lot 11:07 at the end of the days." 11:10 Is this really something we should be talking about? 11:11 I think I'm at camp meeting, 11:13 what a wonderful time camp meeting is 11:15 where God's people get together, 11:16 and we study the Word of God together, 11:18 we pray together, 11:20 we plea for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, 11:22 the latter rain experience. 11:24 We plea to know what's taking place right now 11:27 and what's soon to take place in our world. 11:29 And some people say, well, I don't know if we're, 11:31 this may be a little bit heavy-duty stuff. 11:33 You know what? 11:34 I really believe that it's time for heavy-duty stuff. 11:37 There's some that naturally on the milk of the Word 11:39 or some who's on the meat of the Word. 11:41 And praise God, 3ABN camp meeting, 11:42 I believe the Holy Spirit will give you what you need. 11:45 Again we look at Testimonies to Ministers, 11:47 I love the little book Testimonies to Ministers. 11:49 It says this, page 115. 11:51 Remember, prophecies unsealed and then hope. 11:54 So all the time we talk about things, 11:55 somebody say, "Oh, my, that's a little bit negative 11:57 or maybe that's a little bit hurtful, whatever." 11:59 There's hope at the end. 12:01 There's hope that God gives us as we study these things, 12:04 and it tells us that God loves us. 12:07 Testimonies to Ministers 115. 12:08 Notice, it says, "Daniel stood in his lot." 12:11 Do you remember the verse we just read there? 12:13 Remember verse 13 of Daniel 12, 12:15 "Daniel stood in his lot, or his portion or his destiny, 12:19 to bear his testimony, which was sealed, 12:21 until the time of the end." 12:23 Man, sealed into what? 12:24 Till the time of the end. 12:26 Notice this, when the first angel's message 12:27 should be proclaimed. 12:30 3ABN, we are very interested excited about what? 12:33 Three angels' message. 12:35 In my opinion, we need to hear 12:37 more about the three angels' message 12:39 and I'm talking about all three, 12:40 I'm not talking about just one or two. 12:41 I'm talking about 12:43 all three of the angels' message. 12:44 Notice this, he said, "When the first angel's message 12:46 should be proclaimed to our world," notice, 12:49 "the Book of Daniel is unsealed," where? 12:52 "In the revelation to John, and carries us 12:55 forward to the last scenes of this earth's history." 13:00 Now, just those last words, 13:02 it does something for me, 13:04 at least in my mind, and in my heart. 13:06 It carries us forward to the last scenes 13:09 of this earth's history. 13:11 Is there anybody, anyone interested 13:13 in the last scenes of earth's history? 13:17 We are to teach these things. 13:18 We're to bring them to light 13:20 because we are in and we'll say it 13:22 over and over in the scenes of this earth's history, 13:25 the last scenes. 13:26 Things are taking place right now 13:28 that tell us that Jesus is soon to come. 13:31 We may divide Daniel, 13:33 there are people who love to study 13:34 certainly the Book of Daniel, 13:36 and you could divide it into two different aspects 13:38 if you want to, or divisions if you want. 13:40 The historical part, which would be Daniel 1-6, 13:45 and the prophetic section, which is Daniel 7-12. 13:50 So you can divide those things up. 13:51 And it would be so interesting. 13:53 Some of you haven't studied this, 13:54 many of you studied it much more than I have 13:56 and you know it well. 13:58 But notice there in the prophetic section here, 14:00 starting with Daniel's Chapter 7, 14:03 you'll find things like four beasts, 14:05 and little horn, 14:06 and judgment and the interpretation of it. 14:10 All of a sudden, those things excite me, 14:12 I don't know about you. 14:13 That's exciting to say about 14:15 if you don't know these things to say, 14:16 what are the four beasts? 14:18 What is that little horn? 14:20 Is there judgment? 14:21 Is the judgment going on right now? 14:24 If we need to be teaching and broadcasting to the world, 14:28 it would be that the judgment hour 14:30 has already certainly commenced. 14:32 We gonna say not at the beginning of, 14:33 we're at the end of it. 14:35 That should perk us up in our spiritual seats to say, 14:39 "Hey, we're at the end of the judgment hour, 14:41 Jesus is coming." 14:43 You look at that, 14:45 that's a second prophetic message. 14:46 The third prophetic message 14:47 that Daniel gives is Daniel 8, 9. 14:50 And again you read and you say, oh, there's a ram, 14:52 there's a he-goat, there's a horn, 14:55 there's a cleansing of the sanctuary. 14:58 What does that all mean? 15:00 I'm finding more and more 15:01 that you mentioned some of these things 15:03 that people maybe have never heard before 15:04 and they just say, "Oh, well, 15:07 Oh, my, my, don't want that to come back to bite you." 15:10 This is something that should be of interest 15:12 to all of us today. 15:14 The fourth prophetic message, 15:16 that would be Daniel 10, 11, and 12. 15:19 It also envision, it's talking about 15:22 things that's going to happen in the future, 15:23 and certainly historical things. 15:25 So I'm excited about all of those things, 15:27 and I hope you are too today. 15:30 A little book that I read quite often 15:31 is Prophets and Kings. 15:33 Now, this is something 15:34 that we need to really pay attention to, 15:36 listen carefully. 15:38 Again, Prophets and Kings, 547. 15:41 Now, start out with the words, notice this, 15:43 "As we near the close of this world history, 15:47 the prophecies revealed by Daniel 15:50 demand our special attention." 15:52 Okay. 15:53 If I could stop there and end it, 15:55 none of us should have a complaint about 15:57 what we're talking about today 15:58 because, notice, we're at the end to the close 16:01 of the world's history, 16:03 prophecies recorded by Daniel demand, what? 16:06 Our special attention. 16:07 Why? 16:09 As they relate to the very time in which we are living. 16:13 There's a world out there 16:14 that's warning and relating to things that are happening, 16:17 that they just don't understand. 16:20 And God has given you that understanding, 16:22 I believe that with my heart, there are many, who know. 16:25 And we need not keep silent at this time. 16:28 We need not, you know, just kind of talk about things 16:31 that might be pleasing and whitewash different things 16:34 but say it as God has given it to us, 16:37 as a body, as a church, as an individual. 16:40 Remember, they relate to the time 16:42 in which we are living. 16:44 With them, and you notice that, you know this, 16:47 that we have to link the Book of Revelation, 16:49 Daniel, and Revelation right now 16:51 in the New Testament scriptures. 16:53 But I might just add, I believe that the enemy has deceived. 16:57 Now, none of us want to hear that, 16:59 because every one of us we say, 17:01 well, if you've been deceived, most of them will know 17:02 that I'm not being deceived." 17:03 Well, I can't be deceived, because I know, 17:05 because I've experienced." 17:07 But pay special attention because the enemy brings out, 17:11 you know, the one thing he's going to do, 17:12 the Scripture bring out is that he's going to deceive 17:15 the whole world. 17:17 He's going to see those names 17:19 who are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 17:21 So majority of the world is going to be deceived 17:24 by what the enemy does. 17:26 We need to pay close attention to what's going on. 17:29 Most of the pastors in the pulpit nowadays, 17:31 maybe some in our own, 17:33 well, let's not really study the Book of Daniel, 17:34 let's not really study the Book of Revelation. 17:36 It's a little bit too hard to understand. 17:38 You can't understand it. 17:39 It's just the opposite. 17:42 For a blessing will come, the Bible says, 17:45 a blessing will come to those who study them. 17:49 We just read, what was it Daniel 12:10, 17:51 "There's a blessing." 17:53 You know what? 17:54 I need those blessings, I want those blessings. 17:56 In fact, it says there in Daniel 12:10. 17:58 It says, "The wise shall understand." 18:01 The wise, that means it's going to bring hope 18:04 to a world that seems to be crushing 18:06 right under the weight of sin, 18:08 and problems that are going on, 18:10 too numerous to mention. 18:11 We might mention a few things that are going on 18:14 before this ends but notice there, 18:16 this brings hope and encouragement 18:18 that God said, "That which is sealed 18:20 is going to be open, 18:21 so that my people will know so they will not be deceived, 18:24 so they can give the message of warning to the world." 18:26 Are we doing it the way God would have us do? 18:28 I pray that each one of us 18:30 are doing as God has instructed us to do. 18:33 You see these visions were given to Daniel. 18:36 Anytime I hear there's a vision, in scripture, 18:39 John was envisioned, or whatever it might be, 18:41 or Daniel was envisioned. 18:43 I pay close attention, how about you? 18:46 A vision, that means heaven 18:48 is what is talking as it were to man. 18:51 He's giving him a message 18:53 and then man is to relate that message 18:54 to each one of us, write it down. 18:57 But it says in that latter days, 18:59 Revelation is the revealing of Jesus Christ, 19:03 there's no doubt about it. 19:04 And I'm trying to figure out 19:06 why it isn't many encourage them, 19:07 people not to read the Book of Revelation. 19:09 It's a revelation of Jesus Christ. 19:11 It's to guide His people. 19:13 Revelation said, "It's to show His servants of the things 19:16 that must shortly come to pass." 19:18 That's why the devil says, "Stay out of it. 19:20 Don't get into it." 19:22 Because God said, "I'm going to show My people 19:23 those things that are shortly going to come to pass." 19:28 Revelation 1:1. 19:29 And so, then a blessing then is pronounced 19:32 on, notice it, one who reads. 19:35 Sometime we're not reading enough. 19:36 We're not studying the Bible. 19:38 Some people say, "Well, I read, I read, I read." 19:39 I encourage you to study, study, study, 19:41 is that all right? 19:42 Just study the Word of God. 19:44 Find your subject, get in and get to the bottom of it. 19:46 Look what all the Bible writers have to say 19:48 on this given subject. 19:50 Study to show yourself approved unto God. 19:52 It says here, "He that reads, 19:54 and they that hear the words of prophecy, 19:56 and then you got those who keep those things 19:59 which are written therein and why? 20:01 For the time is at hand. 20:02 So I see three things are very important there, 20:04 and I know you do too. 20:05 We must read, we need to hear it, 20:08 and then we need to keep those things that are written. 20:10 Why? Because the time is at hand. 20:13 Praise God for that. 20:15 Again, let me just bring this out, 20:17 then you can chew on it for a little while, 20:19 if you don't like it, you can always spit it out. 20:20 I mean, we can always do that. 20:23 No man can impart or give to someone else, 20:26 that which He has not received. 20:29 How can you give something that you have not received? 20:31 How are you going to when the Holy Spirit 20:33 impresses you, something needs to be said, 20:35 oh, you never put it in here, 20:37 so it's not going to be able to come out. 20:38 We have to hide the Word of God in our hearts and in our minds. 20:42 We live in that hour of earth's history 20:45 where God is going to use those who want to be used, 20:48 those who have prepared to be used, 20:51 those who have gotten rid of sin, 20:52 it's out of their life and all the problems of this world 20:56 and they're concentrating on getting this message 20:58 to go to the whole world. 21:02 Isn't it interesting when you read the Word of God, 21:04 you can know. 21:05 Check it out. 21:07 You can know what has been, you can know what's going on 21:11 and you can know what soon to come. 21:13 See that brings courage, that brings me hope 21:16 which we're in camp meeting time, 21:17 which we need more faith, we need more assurance. 21:21 We need to know who's in charge. 21:23 And we need to know who's sitting on the throne, 21:25 and who's trying to take, you know, position of God. 21:28 We need to do, there's a lot of things 21:30 that we need to know what's going on here. 21:31 We have some glorious, glorious truths 21:33 that I've been studying from the Word of God 21:35 that are specifically for the last days. 21:39 And again I wanna mention last day, 21:40 I love mentioning the last days 21:42 because why moan and groan and cry on and say, 21:44 well, we, you know, the promise of His coming was here 21:46 and blah-blah. 21:47 Listen, it's one day closer 21:49 to the coming of Jesus right now. 21:50 You don't know how long you're going to last. 21:51 I don't know how long I'm going to last. 21:53 The Bible said that knowledge will increase, 21:55 men will run to and fro. 21:58 Let me just give you an example here. 21:59 George Riesman, he writes in a book. 22:04 It's just 30 years ago. 22:05 So keep that in mind 22:06 as we read a few things that he put down. 22:08 And he was referring to the signs 22:10 of the times basically, 22:11 how the world had been advancing in technology 22:14 and so on and so forth. 22:16 He's a professor, I think at Pepperdine University. 22:19 He's an author, he writes about 22:21 the Industrialized Civilization. 22:23 He says that live on a level far exceeding that of kings, 22:27 notice that, and emperors in all previous ages, 22:31 he writes. 22:32 On a level that just a few generations ago 22:35 would have regarded as it's impossible. 22:38 And it only been possible through, he says, 22:40 "Through science or sci-fi." 22:43 Do you ever do that? 22:44 Maybe 15, 20, 30 years ago, you thought 22:46 "Oh, my, that's like sci-fi stuff they're talking about." 22:50 Technology knowledge will increase as we go. 22:53 And he just brings up simple things like 22:55 driving a car, turning the key, 22:57 all these things here 22:58 that it takes a pretty good side of the brain, 23:00 I think, to put all these things together. 23:02 Absolutely. 23:03 He said they're just wonderful machines 23:04 like an automobile, 23:06 but we take them for granted. 23:07 You turn a light switch on, a light comes on. 23:09 You know when you're in total darkness, 23:11 you touch a button, what we watch events 23:14 that are taking place around the world, 23:16 you can watch 3ABN around the world. 23:18 Flip a switch, somebody needs to do what? 23:21 Flip a switch. 23:23 It's time to turn it on. 23:25 This is not, not to slow down 23:26 but flip a switch, turn on 3ABN. 23:28 You can get tens of thousands of miles away 23:31 around the earth. 23:33 The touch of a few buttons 23:34 is you can talk to other people across town, 23:37 across the world. 23:38 You fly in airplane, 23:40 man is here and there at the hundreds of miles, 23:41 you know, per hour. 23:43 You can go up 40,000 feet and what are you doing? 23:45 Man, you got air condition, you got goodies, movies, 23:48 or whatever it might be to watch. 23:50 This man looks at these things. 23:51 He said, "Man, something's happening 23:52 in the world." 23:54 And he says, in the United States, 23:56 notice this, most people have all of this. 23:59 They have spacious homes. 24:01 And he talks about all the goodies 24:02 that are in the home and so on so forth there. 24:04 He said they have good, maybe good health. 24:07 You know that is a good thing, he said, 24:09 and this is all as a result of a 40 hour work week, 24:13 interesting knowledge shall increase. 24:18 And we realized within the last 100 years what? 24:20 More things have happened than it happened 24:22 since the beginning of time. 24:24 Man, that's, that should be such a sign to say, 24:26 "When I realized I know that Jesus is coming." 24:30 The words of the angel, you know to Daniel. 24:34 You praise God for these messages. 24:36 You know, he said, remember, man shall run to and fro. 24:40 But notice how he said, 24:41 "The wicked won't understand but the wise." 24:45 Now I asked God, again, is there anybody that says, 24:47 okay, by the grace of God, spiritual things are what? 24:51 Spiritually discerned. 24:53 God says here, "The wise will understand 24:55 what's taking place in the world." 24:57 So maybe if you don't understand 24:58 and we don't understand prophecy, 24:59 we're not studying it. 25:01 We may not be wise. 25:03 We can understand and know 25:05 what's going on Daniel 12 tells us, 25:07 that Jesus even says in Matthew 24:15, 25:12 He puts it so simple like this, 25:14 He said, "Whoso readeth, let him understand. 25:23 So that means we need to be reading, 25:24 right, hearing and studying and so on, so forth. 25:26 But you know, to confess 25:28 that we don't know something is all right. 25:30 I spend most of my time like that, 25:32 "Oh, I didn't know." 25:34 It's okay to do that. 25:35 It's not a disgrace, 25:37 but to make no effort to escape, 25:40 it is inexcusable. 25:44 There's things out there for us 25:45 that God has given us things that we can understand. 25:48 He's the guarantee that He gives us, 25:50 if you read it, you're going to understand it. 25:53 For those who study diligently, those who want to know, 25:57 those who want to really get to the Word of God, 25:59 spend some time. 26:00 They can understand Revelation 14:6-7, 26:03 the three angels' message. 26:05 My, it's exciting when you read 26:07 there'll be a great religious awakening 26:09 that takes place. 26:11 Yeah, first angel's message. 26:12 It's given with a loud voice, oh, yeah, we go over a lot, 26:15 but we need to be going over. 26:16 It's a warning to those who dwell on the earth. 26:20 What better place than the camp meeting time 26:22 to say, "Hey, though, God's given us another warning, 26:24 He's given us another camp meeting 26:26 that we can come together. 26:27 He's gonna give us food for thought 26:29 through the power of the Holy Spirit 26:30 that will encourage us, 26:32 it could be the last and maybe not, 26:34 but we need to be ready. 26:36 Don't you think in such an hour 26:37 as you think not the Son of man cometh. 26:41 The message is to go into all the world, is to what? 26:44 It encircles the whole world. 26:45 It's a movement that's going on. 26:47 You have the privilege to be part of a movement, 26:50 not a one man over here and somebody else over here, 26:52 but of a movement that God has given. 26:54 A message helps us understand when this movement 26:58 is to take place, is taking place. 27:00 It's a part of the everlasting gospel. 27:03 It's an encouragement. 27:05 It's opening of the judgment hour. 27:08 Man, power of the gospel. 27:09 If we ever need anything in this world today, 27:11 it's more gospel, isn't, Gospel of Jesus Christ. 27:14 And you know what? 27:15 The real gospel and that things are taking place 27:18 could only be given Daniel said at the end of time, 27:20 in the last moments of earth's history, 27:22 their time of the judgment hour. 27:26 Daniel was told to close up and to seal, notice it, 27:29 not all the Book of Daniel, but part of the Book of Daniel, 27:32 that again related to the last days. 27:35 See that, to me, again, it's excitement, 27:38 these things pertain to the last days. 27:40 We believe we're in the last days, 27:41 we believe we're in the end of time, 27:43 then we need to pay special attention. 27:46 Remember, Paul told, remember the church of his time, 27:49 he said, "Don't expect Christ to come, you know, in our time. 27:54 It's gonna be in the future." 27:56 2 Thessalonians 2:3, he says, 28:00 "Except there come a falling away first, 28:02 that the man," of what? 28:03 "That the man of sin, oh, my, will be revealed." 28:08 How many really are revealing 28:10 or uncovering or discovering, 28:13 or, you know, making known who the man of sin is? 28:17 Oh, no, not a pleasing subject at all to a lot of people. 28:21 I kinda like to talk about it myself 28:23 because God gives it in His Word. 28:25 If God gives it in His Word, 28:26 the Spirit of Prophecy is clear on it. 28:28 I believe it's something that we should be able to give 28:31 to the world as a warning, 28:33 know that man of sin be revealed. 28:36 In other words, at a certain time, 28:37 the man of sin is going to be revealed 28:38 you're going to know who it is. 28:42 But not until after the Great Apostasy. 28:46 There are many who say, "Well, there's no apostasy going on." 28:48 Don't fool yourself. 28:49 Man, we live all around apostasy. 28:51 It's in front of us, it's behind. 28:53 This is all around us. 28:54 And yet sometimes we choose to ignore that it's there. 28:58 We don't want to disagree with somebody 29:00 and it may be in a certain position, 29:02 whatever it might be. 29:03 There's apostasy all around us. 29:05 We have to be very careful to know the Word of God. 29:08 But the apostasy he's talking about here 29:10 was in the 1260 years or the Dark Ages. 29:14 He said this great apostasy, 1260 years, 29:17 538 to 1798, the time of the end. 29:21 He said, "Don't look for the coming of Jesus 29:22 until some of these things are revealed." 29:25 Now, if you know me very well at all, 29:27 I don't like to leave us guessing. 29:30 Let's leave no doubt here to what's being said. 29:33 When it says that the man of sin. 29:35 Now, listen, if the Bible says the man of sin. 29:39 I want to know who it is. 29:42 How about you? The man of sin. 29:44 The Bible say, "We've all sinned and come short." 29:46 This is a specific man, do you notice this? 29:49 He talks about the mystery of iniquity. 29:50 He talks about the son of perdition. 29:54 Wow, these are words here that cause you to think, 29:58 so I want to know what does the man of sin. 30:00 You know what that means? 30:02 When you read it in context here, 30:03 when it says the man, it means a definite man. 30:06 Did you get it? 30:08 A definite man or a man, notices this, or a power. 30:12 And it talks about one of sin is lawlessness, 30:15 that be a man of sin, a man of lawlessness 30:17 that would come on the scene. 30:19 And he's called the mystery of iniquity. 30:21 He's the son of perdition or the son of destruction. 30:24 If we know power like that's on the scene, 30:26 and it's working in the world today. 30:28 And it's just tearing the churches apart 30:30 and causing people to go live in apostasy. 30:33 And they don't know what truth is, 30:34 surely, we'll want to know who this power is. 30:38 The wicked, you know, I mean, we know 30:40 as we studied it and we may not, 30:42 you know, hide around a bush about it. 30:44 We realize that's a papal Caesar, 30:45 there's no doubt about it. 30:47 You know, again, to me, 30:48 that's not discouraging news at all. 30:50 That's good news that we understand it. 30:52 Because maybe millions might be saved in the kingdom 30:55 where otherwise if they don't hear this, they'll be lost. 30:57 Remember, the whole world follows, 30:58 wonders after the beast. 31:00 They are those whose names are not written 31:01 in the Lamb's Book of Life. 31:03 God said in these last days, and can you see it? 31:05 I know that you can see it. 31:07 But the world that you're living in right now, 31:08 people are going in so many different directions. 31:13 They want to go in every direction, 31:14 except maybe for what is truth. 31:16 It's kind of interesting, isn't it? 31:18 They want fables instead of the truth of God's Word. 31:22 They want to close their ears to what is truth. 31:24 You remember 1 Timothy 4:1-3? 31:26 Oh, yeah, you've read it many times. 31:28 But again, it's still true. 31:29 We still need to look at it. 31:31 We still need to weigh it in with evidences 31:33 that God has given us today. 31:35 It said, there'll be seducing spirits and what? 31:39 Good, doctrines of devils. 31:41 Wow. 31:44 There'll be a people who will, listen, have no conscience. 31:48 You see the things that are going on 31:50 in the world today. 31:51 It's like people don't have a conscience. 31:54 Is that true or is it not? 31:55 It's like, no, they don't, they don't have a conscience. 31:58 They're just doing all kind of things. 31:59 They just drive by and to shoot somebody, 32:01 it's no big deal. 32:03 And you hear them say on the news, 32:04 lot of times they say the man committed this kind of crime 32:07 and it's like, what no big deal? 32:10 Conscience is seared with a hot iron 32:12 by seducing spirits and doctors of devil. 32:15 2 Timothy 4:3-4. 32:18 It says, "There'll come a time 32:19 that they will not endure sound doctrine." 32:21 Now if we're not there, we may never get there. 32:25 They didn't want to endure sound doctrine. 32:27 They don't want to hear it. 32:29 John says in 1 John 2:18. 32:31 Notice this, what he said at that time 32:34 is that many already at his time, 32:36 many Antichrists have already come. 32:39 Yet, we don't want to talk about Antichrist. 32:41 We don't try to identify anything that's Antichrist. 32:43 We don't want to identify apostasy. 32:46 We don't want to identify shortcomings 32:47 that may be in our own life, or maybe in the church. 32:50 We don't want to identify things 32:52 that maybe we're following after the world, you see. 32:54 We just don't want to do that. 32:56 We want everything to run smooth. 32:57 Let me tell you, it's not running smooth. 32:59 Because when the devil's involved with it, 33:00 it's not going to be smooth. 33:02 It's going to be bumpy. 33:03 It's going to be jerky. 33:05 There's going to be a lot of headaches go on here, 33:07 till we get it right with God. 33:08 Beware of those false prophets. 33:10 I'll tell you what? 33:11 False prophet is simply to me be one 33:13 who gets in the pulpit preaching err, 33:15 and a lot of times we go and we listen there. 33:17 By grace of God, I'm not going to listen to any err. 33:19 People can say what they want to say. 33:21 You know, take a stand wherever you want to stand on it, 33:23 but I'm not going to listen err. 33:24 Soon as I detect err, 33:25 at least in my poor little mind, I detect it. 33:27 That's it, my ears are shut, and I get up and leave. 33:30 I'm not listening to err. 33:31 I have a difficult time enough by the grace of God, 33:33 trying to figure out what truth is, 33:35 not mess myself all up. 33:37 Beware of false prophets, Matthew 7:15. 33:40 And also you find that in 24:24, 33:42 the Bible is clear. 33:43 A spiritual rebellion is going on in the world today, 33:47 did you get it? 33:48 A spiritual rebellion. 33:51 We have to be able to see these things. 33:53 Let's not become so infatuated with the world, 33:55 which it seems like we are 33:57 that we begin to see through the world's eyes. 33:59 God forbid that we see through the world's eyes. 34:03 But yet we spend so much time with the world 34:05 and worldly people that we're seeing 34:06 through those eyes. 34:08 And when you want something spiritual, 34:09 it's like, "I can't comprehend it." 34:11 What? Bible is already said that. 34:12 Why? 34:14 The wicked, they're not going to understand it, 34:16 but the wise will. 34:19 Prophecy concerning the falling away 34:21 was certainly partially fulfilled in the days of Paul, 34:25 partially fulfilled in the Dark Ages, 34:28 that my brothers and sisters 34:30 going to be completely fulfilled 34:32 just before Jesus comes. 34:34 I hope you're looking forward to that hope for the future. 34:38 Hope to be able to come together. 34:40 No, seriously, when I hear as a people that we can't come. 34:43 I heard people saying all time about, 34:44 "Well, let's sit down have a conversation?" 34:47 Well, I hope the conversations worth having. 34:49 Let's have a conversation. 34:51 Let's talk about some of the things, 34:52 but you have to be careful what you're talking about 34:54 and spending time on today. 34:57 We could be talking about things 34:59 that just didn't have any appeal 35:00 for what we're doing and getting this message 35:02 to the whole world. 35:04 Paul said, "There'd be an arrogant power 35:06 that would come up in the world. 35:09 He wants all the worship to himself." 35:12 Surely we can be in no doubt. 35:18 We can identify, and we need to be studying 35:20 to make sure we can identify 35:22 by the grace of God these powers, 35:24 and then put it out there, 35:25 so people will be able to make good, 35:29 intelligent decisions. 35:31 Do we really realize 35:32 these are life and death issues? 35:36 These are life and death issues that we talk about, 35:39 that we plead with, 35:40 that we feel the need to be brought out. 35:43 And sometimes it's like, it doesn't really matter. 35:48 I thought about it time and time again, 35:50 I see it, you know, I looked at. 35:53 Before I left the house maybe appeal, maybe it won't, 35:56 but in the house I have a portrait of my mother 35:59 and my stepdad there, 36:01 you know, right by my desk 36:02 and I just walked up close to it 36:03 and I just looked at it and I say, 36:06 you know, "By God's grace, I want to see them again." 36:09 But their life record is close. 36:12 They're in the grave. 36:13 They're waiting for Jesus to come. 36:17 The sentence is passed. 36:19 But you have an opportunity today, 36:21 if you're still alive and kicking 36:23 to make right choices or decisions. 36:27 And I pray that you're making that decisions right now. 36:31 There's a lot of things 36:33 that will be brought to light before Jesus comes, 36:35 they're going to be revealed, 36:37 it becomes clear in the Book of Revelation, 36:41 and certainly Book of Daniel. 36:43 You know, we talk about the powers 36:45 that be and the world and what's going to happen 36:47 and what's taking place in the world. 36:50 I just wonder if we are by God's grace 36:52 really realizing what is mounting up. 36:56 May I just throw this out to you? 36:57 There are so many things are happening 36:59 in the world today. 37:00 Some people don't want to talk about them. 37:02 But remember, they're all building up 37:04 for what we realize is going to be the end times 37:07 and what's soon to take place with Sunday laws. 37:10 Can we mention that? 37:11 Sure. 37:13 You say, well this is. 37:14 There's so many events that are taking place, 37:16 but the devil just has one plan. 37:19 And all these things he might use 37:20 if he can to bring them around, 37:22 so he can put God's people in a place and get rid of them. 37:26 So we need to look them over carefully. 37:30 Revelation 17:3. 37:31 Read Revelations 17th Chapter, all that you can, 37:35 read that whole chapter, study it out and you will see. 37:38 This is not just like, 37:39 well, it's just going to be a bad day. 37:41 See, some of us act like we're going through things now. 37:43 It's just going to be a bad day. 37:45 It's not gonna be too bad. 37:46 It ain't gonna last very long, hey, we're going through. 37:47 We're talking about a horrible time 37:49 that's coming upon this world 37:51 as the Holy Spirit's being withdrawn. 37:53 We need a relationship with Christ, 37:55 maybe that some of us don't have right now. 37:58 If you don't have that, why not? 38:00 Why not during camp meeting time? 38:01 Why not right now, get on your knees 38:03 and ask the Holy Spirit to come in, 38:04 say, "I need hope for the future." 38:07 As I look at things happening in the world, 38:08 I don't see any hope. 38:09 But I know with Jesus there's going to be hope. 38:13 We need that time alone with God. 38:17 The enemy says, "You know, I'm going to use spiritualism. 38:19 I'm going to use the beast, 38:21 I'm going to use false prophet." 38:23 And you say that to people, 38:24 you know what they say a lot of times, 38:26 "I don't know what all that means." 38:28 Can we just mention just a few things 38:30 and maybe just a reminder. 38:31 Remember, the devil is just not out 38:33 and out just will confront you and say this is. 38:37 He is a deceiver. 38:39 He's a smokescreen artist. 38:41 He's a whitewasher." 38:43 And he will deceive you in so many different ways 38:44 and bring you to the point where he wants you to be, 38:47 and so he uses powers 38:49 and he uses all kinds of different people 38:51 to try to get done what he wants to get done. 38:54 Bible says, you know, in Revelation 16. 38:56 Talk about the spirits of devils, demons, 39:00 unclean spirits are going to be rapid 39:02 in the world working miracles. 39:05 How will you fare with that? 39:08 Will you understand them? 39:10 Will you know who's really working these things? 39:13 Only through the guidance and the power 39:14 of the Holy Spirit can we know three evil spirits. 39:18 Number one is spiritualism. 39:19 May I just please mention that. 39:20 It might upset some, 39:22 but I'm gonna mention it anyway. 39:23 Spiritualism. 39:24 You know, we've been set up for this for a long time 39:28 going on in the 50s and the 60s, 39:30 you realize all these evil spirits 39:32 that things like Casper the Ghost, 39:35 and Harry Potter, and TV like Bewitched, and Charmed, 39:39 and Sabrina and it goes on and on and on. 39:43 The enemy is getting us 39:45 ready for deception through these things. 39:48 Now, may I go a little bit closer to home 39:51 if it's all right, a little bit closer to home. 39:54 Some of you may will disagree, but I noticed this, 39:56 sometime we had to be aware of those things 39:59 that are right in front of our nose, 40:01 that could lead us in the wrong direction 40:03 and yet they've kind of got a connotations of a spirit, 40:07 you know sweet spirit, Holy Spirit. 40:09 Oh, I just want to bring out some things, 40:11 I found some things that are very disturbing, 40:13 and I may be the only one and if you do please forgive me 40:16 if you don't see it as such. 40:18 Spiritualism, it's always over here. 40:20 You know, I've looked at 40:22 and studied contemplative prayer, 40:25 I found that a little bit disturbing. 40:26 Spiritual formation, 40:28 I found a little bit disturbing, 40:30 centering down seances, centering prayer, 40:33 hypnotism, mind emptying, 40:35 all of this kind of stuff that kind of calls 40:37 for the mind to be empty, 40:38 and let whatever spirit come in. 40:42 The enemy has been setting up for a long time. 40:45 And certainly, this has three powers here, 40:48 the beast, Revelation 13, with the papacy, 40:50 false prophet, second beast of Revelation 13, 40:53 you know that, 11-17, apostate Protestantism, 40:56 United States in Bible prophecy. 40:59 Sometimes you just don't hear a whole lot about 41:02 United States in Bible prophecy, why not? 41:05 The greatest country in the world 41:07 that makes an image to the beast. 41:09 Well, you don't want to talk about the image to the beast, 41:11 because it might upset somebody, 41:13 we don't want to talk about our country. 41:16 Let me tell you, this country, 41:17 United States of America is going to pay a price 41:19 because God has been so good to us 41:21 over the years and given us so much. 41:23 And we have spurned Him 41:25 and asked Him to leave, as it were. 41:29 You know, during a brief period of time, 41:31 we realize that the nations are going to come together. 41:35 Let me just throw out some scenarios to you. 41:37 We're going to talk about maybe a time to come 41:39 when probation is closed. 41:42 God, I believe, will permit 41:44 a worldwide religious-political union to form. 41:49 Their objective, may I please be really honest, 41:51 is to kill the people of God. 41:53 That's the whole objective of this. 41:55 Remember, what was started in heaven 41:57 was brought down here, 41:58 and he's going to continue that work. 41:59 We need to understand that. 42:02 If we can see it in the total picture here, 42:03 we can understand what his plan was 42:06 and what it continues to be right up until the end of time, 42:09 is to get rid of those who love Jesus 42:11 and keep His commandments. 42:13 It's very clear. 42:14 Revelation 17:17, the Bible says, 42:17 "For God hath put in their hearts 42:19 to fulfill His will, and to agree, 42:23 and give their kingdom to the beast, 42:25 until the words of God shall be fulfilled." 42:28 So there will be a beast, 42:29 not another word and one world power 42:30 we're talking about here. 42:32 But for a very short period of time, 42:33 there's going to be a coming together the 10 horns, 42:35 10 nations that come together, 42:37 we need to be very well aware of that. 42:39 And it's all against the people of God. 42:43 Carrying out his purpose, his decrees. 42:47 Interesting, to execute sentence 42:49 we've been talking about 42:50 against religious side of the union. 42:55 Revelation 19:2 says, notice this carefully, 42:58 "For true and righteous are his judgments, 43:01 whore, which did corrupt the earth with a," 43:04 notice this, "the fornication and hath avenge the blood 43:07 of his servants at her hand." 43:10 Man, there's a time that's coming on this world, 43:12 we're going to need some power. 43:13 Certainly outside of ourselves, we're going to need hope. 43:16 And we need encouragement, and we need it today. 43:19 But we need to know what's happening. 43:20 We need to know why God has put prophecy in the Bible. 43:24 Why we read the books of Daniel and Revelation 43:25 because God left them for us, 43:27 because He wants us to study them, 43:28 because He wants us to know these things. 43:30 He wants us to tell the world. 43:32 He wants us to warn the world of these things 43:35 that are taking place, but somehow 43:37 we choose to do the sugar stuff, 43:39 the light stuff, the stuff that's easy. 43:41 No one gets upset. 43:43 Everybody goes home happy. 43:44 I want to agitate, is that okay. 43:47 I want to agitate by the grace of God in a good way 43:49 your thinking and my thinking 43:52 of what's coming on this world 43:53 and we will wish the day we wish I'd paid attention. 43:56 I wish I had listened. 43:59 Where's all this heading? 44:02 Where's all this heading 44:03 that's happening in the world today. 44:05 So much takes place every day 44:07 to just as too much to try to sort out, 44:10 it takes a while to sort it out. 44:14 Let me again just throw out 44:15 if you don't mind just another thought 44:16 as we see the changes taking place in the world 44:19 today, you know? 44:21 Are they or are they not affecting 44:23 our religious liberty? 44:25 Will they affect our religious liberty? 44:26 Will they affect our free freedom of speech, 44:29 you know free conscience? 44:31 Absolutely, they are today, they are right now. 44:35 Our country's faced with a gigantic war 44:39 on free speech and liberty of conscience. 44:42 You say, "My, should we be concerned about it? 44:45 Absolutely. 44:47 The enemy can get you to hush up, 44:49 not be passing out the books, 44:50 not be given a warning message, you see. 44:53 And if when you do is called a hate crime. 44:55 If they can get you do that, you can't get it out. 44:57 You can't warn the world, people's going to be lost. 44:59 We need to do it while there's still day 45:01 because night comes and no man can work. 45:04 So don't let one opportunity go by, 45:06 all right, and just stay, well, 45:08 we'll talk about this another day. 45:10 Already what's going on in the world 45:13 is transforming our society, 45:16 it has changed drastically since COVID as you well know. 45:21 Many are afraid, 45:23 even like now to exchange information and ideas, 45:27 their freedom which is needed in a free society. 45:31 If you live in a free society, 45:32 you should be able to exchange things without, 45:34 you know, oh, boy. 45:36 You know, it's kind of like 45:37 when you throw something out there 45:38 and somebody doesn't like it. 45:40 It's almost like there's a boa constrictor 45:42 has wrapped himself around you 45:43 and every time you take a breath, 45:45 it gets tighter and tighter. 45:47 He wants to end our liberties. 45:50 There censorship 45:51 is spreading all over the place. 45:53 Don't you see where it's headed? 45:54 Censorship what? 45:56 So you have to be careful 45:57 what you read in the Book of Revelation, 45:58 in the Bible, in the Word of God. 46:00 The devil is trying to cut it out 46:02 where you can't do that anymore. 46:04 If someone for instance has a different view than yours, 46:08 it's very common to hear a real quick call 46:12 to severe punishment. 46:13 Well, they think different than we do, 46:15 man, severe punishments, get rid of them, 46:16 in other words, keep them quiet. 46:19 Remember, I thought we lived in a country 46:21 where we had this free speech and free conscience 46:23 and be able to go to church 46:25 and be able to exchange thoughts, 46:27 but you're fooling yourself. 46:29 These changes have already come about, 46:31 we have to be very, very careful right now. 46:35 You know, if someone thinks 46:36 that you went too far in a speech. 46:38 All right, you said a speech or an article, 46:40 and actually, you know what they call, immediately 46:42 they hear, this guy just made this an hour ago, 46:44 all of a sudden, you got all kind of people 46:46 calling for resignation. 46:47 Well, let's get rid of them. 46:48 They shouldn't do this. 46:51 Even more troubling, at least to me, 46:54 is, you know, big companies, and business. 46:58 Now remember, this all has to do to me 47:00 with Bible prophecy and things that will lead, 47:03 you see, to the image of the beast, 47:04 and the Sunday law. 47:05 These things are all leading to taking away our liberties, 47:08 taken away our free choice. 47:10 And yet we stand by and we say nothing, God help us. 47:13 God help us to be able to see 47:15 that this is a time to blow the trumpet in Zion, 47:18 to sound an alarm in the holy mountain. 47:20 It's time for the people of God to wake up and say, 47:22 "Man, may tomorrow I get up, I may not be able to say 47:24 what I'm saying right now." 47:25 Without what? 47:27 Somebody's coming to your door and arresting you 47:28 and throwing you in jail. 47:30 They don't even have to have a reason. 47:31 They can just do it now. 47:32 That might leave you in jail for a long time. 47:35 Don't have to impress any charges. 47:37 Man, something's going on here. 47:39 You see these big businesses 47:40 and these big multi-billion dollar companies 47:42 and these leaders, 47:44 they panic when something is supposedly said 47:46 about them or any other issue. 47:49 They're afraid of those who threaten them 47:53 and so they just quickly deliver 47:55 some kind of a quick unrighteous punishment 47:58 that doesn't we say fit the crime. 48:00 Have you seen that? 48:01 You see it all the time now? 48:03 "Oh, somebody says something, man, they need to resign. 48:06 Let's get them out of here. 48:07 Fire them, get him somewhere else. 48:08 We don't want to hear it anymore." 48:12 You can't take out what you have on your heart 48:14 and what's in your mind 48:15 that goes against the elite. 48:19 You know how bad is it? 48:22 Again, only bringing this up, 48:23 but you look at how bad things are in the world 48:25 should tell us that where we're at 48:27 and what the enemy is doing. 48:29 He's coming right around to get you. 48:31 He's coming around to get me. 48:33 We need to do what we need to do quickly. 48:36 You realize this, you know, there's articles all the time, 48:38 the editors are fired 48:40 for writing about a controversial subject. 48:43 All they do is just that's their job 48:44 but they write about a controversial, 48:46 suddenly they all get mad, oh, 48:47 because somebody said, oh, 48:48 well, they shouldn't talk about that, blah, blah. 48:52 Books are rejected, 48:53 the people rights but a lot of time 48:55 because someone says, well, it's not authentic. 49:00 They have all kinds of things it says that it is, 49:02 but somebody else says it's not, 49:04 well, let's throw it out. 49:06 Journalists who should have the right, 49:08 freedom to write, 49:10 they're told not to write on certain subjects. 49:13 Don't ask certain questions. 49:16 Public doesn't need to know. 49:18 Can you see where it's headed? 49:19 Again, pointed back to the people of God 49:21 eventually, notice. 49:25 Professors at colleges are called to, 49:27 you know, the carpet 49:28 for quoting some of the literature 49:30 that's been around for hundreds of years. 49:33 You can't do that anymore 49:35 because somebody is going to get mad. 49:38 Heads of organizations 49:39 that make millions of dollars are fired 49:41 for simple and honest, just a mistake. 49:44 And they come back and they apologize, 49:45 but it's not good enough. 49:49 Can we not see, my brothers and sisters, 49:51 that the boundaries of what can be said 49:54 are narrowing down, that concerns me, 49:57 it should concern us as Christians. 49:59 Not because the world's doing this, 50:00 I'm bringing this up because it should concern us 50:02 as Christians today, 50:04 because I call it free speech. 50:08 We are now living 50:10 in an intolerant society. 50:14 Hey, no different than the days of Christ. 50:17 Ain't that right? 50:18 Intolerant, they didn't want to hear it. 50:20 They didn't want to deal with it. 50:22 We are too, and sometimes if you don't see that today, 50:25 maybe you not involved enough, 50:26 maybe you're not reading or seeing enough 50:28 to realize that's exactly where this is heading. 50:31 Intolerant society, 50:33 we don't like what you're saying, 50:34 We want you to be quiet. 50:36 If you don't be quiet, then we're going to put you out 50:37 of your misery. 50:40 To be fearful, notice this, is coming to the point 50:43 that we become afraid to tell the truth. 50:45 Now is anybody home? 50:48 We're almost afraid to tell what is truth 50:51 or tell something somebody disagrees with? 50:54 Again, we may lose our jobs. 50:57 We may, you know, lose our livelihood. 51:02 When will it be that God's people 51:03 dare to be different? 51:06 I'm encouraging you dare to be different. 51:08 Dare to be a Daniel. 51:10 Dare to say what God has given 51:12 this last day movement to get it out there 51:14 while there's still time, before probation closes, 51:18 man, it said dare to be different. 51:23 You know, however innocent, listen carefully, 51:25 however innocent some people may think, 51:29 listen carefully. 51:32 Any attempt to regulate religious practice by law 51:37 is a violation of the fundamental principle 51:40 of religious liberty, 51:42 did you get it? 51:43 And there's all kinds of things out there now. 51:45 This is only being said and brought. 51:47 So what we could just look at it objectively and say, 51:49 "What has God asked you to do? 51:51 What is He asked me to do 51:52 in these last days of earth's history, 51:55 for the United States of America to take steps?" 52:00 If they take steps on what we've been talking about here, 52:02 it's a complete reversal of the present policy. 52:07 It's changing, granting full freedom 52:10 of religion to its citizens. 52:12 That's what's been guaranteed, supposedly, to us. 52:14 But we realize that every point of the Constitution 52:16 will be repudiated. 52:18 And it's already there, 52:19 but lawyers already have a way to go around every point of it, 52:22 so you don't have that. 52:23 And I'm saying that for some of you who go, 52:24 we've got this and we got that, we got. 52:26 You've got one thing you can count on, 52:28 and that's Jesus Christ. 52:29 Another thing you can sure count on, 52:30 Jesus said, "I'm coming soon." 52:32 Coming back after people that love Him 52:33 with all their heart, their soul, and their mind. 52:35 They dare to be a Daniel, as we mentioned, 52:36 they dare to stand for what is true. 52:38 They dare to say, I want to be a citizen 52:41 of the kingdom of God. 52:42 They dare to take a stand when someone says, 52:44 shut up and sit down. 52:46 You dare to go ahead and stand up 52:47 and tell what God has put on your heart to do. 52:51 We don't want any kind of an attempt. 52:53 And there's all kinds of attempts now 52:55 to change the way that we think 52:57 and the way we act. 53:00 Five Testimonies, 452 says this, 53:02 as we're winding down. 53:04 Now, come on, stay with me, FT, 452. 53:07 It is, now notice this, you say, 53:08 well, well, I don't know what is. 53:10 If you know what I'm talking about, 53:11 it's time that we get to know, okay? 53:13 It is our duty to do out now. 53:15 I didn't mean to agitate you, 53:16 but I did get you thinking, right? 53:19 5T, 452. 53:20 It is our duty to do all in our power 53:25 to avert the threatening danger. 53:27 We should endeavor to disarm prejudice 53:30 by placing ourselves in a proper light 53:32 before the people." 53:34 Isn't that interesting? 53:36 We should do what? 53:38 All in our power to avert the threatening danger. 53:41 What is that threatening danger? 53:42 Religious liberty, freedom of speech, 53:44 all these things that we're talking about, 53:45 things that are going on in the world. 53:47 The devil began the work in heaven, 53:48 he's down here doing it right now. 53:49 It's always what? 53:51 To get rid of God's people. 53:55 Will you do what God has asked you to do? 53:56 Will I do? Will I be faithful to the end? 53:59 I've asked myself that many times. 54:01 And I say, you know, only by the grace of God. 54:03 By the grace of God, 54:04 we're going to be faithful unto the very end. 54:07 We have to bring things in proper light to the people. 54:12 Are you doing that? 54:14 People need to know and I'm going to stand on this. 54:17 People need to know what's happening in the world. 54:21 Prophecy reveal these things to us 54:24 to get ready, to give us hope. 54:28 We should bring maybe before the people 54:30 more than we do the real issues of that, 54:33 you know, of when people protest 54:36 against measures to restrict religious liberty. 54:38 We need to stand up. 54:40 We need to make a noise louder than they're making right now. 54:44 Because I believe this with all my heart, 54:45 God has called us as a people 54:48 to stand as a light in the world. 54:52 God has given His people a work to do 54:56 in the time of prosperity, 54:57 in the time what we can do it. 54:59 And listen, if we don't do it in the time 55:01 that God has given us, 55:02 we'll have to do it under very dark circumstances. 55:05 But we're going to do it because God said 55:07 that we're going to do it. 55:08 5T, 455 says that, the work will be done by them, 55:13 notice this, what? 55:14 Notice, but in captivity, 55:16 under great trial and embarrassment. 55:19 Do you see what we're talking about here? 55:21 It's much more. 55:22 We're talking about, there'll be those who go into captivity. 55:23 They're going to be what? 55:25 Thrown in jail, thrown in prison, 55:26 because of their belief. 55:27 And most of us can't get that through our head. 55:29 And we think, well, it's not really that important. 55:30 Our message is life and death issue. 55:33 Isn't it about time that we looked at it that way, 55:36 it's life and death. 55:38 God's called us, 55:39 He's called and made a call to the churches, 55:41 He's made a call to the world to come out 55:43 and be separate, and touch not the unclean. 55:47 Are you willing to do that today? 55:48 God has unsealed these prophecies. 55:50 He's made it alive, He's brought it forward. 55:52 You hear the messages, we need to have ears to hear. 55:55 And then accept this and say, God, help me to fit 55:57 where you would have me to fit. 55:59 Reach the world, 56:01 give the three angels' message of Revelation 14. 56:03 Daniel is standing in his lot. 56:06 Where are you standing today? 56:07 Where am I standing today 56:09 when we look prophecies unsealed, 56:11 hope for the future? 56:13 I encouraged you, there's hope for the future. 56:16 This is a time for God's people. 56:17 You know these things, now happy are ye if you do them, 56:21 though, some of you are making decisions right now 56:23 that you want to be on the winning side. 56:25 And I'd like to pray for you in closing. 56:27 Let's get ready, shall we, we pray together. 56:29 I'm gonna kneel one more time and pray 56:30 that God will help you, will help me 56:32 to make right choices and right decisions 56:34 that we might be ready to meet Jesus 56:35 when He shall come. 56:37 Let's pray, shall we? 56:38 Merciful God in heaven, 56:40 we thank You for Your precious Word. 56:41 We realize sometimes it's very straight, 56:43 very forward. 56:44 But, Lord, we're so thankful, that's the way You gave it. 56:46 When you talk about the man of sin, 56:47 You came out with these words, 56:48 we didn't just make them up. 56:50 And You said, this is our job 56:51 to get the first, the second, the third angel's message 56:53 warning against the mark of the beast, 56:54 the image to the beast. 56:56 And the whole world basically wonders after Lord. 56:58 Help us we pray. 56:59 Use us we pray for Your honor and for Your glory. 57:01 For those who have made that decision right now, 57:03 I want to be on the winning side. 57:04 Bless them we pray in Jesus' name. 57:06 Amen. 57:08 Again, it's been good to be with you. 57:10 You know, we love 3ABN camp meeting time, 57:12 a time to get together, time for the Holy Spirit 57:14 to be pouring out in great abundance. 57:16 And I pray today that you have made that choice 57:19 and that decision, why? 57:20 People need to know that Jesus is coming soon. 57:25 Don't soft pellet, don't throw it out. 57:27 Just take a stand for what God would have you do. 57:29 We love you and appreciate you. 57:30 We'll see you next time. |
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