We did our,
100 mile bike ride for missions.
It was very exciting.
It wasn't exciting.
One guy rode
by me one time and and, and at
the I was kind of keeping I was
in the rear, kind of keeping everybody, because
people would have flats.
As I'm saying that, there's 20 bicycles riding
by outside.
That is odd. So,
kind of keeping up the rear and kind
of, you know, if somebody has a flat
and that happened, if somebody broke their chain,
which was me.
So
this guy this one this guy was kind
of dropping back. And as he was come
back, I'm just riding beside him encouraging him.
But when he first dropped back out, I
could hear him saying, just keep pedaling. Just
keep pedaling.
I was like, that's a sad place to
be.
Because that was like mile 4.
Yeah, it wasn't.
One of the things I wanted to mention
is that that,
Liz,
Josh and Liz and I were the 3
from our church that were doing this, and
Liz finished the entire
100 miles.
She's the first girl that has done this
for, in all of our district rights.
I think last year, she did like 80
or something like that.
And,
and some of the rest did 60 something.
100 ks is what they did instead of
a 100 miles. And, but she finished and
and she wasn't like coming in drag and
praying that Lord would take her kind of
thing. And she was coming in she was
coming in okay. And so it was
it was good.
Also I want to continue to remind
you, please pray for Israel. Guys, all the
stuff that is happening just this week,
the president of Turkey, Erdogan,
or whatever you say his name,
he
he is building a coalition,
trying to build a coalition with all the
Arab States
that,
all the Arab countries
to combine together
against
Israel. This is,
this is like a whole another level, right?
And and and
here's part of the deal with this. There
has you have to process that
everything that is going on there, including this
this week that that Turkey is doing now,
all of this is looking a whole lot
more like Ezekiel 38 every day.
Okay? So you you gotta keep your eyes
on that kind of stuff. When that goes
down, and I'm gonna talk about that a
little bit here, but when that goes down,
guys, everything
now that that to me, this is the
way I see it. It's like the plug
is pulled and everything is draining.
We're in the end times, like like tribulation
time frame kind of stuff. And I'll explain
that because I'm gonna be speaking about that
this morning. But but, but to really be
praying, praying for Israel, guys, our responsibility is
to pray for them. Now,
get ahead of myself. So, you know, we've
been we've been trying to build we're we're
not going to be able to build this
week. We just can't I mean, this this
month this what is what year? We're not
going to be able to build this year.
We've been trying to get the financing. It
just didn't work out again. Although, I did
get an interesting call. Just throw this out
here as a little teaser that probably
won't happen. But
I got a call from a group that
is interested in financing our building.
And it's interestingly,
it is
a group, a company
that is being run by
a guy I went to college with and
have stayed very close friends with
over the last 35
years.
And, it was just he just, out of
the blue, said, hey, do you would you
like us to finance your building?
I was like, is this a joke? Because
I've known you for a long time and,
you know, I so I don't know. That
may not play out. I'm not, you know,
if it's God, it's God. If it's not,
you know, that's fine too.
Rezone the property out here so that we
can sell it,
so that we can build. Right? We still
need about 2,000,000, to do this and that
would potentially,
give us that extra 2,000,000. Alright. Which is
which is kind of what we're trying to
borrow, but more and stuff like that. So,
so with that, when you do the rezoning,
they because there was a lot of emails
and stuff sent to the city, the city
set up a meeting here Thursday night
for,
us to hear from the community.
Okay? I didn't tell you guys
because I didn't necessarily want you here.
Couple people that riled up a lot of
the community, and they do not want us
to do anything with the property out here.
And I'm not making this up. This is
the things they said. We they sent these
to us in emails and then people said
this in the meeting
that they don't want us to put in
a porn shop,
a
liquor store,
a marijuana
dispensary.
So I finally said,
do you have a clue who we are
as a church?
How does that benefit
our children?
You know, that kind of thing. And it
and it was, it was a little spicy.
They they came after us pretty good, came
after me quite a bit.
But for the most part, like, 98%, I
kept my cool.
I did snippet 1 person one time. Just
you're just like, whatever. You know? But,
so with that, we're gonna kinda go back
to the drawing board and see if there's
a way that we could still do what
we wanna do and
and the the zoning is what was bothering
them. It's too wide of a zoning. You
can put anything in there. We explained,
we sell the property. We can put any
covenant we want on that property.
They can only build
what we allow them to build,
or we won't sell it.
And nobody was buying that. Nobody was, no.
That's not how it works. I'm like, but
it does work that way. And so that's
the law. But either way, we're gonna try
to maybe change the zoning, make it something
that'll the community would be more comfortable with.
We're not really sure,
but, man, there was just a lot of
angry people,
really going after us. Now since then, interestingly,
I've gotten a lot of messages, emails, got
a few last night I was answering. People
were saying, I was in the meeting, and
I I feel bad about how they treated
you.
And, this is a good church, and our
kids have gone to VBS and those kind
of things. And so so it wasn't all
bad, but it was all bad in the
meeting. So
but we'll just keep you posted on that.
If if we do change the zoning, it
won't be it won't be a long process.
We're already right there. We could just change
the the lettering
and, and fix it. So, alright. I'm gonna
be speaking
this morning about
the the tribulation
and the rapture.
I don't usually get that response, but
but, and and here's the thing. There's a
few things I I wanna do. Part of
the reason I do it, I do it
every time this year, this time of year.
I do it every year this time of
year because
of, the fall feasts, and I'm gonna explain
all that.
But I I really do believe in a
pre tribulation rapture, and I'm gonna explain why.
But I know there's different people throughout our
church, I would say, a good handful,
that don't believe,
in a pre tribulation. They believe mid
or post tribulation.
And so I am gonna try to convince
you you're wrong and that I'm right this
morning. But
with that being said,
always say it so that we understand. Because
we don't we this is not a 100%.
You can't just say we know for sure
exactly this way it goes because it hasn't
happened.
Enough ambiguity within scripture for a couple of
reasons that I'll explain, which makes it a
little challenging to pinpoint exactly. So with that,
my my stance is always I believe a
100%
in a pre tribulation rapture until the tribulation
starts.
And then I a 100%
believe in a mid tribulation rapture
until day 1 after the mid, and then
I am
completely and at that point, we're all on
board with a post tribulation
rapture. Right? Okay.
Now with that being said, I do believe
strongly in in pre tribulation rapture, and I
think there's a lot of reasons. So usually,
I go over the timelines.
What I mean by the timelines is,
the Lord said that once Israel becomes a
nation again, that that generation will not pass
away until he comes back.
And,
and Psalms says that,
that that a generation, are we a full
generation of of human being is 70 to
80 years. Okay. 1948,
we are in year 76
of
that time frame. And so
and I do believe that that 70, 80
years is given to us by God as
one of the visuals that we're supposed to
understand
and recognize that, Jesus is going to come
back during that 7 to 80 years. I
believe that pretty strongly. I don't, you know,
at at year 81, I'll relook at my
numbers.
But I do believe that. I do think
that that's true. Now usually, I focus on
some of that. I'm gonna focus on a
little bit different things,
this time looking at
I always always look at the feasts
because that's the key to the whole thing.
The feasts are the key. So I'm gonna
go to Colossians chapter 2 verse 16.
Says, don't let anyone condemn you for what
you eat or drink or for not celebrating
certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or
Sabbaths.
This scripture. 1 is that,
when
when this was said,
most of the church at that time was
Jewish. Like, overwhelmingly, most was Jewish. There were
some Gentiles starting to come in because Luke
had written the book of Acts, and the
book of Acts is very much like a
a white paper on why Gentiles could be
a part of this thing. But but this
but it was mostly Jewish. And so what
he was trying to say
here is they were picking on all the
new kids coming in, and, and they they,
you know, they weren't going by all the
feasts or whatever. And Paul was explaining,
as did Peter and a lot of other
things, is you don't have to go by
the feasts. The feasts have been fulfilled in
Christ.
As long as you understand Jesus, you don't
have to fulfill the feasts. Okay?
And so that and now and this is
important too because there are some different groups.
Now these are mostly what you would call
Hebrewist today,
but they are woven throughout the Messianic,
Jewish church
to a detriment of the messianic Jewish church.
And they are trying to pull,
the Jewish groups, specifically messianic Jews
back into old testament law just like just
like Peter did, telling them they have to
be circumcised. You're the one who revealed to
us through the vision that God gave you
that they don't need to do that anymore.
For a Christian. That that's the messianic part.
Jesus fulfilled all that. There's no there's no
restrictions of of how you have to fulfill
the feast and all this stuff. And this
is part of
what Paul is saying here. You don't have
to you don't have to do all of
that stuff. Okay? And when somebody tells you
that you do, go to this scripture, remind
yourself that they are preaching something that is
not with scripture.
Okay? I pick on these things all the
time. I every now and then I have
somebody come along that tells me I can't
eat bacon. And I'm like, the bible tells
me I can.
Specifically tells me I can.
It shows it.
Eat bacon. I mean, doesn't use the word
bacon probably.
So so here's the thing with this. There
is another side to this and this is
just as important.
It says that these feasts and things are
a shadow are shadows
of the reality to come
and that Jesus Christ himself is that reality.
Now, if you're not careful, what you do
is you say, okay, all these old testament
feasts bring us up to Jesus,
dying on the cross, he is the reality
of that. He has fulfilled all of that
theme of the Old Testament is Jesus is
coming. That's the point of the whole thing.
If
you get that, you get the you get
the Old Testament. You understand
Jesus is coming. The theme of the new
testament
is Jesus is coming again. He is still
the reality
that these feasts are talking about. And some
of the stuff that has not happened yet,
Old Testament first. Because why? Jesus is still
the reality.
So even though you don't have to
go by all the feast and celebrate the
the the festivals and all that stuff, it's
very I think it's
I think it's very naive to think you
don't need to know the information.
Because the information
is still telling us about stuff that has
not happened yet.
This is important.
Okay?
So let me let me go through
the feast. You have the spring feast, and
I'm gonna show you a couple of things
this year you probably haven't
heard before.
That you've got the the spring feasts. Okay.
The the two names we'll focus on, but
there's others,
simple,
understanding of Passover is, the Egyptians
were had made slaves of the Israelites, and
Israelites are calling out to God. And God
says, okay, I'll deliver you. You've sent Moses.
Moses comes in the 10 plagues.
And the 10th plague
is,
I'm gonna kill all of the firstborn,
in the families,
of every family. It doesn't matter who Egyptian
is, it doesn't matter. But here's how you,
save yourself
from this destruction.
As you take a lamb, and there were
some criteria on that, take a lamb and
how they made bread, all of this stuff
is important in the story. And this is
what we do every year at at our
spring seder
dinner here at the church because it's a
celebration of Passover, but with all of the
understanding of Jesus being fulfilled and explained.
K? So you take the lamb, you kill
the lamb, you take the blood of the
lamb and you put it over your doorpost
or you cover your house with the blood
of the lamb, and that saves you from
death.
Okay?
Then they all left after that. So when
John the Baptist is is, baptizing Jesus
and Jesus comes walking up, he says, behold
the lamb of God
that takes away the sins of the world.
Every person there immediately knew and everybody that
that's had any Jewish background
knew immediately even when we write it and
they read it now, that that meant
that Jesus
is that lamb in Exodus
that is the Passover lamb. And this is
a feast and a and a
festival that is celebrated
every single year at in the spring during
Passover.
We now have changed that a little bit
and come up with something actually,
it's a different thing.
We call it Easter.
K. It's not exactly because it's been changed
enough that it doesn't put the focus on
all this, but that's where Easter came from
was the concept of Passover.
And yes, it was changed and twisted by
different,
religious groups and things like that. And then
a bunny got involved and a bunch of,
you know, chocolate eggs and stuff like that.
Did the the that's where it came from.
And so every year for for about 3000
years, the Jews have celebrated passover. What is
the point of passover?
That they are looking forward to the Messiah
coming. They're looking back and realizing that that
that little animal lamb
is going to be fulfilled someday in a
Messiah. That's why at Passover, there is a
Messiah's cup. Every single time you do Passover,
you have a messiah's cup and nobody drinks
out of that cup.
Nobody drinks out of that cup
because it's the messiah's cup. Now, Jesus,
when he dies on the cross,
he died
on Passover.
That is not coincidence.
In fact, the Lord had planned for him
to die on Passover
before
Passover happened.
Jesus had been
ordained,
anointed to die on Passover.
Okay? This is this is vitally important. That's
why they did all that. They didn't do
all of that and then, oh, by the
way, that would be a great time for
Jesus to die.
They did all of that to set up
that Jesus was going to die
on that day. And so they've been practicing
this and and celebrating this for 3000 years.
Now then,
50 days after Passover
is a festival
called Pentecost. They've been doing this a long
time. If if you're only a New Testament
reader, first that's a bad idea because you
don't understand the big picture.
But you think that Pentecost is what happens
on acts chapter 2.
It is not what happens on acts chapter
2. It was fulfilled
on acts chapter 2 of a festival that
they had been celebrating
for literally centuries upon centuries.
Okay. These were all festivals and feasts that
God established
and said, practice these every year. And the
the
the feast or the festival of Pentecost
the reason it was called Pentecost is 50
days after
Passover.
Beginning
of
the harvest. This is when everybody started the
the, the, planting and and
harvesting season,
okay, like springtime. That's what it is. Now,
it is not coincidence that the Holy Spirit,
when it says in acts 1 verse 8,
and you will receive power after the Holy
Spirit has come upon you,
Jerusalem, Jadais, Samarian to the ends of the
earth. That that is the day the Holy
Spirit chooses
to pour in
for the first time in human history, to
pour into people rather than using people
by his power. This is what John says
when he says,
later he will be,
in you. Right now he's with you. Later
he will be in you.
For the first time, the Holy Spirit is
now
empowering or indwelling believers,
right? They're already believers.
They're already Christians. And now, he empowers
Christians.
And he does it consistently, constantly,
as a in our Christian life. That is
the day the holy spirit, entered into human
existence this way, the day that the harvest
begins. This is part of the reason for
the speaking in tongues, Right? What are we
supposed to be doing? We're supposed to be
going and telling people
about Jesus. And speaking in tongues is not
only a constant reminder, but it's the process
of how we're being empowered and filled. And
so we're we're speaking in tongues, we're praying
in tongues, and that is the vehicle
that takes the gospel to the world.
None of that is coincidence. Every single element
of this is is vitally important and it's
and it's all part of the bigger story
that started way back in the old testament.
Alright?
Now, those are the spring,
festivals. Then you come through the summer,
through the time frame of the,
planting seeds, sowing seeds, those kind of things.
And you come to the end of the
harvest.
Okay.
This is where
you have 3
basic feasts. You have the feast of trumpets,
which is the end of the harvest. They
blow a bunch of trumpets and everybody comes
in and the harvest is now over.
Coincidence.
Okay? Then you have the Feast of Tabernacles
which is I'm sorry,
the day of atonement which is today we
call
it Yom Yom Kippur
is
ready for the Lord to return. Okay? Then
you have the feast of tabernacles which is
everybody goes outside the city and camps in
tents outside the city.
So and it's called tabernacling.
When they do that, it is to remind
them that they are temporary residents on this
earth.
That's the point of this.
None of this is coincidence.
K? Those are the fall festivals. The reason
the reason I'm preaching the sermon today
is because that starts this year in October
3rd and goes those 3 feasts go through,
October 24th, from October 3rd to October 24th.
And why am I doing it now? Because
I want you at least to be ready
if the rapture happens this year. Because I
believe
that's the time frame of the year that
the rapture is going to appear.
Right?
Not necessarily this year, but I will get
back to you.
The rapture I believe I believe that everything
in scripture is showing
dies on the cross on Passover, holy spirits
poured out on Pentecost. In fact, when I
was growing up, I heard this regularly.
I would hear
the poster, whatever.
When it talks about in Acts chapter 2
that everybody was in 1 quarter, everybody was
unit in unity,
then the Holy Spirit was poured out. That
is not the right way to look at
that scripture. Okay? It is not. But usually,
the pastor is trying to preach a message
because there's a lot of disunity in the
church and he wants to bring unity and
he's using the big one that's the empowerment
of the holy spirit so that everybody will
get along and specifically get along with him.
That I really believe that's the reason that
was preached because being in one accord had
nothing to do with when the holy spirit
was being poured.
Key ingredient to
when the Holy Spirit's poured out? The day
on the calendar called Pentecost. That was the
day that the Holy Spirit was going to
be poured out.
Whether people were unified or
not,
it was gonna be on that day.
Okay? Anybody that was in unity with the
Lord were gonna be filled with the Holy
Spirit. That's all you had to have. Alright?
Now,
let me back up just a little bit
and mention
that the time frame now that that is
called the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of
Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles, that's all
kind of been included together.
And that has been called It's now being
called Rosh Hashanah.
Now, that's a Jewish tradition that is not
biblical.
Okay? Jewish tradition is RashaShana.
But there's some problems with this that I
think has been a little bit of deception
over over the cent over the millennial
of
deception here. And let me you'll get it
when I explain this. Rasha,
shaana is the celebration
of the new year, the Jewish new year.
So that's the beginning of the year.
They in fact, when they go around, they
they shout out Shana Tova,
and then
they will,
bless you. Happy new year. Okay? Now, this
is the reason they do that is because
they consider this new year.
But there's some problems with that.
One is,
the biggest one is in scripture
in Exodus chapter 12,
it specifically
says that passover is the beginning of the
year,
not the feast of trumpets. Rosh Hashanah is
not a word in the bible. Okay. That's
a Jewish creation. That's a Jewish tradition.
They still celebrate the 3 feasts in the
fall, but they've included them together to call
Rosh Hashanah.
But the the beginning of the year according
to Exodus 12 is Passover. You say does
that matter? Yes.
Because 7 months later,
the 7th month
is the Feast of Tabernacles
or the the, I'm sorry, the feast of
trumpets begins this. That is the 7th month
of the year. To me, there's there's not
a coincidence
that creation is 7 days.
6 days God's God rests.
The earth is I mean, people on the
earth since Adam and Eve I don't want
to explain all that. But just since Adam
and Eve till now
is,
right at 6000 years.
The 7th is God's,
completion
finality
of these things,
and that's the 7th month. Well that was
changed. So so mentally people are not processing
nowadays.
The fact that the Feast of Trumpets
is gonna be on the 7th month, they
say that's the 1st month.
But the 1st month is actually the beginning
of the story, the day Jesus dies on
the cross.
That's the 1st month. That's their new year.
But they changed this.
Now
here is,
here's where we're gonna go with this. I
wanna show you that Well, first, I I
strongly believe So the feast of trumpets,
they blow the trumpets, everybody comes in,
from the from the harvest.
Guys,
that's that's the rapture.
That's This thing is over.
No more harvesting.
We're done. We're in the we're in the
season of planting and harvesting right now. This
is when Jesus says, look on the fields
now
for their wide under harvest. That means go
now into the to the fields. Go now
to talk because he's talking about the lost
there. He's not talking about anything else. He's
talking about people that need him as their
savior. Go into the fields now. Guys, that's
in the time frame we're in. When Jesus
blows the trumpets or he doesn't, but he
has, Michael blow the trumpets. When Michael blows
the trumpets,
we're we're done. The harvest is over.
The raptures happen. Harvest is over. And we're
gonna go be with Jesus. And then we
have day of atonement, the repentance,
and then,
the,
piece of tabernacles reminding us that we're all
that we're all temporarily
here on this earth.
Verse 51. But let me reveal to you
a wonderful secret.
We will not all die, but we will
all be transformed. It will happen in a
moment.
That's important.
An instantaneous moment is part of the description
that the Lord gives us. Why? Because it's
part of the importance
of the story. It will happen in a
moment in the blink of an eye when
the last trumpet is blown.
Soon as the last one is done, we're
gone.
Okay.
For when the trumpet sounds, those who have
died will be raised to live forever. And
we who are living will also be transformed.
For our dying bodies must be transformed into
bodies that will never die.
Our mortal bodies must be transformed
into immortal bodies.
Okay.
1st Thessalonians
chapter 4.
And and by the way, that's
how does that happen? When does that happen?
We don't know how he transforms us, but
when does that happen? When we're raptured and
and and we're with Jesus
and he takes us and presents us this
is Ephesians 5. When he presents us to
God the father as pure and spotless without
any sin with no blemish,
he presents us to God the father. This
is when that happens.
K. This is all important in time sequence.
There is not a place that this is
gonna happen later and I'm gonna show you
that. K.
And then
verse 17. Then together with them,
everybody that's being raptured,
we who are still alive and remain on
the earth will be caught up in the
clouds
in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air.
This is important. I'm gonna show you the
scripture in a second that
the second coming, Jesus is not in the
clouds.
Unknown. It's going to be immediately at the
end of the tribulation that Jesus comes down
and he puts his feet on the earth.
He's not taking us anywhere. He's not meeting
us in the air.
None of these things are happening. It is
a very succinctly
described moment where Jesus comes to the earth
and puts his feet on the earth.
Okay? He's not he's not in the air
at this point. But this right here says
that we will meet him. We are caught
up in the clouds to meet the Lord
in the air.
That does not happen at the end of
the tribulation.
There is nowhere of a description
of this happening in the at the end
of the tribulation.
Nowhere does Jesus hang out in the clouds
and wait for us. Nowhere does Jesus hang
out in the clouds and wait for us.
Nowhere does Jesus hang out in the hang
out in the clouds and wait for us.
This rapture is totally different. Now,
there's also the mid tribulation thing, and I
think that one has the least amount of
scriptures to back it up. There's 2 kinds
of mid tribulation thought. 1 is, there's 2
kinds of
There's 2 kinds of mid tribulation thought. One
is,
they don't call themselves mid tribulation. They call
themselves pre tribulation, but it happens at the
three and a half year mark because the
great tribulation
is the second half of the 3 years.
The tribulation
is the first half. First three and a
half years is called tribulation.
2nd half is called the great tribulation. And
so they say, well, Jesus is going to
come back before the great tribulation.
The problem is,
the tribulation is 7 years long.
You can't Even though scripture does differentiate between
the two halves, it's all called the tribulation.
So that argument to me has no legitimacy
whatsoever.
The other one is, we believe in the
mid tribulation because Jesus,
deceiving the people.
He's he's he's literally filled with satan. That's
when he desecrates the temple and that's when
everybody is raptured. The problem with that is
we know exactly the day once the tribulation
starts. We know exactly to the day when
that's gonna happen.
It's exactly three and a half years. So
this unexpectedly,
you won't know what's happening. I'm gonna show
you some scripture more about this. That can't
apply.
So to me, the mid trib is not
working really on any level.
Okay? And I think the post tribulation rapture
people are confusing,
Jesus' second coming and things like the battle
of Armageddon
with the with Ezekiel 38. I'll explain some
of that.
K. So we will be caught up in
the clouds to meet the Lord in the
air. Then we will be with the Lord
forever.
So encourage each other with these words.
Encourage each other. Now,
there was a mindset back when I was
growing up.
Well, it actually began to change around the
late eighties, early nineties.
When the church got this this big push,
it happened for
good well, it's still happening at some level.
But there was this big push that we
don't the church doesn't want to scare anybody
into serving Jesus.
Because when I grew up, nobody worried about.
We didn't mind scaring you to death to
get you saved.
The rapture is about to happen right now,
you know. I'm not making this up. I
know different pastors that would literally, while they
were preaching about the rapture,
they would have somebody stand in the back
and blow a horn real loud. Just
Just to get a Oh, Jesus. I just
You know,
that
So
here's my thing with this. Okay, guys?
Let me let me say it this way.
If you have children, take your child. Pick
a child I don't want them to be
scared or have their feelings hurt. I'm not
willing for that to happen to get them
to
heaven.
A major contribution to me standing here right
now is repenting many times over the years
because I thought the rapture was about to
take place. The idea
Do you know Paul,
rapture
was about to take place. The idea Do
you know Paul thought the rapture was gonna
take place during his time frame? Do you
know every generation is supposed to think that
way? Every single generation is supposed to think
the rapture is gonna happen in my lifetime.
This is part of the reason that the
that the that the pre tribulation
rapture makes so much sense in this arena
is when people say to me, I don't
believe in a pre tribulation rapture because even
Paul thought it was going to happen in
his lifetime.
Do you realize those are opposite mindsets?
If Paul thought it was gonna happen in
his lifetime,
but the tribulation
had not happened and and Israel had not
fallen to become a nation again,
meaning in 78, Israel fell, but had not
become a nation again, then how are those
things supposed to be fulfilled for Paul to
believe it was gonna happen in his lifetime?
The reason Paul thought it was gonna happen
in his lifetime is because the rapture was
gonna happen before those other things happened. But
the rapture was going to happen. And he
thought this very strongly. You can see in
scripture. Okay? Zechariah chapter 14 verse 4.
On that day,
his feet will stand on the Mount of
Olives, East of Jerusalem. And the Mount of
Olives will split apart making a wide valley
running from east to west. Half the mountain
will move toward the north and half toward
the south. Guys, this is the second coming
of Jesus and he is not waiting in
the clouds. He comes and plants his feet
on the earth and the mountain splits apart.
And then we see where the right after
this is where the millennial reign starts. There
is no place that the Lord meets us
in the air, takes a cigar, gives us
our new bodies. None of those things are
happening at this point.
Those things have already happened.
Okay?
And first Thessalonians 5 also talks about the
fact that whatever is holding the Antichrist back
from taking over the earth
is gonna be taken away. Guys, that's the
church.
In fact, somebody mentioned to me after, first
serve I think it was cookie. Mentioned to
me after first service, if the there's no
way because you've heard me say this stuff.
There's no way they're we're having an election.
There's no way they're gonna let,
even if we have an election, Trump's not
gonna be allowed into the White House as
the president. Here's something most people are not
processing.
The vice president is the one who ratifies
the election.
Process that for a second.
She's the one running for president,
but she ratifies the election.
They're not letting that man in the White
House. They are
not. If they don't kill him first, they're
not. And and Cookie said, well if the
whole church raptures this October,
she will win the election.
That's legit right there. You should write that
down.
Jesus is coming and that's Kamala's.
That that should be her platform, right?
None of the Christians will be here. I'm
winning. Alright. So
same thing as the rapture. It is total
different language. It's no one knows the day
of their hour, but we know exactly when
the second coming is going to
happen. Once the tribulation starts, we know the
day.
Unexpected.
Now, you explain to me how we've been
living in the tribulation for 7 years, and
it's unexpected. Are you
Are you following me?
Okay. And here's here's another big one. Let's
let's go to this one.
Okay. Matthew chapter 24 verse 30. And then
at the last
and then at last the sign of the
Son of Man is coming will appear in
the heavens. Now why is God tell us
this stuff unless he wants us to study
it? Try to figure it out. I don't
think you're gonna get all the details. I
don't think we're gonna, totally understand this until
it's happening. Like the day the tribulation starts,
we're gonna know that. If you're still here,
I won't be with you. But if you're
still here,
you're gonna know because,
Israel signs the peace treaty. You know the
exact day the tribulation is gonna start.
There's not gonna be any question on this.
3a half and 3a half. There's no doubt
about that. So we'll know exactly when the
tribulation starts because he tells us it starts
with the signing of the peace treaty.
Sometime before that, the rapture is gonna take
place. Look at this.
The son of man of coming will appear
in the heavens and there will be deep
mourning among all the peoples of the earth.
And they will see the son of man
coming on the clouds of heaven with great
with power and great glory. And he will
send out his angels
with a mighty blast of a trumpet and
they will gather his chosen ones from all
over the world. Where is Jesus at this
time?
The clouds of heaven.
That's second coming. He is in the clouds
of heaven. He sends out the angels to
gather everybody. That's called the rapture from the
farthest ends of heaven and earth. Verse 36,
this is this is amazing, cool this is
this is amazing, cool this is this is
key.
Right. You're not going to know the exact
day of the rapture. You're going to know
a time frame. You're going to He's saying,
look at all this stuff. Like when Jesus
says the
I think Cookie sends it to me.
If
you see the this is for sailors, and
I was one, but I forgot this.
If you see the red sky at night,
there's a storm coming. You know, when Jesus
says that, right? He says, this is how
you're going to know end time stuff. Pay
attention because I am giving you signs to
know.
Study this to know,
but you're not going to know the day
or the hour. Okay?
Now, here's here's important.
When the son of man returns, it will
be like it was in Noah's day.
In those days before the flood, people were
enjoying banquets and parties
and weddings right up to the time Noah
entered his boat.
Now, here's a
thing.
If the rapture does not happen until after
the tribulation,
does that mean the tribulation
is enjoying banquets and parties and weddings?
Think about what I'm saying.
That's not the tribulation I read about in
the bible. We're
just living life as normal. That's part of
the reason it's saying that. We're just going
through life as normal. Everything's okay. Everything is
good. And people are not aware that the
end is about to happen.
That is not the tribulation.
That is before the tribulation.
Once the church is raptured, it starts all
this other stuff, the signing of the peace
treaty, all these other things. And that is
the tribulation. And there is nobody that's not
going to know we're in the tribulation
because it gets very, very bad. It is
not hanging out as life as usual and
having parties. Happen
till after the tribulation, what do you do
with all these scriptures? What do you do
with this one specifically? People didn't realize what
was going to happen until the flood came
and swept them all away.
People are not going to realize what is
happening until the rapture happens.
And then they're gonna know
the stuff that's going on. And that is
what it would be when the son of
man
Now, I'm some time lines. I really
they all come up to the borders of
Israel and they're all threatening Israel. I keep
having people ask is is what's happening in
the Middle East right now Ezekiel 38? No.
It can't be because all of these people
are not come to the borders. Israel is
actually going and chasing Hamas and Hezbollah
into these countries. K? 2 total different stories.
Now, when all these countries come up, it
says that that that literally it's,
the way we see it described, it's got
to be millions of people that are coming
up from all these Arab countries and surrounding
Israel and about to attack Israel and God
destroys all of their armies and their military
leaders.
Israelites don't pick up a sword. They don't
do anything. God destroys them all.
That has not happened yet. But even with
everything that,
Turkey is doing right now, these countries are
setting up.
These countries are setting up. I do think
it's interesting
that the border between Gaza and Egypt right
now, the Philadelphia Corridor,
They're trying to make an agreement that maybe,
some of the
the soldiers of Saudi Arabia
may be policing that border instead because
Egypt actually has a pretty decent
alliance
with our friendship with Israel right now.
Not part of the group of all of
the countries around Israel that fight in Ezekiel
38. They're the only country that doesn't. K?
Now, why am I saying all this? I
think
actually is all the
countries come up to Israel, God kills all
of those soldiers and raptures the church in
the same day.
Deep
that God sent wild animals to eat them
or they would have been there
even longer than the many months that it
describes in scripture.
And then you have the whole world. And
this has always been the philosophy.
This is the normal thinking. Is the whole
world signs a peace treaty with Israel because
and this is the normal narrative. Is the
whole world is against Israel and Israel is
in a place of weakness. Guys, I don't
believe that. I've been saying this for the
last couple years. I don't think Israel will
be in a place of weakness. Why? Because
I think Ezekiel 38 happens before the tribulation.
Wiped out, and God sends animals to eat
them. They all of these,
Muslim countries, these Arab countries don't have military
anymore. Who's
in the driver's
seat?
Come to the table and say,
moment. So
they come to Israel and say, we'd like
to make a peace treaty. And Israel, being
who Israel is, will make the peace
treaty with
Israel they
Egypt attacked and Syria attacked and e and
Israel went into, into Egypt and they could
have destroyed Egypt on that day. They could
have marched straight into Cairo. Look at your
history books.
They could have gone straight into Cairo and
taken Cairo out and destroyed Egypt, but they
didn't.
America was putting pressure on them and so
they backed off and Egypt,
and by the way, that's the last time
Egypt has really gone after Israel.
We're gonna we're we're sorry Israel. Let's sign
this peace treaty. I believe Israel says, yes.
Let's sign the peace treaty and we're gonna
be rebuilding our temple.
Okay?
So you're going to need to move the
Dome of the Rock
because that's where we're going to build it.
Who's going to stop them?
Right now, you've got all these armies going
to stop them. Dedicate the temple. That's the
three and a half year mark. He's filled
with Satan and he desecrates the temple.
This? Guys, anytime we study this stuff, it
should bring you to one conclusion. Remember theme
of the old testament, Jesus is coming. Theme
of the new testament, Jesus is coming again.
As Jesus is coming and the church needs
to take this very seriously.
The church needs to take the rapture very
seriously.
Anytime but except the pre tribulation rapture, everybody
knows. So if we don't get raptured and
the tribulation starts, everybody on the planet knows.
Okay. Now we gotta get serious.
That's not what the days of Noah mentality
is. It says, you better be serious ahead
of time. The the 10 virgins, you better
have your your lamps ready to go ahead
of time.
I think that there are people that are
waiting because they've been taught mid or post
trib. I think they're waiting for the tribulation
to start because I don't have to serve
Jesus until then.
Think about that one.
All right. That's also why he says you'll
never know the day or the hour. I
planned that.
I planned
that.
So
I'm
gonna
So guys,
here's here's the reality.
When? Right now. Somebody asked me, a few
months back, do you think that,
with everything happening,
the rapture
might actually take place this year?
I do believe it's gonna be before the
80 years is up. I do believe that.
I said, do you believe it'll take place
this year? Guys, for the first time in
my whole life, I've literally thought with everything
setting up the way that it is, this
actually could be the year.
But, yeah, I mean, that's not bad. Remember,
it says encourage each other with this.
Encourage each other.
But I I really believe that is a
doable thing. And and and you've never heard
me say that before. I always say it's
gonna be this time of year,
but I don't know what. But for the
first time, I'm feeling like we're we're in
the we're in the downslide here.
And so I'm not saying that to scare
you, although if that happens, that's good too.
But here's the reason I'm saying it. It's
not even necessarily for all of us, but
we're gonna start here,
is to say, Jesus, we need you to
be our savior. That's the point. If you
study all this stuff
ad nauseam and you don't arrive at the
conclusion that you need Jesus
in your life controlling everything, protecting you, covering
you, you've missed the whole point.
That's the reason for this.
So what I'd like to do this morning
is I like us to pray.
I'd like us to get saved.
K?
I'd like us to to pray our sinners
prayer together.
So I'm already a Christian.
I guess you could just keep your mouth
shut then and don't.
I wouldn't think that's a good idea.
But let's just pray together and just ask
Jesus to be our God. Doesn't that make
sense?
Shouldn't these things propel us toward this?
Right? So repeat this with me if you'd
like to and let's just let's just pray.
Lord God,
we need you.
I need you as my savior as my
savior. I ask you to cover me with
the blood of Jesus
and make me right with you.
Forgive me of anything I've ever done
that's not pleasing to you.
And I wanna spend the rest of my
life
serving you.
In Jesus name, I pray.
God, thank you for this amazing gift of
salvation.
Thank you for grace. Thank you for mercy.
Thank you for loving us enough
that you gave everything so that we could
know you.
God, with with everybody in this room, even
if they believe
different about the rapture, Lord, we still all
need to serve you right now today.
Lord, that we've gotta have you.
So be our God.
We relinquish the throne and we turn it
over to you.
In the name of Jesus.
God, and we ask you to send us
to our neighbors.
Send us to our coworkers,
anoint us to speak to them,
knowing that our time is getting shorter every
single day.
God, we thank you.
Lord, continue to be with the Huizingas.
Bless them in every single way. And, Lord,
help to continue to connect them to different
ones of us throughout our church
that, we'll pray,
we'll support them, we'll we'll give,
and God, that they're gonna continue to be
successful in the things you're