Revelation Chapter 6. Please open your Bibles to
Revelation Chapter 6 title. This morning's message is Left
behind. Some of you would have seen
who's seen the Left Behind movie, anyone.
Some of you Nicholas Cage won and there was the one right way
way back. Remember the music from the old
ones? It was so bad.
Your Christian movies were slow. Yeah, it looks like my cousin
across the road made that at school.
But they had a message. Revelation Chapter 6, when I
asked you a question. What does the future hold, do
you think? More specifically, what does
your future hold? The answer to the question
totally depends upon your relationship with Jesus Christ.
It's the most important decision that you and your children need
to make. Parents, that's your mission.
Husbands, wives, if you're married to someone who is not a
believer, that's your mission for you.
I think too often we want to go off and save the world.
We want to go and do this and we want to go to Africa and places
like that and, you know, the jungles of New Guinea and we
want to go on a mission field. But meanwhile, the person that
lives in our very own house doesn't know the Lord under the
same roof. And I want you to be careful
because I've seen it too often where people head off and the
people at home go, well, why should I?
Why would I even love church? I believe in church because I'm
not counted, I'm not part of it, and it's a bad deal.
It's not wise to do that if you're the only Christian in
your workplace. So often you'll pray.
I wish I was. Could be in a Christian School
or a Christian work environment, work at a church or something
like that where other Christians.
No, God has you there because he needs light and salt and you're
his representative. Jesus wants to be there.
You're him there so, so often we we, we read books about, you
know, Livingston and others who travelled the world and that and
that's all well and good and that's specific callings and we
have responsibilities. My responsibility is to Helen,
my wife. Our responsibility was to our
children to see that they raised loving God.
Now our responsibility as grandchildren is to pray for our
grandchildren and to help in any way that we can to see each of
them come and receive Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
That's it. Yes, I have other mission
fields, but I that's where I need to work very, very hard at
what I'm to do otherwise I'm a fake going elsewhere otherwise.
So the answer to the question on your future is based upon your
relationship with Jesus Christ. For a believer, if you're here
today and you're a Christian, then you have a glorious future.
All the songs that we sang this morning, most of them were 9095%
scripture out of the Book of Revelation.
If you're an unbeliever here, maybe you've just come to check
out or you know haven't made a decision for Christ At the
moment, where you stand or where you sit, literally massive
trouble lays ahead of you. Massive trouble, as we'll see in
the Book of Revelation. Another question is what is
going to happen on the earth after Christ has removed his
church from it, after the rapture of the church has
occurred? What's going to happen then?
Well, in chapters four and five of the Book of Revelation,
chapter 4, John was caught up into heaven, a type of the
rapture, a shadow. And he sees the throne of God
and we, we see that he like us, the church is there.
We see the church there and we're, we're worshipping the
Lord. In chapters 4 and chapter 5, we
and we alone are able to sing the song.
People from all tribes, tongues and nations, we've gathered
together, we singing about our redemption to the throne of God.
We're a massive choir. We're practising now what we're
learning here is how we're going to sing.
When it says we sing a new song, the angels Can't Sing.
Remember we learned that the angels say worship and praise,
but they don't sing like you and I can sing.
It says in Ephesians 5, we can sing unto the Lord, sing with
the Spirit of God. Worship breaks out and then John
in chapter 5 we sang about this morning goes through a time of
great grief. The only time we read of tears
being in heaven as he sees the throne and on the right hand of
the Father on the throne is the scroll sealed with 7 seals.
The title deed of planet Earth lost by Adam, forfeited by Adam
and now Satan rules this world and no one is able to who's
worthy? No one's worthy to come claim
the throne, claim back what was lost.
We learned about that, how that works and the laws of redemption
in the land. And then Jesus steps forward.
John was told look up over, look over there.
What does he see? A lamb as it had been slain.
The only man made things in heaven.
We see Jesus standing. He had seated after he rose from
the dead and sat by the right hand of the Father, a man sat
down. And then in chapter 5, we see
the land standing as it had been slain.
The word slain in the Greek was butchered, slaughtered, the
marks of the crucifixion still there.
We will see them. He takes the scroll and then he
begins to break the seals. We looked on Wednesday night and
you're going to, I'm not going to go back on Wednesday night.
That's for you to do. Wednesday night we had the first
horseman of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Let's pray for that little one. God bless that little child.
Help them in Jesus name. Paul tells us after the
restraining force of the church in Second Thessalonians has been
removed. You and I are.
You think things are bad if we weren't here?
Things are going to and they're going to get much, much worse.
We're restraining because the Holy Spirit and the Church is
restraining against the works of Satan.
The Second Thessalonians, chapter 2, verse six, that which
is restraining is remove the rapture.
We see now the stage is set for the Lawless 1, the Antichrist,
the rider on the 1st right horse.
He appears and the first seal is broken.
He comes on a White Horse. He appears on this world scene a
world political leader, and he has got all the answers.
He's got all the speech. He's the world's greatest
orator. He has charisma and he has
intelligence. He has the personal power of
Satan working through him, and he brings peace.
Finally. Why all this?
But it's a temporary peace. He solves the problem in Gaza,
on the Temple Mount, between the Jews, between the Muslims and
the rest of the world. And the world goes, oh, finally
this guy's good. He's smooth.
Well, today we move on from him. And now Jesus breaks the second
seal, verse 3 of chapter 6, when he had opened Jesus's opening
the second seal, I heard the second living creature say come,
the antsy are added. So it just says come another
horse. The second horse, this one's
red, fiery red, went out and was granted.
God is giving. Remember God is in control of
everything. So the plan of God is happening.
It was granted to the one who sat on it and noticed what He
does to take the peace that have been brought by the White Horse
from you Didn't last long. Isn't it funny how politicians
love you and yeah, we're going to.
Well, look after you no problem. Oh, yeah, I think if you.
Yeah. No, we.
We can't do that. I know we said, but we can't.
And it. There's a change, isn't it?
So the peace is taken. So if the peace is taken, what's
the opposite war and it says and that people should kill one
another. And there was given to him a
great sword. The Antichrist will head a
revived Roman Empire. Daniel chapter 2.
Daniel saw the image that Nebuchadnezzar dreamt of.
Then he tells us who it is and all the nations that would be
the empires starting with the Babylonians on down feet, legs
of clay toes iron. That's Roman.
The Romans were the only ones who were conquered.
These fell the bits. Well, it's going to be revived.
Daniel chapter 2 talks about that and Daniel Chapter 7 talks
about this revive we're nations. These nations will give their
power over to the Antichrist. Don't think he's the anticants.
Three of them will actually give their sovereignty over to the
Antichrist. So that we don't want a Prime
Minister, we don't want a government EUR.
Three of them will do that. Daniel 7, Daniel 7.
We see it today as the European Union.
You can travel across Europe as borders are down.
We have the euro, they actually meet in the parliament and he
will lead the western world of this European Union regathering
and there will be a final conflict against the armies of
the East, the Asian nations before armies.
There will be the Northern Federation in Russia and its
allies will be part of this battle.
The last great battle, the King of the South, it says that is a
North African combined force. So there's 4 armies in total
will meet kings of the EE, the Asiatic nations gathering
together, telling us that the river Euphrates will dry up and
they'll March to where's, where's this battle and this,
this war going to finally be Israel is going to be when you
travel to Israel and you go around the old city and I pray
that you can join us. Lord willing, we get there in
January 2027. Not that far away.
You think Bullet holes are in the city and Mars are in the
city. It's been there that long.
And which war is this from? And our guide down here, he'll
tell you which calibre that is and what weapon that was and all
this sort of stuff. And all the Tri, all the nations
from Babylon, Medes and the Persians and the Grecians and
the Romans, they all warned against one another.
Guess where? Who is in the middle all the
time? Through Israel I go bakery
through Israel I go and and Israel was always the crampling
grant. Well, this final conflict, the
battle will be in Israel. Israel is on the world political
scene now and it ain't going to move.
Revelation 1612 The kings of the East, they will eventually
challenge the authority of the Antichrist rule the West.
They will come against him in Israel.
Revelation 1616. And they gathered them together
to the place called in Hebrew Armageddon.
It's the valley between Mount Carmel.
When we go to Israel, we go up to Mount Carmel, we go to
Caesarea. From Caesarea we drive up, we go
up to Mount Carmel. And on the top of Mount Carmel,
remember what happened there. The prophets of Baal were
deceived by Elijah. As you stand on Mount Carmel,
you look over from Mount Carmel. Down there is the valley of
Jezreel and Megiddo. That valley runs all the way
down. The conflict will be there and
run and flow into Jerusalem itself.
Such will be the battle. It will be here in chapter 19
that God will deal in judgement with the gathered nations, all
those armies, and it says He will deal with them.
He'll return then because of their persecution of Israel.
It's interesting what's happening around the world now.
Hear what the prophet Joel says. Joel chapter 3, verse 2.
I will also gather all nations. So these are the four major
Confederate armies of all the nations who will gather in
Jezreel Megiddo. I will bring them down to the
Valley of Jehoshaphat. There is no such place as the
Valley of Jehoshaphat. In geographical terms, it means
the Lord of Judges, and I will enter into judgement with them
there. And why?
Joel goes on to say, on account of my people, I'm going to
gather them together. They're coming to fight one
another, but I'm gathering there because I'm going to pour out
judgement upon them. MyHeritage is Israel, Joel says,
whom they have scattered among the nations.
All these nations got stuck into the Jews, and they're doing that
now. And they have also divided up my
land. I find that interesting and Job
because how do you think the Prince of the lawless one, the
first horse rider will bring about this this this peaceful
reign? Will Israel finally have to
relent? So OK, Gaza and that there it'll
be you. They're not saying it now, but
here it says they have also divided up my land.
Is that what is going to be the negotiating agreement where
Israel will sign the covenant, the agreement with the first
horseman so that they can rebuild the temple?
Yeah, you sign this, you can rebuild the temple.
You can go on the temple Mount. Worship can begin seven year
agreement. But notice, Joel, God says they
have also divided up my land. You know, here, the shouts from
the river to the sea, from the river to the sea.
I get so angry over those people.
It's God's land, it's his land, He gave it to Abraham, it's
God's land. The rise of the European
military, economic and political power of this revised Roman
Empire of nations under the White Horse rider, the
Antichrist, the EU will be due to the leadership and he's going
to be a smart man of the first horse rider, the man of sin, the
lawless 1 and the Western world will hail this man as their
Messiah, their Messiah. He is the world's choice of
Messiah because if you reject God, you've got to choose
somebody else. Bob Dylan wrote.
You don't worship him, you're going to be worship somebody.
Jesus said if you're not for me, you're against me.
You make a choice. It's not that interesting at the
timing right now where we stand of what Trump has done to NATO
and to the European nations. He said, you guys go to war now,
don't expect us come and bail you out anymore because you're
only putting some of you putting in no money, something you're
putting in one percent, 2% into your military and defence
expenditure. So he said that.
He says you're on your own and I've got whoa, what are we going
to do? He says I'm going to raise the
tariffs until you do something about that.
So he did. And so now what are the NATO and
other EU nations doing? They're spending more now, 5%
plus of their GDP. What's it going to military
defence systems because the Antichrist, he's going to have a
great army and it's getting built now.
Isn't that interesting the timing of how this has happened?
He said to nation to to Australia and Trump said, you
guys, you don't what, what are you spending?
We're spending 3%. We don't have enough bullets for
our guns. Now you know, we're we're it's
like Dad's Army Australia. It's just terrible.
I remember a friend of mine when he joined up for Nashos and he
went in and he said we didn't have enough guns then and he
said we trained. He said no, no, no.
He says we trained with broom animals.
So the blokes used to joke when they're on guardian.
Oh, or I'll fill your full of white ants.
Our Prime Minister is still not relented on this in August.
The deal is hanging in there. We don't know what's going to
happen, but I tell you, the timing of this building of the
European army is now it's happening.
Why? Because the Antichrist is
getting ready. It's near.
We're in that time.
God has thus far till now, until this moment in time in Bible
prophecy, been very patient with man, even though people have
been allowed to blasphemy God. We sit constantly, even though
now people live and behave in gross, immoral lifestyles,
defiant before him. But when this man, the White
Horse and the wars that break out with the second horse, the
red horse demands to be worshipped as God and he will
halfway through the agreement, Israel has rebuilt the temple.
So they're going to rebuild the temple.
They're ready. The priests are ready.
All the implements have been built.
They just need the OK, they're waiting for the Messiah to say
you can build. And so when this man.
After 3 1/2 years, the Jews have been, you know, going, having
worship and everything isn't this wonderful?
We're back to work. We're sacrificing the priests
and, and Israel is this peace and everything.
Then halfway through, Daniel says he'll walk into the holy of
boys, sit down and says now worship me.
I'm gone. Besides that, I'm going to put
up an image of me in here because you're not allowed, not
allowed to have any images. It's 10 commandments and from
that moment, 3 1/2 years in to the seven year period Mark 1314,
Jesus says when you see the abomination of desolation spoken
of by Daniel the prophet standing where it ought not let
the reader understand. Jesus said, then let those who
are in Judea, because it's going to happen in Jerusalem, flee to
the mountains, take off. Jesus said, I pray that you're
not pregnant. I pray there's the winter not
snowing. Run for your lives.
Speaking to the Jews when this occurs, Jesus said to the Jews
living at that moment in the tribulation period, 3 1/2 years
in to flee. Why?
For from that moment the Jews will be haunted down because
they won't take a mark. They won't bow down to an image.
They won't worship any other God but the God of Israel, Job, and
everyone who refuses to take that mark, including the Jews,
the Antichrist mark will be haunted down and killed.
Christians, you know, are sealed.
We're sealed already. If you're a born again believer
here today, you have the seal of the Holy Spirit.
You can't see it. It's not a marker that you can
see Ephesians 430 and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby
we are sealed unto the day of redemption.
And the sealing comes from the language of when we would ship
goods overseas and we would have what was called signet rings.
And so I would all the stuff that I'm sending to England,
there'd be a marketplace wax mark and I'd get my signet ring
and I'd bang, bang, bang, seal it and say that's mine.
And that's where it's going to go.
We're sealed. We're sealed because God has
sealed us. We're going to go to heaven.
That's it. We're owned by him.
But what happens is the Antichrist, he has his copies,
everything. He's the counterfeit.
So he's going to put a seal on, but he's actually going to mark
people. In Revelation chapter 12 verse
6, it says then the woman fled Israel during this time at the
Antichrist goes into the temple demands to be worshipped that
everyone's going to receive my mark to show that you worship me
that I'm your God. And the woman fled into the
wilderness where she has a place prepared by God that they should
feed her and it tells her there 1260 days.
We believe that's the rock city of Petra, Jordan.
And so now the judgement of God truly begins with the opening of
the second seal, the second Red Horse causes the following wars
begin breaking out all over the world.
Eventually, as we mentioned previously, leading to the final
great battle in Megiddo. All the nations will be gathered
for one final slaughter. God's plan, Revelation 1919 And
I saw the beast, that's the Antichrist.
I saw the kings of the earth, all the leaders of these 4
armies and their armies gathered together to make war against him
who sat on the horse and against his army.
Our world has experienced thus far two world wars.
How sad it was after World War One, we thought that's the war
to end all wars. In two world wars, 75 to 85
million people died. That's not injuries, it's just
deaths, mainly civilians and many war, more wars have
followed since Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, you know.
But now our weaponry has changed from the old three O 3 and
artillery weapons have changed dramatically, haven't they?
We saw those B2 bombers used to bring their great bombs to drop
bombs on Syria. Sorry in Iran on their nuclear
weapon sites. The devastation that exists in
one submarine now nuclear powered.
Amazing the distance they can travel.
Atomic, nuclear warheads, massive bombs, chemical and
biological warfare. Drones now that can track a
person and be sent off. Unmanned craft, now including
tanks. Missiles that can travel
continents at speed. It's frightening what will be
unleashed during the time of the second seal, plus what happens.
The nuclear fallout from these weapons will be devastating as
bombs go, and the nuclear residue radioactive will be
carried by the winds of the world to all sorts of locations.
Verse 5 when the lamb broke the third seal, I heard the third
living being saying come. I looked up and saw a Black
Horse and it's rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
I heard a voice from among the four living beings saying a loaf
of wheat bread, 3 loaves of barley will cost a day's pay.
Don't waste the olive oil and wine.
The Black Horse following the wars from the red horse that
will break out worldwide because of the devastation of war.
We see that with ancient orange just even in in Vietnam and the
accompanying nuclear and radioactive fallout.
There will be a great this will be a worldwide famine, not just
in one Ethiopia or just this country or this land there.
It will be a worldwide famine that our world has never
experienced before. Food.
It will be so lean. Food, such an item, desperate
for people to have it, will cost a full day's wage of a working
man, which in Australia today is $174.65 minimum to purchase one
loaf of bread. Just one loaf of bread.
The oil and wine mentioned are indicative here.
Don't touch them. It says of the wealthy of the
world still being able to survive during their famine
period due to their great wealth.
But their time will come. For in Revelation chapter 1811,
Babylon the business Babylon the business Babylon will be
destroyed. And it says on the merchants of
the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buys their
merchandise anymore. Wiped out.
When the lamb broke the 4th seal, I heard the 4th living
creature say come. I looked up and saw a horse
which colour was pale green. And I stepped to go to the
morgue a lot, sadly, with my old work job with the police.
And as bodies start to no matter what, even if they're chilled,
they get this, this, this coloured green starts coming as
you start to perish. And that's this colour described
here. His writer was named Death.
His companion was the grave. These two were given authority
over 1/4 of the earth, 1/4 of the entire world's population to
kill with the sword, famine, disease, and wild animals. 1/4
of the world's total population will perish at this time.
There's still more yet to come. Worse, but the quarter of the
world's population will die because of the wars and the
famines that break out, the disease that breaks out from
those and wild animals. It says because the world's just
going to go chaos. Wild animals, hunting dogs,
trying to find somewhere to eat to survive at that moment in
time. That amount of people equates on
our current population to build 2 billion people who will not
survive. And we've only broken 4 seals.
The horror of that is to fall upon our earth at this time,
once the church has been taken out, raptured, and God begins to
unleash His judgement upon earth because of its sinfulness is
unimaginable. Because by the time we get to
Revelation Chapter 9, verse 15, another 1/3 of the remaining of
the world's population will perish.
That's another 2 billion, leaving just 4 billion people
for the total planet. That's half.
That's one. And every second person will be
gone. That's massive.
That's nine. When you open the 5th seal, I
saw under the altar the souls of those who had been.
Notice this follow along with me who had been slain for the word
of God and for the testimony which they held.
And they cried with a loud voice to God, saying, How long, O Lord
Pauline, true, until you judge and avenge our blood.
And notice who killed them on those who dwell upon the earth.
This is as I said, earth dwells. And those who dwell upon the
earth is a significant term throughout the Book of
Revelation. These are people who have
rejected God, that want anything to do with God.
They're happy with the Antichrist.
They're happy with the way the world is.
It had nothing to do with God. That term pops up throughout,
and it is these who have been part of judging and killing
those Christians in the Tribulation period says.
Then a white robe was given to each of them, and it was said to
them that they should rest a little while longer.
Why? Until both the number of their
fellow servants born to die and their brethren brothers in
Christ who would be killed as they were, was completed during
the Tribulation period, there is going to be the greatest number
of people come to Christ this world has ever seen.
That's this group. We find these souls under the
altar of God, people who have been martyred during the
Tribulation period, and they're asking entrance into the
heavenly scene. How long before they can enter,
when the Lord raptures His church before the tribulation
begins, that events will trigger enormous consternation to those
who have heard all that we that you and I have shared like today
with them about Bible prophecy in the last days of what's
coming, the moment of this event, the rapture, the rapture
of the church as it's occurred will hit people who we've
witnessed to. And they said, no, I'm not
interested, too busy, don't have time.
We'll hit them like a tonne of pricks.
It will be a damning day. And they'll go, Oh no, what they
told me, what she said, what he said, it's happened.
There will be a time of great wailing, grief and distress by
those left behind who at that moment the rapture occurs.
With the sudden disappearance of every believer, every Christian
will understand exactly what has just happened.
Millions are missing, gone. These people left behind will
realise that the Lord has indeed raptured His Church and they now
are left behind. And now they have enough
knowledge to know that the earth is about to enter A7 year period
of the judgement of God because they rejected God.
And that now a period of cataclysmic events, because
we've spoken about them, we've shared with them with massive
waves of destruction and death are about to be unleashed.
They were realised because of their carelessness, not
interested, their personal dismissiveness.
Well, maybe later, I know you what you're saying is true, but
maybe later their deliberate cold shoulder to God's warnings
that God's judgement is coming now upon the earth just like
Noah preached 120 years. But because, and here's the good
part, but because we have told them, because we have warned
them, I hope you are, I hope you're hearing this today, that
when this man of sin comes into power, his system to manage the
world's economy with this cashless mark and by his law and
personal mandate force everyone to receive his mark on their
right hand or upon their forehead.
Otherwise you'll be unable to trade, to buy, to sell, to do
business without this mark of identification.
These people left behind will have some of them enough
knowledge and sense not to take the mark.
In Revelation 1316 it says he causes all, both small and
great, rich and poor. Is the Antichrist free and
slave? Who's that?
It's everybody. It's the world, everybody to
receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and
that no one, no exceptions, may buy or sell, except one who has
the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name. Here is wisdom.
Let him who was understanding calculate the number of the
beast for his the number of man. His number is 666.
Can you remember? And you can.
You don't like him? How the world changed overnight
with COVID. You remember it changed.
I know. I was on the road blocks with
the police. Sorry, you can't.
You've got to stay in that zone. Sorry, you can't go here.
Can't go there. Remember how it changed?
You couldn't go out. I did weddings and funerals in
that time. A wedding, 5 people, including
myself, so there's four others. Bridegroom, 2 witnesses funeral,
10 people Max. Me, funeral person, eight
members of a family. No matter how many in the
family, only 8 going to Caracatta.
Then we pulled up. Ten of us.
Massive Caracatta and just a little bunch of people going to
do the funeral. Can you remember?
It was a people, It was a snapshot of what's going to
happen when he goes into the temple and says, you know what?
You're going to worship me as God unless you get the mark,
good pet. And the world governments and
the authorities will go, OK, where's your mark?
Where's your mark? Remember, we had to pull out our
our past, our COVID past. We're experienced.
I saw it on the altar of those who have been slain for the word
of God and for the testimony which they held and for your
testimony of saying you believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and
Saviour and therefore you refuse to take the mark.
They will execute you. It will be a legal, mandated,
lawful execution. Christians, the Jews, But
believe me, this morning it is much better to take, not better
than taking the mark. John McCarthy passed away this
last week. Said to die as a Christian is
not to leave home, it is to go home safe in the arms of God.
In chapter 14 we read more about this group.
Then the third Angel following him saying with a loud voice,
says this. During the time of the
tribulation period, if anyone worships the beast in his image
and receives his mark on his forehead, on his hand, he
himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which
has poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation.
He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of
the holy angels and in the presence of the land, and the
smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever.
And they have no rest, day or night who worship the beast and
his image. And whoever received the mark of
his name, an Angel was sent by God throughout the world to warn
people. Don't take the mark, Don't take
the mark. Don't take the mark.
During the tribulation period, people will not take the mark
ignorantly. Oh, I just went along with it.
No, no, it'll be a choice. It's a choice.
God will be be warning you. An Angel will tell you not to
take the mark. But those who reject God's
warning and take the mark, there will be no hope of their
salvation ever. It's done.
They will be cut off from God forever, the Bible says.
For they will have, by deliberate choice, join the
forces of evil forever. That's not me saying this is
what the Bible says. There's warning, there's
warning, there's warning. So then in verse 9, I saw under
the altar of those who had been slain for the word of God and
for the testimony which they held when by their own folly
they missed the rapture. But during the tribulation they
go, I'm not taking the mark. I know I'm not making a second
mistake. And because they committed their
lives to Christ, they will be martyred, executed for their
faith in Jesus and their witness for Jesus Christ.
They will by their death and glory.
Today, 2025 July. Why would you choose to go the
hard way instead of the easy way?
What are you saying, Keith? Well, if you're stubborn, you
will learn lessons the hard way. If you're obedient, you can
learn the lesson of God the easy way.
But God will teach us one way or the other.
Remember the prophet Jonah? God spoke to Jonah.
Jonah, I want you to go and do this.
Go to the land of Nineveh. I want the freaks.
I want salvation to come there. And Jonas took off, went the
exact opposite way. The terrible ordeals Jonah faced
were completely unnecessary for him to have to go through an
experience. He ran away from God, went down
the job, hopped on a boat, the boat went out.
What happened? A storm came up on the ship, all
the sails and wonder what's going on?
He says it's me, it's my fault. I'm running away from God.
They pick him up. They throw him over the side.
The storm calms down as he's thrown over the side and begins
to sink. A great fish grabs Joan.
He's 3 days and three nights in the valley of this great fish,
and then the fish spits him out. Where does he land?
He's in Nineveh. That's the hard way.
Jonah forced all this upon himself by wanting to resist
God's call and God's will for his life.
You this morning, by wanting to resist the will of God on your
life can make it difficult for yourself.
Hear Jonah's words of wisdom as he spoke from the belly of the
great fish. Jonah 28.
They have regard. They that regard lying vanities
forsake their own mercy. You create your own problems and
hardships. I want to ask you this morning,
are you living a lie? Where do you sit with God?
In Revelation chapter 6 verse 9, this group dying for their faith
in the tribulation period after the church has been removed is
an even larger number. In Chapter 7 we see them again,
but this time there's more of them, more people getting saved
and now they're brought into heaven and found standing before
the throne of God clothed in white robes.
Verse 9 after these things I looked and behold a great
multitude which no one could number of all nation tribes and
tongues standing before the throne and before the Lamb
clothed with ripe robes with palm branches in their hands and
crying out with a loud voice saying, salvation belongs to our
God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb or the Angel stood
around the throne and the and the four living creatures fell
on their faces before the throne and worshipped God saying Amen,
blessing and glory wisdom. Then one of the elders answers
said to me, who is this group to join a raid in white robe?
Where'd they come from? And I said so, you know, So he
said to me, these are the ones who came out of the great
tribulation, not the church, and washed their robes and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore they are before the
throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he
who sits on the throne will dwell among them.
Here's what happened to them. Because now it's not going to
happen anymore. They shall need a hunger.
Why? Because they took the mark of
the beast, didn't they? Didn't take the mark, couldn't
eat, neither shall they first combine anything to drink.
The sun shall not strike them. That's got to come later on
during the heat boring down upon the earth, nor any heat, for the
Lamb was in the midst of the throne.
Will shepherd them, lead them to living fountains of waters, and
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes because they
were weeping during the time of tribulation.
Oh, how foolish I was. They are not the Church.
These are they who will be saved during the Tribulation and who
have been martyred for their faith.
In Revelation chapter 20 we see various groups and we see these
identified. I saw the souls of those who had
been headed for their witness, verse 4 to Jesus for the Word of
God, who had not worshipped the beasts of His image.
Revelation 24. You this morning can choose the
path of this group, but I surely would not plan it.
Why would you want to join that group?
Are you sure about your walk with God today?
If the rapture occurs, will the people behind beside you go or
will you stay? Where are you this morning?
Will people who deny Christ now be saved in the tribulation
period? What are those who it says
Second Thessalonians, who did not receive the truth that they
might be saved, and God sent them a lie, a strong lie of
delusion. Where's the line?
What about the five foolish versions?
Are they going to get raptured? You know, there's five wives.
Who were they? Which one are you?
Are you, are you a wise one or are you a foolish?
1 today, this morning, do not live your eternal destiny under
a question mark and go, oh, I think I'm, I think I'm right.
Instead, be sure, don't play with fire.
Don't delay. If you reject Jesus now I want
to ask you, will you be able to commit to Christ in the
tribulation period, not to take the mark enough to die for
Christ because of your faith in him?
Don't wait to find out. Don't live a life that puts your
eternal destiny on thin ice with fingers crossed with your
relationship with God now. Too many people are doing that
now, but there's more yet to come.
First 12 as we finish. I looked when he opened the 6th
seal. Behold, there was a great
earthquake. Not just an earthquake, a great
earthquake. And the sun became black as
sackcloth of hair. And the moon like blood.
And the stars of heaven fell to the earth.
As fig tree drops its late figs when it's shaken by a mighty
wind. The sky receded as a scroll when
it was rolled up. Every mountain and every island
was moved. Think of that, Every mountain
and every island shaken. This is an earthquake.
And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the
commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man,
hid themselves in The Cave and in the rocks of the mountains,
and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us, and hide us
from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath
of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come.
Who is able to stand this earthquake?
Isaiah prophesied. It says the world, the whole
earth will stumble and wobble like a drunken man.
Isaiah 2420 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunken man.
Can you imagine the the, the sea, the tsunamis, the tidal
waves, every man, every island? Can you imagine the damage?
And why does God put this at this place?
Because you see, when an earthquake hits, when a tsunami
comes, when a tidal wave sweeps over, where do you go for
safety? There's nowhere.
There's nowhere you want to stay here because it says every
mountain and every island. And plus, we read before
asteroids falling down the ground.
You can't, can't outrun. Now think this is horrific?
No, this is the future judgement of a world that's rejected Jesus
Christ who suffered and died on a cross and said for God so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but shall have ever
lasted the life. We're not going to have the
worship team come up because of my time.
I'm going to close with this. Are you on the run like John?
You're running from God. You come to church, you're
sitting here. You have a Violet.
You're not reading, you're not praying.
You're living like everybody else.
Your passions are like the rest of the world.
Which path have you chosen? Because when the rapture comes,
it's hard. It's really hard.
You'll die for your faith today. You can make a choice, and
whatever you do, every person in this room, your actions or
inactions, will be a choice to know Christ, to serve Him, to
surrender to Him, or to take a risk.
Will you hear God's voice this morning?
Look at the events, these things that have happened that now
compound. Everything is ready for the
Antichrist. The time God says he hasn't
taken us yet because willing and that none should perish.
We're here only because we have a voice and we're to go out into
the world and our message is Jesus has come.
The decision lies with you this morning.
This is not a game. This is all I'll think about
later. The events in the tribulation
period will happen. Jesus said these things that
will fall upon the earth our world has never experienced, and
unless the days of shortened, no one will be saved at the end.