Look this in Acts chapter one verse 9 through 11.
Acts chapter one, verse 9 through 11.
It says Now when he had spoken these things while they watched,
say they watched then then he was taken up, and a cloud
received him out of their sight. And while they look steadfastly
towards heaven, as he went up, behold, 2 men stood by them in
white apparel, who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand
gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus who was taken
up, say taken up from you into heaven will so come in like
manner as you saw him go into heaven.
Well, in like manner means if he is being caught up into the
clouds and we can see it, then he's going to return in what
like manner. All right.
So again, most of us have been raised in the church where a lot
of times we, you know, saw things where when the catching
away, the church is like everyone disappears immediately.
Nobody knows what's going on, but it says Jesus will come in
like manner. So this is going to be a global
phenomenon. Now, the other morning, Sunday
morning when I went out to pray, I was going out and I think it
was Sunday. Honestly, all my days kind of
run together. There was a morning, let's put
it that way. It may not have been Sunday, but
it was a morning. I went to pray.
And as I stepped out to head towards the beach, I looked up
and I'm like, wow, that can't be a plane.
That's way too much smoke. And so I realized as I saw off
to the distance we're coming, I said, they must have launched a
rocket. And so as I'm, you know,
praying, I'm watching this rocket continue to go in a sin.
And I'm I can see it go up. Now I can't tell what kind of
rocket is. All I can see is all the smoke.
And then as it gets further out, I see even more of, you know,
it's power that's pushing it towards orbit.
But I can witness it and see it. Well, you know, Jesus is going
to be seen and you and, and again, it launched from Cape
Canaveral. It finally got to an elevation
where from Palm Coast where I'm at, I could see it and I'm sure
people further South could see it, you know, just as I was
further north could see it. And so when Jesus returns, it's
going to be pretty amazing event that occurs.
All right, look what it says here in Mark chapter 13 verses
26 to 27. It says then they will see the
Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory, and then
he will send forth the angels and we'll gather together his
elect towards the four winds from the furthest end of the
earth to the furthest end of heaven.
You would think with as much teaching out there, we have
gotten far enough to where people would no longer, you
know, run around and say all rapture is not in the Bible, so
it's not going to occur, but the catching away is.
The word rapture obviously just comes from a translation of the
Bible. That was what was that a Latin
translation? It was a Latin translation that
they used a particular word. And that's where the word
rapture comes from. But the reality is the catching
away or the gathering of the Saints is in Scripture.
So the concept is there or you understand what I'm saying.
And that's important because again, there's sometimes in the
Bible or in the church where we can develop some traditions
around words that those words are not in the Bible.
But you have to determine then by definition of that word is
the concept there Because we may be can statements with words
that have a definition that the concepts actually not there,
which means now we have a tradition because if the words
not there, you have to find the concept there.
Because when the words there, you the work and define itself,
right? It's there.
You can define itself. But if it's not there and we're
using a word that we can find nowhere in Scripture, then we
have to say, well, is the concept there?
Because if the concepts not there then you have to really
quit using the word are you hearing me?
OK so with that being said, we see here Mark is letting us know
Jesus coming back in the clouds. Are you hearing me?
OK so we also know that Jesus said concerning the return and I
didn't pull the scripture up. I honestly I should have.
But Jesus said that when he returns this day, no one will
know the day or the hour period. OK, Jesus says this.
Only my Father in heaven knows this.
OK, Now there's a lot of teaching out there, OK,
concerning the return of Jesus, and we should know this.
Now I'm going to tell you why we should actually be knowledgeable
about the return of Christ. Let's look at the New Testament
by itself and the authors of the New Testament.
Matthew wrote his book, Mark wrote his book, Luke wrote his
book and the book of Acts. OK, then we get into Paul.
Paul wrote over half or over a third, almost half of the New
Testament. I mean, you're getting into
Romans, you're getting into First Second Corinthians, the
Timothy's books, Titus's book, Philemon, Hebrew.
We don't know that particular author, though many people do
believe it's Paul. Some, you know, believe it's
Paul, OK, although he doesn't expressly write say that, but
Paul is a writer of the New Testament.
We know that James wrote his book.
We know Peter wrote his 2 letters.
OK, John wrote his letter and the other 3 letters plus
Revelations. So this is the authors.
And then you have Jude. Jude wrote his.
So that's, I think 8 authors, writers of the New Testament of
which everyone mentions end times.
Everyone of them, not one of them excluded a conversation
concerning the end times. Now, Paul did not write about
end times in every one of his letters, but he was well versed
on the subject in many, in many letters.
He has different insight. He gives Timothy some things.
He obviously lets Titus know some things.
He lets the Corinthian church know.
There are concept things. He communicated very clear.
I mean, John himself, I mean, he writes a whole book dedicated to
this deal because God gives him the revelation of everything
that's going to come to pass at the very end.
I mean, at the end of the end, new heaven, new earth, all that,
that's pretty amazing. But all but I'm going to be
using all of these writers tonight to show because in this
day when we like don't know the day or the hour, there's two
ways you can look at it. One, you can say, well, I don't
care, I don't care. You can't.
You can't know the day or the hour.
So I don't really care. Well, every author was thinking
and had a readiness for something coming.
So I don't think it's, I don't think it's wise for us as
believers to take this attitude that I don't need to know it'll
take care of itself. Well, the writers of the New
Testament found it very important by the Holy Ghost in
the beginnings where we are now basically, you know, 2 almost
2000 years removed from the majority of these writings.
And yet at the beginning they're talking about what we, you and I
could very well be in our generation seeing.
Amen. And if they were excited and
thinking it could happen in theirs, how much more in ours?
I said how much more in ours. OK, so let me give you a few
more things. First Thessalonians 413 and 8
again Paul writing he says I do not want you to be ignorant
brethren concerning those things, those who have fallen
asleep lest you lest you sorrow as others who have no hope so he
don't want us to be ignorant concerning some things he said
that if we believe that Jesus died.
OK I'm in First Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 13 through 18
and rose again. Even so, God will bring with him
those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the
word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the
coming of the Lord will by by no means proceed those who are
asleep. For the Lord Himself will
descend from heaven with the shout.
Come on, say a shout with the voice of an Archangel and with
the trumpet of God, And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then all who are alive come on. All who are alive and remain
shall be. What?
Caught up Say caught up, called up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord. Where in the air didn't say in
heaven, although it technically is heaven, the 1st heaven.
Now I'm not saying we won't go on up to the 3rd heaven from
there, I'm just saying we're going to be called up in the air
with Him. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
OK. And then it says, thus we shall
always be with the Lord. That means when the Lord is with
us during that time frame, when the Lord then comes back and
puts His foot down on the Mount of Olives, guess who will be
with him? We will.
And when He reigns on the earth for 1000 years, guess who's
going to be with Him? We will.
Why? Because He said we'll always be
with the Lord. That means we are not going to
be in heaven while He's down here doing 1000 year project.
So when you're caught up, it's your, it's not your last
experience or time or visitation with planet earth.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Amen. So he says we're going to be
caught up, Amen. Now again, Jesus says you don't
know the day or the hour when this particular event, but there
are signs that lead up to this particular thing.
Let's go on to finish this passage.
Therefore, verse 18, comfort one another with these words.
Now notice Paul says you need to comfort one another, which tells
us because of things that again, all the writers of the New
Testament and we're not even mentioning the old covenant
writers of things they saw in our time frame.
I'm just dealing, staying right here tonight in the new covenant
with new covenant riders, OK? Those that are in the New
Testament, all right, these individuals are saying, listen,
they recognize there's going to be things going on that you need
to comfort one another with these words.
In essence, we need to keep ourselves stirred up.
Jesus is coming. The King is coming.
I mean, we need to always be
ready. Like, I mean, my life that I'm
living is in such a way, I'm ready.
I said I'm ready, I'm ready. OK, First Corinthians 11 or 15
versus 51 to 58 says this. It says, behold, I tell you a
mystery. We shall not all sleep.
That gets me jacked right there. That statement gets me so
excited, 'cause somebody on planet Earth, it does not have
to sleep. Oh, man, that just gets me so
excited. I'm telling you, I mean, if if I
never have to purchase a plot of land so that I can put this
marble marker that has my name on it, that's going to throw me
down in this grave. I am so jacked.
I mean, I almost want to buy faith by one, put a marker and
says I never made it to the grave because I was changed in
the moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
I mean, I would love to do that. I'm not doing that, but I would
love to do that. Wouldn't that be amazing?
Like this guy never believed he would die.
Well, somebody is going to be changed.
All right, So not all sleep, but we shall be.
What changed now? What's it say here?
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, again, the word is we're
changed. This is where we transform or we
receive our glorified body. Notice it does not say we are
called up out in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye.
It doesn't say that it says we are changed in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, of an eye. But when are we at the last
trumpet? For the trumpet will sound, and
the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
again changed. Now I don't have time to go
through all this, but we've done this at a different time, when
we've ministered on end times. Is that Jesus in his first
resurrection when he led captivity captive or pulled
every body out of paradise? Because now they're going to go
up to the 3rd heaven where he is, where he's going to ascend,
and he's going to sit at the right hand of the Father and be
given the name that's above every name.
They walk through the streets of Jerusalem and they saw their
loved ones and they testified concerning the resurrection of
Jesus, which means the first resurrection when Jesus came up
on the third day and brought those out, they actually went
around and witnessed to their family members, though they have
been dead for quite some time. And if that's in that
resurrection, it can very well be that in this moment when
we're changed because people say what's going to happen with
planes or what's going to happen here, well, you know what the
Lord says we'll be changed. That pilot could be looking at
the other pilot and it could be one of those situations where
one goes and the other one stays.
And he says, listen, sometime here, in just a minute, I'm out.
You got this. But let me tell you something.
You need to make Jesus the Lord of your life.
I mean, some of the greatest witnessing, I guarantee you, is
going to happen when we're in the glorified body before we go
Hallelujah. It's going to become an
unmistakable moment, unmistakable moment.
And I can tell you why I believe that, because I think the
Scripture puts things in play based upon what's going on in
the earth. Because God is extremely
merciful, because He wants man to repent.
Amen. So it said, for this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality. Hallelujah.
All right, then it goes on to say, So when this corruptible
has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that
is written. Death is swallowed up in
victory. Oh, death, where is your sting?
Oh Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and
the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives
us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be what steadfast, immovable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your
labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Again, here's Paul along with the other statement says comfort
each other with these words. This is where we're like listen,
keep it, keep going, come on Ellie, keep going, keep
pressing, keep moving forward. Jesus is coming, man Jesus is
coming, Jesus is coming. We need to stay passionate about
the purpose God has for our lives and with great
expectation, knowing you know what I believe that I'm changed.
Now I have faith. Faith is a firm persuasion.
Faith only can be attached to something that you know, that
you know. And the Bible tells us that
there is a generation that will be on the planet that when the
shout comes and the trumpet sounds, they will be changed.
So if it's in my lifetime, I then know that I know I will be
changed and I have a firm persuade I'm going to be
changed. I don't go through life saying,
well, if he comes, he comes. I don't live that.
I'm like, I'm, I'm going to be changed.
I'm going to be changed. I'm going to be changed.
Why?
Because faith is what activates things with God.
Once again, what we have done in this time frame is we've put
ourselves in this position where we act like no face required to
be caught, yet to be born again. Faith's required to be healed.
Faith's required to prosper. Faith is required.
Now can God pour out blessings that you didn't have faith in
and and give you exceedingly abundantly beyond what you think
or imagine? Yet God has given us tons of
things to let us know that we should have a confident
expectation. So really, even if the Lord
comes back in 500 years and I'm not on the planet, he'll never
be on. He would never be able to look
at me and say it's a good thing you died and I didn't come
because you weren't believing that you'd be changed.
I'm like, when I was alive, I was in faith.
I'll be changed because I am living the life you gave me,
that you paid for me, that you put in me.
I yield myself to your Lordship. I am in your will, doing your
purpose. I never turned back.
I didn't take my hands off the plow.
I did not shrink back. I stayed passionate.
I kept remaining. I endured till the end.
I kept the faith. Hallelujah.
So you blow the trumpet. I am changed.
Isn't that awesome? I said I'm changed, glory to
God, do you believe you're changed?
I said, do you believe you're changed?
So you know what? I'm steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord.
As Paul, you know, said, to die is gain, right?
But if I'm going to go on, it's going to be fruitful labor.
It's going to be fruitful labor. And so it's fruitful labor until
I'm changed because I believe I'll be changed.
I believe I very well can be that generation that has changed
that will not sleep. And if they're not going to
sleep, then I'll be changed. And until I'm changed, I'm
working. I'm doing my purpose here, all
the while having an ear to hear for when that trumpet hits.
God's going to change me. Glory to God, is God going to
change you? James 57 says this.
Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord.
The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil,
being patient about it until he gets the early and late rains.
Are you hearing me? So again, God knows what harvest
has to take place. He knows what's been planted and
what needs to come to a mature fruit.
Now, in one sense, this particular Scripture, although
just about everybody, you know, sees a context of where this is
harvest, and they see this as the harvest of the lost to be
saved. OK, All right, I'm not going to
argue with that. But what I will say for sure is
that on the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost was poured
out and the Church age began, it was an early rain.
The latter rain is for the maturing of the crop.
So again, the outpouring is not for the lost, it's for the
church. OK, I'm going to say it again.
The outpouring came in a room of people who had been with Jesus
and was on assignment. Now, apparently we can't prove
this, but you could very well speculate.
Jesus personally appeared. The Bible says before 500
people, 120 of them were in the upper room praying, which means
four, 380. And there's no indication the
380 were in the crowd that heard what they heard when the Spirit
fell. They may not even been around.
They could have missed out on it entirely.
We don't know. But we do know that 120 was
there and that 120 may very well have experienced what we know
God did with the disciples when He walked through the wall in
His glorified body and He came up on him and He said, receive
the Holy Spirit and He breathed on them and they received the
Holy Spirit and they were born again.
He could have very well have done that to the other that He
visited. Scripture doesn't say it, but it
also doesn't say He did not, that they were the soul only
once. So if He replicated that, then
all those that were in the room, we could say we're born again
because they had already received the Holy Spirit, of
which Peter, they had to be because you can't have the Holy
Ghost without being changed in your spirit.
And all of them were baptized in the Holy Ghost.
This is why I'm, I'm, I'm saying this because the Spirit could
not have fallen on a bunch of lost people who could not have
received the Holy Spirit, but they all received it and spoke
in other tongues of which then Peter comes out and tells them
they need to repent so they could receive it.
Why? Because you need to be born
again in order to experience this aspect of the Holy Ghost.
So This is why it's highly plausible that Jesus breathed on
maybe all 500. He literally saw or witnessed
that that was the startup for this outpouring of which only
120 showed up to the meeting and assembled.
Oh yeah. That that that is speak to you.
So there's a ladder rain coming now.
You don't want to hear about a ladder rain and then not
assemble and be there when it hits.
OK. Cuz again, if the 380 is not
even there and this 3000 comes in, that means the 3000 came in
and the three 300. What if they never got it?
What if they turned away? It doesn't say.
I'm just saying you just want to show up and be personally
present because they had already heard from the Lord.
Get here and do this. All right.
So day of Pentecost, obviously it's a feast.
People are showing up anyway, and the power of God falls out.
It's the early rain. Well, there's a latter rain.
So again, Jesus the Lord is patient because we know that
He's coming back for the church without spot or wrinkle.
So there is an additional outpouring that is really first
for the church that then would overflow into the world.
And that is a true statement. I do believe that that harvest
of soul is going to go from 1:00 now into the tribulation because
we know people are going to come to Christ even in the
tribulation. There's just going to be a lot
of people being martyred in the tribulation a lot, OK.
And so I think there's going to be this carry through that
definitely comes through from when the church is taken up.
And then there's going to be a slew of people who are going to
give their lives to the Lord, but but are going to at that
point go through the tribulation time frame.
So God's patient, cause don't just think he's patient for the
loss to be saved, He's patient for the church to mature, for
the church to rise up and be all that he ordained it to be, where
we're jointed and fitted together.
We're walking in unity where we are saying the word is Lord in
my life and I will submit to it, period.
And that will be an expression of who I am and I'm connected
with the local group that God has assigned me that then has
aspects with the global church. And I like how one author said
the universal church is those who've already preceded us and
are in heaven because they're in the church as well.
Hallelujah. So look at second Peter chapter
3, starting in verse one. Second Peter chapter 3 verse one
says, Beloved, I now write to you the second epistle in both
which to stir you your pure minds by way of reminder that
you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the
holy prophets and of the and of the commandments of us and the
apostles of the Lord and Savior. Knowing this first, that
scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their
own lust and saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
For since the Father's fell asleep, all things continue as
they were from the beginning of creation.
For this they willfully forget that by the Word of God the
heavens were were of old, and the earth standing out of water,
and in the water by which the world that then existed
perished, being flooded with water.
But the heavens and the earth, which are now preserved by the
same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and
perdition of the of ungodly men. But behold, do not forget this
one thing. Come on, do not forget this one
thing, that with the Lord one day is as 1000 years, and 1000
years is as one day. The Lord is not slack.
I said. He's not slack concerning His
promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering
towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should come. What to repentance.
So we do know according to this that God wants all to come to
repentance. So God wants a harvest to occur
before He catches the church away.
And every generation should be ready for a catching away.
Yet some generations really are going to be in the moment
because of all of the signs and the prophecies being fulfilled
that it's like man. And honestly, with all that are
being fulfilled now, it's hard to not believe you're in it.
Now here's the thing that I want to caution you.
This is why I say you need to be ready.
Like, whoa, I'm doing the will of God.
I'm remaining, I'm steadfast, I'm immovable.
I, I submit to the word. I keep my heart right with God.
You know, I crucify my flesh man.
I walk in this thing again, these are not your works.
You love to do it because your nature's been changed.
Your nature wants to do this. You're not trying to prove to
God. God has given you the nature so
that this is a easy walk for you.
If you're not rebellious from the new nature, you are.
You don't want to have Adam symptoms because Adam was more
perfected than us and fell. So we want to be passionate
towards moving and then full of faith that when that trumpet
sounds and we know it will sound, I will be changed in the
moment, in the twinkling of an eye and I will never come off
that. Because this scripture is very
clear that in the days and why will scoffers come?
There's going to come a day where it increases.
Why? Because the climate of his
return and the prophecies are being fulfilled at such a
measure that it's really easy to say this is like anytime.
And honestly, because you comfort yourself, you're kind of
always saying, you know, Jesus could come today, man, Jesus
could come. Jesus could come now.
I don't know the day or the hour, but he could come.
Now. With that being said, let's just
take a couple of thoughts, OK? And I'm going to be
hypothetical, all right? I'm just giving examples.
So you're not taking my words as if this is my personal belief
being hypothetical based upon people's thoughts.
When we say we don't know the day or the hour, well, we don't
know the day or the hour, but we may know something.
You know, I know something I don't know whether it's this or
this, but it's something that still leaves you where you don't
know, but it's probable you're still not knowing.
However, it could be 1 of this. Don't know the day, don't know
the hour, It could be this day, it could be that day.
Again, you can mention dates and still be not knowing.
Now I say that because some scholars believe that
potentially the catch in a way can actually be on Pentecost,
that because Jesus fulfilled Pentecost, you know, this the
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which created the church
age, that then it would end on Pentecost because it's the catch
in a way. Now that's what some people
believe. Now Pentecost you can pin that
day every year. Now at the end of the day, you
said, well, we don't know the day.
Well, you understand, you don't know if it's that year or the
next year or the next year or the next year or the next year.
Anyway, if it's true now, let me just say this then let me give
the other one. There's the Feast of Trumpets.
The Feast of Trumpets, which is what we're in now, which was
yesterday or today. And a lot of people based upon
all the signs, we're saying we either going to go yesterday or
today. Now, today's not technically
over for us, but it is over for Israel.
And again, God's not working with the US, just to let you
know, this is not US time. That's not on our time saying,
well, you know, let me make sure the US is OK when I come, OK.
It's a global issue and it has to do with the nation of Israel
specifically. Now with that being said, that
particular feast because it hasn't been fulfilled becomes
really a big a strong argument for a lot of people because
God's a God of order and he is fulfilling things to the T Jesus
is the only one who has fulfilled prophecies with every
T cross and every dot, every I dotted.
So it's not it's not heresy for someone to speculate according
to the design in Scripture that it is highly probable that he
could return during the Feast of trumpets that could happen, of
which there are two days within it that they would again,
according to tradition, it's the gathering of the, you know,
crops. It's that the last harvest, it's
gathering together. We're stopping when they blow
the trumpet, everything's in stop.
Everybody come together, right? We're going to do this
particular feast. Everybody come out of the field,
the harvest is done and now we're scattered together and
we're going to recognize God. And I'm not going into all the
details that you can't go into because that's not the intent of
this teaching. But what would happen is in
order for them to know when that that is, is there were two
specific days and it's when the moon was at a very specific
point that they didn't know the day or the hour that the moon
would actually hit that very specific spot that then they
would blow the trumpet. So again, that scriptural, they
don't know the day or the hour, even though they know two days.
So again, if it's not the first day, then guess what, You got to
kind of conclude it's going to be the next day.
But in the next day you still don't know the hour.
So it's interesting that he says you don't know the day or the
hour because again, if you don't know the day, who cares about
the hour? Yeah, it's true.
I mean, This is why I'm ministering this tonight, guys,
because most church bodies don't want to know.
Most people don't want to know. And because of ignorance, they
will say stuff about people who want to know and are hungry to
know. OK, now let me give you what I
consider the obvious. And this is the obvious.
I was talking with Marty Blackweller about this time when
I saw him earlier this month in September.
And we were, you know, talking about this.
And he says, you know, somebody's going to get it
right. At the end of the day,
somebody's going to guess it. I mean, you understand somebody
on planet earth could be saying today's that day and it could
happen. Now let me just say what's when
a person is is like bent in their mind, I'm going to know
now we already know you're already barking the wrong tree
because the Bible says you will not know the day or the hour.
Jesus doesn't even know only the Father.
That's right. So the fact that you want to get
on YouTube and be the one to declare not from a whole
perspective, but from AI know that I know it is this.
What are you? What's your expectation?
Is your expectation that you're caught up because you're right
and that Jesus, when he meets you in the air is going to be
like Melvin. Wow, bro, I I'm so excited to
see you and me, right. You know, I didn't even know you
knew. Oh, my.
Hey, everybody, come here. Gather it.
Look, Melvin, did you see his YouTube?
He picked it. My gosh, man, he picked it.
There's a special crown for you. I mean, what is the reward?
To try to be that prophet, that person that is putting
themselves out to say it is here, it is here, it is here.
I just want you to know that I now that's selfish ambition.
And if you have that, then guess what?
You're not going to hear the Spirit of God, but you will hear
other spirits because we're selfish.
Ambition exists, every work of evil, which means the things
you're hearing really are coming from a different source.
And even that source knows there's a day because is isn't
it from that source that said to Jesus, have you come to
tomorrow? Torment us before the time?
Now, they don't know the day or the hour of the catching away,
but they know there's a time and there's a time that they're
going to be dealt with and thrown and cast into a lake of
fire. They know that.
So again, what is the purpose for a believer to be so dogmatic
in trying to make that presentation?
But here's the problem. We are going to come and we are
in right now such an age of such prophecies being fulfilled and
things happening in Israel, that things are happening every day.
It's like, as one in Time Scholar says, God gives us these
signs so that you know where the end is.
You see it. And again, why do we have it?
Not because we want to escape, but we want to run harder
towards the finish line, meaning we want to finish our race.
We're not here to coast. We're not here to take a break
and get back in the race later because you're not getting back
in the race people, you better keep moving and you want to
bring more people in with you as you go, OK.
You want to continue to mature and draw on the spirit and all
those things. That's why we see them.
Just like Rick Renner says in his teachings concerning in
time. He says signs are like when you
go on the Interstate. You know, again, I'm let me pick
on a few of y'all, some of y'all watch not the signs of what exit
to get off of for the purpose of where you're going.
You look at billboards for the purpose of finding when the next
Bucky's is, just say Amen anyway, Say Amen.
OK. And so you're like, oh, the next
Bucky is 250 and you're looking for the sign, right?
We're and again, why are they there?
To let us know where we're going?
So again, signs are not here to confuse us.
So we know according to Scripture, scoffers are coming,
which are the law saying, see, didn't y'all say this was going
to happen in 1988? Then you say it was going to
happen in 89. Now didn't somebody say it was
going to happen in 2025? Now somebody say in 2026,
somebody say in 2028, someone say in 20-30, someone say in
20-30. I mean, you can keep going with
jeers, whatever the case may be, and they're going to say this is
not happening. It's not happening.
But let me say there can be another scoffer and that could
be the believer, the believer saying, you know, they said this
year didn't happen because again, you don't study.
And then you're like, man, you can't know.
And I don't know why people do that.
And we should just leave this stuff alone.
Revelations is so confusing. And then we had this idea.
Well, because I asked Jesus, I'm good anyway.
Yet we don't technically live for him now.
I'm not here to throw a thought in your mind.
I will preach a thought in your mind.
But my point is we are net. We were never.
If all of the writers of the New Testament spoke about the day of
the Lord coming and the catching away of the church, then it
should be very important for us to know it as well.
We should not be casual or have a arm and say, well, I don't
really deal with that. I don't really study that.
You should study. The Bible says study, it doesn't
mean study the things you like alone.
You need to study things that will help bring people into the
Kingdom of God. And one thing that will help
people into the Kingdom of God is understanding how the end
times function. Because it's really not
complicated. It's really not.
So if you don't watch out, you could be like, well, let it just
take care of itself. I don't, you know, I don't
really care about that. You understand, you're being a
little Scottish at this event. That's a real big deal.
And God wants us to comfort one another concerning this because
again, if you blow me off about it, you're not comforting me.
I mean, really comfort would be, you know, me and Bob coming
together and say, look, didn't happen like they thought, but
that's OK. Why could we know he's coming?
You know, and I understand people want to get out there and
get their names, but we don't care because we're known by
Jesus. And I just want to comfort you.
He's coming, man. He's coming.
You know, and if Kenny you're like, wow, I really was hoping
you all this stuff. I understand we're all hoping
for that day, but until he comes, until the trumpet hits,
I'm ready, I'm moving, I'm pressing, I'm excited, I'm
expecting, I'm not scoffing, I'm not blowing it off.
You know, I got another year to study to get a little more
fine-tuned. And it's not fine-tuned to know
the day or the hour cuz I can't get that.
But it is fine-tuned to know the signs, the times, the season, to
know it's ready and always be ready and then let people know,
man, you better get it together because Jesus is more upon us
today than ever. Well, they've been saying that
forever. No, it's different.
It's not the same. I mean, if you look at the
signs, it's not the same. It was not the same when 1948
when Israel became a nation again.
And based upon that prophecy, that generation will not die
out. And if a generation is 80 to 120
years, that's 2068 is 120 years. I can live that long.
I would be 98 years old. I'm like, come on.
They have plans to build the Third Temple right now ready to
go. They have had, they have done a
red heifer sacrifice hadn't done this.
They have had Israelites on the Temple Mount dancing and
singing. This has not happened for 1000
years. This is like super exciting
stuff. This stuff hasn't happened like
this. So it's not the same.
So we should be like, yeah. So again, people been saying,
well, there are going to be people out there that want to be
known and they expect Jesus is going to say, my gosh, man, I
didn't even know you're, you're smarter than I am.
I mean, I don't understand that logic, right.
The point though, is we need to be ready.
Am I ready to go if it literally comes on a feast of trumpet,
man, I'm listening. Ready go because I don't know
the day or hour. Is it this?
I mean, I don't know, but it could.
But I do know this, when a trumpet blows, I'll change that.
I know. So again, I don't know whether
it was yesterday or today, I don't know.
But if it is, I'm ready. I'm not saying it is, but if it
is that a fulfillment of the Feast of trumpet, I'll be ready
on the Feast of trumpet. But I don't wait till a feast of
trumpet to always be ready. Because how many people do you
know through your career as a believer that started out
passionate, love God, saw him in church all the time, serving,
had a smile, Their marriage was great.
You know, their family was great there.
And then all of a sudden something happened, an offense,
an issue, something took place. They started to backslide.
They got out. Now they're not even in the
church. They're not even following God.
Come on. So do you think you're going to
live successful for God just because you're going to wait
around to the feast of Trump and say I'll be ready on those two
days. If you start backsliding for the
other 363 days or 64 if it's a leap year, then you might not be
listening and be in a state of ready for those two days.
All right, y'all doing OK All right, I'm almost done.
We're going on Jude 114 to 20 says this.
It was also about these men that Enoch and the 7th generation
from Adam prophesied saying this is amazing.
You understand the the God wants the world to know what I started
in the garden is coming back. I mean, he's been saying this
for generations and in no time should we blow it off.
And the only reason you would blow it off is because you want
to stay ignorant about it. I'm not blowing it off.
I'm studying. I want to know about, I want to
know the size. I want to say, oh, this could be
it. Wow, that could be it, man.
They're doing that now. Woo, this is awesome.
That just keeps me pumped up, excited because I'm like, you
know, if you want to get it and, and act like you know exactly
the day, well, that's on you. That's your problem.
Me, I don't know the day or the hour.
I know there are certain things that could play out and I'm
fully expecting not only on those days but also on other
days as well, because it will not catch me as a thief in the
night. It's not going to catch me.
But it would catch people who, well, you know, they said last
year it was. Well, they said, I mean,
sometimes people like, there's too many people lost.
OK, we'll talk about that. Let's go on.
He says, behold, the Lord came with no, OK, let me go back and
read it again. It was also from these men that
Enoch in the 7th generation from Adam prophesied saying, Behold
the Lord came with a with a many thousands of his holy ones to
execute judgment upon all and to convict all the ungodly of all
their ungodly deeds which they have done in their ungodly ways
and all and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners
have spoken against him. A lot of ungodly going on there.
These are are grumblers fault finders.
Now these are this list is not what you think.
I mean, I like how these are grumblers and and and and those
who find fault. We're not talking about
murderers, although they're going to be on the list.
Don't get me wrong. You know they're they're part of
the list, but this is pretty interesting following after
their own lust. They speak arrogantly flattering
people for the sake of gaining an advantage.
But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were
spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus
Christ, while we're always remembering what they've said
and they're talking about a day coming and keep you that in
remembrance that they that they were saying to you in the last
time. There will be mockers following
after their own ungodly lust. These are the ones who cause
division, worldly minded, devoid of the spirit.
But you say that's me. But you, beloved, building
yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit, Hallelujah. So again, you know, what if you
if you are convinced at some point, you don't know the day or
the hour, but can it be around the Feast of Trumpet?
If that's what you believe, You know what, every year you can
have that particular expectation.
I don't have a problem with that.
And if that's the case with you, then ultimately, you know, you
keep yourself encouraged by praying in the Holy Ghost,
knowing that there's going to come a time that God's going to
do that, you know, others. It's whenever.
Now, why does God catch away his church in the righteous once?
Because God always delivers the righteous out of their trouble.
They're not destined for wrath. Trials and tribulations are not
the wrath of God. The wrath of God's different.
We're in this world with trials and tribulations.
God, there's already lawlessness happening.
There's already persecution happening.
Do I need to keep reading? Yeah, let's keep reading.
Look at first a Second Thessalonians 2, one through
three, I said. Now, brethren, concerning the
coming of our Lord Jesus and the guy, and our gathering together
to him, we ask you not to be soon, not to be soon shaken in
mine, or troubled either by word by spirit or by word or by
letter, as it is from us, as though the day of Christ had
come. Let no one deceive you by any
means, for the day of the Lord will not come unless the falling
away comes first and the man of sin has revealed the son of
perdition. Now this is a very interesting
thing because and I'm going to read Matthew here in a minute
because it talks about the things that are going on.
But here in in in second Thessalonian Paul again letting
us know that this day doesn't come till there's a falling
away. Now this is what is like a
paradox. There is a lot of the church
that says there's a great revival before the catch and way
of the church. However, Paul says there's a
great falling away. Well, how do you have both say
hey ma'am, OK. Again, if you study Scripture,
when you look at dispensations changing in the Bible, when a
new dispensation starts, an explosion happens, but when it
comes to an end to be replaced by another disposition, A
remnant remains every time, every time.
So there can be this, and some do believe that there's going to
be a remnant that's called up. Now, I'm not giving you
specifics and I'm not telling you that it's this way.
I'm letting you know what a school of thought is.
And it's this way because there is a falling away.
It's called an apostasy. We'll see here in Matthew that
it's tells us that they're the love of many.
Their hearts will wax cold or grow cold and the love word
there is agape love, which these are people who were in the
Kingdom of God with the love of God, but they grow grew cold and
they fell away again. What's it mean if you're
falling? How do you fall away more?
Yeah, that's good, isn't it? I mean, if you're already
falling, how are you falling away more?
Now you can in your mind have a progression.
But again, when you're if you lie to your Mama and daddy and
disobedient, that has sends you to hell for eternity.
Now you can do worse stuff and be turned over to a depraved
mind, a reprobate mind and do even worse stuff.
And you could be demon possessed and all kinds of stuff.
You know, where you've just given yourself over to the
domain of darkness and you're out there.
But both places are still getting the lake of fire.
If with if no repentance would take place.
So again, it's not a falling away from I just dissimated by
my parents to where now I become a demon possessed person.
So falling away has to be with the believer.
It's the believer who falls. So could it be that there is a
great harvest and we see it? Then there's a time frame that
during that part, because of the conditions of the world, we're
reading Matthew 24, that those who have been born again for
quite some time, they don't maintain zeal and there is a
falling away that leaves us with this harvest.
But then there's also a loss that now is a remnant.
And the trumpet comes. I, I don't know, but something
is happening in play on both sides.
We're having a harvest of people coming in, but we're also having
a group that is going out now, falling away.
I'm not telling you and I'm not saying that if they fall away
and they do not, they're not caught up with the caught up in
the air with the Lord that they are never going to go to heaven
because again, it could be they just show their allegiance
during the tribulation. They don't take the mark of the
beast. They're like, I'm here because I
deserve it, not because I knew better.
I had a spirit in me to do something else and I buried it.
I was a wicked and lazy servant, buried who I was.
And now I've been cast into where there's weeping and
gnashing of teeth because there's weeping and gnashing of
teeth within the tribulation period.
OK, so these are things to think on now.
You never had this issue if you just stay passionate with the
God for the Lord. You understand what I'm saying?
You encourage yourself that it's coming.
And why is it that He is saying don't be troubled, don't be
shaken in your mind or be troubled at all?
Why? Because of what Matthew 24 says.
Matthew 24, eight through 14 says this.
But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.
And I didn't read the first part of the list.
That's wars and rumors of wars, pestilence, famines, all kinds
of stuff. Are we seeing that happening?
OK verse 9, look what it says in verse 9.
And these are the beginning of birth pains.
OK verse 9 tells us this. Then they will deliver you to
tribulation, they will kill you, and you will be hated by all
nations That calls of me, which tells me some believers will die
again. We where were their angels?
Where were this? I can't answer those questions.
Some are going to die, and there can be reasons why.
Maybe they miss God, maybe that. I can't answer those.
You're not going to be able to answer those.
But the Bible does tell us believers will be killed.
It's going to happen. I say this, my wife, there's
nowhere that God promises you you won't be martyred.
Now He can promise you from sickness and disease.
He'll promise you protection for your purpose.
But you understand when Paul was done, he said, I have fought the
good fight. I have finished my race.
I've run my I've finished my course.
But how did he die? They killed him.
He was martyred, Peter, the same way.
He said, man, you're walking where you want to, but the day's
coming that they're going to lead you somewhere you don't
want to go. Now, why was he killed?
He didn't have angels. God went, He finished.
Now I'll be honest with you, I much rather go by Martem than by
disease. That's me.
I would much rather go out standing for the Lord and being
taken out because of my faith than being taken out by sickness
and disease. That is a weapon of the enemy
that way. That's just me personally.
Technically I'm just want my number one is I want to be
changed The moment it's tweaking of an eye, you understand that
That's what I want. That's what I know will happen
if the trumpets here and I'm like Lord, I will.
But you understand the life we live is a life that Jesus says
you have to live it even if faced with death.
So every one of us have Martim being a martyr over us because
we are to believe God that we don't love ourselves even unto
death. All right, hopefully that
answers some questions there. Verse 10.
At that time, many will fall away and will betray one another
and hate one another. And then we're seeing this in
the church even now, especially in the US shirt.
We have people that have sang songs, ran ministries, come back
and say, you know what, I've deconstructed my faith.
You know, I don't believe in. And you're like, and they're
opening. You're like, who cares?
Then just get off If you if, if it, if it's nothing, you already
know those people know that. So why are you talking about it?
I mean, who are you saving by telling them God's not real?
They already believe that. So shut up and go see what I'm
saying. It isn't even logical that now
you've got to come out and preach that Jesus didn't write
well. They already believe that, OK,
many false prophets will arise many and will mislead many
because lawlessness is increased.
Most people's what's that word? How many people what how many
people? That's scary word.
So again, there's this paradox the there's all of especially
the US church believes of this huge revival of people coming
into the Kingdom. Like there's going to be just so
many, yet Jesus is saying most their Love's going to grow cold.
Now this is a paradox. So how can we believe that so
many people are coming in, yet Jesus says a lot of them are
falling away just before I come? Now, I'm not saying people
aren't going to be born again. They are and we're rejoicing in
that, you know, and but when we say there's 8.2 billion people
on the planet and we act like there's going to be a majority
that comes in, most Scripture doesn't even support that.
I mean, how many times Jesus says why is the way the gate and
big is the gate that leads to death, but narrow is the way?
How many find the big gate? Many.
How many find the narrow? Now we have to be honest.
So again, you can frame a wrong doctrine or a wrong belief
system. And you know why some people
will fall away? Because they fantasize
something's going to occur that the Bible doesn't even support.
Now, do I believe there's going to be a harvest?
Absolutely. And I get excited every time
someone gets born again or I hear about revivals and things
happening. I'm like, glory to God,
Hallelujah. But I'm not ignorant that others
are going to slide. So when I hear that one left and
this one's not following anymore, that was not.
And it seemed like that's all I hear more so than how many are
being born again. I'm not going to get
discouraged. I'm not going to let my mind get
troubled. I'm not going to say, well, it
looks like nobody. And you know how people do when
people start leaving congregation, like everybody's
leaving, not everyone's leaving. That's right.
But what do we do? We focus on people who leave
instead of people being at it because, and that's why, he
said. You got to comfort yourself.
Now there's going to be a troubling time.
In the end, some issues are going to take place.
However you stay connected, you stay because why?
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Hallelujah. Now again, this is not earning.
I am not preaching earning salvation.
Your salvation is not earned. It is a free gift from God.
You receive it by faith. Everything you receive, Christ
has already completed it. You are doing the work of faith
to walk in it, period. But you're still doing your work
of faith. It is responsibility of the
believer to do their part that God has given us to do.
But then what's it say in verse 14?
And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in the whole
world as a testimony and all the nations will then and then the
end will come, man. And we are hearing King Jesus is
returning the Kingdom of God. We're hearing it in government.
We're hearing it in entertainment, we're hearing it
in business, we're hearing it in families.
We're hearing it in churches, obviously.
We, well, not obviously, but yes, in churches.
We're hearing it in every sector of society, which is the world,
the systems of the world, not only in this nation, but in
other nations. Glory to God, it doesn't say in
every household. It says in every nation has a
testimony, which tells us the nation receives A testimony, but
it doesn't mean that once they receive the testimony, they
heard the testimony, they received it and acted on it.
They'll hear the testimony because God will judge them
based upon what they've heard. They will not stand before him
and say we didn't know. This is why the catching away
the church is going to be pretty spectacular because of the
hardness of people's heart to reject and lawlessness and the
whole agenda of the Kingdom of God.
Jesus is going to come down the clouds, say I am here.
I'm the one you're kicking against.
I'm you see, that's all all those glowing people down there
right now that are in their glory suits.
Just walk through the wall to come talk to you in the next
cubicle and then go around. Just walk through and standing
in the middle of your desk right now.
Now I say that because Jesus walked through a wall.
You know your body's different when it's glorified and you and
translation may be like an automatic deal.
You could pop to other homes potentially.
I don't know. Phillip popped around in his
normal body. I would, I would suspect you're
glorified, be able to get their little little pretty simple.
And you know, telling me how many times you may jump from one
house to the next to make sure you let people know you.
You'll hear what they saying, don't take the mark, repent,
because then we know during the tribulation angels are going to
be preaching this in the air and yet people will hear it and
still reject it. Oh my gosh, that is so amazing.
Why? Because of the hardness of your
heart not to receive Christ right now, to reject Him now,
because of all the miracles, signs and wonders and Christ
living in you. I mean again, how can you as a
born again believer, having the Holy Ghost in you, reject what
He is saying about your situation right now?
How can you harden your heart to do that?
This dangerous ground, extremely dangerous when you begin right
now to harden your heart in the situations you're going through,
but that the Holy Spirit is leading you to victory towards,
but you want to do it your way. That is a hardening of your
heart and you understand you can continue on that course that you
could be among those that fall away.
Somebody's going to be in that category.
I'm not going to be in that category.
I said I'm not going to be in that category.
I am the changed one. I'm changed.
I said I'm changed all right last scripture is this Luke 21
y'all doing all right we doing good Luke 2128 last scripture
says this. Now when these things begin and
they have begun, say they have begun.
When these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your
heads because your redemption draw, draw near.
So I am scriptural that I believe that I'm in the
generation that will be changed in the moment of the twinkling
of an eye. And he didn't come the feast of
trumpets this year. That's fine.
Maybe you'll come tomorrow and say, ah, y'all got your math
wrong. It was really the feats of
trumpets here and that could be true but at the end of the day,
you're not going to know the day you're not going to know the
hour, but are you going to be ready?
Are you going to know I am of a generation and if anybody's
going to be that generation, it might as well be me.
All the signs let me know the birth pains are faster these we
bout to give birth to this thing of the coming of the Lord.
Listen, there is no Mama who has given birth to a child that when
all of a sudden he goes. What is it?
Well, signs come on, signs start showing of growth, you know,
start feeling and then, you know, you know, four months, you
know, and I got this. That ain't it that we don't, we
don't want this now. But when you get closer and, you
know, and then they, you all right, 'cause mama's nose, man.
Now this one, you know, and we we husbands, we know nothing.
We don't know today. We don't know the hour.
I mean, we just know it's coming.
And we're like, is this it? Is this?
Is this it? Oh, let's just sit and I get the
bags. Let's come on, baby.
I got you. Like we can help.
We can't help, you know we can't.
But we trying to console. We trying to comfort.
Come on, baby, I got you. We gonna get you there, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We better go now.
Again, we don't know the day or the hour.
My wife gave birth to Brianna February 28th, 1994.
About 9:50 I think it was, could have been 10:50 but I think it
was 950 and this is all I know. Thank God it was not a leap
year, because if it had been a leap year, Apostle Marci would
have heard this. Hold on, baby.
Hold on. Hold on.
Don't give her. Don't give her no.
Hold on. Hold on.
Give her another epidural. Let's slow this down.
Let's get into 29. Let's go ahead.
Let's have a 29 leap here. Hold on.
But you can do this. You can endure.
Wait, wait, wait. On this thing, Marci would have
been like, no, because when it's time, you're not stopping it,
man. When it's time, you're not
stopping it. You just better be ready when
it's time. He's like, go ahead, let's blow
the trumpet. Here we go.
Hallelujah. So again, I can see we are
beyond the beginning of birth pains.
We are going into another trimester and we are literally
in the last trimester. We literally could be.
We could be in this 32 to 40 week window where it can be
anytime now. So don't be discouraged 'cause
people are trying to be famous and pick stuff in their
ignorance. Just always be ready.