WNS-12 WHAT WILL THE END OF DAYS LOOK LIKE? 25 END OF THE WORLD TRENDS

Let's open our Bibles to Matthew 24. We open Matthew 24 because Jesus thought his second coming was so important that he preached one of his longest sermons on this topic. He is recorded in three of the synoptic gospels in Matthew 24 in Mark 13 in Luke. 21 and then John doesn't record it in his gospel, he writes a whole book about it, okay, the last book of the Bible, so it's a big topic for the gospel writers, the apostles, and the scripture writers, and It is a very important topic for us. in this sense and the reason I want to take you through Matthew 24 tonight as far as we go is

what

we can see in our culture when you start to see Christmas lights on houses, you know that Thanksgiving is very close , TRUE?

Isn't this not Christmas it's near, it's Thanksgiving time because people post it so early? Well, when you see Matthew 24. All around you know that

what

happens just before the second coming is very close, that is the implication of why I am going through this and to help you track I decided, in fact, I spent the entire late cutting and pasting because I thought instead of just bombarding and I actually have dozens of these, I thought I'd trace back with the order in which Christ preached about them and them. I wasn't going to be in groups like I wanted to.

I was going to show you all the global addictions that the Bible talks about. The Bible says that people are going to be addicted to drugs, they're going to be addicted to the occult, they're going to be addicted to sexual immorality, they're going to be addicted to and it just happens for pleasure. Global stress, in fact, the word Greek for stress, you all know dangerous times, that word is literally stress filled times, what does it mean? The

world

right now says we are in stressful times, isn't it surprising that Paul said dangerous times are coming? They're here.

The

world

has never known the amount of stress from heart disease and many other diseases because people are so stressed and compressed and so on, but instead of making them in all those nice groups I thought I would follow the way Christ preached the sermon, so this is what we're seeing, what the world

will

look

like when Jesus returns, that's what he tells us he doesn't give us signs for the rapture he said that's a mystery in fact when it was introduced by the apostle Paul he said it's a mystery is not a Doctrine previously revealed in the Scriptures it is something new that was not understood by the Old Testament writers by the prophets, it is something new, so you are not basically

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ing for the Rapture Doctrine in the Old Testament, but how Do you see the world through the eyes of Christ and the apostles when they see Jesus return?

You can find the elements that are present at that moment and then look through history and find when those elements began to appear and all of a sudden when you do that you see that never before everything that is on the ground and active when Christ never come back before. in history all of that has not only been happening it has been possible for it to happen let me show you what I mean because if we read Christ's messages about his second coming Matthew 24 Mark 13 Luke 21 The Book of Revelation if we read carefully we see a very clear.

In fact, the image is very descriptive, the Lord is with these, another thing, it talks about how many murders are happening, so I'm not going to talk about any of this tonight, uh, basically, they are unique to our time, which What's unique is that 'Not only are they all functioning at the same time, but they are functioning at increasing levels and they are also functioning now, listen globally, they were localized. One of the characteristics of the end of the era is that it is like the

days

of great opulence. Many lived in a time of prosperity in Sodom and Gomorrah, of overconsumption, which was a very consumptive society.

We quickly realized that our culture has basically eroded, what we have done is just stay away from the culture and I always think about what Proverbs says. it says about not removing old landmarks that's why I love history if you look at the church it just keeps its distance from the world it's like saying we're not going to become like them but after 50 years they were like 50 years ago it's just amazing , but what do we see in the end? Another look at the following elements of what it

will

be like when Christ returns. I call them 25

trends

that will be present when Christ returns and that are in full force today.

What have we already covered? In Matthew 24 when Christ returns there are global trips. Look, I remember we went through that, basically everyone traveled the same way until the middle of the 19th century from the time of Solomon from the time of Abraham to the time of Abraham. Lincoln everyone traveled the same way there were no advances in travel until the invention of machinery, specifically steam engines in the industrial revolution, so we covered that when Christ returned secondly we saw that there is a global explosion of knowledge that says that knowledge will increase Daniel 12 4 just like people running around all over the Earth and doing it and they never have and knowledge has never exploded.

I've told you enough times that you should memorize that there is more information in the Sunday paper than you could have bought for a dollar fifty or tomorrow. I think you can get two for a dollar fifty if you want to save money. You know, at Qt's, but if you buy a Sunday newspaper, there will be more information in that Sunday Tulsa World than in the The average 16th and 17th century guy learned in his lifetime and that's just packaging material, it has nothing to do with the Internet , we have it all, we have the totality of all known knowledge in humanity at our fingertips and not just the evil knowledge that is part of the equation thirdly, when Christ returns, there will be global telecommunications and television.

I spent it with you. Revelation 11 9-10 in 17 8 shows us that the whole world watches the events, there are global events in the tribulation, uh, someone dies in a city, everyone knows it. someone is some, the two witnesses are walking around, everyone is looking at them, it says in the Bible looking at them now, that was never possible, it was never possible until our generation, so we saw that when Christ returned, there is a global following and positioning because he is able to identify, hunt down and Track specific individuals of the Antichrist, that was never possible either, I mean, not with 6.2 billion people, maybe it was when there were 250 million and most of them were within the Roman Empire, but even then look, you know, how Paul writes to the fugitives. slave and his master Philemon and says, you know, he couldn't find it, but Paul found it, but nowa

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, especially, and you probably know this, that part of the US government's social welfare work is that There's a group of people I've worked with in Washington DC and New York City who can't get their welfare recipients unless they have a chip implanted, kind of like they do with the criminals you know who like animals and as if you knew that in nature they are tracking whales and everything is fine.

We are tracking people and if they don't go outside their limits they can get their welfare payments and they have all so far agreed to do it right. The last thing we saw in the study is this whole idea of ​​this cashless economy and digital economy remember it's a number that went through everything the last thing we saw when Christ returns is this climate that has gone crazy and that takes us to the chapter 24 because what Jesus says is and in fact I am going to read it with you. We'll read as much as we can, so Jesus, look at verse 1, went out and left the temple.

He had just attacked the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the religious leaders, that's chapter 23 of Matthew, and I mean, you can imagine he's coming out. of that meeting, which was his most strident communication ever recorded in Scripture, I mean, he really gave it to him, but he leaves there and walks away from the temple and his disciples came up to show him the Temple buildings that were impressive, all of them. those who described the Temple of Christ's day still cannot believe how beautiful it was, it was a forest of columns, it was covered with pure white and gold marble that simply reflected the sun.

You put the gold coating on it and it was just amazing. It was blinding on a sunny day, as the Middle East tends to be. Jerusalem was sitting on a hill, that's just why the Romans wanted it, there was so much wealth accumulated there, so they wanted to show them the buildings and Jesus told them to do it. Don't you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone upon another will be left here that will not be thrown down. That was an amazing statement because the largest Stones ever used in the ancient world are still part of that foundation and the rest was also incredible and for them, in their minds, to imagine something so solid that would build on top of Bedrock those 560 ton blocks metrics that today there is no mechanical equipment that can move, okay, we don't have equipment that can move the blocks. touched, we're still not sure how they placed them, in fact we would like it if on our tours people would take out their credit card and they could take their credit card and try to stick it between the blocks of Herod's Temple and you can't get past your credit card between them and they weigh 560 metric tons and they are so close that you can't even put the blade of your knife between them and that's why Jesus said that none of the stones will be standing on top of each other. and of course he wasn't talking about the foundation stones that were underground, he's talking about there being no visible remains of Herod's Temple anywhere, just what he said, not a single visible one left, they're all gone, they're clean and look at the verse. three, then he takes them and they put a quantity of olives, that is why theologically this is called the Olivet Discourse and the disciples approached him privately and said: could you tell us about that comment you made?

We would like a private explanation of those comments. a prophet wanted a prophetic conference tell us when these things will be what will be the sign of your coming and the end of times which is what historically believers have always asked why it is good to even study this this is what Paul was only three weeks on three days of rest in the city of Thessalonica and what did it cover? A complete theology of the Second Coming of Christ, especially his coming for his church, the rapture, so this is not secondary, auxiliary or peripheral, this has always been the heartbeat. of the church's expectation of the imminence of the coming of Christ of his coming not to be ashamed when he came the purpose of this is not for us to walk around and look at our coins and try to see if there is some kind of, you know, a symbol of the Antichrist .

Now it's not our place to search the European news to find out if Solana or anyone else will be the Beast. You know, that is not the purpose of Prophecy, the purpose of Prophecy is to give us a growing awareness that maybe today Jesus Christ will come and do we want to be found living as we are living or do we want to say what kind of people we should be? in all holiness and godliness in our conduct as Peter reminds us, so he had this report and Jesus answered and told them verse 4. Take heed that no one deceive you now here is the first of his descriptions verse 5. here is the first thing that will be present when Jesus Christ returns because many will come in my name saying I am the Christ and they will deceive many now they do not say that I am the Buddha and they do not say that I am the Confucius or that I am the, you know, whatever he said, there would be an increasing number of false groups that would claim to be the Christ or those of Christ or Christians now. think about that here is the first when Christ returns there are many groups of false forms of Christianity stop for a minute and think who is the biggest exporter of false Christianity in the world in America the fastest growing sects that came in as soon as the wall came down who came in and went through the entire former Soviet Union the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses like that, like that, like that, I mean, who has to serve their church for two years, the Mormons and what church supports each of their young people to go out on mission trips and go out and ride their bikes and wear their white shirts and dark pants and impregnate the world with false Christianity, who Mormons, he says, be careful when I come back, there will be many groups of false Christians.

Verse 11 continues. False prophets will arise and deceive many large sects. You can just look at the number of exports we have. I mean, we have smaller ones, Christian Science and Theosophy and other things that we have inflated, but basically the United States is the largest supplier. false forms of Christianity in the world now there are always isolated pockets of false teaching here and there around the planet now we have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week radiating from the Watchtower society and from Salt Lake City and from all the other centers of cult in the literature presses of the world running constantly televised 24 hours a day, I mean, who has some of the most attractive advertisements on television, the fake Christian groups, they are so attractive, I mean, don't youI would like to have a family like the one they have and happiness and you just watch and what? he says it's not that Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism or Mithraism that were present in the days of Christ or the Canaanite fertility cults that we are going to be, are not really permeating the world right now, it is false Christianity Of course, I could talk about the biggest one.

False Christianity in the world and I will do so as we move forward. I shared it with the discovery class and also this week with someone else when I was talking to them that 200,000 times a day it is said that Jesus Christ is in a secret room because after mass the body of Jesus is put in a secret room in every Roman Catholic cathedral in the world and they say that Christ is in that room because simply through the process of the mass they made the body of Christ and crucified him again and the part that is not consumed they take it and put it in a secret room , so two hundred thousand times a day Christ appears in a secret room, wait until we get to verse 26, it is happening all over the world, okay, there will be false teaching groups, numerous cults have arisen in these last days, religious cults .

They are multiplying and at the head of the pack are the false Christian cults, the false Christian prophets, okay, the second thing is fascinating, look at what it says in verse five because many will come in my name saying I am the Christ, I want for you to think about that is a It's an amazing statement for Jesus, I mean, he's sitting next to the Mount of Olives and as he was sitting there he was looking at the buildings in Jerusalem that can still be made and and he's sitting there looking over there and he just says his first line. is that in the future many people will say it is me, that is an amazing statement for Jesus, an itinerant preacher who never traveled outside the small nation of Israel, had the audacity to say that many would come in his name claiming to be the Christ.

However, today around the world I mean we don't pay much attention to it, in America I mean it doesn't make the headlines, but in the New Age movement in the Eastern religions in worship many people say that they are the promised, the Christ and Jesus said that the closer we get to the end, the more deceitful, the more prolific, the more global and the more Christian they will be now, let's wait until we get to Revelation 17. The Bible says at the end. The most powerful form of anti-Christian propaganda will be a woman who presents herself as the Christ on earth, who is appearing more and more all over the planet, the Virgin Mary, who do Muslims accept the Virgin Mary, who calls for global peace?

Now the Virgin Mary appears everywhere, a woman, now we don't know about her, we know from Lazarus that no one who is dead can return, they simply cannot come and go and appear, no one who has died on Earth can do so. that except for those already recorded in the Bible, like the two witnesses, he is like Lazarus, but he had to die again. I mean, it's not allowed to do this whole appearing thing, so we know it's not from God, so any appearance of Mary. In this plan it's not from God, okay, so if it's not from God, you know whose it is because God doesn't ask you to.

Look at verse six. I want to keep reading or we'll never get over this because if you've looked. It's a long chapter Matthew 24 6 and you'll hear about wars and rumors of wars look you're not worried along the way maybe you shouldn't worry you shouldn't make you fear you shouldn't make you hesitant and anxious and and get more safety devices or try and you know , find a place where you can stay away from the flu so sweet last week, you know, I preached last Sunday night on the flu, one of my little friends got the flu the next day, so sweet that was. lying on a cushion on the floor, it was a little bucket I needed and everything else, and he looked at me pale and those eyes went wide, he said, "I'm dying, aren't I?" He had caught the Asian bird flu.

I'm sure of it since Sunday night and I was ready, but you know what I was ready for, he was just telling me what he wanted at his funeral, so listen to the messages, okay, you'll hear about wars and rumors of war . Don't be worried, don't be anxious, don't be stressed, we are supposed to be the most vulnerable in this stress-filled world that is crumbling around us, but the end is not here yet. all these things must happen verse 7. because nation will rise against nation interesting that word Nation against nation is not Russia will rise against India, no, it will fight against an ethnic group now we know what ethnicity is, it is not nationality, it is a smaller subset of an ethnic group, what this says is that throughout the planet.

There will be ethnic wars everywhere if you just look at the last few years, I mean it's everywhere, I mean we have the civil war in Northern Ireland, in the north and in the south we have what is happening. In Morocco, in the sub-Saharan desert, we have what's happening in this heart of Africa, you know, in Rwanda and all that, where there's massive carnage, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people being hacked by rivals. with his crude weapons he is ethnic all over the world and what he is saying is that when Christ returns there will be war all over the world and it is increasing, there is an online site called Project Plowshare and it keeps track of all the wars that occur . and there are always at least 40 wars with major casualties all the time and that's just what they know, they're going to be wars and rumors of war, Jesus said, but when you hear that, don't worry.

They are just the beginning of the pain, but when Christ returns, there will be war throughout the world and it will increase. Remember that the first thing the Antichrist does is bring a false peace. To bring a false peace, there has to be struggle and that is why Jesus says before. This impostor is coming and it is going to intensify and the world is going to say: we want someone to stop all this, we want you to stop the war, we want you to stop this threat under which we live of death at any moment and so when Christ returns The war is all over the world, but do you know what else it says?

This nation against Nation, Kingdom against Kingdom, famines, pestilence, earthquakes, but just that beginning of the verse, uh, Nation against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom, if you're going to fight a war, what? you're going to need you're going to need weapons now that's a global addiction right now to weapons the amount the world is spending on acquiring weapons is a staggering figure it's the largest purchase figure it's more even that energy is more that food It's enormous the amount of money that is spent on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons and it's increasing all the time, you know what it says in Joel, who is tracking Joel the Daily Prophet right here with Uh Matthew. 24 and Joel 3.

I will read it to you verse 9. Proclaim this among the nations, prepare for war, awaken the mighty. This by the way, Joel is describing the tribulation, in fact, the entire theme of the Book of Joel is the day. of the Lord which is the Old Testament code for the time of the tribulation and the return of Christ so Joel is a book of tribulation and Joel 3 is a chapter of tribulation in verse 9 he says in the tribulation it is characterized by this prepare for war awaken the Mighty Men, verse 9, let all men of war draw near, let them draw near, verse 10, turn their plows into swords, in other words, neglect agriculture if you have a poor country, neglect the development of agriculture and spend all their money on buying weapons, and that's it. what we see happening in our world is that they are neglecting and harming their nations because they are arming themselves and they want more and more arms their clippers in Spears verse 10 continues verse 11 they gather and communications gather everywhere so that His Mighty Ones come down there oh Lord let the Nations be awakened to come to the valley of Jehoshaphat because there I will sit to judge them and he goes on and on talking about the climactic battle of Armageddon, it says in Revelation 16 14 the spirits of the demons performing the signs go to the kings of the earth and of the entire world and gather them for the battle of the great day of God almighty now here is the final result never in the history of this planet have Nations stockpiled weapons of Destruction like today everywhere the poorest of the poor are buying weapons, explosives, machinery of death, it is the largest, I mean the global arms trade, and you know, who is the largest supplier of weapons in the world, the same one that is producing the most anti-Christian cults, In the United States we sell more weapons.

Just amazing, when Christ returns, look at verse 7. It also says that not only will this nation be against another nation, but the second half of the verse says that despite all our technological advances, there are millions of people dying of hunger or at the border. of famine, I mean look what's going on and I mean the family of Ethiopia and North Korea, I mean they won't even allow news photos from Korea because there is such absolute famine in Korea and why is there so much famine in North Korea? Are they spending all their money? I've been reading the newspapers.

Atomic weapons. They are building the most elaborate underground bunkers for all their weapons. They are manufacturing their nuclear missiles. But people conservatively think that there are four to six million North Koreans who don't have enough food to eat and who are actually losing body mass due to malnutrition, and we're talking about Korea, many other places or global famines, but what's next it's going to be a lot worse than that because there's such a delicate balance right now, we have a just-in-time America, you know, delivery of everything, we don't stockpile things anymore, we just have it in constant motion to get there and if something upsets the system global energy food it is just amazing how quickly famines can occur and there is so much dependence on irrigation there is so much technology involved in the production and distribution of food today there are entire cities I mean there are cities all over the world that there is no way to that those cities could exist if they didn't exist, I mean, look in the United States.

Los Angeles is a classic example of engineering perfection. Every night around 10 o'clock the trucks start arriving in Los Angeles, we lived there for many years. You go on the five interstates. five of the five call it and you go after 10 o'clock and see what looks like an invasion, I mean it's just wall to wall, five lanes wide of semi trucks coming to resupply the second largest city in America . There is nothing in Los Angeles. to feed all those millions of people, it's all real estate, it's all parking lots, it's all Walmart, you know, they don't have it, they're not growing anything there, they're not really producing it, it's just millions of people waiting for the army of trucks that went through the Grapevine of the past and into the La Basin not only the trucks there is not enough water for those people it does not have to be transported at all it has to be transported there they are buying it in every state where they can buy it and that's just The Angels.

I mean, New York City is no different. Chicago, you can go to Shanghai. I'm in Mexico City every time we've developed these massive groups of millions of people that are in tune. delicate substructure this this infrastructure that is supplying them, you know, in the Tribulation it is not going to work, there will be famines for many reasons, when we get to the Apocalypse, you will see that it is climate changes and all that, but when Christ returns, there will be global famines . Did you know that there were local famines? There have never been global famines. You know why?

Because most people in the ancient world, just as they had in America until about the 1930s, everyone had a small plot of land, everyone grew enough, that's what they still do. In Russia everyone has their Dodges and they have their little farms there and they go out there and they have their garden and their potatoes and if everything falls apart they can dig up their potatoes and their carrots and their turnips. and they can live off of that and make increasingly watery soup and they have a little cow and some chickens and all that, we don't have that, in fact we have a whole generation that grew up and they think that that meat comes from the supermarket, they don't even realize that it was alive and walking and making noises, you know, and they had to kill him.

I mean, it's just incredible that technology has brought our world to the brink of utopia or global famine, it's right on the line. Between the two, as long as the engineers can figure out how to get all those trucks back in time and the water through the pipes, it's all good too. Global pestilence, look at verse seven, not only will there be famines, there will be pestilences and emerging diseases. diseases if you want to read something just read what this just don't go to the crazy sites just read what our government sites say about the progress about the rapid development of new strains that scare them I mean even last week A new understanding of how the animals of Africa,especially chimpanzees and monkeys, are transferring their diseases to human lines and it is simply amazing what they are finding.

Those who work in the jungles are being brought back to the cities of Africa. animals super viruses and says a recent study just said these things, you know they kind of kill people and it just doesn't go any further, but they said if any of these get to population centers and mutate humanely it's Incredible, I mean, we have AIDS, Ebola and hantavirus, you know, all that stuff with mouse droppings and it turns to dust and everything in West Nile and SARS, and you know, a few decades ago, some scientists were predicting. That medicine would soon eradicate deadly diseases and infections and all it has done is make the fittest survive our antibiotics kill the weak organisms and the strong emerge stronger than our antibiotics and you know those who eat meat, read about what is happening around you. hospitals and what scares them, but look at the next one, the last one on the list.

Not only would there be famines and we are preparing the world by moving to cities for that and by having technology and localized farms and pestilences. we are almost incubating them by our overuse of antibiotics and everything else we do, but look at these earthquakes in various places. I am not saying that great earthquakes have anything to do with the coming of Christ. That's not what he says, he says when Christ comes. There are going to be earthquakes and in various places, how could anyone know that this is the key? Until our century, no one, I mean, think about it until the 20th century, news of an earthquake would take days, weeks, months or years to spread, which it would.

Someone was sailing his boat to an island and suddenly asked why there used to be a city here, you know, and it doesn't exist anymore. Oh, an earthquake devastated that city. On that island, it would take someone weeks, months, and years. I once knew that there was an earthquake in some of the remote places. I mean, there was an earthquake a couple of weeks ago in Iran. It's on the front page of the newspaper. It happened during the night. It was on the front page of the newspaper. Cover images to follow them, you get them online.

I'm referring to this idea that most of the world in the Daily News features any significant earthquakes that are occurring in various locations. See Jesus is looking at a world that is Prime for famine Prime for pestilence that is prepared for war and inventing new machinery for War, in fact, Joel, what an interesting book that describes the tribulation, talks about this marching army straight without missing a beat when they hit a wall, they climb the wall, they climb through the windows, whatever you know, it's like an army of locusts. now we're about to have machines, it's gone from the movies to reality Machines Fighting For Us, you know who the main developer is, it's the Israelis, I mean they have all kinds of machines, they have machines that come in and all these bombs that they are being left out there they go in and they check them and they deactivate them or they blow them up they have other machines that go directly to the rooms, you know where all these terrorists and insurgents or whoever they are and now they have machines that can shoot, they have machines That I mean , it's just amazing how Joel's army advances without missing a beat, he can go up the wall and right into the window.

We're not too far from that, especially with nanotechnology, where you can have so much. a small space and having that thing directed to do anything is amazing where we are recovering there is a global awareness of earthquakes look at verse 8 all these are the beginning of Sorrows uh beginning is the word for birth pangs we look at that a ago A few weeks remember what labor pains are, they start light and far apart and get heavy and close and what he said is all these things we just read about famines, pestilences, earthquakes, rising nations, all these things are going to happen.

Start with light and space. and they're going to go and get closer and closer and closer and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger that's one of the signs but then look at the neck that changed course now it's Jesus and by the way, this is all woven into verse 9. and then they will hand you over to tribulation and kill you and you will see this hated by all nations for the sake of my name by all nations how many nations there were in the year 33 or 30 AD. How many nations knew about Israel, remember that they had not. been very good at this missionary thing they hadn't spread the word like they were supposed to.

I mean, do you really think Samoans hated Israelis? Do you think Aboriginal people hated Jews in the first century? Do you think the aborigines? I knew there were Jews, you know, you know what I mean? I'm talking, look and see what Jesus said said all nations and he's not a car salesman or a real estate agent or whoever, he's not exaggerating, that's fine. Not prone to not selling things on The Shopping Channel Jesus always tells the truth and Jesus tells the disciples to the Jewish apostles, so the main interpretation of this is what it meant to the people who heard it, what is the main interpretation of which He was referring to Peter, Andrew, James and John as they sat and listened to Jesus speak.

Jesus was saying that all the nations of the Earth will hate the Jews, they will hate you, they will hate you. Global antisemitism. There have always been pilgrims. There always has been. Holocaust, but the reason the Holocaust was not successful was that the Allies were not interested in it, the whole world was not interested in Exterminating the Jews, only part of the world was interested in that axis, if not You are old enough to know the usage, not the The axis of Evil is something new, the old axis was Italy and Germany and all that against Japan, all that fight that was fueling this extermination, especially Germany, of the Jewish people, so the rise of a global hatred towards the nation of Israel and the Jewish people, who would think there would still be a Jew left, no nation has been as persecuted, as exiled and headed for extermination as the Jews, but yet they remain the focus of eternal hatred.

Did you know that yesterday 70,000 French Jews? The process of returning Aaliyah to Israel began. French Jews now I know that the New York Times said this week that there are 7,000 Russian Jews who left Israel and returned to Moscow because they like it better there and they didn't fly there like they were afraid to fly in Israel, so a million Jews from Russia were to Israel and seven thousand returned, that is understandable, but still all over the world there are growing groups of Jews who are feeling that the whole world hates them and they do it is inexplicable, inexplicable why the world, if you look at the United Nations, every possible vote, the world has gone against Israel, every possible vote, look at the news, when the news reports that something is happening in Israel, always report it with the Jews being the bad guys, there is always a universal contempt, hatred and anti-Semitism that the world seems to be growing and fostering and you are not alone here Joel 3 2 all the nations and bring them to judgment because my people my Heritage have scattered and divided my land God said that in the tribulation there was going to be this Global desire to scatter and destroy and has been with us and is getting stronger says Joel or Zechariah says the same thing in the In the 1940s, Hitler tried to exterminate all the Jews, but in the last three and a half years of the tribulation, the Antichrist almost will be able to do it.

It's amazing, he almost makes it, he gathers and hunts, and it gets to the point where God himself has to intervene and hide them and we'll get to that a little bit later, so there's a global hatred towards the nation of Israel, but you know, look at the end of verse 9. I intentionally did not read the end of the verse. 9 because this really meant hating the Jews and that is all over the prophecy, but Jesus goes on and says that you will be hated by all men throughout the world by all nations. What for my sake are we because we are the logical extension of the Apostles is the gospel Jesus Christ that those Jewish apostles brought and in which we have believed because of the way in which this is a Jewish book written by Jewish authors the covenants were made with the Jews worse even the New Covenant the New Covenant that we celebrate in the Communion that was made for Israel we get some of the benefits, but Jeremiah, that was made with Israel, because we do not receive all the benefits of the New Covenant, many of them are things that we do not We claim, speaking of a land and an inheritance, nothing more. read read the New Covenant in Jeremiah and its reformulation and Hebrews 8 and 9.

We, Jesus at the Last Supper, gave us the spiritual elements of the New Covenant, but this is a very Jewish book and a very Jewish foundation, so we are participating In this for the sake of Christ Jesus said that Christians would be hated because of his name, they will hand you over to tribulation and they will kill you and you will be hated by all nations because of my name, it is not just the Jews, it is also us. Revelation 6 says that the Saints are persecuted and killed Revelation 20 and verse 4 says I saw Thrones and those of Saddam and judgment was committed and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and the word of God and Those are not Jews, those are saints, so another sign is that there will be a global hatred towards Christianity.

Now just think about what's happening. The prohibition of biblical prayer and the Ten Commandments and nativity scenes. Christian songs in general, do you still feel it? The multiculturalism they call is slowly erasing the Judeo-Christian foundation of our society. In the name of multiculturalism, we cannot even publicly declare what is written on our nation's monuments that have as many scriptures and as much presence of God as we can. I don't even recognize it, it's amazing how it's getting around us more Christians were martyred during the last 100 years than in any other period in history and many think that more have died in the last hundred years than from the time of Christ to the XIX century. more I mean, almost um, we commemorate and idolize those early Christian saints who went to the arena.

Today, many more people are dying for Christ than died in the first century and that's what Jesus said: all men would hate you, all you have to do. I mean, weren't you listening at the inauguration? I mean, he was in the car driving during the inauguration. I think he was in Memphis or Nashville while he was on the radio and we were tuning into the stations we wanted because he wanted to. to hear if you would have the audacity to say the name that is above each name the name of what Jesus many of you listening, didn't you scream when that?

I couldn't see it, but I guess he was a black preacher and boy was he. Unashamedly saying the name of Jesus as a child irritated the unbelieving establishment because we are going to be hated by all men. All nations for the name of Jesus. Okay, look at verse 10. It says then many will be offended and betray one another and hate one another and many false prophets will arise and deceive many, many false prophets when Christ returns there are false Bible teachers guess What the Bible says in Second Peter 2 are not just false Bible teachers, they are false Bible teachers who are hungry for what money, when in history has there ever been a phenomenon of false Bible teachers throughout the world? world that are money hungry until our century and that is the largest provider of false religious programming on radio and television than the United States, promising that if you send me money I will heal you if you send me money you will get more money if you send me money you will be healed and they are using the Scriptures and twisting and perverting and teaching false doctrines and making Christ a commodity to be bought and sold and Jesus says that there will be many false prophets that are going to arise and that they are going to deceive many smooth talkers with many followers defiling the Christian faith Peter says false prophets among the people false teachers who will secretly bring in destructive heresies that deny the Lord who bought them, bringing upon themselves rapid destruction and many will follow them and out of greed they will exploit them with deceitful words there have always been false teachers there has never been a global platform for false teachers satellite television and radio Global Crusades with with the craziest of the crazy and the worst false teachers who have the largest crowds and in the name of Jesus Christ crowds boiling Jesus said it would be so and we are just in verse 11.

In verse 12 it says because of anarchy and we are getting to that in America we are getting rid of the 10 Commandments we do not want the law and because of this Anarchy the law eliminated the nature of the end times love of many will grow cold when Christ returns there is so much anarchy that it discharges the spiritual batteries of the Church of Christ. The Revelation speaks of the time to come when love has grown cold and the church is powerless and evil and the cares of the world and the desires for riches are exhausted. the strength that used to be that when the church, I mean, when the missionaries came back from China and said, "wow, China is wide open."wide open", they had thousands of students who went with them to evangelize China, when the news came that Jim Elliott had died, there was a movement in the universities of the United States and hundreds and thousands rose up at the Moody Bible Institutes and in Los Angeles Bible Institute and all those places and they took their place, it was 50 years ago today, well, maybe when I retire I'll be a missionary, but I have to make my career now and this love for the church is cooling, There is no immediate response to the needs that we have, we do not have the freedom that we have mortgaged and time has paid us in such a situation that we both have to work to make the payments and it is not possible for the Lord to move us anywhere without declaring ourselves bankrupt and that's the world we live in.

I think it's part of the anarchy that we're allowed to get so into debt. I mean, I don't want to get into that, so what does it all mean? It means we shouldn't get anxious, but we must look. I stand up and say: if I see the Christmas lights out, Thanksgiving is almost here. Do I want to live as I am living right now when Jesus Christ comes and finds me? Do I want to be that good and faithful servant or not? I want to be the one who sleeps, I want to be the servant who does what the master let me do or I want to be the one who neglected to do what he asked me to do, that's what all the parables of Christ are about in the following. chapter 25 of Matthew you want to be that good and faithful servant who when his master comes finds him doing what he asks him to do exactly what Jesus asked us to do to please him make disciples live a holy life not allow greed to take over our lives to be aware of Idols Idols are things that you sacrifice to God to get we have the idol of pleasure the idol of recreation the idol of sports you know, someone told me don't you dare have a service during that because I won't come it was a sporting event I thought he's an idol for you Jesus said don't let your love grow cold the way the world is going so let's love it as we see more and more let's bow together forward a prayer father I thank you that we see the Christmas lights around us and that is why we know that Thanksgiving is approaching your return at any moment your return for us your church but Lord we do not want to be ashamed before you at your coming that is what your word tells us to sincerely desire to be blameless May you find us doing what you let us do.

I pray that we all begin this week by returning to our appointment with you and your word every day that we don't. neglect and before you in your word say speak to me Lord by your word confirm me sanctify me just stimulate my heart to how you want me to live and how to exhort one another and those around me to love and good works I want to please you in your coming and I pray that The more we look at the newspapers and see what is happening around us, that will make us filled with such overwhelming peace knowing that your coming is near, in your precious name we pray these things and all.

God's people said amen and may God bless you as you go.