What Will Be the Sign of Your Coming — Shane Idleman

The Sign of Jesus’ Coming and Different Eschatological Views

This morning, it's going to be a controversial topic, and I'm going to show you one of the questions I've been struggling with for 23 years. So the title this morning is, What Will Be the Sign of Your Coming?

How many of you follow the End Times preachers? And they talk about this a lot. What is going to be the sign of His coming? Because there are certain signs. And I want to be true to the belief that there are different views on the End Times.

If you get with a certain group of people, let's say Reformed people, their view is a lot different than Baptist people. And it depends on what seminary you went to, Dallas Theological Seminary, the Master Seminary, versus Westminster Theological Seminary, and it's because the End Times is not real clear.

There's a lot of nuances. There's a lot of theory. And then there are some things that are pretty crystal clear. And so it's trying to marry all those things. And so what I want to do is share different opinions about this.

Not weird opinions, not things that are out there, but these are so important that my study Bible, my study Bible, actually at the beginning of Revelation, it says here are the six different views held throughout Christian history.

And so the only reason I say that is when I share different views, that usually the premillennial, dispensational, current belief right now, and they don't like me offering other views. And all I'm saying is, hey, here's what other people believe.

Here's why we need to show grace and love. And we can have our view and hold our view strongly, but we also have to understand that this is not an essential of the Christian faith. The essential is Jesus is Lord and Savior, and He's coming back again.

Are we ready? Are we prepared? And I don't want to confuse people with terms, but it is interesting. You know, there's something like preterism that believes all the prophecies in the Bible have already been fulfilled.

Now, that one, for the life of me, don't understand. But they have, from their viewpoint, or partial preterism, some things have been fulfilled. Amillennialism, that we are currently in the millennial reign of Christ, and if you listen to my podcast with Sam Storm, theologian Sam Storm, he breaks it down why he believes that.

And then there's others that believe in the post-tribulation, where we're actually, as believers, going to go through the tribulation, but God preserves His people, and we're going to go through it, and then the final coming, Jesus' return, everything happens at the end of that.

And then a lot of people, most of you, probably if you listen to Jack Kibbs, Amir Sofate, Jack Graham, you know, a lot of people even on our radio network, Greg Laurie, of course, all the Calvary Chapel guys, are pre-tribulation, meaning we're going to be raptured before the tribulation comes.

And the reason they have different views is the main view on that, the main kingpin that I believe, is when they say that we're not appointed into God's wrath, that Scripture. But that Scripture in context is actually dealing with the final judgment and being sentenced to hell for eternity.

So I can't apply that Scripture to the tribulation. Now, if God is pouring out His wrath on a disobedient earth, yeah, I don't believe Christians would be receiving that. But could God cover? Like when He judged Egypt, He preserved His people.

Hmm, so that's interesting. So you see why there's different views. And if you go back, you can listen to what I taught in the past, and my view, I've shared this many times before, is pan-tribulation, of course, seeing how it's all going to pan out.

But because when great men of God are divided, I'm just a country preacher. I just go and preach repentance. And I'm like, theology, eschatology, pneumatology, soteriology, and inductive and deductive approach to your sermon preparation on hermeneutics and homiletics.

I'm like, wow. I just, the simplicity of the Gospel turning sinners back to Him. And so that's why I don't get dogmatic because these guys are smarter than me. They read the Greek. They understand the Hebrew.

And that's important because there are sentence structures that we're going to get into. Read or beware when the abomination of desolation is standing in the temple, right? Well, if you break down that word, it's actually that which desolates.

Something is an abomination which is a desolation to Israel. And so it's the sentence structure and the wording and the verb tenses and ever-present participle. And the verb actually means it's a continual action versus something that's already happened.

I'm like, I just want to preach the simplicity of the Gospel. But I've committed to revelation and boy, oh boy, oh boy, has it been fun. So what will be the sign of your coming? And I would like to just read the passage that we're going to be unpacking for the next week or two, pulling in from Revelation 6, which was last week.

So make sure you listen to last week because Revelation 6 was called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And I also watch a lot of health podcasts, you know, people like Peter Atiyah and this guy who's real famous right now on cognitive and brain chemistry.

And they get together and they do podcasts and they talk about the four horsemen of bad health, you know, with cancer and diabetes and cognitive-related issues. But it's funny how the four horsemen, it kind of, it's stuck for decades and even centuries.

And that was, you know, he who conquered on the white horse. Some people think that's the Antichrist. Some people think that was the Roman general Titus because he did conquer Jerusalem. And then another horse coming that is a pale horse and on it was death and from the Tombstone movie, right?

Some of you think of that. And so, and then the scale, the weight and the scale, this black horse that brings famine and the other horse that comes in. And that was Revelation 6. And many people tie that in with Matthew 24.

And rightly so. And then if you want to get real interesting, well, go grab Daniel 9 where he talks about the 70 weeks of Daniel. And I read that six times this week. What? Wow. And you read different commentaries like, well, okay, good point.

And nobody's, there's not a universal belief in this. It's good to have your view, but just don't hold on it too tightly to where you get in fights with people, right? Loosely where you can shake their hand and agree to disagree.

Jesus’ Olivet Discourse and the Destruction of the Temple

So let's talk about Matthew 24. Here we go. Buckle up and hold on. I'm going to read it. I'm going to stop. We're going to talk about it for a minute. Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple.

So He's at the temple and He goes out. He departs from the temple and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. So you get this picture where they're kind of icy as they're wanting to brag.

Jesus, look, look at all this. This is incredible. And the temple was pretty incredible. If you look at the inner court, the outer court, and then they went into the holies of holies and the porch and the area for sacrifice.

And you can find images online. And it's, well, not the actual right one, but what it looked like. And they were somewhat bragging. Look at this. This is incredible. And Jesus said, do you not see all these things?

Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone will be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down. Not one stone. A total desecration of the temple. And as far as I can see, I haven't found anyone that would necessarily disagree, but this actually happened about a generation later.

Jesus is talking about this in 30 AD, more or less. Around 70 AD, 40 years later, a generation was still, and when Jesus talks about this generation, we'll experience this. Titus came into Jerusalem and wiped it out, annihilated it.

Every stone was thrown upon another and onto the ground. And Josephus writes about this. I think it's even Eusebius, another historian writes about this. And this is an actual event that was fulfilled in AD 70.

Nobody disagrees about that. Where they start to disagree is, as Jesus keeps going on, many will say all of those things, which is hard for me to grasp, all of those things have already happened. Because Jesus said this generation.

Where Chuck Smith would say, well, this generation means the generation of people or the generation that's going to be living at the end of age. And I've never been able to connect that in my own mind.

Because Jesus is talking to His contemporaries. Just this generation, you will experience this. You will, this generation. So for me to fast forward that 2 ,000 years has been a hard one. Now I understand what they're saying, but there's a difficulty there.

However, and I'm going to talk about this in a minute, I think I have it down, so I'm not going to jump to that yet, but what you'll see a lot in Scripture is dual fulfillment. So something that's happening then will also happen later.

And so it's written for them. And I think that's the thing that's always been hard for me is Jesus is talking to His disciples. He's warning them, hey, don't be deceived. This is what's going to happen.

And sometimes I think we just easily dismiss that and say no, all of this is for us. Actually, a lot of that is for them. He cared for them too. He spoke to them as well. And so He goes on to say, now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately saying, tell us, when will these things be?

And what will be the sign of Your coming? End of the age. Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming? End of the end of the age. Boy, I want to stop there for a minute, but I'm going to force myself not to.

And verse 4, And Jesus answered and said to them, Okay, take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many. Do we still deal with that today?

Absolutely. And you will hear of wars and rumors of war. See that you are not troubled. All these things must come to pass, but then the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilence, and earthquakes in various places.

All these things are the beginning of sorrows. Now again, partial preterism or different views, all millennialists, if they take from Josephus and other things, a lot of these things, actually every single one of these things happened back in that generation that Jesus was speaking to.

Now, is that going to happen now? Well, yes. Earthquakes increasing, wars, rumors of wars. We will see these birth pains increasing as well. So that's why dual fulfillment really helps me. Because without that, you have to say, no, Jesus is talking to these people and telling them, hey, be careful, watch out for these things, but no, that's really not for them.

It's for us. I can't do that, because He's talking to them. That would be kind of like lying. And we know Jesus isn't lying. Because there's other spots He would say, don't worry, it's going to be a while.

Like when the angel told Daniel, hey, seal it up, this is for a long time away. He's talking to them, He's helping them, He's telling them what to watch out for. And He said, they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake, which was true then.

Is it true now? Oh boy, is it ever? Absolutely true today and going to get worse. And then many will be offended and will betray one another and will hate one another. I didn't do that. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

And again, reading early historians, I could take you back to after Jesus died. And it's very interesting to see the false Christ and the false people that rose up absolutely talking to them. Is it applicable to us?

Yes. If not more so, because there's more people on the face of the earth, but there's also more of the Gospel going out. There's more false prophets even now. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

Now that's been confusing to some people, and to me it's kind of straightforward because lawlessness will abound, which we're seeing now, right? The love of many will grow cold. And that's kind of what I meant by all these assembly bills, the satanic.

I, if I'm not careful, can get quenched. And like just the love of many will grow cold. My love is growing cold. My want, a desire of holiness, Lord, I'm just getting worn out. All this lawlessness is wearing me out.

Now, please, tell me you can't relate. Or you can relate, I guess I didn't word that right. But we're getting burned out. And that's what happens. The more lawlessness increases, the more we just get burned out.

And maybe I think more so obviously when you're on the front lines. Like I don't know how Jack Hibbs does it. I mean, an event, a church event at a stadium, doing podcasts, Charlie Kirk event, talking about the nation, the great resets.

Like, man, you must not have kids at home. I tease him about that. He doesn't. But how do you keep that? But then those people inspire me. I don't know about you, right? Like, well, if they're doing all that, surely I can keep moving forward.

Surely we can offset this satanic group doing this. And certainly we can come and worship. And we can go make a difference on the assembly bills. And then I get worn out by hearing people, you know, podcasts and different things.

You parents in California, how can you stay there and submit to this kind of stuff? You need to flee California. I'm like, man, what about fighting? I mean, when do I... It's like, you can get worn down.

Now again, if you're kids in a public school and you're doing all you can do and you feel God calling you, I think that's fine. But if everyone leaves, you know, is that what our position's supposed to be?

So he said, and because of lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures till the end will be saved. Now, I could make a whole sermon out of this. Can you lose your salvation?

Can't you? Calvinism, Arminianism, all I know is what the Bible says. And the Bible is clear that endurance is always a sign of genuine faith. Often you'll see the people that fall away, like how did this major worship leader fall away?

How did this pastor fall away? How did this author of this book, Christian book, fall away? You know, I kissed dating goodbye. Me and my wife read that together. And then this guy walks away from the faith.

I don't know if he ever had it to begin with. Because the persecution will sift you. You're not gonna keep playing games if it costs you your life, your reputation, your comfort. Persecution will bring it out of you.

Praise God for that. And I just thank God for, I don't know if she'll hear this or not, I was actually down in that area, kind of close, but that the school board president in Temecula who actually was fighting the governor, I don't know, the vote didn't go well, but saying no, we're gonna notify parents.

We're gonna notify parents if their kids want to change their gender. Absolutely. She got death threats. How sick and perverted are these people to actually threaten her? See, it's demonic. Once you understand it's demonic, they give themselves over to a debased and corrupted mind and they are led by the father of darkness, not the father of light.

And then they get deceived, thinking we're for the people, we're for love. No, you're for perversion and sin and all kinds of wickedness. And you've been deceived, so you think you're this freedom fighter and you're going to let people live how they want and we're gonna stand up for that nine-year-old that wants to change their gender.

No, that's not standing up for them. That is child abuse. Let them work through these issues. Point them to the cross. Point them to the Savior. And so that is how we ended it here. The gospel of this kingdom will be preached in all the world as it is written to all the nations.

Then the end will come. This part is hard for me to see how that already happened. That's why I'm not a certain group of eschatology. I'm kind of like all over the place. That's a good point. That's a good point.

That's a good point. I'm a pantrib. And it's gonna pan out and I'm trusting in God. And I'm just being honest with you. And that actually frustrates people. Pastor, you need to have a solid view on your eschatology.

What, why are you different from that person? Yeah, but I'm right, they're wrong. They say they're right, you're wrong. Where do you want to go with this? Because we just know what Scripture says. Unless all doesn't mean all, all could mean that general area.

You know, I got it. But we see these things playing out. Also, I think we have a much better view of things now 100 years later, when they didn't think it was possible for one person to govern the whole world.

When, how are they gonna witness this in Revelation? They're gonna see, the whole world's gonna see the witness and that's impossible. But now we see how all these things could easily come to pass. So something that I've always really appreciated is it's called dual fulfillment.

I think we have the, well, there's a whole bunch in the Bible, but just some that stick out. Dual fulfillment means it was fulfilled then, and it's going to be fulfilled in the future, or it was fulfilled, especially in the case of, number three, Isaiah's virgin birth prophecy was fulfilled pretty close to, and I won't get into detail, it had nothing to do with Jesus.

It actually had a virgin conceived, and that was a sign to one of the kings. But then, five, 600 years later, is that about when Jesus came after Isaiah? I don't know. You can tell me later. But then, now that prophecy comes true as well.

And so you can see Joel's Holy Spirit prophecy. In the last days, in the last days, God will pour out His Spirit. That's what Peter said. He preaches powerful sermon, powerful sermon, because he says, oh, you're just drunk.

You're speaking in tongues. That hasn't changed. Still mocking the gifts of the Spirit? And Peter says, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let me clarify here. They're not drunk as you suppose. This is what the prophet Joel spoke of, that in the last days, I will pour out my Spirit on the sons and daughters, and the old men dream dreams, the young men prophesy, and on my men's servants and my maid's servants, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

And this is that. This is that. But then, if you keep reading, it's going to talk about things that are still to come. Or especially when Jesus, some part of Scripture, when He came into the temple, this is in my notes, I just now thought of it, He comes and He says, I, God has anointed Me to preach the Gospel, to the good news, and to the sight to those who are blind, to set the captives free.

And this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. But there's not a period. It actually goes on to say, and the day of the vengeance of our Lord. He stopped because that hasn't come yet. So see, it's Scripture, there's dual fulfillment in all of Scripture.

And you can look at Ezekiel's Gog and Magog prophecy, if that's coming again in the future, and what happened back then. Samuel's prophecy to David, possibly Matthew 24 could be dual fulfillment. And that's what I think is difficult, because God in the sovereignty, the Word is perfect, and it will make sense at some point.

Reading Scripture in Its Historical and Canonical Context

It's hard to write to a group of people and still have relevance today. And if we're not careful, we can put all the relevance on us. And forget that actually, one of the laws of homiletics is putting together a sermon.

Hermeneutics is a study of the Bible. One of the laws you cannot break is you have to look at the contextual consistency. You have to look at the historical consistency, and then canonical consistency.

What does the whole Bible mean? What was the author trying to say to those people? If you bypass all that and say, oh, what does it have to say to me? What's it just for me today? You can actually take Scripture out of context.

And I want to do a podcast on that because it's so important. Scripture's out of context. I mean, it's kind of funny, because I used to quote them, and I still do, but we just have to be careful. Especially for some of you, this might just be a little extra.

When he talks about, the Bible talks about, God, I know the plans for you to give you hope and a future of peace and a war, and you're like, oh yeah, yeah, and we claim it, and it's good. If God puts that on your heart, He's going to, I believe He can use Scripture to confirm something, and we, man, we sit on that.

But actually, the context is they're going into captivity for 70 years. They're going into captivity by their enemies. And God's saying, don't worry. I know the plans I have for you. Many of you are going to die as slaves.

But I know the plans I have for you to give you a hope and a future. And it's going to be onto their children. And so the context is so important. So important. And we use, if my people are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face.

The context is when God said, when I bring pestilence, when I bring famine, when I bring drought, if my people, if they turn back to me, then I will begin to heal their land. Or one of my favorites, and I still get this a lot, people post on social media, Pastor, don't you know you're not supposed to judge?

Actually, I'm actually supposed to judge. No, no, no, read it, Matthew 7. You're not supposed to judge. No, read the whole thing. Read the whole thing. First, get your heart right. Then you can and should judge.

And Johnny says you are to discern and judge all things. So see, Scripture, even in, especially end times, we have to look at it. What is Jesus saying to them and to us? A very famous theologian by the name of D .A. Carson, really, when I read his commentary 16 years ago, it really stood out.

And he would probably have a view different than many of us. And I'm not going to say what it is because I'm not real sure, but it's probably more along all millennial type of view. But he said, you know, when Jesus is going to go on to say, this generation will no way pass away, they'll see these things, this generation, this generation.

He said for us to apply that to us 2 ,000 years later is the only time in all of the Gospel then where we have an audience shift away from them now to us. Like, well, that's a good point. And so all these things over the years, I've just kind of sat on.

Revelation 6 and the Fall of Jerusalem in AD 70

So many tie in Revelation 6 with Matthew 24. And so here's, I'm going to unpack this for a minute. Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple and His disciples came to show Him the buildings of the temple.

Remember, I just read this 15 minutes ago. And Jesus said to them, do you not see all these things? I surely I say to you, not one stone will be left here upon another and it shall be thrown down. And for those who are interested, you can read the wars of the Jews from Josephus.

I think that's the next screen. And I'm not going to go through this to a long degree here, but He talks about the Romans coming in and decimating the temple and really just how many people, the last sentence there, died of famine.

Thousands of people died of famine. They were going to a house to kill the families. Oh, they're already dead of famine. And He would see that families turned on themselves and died in the famine. And Rome just conquered all.

It was a cataclysmic event for that time and that season for the Jews. Never experienced anything remotely like this. And so the next screen says Revelation 6, what we talked about last week. So this is how they would put Revelation 6 with Matthew 24.

The white horse was Titus. Revelation 6, three through four, they take peace. Revelation 6, three through four talks about taking peace from the earth. So a lot of us think that could be from the whole earth, which I would probably lean on that.

This is a hard one for me to say this applies to Matthew 24 because whole earth seems to denote whole earth. And Revelation 6, five through six, a black horse and he who sat on it had the pair of scales.

And this is famine. And Josephus said so many people died of famine. And the pale horse, him who sat on it was called death and hell followed. So the reason I say this is a lot of people believe Revelation 6 that I taught on last week, go and listen to that one, believes that that was fulfilled, that Jesus was talking about that in Matthew 24 and that was already fulfilled when Titus conquered Jerusalem in 70 AD.

So they would believe that Revelation, a lot of it in Revelation has already happened. Okay, so that's where that view comes from. So I want to do something, I want to rewind to Matthew 23. So we're going to go back a chapter.

I don't usually read from the TLB, but I want to this morning. Jesus said, I will send you prophets and wise men and inspire writers and you will kill some of them by crucifixion. You will rip open the backs of others with whips in their synagogues and you will hound them from city to city so that you will become guilty of all the blood of the murdered godly men from the righteous Abel all the way throughout biblical history to Zechariah, slain by you in the temple between the altar and the sanctuary.

Here's where it's interesting. Yes, all of this judgment of the centuries shall break upon the heads of this very generation. So Jesus is saying in 70 AD when Titus comes, this is a judgment on Jerusalem because of all the prophets you kill.

That's the only way I can see this fits. And so that's why this event in 70 AD was cataclysmic. It was so important. And that's why Jesus even cried out, Oh, Jerusalem. Remember when he cried out, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, and he's weeping.

There's a, from the depth of his stomach, he's, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you are killing the prophets and you stone those who God has sent to you. I wanted to gather you together, but you would not listen.

And now your house is left to you desolate. And that's what's coming in AD 70. That's why he said, reader beware of the abomination of desolation that can tie in from Daniel. But I want to talk about this, the signs of the times and the end of the age here.

The Disciples’ Threefold Question

Matthew 24, three, back to where I opened up. And here's why this is so important. Now he sat at the Mount of Olives. The disciples came to him privately saying, this is the third time we're reading this.

Tell us, number one, number one, tell us when will these things be? Number two, and what will be the sign of your coming? Number three, and what is the end of the age? Now this is more profound than you think because current pre-tribulation, dispensational, which many of you are.

Again, I'm caught in the middle, so I don't label myself. And many of the teachers on our radio network are, many men I respect are. The thing I've always had a question about is they break this up, these three things, into three different periods of history.

Where to me, the person asking the question, the disciples, is waiting for one event. They're not asking, hey, when will this be in? Oh, when will this be? A couple thousand years later. They're asking, when will all these things take place?

And to really get a better understanding of that, you actually have to cross-reference scripture. So let's put up Mark and Luke on the same exact event. Same exact event, look how they word it. So Jesus is at the Mount of Olives, and they come up and ask him, tell us, when will these things be, and what is the sign that all these things will be fulfilled?

See, that tells me they're asking, they're wanting, when is this cataclysmic event, this one thing happening? They're not asking for three different scenarios there. And then Luke, they asked him, teacher, when will these things be?

When is this gonna happen? And what will be the sign of when these things are gonna take place? Now, ironically, a lot of the current teachers, they avoid these two. They use Matthew, and then they pull out, okay, this is number one, obviously happened when Titus came.

Number two is going to happen 2 ,000 years later, but that's hard for me to fathom because they were just asking, hey, when's all this gonna happen? And Jesus told them, hey, here's when it's all gonna happen.

Guarding Against Deception and False Teachers

And Jesus said to them, take heed. So here's his response. Take heed. He doesn't really answer them, but he just says this verse. Take heed that no one deceives you. No one deceives you. Folks, this is the biggest problem in the so-called church right now is deception.

Wokeism, have you heard of that? Willfully overlooking known sin. Or known, well, I don't know what the E is. Willfully overlooking known evil. There we go. I knew one of you would know that. And deceived and putting the rainbow flag up and saying these things that Paul didn't really mean that, Jesus didn't really mean that, and we just gotta love people.

Yes, we have to love people, but we tell them the truth. And so that deception is coming over. Don't be deceived. Oh, I don't want to be deceived, Shane. How? Bury your face in the Word. Bury your face in the Word of God.

Just listen to solid teachers. Look it up in Scripture. I believe a person planted in the Word of God, humble, broken, praying, fasting, asking God to direct them. It's real hard to be misled. Now, if a critical spirit comes in there, and they become a Bible thumper and hitting their family over the head with the Word of God, and I'm gonna rule my house with a rod of iron.

I know all the Scripture. You will be misled and deceived because the pride of your heart has deceived you, Obadiah. The pride of your heart has deceived you. Staying humble, humble, humble. He said, many will come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many.

And I thought about it, but I'm not gonna do it today, but you can go online, you can find all these people, usually in different countries. This one guy, he's like, I think he's from, I don't even know, it looks like he's maybe Chinese or Philippine, and he's got a huge following.

And he says he's the Messiah. And he's got so many people following him. And other people, you can look, and people come up, I am the Messiah. And it's just amazing how spot on this is. But the deception, like, what would make you follow a person like that?

What would make you follow David Koresh to Waco, Texas? Well, he sounds, he's saying the right thing. Yeah, but when he wants 18 wives, I mean, that's a hello. And all the deception in there. And what about, I don't remember his name, but had all those people drink Kool-Aid?

Jones. And for the younger crowd, that's where that term comes from. Don't drink the Kool-Aid. Because a lot of people, was it a thousand? Were led astray with him, this false teacher, and talked into drinking the Kool-Aid that had poison in it?

Where does this deception come from? Where does it come from? And we see this in cults too. Cults that call themselves Christians. How are you so deceived and brainwashed in believing this? Again, it goes back to what I just said.

The Word of God is not primary. This is my gauge. This is my gauge. We have a person coming now. I don't know if he's here. I'd like to do a podcast with him, so talk to me afterward. But he was like a historian for the Jehovah's Witness.

And what comes before the Bible? The watchtower. The watchtower interprets the Bible. Watch out when somebody else interprets the Bible. In Mormonism, does the Bible come first? Nope. The supposed dream of Joseph Smith who had these special glasses, who read these gold tablets, and an angel told him to start this denomination because all denominations are wrong except for his.

Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing! Red light, red light. But Shane, I asked God to show me. I did get this burning in the bosom. How do you know that wasn't demonic? Hello? Come on, wake up. Folks, get into the Word of God.

What does the Word of God say? It will not mislead you. It is the truth. It points you to the way, the truth, and the life. It does not change. It is not flexible. The truth is absolute. Times change, but truth does not.

That's how you stay grounded. But be careful again, I really want to get this point across because I run into a lot of Bible thumpers who are not humble. They can quote Scripture, but their marriage is falling apart.

Or their life is falling apart. Or they're arrogant and nobody wants to be around them. But they know the Bible. Be careful. Humility is your greatest asset. Many will come to me in that day, and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.