Signs of Jesus Coming — Jack David Daniels

All right. The signs of Jesus coming and of the end of the world. Let's all stand together in honor of God's Word. It has been such a joy to be with y 'all tonight. And you know why? I just want to say that before we get started.

I haven't preached this message in a long time, but God just kind of put it on my heart early in the week to preach it. And I'm looking forward to preaching it. And we're looking forward to seeing you again.

But I've got news for you. Brothers and sisters, if the next time we saw each other was gathered around the throne, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. And brother, I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

I mean that from the bottom of my heart. If the next time we saw each other was... So what we're going to do for Jesus, we better do it now. Amen? Because I believe time is short and death is sure. Eternity is long and Jesus is the cure for all your sins, all your problems.

The Sign of Jesus’ Coming and the End of the World

And so let's look at what the signs of Jesus' coming are at the end of the world. Matthew 24, verse 3. Jesus says, and it speaks of Jesus. And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be?

And what shall be the sign of Thy coming and of the end of the world? What shall be the sign of Your coming, Lord, and the end of the world? One of the many, many, many things I love about Jesus is when you ask Him a question, He gives you an answer.

And He's going to answer your questions in that. Amen? Let's pray. Father, thank You for the Word of God. I pray, Father, that we would decrease so that You can increase tonight. I pray that You'd give me a holy anointing tonight.

Just give me the utterance, the boldness, the power, the filling, and the anointing of Your precious Holy Spirit, God. I pray that, Lord Jesus, You'd speak through me, to me, God, to each and every one of us here tonight.

Lord, we don't come here tonight to be challenged. We come here tonight to be changed. Lord, we need a word from the Lord. And I would pray in Jesus' name that, Lord, You would have Your will and Your way, God.

I pray that souls would be saved, that lives would be changed, that the church would be edified, that You'd be glorified, and that hell would be terrified. Lord, we love You, we praise You, and we thank You.

In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated. And of the end of the world, amen. Now look at what Jesus says. First of all, He deals with some dangerous signs. Some dangerous signs. Matthew 24, verses 4 -9.

Dangerous Signs: False Christs, Wars, and Natural Disasters

The Bible says, Jesus begins to answer their question from verse 3. He begins in verse 4, and He says, He said,. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you, for many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many.

Now, when the disciples asked Jesus, What will be the signs of Your coming at the end of the world? They didn't ask Him what day. They didn't ask Him what hour. And let me just say this right now, up front.

Anybody, you ever hear anybody, and there have been people in the past, and are from time to time, they'll come along and say, they'll start setting dates and everything, about when Jesus is coming back.

You run from them like they've got the plague. Because Jesus said, No man knows the day of the hour, not even the sun. It's been given into the knowledge of the Father, and one day, bless God, God the Father is going to turn to God the Son, and say, Go get My children.

Go get My children. But the Lord Jesus Christ does not even know the day of the hour. But, there are some signs, there are some things that we can look at, that will be able to tell us, what will take place right prior to His coming, and He deals with those signs right here.

In the first one He says, that many shall come in His name, saying that they are Christ. I wonder why they never claim to be Buddha. Why won't they ever claim to be Mohammed? Did you know, never in the history of currency, counterfeit currency, has there ever been a counterfeit one dollar bill?

Why would you counterfeit a one? For what? It doesn't have any value. The devil has nothing to gain by counterfeiting a counterfeit. Listen, Satan's big enemy, or big problem, his big jealousy, his big issue, has never been with Mohammed, has never been with Buddha, has never been with Confucius.

It's always been with Jesus. He said, all the way back in the Old Testament, he said, I will exalt myself to be like the Most High God. There has never been one, but one that was like the Most High God.

His name was Jesus. See, Satan has always been jealous of Jesus. Always from the beginning. During the Great Tribulation, there will be the unholy Trinity. There will be the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and Satan incarnate.

During the Great Tribulation, period. Listen, friend. Satan hates Jesus, but he wants to be just like Him. And in the last days, there are going to be many saying, I am Christ. Jack Van Ife, who is probably one of the foremost theologians on the doctrine of eschatology, tells us there are over 1 ,000 people in our world today that claim to be Jesus Christ.

Amen? Listen, friend. All the time you say, we are going to talk more about those false Christs in just a minute. We are going to move on right now. And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. Heard of any rumors, wars, or rumors of wars lately?

I don't know what I am hearing more about today. Wars or rumors of wars. And let me just ask you a question. What little country, what little nation always, I don't care if it was 5 o 'clock this morning when you turn on the news, 6 o 'clock, the 8 o 'clock, 5 o 'clock in the afternoon, the noon news, 10 o 'clock tonight, what little nation, and it hasn't been just going on for a little while, it hasn't been going on since September 11th, it has been going on since the beginning of time, what little nation always is at the center of focus every time you turn on that television talking about wars and rumors of wars?

What little nation is it? When you take a globe, young people let me tell you something, when you take a globe, you go to Walmart next time, you get you a globe, if you don't have one at home, you get you a globe this big, and you look for Israel on there, unless you know your geography real good, it is going to take you a while to find it.

On a globe this large, when you find Israel, Israel is going to be about the size of Brother Jack's tip of my little finger. Now you stop and think about it. Why in the world? I mean, we are going to think about wars and rumors of wars since the beginning of time, and I mean if there is going to be such an issue with a nation, if a nation was going to be such a big threat, I mean we are going to be thinking about China.

We are going to be thinking about Russia. We are going to be thinking about Europe. Amen. The Middle East. I mean, but Israel. The United States. Why Israel? What is it? Why has there always been an attack on Israel?

Hey, buddy, it is simple. That is where the Messiah was born of a virgin 2 ,000 years ago. That is where the Messiah lived a perfect sinless life, 33 years, not one wrong thought, not a motive, not an attitude, not a word, not a deed, nothing.

His own enemies could find no fault in Him. That is where the Messiah died on an old rugged cross. That is where the Messiah rose from the grave, and that is where the Messiah ascended and went back to the Heavenly Father and according to Zechariah chapter 14 and verse 6, bless God, that is where the Messiah is going to come back and His nail-pierced feet are going to touch that same mountain He left from and it is going to split that mountain wide open and He is going to walk into Jerusalem in that eastern gate.

This has been shut for hundreds and hundreds of years. I am going to tell you something. Satan has always hated Israel, and one of the reasons that God has blessed America the way He has, we have always been an ally of Israel, brother.

Always been an ally of Israel. And I am going to tell you something. We better always stay an ally of Israel. Amen, America? Wars and rumors of wars. He said, See that you be not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet, for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

Now that word nation, you look up that word nation in a Greek dictionary. When Jesus stood there that day and said nation shall rise against nation, the literal Greek word that He said, that left His lips was Ethneos shall rise against ethneos.

E-T-H-N-I-O-S. It is a Greek word. And the word ethneos is the word we get ethnic from. Ethneos shall rise against ethneos. And you stop and think about it. In our Middle East wars that are going on, what are they?

They are ethnic wars. Have been since the beginning of time. All the way back to the Old Testament times. Listen friend, we are living in the last days. Jesus says, Ethneos shall rise against ethneos, and kingdom against kingdom.

That word kingdom there is a better translation for a country like America against Russia or China or something like that. And then He goes on to say, and you shall hear of what? There shall be what? Famines.

You can put Ethiopia right there. What else? Pestilence. You can put AIDS there. You can put encephalitis there. You can put anthrax there. You can put the West Nile virus there. You can put polio there.

You can put, what's the latest one? SARS and the monkey pox. You've got to about laugh every time you say that one, although it isn't funny. There's going to be plagues. Pestilence. And what else? Earthquakes.

Earthquakes. In diverse places. The word diverse is the word we get different from. Different. Different places. I mean, we think about the San Andres Fault that goes around the world. I've been to Chile, and San Andres Fault goes right down through the middle of Argentina and Chile.

And we think about that fault. In fact, I experienced a tremor while I was there. And believe me, I don't know if you've ever been in an earthquake or tremor or anything like that. When you get in one where you get a good little dose of it, you won't want to be in another one.

I can promise you one thing. There's no experience like it. We were in Chile several years ago, and I was on a mission trip. And we'd go into these dirt huts and everything where these people lived, and inside the house they would have wind chimes.

Inside the house. And made out of these seashells, because we were right there on the ocean where we were at. Made out of seashells inside the house. I thought, what do you got wind chimes inside the house for?

You know? I mean, that's an outside thing, isn't it? I said, oh, no, no, that's not for wind in here, Brother Jack. That's an earthquake detection device. When those shells start rattling, they know it's not because the wind's blowing.

There's a whole lot of shaking going on outside, and the biggest threat is the roofs falling in or gas lines bursting and causing fire so that it gets them out of the house. Earthquakes in diverse places.

Ever since the 1800s, they've been able to measure major killer earthquakes, 6 .5 and above. I did a study. I looked it up in the U .S. Geological Survey report out of Boulder, Colorado. You can check it out yourself.

And I looked up earthquakes, because you know what? Here's the way it works. If Jesus said there was going to be a lot of locusts or a lot of spaghetti falling from the sky, if He had said there's going to be rainstorms or snow or something, you know what, I'd study that stuff.

Why? Because Jesus said it. I've got news for you. He ain't told a lie yet. He didn't just tell the truth. He is the truth, John 14, 6 says. So when Jesus says something about earthquakes, you know what I want to know something about?

I want to know something about earthquakes. So I did this study on earthquakes, and I printed it out for you. It might not mean much to you, but I thought it was interesting. You might not. Now, each one of these numbers we're looking at here are in ten-year increments.

And they've been able to measure, like I say, the 6 .5, what they call the killer earthquakes, ever since 1890. Look from 1890 to 1999, worldwide, these are all worldwide, there was one major earthquake.

One. All over the world, ten years, one. From 1900 to 1909, one more. Two in 20 years. From 10 to 19, there was three. From 20 to 29, there were two. From 30 to 39, there were five. In 50 years, there were 12 major earthquakes worldwide.

Twelve in 50 years. From 40 to 49, there were four. From 50 to 59, it jumped up to nine. Look right up here. You remember what the Bible says about the world is travailing in birth pains until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Remember what the Bible says about that? I'm going to tell you something. Our world is travailing in birth pains the same way a woman travails when she's getting ready to deliver a baby. There's birth pains.

In fact, the birth pains, when they come, they will come many times. There will be one birth pain, and then there will be a longer period of time. And then there will be another birth pain, and then a longer period of time.

And then maybe two or three birth pains, and then it will back off, and then it will pick up a little bit. But right towards the end, bless God, right towards the end, those pains begin to come and to come and to come.

It's easy for me to say, bless God, isn't it? Amen, I ain't having the baby, amen. But right there towards the end, right there towards the end, the birth pains increase and increase and increase until finally that baby is delivered.

The Bible says the earth is going through birth pains under the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Look what happens. In 40 to 49, there was four. In 50 to 59, there were nine. In 60 to 69, there were 13.

They're just increasing. From 70 to 79, there were 56. What a jump! Over an 80-year period of time, 56. And I looked at that, and I thought, wait a minute, now something's to this. When Jesus said something about earthquakes, and He compared earthquakes to the second coming, and I see that there were 56 earthquakes more than in the previous 80 years in one 10-year period, I know there's got to be something to it.

You know what happened? And I'm old enough to remember it, and some of you are old enough to remember it. Something happened in our world in the 60s. Let me put it this way. Something happened to our world in the 60s.

You remember. Some of you are old enough to remember. How many of you are old enough to remember? We've got a pretty young crowd here. Some of you are old enough to remember, brother. The sexual revolution, the drug revolution, the free sex, the God is dead movement.

The music revolution. That's when all the New Age movement moved from the East right through America and moved around the world. All the Beatles, all the hellish music, and ungodly music just changed everything.

There was a big change. Something happened. Something happened in our world that we have never gotten over. We have never gotten over it. Now, there's a whole lot that I don't understand and won't understand until Jesus comes about what's going on.

But I'm going to tell you something. When I look at things like this, it makes me go, hmm, hmm, hmm. I do a lot of that, hmm, and a little of that. From 80 to 89, there were 74. Now, look at this. In 90 years, there were 168 major earthquakes worldwide.

In 90 years. 168, do the math. Look at the last 10 years. 175. Now, that might not mean anything to you, but you know I've got a feeling it's going to when Jesus comes back. I've got a feeling it's going to.

You see, we're going to look at it at the end of this message. The very last event that's going to take place when Jesus comes back is this earth is going to burn, slap up. You know, everywhere you find an earthquake, you know what else you find?

A volcano. You've got it, son. You've got it right on the head. And I'm going to tell you something, friend. I'll tell you when it's revelation, and I'll tell you when it's speculation. Revelation is when it comes from this book.

Speculation is when it comes from me. But I just speculate. I just speculate that somehow, some way, all this is tied in together, my brother, in those last moments, those last days, those last hours, of course, during that tribulation period, whoo, son, I'm going to be gone.

I'm going to be on the first load out of here. Amen? Yes, sir. I ain't hanging around for no tribulation period, and I'll talk more about that in a minute. But that fire that's going to burn this world up, friend, somehow, I believe, speculate, is tied in with the earthquakes, the volcanic activity that will be taking place here on this planet Earth when God finally says enough is enough.

Deceiving Signs and False Christs

Well, number two, not only dangerous signs, but there will be deceiving signs. He goes on to say in verse 23 through 27 of the same chapter, Matthew chapter 24,. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, don't believe it.

For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch, if it were possible, that shall deceive the very elect. Now, first thing he says, you're going to see, he mentioned this false Christ twice.

Up in verse 4 through 9, he mentioned there will be false Christs, and then back down here at 23 through 27, he mentions these false Christs again. Now, there's a difference between a false Christ and a false prophet.

A false Christ is a person who claims to be Jesus Christ. A false prophet is a false preacher. We're going to talk about him in a minute. But these false Christs rise up every once in a while. Any of you remember this one?

I've got a picture of him right here. He was in Garland, Texas. They called him... They called him... He was from Taiwan. Han Ming Chin. They called him Master Chin. I called him Chin Man. I ain't going to call no man Master except my Lord and my Savior.

Amen? They called him Chin. Master Chin. I called him Chin Man. But anyway, he was in Garland, Texas, and he and a bunch of his followers moved to Garland, Texas, where I was living at this time back in 1998.

And he was prophesying that he was going to become Jesus Christ on April 1st. April Fool's Day. This was right after the big guy out in San Diego, Peter Apple... Not Peter Apple. I'll think of it in a minute.

Marshall Applewhite. Marshall Applewhite in San Diego with a gated community out in San Diego. Talked to all those people in that jello. Never going to follow around. My Lord God. Amazing that people would die for a lie and won't live for the truth.

It is amazing to me. It's amazing to me. So anyway, Chin Man, he got... And so he had told all his followers and all the media and everything, if he didn't turn into God, that he invited his followers to stone him to death and into his front yard.

I mean, they bought up homes, brother. I'm talking about in a residential area, a pretty nice residential area in Garland, Texas. They bought up a bunch of houses. They bought up a half a block there.

And if he didn't turn into Jesus, they could stone him to death. It says right here in this article in the Dallas Morning News that the Garland Police Department spent almost a half a million dollars, I believe it was.

Get my figure straight here. Hold that, brother, so I can see. They spent several hundred thousand dollars on security watching this bunch of nuts. Well, April 1st came along, and I was on my way over to a nursing home to see a man.

I was going to cut his hair. He's gone home to be with Jesus now. He was in the nursing home there. And I'd been told, you can't even get through Garland, brother Jack. I was in town then and not on a trip.

And so I said, why? They said, oh man, they've got everything blocked off in Garland, that bunch of nuts over there. They've got media and everything and security and everything. You can't get through Garland, Texas.

So God really started speaking to my heart. He said, well, maybe I'm supposed to go there. So I drive up through there, and sure enough, man, I mean, for blocks away, they've got police officers standing out there.

And the only people that could go in to where this cult group was, was the media, police officers, this cult, and that's it, I think. Yeah. And so, and if you live there, yeah, residents of that area, because they had to prove that they lived there.

Well, I pulled up through this barricade in my pickup, and this police officer just waved me on through. He didn't ask me a question or nothing. I thought, well, this will work. Going a little further, and there was another barricade.

Well, that cop thought because the last one waved me on through that I was okay, so he waved me on through. I got up to another one, and then he waved me on through. I went through three police officers, and all of a sudden, I didn't even know where it was at down in there.

I'm driving down this residential area. All of a sudden, I could see, brother, listen to me, they had some 120 different television, radio, newspaper, media there covering this thing, people from all over the world.

Because it was Taiwanese, they had people from Taiwan coming over and watching one of their pots, making a fool out of themselves. I mean, everybody's covering this thing, because see, if you're turning into God, we ought to be walking on some water or something.

Amen? We ought to be raising somebody from the dead or something. We ought to be pulling something off there if you're going to become God. So everybody's showing up. Well, it was all walking traffic after this one police officer.

He was standing out there, and nobody would even allow cars in there for the last block. I parked my truck, put my New Testament in my back pocket, and walked up through there. I thought, well, all he can do is turn me away.

I walked up to this police officer, and he said, What's your name? I said, Who are you? I said, My name is Jack Daniels. He said, Oh, really? He said, Do you live here? I said, No, sir. He could see obviously I wasn't a police officer, didn't have a press pass.

He said, Who are you? I said, I'm a gospel preacher, and God is my witness. He did just like this. He grins. He said, Come on in. He waved me on. I walked about as far as from here to the road out there.

Oh, they had their meeting going on. And then this guy had this guy named Richard who was an interpreter, and he's interpreting for Master Chen and everything. So they're asking all these questions and everything.

The last question that I'd heard him ask when I walked up was, he had said, He said, It's better than me turning into God. You're all gods. He said, If you don't believe it, God is my witness. He did just like this.

God is my witness. Brother, I lost it. Because the meeting, they'll jump in and all that stuff. I pulled my New Testament out and turned it to Matthew 24. And I just jumped in the middle of that deal.

I hollered at Richard. I said, Richard, Richard! You tell Chen Man this. And, boy, I mean, when I said that, all the media, they turned their cameras over on me and everything. I said, You tell Chen Man this, that Jesus said in Matthew chapter 24 that in the last days there's going to be false Christs coming in the name of Jesus saying, I am Christ and shall deceive many.

I said, You tell Chen Man he's a false prophet, false messiah. Well, buddy, when I did that, that shut down the interview. They all, but before that, Chen tells him, he puts this big billboard, I had all these little henchmen there, put this billboard right in front of me.

And he told Richard to tell me, tell that man to read this. I said, No, mister, you tell him to read this. He had all his little Taiwanese writings on there. False Christ. False Christ. The media had a heyday with me.

They said a Baptist preacher was on hand to shake his Bible at Mr. Chen and demand to know whether the Taiwanese preacher realized that he was a false prophet. The Lady of the Reverend Jack Daniels, a pastor at First Baptist Church in Sachse, Texas, had his own words of prophecy, which is a lie out of hell.

I had to have my own words of prophecy. I had God's words of prophecy. There's your liberal media. Of course, they're going to mess everything up. It said, his own words of prophecy, that people like this are a sign that we're living in the last days.

And that part is correct. I don't care whether it's David Koresh, who it is. Friend, they're all around us. See, we just hear about the Chen's and David Koresh's and everything when there's a threat of suicide or something like this.

But they're everywhere. Satan has always wanted to be Jesus. Always. And what he'll do, he'll raise up some nut like this to try to, I said try to, I said try to discredit the name of Jesus. I love what you said a while ago, brother.

Amen. God hasn't called us to be attorneys. He just called us to be witnesses. Amen. You don't have to defend the gospel. You just declare it. Amen. God's big enough to handle His own cases. What a Savior.

Well, glory to God. There are going to be false Christs and false prophets, false preachers. And look at what it says here. And it shall show what? Great signs and what? Wonders. Signs and wonders. Turn your Bibles to Matthew chapter 12.

False Signs, Miracles, and the Need to Preach the Word

Matthew chapter 12. Turn there real quickly. Matthew chapter 12. These are false preachers. You say, preacher, you mean there's going to be? There's preachers that are not saved? Turn on your TV. Yeah, baby.

Look what Matthew chapter 12 says. And look at verses... Let's see. Let's start about... I'll tell you it's too many. Here we go. Look at verse 38. Then a certain of the scribes and the Pharisees answered, saying...

Well, you see those guys showed up. You know it's going to be a mess every time. Saying, Master, we would see a sign from Thee. Listen to what Jesus said. Jesus said in verse 39. And He answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a what? Sign.

And there shall be no sign be given to it. What? That generation. But the sign of the prophet Jonah. Verse 40. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

You listen to me. You listen to me real good. We've got preachers on the airwaves today. And all they're talking about is signs and wonders. Signs and wonders. You listen to me. Signs and wonders, brother.

Come to this miracle service. Signs and wonders. Signs and wonders. Jesus said it's a wicked generation that seeks after a sign. We're living in the last days. And Jesus said in Matthew 24 that many false prophets, that's false preachers, are going to show great signs.

He didn't say just preach about them, brother. He said they're going to show news for you. Just because a preacher can even work a sign and miracle, don't mean he's of God. Do you hear what I'm saying?

Satan is a great counterfeiter. Listen, I shared another night. I was in the New Age movement for five years. I was a vegetarian for five years. So I thought I was going to go to heaven and have carrot juice or something.

I mean, get all healthy and everything. Listen, I've seen the devil do some pretty miraculous deals. I've got news for you, friend. He can't counterfeit this Word. Yes, sir. You better be careful. I said, church, you better be careful.

I said, church, you better be careful who you're listening to. If His Word doesn't wake up for this, if all they're talking about is signs and wonders, I'm going to tell you the greatest sign, the greatest miracle that's ever been brought, brother.

That's when the little old lost boy will come down the aisle saying, I want Jesus as my Savior. Yes, sir. The greatest miracle that's ever been brought. When Jesus come into my heart and saved my old lost soul.

I don't need to see no more signs or wonders except Jesus. Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale. So my Jesus was three days and three nights in the belly of the earth. All I need to see, brother, is that empty tomb to know my Jesus lives.

Amen. I don't need some false prophet to get up and start, Amen. You better be careful, church. You hear me? They're out there. They're running in bunches. Look at verse 3. There'll be doctrinal signs too.

2 Timothy 4, verse 1 -7. Paul said this. He told Timothy. He said, I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead in His appearing. In His what? In His appearing.

He's talking about the second coming here. In His kingdom. What did he tell Timothy to do? What did he say to do? He said, Preach the word. Circle that word preach. We're going to come back to it in a minute.

He said what? Preach the word. Be instant, in season, out of season. Reprove, rebuke, and exhort. With all long-suffering in doctrine. Let me tell you something the Word of God will do to you. It'll rebuke you and it'll exhort you.

Amen? Now some folks, everybody likes that exhort. Oh, just preach on love. Preach it. Don't talk about hell now. Just exhort. Amen. Let me tell you what the Word of God will do. It'll comfort the afflicted and it'll afflict the comfortable.

Yes, sir. It'll knock the bark off of you, my brother. You know what I need every day? I need to be rebuked and I need to be comforted. With the Word of God. Why? Because I'm just like you. My old nature would like to get tacky and get offline if it could.

So I need the Word of God. I love to see people get saved and didn't plan on it. That always blesses me. You see an old boy walk in the service. He struts when he sits. I mean, he's doing God a favor just by showing up.

You know. He sits down back there. And then right behind him walks in a little lady. Bless her heart. She's all depressed and discouraged. You can tell a lot of times about people's body language. She sits down next to him because she's married to Macho Meathead.

In fact, the reason she's so depressed is she's married to him. You get up and you start preaching the Word. And something unusual happens. Same word, preacher. He's getting rebuked. And she's getting exhorted.

Amen? In fact, she's exhorted because he's rebuked. He's hiding behind the sermon outline. I mean, he's like this. Son, she's got her hands in the air praising God. You give the invitation. And here he is bawling his eyes out, giving his life to Jesus.

And she's praising the Lord. The Word of God will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Paul told Timothy, Preach the Word. Preach it, son. Shut the corn. Get the job done. He goes on to say, Yes, it is said, Reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

For the time will come. Do you see that? And I say the time has come. When they will not endure sound doctrine. Hello? But after their own lust, shall they heap to themselves what? Say it again. Not preachers.

Teachers. Preachers. Two different words in the Greek, brother. That word preach means to call to repentance through the bold preaching of God's Word. That word teach means to educate and inform. Two different words in the Greek.

I've looked them up. He said the time is going to come when they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. See, they need their ears boxed, but they want them scratched. Don't get in there with this nasty preacher.

Right out here, just tell me what feels good. Just give me a little feel-good message. I'm okay. You're okay. Everybody be happy. I've got news for you, friend. That ain't going to turn our world around for God.

Amen? Amen. And they shall heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. They want to hear what they want to hear. And they shall turn away their ears from the what? Truth. And shall be turned into what?

Fables. You know what a fable is? A little storytelling. Let me tell you something, friend. Listen to me. Right now here in America, we've got churches all across America. You let a gospel preacher get up in the pulpit, my brother, and preach hell's hot, heaven's sweet, sin's black, judgment's sure, and Jesus saves, there will be some little cocktail set, some little bunch that likes to go to the boat, get together out there, and kick that gospel preacher out of the pulpit and bring them in some little Sissy Preacher's Milk Toast, Nancy Pansy, Limp Wristed teacher in there, and he don't know, come on from sick, he don't know if he's washing or hanging out.

But he's tickling that they want to hear. Yes, time was going to come when it was going to happen. I've got news for you. It's already here. It's already here, baby. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and all they want to hear is stories.

You ever hear a preacher get up? He'll read one verse. Maybe. I've seen preachers, brother, get in the pulpit and not even have a Bible, Brother Edwin. Not even have a Bible. I had a fellow call me here a while back, and he said, Brother Jack, pray for our pastor.