The History of Israel with Pastor Jeff Shipley - Part 11

God’s Promise to Abraham and the Preservation of Israel

About 2100 B .C. and the events that God had from Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Joseph, the facts that we pointed out, and I just want to go back over a couple of those, the facts that we pointed out that no matter what man did, no matter how bad Israel failed, God in His promise to Abraham all those many years ago did not fail.

Remember guys, when we are faithless, God and His promises are still faithful. But there's an apologetical understanding here as well. And church people, this is the number one thing that you people have got to quit doing, is you've got to quit acting and sounding like church people.

Please, for the love of God, please, y 'all listen to me, don't just discount this as the opening statement. Learn to understand that there is no Bible stories, guys. There is no Bible history. There is no Bible science.

I laugh when people say, well, that's secular science. Guys, gravity, the laws of thermodynamics, what happened in 2100 B .C., that's a reality that is apart from our interpretation. It is a fact that is what guides absolute truth.

The fact that God told Abraham, let's just go over some of these. God told Abraham in 2100 B .C., and be honest with you church people, I can't date that like it really happened on January 13th. No matter what Usher says, I can't say that that actually happened in 2100 B .C.

But around there, circa, God told Abraham, I am going to take you, you 75-year-old guy, and your 75-year-old wife, that have no kids, and I'm going to make a great nation out of you. And in 2020, right now, in reality, as we speak, there's an entire nation of people from that bloodline.

There are three religions from that same bloodline. There is Christianity, there is Judaism, and there is Muslim. Right now, that's a reality. Guys, also understand this, that God promised Abraham's descendants would be a nation, but God also promised them this, and we went over all this last week, that God would scatter them if they ceased to obey.

And it was so amazing that from right here, from 2100, all the way down here to 722 B .C., God's people said, yeah, I'm sure, well, yeah. And they thought God was counting one, two, three, but God doesn't count.

He says, if you do this, this is what's going to happen. And the ten northern tribes of Israel went poof with the nation of Assyria. And then in 586, the Babylonians came in and smacked the two southern tribes of Judah and scattered them everywhere.

But it still wasn't done. I hear theologians talking about these two dates as the culmination of the scattering of the Jewish people, and once again, that is not accurate. You go forward and forward all this time through Alexander the Great, through even the Maccabean Revolt and all this other stuff, the Romans spread them.

Everyone, every nation has walked over, from Ottomans, Mamluks, to the British. Everyone has scattered. And in 135 A .D., in the Bar-Kobel Revolt, in 135 A .D., the Jews finally told Rome again, we're done with you people.

And Rome said, think again. And they whooped them, changed the name of Jerusalem, changed the name of Judea, and absolutely decimated what was left of Jerusalem. And the people were gone. Only 5 of the total Jewish population actually lived in Jerusalem after that time.

Most of them, ironically, moved to Babylon. They moved back to Babylon, where their great-great-great-great-grandfathers had been taken many years ago. But then God said, I'm going to preserve this people group.

The Scattering and Regathering of Israel

Man, this is crazy. Where are the Edomites today? Where are they? Hey man, how are you? It's good to see you, son. Where are the Edomites today? They're in Israel? Sort of. What? Huh? But where's the nation of Edom?

It ain't a cheese. Where's the Hittites? Do you know where the Hittites are? Where'd you put the Hittites? Come on, tell me where you put the Hittites.

Hey baby, how are you? Where's Telly?

Where are the Hittites? Guys, where's the Cherokee Nation? Guys, it's hittin' rhetorical, Farley. Listen. Where are they? On a little reservation. Where's their nation? That happened 200 years ago. I'm talkin' about somethin' that happened 2 ,000 years ago.

Yet watch this. God said, I'm going to preserve my people group. Now watch this. God said, listen, I'm going to gather you back from the east and the west, from the north and the south. And it's amazing.

He actually said, when I gather you back from the north and the south, you're going to have problems. The east and the west, you're not going to have any problems. When Israel became a nation again in 1948, people from the United States and Great Britain, i .e. west of Israel, all started moving back.

People from the east of Israel, actually the Arab countries were allowed to move back. But the Russian Jews in 1948 weren't allowed to come back. And the biggest, massivest, biggest Jewish group was in a place called Ethiopia in the south, and they had trouble coming back.

Pick up your phones right now, just for giggles. Pick up your little phones right now, and type in Operation Solomon. And just bookmark it so that you can read it later, especially you guys under the age of 30 that thinks that religion and preachers and churches are here to control your minds and your money, and that God's Word's really not that poignant.

So, do you have it? Okay, read that later, okay? That's really a cool little thing. God said, I will preserve the people of Israel. And then it says, Israel be a nation again. Watch this. Israel stopped being a nation way back here in 722.

And here's where they became a nation again. There was no land named Israel. There was no city named Jerusalem. You can't find it on a map prior to 1948. But on 1948, they became a nation again after 2 ,500 years.

Now, here's what you've got to wrap your head around. Either yes, the Bible is full of little stories, and that white people are using it to control your mind, and to make you socially acceptable, and to steal all your money in Jesus' name.

Or, God's Word is real, and the history of man is at the behest of the sovereignty of God. It's one of those two things. You're going to have to come to grips with it. And if you come to grips with the fact that God's Word is not subjective to man's will, the other part of God's will is this.

You either accept Jesus Christ, or He will reject you. Period. For eternity. And I know some of y 'all, that just offends you, and it's weird that a preacher would get up and say that when so many preachers today just saying, God will accept you just the way you are.

Smile, Jesus loves you. But I'm here to tell you truth, not something to make you feel better. I don't... You have nothing I want or need. Nothing. I don't want your money, your membership, or anything.

If I never see you again, I'm still going home and having a good night's sleep tonight. Okay? My self-worth and value is not wrapped up in your acceptance. Okay? And the reason I'm saying that is not as a shock value, but to know you have nothing I want or need.

So the onus of why I'm telling you this is by God Almighty, and not by employing some sort of gratification from you. Are you with me? Alright, here we go. Watch this. Next question. Is God done with Israel?

Romans 11 and the Mystery of Israel’s Future

This is for you Christians that actually know something. For you lost people, just hold on. But for you Christians, the question is, is God done with Israel? Is God done with it? It's called Replacement Theology.

For those of you that want to study it, I think it's devoid of any true intellectual thought. I think it borders on a heretical understanding of harmonetics within Scripture. But if you want to for giggles, you can study it.

But basically, Replacement Theology says this. Here's old Israel. Here's all the Jews. Say oy. Oy. And so God said, I'm done with the Jews. Get out of the way. Let me bring in the church now. And everything I promised you Jews, I'm done with you.

It all goes to the church now. Okay, let's read. Romans chapter 11. Not Deuteronomy, not Chronicles, not Kings, but Romans. Romans chapter 11. Paul is writing and says this. I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited.

A partial hardening has come upon Israel. Wait a minute. Has come upon Israel, but Israel's, okay. Come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way, all Israel will be saved.

What is God's plan for Israel? Same plan that God has for Gentiles. Same plan God has for anybody, right? How many races of people are there? I mean, you got all of us and then you got the Mexicans. By the way, Rolando, you look great behind that wall playing those drums.

Guys, do you actually understand that God's plan for man has been from the word go, listen, has been from the word go to redeem us back from our sinful selves. Are y 'all with me? Alright, watch this.

It keeps on. And this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins. Regarding the Gospels, they are enemies for your advantage. But regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs.

Watch this. Are you ready? This is so awesome. How many of you have sinned so much and cried walking forward because you need to get right with Jesus. And then you go back and you do the same thing you did at first and then you feel stupid about it.

And you feel guilty about it. Okay, great. Man, all of you young people in here, you don't ever backslide. That is so cool. So guys, listen. Here's the good news. The promises that God made 2 ,000 years ago are still in effect regardless of my condition today.

In other words, this. My salvation is based on my position in Christ rather than the condition of my flesh. Okay? So my failures are irrelevant to God's promises. Just like my plans are irrelevant to God's plans.

Alright? Let's move on. So is God done with Israel? Alright, well watch this. Back in Genesis 15, this is what God told Abraham. I'm going to make a great nation out of you. But then he got real specific and he says in Genesis 15, On that day, the day God promised, the Lord made a covenant with Abraham saying, I give this land to your offspring.

Not to Abraham. To your offspring. And it's from the brook of Egypt. There it is, a little Nile. To the Euphrates River. Here's the Euphrates River. Now, for those of you that don't understand geography, today, see this little dark green or whatever that's called?

That is actually the land of Israel today. Now, God promised Israel, I'm going to give you all that land to your generation unto the thousandth generation forevermore. Well, he, Israel doesn't own that.

I mean, that's Iraq. You know? That's Iraq. That's Jordan right there. That's Saudi Arabia. That's Egypt. So, if they don't have that land that God promised they would hold it forever, what's that mean?

God's not done. Look at this. Watch this. God said in Revelation, He told John, There's coming a time when John saw in a vision, I was giving a measuring read like a rod, with these words, Go and measure the temple of God and the altar.

Notice where it says, and the altar. I'm millennialists. Please explain how there's an altar when this was written in 98 AD after 70 AD. Some of y 'all don't get that, but that's okay. Watch this. Go and measure the temple of God and the altar and count those who worship there.

But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Don't measure it because it is given to the nations and they will trample the holy city for 42 months. Now we're about to get into that big time. Watch this.

Today. Right now. This came off of Google whatever. Right now. Watch this. Here. Right here. Right there is the Wailing Wall. If you go look up your phone, you can look up your phone right now. Live view of Wailing Wall.

And you will see it right now. That is the Wailing Wall. This is the part of the temple complex that Jesus preached in that's still there today. Right here is called the Dome of the Rock. And this is the third most holy site in all of Islam.

Right there. Right back here is called the Al-Asqa Mosque. Right here. Now what's really stinking cool is this. We actually think, well I shouldn't say we, but a lot of guys today actually think this is where Solomon's temple was.

So what's that mean is this. Is the mosque wouldn't have to be torn down for Solomon's temple to be rebuilt. Now some of you don't understand why that's important. Well the reason it's important is this.

If the temple's got to be rebuilt, how can it be rebuilt without putting 1 .2 Muslims in jihad by tearing down that Dome of the Rock? Well what if we could all just get along? What if we could all finally come to a place where we could just agree to disagree and everything would be cool?

You know the guy who could end up making that happen, that dude would be a pretty big stud. So God's not done with Israel because there is going to be another temple. Alright, here we go. And this is where we're going to be for the next 20 years.

The Olivet Discourse and the Abomination of Desolation

Open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 24. We're going to start in verse 15. I encourage you once again, both in intellectual honesty and harmonutical logic, to read all of it, okay? But for right now, start in verse 15 and we're about to rock and roll.

Alright? This is the conclusion looking at the history, the future history of Israel. Oh by the way, please write on your papers or write on your phone, the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Remember last week, I was going to get all into this, I had all these stats, but I knew I didn't have time.

Last week I talked about the 1967 war, about how here's Richard again and all of that table right there and all of this table attacked Richard and he was a little baby because he was only born on May 14th of 1948 and then all of these guys piled on him and in six days Richard whooped them all and on the seventh day he rested.

By the way, that's history, 1967, six day war. Go look it up. Well, the Muslims decided to make it round two and so in 1973 they were all getting together and on Yom Kippur, a high holy day of Israel, they all decided, let's try this again.

And this time they were backed by the Soviet Union and they all attacked Israel again. And this time Israel had a little bit more trouble to be honest with you and it took them two weeks to beat them all this time.

So they tried it again. Eleven nations backed by the Soviet Union and Israel, backed only by the US, took two weeks to beat them all. But it's all a big conspiracy, there really is no God and all of this stuff found in the Bible is just pure luck and coincidence.

So, watch this. In the first part of chapter 24 in Matthew, the disciples come and ask Jesus three questions. You see, they're walking out of the temple. Let me give you a little back story. Is everyone with me so far?

Okay. In Matthew chapter 22 and 23, Jesus is in the temple complex for the last time. He's walking around right in here somewhere. Of course, this thing wasn't there. He's walking around in here, right?

And the Pharisees and the Jews are there and for two chapters, Jesus just calls them out. Calls them hypocrites. Jesus wasn't nice for two chapters, okay? For you 1980's country kitchen Christians, this is going to be really disturbing for you to read those two chapters.

But in reality, Jesus wore them out. So Jesus, they're all walking out of the temple and the disciples come up to Jesus and like, hey dude, man, can you dial it back a little bit? I mean, do you understand?

Look at this temple complex. Look how awesome this is. Jesus looks at them and says, let me tell you something. Not one stone that you see standing is going to be left standing on another. That's how bad it's going to be.

And so they all walk out. They walk down the Kidron Valley. They walk up Mount Olive and the disciples and all the other people are sitting there and Peter, James, and John say, hey man, let's go check Jesus out for a second.

So they all walk up to Jesus because they did it privately because they wanted everyone to think that they already knew all this. And they said, hey, read chapter 24 starting in verse 1. It says, hey, Jesus, we love you and everything.

I'm in Revelation. We'll be there in a second. But it says right here, as Jesus left and was going out of the temple complex, he came up and called his attention to the temple buildings. They replied to him, do you not see all these things?

I assure you not one stone will be left on here on another that will not be thrown down. Verse 3, while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately and said, now listen to the three questions.

Tell us when these things will happen. And what is the sign of your coming? And what is the end of the age? Three different things. They're a little nervous. They're a little scared. Okay. And so they ask him three questions.

The only one I'm going to deal with today is the last one. Really the last two. But when is the end for Israel, for the history of Israel? Matthew 24, 15 says this. So when you see the abomination, we're going to get to this in a second, that causes desolation, spoken of the prophet Daniel, write in your notes Daniel chapter 9, Daniel chapter 11, if you want to read that later.

Standing in the holy place, let the reader understand, then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and a man on the housetop must not come back down to get things out of his house. And a man in the field must not go back to get his clothes.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days. Pray that your escape may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. For at that time there will be a great tribulation, the kind that hasn't taken place from the beginning of the world, or till now, or never will be again.

Unless those days were limited, no one would survive. But for those days will be limited because of the elect. Now we're about to just get a little bit theology and a little bit intellectual. I don't want to bore people, but let me just please encourage you, write stuff down.

Remember I am a fallible, obviously that was ironic, a great example. I'm a fallible idiot. I'm just a dumb white redneck high school dropout. But I'm just one sinner showing another sinner where to find truth.

So I want you to write down and try to think and go back and study on your own. Okay, please do that. Please, especially my church people, please become intelligent. Please study what you say you believe in.

It was funny, we were at a church yesterday morning handing out food to people who needed food. And there were a bunch of Christians there and I asked this Christian, I was like, why are you a Christian?

And he said, well, because I accepted Jesus. I said, can you find that in scripture? Well, no. Okay, so why are you a Christian again? Well, because Jesus is in my heart. Can you find that in scripture?

No. Okay, why are you a Christian? And he couldn't answer the question. Guys, that's sad. It's really sad. And by the way, when you don't know stuff like that, your mind gets filled up with half-truths and you end up sounding like a hypocrite and idiot and you get all arrogant and then arrogance leads to depression and you repeat the cycle for the rest of your life with the caveat of you've ruined the children that you're going to have later.

Anyways, moving on. A little side sermon there. Moving on. Now, it says here there's going to be an abomination of desolation. Okay. Then number two, it says this. If you're in Jerusalem get out. If you're out of Jerusalem don't go back.

Alright. What is the abomination of desolation? And I know this is going to irritate y 'all but stay with me. It is basically this. In Daniel chapter 9 and Daniel chapter 11 it talks about in the temple complex a man a man of walleness and second Thessalonians but a man's going to come up into the Holy of Holies and he's going to desecrate the temple and then it says this.

He's going to stand in the temple and proclaim himself as God. Now, some Christians think that this has already happened. That's all past. That's already happened. Well, just looking at this, here's a problem with that.

Just looking at the text we have. Remember, using history and hermeneutics instead of your feelings or your theology. Number one, if this happened in 70 AD that's when a lot of people say this already happened what happened is the Romans came down to Jerusalem they surrounded Jerusalem and for two years laid siege to it and then killed everybody that was home.

Now here is God, Jesus Christ giving you advice on what to do when that happens. If you're surrounded, Jesus says by the Roman army, if that's what he was talking about, his advice to you is to run out of the city.

Watch this. You're safe behind the walls. Here are all the bad guys surrounding you. Jesus' advice for you to stay safe is run out to them. Hmm. Hmm. No. I don't think that's good advice. By the way, some Jews did do that.

Josephus actually writes that a lot of Jews did do that and the Romans crucified them around the city. Second thing, he said that this time would be so bad that in the history of Israel there would be nothing that would ever be as bad as that.

70 AD, 40 ,000 Jews were killed inside Jerusalem. 40 ,000, that's a bunch. 40 ,000, that's not that many. I know you're sitting there going, oh, that's gross. Well, there was this thing called the Holocaust.

Y 'all remember that? Rena remembers. Happened back in 19, from 1935, I'm sorry, 1939 to 1945. Six million Jews. And really, I know that's what we all, I know that's what we all hear about, but Hitler and the Jews was a lightweight.

Stalin killed ten times that many. Okay?

Hitler was just the guy, Stalin killed a lot more Jews than that. And remember Stalin and Hitler.

Are just in a long line of people all the way back almost to that garden guy when he said, hath God really said? And he started jacking with the line of Adam all the way down. And throughout all of written human history, Jews have been hated and persecuted.

Now, that doesn't make them special to me, but it does make the word of God come alive when he said that's what's going to happen. Now, if this has already happened, then God lied. So there is no way that you can compare what happened in Jerusalem in 70 AD to 1945.

So you know what that means? God is not done yet. By the way, here's another little cool thing. Oh, wait a minute. No, not yet. Here's another little cool thing. In the Old Testament, God said that the Hebrew language would become pure again.

You got to remember Jews came from everywhere all over the world in 1948 to come back, but they all speak in Russian and Sudanese and whatever. You know, Mexicanese. They were speaking all these eases from all over the world.

And they came back to Israel. Now, here's what's really cool. In 1948, they reestablished the infrastructure, but you know what they did? They reestablished the Yiddish language. And today, Hebrew is spoken in the old tongue just like they did way back in the times in Babylon.

But I guess the Bible got lucky on that too. Oh, and also it said this. Watch this. This is so cool. Back in Jeremiah, it says one day, not only would Israel be a nation again, but they'll have the shekel back.

That's a form of money. Right? Go type in your phones right now. Google Israel shekel. 20 years ago, Israel reinstituted the shekel as a form of monetary payment. But once again, I guess that's a coincidence.

This is where all you collectively go, I know. Here's the thing, guys. You're waiting to be entertained when the truth of God's Word, not for me, I'm an idiot, but prophecy after prophecy after prophecy after prophecy after prophecy is coming true in our lifetime.

But you see, you've heard this so much. And God and your Christian life are so bland that Jesus Christ, just like in the days when He walked the earth, can be standing right in front of you, you would still yell crucify Him instead of fall down and worship Him.

Because our minds treat with contempt the things that are God. Because it calls us to a place of obedience and service rather than elevate us to a place of pride and being served. And so the very thing that God calls us and warns us about, I mean, think about it.

Do y 'all actually believe everything I'm telling you right now? Okay, great. How many people have you witnessed to about this in the last 48 hours? Go. So let me ask you again, do you really believe?

Because like the virus thing? Oh my gosh! It's on every news outlet. Everybody and their mom is talking. We just had a family quit our church because I won't kick people out for not wearing masks.

Because masks are important. All people are dying and going to hell right now. Right now.

About five people died without Jesus. But, pastor, when are you going to shut up so we can go home and eat something and watch TV? We have been lulled to sleep, church. I got more people that are concerned about a style of worship.

How many of y 'all were offended at drums today? The first person that sends me an email about doing drums, I'm going to come and punch you in the face for lying. I'll be honest, I couldn't stay up on the pulpit, man.

It was hurting my ears so bad. I could come stand here and be Mercedes. But you know what? I don't care. We have got our minds focused on so many stupid things. The truth of God's word. I got to keep going.

I'm going to close with this. Why did the time get so fast? Read all of Matthew 24 and its parallel passage is found in Revelation 6. I'm going to do this and I'm done. I promise. Let me do these last six things and I'm done.

Well, no, no, no. I'm done. Hold on. Watch this. In Matthew 24, Jesus is sitting there and says, you're going to hear wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes, plagues. It's going to be dogs sleeping with cats.

It's going to be horrible. You go to John, the book of Revelation where John wrote this. John was there in Matthew 24. Jesus was talking to him. John wrote this and Jesus is talking to him again. And he fleshes it out.

He gives more details about what Matthew 24 is. Here, go to this little picture. I'm going to do these real quick. I'm just going to run through them. You write. Write them down and learn something. The first seal is opened and I believe it happens right here.

Right there. Basically, it's like this. What if we're all sitting in this room right now? How many of y 'all watched the Memphis State game last night? Who won, by the way? Memphis won? Wow, and they played a powerhouse team.

Guys, how many of y 'all are UT fans besides me? So, the elect of God. So, watch this. Watch this. What if right now, as I was finishing this sentence, suddenly every UT fan in this room suddenly disappeared?

Right, right. Baby, you're going to be here doing the rapture anyways. Don't worry about it. But for the rest of you, you would suddenly huh? Yeah, you probably wouldn't notice. Yeah. That and probably get confused with the whole solar system.

But guys, watch this. Listen. If ten people in this room suddenly disappeared, somebody in this room is going, holy mackerel. Of course, most of you would reach for the left behind series rather than the Word of God, but but, you would be a little on the scared side.

Okay? But don't worry. You'd have the deacons to comfort you. Guys, that's what's going to happen. You remember when 9 -11 happened? We weren't black or Mexican or white or Presbyterians or cops or we were whatever.

We were Americans. Right? M-E-R-K-A-N. Americans. There is nothing that unites a divided people like a common enemy. Psychology 101, history of mankind for 6 ,000 years. Ain't nothing that's going to happen.

I promise you there's going to be some cataclysmic event and this individual is going to stand up and go, can we all get along now? Can we please? We have a common enemy. I'm not going to speculate on that.

Can we all get along now? And here's what we're going to do, guys, to validate that, hey, the Muslims and the Christians are going to take the lead and the Jews are going to take the lead and in a city, the only city.

In the world that is physically.

And geographically divided by religion, we're going to come together. Right now. Over me. And they're going to build, I believe, a little temple right here. I believe that's going to happen. And for three and a half years this place is going to be jamming.

Oh, it's going to be awesome. Everybody's going to be, it's going to be like the 1970s hippie style. It's going to be, you know, Ricky is going to be awesome, man. Ricky's going to fit right in. And then as with every human being in the history of the world, they start believing their own press.

They start believing they all that in a bag of chips. And they're going to start doing this, right? I'm more important than everybody else. And I believe that second seal is going to be opened and that same guy is going to stand in that temple that's rebuilt right there and on television he's going to go, guys, I got something to tell you and this will help explain why those people disappeared and all this happened.

I am God. I am God. And the Bible says the whole world is going to follow after him. You see, here's what's really cool. Science to me is super cool. I love science. I think it's just awesome guac flash fire, okay?

The only thing more awesomely cool than science is history, okay? But watch this. There are so many skeptics now and everyone hates religion, and justifiably so. Everybody is just, but all of that is going to take a knee when a couple million people are gone.

The impossible is going to now seem possible. The things that don't fit in a petri dish or a book are to become more relevant and more believable. And so when this guy stands up and says, I am God, everybody is going to go, lovely, lovely, lovely.

And then he's going to do this. No more sacrifices to Yahweh. No more worshipping Allah. No more worshipping Jesus. All you folks are going to worship me. And it's funny. The very next verse, it talks about this cataclysmic war that opens up.

Which is a logical progression of that thought process. I'll let you read the rest. My favorite one in the whole world and I'm just, I got to read it to you. It's that fifth or that sixth seal. Because to me it makes such sense and I'm such a military and history nerd anyways.

But basically it says this. The star, where am I? Right here. Starting verse 12. Then I saw him open the sixth seal. A violent earthquake occurred and the sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat's hair.

The entire moon became blood red and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as fig tree drops the sun like fruit shaken by a high wind. The sky separated like a scroll being rolled up and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

Now I believe that's nuclear war. You can go look that up on your own. But watch what it says. It says the people of the earth, by the way, stars falling from the sky. You ever seen a nuclear explosion that rolls up?

I mean it's not that hard to see that John's looking at something and trying to write down what he's seeing, right? It's so cool. But once again this is all fake for you. But anyways, here's what it says.

The people will hide and this is what they say. They hide their face from the Lamb of God. There are people that will know there is a God, know his name is Jesus, and still go forget you. By the way, I've seen some of your children and grandchildren do it.

So it's not that stretch of an imagination. Our pride will turn to hatred. Our sin and self elevation will turn to bitterness. When you keep looking inside to try to find truth and you don't find anything but your black, crusty, sin-filled heart, you get angry.

You get bitter. When you have no boundaries, you become angry and you become bitter. And that's what's happening in the world today. Guys, I'm going to ask the music dudes and the pastors to come up here, but as they're moving, ADD people especially, look right here.

Look right here. I am not asking you to be a member of my church. I'm not asking you to come down some stupid aisle and ask Jesus Christ into your heart, which is found nowhere in Scripture. I'm asking you in the name of Jesus Christ, every bit of mercy that is possible to submit yourself to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Well, pastor, I did that. Dear Jesus, come march. Amen. It's not a prayer. It's a lifestyle. If you're one of those people that say, I believe in God and I'm kind of spiritual, and you think that's going to get you to heaven, you're not reading Scripture.

You're listening to your feelings and the idiot ramblings of a world religion today designed to jack you up. The greatest thing Satan ever invented was religion. Get away from it. God, me and Sam Harris agree.

That's pretty sad. Religion is bad. Mr. Yuck sticker. Bad. Okay? If you are not 100%, please listen. If you're not 100 sure right now of where you would go when you die, the church can't save you. A preacher can't save you.

The blood of Jesus Christ can save you. Pastor, I'm not sure how to do that. That's why God invented fat, bald pastors. Okay? Because I can't do nothing for you, but I can point you to where you need to go.

Okay? Remember, I am nothing. Same Spirit of God is in me. Same Spirit of God is in you. Okay? I'm nothing. If you're in this room today and you're not sure where you are going, please today come and get some help.