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Matt Slick reviews the depressing side of eschatology
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We got a full house here tonight. That's nice I guess the topic does generate the attendance doesn't it you guys are really interested in eschatology. All right I plan to be doing some more studies on this and and stuff so What we have here tonight is depressed eschatology because It's gonna be depressing and it's eschatology.
Hence Depressed eschatology. I did not come up with that term, which I wish I had then I could boast about it. But somebody emailed once you call it depressed eschatology. I'm like, yes. That was awesome.
And so that's what it is. I forgot it was I'd give him full kudos for it. But I just forgot his name. Anyway, so We're gonna be doing at least three parts to this. So tonight what I want to do for an hour is go over the issue and the rebel I'm gonna try and make the I will make the case that we're going through the tribulation and then go through the seals the trumpets and the bowls and You can already see everything's there.
You already got all the answers. It's all right there. But what we're gonna do is go through the scriptures and there'll be a lot of redundancy I want you to see from the Word of God and Next week my plan We'll see how it goes.
I'm doing a lot of frantic preparation for this the plan is to do an analysis of the Christian Church and I'm going to name names and I'm going to mention heresies that are common in the church that you may go to churches teaching heresies and I'm not gonna pull any punches and if you will get offended quite frankly, it's not my problem it's the issue of the Word of God and That's that and in the third week.
I want to do stuff on the condition of our society and the apostasy of our society. I'll be doing a little bit of humanism next week and paganism in our society paganism has taken over in our society and we're gonna be talking about the judgment to come to America it's coming and It's not gonna be fun.
So does that sound really good? Alright, so let's pray We're gonna just jump right in and see how it goes. Lord Jesus, we thank you so much for your great grace. We thank you Lord that you loved and have just Desired us from eternity.
I don't know why you would but I'm grateful Lord that you have and that you've died for us. I know Lord that you said to pick up the cross and follow after you and that we would have tribulation and Lord my goal is To have your words and speak your words for your truth and ask Jesus that That all who would examine this study would do so with a Bible open and checking everything with Scripture.
We ask this Jesus In your precious and holy name. Amen. All right now My glasses so as you can see the opening slide here. I've got over 50 slides so far and It's going to be well over a hundred by time.
I'm done probably and next three weeks. We're only going to go through 40 ish to 50 range. I forgot what you'll see If we get that far tonight. Save your questions for later. Okay, so Deprescotology the end times period is going to be bad and we are going through it.
All right, it is gonna be bad. We are going to go through it. I am NOT the kind of person that will try and ear tickle you. I'm not the kind of person who's going to say here. Here's a nice diaper and a blankie make yourself at home.
I know that a lot of false teachers and pulpits will do that I know a lot of false teachers out there and false converts Will tell you what you want to hear to get you comfortable to get you into the church.
If I were to be suddenly thrust into the pastor to some church with a thousand people I would warn the elders to say let me tell you I'm going to be preaching the truth and the attendance is going to go down when he preached to get rid of the false converts and get the true converts ready to be equipped and Changed to become warriors for the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's what I believe. We're supposed to be doing now. I believe that I really do. I Look every opportunity I can to witness. I eavesdrop whenever I can. So that I can start a conversation. In fact, I was out I think was Friday night or Saturday night last week or wherever it was, but I can't remember and Went out with some friends and I'm using a restroom on the outs.
I had to walk me outside of a ice cream place and I heard I purposely was listening any Conversation to stick my nose in and I literally heard a woman say when I'm ordained. Really you're gonna be ordained.
I'm right in there. Turns out she was in the Anglican Church and gonna be ordained for the a deacon a deaconess. Okay, I'm not gonna go too far on that. Depends on how it's defined and the other girl within 30 seconds goes.
Are you Matt slick? And She records my voice. So maybe I talking and so for an hour I sat there and did a Bible study with them. I've looked for opportunities to witness. I really do. I hope that you would too.
I hope that the Holy Spirit is filling you to such a degree that you've got to speak for him. You've got to live for him. Whatever capacity it might be doesn't mean you have to be witnessing all the time.
But it does mean that you're gonna know your gifts and we'll do that sometime talk about some gifts some other time. So I'm getting page to be on chat rooms. Seriously, I get pages. Okay. So here we go.
The end times gonna be bad. It's gonna be really really bad now. I really spent a lot of time trying to get good graphics over there and It was kind of therapeutic for me because there's so much going on.
Okay, I need to find a good graphic and This is destruction. Okay, I thought it's kind of cool, you know, it's kind of a destruction thing. I don't know if you like that or not, but I thought yeah, that's good and I thought about putting a little you know, a Bambi doe, you know deer prancing and then.
Something I don't but I figured now probably not. You know a little graphic in there. All right. So let's get right into it. There could be two ages. This is the eschatology of Jesus and Paul. Jesus and Paul taught this age in the age to come.
That's what they taught. How many of you have heard that show me your hands. How many have heard that taught in church? Okay, how many have not heard this taught in church? All right. Why have you not heard it taught in church when Jesus says in Mark 1030?
But that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and Farms along with persecutions and in the age to come eternal life. Luke 18 30 who will not receive many times as much at this time or this age and in the age to come eternal life.
This age in the age to come I could spend a lot of time on this. We could go through the issue of this age and the age to come. This is the eschatological position that is presented by Paul the Apostle.
It's the eschatological position that is presented by Jesus. Now, why is it that the churches aren't teaching this? I'll tell you why because there are too many are loyal to the traditions. Too many are loyal to things that they have been taught and haven't fully examined.
And so what they do is they just tote the line the traditional line. They've been in whatever it is, and they keep going forward. One of the nice things about my past. It's gonna sound odd. I moved 26 times before I was 12 years old and I went to 12 different Elementary schools.
My move here to Idaho was number 40 dead serious now. I went to Calvary Chapel. I went to non-denominational churches, I went to a Lutheran College and a Presbyterian seminary. I have preached in all kinds of churches and in Southern, California I did pulpit supply for about four or five years.
And I would drive a hundred miles sometimes preaching three churches in one day. And I would go to the elders and say what particular denominational thing do I to be sensitive of here? I wasn't there to offend.
But I would learn that there are certain things that certain we don't go here. We don't go here now. I wouldn't ever preach on something that it would compromise. I mean, I'm not gonna compromise my preaching.
But there's plenty of things to preach. You're just there to fill in the pulpit for one Sunday or a couple of needs. I had any problem with that. But so the thing is I learned that different groups have different affiliations.
No, I was baptized by Chuck Smith. Okay, I used to go to Chuck Missler's Bible study. If you know who Walter Martin was I used to sit under Walter Martin for two three years. I had a privilege of meeting him.
Now I've got all kinds of experience so, you know what because I've had to study Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses and Islam and Christian science and unity and UFOs and the occult and the Raelians and Iglesia Ni Cristo which I haven't published anything on yet.
I've had to go through and look and say they say that about this text. Let me look at the text. I don't have it a nominational thing to go. Hey, what's a denominational answer? What's our traditional answer?
I just go. What does it say? What does it say? That's what I do. And I'm not saying I got everything right. But I'm saying it gives me an advantage of going here and saying well, this is what it says.
I Don't have to. I'm not loyal to anything except my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I'm a hard hardcore five-point Calvinist. I'm not loyal to Calvinism. Okay, I'm not if something better comes along.
I'm there. I'm not loyal to five points. I'm loyal to my Lord and my Savior Jesus Christ. I happen to be a five-pointer because I think that's what the scriptures teach. You don't agree. That's okay.
But I am trying to live according to my convictions before the word before my Lord. That needs to be in the pulpit on a regular basis and I said in the radio today I know I'm preaching a little bit here, but I said in the radio today I said this what every single time I get to the pulpit to preach I'm nervous.
Not about public speaking. I have no fear public speaking the bigger the crowd the better. I'm fine. That's not what scares me what scares me is I'm getting up there to preach the Word of God and He's gonna be listening to me and that bothers me because I'm gonna have to face that judgment.
A lot of people have said to me over the years Matt. You're gonna have a high place in heaven. I said you have no idea. I'll be grateful just to make it and because I am a teacher. I'll be under double judgment.
So I take the Word of God seriously. This is why I want you to do the same thing. That's why I'm showing you. This is what the scriptures say. Now about the study that I'm going to present. I do not have all the answers.
There's stuff in Daniel 6 7 8 9 or stuff in Zechariah. There's stuff in Nehemiah that relates even in Genesis there is stuff all over the place that relates to everything that we're going to be talking about and There's I haven't even put enough stuff in here.
I'm just now realizing I forgot this and I forgot that other things that need to be in here. But we'll get to some stuff later now. The rapture happens, but it's after the tribulation check out what Jesus said but in those days after the tribulation after that tribulation.
The Sun will be darkened. The moon will not give its light and the stars will be falling from heaven and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory and Then he will send forth his angels and will gather Together his elect from the four winds from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.
After the tribulation the elect are gathered. You get that after tribulation the elect are gathered. It's not before. After now some people will say no, I thought the great tribulation. You know. We can go through all kinds of little nuances about this great and that great and not this and whatever it might be.
But I'm gonna tell you he said after the tribulation I want I'd suggest you to do Matthew 24 and Mark 13 go read the context. Go see what's going on because you'll find out that they asked Jesus. What is the sign of your coming?
What is the end of the age? What's a sign of the end of the age and you're you're coming back one coming back. Not two not a half return at the rapture. He kind of comes down a little bit and then goes back up with us so that we can escape the judgment.
That's going to come to this world that we can escape because we're Americans and we don't have any battles and wars on our homeland. We can escape because we're entitled because America's that great we can escape because it suits our needs.
That's not how it works in history. That's not how it's worked with Christians in every single nation that is how it works in the world is that the light is sought to be destroyed by the evil one and This ideology in my opinion a pre-tribulation rapture is not heretical.
But it's dangerous potentially now what I mean is it's dangerous if someone puts their hope in it. Other than Jesus if you put your hope in Jesus, but you believe in preacher praise God. No problem. Okay, who cares really not a big deal.
But if you say no my hope is in pre-tribulation rapture because I'm not going to go through it. And that's what you're looking at. Then you're committing idolatry. You're putting your hope and a blessed hope in in being taken out before Jesus comes before the tribulation occurs instead of in Jesus and going through and enduring now how many of you have gone through crap Tribulation stuff as a Christian.
I certainly have now if God has said right after right before I get saved. Oh, by the way, I Tell you what you're gonna go through because of your faith. Who are you? I'm the Lord God. Okay. So so what's gonna happen?
Oh this. If I sign up this is what's gonna happen. Yeah, well don't I get raptured out. I heard about that from the preacher just now I get raptured out a problem. I don't get to have problems. Do I don't I get a nice bank account?
Don't I get a nice woman? Don't I get a nice car? Don't I get nice health? Don't I get all of that because I have a wonderful life and it's your best life now. Okay. Don't I get that and then it no that's false teaching.
Okay. I can't do God's voice very well. All right. It makes me cough. This should be like no no, I got my yard clippings right there. This is yard clippings folks. There's these juices right here. That's what I call them yard clippings.
I do I call them yard clippings. All right. Oh, wait a minute. Yeah after the tribulation, right? Okay. So wait a minute. Would that go too far? Yeah, there we go. So harvest is at the end of the age.
Then he left the crowds and went into the house and his disciples came to him and said explain to us the parable of the wheat and the tares. Okay the tares in the field and he said The one who sows the good seed is the son of man and the field is the world that as for the good seed.
These are the sons of the kingdom and the tares are the sons of the evil one and the enemy who sowed them is the Devil and the harvest is the end of the age and the Reapers are angels. That's what it says the end of the age the end of the age the harvest is at the end of the age.
So when's the harvest the end of the age? When's the elect gathered at the end of the age? There's two ages this age and the age to come and the age to come eternal life now. We have eternal life right now first John 5 13.
But what is talking about is a full resurrection the full redemption of the body all of that going on. All right, that's what it's talking about the full everything. We're not given in marriage in the age to come that means at the end of This age at the age that we are in now at the end of this age.
That's when the harvest is the harvest is when the angels go out and gather people together. That's what it says now. Let's see Jesus came out of the temple and Was going away for when his disciples came to the point out of the temple building and said he said to them Do you see not see all these things?
Truly I say to you not one stone here will be left upon another which will not be torn down as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately saying tell us when will these things happen the destruction of the temple and what we the sign of your coming and the end of the age.
They even understood the end of the age and He says in verse 31. He will send forth his angels with a great trumpet. And they will gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of the sky to the other.
Now this happens to have to do this trumpet is the last trumpet and you can look on that chart that I've given you. It's the last trumpet and maybe we'll get to this later. Man, I'm thinking you know that I'm thinking I probably should have done a six-week course on this and really gone through slowly.
Maybe I'll think about polishing this up and doing again in a few months if you guys are interested. Yes. No, not yet, it will be it will be all right, so The Rapture comes like we'll get just gives if you don't have the handout.
Sorry, I didn't think people are gonna show up this many people show up. I'll just give your email address to Lindsey raise your hand and She'll give it to me or I'll give you that we'll figure it out.
We'll uh. All right. So let's get back to this. The Rapture comes like a thief. I'm skipping a lot of stuff folks. I could go through the trumpets. I can go through the last trumpet the day of the Lord all this stuff and show you That we're going through the tribulation.
But for now, I'm just going to get through this quickly. This is first. Thessalonians 4 16 2 chapter 5 verse 2. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel with the trumpet of God and the dead In Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and. So we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words now as to the times and the epics brethren.
You have no need of anything to be written to you for you yourselves. Know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. The day of the Lord is the Rapture. He's talking about this.
He's gonna come back with the trumpet and it's a day of the Lord. The chapter break is unfortunate here not a big deal. 2nd Peter 3 10 but the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and The elements will be destroyed with intense heat and the earth and its works will be burned up.
Now wait a minute. Because how it's supposed to be. Where did all the chalk go? Man. No, seriously. Hold on Man. It's not me anymore. Skinny. That line. I can't go over here. Okay. Oh, thank you. All right.
He got me back. All right, we do total of gravity. I'll have you come up here and do show-and-tell. Okay now. All right, so here we have the. We know from the previous verses that the day of the Lord come like a thief.
That's the Rapture the day of the Lord right right there. That's the Rapture. That's what it says. Here it says it's 2nd Peter 3 10 the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens melt away now.
Traditionally what is taught unfortunately here in America is this period that we are here. And there's gonna be a thousand-year reign and then the new heavens are here. But notice the day of the Lord Comes like a thief the Rapture the day of the Lord and new heavens and new earth.
Where is that thousand years? They both are said to occur at the same time. Right there the day of the Lord when the Rapture occurs a day of the Lord. Excuse me. They have Lord that come to a theme for the nights the Rapture they have really come like a thief is that the new heavens and new earth.
The day there's only one the day of the Lord there's only one. Jesus is after the tribulation the elect will be gathered. Look, this is the chart you could look at. I would suggest that what you do is.
You take this chart open up your Bible and simply do this. Just do this. Okay this age. Okay. Age to come. All right. When's the end of the age? The end of the age is here, right? Right there makes sense.
The end of the age is spoken of that's when the judgment of the wicked go you guys check it out. You guys check it out. Go map map it out. Go do your own scripture references. Go look the end of the age is when the judgment of the wicked happens.
So there's judgment. I'm gonna put it here. Judgment at the end of the age. The wicked are gathered at the end of the age. Now talk about that in a second the elect are gathered at the end of the age.
Go check out these scriptures on your own. The harvest is at the end of the age. The new of the resurrection is also at the end of the age. Go check it out. It's right there. Also, Jesus return is at the end of the age.
All this happens at the end of the age. The day of the Lord is the same time as a resurrection. Which is at the end of the age? That's the day of the Lord, right? Day of the Lord where here the day of the Lord is when the new heavens and new earth are made so new heavens.
You see. Might have been done with all this. Hold on. Let's keep going. You see what this says. When you go and you map this out on your own. Go home. Take this sheet. Read through the scriptures draw this up and see what happens.
See if I'm wrong as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man for they were eating and They were drinking and they were giving in marriage to the day that Noah entered the ark and a flood came and took them all.
Away two men will be in the field one will be taken one will be left. That's Matthew 24 in Luke 17 to as it was in days of Noah. So shall it be the days of the coming of the Son of Man for they were eating they were drinking.
They were giving in marriage until the day that no one entered the ark and a flood came and destroyed them all. The ones who are being given in marriage the ones who are doing all this stuff are the ones who were destroyed.
They were the wicked. Matthew 24, we know that the ones who were giving in marriage being married where the ones who were taken are the wicked and In Luke 17, they asked Jesus Where are they taken and he answers them at the end of the chapter in Luke 17 where the body is the vultures gather now.
The reason I'm bringing this up. This is I forget the exact references, but it's Matthew 24 Luke 17. The reason I'm bringing this up is two men in the field one is taking one is left. We are taught all over and over again from church upon church that that's the rapture.
It's not the rapture. Now the rapture occurs that first Thessalonians 4 chapter 16 following that's not the rapture two men the field one taken one is left. The ones who are taken are the wicked and they are destroyed and are taken to a place of judgment and.
Yet what blows me away is that over and over the churches and the Bible studies have gone to over the years oh, that's the rapture and nobody nobody checks. They just say it. They just repeat it. They just believe it and excuse me.
Not only I do this in Bible studies and screw up everybody's Bible studies to the point where it's best if I don't go to a Bible study. Because I screw them up. I ask questions. I challenge them. I give a quote my reference.
They don't like it. They're polite. But when I walk in they don't say much anymore. And then it turns out man, is that okay for us to say it was it was it where we write about that? I don't want that.
I want them to go to the word and check. Why is it that so many people are believing this pre-trib thing is out of Matthew 24 Luke 17 when it's not. The point is are we being Bereans act? 1711 the Bereans were more noble-minded because they checked even what Paul the Apostle said against scripture.
I want you to check what Reverend slick says against the scriptures. You check what I say against the scriptures. That's your obligation and that's your duty. You check what I say against the Word of God if you think I'm wrong.
You come talk to me because maybe I am wrong. I'm not saying that with a challenge. No, maybe I am. I don't have all the answers. I study a lot of things and guess what I mess up. I Thought you're gonna say amen to that because you're right there usually.
So there's more here look. The harvest occurs at the same time as the judgment of the wicked. The judgment is at the end of the age. The weeds are gathered and bird at the end in the age the resurrection of the good is on the last day the resurrection of the good is at the end of the age the resurrection of the good is on the day of the Lord the elect are gathered at the end of the age with the sound of A trumpet at the last trumpet the dead are raised and the rapture occurs.
Therefore the resurrection and the rapture occur at the end of this age, which is a day of the Lord which is his return, which is the last trumpet. This means the rapture happens then, at the end of the age, not seven years prior to it.
We're going through it. Now, if you really want to have some fun, the wheat and the tares go to Matthew 13 30 and allow both to grow together till the time of the harvests. I'll say to the Reapers first, gather the tares.
I didn't put that in here. I'm going to modify my study again and expand this and make it better. The first ones taken when the harvest occurs at the end of the age, the first ones taken at the end of the age are the wicked.
I don't have the verse up. It needs to be there. The first ones taken at the end of the age are the wicked. He says, we'll say to the Reapers, I know you're looking and if anybody's got their Bible open and looking, you will see that's exactly what it says.
First, gather the tares. That's what it says. And gather the wheat into the barn. It says, first, gather the tares. That's what it says. How many have heard that be taught from the pulpit? If I were preaching, if I had my church, if I were teaching, I would teach that.
And you want to know why I teach that? Because that's what it says. That's what it says. That's why. Here's what it says. So this is what I'm going to say now. The first ones gathered are the tares. Why?
Because it says, gather the tares first. That's what I'm going to say. The first ones gathered are the tares. Is this tough? I don't have to, I don't have any loyalty to the denomination. I don't have any Lutheran, Presbyterian, Calvary Chapel, Catholic loyalties.
Catholicism is heretical. I don't have any loyalties to anybody. And I can say what I want. It's really nice having my own radio show. You don't like it? Goodbye. You know my Bible study? There's a door.
You don't like what I'm saying? Turn the channel. I don't care. There are advantages to having Asperger's. Seriously. I have Asperger's. And plus you add that I'm always right about stuff. And that's right.
Lightning bolts coming. Okay, you ready? So we're going through it. Now some of you are going, I'm not so sure still. That's okay. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. The Tribulation. Yep. Tribulation is before the return of Christ.
We're going through the Tribulation. Let's see. Hold on. We'll get questions later. So we're going to go through the Tribulation period. We are going through it. Because the Tribulation normally, okay, normally what people say doesn't really matter.
If you want to say a thousand years, you want to hold on to that, there's a seven year period. Okay? But the elect are gathered here, not here. All right? Everything happens here. Here. Here. Here. I heard that on TV.
Here. Here. No, it's Bill Cosby. Okay. All right. Let's go to the seals. All right? Not Navy seals. All right. Revelation 6, 1 and 2. Then I saw when the lamb broke one of the seven seals and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, come.
I looked and behold a white horse and he who sat on it had a bow and a crown was given to him and he went out conquering and to conquer. First seal, conquering. The second of the seals, Revelation 6 verses 3 and 4, when he broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying come.
And another, a red horse, went out and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth and that men would slay one another and a great sword was given to him. So we have war. Now we have famine.
Revelation 6, 5 -6, when he broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying come. I looked and behold a black horse and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand and I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying a quart of wheat for a denarius and three quarts of barley for a denarius and do not damage the oil and the wine, basically for a day's wage.
Work all day for one quart of wheat. Famine is occurring. The fourth seal, there's death, which makes sense following famine. When the lamb, this is Revelation 6 verses 7 and 8, when the lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying come.
I looked and behold an ashen horse and he who sat on it had the name death and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to him over a fourth of the earth to kill with sword, with famine, with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
So death. Now terror. I looked, this is Revelation 6, 12 -17, I looked when he broke the sixth seal and there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair and the whole moon became like blood and the stars of the sky fell to the earth and a fig tree casts its upright, as a fig tree casts its upright figs when shaken by a great wind.
Now, obviously I'm skipping a lot of things I could focus on, couldn't I? I'm going to have to do this and do a three months course now. There's so much to talk about what the fig tree represents, all this stuff out of the sky.
But anyway, verse 14, the sky was split apart like a scroll when it was rolled up and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb. But the great day of their wrath has come and who was able to stand.
Then there's an interlude. And you can read about that in Revelation 7, 9 to 17. There's no wind on the earth. 144 ,000 for every tribe of Israel. That's a whole nother. I mean, there's so many topics you could just spend a half hour on.
The great multitude of the same are before the throne of God in the interlude. The seventh of the seals, the designation, the time of the seven trumpets, silence in heaven for a half hour, preparation for the seven trumpets.
So the first seal is conquering. Maybe the antichrist is there. We're not sure. Second seal is war. Third seal is famine. Fourth seal is death. Fifth seal is martyrdom. Sixth seal is terror. Seven seal trumpets begin.
Let's go to the trumpets. They're all right there for you to check it all out. One first sounded and there came hail and fire mixed with blood and they were thrown to the earth and a third of the earth was burned up and a third of the trees were burned up and all the green grass was burned up.
The second of the seven trumpets, one third of the sea is destroyed. Revelation 8 verses 8 and 9. The second angel sounded and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea and a third of the sea became blood and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died and a third of the ships were destroyed.
Maybe that's an asteroid. Who knows? Asteroid that breaks up and hits multiple oceans. Who knows? If you guys know, an asteroid just passed within a million miles of earth enough to cause global calamity.
If you guys are aware of that, it just passed. A third of seven trumpets, Revelation 8, 10 and 11. One third of the water is destroyed. The third angel sounded and the great star fell from heaven burning like a torch and it fell on a third of the rivers and the springs of waters.
The name of the star is called Wormwood and a third of the waters became Wormwood and many died from the waters because they were made bitter. The fourth seal, one third of the heavens are darkened, Revelation 8, 12 and 13.
The fourth angel sounded and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third of it and the night in the same way.
Then I looked and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven saying with a loud voice, whoa, whoa, whoa to those who dwell on the earth because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound.
So what it looks like is, I would say, I'm not saying it is this, but it makes sense. An asteroid, some large meteor hits because waters all over the world are destroyed, a third are gone, a third of the ships are destroyed, a third of the oceans are destroyed and the skies darken to some degree.
It makes sense that it's going to be a celestial impact. Is that what it's going to be? I don't know. Some will say, Matt, this is all spiritual stuff about angelic stuff and then you get into full preterism and I'm not going to get into all, there's all kinds of varieties of explanations.
Generally speaking, prophecy is literal. So I like this last statement here. Whoa to those who dwell on the earth because of the remaining blasts. What? What, this isn't bad enough? Everybody's going to be coming here to Idaho because we're going to be fine here.
Now this is a little bit of a longer one. This is Revelation 9 verses 1 through 12 and I know it's small print. Sorry about that, folks. I'll read it. Then the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him.
He opened the bottomless pit and smoke went up out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth and power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have power and they were not permitted to kill anyone but to torment for five months and the torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.
The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like the hair of women and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
Don't ask me what all this means, folks. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses rushing to battle. They have tails like scorpions and stings and in their tails is a power to hurt men for five months.
They have as king over them the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek he has the name Apollyon. Pretty grim, isn't it? Something bad is going to happen. I've heard theories. Oh, well, it's a new weapon coming out.
It's a black hawk helicopter. It's whatever. Maybe. I'll just throw some other things for fun. Maybe it is genetic experimentation gone bad. They are already starting to move genes from one species to another and let me tell you a story.
I took classical Greek in college and classical Greek makes pointed Greek look like kindergarten and anybody can speak classical Greek. It's impressive. Flat out. And there was this one guy who would come into class but he'd only show up for tests and he would ace them all the time.
So I'm studying 18 hours every day. No food, no sleep. Forgot what my wife looked like and I can barely pass and I'm not stupid. Of course, I was taking everything else, 27 units, whatever. I said to this guy, hey, how come you can do this?
And it took me a while to jimmy this out of him and he said, and he wasn't boasting. He goes, look, our family, we're all geniuses. And he was humble about it and I go, okay, I can see that. And I said, so what do you do?
He says, he reads the book the first day. That's all he has to do. He just shows up for the tests and answers everything. Then he leaves. So he has an arrangement with the college to do just that. Doesn't have to go to class.
Just reads the books, shows up for the tests, aces them and goes on. And I said, must be incredibly wonderful to be that smart. And he said, oh, I'm the dumb one in the family. And I said, what do you mean you're the dumb one?
And they said, the government has my brother. I said, what do you mean they have him? He says, yeah, my brother, they're working on stuff. When I said, what are they working on? And he looked at me and he said, human cloning.
And I stared at him and I said, they've already got it. He goes, oh yeah, they've been cloned. This is back in the late eighties. I know some other stuff. I'm not going to talk about some other things I know, but that's hearsay.
All right. That's all it is. But mankind is such that because of the doctrine of total depravity, which is revelation out of scripture, the nature of man is that he's ungodly, is full of evil. Without the spirit of God upon him, within him, he will seek evil one way or another.
And on the human level, sure, an atheist can give a guy's wallet back. But on the divine level, nobody does anything good. Romans 3, 10, 11, and 12. The heart's desperately wicked, deceitful. No man can trust it.
Jeremiah 17, 9. We are by nature, children of wrath, Ephesians 2, 3. The only reason that the world isn't already dead is because of the mercy of God. Now, Jesus, excuse me. God said in Genesis 2, 17, the day that you eat of this fruit, you will die.
Talking to Adam, they ate of the fruit. They died that day. The death that they suffered was the separation between them and God. And that's Isaiah 59, 2, Ezekiel 18, 4, Romans 6, 23. These verses talk about dying and separation from God.
Now, I personally have the opinion that things are going to get so bad, and we'll talk about this next week, that if God doesn't come back and stop it, we're going to kill ourselves. That's what I honestly, absolutely believe.
That mankind will destroy itself if Jesus doesn't come back. Because I believe it's a gigantic, historical, prophetic, I told you so. The day that you eat of this, Adam, and he represented us. First Corinthians 15, 22, Romans 5, 18.
He represented us. He's talking to us. It's our way. It's our nature. One more thing about this in Apollyon. I have a quote on my website, Jehovah's Witness literature. Apollyon is a good angel to them.
Look it up on my website and you'll see. Let's move on. And the sixth trumpet is way too much to read. It's Revelation 9, 13 through chapter 11, verse 14. I just summarized it. We have verses 14 through 19.
Four angels released, 200 million men army, where a third of mankind is killed by three plagues. We'll find out later that the Euphrates River is dried up. There's a dam on the Euphrates River right now, and it can divert the Euphrates River.
The 200 million man army can only be populated by China, which is on the east. Probably comes through. Probably what's going to happen. In chapters 11, chapter 11, one through six, two witnesses who prophesy for 1260 days and shut up the sky so there's no rain.
I'm not even going to get into the 1260 days thing. Don't have time. This was meant to be a single hour of how to depress you, and now it's turning into a little bit more. I'll probably get into this stuff later.
The two witnesses are killed, and then two witnesses resurrect after three days, three and a half days. There's going to be a great earthquake and 7 ,000 people killed in a particular city. All right.
In the seventh trumpet, then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, the kingdom of the world has become like the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.
The 24 elders, that's probably the church, who sat on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, we give you thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.
Now, this is a little bit of a problem for me and my amillennialism, just to be honest. I believe Christ is reigning now. He says this kingdom is not of this world, and Satan was bound when he was here, Matthew 12, 22 -32, and so here he says he's about to take his reign.
So I could then say, well, maybe it's a kind of reign that's a little bit different than the kingdom now, and we get in some differences. But let me just tell you, I don't have any problem admitting, hey, you know, this is a problem for my view.
All right. Every view has problems. No single view has every answer. Okay. Just let you know that every view has its issues. So just you guys have to make up your own mind. I'm just telling you what I believe.
All right. Which seven trumpets summarized? So we have the first trumpet, a third of the earth is destroyed, the second trumpet, a third of the sea is destroyed, third trumpet, a third of the water is destroyed, the fourth trumpet, a third of the heavens are darkened, the fifth trumpet, bottomless pit is opened.
Oh, man, I'm getting depressed. The sixth trumpet, army from the east comes out, and the seventh trumpet, Christ reigns forever. Wait a second. I already messed up, didn't I? Oh, that's right. That's right.
Okay. I've done so many things with this file, back and forth. I hope I don't repeat things or mess up. It looks pretty good. I'm good. It's all good. Okay. Because it's been in my head. It's like, what part am I doing now?
Let's go to the bowls. Seven bowls of wrap. You know, it was really hard to find an old-looking bowl like that. It was. It was hard. But I thought I did okay with that. What do you guys think? That's a pretty good old-looking bowl.
That's good. All right. And that's a nice trumpet. I thought about doing, you know, Satchmo, but I thought that's probably not going to do well. All right. First of the seven bowls, Revelation 16 .2. So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and it worshiped his image.
The mark of the beast. We're going to be talking about that maybe later. It depends on how much longer we go. But the Antichrist, because I got some interesting stuff to say about the Antichrist. Right out of the Bible.
The second of the seven bowls, Revelation 16 .3. The first one was Revelation 16 .2. So this is Revelation 16 .3. The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
Now, before, a third of the things in the sea died. Now, every living thing in the sea dies. Do you realize what's happening? The earth is dying. It's dying. If the oceans die, we're dead. The oceans are where our water comes from.
It's the food chain, you know, for the ocean. Okay. That's dead. We only have that which can grow on land, and a third of that's already gone, and a third of the waters are already destroyed. Now, this is not comforting.
This is not your best life now crap. It's not comforting, and this is disturbing. When I was doing this, I'm like, jeez, I don't want to go through this, and I don't want to go through it, and I don't, but I believe that God has a way of preserving us through tribulations.
He has a way, and I'm trusting him. If he allows us to suffer before him and before people, say we're captured. What if I'm captured because I say homosexuality is a sin, because it is, and Islam is an evil religion, because it is.
What if I say that, and they arrest me, and they send me to a camp for adjustment, and I don't adjust. Then what are they going to do? Hitler already had a way, and the Muslims, they like to behead. Who knows?
Who knows who's going to be in control, because the Antichrist, if he's in control, we'll get into that. Make a deal with the covenant out of Daniel 9 27 with Israel. Who knows what's going to happen, how it's going to happen, who it's going to be made with, who are going to be the ones.
Now I'm not saying, hey, I will do fine if I'm captured, and they're going to behead me. I'm not saying, yeah, no sweat, bring it on. I'm not saying that. I'd be looking, how can I get out of this situation?
If God decrees it, that that's to happen to me, then so be it. I don't want it to happen. Nevertheless, not my will be done, but your will be done. This is what we have to face. We're willing to pick up our cross, Luke 9 23, Matthew 10 48.
You're willing to pick up your cross and fall after Christ, or pick up your best life now and fall after Joel Osteen and the false converts that are all across America. You wait. When we get to the issue of the church and its apostasy, I'm going to name names like Joyce Meyer.
I'm going to name names like the Pope, Kenneth Copeland, some other false teachers out there. And I just don't have enough time, sorry, to do what I want to do. Let's just go on. So the sea became blood.
I already read this one. The third of the seven bowls, Revelation 16, 4 -7, waters become blood. This is reminiscent of one of the other ones we already said. And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of the waters, and it became blood.
And I heard the angel of the waters saying, righteous are you who are and who were, O holy one, because you judged these things where they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets and you have given them blood to drink.
They deserve it. And I heard the altar saying, yes, O Lord, the almighty, true and righteous are your judgment. Did you know that we're called the saints? Go to 1 Corinthians 1, verses 1 and 2, to the church in Corinth, to all and everyone who are called saints.
Hagioi, that's us. Fourth of the seven seals, people scorched by the sun. The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun and it was given to it to scorch men with fire. Men were scorched with fierce heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues.
And they did not repent, so as to give him glory. Now, who knows what this is? Maybe some of the celestial problems that we're having. And our ionosphere is destroyed. I don't know. The magnetic whatever is destroyed and the cosmic rays get in.
I don't know. I don't know, but it's bad. Revelation 16, 10 to 11, fifth of the seventh bowls, when the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast and his kingdom became darkened and they gnawed their tongues because of pain.
And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. And they did not repent of their deeds. Now, this is talking about the unbelievers, not the believers. There's hope, okay, because they would not repent.
We've already repented. Now, the pre-trib rapture people got it easy. It doesn't apply because we're not here. Really? Go do the chart, put it all together, and see are we here or we're not here. Six of the seven bowls, Revelation 16, 12 through 16, the Euphrates is dried up, Armageddon.
The sixth angel poured out his bowl in the great river of the Euphrates and his water was dried up so that they would, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east. And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs, for their spirits of demons performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them together for the war of the great day of God the Almighty.
Behold, I'm coming like a thief. Notice that phrase. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes so that he will not walk about naked. That's due with righteousness, folks. And men will not see his shame.
And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Armageddon, or you know it as Armageddon. Three unclean spirits like frogs. What do frogs do? Hop. Two men in the field. One is taken, one is left.
Maybe. Where are they taken? Place of destruction, Jesus says. At the end of Luke 17. Could this be similar? Could this be what's going on? Don't know. How many of you have been to Israel? You've been to Israel.
Have you seen Megiddo? The valley? Okay. We're going to try and go in 2018. So if you guys want to go, let me know. We're trying to go set up something for about a year and four months from now to go to Israel.
I've been there before and if I go, I'll be teaching and things like that with some others that we're trying to set it up from people in Utah. Now, Megiddo. I can still see it. We're up on the hills and I'm looking down.
I wanted to see Megiddo, the valley. And so walked up and I took a mental picture. I got pictures too. A mental picture. I've been there. Wow. It is huge. It is a valley. It's like a bowl and the armies of the world can gather and not even fight because there's just enough distance and they come down in the middle and they fight.
Been there. You got to go. I've seen Golgotha. I've seen it with my own eyes. I've walked through the tunnel of Hezekiah. I've seen this hillside where Judas was hung. It is enlightening. Hope you can make it.
Hope I can make it. Should be able to save up and do what we got to do. And this is my brag. Sorry, this is braggy-ish. Complete narcissistic braggy-ish. You know what the Kumon caves are, right? Where the Dead Sea Scrolls are found.
I actually was able to hike up and go into Kumon Cave 1. In. Oh, that to me is like, yeah, take that. I've been in Kumon Cave 1. And I just love the idea. I don't know why. All the other stuff I've seen.
And let's get back into that. See, as soon as I boast, look what happens. Yeah. Okay. That's weird. Oh, I touched that. That's what did it. Okay. So the Euphrates River's dried up. Looks like Armageddon is going to happen.
Looks like the 200 million man army is coming out. It looks like that's it. All right. Seventh of the Seven Bowls. And the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air and a loud voice came up out of the Temple of the Throne saying, it is done.
And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there was a great earthquake. Notice it says a great earthquake. Is it a world earthquake or is it a local earthquake? That from a certain perspective, I don't know.
Such as there had not been since man came upon the earth. So great an earthquake was it and so mighty. The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations fell. Looks like it's going to be global.
Babylon the Great was remembered before God to give her the cup of the wine of his fierce wrath. And every island fled away. I'm not moving to Hawaii, incidentally. And the mountains were not found. And huge hailstones, about 100 pounds each, came down from heaven upon men.
And men blasphemed God because of the plagues of the hail, because this plague was extremely severe. A hundred pounds? Man! Now, I won't get into that. I was not going to say something stupid. Trust me, it was stupid.
Okay. The first bowls, sores. The second bowl, seas become blood. The third bowl, waters become blood. The fourth bowl, people scorched by the sun. Fifth bowl, darkness. Sixth bowl, Euphrates dried up.
Armageddon. Seventh bowl, earthquake and hailstones. So, here's a little chart. Seals, conquering, the war, famine, death, martyrdom, terror, trumpets begin. The trumpets, column, third of the earth is destroyed.
A third of the sea is destroyed. Third of the water is destroyed. A third of heavens are darkened. Bottomless pit is open. Two hundred million men, army from the east, Christ's reign is foreseen. The bowls, we have the sores, the seas become blood, the waters become blood, people scorched by the sun, there's darkness, Euphrates dried up, Armageddon occurs, earthquakes, or earthquake should be, and hailstones.
Now, you can see that there's similarities between the seals, trumpets, and bowls. And when you look at each paragraph, because I've only summarized, how do you take a whole paragraph when there's lots of stuff in it and summarize it into one word?
For the chart. So, it's not that easy, but you can see as we went through stuff, there's a lot of similarity. And some people think that these are just simply different perspectives of the same basic events.
Maybe, maybe not. This is a tough topic to nail down everywhere. We haven't even gotten into the promises to Israel. We haven't even gotten into the promises of the church. We haven't got into the mark on the Christian, even.
There's lots about this. Then the rebuilt temple. There's a lot about this. I'm going to be continuing to have to study this and put things together. Probably take me months before I'm be halfway competent, I would say.
All right. Now, we've been about an hour right now, so we have an opportunity for me to quit. And then next week, I can start on the Antichrist, or I can spend 10 minutes and talk about the Antichrist.
Antichrist? How many want the Antichrist? Oh, I tricked you. I tricked you. Aha. Oh, you're all heretics. Man. Oh, that's right. Eat your own way. That's true. That's right. Okay. You're ready? What's that?
Who? Oh, I'm the deceiver. I'm the tricker. I tricked. All right. Actually, it kind of occurred. Hey, wait a minute. While I'm saying this, I could, okay. All right. So, let's go to something here. Let's see how long we can get to this.
Let's just keep going. It'll probably take a little bit longer, 10 minutes. I think it's worth it. Because events in time to the tribulation, we're going to have the spirit of the Antichrist, the apostasy of the Antichrist.
And I'm going to go over a little bit of each of these right now. But next week, the apostasy of the church, I'm going to go into them in detail. All right. So, here's the spirit of the Antichrist right here.
1 John 2, 18. Children, is that a nice kind of Antichrist figure there? That's kind of spooky-ish. Yeah. Okay. Children, it is the last hour. And just as you heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrist have appeared.
From this, we know that it is the last hour. In 1 John 4, 3. And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming and now is already in the world.
Now, you need to read 1 John 4, saying that Jesus is not the Christ who's come in the flesh. Jesus. Now, this is John who wrote this. And John says, in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God.
The Word was God. The Word became flesh. So, what he's talking about here is the incarnation. What the spirit of the Antichrist is, is denying the incarnation of Jesus as God in flesh. So, who's the spirit of the Antichrist?
The Jehovah's Witnesses. Absolutely. Who's the spirit of the Antichrist? The Mormons. Because the Mormons are not teaching the true and living God is becoming flesh, but a God. They're the spirit of the Antichrist.
Now, ultimately, the Roman Catholic Church is too, but for different reasons, not because of what's listed here. And every group and every individual that denies that Jesus Christ is God in flesh is of the spirit of the Antichrist.
The attitude and the spirit of Antichrist. They are the enemies of the gospel. So, last night, I'm on the web. I'm talking to some atheists. And I was paged in to, you know, can you talk to these guys?
And I talked to them. And I said lots of things over about a half hour period, 20 minutes, half hour period. But I said, I mean, I gave intellectual defenses, I gave biblical defenses. And I came back and I said, look, you guys don't want God.
You don't affirm Him. You want your own sovereignty. You deny who Jesus is. I didn't say you're the spirit of the Antichrist. But I said, you have been given over to a judgment upon your mind. Romans 1, 18 -31.
You need to read this. And I said, guys, I'm not angry at you. I don't hate you. I'm not pointing fingers and saying, yeah, yeah, yeah. My heart goes out to you. You're lost. And I don't want you to go to hell.
You are on your way to hell because you're denying the true and living God. And judgment's coming. And I said it, I meant it. And I said, I'm not trying to be offensive. I'm just telling you, this is what's in store for you.
This is what's in store for you. And they received it as a loving warning. All right. Now, the other side of me could have said, you guys are of your father, the devil. You deny the true and living God.
And you are on your way to hell. And the judgment is upon you right now. And you're working even harder to make others just as much children of damnation as you yourselves already are. And both of those would have been true.
How strong do we want to be? That's up to you and the Holy Spirit, what you want to do and how you want to say it. But this is something we've got to understand. We as Christians have to have the guts to be able to say what the truth is.
Women are not to be pastors and elders. Homosexuality is not an acceptable alternative lifestyle. Islam is a dangerous and evil religion. The Roman Catholic Church is apostate and false. Paganism is running rampant.
Our country has given up on God and has adopted pagan philosophies and judgment is coming to it. And we who are in it are going to suffer through it as well, because that's what happens to Christians all over the place.
Even as Rome was falling, Christians were being persecuted. Don't think we're going to escape it because we're Christians and we're here in America. Don't think it. Now, many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ is coming in the flesh.
This is a deceiver and the Antichrist. The spirit of the Antichrist, that's what it is, a chronology of events here. In 2 Thessalonians 2, the arrival of the Antichrist is in accordance with the apostasy of the church.
You can see it in the yellow on the left. And I can read this whole thing, but I'll just get down to verse 3. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it, that's the return of Christ, will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.
So, concomitants or simultaneous arrival, apostasy of the church, this is why next week I'm talking about the apostasy. It has to happen before the Antichrist can come in. You understand? The Antichrist can't have his place if the church is doing his job, but he's coming.
And the reason he's coming is because the church isn't doing his job. You know, I'm almost unbiblical on purpose. Jesus is coming back, the Antichrist is coming, new heavens, new earth, but I'm trying to push it back as far as possible, single-handedly.
I am fighting against all of this stuff, and I'm pushing back. I feel like I got a paper towel, there's a tidal wave, and I'm like, yeah, see I stopped a little bit of it. One drop. I will fight until I can't fight anymore.
I can't keep quiet about my Lord. I can't keep quiet. I've got to say more about Him. I beg that God use me even more and more and more. I do. I'm 60 years old, and I'm starting to fade, and I hate it.
I want to be around as long as possible to be used by Him as much as possible, and I pray that even my death will bring glory to Him somehow, if it's possible. That's my hope. How can any Christian not have that kind of a hope?
I don't understand that. How can any Christian who is dwelt by God not want that, not, you know, a horrible death? I'm not saying that. I mean, but to be used of God and say, Lord, just use me. Just whatever it is, a musician in a church, setting up equipment, working online, sitting there and doing whatever it is, whatever it is that you're gifting is.
What's that? We love you, AJ. That's right, sometimes. Everybody's got giftings. I don't understand how people can be just haphazard about it. I'm aggressive. Okay, so we have the spirit of chronology of events.
I don't know if this is, well, anyway, the spirit of the Antichrist has to come first, which is already here. The apostasy of the church has to come. We'll be discussing this next week. Now, the Antichrist makes a peace covenant with Israel, stops the sacrificial system, and we have the destruction of the temple, 70 AD.
We've got some things going on about that. Trust me, there's a lot of different things that could be interpreted and understood. This is not that easy. Daniel 9, 27, and when he will make a firm covenant with the many, interesting, go to Romans 5 and look up what the many is, the many for one week.
But in the middle of the week, he will put a stop to the sacrifice and grain offering on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed is poured out.
The one who makes desolate, I guess, yard clippings, crabgrass is in there. So we have Daniel 9, 27. A covenant is going to be made. This is talking about the 70 weeks. Maybe I'll have to do a whole study in the 70 weeks and then the 1 ,260 days and it's so much heresy, so little time, and they got to do this.
We've got so much stuff. Okay, now what I want to do, we got another five minutes or so, I want to talk about who the Antichrist is. And if you're out there listening, you're not going to like what I'm going to imply.
A lot of unbelievers are not going to like it. So, possibly withered right arm and blind right eye, possibly. Zechariah 11, 16 -17, for behold, I'm going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.
Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock. A sword will be on his arm and on his right eye. His arm will be totally withered and his right eye will be blind. Now, some say this is the Antichrist, some say it's not.
I'm putting it in here because I think it leans that way. It may or may not be. I lean towards it being that. On the day of judgment, who's on the left and who's on the right? The goats who are damned are on the left and the ones on the right are saved.
What's destroyed on this man? The right side. Okay? The right and the righteousness, we get a nice little pun in English, it works nicely. But notice what's going on. The right arm, which is a symbol of strength and some other stuff in the Bible, and his right eye, they're destroyed.
Now, some people think that this is an attempt on his life, the Antichrist, and he's resurrected. Okay? He's possibly homosexual, Jewish ancestry, and an atheist who has help from Satan. Wow. Here we go.
Daniel 11, 37 -39, he will show no regard for the gods of his fathers. Now, that implies of Jewish ancestry, but maybe not. But, okay, gods of his fathers, or for the desire of women. Okay? Hence, probably homosexual.
Nor will he show regard for any other god, for he will magnify himself above them all. Any other god, so it looks like he's an atheist. Jewish descent, homosexual, atheist. Okay? I say, no, it's question mark.
And I say possible homosexual, possible this. I'm not saying that's what it is. Maybe, maybe not. Verse 38, but instead he will honor a god of fortresses, of strength, power. Some people think this has to do with Satan.
A god whom his fathers did not know, he will honor with him with gold, silver, costly stones, and treasures. So, maybe he's going to be a Satanist. People say, well, an atheist couldn't be a Satanist.
Yes, they can. That's not our issue. He will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god. He will give great honor to them, to those who acknowledge him, and will cause them to rule over the many.
Here's the phrase again, and will parcel out land for a price. He's going to be in control. He's not going to be a good guy. And I just now said something, a whole bunch of stuff, not politically correct.
So, we don't have to read this whole thing, but Revelation 13, 11 through 18, I'll read the underlying stuff. Looks like he's going to have a fatal wound healed, and performed great signs, mark of the beast, can't buy or sell without the mark.
So, verse 12, he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. A fatal wound was healed.
He performs great signs. What would happen if this great leader... Remember, the church is apostate, and because the church is apostate, the world's apostate, even more so. For the church is the salt.
The salt's lost its saltiness, then there's degradation everywhere. His fatal wound was healed. He performs great signs, and that means the unbelievers everywhere are going to be flocking to believe in him.
And it's going to be, what do you call it, when a crowd goes crazy, what do you call it? Mob? What? Mob mentality. Right. Mob mentality is what I'm worried about. That even fire comes down from heaven, blah, blah, blah.
Verse 14, who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. Down to the place where it's underlined, mark on the right hand, under forehand. You got to receive the mark of the beast. Now, a lot of people don't know this.
I'll go over this quickly. In English, we have, we have one, two, three. We have A, B, C. In Greek, they have alpha, beta, gamma, and these are also one, two, three. As the letters go on, the numbers go on.
So, these are the same. We have two sets. They have one. So, every letter is also a number. So, what is this in English? Right. Zero. It's an O. Now, what is that? Okay. But what is that? The end of a word.
T-I-O-N. Now, it becomes a vowel. Okay. So, you see, we understand the context. That circle means what it means in context, and they did too. So, when you have a word in Greek, you also have a mathematical value, and that's called.
Let's do it in Greek. Sorry. It's called this. I think it's one or two M's. Sorry. Probably one M, but anyway, Gematria. So, the name of the Antichrist in Greek adds up to 666. That's what it means. Six is a number of man.
Man was made on the sixth day. Now, just for fun, this is Jesus. I don't like that. That's Jesus. That's Yesu Christos. When you add up the letters, male is circumcised on the eighth day. Eight people in Noah's Ark.
Jesus was raised on the first day of the week. First one plus seven is eight. We're gonna do this. Yesu Christos. We won't get into too much more. The Antichrist's name in Greek, 666, Immaculate Trinity, Incarnation of Evil.
He's a man, etc. Okay. So, very loosely, Spirit of the Antichrist has got to be here. The apostasy of the church has got to occur. The tribulation begins when the Antichrist makes covenant with Israel, and we're going to be here for it.
We're going to be here through it. That's it. We're going through it. If we're still alive, we'll be through it. Okay. Now, we're done. Okay. That says end for now, but I'm going to show you. This is what we're going to get into next week.
You like that graphic? Is that pretty good? A good graphic for apostasy of the church? You think that's good? See? Okay. What? Lord of the Rings. I had to really work to find that, kind of make it fit.
I need feedback, you know. It's okay. All right. Now, let's see if we can wrap this up a little. Then we'll take a break. Bathrooms are upstairs, and then we'll do Q &A. And let me tell you, I don't have all the answers to all this stuff.
I'm putting it together. I'm seeing what it is, and developing a line that I see the scriptures teach. I already have contradicted a lot of what traditionally is taught. When Jesus comes back, the first one's taken under the wicked.
Two men in the field, one is taken, one is left. That's not the rapture. When the rapture does occur, it's at the same time the day the Lord comes like a thief, which new heavens and new earth are made.
See? I don't teach the normal stuff that people teach, and I try and show it out of scripture. You've got the charts. You've got the stuff, the grids. What I'm going to suggest is take it home and go look at it.
And if we didn't get one, the sheet, the sign up for the emails, and we'll send it out. And for those out there in wherever you are, land, I'll see if I can figure out how to put this on. Yeah, I'll put it on CARM someplace.
Just go to what's new. The what's new section. We'll figure it out. PDF. Okay. She's going to get a link for it. We'll get a link. We'll do stuff. Okay. So let me pray. We'll take a break, five, 10 minute break.
Then we'll do Q and A. Remember, next week, apostasy of the church. We get to that. I'm planning to do the condition of our society. All right. We'll see what the order really is. Lord Jesus, we thank you for your great mercy, for your grace.
I ask Lord that you would be with everybody here, that you would comfort them. Lord, this is sobering. This is difficult. This is not air tickling. It's not comfortable. Lord, I ask that you would, however, let them know how much you love them and how much you desire them to be in fellowship with you.
But sometimes just as you have granted that we believe, you also grant that we suffer. Philippians 129. I ask Lord that you would sustain us and that you would keep our eyes on you and that through our lives, and even if suffering is necessary, that all of it would be for your glory, that it would be for you, Lord.
Lord, teach us to take our eyes off of ourselves and put them on you, to learn how to love you and also learn how to love our fellow men. Jesus, we thank you. We praise you. We ask all this, your precious name.
Amen.