>> Hello, and welcome
to Kingdom Connection.
Thank you so much
for joining us today.
You will not want to miss
this program.
But first, I want to start
today’s broadcast
by asking you
to join me in prayer.
We need to pray
for our brothers and sisters
in the Ukraine.
I believe in the power
of prayer,
this broadcast
goes all over the world.
We need to pray
for the precious
Ukrainian people.
Agree with me right where
you’re sitting,
right where you’re watching
this program.
Lord Jesus,
I pray for the precious people
of the Ukraine.
I pray, God,
for their protection.
I pray for help of the Lord.
I pray for peace.
I pray, God for some kind of,
just divine help
that will come to that people
and let this ministry,
and let all the other people
in the ministries
and the believers rise up
and pray and give and do all
that they can do
to make a difference
for the people in Ukraine.
We thank you for that,
we ask that,
spare the people.
Have mercy, O God,
on the nation of Ukraine.
We ask it in the mighty
name of Jesus.
Amen and amen.
I really believe
today’s message
is going to touch you
and open your eyes.
You’re about to hear
some things
that maybe you’ve never heard,
but it’s right in God’s Word,
and it’s concerning
the last days and prophecies
so call a friend
and tell them to tune in.
This is an extremely
important message
that will open your eyes,
and then I’m gonna come back
in just a moment,
and I’m gonna share with you
some ways that you can help
provide aide to the people
of Ukraine.
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>> I wanna take a few moments
and go to the Book
of 2 Thessalonians 1,
and just 2 Thessalonians 1:7.
And listen to what it says,
we’ll back up to
2 Thessalonians 1:6.
“Since it’s a righteous thing
with God to repay
with tribulation those
who trouble you,”
that’s kind of a neat verse.
If people are troubling you,
and they’re doing it
in an unjust, evil way,
God said, “If they trouble you,”
listen to this, “It is
a righteous thing with God
to repay with tribulation
those who trouble you.”
You better not mess
with God’s people.
And notice what he says:
“And to give you who
are troubled rest with us when
the Lord Jesus is revealed
from heaven with His
mighty angels, in flaming fire
taking vengeance on those
who know not God,
and those who do not obey
the gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
These shall be punished
with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord
and from the glory
of His power,” —
I wanna keep reading,
for just a moment,
and then I’m gonna make sense,
and I’ll tell you
where we’re going.
In 2 Thessalonians 2:1:
“Now, brethren, concerning
the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and our gathering
together to Him,”
that’s talking about
the Rapture, the catching-up
of the saints:
“We ask you, not to soon
be shaken in mind or troubled,
either by spirit,” —
don’t be troubled —
“Either by spirit or by word
or by letter, as if from us,
as though the day of Christ
has already come.”
He’s saying some are gonna
try to deceive you
and tell you, you’ve missed it,
the Lord has already come.
He’s writing to these people,
there were false prophets,
and he said, “Don’t let stuff
going on trouble you.”
2 Thessalonians 2:3.
“Let no one deceive you
by any means; for that Day will
not come unless a falling away
comes first,
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition,”
that is a reference
to the Antichrist:
“who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God,
that is worshiped, so he sits
as God in the temple,
showing himself to be God.”
“For the mystery of iniquity,”
and many translations
translate correctly
that word iniquity,
the mystery of lawlessness:
“is already at work;
only He who now restrains
will do until He is taken
out of the way.
And that lawless one will
be revealed, whom the Lord
will consume with the breath
of His mouth and destroy
with the brightness
of His coming.”
And I know you’re wondering,
what in the world
are you reading all those
verses for?
Because I wanna teach
out of ’em today.
God has stirred my heart,
and I wanna talk to you today
about “Satan’s Master Plan”
in the end times.
Satan’s master plan,
and the first thing I wanna say
to you, as we see the signs
of the times,
as we see the world in turmoil
like it’s never been before,
there are three tremendous
truths concerning
the end times
that are contained in the verses
that I just read.
The stage is set for the drama
of the ages.
We are seeing prophecy
be so fulfilled in such
a rapid pace, it’s almost
like the end times are
in the New York Times every day,
when we pick up the news
and read it,
or watch it on television.
But the first thing that Paul
says we are to do when
we start seeing all of these
things begin to happen,
when we start seeing
the signs of an Antichrist,
and I’ll explain all of that,
coming on the scene.
The first thing he said
in that verse
of 2 Thessalonians 1:7 was,
“Make sure you who are troubled
rest with us.”
He said, “Number one,
don’t be disturbed.
I want you to have peace in the
middle of all the unrest,”
peace in the middle
of all the uncertainty
economically, socially,
in all of the upheaval
we’re seeing politically,
all of that.
He said, “To my people,
I want you,” listen to those
powerful words, he said,
“You who are troubled,
rest with us,”
the King James says.
You who are troubled,
come on in to the camp
of the church,
and into the body of Christ,
and rest with us.
Do not be troubled.
One translation said,
“Do not be disturbed.”
Another one said,
“Do not be dismayed,”
when you begin to see this.
God’s people are not
to be upset, and anxious,
and worried, and fearful.
Keep hope alive.
We have a sovereign God
who is in control,
and He knows what He’s doing.
He has a plan for His children,
and for His church,
and listen, and I wanna put
that verse up over and over,
“You who are troubled,
rest with us.”
I understand your paranoia.
I understand your worry.
I understand your needing
something to help you escape.
If you don’t know Jesus,
I would be highly alarmed.
I would be highly troubled
seeing what we see now,
going on.
But you who are troubled,
come, rest with us.
Rest in the promises of God.
Rest in what Jesus did
at the cross.
Rest in the fact that He said,
“I’m coming back,
in the middle of all of it.
I’m going to let My plan
for My children be released
like never before.”
And so, he says you
are not to allow headline
hysteria to take over your mind,
take over your heart,
and cause you to be fearful
and tormented, and worried,
and afraid.
And I’m saying to you today that
the hope of the world is not
in politics,
the hope of this world is not
in the economy,
the hope of the world is not
in science or medicine.
The hope of the world
is in Jesus Christ,
and His soon return.
For the Lord Jesus
shall appear,”
He said, “Those of you
who are troubled, come,
rest with us.”
And then, the next part
of that verse says,
“For the Lord Jesus
shall appear.”
You know, Jesus,
the One who was crucified.
The One who was spit upon.
The One who was ridiculed.
The One who was nailed
to that hellish tree,
that same Jesus said,
“I am going to appear.
I’m going to appear suddenly,
and secretly, and sweetly,
to My people,
and I am going to catch
them away.”
When the Lord Jesus shall
be revealed from heaven,
the text said, which means when?
When the Lord Jesus shall be —
that means — that’s timing.
And so, I want you to see
that He’s coming on-time.
He’s not gonna be one
second late.
He’s not gonna be one
second early.
As a matter of fact,
the prophet Malachi
in the Old Testament said,
“To you who fear His name shall
the Son of Righteousness,”
listen to this word,
“arise with healing
in His wings.”
Arise is like a reference
to the sun, and the sunset —
or the sun rise comes every
morning at a set time.
Two things about the sun rise.
Number one, you can’t hurry
it up, and number two,
it can’t be stopped.
And the same is true about
the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
He said, “I’m gonna arise
with healing in My wings,”
and you can’t hurry it up,
but nothing can stop it.
Nothing can stop Jesus
from coming again.
He’s coming right on-time.
And I want you to understand
the first thing that He says
is do not be dismayed
by all that is going on.
Have faith in Me.
I will take care of you.
I will provide for you.
I will protect you.
I will defend you.
I will shelter you in My arms.
Do not be dismayed.
And then, secondly, he says,
“And do not be deceived.”
Look at that verse,
in 2 Thessalonians 2,
where he says, “And make sure,”
listen to this verse,
he said: “And let no one
deceive you by any means;
for the Day of the Lord,”
he’s talking about the day
when Jesus comes:
“will not come,” listen:
“unless the falling away
come first, and the man of sin
is revealed,
the son of perdition.”
Now, this is very,
very important.
He said, “Don’t be deceived,
because the devil
is a deceiver.”
One of the things that Satan
will do in the end times
is come as the father of lies.
He will use deception,
but there’s a real revelation.
It said Christ will not come
until, first, the Antichrist
is starting to be revealed.
Well, he’s talking about,
when he says — and notice
the specific wording,
the man of sin.
That shows you how far
the human race has come.
We started out with the sin
of man in the garden of Eden,
and by the time
it’s the last days,
it’ll be the man of sin.
There will be a man of sin.
What is that?
He’s called the Antichrist.
One of the biggest names
of the Antichrist,
and I thought this
is so amazing,
is the lawless one.
The lawless one.
And what we’re seeing
is the beginning of social
unrest and lawlessness
in the streets of our cities,
and entire neighborhoods
being taken over with
lawlessness, and it just
seems like people have lost
their minds, and law and order
is now just out of control
in so many areas.
It is one of the signs
the lawless one
is about to be revealed.
The man of sin,
as the Scripture calls him.
It goes on to describe this man
in the Book of Revelation,
and it says he
is the epitome of evil.
He is a man of lawlessness.
He is a champion of wickedness.
Revelation 13 calls him
the beast, meaning he will
have the nature of a beast.
He will be anti-Christ.
He will be anti-church.
And isn’t it amazing that
he said that Jesus would not
come until there first
be a great falling away.
Well, a falling away
has to do with the church,
and people going to church
and being a part of church,
and could it be that this
shutting down of the churches
is part of the Antichrist
spirit trying his best
to cause many to fall away,
families and generations
to fall away from the habit
of coming to church
and worshiping God,
and there is a great
falling away that has to happen
before Jesus comes,
and before the Antichrist
is revealed.
He said that he’s anti-Christ,
he’s anti-church,
he’s anti-Israel,
and he’s anti-Bible.
And all of that I’m saying
to you is simply this,
Satan has always —
in Isaiah 14, he said,
“I’ll exalt myself before
the throne of God, and I’ll
set myself up, and I’ll cause
people to worship me,”
and when the Antichrist comes,
he will come,
and he will not only take over
the world, but he will cause
worship to leave the church,
leave God.
Now, the church is gonna
be taken out, and I’ll explain
that in a moment,
but notice what it says
in 2 Thessalonians 2:3,
it says the Antichrist
will be revealed.
The word revealed means exposed,
shown for who he is.
Means that when the coming
of Jesus is near,
it can’t happen, the coming
of Jesus can’t be near,
unless the beast is here.
Which tells me, I believe,
with all of my heart,
that the coming of the Lord
is near, therefore, I believe
that the Antichrist,
the beast, is alive and well
on this earth.
The unveiling of the beast
is what we’re beginning
to see in our world,
as we are watching things
that we never dreamed would
take place in our lifetime.
Now, listen to what
2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 says,
they are so important.
“That he may be revealed
in his own time.
For the mystery of iniquity
is already at work.”
The mystery of lawlessness,
he said, will start to show
itself just before the beast
will be revealed,
but before the beast
is revealed,
Jesus will come again.
The Bible declares that
that spirit is being held back.
Now, this is the good news,
and I want you to get excited
about this,
because the Bible said
in 2 Thessalonians 2:7:
“Now He who restrains,”
and the word restrains,
the Bible declares that that
spirit is being held back,
now He — the King James says:
“He that letteth,”
the word let means to restrain,
so who is the restrainer?
Who’s holding back the hordes
of hell from taking over?
Who’s holding back
the Antichrist
from being revealed?
Who’s holding it back?
He tells you who.
There is someone who has
Satan on a leash.
Satan cannot do everything
he wants to do.
Someone is restraining
Satan’s Superman,
the Antichrist,
and do you know who it is?
Do you know who it is?
It’s the precious Holy Spirit.
He cannot have his way as long
as the Holy Spirit
is on this earth,
and let me make this point big.
The Holy Spirit lives in us.
He doesn’t live in buildings,
He said,
“Your body is My temple.”
This is why, when the Rapture
takes place, and Christians
are taken out,
we take all the Holy Spirit
that’s here.
He goes with us.
Then, the Bible said,
as long as He’s here,
which means as long
as we’re here,
we are the restraining force.
The Holy Spirit has a two-fold
ministry right now through you,
and that’s why Satan hates you.
He hates Christian families,
he hates Christian churches.
He hates Christian preachers,
he hates anybody,
because we are the restrainers.
We are the one that holds back
the hordes of hell from taking
over this world.
If you haven’t seen anything,
you need to see that we could
lose our freedom like that,
we could be thrown into
concentration camps —
we could see the economy crash,
all of that is being
restrained by one thing,
the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit
has a two-fold ministry.
Number one, to help the saints.
He’s called the Comforter,
and He’s here to empower
and help us, but to hinder
Satan, hallelujah.
And He’s doing both
at the same time.
He’s helping the saints,
and He’s hindering Satan,
and no wonder the devil
hates church, no wonder we got
governors who are saying,
“I won’t even let
’em get together,”
and making law that you can’t
sing, you can’t pray,
you can’t chant.
Well, we don’t care anymore,
we’ve just had about
all that we can have,
and we are going to sing,
and we’re going to shout,
and we’re going to restrain
the forces of evil,
and give our children
and our children’s children
a little bit more time
to win the world,
and then Jesus is coming again.
The Holy Spirit in us will
be taken out of the church.
The believers that are full
of the Holy Spirit
will be taken out,
and then the road block
on Satan’s super highway
will be removed.
And when that happens,
a flood of wickedness will come,
it’s called
the Great Tribulation.
And then,
the Antichrist will come.
But praise God
for that restrainer,
and Satan’s master plan is tied
to a master man,
and he’s the Antichrist.
He will turn this world
into a concentration camp.
Revelation 3:18 says every
inmate will be numbered,
and that number is 666.
And it says, in that same verse,
that without that number,
no man will be able
to buy or sell.
No sign, no sale.
No mark, no merchandise.
And how is all this organized?
Through computers.
The more machines act like men,
computers are taking over,
and the more machines
act like men,
the more men will
act like machines,
they’ll fall right in order.
They’ll fall right —
when the church is gone,
when the restrainer is gone,
when the people of God are gone,
then will come the Antichrist,
the revealing of the beast.
He will immediately,
for seven years,
begin his reign, and it’ll be
three-and-a-half years
of a global charmer.
He’ll be handsome,
he’ll be powerful,
he’ll bring economic prosperity,
not just to America,
but all over the world.
It’ll look beautiful.
But there will also come to any
— and there will be people
who are saved during
the Tribulation,
and there will come days
of torture and terror
for any one left behind who
believes in Jesus Christ,
and refuses to take
the mark of the beast.
But here’s what he said to you
and me, and I’m almost closed.
He said, number one, when
you see all this starting
to happen, don’t be disturbed.
You who are troubled,
come rest with us, hallelujah.
I’m saved, I’m on my way
to heaven.
I’m just making sure
I’m getting my family on-board,
I’m making sure that I’m ready.
I’m making sure that my eyes
are focused on the prize.
You who are troubled,
come rest with us.
You who are disturbed,
don’t be disturbed, and
then secondly, he said,
“Don’t be deceived.”
The Antichrist will come with
lies, and many Christians
are turning away from holiness
and living the truth,
and loving, and the gospel’s
being mixed with this and that,
and this and that,
and it’s not a pure gospel,
don’t be deceived.
The Bible said that even
the very elect will get
deceived by stuff that’ll
get ’em into other things,
that pull ’em away from the pure
gospel of Jesus Christ.
But then, it ends with
a powerful thought.
Don’t be disturbed,
don’t be deceived,
don’t be disappointed.
You will not be disappointed,
because 2 Thessalonians 2:8
says this.
“And then the lawless one
will be revealed, whom God
will consume with the breath
of His mouth and destroy
with the brightness
of His coming.”
It’s then that 666
will be taken over by 777.
There’s coming a day when 666,
all of evil, all of hell,
all that Satan has got,
is going to come face-to-face
with 777.
And when 666 meets 777,
777 is going to consume him
with His breath.
We won’t be disappointed
when our Savior comes.
We won’t be disappointed
when He splits
the eastern skies.
We won’t be disappointed when
we come riding back with Him,
and set up His Kingdom,
and rule.
And every knee shall bow,
and every tongue shall confess,
Jesus is Lord.
Don’t be deceived.
Just ’cause everybody else
is turning away
and falling away
and going back to wickedness,
don’t be deceived.
Stay true to God,
because if you do,
you will not be disappointed.
He’s coming,
just like He said He would.
Pray this prayer with me,
everybody.
Lord Jesus,
I give You my life.
I give You my family.
I give You my sin.
I believe the word is true.
I believe, just like
the prophecies of Your first
coming were fulfilled,
I certainly believe You lived
and You died and rose again
for me, and I believe
that the same Book is telling
me the truth that I’ve heard
him preach today.
I receive You, Jesus,
as my Savior, and get me
and my family ready
for the soon return
of Jesus Christ.
So what are we to do?
What are we to do, Pastor?
Pray for your loved ones.
Win souls.
Start sharing messages
like this.
Begin to fast and pray
with me in these end times,
that God would cause
great light to come on
the church and through
the church.
Comfort one another.
Keep faith, hope, and love alive
in times like these.
Run to the arms of God.
And I plead the blood
of Jesus over every home,
I plead the blood of Jesus
over every person watching
me today, by television,
by internet, wherever this
is being seen,
I claim miracles
in people’s lives,
especially of deliverance
and salvation.
Let backsliders come home.
We love you, we’re praying
for you, and now is the time,
like never before,
to be very sure your heart
is right with God.
It starts with you,
and then get your family saved.
Get ’em saved,
go after souls now.
Like never before.
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>> I want to talk to you
in our closing moments
and remind you
to please keep praying
for the Ukraine.
We started this program
a few moments ago
praying for the Ukraine.
I preached there many times.
I’ve preached right there
in the city of Kiev
and all over that nation,
I really have.
And I’ve always felt
a connection
with the Ukrainian people.
They are precious people
with precious hearts.
Everything we’re seeing
on the news today
is so surreal to me
because I’ve watched
what God has done
in that nation through revival,
and I know the enemy
wants to destroy the churches
and the Kingdom there,
and the people that love God.
I’ve met people there,
most of them are amazing,
amazing people with a heart,
mind, and soul for Jesus Christ.
And so today, as a ministry
we’re praying for them,
but we’re also taking action.
We’re supporting them
in very tangible ways.
This ministry is partnered
with a group called YEL,
Y-E-L, and they’re one
of the most —
they’re one of the most known
and trusted non-profits.
They have people
on the ground right there
in the Ukraine.
And we’ve extended
our partnership with them
in the Ukraine
to reach out and minister.
Today, we’ve initiated
the JFMM Comfort Center
in the Ukraine.
From this center
we’re providing much needed food
and emergency supplies
within the country.
many of the people
we’re helping
are Holocaust survivors,
they’re elderly Ukrainian Jews,
because YEL
is a Jewish organization
that reaches out,
but we’re also reaching out
through all of our efforts
to all of the Ukrainians
that we can help.
We’ve committed over
$400,000 to this project
just as a start to see
what God can do,
and we want to be there.
You know,
it’s one thing to talk,
it’s one thing to look
and shake your head and say,
“This is terrible.”
But they’ve been through so much
and they need our support today.
I want you to watch this video
we’ve just received
from a friend,
Chief Rabbi Bald
in Lviv, Ukraine.
Right in the middle of the war.
There’s a synagogue
that he has that’s over
200 years old
and we have filled that room
with supplies already.
Food, essentials.
He’s received the first round
of emergency supplies,
and he’s already passing
them out and delivering them
to people who are in need
the most.
Thank you, thank you,
thank you for your continuous
prayers and support.
This amazing audience
is one of the most generous.
We’ve been able to give millions
and millions of dollars away
around the world
to some of the most needy people
in the world.
Here’s another opportunity.
Will you join hands with me?
Do your very best,
we need to hear
from some of you this month.
Thank you, and God bless you.
>> In a time
of dire straights,
in a time of despair,
people being petrified,
people being frantic
of the uncertainty,
of the unknown of tomorrow.
During the war might escalate,
that people might lose
their homes,
might lose their lives.
It is at this moment
that honorable Jentezen Franklin
You rose up to the occasion
with such deep compassion,
with such social consciousness
to provide and to shower
the people with
the light and blessing.
To take care
of the unfortunate.
That’s truly inspiring.
May you continue
to shine your light,
may you continue
to inspire the world over.
With the mercy,
with such care and love.
May you continue
to be God’s blessing
to humanity,
truly doing the Lord’s work.
Thank you so much.
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