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if you have your Bibles I want you to
open them to Matthew chapter
24 now as he sat on the Mount of Olives
the disciples came to him privately
saying tell us when will these things be
and what will be the signs of your
coming and of the end of the age and
Jesus answered and said to them take
heed that no one deceives you then he
begins to list a lot of things that will
happen many will be offended and the
love of many verse 12 will grow cold but
he that endures to the end will be
saved then he talks about in verse 32
now learn this Parable from the fig tree
that when the branch has already become
tender and puts forth leaves you know
the summer is
near you so you also when you see all of
these things know that it is near even
at the door assuredly I say to you this
generation this generation that sees the
Fig Tree come to life
again the Fig Tree what is that I’ll
tell you in a moment this generation
will not by no means pass away until all
things take place Heaven and Earth will
pass away but my words will never pass
away and then he begins to give the
scenario of what we call the Rapture
Paul called it being caught away it is
is a it is the coming of the Lord and he
begins to talk about but of the day and
the hour no man knows even the angels in
heaven but my father only but the as it
was in the days of Noah so will it be
with the coming of the son of man as
they were eating and drinking and
marrying and giving it just normal days
until the day Noah entered into the ark
until the flood came and took them away
so will will be the coming of the son of
man two men will be lying in the field
one will be taken the other left two
women will be working in the meal one
will be taken one will be left watch
therefore for you do not know the hour
your lord is coming but know this that
if the Master of the House had known the
hour the thief would come he would have
watched he would have not allowed his
house to be broken into therefore you
also be ready for the son of man is
coming listen at an hour you do not
expect so I want to preach just a few
moments about what is taking place in
Prophecy and why it matters to us Jesus
on the Mount of
Olives called his disciples together and
they were sitting there talking and they
begin to ask him a series of questions
what will be the signs of your coming
how will we know that we are in the end
times and the end of the world is what
they call it how will we know that
everything like we know the world is
about to change and Jesus himself began
to tell them that there would be a
generation of people that would witness
a rapid fulfillment of Prophecy all of
them suddenly one after another would
begin to take place and he said that
generation that Witnesses the things
will be the generation I will not tell
you the hour I will not tell you today
but you can know the season when you see
these signs begin to take place he said
there will come false prophets and
religious Faith leaders and I used to
think that was just like the you know
like the extreme or some crazy religions
and far out things but I think too that
that includes false teachers and
preachers in the pool pits of of
churches who are not preaching the true
Gospel of Jesus Christ and is so watered
down that people are they’re they’re
having itching ears and they’re telling
them what they want to hear instead of
preaching about eternity and getting
ready for the Lord to come it’s so
important and then he said there would
be Wars and this is Jesus said look
notice these things wars and rumors of
wars threats of wars and then he said
there would be sever racial tension when
he said Nation shall rise against Nation
the word nation in Greek is ethnos
against ethnos in other words ethnic
tension will get greater and greater and
greater among the the the uh different
groups of people and you will see this
happening right before your eyes and
then he said there would be an increase
in famine and earthquakes and diseases
and natural disasters Jesus predicted
all of these and the Skeptics say well
it’s always been that way I’ve heard
this all of my life it’s always been
that way but Jesus was saying that these
are the these signs will be like birth
pains it even says that the Apostle Paul
talks about it in Romans and as the time
gets closer it’s like a mother that’s
having a baby you know she has little
signs when she first starts and just a
little oh something feels uncomfortable
and then there’s a long period of time
and then a little bit more severe pain
and then there’s and then the time
starts getting shorter and then it’s
pain after pain after pain after pain he
said that’s exactly how to be the
generation that will know that I’m
coming back it won’t be one thing and
then a long period it’ll be one thing
after another it feels like since the
pandemic to me thing it’s been one thing
after another after another there’s
always been Wars there’s always been
false prophets there’s always been
earthquakes there’s always always been
famines there’s always been diseases and
racial tensions there’s always been
these things but he said when you see
these things coming again and again and
again one after another after another
they will be more frequent they will be
more intense then it ought to get your
attention and then he said because of
iniquity the love of many would wax cold
but then he said in verse 37 if you
really want to know what it’s like this
is Jesus preaching about signs of the
times he said it will be as the days of
Noah so shall be the coming of the son
of man he said on the day that I return
it will be just like any other ordinary
day he gives that description for as in
the days of Noah that they were before
the flood they were eating drinking
marrying entering into marriage until
the day Noah entered into the ark it was
just like another ordinary day people
were just going about their business and
he said that’s that’s exactly how it’s
going to be when I come back they didn’t
even realize it suddenly the flood came
and they were left behind and he said so
shall it be at the coming of the son of
man I’m not going to give you the day
I’m not going to give you the hour but
he said I’m going to give you important
Clues and then he said in Matthew
24 he told them the parable of the Fig
Tree what is the Fig Tree the Fig Tree
is Israel the fig tree is when you see
the nation of Israel come alive again
and begin to produce fruit do you
understand that after after they were
decimated and destroyed and conquered
for 1900 years the Jewish people were
scattered all over the planet and then
in the 1940s Hitler and the Nazis came
and they started killing them in every
nation they could find them slaughtering
over six million Jews
and it looked like the nation of Israel
now why why were those people so
targeted because Satan knew that that
was the way that the Messiah was going
to try to do his thing and so they have
been targeted it’s it has gone on
forever they were they were in slavery
in Egypt and they were in slavery in
Babylon and on and on but they they had
never been back and had their own land
for 19900 years
and a during World War II after the war
the
Holocaust United Nations felt so sorry
for
them that
they voted it’s astounding I’m going to
tell that story one day I can’t do it
today but it’s astounding how that
happened and the in one day a nation was
born fulfilling the scripture in Isaiah
I believe it’s the 68th chapter that
said a nation will be
born in a day born at
once and that happened in
1948 how many of you now here here’s my
point here’s why I’m preaching this
here’s why I’m saying this this is
huge ad70 Jerusalem is destroyed and
1900 years Israel the people never come
back to the land
but in
1948 Jesus said there would be a
generation that would see the Fig Tree
come alive and reproduce fruit I want to
ask you a question how many of you how
many of you were alive in 1948 let me
see your hand raise it
high guess what that is the generation
they’re thinning
out
but never in the history you talk about
prophecy Jesus said I tell you that
generation will not
pass whoever is alive in that generation
and it happened at the United Nations in
1948 Israel became a nation they were
given the land when did all that happen
in this generation that we’re still
alive in in this generation do you know
that the Bible says in the Book of
Psalms that a generation is basically 70
years it says the days of our lives and
don’t let this depress you uh but but
this is just how it is this is what the
Bible said now there is a reason of
strength which which is a big deal amen
but but he said the Days of Our Lives
are 70 years this is a generation and if
by reason of strength you can have 80
years and but if you do do keep getting
old he he’s trying to say there uh you
soon still going to be cut off and
you’re going to fly
away how can I say so I I’m one of you
kind of I wasn’t born in 48 but I I put
70 rocks in this in this you know you
know really all you’re promised all
you’re promised is said I heard about a
preacher who did this and I read it in a
book one time he said every year he took
out a stone and you know you start out
with 70 years and for me uh I’m 61 so I
these are already gone I I don’t have I
don’t have but excuse
me
1 2 3 4 5 6 7even 8 nine and I’m giving
myself some
80 but it’s amazing is it we think we’re
going to live
forever we don’t like to talk about
eternity we don’t want to talk about
death we don’t want to talk about it but
the truth is every year these I got a
lot more out there than I’ve got in here
and all that I all that he said you
really can count on if you’re if you’re
lucky we would say it’s 70 years and if
by strength 80 or so and the rocks are
getting fewer and fewer and what I’m
trying to preach to you oh glory to God
that in
1948 that’s 75 years ago this
year and people people are fading out
and and they’re going home to be with
the
Lord but he said there would be some
left from that generation I’m not
preaching the hour I’m not preaching to
day I’m preaching Jesus sermon on the
signs of the times how close are we how
soon could Jesus return I mean in seven
years we could be in the Millennium if
Jesus came
today this thing can happen at any
moment and Jesus said you better be
ready what’s going to happen what do we
know for sure about
prophecy the Rapture where is that at 1
Thessalonians
4:16 the Lord himself will descend with
a
shout he’s going to shout and then
there’s going to be a voice the voice of
an arc angel it’s Michael the
warrior he’ll assemble all the angels
and they will stand as Guardians Jesus
At The Rapture will not come back to
earth he will stop in midair in the
clouds the angels will stand to protect
and escort us suddenly something’s going
to happen the Bible said the Trump of
God will sound and the dead in Christ
shall rise first and when Jesus comes
he’ll bring the spirits of those who
have died and the first reunion it’s
three reunions that will take place the
first reunion will be the spirit of
those who’ve died in
Christ I I could stand up here and I
think I see F faces flashing through my
mind people I preached their funerals
but on that day that day that could
happen before the sun sets
today the spirit will reunite the body
will come up out of the Grave only it’ll
have a body just like like Jesus a
resurrection body perfect body and the
body will reunite with the
spirit then there will be a second
reunion the
righteous dead that have been
resurrected in their bodies will be
caught up together with the ones who
have been raptured who were
living and suddenly the dead will be
alive and be reunited with the living
living in midair families will wrap
themselves around each other and praise
God and then the final reunion and so
shall they ever be with the Lord we will
see him in the clouds face to face and
be reunited with him
forever what do we know for sure that’s
not that’s going to happen and by the
way there’s already been four
raptures Enoch walked with God and was
not God took him he got raptured Elijah
never died a fiery Chariot came and
raptured him Jesus in Acts chapter one
went up on a cloudy elevator and was
raptured into heaven the Apostle Paul
said I was caught up into the third
heaven and I didn’t want to come back
they made me come
back when he comes out of Matthew 24 he
goes immediately into Matthew 25 what is
Matthew 25 the story of the 10 virgins
the parable and Jesus taught it he said
if you want to know what my coming is
going to be like when the bridegroom
comes all of them knew he was
coming but only 50% of them had oil in
their lamps the other 50% were not ready
for the coming of the bridegroom and he
said at midnight in an hour that you
think
not I’m telling you that what I’m
preaching to you we’re seeing
fulfillment of Prophecy that is
astounding and back in the 70s when I
sit and heard preachers they used to
preach about this stuff and we live with
an expectancy but now nobody really is
looking for Jesus to come for most of
you this sermon won’t get past the
parking
lot we really don’t believe he’s coming
back but you must understand there’s
more prophecies about his second coming
the first coming was in Bethlehem the
old little town of Bethlehem but the
second coming is going to happen and
he’s going to the Rapture is not the
second coming the Rapture is the rapture
the catching away of the church
immediately when that happens we go into
the Great Tribulation we don’t you
do I’ll be in heaven at a rewards
banquet called the marriage supper of
the
lamb and the world will go in chaos
America will go in chaos you going to
get what you wanted there will be no
churches and no pastors preaching the
truth they’ll all be gone and some of
you going to be calling my cell phone
I’m not going to
answer but imagine with me that’s when
the Antichrist will step out that’s when
he will create one currency we already
see it happening one government
and one faith I believe it would be the
Muslim faith that will be enforced on
the world just like what you’re seeing
and if you’re a Christian or if you’re a
Jew you will be slaughtered or you will
convert and if you don’t take the mark
of the beast it could be a chip it will
be some form of technology that never
even existed when I heard preachers
preach about this stuff and here we are
and we’re seeing it and it’s happening
rapid boom boom boom boom boom and and
yet Jesus said don’t worry I’m not
coming back when they’re looking for it
I’m gonna there’s going to be a
generation that will see the tree come
back to life Israel and they won’t even
be awake then they’ll they’ll know I’m
coming but they’ll be asleep and the
bridegroom cries out at
midnight and the Bible said five were
not
ready and five were ready listen to me
the the only reason Jesus told that
Parable was because he wanted us to know
it is possible to think that you are
ready for the
Rapture and not really be
ready there’s no other reason that
parables in there he’s warning us you
must be ready and as pastor of this
church I feel
compelled cry
out Jesus is
coming nobody can fix the world I I’m
not a negative preacher I’m going to
occupy and live and we’re going to be
Sal and light and we’re going to enjoy
our lives and our families you ought to
go to college and you ought to get a
career and you ought to do all of that
you ought to get married but you ought
to have on the Forefront of your heart
he’s coming again he’s coming again and
we must be ready Above All Above
everything we must be
ready are you ready for the soon return
of Jesus Christ The
Rapture halfway through that tribulation
he’s coming back on a white horse and
we’re coming with him and that’s when
he’s going to step he’s going to and
he’s going to an dilate the armies of
the Antichrist in the valley of megido
and then he’s going feet will touch down
according to Zechariah Chapter 14 on the
Mount of Olives and he’s going to walk
over to the city of Jerusalem and set up
his kingdom and his Millennial Reign for
one, years clap your hands to the King
of Kings clap your hands to the Lord of
lords he shall reign and of his kingdom
there shall be no end stand to your feet
no one moveing
[Applause]
every head bowed every eye closed every
person at every campus listening to me
if you don’t know you can know if you’re
not sure you can be
sure are you
ready Jesus said people would be left
behind one taken one left behind one
eating a meal and two and one taking one
left Left
Behind don’t get left
behind this is your chance he could come
today I want to have on our heart this
word saying be ready be ready be ready
be ready be ready be ready for the
coming of Jesus
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