But if you do not have time for all 7 sessions, please watch session 7. Session 7
Here are my notes on it, please take heart:
Jesus is Coming - The RAPTURE
- Matthew 24
- Jesus is on the Mt. of Olives
- Destruction of Jerusalem by Rome foretold (40 years later)
- Matthew 24:3
- 3 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 sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
- Jesus did not dispute that there would be an end. There will be an end to human history.
Timeline of Human History
Creation 1st Coming 2nd Coming
Beginning -------------------------Mid Point -------------------------------End
Jesus tells how to tell time. How to know when it is the time of the last generation!
Signs Jesus Gave: (5 Categories)
- Matthew 24:42 (ESV) - Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
- Take your news and then your Bible. Overlay the news with a Biblical World View.
- Matthew 24:8 (ESV) All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
- birth pains, minor to major, pain, intensity, frequency ramps up when it is the last generation.
SPIRITUAL CATEGORY
- Matthew 24:5 (ESV) For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
- many false christ/messiah
- false peace/prosperity
- think politicians/leaders
- From AGL's generation - People Claiming to be the Messiah
- Jim Jones, David Koresh, Sun Moon (S. Korea), Marshal Applewhite (Heaven's Gate)
Anti-Christ can do sign & wonders! Same words used to describe Jesus. Satan twists God's words and gives the world a counterfeit.
- Matthew 24: (ESV) “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake."
- Persecution of Christians will increase.
- 200 million pay the ultimate price for Christ (a year)
- be-headings in Nigeria
- 200 Christian school girls kidnapped
- Iraq - torture, rapings, be-headings (Tom Dole - "Killing Christians" - stories of martyrs)
- Pakistan - suicide bombers blew up 2 churches (the day she recorded the video in March of 2015)
- Dallas newspaper reporter under police protection for believing in traditional marriage and God's plan for sex in marriage.
- Verse 9 was said to the disciples - JEWS!
- This could mean an increase in antisemitism.
- In 2015 Prime Minister of Israel extended an invitation to all Jews in Europe because of the hatred towards them (& help pay for relocation).
- US Colleges - antisemitism growing. Many college students believe there should be a Palestinian State.
- 54% of Jewish American college students reported being victims of antisemitism incidents (2013-2014 academic school year)
- It's Rising! Joel Rozenberg "Jews are born with a target" AGL - "Why would you a Jew for being a Jew? SATAN. God loves them, Satan hates who God loves.
- Matthew 24:10 (ESV) And then many will fall away[a] and betray one another and hate one another.
- Divisions within the church:
- gay marriage
- ordination of women
- see Nashville Statement (August 2017)
- music
- Gospel - Jesus is the only way, truth, life
- Matthew 24:24 (ESV) 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect."
- False prophets will (& do) deceive many by giving messages to the people, and saying it came from God (when it didn't).
- Harold Camping - "Rapture" May 21, 20111 -- October 21, 2011
- Rob Bell - Michigan Mega Pastor -- Wrote book "No Hell" -- Supports Gay Marriage (Look up Matt Walsh article on 9/01/2017)
- Paul Young - wrote "The Shack" -- insightful, BUT said no evil, no accountability, God accepts all -- could draw people from the cross
- Pope (Francis) - Church should not dismiss gay marriage
- Invited Christians, Jews, & Muslims to Vatican to pray
- 1st time in history of the Vatican that Muslims were invited to pray
- Muslims do not pray to the God of Creation, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
- Wife of a Mega Pastor
- "We don't worship God for God. We worship God for us."
- (Maybe not a false prophet - BUT WATCH OUT!)
FALSE PROPHETS ARE EVERYWHERE!
- Seen in the church
- Increase in wickedness
- Coldness
- Timothy told by Paul - in the last days there will be a form of godliness - religion
- We are religious - have no relationship
NATIONAL CATEGORY
- Matthew 24:6 (ESV) And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
- Rumors of Wars:
- Iran Nuclear Program
- North Korea
- Saudia Arabia & Pakistan
- Numerous Armed Conflicts (200-1000 killed a year)
- Central Africa
- India
- Russia
- Yemen
- 10 major Wars
- Nigeria
- Ukraine
- Congo
- The USA has special operation is 136 countries
- Matthew 24:7 (ESV)For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
- Nation vs. Nation
- This verse implies (in Hebrew) a "world war"
- World is the battlefield - no clear lines
- WILL GET WORSE
- Perplexity of the nations (Luke 21) with no human solutions
- debt
- ISIS
- Islamic Issue
- Things are so far gone... ONLY GOD can resolve the issues
ENVIRONMENTAL CATEGORY
- Matthew 24:8 (ESV) All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
- famines
- earthquakes
- stars from sky
- weather has changed drastically - and the scientist/professionals can not find a reason why
- 2013/2014 Record Breaking events (2013 events broke records; 2014 events broke 2013 events)
- Snow in NYC
- Hurricane Sandy (cost)
- Earthquakes per year almost doubles
- Volcanic eruptions
- 1990 - 55
- 2010- 82
- 2013 - broke 2010 #
- Tornadoes
- 2010 - 506 in the USA
- 2011 - 1151 in the USA
- Oklahoma in 2013 had a tornado 2.6 miles wide (width of Manhattan)
- 2014
- Hottest year on record
- Coldest year on record
- Drought in Albuquerque (43 days no rain)
- California & Nevada - state of emergencies due to drought
- Earthquakes
- until 2009, 3 per year in Oklahoma
- In 2014 585 in Oklahoma (more in OK than in California)
- April - Month that Shook the WORLD
- 13 EQ's higher than 6.5
- May - 32 in one day, 2 over 6.2
- March no recorded tornadoes at all
- April in 4 days, 75 confirmed (a NEW record)
- Detroit and Great Britain - FLOODS
- Wales - Wettest year in 250 years!
- Record breaking rain in Pheonix
- 24 major fires, in 5 months, in California
- 2015
- Denver - record snow broke record that stood for 103 years
- Boston broke their record in February
- Famines
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Kenya
- India
Global Warming; change your light bulb; carbon footprint (SATAN)
vs
Fall on your face, repent, rend your heart! (GOD)
- The Coming of the Son of Man - Matthew 24:29 (ESV) “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
- Before Jesus returns { Joel 2, Revelation 6 - moon to blood, sun darkened}
- Blood Moons (Lunar Eclipses) are harbingers for ISRAEL
- 4 in a row called a tetrad
- Tetrad Lunar Eclipes always happen on the same feast days, 2 years in a row
- Passover -- Tabernacles -- Passover -- Tabernacles
- 1 tetrad at the time of the cruxifiction
- Next was in 1493/1494
- In 1492 Columbus left Spain
- King and Queen of Spain turned out all the Jews
- 300,000 Jews left Spain
- Some think Christopher Columbus was a Jew
- America was discovered to be a friend to Isreal
- Next was in 1949/1950
- In 1948 Israel was reestablished
- Got her land!
- Next was in 1967
- 6 day war resulted in Israel got Jerusalem
- Her city!
- 2014/2015
- And between the two -- March 20th of 2015 a Full Solar Eclipse (Harbinger for Gentiles)
- What will Israel get? Many think her Temple (Development in Jerusalem)
PERSONAL CATEGORY
- No One Knows That Day and Hour -- Matthew 24:36 (ESV) “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
- Cannot know the day or hour
- He did not say you cannot know the generation
- There is enough signs so we can know - it will not be a thief in the night if you watch/listen.
- Matthew 24:37 (ESV) For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- indifference to God's Word
- dating, drinking, marrying
- Nothing wrong with these actions, but they didn't do these with God.
- People will be occupied with superficial
- cars, clothes, etc
- Indifference to God & His Word
- in the church and secular
- In Matthew 24 Jesus says 4 times
- DO NOT BE DECIEVED
- If you know the real thing you will not be decieved
- read, apply, obey, saturate, eat the WORD of God (like Ezekiel)
- move it from the head to your CORE
- If not in the WORD - you will be DECEIVED
- It is going to get so cluttered (the world, life); the elect will be deceived
Remember...people will be overs of self, pleasure, and money...
GLOBAL CATEGORY
- The Lesson of the Fig Tree - Matthew 24:32-35 (ESV) “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- Israel is the Fig Tree
- From 70 AD (Rome) to 1948
- dormant, no leaves, no life, not a nation
- MIRACLE - May 14, 1948 put forth leaves
- Isaiah "a nation born in a day"
- Anne Graham Lotz was born in May 1948, if she lives out her natural life time, she will see the return of Jesus because the generation that sees this take place (the rebirth of the Nation of Israel) is the generation that is the last.
- Generation = 70 years
- WORLD WIDE EVANGALISM
- Matthew 24:14 (ESV) And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- Gospel preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to ALL nations & then the end will come.
- In 1950 - church got a global awareness
- 1st time in Human History that the Gospel is preached in all nations in any language, by the Bible, in person, online, etc.
- We are living on borrowed time!
- It is time to watch.
- Do not sleep (be caught unaware)
- Work. Matthew 24:45 (ESV) “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
- Be good, feed the WORD of GOD to the world.
- Preach the Word 2 Timothy 4:1-2 (ESV) I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
- Preach the word
- Invite people to the cross
- Walk with Jesus
- "Do" while walking with Him (at His pace and in His direction)
- holy
- godly lives
- look forward
- If Noah had not been walking with God, he would not have heard God's heart.
We need to get on our knees and listen to God. By living at the end of human history we have the privilege of seeing incredible things: positive and negative, and be apart of it. There is still time.
JESUS IS COMING
If you are reading this, if you have watched the videos, and your heart is crying out - ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR. These are the signs of the last generation. here is still time to serve Him, obey Him, and rend your heart.
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