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Empowering multimedia ministry for bold Christian living: Weekend Messages, Deep End Podcast, Deep Dive Bible Study. Tim Hatch, Lead Pastor, Waters Church, 26 years of pastoral ministry, book author.
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The Last Days: A Call to Readiness 0:00 I want Jesus to find you ready with your head lifted up and looking forward to your redemption coming from Jesus Christ.0:08 15 49.0:10 But don't think that decision to recognize Israel was an easy 1. I had to0:22 make a compromise with Arabs and divide Palestine.0:39 We, we're starting a series about the last days because we we are in the last days. And I and I and I want you to know, here's part 1. Well, no. Before we mention the name, we have been in the last0:50 days for 2000 years. Hebrews chapter 1 says, in these last days, god has chosen to speak to us through his son, whom he appointed heir all all things. The last days began1:03 when Jesus ascended to the right hand side of god. That inaugurated the final age of the earth1:13 and the1:13 heavens and the cosmos as we currently know it. The only age to come next is eternity. And the question must be1:25 asked, however, how long is this gonna go on for? Because it seems like the world's falling apart. Everybody I watch, everybody I listen to,1:37 both on the right and the left politically, all say the same thing. It feels as if human civilization is coming apart at the seams. So here's the message title, part 1 of last1:48 days. The last days of the last days. Because because there's gonna be a final generation. There's gonna be a final generation. Now in all honesty,2:00 every generation has felt that they were the last generation. Every generation since Jesus rose has felt like that surely was gonna be as bad as it gets. And surely, if Jesus is coming back, back, he's coming back now.2:11 And they've been wrong because he still hasn't come back. But I wanna talk to you about some things that have happened, some things that have transpired, some things that you gotta know about what's going on in the world2:21 so that you understand that he's close. He's close. My grandfather's generation was obsessed with the last days. My2:33 grandfather was a preacher for 30 years. Almost every other message was about Jesus coming back, and the church was consumed with this. And they used to sing songs about it and write2:45 books about it, and they would talk about, I got a mansion just over the hilltop.2:57 Right? Or they'd sing, sung glad morning when this life is o'er. That was hideous.Signs of the End Times 3:10 And, like, hardly anybody's saying it, and this is the problem. Okay? Because, there was yeah. Okay. You can stop now. I'm pretty sure.3:23 In my grandfather's generation, there was this obsession for the life to come. And I've been in this business for 25 years now, almost 25 years as a pastor, vocation, almost 25. And, I've seen the3:35 trajectory, the arc of church focus, and I saw what's been happening over the last 25 years. And and and when I came into ministry, when I came into this job, okay,3:47 I saw what it was. I I saw what it became, and now I see where it needs to go. And anybody who runs a business of any kind or you're in any kind of industry, you can see arcs of your industry. Where is the emphasis and3:57 where is the need to combat? Here's what I saw over the last 25 years, where we abandoned teaching about the end times and informing God's people of why we need to be ready.4:10 And hear me, this is what happened because I used to I went to the church conferences, and I listened to the big pastors talk about this. And then they started to reemphasize and say, you know what? The world doesn't4:19 like it. This is what they would say. The world, lost people, don't like it when we talk too much about the end times. So let's talk more about improving4:33 this time. This is from the mouth of pastors. That's what they would say. We need to improve this world because if you're too heavenly minded, you're of no worthy good. And so listen and so listen. Where in my4:43 grandfather's generation, books were written about the life to come, the end times, the signs of the times, and looking forward to Jesus' return, and songs were sung, I'll sung glad morning, I'll fly away, and preachers4:53 were preaching about Jesus coming back again. That suddenly shifted. And for about 2 to 3 decades, it shifted to, no. No. Let's have our best life now. Let's live let's live for today. Let's make5:05 sure that we improve society. Let's get the right people in elected office, and then we'll fix things. And all that happened for the5:17 last 30 years of the church and pastors telling people to fix the world, what's happened? It's gotten worse. Now I'm gonna say some things that5:29 aren't gonna offend some people, but you need to be offended sometimes to hear the truth. Today, we have school systems, entire school systems indoctrinating children into gender confusion and hiding it from5:41 parents. And it's disgusting. Yeah. And we have old corporations who are on board with us. And then we have this new range of issues that are celebrated in our culture,5:52 Homosexuality, transgenderism, all of these, alternative they call them alternative lifestyles. Now they're trying to make them the normal lifestyle and they're teaching your kids endlessly about this through media and6:04 universities and school systems and all of this confusion is being6:19 collision course for catastrophe, and there's no stopping it. There's no fixing this world. Are you hearing me?6:31 There's only waiting for Jesus to come And coming out of this world and not being of this world, but knowing who we are. We are not the people of this world. We are not liberals. We are not6:42 conservatives. We are not democrats. We are not republicans. We are not Americans. We are people of the most high God. We are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly await the return of Jesus Christ.6:55 That's who we are, and that's what we gotta get back to being, and that's what we gotta start preaching again because we have fallen asleep on the job. That's what this7:07 series is about. To wake us up and stir our hearts and to remind us. There's no fixing this. It's a it's it's a anybody ever go for a a 10 hour drive on7:19 vacation with your family? How many know no matter how positive you are when you pull out of the driveway, you are on a collision course.7:33 You you can try to improve the conditions. You can try to stop frequently for pee, and you can try to eat at the right restaurant, but all you're doing is making the ride to hell more comfortable.7:49 And when preachers get so tied up in trying to improve people's lives in this age, that's exactly the same thing that they're doing. They're just taking it to Denny's instead of McDonald's.8:01 And we don't wanna be in the business of sending people to hell with a full stomach. I mean,8:14 this is what Jesus wanted us to be aware of because he talked about it a lot right before he left. Take your bibles for a second and and just hold them. If you got an iPhone bible,8:26 sin and pretend it's a real bible.8:30 I want8:31 you to hold it up because I want you to understand something about this book. It is 30 percent prophetic. 30 percent of this book tells you what's to come. Half of that 30 percent8:43 has already been fulfilled. Amen. Jesus came. Jesus died. Jesus rose. That's the that's the first half of that 30 percent. The other half of that 30 percent is yet to come.8:56 My friends, 15 percent of this book is telling us what to expect in the future. 15 percent.9:07 That, to me, it just seems obvious that god wants us prepared, aware, and not caught off guard. If there's 1 thing the last9:19 2 years showed me is that the church of Jesus needs to wake up. We acted just like the world. Some of us freaked9:31 out, did every little thing they told us to do to try to stay safe, stay sane, stay sane. And all the science has come out, and now all9:43 the truth is starting to come out. All of it all the stuff that I was telling you a year and a half ago is now coming true, is now being proved true. The masks didn't work. The social distancing was a number they made9:55 up. And I won't go with it to the next thing.9:59 I'll9:59 just because it's still out there, and some of you will never come back if I say it because you're triggered. But I saw the church10:11 I saw the church act just like the world. And I said, wait a second. Wait a second. You understand that we're all gonna die. There is no safe.10:24 We need to be ready for the next life. Here's what I want you to write down first thing. The bible does not teach us about the end to scare us, but to prepare us. You gotta write that10:36 down. It does not teach us about the end to scare us because you got if you're in Christ and let me make sure you hear me say that. If you're in Jesus, and by that, I mean you believe that Jesus is the Lord of lords and10:46 King of kings, you believe he died for your sins, you believe he rose again on the third day, and you believe he's coming back again. If that's you, you got nothing to worry about. Yeah. He's got you.10:58 You see, the bible tells me that God had an ark prepared for Noah. God tells me that God took Abraham and he sent him into Sodom to rescue. He took the angels and sent them into Sodom to rescue Lot11:10 out of that wicked city before he destroyed the city. And just like God rescued Noah, and just like God rescued Lot, God's gonna rescue you when the wrath of God's final judgment comes upon this earth.11:22 You got nothing to worry about. However, if you are not a Christian, sucks to be you.11:35 And you have my permission and the Bible's permission and Jesus' permission to freak out, because you ain't seen nothing yet.11:47 This is just birth pains. Anybody ever see a pregnancy and birth? And for about, you know, 16 hours or 8 hours or 4 hours, depending on how lucky the woman is,11:59 It's a lot of okay. That's not it. Okay. Oh, that's not it either. But then there's finally that12:11 last that's where we're headed. You, you husbands remember that was when she was strangling you12:23 at the same time. Anyway, let's stand together and read God's word. Here's what it says in Mark chapter 13 28, and we will talk about the rest of Mark 13 as we go. Verse 28, it says this. From the fig tree,12:36 learn its lesson. Let me say that again. From the fig tree this is Jesus talking. He said, from the fig tree, learn its lesson. As soon as12:48 its branches become tender and put out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near at the very door.13:01 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. This is God's word. Let's pray. Father, I ask in the name of Jesus that the Holy Spirit leads13:13 these next few moments and leaves my mouth and my words, and that he opens all of our hearts and all of our eyes and all of our ears. Help us to hear your word and help us to see Jesus. In his name, we pray. And13:25 everybody said Amen. Amen. God bless you. Have a seat. Yeah. The world is nuts. The world is crazy. There is a there is a foreboding over this culture. There is a spirit of foreboding13:37 because I think that we can hear the knock of Jesus on the door. Now there's a fantastic comedian. I don't you know, he swears, so just full disclosure, but his name is Sebastian13:48 Maniscalco, and he does this bit about what do you do when someone knocks on your door. And it's a hilarious bit because back in the old days, he says, 30 years ago, when someone would knock on the door of your house,14:02 everybody would be like, who could that be? And there was excitement and genuine interest of who's who's knocking on our door. And and and and and they would they would get everything ready in the kitchen and you would14:13 have an Entenmann's pastry ready only for guests with Sanka coffee on the table. And you would all gather around the door as you open dad would open a door and everybody would say, oh,14:25 it's you. Come on in and let's sit down and let's talk. And he said, this is so much better than I'm doing it, but it's hilarious. He goes, what happens now in14:43 couch back in don't turn the lights off. Don't let them know we're here. It's kind of funny how life imitates art because I feel it in the spirit, and I feel and I think that this14:55 world feels it. I think that our news correspondents feel it. I think that our society completely feels it. We're all waiting for the other shoe to drop. I mean, it only took a couple of15:06 months to go from build back better to there will be food shortages. And it's like we go from 1 politician to another, from 1 party to another, thinking that someone, some human could15:18 fix it, and all we're doing is sinner exchange. 1 sinner for another sinner. 1 failed leader for another failed leader. And the church must not be like that.15:31 We're gonna remember Jesus told us to expect the collision course. The collision course. What to expect when Jesus comes? Write this down. Number 1, great deception and false Christs.15:43 Great deception and false Christs. Deception means you've been lied to. Have we been lied to?15:56 Every day. There there used to be news sources that were trusted. There used to be universities that had integrity. There there used to16:07 be political leaders and societal leaders who you could look to and say, yes. But almost, I think, every institution of society is16:20 absolutely corrupted and in and saturated with lies. Lies from the top to the bottom. I get more people asking16:32 me, pastor, I'm confused. Who do I listen to than ever before in my ministry? And the answer is Jesus. The answer is the scriptures. Because the bible says, let let god be true16:45 and every man a liar. So there's great deception. This is what Mark says in Mark 13 when Jesus says it. He says, see to it that no 1 leads you astray. Many will come in my name saying I am16:56 here. So deception lies and then false Christianities. False Christianities are abounding today, and you've got to have discernment. The bible says in first John, don't17:08 believe every spirit. Don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God. How do I do that? You get into your you get yourself under a bible preaching, gospel17:20 preaching church with elders, and they lead you in the truth so that you can tell the truth from a lie. There are false Christianities. There is the there is be good Christianity. That's all17:32 God wants. Just be good. There's the, feel good Christianity. There's the health, wealth, and and prosperity cross Christianity. These are all false Christianities, and they proliferate across television and the17:41 Internet, and you need to be aware of these things. And they're full of garbage and lies and deceptions. I read somewhere that since 19 45, since the end of World War 2, over 800 cults have been started in the west.17:53 Over 800 cults have been started. You go back before World War 2, way back in the 18 hundreds when Joseph Smith wrote his book, which led to the Jehovah's Witness movement. And then there's the Mormon movement and18:04 movements that deny and this is how you tell it all apart. This is the easiest telltale sign of any cult is that they take Jesus down from his deity. They eliminate the pre preincarnate18:16 deed of Jesus. Jesus never was never was created. He was eternally God in eternity past. He's eternally God in eternity future. He became a man, and he's back in heaven with God right now as a man, but he was never18:28 created. He is eternally God the Son. Every false culture, every false cult, and every false religion takes the deity of Christ down and says that Jesus became a God. And the reason why they wanna believe that Jesus18:38 became a god is so that you and I can become gods too. That's the heart of false Christianities. You gotta be aware of these things. We18:50 can't become god. We never will become gods. We'll become like the angels, the bible says. So false cries and deception. Number 2, international interracial conflict. International conflict we see19:02 every day, especially now with the war in Ukraine. I did a video in response to World War 3. I put it all on our social my social media channels, Tim Hash live, across all the social media channels. I always try to put19:12 these videos out to see if they'll ever take. That 1 took off like a rocket ship. It's got more views than any of my other videos, because everybody freaked out. World War 3, end of the world was trending on social media19:22 because Putin invaded Ukraine. And Jesus said, you gotta expect this. He says, when you hear listen to this verse 7. When you hear, hear of wars19:34 and rumors of wars. By the way, if you got your paper notes, circle rumors because the word rumors there in Greek could be translated news. Every other place in the New Testament where that war is translated is19:45 translated news. News. You will hear of wars and news of wars. And by the way, I just wanna say something. You're gonna take this politically, but it's not meant to be political at all. I don't trust a thing they're19:53 saying about this Ukraine conflict. Amen. Not a thing. There's dirtiness. Anyway, I'll move fast. Jesus said, this must take place.20:06 The the end is not yet. And then he says, for nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. It looks like Jesus is repeating himself, but he's not. The word nation in Greek is ethnos.20:19 Ethnos, circle nation if you got your notes out. Ethnos. We get the word ethnicity from that Greek word. What he's saying is an ethnicity will rise up against ethnicity20:31 and kingdom against kingdom. The last 2 years proved that we will never ever, on this side of Jesus coming back, achieve racial harmony. But we won't.20:44 What what whatever happened to Martin Luther King Junior's speech saying, I look forward to a day in which my children are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the Content of their character. Content of their20:54 character and all this social justice nonsense has flipped that script on top of its head. And now the most important thing they teach our kids in universities across this country is the most important thing about you is21:03 the color of your skin. And all and and it's fair game on white people. Everybody else has to be coddled and cajoled if it's fair game on white people.21:15 That's not called reverse racism. That's called racism. And that's just as evil as any other kind of judgment other people on the color of their skin. And I got I I got no21:27 I got no problem with working for justice. I got no problem with working for justice, but I'm gonna tell you something. It's the church's job not to work for justice, but to work for righteousness, the21:35 righteousness that Jesus Christ gives us that21:35 makes us right with God. Because each other. Amen.21:47 Ethnicity against ethnicity. I've heard about Columbia University having separate graduations for black students, and then a separate graduation for Asian students, and a separate graduation for21:59 Hispanic students. And now, if you say the wrong pronoun to people, people freak out. We live in a world where we weep over mispro misgendering someone and22:10 celebrate killing the unborn. That's jacked up. Number I'll move forward. Number 3.22:22 Physical signs in the Earth and the cosmos. Physical signs in the Earth and the so climate change is a thing, and it's gonna be a thing until Jesus comes again.22:34 The reason why I know is because Jesus told us to look for signs in the heavens. And we all know that the Earth and the move and the rotation of the movement of the Earth and the moon and all the relation to the other22:43 planets in the solar system, that all start and get jacked up, and we can see it. I am a big believer in climate change. I'm just not a big believer in our kind of government spending 3000000000000 dollars that we don't22:54 have to save the country from 1 degree Celsius higher temperatures in a hundred years. Not a big fan of that. I don't think that's a waste of money. You could think that's a way that's a good spending of money. I23:05 disagree. Anyway, there's signs to come in the cosmos and in the earth. Jesus said in Mark 13 b 13, 8, he says, there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be23:17 famines. Oh, we're talking about food shortages. We're talking about food shortages in 20 22. Prices of, common goods, your grocery bills have skyrocketed.23:31 There's there's droughts in the west, floods in the east. The the the the food supply food chain is getting disrupted, mangled, just jacked up. Why?23:43 Jesus said this would be happening. But then he says, these are the beginning of birth pains. This is the okay. That wasn't it. There's gonna be23:55 a final 1. There's gonna be a final all these things you're just seeing. Again, preview of coming attractions. Number 4, international hatred24:07 and international witness for Christ. This is kind of ironic because both end at the same time. In other words, Jesus said, nations are gonna hate you, and the gospel's24:19 going to the nations. Look what he says in verse 9. Be on your guard. They will deliver you over to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. Matthew 24 says, all nations shall hate you because of me. All nations shall24:30 hate you because of me. If you go to if you go to work with non Christians and they don't like your Christianity, can I can I just give you some comfort today? You're doing it right.24:43 They're supposed to hate you. Now you don't hate that. You love that. You don't repay evil for evil. You you repay evil with blessing. But but but Jesus says you're gonna get hated. You're gonna stand24:55 before governors, kings. You're gonna bear witness before them. And then verse 10, I love this, and the gospel must first be preached to all nations. By the way, over the last 100 years, you look up the charts, the25:05 research, the statistics, I've done it. Christian persecution from, 0 AD, you know, a blip at 300 when when Nero I'm sorry. Right before Constantine, Julian the apostate,25:17 blip at 300. And then if you look, it goes like this, steady incline, then you get to the 19 hundreds, and Christian persecution stats go like this. Christianity is the most persecuted people group on the face of the25:28 earth. They are. The missions boards that I have researched and found statistics on say that more Christians have died for the faith in the last 10025:40 years than in all the previous centuries of Christianity combined. Now we don't get that as Americans because we're Americans. All you need to do is go to25:52 Africa, where I've been to Uganda and Kenya, and you see how the Muslims treat Christians. You see how these nations treat Christians as not second class, third class26:04 citizens. And we had a guy here. He had a pizza shop right over here across the street, and I used to go there and get pizza, and I'd invite him to church. He came to church. He came to Christ. He brought his wife. They26:14 came to Christ. The whole family came to Christ. He moved away, but he was an immigrant from Egypt. And he used to say to me, man, you guys don't realize how they treat Christians over in Egypt. If you're a Christian in26:24 Egypt, you have no rights. You have no civil liberties. You cannot open up a business. You cannot have any kind of position in government or any kind of position in university. They are absolutely second, third class26:33 citizens, and you are deprived of all your civil liberties. That's the rest of the world, friend. That's the rest of the world. We are in an incubator. We are we are sheltered in this26:45 country from all this hate against our fellow brothers and sisters. And they're suffering and they're dying, and more of them have died in the last hundred years than all 1900 years before that.26:58 And and and and yet the same is true about the the gospel. The gospel has gone further. Same same same graph, like, from 0 AD through to 1900. It just shoots up the number of nations27:09 that have been reached for Christ over the last 100 years. Exponential, expansion of the gospel into unreached people groups across the world.27:22 And the gospel has gone into places never before it has gone into. It's been an amazing last 120 or so years. And and and at the same time there's bad, there's also much good. And the celebration is that what Jesus27:34 said would happen is exactly happening. The gospel is going to the nations. Number 5, this one's a dark 1, death and misery. What to expect before Jesus comes27:45 back? Death and misery. Death and misery. The CDC just put out a study of our high school students. The CDC just put out a study of our high school students. 44 percent of American high school27:57 students believe that they are persistently sad and hopeless. 44 percent persistently sad and hopeless. Maybe not teaching the bible28:09 in public schools was a bad idea. Maybe trying just to improve their life here and not tell them about a life yet to come was a bad idea.28:23 Jesus says this in Luke 21. We're gonna skip over there because the, Mark 13, Matthew 24, and Luke 21 are pretty much the same thing. They're the same speech interpreted different ways. So Luke 21 says this,28:35 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. Man, if that does not describe today, I don't know what does. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Now28:47 I'm a pastor, so a lot of people say you work 1 day a week. No. I, spend all week studying the text and making sure that it's accurate so that when I get up here, I'm telling you what it says and not what I want it to28:59 say. So that's what I do. And, on top of the other things that I do on my YouTube channel, which I'm sure many of you love and appreciate, thank you very much, like and subscribe. But nonetheless, what I gotta do is I29:10 gotta make sure what's the Greek say because the Bible wasn't written in English. It was written in Greek, Hebrew, and a little bit of Aramaic. And the most reputable listen to this. The most reputable commentary, the29:20 most reputable translation commentary that is available to all Bible scholars is very high-tech. It's very hard to understand. It's just you know, but it's huge. It's 77 volumes written about the Bible. It's thousands29:32 upon thousands, tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of pages. Like, they'll take 1 phrase, and they'll have 70 pages on 1 phrase in the bible. It's called the Ale Yanker bible commentary. The Ale Yanker bible29:41 commentary. I go to it not that often because it's very hard to understand, but here's how the Yale Anchor Commentary, the most reputable translation commentary on the market, translates29:53 Luke 21 26. Look at this. People will stop breathing out of fear and foreboding. What's COVID?30:10 You know, you understand that the last 3 major plagues that have swept across the world have all attacked the respiratory system. The Russian influenza virus that was in 18 89, the Spanish flu that was in30:22 19 18, and coronavirus. And they all stop people from breathing. And I've always said not always said, but I've said over the last few years that the real virus is the fear virus.30:34 That we get so scared, and I think that a lot a lot of people I'm just gonna tell you, the body affects the mind, and the mind affects the spirit, and the spirit affects the mind, and the spirit affects the body, and how30:42 you think, sometimes that's how you live. And I think that when people don't have any hope of the next life, they have no joy, and they know had no belief in God and healing and miracles, I believe that they just have to30:53 think it and they start to die. And when COVID comes in and starts to constrict their breath, they give up. I just I just believe that. I do, and I've seen it happen, and I I've I've I've I've31:05 I've seen testimonies of that. So so all these things I'm just trying to tell you. This is why the Bible gives 15 percent of the time to understanding what to look for when31:16 Jesus is coming back. So that we're not scared, we're prepared. And Jesus says in Luke 21, when you see all these things, lift up yourShow more In this video 0:00 The Last Days: A Call to Readiness3:08 Signs of the End Times31:28 Israel: God's Prophetic Nation50:00 A Call to Salvation and Readiness
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