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0:02 And the forces of evil will take over the entire world, and Antichrist will appear.0:33 Well, good morning, good evening, good afternoon, whenever you're listening to this message. Welcome to Waters Church. My name is Tim. I am the lead pastor of this wonderful church in many locations. We want to say0:45 hello to North Attleboro. Hello to Woonsocket, Norwood, Tiverton, Guatemala, everywhere else that is watching this message online. Let us know in the chat where you're watching from. We0:57 love your connection. Give the video a thumbs up. If you do, that would be wonderful. We are continuing a message series called Last Days and I am so excited to1:09 bring this content to you today. First, just a couple of announcements. First, North Idaho, Winsocket, I will be back in town on Tuesday for first Tuesday.1:21 You do not want to miss this. Prayer starts at 6 PM, 7 pm worship, 7 30. I will be preaching the word of god to you. I will be there with you and it is the most impactful moment of1:32 our month. If you've never been to a first Tuesday, come to a first Tuesday. Can I get a good amen from someone who's been to first Tuesday? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know it is always awesome. Now, next Sunday1:44 as well, big announcement, compassion weekend, and all locations. Compassion is a ministry that we have supported for, I want to say, almost 151:56 years now and we're going to be sponsoring kids overseas at every location. We will be having real life compassion grown up children. The children of Compassion's Ministry grown up2:08 their lives now successful, faithful to Christ, blessed, prosperous, and you're going to hear from them at all of our locations and I have a short word in mind for us next week at all2:20 locations. So, that's the next week ahead. I'm so excited but before we get there, let's continue to talk about last days. Gonna get everybody in all locations to say, last days. Yeah,2:32 thank you. Thank you. Okay. We asked this question last week. Are we in the last days of the last days? Like, that's a good question because every generation of2:44 believers has thought since Jesus rose again that they were the last generation and I want to tell you that there2:56 is scriptural proof that we had to actually wait for some things to happen before Jesus returns. Let me say it this way. A common3:08 misstatement of many preachers, many Christians is, we we we never had to wait for anything to happen before Jesus had to come back again and we were wrong.3:20 We are often mistaken because we don't examine scriptures rightly and we're often mistaken because we don't see the end from the beginning like god does but history is an unfolding. History is an unfolding.3:32 In fact, the word apocalyptic. That means, it means unfolding narrative and that and that's what history is. As history unfolds the realities of god's word and last week, we talked about3:44 the first thing that needed to happen before Jesus comes back according to Isaiah chapter 10 is the nation of Israel had to be reconstituted in the land of Israel before he3:56 comes again. That happened in 19 48. That was last week's message. I hope you were here. If you are not, check it out on our YouTube channel. But today, I want to talk about something else that needs to happen4:08 before Jesus Christ comes again. And that is the arrival of an a worldwide rebellion against god and then ultimately4:20 culminating in a worldwide leader that we call by many names and scripture calls by many names but I'm going to call it by this name today, very familiar name, very hot button4:32 name in the Bible. Here it is, Antichrist. So, last days part 2, here's the message. Ready? Antichrist is the world ready4:44 and we're going to second Thessalonians chapter 2. Second Thessalonians chapter 2, if you have your notes in house, they're the half page notes, pull them out, fill in the blanks, follow along with us. If you're not in4:56 house, check out Waters Church dot guide. It looks like that. We want you to click on today's message and you will see that you can fill in the blanks on your phone and so that's also available to5:07 you. Follow along, fill in the blanks, and let's learn some things about what the scripture has to say about the end times, the last days. Okay, here here's the deal. Is the world ready5:19 for antichrist? I know what some Bible people are going to tell me right now because I've read the verses you've read and I'm going to read 1 right5:31 now. First John 2 18. Listen to what our father in the faith, John says. This is John, the beloved disciple, who walked with Jesus, wrote revelation on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and then left some5:43 letters to the church first, second, and third John and here's what he says, first John 2 18. Listen, children, it is the next 2 words everybody. What? Last hour. So, not just last days but last5:55 hour and then he says this, and as you have heard, this is nothing new. They already heard this. That antichrist is coming. Notice that it doesn't say, he6:07 is here. It says, is coming but then note the next line. So now, many antichrists, plural, have come.6:19 Therefore, we know that is the last hour. Okay. When the Bible talks about time, you gotta get this in your heart. It is not always literal time.6:31 Last days does not mean last few days. It could be last 2000 years. Last hour does not mean 60 minutes. It just means a time frame. Even the word week. Daniel6:43 people will know. The people who love the book of Daniel and you pre trib rapture people. Yes, I said you. When Daniel talks about the weeks, the time frames,6:55 Daniel's seventieth week. We know that that's talking about a 7 year tribulation period. So, when the Bible talks about time, it's not necessarily literal time as we tell time in our watches and7:07 in our calendars. It refers to periods of history. It refers to the unfolding of history and what John has told us right here on the pages of scripture is, antichrist is7:19 coming and yet many have already come. And that is going to be unpacked in this message today about how we reconcile Antichrist have come.7:31 They're already here and yet there is this 1 final world leader who will come upon the world. And I would like to say that 2 and a half years ago, if I was preaching7:42 this message series, I would say, we're not close to that 7 year period tribulation or the last days of the last day. 2 and a half years ago, man, I'll tell you, I would not have said7:54 it. But then COVID. And then 20 20 and 20 21, and now we are seeing the shaking of a global economy. We are seeing the upending of our8:06 norms, and we are seeing the mass confusion, the fog of distortion of truth, of what's real. And I think8:18 we forget so quickly. Remember 9 11, the theme of 9 11 in this country was a 2 word theme after 9 11. We promised ourselves we would do 1 thing, 2 words. The words were what? Never8:30 what? Forget. But man, we forgot. And I want us to do something church. I want us to never forget what COVID did to us. Because it8:42 wrecked our world. And I think we need a reminder of what we just went through because it's so easy to forget and think that world, the world's going to get back to normal. I think what we saw in COVID was8:53 signs of coming attractions when antichrist actually does finally show up. Let me give you a couple of illustrations. I'm going give you 8 pictures and I want to show you from these pictures what we just9:05 went through. So, picture number 1, how many remember this? Curfew. Starting when? 8 pm, signs in New York City calling for adults, grown ups to have a curfew. How about this next9:17 picture? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Guys getting surrounded by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 cops to put a mask on. Come on, somebody. How about this next picture? Police,9:28 barracks, barricade. Who would have thought that in our country, we would see police barracks, the undermining of civil authority. How about this next 1?9:41 COVID broke some people. I'm telling you. They it just broke some people. Let's go to this this next this next picture. Even crazier. And some of you thought Coneheads was just an SNL skit. Nope. It9:53 was a real life end times reality. Next picture. This is, this seems innocuous, but this is mayor Eric Garcetti on the left. He is at Super Bowl,10:05 and he was 1 of the most strict COVID mask leaders in the country. In fact, they handed out KN95 masks to all the participants or all the10:17 spectators, not participants, spectators of Super Bowl and yet he brazenly showed up and flaunted with his mask in hand, a maskless face throughout the day. That is10:29 hypocrisy at the to the nth degree. Next picture. Now now this 1, let me just give you some context, and maybe you're not catching it right off the bat, but this guy is riding a motorcycle10:41 with no helmet, but he does have a COVID mask on. Ladies and gentlemen, COVID broke us. Final picture, just check this 1 out. This 1 is just for10:53 fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we have really lost our minds when we're christening babies with squirt guns. Something is in the water in that church. Ladies and gentlemen,11:05 this was our world. For 2 and a half, no, almost 2. No. Now, 2 years and 2 months, this was our world.11:17 Never forget. Why do I not want you to forget? Because Paul tells a first century church,11:29 don't forget. Don't forget that this is what's going to happen to the world before Jesus comes again. I want you to stand with me11:41 for the reading of god's word. Second Thessalonians chapter 2. Let's let's take a look at it together. Here's the word of the lord. Second Thessalonians chapter 2 beginning at verse 1. Standing together at all locations.11:53 Verse 1, now, concerning the coming of our lord Jesus Christ and are being gathered together with him, to him, sorry, we ask you brothers and I love this, not to be quickly shaken in12:05 mind or alarmed either by a spirit or spoken word or a letter seeming to be from us to the effect that the day of the lord has come. Let no 1 deceive you in any way. Now, listen to this12:16 because some of you gotta catch this. I just told you that things have to happen before Jesus comes. Where do I get that idea? From scripture, from the Bible. Look what Paul says, the next line in verse 3, for12:28 that day, what day? The day of the lord coming and us being gathered together to him. For that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first. There it is in black and white in12:40 our Bibles. Something has to happen before Jesus comes. The rebellion and the man of lawlessness, another name for antichrist in the scripture, is revealed.12:52 The son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so called god or object of worship so that he takes his seat in the temple of god proclaiming himself to be god and then notice13:04 this next line, do you not remember that I, when I was with you, I told you these things and we're going to skip ahead if you don't mind down to verse 13 and I will read the13:16 rest during the message but verse 13, but we ought always to give thanks to god for you, brothers. Beloved by the lord because god chose you as the13:28 first fruits to be saved through sanctification by the spirit and belief in the truth. To this, he called you through our gospel so that you may obtain the glory of our lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers,13:40 so then in in light of all of this stuff that you're going to see happen on the world. Why? Stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us either by our spoken word or by our letter.13:52 Now, may the lord Jesus Christ himself and god our father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace. Comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.14:04 Turn to your neighbor and say, this is for your comfort at all locations. Just go ahead and say that. This is for your comfort. Go ahead and do it. Go ahead. Yeah. This is the word of god. Let's pray together. Father, I14:15 ask that the spirit of the the holy spirit will be upon this moment and guide us and lead us and may my words be what you want them to be and may our hearts be burning for your return as we14:27 study these realities. Help us to see Jesus, him and him only. In his mighty name, we prayed. Everybody said, amen. God bless you at all locations. Have a seat. Have a seat. I'm I'm actually kind of14:39 glad that this is on video because I want to make sure that I get this content out the same for all locations and all videos. And and all and services. We have got to pay attention to14:51 scripture when scripture speaks about what we should be expecting about the last days. Too many Christian churches like ours, they've15:02 got lights, they've got smoke, they've got guitars, they've got drums, they've got skinny jean wear and worship leaders, right? They they got all those cool YouTube, cold15:14 playesque kind of themes going on in the services. But unfortunately, the pastors of these churches are no longer preaching and preparing for god's people to be ready for when Jesus comes.15:26 Like I said last week, it's all about this life. It's all about having a great life now and we gotta get back to what the scriptures. There's tons of scriptures. The Bible's 30 percent prophetic. 15 percent is looking15:38 toward the end. The Bible scripture, god, your father, Jesus, wants us ready for when Jesus comes again and 1 of the things that we've gotta be very aware of15:49 is that there's going to be no shortage of fear tactics from the pulpits of America's churches as well. As much as some churches ignore the end times, there's a whole bunch of churches16:01 that scare people about the end times. I want to do neither. I don't want to ignore them and I don't want to use them to scare you but here's what Paul says to the Thessalonians. Look at verse 1 again, concerning16:11 concerning the coming of our lord. This is second Thessalonians verse 1 of chapter 2. We want you or we ask you, don't be quickly shaken in mind or spirit and16:22 I love that. Not in mind. Don't be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed by a spirit or a spoken word. Sometimes, people like to do this in the church and I want you to listen for this phrase.16:34 The lord told me to tell you. Oh gosh, I really do not like that phrase. I really do not like the phrase because it's a manipulation tactic. Never tell let16:46 anybody tell you the lord told them if what the lord told them is not in this book. Never ever let that happen. But I want you to understand that that's not going to stop16:58 some people from trying to make that happen and Paul knows that. He says, don't let anybody in spirit or words shake you in your mind about the coming of the lord or to give you a letter seeming to be from us to the fact17:10 that god has already come. Jesus has already come. No, there's some things that have to happen. And I don't want you shaking. I want you strong. Paul says, I want you ready. I want you comforted by the return of Jesus.17:21 The return of Jesus is not here to scare us. It's here to prepare us. Prepare us in mind and in thought for when he comes again. Now, when we talk about antichrist, man,17:33 this this topic gets a lot of headlines in in the church world. Number 1, in the idea of who is it? So, there had been no end to the speculation. In the first century, they thought it was17:44 Nero because the number of his name adds up to 6 6 6 in in in Roman numerals. So, people assumed it was emperor Nero who was crucifying Christians and burning them at the stake and burning down the city of Rome17:56 and then blaming Christians and fiddling while people suffered and all those stories from ancient Rome and then any number of world leaders since including Adolf Hitler or Mussolini or or even18:08 the United States presidents. I mean, that's the that's the number 1 line of thought today that the US president, whoever it is at that time is going to be the antichrist and and even some have said it's the pope, the18:20 Catholic pope who who leads the Catholic church into apostasy and and claims himself to be divinity and all that. So, there's no end. There's no end to speculation about who he is but but I want you to understand what18:31 antichrist means. So, I want you to take out your notes. I want you to write this down. The the phrase anti in Christ. Anti, write this down means against but it also means replace.18:44 So, we understand I am anti this. I am anti mask or I am anti vax. That means I'm against those things. Okay. But in Greek, the word anti can also mean replacement. So,18:56 what this is really about, antichrist and listen, you gotta catch this because it's the whole theme of the message is a replacement Christ. Is a19:08 replacement for Christian orthodoxy, a replacement for Christian theology, a replacement for Christian community, and what the Bible reveals19:19 again and again and again about Antichrist is he will do a replacement work of Jesus Christ in this world as this world19:30 rebels against the gospel of Jesus Christ against the word of god. So, I got 4 things that he's going to do and I'm going to give you these 4 things because I19:42 want you to ask yourself as we discuss these 4 things. I want you to ask yourself, is this happening right now? Do we see a spirit of the age that19:54 aligns with what antichrist leader is going to do to the world? And I believe if you lean in here and pay attention, you're going to be shocked at how much20:06 our world through the last 2 and a half years has been programmed and shaped to receive all 4 of these events, all 4 of these exercises of20:18 antichrist. Okay, write these down. Number 1, 4 things antichrist will do. Number 1, he's going to exalt himself. He's going to exalt himself and I want you to pay20:29 attention to what Paul says here in second Thessalonians about this. First off, remember I said it means replacement of Christ as well as anti or against Christ. What did Christ do?20:41 The scripture says in Philippians chapter 2, he was in the form of god. He did not consider it something to be held on to. He he gave up his privileges as god in heaven. Didn't give up his divinity but gave up his20:53 privileges, his prerogatives in some translation and he humbled himself. He humbled himself and he became a man and he became obedient and he was obedient all the way to the21:05 cross and Jesus but the night before the cross washed the feet of every disciple that was about to run away from him and and Judas who was about to betray him and Peter who was about to deny him and he humbled himself21:16 all the way to the cross, the lowest, most gnarliest version of death the world's ever known and that's what Jesus did and he did that in obedience to god for you and for me. That21:28 that anyone with the spirit of pride does not know Christ. And I'm amazed in this church, in the church, in the in the global church. How easily we21:39 overlook pride in our world. We obsess about adultery. We obsess about stealing. We obsess about all these other law. These are all these other sins which are really the fruit of pride. But we21:51 follow, if you're a Christian, we follow a savior who humbled himself and so if you want to know what antichrist is about, it's the opposite. It's the replacement.22:02 It's an exaltation of self. Look what Paul says in verse 3, let no 1 deceive you. For in that day, the man of lawlessness will come. The son of destruction, he22:13 opposes and he exalts himself against every so called god or object of worship so that he takes his seat in the temple of god proclaiming himself to be22:25 what? God. This is what antichrist is going to do. Antichrist is a spirit of self promotion. I want you to hear that again because22:37 it's imperative that you get it. Antichrist is a spirit of self promotion. Now, you only you only promote22:49 self if you love self. You will promote whatever you love. Another word for promote is worship. You will worship whatever you23:00 love and if you love your kids, you will promote and promote and promote them. If you love your job, you will talk about it endlessly. If you love your spouse, you will talk about that 1. If you love Jesus, nobody can23:10 ever shut you up about Jesus because you love, you worship him but this is what antichrist does. He promotes self. Now, everybody has got to understand that if there is 1 thing23:22 that is absolutely clear in the scriptures, it is the idol of self, the worship of self will be a reality of the last days. I give you the words of23:34 Paul to Timothy, second Timothy 3 verse 1, but understand this, that in the last days, there will come times of difficulty and what's what's what's the hallmark of these difficult times? I'm23:46 just just note what the hallmark is for people will be lovers or worshippers or exalters of what? Self. Self is a23:57 4 letter word in the ideals of Christ. Christ humbled himself, antichrist, exalts himself. So, here's my question for you and I'm going to24:09 ask this question all 4 points. Are you humbling yourself following Christ or are you exalting yourself following antichrist? Because that's the spirit of the age.24:21 The spirit of the age itself. Now, we were given a what? 3 month lockdown where we got to spend all the time what we wanted with ourselves. 1 of the worst moments of the lockdown for me and I don't know if you remember24:32 this but this was the worst moment. This where I was like, okay, the world's gone. When the when celebrities got on their cellphones and they started to sing John Lennon's Imagine to us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How how24:43 many remember? That was like, how many were on vomit alert at that moment? I was on, I could not stand. The song Imagine is a is an anti Christian, anti24:55 Christ mantra theme song is played at every Olympics, is played at every sports venue on the world stage, and then we had celebrities, the love of self. I mean, what a25:07 picture of our culture today. The love of self and these things give us an opportunity to filter self, to promote self, to celebrate self, to see the world through self's25:18 eyes, and I can't tell you how how clear it is that, oh, that's my, that's my dog on mine. So, I I, that's my dog. I promote my puppy. There we go. Okay. Anyway, but but that's that's what we're in right now. An25:30 antichrist, a promotion of self mantra. That's just the first thing. Here's number 2, what does antichrist do? 4 things. Number 2, he rejects biblical25:42 morality. Rejects biblical morality. Rebellion, the Bible says, is what it is a spirit of rebellion is going to come upon the world. And so, again, this replaces Christ. What did25:54 Christ do? What did Jesus do when he came? He fulfilled the law. He obeyed god perfectly. He said to the people who wanted to kill him, he said, listen, show26:06 me where I've sinned. And no 1 had anything to say. He was perfect. The only perfect man, the only truly good, perfect26:17 person was Jesus Christ. He obeyed. He didn't reject. He followed god's word exactly and then he died for us who can't follow it. But antichrist is going to do the exact26:29 opposite. He's going to reject god's authority in morality. Look what Paul says in verse 7. For the mystery of lawlessness. Now, when when we talk about mystery, the word mystery just means that it is26:41 this spirit that congeals people together. I want you to think about that. Like, in the gospel, Paul in Ephesians 2, Paul talks about the spirit or the mystery of the26:52 mystery of the gospel that Jews and Gentiles will all be 1 in Christ Jesus, right? Well, there's a mystery, a spirit that congeals the world in the27:04 word there is lawlessness. Anomia in Greek. No law. It's already at work, Paul says in verse 7, only now he who restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. Lot of27:16 conjecture about who that he is. And I just think it's very simple. I think it's the hand of god. God holds back. God restrains evil. He restrains lawlessness. What you see on your27:28 television, what you see in the news is is just what god allows. Remember when Job goes to heaven and he counsels with god about when Satan goes to heaven and counsels with god about Job and he says,27:40 you know, lift your hand and let me attack him and and watch him curse you and god removes his restraining hand and Satan attacks and Satan attacks and Job does not give up his faith. Well, I believe that god's hand is27:52 always restraining evil. The reason why the world doesn't fall apart at the seams is because god's hand is still holding it together and that's going to come up. There's going to come a point ladies and gentlemen where28:03 god says, enough. And all hell is going to break loose in the world. And then it says in verse 8, then the lawless 1 will be, then, we're going to say who he is. So, listen to28:15 me. We're not going to see who antichrist is until god's restraining hand is removed. Now, you say, well, when will I know if god's hand is removed? You'll know. Trust me, if you're in28:27 Christ, you will know. You will know when all hell breaks loose in the world. What we're just seeing right now is the cracks in the dam. We're just seeing the little springs through the cracks of the dam as the as the28:38 unleashed hell to come upon the world is starting to happen. Then it says this, good news. Here's here's the good news. The law of the son will be revealed. Whom the lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his28:49 mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. Whoo. I love that 1. Breath in his mouth. You know, Mike Tyson got in trouble a couple of weeks ago because someone was taunting him on an airplane and you just29:01 don't taunt Mike Tyson. I don't care who you are. I don't care how strong and tough you think you are but evidently, some guy in a plane got a few drinks into him. Mike Tyson was sitting in front of him. Mike Tyson got29:11 up and just knocked that sucker up. Man, he just knocked him cold. You don't mess with Mike Tyson because you gotta face Mike Tyson's fist. You don't mess with Jesus Christ because29:23 he never has to lift a fist. Whoo. That's a good preaching right there. All he has to do, all Jesus is gonna have to do with the lawless antichrist is this. Are you ready?29:36 And he's just going to blow him away immediately. As much as the hell of the world is going to come upon the hell of god's wrath coming upon the world through lawlessness, through rejection, biblical authority. Jesus is29:47 just going to show up and be like, okay, that's enough. And blow em out. Praise god but the rejection of biblical morality. Are we seeing that now? Absolutely.30:00 Absolutely. Rejection of biblical story. So, so let me ask you a question that I asked in the first point. Are you embracing what this word says even when culture hates it and thinks you're outdated and wrong?30:12 Or are you rejecting it? Because if you're embracing it, you're with Christ. If you're rejecting it, you're with antichrist. I'm just I'm just laying it out as simple as I can. I'm just laying it out as simple as I can.30:22 I read this week a new survey reveals that 52 percent of American adults believe that Jesus is a great teacher but not god. 52 percent of American adults believe Jesus is great teacher but not god. Now, listen to this30:33 number. Only 66 percent of evangelicals believe Jesus is god. 66 percent of people that go to churches like ours. Only 6 out of 10 believe that Jesus30:45 is god. Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't believe Jesus is god, you are not a Christian. You are not an evangelical evangelical. You are not a biblical Christian. And this is what's happening right now in the world.30:56 Even in these kind of churches, even these kind of churches, there's an apostasy happening. I shared on my YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash Tim Hash live. Like and subscribe. Anyway, I shared31:08 it last week about a prayer at a Presbyterian Church. Man, John Knox would be rolling over in his grave. The great Scottish theologian, John Knox, who started the Presbyterian Movement and brought31:20 people to the gospel and led thousands upon thousands to Christ and there was a a woman leading a prayer in a Presbyterian church in Illinois and the prayer was all about the gender god, the transgender31:32 god, the lesbian god, the homosexual god, the god who is all these things. He's he's he's so aware of himself. He's confused about himself. I mean, it was it was an insane prayer and31:44 it goes on for 2 and a half minutes. This is happening in America's church not just in the culture, it's happening in the churches. A rejection of biblical morality. Today, you'll walk, you'll drive by31:56 certain churches and they will have crosses replaced by gay pride flags. Today, you'll go by certain churches and instead of crosses and instead of symbols of the32:07 Christian faith, they'll have banners of Black Lives Matter or whatever political posturing that they want. Some churches are more tied to the Republican Party32:20 than the person of Jesus Christ. Some churches are more tied to liberal policies on immigration and sexuality than they are in the word of god.32:32 This is to be expected because this is the spirit of antichrist and it's seeping right into the church, right into the church. So, again, are you standing up32:44 for what god's word says? Or are you starting to reject it? Number 3, what will antichrist do? What? Write this down. He establishes a false global faith. Now, again, this is a32:56 replacement for what Jesus did. When Jesus arrived, he fulfilled the law and the prophets of Judaism, the law and the prophets of the Jews. He fulfilled the Old Testament and he established the new covenant,33:07 a new faith, not not really a new faith as much as a fulfilled faith because what Abraham saw in his mind and in his visions, Jesus was. And Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament and now he33:19 establishes what we now term Christianity. Well, the antichrist is going to establish a new faith, a global faith, and it is a false faith. Look at what it says here in first 9 of second33:31 Thessalonians 2. The coming of the lawless 1 is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders. Notice, there are such things as false signs and33:43 wonders. This is why Jesus says, woe to the generation who looks for a sign. Woe to the generation who looks for wonders because wonders and33:54 signs can be manipulated. They can be deceptive. They can be falsified. They can be supernatural, supernaturally inspired and instigated by demons.34:07 I'm just trying to tell you the truth of god's word here. You've gotta be aware of it. So, there's going to be this false signs and wonders just like signs and wonders in the early church happen truly and genuinely.34:16 There's going to be false at the end times. False signs and wonders. Verse 10, with all wicked deception, not truth but deception. For those who are perishing because they refuse to love the truth and so be34:28 saved. So, this is important because what's going to happen at the end times is there's going to be this global worship of antichrist. I take you to Revelation chapter 13. Look with me there at that34:40 text. Revelation chapter 13. It, this is the this is the antichrist. It exercises all authority of the first beast in his presence and makes the earth and his inhabitants worship the first beast whose34:52 mortal wound was healed. So, now you have this resurrection that's a mockery or an invitation of what Jesus did whose mortal wound was healed. It performs great signs even making fire to come down from heaven35:04 to earth in the front of in front of people, false signs, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image for the beast35:15 that was wounded by the sword and yet lived and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the beast. The image of35:24 the beast to be slain. So, you have this iconography of this false faith that's coming upon the church upon the world. You have false signs and wonders. You have a great deception. You have a rejection of35:36 truth and an embrace of lies and all of this makes for a global false faith. I want to ask you another question. Are you getting closer and deeper into the35:48 biblical faith? The faith what Jude calls that was once delivered for the saints? Are you loving the word and embracing the word, growing35:59 stronger in Christ, or are you watching television at no end and embracing the mantras of our age and getting a hooked on the hashtags of our age and following the the36:11 ideals of our age and and and not even realizing that you have started to slowly abdicate the true faith and have wandered into a false,36:22 self oriented, self promoting, anti biblical, false faith. I'm trying to tell you that scripture is clear. This is what's going to happen before36:34 he comes again. Our country is a test case for what's happened, what happens when you abandon biblical faith and embrace no faith. Our country is a test36:46 case. We are coming up on 60 years, June 20 fifth. This year is a huge 60 year anniversary for our country. In June 20 fifth36:58 19 62, the Supreme Court of this country, through a case called Engel versus Vitale, removed prayer from our public schools.37:11 Ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, there was a time when we sent our kids to school and they used to pray led by their teachers a very Christian prayer. They prayed for wisdom. They prayed for insight. They prayed37:23 for stability and truth. And in 60 years ago, our Supreme Court said, that's a violation of the First Amendment and prayer was gone. Can I just ask you a question? What would your37:34 life look like if you didn't pray for 60 years? I'm always amused at how worked up some people in our37:46 country are about what's happening in our public school system. And I almost want to tell them, what did you expect? When you remove prayer for wisdom37:58 and prayer for truth and asking god for help in these things, what do you get? You get foolishness, you get hit rampant immorality, you get confusion, you38:10 get a absolute abandonment of norms and foundations that make for human flourishing. 19 62, a year later, in the case of Abington38:22 School District versus Shemp, the Supreme Court removed Bible reading from public schools and again, I'm talking about Bible reading led by the teacher. I'm not, you can read the Bible school. You can bring your Bible to38:32 school and I encourage them if you want to do this fine but I'm just talking about led by the school. What would your life look like if you didn't read the Bible for 59 years? That's exactly what you're seeing in our38:44 public school systems. Fast forward 2 decades to the 19 eighties. In 19 80, the inevitable result was through a case called Stone versus Graham, the Supreme Court said that38:55 any posting of the 10 commandments in a public school was a violation of the church of the First Amendment. So, now, no no 10 commandments anywhere in our public schools. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to think about39:07 this. 60 years ago, prayer for wisdom, Bible reading, and the 10 commandments were regular parts of our educational system. Look it up and see39:19 if I'm right. Please, I challenge you to fact check me. It was absolutely true. And we've walked away from it and at the highest court in the land, we've rejected it. What would your life lookShow more
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