BONUS: The Final Countdown End of Days in Scripture

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Really got you a good bonus today, something that I've never done before.

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But this one is just going to be pretty much a list.

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I'm going to require you, or you're going to require yourself, to have to do a little studying to get in-depth.

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I just thought I'd give you a good reference point to start, as we've been talking about the end times, I'm going to give you the signs and events of the end times and where they're explained in Scripture.

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I'll give you a little rundown of what you can expect to find in these different books of the Bible, so you'll know what you're going to expect to see or find there.

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But you can really run down a rabbit hole when you're reading the Bible.

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Forget what people say about YouTube rabbit holes.

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Open up your Bible and start studying and tell me you've ever experienced a rabbit hole like that before.

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The first place you're going to want to look is going to be Psalms, chapter 2.

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Now, this is the psalm of the battle of Armageddon, the nation's rage God laughs and the exaltation of Christ as the Lord.

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The second one is the book of Daniel.

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There you're going to find an overview of God's dealing with human governments.

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Find an overview of God's dealing with human governments, a timeline of events from the days of Daniel 598 BC to Palm Sunday, april 6, 30 AD, and you get an overview of the last seven years before the second coming, known as the Great Tribulation, which begins with a peace treaty between Israel and the Confederation of European States and ends with the Battle of Armageddon and the return of Christ.

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The next is the book of Ezekiel, chapter 37, the prophecy of the return of the Jews from all over the world to the land of Israel to re-establish the nation of Israel.

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The dispersion occurred in 70 AD and, against all odds, the return took place in 1948 AD.

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The battle between Gog from the land of the north Magog, that's directly north of Jerusalem, that's directly north of Jerusalem Russia and the nation of Israel, gog, who's allied with a number of African nations, is soundly defeated and the battle probably occurs before the time of the Great Tribulation.

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The next book is going to be Zechariah, chapter 12, verses 10 and 14, or 10 through 14.

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The Israelites weep and repent when they see the nail-scarred hands of Christ at the second coming.

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Moving on to Matthew, chapter 24.

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Known as the Olivet Discourse, jesus answers the disciples' questions about the end times and the future destruction of Israel.

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Then we got 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, 13 through 18.

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It's a description of the rapture when Jesus comes for his saints and takes them to heaven, and it talks about the swiftness and stealth of the second coming.

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2 Thessalonians 2, 1-12 Beware of the coming Antichrist who is revealed when he sets up the abomination of desolation.

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The Antichrist has deceptive tools to fool the world, and when that which restrains either the Holy Spirit or the church is removed from the earth, the Lord's wrath is unleashed.

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And then we move on to 1 Peter, chapter 4, verses 7 through 11.

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That's going to be an outline of how to behave during the last days.

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Then 2 Peter, chapter 2.

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It's a description of wicked men during the last days.

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Then 2 Peter, chapter 2, it's a description of wicked men during the last days and it talks about the second coming timetable.

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It's right on schedule and God is not delaying.

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And then it talks about the elements that will be destroyed by fire.

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And we got the book of Jude, a picture of the destruction of ungodly men and women at the second coming.

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Now here's the big one that y'all are waiting on the book of Revelation, now this one.

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Inside you're going to find a threefold picture of what man does to destroy mankind.

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The seven seals.

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What Satan does to man the seven trumpets and what God does to destroy mankind.

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The seven seals.

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What Satan does to man the seven trumpets and what God does to mankind.

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The seven bowls of wrath.

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You're going to find a description of the person and the ministry of the Antichrist.

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You're going to find information on the Battle of Armageddon.

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You're going to find out about the Great White Throne Judgment.

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You're going to read about the tossing of Satan into the abyss of hell.

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You're going to also read about the Millennium and the New Heaven and Earth.

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Now, I've made this list so that you can know for yourself and not just take my word on it, so that, in order to read the signs well and not be deceived, I need you to do a few things.

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I need you to carefully study the Bible passages referring to the end times.

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I need you to keep an eye on world events.

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That doesn't mean you need to get so caught up in the news that that's all you worry about and all you think about.

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Just keep an eye on it.

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We've got one person at our church that watches the news and then she tells the rest of us about it.

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I like it that way.

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I just need highlights.

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I don't want to know the details.

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We're going to be living through details and then I need you to listen to spiritual men and women who listen to God for their insights into the times of the end.

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Find a good church.

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If you don't have one, ask your pastor questions.

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If your pastor doesn't have the answers you're looking for and when I say the answers you're looking for, if he doesn't have answers, you might want to find a new church.

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There's nothing wrong with that man or what his ministry was, but people, ministry has changed and the last 40 or 50 years in this country, church has just been ear-tickling, different programs, all the fun stuff.

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But that's changing.

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The days of that church are over.

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Find a church that's growing.

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You'll know a church is growing when you'll hear people talking about things that are more in line of what you're planning on or expecting to hear for the end of times.

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Or expecting to hear for the end of times, really, you're going to hear a lot about a church and you're going to go there and there's not going to be many people there.

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Why is that?

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You would think if that person or that church was preaching the truth, it would be covered over.

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No, this is the end times.

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People are willfully shutting their eyes to the truth.

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The remnant is small.

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Think of all the people that you know that call themselves a Christian.

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Now, I don't know how many people you're envisioning.

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Let's just say it's a hundred.

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10% of that is the remnant.

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10% out of that hundred, 10 people are going to heaven.

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I know it's hard to say, it's hard to think about.

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You need to be something more than a Christian in name only.

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You need to remember that Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians, 5, 4, but you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

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Jesus is coming.

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Jesus is coming soon.

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Morning or night or noon, those are some of the lyrics to an old hymn called Jesus are coming soon.

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A lot of you, I know I have have been listening to that song for decades and every day that we get closer to the end of times, those lyrics become more and more relevant.

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I'm going to play the song here and I've posted the lyrics to that song in the show notes for you to look at.

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This is a version by the Gaithers.

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It's kind of my personal favorite.

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I hope you enjoy it.

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I know it's not what we're used to today in our churches, but some of these old songs, some of these old hymns are so powerful.

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Give it three minutes of your life.

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I promise it'll be worth your time.

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Thank you, oh dear.

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Now is that?

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Stay, open your heart to God.

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Saints from the chastened blood, seek the way.

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Build friends, strong Christians, away.

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Jesus is coming soon.

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Morning or night or noon, maybe we'll meet.

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Maybe we'll never do, something's still sound.

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All of the dead shall rise.

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Righteous be the sky Going where no one dies Everywhere by.

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We'll be right back On that shore, free from all care, rising up in the skies Telling the world goodbye Forward.

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We then will fly Glory to share.

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Jesus is coming soon, morning or night or noon, many will be in this air due.

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The trumpet will sound, all of the nations shall rise.

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Righteousness in the sky, glory, glory, glory, glory.

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Heaven will bow.

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Jesus is coming soon, morning or night.

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Then you will be in this air due.

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Jesus is coming soon, my God, I do, and you will be in there too, from the sun to the sky.

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All of the nations will rise.

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Righteous, king in the sky, glory, and all the world will cry and the world will bow.

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Jesus is coming soon, morning or night or noon, then it will be new.

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Hope is still sound.

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All the heavens shall rise.

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Majesty in the skies.

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When all the world on night, heaven would bow.

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Rise, rise, just be in the sky.

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Growing old, growing old on time.

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Everyone die.

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Everyone die.

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Well, that's all for this bonus episode on last Wednesday's main show podcast, signs of the Times.

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Signs of the End Times Prophecy, israel and Our Renewed Faith.

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Just keep up with us A couple days you're going to get a new episode.

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I'll give you a sneak peek here.

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The title what is a Born Again Christian?

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I've been writing deep.

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It's hard hitting.

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Some of y'all need to know exactly what born again means.

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I tried to do this once before and I was trying to make everybody happy with it.

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To make everybody happy with it, not this time.

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So until next Wednesday.

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I'm Rick, I love you.

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I love you, see ya.