October 7, 2024 • 57 mins
Are We in the End Times? Explained | God Dreams | Pastor Mike Signorelli
Pastor Mike delves into the pressing question of whether we are currently in the end times, addressing the concerns that many have about the signs of the times. He emphasizes that understanding the biblical perspective on these events is crucial for clarity and guidance in our lives. Drawing from scripture, particularly Matthew 24, key indicators are highlighted such as wars, famines, and the rise of false messiahs, framing them as birth pains signaling the imminent return of Christ. He also discusses the importance of preaching the gospel to all nations as a significant factor in ushering in the end. Ultimately, the message urges listeners to focus on their role in spreading the gospel rather than succumbing to fear or speculation about the end times.
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The question that people areasking all around the world right
nowis, Pastor Mike, are we in the end
times?
Some people say, what seal isbeing opened today in the book of
Revelation?
In my life, it feels likewe're in the end times.
And I'm getting that questionso much that I'm going to devote
thenext several minutes to showing what
the Bible has to say about the end
times.
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And we are going to see if wecan arrive to an answer.
And I believe it may be ananswer that you did not expect.
And so I want you to stick around.
But how many of you have anawareness that we are in the end
times?
How many of you believe we are?
Okay.
Many of you do.
So I want to break this down.
And this is one of the mostimportant sermons that I've ever
delivered in my life.
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Because when you understandthe importance of the times in which
you're alive, then you get clarity
concerning what you should do.
And so my goal is to bring youinto clarity across all of our v
one church locations.
So let's start with the wordsof Jesus, because who cares what
Mike Signorelli thinks?
I want to learn the word of God.
Y'all ready to learn with me?
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Okay.
So say this with me.
Let's pray.
Say, heavenly Father, teach meyour word.
Open my eyes to see clearly.
Open my ears to hear clearlyin the spiritual realm.
I pray that your holy spiritwould teach me the word in Jesus
name.
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Amen.
So let's first look atMatthew, chapter 24, verses five
through eight.
The disciples were askingJesus to question Jesus.
When will we know when it'sthe end of days?
When will we know when thisthing is over and Jesus actually
answered them?
And we have this in scripture,verse five starts by saying, and
ifyou're a note taker, write these
scriptures down.
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For many will come in my nameclaiming I am the messiah and will
deceive many.
So many.
Many will come claiming thatthey are the messiah, and they will
actually deceive many.
In your lifetime alone, haveyou seen people claiming to be the
savior?
Have you seen many peopleclaiming to be the savior?
Okay.
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Have you seen people beingdeceived by them claiming to be the
savior?
The answer to all thesequestions is yes.
But we also know that this hasbeen happening for the last 2000
years.
So now let's go deeper.
Verse six.
Look at it with me.
You will hear of wars andrumors of wars, but see to it that
you are not alarmed.
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Such things must happen.
But the end is still to come.
In your lifetime, have youheard of wars and rumors of wars?
Yes.
But have there not been warsand rumors and wars for the last
2000 years since these words were
spoken by Jesus?
Yes.
So how do we know when it'sthe end times?
Let me just tell you.
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The thing that's mostimportant about the words of Jesus
ishim saying, don't you worry about
a thing.
Every little thing gonna beall right rise up this morning.
Okay, now, you know he didn't.
Jesus didn't say that.
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That was Bob Marley.
Some of you were so highlistening to Bob Marley you don't
know who was Jesus or who was Bob
Marley.
This is what he says.
Such things must happen, butthe end is still to come.
He says, but see to it thatyou are not alarmed.
Turn to your neighbor and say,don't you worry about a thing.
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Don't be alarmed when you hearabout wars and rumors and wars.
Let me tell you why.
Because the more time youspend in worry, you're worshiping
thething you worry instead of worshiping
theone who deserves worship.
Worry is misdirected worship.
So turn your worship intoworry of the one or turn your worry
into worship to the only one who's
worthy of worship.
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It was a tongue twister.
I successfully pulled it off.
Worked all week on that for you.
But when we hear about war andthe rumors of war, we should not
worry.
But let me just tell you, weshould start to celebrate.
We should celebrate because weknow that it's hastening the day
that our messiah, Jesus, the true
Messiah, is returning again.
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Okay, let's go a little bit deeper.
Verse seven.
Nation will rise againstnation and kingdom against kingdom.
There will be famines andearthquakes in various places.
Now, this is the mostimportant part.
Verse eight.
All these are the beginning of birth.
And I.
Pains.
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Birth pains.
All these are the beginnings.
So you hear a famine, you seeearthquakes in various places.
But it's the beginning of what?
Of birth pains.
Now, Julie and I got marriedyoung, and my wife Julie got pregnant
two months into our marriage.
Now, our plan was not to getpregnant two months into marriage.
We thought we were going to behipster christians who did worship,
traveling all over the US, maybe
overseas.
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We were going to frolictogether through the streets of northwest
Indiana.
Those first two months ofmarriage were amazing.
We were holding hands, walkingdown the street.
We went out to eat all the time.
We had expendable income.
What is that?
Then all of a sudden, Juliewakes me up.
Mike.
Mike, I'm pregnant.
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Mike, I'm pregnant.
She's crying, and I'm like this.
And she's like, why are you smiling?
This was not the plan.
We've only been married fortwo months.
What are we going to do?
And I'm like.
And she's like, why are you smiling?
I'm like, because it works.
And she's like, what do you mean?
I'm like, I didn't know if Icould have kids.
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Now I know it works.
That was honestly my Bella, ifyou're watching this right now.
And then Julie as pregnantJulie was quite the experience.
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Let me just tell you.
Pregnant Julie is hilarious.
And we won't go into detailsof that because I haven't gotten
permission to tell you all of it.
But needless to say, it was aride, a wild ride.
And we get to the end of herpregnancy, and all of a sudden, one
morning, I go to kiss her goodbye
toleave for work, and as soon as I
kiss her, her water breaks.
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This is a true story.
I go, that's disgusting.
And she was like, mike, thisis really how it happened.
I go, all right, babe, I'llsee you when I get home.
And then.
And I'm like, yuck, what is that?
And she's like, mike, we'regonna have a baby.
Today's the day.
And I'm like, oh.
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So I call my job and I'm like,I'm not coming in.
My wife's gonna have.
We're gonna have our baby.
And I'm freaking out.
But it take.
It took 12 hours for Bella tocome out, 12 hours of labor.
Now, here's the thing Ilearned about labor.
The contractions increase intheir frequency, their duration and
their intensity the closer we get
to the delivery of the baby.
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So labor was 12 hours.
Now, let me just say, Matthew,chapter 24, verses five through eight.
I just broke that down for you.
They believed they were in theend times because every single thing
that Jesus spoke about, there was
some way of them claiming that it
was happening during their lifetime.
So 2000 years ago, theythought, well, surely we watched
Jesusascend into heaven.
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Surely he's coming back in our lifetime.
And now, 2000 years later,it'd be like, oh, I get it.
Christians are always sayingJesus is coming back.
They've been saying that for2000 years.
But that's almost like sayingthe baby's not coming.
But the water broke.
But you don't.
It's been 12 hours.
Me just tell you this, thatbaby's coming down the canal and
itwill happen.
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And nobody knows the day, thehour or the time, but we know with
certainty it will happen.
And so Bella Joyce Signorelliwas coming down that birthing canal,
and we didn't know when we knew the
day, let me tell you.
But 12 hours in, she came outand she was delivered.
And so what you look for, youlook for the frequency, you look
forthe duration, and you look for the
intensity of the signs.
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Y'all, is this good?
Is this helping you?
So have there always been earthquakes?
Yes, but it, doesn't it seemlike the weather's been real funny
lately?
I mean, during HurricaneKatrina, I actually moved to New
Orleans and served those people.
During that time, I workedwith the Army Corps of Engineers.
I was there.
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I saw firsthand thedevastation in New Orleans that happened
as a result of that hurricane.
They're saying that whathappened in this nation over the
last several weeks was roughly ten
times greater the devastation.
And you best believe that vone is going to be mobilizing some
resources to help people in need
here in the US.
How many of you are with me on that?
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But I say that because there'ssomething about the intensity.
It's like the contractionsbegin to, that bring forth this new
day, but the frequency, the duration
andthe intensity of it begins to increase
as we get closer and closer to that
time.
But now that I've establishedall of that, I want to now take.
So keep your, the entire timeI'm teaching, keep your finger in
the back of Matthew chapter 24, because
we're going to go to the Old Testament,
and then we're going to come back
before the end, because I'm going
toshow you how you can really get a
good answer about whether or not
we're in the end times.
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Okay?
Now there's three factors thatare very, very important.
And these three factors yousee in the 10th chapter of Daniel.
You see it in the 11th chapterof the Book of Daniel.
And you see it in the 11thchapter of the book of revelation.
Now, I am not going to takethe time to read Daniel 1011 and
revelation eleven, but I'm going
tosummarize it for the sake of this
sermon to help arrive to a conclusion
about whether or not we are in the
end times.
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But the three things that youextract from those prophecies in
scripture, and write these down if
you're a note taker.
Number one, the rebuilding ofthe temple in Jerusalem.
The rebuilding of the templein Jerusalem.
This is a very significantaspect of the prophecy that determines
where you're at in the end times.
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The rebuilding of the templein Jerusalem.
Number two, increasedhostility towards Israel.
There will be an increase inhostility towards Israel.
Explain antisemitism otherthan demonic.
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It makes no sense that onepeople group is hated to that degree,
marginalized and treated the way
that they've been treated for the
last 2000 years.
You can see it over and overand over again.
And no, history doesn'trepeat, but it rhymes.
And there is a demonic forcethat's behind the attempt to annihilate
the jewish people off of the planet.
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And when you see that rightnow Israel is at war and they're
fighting on seven fronts, the nation
of Israel is only the size of New
Jersey.
I don't know if you know thatit's the landmass of New Jersey and
it is under continual and perpetual
attack to some degree, which is why
they have the Iron Dome.
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But right now they arefighting on seven fronts.
I want you to think about thatbecause so much of your mind has
been infiltrated by news media and
social media.
But you need to be informed bythe scriptures, because what the
Bible says about this is the only
thing that truly matters.
And so when I make a statementlike this, some of you in your mind
can think that I'm not empathetic
to thevictims in Palestine, that I don't
understand the complexities of Gaza,
Iran.
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I'm telling you from abiblical perspective, these things
have been written.
And I've actually traveled there.
I've been there.
And right now our executivepastor, Josh Hamster is in Israel
now.
And we sent him with a groupof elite men and they have been ministering
and providing counsel.
And he was in Tel Aviv lastweek when almost 200 missiles were
sent from Iran.
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And I am thankful that JoshHamster is alive to tell that story.
And the man that he is, heliterally gave up his spot in a bomb
shelter and stood in a hallway so
that women and children could be
in there.
That's a righteous man of God.
And then when I facetime him,he was laughing and I said, what
isso funny?
And I'm thinking to myself,maybe he has death anxiety.
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And he's saying, he goes,Pastor Mike, you're my apostle and
you sent me to Israel and I'm the
prophet.
I'm here to prophesy, ain't I?
And I said, yeah.
He goes, then I'm in thesafest place I can be.
I'm in the perfect will of the father.
And he said, I feel a unityhere and we're singing songs in this
bomb shelter.
And I'm going to say, thussaith the Lord.
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And I said, go on with yourbad self.
But why do I say that?
Because when you read Danielchapter ten, Daniel chapter eleven,
andrevelation eleven, there will be
this increased hostility towards
Israel.
I'm talking from a scripturalstandpoint, not a political standpoint.
And then last but not least,the third thing that you see is there's
advances in a one world government.
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The United nations just methere in New York City, and there
wasa part of their agenda that actually
dealt with what conditions have to
happen in the earth to remove the
sovereignty of a nation so that we
could unite to solve the problem.
Well, let me just tell you,I'm not so interested in losing our
sovereignty for the sake of fake
unity.
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I'd rather stay individual.
And we've got to understandthe signs of the times and what we're
living in because there is a demonic
deception.
And I believe that this oneworld government talk is not Alex
Jones Tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy
theory.
It's the precursor to anantichrist system.
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And that's why I'm doing thissermon today, to borrow back the
language that was stolen by people
whoare biblically illiterate.
And then some of you, and thisis going to be a rebuke.
As your pastor, you've spentmore time in the last couple years
with conspiracies than you have with
Christ.
And what happens when youstart spending more times with more
time with conspiracies than with
Christ is that you end up not even
being able to properly discern the
conspiracies.
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And then the other thing is,who's your source of information?
Is it the Holy Spirit orsomebody else?
Is it scripture or something else?
And you've got christians thatwill consult a talking head social
media guru before they consult scripture,
and you're going to begin to get
into deception.
The Bible says that in thelast times, even the elect will be
deceived.
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You know how that happens?
You accept Christ in a momentof salvation, but then you end up
being discipled by conspiracy theorists
more than Christ, and you'll be deceived.
Okay, that rebuke, was thattoo harsh?
Are you guys cool?
Okay, because I'm trying toshow you scriptures and some of you
know the phrase one world government,
butnever read Daniel 1011 or revelation
eleven.
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So you've got to go back tothe book.
Now, the other thing aboutthis sermon, and I want to do this
because I'm pivoting into more, is
that there are many preachers that
use their pulpit inappropriately
to tell youthings as if they're fact.
But theologically they cannotbe proven as fact.
The thing that I will try mybest to do, and I've been doing this
for years, is to divide the scriptures
rightly in such a way that you can
take satisfaction in knowing this
isteaching you can trust.
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So there are some times inscripture where we have a definitive
interpretation, and there are other
times where even renowned biblical
scholars disagree about the interpretation.
And what I do, because Ibelieve that our church is an intelligent
church, is I try to give you the
interpretation in a way that I will
give you my opinion as a pastor and
a shepherd and a leader.
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But I'll also acknowledge thefact that some scriptures do not
have in our generation a black and
white interpretation that's agreed
upon and then give you the opportunity
tomake up your own mind, assuming that
it's not an essential doctrine.
Are you okay with that?
So when we look at Danielchapter twelve, because remember
I saidwe're going to go from Matthew chapter
24, now we're going to go through.
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Now we're going to land onDaniel chapter twelve.
This is the last chapter inthe book of Daniel.
Daniel was a man that Godsovereignly spoke to and gave him
many prophecies.
And some of these propheciesare what are considered end time
prophecies.
And Daniel Chapter twelve isrevered as the chapter on the end
of the age.
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And there's some things thatwe can look at and extract to try
to determine whether or not we are
in fact in the end time.
So let's.
Now, for those of you who haveOCD, I'm going to do this out of
order.
So just brace yourself.
Okay?
So sign number one for thenote takers.
Sign number one.
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Daniel chapter twelve, verse four.
I'm going to read it to you now.
But you, Daniel, close up andseal the words of the scroll until
the time of the end.
Many will go back and forthand knowledge will increase.
Now, there's two ways tointerpret this scripture.
The first way is this.
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Some people will say that thisthat the Lord was telling Daniel.
Many people will go back andforth discussing the words that I've
given you, Daniel.
And knowledge will increaseconcerning the words that I've given
to you, Daniel.
That's one interpretation.
But there's also many biblicalscholars that interpret it to say,
in the end times, knowledge will
increase in the earth and many human
beings will geographically travel
backand forth.
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Now, let me ask you this.
In our lifetime, has therebeen an exponential increase in knowledge?
Yes, by virtue of technology.
We have the Internet, we haveWikipedia, we have Google.
Now we have the proliferationof AI.
And so I would argue if that'sthe interpretation of Daniel chapter
twelve, verse four, then we are seeing
an exponential increase in knowledge.
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You know, the way it workedbefore the Internet is knowledge
wouldsit in a book on a shelf.
And if that book wasdestroyed, we lost that knowledge
in anentire generation forever.
And so now we are seeing theincrease of knowledge.
Here's the other thing.
Have we not seen a dramaticexponential increase in travel?
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You know, in the last four orfive decades?
Travel is not what it used to be.
People would wear three piecesuits to the airport and when you
flew you would get a full course
mealand there were people smoking cigarettes
in the main cabin, living their best
life.
Now you get pretzels for goingto another country.
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And my wife and pray for her,she even sometimes she'll say, why
didn't we fly spirit airlines?
And I tell her, because Idon't want to become a spirit.
We're paying more and getting less.
And then if you pay for thebudget, they got you on that Boeing
plane on a one way ticket to Hades.
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But all joking aside, hastravel increased in the earth?
So if that is a sign in Danielchapter twelve, then those signs
are,they're collaborating.
Now.
Daniel chapter twelve verse eleven.
This is sign number two,appearance of the abomination of
desolation.
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Appearance of the abominationof desolation.
This is Daniel chapter twelve,verse eleven.
I'm going to read it to you now.
From the time that the dailysacrifice is abolished and the abomination
that causes desolation is set up,
there will be 1290 days.
There is much speculationabout this duration of days, 1290
what that means.
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Now we're not going to getinto that right now, but here's what
I am going to say.
The Nation of Israel has notbeen acknowledged as a sovereign
statesince 70 ad before 1948.
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So let me hope that makes sense.
So almost 2000 years passedfrom 70 ad when you have the destruction
ofthat temple and that 70 ad, what
happened all the way till 1948 when
Israel was established as a sovereign
state.
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Now here's the thing that isof the utmost importance when you
know Daniel chapter ten, Daniel chapter
eleven, revelation eleven and the
role that Israel plays in the end
times, 1948.
Now if you're a child of theeighties and the nineties, you remember
when everybody was afraid of the
rapture and I had in my mind it could
happen at any moment and my clothes
were going to be left in a neatly
folded pile, perfectly folded, right
for my sin or mom, that was left
behind.
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I'm just kidding.
You know, we had that, we hadthat whole fear, and it was like,
should I get married?
You know, Rebecca and Kirk gotmarried last week.
They're like, we're not takingany chances.
We're doing this before Jesuscomes back.
You guys are rapture ready.
You did it.
Praise God.
He's like, jesus, you can comeback now.
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But this is how it was growing up.
And a lot of times people say,oh, you know, they were fanatical.
But I want you to understandhow you arrive be a little bit more
empathetic to the crazy charismatics.
Because what happened in 1948when Israel became acknowledged as
a sovereign state, was it fulfilled,
filled many prophecies.
There was a 2000 year gapuntil that moment.
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So it makes you understand alittle bit more of the panic, you
know.
Now, of course, we need tocounterbalance crazy charismatic
theology,but at the same time, do you understand
now how we get all this rapture narrative
in our lifetime?
Because what they were sayingis that was a major undeniable fulfillment,
that of Daniel ten, Daniel eleven,
andRevelation eleven.
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And we've got to understandthe implications it has for us.
And that's how you get thiswhole, I mean, listen, we were scared
into accepting Jesus.
I'll just tell you straight up.
I mean, a lot of it was fearbased stuff.
There's movies from back inthose days where, you know, they
recreate the story in revelation
with thescorpion's tail that stings you and
it lasts for months.
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And you see the big stingercomes out.
You know, I've been trying tofind those movies lately just to
watch them.
They were like christianhorror films, you know, and we in
the eighties and nineties, we're
like, listen, you're gonna accept
Jesus willfully or unwillfully, like
by force and coercion and fear.
You know, that's why we wrotereckless love of God in the next
generation.
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Oh, he loves us.
That's why Crowder wrote, heloves us just to remind ourselves,
becausewe thought, any day it's like you're
either going to get raptured or you're
going to get left behind and ravished.
And so why do I say that?
Let's talk about theappearance of the abomination of
desolation.
It says from the time that thedaily sacrifice is abolished.
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So, and then, and then theabomination that causes the desolation
isset up.
Okay?
So I was privileged to go toIsrael a couple of times and do tours
and various things that like normal
civilians don't get to actually experience,
which is very cool.
And one thing is, you can goto the Temple Mount, and this is
the site of the temple that's mentioned,
that obviously has been destroyed
and rebuilt.
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Destroyed and rebuilt.
But there is a group calledthe Temple Mount Institute, and you
guys can research this on your own.
But it's a group of jewishbelievers that are laboring to actually
set everything up in preparation
toreinstitute sacrifice in the temple.
And I was able to do, like, aprivate tour of this facility on
the Temple Mount.
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And they have through.
It's behind very, very thick,bulletproof glass.
And the whole time on thistour, they were saying, oh, this
isa replica of the table of showbread.
And this is, like, what itwould have looked like.
And this is a replica of theutensils that we would use in sacrificial
system.
And they took us all the waythrough this tour.
Then we get to the end, and Iget pulled aside, and they're like,
okay, here's what we want to tell
you.
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And I feel comfortable sayingthis publicly now.
They said, here's the thing wewant to tell you.
These are not replicas.
These are recreations that weintend to use when we re institute
temple worship.
And what you saw behindbulletproof glass is a preparation
for thetemple actually functioning again.
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How many of you remember whenwe walked through the book of Leviticus?
Okay, now you see the journeyI'm taking you on as your pastor.
Imagine that happening again.
Have you heard about the red heifers?
Have you heard about what's happening?
So, right now, the templeInstitute, you'll go in under the
guise of, oh, this is.
This is the ephod and thethings that were worn by the.
The Levites.
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And then they take you aside,and they say, actually, that's not
a recreation.
We're just getting ready towear it again.
So this is.
There is this acknowledgement.
Even in Judaism, there's this acknowledgement.
Many people now are.
There's.
There's something.
We're kind of on the edge ofour seat right now.
So that's what this has to dowith the abomination of desolation.
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Talks about this time before,but it also eludes to the Antichrist.
So it's like the.
It's a time where,essentially, daily sacrifice has
been abolished, but then this abomination
that causes desolation is set up
in its place.
And right now, we're inbetween those times, and now we have
the Antichrist.
So let's talk about the Antichrist.
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And please don't say out loudwho you think it is.
Okay?
But number three, this is signnumber three, the rise of the Antichrist.
In Daniel chapter twelve,verse seven, remember, we're in the
12th chapter of Daniel for a time,
times and half a time, the holy people
will be delivered into his hands.
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Then in Daniel chapter twelve,verse seven, and then in chapter
eleven, it alludes to the Antichrist's
reignand during which God's people are
facing persecution.
Now, I get this question allthe time.
Pastor Mike, who is the Antichrist?
How will we know?
This is another question I get.
My inbox is flooded with these questions.
Pastor Mike, is the Antichristalive today?
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I want to respond to aquestion with a question, and I believe
my question is a better question.
Is the Antichrist system, orat least the precursor to that system
in the earth today?
Okay, you got a lot ofchristians on the front row shouting,
yes, here, New York.
So the real question is, andthen for those of you who are confused,
what is the system of the Antichrist?
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It is a system of false unity.
It's a system of false unity.
And let me explain why.
Satan is not a creator.
We serve God, the creator, andthen Satan is the emulator, right?
So what he does is he pervertsand distorts the original design
of God.
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So watch, Jesus dies on thecross, he's resurrected.
Three days later, he ascendsto heaven.
They meet in the upper room inone mind and one accord, and then
asa result of that unity, the Holy
Spirit descends.
And we know that Christ isinterceding on our behalf, that we
would be one.
So we know that Christ wantshis body, his bride to be.
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What one?
That's unity.
So Satan is not going to comeand bring division because he's a
counterfeiter.
He's going to bring false unity.
So that's why he.
Because he's the.
I'm just going to go therebecause he's the prince of the power
of the air.
And because that he waspartially over music, he's going
toget together all of his minions that
are celebrities and write a song.
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He gets everybody singing.
We are the world.
We are the world is one of themost demonically influenced songs
that's ever existed.
And the.
And the agenda of we are theworld has infiltrated every continent
andevery planet.
And what we want so bad is unity.
But Jesus, while he was alive,said that when you speak this message
of the gospel, it's going to be a
sword that even divides blood families.
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And so it's crazy because youhave christians singing we are the
world, but we don't sound nothing
likeChrist, who said, sometimes when
youpreach the truth, it's going to divide.
So the reason why I got to saythis is because false unity is the
precursor to the Antichrist system.
And you got people that writeabout me on Reddit.
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I can't attend his churchanymore because he's always talking
about Islam, because he's always
calling out LGBTQIA, because he's
always talking about gender confusion.
I can't attend his churchbecause he's so mean.
No, the most compassionatething I can do is tell the truth
about God's original design.
In a world full of deception.
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The most loving thing I can dois tell you the truth about your
sexuality to a generation that's
beenbrainwashed by pornography, and you
know more about porn than you know
about the Bible, and you don't understand
what God has to say about what's
between your ears and your legs because
he created both, but both were perverted
by the devil.
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And this is the thing I'm saying.
It's like, Pastor Mike, can'twe just get along with Islam?
No, because they say that he'sa prophet and we say he's the messiah.
And so in order for us to haveunity, somebody's got a compromise,
and Idon't think it's going to be them.
But I'm here to tell you fromNew York City, it ain't going to
be me.
I know that Jesus is who hesaid he is, but I get what you're
saying, Pastor Mike, but can't we.
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No, fundamentally, we can't,because if they're holding hands
withthe devil and you hold hands with
them, you're holding hands with the
devil by proxy.
And when you speak the truth,then what happens is the gospel,
like,a seed, is deposited, and the Bible
says sometimes that seed is robbed.
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Sometimes that seed is sownamong thistles and thorns and it
never gets planted in.
But sometimes that seed goesinto a muslim heart and turns them
into a Christian.
Sometimes that seed goes intoa gay heart and turns it straight.
Sometimes that seed goes intoa transgender heart and turns them
back to a man, back to a woman.
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And so stop telling me whatGod can do with a seed.
I know the power of the seedof the gospel.
Oh, but I was born this way.
Yeah, be born again.
We all got to be born again.
That's the truth of the wordof God.
So be careful singing we arethe world because the whole world
isgoing to hell without the gospel.
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Who is the antichrist?
Just be concerned that you arenot participating in his system,
because even the elect will be deceived.
Be very, very careful, man.
I feel the anointing on this.
I love teaching about the end times.
I don't know when, but thefrequency, the intensity and the
duration of the contractions are
increasing.
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And I don't know when.
Nobody knows when.
Nobody knows the day.
Don't believe them if they saythey do, because they'll be wrong.
Because everybody's been wrongso far, and they'll be wrong.
But I will tell you, there are signs.
Here's sign number four.
This is Daniel, chaptertwelve, verse one.
There will be a time ofdistress such as not happened from
the beginning of the nations until
now.
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Great tribulation and great persecution.
Something's happening amongstGen Z.
I believe the z stands for zeal.
Gen Z for zeal.
Zeal for God's house.
Zeal for the things of the Lord.
And, you know, I've beenwatching these viral videos where
GenZ is, like, pretending to interview
themselves as if somebody else is
interviewing them.
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And it's like they're at work.
And the viral videos are theGen Z saying, hey, I'm a Christian.
And then the person is saying,oh, that's crazy.
I never knew that.
I didn't know.
And then the Gen Z has thislook on their face, like, of disappointment
in themselves.
And I was watching video aftervideo of this, and I said, Lord,
whyare they making these videos?
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Like, what is happening that'scausing many of them to make these
videos?
And the Lord says, I'mconvicting them, and I'm bringing
themto a place of boldness so that they'll
stand in a broken world and unapologetically
stand for me.
Because what it is, it's so pure.
What's coming out of thatgeneration is they're basically saying,
how can we work a job and live around
people who never knew that we were
christians?
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And so let me just tell youright now, this is sign number five.
Sign number five.
In Daniel chapter twelve,verses two and three is multitudes
whosleep in the dust of the earth will
awake, and some to everlasting life,
and others to shame and everlasting
content.
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See, what happened was whenyou guys were given the narrative,
thedead in Christ will rise first if
you don't read Daniel chapter twelve.
Sometimes people think of theresurrection being for christians,
not fornon christians.
But here's the good news.
But I'm going to give youbetter news.
The good news is you're all eternal.
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The Muslims are eternal, theHindus are eternal, the atheists
areeternal even though they don't understand.
And they think that it's quantum.
And they think that maybethere's some vibration that leaves
their body when it's over at best.
Or that consciousness lives onas plasma.
Y'all listen, I put my tinfoilhat on a couple times a week, but
let me just tell you, you're all
eternal and you're all going to be
resurrected.
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But the Bible says every kneewill bow and every tongue will confess
that Jesus Christ is savior.
But see what happens.
And the way that God told itto Daniel is different than the Kirk
Cameron movie experience that we've
seen.
What he says is when thisresurrection happens, some to everlasting
life, I really believe this.
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And some to shape, I believeyou're going to be looking.
There's Mike, there's my pastor.
There's Julie, there's Steph.
Look.
There's Harvey and Jess.
Look, look.
But then you're going to seethat person you told the gospel to
at your job that said that you were
a crazy person in a cult.
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And it says some are going tobe resurrected to everlasting life
and some to everlasting contempt.
Oh, woe to those who wake upon Resurrection day realizing that
everything the crazy Christian on
their job said was true.
I spent my whole liferesearching this because I didn't
wantmy life to be a waste.
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And what I'm telling you Ibelieve to be the truth.
Here's the only thing we can control.
Remember I said, let's go backto Matthew chapter 24.
Okay, let's go back to Matthewchapter 24.
Because when the discipleswere asking Jesus, how do we know
we're in the end times?
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I believe Jesus gave them themost important answer, and we haven't
read it yet.
Let's look at it now.
Matthew 20 414.
And this gospel, the goodnews, that the kingdom will be proclaimed
throughout the whole world as testimony
to all nations, and then the end
will come.
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It was almost as if Jesus wassaying, you can't control when nations
go to war, you can't control famine,
you can't.
No matter how hard you try,you can't control earthquakes.
But the one variable I'll giveyou is you can preach the gospel
toall nations.
And when the gospel isproclaimed to all nations, then the
end will come.
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So the question is not, are wein the end times?
The question is, are we unitedto bring the end?
Will we preach the gospel to everybody.
Will we be a global voice ofthe gospel to all nations and say
God through the Internet?
If you're watching live rightnow, your share is one of the most
important things you can do.
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You're not sharing, so we getsocial media famous.
You're sharing to make Jesusfamous in nations that don't know
him.
You're one of the mostimportant campuses we have because
theInternet can go where we can't go.
In this building right now.
I say let's be a global voiceof the gospel to all people.
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Amazing grace how sweet thesound that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
Ionce was blind but now I see twas
grace come on.
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What else are you living for?
He said, when the gospel isproclaimed throughout the whole world
as a testimony to nations, then the
end will come.
The Antichrist is not incontrol of the end.
Did you hear what I just said?
The Antichrist isn't incontrol of the end.
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All of them are pawns beingpimped by God.
Because what's happening isthere's a separation between the
sheep and the goat, the saints from
the ants, the wheat from the tarez.
And the question that everysingle one of you listening across
every campus have to ask for yourself
is, which one are you?
Are you a son or a daughter ofthe king?
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Or are you a son or daughterof Satan?
There's no Muslims in hell.
There's no atheists in hell.
There's no agnostics in hell.
There's just sons anddaughters of Satan in hell.
And he cloaked every idolatryto become a deception to get them
togo there.
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There's no Presbyterians in heaven.
There's no Methodists in heaven.
There's no Pentecostals in heaven.
There are sons and daughtersin heaven, sons and daughters of
the king.
I feel something settling inmy soul right now.
I want you to stand to yourfeet with me.
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In Daniel, chapter twelve,verse 13, he says, but go your way
till the end, and you shall rest
andshall stand in your.
Ooh.
I feel the power of God on that.
Can you imagine?
Daniel was literally castratedby Babylon.
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The babylonian structurealways castrates strong mendenna,
thetransgender spirit, is the spirit
of Babylon.
People don't understand whenShadrach, Meshach, Abednego, when
Daniel, when you interacted with
Babylon, you got physically castrated
because the devil hates when the
righteous multiply.
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That's why on Long island,when they say that churches should
besmall, because they preach the true
gospel.
That in and of itself is ademonic doctrine.
Because healthy things always multiply.
Because he's the God of abundance.
And he told Adam and Eve inthe garden, be fruitful and multiply.
This church will never be too big.
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It's impossible for any churchto be too big.
That's preaching the gospel,because multiplication is the fruit
of the thing that God called us to
do.
But Daniel was castrated.
Daniel never saw thefulfillment of anything that God
spoke to him.
Daniel was confused by thethings God told him because he didn't
understand what I think about Daniel.
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I feel such great empathy forhim, because what a powerful servant.
Daniel and the lion's den.
The lion's den was an easy dayfor Daniel.
Y'all learned about the lion'sden, but did you color the coloring
bookpage of the castration?
See, what happens when you'rebiblically illiterate is you think
that Christianity is a fairy tale.
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No, the Bible is not the storyof what happened.
It's the story of what always happens.
Molech and Baal sacrificedbabies, and we're still sacrificing
babies today.
The transgender movement iscastrating, and we're still castrating
today.
It's ancient demons and newdays rebranded just because the devil
does a rebrand.
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Don't fall for it.
It's a new logo, but the same product.
When you take it, it's arsenicfor your soul, and you'll die and
go to hell.
I just feel the power of Godon this because the question that
was asked of Daniel, let me read
itto you.
It's a command.
This is one of the mostpowerful scriptures in all 66 books
of the Bible.
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But go your way till the end.
Somebody just whisper thosewords until the end.
And you shall rest, and youshall stand in your allotted place
atthe end of the days.
This is like.
Almost like what God wassaying was.
Daniel, I know you don't understand.
I know this all doesn't makesense to you, and you were faithful
towrite it down, and you'll get it
to the generations, but just be faithful
to the end, and then you'll find
rest, and then you'll find your allotted
place.
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The reason why I got emotionalis because in revelation, chapter
seven, verses nine and ten, this
isthe final place for every believer.
After that, I looked andbehold a great multitude that no
one could number.
From every nation, from alltribes and all peoples and languages,
standing before the throne and before
the lamb, clothed in white robes
andpalm branches in their hands and
crying out loud with the voice, salvation
belongs to our God who sits on the
throne and the lamb.
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If you are a Christian, everysingle one of you who hear me, you
are in the Bible, and you may not
be mentioned by name, but you are
in that moment.
Revelation, chapter seven,verse nine is a future prophecy.
And if you are a believer, Ijust read, you're one of those people
in the white robe, and you made it
to your destination.
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You're one of those people inthe white robe declaring, listen,
therewas a very high level terrorist that
heard the gospel and denied it recently.
And all of a sudden, he died.
And an angel took him toheaven after he first visited hell.
And when he was in heaven, heheard them crying the word Hosanna.
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He had never heard the wordHosanna his entire life.
After he came back from thedead, he's in a muslim hospital,
and hewas screaming, what does Hosanna
mean?
What is Hosanna?
What is Hosanna?
I heard them.
I was in paradise, and I heardthem saying Hosanna around a throne.
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And they sedated him becausethey thought he lost his mind and
went crazy.
These stories I can tell bythe dozens, but we don't have the
time.
Heaven is real.
Hell is real.
But your final destination isrevelation, chapter seven, verse
nineand ten.
To show up in a white robewhich represents.
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You accepted the sacrifice ofJesus, and you're waving a palm branch
which represents victory.
Palm branches get waved torepresent the checkered flag.
The race is over, and we won.
It was worth the fight.
It was worth every finance yougave to the local church to open
upvenues, to bring in drug addicts
andthose on the verge of divorce and
those who were confused about their
identity.
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It was worth all the time thatyou prayed when you didn't want to
pray.
It was worth all the time thatyou boldly told the gospel even though
your hands were shaking.
It was worth the time that yougot up in worship while the world
wasfalling apart.
And when we have that palmbranch, I'm going to look at you,
and you're going to look at me and
I'm going to say, man, your teeth
look amazing.
And I'm going to say, do youlike my hair?
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It looks so good.
And we're going to say, we won.
We did it.
It was worth it.
Wasn't it worth it?
And then I would say to you,would you do it again?
Would you set that church upin a movie theater with me again?
If you had to?
Would you come into that placein New Jersey and do it again.
Would you wake up early againso more people could be here with
the Palm branch in their hand?
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Would you give more of yourfinances if you could do it again?
And we would all say, yes, Iwould do it again, and I would go
deeper.
So let me ask you this question.
Who here needs to acceptChrist across every location?
Lift your hand if you need toaccept Jesus as your savior?
Who's hearing me talk?
And you realize that you havenot accepted Jesus and you've just
been going through the motions and
you're just a church attender, but
you don't know Jesus.
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Just lift up your hand.
Who wants to accept Jesus?
Come on.
Anybody cross any location?
Lift up your hand.
How many of you are deeply convicted?
Both hands and a foot.
We're going to pray thesinner's prayer together, which is
Romans chapter ten, verse nine.
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And really, you can't just gothrough the motions and say it.
You really have to repent,which means to turn from your sin
and never go back.
But Romans chapter ten, versenine says, confess with your mouth,
believe in your heart and you will
be saved.
It's that simple.
My favorite story is the manhanging next to Jesus on the cross
and couldn't come off that cross
todo anything for Jesus.
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But he believed he was themessiah and he was saved.
It's that simple.
Let's pray this together witheverybody at every location.
Say this with me.
Heavenly Father, forgive me ofall my sins, I declare you are the
messiah.
You are my savior.
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Wash me with your blood.
I will serve you.
I will build your church.
I will endure till the end.
By your grace, Jesus name, amen.
Now I want you to take yourcommunion up.
Out.
And don't take it yet.
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Just across every location.
Let me lead you into time of communion.
I'm enduring to the end.
Anybody else?
I'm going all the way.
Anybody else?
So as you take your communionout, you could just open it up across
every location.
If you're at home, I'dencourage you to grab some bread.
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Grabbed something one time,Evan Wilson did communion with Mountain
Dew.
I said, you're going to needan extra miracle to make that the
blood of Christ.
But you know what he did?
The communion.
The Mountain Dew story wasthat he led a satanist in a park
to Christ.
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Evan Wilson, who's now ouronline campus pastor, led a satanist
ina park to Christ and then did communion
with Mountain Dew in the middle of
that park, talking about make the
devil mad.
Don't you just love making thedevil mad.
Now, the Bible says that ifyou take communion, but you have
notasked for forgiveness, if you haven't
dealt with your sin, that this becomes
poison to you.
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Can I explain that?
Because there's some churchesand even denominations that will
physically not even allow you to
take communion until you deal with
sin.
But we know the Bible saysthat he's faithful and just to forgive
those who come before him and confess.
And so we don't have.
And the Bible also says he hasnot given us the spirit of condemnation.
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Right.
Therefore, there is nocondemnation to those who are in
Christ Jesus.
But I do think that communionshould be a reminder of the forgiveness
that we have available to us.
And so the question about, arewe in the end times?
Here's the better question.
Are we preaching the gospel?
Pastor Mike, who's the Antichrist?
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Here's the better question.
Are we participating in theAntichrist system?
Are we in the end times?
I think so.
Does that mean that we all gotto go cash out our bank account,
get aLouis Vuitton after church?
Because yolo.
Because people will say, well,you can't take it to the grave.
Yeah, but you can store uptreasures in heaven, and you got
people that are saying, I can't take
it to the grave.
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So I got my Louie and my Gucciand I got.
I can't.
I get what?
Hey, I get it, girl.
I hope Jesus comes back afteryou bounce that check.
But let me just tell you, yougot christians who are more concerned
about what they can do before they
die than what happens afterwards.
And I'll tell you, I'm storingup treasures in heaven.
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That's my goal.
I probably shouldn't even saythis, but I had a dream a couple
months ago that I died.
And I was in this dream.
And I awoke in my heavenly mansion.
And I was walking around and Isaw some of my loved ones.
There were some other lovedones who weren't there, and there
were some people.
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And it was just one of themost powerful dreams I ever had in
my life.
And I woke up and I said,lord, I believe this was a prophetic
dream.
Why did I have this dream?
And he says, this is what Iwant you to do, is seek and save
the lost.
Reset your entire church for evangelism.
Reset your entire church tolead the lost.
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And it's almost like he had tomake me see my own heavenly mansion
tobe like my.
What are you living for?
Recalibrate.
You're off target a little bit.
Get back on the bullseye.
And for all of you, who are soworried about your job, who are so
worried about everything, I'm telling
you, it's just like a vapor.
It's like a mist that's hereone moment and gone the next.
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Switch your thinking to theeternal, and the peace of God that
surpasses all understanding will
invade your mind and soul.
That's why.
That's my why.
That's my why.
And we got to come back tothat place.
So this communion is going tobe our confession together, that
weare going to lead the lost to the
cross at any cost, and that we are
going to implore everybody we know
to get to church to hear the gospel
every Sunday, and we're going to
preach it to him any chance we get.
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So let me pray.
Father, I pray for this breadthat is, that we get ready to partake
the bread, which is your body that
was broken for us.
It's so that our body can bemade whole.
But also, Father, I thank youfor the unification of the body,
yourbody, that we would be one across
allof our seven locations of v one church,
even as we prepare this month to
go to the breakers conference, and
we prepare God for all that you're
going to do.
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I pray that we would beunified as we take your body now
soyou may partake.
As you're ingesting the bodyof Christ.
I want to encourage you.
We received three stories thislast week of people who experienced
medically verifiable miracles and
services.
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Last week.
Week.
So I believe that when youtake the body of Christ, there is
an aspect of healing to that.
And so if you're believing forhealing in your body, just receive
itright now.
And this blood, this is how Iwant us to take this blood.
In a moment, how many of youremember the Passover story where
they put the blood over the doorpost?
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Right now, you're going tohear wars and rumors of wars.
You're going to hear aboutearthquakes and I.
Various different things in weather.
But I want you to make adeclaration with me that as we take
this blood, we're going to go back
to the words of Jesus that say, don't
even worry about it, because I'm
incontrol and you're not, and God is
ultimately going to take care of
you.
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I'll never forget when I wasin the hurricane Katrina.
I was doing the cleanup for it.
There was an entireneighborhood that was decimated.
I'm talking every house was gone.
I'm talking the roof of thehouse would be on the ground next
tothe house.
That was leveled, and onehouse looked like nothing happened
to it.
Looked like an anomaly.
And I was with the army corpsof engineers, and I was like, what?
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How is that house there?
Is that new construction or something?
It looks like it's old.
They're like, no.
We have no scientificexplanation for how that house was
not affected.
The whole neighborhood's decimated.
I walked in the house, andliterally, there was a light cover
onthe switch that says, the angel of
the Lord.
Encamps around those fear him,and chills just went down my spine.
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Yeah.
So I'm telling you, it does.
A thousand may fall to oneside and 10,000 on the other, but
Iwill still be standing.
Come on.
Ain't no ghost but the HolyGhost up in this house.
I don't care what happens.
I'm good.
The blood of Jesus covers ourhouse, so let's take this blood as
remembrance of his protection.
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Now, I want you to stay whereyou're at and take 30 seconds now,
and I want you to think about the
goodness of God, and I want you to
receive the peace of God.
And we're going to take amoment of silence and reflection
andmeditation on him and his word.
I want you to think about whatwas taught.
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And as an entire church rightnow, I want us to just take about
30seconds or so and just let the Lord
speak to you in this moment, because
this sermon is a prophetic sermon
that's preparing you, preparing you
for what's next and settling some
things in your heart.
And I believe the Lord's goingto speak to you.
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I did this exercise inpreparation for this moment, and
the Lord spoke the phrase to me,
said, mike, you're never going back
to Egypt.
And something broke off of me,and I literally.
I think I started getting aform of deliverance, and it happened
while I was preparing for this message.
And the Lord told me, just letyour church have some time with me,
just like you're having time with
me.
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So just take 30 seconds to 60seconds and let the Lord speak and
seal this word in your heart.
The question that people areasking all around the world right
nowis, Pastor Mike, are we in the end
times?
Some people say, what seal isbeing opened today in the book of
Revelation?
In my life, it feels likewe're in the end times.
And I'm getting that questionso much that I'm going to devote
thenext several minutes to showing what
the Bible has to say about the end
times.
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And we are going to see if wecan arrive to an answer.
And I believe it may be ananswer that you did not expect.
And so I want you to stick around.
But how many of you have anawareness that we are in the end
times?
How many of you believe we are?
Okay.
Many of you do.
So I want to break this down.
And this is one of the mostimportant sermons that I've ever
delivered in my life.
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Because when you understandthe importance of the times in which
you're alive, then you get clarity
concerning what you should do.
And so my goal is to bring youinto clarity across all of our v
one church locations.
So let's start with the wordsof Jesus, because who cares what
Mike Signorelli thinks?
I want to learn the word of God.
Y'all ready to learn with me?
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Okay.
So say this with me.
Let's pray.
Say, heavenly Father, teach meyour word.
Open my eyes to see clearly.
Open my ears to hear clearlyin the spiritual realm.
I pray that your holy spiritwould teach me the word in Jesus
name.
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Amen.
So let's first look atMatthew, chapter 24, verses five
through eight.
The disciples were askingJesus to question Jesus.
When will we know when it'sthe end of days?
When will we know when thisthing is over and Jesus actually
answered them?
And we have this in scripture,verse five starts by saying, and
ifyou're a note taker, write these
scriptures down.
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For many will come in my nameclaiming I am the messiah and will
deceive many.
So many.
Many will come claiming thatthey are the messiah, and they will
actually deceive many.
In your lifetime alone, haveyou seen people claiming to be the
savior?
Have you seen many peopleclaiming to be the savior?
Okay.
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Have you seen people beingdeceived by them claiming to be the
savior?
The answer to all thesequestions is yes.
But we also know that this hasbeen happening for the last 2000
years.
So now let's go deeper.
Verse six.
Look at it with me.
You will hear of wars andrumors of wars, but see to it that
you are not alarmed.
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Such things must happen.
But the end is still to come.
In your lifetime, have youheard of wars and rumors of wars?
Yes.
But have there not been warsand rumors and wars for the last
2000 years since these words were
spoken by Jesus?
Yes.
So how do we know when it'sthe end times?
Let me just tell you.
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The thing that's mostimportant about the words of Jesus
ishim saying, don't you worry about
a thing.
Every little thing gonna beall right rise up this morning.
Okay, now, you know he didn't.
Jesus didn't say that.
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That was Bob Marley.
Some of you were so highlistening to Bob Marley you don't
know who was Jesus or who was Bob
Marley.
This is what he says.
Such things must happen, butthe end is still to come.
He says, but see to it thatyou are not alarmed.
Turn to your neighbor and say,don't you worry about a thing.
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Don't be alarmed when you hearabout wars and rumors and wars.
Let me tell you why.
Because the more time youspend in worry, you're worshiping
thething you worry instead of worshiping
theone who deserves worship.
Worry is misdirected worship.
So turn your worship intoworry of the one or turn your worry
into worship to the only one who's
worthy of worship.
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It was a tongue twister.
I successfully pulled it off.
Worked all week on that for you.
But when we hear about war andthe rumors of war, we should not
worry.
But let me just tell you, weshould start to celebrate.
We should celebrate because weknow that it's hastening the day
that our messiah, Jesus, the true
Messiah, is returning again.
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Okay, let's go a little bit deeper.
Verse seven.
Nation will rise againstnation and kingdom against kingdom.
There will be famines andearthquakes in various places.
Now, this is the mostimportant part.
Verse eight.
All these are the beginning of birth.
And I.
Pains.
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Birth pains.
All these are the beginnings.
So you hear a famine, you seeearthquakes in various places.
But it's the beginning of what?
Of birth pains.
Now, Julie and I got marriedyoung, and my wife Julie got pregnant
two months into our marriage.
Now, our plan was not to getpregnant two months into marriage.
We thought we were going to behipster christians who did worship,
traveling all over the US, maybe
overseas.
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We were going to frolictogether through the streets of northwest
Indiana.
Those first two months ofmarriage were amazing.
We were holding hands, walkingdown the street.
We went out to eat all the time.
We had expendable income.
What is that?
Then all of a sudden, Juliewakes me up.
Mike.
Mike, I'm pregnant.
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Mike, I'm pregnant.
She's crying, and I'm like this.
And she's like, why are you smiling?
This was not the plan.
We've only been married fortwo months.
What are we going to do?
And I'm like.
And she's like, why are you smiling?
I'm like, because it works.
And she's like, what do you mean?
I'm like, I didn't know if Icould have kids.
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Now I know it works.
That was honestly my Bella, ifyou're watching this right now.
And then Julie as pregnantJulie was quite the experience.
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Let me just tell you.
Pregnant Julie is hilarious.
And we won't go into detailsof that because I haven't gotten
permission to tell you all of it.
But needless to say, it was aride, a wild ride.
And we get to the end of herpregnancy, and all of a sudden, one
morning, I go to kiss her goodbye
toleave for work, and as soon as I
kiss her, her water breaks.
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This is a true story.
I go, that's disgusting.
And she was like, mike, thisis really how it happened.
I go, all right, babe, I'llsee you when I get home.
And then.
And I'm like, yuck, what is that?
And she's like, mike, we'regonna have a baby.
Today's the day.
And I'm like, oh.
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So I call my job and I'm like,I'm not coming in.
My wife's gonna have.
We're gonna have our baby.
And I'm freaking out.
But it take.
It took 12 hours for Bella tocome out, 12 hours of labor.
Now, here's the thing Ilearned about labor.
The contractions increase intheir frequency, their duration and
their intensity the closer we get
to the delivery of the baby.
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So labor was 12 hours.
Now, let me just say, Matthew,chapter 24, verses five through eight.
I just broke that down for you.
They believed they were in theend times because every single thing
that Jesus spoke about, there was
some way of them claiming that it
was happening during their lifetime.
So 2000 years ago, theythought, well, surely we watched
Jesusascend into heaven.
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Surely he's coming back in our lifetime.
And now, 2000 years later,it'd be like, oh, I get it.
Christians are always sayingJesus is coming back.
They've been saying that for2000 years.
But that's almost like sayingthe baby's not coming.
But the water broke.
But you don't.
It's been 12 hours.
Me just tell you this, thatbaby's coming down the canal and
itwill happen.
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And nobody knows the day, thehour or the time, but we know with
certainty it will happen.
And so Bella Joyce Signorelliwas coming down that birthing canal,
and we didn't know when we knew the
day, let me tell you.
But 12 hours in, she came outand she was delivered.
And so what you look for, youlook for the frequency, you look
forthe duration, and you look for the
intensity of the signs.
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Y'all, is this good?
Is this helping you?
So have there always been earthquakes?
Yes, but it, doesn't it seemlike the weather's been real funny
lately?
I mean, during HurricaneKatrina, I actually moved to New
Orleans and served those people.
During that time, I workedwith the Army Corps of Engineers.
I was there.
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I saw firsthand thedevastation in New Orleans that happened
as a result of that hurricane.
They're saying that whathappened in this nation over the
last several weeks was roughly ten
times greater the devastation.
And you best believe that vone is going to be mobilizing some
resources to help people in need
here in the US.
How many of you are with me on that?
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But I say that because there'ssomething about the intensity.
It's like the contractionsbegin to, that bring forth this new
day, but the frequency, the duration
andthe intensity of it begins to increase
as we get closer and closer to that
time.
But now that I've establishedall of that, I want to now take.
So keep your, the entire timeI'm teaching, keep your finger in
the back of Matthew chapter 24, because
we're going to go to the Old Testament,
and then we're going to come back
before the end, because I'm going
toshow you how you can really get a
good answer about whether or not
we're in the end times.
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Okay?
Now there's three factors thatare very, very important.
And these three factors yousee in the 10th chapter of Daniel.
You see it in the 11th chapterof the Book of Daniel.
And you see it in the 11thchapter of the book of revelation.
Now, I am not going to takethe time to read Daniel 1011 and
revelation eleven, but I'm going
tosummarize it for the sake of this
sermon to help arrive to a conclusion
about whether or not we are in the
end times.
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But the three things that youextract from those prophecies in
scripture, and write these down if
you're a note taker.
Number one, the rebuilding ofthe temple in Jerusalem.
The rebuilding of the templein Jerusalem.
This is a very significantaspect of the prophecy that determines
where you're at in the end times.
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The rebuilding of the templein Jerusalem.
Number two, increasedhostility towards Israel.
There will be an increase inhostility towards Israel.
Explain antisemitism otherthan demonic.
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It makes no sense that onepeople group is hated to that degree,
marginalized and treated the way
that they've been treated for the
last 2000 years.
You can see it over and overand over again.
And no, history doesn'trepeat, but it rhymes.
And there is a demonic forcethat's behind the attempt to annihilate
the jewish people off of the planet.
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And when you see that rightnow Israel is at war and they're
fighting on seven fronts, the nation
of Israel is only the size of New
Jersey.
I don't know if you know thatit's the landmass of New Jersey and
it is under continual and perpetual
attack to some degree, which is why
they have the Iron Dome.
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But right now they arefighting on seven fronts.
I want you to think about thatbecause so much of your mind has
been infiltrated by news media and
social media.
But you need to be informed bythe scriptures, because what the
Bible says about this is the only
thing that truly matters.
And so when I make a statementlike this, some of you in your mind
can think that I'm not empathetic
to thevictims in Palestine, that I don't
understand the complexities of Gaza,
Iran.
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I'm telling you from abiblical perspective, these things
have been written.
And I've actually traveled there.
I've been there.
And right now our executivepastor, Josh Hamster is in Israel
now.
And we sent him with a groupof elite men and they have been ministering
and providing counsel.
And he was in Tel Aviv lastweek when almost 200 missiles were
sent from Iran.
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And I am thankful that JoshHamster is alive to tell that story.
And the man that he is, heliterally gave up his spot in a bomb
shelter and stood in a hallway so
that women and children could be
in there.
That's a righteous man of God.
And then when I facetime him,he was laughing and I said, what
isso funny?
And I'm thinking to myself,maybe he has death anxiety.
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And he's saying, he goes,Pastor Mike, you're my apostle and
you sent me to Israel and I'm the
prophet.
I'm here to prophesy, ain't I?
And I said, yeah.
He goes, then I'm in thesafest place I can be.
I'm in the perfect will of the father.
And he said, I feel a unityhere and we're singing songs in this
bomb shelter.
And I'm going to say, thussaith the Lord.
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And I said, go on with yourbad self.
But why do I say that?
Because when you read Danielchapter ten, Daniel chapter eleven,
andrevelation eleven, there will be
this increased hostility towards
Israel.
I'm talking from a scripturalstandpoint, not a political standpoint.
And then last but not least,the third thing that you see is there's
advances in a one world government.
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The United nations just methere in New York City, and there
wasa part of their agenda that actually
dealt with what conditions have to
happen in the earth to remove the
sovereignty of a nation so that we
could unite to solve the problem.
Well, let me just tell you,I'm not so interested in losing our
sovereignty for the sake of fake
unity.
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I'd rather stay individual.
And we've got to understandthe signs of the times and what we're
living in because there is a demonic
deception.
And I believe that this oneworld government talk is not Alex
Jones Tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy
theory.
It's the precursor to anantichrist system.
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And that's why I'm doing thissermon today, to borrow back the
language that was stolen by people
whoare biblically illiterate.
And then some of you, and thisis going to be a rebuke.
As your pastor, you've spentmore time in the last couple years
with conspiracies than you have with
Christ.
And what happens when youstart spending more times with more
time with conspiracies than with
Christ is that you end up not even
being able to properly discern the
conspiracies.
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And then the other thing is,who's your source of information?
Is it the Holy Spirit orsomebody else?
Is it scripture or something else?
And you've got christians thatwill consult a talking head social
media guru before they consult scripture,
and you're going to begin to get
into deception.
The Bible says that in thelast times, even the elect will be
deceived.
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You know how that happens?
You accept Christ in a momentof salvation, but then you end up
being discipled by conspiracy theorists
more than Christ, and you'll be deceived.
Okay, that rebuke, was thattoo harsh?
Are you guys cool?
Okay, because I'm trying toshow you scriptures and some of you
know the phrase one world government,
butnever read Daniel 1011 or revelation
eleven.
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So you've got to go back tothe book.
Now, the other thing aboutthis sermon, and I want to do this
because I'm pivoting into more, is
that there are many preachers that
use their pulpit inappropriately
to tell youthings as if they're fact.
But theologically they cannotbe proven as fact.
The thing that I will try mybest to do, and I've been doing this
for years, is to divide the scriptures
rightly in such a way that you can
take satisfaction in knowing this
isteaching you can trust.
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So there are some times inscripture where we have a definitive
interpretation, and there are other
times where even renowned biblical
scholars disagree about the interpretation.
And what I do, because Ibelieve that our church is an intelligent
church, is I try to give you the
interpretation in a way that I will
give you my opinion as a pastor and
a shepherd and a leader.
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But I'll also acknowledge thefact that some scriptures do not
have in our generation a black and
white interpretation that's agreed
upon and then give you the opportunity
tomake up your own mind, assuming that
it's not an essential doctrine.
Are you okay with that?
So when we look at Danielchapter twelve, because remember
I saidwe're going to go from Matthew chapter
24, now we're going to go through.
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Now we're going to land onDaniel chapter twelve.
This is the last chapter inthe book of Daniel.
Daniel was a man that Godsovereignly spoke to and gave him
many prophecies.
And some of these propheciesare what are considered end time
prophecies.
And Daniel Chapter twelve isrevered as the chapter on the end
of the age.
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And there's some things thatwe can look at and extract to try
to determine whether or not we are
in fact in the end time.
So let's.
Now, for those of you who haveOCD, I'm going to do this out of
order.
So just brace yourself.
Okay?
So sign number one for thenote takers.
Sign number one.
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Daniel chapter twelve, verse four.
I'm going to read it to you now.
But you, Daniel, close up andseal the words of the scroll until
the time of the end.
Many will go back and forthand knowledge will increase.
Now, there's two ways tointerpret this scripture.
The first way is this.
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Some people will say that thisthat the Lord was telling Daniel.
Many people will go back andforth discussing the words that I've
given you, Daniel.
And knowledge will increaseconcerning the words that I've given
to you, Daniel.
That's one interpretation.
But there's also many biblicalscholars that interpret it to say,
in the end times, knowledge will
increase in the earth and many human
beings will geographically travel
backand forth.
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Now, let me ask you this.
In our lifetime, has therebeen an exponential increase in knowledge?
Yes, by virtue of technology.
We have the Internet, we haveWikipedia, we have Google.
Now we have the proliferationof AI.
And so I would argue if that'sthe interpretation of Daniel chapter
twelve, verse four, then we are seeing
an exponential increase in knowledge.
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You know, the way it workedbefore the Internet is knowledge
wouldsit in a book on a shelf.
And if that book wasdestroyed, we lost that knowledge
in anentire generation forever.
And so now we are seeing theincrease of knowledge.
Here's the other thing.
Have we not seen a dramaticexponential increase in travel?
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You know, in the last four orfive decades?
Travel is not what it used to be.
People would wear three piecesuits to the airport and when you
flew you would get a full course
mealand there were people smoking cigarettes
in the main cabin, living their best
life.
Now you get pretzels for goingto another country.
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And my wife and pray for her,she even sometimes she'll say, why
didn't we fly spirit airlines?
And I tell her, because Idon't want to become a spirit.
We're paying more and getting less.
And then if you pay for thebudget, they got you on that Boeing
plane on a one way ticket to Hades.
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But all joking aside, hastravel increased in the earth?
So if that is a sign in Danielchapter twelve, then those signs
are,they're collaborating.
Now.
Daniel chapter twelve verse eleven.
This is sign number two,appearance of the abomination of
desolation.
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Appearance of the abominationof desolation.
This is Daniel chapter twelve,verse eleven.
I'm going to read it to you now.
From the time that the dailysacrifice is abolished and the abomination
that causes desolation is set up,
there will be 1290 days.
There is much speculationabout this duration of days, 1290
what that means.
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Now we're not going to getinto that right now, but here's what
I am going to say.
The Nation of Israel has notbeen acknowledged as a sovereign
statesince 70 ad before 1948.
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So let me hope that makes sense.
So almost 2000 years passedfrom 70 ad when you have the destruction
ofthat temple and that 70 ad, what
happened all the way till 1948 when
Israel was established as a sovereign
state.
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Now here's the thing that isof the utmost importance when you
know Daniel chapter ten, Daniel chapter
eleven, revelation eleven and the
role that Israel plays in the end
times, 1948.
Now if you're a child of theeighties and the nineties, you remember
when everybody was afraid of the
rapture and I had in my mind it could
happen at any moment and my clothes
were going to be left in a neatly
folded pile, perfectly folded, right
for my sin or mom, that was left
behind.
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I'm just kidding.
You know, we had that, we hadthat whole fear, and it was like,
should I get married?
You know, Rebecca and Kirk gotmarried last week.
They're like, we're not takingany chances.
We're doing this before Jesuscomes back.
You guys are rapture ready.
You did it.
Praise God.
He's like, jesus, you can comeback now.
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But this is how it was growing up.
And a lot of times people say,oh, you know, they were fanatical.
But I want you to understandhow you arrive be a little bit more
empathetic to the crazy charismatics.
Because what happened in 1948when Israel became acknowledged as
a sovereign state, was it fulfilled,
filled many prophecies.
There was a 2000 year gapuntil that moment.
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So it makes you understand alittle bit more of the panic, you
know.
Now, of course, we need tocounterbalance crazy charismatic
theology,but at the same time, do you understand
now how we get all this rapture narrative
in our lifetime?
Because what they were sayingis that was a major undeniable fulfillment,
that of Daniel ten, Daniel eleven,
andRevelation eleven.
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And we've got to understandthe implications it has for us.
And that's how you get thiswhole, I mean, listen, we were scared
into accepting Jesus.
I'll just tell you straight up.
I mean, a lot of it was fearbased stuff.
There's movies from back inthose days where, you know, they
recreate the story in revelation
with thescorpion's tail that stings you and
it lasts for months.
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And you see the big stingercomes out.
You know, I've been trying tofind those movies lately just to
watch them.
They were like christianhorror films, you know, and we in
the eighties and nineties, we're
like, listen, you're gonna accept
Jesus willfully or unwillfully, like
by force and coercion and fear.
You know, that's why we wrotereckless love of God in the next
generation.
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Oh, he loves us.
That's why Crowder wrote, heloves us just to remind ourselves,
becausewe thought, any day it's like you're
either going to get raptured or you're
going to get left behind and ravished.
And so why do I say that?
Let's talk about theappearance of the abomination of
desolation.
It says from the time that thedaily sacrifice is abolished.
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So, and then, and then theabomination that causes the desolation
isset up.
Okay?
So I was privileged to go toIsrael a couple of times and do tours
and various things that like normal
civilians don't get to actually experience,
which is very cool.
And one thing is, you can goto the Temple Mount, and this is
the site of the temple that's mentioned,
that obviously has been destroyed
and rebuilt.
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Destroyed and rebuilt.
But there is a group calledthe Temple Mount Institute, and you
guys can research this on your own.
But it's a group of jewishbelievers that are laboring to actually
set everything up in preparation
toreinstitute sacrifice in the temple.
And I was able to do, like, aprivate tour of this facility on
the Temple Mount.
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And they have through.
It's behind very, very thick,bulletproof glass.
And the whole time on thistour, they were saying, oh, this
isa replica of the table of showbread.
And this is, like, what itwould have looked like.
And this is a replica of theutensils that we would use in sacrificial
system.
And they took us all the waythrough this tour.
Then we get to the end, and Iget pulled aside, and they're like,
okay, here's what we want to tell
you.
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And I feel comfortable sayingthis publicly now.
They said, here's the thing wewant to tell you.
These are not replicas.
These are recreations that weintend to use when we re institute
temple worship.
And what you saw behindbulletproof glass is a preparation
for thetemple actually functioning again.
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How many of you remember whenwe walked through the book of Leviticus?
Okay, now you see the journeyI'm taking you on as your pastor.
Imagine that happening again.
Have you heard about the red heifers?
Have you heard about what's happening?
So, right now, the templeInstitute, you'll go in under the
guise of, oh, this is.
This is the ephod and thethings that were worn by the.
The Levites.
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And then they take you aside,and they say, actually, that's not
a recreation.
We're just getting ready towear it again.
So this is.
There is this acknowledgement.
Even in Judaism, there's this acknowledgement.
Many people now are.
There's.
There's something.
We're kind of on the edge ofour seat right now.
So that's what this has to dowith the abomination of desolation.
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Talks about this time before,but it also eludes to the Antichrist.
So it's like the.
It's a time where,essentially, daily sacrifice has
been abolished, but then this abomination
that causes desolation is set up
in its place.
And right now, we're inbetween those times, and now we have
the Antichrist.
So let's talk about the Antichrist.
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And please don't say out loudwho you think it is.
Okay?
But number three, this is signnumber three, the rise of the Antichrist.
In Daniel chapter twelve,verse seven, remember, we're in the
12th chapter of Daniel for a time,
times and half a time, the holy people
will be delivered into his hands.
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Then in Daniel chapter twelve,verse seven, and then in chapter
eleven, it alludes to the Antichrist's
reignand during which God's people are
facing persecution.
Now, I get this question allthe time.
Pastor Mike, who is the Antichrist?
How will we know?
This is another question I get.
My inbox is flooded with these questions.
Pastor Mike, is the Antichristalive today?
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I want to respond to aquestion with a question, and I believe
my question is a better question.
Is the Antichrist system, orat least the precursor to that system
in the earth today?
Okay, you got a lot ofchristians on the front row shouting,
yes, here, New York.
So the real question is, andthen for those of you who are confused,
what is the system of the Antichrist?
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It is a system of false unity.
It's a system of false unity.
And let me explain why.
Satan is not a creator.
We serve God, the creator, andthen Satan is the emulator, right?
So what he does is he pervertsand distorts the original design
of God.
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So watch, Jesus dies on thecross, he's resurrected.
Three days later, he ascendsto heaven.
They meet in the upper room inone mind and one accord, and then
asa result of that unity, the Holy
Spirit descends.
And we know that Christ isinterceding on our behalf, that we
would be one.
So we know that Christ wantshis body, his bride to be.
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What one?
That's unity.
So Satan is not going to comeand bring division because he's a
counterfeiter.
He's going to bring false unity.
So that's why he.
Because he's the.
I'm just going to go therebecause he's the prince of the power
of the air.
And because that he waspartially over music, he's going
toget together all of his minions that
are celebrities and write a song.
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He gets everybody singing.
We are the world.
We are the world is one of themost demonically influenced songs
that's ever existed.
And the.
And the agenda of we are theworld has infiltrated every continent
andevery planet.
And what we want so bad is unity.
But Jesus, while he was alive,said that when you speak this message
of the gospel, it's going to be a
sword that even divides blood families.
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And so it's crazy because youhave christians singing we are the
world, but we don't sound nothing
likeChrist, who said, sometimes when
youpreach the truth, it's going to divide.
So the reason why I got to saythis is because false unity is the
precursor to the Antichrist system.
And you got people that writeabout me on Reddit.
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I can't attend his churchanymore because he's always talking
about Islam, because he's always
calling out LGBTQIA, because he's
always talking about gender confusion.
I can't attend his churchbecause he's so mean.
No, the most compassionatething I can do is tell the truth
about God's original design.
In a world full of deception.
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The most loving thing I can dois tell you the truth about your
sexuality to a generation that's
beenbrainwashed by pornography, and you
know more about porn than you know
about the Bible, and you don't understand
what God has to say about what's
between your ears and your legs because
he created both, but both were perverted
by the devil.
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And this is the thing I'm saying.
It's like, Pastor Mike, can'twe just get along with Islam?
No, because they say that he'sa prophet and we say he's the messiah.
And so in order for us to haveunity, somebody's got a compromise,
and Idon't think it's going to be them.
But I'm here to tell you fromNew York City, it ain't going to
be me.
I know that Jesus is who hesaid he is, but I get what you're
saying, Pastor Mike, but can't we.
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No, fundamentally, we can't,because if they're holding hands
withthe devil and you hold hands with
them, you're holding hands with the
devil by proxy.
And when you speak the truth,then what happens is the gospel,
like,a seed, is deposited, and the Bible
says sometimes that seed is robbed.
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Sometimes that seed is sownamong thistles and thorns and it
never gets planted in.
But sometimes that seed goesinto a muslim heart and turns them
into a Christian.
Sometimes that seed goes intoa gay heart and turns it straight.
Sometimes that seed goes intoa transgender heart and turns them
back to a man, back to a woman.
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And so stop telling me whatGod can do with a seed.
I know the power of the seedof the gospel.
Oh, but I was born this way.
Yeah, be born again.
We all got to be born again.
That's the truth of the wordof God.
So be careful singing we arethe world because the whole world
isgoing to hell without the gospel.
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Who is the antichrist?
Just be concerned that you arenot participating in his system,
because even the elect will be deceived.
Be very, very careful, man.
I feel the anointing on this.
I love teaching about the end times.
I don't know when, but thefrequency, the intensity and the
duration of the contractions are
increasing.
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And I don't know when.
Nobody knows when.
Nobody knows the day.
Don't believe them if they saythey do, because they'll be wrong.
Because everybody's been wrongso far, and they'll be wrong.
But I will tell you, there are signs.
Here's sign number four.
This is Daniel, chaptertwelve, verse one.
There will be a time ofdistress such as not happened from
the beginning of the nations until
now.
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Great tribulation and great persecution.
Something's happening amongstGen Z.
I believe the z stands for zeal.
Gen Z for zeal.
Zeal for God's house.
Zeal for the things of the Lord.
And, you know, I've beenwatching these viral videos where
GenZ is, like, pretending to interview
themselves as if somebody else is
interviewing them.
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And it's like they're at work.
And the viral videos are theGen Z saying, hey, I'm a Christian.
And then the person is saying,oh, that's crazy.
I never knew that.
I didn't know.
And then the Gen Z has thislook on their face, like, of disappointment
in themselves.
And I was watching video aftervideo of this, and I said, Lord,
whyare they making these videos?
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Like, what is happening that'scausing many of them to make these
videos?
And the Lord says, I'mconvicting them, and I'm bringing
themto a place of boldness so that they'll
stand in a broken world and unapologetically
stand for me.
Because what it is, it's so pure.
What's coming out of thatgeneration is they're basically saying,
how can we work a job and live around
people who never knew that we were
christians?
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And so let me just tell youright now, this is sign number five.
Sign number five.
In Daniel chapter twelve,verses two and three is multitudes
whosleep in the dust of the earth will
awake, and some to everlasting life,
and others to shame and everlasting
content.
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See, what happened was whenyou guys were given the narrative,
thedead in Christ will rise first if
you don't read Daniel chapter twelve.
Sometimes people think of theresurrection being for christians,
not fornon christians.
But here's the good news.
But I'm going to give youbetter news.
The good news is you're all eternal.
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The Muslims are eternal, theHindus are eternal, the atheists
areeternal even though they don't understand.
And they think that it's quantum.
And they think that maybethere's some vibration that leaves
their body when it's over at best.
Or that consciousness lives onas plasma.
Y'all listen, I put my tinfoilhat on a couple times a week, but
let me just tell you, you're all
eternal and you're all going to be
resurrected.
(36:25):
But the Bible says every kneewill bow and every tongue will confess
that Jesus Christ is savior.
But see what happens.
And the way that God told itto Daniel is different than the Kirk
Cameron movie experience that we've
seen.
What he says is when thisresurrection happens, some to everlasting
life, I really believe this.
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And some to shape, I believeyou're going to be looking.
There's Mike, there's my pastor.
There's Julie, there's Steph.
Look.
There's Harvey and Jess.
Look, look.
But then you're going to seethat person you told the gospel to
at your job that said that you were
a crazy person in a cult.
(37:12):
And it says some are going tobe resurrected to everlasting life
and some to everlasting contempt.
Oh, woe to those who wake upon Resurrection day realizing that
everything the crazy Christian on
their job said was true.
I spent my whole liferesearching this because I didn't
wantmy life to be a waste.
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And what I'm telling you Ibelieve to be the truth.
Here's the only thing we can control.
Remember I said, let's go backto Matthew chapter 24.
Okay, let's go back to Matthewchapter 24.
Because when the discipleswere asking Jesus, how do we know
we're in the end times?
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I believe Jesus gave them themost important answer, and we haven't
read it yet.
Let's look at it now.
Matthew 20 414.
And this gospel, the goodnews, that the kingdom will be proclaimed
throughout the whole world as testimony
to all nations, and then the end
will come.
(38:16):
It was almost as if Jesus wassaying, you can't control when nations
go to war, you can't control famine,
you can't.
No matter how hard you try,you can't control earthquakes.
But the one variable I'll giveyou is you can preach the gospel
toall nations.
And when the gospel isproclaimed to all nations, then the
end will come.
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So the question is not, are wein the end times?
The question is, are we unitedto bring the end?
Will we preach the gospel to everybody.
Will we be a global voice ofthe gospel to all nations and say
God through the Internet?
If you're watching live rightnow, your share is one of the most
important things you can do.
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You're not sharing, so we getsocial media famous.
You're sharing to make Jesusfamous in nations that don't know
him.
You're one of the mostimportant campuses we have because
theInternet can go where we can't go.
In this building right now.
I say let's be a global voiceof the gospel to all people.
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Amazing grace how sweet thesound that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
Ionce was blind but now I see twas
grace come on.
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What else are you living for?
He said, when the gospel isproclaimed throughout the whole world
as a testimony to nations, then the
end will come.
The Antichrist is not incontrol of the end.
Did you hear what I just said?
The Antichrist isn't incontrol of the end.
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All of them are pawns beingpimped by God.
Because what's happening isthere's a separation between the
sheep and the goat, the saints from
the ants, the wheat from the tarez.
And the question that everysingle one of you listening across
every campus have to ask for yourself
is, which one are you?
Are you a son or a daughter ofthe king?
(40:33):
Or are you a son or daughterof Satan?
There's no Muslims in hell.
There's no atheists in hell.
There's no agnostics in hell.
There's just sons anddaughters of Satan in hell.
And he cloaked every idolatryto become a deception to get them
togo there.
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There's no Presbyterians in heaven.
There's no Methodists in heaven.
There's no Pentecostals in heaven.
There are sons and daughtersin heaven, sons and daughters of
the king.
I feel something settling inmy soul right now.
I want you to stand to yourfeet with me.
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In Daniel, chapter twelve,verse 13, he says, but go your way
till the end, and you shall rest
andshall stand in your.
Ooh.
I feel the power of God on that.
Can you imagine?
Daniel was literally castratedby Babylon.
(41:37):
The babylonian structurealways castrates strong mendenna,
thetransgender spirit, is the spirit
of Babylon.
People don't understand whenShadrach, Meshach, Abednego, when
Daniel, when you interacted with
Babylon, you got physically castrated
because the devil hates when the
righteous multiply.
(41:58):
That's why on Long island,when they say that churches should
besmall, because they preach the true
gospel.
That in and of itself is ademonic doctrine.
Because healthy things always multiply.
Because he's the God of abundance.
And he told Adam and Eve inthe garden, be fruitful and multiply.
This church will never be too big.
(42:19):
It's impossible for any churchto be too big.
That's preaching the gospel,because multiplication is the fruit
of the thing that God called us to
do.
But Daniel was castrated.
Daniel never saw thefulfillment of anything that God
spoke to him.
Daniel was confused by thethings God told him because he didn't
understand what I think about Daniel.
(42:44):
I feel such great empathy forhim, because what a powerful servant.
Daniel and the lion's den.
The lion's den was an easy dayfor Daniel.
Y'all learned about the lion'sden, but did you color the coloring
bookpage of the castration?
See, what happens when you'rebiblically illiterate is you think
that Christianity is a fairy tale.
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No, the Bible is not the storyof what happened.
It's the story of what always happens.
Molech and Baal sacrificedbabies, and we're still sacrificing
babies today.
The transgender movement iscastrating, and we're still castrating
today.
It's ancient demons and newdays rebranded just because the devil
does a rebrand.
(43:32):
Don't fall for it.
It's a new logo, but the same product.
When you take it, it's arsenicfor your soul, and you'll die and
go to hell.
I just feel the power of Godon this because the question that
was asked of Daniel, let me read
itto you.
It's a command.
This is one of the mostpowerful scriptures in all 66 books
of the Bible.
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But go your way till the end.
Somebody just whisper thosewords until the end.
And you shall rest, and youshall stand in your allotted place
atthe end of the days.
This is like.
Almost like what God wassaying was.
Daniel, I know you don't understand.
I know this all doesn't makesense to you, and you were faithful
towrite it down, and you'll get it
to the generations, but just be faithful
to the end, and then you'll find
rest, and then you'll find your allotted
place.
(44:20):
The reason why I got emotionalis because in revelation, chapter
seven, verses nine and ten, this
isthe final place for every believer.
After that, I looked andbehold a great multitude that no
one could number.
From every nation, from alltribes and all peoples and languages,
standing before the throne and before
the lamb, clothed in white robes
andpalm branches in their hands and
crying out loud with the voice, salvation
belongs to our God who sits on the
throne and the lamb.
(44:51):
If you are a Christian, everysingle one of you who hear me, you
are in the Bible, and you may not
be mentioned by name, but you are
in that moment.
Revelation, chapter seven,verse nine is a future prophecy.
And if you are a believer, Ijust read, you're one of those people
in the white robe, and you made it
to your destination.
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You're one of those people inthe white robe declaring, listen,
therewas a very high level terrorist that
heard the gospel and denied it recently.
And all of a sudden, he died.
And an angel took him toheaven after he first visited hell.
And when he was in heaven, heheard them crying the word Hosanna.
(45:35):
He had never heard the wordHosanna his entire life.
After he came back from thedead, he's in a muslim hospital,
and hewas screaming, what does Hosanna
mean?
What is Hosanna?
What is Hosanna?
I heard them.
I was in paradise, and I heardthem saying Hosanna around a throne.
(45:57):
And they sedated him becausethey thought he lost his mind and
went crazy.
These stories I can tell bythe dozens, but we don't have the
time.
Heaven is real.
Hell is real.
But your final destination isrevelation, chapter seven, verse
nineand ten.
To show up in a white robewhich represents.
(46:17):
You accepted the sacrifice ofJesus, and you're waving a palm branch
which represents victory.
Palm branches get waved torepresent the checkered flag.
The race is over, and we won.
It was worth the fight.
It was worth every finance yougave to the local church to open
upvenues, to bring in drug addicts
andthose on the verge of divorce and
those who were confused about their
identity.
(46:42):
It was worth all the time thatyou prayed when you didn't want to
pray.
It was worth all the time thatyou boldly told the gospel even though
your hands were shaking.
It was worth the time that yougot up in worship while the world
wasfalling apart.
And when we have that palmbranch, I'm going to look at you,
and you're going to look at me and
I'm going to say, man, your teeth
look amazing.
And I'm going to say, do youlike my hair?
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It looks so good.
And we're going to say, we won.
We did it.
It was worth it.
Wasn't it worth it?
And then I would say to you,would you do it again?
Would you set that church upin a movie theater with me again?
If you had to?
Would you come into that placein New Jersey and do it again.
Would you wake up early againso more people could be here with
the Palm branch in their hand?
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Would you give more of yourfinances if you could do it again?
And we would all say, yes, Iwould do it again, and I would go
deeper.
So let me ask you this question.
Who here needs to acceptChrist across every location?
Lift your hand if you need toaccept Jesus as your savior?
Who's hearing me talk?
And you realize that you havenot accepted Jesus and you've just
been going through the motions and
you're just a church attender, but
you don't know Jesus.
(47:50):
Just lift up your hand.
Who wants to accept Jesus?
Come on.
Anybody cross any location?
Lift up your hand.
How many of you are deeply convicted?
Both hands and a foot.
We're going to pray thesinner's prayer together, which is
Romans chapter ten, verse nine.
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And really, you can't just gothrough the motions and say it.
You really have to repent,which means to turn from your sin
and never go back.
But Romans chapter ten, versenine says, confess with your mouth,
believe in your heart and you will
be saved.
It's that simple.
My favorite story is the manhanging next to Jesus on the cross
and couldn't come off that cross
todo anything for Jesus.
(48:36):
But he believed he was themessiah and he was saved.
It's that simple.
Let's pray this together witheverybody at every location.
Say this with me.
Heavenly Father, forgive me ofall my sins, I declare you are the
messiah.
You are my savior.
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Wash me with your blood.
I will serve you.
I will build your church.
I will endure till the end.
By your grace, Jesus name, amen.
Now I want you to take yourcommunion up.
Out.
And don't take it yet.
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Just across every location.
Let me lead you into time of communion.
I'm enduring to the end.
Anybody else?
I'm going all the way.
Anybody else?
So as you take your communionout, you could just open it up across
every location.
If you're at home, I'dencourage you to grab some bread.
(49:40):
Grabbed something one time,Evan Wilson did communion with Mountain
Dew.
I said, you're going to needan extra miracle to make that the
blood of Christ.
But you know what he did?
The communion.
The Mountain Dew story wasthat he led a satanist in a park
to Christ.
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Evan Wilson, who's now ouronline campus pastor, led a satanist
ina park to Christ and then did communion
with Mountain Dew in the middle of
that park, talking about make the
devil mad.
Don't you just love making thedevil mad.
Now, the Bible says that ifyou take communion, but you have
notasked for forgiveness, if you haven't
dealt with your sin, that this becomes
poison to you.
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Can I explain that?
Because there's some churchesand even denominations that will
physically not even allow you to
take communion until you deal with
sin.
But we know the Bible saysthat he's faithful and just to forgive
those who come before him and confess.
And so we don't have.
And the Bible also says he hasnot given us the spirit of condemnation.
(50:46):
Right.
Therefore, there is nocondemnation to those who are in
Christ Jesus.
But I do think that communionshould be a reminder of the forgiveness
that we have available to us.
And so the question about, arewe in the end times?
Here's the better question.
Are we preaching the gospel?
Pastor Mike, who's the Antichrist?
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Here's the better question.
Are we participating in theAntichrist system?
Are we in the end times?
I think so.
Does that mean that we all gotto go cash out our bank account,
get aLouis Vuitton after church?
Because yolo.
Because people will say, well,you can't take it to the grave.
Yeah, but you can store uptreasures in heaven, and you got
people that are saying, I can't take
it to the grave.
(51:34):
So I got my Louie and my Gucciand I got.
I can't.
I get what?
Hey, I get it, girl.
I hope Jesus comes back afteryou bounce that check.
But let me just tell you, yougot christians who are more concerned
about what they can do before they
die than what happens afterwards.
And I'll tell you, I'm storingup treasures in heaven.
(51:57):
That's my goal.
I probably shouldn't even saythis, but I had a dream a couple
months ago that I died.
And I was in this dream.
And I awoke in my heavenly mansion.
And I was walking around and Isaw some of my loved ones.
There were some other lovedones who weren't there, and there
were some people.
(52:20):
And it was just one of themost powerful dreams I ever had in
my life.
And I woke up and I said,lord, I believe this was a prophetic
dream.
Why did I have this dream?
And he says, this is what Iwant you to do, is seek and save
the lost.
Reset your entire church for evangelism.
Reset your entire church tolead the lost.
(52:41):
And it's almost like he had tomake me see my own heavenly mansion
tobe like my.
What are you living for?
Recalibrate.
You're off target a little bit.
Get back on the bullseye.
And for all of you, who are soworried about your job, who are so
worried about everything, I'm telling
you, it's just like a vapor.
It's like a mist that's hereone moment and gone the next.
(53:03):
Switch your thinking to theeternal, and the peace of God that
surpasses all understanding will
invade your mind and soul.
That's why.
That's my why.
That's my why.
And we got to come back tothat place.
So this communion is going tobe our confession together, that
weare going to lead the lost to the
cross at any cost, and that we are
going to implore everybody we know
to get to church to hear the gospel
every Sunday, and we're going to
preach it to him any chance we get.
(53:38):
So let me pray.
Father, I pray for this breadthat is, that we get ready to partake
the bread, which is your body that
was broken for us.
It's so that our body can bemade whole.
But also, Father, I thank youfor the unification of the body,
yourbody, that we would be one across
allof our seven locations of v one church,
even as we prepare this month to
go to the breakers conference, and
we prepare God for all that you're
going to do.
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I pray that we would beunified as we take your body now
soyou may partake.
As you're ingesting the bodyof Christ.
I want to encourage you.
We received three stories thislast week of people who experienced
medically verifiable miracles and
services.
(54:29):
Last week.
Week.
So I believe that when youtake the body of Christ, there is
an aspect of healing to that.
And so if you're believing forhealing in your body, just receive
itright now.
And this blood, this is how Iwant us to take this blood.
In a moment, how many of youremember the Passover story where
they put the blood over the doorpost?
(54:50):
Right now, you're going tohear wars and rumors of wars.
You're going to hear aboutearthquakes and I.
Various different things in weather.
But I want you to make adeclaration with me that as we take
this blood, we're going to go back
to the words of Jesus that say, don't
even worry about it, because I'm
incontrol and you're not, and God is
ultimately going to take care of
you.
(55:12):
I'll never forget when I wasin the hurricane Katrina.
I was doing the cleanup for it.
There was an entireneighborhood that was decimated.
I'm talking every house was gone.
I'm talking the roof of thehouse would be on the ground next
tothe house.
That was leveled, and onehouse looked like nothing happened
to it.
Looked like an anomaly.
And I was with the army corpsof engineers, and I was like, what?
(55:35):
How is that house there?
Is that new construction or something?
It looks like it's old.
They're like, no.
We have no scientificexplanation for how that house was
not affected.
The whole neighborhood's decimated.
I walked in the house, andliterally, there was a light cover
onthe switch that says, the angel of
the Lord.
Encamps around those fear him,and chills just went down my spine.
(55:57):
Yeah.
So I'm telling you, it does.
A thousand may fall to oneside and 10,000 on the other, but
Iwill still be standing.
Come on.
Ain't no ghost but the HolyGhost up in this house.
I don't care what happens.
I'm good.
The blood of Jesus covers ourhouse, so let's take this blood as
remembrance of his protection.
(56:21):
Now, I want you to stay whereyou're at and take 30 seconds now,
and I want you to think about the
goodness of God, and I want you to
receive the peace of God.
And we're going to take amoment of silence and reflection
andmeditation on him and his word.
I want you to think about whatwas taught.
(56:42):
And as an entire church rightnow, I want us to just take about
30seconds or so and just let the Lord
speak to you in this moment, because
this sermon is a prophetic sermon
that's preparing you, preparing you
for what's next and settling some
things in your heart.
And I believe the Lord's goingto speak to you.
(57:03):
I did this exercise inpreparation for this moment, and
the Lord spoke the phrase to me,
said, mike, you're never going back
to Egypt.
And something broke off of me,and I literally.
I think I started getting aform of deliverance, and it happened
while I was preparing for this message.
And the Lord told me, just letyour church have some time with me,
just like you're having time with
me.
(57:24):
So just take 30 seconds to 60seconds and let the Lord speak and
seal this word in your heart.
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