The Time of the End and the End

with Pastor Micheal Oxentenko

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's pray. Dear heavenly Father, we thank you for Jesus,
the great Shepherd of the sheep. We're grateful that we
live at the time of the end where we can
benefit from prophetic truth. Be ready for your coming. Help
us to know what it means to be ready in
Jesus' name. Amen. There was once a very wealthy and

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wise gentleman who decided to visit a school for the
poor that was full of children with huge potential. He
wanted to give a very special prize to the one
child whose desk he would find the best in perfect
order when he would return to inspect the school in
the future. Do I have any neat freaks here? Your
desk is always perfect? No one's volunteer. How many of

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you are like me? It's all over the place. Okay,
that's me. I just have a hard time with being
ultra neat. My wife wants to put things in order
and help me with this. Make sure the rags hanging right.
Praise the Lord for Diana. But this wealthy gentleman came
to the school as planned, and he shared his intentions
with all the children and the teachers. Also. The children

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were very excited at the possibility that one of them
could win a very expensive prize from the wealthy and
wise gentleman. And just before he left the school, the
children clambered around him and pressed him hard as they
asked him the question, dear sir, when will you return?
He paused for a moment, he said that I cannot tell.

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The children's eyes fell, their faces brooded as they looked
so disappointed. They were sure the wise and wealthy gentlemen
would tell them when he would return so they could
be ready for his return. Full of optimism, Suddenly one
little girl piped up with a gleam in her eye
and a kick in her feet and joy in her face.
She was noteworthy at the school for having a very

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messy desk, and perhaps the messiest desk of all. She
exclaimed that she was so excited that she could win
the expensive prize offered by the wealthy and wise gentleman.
But at that moment the other children turned to her
and sneered at her. Then you know what do we say?
When they said, oh right, they said you why your

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desk is always the worst of all. And so they
all laughed at her as they frowned at her for
thinking that she could win the prize. You will never
win the prize. You're so messy, you'll never win. So
give up. And then later, her face stiff and with
resolved to release a smile as she had a certain

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aha something went on inside her mind. She said, oh,
but I mean to clean it first the first of
every week. If I cleaned it the first every week,
that'll work. Then another said to her, but suppose the
wealthy and wise gentleman should come at the end of
the week. She thought for a moment, then she answered back,
then I will clean it every morning. And then another

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came back and said, but maybe he'll come at the
end of the day. For a moment, the little girl
was silent and not sure what she would say, for
what she would do with that last reply. And then
a smile came upon her face, with a gleam of
hope in her eye that was true and certain, and
she finally figured it out. She said, I know what
I'll do. I'll just keep it clean all the time,

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all the time. Many people are waiting for the second
coming of Jesus, for the right signals to get ready
for the coming of Christ. Many people are waiting for

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the right signals to get ready for the coming of Christ,
but in the meantime they're just waiting around and doing
nothing about getting ready. They're excited about the coming, but
they're not preparing for the coming. Can you feel that
in the times in which we're living, we're living in
that kind of an era. They think that if they
know when Jesus will return, they'll be ready for his return.

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But so they study Bible prophecy, which is hugely important.
Do you realize we're living in a post prophetic era
in the Christian Church and in Adventism, that when we
should be engaged in prophetic truth, when we should be
studying the Bible, engaging and sharing and growing, there is
a coldness, a latescy, and lethargy that has come upon

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the masses. It is fulfilling the prophecy and great controversy
that says, when the test approaches, a large class that
have professed faith in the Third Angel's message but have
not been sanctified by the beatings to the truth, including
men of pleasing address, would leave the message of God

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for the last days because they have compromised their life
with the world. Now, friends, we cannot afford to go
down the slippery slope of just giving in to the
pressures of the world culture around us. To be saved
at the end, we must be engaged Bible committed, Bible
believing Christians, or we're gonna find ourselves unprepared. Dear heart,

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God has not given us the prophecies to know when
to be ready? Did you hear me? He hasn't. God
has given us the prophecies to know how to be ready.
Do you get the difference not to know when, but
to know how? Turning your bibles to Mark thirteen thirty
two thirty seven, Christ is speaking, and we need to

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listen to Jesus this morning, he says, But of that
day and of that hour, no one knows, not even
the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
That's an amazing statement. In our New Testament, when Christ
was on earth, he gave up his powers of prediction.
He did not know the future because he had surrendered

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his godlike powers to function at the human sphere, and
so the knowledge of the future while he was walking
on earth was reserved in the mind of his father.
But here Christ tells us that when he was on
earth he didn't know the time of his return. But
he sure said it's important to be ready. Verse thirty three.
He said, take heed, watch, for you do not know

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when the time will come. The Greek says literally, see
and stay awake, for you do not know when the
time will come. Christ is saying that Bible prophecy will
not make us smart enough to know when he is coming.
I've heard people get out and they do the calculations
the Jubileese seven seven feasts, and then they say He's

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coming on such a day, such a year. We just
don't know. Friend. He could come next year, he could
come this year, but things would have to move fast.
One thing is for certain. When he comes, we will
not be expecting it. It will suddenly come upon the world.
Events will marshal, human circumstances will change. There'll be a
sudden urgency, and many of those who thought they should

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be ready will not be ready because they did not prepare.
They were not watching as Jesus told. So we need
to watch and pray and stay awake, because friends, Jesus
is coming. We tend to sleep as Christians and drift
into the world, snoring as we lose our way and
our walk with God. It's so easy to let the
environment and attitudes around us shape us instead of God's

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word and God's calling. Now, one thing I'm proud of
right now, our kids are gathered at the Lithicum Church
for pathfinders, and our children need Christian associations in this place,
and we need those associations here. But we have a
good segment of our church that's at the Jessup Prison
and other places ministering to those who need Christ out there.

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So church is not just about being here. Church is
about going where we need to be to make a
difference in the cause of God. Christ told his disciples
in Mark fourteen thirty eight in the garden of Gaucinity
to watch and to pray. They fell asleep in the garden.
Jesus prayed for his disciples. He prayed for the whole
world in the garden. His disciples fell asleep, and they

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didn't pray for him or for themselves. They were just sleeping.
We stay by praying for ourselves and for others. A
praying Christian is a staying awake kind of Christian. A
praying Christian is not sleeping, is not going into the world.
Culture doesn't say, well, what can I get by with
what will make me feel comfortable. How can I sacrifice

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my morals, my principles so I feel good about the
time that I'm living in. So I settle it, and
the keyword I me, my my needs takes over. Christ
continues in verse thirty four. It is like a man
going on a journey when he leaves home and puts
his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands

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the doorkeeper to be on the watch. In the church,
there are doorkeepers and there are workers, but there are
no bystanders. In God's plan. Every member of the church
is called depositive Christian action and sincere service in the
church as a worker for God. Did you hear that? Now?

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If you think the Lord would have you come to
church and just sit here and not make a difference
in your sphere by doing something significant for others, you've
missed it. God calls us to be engaged, working for
the church, working outside for our community, fighting new and
bold ways to share Jesus, to help people, and in

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so doing to grow. We stay awake by praying for
ourselves and working for others. Verse thirty four. It's like
a man going on a journey when he leaves. Actually,
excuse me here, give me a second. Jesus said, it's

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like a man going on journey, and that man, in
the parable is Jesus himself, who goes away. Friends. Because
Jesus has gone to heaven, we must watch by praying earnestly.
Ministers are called to do more than just work in
the church. Aren't ministers called to exhort others to be

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ready for the coming of the Lord? Yes? Or no.
Should a Bible minister be studying his Bible in the
middle of the weak more than the rest of the church. Yes,
But what if a Bible minister is busy doing the
work of the church members when the church members are
called to do the work of the Lord, so the
minister can be a doorkeeper. Then something's wrong, isn't there.
So if you've settled into a stance in your life

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where you don't feel like it really matters to make
a difference in the church, you're hurting the ministry of
the church as well. Now, there are things that I
do at reaching Hearts I'd like to quit doing because
it's not my calling. But I have as a minister.
I step into the gap to help and to serve
in areas of need. When the membership of the church

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has failed to serve, you'll find Pastor Mike there. Why
because I believe in being in the gap. But friends,
if we are to be fully healthy in our church,
we are to be engaged. We must find our place
of service. We must stay in that place of service.
We must be committed to make a difference in that
place of service for the sake of God, not the pastor,

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but for jesus sake. So, since no one knows when
Jesus will come, we are to watch and to be
ready every day until Jesus comes back. Is that right?
We're not called to be groggy Christians, lazy Christians, victim Christians,
but engaged Christians Verse thirty five. Watch therefore, for you

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do not know when the Master of the house will
come in the evening, or at midnight, or at cock
crow in the morning, lest he comes suddenly, and that's
the keywords, suddenly, and find you asleep. Now, if Christ
were to come right now, I ask you this question,
would he find you asleep? Don't raise your hand. Would
he find you asleep? Would he find you unengaged in

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winning others? Would he find you not participating in worship
as you should not engaged in Sabbath school early at church.
He's setting aside your time so you don't even bother
with prayer meetings or small groups in your life. Would
he find you sleeping? Key question here? Verse thirty five

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He said, watch therefore, lest he comes sudding and find
you asleep. Jesus uses a verb of ongoing action. The
Greek indicates that you should keep on watching because of
the uncertainty of the time. If God told us when,
we wouldn't watch all the time. If God told us
when he is coming, we wouldn't watch all the time.
We wouldn't have faith at any time to be ready.

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He's I ask you, what is Jesus advising for all
of us here to do? What do we need to do?
Verse thirty seven. He summarizes the chief concern of the
parable and what I say to you, I say to all.
What's the key word at the very end of the
verse watch, The Greek literally says what I say to you,
I say to all. Keep on staying awake is what

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the Greek says. So when you feel like falling asleep
in your Christian experience, the Bible is saying, keep on
staying awake. Jesus was clear. Every moment of every day
is the time to be ready for the second coming.
Don't plan to get ready in the evening. Don't plan
to get ready just on Saturday mornings. We should live
highly engage, looking for the King of God, ready for

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Jesus' return period. Dear heart, God has not given us prophecy.
You know when to be ready. God has given us prophecy.
You know how to be ready. There is a moral
purpose to Bible prophecy. Bible prophecy he is meant to
awaken the conscience. So we will pray more, work more,

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and when prophecy is rightly understood, we will stay awake
by praying and engaging our world for Jesus Christ. Have
you ever had a time in your life where you
left the Lord and you slipped away? Anybody here every
time like that? Anybody I have. I've had to re
engage as a minister. You know I can overwork and

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that I can lose my sense of God's presence in
my life and not be engaged in what really matters.
And what I have found in my life is that
I need Jesus every single men of the day. And
you know what we need to do to make that happen.
We need to be praying all through the day, lifting
our lives and hearts to the Lord, praying for others

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when we meet them, so that we are abiding and
awake all day long. Have you ever struggled with a sin?
It was hard to overcome? Don't say what it is? Okay,
only a few. The rest of you are just perfect
saints out there. I'm just highly impressed with you. I'm
just kidding. You cannot be sinning when you are praying.

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Am I right? You cannot be sinning when you are praying.
You want to overcome tobacco, alcohol, You want to overcome
that viewing habit that you have. Pray, pray it away.
That's how you resist the devil. When we are awake,
we are praying. Kind of Christians. There are sixty six

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books in the Bible, and only one book in the
Bible specifically uses the phrase the time of the end.
How many of you feel like we are living in
the time of the end. You can just feel it.
Angry Christians, whereas they should there should be calm Christians.
The world is angry. There are sixty six books in
the Bible, and only one book in the Bible specifically

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uses the phrase the time of the end. The Book
of Daniel is the special book in the Bible that
uses this expression, the time of the end. You'll look
and you'll only find it there. Daniel, this is it
six times that I can find, and there are only
two times when he gets pretty close to using it,
but he doesn't use it. I would like to look

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at the two times first, which where he gets close,
and then the six times. Let's move through our bibles together, Daniel,
one verse five, let's read it. The king assigned them
a daily portion of the rich food which the king
ate and of the wine which he drank. They were
to be educated for three years, and at the end

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of that time they were to stand before the king.
Daniel gets pretty close to using the term the time
of the end. Here the text is translated at the
end of that time in the revised standard. In the story,
they were to eat the king's food, and then they
were to stand before the king. Daniel knew that the
king's food would not help them be ready to stand

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before the king, so he needed a different kind of
food so he could stand before the King and not
be ashamed of his education. So what you eat matters
with your mind, your emotions, and other things. In the Bible,
bread represents the word of God. Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from
the mouth of God. Daniel ate the right kind of

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food so he could stand before the king. Now I'm
gonna ask you the question, are you eating the right
kind of food in your life for entertainment and the like,
or so you can stand before the king? Is the
Bible a book that matters to you? Do you have
a devotional life? Are you engaged with Christ? You see,
there's this lesson in the story. When Jesus comes back,

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we will have to stand before the king, and based
on the story of Daniel, we should be eating the
right kind of food, the daily word of God, and
of course good food represents that. In the illustration, we
live in a time in Bible believing people aren't Bible
believing anymore. They're substituting entertainment for Bible growth. I'm always

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horrified when I hear churches they gather around coffee tables
and they use caffeine to have fellowship before they have
a worship. Service, and there are churches around here that
do that. Do you know that scientific research has demonstrated
the caffeine lowers your ability to have spiritual perception. That's

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been demonstrated through studies that if you want to not
be spiritual, just drink a bunch of caffeine. Didn't know that,
did you? You know what? Caffeine is a precursor. I'm
doing a health window here. Caffeine is a precursor to addictions.
It sets the body to become addicted to other substances.
When I first became a Christian, I had a hard

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time with caffeine. I drank these doctor peppers. Anybody, well,
don't raise your hand on that one. I drank doctor
peppers off the charts and Coca Cola's and this kind
of thing, and I would drink it to stay up
late at night. I'd jump on a trampoline, get myself
all in he jetty because the caffeine would make me wired.
She didn't mean to do this, but I'm gonna. I'm

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gonna assure this. When I was at a church a
number of years ago, I was jittery for about six months,
and I couldn't figure out why. She gave me the supplement,
and the supplement had green tea in it, and he
pumped me full of caffeine. We read the directions, Oh no,
what have we done? The pastor was like this, My

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hands were going like this. I couldn't And so don't
think that things don't matter. But we look at the
music that we that we listened to today. We have
young people today who can't tolerate a Him in the
church anymore. They can't tolerate to him. We are when
we teach our children that we can only sing songs

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that they like rather than songs that they need. What
we are doing is preparing a generation for the fire,
because the great music of Christianity it's meant to change
and transform the life of our children. And you know,
we should sing buoyantly and happily because Jesus is coming again.
And yes, there's a place for some contemporary music well chosen,

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but a lot of it isn't any good out there.
And I'm not trying to pick on anybody here. I mean,
like Jesus loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know
then me me me I I I in the song
all the time. There's a reason why the music of
hymnity has passed the test of time because it works,

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It converts people, It brings people to Christ. Our children
need to learn to sing, to play the guitar. Now
at the evangelistic meeting, I actually did a special music
at the evangelist to meet. I couldn't believe it. Daniel,
you put this, You pressure me rightly so, but I
would like to see young people with guitars singing the
great hymns, the music of God and the way that

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angels would gather, and so that we are not compromised
as Christian believers. The second time, Daniel gets real close
to using the term the time of the ends in
Daniel one to eighteen. At the end of the time,
when the king had commanded that they should be brought
in the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before
and Abuganezer. Now in this verse, Daniel and his friends
appear before the king at the end of the time.

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The same will happen for us at the end time
of the end. We will appear before the king. We
will answer to the king. These two get close, but
they don't use the term exactly the time of the end. Now,
let's look at the six now that use the exact term,
the time of the end number one, Time of the
end number one Daniel eight seventeen. So he came near

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where I stood, and when he came, I was frightened
and fell upon my face. And he said to me,
understand with son of man, that the vision is for
what does it say? Now? The vision he's talking about
is the twenty three hundred year vision, the Hodzone vision,
the longest prophecy in the Bible that goes from the
autumn of four to fifty seven BC and reaches to

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the year eighteen forty four. He says that vision is
for the time of the end. Do you realize that
since the year eighteen forty four we've been living in
the time of the end? In fact, based on Daniel,
since the year seventeen ninety eight, we have been living
in the time of the end. Yet many people scratch
their head, what is that pastor talking about? What? Because
we're not studying as we should. This is Daniel eight,

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and Daniel has had just seen the longest time prophecy
in the Bible, the twenty three hundred year long prophecy
that John dom here elder John dom laid out in
our evangelistic series. And then Daniel saw Jesus Christ as
the mare, the vision the appearance of the Mighty Man
in Daniel eight fifteen, that which is the seventy Weeks,
the first part of the twenty three hundred year prophecy.

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He saw Gabriel. When he saw them both, he got
real scared. He didn't know what to do. And don't
tell me that angels only look comfortable around people. Don't
tell me there's sweet little things. He was horrified when
he stood before this majestic, powerful being. When you see
an angel in armor for real, you get scared. The
angel Gabriel said, understand, Prophecy has not been given us

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to make us smart. Prophecy has been given to us
to give us understanding that we would not acquire on
our own. In the Book of Daniel, the wise will
understand because they have come to understand the prophecy as
it is in Jesus. I've heard people say, well, pastor Mike,
you know all these prophecies, the beasts of Daniel, revelation,

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why do they matter? Let me ask you this question.
Does Jesus matter to you? Does he all right? Jesus
gave them because he's telling you how to be ready,
how to know the future through symbolism. So when a
person walks away from the study of prophetic truth, they
are walking away from what the Bible calls in Revelation

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nineteen ten, the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.
The lion roars when prophetic truth is revealed, and thus
we learn and we grow. So the angels telling Daniel
that the twenty three hundred year long prophecy is for
the time of the end, so we can understand, and
that means there will be a restored people at the

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time of the end, a people of understanding, a people
who live for God, who surrender their sins, who are
being cleansed and prepared to stand before the King at
the second coming. Look at Daniel eight fourteen with me. Now,
this verse here created the Seventh day Adventist Church. And

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he said to me, for two thousand, three hundred evenings
in mornings meaning days, what's a Bible day evening morning cycle?
And we know you can figure out what a day is,
because no time prophecy in the Bible would work unless
it's a full twenty four hour period, because if you
split the days in half, and you make two days

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out of one, and all that you don't really have
a consistent prophetic time pattern. So the evenings and mornings
was a way in which the ancient Jewish people, led
by God, described a full twenty four hour day. Then
the sanctuaration will be restored to its rightful state. Now
the Hebrew is knitztak. The core Hebrew verb there is zdek.

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Say it with me, so I'm not repeating myself. Zdik
say it zdek. Now, can you think of a name
in the Bible that has zeddek in it? Mail kez zedek, malkezedek,
melkezedec means king of righteousness. So the verb translated restored
here is the verb that literally means to be made righteous,

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to be zedicd. It can be translated three ways in
terms of righteousness, to cleanse. It can be translated to
restore or to reconsecrate, which means to make it righteous. Now,
what the Bible is getting at here is this is
that the end of the twenty three hundred year prophecy
that reaches down to the year eighteen forty four, that's

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when Jesus comes before his Father as the new Melkezedek
as the King of Righteousness, the great high Priest of Heaven,
and he receives the final kingdom from his father in
the judgment, and then he gives the kingdom to us.
So this time Prophecy points to the restoration of all
things before the second Coming. The angels tell him that Daniel,

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that God's Kingdom judgment will begin in that year, in
the year eighteen forty four, and that God himself will
restore his church, his people in heaven itself, so that
the final Kingdom of God will take the Gospel to
the world and Jesus will come in glory to people
who have been transformed and changed. You know, I don't

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know about you, but I don't want to be a Christian.
It's not cleansed, restored or vindicated. What about you. I
don't want to say, Lord, you know, I want to
still hang on to this sin, that sin, do that
and whatever, and then say, please take me to heaven. Prayers,
Our Lord, get that stuff out of my life. Help
me to live for you right now. Help me not

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to be compromised in my life. I'm a weak human being.
Give me Jesus now. Older John Dom laid out this
prophecy so well in our evangelistic meeting, the twenty three
hundred year of God's own vision that reaches to the
judgment in heaven when Christ comes to the Ancient of
days to confess our names before the Father. And then
the first part of that was the seventy weeks, the

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four ninety years, the Mare, the appearance of Jesus, and
his death on the cross. And this is the overarching
time prophecy that gives us the framework for understanding Daniel revelation.
Every Christian should know this prophecy and work to understand it.
The next verse in Daniel that concerns the time of

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the end tells us that satanic anger will come at
God's people as the church nears the time of the end.
Have you ever felt like the devil is angry at
you in life? Do you ever feel like he's going
after you? Time of the end? Two in Daniel Danelate
nineteen is the verse he said, Behold, I will make
known to you what shall be at the latter end
of the indignation, for it pertains to the appointed time

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of the end. Now, what's the indignation in the Book
of Daniel. The indignation is the time times two times
and half a time, and the latter part of the
indignation is the half a time. It's a twelve hundred
and sixty year prophecy because each of those years has
so many months twelve months, twelve, twelve, twelve and six,

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forty two months, thirty days, forty two times thirty twelve
hundred and sixty days, twelve and sixty years. That's Bible math.
The latter part is the last half year when the
persecutions of the Middle Ages went off the scales. Millions
of people died leading up to the time of the
End in seventeen ninety eight. And the point is the

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devil hated the church enough that in the Middle Ages
he sought to destroy it and wipe it off the
face of the earth. Peter says in Onest Peter five eight,
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary of the Devil prows
around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Now.
I had a friend named Dan. He's now dead. He

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was an evangelist. He was of a different mindset in
a different time. He worked for amazing facts. He told
me a story once when he was at a zoo.
He had no fear, he had no boundaries. There was
a lion there and there was a just some bars,
not like a glass wall, and the lion came close

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to the bars and he stuck his hand to pet
the lion on its head. Don't do that, Okay, he did,
he was petting the lion, said the lion just gobbled
his hand. So his hand was in the mouth of
the lion. And what does the lion want to do?
He wanted to gobble up the hand. This is what

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Dani and did. He took his hand, bawled up his fist,
shoved it deep into the lion's throat, and then started
to pull it out. And just as he pulled it out,
the lion roared and tore his hand, and it was safe.
Don't ever do it, Dan, did you see? A lion
is angry, seeking whom it can devour. Satan is angry

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at you. We are to be sober and watchful by praying,
because Satan wants to destroy us, our family and our children.
Now I'm going to say this, if you're a parent
and you are coming to church and you're living a
double life, and your children see it, you're hurting your family,
your children, clean out the television viewing. If you have

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a sin you're struggling with, ask God for help, ask
me to pray. Let's get the victory over those things.
Your children need to see committed converted parents in your life.
You need it too. Daniel calls the time that leads
up to the time of the end the latter end
of the indignation relation twelve seventeen. Why is Satan angry

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with God's people at the time of the end? This
is a watershed verse Revelation twelve seventeen. The dragon was
wroth n It's an old King James's word. What does
it mean? Wroth angry with the woman symbolizing God's people
connected to the heavenly Jerusalem. He went to make war
with the remnant of her seed. The seed is Jesus.

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The remnant are those that are faithful to Jesus in
history and at the time of the end. And here
are the characteristics which keep the commandments of God. Does
obedience matter based on that verse? Yes or no? It matters?
And have the what the testimony of Jesus does have
a relationship with Jesus matter? Based on this verse? Friends,

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we need to be obedient Bible believing commandment, keeping people
who love Jesus by faith to be ready for end
time events. The devil hates people like this. Notice that
Satan is angry at these two things at the time
of the end. So what do you say. Let's get
on our knees. Let's ask God to help us obey

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and to be with Christ the time of the end.
Number three and Daniel eleven thirty five. I like this,
and the eleven thirty five, and some of those who
are wise show what. Now, not everybody who's faithful dies
of martyr's death, but some do to refine and to
cleanse them and to make them white. And it's talking

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about the Middle Ages. Millions of people, thousands died to
be faithful to Jesus Christ in the Middle Ages, persecuted, burned,
torn to pieces by the church, fused with the state,
and to make them white until the time of the end.
And the majority of it happened after just a few
years before seventeen ninety eight, when we call the counter

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Reformation era, until the time of the end, for it
is yet for the time appointed. So the Bible says,
great persecutre in the Middle Ages. Daniel's telling us here
that God allows trouble to come into our lives to
purify us, to make us white and refine us. I
don't know if you ever been on TV and you

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watch those televangelists, they say, if you just send the
money in, God will bless you and all that you
ever hear that you've heard it. And I once called
somebody out on the radio here. I was preaching it
up on the radio and someone got mad at me.
You just attacked my favorite preacher. I said, didn't mean to,
didn't work, but he had a theology. You know, you

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just kind of pray over a cloth and you touch
something and you send money to his ministry, and then
God's going to open it up, make you rich and
all this stuff. And they get rich doing that because
people fall for it. What if I were to tell
you that if you become a Christian that your life
will make it really hard. If you keep the seventh
day Sabbath, you may have to lose your job and

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get a new job. If you are faithful to not
drink with your old drinking buddies, they may turn on
you and try to destroy your reputation. If you try
to take the right position morally. That person may try
to entangle you that you may have to struggle to overcome,
and there's a price to pay. Is it still worth it?

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Is Jesus worth the struggle, and say that's what the
Lord asks of us Matthew five, three to six. It
takes spiritual poverty, not a sense of greatness, to be
an overcomer. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs
will be the Kingdom of heaven. Does it say that?
What is say is the king of heaven. Friends, when

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you get on your knees and you're struggling with God
and you ask God to give you grace in your life,
it's at that moment you're accepted by Heaven. The Kingdom
of Heaven belongs to a person like that right now
in their life. Verse five. Blessed are the meek, for
they shall inherit the earth. Well, there goes arrogance. We
don't need it. Number six. Verse six, Blessed to those

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who hunger and thirst or righteousness, and they shall be satisfied.
If you want to live for the Lord, if you
want to obey the Lord, you want to follow the Lord.
You're hungering and thirstying for the Lord. You will be
satisfied in your life. God will bless your business in time.
God will bless your life in time. You may have

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a hard time getting there, but in the end you'll
have God's blessing, not your blessing. Time of the End
number four is in Dany eleven forteen forty one. At
the time of the End, the king of the South
shall attack him, But the King of the Norse shall
rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen,
with many ships. He shall come into countries and shall
overflow and pass through. And then verse forty one, he

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shall come into the glorious land, and tens of thousands
shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand.
Eat in Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.
I'm not going to exegete all of that with you,
but I'm going to get to the heart of it.
In the Bible and Bible prophecy, the king of the
South is Egypt. In the context the new Egypt at

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the time of the end is France. In seventeen ninety eight,
why the French went to Egypt, Napoleon Brute with a
cannon ball the story goes blew the nose off the sphinx,
but they took the obelisk, the language, the culture, they
translated hieroglyphics, and they transformed French society, so it'd be
the new Egypt at the time of the end. Fulfilling

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Bible prophecy, Revolutionary France represented the rebirth of a materialistic,
godless worldview like that which the ancient Egyptians held. The
Book of Daniel teaches that at the time of the End,
it began in the year seventeen ninety eight, at the
end of the twelve hundred and sixty year Prophecy and
Daniel twelve six and Angel asks the man in Lenin,

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how long for the end of the wonders of the
persecutions of the Middle Ages? And the answer comes in
verse seven, it is a time times and half of
times now. The man in Lenin who's walking on the
water is Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. Who walked
on the water in the New Testament is easy? Jesus did. Well.
Guess who walks on water? Here Jesus, and he's standing

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over the waters. He's swearing that God would save his church.
At the time of the end, and he says it
would be for a time times and half a time,
which is forty two months, twelve and sixty days a
day for year twelve hundred and sixty years. And then
when the shattering of the power of the Holy People
has come to an end, the persecutions have ended, then

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all these things will happen. God will start moving in
in time history. He'll start engaging the church again. Bible
prophecy will come online, men and women will be alive,
and the truth will be moving. That's what he says,
And so Jesus himself promised the appearance of the Great
Advent movement in our time. The Roman Church system rose

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when the Siege of Rome lifted in the spring of
five point thirty eight a d. And ended in the
spring of seventeen ninety eight. That's that twelve hundred and
sixty year time prophecy. When France, as new King of
the South, gored the Roman Church state system in seventeen
ninety eight, exactly twelve one hundred and sixty years to
the month when that system was established as a church

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state kingdom in the buddh of Italy, the world moved
from a corrupt religion to a satanic secularism. It moved
from insincere belief to sincere belief but deadly. It moved
from church and state to justice state without God or
the Church. We call that the humanistic, materialistic era of nationalism.
And when that happened, the great Revivals occurred. As religion

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was shutting down in the Old World in Europe, it
was coming alive in the First and Second Great Awakenings
in America, which would finally lead to the Great Advent Awaking,
where men and women would be studying day to late
fourteen the longest time prophecy in the Book of Daniel,
and they would realize that Jesus is coming. They would
move from post millennialism to pre millennialism. In the middle

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of the eighteen hundreds. The time of the end would
come upon the world in eighteen forty four, at the
end of the twenty three hundred year prophecy, God restored
his church on earth with Bible truth and Bible prophecy.
There is a reason why the remnant Church keeps all

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the commandments of God. God's commandments. They are His Covenant,
his Holy Covenant, and the Ten Commandments, His name, his character,
who he is, can Christ return for a church at
the time of the end that says we're gonna pick
and choose which commandments we keep. All right, Let's say

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you have a church that says thou shalt not kill,
and they say we're gonna kill anyway. Could God come
back to that church? No? What about the fourth commandment?
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. The fourth
commandment friends the Sabbath in any ways is the question
to unite the hearts of God's dear waiting saints. It's

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the one commandment where God says, remember, because when you
remember it, you remember Jesus. When Christ died on Good Friday,
he rested on the Sabbath day before he died. He
said it is finished. He reached back into time. He
embraced what he said at creation and the creation of
the Sabbath. The one who made us saved us, and

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he affirmed Sabbath rest again because of the Cross and
the Gospel. Dear heart, if you're trying to work your
way to heaven the Sabbath, it's God's way of saying
that we are finished by faith before we start. We
rest in the finished work of God. We do not
make ourselves ready we rest in God, who is our King.

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Time of the end number five and Daniel twelve four.
But you Daniels shut up the words and sealed the book.
And what does the Bible say until the time then
day's talking about the Book of Daniel. Many shall run
to and fro. And what will increase knowledge? So what
book would be online at the time of the end
with people all over the world sharing it? Based on this,

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The Book of Daniel exactly the time of the end
began the year seventeen ninety eight. A few years later,
in eighteen forty four, there was a people of just
a fifty fifty people that weathered the great disappointment correctly,
who understood the longest time prophecy in the Bible, who
grew in their knowledge of God. We are empowered today

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because of their sacrifice and witness. The Book of Danie
was unsealed in the year seventeen ninety eight. At the
time of the end. There's only one book in the
Bible that Jesus says you better study at the time
of the end. Turned to Matthew twenty four. Now like
the way that it says this, he who endures to
the end that could be he and she who endure
to the end will be what. Now do you like

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that said, well, I don't want to be saved. You
hear anyone saying I don't want to be saved? How
many want to be saved? I'm in the wanna be
saved group. Okay, Now look at how in verse fourteen
and this gospel that means the good news of the Kingdom. Now,
what's the gospel Jesus The first importance. Jesus died for

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our sins. He was buried to do what to take
them away? Based on one Corinthians fifteen, and he was
raised in Romans four twenty five four hour justification, acceptance.
The death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ takes
care of your sins. So this gospel of the Kingdom
will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony

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to all nations, and then the end will come. Now
go to verse fifteen. So when you see the desolating
sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel standing in the
Holy place, don't bother to read prophecy like all those
preachers are telling you. Is that what he's saying? What
did he say? Let the reader. Understand, Friends, we're meant

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to understand the Book of Daniel. This is why Angels
in the Glen dot Org is a huge contribution to
our church. At this time, we're meant to understand it. Friend.
We need the Cross of Christ to be ready for
the coming of Lord. We need the Book of Daniel
to help us become engaged with Bible truth and to
grasp the times in which we live. Time of the end.

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Number six in Daniel twelve nine, the last one he said,
go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up
and sealed until what time. We wait till the verse
appears on the screen Daniel twelve nine. Next slide there
he said, go your way, Daniel, for the words are
shut up and sealed until what time. So the book

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we're talking about is meant to be disclosed and understood
in our time. I have spent more time in my ministry,
in small groups at my house and other places, opening
up the Book of Daniel than any other thing because
of this verse. Because I have seen that when men
and women study the prophecies of Daniel, they come into
a love relationship with Jesus, They grasp the times in

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which we live. They want to live and be right
and save their families. It's a transforming thing. And I
have found that young people and others who just want
to have their Christian experience based around going to a
Christian rock concert somewhere, or they want to go to
some gathering where where they compromise themselves and they call
it christ it doesn't grow them at all to be

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ready for the coming of the Lord. But young people
who went through reaching hearts, who went through the books
of Dan Revelation, stayed and grew and became vibrant, secure
Christians in the church. And I would rather work with
the few rather than the many to get an outcome
like that, because that's what God is calling us to do.
We are living in a divinely appointed time of pure opportunity.

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We can know that Jesus Christ is coming, we can
understand his word and we can be saved. Dear heart,
God has not given us the prophet he's a when
to be ready. God has given us the prophecies to
know how to be ready. How many of you realize

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that you're weak? You're just weak, You're not strong, and
you want to be ready. Raise your hand if you're
I'm raising mind. Do you realize that Jesus Christ died
for you to give you everything you need? Seize the prize,
go for it. Don't surrender to lazy Christianity. Be engaged, share, grow, love,

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live because we're living at the time of the end,
and the end is coming, and it is a new
beginning with Jesus God, bless you do, your heavenly Father.
Would be a bummer if we were lost, if we
didn't make it because we just fell in love with
a certain television program, or we fell in love with alcohol,
or we allowed to sin to take over our lives.

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What's grateful, what's really good, is that you're merciful, you're patient,
you love us. You're not willing that he should perish,
but all should come to repentance. It's repentant Christians that'll
be saved, not strong Christians, not powerful Christians. You know,
the meek, the lowly, the broken, the humble. And so, Lord,
I pray right now there's someone here, maybe more than one,

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who is struggling to overcome. They don't want to be
a slave to that which has overcome them. And Lord,
I'm going to ask them, as we bow our heads,
just raise your hand to God and say, God, that's me.
It's me. I'm struggling with that thing. And Lord, you
know what it is, and no one else needs to
know right now. But I just pray that Lord, you'll

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lead that person to get on their knees, to be
broken up, to cling to Jesus, to look in their
children's eyes and others and say what matters most is
being right and saving my family at the time of
the end. And Lord, people are making good steps in
progress when they come to church. Lord, but give them victory,
Give us all victory. May there be no rancor, no anger,

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no resentment in this church. Lord, may be lived for others,
for the salvation of every human being. And thank you
that Jesus did that for us. In Jesus name, Amen,