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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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When John speaks about the Antichrist, the Greek word is antichristos, and it doesn't

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mean that the Antichrist is some guy that hops onto the world saying any, and he's

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a cusser, and he's dropping Jesus's name, and he spits on the sidewalk, and he wears

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black.

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He's got a cross upside down on his t-shirt, that's not what it means.

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The word antichristos is mean that he comes instead of Christ.

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He's the replacement Christ.

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He said, how's that going to happen?

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Very easily to a Christ-rejecting world.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you, here is Jack Hibbs.

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A lot of people have heard about the antichrist, you don't have to be a Christian too, have heard

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about the antichrist, everybody knows about the number 666, you know, that kind of stuff.

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We're talking about the events of the last days, various references, the end times, last

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days, last hour, John calls the last days, the last hour, I like him.

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He's not even waiting around for the last days, he's calling it the last hour.

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He looked at his son dial and said, man, it's the last hour.

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He said that 2,000 years ago, so think about that.

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So we're down to the last couple of seconds here, but nanoseconds.

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The Jews refer to the events of the last days as the end of days.

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That's pretty powerful word.

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And Muslims have in their eschatology, which is an eschatology robbed stolen right out of

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the Bible, but they look to an end time scenario that is described from their perspective, which

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is what the book of Revelation and the Old Testament prophets have revealed for thousands

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of years, that there's an end coming, and that for the believer, for us in this place,

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I pray that you're here as a believer if not, why aren't you a Christian?

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I mean, I can't think of one reason why you're not a follower of Jesus today.

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It's never been a better time to become a follower.

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And what are you waiting for?

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I mean, this is a time to get on board.

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This train's about ready to leave the station, friend, and we'd love you to come with us.

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Christ is coming back, and he's promised to do that, and he'll never break his promise.

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And so the Bible tells us that in 1 John 2 verse 18, 1 John 2 verse 18, the Bible tells us there,

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John says little children, he's speaking to the church, it is the last hour.

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And as you have heard, the Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrist have come by which

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we know that it is the last hour.

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In other words, every time you hear a false prophets, false teaching sermons that don't

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accomplish anything, I'm convinced now in the world that we live in, you can go sit in

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a church and listen to a sermon, and if it doesn't do anything, then it might be just as

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dangerous as false teaching.

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If it's just a message about platitudes and thoughts and perspectives on, does it instruct,

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does it rebuke, does it convince, does it exhort, does it cause you to draw closer to Jesus?

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I think God is looking for sermons and churches and messages and pulpits that are ready to

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stand in the days of which his very word is being fulfilled and shall be fulfilled.

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This is the time to gird up your armor and to have faith.

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Is the world hate us?

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Yes, get in line.

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The world hates us.

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Got a tip last night.

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Newsweek magazine blasting us for last Wednesday night's message.

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And listen, this is the third story they've written on what's been going on at this church.

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So let me say, somebody, whoever you are at Newsweek, we want you to know something right

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now.

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Keep watching.

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You watch every program.

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I can tell by how you write about what we're saying.

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So here's the thing.

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We want you to know we love you.

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Jesus loves you most.

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He died on the cross for you and you need to surrender to him.

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You really need to surrender to him.

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But you keep watching and you keep viewing but know this.

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For God's soul of the world that He gave His only begotten Son for you.

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And Newsweek's not your answer.

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Your paycheck is not your answer.

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Your career is not your answer.

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Jesus is coming back.

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And I don't want you to report on the day after the rapture happened.

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Come and follow Jesus.

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Please do that.

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So when John speaks about the Antichrist, the Greek word is antichristos and it doesn't

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mean that the Antichrist is some guy that hops onto the world saying, and he's a cusser

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and he's dropping Jesus's name and he spits on the sidewalk and he wears black.

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And he's the antichrist.

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He's got a cross upside down on his t-shirt.

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That's not what it means.

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The word antichristos means that he comes instead of Christ.

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He's the replacement Christ.

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He's like, how's that going to happen?

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Very easily to a Christ rejecting world.

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To a world that doesn't read the Bible to the world that is rejected Christ.

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This one is going to come on the scene and he is going to be instead of Christ.

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That's what antichrist means.

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Remember that for now on.

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He has come instead of or as an imposter of Christ, of Messiah.

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And I'm going to be using those words Christ and Messiah interchangeably to keep your attention

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for a reason.

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Christ and Greek is the Hebrew word Messiah.

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According to the Hebrew prophets, the Messiah has to be God.

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Read the book of Isaiah.

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God says, I am God alone.

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There is no other Savior but me.

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I am your Redeemer.

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He says to Israel.

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And it's very clear.

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You need to remember that.

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An antichrist is going to come on the scene at a time, according to the Bible, when the

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world will applaud his declaration.

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He's going to come on the scene and the world is going to go, we like him.

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I know you and I are living in a world where you can feel the division that's taking place.

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You're seeing the things that are being spoken of and by the people that are saying what

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they're saying to them, it's completely normal.

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And you see some of these bills or legislation that's going on around our nation.

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And to the people that crafted it, they think it's normal.

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But you think it's satanic or it's crazy.

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Why?

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Because you have a biblical perspective.

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The world is being divided.

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But don't worry.

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The world will be united because this antichrist is going to unite.

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The world.

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But I'll put this out to you.

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It won't be able to happen until after the church is out of the way.

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Right now, according to the Bible, you are the light and you are the salt of the world

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right now.

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But God's got a plan for that.

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But it's very important.

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First John chapter 2, verse 22, who is a liar?

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But he who denies that Jesus is the Messiah, Christ.

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He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

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That's a strong statement.

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I have wonderful friends who believe in the Father, but they don't believe in the Son.

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And it breaks my heart.

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And I keep witnessing to them.

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I keep loving on them.

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And I think by now they've picked up that I'm being nice to them and loving on them

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because isn't it funny?

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I'm being nice to them.

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Even when I don't want to be nice, I'll be nice to them because I want them in heaven

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with me more than they want to be in heaven.

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And so, but look, son, you're not going to go to heaven unless you have the Father and

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the Son.

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And you can't have the Father without the Son.

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They can't have the Son without the Father.

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God is one.

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And that's very important.

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But you need to be careful that the Bible says this person is a liar, the one who denies

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that Jesus is Messiah, that Jesus is Christ.

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It goes on, this is the antichrist.

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That is that antichrist spirit.

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How do you know?

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Denying the deity of the Father and of the Son.

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Verse John 4, verse 3, verse 3, every spirit, John says, that does not confess that Jesus

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has come in the flesh is not of God, that now incorporates every cult I can name.

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And this is the spirit of the antichrist.

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Watch this, which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world.

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What a statement.

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John wrote this 2000 years ago.

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John said there's antichrist spirit in the atmosphere.

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There's antichrists that are doing antigod labor.

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But there is the definite article, the antichrist coming.

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There is a personification church.

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The Bible teaches that in time, at some point in time, there is coming a real human being,

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just like you.

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The Bible says he is a man.

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He's a male, so he's not confused.

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He's got it.

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He's a man.

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The Bible says he's a man, and he knows he's a man.

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And Satan knows he's a man, because the Bible says that Satan possesses this man.

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His thinking will be satanically engineered.

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His actions will be satanically anointed.

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The power of his words, the word usage, the things that he does, and he will have a religious

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sidekick, the Bible says.

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The Bible refers to this sidekick of his, his promoter, as the false prophet.

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The Bible refers to him as the false prophet.

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But when you look at it, he's the epitome of the PR man.

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He's his assistant.

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He goes everywhere the antichrist goes.

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And on top of that, this one is able to perform miracles to exalt the antichrist and lurking

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in the shadows, and behind the eyeballs of this antichrist is Satan himself.

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So if you think about it, you've got an unholy trinity.

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You've got Satan pretending to be the father.

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You've got the false prophet pretending to be the Holy Spirit, and you've got the son

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of Satan imitating the son of God, the antichrist, remarkable.

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John 7 says, second John 7 says, for many deceivers have gone out into the world who do

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not confess that Jesus Christ is coming in the flesh.

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I love this statement.

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It's awesome.

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This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

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I love that.

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Look at that.

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They cannot, will not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.

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For that matter, it could be translated, it's even coming back in the flesh.

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They'll deny that.

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So church, listen.

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As we look at this, Matthew 24, we need discernment.

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Matthew 24, Jesus speaks about a discerning spirit.

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Now church, on the day of Pentecost, the church was born, and it's going to leave this

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earth, the spirit of God came down, the church was born in the day of Pentecost, and the spirit

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of God will catch the church up.

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We read it a moment ago in 2nd Thessalonians 2, and that's when the church age or the

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bride of Christ will leave off her witness on earth.

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She will be in heaven.

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We'll talk more about that when we end.

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All along the way, from then till now, to the moment we go up, discernment is needed.

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However, even into the tribulation period, what Jesus writes in Matthew's Gospel extends

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all the way into the end of days.

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This is important.

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Where ever you're at on God's timeline, is it the 1940s?

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Are you back in 860?

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Is it 1112?

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Is it 2021?

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You are to look, according to the time frame you're in, and apply scripture along that linear

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line of God's prophetic revelation.

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And God had to communicate to every generation along that line.

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So how does he do it and be accurate when he wants to do something special?

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Answer context.

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Context.

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Listen, some great sage once said, when you take a text, that's a verse.

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Out of context, that's the chapter.

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You create a pretext, that's a lie.

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Dr. Walter Martin once said, I could create a cult easily that the whole world would follow,

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because he said, I know enough Bible, and I can pull scriptures out of their context

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and create a religion.

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And by the way, that's what all the cults have in common.

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They use the Bible.

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Notice, I don't know any cult that doesn't use the Bible.

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They use it wrong.

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Look, you can use a chainsaw to cut down a tree or drop it on your foot.

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One is the right way, and one is the wrong way.

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And cults will always use the Bible, but they'll quote a verse, completely out of context.

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When you read what you're about to read, remember the context, okay?

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Matthew 24, verse 43, Jesus said, but know this, that if the master of the house had known

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what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken

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into.

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That's why I love that.

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Verse 44, therefore, in light of that, wisdom, you also be ready for the Son of Man is

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coming at an hour you do not expect.

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It is implied to the believer of every generation of every age since the day of Pentecost for

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that generation to be ready.

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Matthew 24, nine.

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Then that's an important word, then it's a time stamp, then it means something's going

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Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, not the tribulation, but they will deliver

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you up to very difficult times and kill you.

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And you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake, and then many will be offended

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or everybody's offended today, so.

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They will betray one another and will hate one another.

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Then many false prophets will arise and deceive many, and because all thisness will abound,

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the love of many will grow cold, but he who endures to the end shall be saved, and this

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gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all of the world as a witness to all the nations

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and then the end will come.

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Remember context is King, friends.

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Matthew 24 verse 15, therefore when Jesus is speaking in Matthew 24, 15, you can see

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in your Bible, it's letters in red.

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When you see, there's going to be a generation that sees something, when you see the abomination

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of desolation, notice in your Bible it's in quotes, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing

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in the holy place, whoever reads, let him understand, isn't that amazing?

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Jesus is saying, you guys need to be aware and pass this news down to every generation

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because someday it's going to happen to them, so you read it and understand it.

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What is he saying?

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You all should have known the book of Daniel by now.

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There's no excuse for you not to know the book of Daniel.

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Jesus is saying, as you get deeper into the last days and the end of days, the keys to

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the book of Daniel.

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Okay, watch this.

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He says, verse 16, then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

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Number one, do you live in Judea?

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Somebody does.

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I've been there.

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I've been there 22 times.

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It's a real place.

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It's a great place to eat.

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Listen, context, ask yourself this question, who is he speaking to?

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Whoever he is, he expects them to know about Daniel, that's a clue, Daniel's a Jew.

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Number two, Judea is in the mix, let's just keep going.

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He says, flee to the mountains, verse 17.

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Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.

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Who of us sit on their roof?

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We don't, the Jews do, because they have flat roofs.

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When you're in a Jewish home, you eat dinner and you have fun and you cook or you whatever

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you do, and then the family and friends go up on top of the roof and you watch the sun

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go down.

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In the cool of the evening comes and you watch the stars come out, it's Jewish.

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It's what they do, because they know how to live, honestly, it's awesome.

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You go to Israel.

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The houses have the patios on top of the house and let him who is in the field not go back

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to get his clothes.

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I just think it's awesome.

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Israel has always been an aquarium society and even today Israel supplies all of Europe

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with all its fruit and vegetables.

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Those farmland reminds you of California's Central Valley in the North and Salinas amazing.

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You can't even tell the two apart if you're standing in either one.

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Verse 19, hang on to your heads, but we'll enter those who are pregnant and to those who

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are nursing babies in those days.

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See, what does that do to anything?

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That's a good question.

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Hang on.

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And pray that your flight or your escape may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.

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No Gentile cares about the Sabbath.

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And what about winter?

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Well, in Israel, there's only two places that get snow.

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Mount Hermong, way in the North, covered in snow.

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You can ski there.

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It's beautiful.

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It's connected to Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

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Those three nations meet at the top.

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And snow, it's like it's like our Mount Whitney.

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There's Hermong.

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Jordan River comes from there.

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It's called Jerusalem.

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The area of Judea snows.

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Some of you were with us.

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We had hundreds of people on the tour of Israel.

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We used to go before COVID.

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We used to go every year.

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We'd take hundreds of people every year.

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We went to bed one night in Jerusalem on our tour, woke up the next morning.

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The city was covered in snow.

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We had to suspend the whole tour that day, because you couldn't even get the buses

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up to the hotel.

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And Jesus says, I'm telling you, there's a time coming, where you better watch out.

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And women who are nursing with babies, you're going to find it really hard to run and

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flee.

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I pity you.

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And for those of you who have been schooled in the traditions of men, you're going

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to misappropriate the Sabbath.

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And when you see this happening, when you see what, listen, when you see something happening

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that Daniel warned about, when you see it happen, you're going to have a rough time

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with your conscience.

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Because you're going to run about a thousand and five for long, and you're going to get

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there.

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And you're going to say, I can't go any further, because it's a Sabbath.

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You're going to have to choose between the value of who I am as God versus the rules and

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guardrails that I've given you of life.

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One is to help you out.

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The other one is to save you forever.

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It's amazing.

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It's Jewish in context.

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Why?

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Because it's going to the end of the age.

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And this one who is coming upon the scene, for then there will be great tribulation, such

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as not since the beginning of the world, no, nor there, no, never shall be.

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And unless those days are short, no flesh will be saved.

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But for the elect's sake, those days will be saved.

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For God's people, Daniel, Jesus phrases it.

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This is the remnant of Israel's whose eyes are open.

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They see that whatever has caused them to run and to flee from Jerusalem is called the

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abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet.

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And Daniel the prophet tells you it's none other than the antichrist.

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