WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.820 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:10.620 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The world's in a bit of a panic 3 00:00:10.620 --> 00:00:16.560 right now. Governance-wise, world leaders, they're shaken. The markets are 4 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:21.060 unstable. No one knows what's going to happen next. See, Jack, what do you bring 5 00:00:21.060 --> 00:00:25.600 this up? Because the Bible tells us that at a time when there's economic 6 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:31.040 instability and wars and rumors of wars, this anti-Christ character will 7 00:00:31.040 --> 00:00:34.120 come under the world's same. 8 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:41.680 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:47.040 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:51.880 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 11 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:57.440 that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:57.440 --> 00:01:04.040 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:09.000 How about we let the Bible talk to us? Let's have the Bible teaches. Nobody knows 14 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.080 when the rapture's going to take place. The day of the Lord Jesus Christ, but 15 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:15.960 watch this. Watch my hands because I lack the skills to communicate it. I have to 16 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:21.280 use. If your fingers can walk through the yellow pages, then I can show you 17 00:01:21.320 --> 00:01:26.120 this. Okay, watch this. When Jesus Christ comes for the church, the day of the Lord 18 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:33.200 Jesus Christ, when he takes us up in that instant, the day of the Lord begins. 19 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.240 And how long is that? As soon as the rapture takes place, the day of the Lord 20 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:43.600 begins and it goes all the way through the seven years, it goes all the way 21 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:46.400 through the second coming of Christ and it goes all the way through the 22 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.440 millennium. It's called the day of the Lord. In fact, the day of the Lord doesn't 23 00:01:49.440 --> 00:01:58.440 end until the day of God begins, which is in Revelation chapter 22. Keep that in mind. 24 00:01:58.440 --> 00:02:03.760 What triggers the day of the Lord? The rapture. That's the day of Christ when he 25 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:07.400 comes for his people. The moment that happens. Now, we don't know, does the 26 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:11.840 Tribulation Period start five minutes after that? Does the Antichrist pop up two 27 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:18.680 minutes later or two months or two years? We don't know. We just know this. That the 28 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:25.280 hope of you going to heaven now through Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, knowing 29 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.480 the gospel that he died on the cross for your sins because he loves you, but he 30 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:34.760 asks of you, he won't make you, he asks of you to repent of the sins, my sins, 31 00:02:34.760 --> 00:02:41.080 your sins, that put him on the cross and become a follower of his. The Bible 32 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:47.840 makes it very clear that when that opportunity is exhausted for this age, there'll 33 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:53.320 be a time of tribulation that comes upon the earth. You mean, wait a minute, can't 34 00:02:53.320 --> 00:02:58.000 I accept the Lord after the rapture? Apparently not. Not if you know it, can you 35 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:03.480 tell me the gospel? If you can tell me the gospel, then you're not going to have a 36 00:03:03.480 --> 00:03:10.480 second chance. If you don't know the gospel, you'll have a chance. And that's 37 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:17.120 terrifying. He will send them strong delusion that would not receive the love of 38 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:21.040 the truth, very powerful statement. We're talking about the day of the Lord. 39 00:03:21.040 --> 00:03:28.040 Melachi chapter 4 verse 1, Melachi 4 1 says, for behold, the day is coming, burning 40 00:03:28.040 --> 00:03:33.160 like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble, and the 41 00:03:33.160 --> 00:03:39.440 day which is coming shall burn them up. Thus says the Lord of hosts, that will 42 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:45.120 leave them neither root nor branch, but to you who fear my name, the son of 43 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:49.520 righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings. And you shall go out. This 44 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:55.480 is speaking about the millennial period to come that brings the start of that 45 00:03:55.480 --> 00:03:59.520 millennium at the end of the tribulation period. He says here that will grow fat 46 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:06.680 like stalfed calves. You shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under 47 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:12.000 the souls of your feet on the day that I do this as the Lord of hosts. Remember the 48 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:18.560 law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded him in horib for all Israel, with 49 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:23.840 the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you, listen, he's talking to 50 00:04:23.840 --> 00:04:29.160 Israel, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and 51 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:35.200 dreadful day of the Lord, and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the 52 00:04:35.200 --> 00:04:40.240 children and the hearts of the children to the fathers. Lest I come and strike the 53 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.720 earth with a curse. The signs of the coming Antichrist, Isaiah chapter 13, verse 9, 54 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:53.440 for behold, the day of the Lord comes cruel with both wrath and fierce anger to 55 00:04:53.440 --> 00:04:57.980 lay the land desolate and he will destroy its sinners from it, the day of the 56 00:04:57.980 --> 00:05:01.360 Lord. You don't want to be involved in the day of the Lord, friends. You want to be 57 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:11.560 in heaven? Jeremiah 30, verse 7, alas, for that day is great so that none is like it 58 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:17.760 and it is the time of Jacob's trouble. Anybody know another name for Jacob? Israel, 59 00:05:17.760 --> 00:05:23.240 a time of Israel's trouble. The seven years is God refocusing on Israel. 60 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:28.320 Thus says the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from your neck and I will 61 00:05:28.320 --> 00:05:33.760 burst your bonds, foreigners shall know more and slave them. Speaking of the 62 00:05:33.760 --> 00:05:39.680 Jew, verse 9, but they shall serve the Lord their God and this is amazing. David, 63 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:45.360 their king whom I will raise up. It's resurrect. It's amazing. Listen, this is the 64 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:52.240 book of Jeremiah. David had already been dead. Is that a wild? David's gonna get 65 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:59.720 resurrected. Watch this. Verse 10, therefore do not fear, oh my servant Jacob says the 66 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:06.240 Lord, nor be dismayed, oh Israel, for behold, I will save you from afar and your seed from 67 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:12.880 the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet and no one shall make 68 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:19.400 him afraid. That's all about the second coming of Christ establishing his kingdom and Israel 69 00:06:19.400 --> 00:06:24.480 is the issue. Can you just remember that? Regarding the seven years, it's not about the church. 70 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:37.920 It's about Israel. So important. It's so defining and clear, but you would not know that if 71 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:44.480 you don't know the Old Testament. It's very important. And verse 9 of 2 Thessalonians 2, 72 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:50.000 right there, it says that the coming of the lawless one, this anti-Christ figure, this person, 73 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:56.880 he's a human, but it says that the lawless one is according to the work in Satan with all power, 74 00:06:56.880 --> 00:07:03.360 signs and line wonders. Church, remember this. The deception that Satan is bringing through this 75 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:13.040 global politician, he will have miraculous powers to speak and to say and to do that will 76 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:19.280 absolutely shake the world's foundations in the sense of this guy is the greatest and it's 77 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:28.560 ever been. He is the Messiah. This guy is the answer to all of our needs and he's going to look 78 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:38.160 amazing so to speak early on. Now first Thessalonians, when Paul wrote to them, listen to this, this is 79 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:43.760 beautiful. So this actually applies more to you and I than anything else. First Thessalonians, 80 00:07:43.760 --> 00:07:51.120 chapter, change it, there you go, five, but concerning the times and the seasons brethren, 81 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:57.440 that's you and I. You have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly 82 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:02.160 that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. Day of the Lord is not a good time. 83 00:08:02.640 --> 00:08:11.440 Watch this. So comes as a thief in the night, verse three, for when they say, not you, when they 84 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:17.760 save peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them. As labor pains upon the pregnant woman, 85 00:08:17.760 --> 00:08:22.240 they shall not escape. I find that fascinating. Hold that up there for a second. I find that 86 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:28.160 fascinating because if you might want to write down in your margins, Luke 21, 36 tells us that we 87 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:34.240 shall escape. We. It says that we will escape. All those things that are coming upon the earth and 88 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:40.480 we will stand before the Son of Man. It actually uses the word escape. What are we living for right now 89 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:45.120 to do? A God wants us to do, but at the same time we're living in a way ready to meet him. 90 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:54.880 But you brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief. He's 91 00:08:54.880 --> 00:08:59.600 announcing that if you know the Word of God and you've got the Bible open and you're looking at 92 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:04.960 the headline news and you're going to let the Bible speak to you instead of some pastor, priest, 93 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:12.240 or Pope, let the Bible talk to you. You'll be fine. You'll be completely fine. 94 00:09:14.880 --> 00:09:22.480 So back to second Thessalonians now chapter two. Now brethren concerning the coming of the 95 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:28.560 Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you not to be soon shaken. Don't be 96 00:09:28.560 --> 00:09:36.400 upset you guys in mind or troubled either by spirit, word, or letter as if from us as though the 97 00:09:36.400 --> 00:09:43.920 day of Christ had come. You didn't miss the rapture. We are not in the time of the Lord's day 98 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:49.600 when all this stuff's going to be happening. You didn't miss it. You've been lied to. That's what 99 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:55.040 he's warning them and again I stress if they didn't expect to be delivered then why are they 100 00:09:55.040 --> 00:10:03.600 concerned and worried? Very, very cool. So here we go. Signs of his coming, the Antichrist that is 101 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:11.840 number one is the destabilization among the nations. Ask yourself, mark it down, are the nations of 102 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:20.080 the world today on a global scale destabilizing. Now I don't know how many news, gurus, 103 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.400 freaks we have in this place, but I understand that. People say I've watched the news in years. 104 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:30.560 Yeah, I wish I were like you. I don't want to watch it either, but I feel like I owe it to you 105 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:41.200 to know it. And so the world is really hurting right now. The globe is destabilizing on the 106 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:50.880 scene never before, experienced before in a post-COVID world, global economies are so messed up. 107 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:56.720 By the way, are you watching right now the next wave, the next wave from the result of being shut 108 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:02.480 down as an economy? Have you noticed some of the stores in your nation, in this nation, are 109 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:12.960 closing down now? Now, the numbers, they've run out of the PPP money. Wait, no, PPP, which one? 110 00:11:13.520 --> 00:11:22.880 What PPP is it? Which one? There's the, you know the money, there was, the money's run out, 111 00:11:23.760 --> 00:11:30.400 but they're, but they're, they're inability to get back to business. They didn't recover. 112 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:37.280 Be a bad management, be it whatever we don't know, but they're closing down. That's not just 113 00:11:37.280 --> 00:11:47.040 here, it's around the world. And that adds to destabilizing factors. It's remarkable. Then 114 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:52.880 Luke chapter 21, verse 25, now look, this is a verse regarding the tribulation period. 115 00:11:53.680 --> 00:11:59.440 But how much does it sound like today? Jesus said there'll be signs in the sun and the moon. Now 116 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:03.760 that's not exactly happening unless there's another Chinese balloon outside right now, but 117 00:12:05.280 --> 00:12:11.360 and in the stars and on earth here it comes distress of nations. The word distress of nations 118 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:17.520 means unable to keep it together. I find that fascinating because the world wants to come together 119 00:12:17.520 --> 00:12:27.600 with the unite. What's unite? Well, they're falling apart. And the next word, with perplexity, 120 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:34.320 the C and the waves roaring, speaking about just tumultuous times, that word perplexing 121 00:12:34.640 --> 00:12:42.640 means having no ability to bring it together or that which is just being lost. The world's 122 00:12:42.640 --> 00:12:50.720 in a bit of a panic right now. Governance-wise, world leaders, they're shaken. The markets are 123 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:55.840 unstable. No one knows what's going to happen next. See, Jack, what are you bringing this up? 124 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:02.560 Because the Bible tells us that at a time when there's economic instability and wars and rumors 125 00:13:02.560 --> 00:13:09.120 of wars, this anti-Christ character will come under the world's scene. And I'll submit to you today 126 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:16.080 that the world is pretty leaderless right now. The second thing is increasing natural disasters. 127 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:23.600 The Bible said there'd be an increase in natural disasters. Matthew chapter 24, again, the all 128 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:30.320 of the discourse. See, what does that mean? Jesus speaking to the disciples about the time of the 129 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:39.680 end in relation to Israel. Matthew 24. And there will be famines, pestilence, earthquakes, 130 00:13:39.680 --> 00:13:47.120 all of it means, by the way, unusual, increasing earthquakes, increasing pestilence. A pestilence 131 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:54.720 is incurable diseases, incurable viruses, incurable sicknesses that we can't stop them. 132 00:13:55.600 --> 00:14:05.440 Isn't it, isn't it amazing? This is 2000 years old. Immediately after the tribulation of those 133 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:12.480 days, seven years at its end, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, 134 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:21.120 the stars will fall from heaven, the atmosphere. Can you imagine? Wow. Now look, everybody, 135 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.800 you should, man, I just, I'm visiting here to them, freaking out. This is like blowing my mind. 136 00:14:24.800 --> 00:14:31.360 Hey, you don't have to see any of this stuff. You don't have to see any of this. 137 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:38.080 This is going to be seen by either a tribulation and believers who come to fade during the tribulation 138 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:47.280 period. Those remnant of Israel who believe are the unbelieving, not the church, 139 00:14:48.160 --> 00:14:57.360 not the church. And the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the son of man, 140 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:03.680 that's the name for Christ, from the book of Luke, will appear in heaven and then all the tribes 141 00:15:03.680 --> 00:15:13.040 of the earth will, all people who are non-believers will mourn when they see the son of man coming 142 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:18.400 on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. They're not happy about it. It's the day of the 143 00:15:18.400 --> 00:15:25.680 Lord. They're freaking out. And he will send his angels with a great shout of a sound of a trumpet 144 00:15:25.680 --> 00:15:32.000 and they will gather together his elects from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 145 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:38.240 That's not the rapture. He's going to return. Christ is physically returning the world that 146 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:44.560 doesn't believe in him will be angry at the one they don't believe. By the way, 147 00:15:44.560 --> 00:15:48.640 I always crack some of them about atheists. They get, they're so angry at God and they say, 148 00:15:48.640 --> 00:15:52.880 I don't believe in God. Well, what are you? What are you so angry about? Well, look how messed 149 00:15:52.880 --> 00:15:59.760 up the world is. Okay. If you don't believe in God, what are you so upset about? What are you? 150 00:15:59.760 --> 00:16:05.120 You're blaming him about everything. You don't even believe in him. That's a weird inverted way 151 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:14.320 of heaven, faith, isn't it? When all this is taking place and Jesus returns, he's going to gather 152 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:19.520 together his elect. That's not the church. It's all the saints that is all the believers who are on 153 00:16:19.520 --> 00:16:25.920 earth who are still alive at his second coming. But if you are into replacement theology, 154 00:16:25.920 --> 00:16:30.160 you've always been taught that that's the church. See, we have to go through the Tribulation 155 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:34.240 Period because look where we're at. This is where we end up right here. That's us. It's not us. 156 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:44.800 Old Testament saints, wear robes, white ones, tribulation saints, wear robes, white ones. 157 00:16:46.880 --> 00:16:53.600 Israel redeemed white robes. I told you this last week, the church is the only group mentioned 158 00:16:53.600 --> 00:17:00.000 in the Bible that wears fine white linen, clean and bright. Why? She's the bride of Christ. 159 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:06.800 The Bible says the church is the bride of Christ. That's pretty exciting. I mean, it's just amazing 160 00:17:06.800 --> 00:17:11.520 how God's going to set that up. Even us guys are going to say, put on the dress. Let's do this. 161 00:17:13.280 --> 00:17:14.320 For this, I'll do it. 162 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:25.840 For this, increasing disasters, natural disasters. A world coming apart seemingly 163 00:17:28.080 --> 00:17:33.280 with no healing. But there's one coming that will heal. His name is Jesus. He'll set it straight. 164 00:17:33.280 --> 00:17:38.160 Number three, listen, signs of the coming Antichrist is a time of wars and rumors of wars. 165 00:17:38.800 --> 00:17:47.120 So this week, Israel announced that they will probably be in full scale war within a matter of 166 00:17:47.120 --> 00:17:52.000 weeks. Could be as long as a month from now, from the middle of last week. Did you all hear that? 167 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:57.680 Israel. They're surrounded right now. 168 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:12.080 Rockets are pointing from Lebanon, Syria, Persia or Iran, and down south from the Houthis. 169 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:20.640 All pointed at Israel. And the Bible says, there's a time that this man will come onto the world 170 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:27.440 seeing and broker peace because obviously it's going to be needed. Matthew chapter 24 verse three. 171 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:31.680 Now, as he said, Jesus said on the Mount of Olives, this is the Olivet Discourse, 172 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:36.560 the disciples came to him privately, saying to him, listen, three things, three questions. 173 00:18:36.560 --> 00:18:41.040 Number one, tell us when will these things be? Number two, what will be the sign of your coming? 174 00:18:41.760 --> 00:18:46.160 And number three, the end of the age or the end of the world. And Jesus answered and said to 175 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:51.200 them, take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ 176 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:57.040 and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Listen to this. See that 177 00:18:57.040 --> 00:19:01.200 you're not troubled. For all these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet. 178 00:19:02.320 --> 00:19:07.360 For all these are the beginning of sorrows. Did you see why I mentioned state setting earlier? 179 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:13.280 Like the like the events of the world are being put up on a stage in a way or things are put into 180 00:19:13.280 --> 00:19:19.440 position. If we're starting to see this stuff now and if Jesus is going to come before the 181 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:23.680 Antichrist is revealed, are you ready to meet him today? 182 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:32.880 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast out reach opportunities are 183 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:37.280 listener supported. 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