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should go check that out. So after saying that

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intro, I want to

3:27

go back and edit it, but we'll just leave it. But

3:29

when I said two important people, I felt like, is

3:32

that right? Well, they are important. They're important

3:34

in different ways. They're like famous and infamous.

3:38

We have Jesus Christ. They're known. He's important for the salvation

3:40

of the world. He's the most important figure that's ever lived.

3:42

And then the next one that we're going to talk about in

3:45

contrast to that is the important figure

3:47

of the antichrist, this devilish figure that's

3:49

going to deceive many, that's going to draw

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people away from Christ. That's going to

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hurt the world. After I said it, I couldn't reconcile it.

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So thank you. Well, no, he is

3:58

important, but in a bad way. Okay. Well

4:01

before we jump into that, just a

4:03

few life notes, things that have been going on

4:06

in our life and just

4:08

important to us. So I

4:10

think we have probably our most

4:12

important news, the

4:15

most exciting news. We

4:17

got to see and

4:20

find out who our baby is. Yeah, which

4:22

we don't have a name for yet, but

4:24

we do know that it's a girl. It's

4:27

a little girl. You

4:29

should tell her the funniest part about what she

4:32

did for us. Right when

4:34

we started the ultrasound, she gave us a thumbs up,

4:36

which I have a picture of. It's

4:38

really cute. It's pretty awesome. But when we

4:40

told the kids, the majority of them thought

4:42

boy, and maybe they thought that because I

4:44

was convinced it was a boy, but

4:48

Edie screamed her head off. She was so excited.

4:50

They were all excited. All of us screamed just as

4:52

well. She's like, get the boy, and then we

4:55

just had to go. What

4:58

I love about it is, and I feel like

5:00

this is pretty common, we had a couple of

5:02

boy names, pretty close to like Nailed Down and

5:05

no girl names. Yeah, interesting. It's like, that's

5:07

exactly how it's going to go. I

5:11

got to guess what it was. I was like, I

5:13

don't want you to tell me what it is. I

5:15

want you to get there and then like, because

5:17

you can barely tell what anything is in the

5:19

little ultrasounds. And she's like, okay,

5:22

we're like right there. And I'm like, it's

5:24

a girl. And she's

5:26

like, and Jennifer is like, where? I think I still said

5:28

no, I think it's a boy. And I was like, nope,

5:30

that's totally a girl. So

5:32

we're really excited. I wanted a girl. I

5:34

mean, I would have been fine with Edie,

5:36

of course. But I was very excited about

5:38

having three girls and three boys. Yeah, we're

5:40

going to even it up. But

5:43

now we have to get on the name train and figure

5:45

out what we're going to name her. Edie keeps calling

5:47

her a specific name, and it's kind of growing on

5:49

me. So we'll see how that goes. All of us

5:51

got the name Truett. That was a special thing. So

5:53

we'll see how this goes. Maybe

5:56

our kids might have an influence on that. We'll

5:58

see. Well, speaking of names. find this a funny

6:00

transition to talking about the Christ. One

6:03

of my kids asked us recently if Christ

6:05

is his last name. Yes, Jesus

6:07

Christ, that's his last name. I think

6:09

it's cute because I think if

6:11

you grew up in the faith, like as

6:14

a kid, you always ask that question. It's

6:16

like that's a normal question. I

6:18

mean, it seems like, especially in the Bible,

6:20

they kind of did names a little differently.

6:22

We have surnames that

6:25

we've kind of over the years, over

6:27

the history of time, we from professions

6:30

or however they came, denoted

6:32

who they were. We have our last names now and

6:34

it's just a part of everyday life where it wasn't

6:36

necessarily that way. Although a lot of

6:38

people use jars. Yeah, they would have been called like

6:41

a name and then they would have used the Father's

6:43

name to say of the

6:45

Father's house or of a location or of a

6:47

profession. But that's kind of

6:49

what Jesus is, Christ is

6:52

his title. So Christ

6:54

would be, he means anointed one, so

6:56

Jesus the anointed one, or Jesus

6:58

of Nazareth. That's what we saw in the Bible

7:01

also, but I don't think he had a last

7:04

name like we understand last names. I

7:06

just thought that was super cute. But

7:08

I did think that when I was a kid. I thought I

7:10

was like, Jesus Christ, right? That's his last name. Last

7:13

episode, I mentioned a book that I was going to

7:15

share with you guys, a resource that I found. I

7:17

found it on Amazon. I usually

7:20

go through an entire book before I share

7:22

it as a resource. But because we're in

7:24

the midst of talking about Jesus and prophecy,

7:26

and I had done

7:28

this for the kids, I just thought I will share it with you

7:30

guys. But it's titled 30 prophecies,

7:33

one story how God's word points to

7:35

Jesus. And it's by Paul Reynolds. And

7:38

it's a really easy read. And

7:40

it has some denoted

7:42

points on each section. I

7:44

actually like the way they format. I've heard you read it as

7:46

a couple of times. It's really nice. I like the way it

7:48

goes. So it starts off with the prophecy

7:51

from Old Testament. It talks about

7:53

how Jesus was a part of

7:55

fulfilling that. Show the illustration. It

7:58

has illustrations. It has a called

8:00

the Scarlet Thread and it kind of

8:02

talks about how Jesus is intertwined in

8:04

all of the story and then it has

8:06

a little application of why is this important to us today.

8:09

So, and a prayer. So it's just kind of

8:11

cool. What I love about this is it shows that

8:13

there's people out there making resources

8:15

about all sorts of things for your

8:18

kids to help you disciple your children,

8:20

to show them like, hey, we don't have to be

8:23

afraid of prophecy in the Bible. We can actually understand

8:25

it. We can actually see how beautiful it is, which

8:27

is why we're doing this podcast. And one

8:29

more side note to go along with that whole, I

8:31

usually go through a resource before I share it with

8:33

you guys because I've only, we're

8:35

only on number three, so we've just barely

8:38

started. So I

8:40

don't know what the content is like. So fair

8:42

warning there. But I do think it's good

8:44

that when we're going through a resource,

8:46

especially with our children, that we allow room

8:49

and time for discussion because something might come

8:51

up and this has happened twice now with

8:53

two different books that our

8:55

son has questioned or even

8:58

disagreed with the

9:00

way that what they said. And we

9:02

talk about it. And it's been really cool because

9:04

on one side, we all kind of

9:07

disagreed with somebody. And then on the other side, we

9:09

were able to kind of figure out what

9:11

they meant by what they were saying. And I want

9:13

to make a point on how that should be our role

9:15

as parents, especially as fathers, to be

9:17

listening. Yeah. Like what are we reading? Are

9:19

we just going to blindly go

9:21

through this and be like, yep, that what this author said

9:23

is going to go and it's good to go and nothing

9:25

needs to be adjusted and we don't need to test it

9:27

against the word of God. Everything

9:30

should always be tested through the word of God because

9:32

we're humans and we're going to create something. And in

9:35

the author's mind, they had no intention

9:37

to deceive, but they wrote something a certain

9:39

way and it comes off incorrectly. It's perceived

9:41

wrong, might lead your children to believe something

9:43

wrong. So listening, they're like, hey,

9:45

we read this. And what do

9:47

you guys think about this? Do you think that lines up with what this

9:50

says in the Bible and challenge those things?

9:52

But we should also be doing this with ourselves,

9:54

all media, everything, all media, whatever

9:56

songs you're listening to, whatever movies,

9:58

TV shows, whatever. shows like asking questions like,

10:01

hey, do you like how that kid was being mean?

10:03

Like good things to be challenging. Yeah.

10:07

So another reason why I'm bringing

10:09

it up today again is because in

10:12

today's, well, we did yesterday

10:14

but message it's

10:16

about Jesus being

10:18

related to Melchizedek who's mentioned in the

10:21

Old Testament. So I thought this was a

10:23

perfect tie in and talking about who Jesus was. I'm going

10:25

to be talking about Melchizedek. Well,

10:27

and yeah, and that title, like you said of

10:29

the Christ and the Messiah and who he was,

10:31

what he did and why that matters and how

10:33

it ties into the Old Testament. So

10:37

transition. Let's talk

10:39

about Jesus and this figure

10:41

that we see in the New

10:43

Testament, a very mysterious figure, a very short

10:45

story in Genesis about Abraham

10:48

meeting a man as Abraham's

10:50

along his journey. And

10:53

Melchizedek, there's

10:55

many instances in the Old

10:57

Testament where you see like a figure and often it'll

11:00

be called like the angel of the Lord. And

11:02

this is a specific person

11:05

that shows up in the Old Testament or we'll

11:07

see this story of Melchizedek. These

11:10

instances were a human that God's

11:12

using and talking to and leading, meets

11:16

this mysterious being and

11:20

we don't really have much explanation of who they are.

11:23

So what do you mean by like mysterious? So

11:25

the story in Genesis where Abraham after

11:27

he has a great battle, he

11:30

meets a king, the king of Salem it

11:32

says, but doesn't say who

11:34

he is, where he came from, it just says his name and

11:36

Abraham gives him tithes and it's like a very

11:39

short story. He does mention a title that he...

11:42

Yeah, there's the in parentheses it says, this

11:44

is a priest of the God Most High,

11:46

but that's like a Holy Spirit inspired portion.

11:48

It's not like Abraham knew that when

11:51

he met Melchizedek, but there's other times where other

11:54

prominent figures in the Bible met another, it

11:56

would say the angel of the Lord, angel

11:59

of the Lord. the Lord, the

12:01

angel, which is specific because there's also an angel

12:03

of the Lord, but this

12:05

specific character and then we have like

12:08

the sadly the angel of death that

12:10

goes over all of Israel during or

12:12

Egypt during the first Passover and

12:16

all of these little these mysterious figures

12:19

beings point

12:22

to Christ and

12:24

some even believe that they are actually pre-incarnate Christ

12:27

before he came as a baby before he came as

12:29

a man to die and raised

12:31

from the dead he came in these specific

12:33

instances like the man that wrestled with the

12:36

Jacob and put out his hip that

12:38

man was who it wasn't just an angel. This was

12:40

a specific he said, you know, Lord bless me. This

12:43

was Jesus and so some

12:45

believe that Melchizedek was actually a pre-incarnate

12:47

Christ. I don't know that the Bible

12:49

doesn't say that mainly just like

12:52

we're going to talk about compares Jesus

12:54

to this figure that Abraham

12:56

paid tithes to. And a lot more

12:58

people would see

13:00

Melchizedek as an archetype figure.

13:02

An archetype, a symbol, yeah. And

13:05

he is like we one of the things we want

13:07

to first talk about is this fact that Jesus was

13:09

both king and priest and

13:12

that only two people

13:14

in history that were king and

13:17

priest was Melchizedek and

13:19

Jesus. So you have these

13:21

direct correlations because the way

13:23

the priesthood worked was the priests were to come

13:25

out of the tribe of Levi. The Levites were

13:27

not given a plot of land like the rest

13:29

of Israel was given. They had given

13:32

they were given little pieces of land in

13:34

all of the different territories. The

13:37

kings did not come from the Levites

13:39

and so you have Jesus

13:42

fulfilling not just the kingship but also

13:44

the priesthood in himself

13:46

as the Christ, as the Messiah. And

13:48

something that this book mentions is

13:51

that Melchizedek is also not

13:53

of the tribe of Levi because it's not born yet.

13:55

So the mention of his

13:59

title of pie priest also is from outside

14:01

of that, which is like another

14:04

correlation. Yeah, but what's amazing about this, and

14:06

I just thought about this, is that all the stuff

14:08

that the Jews were given, that God

14:10

gave them, were types of

14:12

something else. Like the tabernacle

14:14

temple like we talked about last week, it's

14:16

actually a type of heaven, or

14:19

the church. God was in. It's, so

14:21

in Hebrews it talks about the things

14:23

that we've seen, the substance now, which

14:25

is in Christ, all the

14:27

things in the past were shadows. So

14:29

the substance was Christ, and the light was shining a shadow

14:31

in the past, showing an

14:33

image of what's coming. Yeah. And

14:36

so that's pretty cool, right? So cool. So

14:39

we have in Psalms, King

14:42

David writes about his son

14:44

Solomon. Which we talked about

14:46

last episode also in bringing in a

14:49

prophecy that you said shared

14:51

about Solomon, but was also about Christ. Yeah,

14:53

and it goes back to that same template

14:56

of a near fulfillment and

14:58

a far fulfillment. And

15:00

so in Psalm 110 verse

15:03

four it says, the Lord has sworn and will not

15:05

change his mind. You are

15:07

a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

15:10

So David is writing this psalm about

15:12

his son who's about to become king, and

15:14

he's gonna hand over his throne, he's gonna hand over his authority,

15:16

he's gonna hand over all this stuff to his son Solomon. And

15:19

he references Melchizedek.

15:23

But this is

15:25

a messianic prophecy about the Christ, because

15:27

we found out later in

15:29

the New Testament that Christ is

15:32

after the order of Melchizedek. And he's our

15:34

high priest forever. That David,

15:37

not knowing, was a prophet. He

15:39

was prophetic in his writings, and the New Testament

15:41

even points back to David being a prophet. Jesus

15:44

even points to David being a prophet, which

15:46

is really cool. David didn't know this. He was

15:48

writing this about his son, and the Holy

15:50

Spirit was inspiring him. So cool. Well,

15:52

let's look at that reference in Hebrews. It's

15:55

Hebrews five, five through six. It says,

15:57

so also Christ did not exalt himself

16:00

made a high priest, but was appointed by him

16:02

who said to him, you are my son, today

16:04

I have begotten you. As he

16:06

says also in another place, you are a

16:08

priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." Yeah,

16:10

so Hebrews is now pointing back to

16:12

that reference in David Road, and then

16:14

also pointing back to Genesis where Abraham

16:17

paid tithes to Melchizedek. Such

16:21

cool stuff. Hebrews 7.3 goes on, says,

16:23

he is without father or mother or genealogy. This

16:26

is in reference to Melchizedek. In Hebrews there are

16:28

several chapters that talk about Jesus being like Melchizedek.

16:32

In Hebrews, the writer, probably

16:34

Paul, is writing to the

16:36

Jewish believers. So they would know what he's talking

16:38

about. Yeah, and he's trying to tie their Jewish

16:40

heritage and knowledge of the Old Testament and saying,

16:42

look. To turn the light bulb on. Who you

16:44

have now is the substance of what you were

16:47

told about then. So

16:49

in Hebrews 7.3, he is without father

16:51

or mother or genealogy, having either beginning

16:53

or of days, nor end of life,

16:55

but resembling the Son of God, he

16:57

continues a priest forever. He's

16:59

talking about the supremacy of

17:02

Jesus being a priest. He's saying, this priest, he's

17:05

not going to be like the priests of old who died

17:07

and had to have a new person replace them. He's

17:09

not like a priest who has to atone for his own

17:12

sins before he can atone for the sins of the nation.

17:15

He's a better priest, and he lives forever.

17:17

He has no beginning or end. And

17:19

that's what the reference in Hebrews 7 is. That's what

17:22

the author is pointing out about Jesus as

17:24

Christ. So cool. Well, Jesus

17:27

is our high priest, and

17:29

he is perfect, and he

17:31

is our mediator. He's the

17:33

one who goes before us, before the Father,

17:36

and he covers us in his righteousness,

17:39

and he deserves that title. He

17:41

has that authority to do so. The

17:45

anointing that Christhood was

17:48

done by God himself, not by a prophet, not

17:50

by someone else coming and pouring oil on his

17:53

head. God himself poured out his

17:55

spirit. When you see when

17:57

he's baptized, the devil comes down. God

17:59

anoints him. as priests forever, anoints him

18:01

also as king forever, to

18:03

do this ministry in the world of saving mankind. That

18:07

was one of his roles as king. And that's one

18:09

of the roles of a good king. The Old Testament

18:11

talks about this also. A good king protects his people,

18:13

saves his people from enemies, it

18:15

secures his kingdom. That's what

18:17

a good king does. That's the Christ.

18:19

Now, we're going to,

18:22

in contrast, build transition. Different

18:24

kind of importance, like we talked about earlier. The

18:27

Antichrist. And

18:29

some would say, this is like the opposite of

18:31

Jesus. In some ways, yes. But

18:34

not opposite in power. Just

18:36

opposite in effect. Opposite in

18:38

literally being in opposition to

18:41

Christ. And

18:43

so, why don't we discuss for a

18:45

second? Because I think everyone listening has their own

18:47

view of this Antichrist. Or even

18:49

upbringing or background. Yeah, based off of how we

18:52

were raised. What was yours? Where did

18:54

you get your view of the Antichrist? Probably similar

18:56

to mine. A little bit maybe? Probably.

19:00

I don't remember too much it

19:02

being explained in church. Definitely

19:05

referenced, but not like, I

19:07

don't remember deep dive teachings

19:09

or anything like that. I

19:11

definitely remember the Left Behind series. I

19:13

think that hit me just at that

19:15

age where I think a lot of people

19:17

listening are ages thinking about it. Left Behind. Yeah,

19:20

Left Behind. Which I'm not saying defines my

19:22

theology or anything. But I

19:24

do remember it kind of opening my

19:26

eyes to this idea of, oh,

19:29

you can look for someone. Like

19:33

a specific person in our day and age. And

19:36

that was followed up with conversations with different

19:38

people in my life who were kind of

19:40

on that same journey of thinking, oh, there's

19:42

going to be one Antichrist and this is

19:44

who he is and this is what he's

19:47

going to do. And what about

19:49

you? Mine? I

19:53

was raised in Calvary Chapel and if anyone knows

19:55

anything about them, they're very strong on eschatology,

19:58

the study of enthalpy. times. And

20:02

so I did grow up and I

20:04

was heavily influenced in this idea of this Antichrist,

20:06

this one world figure that's gonna rise up and

20:09

rule the world and help you to take the mark of the

20:11

beast like we're gonna read about in Revelation. And

20:13

so that

20:16

shaped a big view of

20:18

my understanding of the Antichrist, but

20:21

also just reading the Bible and

20:23

then the left behind books and left behind, you

20:25

know, movies. So in the generation I grew up

20:27

and in the churches I was in, that was

20:30

something that was talked about quite often.

20:32

There was disbelief like, oh

20:34

one day the Antichrist is gonna take over and I

20:37

still believe this. But now I believe

20:39

it not just because someone told me and it was

20:41

a way of thinking, but because I've

20:43

done my own study and research. And

20:45

again, you listeners, I want you guys to do

20:47

your own study. You don't have to just say, well Aaron said so.

20:49

I want you to know what the Word of God says

20:52

and I want you to believe it and trust it and have faith in it. And

20:54

so I've done again, I mean we've been going through Revelation

20:57

in our church for two and a half years now. And

21:00

so I've had lots of time thinking about

21:02

this. So I would say

21:04

that's what shaped it. Like it was first influenced from the

21:06

churches I was going to and the media. Yeah. But

21:09

then going into the Word of God and challenging those

21:11

things. Yeah. What does the Word actually say? Because you see

21:13

where it's coming from. It's like what we're gonna talk

21:15

about in a second is there's two ideas

21:17

around Antichrist. And

21:19

we need

21:22

to understand both of them and not

21:24

just come to a conclusion without knowing what

21:26

the Word of God says. So I want to talk about that

21:28

a little bit. Let's dig in. So

21:30

this is what's interesting is

21:34

the word Antichrist specifically, this idea of Antichrist,

21:36

it only shows up four times in Scripture.

21:38

Which isn't really a lot. No,

21:40

you would think that it's talked about all of this,

21:43

but it's not. And it's only talked about in one

21:45

book. John wrote about it in

21:47

first John and second John. Sorry, two books.

21:49

But two letters from John. And

21:52

it says it comes

21:55

from the Greek word Antichristo at

21:57

Christos, which essentially just means Antichrist. And

22:00

it means adversary of the

22:02

Messiah. That's literally the

22:04

term. It's someone who's in opposition to

22:06

the Messiah. So you're right, it's not

22:08

an opposite. It's

22:11

a specific type of... It's

22:13

opposing Christ. And

22:15

the Bible talks about it in two

22:17

specific ways. It talks about it being a

22:20

person, but it talks about

22:22

it being a spirit. And we talked about

22:24

this in the last series we did about words

22:28

and the spirit of something. It's

22:30

an idea, it's a posture, it's

22:32

a position. So it's a belief.

22:35

And so I want to talk

22:37

about those two things and make sure that we

22:39

understand both of them because they're both relevant. And

22:42

so let's go specifically to the references in 1

22:44

John about the Antichrist. In

22:46

1 John 2, 18 through 23, it

22:49

says, children, it is the last hour. And

22:51

this is John encouraging the church to like...

22:54

Posture. Yeah, be prepared. It

22:57

is the last hour and as

22:59

you heard that Antichrist is coming. And

23:02

I looked up many versions and it

23:04

doesn't say the Antichrist. It says

23:07

that Antichrist is coming. Okay?

23:11

Which it's talking about something else. Not talking about

23:13

just a person, it's talking about a spirit. So

23:16

now many Antichrists have come. So that

23:18

confirms what he says. Yes. Therefore

23:21

we know that is the last hour. They went out from us,

23:23

but they were not of us. For if they had been of

23:25

us, they would have continued with us,

23:27

but they went out. That it might become plain that

23:29

they are all not of us. But

23:32

you have been anointed by the Holy One and you

23:34

all know, you all have knowledge. I

23:36

write to you not because you do not know the truth,

23:38

but because you know it and because no lie is of

23:40

the truth. Who is

23:42

the liar but who denies that Jesus is

23:44

the Christ? This is the

23:47

Antichrist. He who denies the Father and

23:49

the Son. You know when he denies the Son has the

23:51

Father and whoever confesses the Son has the Father. Real

23:54

quick before you, because I know you're about to go,

23:56

which is good. When

23:58

you were reading and... Paul's

24:01

talking about that you have knowledge and

24:03

you have the spirit. I was just reminded

24:06

that this is why we do a podcast. This is why

24:08

we write books. This is why we're on social media because

24:11

we believe who Christ is

24:13

and what he came and did and what he's doing. And

24:16

we want to share that knowledge. And I just

24:18

got really encouraged that this is why we do what we do.

24:21

And remind you listeners, if you believe in

24:23

Jesus, that you also have that knowledge. Yeah. And

24:26

that you could trust it and know it. The reason

24:28

I read this whole section, by the way,

24:30

is because I could easily pick it

24:33

cherry pick scriptures and

24:35

build my argument of why the

24:37

antichrist, a singular figure, is coming.

24:40

Okay? I could start off in

24:42

that first verse and say, you have heard that the antichrist

24:44

is coming now. Many antichrists have come, but this

24:47

is the last hour. It could be like, look, he's

24:49

telling you the antichrist is coming. This

24:52

specific scripture is

24:55

talking about a specific type of antichrist.

24:58

He even points out, he's like, they were of us and then

25:00

they went up from us to prove that they were never of

25:03

us. He's talking about a specific kind

25:05

of person. This is not just a singular

25:07

person in the future. He's

25:09

talking about people that have apostasized,

25:12

people that were amongst them, claimed to be

25:14

believers, walked in their midst, were part of

25:16

the church, numbered among the

25:18

members, and then have

25:20

gone out and not just have gone out,

25:23

but have a specific antichrist spirit are saying

25:25

no, what they preach is false. Jesus is

25:27

not the Messiah. He is not, you know.

25:29

And that wasn't just happening back then,

25:31

but that's been happening since then. It's

25:33

been happening since then. Since Christ

25:36

died and resurrected, there's been antichrists. He

25:38

even says, he's like, now you know there's many antichrists

25:40

knowing that this is the last hour. And

25:42

what he's pointing out is that season from Christ

25:44

going to be with the father of the resurrection

25:47

till the coming of the Lord Jesus in

25:49

the second coming. So it's not the last

25:52

hour. Right. That's a long hour.

25:54

It's a long hour. But what he's saying is like, this

25:56

is the season that the church is

25:58

going to experience many antichrist. Antichrist because

26:00

you couldn't have Antichrist before Christ was here. Right.

26:02

So there is no by definition by definition And

26:06

so I don't I'm I'm not afraid

26:09

And I don't want you to be afraid to look at Scripture as

26:11

a whole and not take things out of context and

26:13

be like well This isn't just saying

26:16

that there's an antichrist specific. It's talking about

26:18

a type of person a person

26:20

who is and it even says here Denies

26:23

the father and the son a

26:26

liar who denies about Jesus. We're gonna get in that in a second.

26:28

So We see that

26:30

the there because it did mention that

26:32

the antichrist is coming and

26:35

many have come Into the

26:37

world. So it's talking about two different things. But at the same

26:39

time Pointing out specifically who

26:41

he's talking about Yeah Is

26:43

those people in the in the church within the

26:45

church that have apostasized they've left the church and

26:48

not just like oh We don't believe that anymore. Yeah,

26:50

but if specifically like no, we're now opposed to that

26:52

and we're gonna make other people be opposed to it

26:55

as well so

26:57

I Just want to

26:59

make that clear. So in John 1st John

27:01

chapter 4 we see that one of the

27:03

ways we can So

27:06

1st John chapter 4 tells us how we can be

27:08

testing the spirit we talked about

27:10

this in the words series and One

27:14

of the ways to test the antichrist spirit is

27:16

about those that can how they confess Do

27:18

they confess Jesus or not? Do they admit to

27:20

the to acknowledging who Christ is? Truthfully

27:23

or not or they denying it or

27:25

they did like for the yeah, Jesus

27:28

isn't the Messiah Jesus isn't real Jesus

27:30

didn't live or maybe he was God but

27:32

not man or he was man, but not God, you know Yeah,

27:35

they're not they're not acknowledging truly fully who

27:37

Jesus is we had a conversation with

27:39

our kids about that We were driving somewhere and I

27:42

think it was why one of the boys said

27:44

that he was mixed that he was Half

27:48

man half guy. Nope. We we told him

27:50

we said this is a miracle and it's

27:53

Supernatural that he was a hundred percent both man

27:55

and God. Yeah, it wasn't like 50-50. It

27:57

wasn't like a hybrid. He was both equally,

28:00

and they're like, how? And I'm like, I

28:02

don't know. I have no idea, but he

28:04

was. So,

28:07

1 John 4, 3, it says, In every

28:09

spirit that does not confess that Jesus is not from

28:11

God, this is the spirit

28:13

of the antichrist, which you heard

28:16

was coming and now is in the world already.

28:19

So, again, pointing back to the idea

28:21

that there's, it's not just a specific

28:24

person coming in the

28:26

future. This is a

28:28

spirit that people can

28:30

indwell, you know, that walk in. You

28:32

mentioned earlier, you said, I'm not afraid. I don't

28:34

want you to be afraid in talking about this

28:37

knowledge, right, about who he is. But

28:42

do you think that those receiving

28:44

this letter from John were

28:48

like, it made them fearful or

28:50

afraid or not knowing? No, I think

28:52

these warnings were good because the church would

28:55

be, and even today, like let's

28:57

just like, oh, like, let's involve

29:00

that person, involve that person when someone's

29:02

totally in opposition to Christ. Yeah.

29:04

And say, well, they just need to be loved

29:07

longer. Like the Bible tells us in many places,

29:09

like certain people to avoid, certain people to put

29:11

away from us, certain people to not even let

29:14

in your home. Yeah. And it

29:16

specifically comes to things like this, this antichrist spirit

29:18

coming with a different message, coming with a different

29:20

Jesus says, don't even welcome them. And

29:23

so the warnings for the church were

29:25

like, hey, yes, be

29:27

loving, be inclusive. Do

29:30

all of these things that Christ has done, but

29:32

be aware that these

29:34

things exist. That's awesome. Whenever

29:36

we go to make notes

29:38

for a podcast episode, we always ask the question,

29:40

like, what message are we giving to you guys?

29:43

What is it that is most important and that

29:45

we want to flesh out in the midst of

29:47

being able to share with you? And I think

29:49

this is it for today because you look at,

29:52

and there's so many different angles and ways you

29:54

can talk about the antichrist or the spirit of

29:56

the antichrist. And I think you just

29:58

nailed what the. Importances for us today

30:01

and why it's relevant for us to know these

30:03

things and to be aware But the

30:05

same reason why it was important for them to receive John's

30:07

letter back then. Yeah, and It's

30:10

it's dangerous for us as believers if

30:12

we just blindly. Yeah receive everyone in

30:14

our life Especially if

30:16

they're gonna be coming and trying to give

30:18

the opposite message Not unintentionally,

30:20

but like an intentional that's the spirit of the

30:23

antichrist. That's what I'm trying to get discernment because

30:25

we know we also know that we are

30:29

Supposed to be loving and full of

30:31

grace and welcome people and hospitality and

30:33

all the angelical and we should

30:35

be we should be sharing the gospel but

30:38

we should also have discernment when it

30:40

comes to influence and

30:43

family and just that kind

30:46

of being protective of I'm

30:49

not I'm not gonna let someone around my kids that's

30:51

gonna go out of their way to try and influence

30:53

them away from Christ Yeah,

30:55

like that's one thing then it's one thing to be around people

30:58

who don't believe It's a whole nother people thing

31:00

if someone's gonna try and kneel down to my child

31:02

and say what you believe is false Jesus

31:05

doesn't exist. I'm gonna be very protective

31:07

of that. Yeah, which may not come

31:09

in that exact form, right? But man,

31:11

man, we are different ways bombarded with

31:13

that exact message everywhere. And so parents

31:15

especially we need to be on guard

31:19

Fighting for our children. Yeah, and that's what John

31:21

is doing for the church So

31:23

a second John 1 7 this is

31:25

the third reference or the fourth reference to

31:27

the Antichrist For

31:29

many deceivers have gone out into the world those

31:32

who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ

31:34

in the flesh flesh such

31:36

a one is the deceiver and the

31:38

Antichrist So there's

31:41

the spirit of the Antichrist and then there's

31:43

the Antichrist this there is two very and

31:45

we're gonna get into that Prominent ideas with

31:47

the Antichrist figure There

31:50

was a group of people I met when I was in Africa And

31:54

they remember in the bus mm-hmm. Oh

31:57

you were there right? Yeah, and I think I know each and there was

31:59

a it was a long bus ride and we're like

32:01

in this little teeny bus. And

32:03

they were nice

32:06

people and loving people but they found

32:08

out we were Christians. They all had

32:10

musical instruments and they were loud and

32:12

playing and they were singing worship music. But

32:14

we got into a big long discussion

32:18

with them about who Jesus was

32:21

and they adamantly believed that

32:23

Jesus never came in the flesh, that

32:25

he was not a fleshly figure, that he

32:27

was only spirit. And this is

32:29

a viewpoint that

32:31

many believers had in the Old

32:33

Testament too or in the New

32:36

Testament, the early church was like,

32:38

oh no, Jesus wasn't of

32:40

the flesh ever because the flesh is bad.

32:42

He was only spirit. But this

32:45

right here tells us that for

32:47

many deceivers that have gone into this world, those

32:49

who do not confess that Jesus Christ came in

32:51

the flesh. Very specific. There's reasons

32:53

Jesus did certain things when he resurrected. When

32:56

he met with his disciples afterwards, just a

32:58

little side note. And he

33:00

says, Thomas, feel. Thomas

33:03

touched his flesh with

33:06

a hole in his flesh. And then Jesus

33:08

also said, give me something to eat. Why

33:11

would someone who's just a spirit eat anything? He

33:14

did that. It was not just that he was hungry. It was

33:17

to make a point that

33:19

no one can ever argue biblically that Jesus

33:21

didn't come in the flesh. He

33:23

did come in the flesh. He ate food. He

33:26

was touched. He was even held. He was all

33:28

sorts of things. So I

33:31

just remember that story because there

33:33

are people that don't believe Jesus came in the flesh.

33:37

So other people will say that Jesus

33:39

came, but that he was not God. Still

33:42

others will say that Jesus was just a good

33:44

man or a good teacher. This is probably the view

33:46

of many people these days. And

33:49

actually more and more people are saying,

33:51

I know Jesus didn't exist, even though

33:54

he's historically not just biblically recorded, but

33:56

in other documents. He

33:58

absolutely existed. But,

34:02

you know, some will say he was an angel, not a man at all. Some

34:05

other Christian religions, some Christian cults say that

34:07

he was an angel. And

34:10

others will deny that he actually existed at all. Like

34:13

I said, these are all spirit of the antichrist. They're

34:16

anti-Jesus. Like, they

34:18

may agree with one part of him, but not all of

34:20

him. But

34:23

to be in Christ, we have to receive all

34:25

of him. Every bit of

34:27

Scripture, a bit that Scripture says about

34:29

him. The

34:31

antichrist opposes the truth of him and opposes

34:33

him directly. Those that walk

34:35

in him receive all of it. When you said

34:37

receive all of it, I had this image of

34:39

the priest that has to go in and eat all the

34:41

showbread. You can't like, eat all

34:43

of it. So

34:46

those are the, I

34:48

wanted to give those, the things

34:51

that people say about Jesus, that is the spirit of

34:53

the antichrist. But now

34:56

we're going to talk about, because we just read all

34:58

the verses about the antichrist, and none of them gave

35:00

any solid foundational

35:02

understanding of like, oh, antichrist

35:04

is coming. Like, there's no bullet

35:06

pointed list of check out that guy.

35:09

And that's what's so interesting about this. And this is why

35:11

some people don't believe that there is going to be a

35:13

specific antichrist because they say, we'll look right here when we

35:15

talk to the antichrist. It's

35:18

not pointing to a specific figure. It's pointing to a

35:21

spirit of an antichrist. But

35:24

do we think that the Bible talks about an antichrist

35:26

in other ways? Yeah. Yeah,

35:28

of course it does. Because people wouldn't

35:30

just come up with that out of nowhere. It

35:33

came from the Bible. The

35:36

other places in the Bible that it talks about this figure

35:38

that's coming doesn't use the word antichrist,

35:40

especially in the Old Testament, because there

35:42

was no Christ yet. But based

35:45

off the things that it's talking about, and

35:47

things to look toward, it's alluded to

35:50

that he is an antichrist. Well,

35:53

chapter 7, verse 25, this

35:55

passage speaks of a little horn. Okay.

35:59

And it's... speaks against the

36:01

Most High and persecute the saints of

36:03

the Most High and intend

36:06

to change the times and the laws.

36:08

That's a lot of power that this little horn,

36:11

horn often meaning authority or

36:13

power. So this little horn,

36:15

this little authority that's

36:17

on this beast in Daniel is

36:20

going to be against the Most High. We just read,

36:22

what's the spirit of the Antichrist? Speaks

36:25

against the Most High. And

36:28

even specifically persecuting the saints, that's

36:30

a direct, like I'm against the

36:32

church. I'm against those

36:34

that are the Messiahs, those that are

36:37

gods. This prophecy in

36:39

Daniel has not

36:41

been fulfilled yet. Again, it

36:43

has been. Some people believe like, oh, it's

36:45

been fulfilled. It's not happening again. Yeah, we've

36:47

talked about this. There's a near and a

36:50

far fulfillment of many prophecies in the Old

36:52

Testament. It was necessary because how do you

36:54

prove Daniel was a prophet? Yeah, the

36:57

thing hasn't happened yet. But things have

36:59

happened. There was a figure

37:01

in those times that matched

37:03

this little horn, but

37:05

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localized. It did not match

37:44

globally what it also talked

37:46

about, but there is going to be, and we

37:48

read a revelation, a global

37:50

fulfillment of this, a full

37:52

world encompassing fulfillment of these

37:55

prophecies. Daniel 7 25 are in Daniel nine. We

38:01

talked about this last episode. There's

38:03

the Daniel 70-week prophecy. And

38:06

the 69 weeks of the prophecy, which is 69 weeks of years. Just

38:10

like one hour or the last hour is a big season. Yeah.

38:15

The Bible often uses smaller time frames to

38:17

represent larger time frames. And

38:20

so in Daniel 9.27, the prophecy says this.

38:22

It says, And he

38:24

shall make a strong covenant. He, and we'll

38:27

talk about that in a second, actually, who he is. And

38:29

he shall make a strong covenant with many for one

38:31

week. So one week is seven

38:34

years. So for seven years. And

38:38

for half of the week, he shall put an end

38:40

to sacrifice and offering. And on

38:42

the wing of abomination shall come one

38:44

who makes desolate until

38:46

the decreed end is

38:48

poured out on the

38:51

desolator. Okay. So this

38:53

70-week prophecy is often

38:55

referenced, especially in the Calvary Chapel

38:57

movement. This idea of like,

38:59

oh, this points to a seven year tribulation

39:01

because 69 weeks has already been

39:03

taking place. So 430, so one years that

39:06

all led up to the coming of Jesus. But

39:08

there's still this last week, this

39:11

seven days, the seven years of

39:14

this property that hasn't been fulfilled yet. And they believe

39:16

that this is going to be fulfilled in Revelation about

39:19

the end times, about this one

39:21

coming, who's going to make a covenant and who's going

39:24

to become the desolator. Well, they

39:26

also believe that because since the

39:28

destruction of the temple in 70 AD,

39:31

there hasn't been sacrifices regularly happening.

39:34

And so in order for that second part

39:36

that says for half of the week, he

39:38

shall put an end to sacrifice and offering,

39:41

there has to be a beginning or

39:43

starting of the sacrifices again.

39:45

So that's where they get

39:47

that. So they'll believe they look at

39:49

this and then they look at Revelation and they say,

39:52

oh, Revelation is an fulfillment of this prophecy. And

39:54

I believe Revelation is, but I have

39:57

a view that slightly differs because if you

39:59

read this. says, and he shall

40:01

make a strong covenant just before this in verse 26 and

40:03

25. It talks about one

40:06

coming to put an end to sin. Which

40:09

can only be one person. Yeah, it can only be one person. And

40:12

then it goes into 27 and it says, and he

40:14

shall make a strong covenant with many for one week

40:16

and for a half of the week and he shall

40:19

put an end to sacrifice and offerings. If you take

40:21

that scripture and separate it from the second, the next

40:23

verse after it, the next part after it, that

40:26

can be totally connected to what Jesus

40:28

did when he came. He literally ended

40:30

sacrifices. He was the final sacrifice. There

40:33

didn't need to be anymore. And what is

40:36

the covenant that's made with many? His

40:39

covenant with us. Of his blood. He said, this is the

40:41

covenant of my blood when he sat with his disciples. And

40:43

he said, take this cup for it's a new covenant

40:46

in my blood. And so, I

40:49

actually believe that the first half

40:51

of this week, three and a half years, was

40:54

taking place in the three and a half years of

40:56

Jesus's ministry. That when he died in

40:59

the cross, he made

41:01

a covenant with the world, with those who

41:03

believe in him. He says, if you believe in me, you

41:05

will not perish. And

41:08

he put an end to sacrifices and offerings by

41:11

his final sacrifice. This is the

41:13

story of the gospel. That he

41:15

is the final sacrifice. He's the only sacrifice necessary.

41:17

He's the only one that was capable of ending

41:19

it. Now, Revelation over

41:21

and over again, and we've been going through Revelation

41:23

in church, talks about a three and a

41:26

half year period over and over again. It never says seven years. It

41:28

just says three and a half years. In different ways, it says three

41:30

and a half years. So some people take them, they add them together,

41:32

like, oh, this three and a half years, and that three and a half

41:34

years, and we put them together, and that's seven years. Yeah. But

41:37

I think if it was going to

41:39

be seven years, the Bible would have said that. And Revelation

41:41

says three and a half years. And I believe this three

41:43

and a half years takes place in this second part of

41:45

this verse, and on the wing

41:47

of abomination shall come one who makes desolate.

41:50

It almost sounds like it's talking about two different people. Like

41:53

here's the one who makes covenant offerings.

41:56

And there's one that's coming on the

41:58

wings of abomination, which The

42:01

decreed end is poured on the desolator. In

42:03

Matthew 24, 15, Jesus refers

42:05

to the abomination of desolation as spoken

42:08

in Daniel. And

42:10

we see this as connected to the antichrist.

42:13

So Jesus points out there's this abomination that's caused

42:16

the desolation, who does go into the temple. We're

42:18

going to talk about the third temple in another

42:20

episode. But that

42:22

temple doesn't exist yet. So no

42:25

antichrist yet, no figure, no third

42:27

temple yet. So those things haven't

42:29

happened yet. So those things are waiting to happen in

42:32

this last three and a half years that's going to take place in

42:34

Revelation. That's my point on this, my

42:36

take on this. You can go read it yourself and go see. Real

42:39

quick side note, because there are probably

42:41

people listening who grew up

42:43

like us and heard the seven years over and over

42:45

and over again. And so I used to

42:48

believe that until I dug into it personally.

42:50

So now that you've done that and you have a

42:52

little bit different perspective, I just want to bring this

42:54

up because we are talking about prophecy in this whole

42:56

series. What does it

42:58

mean for the believer who has

43:00

a different take on prophecy or

43:02

interpret something differently? Is there

43:04

a negative impact on that? And

43:07

to follow that up, how do

43:09

Christians communicate if they believe about

43:12

different things and how it's

43:14

going to turn out and still maintain

43:17

relationship? As long

43:19

as, again, as long as

43:21

our understandings of prophecy, especially prophecy that's

43:23

not yet fulfilled, because we don't

43:25

know. We don't know exactly how that's

43:27

going to play out. I believe

43:30

that what the scripture says will be played out,

43:32

whether I understand how or not. Exactly.

43:35

And as long as it doesn't get in the way of our Christian,

43:38

like walking, abiding with Christ, like are we walking with

43:40

each other still? Like in love and patience

43:42

and kindness, walking in the fruits of the spirit, walking

43:44

in the definition of love. I

43:48

think that's okay. There's going to be many different views. If

43:50

you think it's a seven year tribulation or not, if you

43:52

think we're going to be raptured before this period or not.

43:54

If you think a rapture is even going to happen or

43:57

not. Now, I think how we

43:59

view prophecy does. change

44:01

how we understand Jesus. And we should

44:03

be very careful of that. We should

44:05

make sure that our view of prophecy

44:07

doesn't morph who

44:10

Christ is and what he says about himself and

44:12

what the Bible says about him. So as

44:14

long as it doesn't mess with the salvaic issues,

44:16

as long as it doesn't manipulate

44:19

those and change those, then I think it's okay.

44:22

But I do think we should dig into the word and

44:24

see what it actually says and not just conclude because someone

44:26

told us. Well, and we can go

44:28

years thinking a certain way and then change

44:30

and that's okay too. But

44:33

being willing to even dive

44:35

back in and do research and look at

44:37

it, I think is important

44:40

for any subject in life. I think

44:42

the way we do this, I just had this picture.

44:44

If you imagine like a mold, it's

44:46

like sitting on a table, solid steel

44:49

or titanium, whatever you want. It's got a

44:51

shape in it and we're the

44:53

clay and you just set it on that. And

44:55

the softer that clay is, the

44:58

more it'll fit into that mold and it'll eventually

45:01

be shaped by the mold. And

45:03

we need to look at ourselves the same way in Scripture, that

45:05

Scripture is the mold and we must

45:07

become soft so that, and it

45:09

takes time. It takes our life of surrender to

45:11

God and walking with him and being in his

45:13

word, that over time we will fit

45:16

into his mold and not try and get the

45:18

mold to fit the clay. And

45:20

I think that should be our heart posture. Totally.

45:22

That we don't just say like, no, this is my

45:24

stance, I am this. And I'm gonna believe that no

45:26

matter what, I'm gonna translate all Scripture through my way

45:28

of thinking. Or this is my way of thinking

45:31

and I believe all people should. Have that

45:33

way of thinking. What we should, and I

45:35

will always encourage you, like go to the Word of God. If

45:38

you have a viewpoint, go challenge your own viewpoint and

45:40

say like, where does the Bible say this? And

45:42

that's what I did. I actually got it, I'm like, it

45:44

actually doesn't say this. It doesn't say what

45:46

I thought it said. And but

45:48

you should do that for yourself. Okay, so I

45:51

have this part of me that likes to try and reconcile

45:53

things. And I feel like I bring this up in conversation

45:55

with you, and a lot in just different parts of my

45:57

life. I'm like, I'm having a hard time. I need to

45:59

reconcile this thing. Otherwise, I just get consumed by

46:01

it. But

46:03

I sometimes wrestle with how cryptic the Bible can

46:06

be and why doesn't it just say what it

46:08

means or even the way Jesus talked, you know,

46:10

it was like, okay, so

46:13

how I reconcile it prophecy specifically and

46:15

why people have different interpretations is because

46:18

there's some strategy to what God's

46:20

doing. And I think if he

46:22

is more

46:24

cryptic, it would be harder for the enemy to not

46:27

think that the enemy could even come against him. Well,

46:29

this is a true thing. We have an enemy that

46:31

does know, but if you realize there was all the

46:33

prophecy in the Old Testament about

46:35

even God telling Satan himself, I'm going to

46:37

crush your head with her seed. Yeah. And

46:41

yet he comes and thinks he's had

46:43

victory and getting Judas to give up

46:45

Jesus. It was all part of God's

46:47

name. So we

46:50

do have to recognize that God does have an intention

46:52

for the spirit realm for all these spiritual creatures, just

46:54

like he has things that I do not understand. That

46:56

we don't understand. So I

46:58

think also a big portion of it is it requires

47:00

us to, I keep pointing it up. There's a book

47:03

on the table. It's not even a Bible. But your

47:05

Bible wasn't in there. I moved it. My Bible wasn't

47:07

in there. I keep pointing to what I'm thinking of

47:09

the Bible. It's not a Bible. But

47:12

God wants us to rely on

47:14

each other. He wants us to be

47:16

in his word and

47:18

then rely on each other. Now we're going, now we're

47:20

doing this together because his word

47:22

intends that he desires that we be

47:25

knitted together in his

47:27

word and truth. And in unity. So

47:29

there isn't one person who gets to say, I have the

47:31

authority in the word of God, that all

47:33

his people can be authority in the word of God and that

47:36

we need to rely on each other and be like

47:38

iron, we're going against iron, being

47:40

shaped into what the word says. Which

47:43

I think has been something

47:46

that humans have wrestled with throughout

47:48

history of idolizing authority

47:50

of scripture and saying, oh,

47:52

we must follow this person

47:54

or that person and what

47:56

they believe. And we even see

47:58

it in culture today of. Maybe

48:01

a little lackadaisical attitude

48:04

toward understanding scripture

48:06

because they rely so much on their

48:09

pastor or priest or

48:11

whoever is guiding them. I

48:13

would agree with that. And I think God wants us

48:16

each as individuals and

48:19

as a whole to be mature and knowledgeable in the truth. Like

48:21

Paul often said, I pray that you would grow

48:23

in the knowledge of Christ. Well, what

48:25

a gift that we have such accessibility to

48:27

the Bible, to the Word. Okay, so

48:31

one of the most, that was a really good little... It

48:33

felt good. I

48:36

want to go to the scripture that's probably most

48:38

referenced when it comes to the forming of our

48:40

image of the antichrist and what he's going to

48:43

do. And again,

48:45

it doesn't even mention the word antichrist. Second

48:49

Thessalonians, starting in chapter 2,

48:51

verse 1. Now concerning

48:53

the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So

48:55

often the antichrist is connected to the second

48:57

coming of Jesus. That

49:00

time frame. Okay. The

49:03

coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being

49:05

gathered to him. So this is where

49:07

many believers who believe in the rapture get

49:09

their idea of the rapture is right here. We

49:12

ask you brothers not to be quickly shaken

49:14

in mind or alarmed either by a spirit

49:16

or spoken word or a letter seeming to

49:19

be from us. To

49:21

the effect that the day of the Lord has come, let

49:23

no one deceive you in any way for that day. So

49:26

first of all, the day of the Lord is the... So there's

49:28

two things. There's the coming of the Lord Jesus and the day

49:30

of the Lord. The day of the Lord is more

49:32

like the judgment. The day of the

49:34

Lord is what we read about in

49:37

Revelation of God coming and doing, like

49:39

judging the world and bringing this big

49:41

period of tribulation. The

49:44

coming of the Lord Jesus, they're

49:46

different things. So

49:48

he's saying don't be deceived if

49:51

someone says, oh, that day's already come. It

49:53

hasn't come. Says

49:55

that day for that day will not come.

49:58

That day will not come. the

50:00

day of the Lord, the things that we read about in

50:02

Revelation will not come unless

50:04

two things happen. The

50:07

rebellion comes first and the

50:09

man of lawlessness is revealed, the son

50:11

of destruction. Remember the kind of destruction,

50:13

partition, all the words that are used

50:16

about this man. Unless

50:18

the lawless is revealed, the son of destruction,

50:20

who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called

50:22

God or object or worship. Which is an

50:24

antichrist. So not just,

50:27

but this is not just opposing

50:29

Jesus directly, he's opposing all

50:31

so-called gods, all religions. This

50:35

is very different than just the antichrist spirit. That's

50:37

interesting, I've never noted that it's against

50:40

all like even different religions. No,

50:42

this one is good,

50:44

this is again, this is not just

50:46

the spirit of antichrist, this is one coming in

50:48

the spirit of antichrist directly by the power

50:50

of Satan himself. And he raises himself up against

50:54

all forms of worship. Like no, no, you're not going to get to

50:56

worship Allah, you're not going to get to worship Buddha, you're not going

50:58

to get to worship any, I

51:00

am. Which is exactly what our

51:03

Jesus says. He's

51:05

opposed against all gods, he

51:08

wants only himself worshiped. And

51:10

so this man wants to be

51:12

him. He's duplicating, replicating.

51:15

Yeah, taking his copywriting, not

51:17

copywriting, with the plagiarizing.

51:21

So he opposes and exalts himself against every so-called

51:23

god or object of worship, so that he takes

51:25

his seat in the temple of God proclaiming himself

51:27

to be God. Again, there needs to be a

51:29

temple. There's no temple yet. So this

51:31

man cannot be revealed, or

51:33

cannot exist in a world where

51:36

this third temple doesn't exist. So that day

51:38

will not come unless the rebellion comes first.

51:40

The man of lawlessness is revealed,

51:42

meaning there's knowledge to what he's

51:44

doing. Well, I was going to get to that

51:47

exactly. And at the same time, he takes

51:50

a seat in the temple. What temple? Yeah.

51:52

No, it doesn't, I want to make note, it

51:54

doesn't say that he has to take the seat

51:56

in the temple. It says he exalts himself against every

51:58

so-called god or object of worship. The that your

52:01

choices. Unless I this is what I

52:03

want to get out with the specific scripture

52:05

because. We. Can get confused on what

52:07

it's saying. The two things that need to

52:09

take place is the rebellion. And

52:12

The Lawless has revealed. Then.

52:14

It goes into describing who the

52:16

last one is Case: so he's

52:18

a self destruction. He opposes that

52:20

himself and he will set himself

52:22

up. So. That so that he

52:25

takes a seat in the temple of got

52:27

proclaiming himself to be.is not saying that that

52:29

must take place. As

52:31

he lane to that, that man will do

52:33

the same. interests as many says, do not

52:35

do not remember what I'm that when I

52:37

was still with you I told you these

52:39

things and you know what is restraining him

52:42

now so that he may be revealed in

52:44

his time. Let's.

52:46

Say. We just a note like I. Will

52:49

get there by think a business like we're in

52:51

the time. But where do I talked about?

52:53

what is resigning? You know, Oh

52:55

yeah that that is so says I'm and you know

52:57

that what is restricting him now. So.

52:59

That he may be rebuilding his time for

53:02

the mystery of laws is already at work.

53:04

Only see who now restrains it will do

53:06

so until he is out of the way

53:08

and then the lawless one will be revealed,

53:11

Whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the

53:13

breath of his mouth and brings nothing but

53:15

a prince of is coming. So. And.

53:18

Then it's of the coming. The last one is

53:20

by the activity of same with all power and

53:22

all saw signs and wonders. This is exactly describing

53:24

the man that we hear about in Revelation that

53:27

Jesus comes in with the word of mouth. Naturals,

53:30

And. Sending the League of Are we just did

53:32

a few few weeks ago church for talk about

53:34

this. So who is the one his restraining and

53:36

I'm many believe that the one restraining him as

53:39

the Holy Spirit. So.

53:41

As as you know and so either I believe

53:43

most believers for the history of the church or

53:45

like of the Holy spirit. frustrating and sell. So

53:47

then it says until that one restrain him

53:50

as out of the way and as is

53:52

kind of where we get the the allergy

53:54

or eschatological church being that the to ignore

53:56

it is taken away the for this time

53:58

because without the church. Holy Spirit will not

54:00

be. In. Dot right. Yeah you'd

54:03

like g god wouldn't take always been from

54:05

his people so that the idea was going

54:07

let them Yeah yeah deductive reasoning with a

54:09

like was. As. Been gathered to

54:12

him and the one being taken away his always

54:14

greener than the church goes with the spirit might.

54:16

Read. That's that's where that

54:19

deductive reasoning comes from. South. This.

54:21

Is the verse were some believe years.

54:24

Think. That we will be here during the

54:26

great tribulation Because if you like you just.

54:29

Did. My God. So that he off

54:31

the pill to be in the temple, September doesn't

54:33

exist yet. Yes, and he's not in there. So

54:35

if that happens in the middle of Revelation. The

54:38

tribulations than the church must be here because we'll

54:40

see that. And that's where

54:43

many people get that view. But like I

54:45

said, That's. Not what's being said

54:47

in such a difference is not saying that

54:49

in order for the second coming to happen

54:51

in order for the dust be gather what

54:53

Jesus that. This. Lawless one has

54:55

to send the temple. All it says is

54:57

that the apostasy, the great falling away nice

55:00

take place and allow for need to be

55:02

revealed. And so that's

55:04

a second part. A lot of hard

55:06

about this is is that revealing part

55:08

but the first part is apostasy or

55:10

rebellion. This is

55:13

a writ reference to the grapevine way. And.

55:16

All You listeners. All you have

55:18

to do is be on social media for half a

55:20

day. And you'll see

55:22

or be on the news A

55:24

believer. A. Long time believer. Deconstructing.

55:27

That's the term. Be news now. A

55:30

deconstructionism on deconstructing my face. The season

55:32

as a positive way. As far as I

55:34

got, this is irony. And I was once

55:36

this way and now I'm fine with for you

55:38

it's very similar to. When.

55:40

People become born again sharing this testimony of

55:42

like I was once this way and now

55:45

I'm saved and you have this opposite in

55:47

place. I was once a believer in a

55:49

Jesus but now I'm enlightened. My eyes have

55:51

been open and I realized that was wrong

55:53

side. Is insane. am I didn't

55:56

scenes Instagram rails as someone

55:58

talking about have? They were

56:00

Christian their whole life and

56:02

then. The light came

56:04

on for them and now they do

56:06

witchcraft by with jesus and played out

56:09

of is very concerning or. There are

56:11

so I just or lose your So woman. She's

56:13

like I was once a Christian Armor, yoga spear

56:15

twist. And they And they. This.

56:19

Is what the spirit of Antichrist?

56:21

And apostasy. It's not just. People

56:24

not believing in the order by got

56:26

like this this this for generations like

56:28

oh I I used to believe us

56:30

available even more. That's

56:32

one thing I know. this apostasy.

56:34

This is much difference. This is

56:36

an event. Jelic. Anti

56:38

Christian perspective. As Modi I was

56:41

once person but now. I.

56:43

Know the truth and even saying and I'm honest with

56:45

you and I would have suitably the same thing. I

56:47

want you to stop believing in that false things and

56:49

we sibling in this new thing. Which is so

56:52

interesting when you when you think about technology

56:54

and just the evolution of social media and.

56:56

Will ever experience or style with to be

56:58

good but. But everyone is as an

57:00

insane on as it's just. So

57:03

this the and we're seeing as more

57:05

and more the so many that specially

57:07

like it's happening throat happening with people

57:09

you know but big names. Big.

57:11

Believers that have written books and had

57:14

churches and bit to the were pastors

57:16

and and they're coming out and they're

57:18

taking up a new pulpit an anti

57:20

Christ orbits and so this is the

57:23

apostasy. Were literally watching it unfold right

57:25

now in a major way and it's

57:27

spreading. and and there's people that claim

57:29

to be believers that would that that

57:31

claim to know Christ and love him

57:34

and walk them. wrote worship songs and

57:36

wrote books telling the truth. Christians have

57:38

lived their lives and walks or know

57:40

I know. That false. Even

57:43

realising other the as Jesus isn't real,

57:45

the bible's false and not just walking

57:47

away from it privately but are publicly

57:49

it's they're taking the same minister they

57:51

had as a believer and using it

57:53

and doing the same minister but as

57:55

A and Christ and many talk about

57:58

the great. Falling away to and just. The

58:00

great influence that people have in

58:02

when they sure what their journey

58:04

has been. Yeah,

58:07

but what's even more dangerous is

58:09

we have. Churches. Who

58:12

have pastors who still want to

58:14

be in that put that role

58:16

and teach. Anti. Christ

58:18

Doctrine. The City

58:21

Minute saying you know the bible's

58:23

the Godless actually against this in

58:25

this. Gods. For that the

58:27

Bible what that says or the that actually not

58:29

what it means, what it really means is and

58:31

are sitting in the pope Any defy any and

58:33

their redefine the bible and then I'm preaching from

58:36

bible to putting it away and their preaching insurance

58:38

claim to be a pastor or a priest or

58:40

whatever you want to call them. And

58:43

preaching Antichrist doctrine. And so we're

58:45

in the mid that that would

58:47

have never happened. I'll say this

58:49

doesn't look hundred anti christ. Theory.

58:52

It it's it's. an. Ad

58:55

on as a deceptive but it psych. It

58:58

sounds good seed. I mean like it was.

59:01

No be days Randoms has with teachers that are can

59:03

tell them what they want to hear him. Middle.

59:06

And I'm just me and were always so easy to point

59:08

out. So we are seeing that took

59:10

place when I truly believe know I

59:12

I know for a fact because you

59:14

can, you can. Ah yes the apostasy

59:17

is beginning. Now. I

59:19

don't have it's. A great apostasy, yet I

59:21

don't have read a stage of that. It's like

59:23

wow, this is like mass. Sister. I've

59:25

I mean I say like to bring

59:27

of Lancaster that didn't last two three

59:29

years. Easy. With me or and

59:31

miller and like of social media has is

59:33

so easy to see it. But

59:36

you know what islands' you were couldn't Kirkman. Along

59:39

with these big names. That.

59:42

Were of the face and are falling away. And.

59:44

Are pasta sizing and are actually preaching

59:46

against you Have big names people? you

59:49

wouldn't You would say that person will

59:51

never go at the crest. Oh

59:53

yeah, are rising their heart disease and As

59:55

and are using their platforms to proclaim him?

59:57

Are they doing a perfectly and absolutely not?

1:00:00

But it then we know that.

1:00:02

But. You see like just how

1:00:04

could a person following and then there's a few other

1:00:06

i target that person ever believe and like. A

1:00:08

police so even though amazing of the screen

1:00:11

to get moving people so. Even with and

1:00:13

something like the great falling away, there is

1:00:15

still ministry being done. The Holy Spirit still

1:00:17

were drafted. Is the kingdom of Heaven a

1:00:19

still moving forward? And so we don't

1:00:21

need a literally oh well with us know praise

1:00:24

God that. The. The pot

1:00:26

the potter size or are showing themselves to

1:00:28

be who they are? Yes, and. He

1:00:31

should bear warning for us that we be careful

1:00:33

to Kennedy we follow and we live. We look

1:00:35

at their lives for that were selling our our minds

1:00:37

and hearts with the word of god so that we

1:00:39

know how to discern could lead to. An.

1:00:41

Insight into yeah, six a

1:00:44

drug test? Kit now that well I'll as

1:00:46

a it. Say my mind

1:00:48

I was transitioning to get a nearest authorities

1:00:50

are weapons case so the second thing many

1:00:53

see place so I believe that the first

1:00:55

things beginning. The. Second thing that is

1:00:57

a place before the the second, the coming, The

1:00:59

Lord for the Rapture. If you believe in that

1:01:01

I believe in it's A before the Tribulations for

1:01:03

the Third Temple. Before these things, it's fully. My.

1:01:06

Cpu where there. Is

1:01:08

the lawless one needs to be revealed?

1:01:10

Isn't now? Go. Common understanding

1:01:13

of this and I think it's a misunderstanding

1:01:15

is that the lowest one will be like

1:01:17

doesn't address, will be in charge like all

1:01:19

there's the Antichrist twenties and join World Roller

1:01:22

one of those ruler, one world government or

1:01:24

ankle if you believe that. And yes the

1:01:26

church has to be in the brain them

1:01:28

snacks that middle of the great tribulation because.

1:01:32

His to hit a crisis here and he's in

1:01:34

charge like than we must be. right?

1:01:36

There being in a threatened with the market the

1:01:38

beast. But. It's not saying

1:01:40

that and second dazzling the says that

1:01:42

all that needs to take place is

1:01:44

the revealing a blouse when the one

1:01:46

who will be the world leader. Says

1:01:49

it saying that that person needs

1:01:52

to be revealed as. A

1:01:55

dominate. Or. Just that the lawlessness

1:01:57

of that person is result I.

1:02:00

The allows one. This is not lawlessness.

1:02:02

The last one I think what it

1:02:04

is. What? What? To me That. He got

1:02:06

that saying disco back and reread it. It

1:02:09

says. says. Not

1:02:11

to be quick as let known to see be. for

1:02:14

that, they will not come unless the rebellion comes first.

1:02:16

Whatever is happening. And

1:02:18

that is as and the man of

1:02:20

lawlessness is revealed. Those are the two

1:02:22

things. And then it goes. I

1:02:25

explain what that mental illness is. so a

1:02:27

little. So what does that mean by revealed. Revealed.

1:02:30

It simply means to be

1:02:32

made known so. What? I'm

1:02:35

imagining that in a look like is somehow

1:02:37

he said come on the scene Steve, Get

1:02:39

a dozen to be this like Here's this

1:02:41

great man who's doing this great thing and

1:02:43

the church will know. The. Churches Bit

1:02:45

like of that person's the interest of

1:02:47

that person's antichrist. We've pointed our fingers

1:02:49

are many people, many leaders, many presidents

1:02:51

and said that must be it. But.

1:02:54

We that that has. There's been no unanimous

1:02:56

in the spirit like oh my gosh. Person

1:03:00

And I do believe that. For.

1:03:03

The True Believer. The ones who are in the Word of

1:03:05

God, The ones who are abiding with Christ. The Ones are.

1:03:07

And what with the Holy Spirit. There's.

1:03:10

A bit. Oh. Various.

1:03:13

We. See it and it's not going

1:03:15

to be. It's. To. Start to be

1:03:17

sick of isn't be a well known person. The whole

1:03:19

world will know him. He. Will not

1:03:22

just be a this one person who's done

1:03:24

this one little thing so I believe that

1:03:26

and all that is say place. Is

1:03:28

that this man is to be made? No.

1:03:30

Does mean he's get taken a spot. Doesn't

1:03:33

mean that he's made world Peace Does mean

1:03:35

that his Guinness in the Simply answers. but

1:03:37

the he will. And. So.

1:03:40

And of course when you read revelation and we

1:03:42

learn about the beast like we talked on Daniel,

1:03:44

but as the beast and revelation. Gets

1:03:47

his authority from the devil himself. And.

1:03:50

Comes on the scene to rule and cause

1:03:52

people to take his mark into worship him.

1:03:54

Assists read it clear that Religion Thirteen wanted

1:03:56

to. And I saw a beast rising out

1:03:58

of the sea with ten horns. Seven had

1:04:00

to attend. I dems on it's horns

1:04:02

and blasphemous names on it's head and

1:04:04

obese that I saw was like a

1:04:06

leopard. it's feet were like a bears

1:04:08

and it's mouth was like a lion's

1:04:10

mouth. and to at the drop the

1:04:12

dragon gave his power and his throne

1:04:14

and great authority. So this

1:04:16

image and revelation. This is a

1:04:19

spiritual image that got that God

1:04:21

is revealing to Johnson. About

1:04:23

this man and all of these descriptions

1:04:26

perfectly matched Daniels description of the beast

1:04:28

but at a different way. Daniels description

1:04:30

was and is even split explained to

1:04:33

him that these different beasts were different

1:04:35

nations. Difference. I'm

1:04:37

rouge Ips, but in revelation.

1:04:40

The. One beast has all the attributes

1:04:43

of all those past rulers, all

1:04:45

this past nations and he's had.

1:04:47

This can be the denoting his.

1:04:49

Global. Authority has global power and

1:04:51

that he's gonna in him. What

1:04:53

in in this one liter represent

1:04:55

all of those Antichrist spirits from

1:04:58

the past and. She. Comes out

1:05:00

of the water is is that the dragon

1:05:02

gives him as his power and his throne

1:05:04

and great authority and so. This

1:05:07

Antichrist. This leader. This.

1:05:10

Beast. Is who first

1:05:12

the second. both the settlers testimony start man

1:05:14

who first as I can John is referring

1:05:16

to is gonna have this main spirit of.

1:05:20

And so. Like a sudden move your

1:05:22

think I go in order for that the second coming

1:05:24

to happen. This. Be answer as up

1:05:26

the rising out of the see the

1:05:28

see represents the nation's the world she's

1:05:31

gonna come out of. If you look

1:05:33

at. Any political campaign that ever

1:05:35

takes place like right now, there's there's I'm

1:05:37

in the that in a race for presidents.

1:05:40

There's peep men that have stepped up to

1:05:42

run for president see that I've never heard

1:05:44

of before and they knew they were going

1:05:46

to win. But. The only reason

1:05:48

they ran with of that they would

1:05:50

put their name on the stage and

1:05:52

boom now they're in the public limelight.

1:05:54

Now they're know now next presidency they

1:05:56

have a much better likelihood of becoming

1:05:58

president. They did. Step America

1:06:00

address. Know. They is a process.

1:06:03

Yeah, Why? Would have been a different

1:06:05

this man that's any come up and take rule. he's

1:06:07

got a shot and see in. An

1:06:09

initial way yes make himself known, do this

1:06:11

great thing over here. do the summer and

1:06:14

make this thing up you know cause peace

1:06:16

over in the situation. Six the solution in

1:06:18

a problem over here you may panic as

1:06:20

awesome and he's taking care of things That

1:06:23

is that so he does not need to

1:06:25

be the while the to run away and

1:06:27

other.she would doesn't make any sense. In.

1:06:29

The sense of any where we've ever seen. Worthiness?

1:06:32

Come on the stage. So

1:06:34

I'm even. Like syrup

1:06:36

really nasty leaders. Hiller became a hero to

1:06:38

but she came on who's doing all sorts

1:06:40

of cool things. Are we on saw and

1:06:42

to make himself known and in the and.

1:06:45

Became. Who he was, mates. And it

1:06:47

would make sense of the great falling

1:06:49

away has to happen first, because there

1:06:51

has to be deception enough for people

1:06:53

to. Accept or even

1:06:56

allow for this man of our listeners

1:06:58

to continue in what he's doing. And

1:07:00

so I agree. I think. At.

1:07:04

Just so that we know and again at I want you

1:07:06

to dig in. It did that as as yourself, because you

1:07:08

might have your own preconceived notions of babies of what you

1:07:10

heard when you read. But. Are

1:07:12

you did baxter and look at was saying

1:07:14

it's i don't think about contradicts of ever

1:07:16

actually know for fact the doesn't in so

1:07:18

when it saying that these two things is

1:07:20

basically but that doesn't to be a great

1:07:23

falling away and that the man. We.

1:07:25

What you'll be made known. What? Who's

1:07:27

in charge? Not. And

1:07:30

then he will become church but I hope we

1:07:32

will be your most of my my take on

1:07:34

this from. Food.

1:07:37

Food. Food Do. Believe that he

1:07:39

could be alive today. I. Base

1:07:42

of of what I'm seeing in the world this of

1:07:44

one another were to god based off of the the

1:07:46

falling way to start into a peice I believe for

1:07:48

sure his life. Only

1:07:50

when a who is it? Yeah, but his

1:07:53

life. He's in the world somewhere. I believe

1:07:55

that by the time he's he might be

1:07:57

be as a teenager. Maybe he's a young

1:07:59

adults. I believe it will be.

1:08:01

He'll probably be if I take the

1:08:03

symbology and take how much he wants

1:08:05

to be a counterfeiter. He'll probably be

1:08:07

around the age of thirty when he

1:08:09

comes under the scene. Because

1:08:14

Jesus did. He was a thirty

1:08:16

and like to be like Jesus A I

1:08:18

think about this world looking at the president

1:08:20

like I sold my com. I got it

1:08:22

has a soul and it was looking for

1:08:25

a young and hip. Up with

1:08:27

it leader that knows and understands our

1:08:29

generation answering our i'm like I'm forty

1:08:31

now yes But the young generation they're

1:08:33

looking for feel that understand them and

1:08:35

so did have to be someone currently.

1:08:38

From. Those ranks. There.

1:08:40

At the and and I guess think you

1:08:42

seen as you must be a jesus not

1:08:44

as and be like to see was to

1:08:46

blink yes and replace jesus so. I.

1:08:49

Think you'll probably be. I wouldn't

1:08:51

say. You're probably beep or I'm

1:08:53

thirty one is comes under the scene and

1:08:55

help and that. Now here's the thing. Three.

1:08:59

And a half years would put him at thirty three.

1:09:03

And. So that gives us the three announced years of

1:09:05

his. And. His. Team

1:09:07

coming into being like above. Now he's doing this

1:09:09

thing I just been raised up season want to

1:09:11

raise himself up against all gods and put himself

1:09:14

said on. the thrown into the opposite of what

1:09:16

used to do died. And

1:09:18

he's I want to sit on thrown into the

1:09:20

temple. which is what Jesus got to do because

1:09:22

he died. He sits on the dust on

1:09:24

so anyways, I'm sort of, but. I

1:09:27

tell your. I think true believers in recognize I'm

1:09:29

only going to be afraid of they really, we're

1:09:32

gonna be. I don't think we're gonna be deceived

1:09:34

as long as we're abiding of Christ and being

1:09:36

in his word, we won't be deceived. I think.

1:09:38

I think see or can then when there's

1:09:40

a lack of understanding. but the more you

1:09:42

dig in a sculpture in you we see

1:09:44

that it there's comfort and confidence and knowing

1:09:46

what's going to happen said that when you

1:09:49

see it. Is okay, Why know,

1:09:51

sixty? So. We

1:09:53

can be covered by this. And the

1:09:55

bible she tells us when we hear about these

1:09:57

things in there were to be encouraged him so.

1:10:00

Would be encouraged if it's stuff fearful thing that we're

1:10:02

going to be. Yeah, now wait, we can be incurred

1:10:04

by the things. For how cause it I

1:10:06

died gave us the knowledge that he

1:10:08

made these things known. When.

1:10:10

We saw was before him. Whether we fully grasp

1:10:13

it or not, I think Prophecy is a

1:10:15

really incredible guest. It's amazing

1:10:17

just have such as a reader in the

1:10:19

two things have been to Christ or him.

1:10:22

For his, what's the opposite of

1:10:24

it as opposed to crisis is

1:10:26

a spirit in which. People.

1:10:28

Are not just like audible, you buy

1:10:30

liquor actively opposed to present I'm at.

1:10:33

I don't believe that with the bible

1:10:35

says about Jesus, I don't believe who

1:10:37

Jesus said he was and then it's

1:10:39

also absolutely going to be. A

1:10:41

person that fully and dwells the

1:10:43

spirit of Antichrist. I.

1:10:45

Did it's fullness. Literally getting his authority

1:10:48

from seen himself and so I believe

1:10:50

the bible clearly makes was two points

1:10:52

and that they can be. I

1:10:55

mean you could turn review them or by believer by

1:10:57

will be pretty irrefutable that those two things are going

1:10:59

to a place. Anymore

1:11:01

thoughtfulness. Know, I think it

1:11:03

was a really good and heavy

1:11:05

conversation and I think. We're.

1:11:07

Leaving our listeners that a lot to. Discuss.

1:11:11

And of lane. Dig. Into themselves.

1:11:13

I. Really do hope they urban

1:11:15

order Godzilla first and second best.

1:11:17

Loney and got a revelation. Daniel

1:11:19

is your Isaiah. He can find

1:11:21

all these places where talks about.

1:11:23

Jesus. Coming back in other think the return

1:11:26

of the Messiah an. Anti

1:11:28

Christ and Lennon's well as. As as

1:11:30

it's a really awesome part as his

1:11:33

story. Know we should know his

1:11:35

story. And it's to been written with someone

1:11:37

who is it be part of. It. And. Then

1:11:39

once you pay for them lord we love you

1:11:41

Think you the your word reveals to us beforehand.

1:11:44

With. Finity, Police and there though we may

1:11:46

not fully understand yeah we can trust the

1:11:48

your hosts present us, guiding us, teaching us

1:11:50

all things revealing to the truth. And

1:11:53

of revolver listeners are that they were not take the

1:11:55

things we talked are today and and have fear in

1:11:58

the hearth comedy would really place any fear. With

1:12:00

such peace and excitement. Forgot what

1:12:02

you're doing and got that we

1:12:05

would. Also see the

1:12:07

urgency. Of sharing the

1:12:09

truth and with those that we love,

1:12:11

sharing the truth with our neighbors. Cern

1:12:13

the truth with anyone who asks because

1:12:16

we know them the time is coming

1:12:18

short, the day is drawing near or

1:12:20

that weird him. Be. With you

1:12:22

Forever with me it's and the things

1:12:24

that revelation talks like other you've revealed

1:12:26

am in your word that gonna take

1:12:28

place. Can be avoided. By.

1:12:32

Putting a trust. Our trust in Jesus Christ.

1:12:34

And so we love you Me thank you

1:12:36

for what he did for us that their

1:12:38

his death and resurrection God we know me

1:12:40

have salvation from our sin here on earth

1:12:42

and and damn the powers of Death Father

1:12:44

Gaba we have eternal life and him we

1:12:47

love. You may think you're using. And.

1:12:49

And can and will have you. Always thank

1:12:51

you for taking the street with us with

1:12:53

humor. Episodes on this topic. Of

1:12:55

prophecy in scripture by Jesus and I will

1:12:57

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