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Be Not Deceived is a podcast dedicated to looking at Biblical truth and comparing it to the lies the world and the devil is telling to cause deception in the church and in our society at large in the present day. The devil is trying to deceive as many as possible, but God always wins!
[Speaker 2]
Welcome to Be Not Deceived. This is a premier podcast that we're starting today. This is the first one of many to come, we hope.
We are here with Pastor Rick Beaudry, who is Calvary Chapel Bremerton's pastor and our pastor, my pastor. And we have a lot of different subjects we're going to try to tackle in the future, but our name is Be Not Deceived for a reason. We are in a culture today in the Christian culture that is believing a lot of things and teaching a lot of things that are not necessarily biblically sound.
So I want to talk to you, pastor, about why is the truth important?
[Speaker 1]
Why the truth is important? Because if you don't know the truth, you're in bondage. Jesus said, you know the truth and the truth will set you free.
[Speaker 2]
There you go.
[Speaker 1]
If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed? And so he said that there'd be great deception in these last days. And so take heed that no man deceive you.
So it's important to understand that he told the religious leaders, John 8, that their father was the devil and that he was a liar from the beginning, right?
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
And so Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth and the life. No man come to the father, but by me. So the devil's greatest weapon to deceive people and lead them to hell are his lies, his very deception, always attacking the word of God, attacking the truth.
[Speaker 2]
And attacking the truth can be twisting what the Bible says and not using the Bible to prove what the Bible says. So a lot of pastors nowadays, in my experience, have come up with their own ideas and they don't necessarily use the Bible to prove what the Bible says. And they go off of what they feel is right or how is it that we can, can the Bible prove itself?
Can we use the Bible to prove what the Bible is saying in one part with another part?
[Speaker 1]
Absolutely. Let's take the topic of a male, female, the lie today that a person can decide what gender they are. Well, Genesis 1, 27 says in the beginning, God made them male and female, end of story.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
It's one or the other. There's no in-betweeners, there's no transgender. So that right there is a huge proof text for the lie that's being propagated today of confusing children, especially with, you don't know if you're a boy or a girl.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
You know, that's pretty basic.
[Speaker 2]
How many genders are out there?
[Speaker 1]
Exactly. Are they trying to say it? It just keeps growing and growing and growing.
I know. It's confusion. The devil's the author of confusion.
[Speaker 2]
Right. And if he can confuse the church, then, which is a huge target.
[Speaker 1]
We'll take another topic, marriage.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
What is marriage? How do you decide what defines marriage in our culture?
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
How's the Bible define marriage?
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. In this culture, it could be anything. You can marry your car or your favorite pet.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah, exactly.
[Speaker 2]
Which is very sad because it really is a rejection of God himself and his design, his creation, and his idea. And when we say, no, we have to love each other. We have to be all inclusive.
God does not say you have to include all ideas. He establishes what he created and his idea. And then from there, we should follow.
But if you don't want to follow God, if you don't want anything to do with God, this is the result of what we have today is just the, please accept man with man and woman with woman because of love. And still, there's Christians out there who want to believe that, but then want to still be a Christian. So how does that work?
[Speaker 1]
It doesn't work. It's a violation of God's word. So if somebody comes up to you and says, well, what is marriage?
Where did it originate? Whose idea was it? Well, again, we go back to the book of beginnings, book of Genesis, right?
Wasn't good for Adam to be alone. So he took male, female, the two come together, become one. That's marriage.
That's the definition of marriage right there. So it doesn't change. He hasn't changed, hasn't altered the definition of marriage.
God's definition of marriage.
[Speaker 2]
God's definition. And so some people might say, can we trust the Bible? Should we be able to say that the standard of the Bible is truth and God's word or man's word?
[Speaker 1]
For 5,000 years, the Bible's definition of marriage and the family have predominated the entire culture, the entire history of man. It's worked. Aborition or a fallacy would be that marriage is changing now.
There's nothing new under the sun. So two men, two women, three men, four men, beasts, animals, whatever, men redefining, that's a work of the devil, who's the father of all lies. Designed to confuse children, to confuse them so that they fail to have any confidence in the family and procreation.
The family is the bedrock of society. God also institutionalized the family.
[Speaker 2]
And isn't marriage an example of God and the relationship that we have with him?
[Speaker 1]
Yeah. The two come together, become one. We're called the bride of Christ, the nation of Israel, the wife of Jehovah.
And so the relationship, the two come together, have one. Jesus prayed in John 17. He prayed for us that we'd become one, even as he and the father are one.
And the greatest level of intimacy on the human level, an illustration is marriage. The two coming together as one. And on the spiritual level, it's a relationship that we have with God, that he invites us into a spiritual relationship that is pictured, a picture, a type.
Hosea 12.10, he speaks through pictures and similitudes. And so marriage is a similitude of the intimacy God wants to have with us in that we become one with him, the oneness. Sin separates us from God.
And so Jesus is the groom and we're the bride of Christ. And he desires to restore the intimacy and the imagery that he uses is that of marriage.
[Speaker 2]
That's really good because the whole idea that God is a God that wants a relationship with us, right?
[Speaker 1]
Absolutely. Key word.
[Speaker 2]
Is something that I think people who don't know God might think is not what he, where his heart is, because where is he? He's far from me. He's, he's allowing tragic things to happen in the world.
And what kind of a loving God is that? But, but really his desire is to have that relationship with us. And that, and he made that provision for us to have that rest, restored relationship with him through Jesus.
And how his plan is to have us draw close to him, to become more and more in relationship with him as we surrender ourselves to his word. And that's one thing we're going to dive into is his word and his word is truth. So truth is so important in a world that we have fake news, we have fake marriage establishment definitions.
We have a lot of fake things that are going on.
[Speaker 1]
Fake gender.
[Speaker 2]
Fake gender.
[Speaker 1]
Fake science.
[Speaker 2]
And, and, and people, people don't know what to believe in.
[Speaker 1]
Right.
[Speaker 2]
They want to know what truth is or have they given up on wanting to know what truth is.
[Speaker 1]
Just tell me what truth is. Start the AI up. Let the AI tell me what is truth.
[Speaker 2]
Ah, that's interesting. Right. Because AI is going to want to replace God probably.
Right.
[Speaker 1]
Pontius Pilate asked what is truth?
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. There you go.
[Speaker 1]
He was cynical through the, through the philosophers of the Greek culture, ever learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, never coming to know God. Right. And Jesus said, what did he say?
To this end came I forth to bear witness of the truth. Of the truth. Yeah.
And so he's there to bear witness of the truth. How do we know he's exclusive? How do we know he's the only way?
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
Raised himself from the dead.
[Speaker 2]
There you go.
[Speaker 1]
That's it. Right there.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
Right.
[Speaker 2]
He did.
[Speaker 1]
Because he raised himself from the dead. I don't need to listen to Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius, Noah, Yuval Harari, Klaus Schwab.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
Or any of the pretenders. If they want to be God, they need to be crucified, buried, and raise themselves from the dead, proving they're God. They're all saying we're going to be gods.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
We'll prove it. Jesus had destroyed this temple in three days. I'll raise it up.
He proved it. So I have the utmost confidence in him, in Jesus, and the exclusivity of Jesus. He's the only way.
So it eliminates all the pretenders that are trying to deceive me. All the roads are supposedly to the same place that Oprah would say, right?
[Speaker 2]
Right. Right.
[Speaker 1]
No, it's exclusive. Why? Why?
Because he raised himself from the dead.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
Right. That's it.
[Speaker 2]
That's different than Buddha, Muhammad, all the ones that are great teachers, philosophers, or you know, how do you believe in that person? How do you follow someone who just has amazing ideas, right? But nothing to back it.
[Speaker 1]
Exactly.
[Speaker 2]
So there's a lot of people who follow that.
[Speaker 1]
Exactly.
[Speaker 2]
Or there's a lot of people who seek after some kind of spiritual relationship, but they don't know that that void is really a God-shaped hole in their heart. But what is what is missing in their search is, are they after the truth? Are they after the truth?
Or are they after what helps them feel better, right? We have drugs that make you feel better. Some religions go after the use of drugs, opioids, or different things that enhance their false worship, right?
They could follow philosophy that you can hurt yourself, penitence, or like the Catholics could to gain their way to God.
[Speaker 1]
So a works relationship.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah, more like having something to offer, which is not what God calls us to do.
[Speaker 1]
Or in Eastern mysticism, like a new age today, where you use drugs, like you're saying, to open yourself up to discovering truth, but now you're opening yourself up to deception by demons.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
Who will deceive you.
[Speaker 2]
And some people don't realize that.
[Speaker 1]
And so the best way is rational thinking, rational truth, absolute truth that the Bible. So my experiences have to align with the Bible. I have to make sure that I'm taking every thought captive, every idea that's coming toward me, I need to filter it through the Word of God, to the obedience of Christ, because He's truth incarnate.
[Speaker 2]
So it's important that we know what the Bible teaches.
[Speaker 1]
Absolutely. Absolutely.
[Speaker 2]
So in the churches that I've attended in the past, they offer just a little bit of the Bible because they don't want to overwhelm the congregation too much. But I think that's very insulting for the people, because I don't understand the motivation behind that, other than they just want to keep them simple minded or simple, but they're not prepared, prepared for the attack of the devil, because the devil hates us. Right?
He hated God, he hates God, and he hates Christians. So how do they defend themselves against all of the things that our culture is throwing at us if you don't know the Word of God?
[Speaker 1]
It comes down to love. It comes down to what you love, who you love. Jesus said, Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
If you don't want the Word of God, if you don't want to know Him, then you're going to have itchy ears and you're going to be looking toward the pastors and the churches to tell you things that you want to hear. So if I were to analyze the length of the sermon or the time there or whatever, I would say today's a football game. And today we've got the Rams and the 49ers.
If I were to use their same rationale, you know, I only want five minutes of this game. I can't take three hours. That's just too much, you know.
And so but because these are fans and they're fanatics, they'll endure. They'll just love to be there for three hours watching people wearing puka shells, you know. But here Jesus is crucified, buried, raised from the dead.
And people have a time limit on truth. They have a time limit on time that they're willing to spend with Jesus. So we have a biblically illiterate generation, a time of apostia, falling away from the truth.
It comes down to desire. If you don't desire the truth, if you don't desire to know Jesus and why are you there? Why are we doing church?
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
What is church? What's the whole point of gathering? You know, why do we gather?
[Speaker 2]
Why are we gathering?
[Speaker 1]
Yeah. What's the point, you know?
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
What are we here to talk about?
[Speaker 2]
If it's not to learn and grow.
[Speaker 1]
If it's not to know Jesus.
[Speaker 2]
Not to know Jesus more and more and more. What does he say?
[Speaker 1]
And what did he say? Go and make disciples.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
Which are students, right? Right. So and what's the content?
The content is the word of God. It's not psychology.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
You know, it's not the latest philosophy. It's absolute truth. This is 66 books.
And he's written a love letter unto us. He's revealing himself to us through his word by his spirit.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
And this is a treasure. And so the word of God, we don't we don't worship the word of God. We worship the writer of the word of God.
But his love letter helps me to get to know him.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
I can know right and wrong, truth and error by being a student of his word. Right.
[Speaker 2]
What does the Old Testament apply to us today? Or is it just the New Testament?
[Speaker 1]
Did anybody say the Old Testament's over? Did Jesus say don't read the Old Testament? What were they talking about before the New Testament was written?
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
They were always referring to the old.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. There you go.
[Speaker 1]
So the new even Jesus referred to. Right. So the 27 books in the New Testament, the canon scripture that's come together is a is a greater, greater revelation, illumination of the old.
So the old and the new tie together, you know. So Peter said we're eyewitnesses of him and we handled him and we have the more sure word of prophecy. So prophecy, the Lord telling us what's going to happen before it happens, is a tremendous proof text that he's God.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
Because the devil is not omnipresent, the devil is not omniscient, the devil is not, you know, omnipotent. Yeah. But God is.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
So he being omniscient, knowing all things can tell us ahead of time what's going to happen. No Yuval Harari can't do that.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
No, nobody can do that.
[Speaker 2]
Even though they boast to not Jean Dixon.
[Speaker 1]
None of them. One hundred percent accuracy.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
One hundred percent accuracy. So we Peter said we were eyewitness of him. We handled him.
We we saw him on the Mount Transfiguration be transfigured before us. And that's great witness. That's great proof.
Eyewitness testimony. But we have an even greater witness. And that is prophecy.
[Speaker 2]
Exactly.
[Speaker 1]
Klaus Schwab, these guys can't tell us anything that's going to happen in the future. They can speculate.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
And when it comes to pass, they're like, oh, it happened, you know. But in Revelation 17, 17, the Bible says that God's putting it in their heart to do his bidding to set the stage. So they think they're putting together this this globalism.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
But it's all according to God's plan. He's setting the stage for Jesus to return.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. You see what I mean? So God is in control.
Absolutely. He's always in control.
[Speaker 1]
Absolutely. These guys are so intoxicated with pride that they think they're gods and they're telling people they're going to be gods. But because they reject the truth, we're told in Second Thessalonians that they're going to be given over by God unto a strong delusion that they would believe the lie.
What's the lie?
[Speaker 2]
That you can be as God.
[Speaker 1]
Amen. Same thing in the garden. The serpent telling Eve.
[Speaker 2]
He's got the same.
[Speaker 1]
He's a one trick pony.
[Speaker 2]
He's a one trick pony.
[Speaker 1]
Same lie. There's only one God. Right.
We're never going to be gods.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
Right. We're never going to be little gods that make planets. Right.
[Speaker 2]
Right. Exactly. Okay.
So in you said Second Peter, where is it found that in?
[Speaker 1]
The Word of Prophecy.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
Okay. So Second Peter. Chapter two, I think.
Three. First. First Peter.
Verse 19 of chapter one. We have also a more sure word of prophecy unto which you do well that you take heat as a as unto a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawn, the day star rise in your hearts, knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation for the prophecy came not at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. So the authorship of the Bible is such that through inspiration, God inspiring God speaking and he's speaking on demand.
And these men are recording what God is speaking unto them. And so they're writing it down. And that's how the the transmission of the Bible comes about.
And then there's a translation into various languages. So we would say the Word of God is the inspired inerrant Word of God in the original documents, transcribable errors and trans translational errors, but nothing on any essential doctrines that would that would negate the truth thereof. So there are certain little scribal or certain little transcribable type of errors, but we know, you know, it doesn't affect any central doctrines that you can have confidence that this is not the Word of men, but the Word of God, God's Word.
[Speaker 2]
I think that that is so important to have a foundation to work off of, because if if I've talked to people in the past who they look at the Bible and they can't, it was it was written by men. It was written by men and they don't have a confidence in it. But like we just read, it is inspired by the Holy Spirit.
It is inspired by God to and he's God. He's able to do that very work, that very writing, writing what he wants people to write down, inspired by him and then proved by the prophecy coming 100% true. So that's another good way to to prove that the Bible is true and it is from God because we can't create something to happen or we can't say this is going to happen and then it happens.
We could try, but but it's, you know, it might just by suggesting, you know, something. But God, he says it in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. And then things do come exactly at the time when he says it's going to.
He has proven through prophecy that his word is true.
[Speaker 1]
And sometimes you have to wait for those prophecies to come true. So like we're studying on Jeremiah Monday nights, you've got Jeremiah prophesying for 40 years, 41 years, and he's prophesying that Nebuchadnezzar is coming, that Nebuchadnezzar is going to destroy Jerusalem. But you got false prophets prophesying at the same time named Pasher.
And he's saying Jeremiah doesn't know what he's talking about and everything's going to continue as it always has. And you really don't know how true it is until, unless the Holy Spirit reveals it to you, but until Nebuchadnezzar comes, surrounds the city and destroys it, you know. So the false prophet's able to get away with their lies for a period of time and the Lord's used that as a sifting to determine who believes and who doesn't believe the truth.
And he's not going to force people to believe. And so he has, he always has a witness, a remnant witness. He always has a remnant that are lovers of truth that will proclaim the truth, even ripening the generation for judgment in that they heard and they're responsible.
Knowledge brings responsibility. So even though we may not be popular and a bunch of people following us, we're still to be witnesses of the truth.
[Speaker 2]
Okay. Right. That's very good.
Yeah, that's awesome. So truth is very important. So here we have be not deceived.
And as we go along and we have, we're going to have many episodes of, to come that are going to be specific in how we dive into the Bible and how we, I'm going to ask you and others to help prove through the Bible what the truth is. And one of our first episodes is going to be the rapture. And that's going to be the next, after this premiere that we're doing right now, just talking about God's word and his truth and what is, what does the Bible say about the rapture?
And there's lots of different teachings out there, but what is the, how, how, how do we look at the Bible and we prove that, that the rapture is real? Because a lot of people nowadays are disregarding the rapture. And what are the scriptures that back that?
And that's going to be coming up here in, in the next episode.
[Speaker 1]
You know, the word rapture is not even in the Bible, right?
[Speaker 2]
I've heard that from people who don't believe in the rapture. What is the word?
[Speaker 1]
Well, in the Latin it's rapture, but I mean, that's how juvenile, how immature many people are that try to refute the rapture. They say, well, the word rapture is not even in the Bible. The Greek word is harpazo, and it means to be caught up, right?
It's translated from the Greek and the Latin as so in our English version, that's correct. It doesn't say, and you'll be raptured. It means you, it says you'd be caught up, right?
But so in any event, it's very, very poor scholarship to get caught in this trap of rapture is not even in the Bible. Well, I would say the word Trinity is not in the Bible either. You know what I mean?
The word Bible is not in the Bible.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
I mean, we have examples of being taken up, but what I'm saying is, is that the father, son, Holy spirit, the word Trinity itself is not in the Bible still believe in the Trinity.
[Speaker 2]
If I will teach the Trinity.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
So, so it's, it's, it's really, it's a famine on the land for the word of God.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
So trying to talk to people intelligently about the Bible is very difficult because they have no working knowledge of the scriptures and they're easily, as the communists would like, they're easily swayed and manipulated in their ignorance. They don't have a working knowledge of the Bible.
[Speaker 2]
They will go along because they don't know where to find it in the word of God to prove that it's whatever they're being sold is a lie.
[Speaker 1]
And so in the fifties, in the fifties in America, we still had the 10 commandments, the Bible and prayer in school. So even unbelievers in the fifties knew the definition of absolute truth, right. And wrong marriage was between a man and a woman, right?
No, no debate, no debate about that. Adultery was wrong. Why would it be wrong?
How has the culture know what's wrong? Cause the Bible says it's wrong. Right?
So even unbelievers in the fifties knew lying, cheating, stealing, adultery, fornication is wrong. When you get to the sixties, 61, 63, and you remove the Bible and prayer, the 10 commands from school. Now you move from a season, a period of time in American history of absolute truth to an existential humanistic philosophy of if it feels good, do it.
So my truth is what I feel I'm following my heart. So it's an absence of rational, absolute truth. That's derived from the Bible.
And now every man's doing that, which is right as in the book of judges in his own eyes. So you go from there and you project that out. Pretty soon people don't know what's right and what's wrong anymore.
[Speaker 2]
And you can't call them out on there on that truth, that lie, because it's their truth, but also it's not loving. So they redefine love.
[Speaker 1]
They redefine love. You're a hater. You're a bigot.
If you don't agree with their truth, right? Well, that's why we come back to Jesus. He's incarnate truth.
And the reason we follow him and his truth, what he's revealed is because he was crucified, buried, raised from the dead. He's not only our creator, he's our redeemer. And he's the one that gets to define what is truth.
Right?
[Speaker 2]
And he, how many people did he, when he did rise from the dead, did he see on the earth? Over 500?
[Speaker 1]
Well, 500 at one time and the disciples and over 500, 1 Corinthians 15, Paul says there were also a group of over 500. So he's got 40 days that he's walking, being seen. Many infallible proofs, Luke says, as he's writing the Theophilus.
And the other thing is when in interpreting prophecy in Acts chapter two, Peter is going back and referencing Joel saying, this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel. So as we have the word of God there and it's being fulfilled, it took a while for it to be fulfilled, right? As it's being fulfilled at Pentecost, Peter's describing this experience, validating it with the word of God that prophesied speaking forth ahead of time.
So if I were to look at the Bible and say, can I trust the Bible? As Peter said, we have the more sure to prophecy. I would say, well, where's the Bible say that Jesus is to be born?
And if I were to look at Micah five verse two, that he'd be born in Bethlehem. And I, and I look at that and say, God, that's 500 years before he was born. How did the Bible know?
How did the prophet Micah know that? Well, it comes back to what Peter said. He was inspired and he's writing down what he's inspired.
Now he may not under even stand as Daniel, he may not even understand that prophecy, but he's writing it down. And in Daniel's case in chapter 12, the Lord says, hey, this knowledge is going to increase in the last days, you know, seal the book. It's going to be open, you know, at the end there.
And, um, and then at the end of the age, it's tying in with the book of revelation and everything else that's happening. And it opens up, but they're still writing it down in obedience. And so we have the advantage of all those years that have transpired going, wow, that's, that's just one of over 300 prophecies he fulfilled in his first coming.
[Speaker 2]
Right. Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
So I have great, I can have great confidence that this is not a blind faith or blind leap of faith, or even, uh, uh, in an indoctrination, you know, of, uh, like the communist will, uh, rather than education will be an indoctrination with lies. Um, this is an education. I'm a, I'm a student, I'm a disciple.
And Jesus said, go make disciples, teaching them to observe whatsoever things I've commanded you along with you, even at the end of the age.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
So we're in the church age, prophetically speaking, coming to the point where Jesus is going to come for us as bride. And we have the roadmap, we have the Bible, we have his word to let us know that as they're trying to gaslight us and confuse us and break down marriage and break down society and break down every vestige of the foundation that God, you know, has given us to operate as a society that we, we can be secure in knowing that, um, God's word is like a hammer and what is the chaff to the hammer? God's word wins.
Right. His word will be fulfilled.
[Speaker 2]
Right. Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
I don't need to be confused or double-minded and unstable in my mind because somebody contradicted the Bible and I can't immediately come up with an answer to what they're saying, but I can go back to what I do know. And I know overwhelmingly there's no buddy throughout all of history that can prophesy something that's going to happen with 100% accuracy to the degree the Bible does. So let's say we take a Gene Dixon or a Uval Harari or Klaus Schwab.
Is there anything they can tell me that's going to happen next week? Is there any way they can, they can tell me that the nation of Israel, what's going to happen to the nation of Israel? You know what I mean?
I know they're inside traders and they can make money off of manipulating things, but take and tell me what's going to happen, you know, on the, on the, on the front of, of the new world order. How are you guys going to establish? How are you going to force it?
How are you going to, they have ideas, they have ideas, but ultimately what's restraining them back is the work of the Holy Spirit through the church. When the Holy Spirit working through the church, that restrainer is removed in the rapture, then these guys will be able to move quicker in the objective of establishing their one world government, one world religious system, one world, you know, economic system. Yes.
So we see the birth pangs. We see prophetically what the Bible described as what would epitomize or define the 77 of Daniel, the tribulation period.
[Speaker 2]
What an exciting time to be living.
[Speaker 1]
So we see it. And when you see these things, he says, look up knowing that your redemption draws nigh.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
So you don't, you want to be a Berean? You want to search the scriptures, see whether these things be so. You want to be like the sons of Issachar, that you're aware of the times in which you're living, that you're watchman on the wall, watching the things.
And you want to try and be a student of how the Bible connects with current events. Right. How are the events that are taking place, like Israel being, you know, attacked, let's say, how does that tie in with Bible prophecy?
We don't know for sure, but there are some prophecies that it may lead toward, it may lead toward Damascus being a ruinous heap, Isaiah 17. Right.
[Speaker 2]
That hasn't happened yet.
[Speaker 1]
Not completely. It may lead toward Ezekiel 38 and 39 of a coalition of nations invading, you know, Israel at some point. So we're not the blind leading the blind.
We have a great roadmap. We have a great, you know, guidance of the Holy Spirit with the word of God to let us know that, hey, you don't need to be gas lit. You don't need to be doubting my word.
I'm going to fulfill my word. I fulfilled it in my first coming. I'm certainly going to fulfill it in my second coming.
Right. You know what I mean?
[Speaker 2]
So it's trustworthy.
[Speaker 1]
Absolutely. You can bank on it.
[Speaker 2]
God's word is truth. And that's where, you know, we would like to study what is being told to us as a society. What is the lies currently going on?
So next episode will be the rapture. And I'd like you to be able to bring us to all the scriptures and lay it out in a very simple manner that will be detailed enough that we will have great confidence in what we know in the word of God about the next eminent time in our Christian life is the rapture. That's the next.
What's the good word?
[Speaker 1]
We don't know if it's the next. It's eminent. It happened anytime.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
We could have we could have the global government develop the 10 toes, but no Antichrist appeared just yet.
[Speaker 2]
Right.
[Speaker 1]
And we could have till 2030 agenda 2030 and we could suffer from communism, all sorts of things. We could see a one religious system develop and still not be raptured. We are definitely going to be raptured before the signing of the peace treaty that the Antichrist signs with the nation of Israel.
But the America could fall and we could we could see a global government come into place. And still not be raptured. Yeah, we could see that happen as Christians.
But we're definitely going to be raptured before the signing of that peace treaty, which means wars and rumors of wars in Matthew 24 for the very cause of a reason of needing a peace treaty. So good. Yeah.
So it when we talk about eminence, the eminent return, it means any time, any place, any moment. So you've to be ready. You've got to have your oil, which is be a believer.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Be ready. Looking up watching.
[Speaker 1]
And yeah. And and the truth of eminence, if it's post-trib rapture, you could count 1260 days from the midpoint of the tribulation period and know the exact day of his second coming. So if it's a post-trib rapture, you know exactly when the rapture is going to happen.
[Speaker 2]
He's going to come.
[Speaker 1]
You're going to meet him in the clouds and come right back down.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
There's no eminence in that.
[Speaker 2]
There's no eminence.
[Speaker 1]
So he purposely the Lord made it this way so that his church would be ready.
[Speaker 2]
Exactly. So I'm so excited.
[Speaker 1]
Amen.
[Speaker 2]
Well, thank you for joining us today. And we are going to sign off and and thank everybody for listening and hope you enjoyed just the foundation of laying the truth of what the Bible is and why we know it's the truth and the future. We're going to try to try to expel some lies.
[Speaker 1]
Amen. Amen. Thank you for having me.