WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.919 Okay, so you've watched The Office, right, yes? 2 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:04.679 Do you remember when Kevin was trying to say, we 3 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:06.559 have to come up with some kind of warning and 4 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:10.080 then then he comes Robert California comes walking in and Kevin. 5 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:15.640 Goes warning warning. Right, Well that's today. We're talking about 6 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:17.120 warning signs. 7 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.399 Before the end for the end. Well, he's Christ and 8 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:33.359 I'm Jeff, and we're the Bible guys. Okay, Chris, So 9 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:35.520 you're the movie guy. You're the resident movie. 10 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:36.640 Do you like movies? 11 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:38.759 And so we here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna 12 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:40.479 give you three of the main characters in a movie 13 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.119 and you have to tell me what the movie is. 14 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:43.640 And you haven't seen any of these. 15 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:44.079 Nope. 16 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:46.960 So this is Frie Okay, we never do. Here we go, ready, 17 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:55.039 Memphis Rains, Otto Hallowell and Sarah sway Wayland. Oh. 18 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:59.439 I got to confess. I don't want to spend too 19 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:01.560 much time on it because we have to go. 20 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:04.439 So I would think Memphis Rains is the one that 21 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.719 would remind you, I don't know, gone in sixty seconds. 22 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.319 Oh yeah, Nicholas Case there you go. 23 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.599 Okay, Okay, Memphis I should have not but you know what, 24 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:16.519 I've only seen that movie once, and I'm not. 25 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:18.400 Sure to watch the Nick Cage movie once. 26 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.599 I'm not sure that the word Memphis stuck out of 27 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:22.239 my mind. Okay, here wasn't big enough. 28 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.239 Here's another good one. This is a good one. And 29 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.400 I would know this one. Herman Boone, Billy. 30 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:28.159 Remember the Titans. 31 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:32.439 Yeah, there you go, come on, coach cooking my grips, 32 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:39.959 Tyler Durdin, Marla Singer, Robert fight Club, fight Club. There 33 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:42.519 you go. This is a good one, of course. Ben Gates, 34 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.040 Abigail Chase, Raley Pool. 35 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:49.280 Oh okay, well, actually, Ben Gates, I was gonna say 36 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:51.319 that it could be any National Treasure one or two, 37 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:54.719 but the girl was only in one. In one, that's right, 38 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:59.239 National Treasure part one. There you go, Ethan Hunt, Jim Phelps, 39 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:00.200 Luther Shtick. 40 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.439 Any any mission impossible. 41 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:05.640 Yeah there, dude, you nailed it. 42 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.360 So you were four for five, four for five, pretty 43 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:08.919 good job. 44 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:13.439 Well, I mean you know Herman Boone, right, I mean Tyler, 45 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:15.759 Ben Gates. 46 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.319 Yeah, I would have gotten four or five two yeah, 47 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:20.879 four yeah, yeah, Memphis Reins. I would have thought. I 48 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.319 know that movie, I know that move back. I couldn't iver. 49 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.719 I still don't even remember. I don't think his character 50 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:28.840 was big enough, you know. 51 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:32.759 Yeah, sure, so it's just Memphis stands out right, that's a. 52 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:33.680 Oh yeah for sure. 53 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.520 Okay. Anyways, hey, good job man, Thanks, very impressive. So 54 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.960 there are a number of warnings in the Bible. So 55 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.680 if you're just now joining us, we are going through 56 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:46.520 kind of on a devotional level, not on a seminary 57 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:50.520 professor level discussion of the end times. Yeah, and it's 58 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:51.680 just what the Bob guys is all about. 59 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.479 We should we should summarize this and say revelation for dummies. 60 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.840 Yeah, well, or for somebody who's taking it in on 61 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:02.960 a dimensional revelation. Yeah. That's not that we don't want 62 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:06.759 to go after our listeners entirely. We do question their judgment, 63 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:08.520 that the fact that they keep coming back and listening, 64 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:13.319 but that's a different issue. So, you know, the Bible 65 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.520 guys were really built around the idea that we're just 66 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:17.479 a couple guys who like to talk about the Bible 67 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:20.800 in fun and practical ways. Right, that's really what we're about. 68 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:24.159 And so hey, if you have differences of opinion, if 69 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:26.360 you think some of the order is different, whatever, well 70 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:29.439 just join the club. There's almost as many opinions about 71 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.960 the of the end times as there are Christians on 72 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.120 the planet. But we're going to kind of give us 73 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:38.240 summary the high level stuff. And there are warnings in 74 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:41.439 the Bible that Jesus gives and Paul gives of what 75 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.199 the world is going to be like before the end, 76 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.719 and then there are warnings or indicators that it is 77 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.599 the end. So the first one, you know, the warning 78 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.800 signs before the end are really like highway signs, right. 79 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:56.319 God's kind of set up some clear signposts in our 80 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.639 world to tell us that Jesus is about to come, 81 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:03.080 and that's really what this is about. So these are 82 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:06.319 signs pointing to the end. It's kind of like a 83 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.159 knocking the engine, right when you're driving on the road, 84 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:11.159 all sadden your enginesers making weird noises. 85 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:12.840 And you're like, You're like, I probably should get that 86 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:14.599 check because something bad is about to happen. 87 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:19.279 Yeah, exactly exactly. So that's what this says. So let's 88 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:20.600 just we're going to go through a few of these. 89 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.920 In the Book of Mark, chapter thirteen, Jesus says the 90 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:26.360 disciples say, tell us, when will all this happen? What 91 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:28.480 sign will show us that these things are about to 92 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:32.079 be fulfilled. And Jesus replied, don't let anyone mislead you, 93 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.160 for many will come in my name claiming om the Messiah, 94 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:37.680 and they'll deceive many. And you'll hear of wars and 95 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.040 threats of wars. But don't panic. Yes, these things must 96 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:43.839 take place, but the end won't follow immediately. Nation will 97 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.319 go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and 98 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.439 there'll be earthquakes in many parts of the world, as 99 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.800 well as famines. But this is only the first of 100 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:54.639 the birth pains, with more to come. So first of all, Jesus, 101 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.839 don't be misled. That's really the big point there, right. 102 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.800 And by the way, you know, I would venture to 103 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.560 say that all of the things that he's mentioned happened 104 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.800 in the first century, yeah, and the second century, and 105 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:12.199 the third, and the fourth and the fifth. Right, So 106 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.800 wars and rumors of wars, kingdom going against kingdom, nation 107 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:21.000 against nation, earthquakes, famines, this has been a part of 108 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:21.800 every generation. 109 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:25.199 Yeah. The difference would be, and this could be a 110 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.120 hint that he's making as well, the difference would be 111 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.720 if you lived in South America a thousand years ago 112 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.720 and a war broke out in Southeast Asia, you would 113 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:36.600 have ever heard about it. 114 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:37.240 Right. 115 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:39.839 If a famine was happening in Africa and you lived 116 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.160 in Scandinavia, you wouldn't know about it, right, right, earthquake 117 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.240 happened somewhere, you wouldn't have known about it unless it 118 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:47.839 happened close to you. So the difference is now that 119 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:51.240 whole idea of wars and rumors of wars, knowledge that 120 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.079 the world is just coming apart at the seams, will 121 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:57.040 continue to increase towards the end. And I think that 122 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.360 that's one of the things that you know, it should 123 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:01.920 kind of give us more confidence today even than those 124 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.040 readers knowing Man alive. It just seems to be bigger. 125 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.199 We know everything happening all the time, and you know, 126 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:10.480 there's a lot of people screaming about the end of 127 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.680 the world all the time because of you know, different 128 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:15.120 calamities or things happening on the planet. 129 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:16.160 And think about the time. 130 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.680 How much time has passed since Jesus gave this warning, 131 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.560 don't be misled from that time until this time, so 132 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:23.560 it's two thousand years, And then think about this. 133 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:25.920 Remember the movie Back to the Future. 134 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.680 They were excited for the very first television they rolled 135 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.439 up the TV and Marty says, we have two TVs. 136 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.879 Don't be silly. Nobody has twtvs. It's right, okay, And 137 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:37.120 then think about it. When you and I were in college, 138 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:40.279 the internet didn't exist, that's right, right, So we're talking 139 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.399 about like just thirty years ago no internet, you know, 140 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.720 seventy years ago no TV. And believe or not, this 141 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.399 is probably the hardest to believe. But the first iPhone 142 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:51.199 do you know when it came. 143 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.920 Out in the two thousands, two thousand and seven, Yeah, wow, 144 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:57.439 which means like we've. 145 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.639 Only had the iPhone for not that long. What's that been? 146 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:01.439 Sixteen years? 147 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:04.279 Yeah, fifteen years, so that I mean, and you can't 148 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:06.360 even imagine a world without such a device. 149 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:08.079 Oh yeah, yeah, a computer in your pocket. 150 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:13.879 So it so it's definitely, you know, just just our generation. 151 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:18.560 All we've known is we're aware of all the wars 152 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:19.360 and rumors of wars. 153 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:21.920 Yeah right, So I stay up pretty much. I stay 154 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:24.639 current on what's happening around the world as much as possible. 155 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.879 I usually read a lot of headlines from multiple sources, 156 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.759 not just one source. No what's going on. But I've 157 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.439 been amazed lately how quickly my daughter comes and tells 158 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.519 me something that happens in the world before me and 159 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:40.279 I go, oh, really, what news source, And it's like TikTok, right, 160 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.560 something happens around the world. Bam, it just flies through 161 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.800 TikTok and all the twenty year olds know about it 162 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:46.560 just immediately. And then I'm like what And I got 163 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.319 to go look up headlines, you know, to go figure 164 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:52.240 out what's happening. So the pace of news and information 165 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:54.079 is going faster. That's what really one of the things. 166 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.040 But Jesus really makes a big deal here. He said, really, 167 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.439 here's the thing. Don't be misled. That's the warning I 168 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.879 think that we need to take into this when it 169 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.920 comes to people who are claiming they know everything, that 170 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.519 they have all the answers. You know, it's easy to 171 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:08.560 get drawn in by somebody who claims that they know 172 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:13.120 the future right right, and false teachers tell us all 173 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:15.000 kinds of things, and they tell us that we can 174 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:17.160 know things that other people don't know, and they're really 175 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:18.480 you know, appealing to our pride. 176 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.360 And so one of the things that we talked about 177 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.639 before the podcast was the National Inquirer. So you know, 178 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:26.800 even today right now, it's not as popular as it 179 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:29.079 used to be. But when you check out at Kroger 180 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:32.960 or any supermarket, usually the National inquirers right there, right right, 181 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:34.679 and they have the most ridiculous head lines. 182 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:36.000 Even I pulled some up. 183 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.159 Even though you know it's a lie, it still draws in. 184 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:40.159 Yeah, you know it's a lie. But you're like, oh, 185 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.480 I got to read that article, right. So here's one. 186 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:46.399 It says alien Bible found. Turns out they worship Oprah. 187 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.519 Wow Man's one hundred and seventy four mile per hour sneeze, 188 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:56.679 blows wife's hair off, Saddam and Osama adopt shaved ape baby. 189 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:01.440 Oh goodness, and the pictures are actually, yeah, fat cat 190 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.200 moans twenty three old ladies. 191 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.200 Oh geeze. 192 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.320 This one was so funny. Christmas miracle severed leg hops 193 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.440 to the hospital. And then the other headline was cannibal 194 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.279 Chef gets his own TV cookie show. 195 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:18.840 Do you know that I actually remember seeing severed leg 196 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:20.039 hops to the hospital. 197 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.279 I would have seen it. Yeah, yeah, that's hilarious. 198 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.519 So one I remember all the bat Boy, Remember all 199 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:28.759 the bat Boy? Yeah? Yeah. So anyways, you know, even though, 200 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.639 so sometimes you're flipping through the channels and you see 201 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.759 on TV somebody that's waxing eloquent and acting like they 202 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.879 know every detail. Just don't be misled. It's it's kind 203 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.399 of one of those things. It's hard to look away, right, right, 204 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.759 Just don't get sucked into it. So there are a 205 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.639 number of signs preceding the end. Right, He's literally saying 206 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:49.120 it's just around the corner. He doesn't tell us exactly when, 207 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:51.320 but just that it's getting close. It's kind of like 208 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.039 when they dim the lights in the theater. Yeah, right, yeah, 209 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:54.600 and you know. 210 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:56.240 It's coming, you know, the lights dim, and then I 211 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.399 get all excited, you know, And I like the previews, 212 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:00.440 yeah yeah, And you don't know how all the previews 213 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:02.720 are going to be because on new releases sometimes they 214 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.919 can go twenty five minutes, but if the movie has 215 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.679 been out a while, previews are like seven minutes. And 216 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.240 so my wife joined me for the We just went 217 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:14.840 and saw the Flash and she joined me and she said, well, 218 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:17.000 I'm late, and I sat down and I said, it's okay, 219 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:17.919 it's a brand new release. 220 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:19.559 I said, it's going to be twenty five minutes of 221 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:21.960 the previous Yeah. So in other words, the point is 222 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:23.639 you don't know when the show's going. 223 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:25.159 To start, but they're dim in the lights now. 224 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:26.279 But you know what's coming. 225 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.960 So here's a few things. Apostasy is one of the 226 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:35.200 big ones increasing evil in the world. Scoffers many false prophets. Right, 227 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:38.000 let's just read through a few of these passages. He says, 228 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:39.720 for a time is coming when. 229 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.399 People will this is two Timothy four. 230 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.320 Yes, second Timothy four, chapter three or Chapter four, verse three. 231 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:47.879 For a time is coming when people will no longer 232 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.159 listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They'll follow their own desires, 233 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:53.039 and we'll look for teachers who will tell them whatever 234 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.000 their itching ears want to hear. They'll reject the truth 235 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.679 and chase after myths. But you should keep a clear 236 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.240 mind in every situation. Don't be afraid of suffering for 237 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:04.399 the Lord. Work at telling others the good news, and 238 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.159 fully carry out the ministry God has given you. Yeah, 239 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:08.840 so isn't that something here He is again he's telling 240 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.360 you a little bit about the end times. But keep working, 241 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:15.159 keep telling people about Jesus. Right, that's really amazing. 242 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:19.200 Yeah, And you know, it's it's easy to recognize that. 243 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:22.159 You know people who tell to say things that you 244 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.600 want to hear, and they chase after myths. Naturally, people 245 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:28.879 are going to be attracted to that because I think that, 246 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:31.039 you know, it's it's the same reason why we'll go 247 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:33.600 to a church that's just a feel good church. Yeah, 248 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:35.360 you know, and we have to recognize, hey, wait a minute, 249 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.279 this church doesn't preach enough of the truth, right, right, 250 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:39.360 Because I mean I've actually been a you know, I've 251 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.919 tuned in on TV seeing a lot of those. Sure, 252 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.639 it's like this is really good, but where's the where's 253 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:45.600 the hard truth? 254 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:45.919 Yeah? 255 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:46.360 It is. 256 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:51.519 It is the nature of humanity to want to go 257 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:54.200 find a religion that matches up with what they believe, 258 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:57.639 rather than choosing to believe what the Bible says. Right, 259 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.519 So I want to find preachers who agree with me, 260 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:01.799 rather than me deciding I'm going to agree with what 261 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.360 the Bible says. And so he said, that's going to 262 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.679 become more and more. Quite honestly, that leads to apostasy. 263 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.440 The other one is increasing evil. In two Timothy, chapter three, 264 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:13.720 he says, you should know this, Timothy, that in the 265 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:17.039 last days there will be very difficult times for people 266 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:20.320 will love only themselves and their money. They'll be boastful 267 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:24.679 and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. 268 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.759 They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving. 269 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.159 They'll slander others and have no self control. They'll be 270 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:35.759 cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends. 271 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:38.519 They'll be reckless, they'll be puffed up with pride and 272 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:42.440 love pleasure rather than God. They'll act religious, but they'll 273 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.440 reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away 274 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.759 from people like that. So he says, in the end times, 275 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:49.519 it's going to get pretty crazy. 276 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:51.399 And you know what, by the way, I'm just going 277 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:54.919 to say two things about this. Number One, every generation 278 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:56.759 would say that about the next. 279 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.159 Generation, no doubt. 280 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:02.000 But then also we have to consider that it always 281 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:03.159 gets worse with every generation. 282 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:04.200 Every generation gets worse. 283 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:08.039 So even though that, you know, three generations ago they 284 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.759 said that about you know, our grandfathers. 285 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.279 The hippies, Yeah, the hippies, Yeah, they. 286 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:14.720 Would say that, you know, they should say, well, that 287 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.120 Jesus is coming back. Because this is true. 288 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.679 We have to recognize the fact that like, there is 289 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:23.799 no other generation that fits this description in a worse 290 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:26.360 way than our current generation. 291 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.519 Especially, they will be cruel and hate what is good yes, right, yeah, 292 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.759 that is that, that is that you. 293 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:34.240 Subscribed to our society, right as. 294 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:38.519 Our society straight up right cruel and hate what is good. Yeah, 295 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.559 And so there's a then second Peter, Peter tells us 296 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:43.960 in the last time, scoffers are going to come. Scoffers 297 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.240 are those that mock the teachings of God or the 298 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:49.000 things of God, so Peter says in second Peter three three, 299 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.320 most importantly, I want to remind you that in the 300 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.200 last days, scoffers will come mocking the truth and following 301 00:13:55.200 --> 00:14:01.360 their own desires, right, mocking the truths of God, flaunting 302 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.480 their sin publicly out in dude, again, that's a descriptor 303 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.200 of our society today, right, Isaiah says. They will call 304 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:12.039 evil good and good evil. That's what Peter's talking about. 305 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:13.960 Not only that, they'll live it out in front of 306 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:15.440 you and throw it in your face all the time. 307 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.000 Yeah right, yeah. 308 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:18.600 I was just gonna say. 309 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.320 And also in Matthew twenty four another indicator is many 310 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:24.519 false prophets, oh yea yeah, yeah, And Matthew twenty four 311 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:27.600 eleven says, and many false prophets will appear and deceive 312 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.519 many people. Yeah, and you know, I just have to 313 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.360 say this. But like on the news I just saw 314 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:36.879 I guess in Jerusalem they feel like they found the Messiah. 315 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:37.720 Yeah there's a new one. 316 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:38.679 Yeah, there's a new one. 317 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.440 And this one isn't just a new one, like he's 318 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.200 here and gone in five minutes. This is thousands upon 319 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.559 thousands of people. And just like you said TikTok, right, 320 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:50.559 I've seen him on TikTok Yeah. 321 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.200 And is he is? You know, it's just crazy, Yeah, 322 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:54.840 it's crazy. 323 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.759 There's I was just in Israel a couple weeks ago 324 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:00.639 and on the backs of a lot of road signs 325 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:04.720 all throughout the country are these huge posters of a 326 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.559 messiah that died a couple of years ago and his 327 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.200 people are waiting for him to resurrect, right, And so 328 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.559 they're convinced that that's the Messiah, and they're trying to 329 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.600 highlight the fact that this other guy that they found 330 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.000 now is not the Messiah. Right, So they've got posters 331 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.000 all over the country. So there's kind of an argument 332 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.440 in Israel over who actually is the current Messiah, the 333 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:25.320 one who just died who's going to resurrect, or the 334 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.120 one who's teaching now who needs to die? And resurrect. 335 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:30.919 Wow, right, sounds like the Beast and the second Beast. 336 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:34.639 Yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty pretty amazing what's happening. But 337 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:36.919 this happens all the time. It doesn't have to only 338 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.000 be in Judaism, though. There's people all over the place 339 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.360 to say, hey, we found this guru, we found this 340 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.759 great teacher, we found this this guy who you know, 341 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:48.080 can teach us how to tap into our spirit guides 342 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.639 or whatever and have these spiritual engagements and all these 343 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:53.960 kinds of things, and so there's it doesn't have to 344 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.480 only be a Jewish messiah. It's this is the person 345 00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:59.399 who has all the answers, is what he's really talking 346 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:01.480 about there. So it makes sense to me as you 347 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.159 look at these things, that the lines will be drawn 348 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.399 at the end, right, either for God or against God, 349 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:08.759 and there aren't going to be any fence sitters. You know, 350 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:11.440 when Jesus returns, the world's going to be divided into 351 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:14.480 two different groups. Either you're for Jesus or against Jesus. 352 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.879 And right now, there's not a lot of people who go, yeah, 353 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:20.639 you know, I'm kind of neutral with regard to Christianity. 354 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:23.639 People love Jesus or hate Jesus's that's really how it 355 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.559 works around the world. So those are kind of some 356 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.480 of the warning signs. You know, you're hearing the noise 357 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:33.240 in the engine, something bad's about to happen. Now, there 358 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.840 are other signs that accompany the end times, right, this 359 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.039 is the end is near, The end is here. 360 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:40.559 This is after the engine falls out. 361 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.919 It literally falls out, it's smoking all over and you're 362 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:44.320 pulled over on the side of the road. 363 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.000 And then you're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 364 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.240 By this time, everybody's going to know for sure that 365 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:50.919 the end is here, and it's stuff like this, he 366 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.559 says in Luke chapter twenty one. There'll be great worldwide distress, 367 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:57.679 he says, And there will be strange signs in the sun, 368 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.440 the moon, and the stars, and here on Earth the 369 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.360 nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas 370 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:06.839 and the strange tides, and people be terrified at what 371 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.160 they see coming upon the earth. For the powers and 372 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.000 the heavens will be shaken. Then everyone will see the 373 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.440 sun a man coming in a cloud with power and 374 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:16.920 great glory. So when all these things begin to happen, 375 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.920 stand and look up, for your salvation is near. 376 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:24.680 Well, there's no doubt about something will be happening if 377 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.799 something happens with the sun, the moon, and the stars. 378 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.799 So when stars start falling out of the sky and 379 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.039 the sun starts scorching people because it's so hot and 380 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:36.880 killing them, that's probably a good sign that something's roaring. 381 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:40.319 Seas, strange tides, yes, all those kinds of things. Yeah, 382 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:42.559 it's pretty pretty crazy stuff. 383 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.079 Because it says that the sun is going to go 384 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.480 I mean we haven't read that yet, but the sun 385 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:48.680 is going to go dark, and then the moon will 386 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:49.519 the moon will. 387 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:50.440 Stop reflecting the sun. 388 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:50.960 It's crazy. 389 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.559 And of course we know that the moon is connected 390 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:56.640 to tides, right, so that's probably what that's referring. 391 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:58.880 And it literally says for the powers and the heavens 392 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.519 will be shaken, and then he says everyone is going 393 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:03.039 to see the sun of Man come. Then that's what 394 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:05.079 you're gonna see. So, hey, if you want to know 395 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.799 if is going to happen, well these these sun, moon 396 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:11.160 and stars stuff, tides, all those things. So here's what happens. 397 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:12.440 By the way, I just want to point this out. 398 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:16.400 Old Christians will argue when they read about these kind 399 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:20.039 of prophetic things and they'll use all these complex where's 400 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:24.839 post tribulation, mid tribulation, pre tribulation kind of arguments. But 401 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:28.720