Truth Matters Daily 12 07 21: What to Expect During the Tribulation

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Daily devotion with Dr. Cheryl Davis. Truth Matters is a ministry of The Truth Project whose mission is to empower men and women in the Christian faith to teach biblical truth in the culture and the marketplace of ideas, using the Bible as a sacred trust of truth in sharing the message of Jesus. Learn more about the ministry of The Truth Project at www.projecttruthmatters.com. In this edition, Dr. Davis talks more about what to expect during the tribulation. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. Therefore, if they say to you, look, he's in the desert, do not go out.

Look, he's in the inner rooms, do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered together.

We are at the midpoint of the tribulation and the start of the great tribulation. I'm going to continue to read in Matthew chapter 13 verses 11 through 18. I just want to read that as I think that is very important. And he answered to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For whoever has to him, more will be given, for he will be given abundance.

But whoever does not have, even what he has, will be taken away from him. Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing that they do not see and hearing that they do not hear, nor they understand. Then then the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled which says, Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive. For the hearts of his people have grown dull, their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that eyes should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears for they hear. For assuredly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.

And we know that this is the purpose of parables and we know that this describes the partial blindness that has been placed on the Jews because they rejected Christ when he came and that this sets up the scene for the time of Jacob's trouble as Israel will be judged for having blind eyes, but the 144,000 who have kept the commandments of God will be great evangelists. But who is the beast from the earth? And that is the false prophet. In verses 11 and 12 we hear the description of a second beast. Then I saw another beast coming out of the sea and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

Then I saw another beast coming out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. He performs great signs so that even he who makes fire come down from heaven on the earth and inside of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

He causes all but small and great, rich and poor, free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads that no one may buy or sell or exchange one except who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. You've been listening to Truth Matters with Dr. Cheryl Davis. Truth Matters is a ministry of The Truth Project, a North Carolina based ministry dedicated to teaching biblical truth and sound theology to those inside and outside of the church. If you'd like to listen to these messages on demand, go to projecttruthmatters.com and click on the podcast link. Dr. Davis is also available to speak to your ministry group or church function. She can be reached by email at CherylDavis at projecttruthmatters.com. Or if you'd like to send a letter, the address is Project Truth Matters Post Office Box 159, St. Paul's, North Carolina 28384. You can hear Truth Matters weekdays on this radio station at 8 20 a.m. and 5 20 p.m. with a full length teaching program on Saturday afternoon at 12 30. Until next time, let's all work together to teach a biblical truth to assist, equip, edify, and encourage one another and bring the gospel to the world because truth matters. I'm Dr. Cheryl Davis and I'll see you next time.