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August 28, 2019 8:00 am
If you've ever wondered why I present Jesus to you is because Jesus died for you on the cross.
He's God's son.
He is God and God so loved the world that he gave us the Lord Jesus, and Jesus came to this earth, and he lived on this earth for many was taken and crucified on the cross and when he died on the cross. He took upon himself, your son and my son and he died and when he died. Your son and myosin died with him. Then, by the power of God. He was raised on the third day, so that Jesus now is alive and when Jesus came out of the grave. He didn't bring Allison with him. Allison remained in the grapes are now here it is all about Simpson everyone of us is a sinner. The only way that you can have a relationship with God, our heavenly father is through the Lord Jesus because he's the way he's truth, he's the life no man can come to God, accepting through Jesus because Jesus is the one who through his death and resurrection makes it possible for you and me to be forgiven of our sin, because when we trust him when we confess our sin and repent reform and give our hearts and lives to him and he comes into our lives, our sin par stains is present tense forgiven because Christ has already paid the price.
He did that for me that unique ways even listening to the voice of Dr. Don and Ann today here on The Encouraging Word. We feature preaching the Bible-based preaching of Dr. Wilton and today's message called the end of the story is reopen God's word to get another were available. The phone lines are open, so to speak. 24 hours a day, you can connect with us at 8668 for prayer to connect with resources or if you just need someone to talk with and pray with. We are here 866-899-9673 or meters online The Encouraging Word.org coming up in a few minutes Matteo about the daily Encouraging Word email from Dr. Don. But first, let's just dive in today's teaching.
This is the end of the story with Dr. Don Wilton in the next few moments.
I'm going to share with you the entire book of Revelation, and I believe that God is going to speak to our hearts. I'm going to invite you ultimately to do what the book of Revelation invites us to do that is to come give your life to Christ and so I'm going to say that as we move very rapidly across this divorce expression of God's sovereign grace and his majestic power that the Lord is going to speak to you. Some have said can you describe the book of Revelation. In one statement. I believe that we can. Jesus Christ laws he is and he always will be totally victorious. That's what the book of Revelation is about. It's about God and our Savior who laws is and always will be totally victorious when you give your life to Jesus you have one. You're on the winning team.
You have nothing to fear but this world in which we live is rapidly coming to an end. While I'm not going to be speaking to you on the fulfillment of prophecy. I will tell you that most of the prophecies of this book awful food events are happening in our world at such a rapid pace and we are seeing testimony to the fulfillment of what God teaches us in the book of Revelation almost every day and there are things that can be seen today in the light of God's word that could not of been saved.
10, 15, 20 years ago and so I want you to open your Bibles to Revelation chapter 4.
As we look at the end of the story in Revelation chapter 4 we find John the apostle John. He is standing on the island of Patmos in the Mediterranean and God gives to his servant, a vision of the end what you have in the book of Revelation is God speaking through John showing John what the end of the world looks like and it's all written down for us to read and that is why we read in chapter 4 of the book of Revelation. In verse one.
Off to this. I looked, and behold a goal standing open in heaven and the first voice which I heard speaking to me like a trumpet, say, up here and I will show you what must take place off to this very important things you John standing on the island of Patmos looking up into heaven. God gives him a vision of what's happened in heaven and God sees team Jon I want you to come up into heaven, and in a flash. God takes John from the earth up into heaven and God then kills him from the throne, I'm going to show you what will in the future take place off to the things I have just written about in the first three chapters of the book of Revelation.
What was written about in the first three chapters of the book of Revelation are called the letters to the seven churches. Those letters are speaking about you and me.
They speaking about the period of time between when Jesus went up back into heaven, and the time that Jesus will come back in the clouds, not back to this earth but in the clouds. According to first Thessalonians chapter 4 we call that correct. The word rapture is an English transliteration of the word taken up. That's the word right, they come up here come the rapture will take place in first Thessalonians chapter 4 describe in detail Jesus will come in the clouds. He does not land on this earth and the timing of that coming in the clouds is going to be at the end of the church age this time that you are not are living in, which is described in the first three chapters of the book of Revelation when John gets up into heaven. Verse two tells us what happens once I was in the spirit that would at once again is a derivative of the word wrap, which means sub train and the Bible says that all believers who are alive on this earth will be suddenly changed with the rapture and suddenly court up into heaven. So Jesus were to come in the clouds today. Every one of us worshiping the Lord today who know and love him would at once. Be court up because the Bible says. When Jesus comes in the clouds very much like a mother gathering her baby to herself. Jesus will gather believers to himself very different to when he comes back to this earth. He will bring with himself.
All those who are believers.
The rapture is a gathering unto himself the second coming is Jesus bringing with himself back to the server. The rapture is going up into heaven, the second coming is coming from heaven back to earth and so he says in verse two at once I was in the spirit, and behold, I throne stood in heaven and with one seated on the throne. So John arrives in heaven, and he arrives right there at the throne and he looks upon the face of the one seated on the throne, who is none other than God, not in order to understand the book of Revelation. I have divided it into five considerations for you. Number one the book of Revelation presents a series of events so from the first chapter of the book of Revelation all the way through the end of the book of Revelation God presents to us a series of events that all boot up toward and include the very final time at which this earth as we know it exists. So if you turn with me to Revelation chapter 1 and verse one the book of Revelation the end of the story presents to us a series of events, Revelation, chapter 1 verse one.
The opening statement of the book of Revelation, the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him in order to show us his servants, believers watch this things that must soon take place.
All right, let's put that into our terminology.
God tells us what this is about. It is a presentation of a series of events. This is given by God through Jesus Christ.
Using John as his instrument to present to us a series of things of events of happenings that must soon take place that are going to unfold and beginning at the next sentence, through the testimony and the word of Jesus Christ. The book of Revelation takes us for a walk or a journey through this series of events, so let me mention a few of them because what the book of Revelation does in the second instance is outlines a timeline related to the series of events so your about my Bible open to the book of Revelation from chapter 1 through the final chapter I'm presented with a series of events and as I'm presented with a series of events God outlines a timeline. The book of Revelation is chronological.
The word chronology speaks of an order 12345 that's chronology and so what God does in the book of Revelation. He says this is what's gonna happen.
First is what's going to happen. Second, once that's happened. You can look for number three. When you reach third-base because home plate, in other words, God shows us these things chronologically let me mention a few to you first.
The first three chapters tell us about us. These all the letters to the churches.
The seven churches, and what God says about those seven churches includes all of those of us who believe in him, he tells us what to look out for what to be aware of God shows us what it is that he commands us, but he also makes certain that we understand the things that he does not tolerate that he's not pleased with you. Find that in the first three chapters God's sake he's standard for us in the church. Forgive the person through so much more great teaching become Dr. Wilkinson, please don't go away, but earlier I mentioned that we would help you connect with a daily email from Dr. Wilton. Here's how it happens, you can go to our website theencouragingword@theencouragingword.org and sign up for the daily Encouraging Word email or you can even text the word daily.
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Now back to the end of the story with Dr. Don Wilton when we get to chapter full and this one is already raised you, we find the events of the rapture.
This is expounded in first Thessalonians chapter full and also in first Corinthians chapter 50 where the Bible talks about Jesus coming in the clouds.
Nobody knows when that is going to happen. However, because of the prophecies of the Old Testament, the words of Jesus himself.
In Matthew chapter 24. Also, Paul's writing to the churches we find a lot concerning what God has to say to us related to things that are happening that will let us know that Jesus is going to come in the cloud. Some of those will include the way in which the world looks the United States and Europe cashless economy communications. The character and disposition of antichrist. The condition of the world.
The manner with which people increasingly Christianity and the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and so these prophecies go on their also practical prophecies things that happened this melting ice pans, earthquakes, famines and pestilence wars and rumors of wars, the way people behave character dispositions, attitudes, church apostasy that people who once said they were part of God's church.
But today off falling away in increasing number and so Revelation chapter 4. John was immediately taken by the spirit and when Jesus comes in the clouds. Every person who's alive is going to be taken up into heaven right into those clouds to join with Jesus and with all our moms and dads and brothers and sisters and uncles and aunts who've already gone to heaven and on with him now, and whom we cannot wait to see the Bible tells us beginning at that point that we find ourselves in the presence of Jesus Christ in heaven and that immediately begins a seven year tribulation.
Seven years exactly and book of Revelation gives us that exact timeline divided into two equal 3 1/2 year periods during that time in sequence or chronology. God acts in heaven with all those who believe every believer will be in heaven. Any person who does not know Christ will be left behind. Chaos will break out on the earth as chaos breaks out on the earth, a man by the name of antichrist will rise up, he's going to be totally recognizable person everybody lifting this will will recognize you be a peacemaker you be a national icon and he's gonna rise up and he's going to set himself up in Jerusalem taking the place of God and claiming to be God at the same time as that happens, according to second Thessalonians chapter 2 God is going to withdraw his spirit from this earth because when the spirit is not here. Nobody has the capability to do the capacity to know God or even to recognize him or for that matter, to hear him because it is the spirit of God who convicts us of three things of righteousness that is who God is. All sin. That is what separates us from the righteousness of God the Holy Spirit is the only one who can convict us concerning the judgment of these things which we are now speaking in fact, if you do not connect with what I'm saying this morning.
This is a pretty good certainty that you do not have the spirit in you. That's why I want to invite you to give your life to Christ because only God by his spirit will show you an impress on your heart that these things are the truth of God's word. That's why we believe in sharing God's truth with the searching world. And so it is that chaos will break out on the earth, this world will be food with people all of whom have said no to Jesus and it precipitates a seven year period in timeline broken up into three judgments that are issued from God and from Jesus Christ in heaven down to this. They are in sequence. There is first the CU judgments followed by the trumpet judgments followed by the bowl judgments BOWL so first you have seven CU judgments begins with a picture of Jesus Christ holding the title deed to the he's the only one that can open the type of deed because God created the heavens and the he owns everything he made everything that was made, and without him was not anything made that was my that's why he's got such a wonderful purpose for your life and that's why he sent Jesus to die upon the cross.
Just for people like you and me so that we can be reconciled to a holy and a righteous God, and when he opens those seals with every CU. There is a judgment cost down upon those who are left behind.
Upon this those who are left behind upon this earth come under the control of antichrist and antichrist will stamp or put the Mark 666 on every person who worships the beast. They will be identified and because of their identification with antichrist will be given access to food will be given access to healthcare will be given access to society. Without that, according the book of Revelation. People are going to suffer in an unprecedented manner. In the first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation.
One of the many prophecies concerns access to everybody. Is it possible that everybody in this world is giving access to somebody. Is it possible that we can be hacked. Is it possible that all of us all punching in www.w.com is it possible that there is someone in Africa who can read our emails.
Is it possible that some powerful person could see to it that you can only get groceries.
If you go to Sam's call or if you're a member of Costco. Is it possible that's followed by the six trumpet judgment and when the trumpet judgments are issued from heaven.
They increase in severity.
In the manner with which the people of this earth judge while were just a point number three and we can wrap this portion up for today but please stick around for just a minute. I have some words of Dr. Wilton. I want you to hear. But I know that. Here's what he was telling first Britt remind our friends that this is not just a presentation. It's conversation you'd like to speak with someone to pray with someone just know that we're here for you. Our phone numbers 866899 word that's 866-899-9673 and right now or anytime of day or night.
We would love to pray with you on that phone number 866899673 or if you'd rather use your keyboard connect with us right now@theencouragingword.org coming up next. More insight and more of a challenge from Dr. Wilton. Are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why don't you pray this prayer with me right now. Dear God, I know that on the center and I know that Jesus died for me on the cross today, I repent of my sin and by faith I receive you into my heart. In Jesus name, my friend. I welcome you today into the family of God. This is exciting news and by the way, don't go away because I'll be right back in just a minute plus the Lord is spoken to you.
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