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Are we at the beginning of the end?
Over the next few weeks I want to
discuss with you about the one thing that has been a mystery for many
civilizations for thousands of years.
It’s been talked about, prophesied
over, made fun of, written about and discussed from bar room table tops to
kitchen table tops by everyone in this room and probably by everyone over the
age of 12 since the beginning of time.
J
We took over a year to discuss the
book of revelation.
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We chased rabbits
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We climbed mountains
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Crawled through caves
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Got shot at sometimes and through
all this we came up to the conclusion that we still don’t know anything more or
less that what Gods words says and the interpretation of that still leaves a lot
to the discernment of not only this preacher but to all those before him and
those after him until the lord returns …which is what this is all about.
In the next few weeks we will use many
scripture and a few non scriptures about end times and the time we live in and
there will be many educated or uneducated thoughts found in the book of 2nd
James.
This next few weeks will be more or less for
those who have not attended our training classes…and you can say this may be
end of times class 101.
As usual I cannot fully teach in just 20 or
thirty minutes…so I cannot answer any questions here but if you write your
questions down and give them to me later I will answer all that I receive and if
you don’t get your answer right away that means it will come up in future
discussions, not that I am not going to answer them.
Patience is all I ask.
If you have friends that would be interested in
these sermons I would say get them to come and join in.
Now since this is the first sermon: it is titled
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”you have to have a beginning to have an end”
Please turn to Gen. 1: 1
Ge 1:1 ¶
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Ge 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Ge 1:3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Ge 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness.
Ge 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day.
Now skip down to:
Ge 1:26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
Ge 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.
Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.
Ge 1:29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which
is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Ge 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I
have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Ge 1:31 ¶ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
To have an end of times you have to have a
beginning…
Here in Genesis we have found that in the
beginning there was nothing but God…and God created…
He created all that we have…
All that we see
He created everything for one reason and one
reason only….He created it for us….
He created everything for us.
He created us in His image…and that can lead to a
lot of discussions…but I want you to take it as the statement is right now…but I
want to add…He is still creating us in His image…He has never stopped.
God has created us to have a relationship with
him…He gave us a beginning with Adam and Eve…and then they sinned.
Time began
The countdown to the end started.
Like all living things that live in a sinful
world everything started to die…to wind down…
As life ends so does everything else.
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Stars die
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Energy dissipates
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Light grows dark.
Remember when we were young and full of vitality.
1.
We had the energy to do anything and everything…
2.
Today it’s hard for us to bend over and tie our shoes…if we can still see
our shoes.
3.
Our hair is turning gray and turning loose.
We
use to run as fast as lighting and now it’s as fast as molasses. Cold molasses!
We
use to be able to see for miles and now we are lucky to see what is in front of
us.
We
replace the parts in our bodies like we replace the roofing on our house.
We
will do anything to stay alive a week longer, a hour longer a breath longer, but
yet it still comes…age, destruction, a failing of all our systems…everything
dies.
I
know that people don’t like to hear those words….but it’s true and that is what
people hate the most…truth.
Ec 1:1 ¶ The words of the
Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Ec 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is
vanity.
Ec 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Ec 1:4 ¶ One generation passeth away, and another generation
cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Ec 1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place
where he arose.
Ec 1:6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it
whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his
circuits.
Ec 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the
place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Ec 1:8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye
is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ec 1:9 ¶ The thing that hath been, it is
that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be
done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ec 1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is
new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Ec 1:11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall
there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those
that shall come after.
Ec 1:12 ¶ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Those last 3 verses 9-11 cab be argued to a point
today…there is nothing that hasn’t already been done…nothing new…people are the
same... they never learn by their mistakes.
And just as God destroyed the world with a flood
and Sodom and Gomorra with fire and brimstone…God will certainly destroy this
world again.
A few weeks ago we discussed is man more
intelligent today than he was when Adam and Eve walked the earth…Adam and eve
were the perfect creation…
Though they committed sin there was no sin in
there bodies…they had perfect bodies and that is why they lived so long.
As disease took over the human body, life
shortened.
I believe that the human mind was much more
intelligent then than it is now.
Where we use 10% of the brain I believed that
they used 75 to 80 percent.
Where is the evidence…look at our youth of
today…satan has stolen there minds or their ability to think…and so they have
ensnared them or enslaved them to sin.
There is power in knowledge and more power for
those who know how to use that knowledge.
God created this world for a purpose and when
that purpose is complete he will destroy this world as He had destroyed the evil
that was taking place in the world with Noah and in Sodom and Gomorra, God will
destroy the evil in this world.
Everything is like a clock that winds down.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 To every thing there is a
season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a
time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A
time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A
time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to
embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to
lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to
sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to
hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
And there is a time for the beginning and there
is a time for the end.
You say bro. Jim how can you say for sure…that we
are in the end times or the time of the end…
I believe it by my spirit… I believe it by the
word of God and we will go over those words in the weeks ahead.
I believe it because of what is called
dispensations of time…
What is a dispensation….you ask?
It’s an allowance of time…
1.
Time for salvation
2.
Time for Gods plan to be set in place
3.
Time for God’s people to make the choice of life and death.
It’s a relaxation of the rules…
1.
Knowing that we are not holy and we are sinners who cannot stand before a
holy and just God because He cannot stand the sight of sin.
2.
Knowing that we should be put to death because of our sin…
3.
God has relaxed the rules…given His creation a chance to accept the path
to salvation which is only in the blood of Jesus Christ.
It’s an exemption to the sentence of death
1.
by giving the time to complete his plan
2.
by giving time for the plan to grow in to fruition, bearing the seeds of
salvation to the world around it
And at the right timing harvest the souls that
have born witness to the son of God Jesus Christ though the second birth of
salvation.
Clarence Larken…has described the Dispensations
of time as the following;
Dispensation 1
The creation of the earth
Dispensation 2
The antediluvian dispensation
Includes Eden (maybe) and the
time from when Adam and eve were kicked out of the garden till
the flood.
Dispensation 3
The Legal or time of the law
dispensation.
This includes the oral history
of the Land before written language.
This includes other cultures
that derived from the division caused by God at the
tower of Babel and their laws. Which I believe early in
that part of historical time came from the Godly line
of Adam.
This includes the law of Moses
coming down from the mountain.
This also concludes with the
cross. In which the all the Law of Moses and the prophets were
fulfilled.
Dispensation 4
This is the age of grace…which we live
in now and I personally believe that it is drawing to a close real
soon…soon and very soon.
This has been called the age of the
church..in which we all have seen is coming to an end which sets us up
for the next dispensation…
Dispensation 5…the age of tribulation…
This is the age where we like to call
it the end times, the last days and the return of Christ when in reality it
is not the end of times…it’s the end of one dispensation to another…
Though it is just a short 7 years it
will the most violent, it will be the most horrific, and it will be the
most suffering for the people of the earth because God will judge them
personally by sending judgment to the earth it self.
You may say the flood was horrific for
those involved and I would say yes in that it was violent…but death came swiftly
where as with the seven year tribulation people will be tortured and want
to die but yet they cant.
There are two more dispensations after the
tribulation which I will discuss later.
So let me review just a little bit…
J
God has created us for a purpose…
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That purpose is:
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To have fellowship…a relationship
with the creator of the heavens and the earth.
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God wishes His creation to be
perfect and yet there has to be a spiritual aspect to that perfection and that
comes by a walk of faith for us.
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Not just a physical birth of
perfection
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Or a mental birth of perfection
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An act of accepting Jesus as our
Lord and Savoir and then the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts to complete the
final construction of Gods perfect creation in a spiritual birth of perfection
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God’s plan has taken ages to
fulfill to it’s ultimate conclusion
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But yet with in those ages He still
worked using His chosen people to build upon one stone after another, his
perfect children and Christ being that perfect cornerstone which people will
reject.
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The ultimate conclusion we see now
is that His people have all but been chosen.
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Through this dispensation of the
church, the time where we walk by faith and not by sight.
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Millions have accepted Jesus as
Lord thus becoming a child of God.
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And now it’s time for the King of
King to come and set His kingdom up for the next dispensation.
J
How do we know it’s time for Jesus
to come?
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Since all things have a beginning
there has to be an end.
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We again just have to look at
history to see what has happen to the church in the last 2000 years.
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Matthew
28:18-20 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me
in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them
to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you
always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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That has been done: God’s word has
gone to the 4 corners of earth.
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The church has completed its
mission.
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The purpose of the church now is to
continue to preach until the last person to be saved by faith is saved.
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All things are ready for Christ to
return for His Children.
J
How do we know that we are living
in the last days of this dispensation?
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All we need to do and look at the
news…
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From the foundation of the church
in the middle east to its last station of hope, the united states we see where
sin has crept in and destroy the people of each country by sin.
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The church is dead in the middle
east, China, Russia, Europe and now with 53 million people voting for an
abortionist, a homosexual activists, a person who says he is not a president for
the Christians but for the Muslims, the Mormons as well as all other
faiths…which is true…where do we see our church stand today?
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They have (the government) has
taken Christ out of our:
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Schools
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Our cities
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And not they are going to take
Christ out of the church by telling pastors what they can preach on or not
preach on…because they will say I’m preaching a message of hate.
J
How do we know if we can be ready?
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Over the next few weeks I will be
preaching on..
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The rapture
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The remnant
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The return
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The reconstruction
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I say how can we know if we are
ready…the answer is not just that easy…ready for what?
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Are we prepared for what’s coming?
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To do that…we need to know what is
coming.
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We need to understand our purpose
and the purpose of the church and what will happen to both.
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Are you ready for what’s coming….
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If we are living in the last days…
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What will happen to you
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What will happen to your children
and grand children?
J
If you’re a non believer or you
never truly believed all those things found in the bible do you know what will
happen to you.
J
If you’re a believer but you back
sliden and you have turned your back on God…do you know what will happen to you?
J
If this is the beginning of the end
are you ready for what is coming in the next few years…or next few month or how
about the next few weeks.
J
What if Jesus called us home today…
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Would you go
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Or would you like the famous books
series…be left behind.
This morning as we close and have our time of
decision I pray that your heart is right.
I pray that you are living as God wants you to
live and that you have answered your calling…you purpose in life.
I pray that you have done what you are suppose to
do…in preparing the way for yourself and your families for the coming of our
Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
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