 I want to share with you a message today about the end of the world, about the things that are coming. This would be a little bit different message. I'm gonna start with Luke chapter 19 and verse 13. I'm gonna read one verse and then I'm just gonna quote the rest of this stuff. Luke chapter 19 and verse 13. So he called 10 of his servants, delivered to them 10 minas and said to them, do business till I come. Do business till I come. The world is going to end. That's my first point. Second Peter chapter 3 verse 10, 11, 12 and 13 it says the But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in which the heavens will pass away with the great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat both the earth and earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore since all these things will be dissolved what matter of persons are you to be in holy conduct in godliness looking and hastening the coming of the Lord God because of which the heavens will be dissolved being on fire and the elements will melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless we according to his promise look to new heavens and new earth in which righteousness will dwell. So in a nutshell Apostle Peter prophetically looks into the future and he's saying us few things. One this day when the earth will end will happen on the day of the Lord. So it won't be the day of antichrist. It won't be the day of the liberals. It won't be the day of the devils and demons. It will be the day of the Lord. God is gonna own the end times. Come on somebody. So I want us to rest and relax. The world is gonna only gonna get crazier. Times will only get hard. Things will only get difficult but at the end God will set the score. And he's going to come and it's called the day of the Lord. We are now looking forward to 666. When it comes it will be so quick like this so quick. Antichrist when he comes he will be so quick. The false prophet it will be so quick. Everything else will be so quick but there is the big big bang that's coming. And it's called the day of the Lord. On this day the Bible says that God will repay with relief for the present suffering to those who are suffering. The righteous will receive the reward the Bible says. The day of the Lord is also called the day of judgment and the coming of the Lord is also called the day of the Lord. So the coming of Jesus will make the day of the Lord. And in this day it will be a bad day for everybody who's not serving God. And it will be an amazing day. A day that everyone who is suffering who is going through tribulation is looking forward to because it's our payday. No not the payday for our sins but the payday for all the good things we've done for God. We don't earn salvation through our good works but we earn rewards and the Bible says on that day the Lord will reward the righteous. It's our payday. It's our Friday. Come on somebody. Now a few things I want you to highlight is this day is a mystery in the sense that it will come as a thief in the night. We don't know when that day will come for sure. We say but of the hour and the day no one knows not even the angels in heaven but my father only. Matthew 24 verse 36. We see that on that day something will happen. This day will affect not only the earth but heavens. It will be catastrophic cataclysmic in scope. Meaning this day will affect not only our planet it will affect our solar system. The Bible says that heavens will melt away. It means that other planets will be affected by this day as well. The whole galaxy will be affected by this day. It's going to be a big day. The Bible says it will be extremely loud. We see in here with the great noise in which the heavens will pass away with the great noise meaning some kind of a thing will happen that will cause very loud noise. So earplugs won't work on that day because it will be extremely loud. See God always shows up very loud and the Bible says in here is there will be a fervent heat meaning things will get extremely hot. The Bible says also that the earth and the works on it will be burned up so it's talking about a worldwide fire. We've had worldwide flood and it wiped the first earth but God will clean this earth with a worldwide fire. And then new heaven and new earth will be made. Now some people speculate it will be a nuclear war which actually we have all the elements for already. At this very moment we have 15,000 nuclear weapons on the planet earth. It would take just three nuclear warheads to destroy one of 4,500 cities on the earth meaning that 13,500 bombs in total would leave 1,500 left. What that means is we have enough nuclear weapons right now to make this happen what the Bible says. And we might have a president dictator somebody who is gonna punch punch the wrong button or say something wrong on Twitter or on the Facebook or something and we pretty much have everything that we need for this thing to be taking place. But the Bible doesn't say in here that it will be somebody from the earth that will create some kind of an event that will cause everything to go in smoke. But we don't know for sure one thing is certain. God controls the clock, God controls the events and he's saying on that day when he will be coming there will be heat, there will be fire, there will be great noise, the earth and the heavens will be burned up completely. So that tells us don't put everything on this earth because it will be cleansed through fire. We want to store everything into our eternal accounts because this won't last very long. This also doesn't discourage us to say well I don't want to get married, I don't want to build a house because everything's gonna be burned. You know I don't want to do anything right now. I'm just gonna sit, play video games, watch Netflix and wait till Jesus comes. That is not the position of a Christians towards the last time, the last days. Come on somebody man. Jesus did not say wait and chill. He says do business till I come and I'm gonna talk about that in just a moment. And so knowing that this earth gets burned does not discourages me to build a house. It doesn't discourage me from getting married. It doesn't discourage me to raise children. It just lets me know that I have an exploration clock on this earth. That everything I do I am going to die one day and if I happen to live when the Lord comes I have to know that I'm building my life for that world, not for this one. Amen. The second thing I want to mention is there are many signs of the end of age. There's only one sign of Jesus's second coming. There are many signs of the end of age. There's only one sign of Jesus's second coming. So we mentioned that the coming of God, the day of the Lord is going to be extremely crazy. The planets will be affected. It will probably wipe the whole earth. There will be fire. There will be heat. Great noise. We don't know the details of it but we know that it that day is coming. It's as sure as rising of the sun. It's as sure as your existence. The more is spoken about that day than Jesus's first coming. That's why people had a difficult time embracing Jesus as I'm dying Messiah and suffering Messiah because their idea of this mighty warrior is coming was so ingrained in their mind because the Old Testament talks so much about the coming of the Lord in power. Now go a little bit closer. In Matthew chapter 24 verse 3 and if you have that Bible, if you have that in your Bible, I want you to open it. As he said, an amount of olive's disciples came to him privately saying, tell us when will these things be? These things, it's destruction of Jerusalem because he was talking about how no rock will be left upon the rock. And what will be the sign of your coming? Have you noticed they said the sign not signs? Okay, so the sign singular. What is the sign of your coming? And then another question is and what is the sign of the end of age? So three questions were asked. When will this be, so it's speaking about when will Jerusalem be destroyed, which we know it happened in 7080. So that's already fulfilled. Then they're asking what is the sign of your coming? And then they're asking one more question is when is going to be the end of age? So the sign of his coming, if you go lower into Matthew 24 verse 30, so just go down to verse 30 and I want you to see what Jesus says is the sign of his coming. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven. And then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming on clouds of heaven with power and great glory. So what is the sign? It is Jesus's visible, physical, glorious appearance. That is the sign. The sign of his coming is Jesus appearing in heaven physically, visibly. The Bible says that it will happen in such a way where it will be like lightning where everyone on the earth will be able to see it. The Bible says that it will be on clouds. The Bible says there will be a shout of a voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God. And the Bible says is that he will come with his saying. So that is the sign. Everyone is going to be able to see. This is not going to be hidden in Bethlehem. This is not going to be somewhere where Virgin Mary was hiding with Joseph. This is not going to be secret. This is not going to be hidden. This is not going to be private. This will be public and this will be visible and everyone is going to see it. Jesus is coming back. He is coming back with glory. He is coming back with power. He is coming back not as a humble lamb. He is coming back as a mighty lion. He is not coming back on a donkey. He is coming back on a white horse. He is not coming back to be killed. He is coming back to rule and reign. Jesus Christ is coming back and we are expecting his coming. And he says this is the sign. That sign is this. You will see the Son of Man in the clouds. You will hear a loud voice of a trumpet of God. It will be like a lightning. Every eye will see and those who persecuted him will mourn because they'll realize they just made a great mistake. He is coming. Nobody will be able to stop it. Nobody will be able to say, well, now we will have a worldwide meeting or we will have the NATO meet and decide there will be no decision. The king is coming, not a president, not a dictator. He is not going to consult the popular vote. What they think about him? Do they believe in him? Do they want to submit to him? The Bible says that everyone will submit because he is coming back. You may say, man, that is not fair. My friend, my God is a God and the earth is his. The earth does not belong to us. We are stewards on the earth. God is the owner. The earth belongs to the Lord. So that is the sign of Jesus coming. Now, what are the signs of the end of age? And Jesus tells them that a few of them, the false prophets will come. That is one of the signs of the end of age. The false prophets is one of the signs. In fact, there has been 1100 leaders in the past 50 years who claim to be Christ. In America alone, there are up to 5000 cults. When I was in Philippines, I saw this guy that I was watching on TV once in a while dressed in white. His name is Pastor Apolo in Davao City, and he claims to be incarnate Christ. And so the interesting part is when I came back from Philippines and we were in the gym eating and one of the interns came and so I mentioned that we were in Davao City and she says, I was in Davao City too. And I was like, you were in Davao City? She said, yes. I said, how did you go to Davao City? She says, this pastor invited us. I said, which pastor? It was Pastor Apolo. Somebody in Canada in the marketplace came up and evangelized to them and says, this pastor, Apolo from Philippines wants to invite you guys. All trip is paid for. They came in, it was awkward. It was just so weird. I was like, did you know that's a false entry? That's a false Christ. She's like, yeah. And then we were trying to run from there, but they tried to hold us back and finally we escaped. And so this stuff is real. It's happening right now. There's a lot of false prophets and false Christ. Jesus says that will be one of the signs of the end, not the sign of his coming, the signs of end of age. There's the two difference between that. The second signs of the end of age is the wars in the world. History tells us that every year of peace, for every year of peace, we have 13 years of war. Since 1945 in 48 years, there has been already 300 wars. Not one day since 1945 that there has been a day where there is no war in this world. 15 nations have nuclear weapons and 10 nuclear bombs are made every single day. The third sign of the end of times is increase in hunger. The Bible says there will be famines. And we see in United States, maybe it's less, but in other countries, people are dying out of hunger. Pandemic COVID-19 has accelerated hunger through the roof. There will be earthquakes, the Bible says. And we see a lot of earthquakes happening, incurable diseases and pandemics. Matthew 24, verse 7. What is COVID-19? When it shuts down the whole earth, the Bible talked about, there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in various places. Number six sign is persecution of Christians. They will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all the nations. And we also know what's happening right now with that is that one in nine Christians worldwide experience high levels of persecution. We see that, and I have a little bunch of statistics that I'm not going to go through right now, but a lot of persecution is taking place especially in Middle East and in other countries. I mean, even in Russia right now, because my wife is probably going to go to Russia next year to get some stuff with family. And I was trying to just go in, you know, maybe preaching a few churches and I have to not only get a visa to go preach in Russia, but when you get that visa, you have to only preach where you told you're going to preach and they will monitor my sermons before they grant me the visa. It's like really crazy. You can't evangelize in Russia right now on the street without permission from the government. And if you do get a permission, you have to be qualified, you have to have certificate and they can give you a level of evangelization evangelizing where you're holding a poster, but you can't tell anybody about Christ except when they ask you to tell them about Christ. And Russia has the roots in Orthodox, you know, so you will think like, this is the country that is going to allow that they allow the Orthodox priests and all other people to do their stuff, which they're not doing anything. They're just simply having their mass on Sunday morning, but anybody else who wants to evangelize, they stopped that. And that is happening right now all around the world. We also see that the sign of the end of age is huge surge in wickedness. The Bible says many will be offended and will betray one another and will hate one another. Sign number eight is the love of believers will grow cold. And sign number nine is the world evangelism will be taking place and sign number 10 is Israel will become a nation. And so we see all of these signs are happening right in front of us for the end of age. Can I tell you that the end of age really started 2000 years ago? For those of us who all of this statistic, if you go back 2000 years ago, things were not better. If you really think that everybody got really bad right now, people were always bad. It started from Adam. Like they didn't even have weapons and Cain somehow was able to kill his brother. And there was no guns. And so evil is in the hearts of men. And it doesn't get regulated. You can't manage evil. You have to remove it by only one way. And that is through repentance and through conversion by the work of the Holy Spirit. And this is happening in our culture today. We are in the last of the last of the end of the end of days. What do we do? Well, first thing that we do is we have to brought more notes today than I know to do with. Number one is what do we do? End times is not to fill our conspiracy theories and curiosity, but it's to change our conduct. Apostle Peter clearly stated he says because you know this is coming. He says you should live holy. Not you should fill your head with conspiracy theories. Christians. Knowing that Jesus is coming, we can debate whether we will go through tribulation or not. We can fight over all of these nuances. Who is the Antichrist? Is it Joe Biden? Is it Pope Francis? Was it Trump? Who is the next Antichrist? We can debate and fight over is the COVID preparation for the 666. But the Bible tells us as Christians, our goal is not to go into that sphere. Our goal is to go into holiness. That is what we should be doing. The second thing that we should do in these end times and the reason why I don't want to go too deep into that and start describing every single trumpet, what that trumpet means and all of that because honestly, none of us really know. And the guy who spits, spit comes out of him and doing a YouTube video or Facebook video or writes a book and he puts a date and when Jesus is coming, honestly, nobody knows. Nobody knows how that's going to happen. And we can't try to figure every single thing out. We have to take the lessons that the Bible teaches us which is to live holy when you know that he is coming. And secondly is this is to store more in eternity and less here. Knowing that this earth will come to an end, it does not mean we don't save money. It doesn't mean we don't invest, we build, we don't get married. It just simply means we build more there than we build here because somebody say that. And thirdly, my favorite part, we gotta do business. Jesus says, do business till I come, meaning do conferences, build churches, help the poor, drive out demons, heal the sick, raise your family, pay down your debt, lose your weight, be nice to your wife. Come on, be nice to your kids, fix your car. Come on, do it 21 day fast. Let's add another service. Let's start another internship. Why? Because do business till I come. He didn't say sit on your butt and wait for the antichrist. Come on somebody. He did not say I want you to wait what the government will decide what you can do. I want you to wait for a new string of COVID. He says, do business till I come. That means heal the sick, cleanse our lepers, drive out demons, preach the gospel, establish my kingdom. Come on somebody, touch your neighbor, say do business till I come. Touch your other neighbor, say do business till I come. Get married, have a family, build your house, live for God. Why? Because we don't live with the mind that the antichrist is coming. We'll live with the mind Jesus is coming back and we are waiting for his coming. We will do business till he comes. We will build churches till he comes. Come on somebody. We're gonna have conferences until he comes. We're gonna have services until he comes. We're gonna pray for the sick until he comes. We're gonna give all the calls until he comes. We will baptize people until he comes. We're gonna write books until he comes. We're gonna write CDs until he comes. We're gonna launch a school until he comes. We're gonna launch intership until he comes. Come on somebody drop it in the chat if you are on YouTube do business. Come on tell that person right above you who just chatted say do business till I come. The Bible says in Acts chapter 1 when disciples got together in verse 6 they said therefore when they had come together they asked him saying Lord will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel. Jesus just came back in the flesh. He's a resurrected Messiah and disciples are asking him Lord is this now and I think sometimes one pandemic happened that's what a lot of people will also ask and they're like is this the end. For some people yes for some of you know and they're asking is this the time and this would be a good for Jesus to speculate so no guys hang in there two more thousand years um no um he's not giving them a timeline. He's not giving them some prophetic insight into Ezekiel's prophecy. He's not giving them none of this stuff literally. Jesus does not cater to end time conspiracies. I know not a fan somebody some people who's literally end times is your favorite topic and that's incredible. Antichrist is your favorite person. You're like man I know so much about him. Do you know Jesus? Man I know what Antichrist will do. Do you know what you should do? I know Antichrist is busy. Question is are you doing business? Come on somebody. Are you healing the sick? Are you cleansing the lepers? Are you building your family? Question is are you studying your Bible? Are you doing business? Not in what is the devil been busy doing? Hey verse one chapter one verse six and he says Lord will you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel and Jesus' response and this is this is our church's stands and end times. It's not for you to know the times or seasons which the father has put in his own authority but you shall receive not a mark of the beast but power. I'm not talking about a jab, power. You shall receive when the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me. So Jesus is saying whatever the anti is going to do whatever these people are going to do Rome is going to do emperors are going to do whatever ships they're going to hand out rules they are going to make he says I want you to know you are of a different kingdom and the timeline of what God and how God is churning the history and how God is using all of that in his purpose he said leave that to him it's too complicated for you kids he said leave that to him he says what I want you to do is I want you to know that as I am leaving the spirit of God is coming he is not coming to help you sit and wait for antichrist he is too big too powerful for that the father is not giving you the power for the sake of waiting he's giving you the power for the sake of purpose you shall receive power that means the last days for the church are to be powerful we are not beautiful we are not victims we are not waiting for the devil to make a move we're making moves we're making moves we're making moves come on somebody we're making moves we're doing business we're doing business for God we're making forward we're taking steps for the Lord hey man are you ready those of you on zoom are you with us do business till I come everyone on youtube drop that do business till I come so that's one of the reasons why hungry jen is building a new new building that's one of the reasons that it's in our heart not only to build a new building but to build a school a public a private school it's in our heart to see our internship grow it's in our heart next year to release books it's in our heart to if the Lord grants us and our church continues to grow we might start a fourth service on Saturday night we're gonna do business we're now waiting and nothing to change the world is waiting on us people are going to hell in a hand basket and we have to help to stop that sick people are still getting sicker and the Lord has called us to be a healing the world is divided as it's been and I'm going to tell you one thing the next president won't solve it there's going to be a help that will come from you and I we are the salt and we are the light if my people called by my name not if the white house changes not if the supreme court changes not if the biden changes not if the Trump comes back no no no no no if my house that means God is looking at his house my friend and so I just want to challenge you as we head it into end days as we head it into crazy days I want to encourage you keep your conduct holy I want to encourage you keep your eternal investment full and I want to encourage you to do business do not stop those of you who are retiring right now make sure you don't retire from life you're retiring from your full-time job that's a time to begin to go into full-time ministry you worked all your life so now it's not a time well I want to go travel the world that's good but it's gonna burn that's good but you must understand that God is gonna make a new world and God is giving you time right now to use all of the time for his kingdom that means begin to come and volunteer with the local church begin to come and volunteer at the homeless shelter live your life fully and 100% for Jesus Christ without fear of death without fear of what is coming why because we know who is coming all of this stuff is just is going to pass through we are focused on the Lord and the last thing that I want to mention is this while the assemblies of God stands and our church's stands is that we will get rapture before the tribulation we hope for rapture before the tribulation but we all must be prepared for the tribulation and then the rapture why we have to be prepared because nobody really knows when we know rapture will happen we know tribulation would happen and we also know that a lot of Christians are going through tribulation right now and we also know that the idea that we will not go through a hard time and that we will be spared from that only originated in 1930 or something curse Christians for thousands of years did not believe in that and everybody outside of America doesn't embrace that because their tribulation right now they're like what worst can happen I'm already being persecuted I already can't get a job my children are sitting in jail I'm starving because I can't do that and you're telling me what antichrist can make it worse how worse so for many of them they're now looking forward to tribulation they're looking forward to the coming of Christ and I just want to challenge the church I know we're we're privileged in America that we're not getting dragged through courts right now we're not being attacked and we are privileged but that is an exception that is not a promise we are promised persecution we are promised tribulation and we shouldn't be afraid of that because we're not snowflakes we're soldiers and soldiers endure suffering come on somebody come on touch your neighbors it don't be a snowflake grow a spine come on grow a spine become strong in the Lord and you can't be strong if you're a snowflake and so those of you who are maybe like snowflake the idea that you can lose your job the idea that you will go into jail my friend embrace that die for Jesus here right now and devil can do nothing against you and when the antichrist or one of those his goonies will come out and say I'm gonna kill you say you're too late I'm already dead I already belong to Jesus I'm dead to myself and I'm only alive to Jesus Christ and the life that now I live I live for Jesus Christ it's no longer I but it's Christ who lives in me so I want to challenge you church I want you to become dead for the world dead for sin and alive for Christ and whatever comes my friend we're gonna grind it through whatever comes we're gonna plow it through whatever comes we're gonna move the mountains whatever comes we will see the glory of God in the midst of tribulation in the midst of persecution in the midst of hardship in the midst of sickness in the midst of trials in the midst of difficult times in the midst of hard times because Jesus in this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer lift up your head square your shoulders I have overcome the world and so will you and so will you and so will you and so will you and so will you and so will you you will overcome you will overcome you will overcome you will overcome you will overcome come on touch your neighbor say you will overcome you will overcome hallelujah thank you father i thank you lord everyone rise to your feet i'm done with my bulletin points come on somebody do business till i come do business some of you you literally need to do business like you actually need to start a business some of you start a family birth children lots of them church growth through natural means because we're starting a school for your children come on we're gonna start it start that blog start that book amen finish that remodel do that thing that you are procrastinating and doing do business till i come your eyes are on my coming not on the other guy that wants to come his coming but he's gonna be very short because jesus will destroy him with his coming jesus is coming this planet is his he created it if you're in this room today and you don't know this jesus and maybe it seemed like his second coming is violent bloody and maybe you like yourself a softy jesus a cushy jesus a comfy jesus i'm gonna tell you you want too many christ christmas movies jesus is not a center with the belly he's the king with scars in his hands and in his feet his eyes as full of fire he let himself be spit on his beer plucked out he let himself be betrayed by his friend who traded him for 30 shackles of silver he let himself he let these things be done to him so that your transgression your rebellion your crime against god will not stand in between you and god that's he did that with one intent he said nobody takes my life i willingly lay it down he's coming back he's a rightful owner of this planet and he's actually your rightful owner but he will not exercise his control over you because he made you as his image barrier and he has given you something it's a precious gift but it's a double-edged sword free choice he loves you so much that he will let you reject him he will let you do what will hurt you and hurt him because he honors you and he does not want to force you to be with him it's not that god hates people that he sends them to hell it's that he honors people's choice not to be with god and he puts them out of where he's at and unfortunately outside of where god is is dark death an eternal damnation that's all it is he wants you to be part of his family why wouldn't you be part of his family every head bowed and every eye closed if you're scared of the future if maybe this pandemic the trials and the difficult things in your life has caused your heart to be weary scared anxious the greatest solution is you follow a resurrected victorious triumph and savior today he wants to forgive you of your sin i can't promise your life will get better what i can promise you is you will have Jesus in your heart and he will give you new life he will put his heaven inside of you through the forgiveness of your sins and by the power of the holy spirit if you're not there what you're supposed to be with god when i count the three i'm gonna ask you to raise your head the most important decision that you make today is now where you live who you're married and how are you gonna retire it's what you're gonna do with jesus christ it will affect your eternity and it will affect everything from this day forward when i count the three and you're not right with god i'm gonna ask you to raise your hand up as a way of saying i want to get saved if you're on youtube and you're not right with god you can comment in the chat and saying i want to get saved if you are on the zoom you can drop that in the comment as well maybe you used to have a relationship with god but stuff happened you just walked away from christ you had bunch of bad decisions that led you stray from your faith and you turned your face on god maybe it's something that you thought god will fix he didn't and it broke your trust in him because you were really using god to get something instead of really following him for the salvation of your soul today is the time to make right to make amends with god through repentance when i count to three if you're one of these two camps raise your hand one two three thank you keep that hand up thank you i see your hand thank you i see you hand thank you i see your hand anybody else wants to get right with god anybody else who thank you i see your hand anybody else to say i want to give my life to the lord today thank you lord if you raised your hand or you wanted to raise your hand i'm going to ask you to come quickly out of your seat and stand right here right now just come make your way make your way out of your seat and stand here right now. Come on. No fear, no fear. Come on. Just come. Just come. Come on. If I have, if we can have some life group leaders, I want you to make your way here, so we're gonna right now pray for this precious soul. So if there's anybody else, make your way now here. This is the most important decision that you will make in your life that the Lord wants to, Maria Net is saying, I want to be saved. Susan is saying, I want to be saved. Anybody else on YouTube is saying, today is my day of salvation. I want to give my life to the Lord. I want to give my life to Jesus. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. And those of you who are here in the front today, I want you to pray this prayer out loud with me. Say this out loud with me. Say, Lord Jesus, I am a sinner. Please forgive me of all my sin and wash me with your precious blood. I come the way I am, but I ask you to change me so that I'm not the same when I leave this place. Deliver me from all my demons, all my curses, and all my darkness, and depression in the name of Jesus. I believe you are the Son of God who died for someone like me and I choose you as my Savior in Jesus' name. Amen.