 Welcome to Pace Assembly Ministries. My name is Caleb Sanders and I'm the children's pastor here at Pace. I'm so excited that you've joined us today for service. I'd like to take a moment to share a little information about Pace Kids Ministry. From nursery to fifth grade, the kids are offered a variety of classes that your children can enjoy every Sunday morning and Wednesday night. Each age group has their own special area where they're free to play with one another and learn about Jesus. All of our leaders have been cleared through background checks and are members of the church and we have one thing in mind, the spiritual and physical safety of your children in a fun, Christ centered environment. At every service just make sure you stop by the Pace Kids check-in station so you can enjoy the adult services knowing your child is being cared for every step of the way. For those who are pre-K through fifth grade, Family Sunday is the last Sunday of every month so we can enjoy church together. I encourage you to visit us online and download the Pace app and stay up to date with everything that's happening in Pace Kids Ministry. If you're watching online we are so glad that you've joined us. Just let us know where you're watching from in the comments and if you have a prayer request we have a team ready to pray for you. I'm so excited for what God is doing here at Pace Assembly Ministries and I'm glad that you're here with us. Now service is about to begin. Good morning. I'm Pastor Victor and I'm thrilled to be here. I hope you are too. I'm one of the new associate pastors here at Pace Assembly Ministry. My wife Marita and I came here from serving Pastor John Hague for over 17 years and helping grow the ministry there from a couple hundred people to 11 million and with his blessing we're here now to serve Pastor Joey Rogers and this Rita and the beautiful vision they have and have had for many years here for the Pace community and some of the responsibilities they've asked me to help them with firstly is the men's ministry, men of influence. We meet every other Monday the second and fourth of the month and we eat together and then we have an interactive time of fellowship in the word of God studying the life of David right now. We've got close to 50 men coming and many of them are bringing their sons as well. I'll invite you men to come and check it out sometime. I believe you'll come every time from that moment on. We're also helping to work with the seniors in touch ministry here at Pace and this is a large part of the congregation and really the ballast of this big ship. These are people with many years of faithfulness of walking with the Lord understanding of the word of God and many many years ahead of them to be used by the Lord and we have a weekly Bible study fellowship we're about to start. We have evening dinners together. We have day trips. We have trips out of town and if you're a boomerang up call the office and get involved with this ministry as well. I encourage you to visit us online and download the Pace app to stay up-to-date with everything that's happening with Pace assembly. If you're watching online we're so glad that you joined us today. Let us know where you're watching from in the comments and if you have a prayer request we have a team ready to pray for you. Really excited for what God's doing at Pace assembly ministries. I'm glad that you're here with us and service is about to begin. Welcome to Pace assembly ministries. My name is Will Purvis. I am the music director and the worship pastor here at Pace assembly and I'm so glad that you're here to join us today for this service. I like to take a moment to share a little information about Pace worship. Pace worship is a multicultural ministry that gathers in worship to our father through music and song. Rehearsals take place every Thursday starting with Pace worship at 6 p.m. and then voices of Pace fire at 7 p.m. If you would like to join Pace worship or our music department in general please email us at Pace worship at Pace assembly.org. I encourage you to visit us online and download the Pace app to stay up to date with everything that's happening with Pace worship and Pace assembly at large. If you are watching online we are so glad that you joined us today. Let us know where you are watching from in the comments. If you have a prayer request we have a team ready to pray with you. I am so excited of what God is doing at Pace assembly ministries and I'm glad that you are here to be a part of this service as we are about to begin. And again we say thank you for being with us at Pace assembly ministry and don't ever forget this. The only ship that won't sink is fellowship. Take that with you. Peace. And God I'm gonna praise you for your blessings to me. For daily you load me with benefits Lord and only I can give you my praise. Nobody else can praise you for me. I'm gonna sing a new song unto you this morning Lord for you are great and greatly to be praised. Hallelujah. Oh we bless your name this morning. For you this morning for you are worthy. Blessed be the Lord. Blessed be the Lord. Now God today we invite you to have your way in this church in this service on this campus today. That the Spirit of the Lord would hover. Lord that you would show yourself mighty. That you would show yourself strong. And Lord that you would come and your power would move today. That the gospel be preached. That souls be changed. Lord we've gathered for no other reason. We can gather other places. We can go to civic meetings and we can go to any gathering Lord. But God if two or three will gather in your name. You said you will come down and be with us. And Lord that's what we're here to do. So join me now church. Let those hands be lifted to the Lord and give him praise. Hallelujah. This morning and we have all the kids joining us. So what I need you all to do kids. Come on down. Join me and kids church. All of you junior kids. Senior kids all with us here on this family Sunday. So I want you to give a big round of applause to our special guest. To join us like we do and pace kids. No hands by your side. I need your hands up and I need you ready to DJ drop. I want you to turn to somebody. Greet him in the name of the Lord around this building. Would you do that right now while I welcome all of you that are watching online. We are so glad to have you join us from around the world. You're seeing a little bit of what's happening on family Sunday here at Pace Assembly as well as Latino Fest weekend with our very special guests that are in from Guatemala to help us. And we're so glad that you're joining us from around the world from Kenya from Alabama from Washington and Illinois Florida in Texas Wisconsin the Philippines we welcome you in Mississippi. We're glad to have all of you join us here this morning. Get ready to be a part of this service. I'm going to bring you a message in a few moments that I believe you're going to want to hear. So you make sure that you stand. Share it out. Will you do that? Let other people know how much you want them to be a part of it as well. Praise God. Pastor Jose, Dr. Paul would you join me. You may be seated. So glad to have each and every one of you here this morning. Hey while you're just still steady giving me a little groove right there would you do that give me a little what you were grooving right there and I want to find out who is going to get the Bible this morning so look up underneath your seats wherever you are and find the golden ticket Bible this morning early someone has looked up underneath the seat always find it interesting if I ever have the time to tell a joke to somebody if I have to explain it it's not that funny if I have to tell you where the ticket is it's not quite as surprising is the ticket there thank God there it is right there run that Bible back to him give him a great big God bless you this morning. Amen. For those of you don't have a clue what's going on and you're seeing people get on their knees they're praying that they get this Bible we're giving away Bibles every weekend and we're excited to be able to do that we want to put the word of God into the hands of people and not just here but it's happening around the world so I just am thankful to be able to get that to you and may God bless you for being here this morning we are excited about what God has already done with the Latino Fest this third festival would you give the Lord praise for what God is doing as a matter of fact guys if you will put a little bit of some of the pictures from last night up on the screen and I am listen I messed up and called him a certain given name last night but his actual name in this arena is that's easy everybody say to do though all right because if you say it wrong the little bull then you're a little bull I want you to listen this is probably one of the hardest working couples in ministry that I know and for the past two weeks they've been here working the Pensacola area even Tri County area reaching out to the Hispanic community that's from last night right there yesterday afternoon at the Latino Fest of yesterday afternoon and I want them if they will please I want you to put up the two-minute video if you will that will show you what this precious couple Carla and Elvin have been doing for the past couple of weeks let's watch a little bit of that roll a little bit of that footage how much you appreciate their work out and outreaching into this area Jose Jr. stand up would you please always call him junior but now Jose was right in the middle of it you let him know how much you appreciate him we're glad to have his sister Deborah in from South Florida helping as well stand up Deborah everybody loves Deborah here she was here they've been doing over the past few weeks actually found the probably the largest church in our area at the T and W flea market so for the past two Sundays you haven't seen them here because they've been right there at the flea market ministering the gospel making balloon animals touching the lives of people and many of the folks that were here last night came as a result of that particular reaching out and for that we give God the glory and so do they tomorrow morning Jose Jr. and Carla and Elvin their precious children are going to leave at 3 o'clock in the morning as they fly back to Guatemala and they began a whole brand new crusade that will lead them up to Mother's Day there is Mother's Day is a very special time in Guatemala and they will be preparing for all of that to be able to reach out especially to the moms and ministering gifts and blessings and the gospel with all of that that's happening and they've got a lot of work to do so they're leaving at 3 o'clock in the morning I want to mention to you on the way out the door this morning they're both going to be out there he's going to be making balloon animals for the kids out in the four year and there's a table that they brought with handmade items from Guatemala that they want to be able to minister to you there's not a price that is on them but you can give a donation of any size and Carla will be there to be able to help with that I want them to be able to know how much that I personally and this church owes them a debt of gratitude because what they're doing is touching the lives of people that you and I may not and when they go back to their specific called place they left their place in Escapulis Guatemala the most impoverished area in Guatemala they are there as the pastors the reason why I'm saying that to you is because several years ago as God placed them divinely in that location they're literally every day of their life ministering to thousands of children and adults without exaggeration as a matter of fact I want them to show you this one minute video that will give you a little insight into what they do every day in Escapulis Guatemala rolling I'm saying that to you because next Sunday will be Mission Sunday and every first Sunday of the month you're giving missions towards missions over and above your time I want you to know that every month you're giving toward this couple to be able to stay on the mission field in Escapulis Guatemala where they are all the time fighting all kinds of things going around cartels and everything else literally that have moved in on them in recent weeks but up in the mountains of Escapulis they have I don't know if it's still seven schools that they had nine schools that they are the administrators and teachers of and helping to provide for children the reason why that's happened is because Pace assembly has been a consistent faithful giver into this ministry throughout the years that's been going on let me say hello everybody okay look at the person of your left look at the person are you right okay please choose one and say you don't have the fall of the face that you have but you have the fall of the face that you put so it's a mile because when you smile you preach God bless you I love it I'm just gonna tell you that what they're doing and Jose is the pastor of the church in Guatemala City every month you're supporting that ministry the kitchen of love to be able to reach out to literally tens of thousands of children and adults in those particular areas Escapulis in Guatemala are five hours away from each other that doesn't seem like a long time unless you're driving with him we made it one time in three and a half hours angels just because you were looking and hungry for that state yes there was a state when the pastor is hungry I'll do whatever I need to do I think I filmed my last will and testimony on the video camera as we were traveling this is a man who looked at the double lines on the road that was on double solid lines and I said pastor I think this is the first trip I'd ever gone down there many years ago I said pastor do you understand what the double lines mean on the road he said yes look twice this man could not be more proud of the fact that over the years he's trained his children and his family members and those that have married into the family to be able to carry on the ministry even in his absence and I am grateful to Carla and Elvin for them coming in and helping us to make a successful Latino Fest weekend to reach out to the Hispanic community in our area would you let them know how much you love and appreciate them they'll be in the four year after the service so don't forget that you stop by and put something in their hand to help them keep on moving forward pastor Jose tell me what is happening with you a lot I should narrow that down I should narrow that down the Latino Fest weekend here in Pensacola and pace specifically you were telling me that yesterday there were people that were literally God sent to this place just before I left Connecticut I happened to meet my very good friend Dr. Paul Dr. Paul Ettingham based the president of Youth Challenge International and he was this ministry that I shared with you many times I came to Guatemala when I was lost in drugs and all of those kind of things and he was this ministry the one that I used to reach me out and when I was sharing about everything that's happening here I told Dr. Paul you have to be with us in one of those festivals and he did he's here with us and I'm so proud thank you Dr. Paul I love you amen doctor whether you know it or not there have been individuals that have come out of this church who have gone into Youth Challenge Youth Challenge is actually the foundation ministry before there was Teen Challenge before there was anything else Youth Challenge was there if you've ever driven towards Orlando and turned on the turnpike at Wildwood Florida and looked over to the left and saw crosses standing out there in the middle of the field that was the original Youth Challenge location but now they are on the search in the state of Florida for a new location I think Pensacola would be a great place for it to land don't you just a little nudge there dr. Paul we're glad to have him in go ahead sir praise the Lord that's just wonderful to be here pastor it is so great to be here with you and face and greetings and blessings this is a congregation on the move and your kindness generosity love and prayerfulness is just it's exceptional I want to say thank you bless you love you my friend God bless you come on give him a great big God bless you would you so we were meeting at the airport you know and just before I left I had a meeting with my wife and I I told my wife at the house to my wife I I need to know what God wants me to do next and how soon and I was meeting with a group of pastors and I share about this Latino Fests and some of them asked me pastor why do you want to do that you already have your hands full they told me the kitchen of love and watermelon needs you the people in the Amazon jungles needs you you already got a lot why how you doing that and I said you don't understand the reason I need to move the reason I need to go to pace the reason I need to go to that place is because there are so many families that are hurting I don't know you've seen it but there are so many children that are so many broken hearts hurting in Pensacola and we cannot be quiet we see someone is hurting somebody's hurting and is looking for a touch and the Bible says in the book of Isaiah that the spirit of the Lord is upon me and I have been annoying them to preach the gospel to the poor why are you doing when you do it and I said not only there's people that's hurting but there's families who are hunting they are hunting for truth and there are so many cults and so many sects and so many false groups that are providing some kind of fake truth and our children are falling into and our young people are falling into and I'm going to tell you something based assembly we have the truth in the Bible said they shall know the truth and the truth just set them free so why are you doing what you're doing because there is people who's hurting there is people who's hunting but I'm going to tell you that it's also so many families who are hungry they hungry they so desperate for love they saw pastor we have families that are coming here listen God is bringing them here last night I told pastor I'm going to go and greet some of the families and say thank you for coming and as I was meeting with some of them I noticed that there was somebody that waiting and waiting and waiting and finally she came and sat down with me and she told me pastor I grew up in Fort Walton beach then I moved to Pensacola because I went to the university here and there I met my husband we married and we've been here and we've been going from church to church from church to church and she said that the Lord spoke to their hearts and then all of a sudden they had the desire and they said we look we're going to look for an American church who has passion for the Latino communities and then all of a sudden they went to the flea market or somewhere and they met Torito and Carlita and Junior and they said they came here they thought that the festival was last weekend but they realized that there was nothing here so you know what they did they stood in the property they walk all over praying for this church praying for this church suggested that they came for the first time and they said to me pastor I know that we know that we know that we found the place we've been praying for we're going to join you we're going to help you so so I got so excited and I went to meet the husband and when I met her husband she spoke to me I mean he spoke to me in the heavenly Honduran language and I understood a little bit of the Honduran language because my son who is also another of my children that you support that is a missionary on the Amazon jungle so Peru is married to an Honduran and I said Lord you are so faithful you are so good because sometimes when you're trying to do something you know for the Lord sometimes the enemy tries to tell you and to convince you and to discourage you to let you know that you are alone but you are not alone when God is saying that he said I will build my church and the gates of hell will prevail so that's why I'm here that's why you're here and I love it would you stretch your hand this way come on stand with me will you come here you guy somebody's got to have a passion for the lost pastor what what what about what about here you know sometimes we've been preached over and burned the field over so much that just to look on new eyes and new faces can rekindle something inside of our heart and I pray that today because the moment listen to me church the moment that we get introverted and it's all about us and our blessing and what programs and and what feeding thing can we do and is it all about us and give me a fellowship I want you to know something if we ever lose outreach we will always lose in reach I want you to stretch your hand this way I want the last thing that they see before they leave this city and this afternoon service the hands of people in this church agreeing and prayer if you do I want you to lift your voice right now would you do it father in the name of Jesus we thank you for the passion and the heart and the desire to see the lost come to you and it makes no difference what the skin color is or nationality or what may be going on in their life they're a soul that's going to spend eternity somewhere and if I can stand in the middle of the road and say come to Jesus and they find you a savior and Lord and the love that overwhelms their soul then it will be Lord Jesus not for naught but it will be everything so I pray that you give us souls for our labors Lord much seed is in the ground and we're expecting the harvest that's taking place is shortly coming to pass when we'll not have this opportunity but right now while it's day while it's time while we have the opportunity Lord let our hands be sent to the plow and let us never look back because you're the God and the Lord of the harvest you are the Lord of the harvest you are the Lord of the harvest and we call in the harvest from the north the southeast in the west build your church Lord that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it bless this family and everything they do for the kingdom of God's sake I pray in the mighty name of Jesus and everybody believes it shout a great big amen would you let them know how much you love and appreciate them come on come on come on come on let them know it amen you may be seated if you can God let me never lose sight of the harvest here's what Jesus said the fields are white under harvest they're ready and I don't know who I'm going to come in contact with but I can tell you this every person who's born again every person who knows Jesus Christ owes this world the gospel of Jesus Christ and that's what we're attempting to do here I want you to get ready to be a giver that's what's happening all the time even as we speak there are people watching online in this service they call this their home church your giving is helping to make that possible and keeping the perpetuation of the gospel going on and I just want to thank you because I know I hear it I see it and I do my best to bring it to you I know that we take some time like this sometimes to bring these reports to you but I think it's important that you know that you're not sitting in a church that has idle hands and we're just talking about harvest that we never go into so I want to encourage you this morning as you get ready to give just get your phones your smart device whatever it may be the information's on the screen behind me I want you to make sure that you're giving today also online at paceassembly.org we thank you for your faithful support and may god bless you for that this week we were able to see uh another outreach taking place and helping to be able to make it possible for the gospel to get out and around and as I speak right now the journey network uh pastor JT Guyton and his uh television network and radio network internet all of that Roku is broadcasting this service and has been doing it now for the past three years without a charge every Sunday morning from the time we start until the time we end we could not afford to pay the bill on live television around the world for three years live for two and a half hours if you want to make it four go ahead and sit there and don't clap but anyway it's reaching further than what we could ever imagine there are reports that are coming into them about people joining the services online uh this week I want you to know this church made a missionary offering toward that to reach further than ever before to help perpetuate the gospel ladies and gentlemen let's do what we do for the kingdom right now I can assure you that there will be plenty of time to celebrate when we get to heaven but right now it's the time to work while it's day amen come on look at your neighbor and tell them that's the word right there I want you to hold your phones up right where you are your smart devices if you're giving cash the buckets will be available at the end of the service as you exit I want you to make sure that everybody here gets a chance to give every time you put little coins into your hands of your children or dollar bills or a thousand dollar bills or whatever it may be I want you to know you're teaching your children to be a giver you're teaching your children to be a giver when that takes place when that takes place it'll be important because when you're in the nursing home gumming your grits you'll be glad your children still care enough to come by and see you because you taught them to be a giver you better say amen somebody I want to be a giving church don't you oh I feel the spirit of God in this room right now would you just hold your hand up whether you've got anything to give this morning or not and just hold that hand up I want to pray God's blessing upon this father we thank you right now for the privilege and the opportunities that you set before us as an open door Lord I pray today that you would bless every gift and every giver as we place it into your hands would you do what you do just like you did with the fish and the loaven just multiply it to exceed the need oh God in every reaching out into this community and far and wide around the world I pray the influence of the gospel would be carried more than ever before in this hour we give you praise for it we thank you for it in Jesus mighty name let all the church shout a great big amen real quick before I should have done this before I prayed but real quick today the young adults are going to Nikos for a fellowship lunch together this afternoon at four o'clock the next Latino and last one for this particular occasion service will happen at four o'clock in the chapel you can join us there if you'd love to do that if not be sure to be praying and then if we ever needed to pray for America we do now I just saw the report this morning where leaders in Australia are now calling on the nation of Australia to pray for the United States of America ladies and gentlemen I think that's a good thing we better pray for ourselves so this coming Thursday is the national day of prayer uh if the weather is right and it's supposed to be we will meet right out underneath the American and Christian flags at the monument the 10 commandments monument right on the grass out front for prayer at 10 a.m. this coming Thursday morning if for some reason or other we can't meet there we will be in the sanctuary and we will be praying for our nation at 10 o'clock I want you to join me I'm gonna be there I want you to join me in this national day of prayer we need to call on the Lord if my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face turn from their wicked ways God promised he would hear us from heaven and he would heal our land and forgive our sins I want to encourage you to pray earnestly and be here Thursday for the national day of prayer set it aside don't let anything block it and God is going to bless those efforts I believe it amen would you just slip your hands towards heaven right now as they come and lead us in worship in fact I want you to do this I know it's sacrifice for some of you but stand back up again I want you to look to your neighbor on the left and right just tell him we've come to worship come on tell him we've come to worship now give him one of those uh uh elven smiles he was talking about a few minutes ago and come on smile at him and tell him I've got joy way down in my soul way down in my heart and I want to lift my praise on the God this morning if that's your desire I want you to give Jesus a great hand clap of praise that you possibly can and let's worship him amen that's beauty and my broken just lift your hands open your mouth that's right make a noise under the Lord right now all you I want you to worship the Lord right here come on Lord is in this place this morning I believe God is setting us up in this room today for those that are across the globe the presence of God in your life you do know without it you die I know people think that they're gonna live on but I want you to know something hell is not going to be hell because of flames of fire hell is not going to be hell because the devil is there hell will be hell because the absence of the presence of God and that's what you're feeling in this building right now that's what you're feeling across the globe I believe God is speaking to our lives today and I believe that this word is a right now word as you turn with me to the book of Psalms I want you to prepare your heart for the word of God we're standing in turn to the book of Psalm chapter 12 and also turn to the book of 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 Psalm chapter number 12 if you found it say oh get amen two verses I have never used this Psalm before in this subject it is a prophetic Psalm I'll explain more in a moment but I want you to read with me these passages of Scripture in the book of Psalm chapter 12 verse 1 the psalmist writes help Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithful man oh from among the children of men they speak vanity everyone with his neighbor with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak I want you to turn with me to book of 1st Thessalonians chapter number four 1st Thessalonians chapter number four in verse 13 it reads like this but I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him God's gonna bring him with him for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain under the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep or have died for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up the word caught up there is the word we get rapture from caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord Paul closed the chapter and said where for comfort one another with these words it is a comfort for the child of God for the person who is not the child of God it is confusion and I'm afraid that there's a whole lot of confusion that's going on so I want to second the record straight for this church and for me and for anybody who claims to be a believer you're coming to this church the word of God is very clear I make this bold statement in the final message in this series I believe I believe Jesus Christ is coming soon if you believe that with me lift your hand and let's go to the throne father in the name of Jesus I pray that you would help me this morning because there are people standing in this building and watching online that are going to meet the Lord very soon and your coming is almost at hand you are even at the door I pray that you would speak to the hearts and lives of people both here and watching online let people make a decision today for tomorrow may be too late and in all of these things we give you glory honor and praise for it's in Jesus name we pray and everybody shout out a great big amen I want you to turn to your neighbor and tell them I believe Jesus is coming soon one out of every 25 verses found in the New Testament and deals with the second coming of Jesus Christ the New Testament church used the word Maranatha with their greeting and exiting one another saying the Lord is coming this was the motivation of urgent evangelism in the days of the early church and should be for us today with the urgency of the return of Jesus Christ I did not bring it to the pulpit this morning but I have a red file in my satchel in the back that contains the most recent articles of events that are happening that are pointing like the forefinger of Almighty God to the imminent return of Jesus Christ he's not going to ask you whether or not you believe or not for him to come he's not going to ask you if your attitude is right or if everything's going okay or if your bank account is full of money or you've got your business on the right track none of that will prohibit the Lord Jesus Christ from coming any moment in fact I make this declaration clear that he could come before I get through preaching this message this morning that's how close the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is the bible is the only religious book that predicts the future with 100 accuracy the early church the book of acts church they had a holy anticipation of Christ returned so much that that's what motivated them in every song in every message in every greeting in every conversation the Christian that looks for Christ return should not waste time with things that distract and take that valued time away from you in preparing and helping others to get prepared if we believe Jesus Christ is coming back now I am not foolish to believe that everybody in this building and everybody watching actually believes that he is going to return and you are the fulfillment of prophecy in the book of Peter first Peter where he says that in the last days scoffers would come saying where is the promise of his coming for since our fathers fell asleep or died all things continued just like they always have been in other words pastor nothing is really changing we've always had wars we've always had storms we've always had earthquakes we've always had famine we've always had disease we've always had this we've always had that yes but there is one difference and I won't take time to expand on it today but I will tell you that the marker for the last days well how do you know we're living in the last days pastor there is one dynamic marker for the last days and that was on May 14th 1948 the establishment of the before then obscure and scattered across the globe nation of Israel on the day that that took place and Israel became a nation a state ladies and gentlemen whether the un at that time did recognize and other countries didn't recognize I want you to understand whether they recognized it or not the prophets of old said that there would be a nation born in a day and that started the end time time clock of god almighty we are closer to the coming of the lord than we've ever been before and whether you believe it or not is entirely up to you but today by the time I get through with this message I pray that you've been persuaded not by my words but by the word of almighty god the second coming can be broken down in stages and it first starts with the rapture the return of jesus christ in the clouds to gather the saints into heaven of which we've read first Thessalonians 4 17 then we'll be following the great tribulation of seven years of judgment upon this earth it's found in the book of revelation chapter 5 through 19 christ then will return after that seven years in the great battle of armageddon followed by all the saints of glory riding on white horses down to the valley of megado and he would destroy the antichrist in the false prophet with the brightness of his coming ladies and gentlemen it then jesus christ will walk across the same valley that he exited upon coming over to the mount of olives he will walk across the valley of kedron into the eastern gate that is now sealed up by mortar and brick busting it down walking into the throne of his father david and sit down there to declare himself as king of kings and lord of lords to the glory of god the father followed by a thousand years of millennial reign where satan will be bound for a thousand years revelation chapter number 20 then following that if everybody said i'm going to heaven and that seems to be the consensus by saint and center alike i can assure you everybody is going to heaven but not everybody's going to stay the great white throne judgment will command both the living and the dead to rise before the great white throne of god's judgment and hear those horrible words depart from me not because you weren't a good person not because you didn't have good morals but because you rejected jesus christ not because you smoked a cigarette or cussed it will be because you rejected jesus christ as your person of lord and savior and for that you'll hear those awful words depart from me you worker of iniquity i never knew you it will be then that satan will try to take the kingdom once again all of this is found in the word of god i summarize as he rises up to the mount where jesus christ is sitting on the throne in the city of david and there he will attempt to take the throne again by those states and governments and kingdoms that have tried to be arrested by him but because that jesus christ has established his kingdom at that time fire and brimstone will fall out of heaven and he will be destroyed and once and for all dragged into the lake of fire where there is torment and torture all throughout eternity you'll never see that joker that liar that accuser again at the conclusion of that time according to the record in revelation jesus christ will then have the new jerusalem that new heaven and new earth coming down from out of heaven and sit down as a four square city with transparent streets of gold gates of pearl walls of jasper where angels fly across the city crying holy holy holy is the lord god almighty 24 elders were surround with 24 thrones crying out he is worthy who sits upon the throne and the rest of us who are born again believers will have our crowns thrown at the feet of jesus christ to declare that he is king of kings and lord of lords to the glory of god the father and of his kingdom there shall be no end i have just given you according to the word of god what will happen between now and your eternal destiny it is the most ignored doctrine eschatology the study of end time events is the most ignored doctrine in all of christian today and the most ignored topic is the event called the rapture of the church it is not preached from behind pulpits i know you hear it from this one all the time and this church has heard it for years but you'd be shocked to know how many pulpits not only reject the message that i'm talking about evangelical pulpits reject the message but absolutely refuse to preach on it for giving people false hope in a pre tribulation rapture that they themselves are not convinced after reading the word of god i am not an expert i am not even a scholar i am a student and i will tell you of the students following after the scripture all these years i have fully come to the conclusion that it is not a post tribulation rapture and it is not a mid tribulation rapture it is a pre wrath tribulation rapture of the church exclusively for the bloodbought child of god both the dead and the living it could happen this very moment i am fully convinced we don't have to wait for another sign because the rapture is a sinless event and i came to declare to you today what i sign off on radio and television every day of the week i declare to you that jesus christ is coming sooner rather than later this most ignored doctrine has been the the subject of mockery and rejection and ridicule in the country of australia recently there was a whole group of pre tribulation rapture believers who were marked by the government because of their belief in the pre tribulation rapture i want you to know that everybody in this building that believes in eschatology and in times events according to the word of god is being true has already been placed as a mark upon the united states government as people that consider themselves to be on the fringe edge of believing well they won't have to worry about me very soon they won't have to worry about getting my taxes my land my car my house my business my hair or anything else why do i preach this to you as doctrinal truth in fact from the word of god because in recent weeks the district council of which i asked you to pray for hours this coming week here in west florida a recent district council in the north in a northern state of the assemblies of god a resolution was submitted to remove the word rapture from our doctrinal statements to remove our doctrinal belief and denounce and the denouncing of all millennialism which is in effect replacement theology where the church now becomes israel and israel is excluded and never to be dealt with again that is false doctrine it's against the word of god if you don't believe what i'm saying realize that every writer of the bible was jewish and just before you want to hold your hand up in the air and ask a question i remind you jesus christ himself was a jew jesus god is not through with the nation of israel that's why the seven years of tribulation will then have the church off of this earth and he will once again turn his attention back to the nation of israel and deal with him according to the word of god this resolution that was placed now on the floor of this district council of an assembly of god district council wants to open up the beliefs to a broader perspective and deny the pre-tribulation rapture of the church i take your attention to the book of psalm chapter 12 it is a prophetic psalm by the scholars and rabbis hebrew scholars they've said this to be a psalm of the coming antichrist you can read it and see it and the very first verse is one that grabs my attention for the subject matter today in verse number one the translation the bible says help lord the psalmist wrote help lord for the godly man ceaseth these words this word help means saved in hebrew and the word ceaseth there is a translation that says that this person disappeared so the accurate translation says save lord for the godly man has disappeared psalm paul wrote it in second thessalonians chapter two that the antichrist cannot and i want you to make sure you get this i've watched some people posting on facebook about how the antichrist comes in before christ returns i want to let you know that's wrong theology and you shouldn't just be posting something because you read jesus and antichrist in the same measure in second thessalonians chapter number two that the antichrist cannot rule the earth until the church has left the earth what is that leaving on this earth of the church it is called the rapture the snatching and sudden snatching away of every believer both the living and the dead king david said and he looked through time and saw him 12 and he prophesied this rapture that godly men have disappeared they've been raptured i want you to know that jesus christ comes before the antichrist the antichrist will come as a man of peace he will come and cause craft to prosper according to daniel 28 and 5 craft what is craft there listen carefully to this description and see if it doesn't apply in the very spirit of the age that we're in right now it means to commit fraud to deceit to intentionally mislead or someone else through distorting or withholding the truth hold on to your seats this morning ladies and gentlemen i'm about to take you somewhere ladies and gentlemen i want you to know that we are watching craft prosper in the time we're in right now the withholding of truth and intentional deceiving of people has now gotten placed people in such a place of great fear and torment in their mind that they don't know what to do i've come to tell you what to do get saved today get ready for jesus christ to return he's coming in a moment in the twinkling of an eye the antichrist will make a seven-year peace treaty with the nation of israel and break it in 42 months and three and a half years he will set himself up as god to be worshiped and everyone here and those watching who have rejected jesus christ as their savior will follow him how will you follow him you'll follow him with a mark every child of god has an invisible mark upon your heart it is the blood of jesus christ but for the antichrist it will be a mark in the right hand or in the forehead interesting ladies and gentlemen in the files that i have in this place this morning there is now senate bills that are making happen right now with qr codes for every man woman boy and girl in the united states of america an attempt to number and to mark every man woman boy and girl it's not a hard jump from taking a vaccine of covet into a place where you line up and put your hand in your forehead there because your babies are crying from milk and bread ladies and gentlemen it is critical that we understand this mark is called the mark of the beast you find it in revelation 13 and every person that belongs to the antichrist will have this mark you'll not be able to buy a loaf of bread or a can of beans without having the mark it's very interesting and i brought this to you in several weeks past that the new esg that is coming in environmental social and governance has everything to do with whether or not you'll be able to buy or sell coming in the days that are ahead as i speak today they're fighting over the first republic bank because it's about to collapse and you're watching a run on the bank where the economies of the world are afraid of what's taking place i want you to know that the antichrist is going to control the economic systems of this world and without his permission you will do nothing understand every secular humanist every new age or every satanist every occult worshipper as they're doing that this weekend in chicago at the satan con those who worship the creation more than the creator every godless politician and political leader that passes laws against the word of god denies the life of the unborn and supports the mutilation of children against god's law every person who intentionally deceives by your authority the masses under ungodly living or lies to manipulate power and money into your coffers you will not rule as long as the church of jesus christ is here on this earth because we are salt and light and it repels corruption that is coming this way but rest assure when the church is taken off of this earth by the rapture of jesus christ of the church of the lord jesus ladies and gentlemen you can rest assure all of hell is going to break loose all of the hell is going to break loose and the woe the bible says into the inhabitants of the earth for satan has now come down to you satan's messiah the antichrist in revelation 12 and 12 will be turned loose upon this earth because the restrainer the power of the holy spirit will have been brought away from its from his operation as he is right now the church will be gone do you realize when the rapture takes place there will not be one believer left on this earth i want you to let that soak into your mind oh i'll call mom and daddy no you won't all you'll get is a dial tone and leave your message at the sound of the tone i came to tell you ladies and gentlemen that we're living that close to the coming of the lord and when you reject truth all that's left for you is a lie there is a nightmare coming of apocalyptic proportion that no mind can comprehend and no heart can conceive some of you will be here to see it because you're good and you're moral and you do what you think you ought to do is right but you've never been born again the bible says he that believeth on me hath life and he that do not does not believe upon me is dead already what are you saying i'm saying that if you don't know jesus christ picture a casket sitting in front of me right now and the lid is pushed down and it's screwed down and you're inside of it you're as good as dead without jesus christ as your savior but ladies and gentlemen if you have received jesus as your savior you will hear these words as a promise to you my brother and i wouldn't have you to be ignorant concerning them that have died are you sorrow as others that have no hope i want you to know i put mom and dad and their bodies in the grave in four walton beach we put my my wife's mom in the grave in four walton beach last couple of weeks i put my precious and her ashes in the grave in four walton beach and when i pulled away from there i said what i said always i'll see you in the morning ladies and gentlemen why do you have that confidence because i'm not like everybody who has no hope i have hope that jesus christ is not only going to return but i have hope that when my dead loved ones get ready and hear the trumpet of god from six feet into the sod it will break forth every kind of cavern and mausoleum and they'll come out with the shout of the archangel and with the trump of god and the dead in christ shall rise first and then we which are alive and remain shall be raptured caught up to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord why is the church in the condition that it's in because we've forgotten this doctrine that jesus will not leave our bones in the grave but he shall come again in a moment in the twinkling of an eye if that doesn't stir your heart to excitement you're dead already pastor i don't know what you're talking about you better find out in a hurry he's more important than your baseball stats and the next nfl football star he's more important than what you're going to eat this afternoon and what you're going to do tomorrow it's more important than how much you got in your bank account and where your children are going to go to school i'll tell you being ready for the rapture is the most important thing you can do i want to know is there anybody who believes jesus is coming right now well the lord himself shall have sent from heaven with a shout with a voice to the archangel and with the trump of god the dead in christ shall rise first at 19 years old i turned away from my brothers my mother's grave and her at 55 years old that demon disease of cancer had riddled her body lost her hair all kinds of stuff going on in her body when they called me after i prayed and laid over that altar hot tears rolling down my face and i said god you got to heal my mama and then she died at least what i thought haha y'all just sit there i'll preach to myself this morning i want to let you know mom and daddy are more alive today than they've ever been on the face of this earth what kind of confidence do you have in that all of my hope is in jesus all of my hope is in jesus i i appreciate you and i love pastor nish church but when the trumpet of god you're gonna have to get a new preacher i'll be gone david saw a day of disappearance in psalm 12 but it's not unprecedented the old testament there's clear descriptions of godly men who simply disappear off the face of the earth without dying the bible says enic walked with god and was not for god took him he walked in a time like we were walking in right now where there's perversion on every hand violence and all kind of mess that's going on and yet he walked with god did you hear what i said pastor it's getting so hard to walk with god don't talk to me and you better not talk to any of these guatemalans down here because when you talk about walking with god i'm not talking about you got it rained out from going to church i'm talking about you walk with god through the trial through the fire through the hard time and it didn't make no difference because you had a made-up mind to serve the lord i came to deliver a phoenix message to you this morning you better have a made-up mind because it ain't gonna get no easier between now and the coming of the lord but i tell you what it is gonna do it's gonna get sweeter as the days go by because one day i'm gonna see them face to face and they'll be no more sorrow no more sickness and no more pain david said they're disappearing these godly men look at elijah elijah the prophet of god was swept up in the whirlwind of fire climbed on that chariot and he was gone pastor do you believe in ufo's i sure do i looked on the news this morning and over in arizona they said there wasn't us the military said there was four what they called ufo's overhanging arizona somewhere in arizona i said yeah i believe in ufo's i believe completely in ufo's because elijah was the first one to ride on one pastor you believe there's life on other planets i sure do you bet you i sure do there is a city called heaven made with god's own hands it's four square and they call it the new jerusalem and it's coming out from god out of heaven it's something that nobody's ever seen with their natural eye but the bible said he's gone to prepare a place for us a place what is that place it's a place where the lame leak and the blind see in the duff here there's no sorrow there there's no pain there's no depression there's no disease there's no death there's no departing the former things have passed away it's a city where the flower never fades and the roses never stop blooming forever where the streets are made of pure gold and the gates of pearl where the throne of god sits in the middle and jesus sits on the throne as king of kings and lord of lords it's a city that doesn't need the solar panels of america and the world because it's lit up by the god who is the god of all you keep your natural light this morning while we were singing the power went out but i came to tell you in heaven the power never goes out not sure what it might take for some of you i may have to do a backflip or something but i guarantee you five seconds after the rapture some of you hadn't lifted a hand or said nothing will say save me jesus but it'll be too late i came to tell you you better get ready while i'm preaching this message because he may come at any moment now you don't believe me because you've heard it too much you get too familiar i've had two churches that have called me in the past few weeks said we want you to come out here and talk to us about bible prophecy come up here and talk to us come up here in tennessee come out here in texas and tell us talk to us because because our people don't know about it i'm not boasting in myself i'm wondering listen as i was growing up everybody knew how to tell somebody about jesus coming everybody in my church looked at one another and said i know jesus is coming and knew how to lay it out but now we've got false prophets in the land that want to deny the rapture and deny eschatology and tell you that it's not going to happen ladies and gentlemen if the enemy can steal hope out of the church then why are we sitting here this morning ladies and gentlemen the only thing we have is the hope of jesus christ returned and he will not leave us to suffer the wrath that is to come upon this earth he will come and rescue us as sure as they put no way in the ark and grab lot it took him out of Sodom god is coming back in a moment in the twinkling of an eye if you believe it shout amen the city where jesus is alive the city where my mommy is this morning i don't need your amen's i can hear her saying from heaven go on and preach it son i hear my daddy who preached the coming of the lord over and over again in the portals of glory the great cloud of witnesses found in Hebrews 12 go ahead and preach that thing son i can hear my aunt faye who gave her life to the lord while sitting in this church and watched until her death online to keep her faith and courage because the disease had taken over her body she said i'll see you in heaven son keep preaching that word just like you always have i got news for you i've preached it when there's been five and i've preached it when there's been five thousand and i can assure you i'm more excited today than i ever been before because the only message that's gonna bring you hope is not escapism but one day i'm gone in the moment in the twinkling of an eye push your neighbor and ask them are you ready to go or not there'll be a great reunion there's a lot of things i'm looking for sister shana there's a lot of things i'm looking for but i'm looking forward to seeing my mama again how you gonna know the bible the bible says we will be known as we are known hadn't seen her since i was 19 i've lived longer than i live with her on this earth but there will be a grand reunion i said there's gonna be a reunion you think you're having a reunion down here have a little mullet fry i got news for you whenever we gather the saints of god in heaven hallelujah there will be a reunion that is incomparable to anything down here on this earth i've flown into guatemala got off that plane where i was the tallest guy on the plane everybody hit me about right here walked out in the middle of that vast airport thousands of people started getting out towards where the cars were being picked up picking up people and i looked as the loved ones lined up as thick as they could six eight feet deep looking for their loved ones looking around trying to climb on one another children on somebody's shoulders look for them i started looking i needed to find out if i knew somebody do i recognize enough oh she do i recognize anybody in the crowd and i look right over there and what do you know i turned around and found my friend i said well i guess i got a ride today oh my dear friends let me tell you something when you find a friend in a crowd like that i don't know a whole bunch of these people but his face stood out like a glow because i knew him and he knew me i want you to know do you remember when you were standing at the airport waiting on somebody to arrive and suddenly you saw their face and they saw you it wasn't anything about oh how do you do it was a hug and it was laughter and it was tears ladies and gentlemen the reunion that is going to happen is one you don't want to miss and the only way you're gonna make it is if you know jesus christ says savior and lord there'll be no more dying no more disease all you that are afraid of kovat go to heaven i'm amazed where is kovat now kovat kovat kovat like where was waldo where's kovat we don't know where kovat is i've read enough material to declare to you today that that's exactly the tactic that the bible says what happened in the last days they'll be lying in the seat going on come on somebody you ain't gonna like me when i tell you this i'm gonna tell you anyway the bible declares and describes the rapture in the second coming as two separate events hear what i'm about to tell you push your neighbor and tell them wake up you need to hear this i'm amazed that anybody would sleep now the rapture is where believers meet christ in the air the second coming is when christ returns to the mount of olives to meet the believers on the earth the rapture happens on the mount of olives is unchanged in the second coming when jesus puts his foot down on the mount of olives and returning the second coming it forms a valley and the water flows to restore the dead sea to life in the rapture living believers will obtain glorified bodies in the second coming living believers will remain in their same body in the rapture believers go to heaven in the second coming glorified believers come from heaven to an earthly heaven that will be made by the hands of god in the rapture the world is left unjudged and living in sin but in the second coming the world is judged and righteousness is established for a thousand years in the rapture it's depicting the deliverance of the church from the wrath of god in the second coming it depicts the deliverance of believers who endured the wrath i'm giving you the difference because this is a doctrinal thing you need to have imparted and implanted into your heart before somebody lies to you and take your hope away the rapture is a sinless event the second coming has many signs and you can read them in matthew 24 the rapture deals with the only with only the saved only the born again believers will leave this earth at the rapture in the second coming it deals with both the saved and the unsaved in the rapture satan remains free to roam free and he will have his way for seven years in the second coming satan is bound and thrown into the abyss for a thousand years why did you say all that because since the rapture and the second coming are clearly different events then ladies and gentlemen there's impossible for you to rule out a post or impossible for you to put a post tribulation rapture in this scenario in other words i could calculate from the first of the seven years to the end of the seven years and say when jesus is coming again but the bible says he's coming in an hour that you think not he's coming and that reserve time is held in the mind of the father alone the rapture according to first thessalonians chapter number four will be a sudden event stay with me i'm almost done suddenly in a moment jesus will come in the air there's a difference between the second coming and the rapture in the rapture jesus comes in the clouds in the second coming he comes all the way to the earth and rest assured he will not put his foot on the statue of liberty in new york city he will not put his foot on mount reiner out there in alaska he will not put his foot in the middle of yellowstone or he won't put his foot down in pace florida the next time you see him and every eye will see him he will put his foot down on the mount of olives and it will break in half and suddenly ladies and gentlemen people's eyes will know that this is the one whom we pierce the shofar of god the trump of god will sound what is the trumpet of god is the announcement of royalty coming the shout will summon the dead this is amazing it is the ultimate defeat of satan when those that have put their trust in jesus died in christ and are in the grave this very day but because they were covered by the blood and believed in the death burial and resurrection of jesus christ even the ashes of saints that have gone on before will rise to meet jesus and simultaneously receive a brand new body like that of jesus graves will explode and mausoleums will break open at the faithful that died to rise to meet him in the air i'm talking to you about an event that could happen in any moment cars are gonna block interstate 10 and highway 90 if you think it's tough to get around now just wait five seconds after the rapture the cars will block the highways and the motors will still be running as the occupants of the front seat in the back seat that new jesus christ are snatched out of their clothes and rise to meet jesus in the air i feel like preaching now whatever you do don't climb on a plane with a saved pilot because it's going down for sure i came to tell you planes are gonna fall out of the skies as they don't know what to do as the pilot has disappeared all the sudden out of the cockpit and left it empty for anybody who might learn how to fly i want you to know as he steps out of the cockpit onto the cloud with jesus it won't be as long for him to rise as it does the rest of us from the ground homes of believers will be there with the supper dishes laid on the table and the meal will still be cooking on the stove as members of the body of christ inside of that church leave their home for another home called heaven hallelujah preach pastor i'm telling you daycares are going to empty across the parking lot is paced christian academy we hold about 150 children every day over there but when the rapture takes place not a crib not a playground not any part of that ground is going to see those babies they're going to rise right up out of there before the government takes hold of them before perversion takes hold of them they're going to rise in their innocent body and schools will be left empty all over the place what's going to happen pastor you better hear this preacher today because this is not a message you're going to hear everywhere when the schools have emptied out of young people that have been coming up on wednesday night and given their life to jesus their moms and dads who are left behind are going to start calling the school they're going to start calling the school board members where's my baby where's my baby what's going to happen i'll tell you they'll empty their arms and say we don't know something has happened somebody is coming got your baby students will be missing from the roll that day because their names were written in the roll that is called up yonder chaos is going to ensue on this lie on this earth as the headlines of every internet server is going to be plastered headlines millions are missing and many will remember this preacher this morning and other christians who kept talking about the conspiracy theory called the rapture if you want me to preach some more of this you better get with me this morning this is not an emotional stir this is a breaking news bulletin from behind the pulpit the saith the lord i shall return and i'll come in a moment that you're not thinking about cell phones are going to be jammed global chaos will ensue as millions are missing around this will globe think about it hard being able to get on your cell phone it's going to be real hard everybody's going to be calling one another their friends and loved ones to say are you there and all you're going to get is leave a message at the sound of the tone live tv is going to broadcast from cemeteries around Pensacola in pace standing in the middle of that graveyard that has been broken open and every grave is cracked with no explanation people are going to lose their minds in a moment as reality starts setting in i went to church i said i was a christian but i've been left behind churches are going to find a steady stream of people who knew about jesus but never committed to him in repentance major news networks and every phone are going to be filled with the experts explaining how the result of global warming and climate change has taken people and disappeared them off of this earth they're going to grab some theologians from one of our schools of higher learning and bring them in to explain the reason why this is not the rapture everybody should remain calm but in heaven heaven there is a people sanctified by the anointing of god and glorified by the power of a brand new body who will be gathering in one mind and in one accord and what's going to happen there'll be the most hugging kissing and loving on one another that you've ever seen in your life oh lord even so come lord jesus first time he came they mocked him and spit on him and slapped him the next time he comes he'll destroy them with the brightness of his coming for those of you that think that i serve a little meek mild and gentle jesus who would never hurt anybody it'll be the same jesus who fashioned a whip and walked into the beginning of his ministry and the end of his ministry who's going to clean house ladies and gentlemen talk about cleaning out the swamp in washington dc there's such corruption in there ladies and gentlemen because the minds of godless perversion has taken over washington dc i know you don't like me preaching on politics but when jesus stood before pilot he said you say you can take my life but the only way you can do it is if i give you the power to do it ladies and gentlemen let truth be spoken to power it's corruption and sin and it will be the clarion call of the church that says lord get me out of here before this mess turns loose in my house the first time he came they crucified him and said we killed god well first of all you can't kill god and for all of you that are trying to get away from him he's still there where can i go from your presence who can separate me from the love of god pastor i'm so depressed start praising god and you'll come out of your depression pastor somebody said that i i'm a christian but i'm demon possessed the devil is a liar and so are they you've been bought by the blood of jesus arise to the occasion get yourself in the house of god and you'll pray and praise your way right out of depression the devil is a liar in fact in the name of jesus i command you to have joy in your heart joy in your soul you will not be depressed because there is no depression in the kingdom if you want to be depressed you better get away from me i want to be around some people who know where they're going and are excited to get there first time he came to crucify him first time he came he came riding on a donkey the next time he come he'd be straddled a white steed and with the clap of the whip that sounds like a thousand thunders he will ride out of the heaven with all the saints of all the ages he will be declaring out of the word of his mouth the word of god and his eyes are eyes are like fire his feet are like brass and his hair is like wool they're gonna say we don't recognize him but i'll tell you what's gonna happen every eye and every cnn fox news nbc cbs and everybody's youtube is going to be trying to capture that little white speck that looks like fire coming out of heaven and the closer he gets the bigger it becomes ladies and gentlemen he rode in on a donkey but the next time he comes he's coming in on a white horse and guess who's going to be riding with him even said lord save me because the godly men are disappearing have you got a second getting close to new now i don't want to over preach anybody i don't want you to get bored in here because you're hearing about the next great event on the calendar of god well pastor i hope it don't happen before my vacation happens in july well go on and plan your vacation you'll be able to take it pay for it ahead of time and go ahead and look forward to it because you'll be there but if the rapture takes place between now and then i can assure you five seconds afterward you ain't gonna be thinking about no vacation oh talk to somebody now i've often asked myself the question over the past several years as i've watched individuals like dr charles stanley bishop g e paterson prophets and preachers evangelists who've gone off the scene david wilkerson i find it interesting where he died as he prophesied and showed us things to come that are happening right now signs don't impress anybody anymore we've gotten used to it how many of you watched the space x missile fly the other day look forward how many of you watch the first space shuttle when it took off let me see you here let me just tell you something the more things happen the more we get familiar the more we take it for granted it doesn't impress us anymore that's the reason why thousands and tens of thousands have stopped coming to church because there's nothing to go there for my preachers dead as cordwood and i get more interest out of my latte on a sunday morning than i do the sermon you don't want me to preach it like i say the bible said everyone look at verse two everyone lies to his neighbor their flattering lips speak deception this is the part where i'm about to lose some folks right now the hebrew translation means this that they have a heart within a heart a heart within a heart in other words they have a heart behind the fake one that they're showing you they're filled with hate and deception and david looked down the annals of time and saw the time we're living and said the days before the rapture will be days of great deception what kind of deception oh they're going to call your belief in the rapture a conspiracy theory but you've been hearing that now for quite some time but isn't it interesting after it's brought to the surface and then our propaganda media moves it off and people don't think about it anymore they don't think about whether or not that was a lie or true conspiracy theories that have proven to be true the mask work they said but on february the 23rd the government said mask don't work conspiracy theory number one debunked lockdowns will do more harm than good but they said that's a conspiracy theory i read just this morning where it's affecting our children like never before and i can tell you there is one administrator that's in this building that would tell you more in this year than any other time in the history of his administration in the school system he's been dealing with kids that are depressed taking their lives suicide fentanyl and everything else under the sun and so on february of this year they said the lockdowns have done harm conspiracy theory done number two why am i telling you this because you don't need to look on the television the internet and social media or listen to your friends to get your information you need to get your information because you're in tune with heaven and you discern what's going on by the order of the holy ghost just sit there i'll be all right in a minute they said it wasn't a lab leak from wuhan but they lied because in february of this year 23 three they said there's been a lab leak conspiracy theory number three is debunked they said the school system is not putting crt critical race theory into the curriculum but they lied because on the february of 23 of this year they had to confess yes we've been doing it and we've been doing it for years why to divide the races that's directly against that bible right there on the day of pentecost when it was fully come they were all in one mind and one accord and suddenly there came a sound from heaven and 15 to 18 different nationalities were all in one place together and the one thing they had in common i know jesus and you know jesus and you know jesus and you know jesus ladies and gentlemen don't you let race divide the church we are one body and we're all of his body and belong to him i'm almost done the media and social media they said you're suppressing information and they said that's conspiracy until february of 22 that we found out that they facebook and google and everything else was using their algorithms to put out lies and to suppress truth in cahoots with the government of the united states y'all better pray for me mr. Fauci sat there in front of congress and lied to them and said i don't have anything to do with the gain of function and congressmen and senators said yes you do we got the paperwork right here conspiracy theory oh no in september of 21 it was completely debunked they are you doing gain of function even to this day hold on i'm talking about david see in a day of deception let me remind you to intentionally mislead or withhold truth is the craft that the antichrist is going to use on the masses they said you're exaggerating the covid deaths you're inflating them they said that's a conspiracy theory and then we found out in march of 23 this year that cnn and others were putting it up there and inflating them to cause fear to grip the hearts of people around the world i came to tell you god is not giving you the spirit of fear and you better shake that thing off right now before it takes you down to hell because ladies and gentlemen in the book of revelation the bible said the fearful are going to occupy the lake of fire but i came to tell you you don't have to be afraid i got the peace speaker on the inside i got the lord of glory on the inside shall he ask somebody you got time for one more thank you i've been telling you for months even years that the dollar the u.s dollar they said oh no conspiracy theory but we found out in march of this year that it's losing its dominance in the world and there's over a hundred different nations that are now trading in their own currency instead of the reserve currency and now what do we get from our pentecostal brethren who are all supposed to be believing in the 16 fundamentals of the faith of the assemblies of god now i want to put a resolution ladies and gentlemen if this resolution i spoke to you of passes this particular district it will go next year to the general council and if the general council is to vote that in and voted it in then it would take rapture and the belief of a pre-tribulation rapture right out of our doctrine of belief ladies and gentlemen to steal hope from someone is a capital crime in heaven did you hear what i said let me give you some scripture on it if you offend one of these little ones it's better than a rope be tied around your neck and a millstone and you thrown into the sea can you handle some more preaching bible says they'll pretend to be loyal but they'll lie to you in their in your face deception jesus said the one thing you better be careful of matthew 24 take heed that no man deceive you a lying spirit is taking hold of the united states in the world let me tell you out of all this transgender and lgbt and everything else and i realize there are people in this congregation whose children are in that place i want you know there is deliverance there is healing and there is restoration by the grace of almighty god and this church is always welcome anybody who wants to walk through the door of this house but i came to tell you all of that is based in a lying spirit and whenever the officials of the supreme court said that same-sex marriage is okay they open the door to what you're seeing right now where the un says we can now have sex with children the devil is a liar pastor don't say that out loud we got children in here believe me ladies and gentlemen ask your babies ask them when they come home from school you better talk to those children and grandchildren because in the time we're living the devil is after them and what they need to remember is somebody who was daring enough to take a bible in one hand and a mic in the other and tell them to say a floor mom and daddy you're not their buddy you're their parent they need leadership they need guidance they need somebody to pray over them and help them study and help them find their way in a world that they will grow up in that is nothing like yours i'm almost through so what are they gonna say they're gonna say the rapture is a fable and you need to know not too many days from now they'll probably be writing this preacher office a fanatic right wing fundamentalist crazy guy who preaches the pre-tribulation rapture of the church but if i gotta preach up underneath an oak tree somewhere and find three i ain't free i ain't scared they're gonna say that the rapture is a fable and a myth that it's not going to happen until we get everything ready right now an old lie has come back to the surface called kingdom now theology our pastor emeritus wrote a thesis on that that that thick i still have in my office to this day that's over 40 years old and debunking all of this nonsense about we're going to get everything ready and put all the officials in that are christians and and then we're going to invite jesus to come back that is not bible how do i know this because what the bible says i'm not giving you my opinion i'll give you first Corinthians 15 behold i show you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead in christ shall rise incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the same death is swallowed up in victory oh death oh where is your sting oh grave where is your victory i got news for you the only reason why jesus said we'll use that tomb as he said i only need it for the weekend i ain't staying and neither are my people acts 111 says this same jesus that you've seen go away shall come in like manner those who don't believe jesus is coming say the word rapture is not in the bible and you'd be right the word rapture is not in the bible but guess what's not in the bible too bible chew on that one a while but i will tell you in the latin text the word rapture is very much there but the words we get in first thessalonians four is caught up somebody shall caught up caught up that means he's going to snatch you off this earth so fast that you're not going to have time to button your coat jobes said naked i came into this world naked i'm leaving out pastor what's going to happen i mean all these naked folk rising to meet jesus i'll tell you what's going to happen before you can blink your eye this glory of god that was there in the beginning in the book of genesis he's going to close us and make us just like jesus oh come on somebody i said he's going to make us just like jesus there'll be no more pain no more sorrow i will be just like him bible says you better be ready for this escape luke 21 36 watch you there for and pray always pray always that you be accounted worthy to escape all you christian preachers of the rapture want to do is escape i'm telling you the rapture is no more escapism than healing is from disease it's the promise of god that you may escape all these things which have come to pass and stand before the son of god how and what are we going to escape i'll tell you after revelation four he said i looked and behold a door was opened in heaven after revelation chapter four you don't see the church or read about the church anymore until revelation 19 we are not here well somebody said we're going through the tribulation if you want to go through the tribulation help yourself well they've written a book and they've given me evidence that there is a mid-tribulation where jesus is going to come back where you can read all the books you want to and you'll never convince me but here's what i want to submit to them and you that may be mid-tribbers or even post-tribbers because i've run into a lot of smart guy pastor the wrath of god won't happen until the last 42 months of the year well i don't know about you but when he speaks of burning up all of the grass one third of the grass in the very first tribulation plague i'd say that's some pretty good wrath going on right there i'd say when he turns the sea and to go from mexico and every river into blood and when you get water out of the water fountain it turns into blood i'd say that's some pretty bad going on right there and that's the short list of what i'm giving to you right now but here's my question for the mid and the post-tribbers you're going to wait for the rapture then okay fine and you're looking at me saying well you don't believe like we do it's going to happen in the mid-tribulation okay if i'm wrong i'll be ready when it happens but if you're wrong you're gonna miss it a hundred miles wide pastor i don't believe in the pre-tribulation you better read the book before the rain fell on Noah's ark he was in it sealed up and floating like a man that was godly read the book before a lot saw fire and brimstone come out of heaven he had already been snatched and escorted by two angels out of the city before the judgment fell i gotta stop and i'm going to and i know you all love it so just in case you missed the real clear thing because today you can call me old fashion you can call me out of date you can call me what you want to but let me leave you with something from revelation chapter number four through revelation chapter 19 is seven years of tribulation and for those of you who reject and refuse Jesus Christ as your savior this is what god said he's going to do on this earth he said there's going to be one third of all vegetation will be burned up all grass and all trees locus the size of horses are going to fly around and sting me in for five months and it's going to be so painful that they're going to cry out to die but god won't let them die there's going to be a worldwide famine where one day's wages is going to be there for one meal one loaf of bread there's going to be a worldwide wars and rumors of wars and wars like we're seeing right now if you think this is something this is nothing there's going to be sores that are going to cover people from the top of their head to their to the bottom of their feet you won't be able to sit down lay down stand up it will be putrifying pus filled sores that will continually break out like boils on your body as part of the plagues the bible said there'll be the seas that will be filled with blood the springs of water will be filled with blood as a result of that you think it's interesting to me that they call it red tide because whenever that takes place the fish we're waiting on what is the largest amount of seagrass to hit the beaches that's larger in length than the united states of america to hit the shores of florida right now it's going to be nothing there's going to be a fish kill like it's never been and the stench of that is going to create disease of all kind the sun for all of those that are climate control experts are going to finally get their wish because the sun is going to scorch the earth and destroy people and the earth the bible says diseases are going to follow in rampant succession kings and priests and leaders of the earth are going to hide themselves in caves calling for the rocks to fall on them the bible said there'll be such earthquakes that the islands of the sea will disappear imagine the caribbean hawaii sinking disappearing into the sea it's going to happen and this is the shortlist why would you want to be here when you're seeing these things happen right now if you don't believe in a literal rapture how are you going to know when jesus appeared because he said he's coming and there's plenty of false messiahs that are ready to deceive i'm telling you jesus is coming and the church is the only thing that's going to be getting yourself ready for the groom are you hearing what i'm saying and god has put a full a failsafe system in the bible for those who believe and have trusted him and have hope in him a failsafe system it's called the rapture and satan cannot imitate it and he cannot duplicate it he has no idea then until this i'm so glad i'm going to get a brand new body he's going to give me a brand new body and as i go sailing through the second heaven i'm going to let the devil know i'm gone you'll never touch me again as i stand here today pastor pastor i'm fighting devil so am i if you're living for the lord you're fighting principalities and powers like it's never been what is it that keeps me preaching it keeps me going it's the hope that i have in jesus christ that in a moment in the twinkling of an eye he will return every head bowed and every eye closed no one leaving no one moving around this is the greatest invitation that has ever been given to mortal man you're sitting here this morning you're watching online and i asked you the most important question of your life where will you spend eternity the bible says for those who are looking he shall appear the second time under salvation flip that over to those who are not looking he will not appear the second time under salvation do you know jesus are you looking for him are you ready for him if you say pastor i know jesus christ is my personal lord and savior i am ready if the rapture was to happen or i fell over dead right now i am ready to go if that's you lift your hand strong and bold before god today you can put your hands down for those of you that didn't raise your hand this morning i've got an awesome invitation and i won't back up from giving it and i'm not gonna last a long time i'm saying to you if you don't know jesus as your savior today is the day of salvation tomorrow could be too late you may not get to tomorrow so as saints are praying for your eternal soul all around this auditorium and online right now i'm gonna ask you if you don't know jesus christ as your savior then you're not ready for the rapture and if the rapture happened you'd be left behind to see things that i've just described to you in vivid detail and experience them you trying to scare me nope nope i'm trying to tell you the truth because one day i'm going to give an account for your soul and if i let you walk out of this building without this awesome invitation and give your life to jesus christ and the blood of your life is going to be on my hands but today i'm giving you this invitation if you've got an unsaved love on your to start whispering their name out because they might be watching online now if you don't know jesus as your savior and today you say pastor i want to be ready when jesus comes that's all that matters i want to be ready if that's you right now i want you to slip that hand up in the air if you mean business do it right now slip it up slip it up i see that hand i see that hand and i see other hands if you've got your hands lifted up i'm standing right here at this altar and this is where we make things right with god so in a moment when i ask everybody to stand no i'm not i'm gonna ask you if you got your hand lifted up right now i want you to get up from where you are come right here where i am would you do it do it right now come on come on come on they're coming right now come on come on come on come on come on little come on baby come on baby come on baby come on baby that's right before the enemy has a chance to take her life and change it around she's going to give her life to jesus come on man come on man come on come on come on you know what i'm talking about come on here come on here come on here who else am i waiting on who else am i waiting on who else is the holy ghost dealing with right now come on come on down here hey baby come on down here come on down here i'm always amazed when i give the altar call that little children want to respond come on down here come on who else needs to get up and make a move right now do you need to make a move to god do you need to get to god today you better move while you got the chance that may be too late come on baby come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on man come on man come on man come on man come on man today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today is the day today is the day tomorrow no not tomorrow today right now if you're going to make up your mind to serve the lord you better get up up and do it right now. Come on, man, come on. Come on, I see you coming. I don't care what time it is. You gotta go to lunch, get up and run. I can care less. This is my meat right here. Come on, you coming? Are you coming, buddy? Are you coming? Come on here, come on here. Come on, Jesus is waiting on you. You have no idea. You had no idea, no idea how long the Lord's been waiting on you. You've been waiting, you're back slid in this room right now. You're back slid watching online. You're not on fire for God. You're not ready to meet Him. You don't have any oil in your lamp. All the time I've been preaching, you've been looking at your watch, wondering when can I get out? If that's you, your heart is cold towards God. You better get up and run to this altar while there's still chance to get to God. You better do it now. I'm talking to some parents right now. I need to tell all of you parents and grandparents something. If your babies are up underneath the age of accountability, they don't know right from wrong, they're gonna disappear on the rapture. And you're gonna wonder where those babies are. I'm telling you now where they will be. They will be rocking in the arms of Jesus Christ, but you will have missed it. If you're not on fire for God today's the day, did you hear what I said? Come on boys, y'all coming to the altar? Come on to the altar. Come on to the altar. Come on to the altar. Come on to the altar. Come on to the altar. People are praying around this altar. Prayer warriors are working this altar right now. They're leading somebody to the altar. That's right, I ain't gonna be left out. I'm not gonna be left behind. Turn around and ask your neighbor beside you, are you ready to go? If not, I wanna go with you to the altar right now. Come on, let's go to the altar. Come on, let's go to the altar. Come on, somebody watching online is kneeling down right now cause you heard this message and it is smitten your heart today. Today's the day, come on, come on, come on, bring them on down, bring them. Bring them. Bring them, bring them, bring them, bring them. You better ask your neighbor beside you. If you care about your spouse, look over at your spouse and ask them, are you ready? Don't you take anything for granted this morning? Ask your children, are you ready? They're praying all around this altar. Come on, prayer warriors, lead them to Jesus. Would you do it? Come on, lead them to Jesus, lead them, lead them. Lead them, take them to Jesus. Put them in the hands of Jesus. Make sure they know where they're supposed to be, what's going on. Come on, somebody lift your hands and begin to pray all around this building. Just as one, please sing. Sing, please. Somebody that loves the Lord in here, get on your feet. Everybody on your feet this morning. Do you have someone in your heart that you know needs Jesus today? Let me see your hand if you know it. Would you be willing to take a few moments? I know what time it is. I'm so sick of people putting time restraints on me. I'm sick of it feeling my own self. So if you don't like that, do whatever you gotta do. But I'm gonna ask those of you who love your children and love your family and love your friends to bring them to this altar in prayer right now, all around this auditorium. This may be the last prayer that you get to pray before Jesus comes. Would you do it right now? Would you do it right now? Would you do it right now? Cause see there's, Billy Graham's gone home to be with the Lord. Dr. Kennedy has gone home to be with the Lord. Bishop Patterson's gone home to be with the Lord. Dr. Stanley's gone home to be with the Lord. David Wilkerson's gone home to be with the Lord. What happens when the prophets and the preachers go home to be with the Lord? It's a sign, ladies and gentlemen, that Jesus is wrapping this thing up. When Jesus said to the rich man who was in hell, he said, Lord send somebody to my brothers back on earth. He said, not so, they have Moses and the prophets. If they won't hear them, they won't believe if one comes back from the dead. Church, you've heard it too long, too loud and too many times. I want you to call on the Lord from all around this house. Lift your hands if you've got somebody you're calling on and put their name in the atmosphere. Put their name in the atmosphere. Call their name out in prayer. Go down the list in your family right now, Father in the name of Jesus, hallelujah. Send your word to my loved ones, to my brothers, my sisters. Send them to my aunts and my uncles and my spouses, my mama and my daddy. Send your word, send somebody across their path. Rescue them, I pray today. God, I don't know what it's gonna take. I don't know what it's gonna take, but I know the hour is late and I can't afford to play games with this. Spirit of God, arrest this house under the urgency of the hour. Let your spirit begin to move upon every heart and every life. Don't let us be complacent or apathetic towards the things of God. Don't let us be a people who have heard it so much that we've forgotten about what it's supposed to be. Spirit of God, deal with our hearts. Come on, cry out to God this morning. You got a chance, but you got a chance. In the spirit of God today, cry out from your soul to the Lord, every moment. Pastor Jose and I, team, how's he doing? He says, I'm fighting the fight, pastor. I'm fighting the fight. I know there are many of you that are in this building and watching who are fighting the fight. And some of you are weary and I understand that. I understand that. I've been fighting the fight. And I can't tell you that it's gonna let up. I don't know. I know that the Bible says that the enemy knows his time is short, so he keeps pressing because he knows he's running out of time. That's the reason why some of you that are in this altar right now, almost didn't make it to church this morning, but somehow you got here. And you know what? You're leaving out of this place this morning different than when you got here. I wanna pray for your strength in the Lord. I feel the burden of my congregation this morning. I feel the burden of your heart in business, in school, and just trying to live for the Lord in a world that keeps pressing in. Trying to change your values, your ideas, your theology. You're having to work in an environment that is 20,000 ministers walk out of churches in the past three years and gave up the ministry. 4,000 churches shut their doors. And the Bible says in the book of Daniel that the spirit of Antichrist is sent to wear out the saints. And some of you feel worn out, but I came to tell you strength is coming your way right now. I want you to reach over and take somebody by the hand that's a saint of God and a believer. Get your family next to you, take them by the hand in agreement. I feel something flowing in here now. I said, I feel something flowing in here now. I feel something flowing in here. You may have to make some decisions in the days ahead, Carter. It's gonna be Jesus or this. Some of you may have to make a decision. It may be Jesus or your job in the days ahead. I say choose Jesus. God's got plenty of jobs waiting on you. He'll provide for you. He said he would. But I came to tell you, the best thing you can have is to strengthen your soul under the anointing that's in this room right now. I feel an anointing rushing through me to this congregation today. I want you to begin to pray right out loud and let somebody hear you pray right around you. Pray in the Holy Ghost church. Pray in the spirit. We don't know what to pray for for as we ought. I don't know what this week may hold. I don't know what may be going on. But I know who holds tomorrow. It is the powerful hand of the Almighty God. Spirit of God sweep across this congregation in the Holy Ghost anointing and strength that comes from above. Strength in their faith in this hour. I pray God. For their strength to stand boldly in this hour and not bend and not bow. Let them stand in the strength of the Almighty God and having done all to stand. Strength in my brother. Strength in my sister. Let us not compromise in this hour this close to the coming of the Lord. Don't be ashamed to ask for his strength. Ask for it. Strengthen me, Lord. I'm weak in this hour. I pray God. Strengthen me, Lord. I'm weak in this area. Strengthen me, Lord. I'm losing it in this area. Strengthen my mind. Strengthen my spirit. Holy Ghost, get up on the inside of me. Help me to be bold in my faith. You are the potter and the clay. Is this with your Holy Ghost Church? The Spirit of God is all over this room. He's all over you right now. He's strengthening your house for the days that are ahead. You've got to stand boldly before the magistrate. He'll put words in your mouth at that moment. When you've got to stand up for your children and say, no, we're going to go this direction, he'll give you boldness and strength to do what God's called you to do. Bold God, take my weakness and make it your strength. In this hour, God has you in the palm of His hands. He knows you by name. I want all of the men, all of the men, I want all of the men in this room to raise your right hand towards heaven right now. All the men, I'm going to pray for you men because what we need now more than ever before is not effeminacy or we need men. We need men. Men who have committed to leave their house and be men in front of their children and in front of their wife. Quit running from responsibility and take the bold action you need to for the sake of your family and your children. The enemy is waiting at the door, men. Don't send your wife. You answer the door and you say as from me in my house, come on men, say it out loud. As from me in my house, we're going to serve the Lord here. Ain't no perversion going to come in this house. No devil going to get inside this house. In this house, we're going to be holy. We're going to be right because I'm going to fight for my family. Have I got any men in this house that know what I'm talking about? I'm tired of this perverted spirit taking over our houses while men stand at the door and wait for it to come in. The devil is a liar. Fight for your family. I want you to find another man who's got his hand lifted right now and grab a hold of his hand. It ain't a feminine to hold a hand of a man. Grab a hold of a man's hand. You'll know when you grab a man's hand. I need some men up in this house. I said I need some men in this house. Some men of God, Godly men. I want some men to lift your voice in this house right now. If you can lift it in an NFL game, you can lift it in here. Come on men and pray in the spirit. Let the heavens hear the men cry out to God. Come on men. He's hearing your men cry out. Let the Lord hear you in heaven. The name of Jesus strengthened the men of this house and those that are watching. I rebuke the devil in the name of Jesus Christ. Our men will be men. Our boys will be boys. Our girls will be girls. And the devil is a liar. I take a stand and I draw a line in the sand today. God sent from heaven. Let boldness happen in the lives of men in this room and watching online. Now men lift that hand and I want to hear some men go to praise in God like you just saw the greatest game of your life and you did. Come on men and praise him. Run out loud. Shout men. Give me some men who know how to shout for God has given you the sin. Get your voice in the air. Lift your voice ladies and begin to worship. This afternoon at four o'clock I'm going to tell you what I'm going to be preaching to the Latinos. I'm going to be preaching about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to pray for me and him so that he won't miss one of my words as he interprets it. Turn around to somebody and tell them Jesus Christ is coming soon. Shake hands. I'll see you Wednesday night.