TH160428/The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Harvest messages are brought to you by harvest partners receive free email daily devotions were to become a harvest partner, please visit us online@harvest.org the Lord as we once again open up the book of Revelation. That means unveiling. We pray that that would happen for us that we would see the truth that we would get a clear glimpse into our future as a world and that we will get a good glimpse into our own lives as well. Help us to be even more aware of the imminent and soon return of Jesus Christ. As we open Scripture gasket in your name. Amen. I think we would all agree and noting that were living in a very dark times right now, terror attacks are all too common, they don't shock us anymore. Boston, Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, and then, thanks to our help. Iran is developing nuclear weapons that they have threatened to use the recently large to intermediate range missiles and on the missile boosters in Arabic were the words Israel must be wiped out couldn't be any more clear what their intentions are with all the rhetoric of wanting to wipe Israel out the dates of your the one were sending money to them and releasing funds is a mystery to me. And by the way, that's a flagrant disregard of the UN resolutions, but nothing seems to happen then there's North Korea who recently fired an intercontinental missile and now here's Russia saber rattling. I mean, did you see that video word Russian jets were buzzing American warships coming dangerously close to home is just daring us and then we have a global economy.

We have the instability and all the other problems. That's why there's fear in the air as an elite group of scientists and Nobel laureates that meets regularly, they analyze data and then determine how close they believe we are to a nuclear Armageddon and they have something called the doomsday clock computer that will the doomsday clock. Accordingly, these Nobel laureates and scientists is three minutes till doomsday so that's what experts are saying. What is the Bible says say Jesus said, as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be when the Son of Man comes in a Noah's time was known for a lot of excessive violence and senseless killing and were living in times like that right now but I hate to tell you but it's even going to get worse a dark Knight is going to rise. No I'm not talking about Batman. I'm talking about the antichrist because we are living in the last days.

And yes, the worst is yet to come, antichrist Armageddon, the great tribulation. The four horsemen of the apocalypse. We've heard these terms before and perhaps we wondered about the meaning of that type the word apocalypse in Google and you'll find Quincy million 800,000 pages on the topic here known Revelation working to find out what that term actually means. Because this is where the terminology originally come from, and we have never been closer historically to seen these events play out in real time before our very eyes that we are at this moment I we see the continuing tension in the Middle East.

It's absolute powder keg and other showdown between Israel and Iran that the Bible actually predicts by the way, seems to be entirely plausible, especially now that Russia is an online with Iran, which had not been true even 100 years ago, even 30 years ago, but now there are staunch allies working together, we read the scenario in Ezekiel 37 and 38 of a large force coming from the north of Israel identified as Magog attacking her in one of the allies of Magog is identified as Persia, which was simply the name of Iran until fairly recently. I believe somewhere in 1930 we could see this happen before our very eyes.

These are signs of the times and Jesus said when you see these things begin to happen. Look up because your redemption is drawing near. Many years ago Billy Graham wrote a book with the title approaching hoofbeats.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse in this book Ellie Graham writes and I quote some theologians and Bible scholars thought these scenes as ascribed via pop by the apostle John to be descriptions of past events. However, most evangelical scholars interpret them as having to do with the future as do I, Billy says, in my view, the shadows of all four horsemen can already be seen galloping to the world at this moment.

Therefore, I want not only to apply these were symbols of events yet to come, but also to put her ears to the ground and here there hoofbeats growing louder by the day. I can hear the hoofbeats of these sources much louder than even when I began writing this book," Billy wrote that in 1983 okay if he was hearing the hoofbeats of the horsemen attained their thundering hoofbeats right now the what is happened since 1983. The computer rages Don with global global access to information on demand.

Militant Islam has emerged as the world's most dangerous force to golf wars as well as as well as Afghanistan have happened and continued in escalating violence in the Middle East and the increasing isolation of Israel. These are all things that are making this world a very dangerous place with your now and Revelation. We have a glimpse of the future. Revelation 6 is sort of like a flyover, a big picture look at the end times events and then this week. Continue on will get a closer look at these events.

But this is sort of the Birdseye view of it all.

Revelation chapters 6 to 19 really is the heart of the book and this is where the action of the book begins as well. These chapters that we will read on not just tonight but in the future contain 21 judgment though judgments that will be unleashed on the world during the seven year tribulation. We read of seven seals, seven trumpets and seven bowls in each series of seven describes unique events that will take place in the tribulation. In the first of these four seal judgments is the four horsemen of the apocalypse now. Remember in Revelation 5 we found Jesus Christ uniquely qualified to take the title scroll member. The title deed of the earth. No one is found worthy in heaven. But then there appears a landward been slain in its Jesus Christ was died on the cross and risen from the dead in these coming to buyback that which was lost in the garden.

Now we see that the seals are broken and the judgment of God is beginning to fall.

So that picks up the story and Revelation 6. Starting in verse one. Now John writes I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder.

Come and see, and behold a white horse and he that sat on it at about and a crown was given to him and he went out conquering and to conquer. When he opened the second seal he heard the second living creature saying, come and see another horse, fiery red went out and it was granted to kill the one who sat on it are redundant to the one who sent in a rather to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword. When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say come and see. And I looked, and behold a black horse. And he that sat on it had scales in his hand and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying a quart of wheat for a denarius, and 3 quarts of barley for a denarius do not harm the oil and the wine. When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, come and see, and I look behold a pale horse with the name of him who sat on it was death, and Hades followed with them the power was given to them over 1/4 of the earth to cover sword, with hunger, with death by the beast of the okay. The four horsemen of the apocalypse. What does this all mean this is now the beginning of the tribulation. And what we have leading the way a white horse now you know if you watch westerns, usually the guys who ride the white horses and where the Wildcats are the good guys right so it appears to be a good guys.

Some of even mistakenly thought that this is a reference to Christ coming but that's impossible because all of the miserable things that follow him, but in Revelation 19 we do read of Jesus coming back on a white horse with angels and saints, but this is not that this is not Jesus Christ. This is anti-Christ. He comes wearing a crown. The text says in verse one contrast, when Christ returns. He wears many crowns Revelation 19 describing the second coming of Jesus says I saw heaven opened about for me was a white horses rider is called faithful and true. With justice he judges and wages war and honors and are many crowns you see the tribulation period will be inaugurated by the emergence of antichrist. Matthew 24, sometimes called the Olivet discourse, the disciples of Jesus came to him and said what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age. Christ said, many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and they will deceive many to usually telling us that the tribulation period will be inaugurated by cost pricing here. Now we have the ultimate false Christ himself. Antichrist, by the way, the word anti-for the prefix anti-that doesn't just mean against it also means instead of that's exactly who this guy is. He's not just opposing Christ, but he's offering himself in the place of Christ.

It's interesting to contrast of the writer of Revelation 612 the white horse of Revelation 19 because you can get the bigger picture of the antichrist carries a bow but no arrows.

Jesus Christ wields a mighty sword antichrist was a victory crown, such as one would win in an athletic competition. Christ has many crowns from the word diadem, which would indicate royalty antichrist comes and initiates war Jesus Christ comes with his armies and brings an end to war. Antichrist inaugurates the great tribulation. Christ returns and ends the great tribulation.

This man this coming world leader. The antichrist has many aliases is called in the Bible, the man of sin, the son of perdition. The little horn, the wicked one, the prince who is to come. The one who makes desolate, and of course the beast, but no most people know him as the anti-Christ among the way he's not going to be what you would expect. He's going to be a real person. I think he's going to be a charismatic world leader you know he would be a guy who would come on the scene and he would have adoring throngs listening to Gammon he would be highly regarded, and he'll be a very engaging person, but the fact is, he will be the most evil man who was ever led.

If Satan could have a son. This is who it would be the only one who even comes close to the wickedness of antichrist is Judas Iscariot, and it's interesting to note that there are hundred passages that detail the origin, nationality, career, character, kingdom and final doom of antichrist and I don't if you know this but a lot of Americans believe there is an antichrist.

The poll was taken at revealed that half of America's Americans think he is coming in the U.S. News & World Report article 49% of Americans said they believe there will be an antichrist sometime in the future that I was on among Christians. I was just among Americans that they believe such a figure will arise in the news recall. 19% of Americans said they believe antichrist is on earth now and half of those who accept biblical prophecy.

Believe he is alive now. Is he alive I don't know.

No one could say he could be, but he's a real man with a real agenda that will emerge. Ultimately, on the same but I'll say this. Things are really right for such a dark night, if you will to rise to power the antichrist will come in economically difficult times will do with no other president or prime minister or king or world leader is ever done. He will bring global economic instability as well as world peace, he will be regarded as the greatest peacemaker that ever lived. Will probably win the Nobel Peace Prize will be a satanic Superman. What is a crime. So many today we want peace and alive, and I'm not a person says I want war II want peace as well, but I don't think we want peace at any cost. Now doing what if people had decided they wanted peace when Adolf Hitler was on the run and he was massacring Jewish people. He managed to kill 6 million of them, not even mention the millions of people killed in the war itself.

A guy like Hitler had to be stopped and so but their ability nor there should be no more to be no conflict.

We want peace at any cost of this world's desperate desire for international peace will serve as the date for the satanic trap because this is how antichrist is going to deceive people. The Scripture actually says in Daniel eight ?25. He will deceive many. Through peace will come as a great peacemaker and it may surprise you to know that the great tribulation. Does not begin with all kinds of horrible things and judgments that actually begins very peacefully.

As this world leader emerges on the scene a Danieli 25 says will be a master of deception will become arrogant will destroy many without warning will even take on the Prince of princes in battle, that would be the Lord, but he will be broken though not by human power.

Antichrist will do with no one is ever been able to do will solve the Middle East peace puzzle. He will rid the world of terrorism to win the hearts of the Jewish people by rebuilding the long awaited temple will actually get the Jews and the Muslims to sign a treaty that they will abide by. You will do with no other world leader is ever accomplished will succeed where others have failed and will be so successful that some will here limit is the very Messiah. And that's the point antichrist instead of Christ.

But then he's going to ultimately reveal who we really is and who is a he's this wicked man that is coming to bring horrible things upon the world are some interesting descriptions of Scripture in Scripture of Jim, a one is he's called the man of sin. The man of sin in second Thessalonians to three it says don't let anyone deceive you in any way that they will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of sin is revealed, was doomed to destruction is also called the wicked one in second Thessalonians to eight when it says the wicked one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth wicked by the way, means lawless one. He will oppose every law of God. Again, he's the anti-against as well of instead of any note. Looking back historically, dictators really take over by brute force. I even out look back historically and you look at how Germany came to be ruled by guys crazy similar because you were around that have happened that was something long ago, folks that this man Adolf Hitler. What was destroying a country in many other people outside of it and you you watch these old films of Hitler ranting in and the people you know this standing in rapt attention and holding up their hands and sing. See Collier thinking how could that ever be will he was almost like a prototype of antichrist you seen Germany was in horrible shape financially on the heels of World War I and Hitler comes along promising that Germany can be an economic superpower and tells him that there are a super race and and they should be the third Reich. They should be the revival of the Roman empire in speaking of the Roman Empire at exactly how they dominated people as well. They would come in with overtures of peace, but then ruled by brute force. There was something in place in the days of Rome, known as Pax Romana, which meant forced peace. You did what Rome said or you would die. That's antichrist becomes an initially like a good guy is a peacemaker, but then he reveals who he really is. As he begins to unroll his agenda. You know it's been said history teaches us that man learns nothing from history is true. As you look back historically, we keeps making the same mistakes over and over again anything.

What I don't get this Aoki comes out as a good guy. Initially, yeah, he's a peacemaker.

That's right, he negotiates treaties that people abide by. Yes. So what's the problem. The problem is this guy thinks he's God, this guy is probably possessed by the devil himself, and he's going to do something known as the abomination of desolation that's going to mark the halfway point of the tribulation. The tribulation period lasts for seven years and is broken into two, 3 1/2 year sections of the first 3 1/2 years. If I global peace, everyone's happy. Everyone's you know it seems like all that the utopia has come, and many say this is the very Messiah, then the abomination of desolation happens by the women. Jesus mentions that in Matthew 24 he speaks of it. Then he says let the reader understand the reason bring this up as God wants us to understand Bible prophecy because sometimes it was a lie I can figure it out. It's all too confusing.

I'm not even really know what the reader understand Jesus said so what is the abomination of desolation wasn't after the Jewish Temple is rebuilt. The third Temple there in Jerusalem. The antichrist is going or wrecked an image of himself and demand worship fact it's mentioned in second Thessalonians to go people by what they say that they will not come until there's a great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the one who brings destruction will exalt himself in the fight.

Every God.

There is tear down every object of adoration and worship. Listen, he will position himself in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God. Now the antichrist will be a political leader is not alone. He has a sidekick if you will, identified as the false prophet and will read about him later in Revelation, but Revelation 1920 says the bees that's antichrist was captured with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone so that it's almost like the devil has is unholy Trinity.

We have the holy Trinity, father, son, Holy Spirit, the devil, as is unholy Trinity.

Satan masquerading as God the father antichrist masquerading as Jesus Christ and the false prophet, masquerading as the Holy Spirit housing to pull this off.

He's going to bring in a religious system that's a mixture of many beliefs intertwined with occultism.

One world religion want to be hear people talking about one world religion. That's up for shock of antichrist.

Nola. In America we have freedom of worship and and even though I may not always agree with somebody else's point of view about God. I absolutely support their right to worship that God even if it's not the God that I serve I in uniting it's great when we can cross denominational lines as Christians and pray together but one thing I'm not into it all is interfaith prayer services and by interfaith I mean over again. I have you know the the Imam praying in the Morgan. I have the you know the Protestant minister pray and then we can have the Buddhist monk pray and is in this wonderful and will all put our arms around each other and say we are the world you know whatever building that's beautiful. I don't think it's beautiful and all I respect the right to pray to their God. I don't oppose her right to pray to their God, but please don't tell me were all praying that the same God because we are we aren't we are. This is not politically correct but here go. There is only one God. There's only one God.

All the other so-called gods are not true gods there false gods, so don't tell me that all he is the same God that I pray I don't pretend that God don't tell me that man can become a God because it is impossible. The Bible says the Lord our God is one God.

But here's how you see this sort of thing could really happen.

You don't you know that one of the largest religious groups in America is today there called the nuns and oh NES and enter the nuns are just into spirituality. You know, there into a little bit of everything. And this is the kind of thinking that is so popular now you know you'll tell someone about your faith in Christ will see we had when I I'm into spirituality and I'm not into organized religion. Okay and and I'll tell you what this really means that it's an ABC religion and ABC religion ABC anything but Christ doubling anything but Christ any view you have at school. Any idea you have okay we can go it that you dare to say Jesus Christ and man. You are going to be ostracized and again is that we don't believe in that narrowminded thinking and this is all going to see more of in the last days in apostasy of falling away from the faith. Second Timothy's usually first Timothy four says the spirit clearly speaks in the lot last days some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. The Bible says in second Timothy for the time is going to come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, the suit their own desires to gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. So what this means is in the last days people are gonna want to hear more things that make them feel good about themselves unless things that tell them they need to repent of their sin and get right with God are people you have less of an appetite for theology, but I wanted tell you something here at this church were into teaching the word of God okay and that's very important to us.

I'm not going to give you 25 peptide 25 minute… Sorry, I meant to give you a message.

It's going to have content and I'm an offer to you theology without apology because we need sound biblical teaching in our life will that so what's the antidote. All this craziness will Paul continues on, he says in verse two. A second Timothy four.

Preach the word, be prepared in season and out of season correct, rebuke and encourage with great patient patience and careful instruction. You know whenever I'm in front of pastors I speak a pastors conference is quite often, doing coming up pretty soon. I always encourage them to teach the word of God and to preach the gospel, you know, because were living in that time there were churches are doing so many things. It seems you know they have every kind of expression we have, you know this going on about going on but but whatever happened to Bible teaching.

Whatever happened to opening up the scripture and learning about the Lord and so this is something that is so very very important so we have the white horse antichrist inaugurates all think Percy looks like a bad guy actually is a Percy looks like a good guy but actually he's a bad guy that brings us to horse number two of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will call it the warhorse look at Revelation 6 verse three, he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, come and see in another horse, fiery red went out and it was granted to the wanted sentiment to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another to him was given a great sword. So we have a red horse is mentioned here a better translation of this is that the horse would be fiery red is in the also wait. This reminds us of a later description of Satan in Revelation 12, three is a great, fiery red Dragon.

So here comes the antichrist. Percy looks like he's good. Now it's shown that he's bad and on the heels of the antichrist. The second horsemen is red bringing war orders were come from Satan's behind the wars and struggles on this planet Jesus and of the devil. In John 1010 the thief speaking of Satan comes only to steal, kill and destroy. Notice a difference between Christ and antichrist here at the coming of Jesus we have peace on earth at the coming of antichrist, we have peace taken from the earth and note that Johnson is a great sword was given a great sword. I have here a sort of used a few times with this Roman armor. This is a kind of sword that John would've been referring to that the Romans had different kinds of weapons they used in different types of battle.

They have longer sword to get spears and bows and arrows, but in close combat had a shorter sword up close and personal, finding that a small shield that well with that as well.

So the idea here is a great sword is given with the word used here for sword speaking of the shorter stabbing sword at the Roman soldier would use enclosed combat.

It was also a weapon used by assassins and that speaks of something that sudden and unexpected soak person I Christ comes home and he's wonderful.

He's a peacemaker, economic solutions and select the small sort that now you going to get antsy if you're not paying attention all the horrible words we've had historically in World War I more than 10 million people lost their lives. It was described as the war to end all wars but it took only 20 years for a new and even more terrible war to develop World War II 50 million people died in world war two when as horrible as those wars were there really nothing compared to the scale of war that will be a lease by Satan during the great tribulation.

Now, as we read some of the things that are going to happen. The planet Earth. There's two ways you can come about, it seems to me, one would be just cataclysmic click as we see mass destruction. It could just be the God to shakes the elements and we have the equivalent of Mount Saint Helens or or you just other natural phenomena bringing about this mass destruction, but another way can happen is God allows man to release his considerable nuclear capability, you know, the undrawn that was the Adam bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing World War II effectively to a close and the surrender of Japan killed 200,000 people, but 67 years later one nuclear submarine carries enough explosive firepower in its war against equal to 40 times every bomb used in World War II together. One nuclear sock has that capacity and there and there's different estimates of research. As such, I read different numbers but anywhere from 15 to 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world today that she has.

We look at the sequence of events in the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

I propose that this war could involve nuclear exchange. Former Pres. Reagan once said and I quote man is used every weapon he has ever devised. It takes no crystal ball to perceive that a nuclear war is likely, and in a nuclear war, all mankind would lose." See for years we function by what was called the mad theory the mad theory. And that was an acronym for mutually assured destruction to going back to the early days of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Are you probably heard of the Cuban missile crisis what was happening was Nikita Khrushchev who was the Prime Minister of Russia was sort of saber rattling heatedly to Kennedy all that seriously, this young boy – Pres., here's a salty old Russian communist and so he did a lot of things to draw a lot of attention threatened to destroy our country and does so he formed an alliance with Cuba and they were sending weaponry over to Cuba, possibly even launchers I could launch nuclear weapons at the United States and as you know Cuba is not far from American. Specifically, Florida and so are the CIA analysts figure this out and so they had this big you know conflict Kennedy and Khrushchev for and it looked like it could be the end effect I was around back then that's old I am. I remember it, and I remember they would have us do drills in class, what we would get under our desks on case there was a nuclear explosion.

I was like yeah that would really help a lot.

No, I stay seated. I'm new command I get under that does not mince touching me you get this in your brain, you're just a little kid in your claimant of your desk and in case a new goes up, but here's what happened. You know that we face them off and and basically Russia blamed him back down. There were some back there was a negotiations that didn't come out publicly until later, but you know will give up that should be about that and so we we backed off and so there was but that's not the way it is anymore. See you know, we can look at Russian Soviet union cuts will nuke you okay but nowadays we have rogue nations getting nuclear weapons like I ran like North Korea who also just fired an inner ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead so there's a lot of wildcards in the world today and now you think of these crazy terrorist organizations, and if they ever get their hands on a nuke. You could see how all this stuff could just happen on that say that will happen, but I'm saying it certainly could happen and it's interesting because I read an article a while back in the LA Times a talk about nuclear winter, and the headline was nuclear winter scene, killing more people than the atomic blast. The article says, in the most detailed public study yet of nuclear winter international team of scientists determined that a nuclear war would result in a worldwide famine that would kill billions far more than even the casualties of the initial blast buyers and radiations scientists estimated that several hundred million people good die as a result of the direct effects within the indirect effect could lead to the deaths of 1 to 4 million people is a reasonable way to bring this up okay. Look at verse six is a pale horse. So we have the red horse of war following the white horse.

No verse six the one that sat on it was death and hell followed with them.

And power was given to him over 1/4 of the earth, to kill with sword, hunger, death, and the beasts of the earth. By the way, the word for pale is from a Greek word chloro we get our English word chlorine from it. It means yellowish green, the color of your kids hair when they swim too much right and so that's the image here one quarter of the world population will be lost in this rampage. So here's my point. So here comes antichrist initially a peacemaker is really a bad guy here comes war and if it is nuclear war. The nuclear winter or the famine, and pestilence on all the things that follow to be the natural progression that can happen, or can happen, cataclysmic link. I don't really know. All I know is this is going to come down as God said it's going to come down but I'll tell you something else.

I don't expect to be around for this is, or were you going to like him. Yes you can. I plan on being in heaven because I believe before the tribulation period begins the church will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air like I don't even believe the outgoing five for that matter, I don't even believe antichrist can be revealed until the church is removed and will get into that later. And I'll tell you why I believe that but I know this message is not the happiest message you've ever heard of Canada but I'm just working my way through a texture so you know I'm just gonna fall with the Texas book but let me bring a different perspective to the tribulation is going to be horrible.

The tribulation is going to be at the worst time ever for planet Earth, but you need to know.

Another thing with the tribulation. God is still going to be at work and wanting to see some of the greatest revivals in human history happen in the tribulation.

Lots and lots of people are going to come to Jesus and I want you to know something else. God takes no pleasure in judging people, he takes no delight in this and you're gonna find in the tribulation.

That God has his messengers going throughout the world, warning people, telling them to believe verse or two witnesses that get to later winter know they are. Some people think they do.

They don't but the two witnesses that God will raise up maybe it's Moses and Elijah. We don't know but these men are going to be used by God to proclaim the gospel to get to be killed on the unit be resurrected again on the streets of Jerusalem, according to Revelation 11 and in God's also going to have an angel flying through the heavens, preaching the everlasting gospel. I like to think of that is that Angelica mop up operation. Whoever maybe didn't hear this couple here and then and then God's gonna raise up 144,000 thousand Jewish evangelists to preach the gospel whether the hundred and 44,000 were Jehovah's Witnesses know they are there like kosher. Billy Graham's right then there are messianic believers messianic believer is it's a Jewish person that embraces Jesus as the Messiah. And so that they can be fired often bourbon and by the way, protected by God and they're going to go and proclaim the gospel to many people. So many are going to believe. So we read these things without KL. So right now what am I supposed to do during all the surveillance can just go backwards for a moment to something I alluded to my last message and will will land this plane will finish this message.

I remember my last message I talked about enough who was sort of like a prototype of the church, be enraptured because I I raise the issue of some who might say will there's no instance in the Bible of anyone ever being caught up to heaven suddenly and I pointed out a number of instances where people actually were number.

Elijah was caught up to a chariot of fire and and I also mentioned that Teaneck was caught up to heaven and the Bible tells us that Teaneck walk with God and was not for God took.

That's Genesis 524 so we did miss her like a prototype of his generation. So like unit can God walk together every day and the one day they walk a little further than they normally did alerts and he unit were closer to my place and yours coming home with me and they you know one day you'll just be out and about doing your thing. Following Jesus do whatever you're doing and then the moment so fast you couldn't even measure it because it's a twinkling of an eye that even the blinking of an eye, you will be hurdled and they haven't reunited with loved ones who preceded you and best of all face-to-face with Jesus Christ right so what we learn from unit well. He walked with God to which we be doing all the stuff is coming down around us Bible prophecy being fulfilled before our very eyes.

Number one, we need to be like unit walking with God is watching TV special last night or the night before.

I think it was all about how important walking is not beneficial. Walking is an out healthy walking is and I try to walk every day. I was glad to hear this because I hate running. I hate it. I I know people are going to gonna run hi love a good run. That's like really I wish I could love a good run. You know they tell me that there endorphins are released when they run. I've never had a single endorphin release unless you count eating then then the release but not running but walking I'm good with walking and I can walk quite a long time and so here's what unit did. He walked with God that we should do this and say in its printed with God. He walked with God.

Though some Christians have a burst of energy, then the collapse in the he may get up and run a little more and they fall down again and do it again and again and again that's on the good way to do it. I tried Road biking a while back and I wrote of the group of people and and you know we took off and I left them all in the site took off, but then I ran out of energy use.

You really quickly and coming back. One of the guys had actually pushed me on my bike which is really humiliating all right, just want to tell you that that's in addition to wearing clothes that like you're wearing a diaper and all that the padding anyway, I'm not denigrating it. If you're doing great but I was failure and.as a burst of energy, think, and so they'll be people all there so winter there in church you know all the midweek services studying the Bible and then they just completely lowered me fall in the cinema gone for a month and they come back and become of the recommitment and if so great and one of them and they do something else really crazy in the golfer a couple more months in the making of the recommitment of a better idea just walk with God a little burst of energy and then crash and burn. Just walk with God every day every day just get up and discipline yourself to open the word of God. Discipline yourself to pray.

Discipline yourself to be regular and fellowship at church just do those things on a regular basis. You know when we first learn to walk his kids what we follow a lot, you know, it's just the way that students have to learn the hard way, remember our son Jonathan. He he was eye heat is haired and grow in for quite a long time and so he was this cute little guy with a little round head and he was always falling and bumping his head and he always got bumped right in the middle of his head and then he it would start to go away.

The bruise and he would call and get a bump to get so was like almost like a permanent bruise that was there. It seemed forever, and we were worried that people getting really kidding this kid or something his kids just nobody finally got it.

I still think the bruises are today the notice that's gone now but he's he walks very well know you notice he walked very nice but sometimes you get up and you fall when you're learning to walk. You hold onto things you know to steady yourself.

But that's okay. Just get up and walk. That's what unit did. That's what we need to do. We need to walk with God. But here's another interesting thing to walk with God means I have an appointment with God to keep Amos 33 says so to walk together unless they have agreed, or literally, unless they made an appointment in the Hebrew word implies a meeting at a fixed place at a fixed time. Can you imagine being late for an appointment with God popped up on your calendar. You know, meeting with God.

12 o'clock. Would you like blow that off think so.

Meeting with God, and you know no SKUs would work will Lord good traffic didn't know.

I know what I I'm gonna know everything. Please okay and you notice that certain people are always late for everything. Yes, if you're one of those people raise your hand… But always late.

No matter what their late always late. You know and that's honestly kinda disrespectful but they always have the destroyers traffic in and the dog ate my homework which has nothing to do I'm labor just use that one is a kid thought to bring her back again or whatever it is, it's like you know would leave earlier than I had prepared for a potential delay and be on time. I have a friend that uses the expression I told her to you before early is on time on time is late in late is never acceptable.

I like that early is on time on time is late in late is never acceptable. You don't want to miss your appointment with God. Adam had an appointment with God every day.

So after he discovered the secrets of the garden. The Lord would show up walking in the garden. The Bible says in the cool of the day and I would join them. One day Anna didn't keep his appointment. You know why because he had sinned and so the Lord says Adam where are you in items. Heidi will never find me here, which is so ridiculous. It's like when I played hide and seek with my grandkids will go to a park called a high KI The 20 and the minute I open my eyes I am seeing them everywhere. I see him as one of the tree. There's one over there this one like hiding in plain view.

I don't even know what they're thinking or they start laughing or are they make noises. I mean it's like they're the easiest people to find ever. That's God were trying to hide from his it's really, I know exactly where you are. Will Adam didn't keep his appointment.

Adam God says where are you and Mrs. Allawi hidden I hid myself because I was naked Tutsis who told you you were naked. Have you eaten of the tree. I told you not to eat what is Adamczyk yes I did I send.

I'm sorry. Adam says will it's the woman you gave me love the woman you gave me, I would've the emphasis was on you like the woman who gave me. I was happy in the garden, hanging out with the animals.

I fall asleep.

A rib is missing in this person is here. It's your fault. God or maybe was just the woman as an it's her fault see that it will look were responsible for our own sin.

Someone else may play a part in it. But we are responsible for our actions and all God wanted Adam to do was admit he was a sinner.

All God wanted him Adam to do was to come clean Adam where are you just wanted to say I messed up and separated from you when I'm wrong and I need help and maybe that's you right now you know we've been talking about the coming of Jesus. And here's my question. If Jesus were to come back tonight. Would you be ready because if you're not ready. You can be ready by putting your faith in amateur sin is separated you from him just like Adam sin separated him from God. Let me tell you something else you have another appointment you're going to keep if you want to or not you have an appointment with death.

Nobody gets out of that one. You know that's why when Hezekiah was going to die, the prophets, I don't prepare to die, get your house in order. It's common man and we don't know when that day will come. So the best thing is to be prepared all the time that they will do it at the last minute because there may not be a last-minute so maybe you don't know God in a personal way. Maybe you been running from God.

Maybe you're the person that's crashed and burned and in you know how to get right with God like you do.

Here's what you need to do is get them sick. God I messed up. I'm sorry I sin, forgive me and guess what, 2000 years ago on the cross, Jesus paid the price for that sin that you committed and he will forgive you and I forgive you quickly. He wants to forgive you. He wants you to have your guilt removed.

He wants a relationship with you because he loves you and he want you to know him or if you fallen away from him. He want you to come back because he misses you. So to close down prayer, to give you an opportunity to get right with God. If you're not sure if Christ is living in you. You don't of the confidence that you go to heaven when you die of you don't know for certain you'll be ready for the Lord's return.

Let's settle this right here right now, once and for all and I give you an opportunity to believe in Jesus as we pray atop our heads. Father referred your word now.

I prefer any hair or any listening or watching that may not yet know you, Lord Jesus. We pray that they will see their need for you and we pray that they will come to you and believe, right now, all I had turned out not eyes are closed and were praying, if you would like Jesus Christ to come into your life. If you would like him to forgive you of your sin.

If you would like to go to heaven when you die if you want that big old hole in your heart filled would you lift your hand up right now or ever you are and I like to pray for you. God bless you lift your hand up a pray for you wherever you're sitting. God bless you as well. God bless you to lift your hand a pray for you. God bless you to hold your hand up like a bunch of their God bless you as well.

Anybody else you want is forgiveness. You want to know God in a personal way. You want your sins forgiven razor hands up and repair for you. God bless you anybody else. If you have a look to get lifted now, bless you to accomplish away one more moment anybody else you want this relationship with God.

Raise your hand up when we pray for you, bless you what I heads are still valid. Maybe there some of you that would be like the person who just collapsed in the key. Your major commitment you fallen away, and you don't know how to come back again, but you just need to say Lord, I'm sorry for what I've done and I returned to you. Now God says return you backsliding children and I will heal you, says the Lord to welcome you help forgive you but you must come if you need to come back to Christ make a recommitment to Christ because you fallen away which you raise your hand up right now. Let me pray for you.

You don't want to come back to him again.

God bless you.

Anybody else razor in the pirate and see it when we pray for you right now, she know what I heads are still bad. I want every one of you that just raise your hand saying you want to get right with God want you to stand your feet will you have a prayer together. Just stand up all of you the razor again.

Stand your feet wherever you are, you heard me right. Stand up, others are standing, you won't be alone to stand up in a pray and when to get this settled God blessed to stand and stay standing if you would anybody else stand out even if you do not raise your hand but you want to make this commitment a recommitment to Jesus stand up to pray together. Bless others are standing you will be the only one I wait another moment. You want Jesus in your life you want to be ready for his return want your sins forgiven.

Stand up Morgan a pray together away one more moment to stand up now. God bless you bless Stennett know anybody else and will pray together. Bless you. Yes anybody else stand now.

All right you that are standing on a lead you in a prayer and I want you to pray this prayer out loud after me again as I pray pray this out loud right we are standing, this is a prayer warrior, asking God to forgive you of your sin. So as I pray pray this out loud after me pray this. Now, Lord Jesus, I know I'm a sinner but I know that you're the Savior who died on the cross and shed your blood for every sin I've ever committed.

I'm sorry for my sin. I turn from my sin I choose to follow you, Jesus. From this moment forward. Thank you for calling me and for giving me accepting me in Jesus name I pray. Amen. Unless a God