An End To Evil

Ron Weinland

March 12, 2016

That reminds me of something that came in this past week; someone asking that those who are giving the opening prayer hold the mic up close. And we saw a perfect example of that today. And if it isn't them, from the future it'll have been the sound system people. So we'll blame it on one of the two. Just kidding. Anyway, that is a reminder to everybody when you do get up here to hold it up fairly close because that helps those that are out there in the scattered areas to be able to go along with it.

Announcement here: Information concerning the Feast of Tabernacles sites and signing up for the one that you plan on attending this year, that is scheduled to be sent out Monday. So, hopefully it will go out on the system. Everyone, Monday on your email account, whatever, you should be able to receive the information on that.

And I also want to mention too that evidently we've had – I don't know if there are very many at all, but there's been some that have called in already to make reservations ahead of time. One particular case I know of the cost was nearly double of what you're going to have to pay. And if that's the case, please cancel those and do it on the day you're supposed to. Because we really shouldn't be making reservations or anything ahead of time. That's just not a good thing to do. Not until it actually goes into effect. Some of these are actually not supposed to go into effect until that specific day. So on a specific day on some occasions when we've had these announcements go out (I don't know if this is the occasion), but sometimes we've had contracts where they don't really go into effect until a specific day as far as the rate you're going to receive. So I'm not sure whether that's the case now – may not be – but, again, better to do things in an orderly fashion, and that's why we send it out to everyone all at one time, so that everyone has that opportunity on the same day to begin making reservations. And this year there are more places set aside. True? More places set aside, as an example, at the Embassy and whatever here locally even, let alone some of the other areas.

So, also, thought I'd be mentioning that we're nearing the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. It's rapidly coming upon us. And wanted to make everyone here in the Cincinnati area and also all those who will be travelling to the area to please remember an announcement that we make on occasion here and that's concerning some who have very strong allergy, problems with allergies, adverse reactions to colognes, perfumes, strong smelling lotions and so forth. So please be mindful of others – that's love toward others – and the things that they go through and so forth. So please remember that, not to be wearing those things and refrain from them, those things that are strong in content. Some things you can't help. Some things we have that are out there that are chemicals in this whole world. And I don't care whether it be soap or whatever and some things are going to be on us, but as a whole, especially the added things that can be stronger. I know some deodorants even are exceedingly strong. So again, think about some of those things in remembering others.

[Bear with me just a moment. Nothing is wrong with your sound system out there, it's just me. Needed something else in my system here. I don't know what's happening. Every once in a while things just don't work as well as they should.]

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Thank God that He is bringing an end to evil in this world. That statement has everything to do with the title of the sermon today, An End To Evil.

This world has so much evil in it, and it has for the past 6,000 years. But as a whole the western world, nor much of the rest of the world actually really grasps this great truth, that the world is filled with much evil. The world doesn't tend to think on a lot of things in that context, because it has to do with what God says is evil. And that's the problem. And even sometimes within the Church, if we're not careful, we don't realize certain things have the kind of evil that they do in it. And so those are things we're ever learning and growing in in understanding and seeking to make sure that it doesn't enter into our life, that it's not a part of our life.

But especially the last hundred years of technology – talked about this before – the last hundred years of technology has brought, indeed, much comfort to mankind that the vast majority of people before this through time simply didn't have. They didn't have these kinds of things that we have today and this greater ease in life because of technology, this greater comfort in life, and even a lot of the prosperity that has come with it. With, again, this great advancement of technology has brought greater blindness, deeper selfishness. Especially selfishness. To turn people inward more and more and more.

Look at today. Look at what is being thrown at the youth of this world in ways that we never had, I never had, and I know I go a long way back, but fifteen years ago we didn't have. The modes of communication, the way people communicate nowadays. It has so changed. Truly has. But it's turning people inward more and more and more. And you know, Satan loves that. He loves that. He doesn't want community. He doesn't want family where people communicate well with one another. He wants selfishness where people turn inward, where people can't function properly in community, in family. And that's Satan's powerful tool at this end-time. Because of human nature he's able to easily move and motivate people to so misuse then that which we've been blessed to have. Because it is a blessing when it's used properly.

So again, it's brought greater blindness, deeper selfishness, and a far greater lack of true and genuine caring of people. Couldn't help but think as I was going through this what happened to the Church before the Apostasy, where God said the love of many would wax cold. And so it is in the world. Even the love that mankind could express otherwise to one another, what has existed in part or in large part in times past even in communities. I think of rural communities. I think of farming communities and so forth that existed in times past where people tended to be closer together. That has so changed, so dramatically changed.

So anyway, there's a greater lack of true and genuine caring of people toward their fellow man because of things like technology and toward great human suffering that surrounds them. People choose to put on blinders, as it were. They don't want to be bothered by things that are happening around them in the world that are unpleasant.

So again, most people are immune to, blind to (if you will) – may not be proper grammatical English – ignorant of, protected from, and are simply oblivious to much of the evil and suffering that exists in this world. We don't tend to focus upon those things. We don't tend to look at those things. And as a whole your news, in this country here especially, doesn't focus upon those things. Not really. Every once in a while something that's sensationalized, but it doesn't look at real problems in depth, in a powerful way, because people don't want that. They would rather watch people make fools of themselves. They would rather watch the stupid things, the foolish things of the world. They would rather know more about people or what's going on in people's lives and all the stupid things that go on out here. That's what so much of the news is anymore. It's commentary. It's not news. They make up whatever. I am amazed sometimes. They don't even tell what their credentials are and all of a sudden you'll have someone on a hook-up on the internet through, what is it, Skype or something like that, and here they are giving their opinion about what's happening. You think, "Who gives…! Who cares?" (I about said something else, but anyway), you know: "Who really cares what you think! I don't care what you think! Tell me what's going on. Give me some truth here. Give me something to…" But they don't do that.

So again, many are simply not aware the depth of the poverty, the hunger, the homelessness, the great injustices, the human trafficking. You think of some of the sick, perverted things that are going on in this world and people aren't focusing on…. You think the government? You think that people don't know about drugs coming into this country? I think about what happened in Afghanistan when the Taliban (which, not upholding the Taliban in any fashion or form), sick, sick, sick beliefs, but they stopped all the opium traffic and all the growing that was taking place, as a whole, in Afghanistan. And we went in there and worked with warlords and made it possible for that production to start up again and we knew full well and we know full well what's being produced there. But that's not what the news is all about. That's not what our focus as a people is all about.

And so I think of the incredible hypocrisy and how disgusting that is in a world. It really is! And it should cause people to be upset because that’s ruining millions and millions of lives! You want to get upset about something and you look at the drug trafficking that's taking place in this world, of governments that could stop it, and it should cause you to get upset. I'm upset by it, as you can well tell. God is upset by it as we should know and understand because it destroys people's lives. People have no control of their lives once they get hooked on some of these things. They don't have a choice once they become hooked! They can't control it!

We have enough problems sometimes when people come along within the Church and have to get off of smoking cigarettes and learn this isn't love toward your neighbor, wearing smoke in on your clothes to where you stink. You know, when you're away from something for so long people don't realize someone who doesn't do that, you can smell it in an instant. It's there. No one's ever fooled me. But I have allowed or given time to people to change and to fight and overcome if they will. And some people haven't. And some people it hurts them spiritually because they know they need to. A small, little thing like a weed! How much more other things then in life? If we can't address the little things… It goes back to this cultivating and keeping thing. If we can't do that in the smallest of physical things in our life how can we do it in the deeper things that are deep, deep down inside of us? We can't if we can't fight those battles.

So we have to start somewhere. Just as we do when we're called in the Church. We begin to tithe. We begin to realize, man, this is going to change my income mightily and how I work with my finances. Everything… I'm maxed to the max! Because that's how most people live: I'm maxed to the max. And now where is this going to come from? Something's got to change. So people start making changes in their life, good changes, because it's a matter of obedience to God. It's a matter of getting things right, making things right. It's a matter of not cheating before God. It's a matter of being honest and truthful before God. And that's what we do. And then we might even not have known about second tithe and all of a sudden, "Oh, there's another one?" And it used to be when I was there, we found out about a third one? "How can you do this in three years up the road?" And so people have to address everything. Their job, their job situation. And then the Sabbath, because that's going to cut out – if you're working on the seventh day— that's going to affect your income.

So people that God has called through time here have had to address, especially in the last many, many, many years, and in the age of technology especially, have had to address the matters of the Sabbath more than ever, finances, and so forth.

So again, I was talking about some of these things that people don't tend to become upset about, that we don't focus upon in society in the world that we don't grasp. We choose not to look at the evil for being what it is and realize how severe, how bad it really is and how much this world really needs to change. And brethren, that's something we in God's Church must be deeply, deeply convicted of because of what's coming, that God Almighty is righteous in what He's doing, merciful in what He's doing (even if it means the destruction of most of this earth), as He was in the days of Noah. God was exceedingly merciful at that time. Because what would have happened to mankind if he'd gone on? Who could have been saved? What minds would have been of such a willingness to even begin in any fashion and form whatsoever to ever listen to God? What minds would have gone so far that they could never be turned around, never be brought to repentance, become set in evil?

So we're learning much. We're learning much. We have been in the last few years especially about this kind of thing, about how the mind works and the mercy of God. And that's one of the things that God is stressing to the world right now, going to stress to the world in a very powerful way, His great mercy. His great mercy. Because if Jesus Christ had come in 2012 there well may not have been a whole lot left. Sobering. Sobering. Far more than what we can really grasp. Far more than what we can really grasp.

So I think about how that people don't focus on a lot of these things – the sexual perversions, the oppressions, the drug abuse, the addiction, the drug pushing (if you will) that takes place. Became acquainted with a lot of that in ways I prefer never to have had knowledge of in many ways. But you know what? It's been good. One of the things that shocked me so much in rubbing some shoulders with some individuals who produced it, who made it, who manufactured it and sold it. Others who used it and sold it and so forth. And one of the things that shocked me (I think I mentioned this before but I'm going to mention it again), still blows my mind when I came to find out that so many of these were in small farming communities throughout Indiana and Illinois and Missouri. Small farming communities! And the knowledge given to me that there are people, it doesn't matter what walk of life – bankers, lawyers, law enforcement, schools, teachers – you look at it and it's there and people are addicted to it. And it's gone so far and it's gone so much farther in the last few years.

And so as I was mentioning a moment ago, think about all that that's coming out of Afghanistan into Europe and they all know it is. But who's doing anything about it? What would be better? How could you destroy all of that? You could do it pretty fast if you wanted to. Some of that's far worse than some whom they are killing, some of what's being pushed and sent and sold by truckloads into Europe. Incredible what's going on in this world!

And so on and on it goes. So many people in this world that are exceedingly oppressed, abused, held in bondage, suffer physically and/or mentally in ways that most have no real grasp at all. No real grasp at all because we tend to be sheltered from it and we tend to shelter ourselves from it, from the reality, from the truth. Even within the Church.

So again, thank God that He is bringing an end to great evil in this world.

This is something that especially applies to Israel, even more so than so much of the rest of the world because there is a book that many people say that they believe about the being who inspired it, who gave it, who preserved it to this day, that we could have, that we could look at more than the rest of the world. And who is held more accountable? Those who have it or those who don't have it? So again, this is something that especially applies to Israel as God reveals Himself to them. And what do they do? Chose evil instead. From the very beginning they chose evil instead.

Let's go back to Deuteronomy 31. I think it'd be good to see how God described this and even prophesied about it. Prophecy that was written. There's so much that begins with Adam and Eve, frankly, prophecies that are there, but it continues on and God continues to reveal more and more the farther you go into the Bible. But even here in Deuteronomy, very strong what God had to say and the direction He said Israel would go, what they would do.

Deuteronomy 31:16— And the Eternal said unto Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. So this is the end of his period of time of forty years in the wilderness with the children of Israel. …and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land...

Anyway, Deuteronomy 31. So He's telling Moses, You shall sleep with your fathers, and this people will rise up. And this people will rise up and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land. And I was thinking as I was going through some of this reading this, and I thought what's being addressed in the book and how some of these things began to be picked up, going back through the Roman Empire and some of the beliefs that came out of the land, and especially when you look at what happened through a process of time there with one who began to take on the name of Peter. Because this was a mixture of "the gods of the land." That's what it was. And brought into Christianity. And so much of what we have today in what's called "Traditional Christianity," this is where it came from. Incredible!

And so He says, this is what you're going to do, you're going to go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, where they be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My covenant which I made with them. And so more and more people turn farther and farther away from any strong values of life, any good values of life. And we see that happening continually.

Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day… Even in a physical carnal way. Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them. You know, it's happened over and over again where God has dealt with Israel in this manner through time. And it's most assuredly happening toward this end-time in a very powerful way. I will forsake them and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them. There has never been a time like that that's in past history that's going to be in front of us. …and many evils and troubles shall befall them so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us? That's how low people have to be brought. That's how much has to be ripped away from people. Because nothing that they do, nothing that they are going to be seeking after is going to be giving them hope. Instead, what they have hoped in is going to be destroyed in front of them.

And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evils which they shall have worked. So God is letting them know, because in letting us know, because of all the evils of Israel, all the evils that mankind has done, that He is going to bring evil upon them. That's the judgment. Because people will not listen, have not listened for 6,000 years. …for all the evils that they have worked, and that they have turned unto other gods. Now, therefore, write you this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, and this song may be witness for Me against the children of Israel. For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke Me, and break My covenant. And we see the history of what took place. But the greater fulfillment of some of this was when God fulfilled what He promised in the very beginning concerning the things that would happen toward the end of an age and how He blessed Israel and some of the prophecies that were fulfilled concerning Ephraim and Manasseh, that Manasseh would become the greatest, most powerful nation the earth has ever known.

And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness. For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore. And so again, God has always provided, if you will, whether it be in this particular case here a witness that would be toward them because of what they were to learn then, and also a witness that God said would testify as to what they have done and what's going to happen to them and why it's going to take place. And now in clearer terms than ever before.

Verse 22—Moses, therefore, wrote this song the same day and taught it to the children of Israel. And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them. And I will be with You. And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of the law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Eternal, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Eternal your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

Verse 27—For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. He knows human nature. He knew what would happen to human beings, though they're given incredible truth, revelations of things that had never been revealed to mankind to that degree by any measure before that, and He gave it unto an entire nation. For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the Eternal. So Moses saw it for forty years. …and how much more after my death? Moses knew what would take place. Gather me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves. Isn't that incredible? He knew what would take place. …and turn aside from the way which I commanded you. How did he know this? God inspired him to grasp, to know, to understand their spirit and what would happen when they were blessed, exceedingly so, in a land of milk and honey. If they rebelled in the wilderness and God did so many miracles among them, what would happen when carnal human nature becomes so exceedingly blessed as He said they would become? Turn inward. Selfish. Lustful. On and on it goes.

For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which I commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days. So it's prophetic. It's very much prophetic. It's not just about when they would go into the promised land. It's literally talking about another time. That Hebrew word "latter" easily meaning then, "end" or "last" day. …because you will do evil in the sight of the Eternal. And I think of this world today. You don't have to look very far. If you look according to what God says life should be like and how people should live and you look at what we have, there is so much evil. Truly is! And as a whole we don't look at it. We don't want to see it. We put on blinders. Because I think of what God said about righteous Lot, "because he vexed his righteous soul day by day," because of what he saw! And so we can't afford to fully ignore it. We need to grasp and comprehend what is going on around us on a continual basis. And sometimes in life that's the very reason why God lets us see, makes us see oftentimes what's really around us, so that we can truly grasp the need for great change and that this world cannot continue on the way it is. We are at the end. It can't go on like this.

…and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Eternal. There is so much evil being done. Every nation around the world, and especially, especially in Ephraim and Manasseh, especially in the scattered nations of Israel, but especially, especially in this one. Because we should be, have been in times past, more of an example, a leader – in better ways as far as something physical is concerned. Not anymore. Not anymore. …because you do evil in the sight of the Eternal, to provoke Him to anger through the works of your hands. And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. So, very powerful right there toward the end of Moses' life, of what God gave to him that would go all the way to the end, all the way before God would intervene to change it, to bring an end to evil, thank God.

Something along these lines was given by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 7. Pretty sure I have this one right. Jeremiah 7:21—Thus says the Eternal of hosts, the God of Israel; Put/add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. So in other words, it's not going to do any good. For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice. Very basic. Very simple. Who does it? Who does it? Those who call themselves Christian today, of Traditional Christianity, and look at the marriages, look at their lives of so many, look at the things that take place. I think of that which is in the south. I think of that which sometimes reflects a great deal of that. I think of country music. You would think that that would give some basis of something that has moral fiber to it, or strength to it as far as (like I mentioned earlier) about small farming communities. That that should be the bastion of conservatism, if you will, of how you live your life, of family and so forth. It isn't. That started changing several decades ago. Started changing because of technology… because of technology. Not because of technology. I guess the better way of saying it would be the misuse of technology. That's the proper way of stating it. And so people don't desire to obey God. But it's very simple.

So, again, things like western music. Think how corrupt, how evil. And people look to those things, those who sing it, those who are out there pushing it and they themselves have horrible lives. Adultery so common. Adultery! So common! Accepted! Accepted. Think what a sick, sick, sick world and what that does to families, what that does in people's lives. Who cries out? They don't cry out until they're deep into the repercussions of it. But they don't cry out to God, they just cry out because they don't get what they want, what they expected they should have, or whatever it might be in life. And even when people get what they want they're not satisfied, and after a little while… Can you imagine, someone committed adultery, they might do it again? I'm amazed sometimes by people in the society, in the world around us. You think if someone's going to cheat with someone who themselves you know is a cheater and you think they're going to have a better life with you and they'll never cheat on you? Where is your brain? Where is your thinking? Who? Don't you know this tells about the character of the individual right then and there? You should just expect it because it's going to happen, as a whole. You're not something special! What you did was evil and you're going to suffer for it.

I'm just touching on something very small. Something very small that takes place in the world around us.

But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice. And so those who call themselves Christian and don't uphold some of the most basic laws of God! Yeah, obviously we understand they reject God's Sabbath, but they reject the rest of the Commandments too when it's not convenient for them. Amazing isn't it? Think people should be upset by disobedience, by evil in this world? But this I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. That's what it takes, "Just obey My voice. Look to Me. Desire Me in your life." And God will intervene. God will help. God looks for that. But it's not there yet. Sad what man has to go through.

Only a few have ever been called out of that. And how blessed are you? I couldn't help but think as I was going through some of this, we have a hard time grasping what we have. It is very hard for us not to begin taking it for granted, not to let familiarity begin to breed contempt even for what God gives to us. Truly. That's just the way we are as human beings. And we can't afford that; especially not right now because of what we're entering into.

But this is what I commanded them, Obey My voice and I will be your God, and you shall be My people, and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. But they did not listen. That's what this book is all about. I'm dumbfounded. I am dumbfounded by what God is giving and the message He's giving in this particular period of time that was different from the period before this. Because there's a much different objective right now. Because before the history was and the judgment was, "You have never listened, therefore, this is the judgment." Now God is giving people an opportunity, "If you will listen you can change things. If you will listen, I will listen." It's a very powerful message. And God is working it out in such a way that people are going to have that opportunity. But they did not listen nor incline their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil hearts. As human beings we don't tend to think the heart of human beings is evil. It's not set on good, not God's good. Sometimes we can be a little too trusting. You have to be careful in this whole world. Sad, but you do. …and went backward, and not forward.

Verse 25—Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending. Yet they did not listen unto Me, nor inclined their ear… 6,000 years… 6,000 years …but hardened their neck, and they did worse than their fathers. Therefore, you shall speak all these words unto them, but they will not listen. 6,000 years, people not listening. What an incredible thing that people are going to be given an opportunity more than ever before – actually, more than any other time – in such a massive way, as far as the world is concerned, to have an opportunity to listen. You shall also call unto them; but they will not answer you. What a condemnation toward Israel. And that's exactly the way it's been through time. Until this very end-time. Because now there is a transition in time that's getting ready to take place in a very powerful way from the world governing itself to God governing it. And He is going to change things dramatically, drastically. But you shall say unto them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Eternal their God—How many ways can it be said?—nor receive correction. Truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Now only has it perished, it's the last thing people really want. They don't want the truth but God's going to work to help soften their hearts.

So again, many just do not consider the world to be evil or human nature to be evil. Instead, people have a kind of tunnel vision, as I've mentioned, that chooses to look at things in a very narrow and selfish way. What an incredible thing, choosing to look at things in a narrow (as a whole) and selfish way, the selfish view, especially when it comes to addressing things that are unpleasant to look at.

I thought of something as I was listening to some of the (I don't know what to call it, kind of like a circus) debates going on. What the world must think! People acting like little children. I don't care if it is about individuals that have obtained great ability and so forth or power, as you might call it, in this world because of whatever they've been elected to or may have become through time here and what they've done. But to watch some of this take place and people act like little children? I mean, how sick can this be that people have to lower themselves to behave like that? And yet we see it. Incredible.

And yet I do think of some things that one individual talks about from time to time, that "the establishment" as a whole hate, hate him. But he's bringing to light some things by how strong he has to say certain things that truly do need to be looked at and should be addressed, especially when it comes to certain things about, things like… Little things like political correctness. What a bunch of garbage! What a bunch of swill! What a bunch of stupidity and hypocrisy that people have to worry about what they say and how they say it. Now, it's one thing to be offensive, but it's another thing to be able to talk openly and true about certain things as well. So there's a right balance. But this nation has lost all balance in those things, as a whole. It's really not there. It doesn't exist, as a whole. But I think of one thing that was brought up when they were talking about waterboarding and people talking about how bad it was. Now, I hope you understand what I'm saying as I go through some of this, but the one individual (that you know full well who I'm talking about), made the comments here that he would go beyond that. And I don't know that some understand what's being said there, but the point being is that as one individual brought it out, war is war. If you fight in a war, if that's what you choose, if that's what you've chosen to do then as a physical, carnal world without God, and even with God – think what God had the Israelites do and what He told them. "Destroy man, woman, and child in the land where you go." Because there is something very simple in that understanding, that if someone else God gives to occupy it as a people who are to live a certain way of life, then indeed everything else was to be destroyed so that it could become successful, so that it would have a potential for success. Because what would happen is exactly what God said would happen. In real life you begin to mingle other beliefs and religious ideas into it and after a while the foundation of what you are is going to be destroyed. And that's exactly what happened because they didn't obey God. To this day there are problems with some peoples because they didn't destroy them. They're still a thorn in their side.

And some people say, "Well, that's awfully hard and crude." Well, war is war. And that's why we're going to have what comes upon this world.

So when God begins to do things on this world and man, woman, and child are destroyed, how do you think? Do you think, "Oh, that's just not fair, that little children have to suffer"? Man's done it to himself and man hasn't listened. And just like in the flood, little children died. But there came a point in time, and God has a plan, that they're going to be able to be resurrected in an age, in a time when they won't be raised, reared under anything but the truth. When society in the world is motivated with right motivation, when it's governed by God's Family. And at that point in time there will be multiple millions – not 144,000 – multiple millions serving God in spirit life to serve those people, to help them in their transition in life, to guard, to guide, to direct, protect, to judge, swift judgment if need be. And there will be some who are resurrected who aren't going to make it through the Hundred-years, when they've come to a point where they have committed the unpardonable sin by their actions, by their refusal to listen to God.

So anyway, sometimes our judgment and how we think, it isn't based in real soundness sometimes and we have to really examine ourselves closely in what's happening in this world and why it's happening in this world and always keep God and God's plan and purpose in front of us all the while. That's why I mention in one of the sermons not long after coming back here about that Hundred-year period, that we need to esteem it very highly for what it means. Because oftentimes we look at death and think that everything's over, and the reality is for some it's just going to be beginning. When they are awakened, no matter whether they're young or old or whatever they are, the world they're brought up in is one you and I, though we know about it and have great knowledge of, we don't understand it yet. We don't grasp how beautiful, how magnificent, how incredible it's going to be during that period of time for people to be able to be transformed, to be able to yield to God. To not be in bondage to anything. Nothing! Fully healed. Fully healed in everything and anything around them.

So today we find people want to be free to carry their own definitions of what is good and what's evil. Isn't that amazing? I think of scriptures that talk about those that call evil good. That's what our society has become. That's what the people embrace. They think that things are out here, well, that's not so bad. That's pretty good. That's really what I want. That's what I want to be a part of my life. That's what I want to watch. That's what I want to take in. That's what I want to listen to. That's what I want in my brain. I want that! Don't take it away from me! Don't take it away from me. Incredible. That that which is moral and immoral… Anyway, they want to judge what is immoral or right or wrong. Sad.

So who wants to listen to God? That's the way it's always been, isn't it? Who will listen to God? And again, that's the major thrust, the message of the entire book. In reality people have a kind of response that I had to a movie that I saw the other day. I want to share a little bit with you, because before it was over I was enraged in mind. And it just brought up so many things about how evil, how cruel this world is, and how cruel mankind has been to mankind. But this really brought it to a head in one respect, and so many things do if we can look at it in life and realize how sick can mankind be? And things that are still going on to this day that are so sick in life! But sometimes it's right to be enraged. Sometimes it's right to be moved and motivated to so hate evil. Shouldn't we be? Instead of ignoring it or trying to act like it doesn't exist, on the contrary, we of all people need to understand its existence, the existence of evil, because of what's getting ready to take place. Because we want to see a change from top to bottom.

So much, much in this world is simply evil and people are not appalled, shocked, outraged, and horrified by evil that surrounds us, and we should be. And I hope we all are. Every time you see evil, to be outraged by it. Lot vexed his righteous soul day by day in the things he saw around him, what people were doing to themselves in their lives and family, and so forth. How much worse is it today? So much worse.

So again, people should have a response to evil as I did to this particular movie that I saw on TV this last week entitled, 12 Years A Slave. I don't know how many saw it. It was directed by a man called Solomon… I'm sorry. It was written by a man named Solomon Northrop in 1853. Basically about his life as one who was a New York state born free African American who was kidnapped in the Washington, D.C. area and smuggled into or sold into slavery in Louisiana and worked on a plantation's for 12 years in that area before he was finally released.

Anyway, I mention this movie because it touches on great evil. You know, one thing when I've gone through visiting some areas of Europe I think of some of those areas in Great Britain that I've visited, in castles. Where I visited some of those areas. Was it Buchenwald? What is the name of that one town? Concentration camp that the Germans had some… I'm not sure that's right. There was another one we saw one time even in the area of Belgium. But anyway, places that I've seen like that I don't even like to visit. Old castles, and sometimes what the area they have is like the dungeon area or the place of torture and so forth. And I detest going through any of those things anymore. I didn't like them when I went through them. But there is a reality there that you see how mankind has treated mankind. And how could people do that to each other? It just… Some of the things that people have done to one another?

And I think of, especially, the Catholic Church doing that to a lot of people. How can anyone, anyone, anyone uphold an organization that has a history of doing some of the most atrocious things through time that people have done to others in the name of their religious beliefs? Because they have tortured a lot of people through time. A lot of people! Incredible. Or who could do the kinds of things that so many did in the Boston area in the movie that was written about that? How could anyone support such a sick organization? Blows my mind! Anybody hearing that and putting that out there, that's going to be a good one for society. So let it be. Because it's steeped in great evil, comes out of great evil, of things that people have done to each other, of things that those who are supposed to protect them, instead abuse them. Thankfully I've known of some people, talked to some people in times past who have quit the organization because they can't be associated with that. Duh! What took so long? How can you allow such a thing to exist, instead of just moving around area to area? Whatever, things that took place.

Anyway, getting back to this particular story and some of the things that took place. 12 Years A Slave. Now, I'm not saying that everybody should go out there and watch it as a family show. That's up to you. Personally, I'd have no problem whatsoever showing my children and teaching them everything that's there from beginning to end. Some say, "Oh, but there's some nudity there." Well, shockaroo, amazing. In the context of everything that was given there, it's a reality of life… reality of life and how evil people can be toward other people. Enraged me that people could treat each other like that. And what's sick is I know that stuff still exists to this day as far as prejudices is concerned, the division that takes place. The place I was? Very much a problem because people didn't trust each other and people hated each other, because many had been abused by differences in race or beliefs. And it was bad how people treat each other and think toward each other and speak of each other that they don't even know.

We live in such a sick, sick, sick, filthy world because it doesn't live by the laws of God. It doesn't live by the ways of God. And because of how people can treat each other and judge each other. And I think especially even here, how this one man on the plantation would use the Bible to preach to them about (the slaves), of why certain things would take place and how they'd be beaten many stripes if they didn't listen to their lord, to their master. That certainly sounds religious, doesn't it? About as good as anything else in Traditional Christianity being taught today, because a lot of the things did come from perversion in religion even there.

But anyway, I'll just be candid with you, by the end of the show I cried. I had tears flowing down my eyes when you see what took place and life that was lost, suffering that took place and the deep, incredible emotions and feelings that created in people's lives. And the reason I mention this is because it's just one of so many things that continue to go on in society in the world in family. Lives and families are being broken up today by things. By things just like drugs. I think of that one as well.

I think of how sick it is when indeed that so much of it could be stopped and it isn't stopped. I think of our government alone who's been responsible for bringing drugs into areas of the United States in order to support some other military operation in some other part of the world, or whatever it might be. How sick! How sick can human life be? And then get a tap, slap on the back of the wrist just for one or two because they had to say something to somebody so the world wouldn't condemn fully a whole country. I mean, because that wouldn't be fair! Sick! Great evil, brethren. Do you see it? Do you vex your righteous soul day by day because of what you see around you?

I think of how Trump mentioned that he had different ones – I've heard him say this more than once now, but I heard it the other night. How he mentioned…. I guess because he was visiting up through, was it Massachusetts or Maine? Somewhere he was visiting on his way over to… Anyway, he talked about New Hampshire and some of those he'd visited with there. And I'd heard him make this comment before, that one of the biggest problems in the state that they felt existed was an epidemic of drug use, primarily heroin. Isn't that amazing? That finally a small area is taking note that is their number one problem that they believe exists in their communities, destroying life? Because it's destroying lives! It destroys families. What chance do people have when these things begin to take place and happen to the degree and level that they do? They're in a bondage that you can't even begin to grasp unless you've been touched by it. They're in bondage. They have no power! And how it spreads? And how it's pushed? Sick, sick world.

I think of synthetic marijuana, things they call K2 and Spice – that I also saw, because, basically anything was brought in that people wanted if they had enough money and chose to go around and skirt the law. And they knew it was there. But anyway, another thing that was rampant was K2. Certain individuals. I think of one individual (I saw it with several), but just one who I knew fairly well, played some cards with at one point in time, and when he started smoking this stuff within a month's time he was like a zombie when he wasn't even smoking it. It did something to his brain. Everybody was making fun of him that knew him. Just making fun of him. Because he'd walk up and down sometimes and talking to himself – not even when he was on it! They're finding this stuff now, the stuff called Spice, it's an epidemic in a lot of areas and it's so cheap – synthetic marijuana – that it's causing epilepsy. And we had several who had that. Wonder, could that be a possibility? Think of some of the stupidity of people and what they're willing to do to their lives and to their minds. But they do it because they can't cope with what they're living with, whatever that might be.

Just happened to look up… I was looking this up on the internet. Wanted to make sure. I couldn't remember the word "Spice," that it was Spice. They call it K2 over there. But it's also called "Spice" in some areas. But thing popped upon the internet, talked about the five most common drugs among teens in order. Obviously the most common, marijuana. And I think of how people talk about marijuana, that it doesn't hurt you. You know, I feel for people in this world. I understand their… Maybe I shouldn't say it. Sadly, there are some, and I believe this, I believe there are better ways of being treated, but I feel for people in a physical carnal world out here, but I know there are some because they use it (and people make fun of this medical thing), but I know that there are some that that's about the only way they can cope without having to take certain drugs that totally they lose everything in their mind. If they use it responsibly and so forth. But as a whole, most of society obviously doesn't use it responsibly and it's a matter of a culture. And that culture does easily lend into then the next step. And that's the problem far above and beyond that. So, no, people shouldn't smoke, as a whole. You know, so yes… Probably opened up a can of worms there. But the point being that there is a lot of hypocrisy in this world, a lot of misuse of things in this world. And I can't wait until it's all brought to an end and these things not even exist anymore.

Another one is the misuse of prescription drugs. A lot of adults do that, misuse prescription drugs. Get hooked on certain things and after a while affects their mind and life and they don't even know what's happening. Sometimes we have to be careful that we don't start taking too many even ourselves because some things will mess you up. You have to try for a balance in an evil world. It's an evil world, so what do you do? You have to make those choices yourself. But be careful.

Ecstasy is the next. It's a culture. They brought this up, how that a lot of the kind of parties and so forth and environment, things that people become involved in especially. And, well, teens you're talking about, different kind of partying that they do and so forth. And this is a very common one. And that leads to other things. Because these things lead to people letting down. And morality goes out the window, see, and that's the problem. People let themselves "be free." Do you know what happens when you do that? Others are waiting to take advantage of it. That's what happens.

Then various inhalants. People that mess up their brains with this stuff. They mess up their brains! Because they can't think right oftentimes when these things do certain things in the mind.

And then teenagers, the last one, cocaine and heroin. What a horrible thing that teens have to deal with, are dealing with and taking cocaine and heroin. And yet it exists out there. Let me ask these teachers here, "Does anyone know of any having problems with some of this in their school?" Yeah. There's one in particular I was looking for. Oh, okay. One of you especially does even more so. Sick, sick world. And what does it do to families? What is it doing? And what about their future? What about jobs? How do people function? Well, sad, sad. "Vexed his righteous soul day by day." Shouldn't be hard for us to do that. Every day of our life to pray, "Father, Your Kingdom come, please, quickly, speedily." But we know it is. But that's the jist of the overall framework of what I'm speaking of here, of a desire we have for His government being established, of wanting to see an end to the evil because it hurts you, because you take it personally, because you hate what's taking place, because you loathe it, because you welcome the time of humbling that's coming. I welcome it with all my being because I know more than I've ever known how much is needed. Because there is absolutely no other way that people will begin to change or become humbled! What a hideous thing about human nature that things have to get so bad so that people will give into pride. And even then so many just will not. They're going to fight to the end. They'd rather die than humble themselves. And so many will.

Galatians 1:1—Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man). Something we must always understand in God's Church, mightily so, that there is a way that God works and it's not of men and it's not by man. To never omit, to never neglect, to never disregard God in the picture. (…but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), and all the brethren which are with me, unto the Churches of Galatia. Grace be unto you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, you know, God's desire toward us, mercy and grace and favor, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world. It was back then. How much worse now? It's always been evil. The world has always been evil because man's nature is evil. It's evil. It's not good. It's not based on good. …deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God the Father. To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. So be it.

So God and Christ are working to prepare us, or to prepare for the ushering in (I should say) of the millennial reign, of obviously the Kingdom of God on earth and bringing great evil to an end, finally. Finally to an end. And this preparation is much different than what was being done prior to 2008. Things that are taking place right now are much, much, much, much different than what they were prior to 2008. Now we are already into a period that's getting close to being 3½ years now. What is it? Yeah, right at 3½ years now before Pentecost of 2019 – little past that. But the problem with mankind and especially for the scattered nations of Israel is that, again, they will not listen to God. And God is now working to make that potential or the potential for that and the willingness to listen, that willingness to be, if you will, to listen to be enhanced, to be encouraged mightily. It's incredible what's taking place.

Looking at my time here I think we have time to continue. We're going to continue but I just don't know how far I'm going to shoot for here.

And so, to bring evil to an end, as it must be done before Christ stands again upon the Mount of Oliver. I'm saying that that way for a specific reason as we're going to find out in a little bit. Before he actually stands upon the Mount of Olives great evil must be brought upon mankind in order to begin humbling mankind so that people will begin, or become motivated (I should say) to begin listening to God. And again, that's what the third book is really all about.

So it's becoming more and more clear that for us we have a full year, or at least should say that we've already gotten well into it, but talking about when I first got back, talking about we're going to be able to observe the Feast of Tabernacles this year. We've planned for it. We've done those things and so forth. Because it should be abundantly clear that there is a work that God is doing right now and that work is about the book. It's about getting it ready. And that's all in God's hands. The writing of it? God knew exactly when I should go through what I went through. Exactly. There is timing involved here – precise, perfect, exact – and to the rate certain things were written, and in which some things were rewritten. Talking about Chapter 6.

Anyway, everything in these things concerning God's Church is in His control because everything that He's working for right now is awesome. It's awesome in what we're going through and what He's doing in the world. I wish we could see more. I think by the time you get through the book and we begin to talk about other things in sermons God's going to bless us to be able to see more, because it's awesome. To grasp and comprehend how God is working with nations and has been for several years now is awesome because it's all for a great purpose – to grant mercy. To grant an ability for many more to be saved. Whereas before it was just a simple judgment, "You haven't listened. You're going to die. You've been judged. That's what you are going to receive because you have been judged for what you've done and how you didn't listen for over fifty years to God's apostle who went out on radio and TV and magazines more powerfully than any other religion has or did during that period of time." Awesome! Who listened? Incredible.

So again, God's making it very clear, and more clear as we go along here, obviously, that we have a full year before us to get the book finished. That it be made available to those of the different languages it's being translated into, that people are working on currently. And we may well be in a cycle of what Daniel referred to as a period of a time, times, and a half a time that will be fulfilled before God manifests the end to evil that must be brought to this world in the last fifty days. Because that's when He's going to do it. He is going to bring a great end to evil during that last fifty days. Because it's during that period He Himself intervenes, powerfully so, to, as He says, to destroy those who are destroying the earth. Evil. Incredible.

So again, it's very clear that…. And I just can't help think about some of the things God gave to us when we didn't know it, but after, into 2009, 2010, 2011, in through that period of time. There was much given to us that really is about now. It wasn't for back then but God let us live through that because our focus was, our target was 2012. But God gave us a dry run, if you will, to prepare us. And He gave us much understanding of some things that are really about now. They were prophetic.

So it's very clear, again, that God has given us a year to complete and make available the words of this book to the world. But we're not going to jump rapidly into any great change immediately when that happens. I think some have felt, as happened in times past, that all of a sudden when you're down to the last 3½ years all of a sudden everything's going to rip loose on the earth, we're going to see things happening all around us. It's not going to happen that way, and thank God it isn't. Do we remember what we went through? We've been prepared for this. We should see. We should know. We should know just by the progress of the book alone where things are. Not going to happen until that book is out there, until finally we're able to be able to talk once again as before, to be wherever, whatever God opens up in its time – which is God's time.

So again, that should be very clear to us. So there's more. I think of something else God also showed. You know that time in Daniel talks about a time, times, and a half a time, which, again, God has also revealed (which I've also talked about), there are periods of times of specific judgment. We're not talking about that because judgment is broken down differently. That's broken down into 280 days and then the – What is it? – the nine hundred and… whatever it is remains, that's the time, times, and a half a time when it has to do with judgment. This has to do with a specific timeframe of physical things that are going to happen on this earth. And I think of that, that there was something that was given to us at a particular time where God was showing that that doesn't have to be in a matter of an order of what's going to happen first is "time," and then "times," two years, and then "a half a time," half a year. It can be times, and time, and a half a time. I hope it is. I hope that it's divided up that way. And you might wonder what am I talking about. I'm talking about when things actually begin in earnest with greater power.

That's why I've been telling some, talking to Johnny and to Wayne, and maybe mentioned to a few of you, that I feel very, very strongly that we're going to have another Feast of Tabernacles. That means of necessity that we're going to have to have the ability then to travel to Feast sites. And I hope that's the way it transpires. And I hope that's what's being fulfilled and accomplished. Because when evil begins, and I'm talking about some really great evil, when it's unleashed on this earth it's going to be far worse than what we can comprehend in our minds. You can't comprehend it and I don't think we really have to. We'll just address it when it arrives and deal with it when it arrives. And as we're looking to God, as we look to God, God will take care of us.

I think of different ways that God is going to take care of people. There are going to be people who want to know you. There are going to be people who want to search you out. Well, there are going to be two kinds of people that want to search you out. You want to pray that the good ones get a hold of you, who want to know the truth, because you're looking to God for protection and favor. And there will be those who will cling to you, who want to know what you know. Awesome! Awesome! At some point in time before this is all over with you're going to be dumbfounded by what you experience and by what you see God accomplish around you and in your life. Awesome things that are going to take place.

And so I look at that and I look of where we are and realize that, you know, just talking about if it were a time, talking about almost at the elections of next year. But hopefully it, if we're talking about that period of time, if we have another Feast besides this one here. After we get to a period of time of elections, first week of November, who knows. Who knows what we're going to see in this country. Because at some point this country is at the top of the list for when things begin.

I think of how God is working with us. If we can understand how God works with us individually in our lives to call us, to draw us, to work with us, it's hard for us to grasp a God that's working with millions and billions right now, with leaders, with people, with those who are going to have a great deal of influence as to the movement of certain things that take place between nations as things progress, as things happen. And He's working with them. And I think of, especially in this nation here, how certain things are being worked with. And here, sadly, it's more a condition of people are being allowed to dig a deeper pit – because the fall's going to be a lot greater. When you're this great, the fall is going to be great! And God's going to allow it to be very great, because if it isn't, people here aren't going to repent and change. I hate to say it, but I tell you, this nation above all nations is going to receive some of the hardest hit when it happens. They're going to be hit first. And there are reasons for this, and we will learn that as time goes along. We'll come to understand it in deeper ways. And we're going to see a lot of things and they're not going to be pretty, but some of it's going to be beautiful.

There is nothing more beautiful than to see a person change. There is nothing more beautiful than to see a mind that all of a sudden says, "I see it." That experience of coming in contact with someone who all of a sudden their eyes are opened up and they "see" it, they see the truth. And the excitement and the joy that's there. And to realize what God is doing in their life because of the particular time that they are living in and what the purpose is for them being awakened. Wow! We have seen nothing. We've been given a taste of it in times past, but just a slight taste.

So again, I don't know about you but I am immensely excited about where we are and where we're going. We live in awesome times! God has called us to an awesome purpose. We have opportunities and blessings in front of us that we don't grasp the magnitude of. And so often we don't even grasp the magnitude of our calling, period, in the sense of the deep thankfulness and appreciation of the incredible mercy and patience that God has with us. Truly! Let alone the magnitude of the purpose of it in this end-time.

I mentioned before the different things that people have experienced in this book through time – it's about right now. They experienced things. They were taught things. They were given things in their age, and as a whole, it was for a very few with whom God was working – especially in the first 4,000 years. But those examples of things that are written there were written for us now so we could have it now. I was thinking about today, listening to someone whose split is going to be out here in a short time now. But he was talking about as we're thinking about getting closer to Unleavened Bread anyway, of coming out of Egypt and the things that the Israelites saw and what God did and what God performed. And I couldn't help but think, all the things that they saw, all the things that they witnessed, all the things they saw took place in Egypt when Egypt was destroyed and God protected an entire nation of people from that because it wasn't upon them. And I think about what we're going to see and what we're going to witness that is going to make that look pretty small. And yet we're moved – and we should be – when we read about the exodus and what took place and when the sea parted. You haven't seen anything yet! You haven't seen anything yet of what God is going to be doing.

So again, I'm excited about where we are and the time we have in front of us and what we're going to be able to accomplish. And then to wait and see when this nation is struck. And even then, how it transpires and how long it covers, how long a period of time it covers. Because there is so much that shows that the last six months on this earth before Christ returns, that's going to be the major period of time of things happening.

Anyway, I know that you do – hopefully we do more and more as we see the age in which we live in. Because it helps us to change ourselves. When you see evil, when you cry out to God to see evil more clearly in life and in your own life that it helps us to loathe it, to hate it, and to want to get rid of it, to fight against it, to change, to grow, to yield ourselves more and more to God. Because we've been given such great opportunities. Truly have. We've been given so much before God. And yet we must do a lot of what Lot did, of loathing, being hurt by, hating what we see taking place in this world that's destroying it all around us. It doesn't matter where you look. It doesn't matter where you look everything has to be changed! Everything is destructive and destroying itself and getting worse and worse so fast.

Anyway, I thought it would be good here to pick up some things. I think about that period of time. Again, the more we grasp what God is doing in that last fifty days the more we can begin to see and understand why He does and how He does the things that are going to take place once the actual effects of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Trumpet take place.

So today I thought I would continue on a little bit from some things in the 6th chapter. We're getting really close to that now. I think someone was telling me on the way in here that next week, I think, is the last installment of Chapter 5. And I hope that Chapter 6 is going to be closer, but I don't know where it's in in the editing stage. How are we doing in that area? Pretty good? I haven't talked to Audra about it in a little while so I'm not really sure where everything is with Chapter 6, but anyway, we're going to keep pushing it forward the best we can and try to keep up this weekly rate that we're going at right now. But I want to pick up in part of what was said last week – or not last week, but when I first read some of this. I'd really like to go back and read all that I read, but I'm not going to. I'm going to pick up a little bit of where we left off and then I'm going to continue on because some have been picking up on some things that you need to grasp and understand that are awesomely exciting to me. But, again, it's all part of a process here of why the message is here in the first place.

But I'm going to start here. Let's see. I'm just going to pick it up. And this is a little ways into it. I was just thinking what heading this is under. It's under a heading called, God's Intervention, early in the book. But just picking it up here. It says: "If God had allowed World War III to have begun soon after 2008 His plan to end that war would have been accomplished in one day, which would have been on Pentecost in 2012. That would have been such a powerful event that mankind would have been stopped in its tracks, shocked to the core of its being, and truly ready to listen to God. However, if the world had been humbled in that one day the death and destruction would have been exceedingly great."

Because God has revealed that there was a lot more going to be destroyed at that point in time in that than what would have taken place in the 6th Trumpet as far as the nuclear war that was taking place.

God prophetically reveals," continuing on, "that the 6th Trumpet of Revelation is the time where mankind will engage in a final all out nuclear confrontation. It has already been stated that this confrontation will destroy one-third of all the earth, which means one-third of mankind will die as a result, or 2.3 billion people. Yet the next Trumpet, which is the 7th Trumpet, consists of the 7 Last Plagues, and this is when God intervenes and stops that war. It states that the purpose of these final great plagues is for Him to destroy those who are destroying the earth. This destruction will come upon those people and nations who are engaged in supporting that war, a war that is destroying the earth. If this event and the administration of these plagues had occurred in 2012 there would have been at least an additional 3.5 billion people destroyed in that single day, and likely hundreds of millions more."

"These events that happen toward the very end of this end-time should be feared, just as the flood in Noah's day should have been feared. God will be executing great judgment on this earth against those who have so corrupted their minds that they become blindly engaged in helping to destroy the earth."

"But what if these plagues could be administered by God in a different manner whereby many could have the potential to be saved?" That's what I love about this. God is revealing to us that by doing things in a different way, fulfilling the basis of all the prophecies but in a different manner than what they had been shown before, that awesome things can be accomplished, or the potential for them at least is there. No one will be able to say, "God, You weren't merciful to us." "What if the number," continuing on, "What if the number of the dead could potentially be cut in half, or even far more than if these things had occurred in 2012? When asking these questions it's important to understand that the only way that number can ultimately be reduced in such a large manner is if those who are destroying the earth will begin to listen to God and cease from their evil. That is what God is now preparing to offer to those who would otherwise come under these plagues and be destroyed. As always, the choice is theirs and theirs alone to make."

And then under the section, Purpose of the Seven Last Plagues: "As stated, those plagues are going to be poured out first and foremost for the purpose of stopping World War III, and to destroy those who are destroying the earth. And those prophetic events are set and cannot be changed. God is now revealing the answer to the following question: How can these plagues be poured out in a different manner that might potentially produce a stronger desire within many people, and even perhaps in some entire nations, that they become humbled, begin listening to God, and then cease from the evil they are causing on the earth?"

"By understanding how God has now changed the manner in which He can administers these plagues once He begins to directly intervene, then one will be able to begin to understand other things that God is doing and changing in order to offer many more people the potential to live into a new age. Again, as always the actual results in people's lives is a matter of individual free choice, and therefore, fully dependent upon how they respond."

Dropping on down a little farther. "It's important to understand that there is a very great difference in how these final plagues would be poured out depending upon which date God would judge was best for the establishment of His Kingdom on earth. If these had been poured out on that final prophetic day in May 2012 it would have been such a destructive event and would have so shocked and stunned the world that on the following day the world would have been ready to listen to God. When Jesus Christ does return the world will have been made ready to listen to God."

And then a little farther down under a section called, Seven Last Plagues: "As mentioned, the prophetic day God has determined for 2012 as being the first possible date for Christ's coming was the literal one day period that would have been on Pentecost that year." Now, I thought about not reading all this again but I think it's good to do it. Because as we go through this we're going to see a little bit more than what we did the time before. And even when you read it you'll be able to see a little bit more than the time before. And you will not be able to drink everything in all at one time.

Going on: "For all of the reasons being stated in this chapter, God has judged that seven additional years would be granted to mankind before the final stages of the end-time should commence, and that Pentecost 2019 is the day Christ will return to this earth. It will be on that day he will once again stand upon the Mount of Olives as scripture foretells. In making this change God has also made a change in the duration for which that prophetic day is to be fulfilled. Instead of that period being defined as a literal one day period, as it was before 2012, God is now defining that prophetic day as 50 actual days."

And so now we're going to pick up where we'd left off. This is where we'd left off last time, showing that indeed that this fifty days is from the period of the wave sheaf all the way up to the period of time of Pentecost.

"On the day that Jesus Christ begins his return to this earth he will become manifest above the atmosphere of this earth. And after this God will then begin a process of pouring out those plagues. Rather than pouring all of them out in a single day God will now do so throughout the period of fifty literal days. Yet just before these physical plagues begin to be poured out the 144,000 will be resurrected."

"This event of Christ appearing in the atmosphere above the earth begins in the midst of God's Holy Days during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It is on the same day when the offering of the wave sheaf would have been performed yearly at the temple. This has incredibly awesome significance," incredible, awesome – anyway, significance. Hope the editors caught all this, "and meaning that has now been added to this timing for Christ's coming. Because it now ties together in an awesome manner both the wave sheaf offering during Unleavened Bread and the offering of the wave loaves on the day of Pentecost."

"The offering of the wave sheaf in the Old Testament represented Jesus Christ as the first of the firstfruits, and the offering of the wave loaves on Pentecost represents the rest of the firstfruits of God, the 144,000. Jesus Christ was the first of the firstfruits of God and the 144,000 are the rest of the firstfruits of God. Although these are resurrected on the day of the wave sheaf they will not stand on earth until fifty days later on the day of Pentecost along with Jesus Christ. That Pentecost reveals that they have been fully received of the Father and now established to reign in the Kingdom of God on earth from that day forward."

"This all have very profound meaning in the greater fulfillment of God's great plan of salvation. From the point of that day, which represents when the wave sheaf would have been offered, the seven last plagues can begin to be administered in a completely different manner than had been purposed before in 2012. Now these plagues can be interspersed throughout the entire fifty day period, which they will be. Each of these can also occur at different times in different areas with different lengths of duration. And any can be repeated if God so chooses."

I don't know about you but that is awesome! The potential for changing people, the potential for moving people to humility, a power they can't even begin to grasp and comprehend nor fight against and are willing to start to listen, finally. Incredible!

"This entire process," going on, "is one of the means whereby God is revealing His desire to extend great mercy to as many people as possible in this final end-time. The means of God's intervention and use of these plagues reflects that desire and purpose that He is seeking to work out whereby a vastly greater number of people can potentially be delivered into the Millennium. Though there will still be great suffering and death that can be reduced mightily throughout this time period if people will only humble themselves before God. God is extending much mercy throughout this process as people are being offered a far greater opportunity for being saved alive. If they will not be humbled by this process and begin listening to God then the last of these days will be very strong against those who are destroying the earth, because mankind will be humbled before Christ returns."

"This entire process, although very catastrophic in nature, is all designed to heighten the potential for mankind to become humbled and then to become motivated with the desire to listen. People must be brought to the point where they will begin to look at themselves realistically and far more truthfully in order to acknowledge great change must take place in themselves."

Isn't that amazing that human nature is so hard-hearted, so filled with pride against God that they will resist Him in such a manner? And yet that's going to exist until the day Christ returns, or stands upon the Mount of Olives, I should state in a better way.

"Yet again," going on, "throughout the administration of these plagues the level of destruction that will be administered rests solely upon how those who are destroying the earth will respond. If they still will not be humbled, they will simply be destroyed. And that total number could still be in excess of 3.5 billion people."

"This period of the plagues will be mankind's last opportunity to begin to listen to God. God has been very patient and full of mercy. It is mankind that's refused to listen to Him and is instead bent on his own self-destruction."

Continuing on in the section entitled, Struck By Incredible Fear: "On this day that Christ returns in the atmosphere above the earth the 144,000…" Now, that's the term we use. Obviously we understand, and it's not spelled out in such a way to become difficult for people (sometimes we know too much), but basically what's referred to as 144,000 are resurrected at that time, not everybody. There are going to be people still alive right up to the very end. That's why I marvel at what's written in Thessalonians there where it talks about a period of time, 1 Thessalonians, and there are certain ones going to be resurrected first, and those who are yet alive later? We didn't know how much later, in some cases. So hey, interesting what's going to transpire, what can take place.

[Now, I took my finger away from where I was and now I'm in trouble. Oh, why did I do that? I think this is approximately…. I may be a whole paragraph…I don't know.]

"Struck By Incredible Fear: As Jesus Christ…" I'll back up, read the whole paragraph. "On this day that Christ returns to the atmosphere above the earth the 144,000 are resurrected in order for them to be gathered together unto him." So, obviously, we understand there are a few who are not, those who are yet alive. Okay? "That event will be visible throughout the entire earth. Within that region God is going to physically manifest elements of this event that is happening in the spirit realm." Because it's happening in a spirit realm and you can't see spirit. You can't see the 144,000 or the whatever it is, 144, and what are they, 100, 200, anyway,  "happening in the spirit realm, as Jesus Christ is spirit and 144,000 who are resurrected to be with him are resurrected as spirit beings. They cannot be seen by mankind except for whatever physical manifestation of this event that God gives. This display from the earth will cause wonder, awe, shock, incredible fear, and panic."

Can you imagine all the crazy sci-fi's that are out there that people have seen, and some just getting bigger and bigger of things they see and how it scares people? They haven't seen anything yet. Truly. Hollywood can't quite get it.

"It is so intense that the nations who have been at war with one another will stop their fighting. This manifestation will be massive in size with great brilliance and a dancing display of color that runs throughout it. It simply appears, and then for a time remains stationary just above the earth's atmosphere as the earth rotates beneath it." People all over the world. Incredible. "This physical manifestation will appear as it is described in Revelation as it occurs on a spiritual plane. And it appears as a sea of glass that is mingled with fire. From the perspective of people on earth they are able to see this incredible brilliance that is large in size, but they cannot detect what it is. No instruments can measure the size, mass, or shape that it has, because it has none." Not physically. Think that'll scare some people? What would you be like? The scientists telling leaders, "We see it but we can't." Incredible!

"This in itself creates even greater fear, because all that can be detected is simply by human sight. The only thing that most can bring themselves to believe at this point is that this is an invasion. And many nations will then unite for the sake of what they believe is self-preservation in order to fight against it." Especially once the first plague, then the second plague begin to strike. And they're going to be able to know where it's coming from. It's going to be made known to them what is the source, and it's from what has been manifested. "Suddenly World War III takes a back seat as nations now set out to fight against what they can only believe is an invasion. Some will believe it's an alien invasion from another world, and yet others will believe what they are being told is an invasion from the antichrist." And that creates its own problems. And God has made it very clear that there will be one great church that will be telling them just that, "It's the antichrist!"

Anyway, we'll stop there. So you'd like to hear more? Nah, you've got to wait. Here goes the carrot. I'm sorry. Little bits here. Just some to digest. But to me it's exciting to think about the 144,000, or the vast majority of them – I'm using that phrase without getting into technicalities. The world and people who read it aren't going to grasp it anyway. Just to have an overview of something that they see in scripture and to grasp that these are individuals who lived through time and they're going to be resurrected. We understand the truth of it and that's obviously what counts there, the rest of the story (an expression we use) concerning God's government being resurrected, knowing that it doesn't mean every single one of them yet.

And we don't know how the rest are going to happen. Perhaps as some die they'll be resurrected. Some will at the very, very, close to the very end, I believe with all my being. And, anyway, what an awesome thing that's taking place and how God's going to work with this world. And much more to all this. There's a lot more of Chapter 6. I think it is the largest chapter, if I'm not mistaken, by far.

So again, exciting times we live in, brethren. And I hope you're moved with all your being. Moved when you see the evil that takes place, how people treat each other, how people think about each other. I think of some of the things we see right now on TV, how nasty human beings can be to each other, how hateful people can be to each other, how cutting people can be. Because this is just common. This is just the manifestation of something that happens all the time, day in and day out. In business, you bump into it. You see it. You see how people stab each other in the back. People want to get ahead. People who don't like you. People who mistreat each other. So vile. It truly is. And that isn't even counting some of the really atrocious things that take place that people allow, that governments allow.

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Chapter 1