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0:21Without any further ado, Ron, uh, would you bless your church family tonight with what the
0:25Lord has shown you? Amen. Amen. Thank you, sir. Well, you guys know if ever there was a message
0:35that's going to qualify for the Nashville tinfoil hat thing. I'm looking for the Oh,
0:41there. There. Even the lights go on for this one. Right. So, [laughter]
0:47so there we go. Compliments of Jud. Jud's the one who got me that.
0:54So, last week on Wednesday night, we were talking about land and building a a new facility for
1:04growth. And this week, we're talking about how the Lord might be coming really soon. And some
1:10people might think that's crazy or inconsistent or contradictory, but according to the Bible,
1:17it's not. It's not an eitheror. It's a both and. We are occupying and working for the Lord, but we
1:26are also watching. We're watching the prophetic signs. We're understanding the season we're in,
1:32and we're keeping a watchful eye for the return of our Lord. And after tonight, if you don't already
1:39feel that way, I'm hoping you will. Um, so I I I really I want to thank Pastor Chad for allowing me
1:47to uh to come up here and to share this tonight. I don't I don't want to dishonor the Lord in any
1:56way. I don't want to embarrass Pastor Chad in any way. I don't want to reflect negatively
2:02with insanity on Life Story Church. Um I don't want to create confusion or fear in the body.
2:10And last but least, I I I'm not eager to make myself look foolish, although my reputation
2:18precedes me in that regard, says a guy who's been out on the street for almost 10 years with a sign.
2:24So that that ship is kind of sailed already. But um so I I I I want to approach this tonight as we
2:32talk about the feast of trumpets and the rapture and the possibility that this year could could be
2:39the year. I want to approach it soberly and and I'm you guys know me, I'm very analytical and I
2:46don't I'm not going to get up here and just, you [snorts] know, what do they say? Shoot from the
2:51hip and just fly by the seat of my proverbial pants. So, so let me begin to kind of walk you
2:57down this. But first, you know, you're going to get my Berean warning. Check this out. Look in
3:03the word and I'm going to take you through this and show you that everything I've got in terms of
3:08at least the concepts and the day counts. It's all from the word. It's it's not from anything
3:15else but that. So, if I'm going to give you the outline for the message, it's going to look like
3:20this. We're we're going to we're going to talk about what the timeline is and and also equally
3:24important at the start here. I want to spend some time talking a little bit about what the timeline
3:28is not. Uh I'll give you some basic timeline assumptions. We'll define the rapture just for
3:35the benefit of those who may not be familiar with it. I don't think there's anybody here
3:40who's probably in that camp, but maybe somebody watching online either live or uh in the future on
3:46a recording just to make sure we know what we're talking about when we talk about the rapture. And
3:51then I'm going to give you five timeline building blocks and walk you through each one and the logic
3:57behind it and what I've seen. and then I'll let you all weigh that out and and check it against
4:03the word and pray about it and see if you think it has any any merit or not. So with that said,
4:10what today's message is not. Let's start there and let me be crystal clear on this. Okay, I am not
4:19saying thus saith the Lord. Everybody repeat after me. Ron is not saying thus saith the Lord. Okay?
4:28I'm not setting a hard date for the rapture. I'm not saying the rapture must take place on a feast
4:34or must take place on the feast of trumpets or even must take place this year. I'm not making any
4:41kind of dogmatic proclamation. And I'm certainly not encouraging irresponsible living. Do not sell
4:48your house based on the message tonight. Do not quit your job based on the message tonight. Do not
4:54run up your credit cards based on the message tonight. We're all We're all clear on that.
4:58Everybody good with that? Right. Okay. Don't do that, please. Now, the timeline also kind of in
5:07the along the lines of what it's not not based on not based on and Pastor Chad alluded to it
5:12already. It's not based on dreams or visions. Although the Lord does use dreams or visions,
5:17and I'm not mocking that or discounting that. I'm just telling you this timeline doesn't have that
5:23as a component. It's not based on any celestial alignments or signs in the heavens, which again,
5:29the Lord can and has and does use that to communicate, but it's not part of this. It's
5:37not based on Strong's concordance numbers, which sometimes people get a little carried away on the
5:42significance they want to place on that. It's not based on people seeing numbers on license plates
5:47or digital clock readouts when they wake up in the middle of the night and they roll over and
5:53they see 111 and they think that means something and maybe in a personal communication between the
5:59Lord and that person. Maybe it does, but that's not part of this timeline. And we, you know,
6:05Amber was the one who made the comment like we're not torturing the data here. And it's like, yeah,
6:10that's right. We're not trying to make this confess and fit a narrative. And you'll see
6:16how I kind of in a sense stumbled into it. And if there's if there's any substance to it,
6:22I would say the Holy Spirit led me into it. But but we're not twisting things. You know,
6:28the only the only thing that's a little loose, I guess you could say, is because of the way Hebrew
6:33days are counted with sundown to next day. you know, there's a day or so that could be, you know,
6:39on either side of that, but other than that, it is what it is. And if this time comes and goes,
6:46it still is what it is and was what it was and maybe didn't turn out to have the significance
6:52that it kind of looked like to me it might. All right, that said, what am I saying? Next
6:59slide here. Based on study and research, I've encountered a speculative key operative word
7:05there, speculative rapture timeline with some very compelling date alignments that make it worthy of
7:11serious consideration. It runs from the rapture at the feast of trumpets this year, September 11,
7:17sundown into September 12th to a potential millennial temple dedication 7 years later in
7:24December of that year. Again, it's based solely on biblical patterns and biblical day counts
7:29and the milestones of the timeline. They fall on dates that seem to represent really precise and
7:35significant historical dates related uh in most cases to um feast days, moadeem, appointed times.
7:44Um it's based on the Gregorian calendar. The feast dates are tied to the traditional rabbitic hell
7:51calendar. Those of you who are familiar with the calendars, you know it's a hot mess. There's all
7:56kinds of calendars and there there's there's Zadok Enokeian and and there's Kite based on
8:03the new moon sliver and there's all kinds. But we're I'm using the hell calendar for purposes
8:09of this timeline. And in my mind, it kind of makes sense because if the Lord was going to
8:14be trying to communicate to people, especially to the Jewish people who are going to be left here,
8:20um he he would use that calendar. But that's just a thought of mine. Nothing definitive about that.
8:27Um, I I feel, you know, I went to Pastor Chad and Amber because I feel almost an obligation
8:33in a sense to share this because I don't think God shows people stuff typically just
8:38for themselves of this nature anyway. Um, sure there are personal things that he may be dealing
8:45with us on that aren't necessarily needing to be shared with others, but um, I felt that and I and
8:51I felt like good night if this is actually something of significance and I didn't say
8:58anything like I I would I I don't want to be that guy. Like I don't want to be in heaven and say,
9:04"Well, I kind of showed you something there. You know, I expected you to share it and you didn't."
9:09you know, I don't want to be that guy. So, that's a little bit of an insight to the motivation of my
9:14wanting to share this. I'm not looking for fame. I'm not looking for fortune. I told Pastor Chad,
9:20I'm not going to write a book, 26 Reasons Why Jesus is Coming Back in 2026. Like,
9:25I'm not writing that book. And he doesn't have to write the forward to that book. All right? He
9:29said he would, though. He [laughter] But I'm not writing that book. I'm not trying to make money or
9:35be famous or do anything. I'm just trying to share what I have found and think is pretty amazing. One
9:43other next slide. One other parenthetical point I'd like to make before we start to dig into the
9:49timeline. Matthew 24:32 through36 in particular verse 36. There's a verse in there, no man knows
9:55the day or the hour. And I will hear that quoted quite often. And uh a lot of times, not always,
10:01but a lot of times it comes from somebody who just doesn't even want to deal with prophecy and
10:09end times and where we might be and where we're going. And they just sort of use that as a crutch,
10:15if you will, to just sort of dismiss the whole thing. Ah, nobody knows the day or the hour,
10:20so there's really no point in thinking about it and analyzing the season we're in.
10:25The point I want to make from this passage, I'm not going to read the whole thing. You've got it
10:31on the screen, but I want to highlight all these things and then the fact that it says in that day
10:37and hour, all these things refer to, if you read the context of the passage preceding these verses,
10:44it talks about the abomination of desolation, which clearly takes place at the midpoint of
10:50the 70th week of Daniel, the tribulation. It talks about Jews in Judea fleeing to the
10:56mountains. It talks about an exhortation to pray, among other things, that your flight wouldn't be
11:02uh on the Sabbath, which is clearly talking to the Jewish people. Uh and then there's a
11:07reference to the son of man coming in the clouds, which is a reference to the second coming. My
11:12point in bringing all of this up is none of that relates to the rapture of the church.
11:19So whatever that phrase means and there are different thoughts on it, different idiomatic
11:24expressions and different interpretations. I'm not even going there tonight. That's not even my
11:29point. My point is simply to call this out and say no one knows the day or the hour is not referring
11:35to the rapture in the context of this verse. So it is what it is. But God is not saying we
11:43shouldn't be looking at and considering the times and the seasons that we're in. And that's what
11:49we're going to do tonight. All right, next slide. Basic assumptions for the timeline. Number one,
11:55the rapture is a biblical doctrine. It is different than the second coming. Those are
12:01two different events. I had the chance to bring a teaching and a message not too long ago that
12:07contrasted the second coming from the rapture. And I had 20 different reasons and illustrations
12:14of why those two can't be the same thing. So, that's an underlying assumption here. The rapture,
12:20we're looking at a pre-tribulation rapture that is completely distinct from the second coming. Number
12:26two, God is meticulously precise in his character and how he does things, what he does. And the the
12:33example that comes to mind, Pastor Chad has taught on this. I've taught on it. 173,880
12:39days from the decree of Artic Xerxes to the end of the 69th week of Daniel. We're not getting
12:46into all the details, but the point tonight is exactly to the day. That's the day Jesus
12:52rode into Jerusalem on the donkey, fulfilled that prophecy out of Zechariah 9:9. 173,880
13:02days. He is so precise. He's not doing this timeline random willy-nilly just any day.
13:11It might seem that way to the natural human eye who doesn't understand the undergirling of the
13:17precision that's going to be there, but you will never convince me that his timeline isn't going
13:24to be super precise. Just like I'll give you a bunch of examples as we go through about how he
13:30fulfilled the first uh first coming the the the feast, right? The the four spring feast.
13:37He's just very precise and you'll see that in this hypothetical or proposed timeline that
13:43I'm going to share with you. Number three, there is a an existing historic pattern of
13:49major prophetic events being fulfilled on feast days. I'll I'll show you exactly what that is,
13:56but again, it just speaks to his precision. There's no randomness to this. Finally, I want
14:03to talk about just defining terms for a minute of the 70th week of Daniel is a 7-year period.
14:10Each week of those 70 weeks is a one a a um a week of years. So, it's a 7-year period. Uh and those
14:18seven years when you use 360 days per year, which is 12 months times 30 days per month, which is
14:26understood amongst biblical scholars and prophecy students to be a prophetic year. There's 2520 days
14:34in one prophetic year. You get that number, you go 7 * 360 = 2520. And when you split that in half,
14:43you get 1,260, which so those seven years of that last uh Daniel's 70th and final week are the same
14:51seven years that the book of Revelation goes into such detail on. And the math on that that I just
14:56kind of verbally walked you through, here it is on another slide. Um you can see one week of Daniel
15:0370 is is equal to 7 years. A prophetic year is 360 days. 12 months times 30 days. A full single 70th
15:13week is 2520 days. 7 years time 360. And then half of that week you just divide it by two and it's
15:221260 days. Those day counts will be important for you to keep in mind because I'll be referencing
15:28them to show you how I got to the milestones that I got to in this process. All right, little bit of
15:35groundwork. We've laid all that. Let me take us now to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 for one of the
15:42um primary verses uh passages in scripture that speaks about the rapture. Again, I'm going to
15:50read this. I don't want to assume that everybody's familiar with this. Starting in verse 13. But I do
15:57not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as
16:02others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring
16:08with him those who sleep in Jesus, those who have died in faith. For this we say to you by the word
16:13of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means
16:18precede those who are asleep. Continuing in verse 16, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven
16:25with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ
16:31will rise first, that we who are alive and remain shall be caught up. There's that word, caught up.
16:37Harpato Strongs G726 translated into the Latin in rapurus transliterated into the English as
16:46rapture. No raptures not in the English Bible as the word rapture but it is easily traced back to
16:55caught up. Those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet
17:00the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with
17:06these words. The rapture is in the Bible. It is a biblical doctrine. It's amazing to me and maybe
17:13it shouldn't be, but even today I was reading comments. There is so much opposition to the
17:18rapture and specifically to the pre-tribulation rapture. And that often feels like a tell to me
17:25because the attacks typically go against the truth, right? And it's coming from outsiders
17:33who are just mockers and scoffers, but it's also coming from professing believers and maybe even
17:39some genuine ones. And they just get so nasty about it. It's it's a it's in the Bible. It the
17:48pre-tribulation rapture was not invented by John Derby in the 1800s. It's not tied to the Scofield
17:55Bible. People get up and they say, "Well, there's no evidence that any of the early church fathers
18:01ever even believe the pre-tribulation rapture." If you make that statement, you're either woefully
18:06ignorant, not using that term pjoratively, you don't know the truth, or you're a liar. Because
18:13the reality is, if you study that out, people have actually written books about it. All of the
18:19different people who believed in a pre-tribulation rapture. That doesn't necessarily make it true.
18:26just in and of itself. But if your argument is, "Oh, this is 200 years old. Nobody ever believed
18:32that." Your argument is ridiculous. It's absurd. It barely deserves a response because it shows
18:38you have no intellectual scholarly integrity and credibility. Sorry, those are fairly hard words,
18:45but it's the truth. Second passage I want to read about the rapture is found in 1 Corinthians 15:es
18:5350- 54. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,
18:59nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep,
19:04but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last
19:08trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible,
19:12and we shall be changed. Continuing in verse 53, for this corruptible must put on incorruption,
19:18and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible is put on incorruption and this
19:23mortal is put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
19:29death is swallowed up in victory. Hallelujah. Great day. Going to be a wonderful day. Can't wait
19:35for that. That's the rapture. That's what we're talking about. Again, the assumption here is,
19:39and we're not making the argument for it tonight. It's an underlying assumption. It's a
19:43pre-tribulation rapture. Okay, we're going to get to the timeline. Now, we've laid back groundwork.
19:51This timeline started out with a what if in my mind. Well, what if what if the Lord did rapture
19:58us on the feast of trumpets this year. I wonder what that would look like in terms of timing and
20:05day counts and where it lands and all of that. So, I started the timeline essentially with five
20:13building blocks, five milestones, if you will, right? the starting point of the whole thing which
20:19would be the rapture number one which I'm going to tell you why I'm starting from the feast of
20:25trumpets because that's not just arbitrary well that'd be an interesting there there's a lot of
20:30reasoning behind that to pick that as a potential starting point and I'll share that with you the
20:35second piece is a gap of some sort and the reason I came to the conclusion there needed to be a gap
20:42was because when I when I looked at this year the feast of trumpets it's two-day window because they
20:48don't know when they'll see the the first sighting of the moon. It's from 911, the the evening of
20:54911 to to the evening of 913, sundown 9:13 in Jerusalem. It's it it ain't about the USA, right?
21:02We all tend to be ethnosentric and think it's all about us. It isn't about us. It's it's Jerusalem.
21:07But but that 911 to 9:13 window, if you add the 1260 days immediately from there to get to the
21:14midpoint of the tribulation and another 1260 to get to the end, you don't land anywhere that makes
21:21sense that seems to have significance. You end up in like August uh of of 2030 for the midpoint
21:28and then um it it just it just doesn't it doesn't jive. You know, I looked at the dates and thought,
21:35well, that there's nothing there. Like, if that's all I got, I got nothing to come up here and talk
21:40to you all about. But so, I so I was thinking about, okay, maybe there's a gap. And I'm going
21:46to explain to you what I found and how I came to this 57 day gap, which is really interesting too
21:53because 57, if there was going to be a numeric um validation that this was the end of the age of
21:59grace, like 57 would be the number because five is grace and seven is completion. So I thought
22:06that was interesting, but that's not what this is based on. It's just a side note. Number three, the
22:12third building block here would be 1,260 days in. You would have the start at the feast of trumpets,
22:18a gap to the start of the tribulation, 1260 days to the midpoint of the tribulation,
22:241260 more days to the end of the tribulation. That would be the fourth point. And the last
22:29point would be an extra 75 days, which I'll show you a verse in Daniel that talks about how that
22:351260 gets pushed out to 13:35. So those are those are the five milestones or the five points on the
22:45timeline. And now I'm going to if if you go to the next slide, you'll see the same thing reflected in
22:50a in a different graphic, which by the way, these AI is pretty amazing, right? This graphic was AI
22:57created. I just typed in a few things of create me a timeline and show these five milestones
23:04and these many days in between. So this is sort of a spoiler at the beginning. This is what the
23:10timeline is going to look like. It It's the feast of trumpets. That's the starting point. Building
23:14block number one on 912. Then this 57-day gap that I'm going to explain to you how I got that takes
23:22us to what would be in this timeline the start of the tribulation. You would go 1260 days more would
23:28get you to the midpoint. 1260 days beyond that would take you to the end of the seven years,
23:33the end of the tribulation. And then the extra 75 days. and I'll show you where that lands as
23:39well. So, so that's the timeline and that's kind of the overview. Keep this keep that in your mind
23:46as we start to talk through these things and I'm going to explain to you how I got to each
23:52one. And I'm going to do my best, Lord Jesus, please help me. One of my sort of pet peeves,
23:59if I'm being honest, is when I watch a YouTube video from someone within the Prophecy Watchman
24:06community and and they're claiming they've got something and they've seen something
24:11and they're they're trying to explain it to you. And look, I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box,
24:17so you know, I may not be the fair litmus test, but I'm a reasonably intelligent person. So, I'm
24:23listening. And you you you know you hear them just explaining this and and then they'll they'll say,
24:29"Do you guys see that?" And I'm like, "Lord, I don't see it. What is he talking about?" You know,
24:34I'm trying not to do that to you tonight. My goal, and I don't know if I'm going to be successful or
24:41not, but my goal is whether you think this has credibility or not, or it resonates with you or
24:48not, I'm hoping at least you don't walk away from here going, "What the heck was he talking about?"
24:54You know, that that's a fail on my part if I do that. So, I'm going to really try hard to
24:59not do that. All right, milestone number one, building block number one, the rapture on the
25:06feast of trumpets. So the whole starting point of this timeline is what if the rapture were to
25:12take place this year on the feast of trumpets. And the reason that the feast of trumpets is
25:17not just some arbitrary pick is because of two things. One, the historic pattern of the major
25:24prophetic fulfillment of the Lord's feast. The word in Hebrew is moadeem, appointed times. It's
25:29described in Leviticus 23. And even more specific than just the pattern of the four spring feasts
25:38being specifically fulfilled, and I'll show you how in a minute if you're not familiar with
25:42that yet, there's also significant typological associations between the characteristics of how
25:48the rapture is described and the feast of trumpets specifically. So I'm going to look we're going to
25:53look at both of those. So on this next slide, you see the seven feasts of the Lord. Again,
25:58they're called moed singular or moede. Appointed times, appointed feast days, um, seasons, uh, uh,
26:07meetings is sometimes in the translation. The Jewish traditional perspective, which I thought
26:12this was pretty interesting. I wrote it down. They view the feast days as rehearsals or practice for
26:19the ultimate fulfillment of a spiritual event in God's redemptive plan. So in a sense it as
26:26the the Jewish people when we observe these feast days it tends to be at least amongst the religious
26:34viewed as a rehearsal of a future prophetic fulfillment. Now when Jesus came the first time
26:44let me go to the next slide. I'm going to walk you through this. Right? We have Passover unleaven
26:48bread unleavened bread first fruits and Pentecost. Those are the four that are in the spring and
26:54then trumpets, atonement, and tabernacles in the fall. Now, the Jewish people as a whole,
27:01present company with Steuart excluded, don't recognize what Jesus did, Yeshua Hamashiach,
27:09Jesus the Messiah, what he did when he came the first time. But we understand it. We have eyes to
27:16see. At the Passover, he was crucified literally on the day of Passover. Precision. The feast of
27:26unleavened bread. He unleavened bread. Pastor Chad has taught us leaven represents sin. All sin
27:33removed. Jesus had no sin. He was buried on the feast of unleavened bread. He was then resurrected
27:40on Nissan 17 on the day that first fruits fell. He was the first fruits of the resurrected. And
27:48then 50 days after that at Pentecost, Shàuote, the Holy Spirit came down and the church was born. So
27:58at the first coming, you have absolute precision in fulfillment of each of the four spring feasts.
28:08Now, what that has led Bible scholars and prophecy students and cooks like me to come to
28:16the conclusion of is it's it's entirely reasonable to expect that when he comes the second time,
28:26he is going to precisely fulfill the remaining three fall feasts. And probably the most commonly
28:37understood and projected sequence of events is that the feast of trumpets would would be tied
28:44to the rapture. That the day of atonement would be tied to Israel's national repentance at which they
28:51cry out barabashem adonoi. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. The Lord comes back. So
28:57you have the second coming and Israel's national repentance happening together at Yom Kapor,
29:04the day of atonement. And then the third fall feast would be the feast of tabernacles,
29:09which would be tied to the millennial kingdom where the Lord physically comes to earth and
29:14tabernacles with us here. Let's look at the feast of trumpets specifically. This the the the second
29:22reason why this timeline is going to start on the feast of trumpets. These are some of the
29:28reasons why the feast of trumpets gets associated with the rapture. This this concept of the last
29:36trump that we talked about in that passage out of first Corinthians, there are hundred blasts
29:42on the day of uh the feast of trumpets. The last blast is called the tea gad and it is a long and
29:52it's known as the last trump. The last trumpet. So the fact that that's part of that particular feast
30:00ties it to the rapture in many people's minds. No one knows the day or the hour. That's that's a
30:07um that's an expression that as it relates to the feast of trumpets has to do with sighting
30:13of the new moon. That's why it's a two-day window because nobody's sure when that new moon will be
30:19spotted by the spotters who visually see it. And then they they have people up on the mountains
30:25and they light the torch and they pass the word that the holiday has arrived. No one knows the
30:30day or the hour. It's also tied idiomatically to the Jewish wedding tradition in the sense that
30:36only the father knows the time that the father is going to send the son back to get his bride.
30:43So there's application potentially in that regard too. The awakening blast uh the feast of trumpets
30:50is known as the awakening blast which is tied to resurrection which has a tie to the rapture. Um
30:56trumpets itself is the next feast in sequence ahead of yum kapore and if the rapture happens
31:03before the second coming which we believe it does it would make sense to be in that sequence. It's
31:10also known as the day of coronation where the Lord is recognized and publicly enthroned and crowned.
31:18It's known as the divine gathering um where where there you know we're being caught up and gathered
31:24in the air. It has that potential association as well. And it's also known as yum ha which is
31:31the hidden day which has to do with a rehearsal for the rapture happening at a moment. No one's
31:37quite sure when. So between the historical pattern of feast fulfillments in the spring
31:45and anticipated fulfillments in the fall and the way that the feast of trumpets is thought of and
31:51talked about as a starting point, that's a pretty reasonable place to consider the possibility of a
31:59timeline. So that's where I started. All right, milestone number two. This this gap, this 57day
32:05gap. This is really the lynch pin. And it's really it's really pretty amazing to me because the gap
32:19has to be a specific number in order to make the rest of the timeline work, especially to
32:26make the end of the tribulation land on Yum Kapor. So I started looking. And I was like, well Lord,
32:32like is there any is there anything hidden around here that you know like might indicate how long
32:38the gap might be? And so I began to look and I basically found two examples of it. The first
32:46example was the gap of time between the end of the 69th week of Daniel, which would be Palm Sunday,
32:54going forward to the start of the church, the day of Pentecost. I'm going to show you more detail
32:59in a minute on that. The second witness, I think I might have I must have like Googled this. I I
33:08found this six years ago and I had notes and I'd kind of forgotten about it when I started thinking
33:14about this and chewing on it again. I actually went back to my computer and found my old word
33:18document, my old project management mentality, like I document everything and file it away.
33:25I found it and it's like, "Oh yeah, I remember now. You showed that to me." The second one was a
33:31witness out of Noah. And I'm going to read you the passage in Genesis because it identifies a 57 day
33:39period from when Noah looks out and uncovers the ark until the Lord says, "Okay, now you can go out
33:47of the ark onto the dry land." So let's look at the first example that I came across. This is the
33:53one. 57 days from Palm Sunday to Pentecost, right? So 173,880 days later, Palm Sunday hits. Zechariah
34:0299 is fulfilled. Jesus comes riding in. That is the end of the 69th week prophetically. Had had
34:10uh Israel received her king and kingdom. I believe it would have gone right into the 70th week.
34:16But because they rejected him, God knew that and pivoted to the church age. So you have 7 days from
34:25Palm Sunday to resurrection Sunday and 50 more days to get to Pentecost. So that's how I got the
34:3257 there. Now, with regard to Noah and getting to that 57, if you read in Genesis 8:13-16,
34:41and I'm going to read that to you here in just a minute, from the it it literally says from the
34:46first day of the first month, Noah looks out. He ends up uncovering the ark, but it isn't until the
34:5227th day of the second month that he actually goes out. Well, normal biblical months are 30 days.
35:01So if you have 30 days and 27 days, that's 57 by the witness of two or more, right? Two or more
35:09testimonies, let a matter be established. So I'm like, well, that's pretty interesting, Lord. So
35:15now my what if shifts over to, well, what if the rapture were to happen on the feast of trumpets
35:23and there was a gap of 57 days? Let me read you this Genesis uh scripture first and then I'll
35:29I'll continue that other thought. So reading out of Genesis um [clears throat] 8:es 13-16. Came to
35:37pass in the 601st year in the first month on the first day of the month that the waters were dried
35:43up from the earth and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and indeed the surface of the
35:48ground was dry. So he looked out, he saw something that, you know, he could tell that the judgment
35:54apparently had ended. He takes the cover off. But in the and then it says, "And in the second month,
36:00on the 27th day of the month, the earth was dried. Then God spoke to Noah, saying, go out of the ark,
36:06you and your wife and your sons and your sons wives with you." So there seems to be some sort
36:12of significance to this 57 days as a transition in in Noah's case from judgment to the new beginning
36:22and and in the case of the 69th week. the pause between the fulfillment of Daniel's 70 weeks
36:30prophecy getting to the 70th week to the start of the church as that parenthetical 2,000 years
36:37before God pivots back to Israel to finish that 70th week. So the transitional symmetry looks
36:44like this. Again, this is a an AI graphic from me just typing things out and say do this, make
36:51it look like that. So on the far left you have the end of the 69th week. That was Palm Sunday.
36:59That's a historical documented truth. 57-day gap seems to be supported by scripture historically
37:06as something that already took place. Then in the middle 2, three, and four, you have the start of
37:12the church age, the church age, and the end of the church age. That is Pentecost, the church age for
37:18roughly these past 2,000 years and then the end of the church age at the rapture. 2, three, and
37:24four are in there. The what I did from what I came across then is I inserted another 57day gap on the
37:34other side of the church age after the rapture. And it kind of creates a a 57day sandwich,
37:41if you will, with the church age in the middle of it. and the 69th week on the outer layer and the
37:4670th week on the outer layer on the other side. I'm hoping that's making sense and I'm hoping
37:52the graphic communicates that. But the key to the whole thing turns out to be that 57day gap that
38:00I inserted between the rapture and moving on to the 70th week. Now, when I do that and add those
38:1057 days, I move from September 12th to November 8th, which would theoretically in this timeline,
38:18it would be the start of the tribulation period. If if this were to prove out, we would be long
38:24gone by then. And it is interesting, very side note, very parenthetical, but you know, because
38:30I couldn't really find anything significant on November 8th, either historically or but then
38:36I heard that there's this Noahide International Congress taking place in Jerusalem on November
38:422nd through the 6th, and they're going to sign this this they call it an everlasting covenant.
38:48And I don't know if that has anything to do with the Daniel 9 covenant that will actually start,
38:54but it was kind of interesting to me. But that's just a side note. I don't really know how that
39:00would play out and what the significance in and of itself of November 8th would be other than
39:06it's the only day that makes this whole timeline work. So take that for whatever it's worth or not.
39:14So the third milestone then is the midpoint of the tribulation and as I was sharing earlier
39:20I basically take that 11826 date and I take half of the tribulation period right 7 * 360
39:30is 2520 days divide it in half and the first half of the tribulation is 1260 days. Now,
39:39here's the way it reads in Daniel, and I'll show you the math again in a minute, but in
39:43Daniel 9:27, it says, "Then he, speaking of the Antichrist, shall confirm a covenant with many,
39:49speaking of Israel and possibly other nations as well." I know the Abraham Accords are something
39:54that some people feel like is a is a good candidate to potentially be that Daniel
39:589:27 covenant that gets strengthened to kick off that that period. He um in the middle of the week,
40:06well, let's see, hang on. a covenant with many for one week, seven years, 2520 days. But in the
40:13middle of the week, three and a half years or, 1260 days in, he shall bring, he the antichrist,
40:18shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. So there's going to be a temple where sacrifice
40:22and offering is going on. He's going to bring an end to it. And on the wing of abomination shall
40:26be one who makes desolate. He's going to desolate the temple until the consummation, the final God-
40:32ordained ending which is determined, is poured out on the desolator. Jesus refers to this in Matthew
40:3924:15-16. Therefore, when you see the abomination of desolation at the midpoint of the tribulation
40:46period, spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place, whoever reads, let him
40:50understand. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. And then the last scripture I
40:57want to reference uh related to this particular uh milestone is 2 Thessalonians 2 3 and 4. This goes
41:04back to a message I shared not too long ago. Um, let no one deceive you by any means, for that day,
41:10the day of the Lord, the tribulation, will not come unless the falling away, which I believe is
41:16properly interpreted physical departure as in the rapture, comes first. And the man of sin,
41:21the antichrist, is revealed, the son of predition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is
41:26called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple, showing himself that
41:31he is God. He's going to go into the temple at the midpoint, declare himself to be God, and then he's
41:37going to set up an image in there as well. So, here's the date calculation now. We started at
41:449:12 for the feast of trumpets. We added the 57 days for the gap, and that lands us on 118. So,
41:52you can see here, I took a screenshot of the date calendar. When you start on 118,
41:56which would theoretically be the start of the tribulation period, you add 1260 days to it, you
42:03land on Sunday, April 21st, 2030. I thought, well, okay, let's let's where where does that land? What
42:10does that land on? Turns out that is Nissan 17 in 2030. Now, for those of you who don't recognize
42:20that date, Nissan 17 is 3 days after Nissan 14. Nissan 14 is Passover. That's the day the Passover
42:29lamb is crucified. 3 days later, Nissan 17 was the day that Jesus was resurrected. So, according to
42:37this timeline, the midpoint of the tribulation would fall right on the day of resurrection of
42:45Jesus. My first thought when I saw that was, I wonder, I wonder if Revelation 13, where the
42:54Antichrist has a head wound and is a mortal head wound and then is resurrected. I wonder if he is
43:04not going to counterfeit and get resurrected and go into the temple and declare himself to
43:11be God on the same day on the Jewish calendar that Jesus was resurrected. That's pretty wild.
43:23That is just like satanic MMO for sure. Okay. So, that that's pretty interesting and fairly
43:32compelling. But the whole crux of this thing maintaining its credibility all the way to the
43:40end is on the next 1260 days. Because honestly, for the theory to work, it's got to land on Yum
43:48Kapor 2033. If it doesn't, it's interesting, but it doesn't all fit. So, the fourth milestone,
43:56the end of the 70th week, again, same logic, 2520 days in that 7-year period, divided in half,
44:05you add another 1260 days. And I'm going to show you the math here in a minute. Those 1260 days,
44:13if you look at this next slide, they're referred to as 1260 days. They're referred to as 42 months,
44:20which is also 42 * 30, 1260 days. They're referred to as time times half a time, which is 3 and 1/2
44:28years, which is another way of saying 1260 days. That chunk of time is described in multiple ways
44:35in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation. It's the time when the Jewish nation flees for
44:43cover after they see the abomination. They're told, "Get to the mountains. Get out of Dodge
44:49cuz the Antichrist is coming for you." And they are hidden there for three and a half years. Um,
44:55you've got the ministry of the two witnesses, which most people feel is in the second half.
45:00There are some who think it's the first half of the tribulation. Um, you've got the outer court
45:05of the temple given over to the Gentiles for 42 months. You have uh the power of the holy people
45:11being shattered for times, time, and half a time. you have the saints given over into the hands of
45:17the antichrist. So, it describes this 1260day last half of the tribulation in a number of different
45:23ways. But here's the here's the rub right here. So if you again go to the date calculator and you
45:30input 4212030 which was the date we calculated for the midpoint which happened to fall on the
45:38day that Jesus was resurrected Nissan 17. You add another 1260 days to it. You land on 10
45:46to 2033 October 2nd which is Tish 10en which is Yam Kapore in 2033. Whoa. Like when I saw that,
46:00like I did a double take, you know, like you might do if you thought you won the power ball and the
46:05numbers matched, you know, and you're like, "Wait a minute. Is that right? Are you kidding me? It's
46:13on 2033. Yum Kapor." So now you have this 57-day gap that moved things out. So the midpoint lands
46:23on resurrection Sunday. Well, resurrection Nissan 17. I don't know if it's a Sunday or not. And then
46:31further out, 2060 more gets you to Yum Kapor. That's pretty compelling to me. That's that's
46:41why I went to Pastor Chad and to Amber and said, I want to show you guys this because I think this
46:47is pretty intensely compelling and I don't want to not say anything. Now, the last milestone,
46:55the fifth one, is is the start of Hanukkah. H where where does that come in? Where does
47:02the extra 75 days come in? Well, Daniel 12:12, and I'm going to read it to you in a minute,
47:06provides a timing description that actually extends that second half of the tribulation
47:11from 1260 out to 13:35. And the difference between those two is 75 more days. Here's the scripture,
47:19Daniel 12 11 and 12. And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away,
47:25we just talked about that, right? Where the antichrist ends the sacrifices. From the time
47:29it's taken away at the abomination of desolation, there will be 1,290 days. I don't really I I
47:38haven't figured out what the extra 30 there is. There's there's God doesn't do stuff randomly. So,
47:44there's some significance there. I honestly don't know that. But this is the part I honed in on.
47:50Blessed is he who waits and comes to 1,335 days. So when you go from 1260 to 1290, I'm not sure
47:58what that 1290 is, but when you go 45 more out to get to 1335, now you have a 75day window. And when
48:07you add that 75 days to the landing on Yum Kapor, here's here's what it does on the next slide. you
48:16push out to 1216 2033 which just happens to be the first day of Hanukkah which is a a a rededication
48:28holiday of the temple right so in this timeline it seems like it may be that 1335 ends up being
48:39the rededication or I I don't know if I don't know if the third temple there's different thoughts on
48:47that. Some people feel like the third temple will become the new temple for the millennium, in which
48:53case it would be a rededication. Other people feel like it's it it isn't that it's a brand
48:59new temple. It's a fourth temple the way it's described in Ezekiel 40-48. Either way, it would
49:07be potentially could be a temple dedication for the millennial temple. So the milestone summary,
49:16let's let's go to the next slide. Now you you you you would start with tish one, feast of trumpets
49:23912. You you push out 57 days based on that gap between the 69th week and the start of the church
49:32at Pentecost and also confirmed by Noah's 57 days. That takes you to the the uh 8th of November this
49:40year. Then you add 1260 to get to the midpoint which which lands you on Nissan 17 which is the
49:47day Jesus was resurrected. Then 1260 more pushes you to Yom Kapor of 2033 which would theoretically
49:55be second coming Israel national repentance. And then the extra 75 would take you to the beginning
50:02of Hanukkah. That same logic is is is reflected in this next slide. And I don't know if would I
50:13bet my salvation on this? Heck no. But I don't know if it'll play out this way or not. There's
50:22enough there to make me think it's worth serious consideration. But if it doesn't play out that
50:29way, this is the kind of precision that's got fingerprints all over it. That's how he rolls.
50:39I love that. I got a little bit of that in me as a project manager. Everything precise and detailed
50:48and right on point. I love that. It's going to be something like this. It's not going to be some
50:56random haphazard group of dates that don't make any sense. It's going to be something like this.
51:06Now you take that timeline potentially speculative based on nothing but stuff in the word and then
51:16you juxtapose that and you insert that into the context of this next slide. We are we are living
51:24in the shadow of the seven-year tribulation. We're not there but boy you can see the stage
51:29setting and the shadows falling on us, right? And I always love to quote John Wolver's example of
51:38the analogy, you know, when you start seeing all the signs of Christmas, you know, Thanksgiving's
51:43near. When you start seeing all the signs of the second coming, you know, you know the rapture is
51:51sooner. And I I say the second coming, I really mean I really mean the 70th week leading up to
51:57the second coming, right? all of the events that are going to take place in that seven-year period
52:02culminating in the second coming. When you start seeing all of that, you know, the pre-tribulation
52:08rapture is right around the corner, right? And so this slide, I'm just going to rattle these off the
52:17the it's hard to overstate as I go through these the significance and the collective weight of
52:27painting the season that we're living in, guys. We don't live in normal times. We don't. Much
52:35as there's a part of us that wants to, we don't. like it or not, we're in the end. The rebirth of
52:43Israel, the retaking of Jerusalem, the return of the Jews, aliyah, from all over the world,
52:50anti-semitism rising off the charts. It's so demonic and so satanic and so defies any rational,
52:58logical explanation other than the spiritual reality of a satanic hatred against God's people,
53:05Israel. The push for the third temple, the push for the land division, birds multiplying in the
53:12mountains that are going to eat the flesh of the Ezekiel 38 geopolitical coalition that attacks
53:17from the north. The mark of the beast technology we could talk for hours about digital IDs,
53:22digital currencies, all of the surveillance, the data centers, and on and on it goes. Doctrinal
53:30apostasy, spiritual deception, lawlessness. I saw this video today. Wasn't even planning on talking
53:35about it. It was this woman. I She was at a big box store. I don't know if it was Walmart or what
53:40it was, Target, but but she was walking out with a full cart full of stuff with her little kids.
53:45She didn't pay for it. The store employees were trying to get her to stop. And this woman turned
53:51to him and said, "I'm not paying for this. I, you know, I I can't afford all this stuff. I
53:56have my kids need this stuff." And she just kept going. just pure lawlessness as she got into her
54:04really nice Toyota. I don't know if it was a Rav 4 or what it was, but I mean it's it's it's just
54:11it's just lawlessness at like levels that I don't ever remember seeing. And that makes me think of
54:19the the lawlessness and the violence days of Noah. Then you got the Braxton Hicks grouping,
54:24right? the the wars and rumors of wars, the famine, the pestilence, the earthquakes. None
54:30of those are as bad as they're going to be when we get into the 70th week, but we're sure seeing the
54:34Braxton Hicks manifestations of them. We have the Ezekiel 38 coalition continuing to to just happen
54:42right in front of us with Turkey and Iran and Russia. I mean, Erdogan just wants to destroy
54:47and annihilate Israel and take over Jerusalem. The Euphrates River is drying up. There's life
54:54being reported in the Dead Sea. Persecution is rising. There's activity that indicates Babylon is
55:00becoming more significant in in that geographic area. There's days of Noah characteristics,
55:06days of Lot characteristics. There's scoffers and mockers inside the church and outside the church.
55:12There's signs in the heavens. There's perilous times as it's described. Global governance, world
55:17religion. There's the UFO Nephilim narrative. We have knowledge increasing exponentially. What's
55:24his name? Sam Alman I think said we're, you know, we're at the singularity already. I don't know.
55:29There's debate over where that definition is and whether we've crossed the line or not. The
55:34definition of singularity in my little pea brain is the Frankenstein syndrome. It's like things
55:40just get out of control and we can't control it anymore. These things are making decisions
55:44and doing things on their own autonomously and we can't even control it anymore. So,
55:50you got all that going on and and it looks to me like on the horizon is probably some sort of major
55:58what I would call a a poly crisis, right? Multiple crises happening at once. And you know what guys,
56:05and I don't really I take no joy in saying this, but the United States is not in prophecy at the
56:10end in any sort of clear way. And so, and so how do we get from being this world power that we
56:19still are today, although clearly we can see our decline taking place in front of us? I sometimes
56:24used to wonder if the people of Rome knew that their civilization was crumbling. I have no
56:29doubt they did now because we're living it. We're living right in it. We're we're experiencing the
56:35same thing right now. So, you look at the United States. Well, how could that happen? Well, here
56:40here's a couple of thoughts. We're we're depleting our military weaponry and our ability to defend
56:47ourselves. We're approaching $40 trillion dollar in debt. Our economy is a house of cards waiting
56:53to implode. We have rampant social de decay. We have spiritual apostasy. Um it it really doesn't
57:04take a whole lot to imagine how our nation could be so diminished. And and honestly, in my mind,
57:13just me thinking out loud here and sharing with you, the rapture could play a huge role in that.
57:18When you take out the key people who are believers in Jesus and all, you know, I don't know what that
57:24number is going to be. I don't pretend to know, but I mean, that could really be the straw that
57:29breaks the camel's back and just, you know, it's going to remove the restraining force. So, it's
57:33going to open us up to attack like never before. I hope and pray we're out of here before that
57:39happens. But I mean, even looking on the horizon, and I don't want to be a doom and gloomer,
57:44but I'm trying to be realistic here. Something doesn't change. We're looking at fuel shortages
57:48and potentially food shortages and and not good things coming in the not tooistant future. And so,
57:56the idea that maybe maybe the Lord would come get us before all that, like, I vote for that, Lord,
58:02for whatever my votes worth, I vote for that. I you you all know I write songs sometimes out
58:09on the street and every once in a while the Lord gives me something that has a prophetic bent to
58:18it more so than most. And I wanted to share this with you. This is a rewrite of Don Henley's End of
58:25the Innocence. Some of you are old enough you you remember that. It was a pretty popular song at the
58:30time. and and the f the first couple of of stanzas of it re remember when the Lord was God protected
58:38by amazing grace didn't have a care in the world so sure that he'd never turn his face but happily
58:45ever after fails when we reject his truth for fairy tales evolution now prevails in classrooms
58:52filled with lies it's like Azie and Harriet for those of you who remember that and I know I'm
58:58dating you know you're getting old when all the things you use to reference You think, I wonder
59:02if anybody even remembers that or not. Leave it to Beaver, Aussie, and Harriet, you know. Thank
59:07Thank you. I see that hand, sister. [laughter] Um, but just, you know, it it was such a it was
59:15in a sense kind of an age of innocence, although I mean, sin was still everywhere, but but now it's
59:20like the Lord's hand is lifted. And the end of this song goes like this. Humor me. I'm going to
59:27actually try to just sing it to you, but it won't be too long. Who knows how long this will last for
59:34we hear God's trumpet blast. The dead in Christ will rise up first, then those alive will quench
59:41our thirst. We need to remember this. Don't wait too long. Oh, you will miss. The nation falls,
59:49but there's still time for one more soul to come. Just call upon Christ Jesus now before the cross.
59:58It's time to bow. Jesus Christ the only way. Cuz this is the end. This is the end of the USA.
1:00:13That that that's how I feel, guys. I'm I'm singing and praying that song out on the
1:00:20street more and more and I just feel like a voice in the wilderness prophesying the end
1:00:25of America as we've known it and it's coming. As I get ready to bring this in for a landing,
1:00:32I want to share with you a couple of excerpts from an article I came across. Some of you may
1:00:36be familiar with Harbingers Daily. The article was called the silence in most churches regarding our
1:00:44blessed hope which is a term used for the rapture is a significant mistake. Um and obviously in this
1:00:52church life story church we ain't being silent about it but most churches you won't hear what I
1:01:01just shared tonight. You know you won't. So, let me read to you a couple of paragraphs from and
1:01:07Jonathan Brenner is the guy who wrote it. Um, many recognize the myriad of signs pointing to Jesus'
1:01:14soon arrival to take us home to glory. However, as the days become weeks and then months and years,
1:01:20we sometimes struggle to maintain an eager anticipation of Jesus appearing. If you are
1:01:25like me, and I am, Jonathan, you wonder how much closer can we get to the start of the tribulation
1:01:33before we meet him in the air. The silence in most churches regarding our blessed hope makes our
1:01:40expectation all the more difficult to maintain. Many of our Christian friends and family members
1:01:46believe it's irrational to regard the rapture as something that might happen in our lifetime, if at
1:01:52all. We also hear the laughter of Christians and I would probably parenthetically add professing
1:01:58Christians in many cases who mock our expectations of Jesus imminent appearing. In spite of all these
1:02:04things, I remain convinced that imminency is not only important for the day in which we live but
1:02:10also essential for believers regardless of the times in which we live. And I would say amen
1:02:16to that. And when we talk about imminency, I want to just call out a handful of benefits
1:02:22of that position of imminency and living with the mindset that Jesus really could come. This is not
1:02:30make believe. It's not a fairy tale. Jesus really could come. He is coming and he really could come
1:02:37really soon. Right? That's following the model of the New Testament saints who lived with an
1:02:43eagerness and an anticipation. Right? And it's it is it's a tension because you're planting for
1:02:49land in a church over here and you're occupying and you're doing good works and you're doing shoe
1:02:55boxes and you're standing on the corner and you're doing quilts and you're doing all of that stuff
1:03:02and nobody's saying stop that. But the tension is doing that with a full awareness of the potential
1:03:09and the reality that Jesus could be coming very very soon. It motivates us to a closer walk with
1:03:16him for holy living. It helps us keep an eternal perspective and set our minds on things above.
1:03:22It strengthens our biblical hope, that confident assurance in God's word. It helps us to maintain
1:03:28peace in the world's chaos. And it creates urgency to share the gospel. I think there's a really
1:03:34good chance, this is just me talking now. I think there's a really good chance that something really
1:03:40significant in this month of August leading, especially if we're going home in September,
1:03:45I think things could get shaken pretty [clears throat] significantly. It wouldn't surprise me at
1:03:50all. And if it does, part of me sees that as God's grace because it would be one final opportunity
1:04:00before the church is taken out to try to wake people up and recognize their mortality, their
1:04:07need for Jesus, and maybe a push to bring a final group in before that trumpet were to sound. That's
1:04:14just me thinking out loud with you guys. So, let me reiterate what I shared at the start, what
1:04:20today's message is not because I want to make sure that everybody leaves with a clear understanding
1:04:26of that. This is not thus sayaeth the Lord. It is not setting a hard rapture date. It is not saying
1:04:33the rapture must happen on the on any feast day or on the feast of trumpets or this year. It's
1:04:39not making any dogmatic proclamation and it's not encouraging irresponsible living. So, what
1:04:44is it then? What I'm saying is, is the rapture in 2026? There's a reasonably good chance and a good
1:04:52possibility that it very well might be. You look at that, you look at the timeline, you look at
1:04:59the unprecedented convergence we just went over, you look at Hosea 6:2, which talks about after two
1:05:06days, he will revive us and on the third day, oh, I can't read my writing. He will raise us up that
1:05:12we may live in his sight. So there's this model of the thought of a day is a thousand years. After
1:05:182,000 years of Jesus being gone, third day raises us up for the millennial kingdom for the Jewish
1:05:23people who come to national repentance. There's that. There's the 7,000year model that Pastor
1:05:29Chad has talked about. I've taught on it as well. 2,000 years from Adam to Abraham, another 2,000
1:05:36years there from Moses to Jesus. And then Jesus first coming and second coming. 2,000 more years.
1:05:42a day is a thousand years, six days. That leaves the seventh day as the millennium of rest. That's
1:05:49another possibility. There's timing, and Pastor Chad can speak to this better than I can, around
1:05:56the Essenes calendar and just a pattern that this seems to be following. So, there's all kinds of
1:06:02things that lend themselves to supporting the idea of the possibility of a rapture very soon. So,
1:06:11let's answer the $64,000 question before we finish up for the night, right? What if nothing happens,
1:06:16right? What if what if we get to September 14th, 15th, we're still here. What do what do we do?
1:06:24What do we make of all this? Well, for one thing, we we make that Ron saw something and interpreted
1:06:30it and thought it had more significance than apparently it ended up having. That's one thing we
1:06:34do. The other thing we do is we we continue loving and trusting Jesus just like we should be today.
1:06:40We continue walking in the Holy Spirit, seeking to bear good fruit and do good works, preparing
1:06:45our bridal garment. Keep doing exactly what we're doing today. We continue to watch eagerly for his
1:06:51return to share the gospel with urgency to live responsibly in a God-honoring manner. So you
1:06:57really could say, "What if nothing happens? What do we do?" Keep doing what you're doing. Nothing
1:07:03different. keep doing what you're doing. But I would suggest that maybe the bigger question is
1:07:09what if something does happen? What if something does happen? What if the Lord calls us home? What
1:07:17if this timeline is actually revealing something that is of the Lord? Well, if you're a believer,
1:07:25I would hope that the message tonight would cause you to take a step back, ask the Lord, is there
1:07:31anything you would like me to do? If if if we were down to five or six weeks, is there anything
1:07:38God would put on your heart? Is there anything God's been poking you about? Someone to speak to,
1:07:45make a relationship, right? Final opportunity to share the gospel. Not do I'm not saying this
1:07:51to to guilt you into anything. I want the Holy Spirit to poke you if that's what's happening.
1:07:57are do you have any unfinished business that you would want or need to take care of? Look,
1:08:04if you take care of it, I you're not going to regret it. Even if we're still here beyond that,
1:08:10you know, if you share the gospel with somebody or try to reconcile a relationship,
1:08:14like you're not going to regret doing that if in fact we pass this timeline and we're still
1:08:19here working for the Lord, occupying. If you're an unbeliever, the focus becomes crystal clear. You
1:08:27need to put your trust in the Lord and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ before that trumpet sounds.
1:08:33Because if that trumpet sounds and you haven't done that, you're going to be left here on an
1:08:38earth that no longer has the restraining power of the Holy Spirit working through the church and all
1:08:44hell is going to break loose. And then if you want to follow Jesus, assuming you can maintain
1:08:49your faculties and your mental equilibrium to recognize what's going on and to call upon the
1:08:55Lord before you are completely overrun with a spirit of delusion, it's probably going to cost
1:09:00you your head at that point. You don't have to wait. You can come tonight. You can come now. If
1:09:06you're watching online and you hear this message, you can come right now and be part of that which
1:09:14is going up rather than the group that is going to stay down. How do you do that? You believe. You
1:09:20believe the word of God. You believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the second person of the eternally
1:09:26existent triune God. He became a man through a virgin birth. He was fully God, fully man,
1:09:33lived a perfectly sinless, righteous life that we could never live ourselves. Shed his blood to
1:09:39die a substitutionary atoning death. He paid the price as our redeemer kinsman. If I get a chance,
1:09:45if Chad Chad travels and we're all still here, I got a great message on the kinsman redeemer that
1:09:51I'd love to be able to share with you guys. He demonstrated his power and authority over
1:09:56death when he was resurrected on the third day. He ascended to heaven and is now seated at the
1:10:00father's right hand. He's coming back for his church before the wrath of God is poured out.
1:10:06The invitation's open to anybody, but I wouldn't wait long. Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't wait long.
1:10:14We close out with the scripture out of Revelation 22:17. And the spirit and the bride say, "Come,
1:10:20and let him who hears say come." Let him who thirsts come, and whoever desires, let him take
1:10:26the water of life freely. We say Marinatha, come Lord Jesus. And I take us out with our
1:10:32ironic blessing. Hebrew first and then in English. I have absolutely no concept of how I did on time.
1:10:41802. That's not bad. 2 minutes over. Not so bad. Could have been worse. Right. Ironic blessing.
1:10:58Shalom. May the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon
1:11:03you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you his peace. Let's occupy and
1:11:08live with eager anticipation as we watch for our Lord's return in the air for his bride,
1:11:14the church, and all of God's people who are in agreement. With that said, amen. Heat.
1:11:38Heat. [music]