1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,800 Hello everyone. Again, we want to welcome you to our show today, featuring another insightful study 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:13,200 in the Bible Prophecy Masterclass, Part 3. As was mentioned in our last show, these will be 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:18,000 random studies taken from the Book of the Revelation, in so far as, although the presentation 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,400 is divided up into a sequential series of episodes, we will conduct the lessons in the 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:28,080 upcoming podcasts by arbitrarily selecting themes in no set order, except as it relates to theme. 6 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:34,960 Thus, on this fifth show, episode number 18 in the series, we will continue with Chapter 7 of the 7 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,520 Book of the Revelation covering God's plan for reaping a second bountiful harvest of precious 8 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,840 souls in the days leading up to the Battle of Armageddon and the physical return of Jesus 9 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,880 Christ by looking at the character and the qualifications, and, the mission of the Tribulation 10 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:55,840 Evangelists. The text which is the basis for this study is Judgment Day, Volume 3, Armageddon, 11 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:02,640 Acts of God vs. Gods of Earth, written by Mr. Alvin Mitchell. I, Liam, will be your affable 12 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:08,000 narrator and host. For a more systematic approach to the study of the Revelation, 13 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,400 and, if you would like to contribute to this ministry aimed at preparing saints to warn the 14 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,080 lost, may we suggest that you plan to purchase a copy of the text on Amazon.com, when it becomes 15 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:23,760 available. Please join me in a word of prayer and praise to God the Almighty for granting us this 16 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,800 opportunity to delve into His Word, and for giving us these awe-inspiring warnings and powerful 17 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:33,200 insights into His awesome plans for the future of mankind and of the world as we know it. 18 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,360 Let us pray also for blessing upon the study and upon all who make time to join in and to listen. 19 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:46,240 Their Character, Their Ministry. Verse 4a These are they which were not defiled with women, 20 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:52,320 for they are virgins. Verse 5 And in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault 21 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:58,960 before the throne of God. The status of the 144,000 is such that they are first and foremost 22 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:03,120 Jewish carryovers from the close of the pre-tribulation period, as we have seen. 23 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,960 As such, they will be redeemed from among men. 24 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,280 God's focus on their sexual purity and the evident need for speed, strength, endurance, 25 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,000 and agility, time being of the essence in this literal race against the proverbial clock, 26 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,720 suggests all the more that these will in all likelihood be Jewish men of a relatively young age. 27 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,560 God's appraisal of them is such that they have kept themselves sexually pure and undefiled, 28 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:34,560 in any way. They are men of character and honor, trustworthy and therefore, without fault in the 29 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:40,640 eyes of God. Given this truth, being in a world such as it will be during those days, then, 30 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:44,640 there has to be a reason. Why? How? 31 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:50,160 Whereas they may be celibate, thus, not encumbered by concerns of family, they will not be Christians, 32 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:56,560 initially, that they will be like, firstfruits to God and to the Lamb, redeemed from among men, 33 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:01,600 are phrases that speak well to their residency in unbelief, relative to the gospel message, 34 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,600 at least, up to and beyond the snatch. Generally speaking, in God's estimation, 35 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:12,160 they will have been every bit as lost as will be any other unbeliever in the left-behind world that 36 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:18,800 surrounds them. So, what will keep them thus so close to the straight and narrow? Where will they 37 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:24,400 get this moral compass, in light of the fact that all other Jews around them will be equally as lost, 38 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:30,960 and that, with considerably less to commend them to God? Without a doubt, as was the case with John 39 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:36,240 the Baptist and his parents, Cornelius, the Ethiopian eunuch, Lydia the businesswoman and 40 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:42,720 Apollos the Jew, among many others, before and after Golgotha, these men will have done all that 41 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:47,440 they can to serve God faithfully with such light and knowledge as they will have, as alluded to 42 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:54,160 earlier. They will, therefore, have apparently been devout, devoted Jews, seeking to please and 43 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,600 serve God according to all that the law demands, only to appear here due to having been left behind 44 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:05,440 at the rapture, owing to a lack of faith in the New Testament gospel. All the while, they would 45 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:10,640 for this reason have no less been lost. The churches will have been of no help to them. 46 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:17,120 Having followed them from on high, having observed and studied their ways, God will have to dispatch 47 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:23,600 his angel to alert them of the error of their ways. They will respond in faith, coming full circle, 48 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,640 as it were, embracing and being eager to serve him whom once they and their people had flatly 49 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:34,720 rejected. That is, with eyes wide open, hearts fully embracing the true gospel in light of all 50 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,800 that they will have seen and experienced, up to the point of their conversion, they will then 51 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,560 minister and serve the Lord God the Almighty against the grain of all that they will have 52 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:49,040 heretofore been taught. Moreover, regarding their status as God's first fruits, of all who will be 53 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:55,200 saved after the period of the seal judgments, this 144,000 Jews will be the first of the perhaps 54 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:00,640 billions to come to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the toughest, most dangerous of 55 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:06,400 times, neither man in general nor man of faith will ever have known the likes. Their Mission 56 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,120 Verse 4 Be these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. 57 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,320 These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. 58 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:22,800 Thus, having been successfully preserved, recruited, thoroughly enlightened and generously 59 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:27,600 endowed, with eyes wide open, their mission is such that they follow him wherever he goes. 60 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:35,840 That is, these 144,000 Jews, having been redeemed from among the ranks of unbelieving men and women 61 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:40,480 a kind of offering of first fruits of Jewish believers rescued from the tribulation period, 62 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:45,040 they themselves will now do the work of the man from Galilee, as when he walked the earth, 63 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,480 following in his footsteps, hastily, speedily boldly evangelizing and preaching the gospel in 64 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:56,320 his name, so as to bring in a fat harvest of souls just before his return at Armageddon, albeit, 65 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:02,480 at great peril too. Themselves and those whom they lead to salvation, all will lose their lives, 66 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,040 because of their faith, none will live to see the actual, physical return of their Lord. 67 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000 They will have to do this while facing the constant menace and life-endangering threat 68 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,960 of a hostile world that will not submit to a God it will then know is quite real, a wicked world 69 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:22,400 spurred and led by the crown rider, in one way or the other, until the beast usurps power, 70 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,360 trumpeting his agenda, pushing his mark and promoting himself as, God, the Almighty able 71 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:32,000 to stop and to right all the wrongs that will have been incurred thus far, owing to the acts 72 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:39,520 and exhibitions of wrath administered by him who is indeed, God. Furthermore, it is by the feet 73 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:44,080 and voices of these men and the angel to follow that the gospel in its purest form will be carried 74 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,840 into all the world, preached to every man, woman and child, not by T.B.N. or Daystar, 75 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:54,800 or the Pentecostals, Baptists, and other lackadaisical, lackluster churches and their 76 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,080 denominations. Duration of the Ministry 77 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:04,800 5. The actual work of the mission of the Jews' evangelism will have to begin, most probably, 78 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:10,880 well in advance of the reign of the dangerous wild animal, a.k.a., the beast, or, Antichrist. 79 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:17,680 Conceivably, it could, and most probably will, start soon after the seal judgments and the chaos 80 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:23,680 of World War III.C.Ch.7. A most compelling thought, given that the hearts of the 81 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,920 Savable among the hardest to reach will doubtless be tremendously touched and softened by the 82 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,640 carnage and devastation they will have come through and witnessed, first-hand, up close and 83 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,760 personal, all of that will pale, of course, in light of the hell they will see first-hand, 84 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:42,560 as God turns up the heat, at the same time channeling the world through it, beginning in 85 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:48,560 Chapter 8. This, coupled with all that will follow, leading to the killing of the two witnesses, 86 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,880 will without doubt leave them ripe and ready for the saving work of the Jewish evangelists. 87 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,640 Moreover, when the beast arrives and assumes the reigns of the world, the pace to the end will 88 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:04,800 quicken, as it were, to quadruple time. A lot will have to happen just to get from the resurrection 89 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:14,960 of the Italian prince, Daniel 7 and 9, Revelation 11.7, 17.8, 3.5 years before Armageddon, to the 90 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:20,000 implementation of his mark as the beast, at which point the slaughter of all Christians will begin, 91 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,440 probably at least 1 to 1.5 years into his rule, they will not accept the mark, nor will they 92 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:30,480 worship either him or Satan, in which case they will not be able to buy critically scarce food, 93 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:36,640 or conduct any other kind of commercial transactions. At this juncture, the evangelistic 94 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:43,040 aspect of the ministry of the 144,000 will be officially ended, whereas their work will 95 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:48,080 doubtless continue beyond the mark until all are dead, as one presumes their journey will end in 96 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,960 death, given that it is said of them that, they follow the Lamb, wherever he goes, they will 97 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:58,720 themselves likely not die with their converts. When the beast takes Jerusalem and the Temple, 98 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,760 and the civilian Jews are airlifted to a safe haven somewhere in the desert, any opportunity 99 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:10,640 to evacuate into the wilderness with their fellow Jewish evacuees will be missed, 12, 13-17, 100 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:15,360 most understandable, given that these Jewish evangelists being followers of Christ and their 101 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,640 countrymen and adherents to traditional Judaism will actually operate theologically and spiritually 102 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:25,920 on two different wavelengths. They will round out their mission by returning to Jerusalem to 103 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,960 assist in its defense against the beast, before they are killed, assuming that in all likelihood 104 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:37,120 they will be killed. All in all, in the end, whether they live or die, this will simply not 105 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,160 allow for enough time to harvest the hundreds of millions to potentially one billion or so souls 106 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:46,640 likely to first be saved throughout the early days of the prince, only to be killed by his 107 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:54,160 newly minted alter ego and the beast. Either event, i.e., the harvest by the 144,000 and 108 00:09:54,160 --> 00:10:00,640 the slaughter by the beast, will take considerable time. Starting their ministry after World War III 109 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:08,080 will not only allow ample time for the 144,000 to work, it will also provide a measure of safety 110 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,560 and cover under which to perform, compliments first to God's imposition of the International 111 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:18,560 Moratorium on War Among the Nations, the Acts of God and the Trumpet judgments, including the locusts, 112 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:23,600 and the actions of the two witnesses, all combining to serve as constant reminders of 113 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:29,040 the reality of the God the world refuses to serve, and, the need therefore to keep their unsaved 114 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:35,680 heads down, more than to hunt and chase down people they do not like. Sidebar 115 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,440 The killing spree that wipes out the Christians will be followed immediately by the outpouring 116 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,240 of the bold judgments that expose the beast as the hapless fraud he will be, who even with the arm 117 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:51,440 of the most powerful of all created beings at his back, is yet no match, by a long shot, 118 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:56,880 for the true and living God. No clue is given as to the amount of time these judgments will 119 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:03,040 be allotted, we will assume six months, minimum. Next comes the March of the Kings of the East. 120 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,560 It could take six months to a year to assemble so large a force at the Euphrates, 121 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:14,400 before crossing another 800 plus miles into Israel, 9 colon 14 dash 17. 122 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:20,800 World War IV to follow may not actually take long to decide in favor of the dangerous wild 123 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:26,720 animal and his confederacy. On the other hand, it could rage for several weeks or months, 124 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,360 right up to the moment before Christ appears a more probable scenario, given that the beast 125 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,600 will be out of the city of Jerusalem, which he will control, allowing the Messiah to come 126 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:40,800 in and plant himself between the beast and the city, on the Mount of Olives, Per Zechariah 14. 127 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,040 This will set the stage for phase 2 of the Battle of Armageddon. 128 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:49,840 Phase 1 between the beast and the Kings of the Orient will take a substantial amount of time, 129 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,840 as it will occasion the death of one third of the Earth's population, then living. 130 00:11:54,880 --> 00:12:02,000 Angels in Ministry 14 colon 6 dash 7. Verse 6, And I saw another angel fly in 131 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,800 the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, 132 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:13,680 and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. Verse 7, saying with a loud voice, 133 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:19,440 Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come, and worship him that made 134 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:26,240 heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. As an apparent supplement to the work 135 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:32,240 of the 144,000, God will dispatch an angel from heaven having the everlasting gospel. 136 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,120 It is this gospel message that will then be proclaimed to all living on earth during those 137 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:44,080 terrible days, in every nation, in every dialect. The angelic proclamation will be delivered with a 138 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:49,840 loud voice, Fear God, and acknowledge his reality and presence, because the hour of his judgment has 139 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:55,040 arrived, worship him who is the maker of heaven and the earth, the sea and the fountains of water. 140 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,880 Without question, this language, coupled with the trumpet judgments, the two witnesses and the 141 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:05,520 inability of the nations to express their rage or vent their frustrations on each other, the God 142 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:10,640 imposed war moratorium still being in force, will serve as a constant reminder that keeps those 143 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,040 recently saved from within the ranks of the hardest of unbelievers from lapsing and or being 144 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:21,440 drawn back into lives of complacency. Unrepentant unbelievers will not be able to sway them. 145 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:27,120 The ministry and deception of the many false prophets, preachers and teachers, as well as the 146 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:33,600 false Christs, will fall on deaf ears. Knowing that the worst is not over, is an assurance that 147 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:40,000 will thereby keep them alert, ever on their toes. Interestingly, maybe even understandably, 148 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:45,040 this angel will not follow the ritual and planning strategies of the likes of Billy Graham, Louis 149 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:51,520 Paolo, or Mario Cirillo. He will make no effort to get all the churches together, in agreement to 150 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:58,000 support and pray about this thing. The churches, there will be many, left behind, will be, snubbed, 151 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,760 as well, altogether left out of the evangelistic process. His ministry will not be limited to the 152 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,840 big urban areas where there are lots of deep-pocketed white people, but will literally 153 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:13,280 span the globe, where people great and small, of every nationality and skin tone, will hear the 154 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:19,440 everlasting gospel. Contrary to the teaching of TBN and Daystar, it will be during these 155 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,600 troublesome times that the gospel message will finally reach the ends of the earth, 156 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:30,320 carried by the 144k and the angelic preacher, not by evangelical fundamentalists, or Catholics, 157 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:35,760 unpolluted by sectarian, denominational and Pentecostal-slash-holiness dogma and theological 158 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:42,320 nonsense, and other religious hogwash. And, with that, ladies and gentlemen, here is where 159 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:48,240 we will end this edition of the podcast in the Bible Prophecy Master Class. We sincerely hope 160 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,080 that you have been blessed by this and all of the lessons in this series of sessions. 161 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:56,880 Plan to join us next time for the continuation of our look at End Times Evangelism as it will be 162 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:23,120 conducted during the awful days of the Apocalypse. Until our next meeting, may the Good Lord bless you all.