Psalms 119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved and I will medi

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Psalms 11948 My hands also will I lift up
unto thy commandments, which I have loved and I
will meditate in thy statutes.
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Where are we going where have we been?
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• Ephesus

• Pergamos

• Philadelphia

90-200 A.D.
325-500 A.D.
1500-1900 A.D.

• Sardis

1000-1500 A.D.

• Laodicea

• Smyrna

• Thyatira

1900-Rapture
200-325 A.D.
500-1000 A.D.
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• Ephesus

Fully Purposed

• Smyrna

Bitterness/Death

• Pergamos

Much Marriage

• Thyatira

Odor of Affliction

• Sardis

Red Ones

• Philadelphia

Brotherly Love

• Laodicea

Rights of the People
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Where are we going where have we been?
REV 37-13

• Philadelphia

Brotherly Love andPhiladelphian Power
1500-1900 A.D.
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• Philadelphia

• 1500-1900

• The GLORY DAYS of the Church
• The GOLDEN AGE of Missions
• The Church of the OPEN DOOR
• POWER of God on Display
• The WORD of God was Pre-Imminent
• Brotherly Love Abounded
• Travailing Prayer
• Preaching was from GODS PERSPECTIVE
• The GREAT AWAKENING

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• Laodicea- (1900- Rapture) The Rights of the
  People(Civil Rights)

• Revelation 314-22

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation
• Condemnation

• Laodicea

• The Laodicean STRAY

Wretched, Miserable, Poor, Blind and Naked
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• Revelation 37-13

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• Ephesians 321 - Unto him be glory in the church
  by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world
  without end. Amen.

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• Factor 1- The CHRIST we KNOW!

• An OVERWHELMING COMPREHENSION of His HOLINESS

• An UNQUALIFIED SURRENDER to His TRUTH

• An UTTER DEPENDENCE upon His AUTHORITY and ACCESS

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• Factor 2- The LIFE we LIVE!

• PARTICIPATION In The WORK of the LORD

• COOPERATION With OTHERS In the LOCAL BODY

• POSSESSION of THE WORD of GOD

• No DENUCIATION of The LORDS NAME

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• Factor 3- The PROMISES we HOLD!

• HE will set before us OPEN DOORS
• HE will grant VINDICATION over our OPPOSERS

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• The PROMISES we HOLD!-part 3

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• Factor 3- The PROMISES we HOLD!

• HE will set before us OPEN DOORS
• HE will grant VINDICATION over our OPPOSERS
• HE will provide DELIVERANCE in TURBULANT TIMES

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Daniel

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• Daniel 121 And at that time shall Michael
  stand up, the great prince which standeth for the
  children of thy people and there shall be a time
  of trouble, such as never was since there was a
  nation even to that same time and at that time
  thy people shall be delivered, every one that
  shall be found written in the book.
• Jeremiah 307 Alas! for that day is great, so
  that none is like it it is even the time of
  Jacob's trouble but he shall be saved out of
  it.

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The Danger
The Face of the Tribulation
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1st Sign (Matt 245)- False Christ-1st Seal-
(Rev. 61-2) 2nd Sign (Matt 246)- War-2nd Seal-
(Rev. 63,4) 3rd Sign (Matt 247)- Famine-3rd
Seal- (Rev. 65,6) 4th Sign (Matt 247)-
Pestilence-4th Seal- (Rev. 67,8) 5th Sign
(Matt 248,9)- Martyrdom-5th Seal- (Rev. 69-11)
6th Sign (Matt 2429)- Changes-6th Seal- (Rev.
612-16)
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1st Sign- False Christ -1st Seal

• Revelation 61-2 And I saw when the Lamb
  opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were
  the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts
  saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a
  white horse and he that sat on him had a bow
  and a crown was given unto him and he went forth
  conquering, and to conquer.

• Matthew 245 For many shall come in my name,
  saying, I am Christ and shall deceive many.

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2nd Sign- Wars -2nd Seal

• Revelation 63-4 And when He had opened the
  second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come
  and see. And there went out another horse that
  was red and power was given to him that sat
  thereon to take peace from the earth, and that
  they should kill one another and there was given
  unto him a great sword.

• Matthew 246 And ye shall hear of wars and
  rumours of wars see that ye be not troubled for
  all these things must come to pass, but the end
  is not yet.

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3rd Sign- Famine - 3rd Seal

• Revelation 65-6 And when He had opened the
  third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and
  see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse and he
  that sat on him had a pair of balances in his
  hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the
  four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny,
  and three measures of barley for a penny and see
  thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

• Matthew 247 - For nation shall rise against
  nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there
  shall be famines, and pestilences, and
  earthquakes, in divers places.

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4th Sign- Pestilence -4th Seal

• Revelation 67-8 And when He had opened the
  fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth
  beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold
  a pale horse and his name that sat on him was
  Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was
  given unto them over the fourth part of the
  earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and
  with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

• Matthew 247 - For nation shall rise against
  nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there
  shall be famines, and pestilences, and
  earthquakes, in divers places.

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5th Sign- Martyrdom - 5th Seal

• Revelation 69-11 And when he had opened the
  fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
  them that were slain for the word of God, and for
  the testimony which they held And they cried
  with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy
  and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our
  blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white
  robes were given unto every one of them and it
  was said unto them, that they should rest yet for
  a little season, until their fellowservants also
  and their brethren, that should be killed as they
  were, should be fulfilled.

• Matthew 248-9 All these are the beginning of
  sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be
  afflicted, and shall kill you and ye shall be
  hated of all nations for my name's sake.

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6th Sign- Changes- 6th Seal

• Matthew 2429 Immediately after the tribulation
  of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the
  moon shall not give her light, and the stars
  shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the
  heavens shall be shaken

• Revelation 612-16 And I beheld when he had
  opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great
  earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth
  of hair, and the moon became as blood And the
  stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a
  fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is
  shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed
  as a scroll when it is rolled together and every
  mountain and island were moved out of their
  places. And the kings of the earth, and the great
  men, and the rich men, and the chief captains,
  and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every
  free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the
  rocks of the mountains And said to the mountains
  and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face
  of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the
  wrath of the Lamb

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• Zechariah 1412
• And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD
  will smite all the people that have fought
  against Jerusalem Their flesh shall consume away
  while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes
  shall consume away in their holes, and their
  tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

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• Amos 516- Therefore the LORD, the God of
  hosts, the Lord, saith thus Wailing shall be in
  all streets and they shall say in all the
  highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the
  husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful
  of lamentation to wailing.

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• Zephaniah 114 The great day of the LORD is
  near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the
  voice of the day of the LORD the mighty man
  shall cry there bitterly.

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• Matthew 2430 And then shall appear the sign
  of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all
  the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
  the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
  with power and great glory.

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• Luke 2330 Then shall they begin to say to the
  mountains, Fall on us and to the hills, Cover
  us.

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• Revelation 96 And in those days shall men
  seek death, and shall not find it and shall
  desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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• Isaiah 136-9 Howl ye for the day of the LORD
  is at hand it shall come as a destruction from
  the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint,
  and every man's heart shall melt And they shall
  be afraid pangs and sorrows shall take hold of
  them they shall be in pain as a woman that
  travaileth they shall be amazed one at another
  their faces shall be as flames. Behold, the day
  of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and
  fierce anger, to lay the land desolate and He
  shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

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• Hebrews 23 How shall we escape, if we neglect so
  great salvation which at the first began to be
  spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by
  them that heard Him

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The Danger
The Fallacies off the Tribulation
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The Danger
The Fallacies off the Tribulation

• Post- Trib

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The Danger
The Fallacies off the Tribulation

• Post - Trib
• Mid - Trib

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The Danger
The Fallacies off the Tribulation

• Post - Trib
• Mid - Trib
• Pre-Wrath Trib

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The Danger
The Fallacies off the Tribulation

• Post - Trib
• Mid - Trib
• Pre-Wrath Trib
• Pre- Trib

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The Danger
The Facts of the Tribulation
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• Factor 3- The PROMISES we HOLD!

• HE will set before us OPEN DOORS
• HE will grant VINDICATION over our OPPOSERS
• HE will provide DELIVERANCE in TURBULANT TIMES

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The Danger

• The Facts of the Tribulation

Proof 1

• The Church is kept from the hour of temptation.

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• Matthew 2421 For then shall be great
  tribulation, such as was not since the beginning
  of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

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The Danger

• The Facts of the Tribulation

Proof 2

• The Church is not found in Revelation in any part
  of the Tribulation.

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• 2nd Timothy 215 Study to shew thyself
  approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to
  be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.

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The PURPOSE of the

• It is the revealing of Jesus Christ AND of
  things which must shortly come to pass

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Why is so hard to unscramble?
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Why is so hard to unscramble?

• Not believing what we read

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Why is so hard to unscramble?

• Not rightly dividing the truth

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• 1 Thessalonians 416-17 For the Lord Himself
  shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
  voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
  God and the dead in Christ shall rise first
  Then we which are alive and remain shall be
  caught up together with them in the clouds, to
  meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be
  with the Lord.

• Revelation 41
• After this I looked, and, behold, a door was
  opened in heaven and the first voice which I
  heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
  me which said, Come up hither, and I will shew
  thee things which must be hereafter.

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The RAPTURE

• Jesus comes IN the clouds FOR His saints.

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The Second Coming

• Jesus comes WITH the clouds WITH His saints.

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3 Divisions

• Chapters 1-3
• Chapters 4-19
• Chapters 20-22

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3 Divisions

• hast seen-PAST
• which are-PRESENT
• shall be- FUTURE

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3 Divisions

• hast seen-PAST- 1-3
• Church Age to
• the Rapture

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3 Divisions

• which are-PRESENT- 4-19
• Tribulation to the Second Coming

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The THEME of the

• 5-6 SEALS
• 7-11 TRUMPETS
• 12-14 Anti-christ
• 15-18 VIALS (bowls)

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Behold, He cometh
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3 Divisions

• shall be-FUTURE- 19-22
• Millennium on into Eternity

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3 Divisions

• hast seen-PAST- 1-3
• Church Age to
• the Rapture

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The THEME of the

• 5-6 SEALS
• 7-11 TRUMPETS
• 12-14 Anti-christ
• 15-18 VIALS (bowls)

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The Danger

• The Facts of the Tribulation

Proof 3

• The Church is not found in 1st Thessalonians in
  any part of the Tribulation.

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The Danger

• The Facts of the Tribulation

Proof 4

• The Church is looking for the Lord Jesus Christ,
  not the Anti- christ.

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• Titus 213 Looking for that blessed hope, and
  the glorious appearing of the great God and our
  Saviour Jesus Christ

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• Factor 3- The PROMISES we HOLD!

• HE will set before us OPEN DOORS
• HE will grant VINDICATION over our OPPOSERS
• HE will provide DELIVERANCE in TURBULANT TIMES

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• 1 Peter 58-9- Be sober, be vigilant because
  your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
  walketh about, seeking whom he may devour Whom
  resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the
  same afflictions are accomplished in your
  brethren that are in the world.

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• Romans 63 Know ye not, that so many of us as
  were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
  into his death?
• Colossians 33 For ye are dead, and your life
  is hid with Christ in God.
• 2nd Corinthians 517 Therefore if any man be
  in Christ, he is a new creature old things are
  passed away behold, all things are become new.

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• Factor 3- The PROMISES we HOLD!

• HE will set before us OPEN DOORS
• HE will grant VINDICATION over our OPPOSERS
• HE will provide DELIVERANCE in TURBULANT TIMES

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• Acts 319-21 Repent ye therefore, and be
  converted, that your sins may be blotted out,
  when the times of refreshing shall come from the
  presence of the Lord And He shall send Jesus
  Christ, which before was preached unto you Whom
  the heaven must receive until the times of
  restitution of all things, which God hath spoken
  by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the
  world began.

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• JESUS gets what He deserves!
• SATAN gets what he deserves!
• THE LOST get what they deserve!

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The BLESSING of the

• Blessed
• readeth
• hear
• keep

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• Genesis 23 And God blessed the seventh day,
  and sanctified it because that in it He had
  rested from all His work which God created and
  made.

• 2 Peter 38 But, beloved, be not ignorant of
  this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as
  a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
  day.

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The GREETING of the

• Grace
• Peace

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• Factor 3- The PROMISES we HOLD!

• HE will set before us OPEN DOORS
• HE will grant VINDICATION over our OPPOSERS
• HE will provide DELIVERANCE in TURBULANT TIMES