Embracing Our Role in the End Times

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These are the end times, and you are the church, and so am I. God bless America, praise the Lord, and welcome to one and all, no matter what nation you're in. We welcome you to church; this is digital church, this is the Assembly of the Ecclesia.

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The Lord was with his closest disciples on the night he was betrayed, eating the Passover. He took bread, broke it, and distributed it, saying, "Take this, all of you, and eat it. This is my body that will be broken for you. Whenever you do this, remember me."

After the meal ended, he took the cup, thanked the Father, and distributed it among his disciples, saying, "Take this, all of you, and drink. This is a cup of my blood, the blood of the New Covenant that will last forever. It is shed for all for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you do this, remember me."

Father God, we acknowledge you as the Lord of the End Time Church, the Lord of me and my house, the Lord of Israel, and of the whole earth. All of Heaven and Earth is yours and everything in it. You are worthy and deserving of all praise from all creatures.

We thank you, Yeshua, the King of the World, the Son of God who was anointed before the world was, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. The plan of God to offer his only Son to have a giant family to rule and reign on this creation forever. You are worthy, Holy Spirit, to receive our praise, to receive our very life.

Speak tonight, Holy Spirit, as we bring these petitions before you. Now we lift up every request spoken and unspoken, written and not heard. Hear our cries now, hear our prayer now, bring it before the Throne of God.

For this is the promise: Holy Spirit, you are the promised one until our Lord Jesus returns. You are our Communicator, you are our Comforter, Paraclete, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Love. Let us bear your fruit even now, even tonight. Thank you in advance for what you're about to reveal to us. Teach us the Word of God, teach us the will of God.

Intercede for us, Holy Spirit, in words that cannot be uttered, things that we don't know what to pray for. You will make that prayer for us and answer that we may hear and live and be healed in Yeshua Jesus' name, the Messiah of all. Israel and all who believe, amen.

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Aside from this live stream, I don't think it may not work tonight. It's awesome. Okay, praise God, guys, let's do this. Then we're gonna continue on in what we're calling end time prepping. By the way, there is a playlist for those of you who are obsessed with YouTube and won't watch it any other way. There is a playlist for every session we've done called end time prepping.

Which now I believe this is the sixth week, sixth session. We've gone through a whole bunch of issues including how to do it right, how do you do it scripturally, how do you do it spiritually, not in the flesh, in Wrath. Remember Mercy, that was our first edition. There's the notes for that, the last election, the fact that there will be one, and that was Memorial Day. We covered that, felt it was timely.

Are you also going to leave regarding the very clear and present danger of apostasy? Let's get our okay. I will make all these available, these notes as well. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? A reminder we all need on a regular basis, including me.

As Christians, it's not our business. The sinners are going to be sinners, the lost are lost, they're going to do lost things. I don't know why we're surprised. I don't know why we talk about it. I don't know why we devote any time to it other than unless you're giving them the gospel.

Gotta worry about inside the house because a lot of bad things are happening inside the house, including most abortions, even though we don't want to believe it. And last week we did the fall of Empires, the fact that all Empires, scripturally and after the scriptures were closed, will fall. That includes America, that includes Russia, that includes the final caliphate, uh, Kingdom that God will raise up, but just like Rome, it will all fall.

Okay, so here we come to tonight, which is "Kingdom Not Imminent." Kingdom not imminent. First of all, what does imminent mean? Uh, imminent means anytime now, means like it's related to the word immediate, right, immediately imminent. Any moment now. You see the most widely used term is the rapture. In other words, you think Jesus, the belief that Jesus can return any day, that's imminent, that's imminency. His return is imminent or whatever you think could happen today or could happen tomorrow, that's imminent.

Okay, so let us say the kingdom is not imminent. The reason being, let's go to Luke chapter 19.

Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it when he came to that place. He looked up and saw a man named Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man, he could not see over the crowd. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him.

Jesus said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today." So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully.

When the people saw it, they all complained, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner!" But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I've cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much." That means he was repentant.

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this household," meaning Zacchaeus was also saved, because he too was a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.

The ground level fact of this scripture is that there was a little man who was hated and viewed as a traitor. He was despised by the local population because he was a shill for the Romans, getting rich off of his fellow Israelites' tax money. But he repented and said he was giving away half of his possessions and paying back four times as much if he had stolen anything. Jesus said he was forgiven, no matter what he had done in the past.

We should be happy about this, not complaining that this sinner was forgiven. We are all sinners too, so we should not be complaining about other people's sins when we have our own to deal with.

If you're a Berean, you should know what Jericho is. Jericho is where the seven trumpets were sounded in Joshua chapter 6. Seven priests and seven trumpets circled the city seven times, and when they blew all the trumpets, the walls came down, and they entered the city.

Jesus will return when the seven trumpets have all been blown. You can't enter the city like Jesus did until the seven trumpets sound. Jericho is near the Dead Sea and the Jordan River, up to the Sea of Galilee. This is where Israel's second crossing miracle happened. They came in from what today is Jordan, the country of Jordan, over the Jordan River.

Jericho is near Mount Nebo, where Moses died and saw the promised land. This boundary line is important for end time preparation. It goes all the way down to Sinai. This territory, Jericho, and the Valley of Achan are all very important prophetically.

Jesus was near to Jerusalem, and the people who were listening, the Jews, thought the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. Jesus needed to correct this impression, as it was false. The people had reasons from scripture and were taught by their rabbis that the Messiah was going to come and travel to Jerusalem and enter through the Eastern Gate, and then the kingdom of Israel would begin over the whole earth with the Messiah as the king.

However, they did not know the whole story. To correct this false belief, Jesus told them a parable. He was trying to show them that the kingdom was not going to happen right away. He also wanted to show them that they had no excuse when they faced God on Judgment Day, as He had given them all the resources they needed to know the truth.

So what is the business of the Church?

Jesus, the nobleman, was near Jerusalem, and the people thought the Kingdom of God would appear immediately. Therefore, he said, "Listen, End Time Church, listen carefully." He went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself and then return. He summoned ten of his slaves and gave them ten minas, which is money, and said, "Do business with these till I come back."

His citizens, however, hated him and sent a delegation after him saying, "We do not want this man to be king over us." This is reminiscent of Daniel's vision and Revelation 12. Jesus is giving a century's worth of time in one sentence. The business of the Church is to take what Jesus gives them and do business with it.

When Jesus returned after receiving the kingdom, he summoned these slaves to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had earned by trading. The first one came before him and said, "Sir, your mina has made ten minas more." He got a tenfold return, and the King said to him, "Well done, good slave! You are a good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master."

The second one came before him and said, "Sir, your mina has made five minas more." He got a fivefold return, and the King said to him, "Well done, good slave! You are a good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master."

We know that Jesus' early followers were mostly Jews, and that his own citizens rejected him and sent a delegation saying, "We do not want this man to be king over us." This is the majority, not all, but it is clear that the Jewish nation as a nation rejected him, although individuals accepted him.

One of the big prophecies is that "you all are going to accept me, you're all going to call for me." This is the time of the Gentiles, or the age of the church, because Israel is having problems, but God is opening it up anyway.

When Jesus receives the kingdom, the mystery of God is finished, which Paul says is the church. When he returns, whosoever will be a bondservant, and Daniel's vision in Daniel 7 receives from the Father the Ancient One.

The king went away for a while, and when he returned, he rewarded his faithful servants. He said to the first servant, "Because you have been faithful in a very small manner, you will have authority over ten cities." The second servant had made five minas, and the king said to him, "You are to be over five cities."

The third servant had put away a mina for safekeeping, and he said to the king, "I was afraid of you because you are a severe man." The king replied, "I will judge you by your own words. You wicked servant, you said you were afraid of me because I'm severe, so here's severe me. I'm going to take away what you have and give it to the one who has ten minas."

The kingdom of God does not appear immediately, but when it does come, his faithful servants who are obedient and do what he told them will receive a tenfold return. They will rule part of the kingdom under Jesus.

The King said to him, "I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave. So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man withdrawing where I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? Why then didn't you put my money in the bank so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?"

He said to his attendants, "Take the money from him and give it to the one who has ten." But they said to him, "Sir, he has ten minas already." I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their King, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me."

This is what it will be like in this time of endurance. The King gave his servants, the Christians, things to invest in for the kingdom. Even if they are so afraid to do anything with it that they just deposit it in the bank, they will still get something in return, even if it's a terrible interest rate.

The King is telling them that the kingdom is not just going to appear; there is a process, and part of that is the seven trumpets. Most of them, if not all, occur in the last three and a half years of the age.

God is not giving us money from heaven to invest in the market, but He is the King, and He did go away to a distant country. If you are His slave, you have a job to do, and He is expecting you. Those who are faithful when He returns, when the Kingdom appears, will reign with Him starting at the wedding reception.

This is like the ten virgins, where two have very different outcomes. Those who don't obtain the oil and can't see their way to the bridegroom through the darkness at midnight, which is the Tribulation, are shut out.

Jesus continued on ahead, going up to Jerusalem and approached Bethpage and Bethany at the place called the Mount of Olives. This is to the east of the Temple. Part of the journey when Jesus returns is He comes through the mountains and the Wilderness, makes His way across the border into Israel proper, and something happens in the Mount of Olives.

He sent two of the disciples, telling them to go into the village ahead of them and find a colt that has been tied and bring it here. If anyone asks them why they are untying it, they should say the Lord needs it.

The Lord told those who were sent ahead to untie the colt, and when the owners asked why, they replied that the Lord needed it. As Jesus approached, riding on the colt, the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen.

This was a quote from the Psalms, "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord." Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" Jesus answered, "I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out."

This is reminiscent of Joshua 24:27, which says, "Look at this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard everything the Lord has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God."

When Joshua dismissed the people, they went to their allotted portions of land. This is a reminder that even if people deny God, the stones will still cry out in praise.

Acts Chapter 14, verse 22 says that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. This is why Jesus is rebuking the belief of the people that the kingdom of God is going to appear immediately. This was a false standard, and it is false now.

The Holy Spirit is trying to strengthen the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith. This is because they are undergoing persecution and tribulation for their faith. If the original Church were witness to Jesus personally or their generation was, they could leave the faith.

Part of the reason the Church exists is to dispel this and get people ready for the trouble that is coming before the Lord comes. The prescription for the kingdom of God is not imminency, but to put us through tribulation and persecution before the Lord comes.

We need to be strengthened and encouraged to continue in the faith because we will undergo tribulation and persecution before the Lord comes. This applies to all of us, not just the Christians in Acts 14.

The majority of religious leadership during the time of Jesus' first coming interpreted scripture incorrectly. They believed that the kingdom was imminent and that Jesus was coming at any moment. However, they did not get everything right. They were supposed to be priests to Jehovah and have Divine understanding, yet they failed to recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

Second Peter 3:9 NLT translation states, "He isn't really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent." This is the Gospel.

God does not care who you are, what you have done, or what people think of you. He only cares that you repent. He wants everyone everywhere to repent. If you are with Him, you will not do evil things. You will do what He does.

God is not being slow when He goes to the far country. He is being patient to get the most amount of souls into His family. Acknowledge this truth, believe it, agree with it, and praise God for it. Then, take your minas and apply Second Peter 3:9. Multiply what God has given you by making disciples and showing the fruits of the Spirit.

They weren't supposed to understand. Haven't you read? Jesus would say, they're the ones who had the calling, they were set apart, they were the Kohanim, they were the priests, they were the ones who are supposed to know. If they believed the original eyewitnesses, i.e., Moses, who saw the God of Israel personally, if they actually believed him like Jesus said, if you believe Moses, they would have recognized Jesus as the Messiah and that he would have to be the suffering servant, not just the kingdom, the king who would roll into Jerusalem and defeat the Romans.

He would know he would have to die; he'd have to be the suffering servant of Isaiah 53, he had to be killed per Psalm 22, per Daniel 9, etc. But no, in their great wisdom, their traditions certainly must be correct, even when they plainly opposed the law and the prophets, the word of God.

Your traditions make the word of God of no effect. The very ones, the very ones who should have known it all, knew nothing. This is the first coming of Jesus; they should have known exactly why, where, when, but they knew nothing at all because they were blinded by traditions that they made up.

Now, as we look to the second Advent, let us remember the words of the truly wise one, Solomon, when he said that which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done, so there is nothing new under the sun.

What's that mean? We're back to imminence teaching; we've invented it out of nothing, it's not in the Bible, it's never been there. You're supposed to know, Church, but yet we made this thing up that even though Jesus rebuked the teaching directly, now we're back to at any moment Jesus can come, and I don't need to understand the end times.

Be an end time prepper. You want to be an end time prepper? This is called end time prepping, right? If you want to be an end time prepper, be one by knowing that God has declared over and over again that the kingdom is not imminent, no matter what church traditions have been invented.

And by saying or teaching, God forbid teaching, you're a church, you're a pastor, or you have a following, and you're teaching things like "God wins," that's your end times view. I read the back of the book, and God wins, or I'm a pan-Tripper, I don't know about post or pre or mid or none of that, I'm pan-Tripper, it's all gonna pan out in the end.

That's not funny, that's not funny, it's not cute, and it's not wise, and it's not Bible. Those are not funny things to say to ignore the truth of what's in here that you need to know. It's not being biblical; it's simply proving you are unprepared for the Lord.

You are unprepared for your Lord to come; you are not ready for Jesus, you are not ready to endure anything, you are not ready to go through persecution or tribulation by saying "God wins" or "I'm a pan-Tripper."

I'm sorry, you're not the I, I only teach that because that's what God told us. You're not going to be ready if you don't know why put it in here over and over and over and over the end times quote.

We are to live with the knowledge of the coming Kingdom, and our discipleship and witness should be based on this. We should live in holiness, hastening the day when God wins.

Last week during prayer, the Lord inspired me to pray that churches that are not being faithful must close. I don't want a faceless church; I don't want false teachers making sloppy pseudo-Christians who are not prepared for the Lord.

I'd rather there be no church at all than one that is not Holy Spirit-dominated and preparing for the Kingdom. We must not be lazy servants, but give generously and regularly to the work of the Lord. We are 100% dependent on your tithes and offerings.

Let us be prepared for the Lord and hasten the day when God wins.

Father, bless and keep us, make your face shine upon us and give us your peace, your Shalom that passes all understanding because we need you, we need you, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen.

We love you, but we have to say goodbye.