D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES PRESENTS
TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE
BIBLICAL VIEW OF THE END TIMES.
THERE WILL BE A DAY WHEN JESUS WILL COME AGAIN-
BODILY, VISIBLY, GLORIOUSLY, TRIUMPHANTLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY.
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THAT GREAT DAY?
FIND OUT ON TODAY'S TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
THIS IS TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
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WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM,
A VIEWER SUPPORTED PROGRAM.
I'M FRANK WRIGHT, PRESIDENT OF D. JAMES
KENNEDY MINISTRIES.
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING AND CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS
IN CHRISTIANITY IS THE END TIMES.
NO TOPIC SEEMS TO GENERATE MORE FASCINATION-
AND MORE SENSATIONALISM.
AS FRIGHTENING EVENTS UNFOLD AROUND THE WORLD
AND IN OUR NATION, MANY WANT TO KNOW THE BIBLICAL
TRUTHS OF CHRIST'S RETURN AND THE END OF
HUMAN HISTORY.
ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, AND THROUGHOUT DECEMBER,
WE WILL BE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF
ESCHATOLOGY- THE STUDY OF END TIMES.
LATER, WE'LL INVESTIGATE THE DANGERS OF SETTING
SPECIFIC DATES FOR THE RETURN OF CHRIST,
AND WE WILL SHARE A NEW RESOURCE WITH YOU THAT
WILL REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR VIEW OF THESE ISSUES.
AS WE BEGIN, I RECENTLY SAT DOWN TO DISCUSS THESE
IMPORTANT ISSUES WITH DR. BRUCE ASHFORD,
WHO IS PROVOST AND PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY &
CULTURE AT SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY.
BRUCE THANKS FOR BEING WITH US, WE'RE GENUINELY
DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU HERE, PRIVILEGE.
GREAT TO BE ON THE SHOW THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
MANY CHRISTIANS HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS ABOUT THE
END TIMES, THEY AGREE ON THE ESSENTIAL TRUTHS OF
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BUT THEIR ESCHATOLOGY VARIES
QUITE A BIT.
BUT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON THIS CAN WE NOT THAT JESUS
WILL RETURN ONE DAY VISIBLY, BODILY, AND
GLORIOUSLY IS THAT TRUE IN YOUR VIEW?
THAT'S TRUE, YEAH SO MANY THINGS THAT WE DISAGREE ON
BUT WE AGREE THAT ONE DAY KING JESUS WILL RETURN AND
INSTITUTE A NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH WHICH WILL BE A
ONE PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM WITH JESUS AS KING AND
WHEN HE REIGNS OUR PUBLIC SQUARE WILL BE ONE THAT'S
CHARACTERIZED BY PEACE, LOVE, AND ORDER,
ONE IN WHICH JUSTICE WILL ROLL DOWN LIKE THE WATERS.
NOW THAT'S OUR BLESSED HOPE HIS RETURN BUT IT'S
MORE THAN A HOPE IT'S A REALITY,
WHAT THOUGH DO YOU THINK IS THE RESULT OF
CHRISTIANS THAT MAYBE SPEND TOO MUCH TIME
LOOKING UP FOR JESUS' RETURN AND NOT ENOUGH TIME
FOCUSING ON WHAT HE ASKED US TO DO HERE ON EARTH.
YEAH I LIKE THE VERSE IN ACTS THAT SAYS WHY STAND
YE GAZING AT THE HEAVENS?
AND SO YEAH ON THE ONE HAND WE DO EXPECT THE
LORD'S RETURN, WE LOOK FOR IT,
WE LOOK FOR IT EAGERLY AND HE COULD COME AT ANY
MOMENT BUT ON THE OTHER HAND HE HASN'T COME FOR
2,000 YEARS AND HE MIGHT TARRY FOR ANOTHER THOUSAND
OR TWO.
AND SO I THINK THE IMPLICATION FOR US IS THAT
WE WANT TO ALWAYS BE READY BUT WE ALSO WANT TO TAKE
THE LONG VIEW, WE WANT TO HONOR THE LORD CHRIST IN
EVERY SPHERE OF CULTURE, ART, SCIENCE, EDUCATION,
POLITICS AND SO FORTH AND THAT TAKES PLANNING,
THAT TAKES HARD WORK SO WE WANT TO ROLL UP OUR
SLEEVES AND DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HONOR THE LORD
AND EVERY SQUARE-INCH OF OUR LIFE AND IN EVERY
ASPECT OF SOCIETY AND CULTURE.
SO WE'RE IN THIS ADVENT SEASON LEADING UP TO THE
CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST,
THE BIRTH OF CHRIST ALWAYS REMINDS US OF HIS
ASCENSION INTO GLORY AND HIS SOON RETURN,
THE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED IN THE SOON
RETURN OF CHRIST EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T KNOW THAT
DAY OR THAT HOUR SO ALL OF THESE THINGS REALLY ARE
ABOUT THE RETURN OF CHRIST OCCUPY UNTIL I COME,
OUR BELIEF IN THE RETURN OF CHRIST THEN IS
SOMETHING THAT SHOULD CHANGE OUR LIVES TODAY,
IT SHOULD CHANGE HOW WE LIVE OUR LIVES YES?
YES THAT'S RIGHT, YOU KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT OUR
HOPE IS THAT THE LORD RETURNS I THINK A LOT OF
AMERICANS THINK THAT IT MEANS THAT WE REALLY WISH
THAT HE WILL, WE REALLY HOPE THAT HE WILL BUT
WE'RE NOT SURE THAT HE WILL.
BUT AS BELIEVERS OUR HOPE IS A CERTAIN HOPE,
HE WILL RETURN AND BECAUSE HE WILL RETURN WE WILL
LEVERAGE EVERYTHING IN OUR LIFE PERSONALLY, SOCIALLY,
AND CULTURALLY TO BE A WITNESS FOR HIM AND TO
OBEY HIM AND TO BE A PREVIEW OF HIS KINGDOM,
OF THAT DAY WHEN HE RETURNS,
THAT IS OUR BLESSED HOPE.
SO THE RETURN OF CHRIST IS CERTAIN BECAUSE THE
PROMISES OF GOD ARE TRUE AND AMEN.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE PROMISES,
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'LL SEE
WHEN CHRIST COMES?
YOU KNOW WHEN CHRIST RETURNS WE KNOW THAT HE
WILL EMBRACE HIS OWN AND HE WILL JUDGE THE LOST,
WE KNOW THAT HE WILL INSTITUTE AN ORDER IN
WHICH THERE IS NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE SORROWS,
NO MORE TEARS, NO MORE RACIAL TENSION,
NO MORE MURDERS, NO MORE WAR,
NO MORE RUMORS OF WAR AND WE WILL HAVE WE'LL BE ABLE
TO LIVE IN THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE GLORY OF JESUS
CHRIST AND THERE WILL BE PEACE, ORDER, AND JUSTICE,
EVERYTHING WILL BE RIGHT.
AND YOU KNOW I THINK A LOT OF TIMES AMERICANS
ENVISION OUR ETERNITY AS SOME SORT OF ETHEREAL
NEVER NEVER LAND KIND OF WHERE OUR SOULS ARE
FLOATING AROUND IN A DISEMBODIED SORT OF TANK,
WHERE WE HAVE ANGELS WITH FEATHERS AND HARPS AND
HALOS BUT OUR EXISTENCE IS ACTUALLY GONNA BE PHYSICAL
AND MATERIAL ON A NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH SO THE
TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE DO HERE THERE'S GONNA BE AN
ANALOG OR AN ANALOGY THERE, WE'RE GONNA BE
DOING PHYSICAL TYPE AND MATERIAL TYPE THINGS
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS.
JESUS ASCENDED BODILY, HE'LL RETURN BODILY.
HE DOES SPEAK OF THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO WERE BEHEADED
FOR THE FAITH CRYING OUT TO HIM IN THE INTERMEDIATE
HEAVEN BUT WHEN HE RETURNS THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE,
WE RISE, TRANSFORMED NEW BODIES,
TALK ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE
EARTH I MEAN WHEN GOD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
HE SAID IT'S GOOD AND SIN HAS CORRUPTED IT BUT
ULTIMATELY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RENEWAL OF GOD'S
CREATION AREN'T WE?
YES WE ARE, YES YOU KNOW GOD PROMISED TO MAKE ALL
THINGS NEW, HE DID NOT PROMISE TO MAKE ALL NEW
THINGS AND SO BECAUSE HIS CREATION IS GOOD AND THIS
IS A DIFFICULT POINT FOR US TO GRASP BECAUSE WE
UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY AND THE SERIOUSNESS OF SIN,
WHAT WE DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THAT GOD'S CREATION
REMAINS GOOD STRUCTURALLY AND BY THAT I MEAN THE
FACT OF ITS EXISTENCE IS GOOD,
THE FACT THAT WE LIVE IN THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND
THAT WE HAVE ART, SCIENCE AND POLITICS AND
EDUCATION, THE FACT OF THESE THINGS IS GOOD BUT
THE DIRECTION THAT THESE THINGS TAKE IS CORRUPTED
YOU KNOW IT'S BAD AND SO I THINK THE FIRE THAT PETER
REFERS TO IS NOT A DESTRUCTIVE OR
ANNIHILATIVE FIRE, ITS OFTEN TRANSLATED THAT WAY,
ITS TRANSLATED THAT WAY IN KING JAMES BUT THAT SAME
WORD CAN BE TRANSLATED CLEANSED OR FOUND,
PURIFIED OR REFINED, SO I THINK THAT FIRE IS GONNA
BE REFINING OR PURIFYING FIRE SO THAT THE THINGS OF
THIS EARTH ARE REDIRECTED TOWARD CHRIST.
GOD'S CREATION IS GOOD AND SO HE'S NOT GOING TO
CARPET-BOMB IT OUT OF EXISTENCE.
BRUCE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE,
IT'S A GREAT SEASON OF ANTICIPATION AND A GREAT
TIME TO BE REFLECTIVE ABOUT WHAT GOD'S CALL ON
OUR LIFE IS, THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
IT'S GREAT TO BE ON THE SHOW, THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
AS DR. BRUCE ASHFORD EXPLAINED,
THE ULTIMATE STATE WHEN CHRIST RETURNS IS NOT
SOME ETHEREAL, DISEMBODIED REALITY,
BUT A REDEEMED AND GLORIFIED CREATION.
THAT MAY BE A NEW THOUGHT FOR YOU,
BUT WHEN WE GRASP THE BIBLICAL TRUTH ON THIS,
IT CLARIFIES OUR HOPE AND AFFECTS EVERYTHING WE DO.
AND ALL OF IT IS PREDICATED ON CHRIST'S
RETURN.
THOUGH MANY HAVE DISAGREED ON THE TIMING,
IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT ALL
CHRISTIANS AGREE UPON.
IN THIS EXCERPT FROM HIS MESSAGE,
"HE SHALL COME AGAIN," DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY
HELPS US UNDERSTAND SOME OF THESE IMPORTANT
AREAS OF AGREEMENT.
HE SHALL COME AGAIN.
THE OLD TESTAMENT DISTINCTLY PROPHESIED IT.
THERE ARE 333 PASSAGES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH
EXPRESSLY DECLARE IT.
JESUS, HIMSELF, TOLD US UNMISTAKABLY THAT
HENCEFORTH YE WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING WITH
CLOUDS OF GLORY.
THE APOSTLES DECLARED THAT THERE WOULD COME SCOFFERS
WHO WOULD DENY HIS COMING: "WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF
HIS COMING."
BUT SAID CHRIST, "HEREAFTER,
YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN SEATED ON THE RIGHT
HAND OF POWER AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY."
"BEHOLD," SAID THE APOSTLE JOHN IN THE APOCALYPSE,
"BEHOLD, HE COMETH WITH CLOUDS IN GREAT GLORY AND
EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM.
AND THEY THAT PIERCED HIM AND ALL KINDREDS OF THE
EARTH SHALL WAIL BECAUSE OF HIM.
EVEN SO, COME LORD JESUS.
COME QUICKLY."
THIS SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST IS THE GREAT HOPE
OF THE CHRISTIAN.
IT IS TO BE THE FINAL CULMINATING POINT OF
HISTORY; THE GREAT CLIMACTERIC OF THE AGES.
WHEN THE LAST PAGE OF THE LAST VOLUME OF HISTORY
SHALL HAVE BEEN WRITTEN, THERE SHALL BE THE FINAL
EXCLAMATION POINT AND JESUS CHRIST SHALL
COME AGAIN.
HE SHALL APPEAR IN ALL OF HIS GLORY IN THE SKY.
AND IN THAT DAY THE DRAMA OF THE AGES SHALL BE
BROUGHT TO A GLORIOUS CONCLUSION.
HOW WILL HE COME?
WELL, THERE ARE FIVE ADVERBS THAT I BELIEVE
DESCRIBE IT VERY CLEARLY- THAT FINAL DENOUEMENT OF
HISTORY: HE WILL COME, WE ARE TOLD, "BODILY."
WHEN CHRIST LED THE DISCIPLES OUT AND UP THE
MOUNT OF OLIVES ON THAT FINAL DAY OF HIS EARTHY
PILGRIMAGE, AFTER HE HAD PROCLAIMED AGAIN THE GREAT
COMMISSION AND WHEN HE LIFTED HIS ARMS IN
BLESSING UPON THEM, AS THEY BEHELD HIM,
HE WAS TAKEN UP UNTIL FINALLY A CLOUD RECEIVED
HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHT.
AND TWO ANGELS APPEARED TO THEM AND SAID,
"YE MEN OF GALILEE, WHY STAND YE HERE GAZING UP
INTO HEAVEN?
THIS SAME JESUS WHOM YE SAW GO UP INTO HEAVEN,
SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO."
HOW DID THEY SEE HIM GO?
THEY SAW HIM GO BODILY, PHYSICALLY,
AND SO JESUS CHRIST SHALL COME AGAIN.
AND IF HE COMES BODILY, THEN SECONDLY,
HE MUST OBVIOUSLY COME VISIBLY THAT WE MAY SEE
HIM WITH OUR EYES, EVEN AS JOB SO MANY CENTURIES AGO
DECLARED.
AND THE APOSTLE JOHN IN THE LAST BOOK OF THE
SCRIPTURES ALSO SAID: "BEHOLD HE COMETH WITH
CLOUDS AND EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM."
AND ALSO WE CAN SAY THIRDLY,
THAT HE WILL COME GLORIOUSLY.
SOMEONE ONCE SAID TO ME, "I SUPPOSE THAT IF JESUS
CHRIST CAME AGAIN AS SOME PEOPLE SAY HE WOULD,
AND IF HE WERE TO WALK AROUND FT. LAUDERDALE,
OR CHICAGO OR LONDON IN A BUSINESS SUIT,
THAT WE'D PROBABLY TAKE HIM AND CRUCIFY HIM ONCE MORE."
AH, MY FRIENDS, HOW LITTLE HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE
SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST REALLY MEANS.
FOR JESUS WILL NOT COME AGAIN IN HUMILITY,
IN HUMILIATION.
BUT HE WILL COME AGAIN, THIS TIME, IN GLORY,
THE POWER OF HIS FATHER, WITH ALL OF HIS MIGHTY
ANGELS ATTENDANT, WITH TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN
THOUSAND OF HIS SAINTS, WITH THE SOUND OF A
TRUMPET THAT SHALL WAKE THE DEAD;
WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL HE SHALL COME;
THERE IS NONE THAT WOULD DARE TO LIFT HIS HAND
AGAINST HIM.
FOR HE WILL COME, THIS TIME, UNDISGUISED.
FOURTHLY, HE WILL COME TRIUMPHANTLY- TRIUMPHANT
O'ER HIS FOES AND HIS ENEMIES.
AND THOSE THAT PIERCED HIM SHALL WAIL BECAUSE OF HIM.
FOR CHRISTIANS IT WILL BE A DAY OF GREAT REJOICING.
BUT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN UNBELIEVERS WHEN THEY
SHALL SEE THE GLORY OF HIS POWER THEN IT SHALL BE A
DAY OF GREAT WAILING.
"DIES IRAE," A DAY OF WRATH, A DAY OF TREMBLING
WHEN JESUS CHRIST SHALL COME AGAIN.
FOR THEM HE COMES IN FLAMING FIRE,
TAKING VENGEANCE UPON THEM THAT KNOW NOT GOD AND OBEY
NOT THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,
WHO SHALL BE DESTROYED WITH EVERLASTING
DESTRUCTION WHEN HE SHALL COME.
OH, MY FRIENDS, WHAT IF IT WERE TODAY?
HOW WILL IT BE FOR YOU?
AND WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT THOUGH THE SECOND
COMING OF CHRIST IS CERTAIN, IT IS ALSO
UNCERTAIN AS FAR AS THE TIME OF IT IS CONCERNED.
FOR WE KNOW NOT THE DAY OR THE HOUR.
THOUGH SOME HAVE FOOLISHLY TRIED TO SET THE DATE,
CHRIST HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT THAT IS KEPT IN HIS
FATHER'S POWER ALONE.
WE KNOW NOT.
AND, SO FIFTHLY, WE CAN KNOW THAT HIS COMING WILL
BE UNEXPECTEDLY, IN AN HOUR THAT YE THINK NOT.
SUPPOSE I WERE TO ASK YOU HOW MANY OF YOU THOUGHT
THAT JESUS CHRIST WOULD COME TODAY?
HOW MANY OF YOU THOUGHT THAT WHEN YOU AWOKE THIS
MORNING?
I AM AFRAID THAT PROBABLY FEW DID.
AND YET IT SHOULD BE A SOURCE OF ANTICIPATION
AND EXPECTATION.
WE SHOULD SAY, "COME, MY BELOVED, COME."
MAY THIS BE THE GLORIOUS DAY- THE DAY OF GRADUATION,
OF CORONATION, WHEN WE SHALL SEE THEE FACE TO FACE.
"EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS."
COME QUICKLY.
AS DR. KENNEDY EMPHASIZED- AND AS THE BIBLE TEACHES-
JESUS IS GOING TO RETURN AGAIN IN GREAT GLORY.
IN A FEW MINUTES, WE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT A
REMARKABLE NEW RESOURCE THAT PRESENTS- FOR THE
VERY FIRST TIME- DR. KENNEDY'S BIBLICAL
EXPOSITION ON THE END TIMES.
NATURALLY WE ARE MINDFUL OF THE CLEAR BIBLICAL
INSTRUCTION THAT NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR
OF CHRIST'S RETURN.
THAT HASN'T STOPPED MANY HOWEVER FROM PRETENDING
THAT THEY KNOW- AND SELLING MILLIONS OF BOOKS
IN THE PROCESS.
BUT AS YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE,
THERE IS A GREAT DANGER IN SETTING DATES FOR THE END
OF THE WORLD- AND EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER DONE SO HAS
BEEN WRONG.
OUR OWN DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE HAS MORE.
IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!
IT SEEMS THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A FASCINATION WITH
THE END TIMES, IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
IN SOME CASES, PEOPLE HAVE EVEN FAMOUSLY PREDICTED
WHEN JESUS WOULD RETURN.
THERE ARE ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT,
AND THAT IS LIKE YESTERDAY.
WHAT ELSE CAN WE SAY, ALL WE CAN DO IS JUST CRY OUT
FOR HIS MERCY IF WE HAVE FEAR IN OUR HEARTS.
IN 1994, AND THEN IN 2011, CHRISTIAN RADIO
BROADCASTER HAROLD CAMPING PREDICTED THAT JUDGMENT
DAY WOULD COME.
IN FACT, MAY 21, 2011 WAS THE DAY HE SAID THE
RAPTURE WOULD OCCUR.
THERE ARE SEVERAL REALLY SERIOUS DANGERS WITH
SETTING DATES FOR END OF WORLD OR THE 2ND COMING.
ONE OF THEM IS THAT IT CAN BE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE
CHURCH AND THE CAUSE OF CHRIST.
ON MAY 21 EVERYONE WHO HAS BECOME SAVED ON THAT DAY
SOMETIME ON THAT DAY IS GOING TO RECEIVE HIS
GLORIFIED SPIRITUAL BODY, IN WHICH HE'S GOING TO
LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST FOREVERMORE.
AND THE DATE CAME, AND THE DATE PASSED,
AND NOTHING HAPPENED.
AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD HEARD OF HAROLD
CAMPING LOOKED AT THAT EVENT AND SAID, "SEE,
I TOLD YOU THE BIBLE'S WRONG AND YOU DON'T KNOW
ANYTHING."
IT WASN'T THAT THE BIBLE WAS WRONG.
IT WAS THAT HAROLD CAMPING WAS WRONG.
AND HAROLD CAMPING IS JUST ONE OF MANY,
MANY OTHER PEOPLE, WHO, DOWN THROUGH THE 2000 YEARS
HAVE SET A DATE, SEEN IT COME AND SEEN IT GO.
IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.
IT'LL HAPPEN AGAIN, AND THE TRUTH IS WE JUST
DON'T KNOW.
SO THE FIRST PROBLEM WITH SETTING DATES IS THAT IT
EMBARRASSES THE CHURCH.
THE SECOND IS THAT IT'S WRONG.
THE LORD HIMSELF SAYS THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHEN HIS
SECOND COMING WILL BE.
IN FACT, JESUS SAID, "BUT CONCERNING THAT DAY AND
HOUR NO ONE KNOWS, NOT EVEN THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN,
NOR THE SON, MEANING HIMSELF,
BUT THE FATHER ONLY." [MATTHEW 24:36]
IRONICALLY, ONE OF THOSE DABBLING IN FALSE
PREDICTIONS OF CHRIST'S RETURN ACTUALLY SAID
SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT, WELL, WE MIGHT NOT KNOW
THE DAY OR THE HOUR- BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN
WE CAN'T KNOW THE WEEK OR THE MONTH.
THAT OBVIOUSLY MISSES THE WHOLE POINT.
ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT BIBLICAL
PROPHECY IS THAT IT ALMOST NEEDS TO BE FULFILLED
BEFORE WE CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND IT.
AND THAT'S THE REASON THAT CHRIST'S FIRST COMING WAS
MISSED BY SO MANY PEOPLE.
AND THAT'S THE REASON THAT ALL THESE PREDICTIONS
ABOUT THE 2ND COMING AND ALL THESE MILLENNIAL
POSITIONS THAT PEOPLE TAKE AS A HARD LINE- SORT OF A
TENET OF ORTHODOXY- IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME ON
WHEN THE MILLENNIUM WILL BE,
THEN YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT A CHRISTIAN.
WELL, THAT'S A VERY HARSH THING TO SAY.
AND WHEN WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THINGS VERY
WELL AND WHEN VERY GOOD MEN ARE ON A VARIETY OF
SIDES OF THE ISSUE, IT OUGHT TO TELL US THAT WE
OUGHT TO TREAD SOFTLY ON THAT AND NOT BE SO HARSH
ON THOSE WITH WHOM WE DISAGREE.
ONE DAY, WHILE THEY WERE AT THE MOUNT OF OLIVES,
THE DISCIPLES ASKED JESUS 2 QUESTIONS,
AS THEY UNDERSTOOD IT, RELATED TO THE END TIMES.
CERTAINLY, THE DISCIPLES WERE CONCERNED ABOUT IT,
THEY ASK THE LORD THE LORD SAYS,
THERE WILL BE COMING A TIME WHEN THIS TEMPLE WILL
BE DESTROYED.
AND SO THE DISCIPLES SAY TO HIM,
TELL US WHEN IS THIS GOING TO BE AND WHEN WILL BE THE
END OF THE WORLD, AND SO THEY'RE ASKING 2 DIFFERENT
QUESTIONS BUT THEY DON'T REALIZE IT.
IN THEIR MIND, THE FACT THAT THE TEMPLE IS GOING
TO BE DESTROYED MEANS THAT'S THE END OF THE
WORLD, THEY CAN'T IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT A TEMPLE.
AND THAT'S WHY THOSE PASSAGES LIKE MATTHEW 24
ARE SO DIFFICULT.
IT'S BECAUSE JESUS IS SAYING ONE THING ABOUT THE
END OF THE WORLD AND ANOTHER ABOUT THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.
IN THE DAYS OF JESUS, MANY OF THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW
MISSED THE FACT THAT HE WAS INDEED THE MESSIAH-
THEY MISREAD HIS FIRST COMING.
PERHAPS, SOME THEOLOGIANS TODAY ARE MISREADING HIS
RETURN.
ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS THAT WE NOTICE IS
THAT MOST OF THOSE WHO EXPECTED THE MESSIAH
DURING THE TIME OF JESUS EXPECTED SOME KIND OF A
MILITARY FIGURE TO COME AND OVERTHROW THE ROMAN
GOVERNMENT, AND YET JESUS CAME AND THE MESSIAH WAS
SO MUCH BETTER THAN A MILITARY FIGURE.
HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SIN.
THIS IS A DIFFERENT JESUS THAN ANY OF THE OTHER
JESUSES WHO HAVE BEEN BORN.
WHENEVER IT IS THAT CHRIST COMES BACK,
IT WILL BE FANTASTIC FOR THOSE WHO EAGERLY AWAIT
HIS RETURN, AS WELL AS TO THE WHOLE CREATION THAT
LONGS FOR THAT DAY!
WE DO KNOW, THOUGH, THAT WILL BE A TRIUMPHANT
RETURN.
THAT WHEN HE COMES, HE WILL ABOLISH DEATH.
HE WILL ABOLISH SIN.
HE WILL MAKE FOR US A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.
AND OUR WHOLE WORLD WILL BE CHANGED AND MADE BETTER
THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER EXPECTED.
QUESTIONS SURROUNDING THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST AND
THE END OF HUMAN HISTORY HAVE FASCINATED PEOPLE FOR
CENTURIES.
BUT AS YOU HAVE JUST SEEN, IT OFTEN LEADS TO
UNWARRANTED SPECULATION.
SOLID, BIBLICAL TEACHING ABOUT THE END TIMES HAS
BEEN HARD TO COME BY.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE EXCITED TO OFFER YOU A VITAL NEW
RESOURCE.
MY GOOD FRIEND JENNIFER KENNEDY CASSIDY IS HERE TO
TELL US MORE.
JENNIFER WELCOME.
THANK YOU, FRANK.
FOR DECADES, YOU'VE HEARD MY FATHER'S MESSAGES ON
TOPICS FROM A BIBLICAL VIEW OF ECONOMICS TO THE
DEATH PENALTY, FROM THE SANCTITY OF LIFE TO THE
IMPORTANCE OF EVANGELISM.
BUT THERE'S ONE TOPIC YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER
HEARD HIM ADDRESS: THE END TIMES.
BUT MY FATHER DID A SERIES OF SUNDAY NIGHT MESSAGES
ON THE END TIMES, ONLY FOR HIS CHURCH,
THAT WE'RE NOW MAKING AVAILABLE ON TELEVISION
FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.
NOBODY WAS BETTER THAN MY DAD AT TAKING COMPLEX
SUBJECTS AND MAKING THEM UNDERSTANDABLE AND CLEAR.
AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DOES IN THIS SERIES OF
MESSAGES CALLED END TIMES: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
WE WANT TO MAKE THESE SIX EXCLUSIVE MESSAGES
AVAILABLE TO YOU ON AUDIO CD AND IN BOOK FORM,
AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION OF $75
OR MORE TO THE ONGOING WORK OF THIS MINISTRY.
WE WILL ALSO INCLUDE THIS INSIGHTFUL AND PRACTICAL
NEW END TIMES CHART- NEVER BEFORE AVAILABLE THROUGH
THIS MINISTRY.
THIS CONVENIENT REFERENCE COMPARING THE DIFFERENT
END TIMES VIEWS AND FEATURING KEY POINTS FROM
MY FATHER'S TEACHING CAN FOLD UP TO FIT RIGHT IN
YOUR BIBLE.
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU, ALONG WITH THE AUDIO CD'S
AND THE BOOK END TIMES: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE,
AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION OF $75
OR MORE.
OR, IF YOU WOULD JUST LIKE THE BOOK,
YOU CAN HAVE IT FOR A GENEROUS DONATION.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
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DEAR FRIENDS, WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP TO FINISH
2016 IN THE BLACK, AND TO BEGIN 2017 ON A STRONG
FOOTING.
THE BATTLES FOR FREEDOM THAT LIE BEFORE US MAKE IT
CLEAR THAT THIS COMING YEAR WILL BE ONE OF THE
MOST CONSEQUENTIAL IN HISTORY.
WE REMAIN COMMITTED TO DEFENDING BIBLICAL TRUTH
AND YOUR FREEDOMS, SO PLEASE STAND WITH US AND
RECEIVE THESE FASCINATING AND COMPELLING END TIMES
MESSAGES AS OUR THANK YOU GIFT.
WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD REALLY SAY ABOUT
THE SECOND COMING, THE RAPTURE,
THE TRIBULATION, THE LAST TRUMPET,
AND THE MILLENNIUM?
YOU CAN FIND OUT IN THESE SIX RARE MESSAGES FROM MY
FATHER, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY, CALLED
END TIMES: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
WE'LL SEND YOU THE BOOK AS THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS
DONATION, AND THE BOOK ALONG WITH THE SIX
EXCLUSIVE MESSAGES AND THE HANDY END TIMES REFERENCE
CHART FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION OF $75 OR MORE.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
OR CALL TOLL FREE:
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A PASTOR ONCE TOLD AN ASTONISHING STORY ABOUT
SOMEONE HE WAS COUNSELING WHO PLANNED TO EMBARK ON
AN ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIP.
WHEN THE PASTOR POINTED OUT THE EGREGIOUS,
SOUL-ENDANGERING SIN THIS PERSON WAS ENTERING INTO,
THE PERSON RESPONDED, "THAT'S OKAY.
GOD WILL FORGIVE ME.
THAT'S WHAT HE DOES."
THIS CHEAP VIEW OF GOD'S GRACE IS UNFORTUNATELY
COMMON IN OUR DAY.
GOD IS SEEN AS A DODDERING OLD GRANDFATHER WHO
DISPENSES GOODWILL NO MATTER WHAT WE DO- LIKE
SOME SORT OF COSMIC MISTER ROGERS.
WHILE GOD'S GRACE TOWARD US IN JESUS CHRIST IS
BREATHTAKING- AND EVEN SCANDALOUS TO SOME- THAT
GRACE MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY REPENTANCE OR THAT
FAITH WILL BE SHOWN TO BE A PRESUMPTIVE AND AN
IMITATION OF TRUE FAITH.
THOSE WHO ARE DETERMINED TO SIN WITH IMPUNITY ARE
STILL DEAD IN THOSE SINS.
BUT WHEN WE REALIZE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS NOT ONLY
WATCHING, BUT ONE DAY WILL RETURN TO THE EARTH AS A
RIGHTEOUS JUDGE, OUR BEHAVIOR MUST BE AFFECTED
BY THAT.
JESUS CAME TO EARTH THE FIRST TIME IN HUMILITY.
BUT HE WILL NOT RETURN IN HUMILITY.
HE WILL RETURN TO PASS RIGHTEOUS,
HOLY JUDGMENT ON THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.
NONE OF US WOULD BE ABLE TO STAND UNDER THAT
JUDGMENT WITHOUT JESUS' OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS APPLIED
TO US BY FAITH.
BUT EVEN WHEN WE HAVE BEEN SAVED FROM THE JUDGMENT OF
OUR SINS, WE MUST RECKON WITH JESUS' OWN WORDS FROM
MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, HE SAID: "FOR THE SON OF MAN
IS GOING TO COME WITH HIS ANGELS IN THE GLORY OF HIS
FATHER, AND THEN HE WILL REPAY EACH PERSON
ACCORDING TO WHAT HE HAS DONE."
MAY WE NEVER TREAT THE GRACE OF GOD WITH SUCH
PRESUMPTIVE DISDAIN.
IT IS OFFERED TO US FREELY,
BUT IT COMES TO US AT INFINITE COST- THE BLOOD
OF OUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
I'M FRANK WRIGHT.
THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM;
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
NEXT WEEK ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
EVER SINCE THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE
PRESENT, VIRTUALLY EVERY GENERATION HAS THOUGHT
THEIRS WAS THE GENERATION THAT WOULD SEE THE RETURN
OF CHRIST.
THE EFFECTS OF THE CURSE ARE EVERYWHERE;
THEY ARE OMNIPRESENT FROM BIRTH 'TIL DEATH.
IF PASTORS DON'T GET INVOLVED IN CONFRONTING
THE MORAL ISSUES OF OUR DAY BIBLICALLY,
WE'LL SOON DIGRESS TO BECOME A LAWLESS NATION.
AND FRANKLY WE'RE ON THE VERY EDGE OF THAT RIGHT AS
WE SPEAK.
THAT'S NEXT WEEK.
TODAY'S PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR YOUR
GIFT TO THIS MINISTRY OF ANY AMOUNT.
THIS HAS BEEN A PRODUCTION OF
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES
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