Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this on Saturday, August 19th, 2023. Welcome. This messages called Are You Watching? This is an end times update and we're going to look at the details of Matthew 24, most of Matthew 24. So, we're going to break that down. And uh it's been a while since I've done an end times update, so it's due time. I tried to do it last week and the Holy Spirit said no. So, we're doing it this week. Apparently, he opened the door for me to do this. So, we're going to do this. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your blessings and we thank you because you are wonderful and we honor you. We put you first in our lives. We seek you first. You are truly the center of our lives. You're the rock of our foundation, Father God. And thank you for your salvation. Thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for our sins. Thank you for being the son of God, the perfect one who was able to complete and accomplish what the Bible tells us which you spoke. So Lord, I thank you and I pray that you open up our eyes and ears and hearts and minds to see, hear, receive and believe and apply your word to our lives, Father God, and get ready that we can just know what's going on. Thank you, Lord, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. And let's go to our opening scripture here. Matthew 24:43. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Okay. So, we're going to break down Matthew 24. We're going to check off some prophecies that are been that have already been completed. But I want you to see what he says as we get towards the end of Matthew 24. He's saying if you knew the hour, you would not have let the thief come in. So if you know the hour, wait a minute, but you you're you're probably thinking no one knows the date and the hour. Well, you know, there's more scripture here and you have to read it in context to really understand what the Lord is saying. Look at Revelation 33. Remember therefore how and and this is by the way um Jesus writing the seven letters to the churches and they're talking to the church of Sardis here. He says remember therefore how you have received and heard hold fast and repent. Turn your life around is what that word means. Therefore if you will not watch I will come upon you as a thief and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. Now, did you catch that? Because there's some double negatives in there. Let's let's change the negatives because when you have two double negatives, it means a positive. So, let's look at this. Therefore, if you will watch, I will not come upon you as a thief, and you will know what hour I will come upon you. So, very important that Jesus is telling us to watch because you should know, you should know what's going on. Think of it like this. Um, if you, this is an analogy, but this is a very good analogy that I think is very applicable to this. Imagine if you walked into your greatg grandmother's house and when you walk in there's a foyer or a hallway and she's got all these old photographs and and they're all on the wall and you're just you walk by and you look at them and you know you know you don't know 90% of the people in these pictures. But you look at one in particular and there looks like to be a mom and a dad, three kids and a snowman. They're wearing warm clothing. What do you know automatically about that photograph? It was taken in the winter. That's on the surface. Okay, you can know this automatically. Now, if you decide to dig a little deeper, catch that. If you decide to dig a little deeper, you can ask your great grandmother, "Who are those in the picture? When was the picture taken?" She can probably answer it most likely. Now, of course, She's got Alzheimer's and stuff. She may not be able to, but maybe you can take the picture out of the frame. Maybe somebody wrote something on the back. There are other ways. You may hit a dead end, but up to that point, you can know when that photograph was taken. Now, let's apply that analogy to end times. You can know when the end is coming. There there's a lot of signs here that tell us and we're going to know. And in fact, we're going to know right up to the minute. And I I'm positive of this just the way the scriptures are written, how the Lord talks about it. And I know in the past the church has been taught that no one knows the day nor the hour. And a lot of people believe that means no one knows when. Well, that's not a true statement. So this is very specific when he says no one knows the day nor the hour. So I want to delve into another analogy that I can take uh with this is see he says it'll be like a thief in the night. Now imagine you're a thief. Let's let's look at it from this perspective. This is another analogy before we dig into it. Imagine if you're a thief and you are a thief with two others and you're at the workplace. You you actually work. you have a job and you guys met together and somehow came together where the three of you became partners and you uh divide the spoils up and what have you. Well, and the way your method is, again, this is an analogy. It's not quite perfect, but listen to how this plays out. If you the the your method is when you you take uh addresses out of the book, the yellow pages or wherever, and you decide to case the place, you monitor them for a couple of weeks. figure out when's the best time to go in and steal their goods and you do it. You divide the spoils. Okay? And it's been successful for you, the three of you. Well, in one day, you know, and the three of you are not really friends. This is just something that came about here at the workplace. You talk about it on your breaks. You talk about in the parking lot after work, what have you. That so you guys really never though took it home, you know, because there is a level where you don't want to take another thief to your home. Okay, let's put it that way. Anyways, so here you guys are are doing this. Well, you pick another address out of the book and it's your address. Now, all of a sudden, you know that they're going to case your joint and they do and and you watch them because you could do one of two things. You can tell them, "Hey, not that address. It's mine." Or because you don't want them to know your address. You have some opportunities here that if you pause and you think about this, what happens on the night that they decide to all break in? You you say, "I'm going to come in from one side or whatever." You just go sit on a chair right in front of the door. You tell them the time to come in and they come in. You're sitting there with the flashlight and a gun. Guess what? They're not going to steal from you because you are there and you knew. And that is the whole point that Jesus is trying to get across here. He says you will know. So you need to watch because you're going to see these things. But again, he's also making it known to selected people. Remember what he said in Matthew. I never knew you. These are people who prophesied in his name. Cast out demons in his name. I never knew you. So this is where now he's talking to a group of people. And what have I been teaching on this whole time? Get into the secret place with the Lord. Know him and he knows you. You've got you guys are on a firstname basis. Your friends, he's in your home. You're in his home. And that is how the relationship works and builds up. So he's talking to this particular group of people. Remember, end time prophecy has to deal with three groups of people. the nation of Israel, the body of Christ, and the unbeliever. So, now we're going to look at Matthew 24 in depth, most of it anyways. And I want you to see where we are in prophecy because it's fascinating because you got to know where we are. And then I'm going to look at things that haven't come to pass yet, those signs to look for so you would know. Amen. So, here we're going to start in Matthew 24:es 4 and 5. And Jesus answered, he's talking to his disciples. And Jesus answered and said to them, "Take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ and will deceive many." Okay. Um, I had Jehovah's Witnesses come up to my door. Uh, this is before before we moved to Missouri. And he hands me a book and I thought it was like the Holy Bible, but they added extra scriptures, modified things, whatever. And I realized it's an entirely different book. And all the kid kept saying was, "Oh, Jesus was here when the Native Americans were here, the Indians. It was so great to know that he was here, and I believe because of that." I'm thinking, "Okay, well, I'm glad that ministered to you." But the Bible doesn't say anything about him being here with the Indians, but he's been here throughout all history anyway. So, yes, he was here with the Indians. Yes, he was here with the Romans. Yes, he was here with the Greeks. But this kid was so focused on that. And then he's getting this information from a book that's not the Holy Bible. And of course, I pointed them back to the Holy Bible. But how many are deceived by going through a different book and not the Holy Bible? Mormons the same way. Um I think the leader found some gold books underneath the New York City or something like that. And they're going to go to another planet and all their wives will come with them. Something like that. I don't I don't know the details of it because that's not I don't follow that. But how many people are following? There's a there's a huge Mormon following. And we're talking millions. So, has this scripture been fulfilled? Take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many. You know, look at the January 6 thing. How many prophets said Trump won? These are prophets. And you know what? I to my shame, I align myself with them because I believe them. and I wasn't going to the scripture and I really really I repented. This is when things in my life changed personally for me. But uh they were saying I was watching a Sid Roth episode uh and I you know he's a great man of God I think but uh he had these prophets on his podcast and he was and they were saying no he won and um one of them was saying you have your cake and eat it too and there and there I am agreeing with him and then it didn't happen and then one of them had the audacity to come back later and say well he won but it was stolen from him and so in my mind I was thinking oh Why didn't you say that beforehand? You see, meaning he didn't know. He didn't speak a true prophecy. So, how many people are being deceived? Oh my word. Anyways, this scripture is fulfilled. And I just want you to see that because people are thinking instead of following the word of God. I mean, I grew up in the church and there are things I've quoted many times and I went looking for the scripture because I wanted to finally give it a a book and a chapter and a verse to it. Guess what? it wasn't in the Bible. And I'm thinking, what? So, I had to now, this is why I look up everything that I'm talking about and I share so many scriptures with you because I learned and I hope you learn from that, too. Don't rely on things you grew up with that you have been quoted with and all this stuff. Don't rely on that, okay? Because it could deceive and uh you don't want to be in that. You don't even want to be close to that element, okay? So, continuing on, let's look at verse six. And you will hear wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. We know we have World War I, we have World War II, uh the Korean War, the Vietnam War. We've had wars, and then recently the Ukraine and Russia war. It was a rumor, then it became a war. And then now you got rumors of Taiwan and China. So, all of this is fulfilled. Again, this is uh you can check that box off of this prophecy has been fulfilled. Verse 7, for nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Nation will rise against nation. If you notice, there's alliances forming right now. You got Russia and China. Most of Africa is lining up now with them. So you um and Saudi Arabia and Israel about to make a peace treaty, a seven-year peace treaty. Gotta wonder where what that's all about. But all of these things have been taking place. And this is setting the platform for nation to rise against nation. We already see that they've got the 2030 agenda, the 2050 agenda in place. They are building the foundation to get to those points because they think it will save the earth. They got to reduce the population, go all electric, do 15minute cities. You've got all of these things that are taking place. So this foundation here, but this has already been ongoing. And it's not just kingdom against kingdom and nation against nation. I want to add in here, the wars aren't just battles with guns and stuff like that. Waring now deals with the banking industry and the money. So you can see they're rejecting the US dollar and this is that's a we're in warfare because of that. Okay. So understand nation against nation. We are in that. They're not they're deceiving us because they're not showing everything through the mainstream media. You have to go and look that information up. I want to continue on because this is there's a lot of information here, but you can delve a lot more deeper into that if you'd like. There will be famines. How many commercials do you see on TV of children starving in Africa? How many years have we've seen that? I grew up with those commercials. I'm telling you, famines have been around for a very long time. Now, they're trying to reduce all the food and stuff because they want to get the they want to actually get to um their agenda in 2050 is no meat. You don't eat any meat. You're in a 15minute city. And the cities the they want to make sure that 50% of the earth is unpopulated. By the way, it's like 75% of the earth is unpopulated right now. Okay? So, don't be caught up in this deception, but that's what this is. Famines. Look at the pestilences. We just got done with CO. There's another CO supposed to be coming out. We've had the SARS 2, SARS one, H1N1,

pestilences being around. Uh, earthquakes. My goodness. Now, if you go get an earthquake app and you look at it, there's like a 6.0. several of them in all kinds of places all day long. They're accelerating. These things are accelerating. But what is this described as the time we're in right now? Birth pangs, contractions. Anyone, any mother or a husband that was there with their wife that are about to expect a child, they know they got to go through these contractions. And by the time you come to the birthing process, your contractions are like 30 seconds long, 10 second pause, 30 seconds. And that's the way it was with me when I gave birth to my daughter. I'm telling you, we're accelerating into that. So, we're not there yet because even though we're seeing all kinds of stuff happening right now, and we'll get into into that in a bit here, but you're seeing that. But earthquakes and various ways, but look at what he says here. All these are the beginning of sorrows. This is the beginning of birth pains. this is just the start. Um, and they're not, you know, these are just contractions you're starting to feel. So, this was, so all of those prophecies have been fulfilled here in our lifetime, if not even sooner before our lifetime, before our generation. So, they've been fulfilled. So, understand that. Check those boxes off. Let's continue on with what he says, though. Nine, then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. I I think it's a UN leader over there, and I'm not 100% certain, but one of them had said, um, you Christians, you will take this thing in your hand and you will shop and buy with it because you won't be able to eat or do anything else without it. And he addressed that directly to the Christians with a tone. I mean, he was vehement about it. And I was like, what did we do to you to make you like this and and it it it goes to show the demonic influence that's over him again for this end times that we are in. And and look at this here. You know, he says they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you. you know, in the Middle East, I saw um I saw the video a little bit, not to the end, but Christians marching in for, you know, they were just walking, singing, himming in a line. They were being led by sheep, by men with guns and knives. And they get to a point and they executed them. These are martyrs for Christ. And it was like, "Oh, is the scripture fulfilled?" Yes. Do the people hate Christians, the nations? Yes. Do they hate Israel? Anti-semitism is so high, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And you know it's spiritual when you see and hear about that kind of stuff. But check that box off. That prophecy has been fulfilled. Verse 10. And then many will be offended. Oh, will betray one another and will hate one another. Oh my goodness. The the offense now. Oh, Black Lives Matter is because of an offense. These people were offended because two white guys kill a black guy and it keeps happening over and over again. They don't talk about the black guys killing the white guys. No, no, no. It's hypocritical. It's one-sided. And they were so offended that it all went back to, "Oh, my ancestors were in slavery." And you know what? When they started doing the DNA test and come to find out a lot of these whacks were from the whites who had slaves back then. Guess what? They don't get reimbursed for that. California was big and they wanted to give out I think it was 800 million or something and Newsome finally backed off of that. You don't hear anything about it anymore. It's not in the media anymore. Why? Because they realized, oh, we can't give into it. But they were all offended and and how many I I I'm on social media. I do watch social media. I'm kind of get a little my news from there because you get more of it there than you do anywhere else. But there you are. You've got people who are hating their neighbors. Jesus says, "Love one another. Love your neighbor as you love yourself." These are his commandments. These people are hating each other that they're putting signs on the wall calling this person a Karen because that's the word they use for calling these people and they're calling the peace the police all the time. They're attacking one another. They are offended. People were offended just by putting a Trump sign in the ground. Offended. And look it, they would call betray one another. will hate one another. They were calling the police on you. This scripture has been fulfilled. And that's in our lifetime. Now, let's look at verse 11. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. I spoke about the January 6 false prophet thing. This scripture has been fulfilled. You can check that box off. Go to verse 12. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. flawlessness. Defund the police. Defund the police. Oh, it you know what? I did laugh and I maybe I shouldn't have, but I repented and I asked the Lord to forgive me. But at the same time, I did laugh. But you know what was it? Mayor, I think it was in Washington or Oregon. Uh Portland, I think it was something like that. Anyways, they attacked, they stole her house. They were there in her house stealing. She called the cops, but she was the biggest proponent for defund the police in that area. Well, anyways, it backfired on her, didn't it? Anyway, lawlessness will abound. You the state of California right now, you can go steal up to 950 bucks. They will not prosecute you. They will not come after you. And in fact, if your store employee or store security, they're not allowed to even go after you because if they did, they would get prosecuted. Lawlessness abounds. Oh, and love will grow cold. I just talked about neighbors hating one another. That's the same thing that was fulfilled in this time in our generation. This is incredible. You just start checking off all these boxes. Look at this verse 13. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. I spend time and have a relationship with the Lord. And there are many of us who do this. And the more that do this, this is the group that's going to endure to the end. get yourself into that group. I I I I have to urge you as much as I possibly can. And all it takes is you tell God, "I messed up. I'm guilty. I'm sorry." And then you open up his word and you start to question him. He wants to be questioned. Isaiah 1:18, "Come, let us reason together." Question. Talk to him. Let him answer you, though. You need to be open to it and open to his answer. You can be mad. You could go say, "Why? Why are you doing this, Lord?" And he will answer you. But you have to realize his answer is true and his answer is the ultimate answer. And don't go looking to me or any other preacher, pastor to answer your questions for you. We'll do the best we can, but we're just a man or a woman trying to interpret a spiritual thing. So, you got to go direct to the spiritual. You see, you don't have to go through a pastor or the mother Mary. You go straight to the source. Amen. Amen. Uh that's to endure. That's to survive. Verse 14. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and then the end will come because birth panes. So the last point here is everyone needs to hear the gospel. I know that there was one tribe left in Amazon and uh they have video of them out on the beach. They were wearing loin cloth and painted in red and they had spears. The helicopter is videotaping. They're just throwing their spears at them. I do know a missionary got out there. um they killed the first missionary to get there and then um I believe other missionaries are there and I think they've got the gospel in there. So we're this close to everyone hearing that. So and then the end will come. That is very powerful. So I want you to understand that. Now the next set of scriptures for Matthew 24 is all about the abomination of desolation. I'm not going to read these scriptures. You can go read it. Daniel tells you the abomination of desolation will happen in the middle of the seven-year time period of God's wrath. So that applies to the nation of Israel. It's involving their third temple. It's involving their daily sacrifices. And basically when the two witnesses die, they die three and a half years into the seven-year time period. When they die, the Antichrist sits on that throne and tells the Jews, "You will worship me." Jesus said that's called the abomination of desolation. Jesus says when you see that run. So that's what those scriptures talk about and they're talking to the nation of Israel. So I'm going to skip those scriptures and we're going to continue on here in verse 29. Says immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. The stars will fall from heaven and the powers of heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. I'm going pause there. Ezekiel 38 and39, Revelation 6 and Matthew 24 here talk about the same event. It's a great earthquake that takes place. The sun goes dark, the moon turns to red. So they're talking about the exact same event. Now look at this. He says and it's immed. So when he says and then the end will come, this is that this is what's called the day of the Lord. This is day one of that 7-year time period. There's an army in Ezekiel 38 that talks about this. This army, Gog and Magog, and its allies, Russia, China, and whomever they ally with are going to attempt to invade Israel. And God is going to prevent it. He's going to kill all these people on the day. It's like a two million man army. He's going to kill them all. It's going to take the nation of Israel. This is how specific the scriptures are. It's going to take the nation of Israel seven months to clean up the bodies, to find all the body parts. You go read this. Go to Ezekiel and read it. Do some homework. Research it because I want you to find this information under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Don't listen to me. Let the Holy Spirit reveal this to you. So, this event all happens on the same time. This is the day of the Lord. This is the same event. This prophecy has not happened yet. We still have a sun and we still have a moon. They're still shining their lights. Let's read a little further. Verse 30. Then notice the conjunction here. So this earthquake, the sun goes dark, the moon turns to red. This arm is going to be killed. That's not here in Matthew 24, but it is in Ezekiel. All this happens on the same day. Look at what he says. Then conjunction then. Then the sign of the son of man will appear in heaven. What is the sign of the son of man? We're going to see that a little bit more. He explains it a little further, but it's the lightning coming from the east to the west. The rapture. For those of you who say the rapture, the word rapture is not in the Bible. It is. It's in Latin. In the Latin Bible, raptura. And by the way, it means caught up. So when they translated rapura into English, they used the basic caught up. make it simple for you to understand. So yes, it's in the Bible. Yes, the rapture takes event. And do you see it takes place on the day of the Lord? It's on this day. And it's after this huge tribulation of this earthquake. All the the tribulation we we're in a great tribulation right now. The seven-year time period. I know a lot of people call it the tribulation. It's not the great tribulation. That's God's wrath. God's wrath supersedes great tribulation. supersedes tribulation. So, you got to watch your terminology when you're dealing with this and talking about it. But here we can see straight up, the son of man will appear in heaven. And then look at this. And then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And I'm not done there. Look at this. And he will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet. And they will gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. That's the rapture. You know, and for those of you who have a hard time understanding the rapture, think of it like this. It's like the days of Noah. We're going to get into the scripture here. Methuselah had to die. Noah was the last righteous man and Methuselah was righteous before him, but Methuselah lived 969 years. So, Methuselah had to die. Once he died, then God can move forward because now he had less than 10 people righteous on the earth. Uh you can go read Abraham's conversation that he has with God when God comes to visit him before he goes to Sodom and Gomorrah. He's telling him, "I'm going to get Lot out and uh we're going to destroy the cities." And Abraham's like, "Well, if you got 50 righteous people, would you still destroy it?" God said, "No." He says, "How about 30, 20, 10?" He said, "No every time until he got to 10." So there is a level. So the rapture is going to take out all the righteous people because we're not appointed to his wrath. Simple as that. If you notice, we're not preaching. We're not doing any. There is no activity of the body of Christ in the seven-year time period of God's wrath. There are resurrections. And a resurrection, by the way, is different than a rapture. Rapture, Paul describes it in 2 Corinthians 15 or 1 Corinthians 15, excuse me. You can go read these scriptures. I wasn't going to go here, but for a moment, I will. That's for the living. He describes it for the people who are alive. They change in the twinkling of an eye. The resurrection in the middle of the tribulation is when the two witnesses die and they come up to heaven three and a half days after their death. The end of the tribulation or the end of the seven-year time period of God's wrath. Got to get my terminology correct if I want to preach on that. This that is another resurrection. They resurrect the martyrs. What's a martyr? A person who died who's dead for what he believes in in this case for Jesus. So those are resurrections. The rapture. So this scripture that we just read is talking about the rapture and that is that event. It happens on the day of the Lord. Okay. Now let's continue on. Again, that hasn't happened yet. Prophecy that's coming hasn't happened yet. Verse 34. Surely I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 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This includes the abomination of desolation. I know that there are folks who have who trouble with this because they think, okay, well, the rapture has to take place and this generation cannot pass away, which means we'll be here through this. They get into that. And no, that's not what this means. It means that this generation will not pass away. Well, how many are in a generation? I'm going to tell you right now, people who are my age, this is my generation we're talking about, by the way, and if there are Jewish people my age who will be here when the abomination of desolation take place, it's a true statement. that generation shall not pass away because they will be alive when that happens. So, I promise you, they will be alive up to that point. For the rest of us who have nothing to do with that, we're either raptured up or you are an unbeliever and you made it into that seven-year time period and you are under persecution. In fact, you're probably dead. A lot of pe so many people are going to die during the seven-year tribulation that man will be finer than for gold. And you can go read the scripture on that. Search O for gold and you will find it. But I want you to see this. This generation will not pass away. So all these things that we saw is for us, you and me, today. So now we know this is happening in our lifetime. So we saw all these scriptures get fulfilled. Now we're at the point where we're seeing scripture not fulfilled yet. We haven't seen that great earthquake. We haven't seen the sun go dark. We haven't seen the moon moon turn to red. And we haven't seen the sign of the son of man coming from the east to the west like lightning. That hasn't happened. We haven't seen the angels blow the trumpet and come in and gather the elect from the four corners of the earth. We haven't seen that. Now look at what else he says. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away. What does that mean? And where is that coming from? Because see, there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth as taught in Revelation. You can go read that. I want you to read it. But I want you to see what the next scripture says. But conjunction, but of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my father only. Wait a minute. You mean to tell me but of the day that heaven and earth passes away, nobody knows except God? Wait, I thought we were talking about the rapture. Well, we we are. We're going to get to that. You're going to see it how he adds that into it. But he is also talking about when heaven and earth passes away. Heaven and earth doesn't pass away till the end of the seven-year time period. Actually, no, I go further than that. It goes after the thousand-y year millennium because they're going to there's a thousand years that the people come back in the earth. The martyrs are are um uh resurrected and given their body. That is considered the first resurrection. You go read this in Revelation. They will be ruling the people still living on the earth and that are now repopulating the earth for this thousand years. That is what this So now here heaven and earth will pass away. That's not till after then. So he added this lid in and he puts it right in front of but of that day. No one knows the but of that day when heaven and earth passes away. No one knows the day nor the hour. But then God Jesus takes that and he let's continue reading it. This is awesome. But my father only verse 37. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the son of man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving him marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will the coming of the son of man be. who did not know when the flood would happen. The people that were not in the ark.

Remember I was teaching you that there are three groups of people that God is dealing with. The nation of Israel, the body of Christ, and the unbeliever. He is telling the unbeliever, "You're not going to know because you're not in the ark because it's like the days of Noah. Who is Noah a righteous man? He was told 120 years in advance that there would be a flood. That's why he built the ark. God told him, "Build the ark because I'm going to flood the earth." And then seven days before he says, "Get in the ark. I'm going to flood the earth in seven days." He knew 120 years. He knew seven days. And guess what? He knew the hour it would happen.

Guess what else? Because I'm going to go here. Daniel knew when Messiah would be cut off. You go read it in in Daniel. He knew the year Messiah would be cut off. That's the term he used. Or crucified. He knew. By the way, the wise men knew when they found the toddler baby Jesus. And how did they know? They knew because they were watching the stars. I don't know who told them to watch the stars, but somebody told him. And they said, "It'll be in the stars." And they found him. And then how did Daniel know? Gabriel the angel came and told him and gave him all the numbers. He knew. How did Noah know? Because God came and told him. Who are you? What have I been teaching? You get to be in that secret place with the Lord and you be you develop this relationship with the Lord. You're now righteous. Jesus says, I tell my friends what my father tells me. He didn't tell me when heaven and earth will pass away, but he told me when I'm coming back. Do you see? He you will know when he's returning. And I'm not here to share that with you because that's a personal thing from Jesus himself. You want to know, you get into that place with him and you find out because that's how you're going to know. And then then look what he says after this. This is now verse 42. Watch therefore for you do not know what hour the Lord is coming. Who is he telling the watch? The unbelievers. Who were we before we became believer? We were an unbeliever. He's telling us to watch. So now that we finally get into the relationship with him, we finally press in. We finally have a transformation. And I'm not talking about attending church one day a week. I am talking about a relationship with Christ. If you have a relationship with your spouse or your best friend or a secondary best friend, you're texting, calling, talking to each other multiple times throughout a day. That's the kind of relationship Jesus wants with you. So in that he's telling the unbeliever though because they are going to be taken by surprise. They're not paying attention. They can't even figure out if they're a man or a woman. That's where we're at right now. And this is why he's talking to them because the time is short. He's giving the warning. He's been patiently. He's longsuffering. He is waiting for them. And now you can look as a believer, someone who's in the relationship, you can look at the unbeliever and go, "Oh man, they're missing it." The Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Herodians missed it when Christ would be uh um cut off or crucified. They should have known because Daniel's book was written 400 years in advance and they had access to it. They didn't know. Look at this verse 43. But know this, that if the master of the house had known, this is our opening scripture here. But if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore, you also be ready for the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. The unbeliever is not expecting this, but you are and I are watching. So the question I have here is how many of you are watching this video where you're not watching and this is all news to you. Now's the time to repent because I promise you this is it. It says in our generation, this is it. This is it. So, it's time to repent. And all you know what? Go to the thief on the cross. What did he do? He says, "We're guilty." And he acknowledged his guilt and he said, "Jesus, remember me when you enter your kingdom?" And Jesus said, "Today I promise you, you will be with me in paradise." That is salvation. It is time to repent and get back to the Lord. Let's continue on. Verse 45. Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his master made ruler over his household to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing. Assurely I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. Wait a second. Wait a second. So when I see him coming on the clouds, I can actually say, "I knew you were been expecting you. Here's my door. Come on in. Let us suck together. Let us eat together. Let us have a relationship together." Because I was expecting you for dinner. I got it ready for you. Oh, and look at he said for you who he's going to put you over all his goods. You will have rulership over your goods. You will be able to keep your areas safe because you're expecting him. Oh, but what about the ones that aren't? But if that evil servant says in his heart, "My master is delaying his coming," and begins to beat his fellow servants to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him in an hour that he does not expect, is not aware of, and will cut him in and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and nashing of teeth.

You're going to be weeping and grinding your teeth in the stress of that seven-year time period. Since this is the generation that we know is before that seven-year time period or right in that seven-year time period, then if you're not repenting, you're rejecting Jesus as the son of God, you will be entering that. By the way, um Israel rejected Jesus as the son of God. They rejected him as the Messiah. Guess what? They have front row seats to the seven-year time period of God's wrath because that seven years is for them. If you go, it's because you chose to go. Amen. This is now the time to be watching, to be praying, to have that relationship with the Lord. You need to be in that place with him. You need to make sure that you're see do you go to church because you feel that that's what makes you good and that's what's going to get you into heaven or that you read the Bible from time to time or that you pray from time to time and you think that's going to get you into heaven. Those acts are good in of themselves. A non-believer can do that and not make it to heaven. Did you hear that? A non-believer can open the Bible and read. A non-believer can pray to God. A non-believer can prophesy in God. A nonbeliever can go to church, they won't make it to heaven because Jesus will say, "I never knew you." So Jesus is saying to everyone, "Repent first. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you." So what's salvation? I just explained it as a thief on the cross. That thief got saved. He didn't get off the cross and go get water baptized. He didn't get off that cross and go doortodoor preaching. No, he didn't even speak in tongues. He never had a gift of the Holy Spirit on him or in him. Guess what? He made it to heaven because he acknowledged he's guilty and we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Once you acknowledge that though, it's a humbling experience. Let do the acknowledgement. Say, "Lord, man, I messed up. I messed up and I'm truly sorry. And by the way, it could be just one mess up and it can be a million mess ups. They are all equal. Yeah, messed up. Now's the time to repent and now's the time to get ready because now you can see where we are in current prophecy of end times. What a neat teaching this is because I wanted you to see exactly where we stand. Time to repent. Where's that close? Oh, we're so close. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for encouraging us to build our relationship with you, to get closer to you, to not have fear about any of this because this is your return. You prophesied. You told us it's coming. Lord, we know you're coming. And boy, do I look forward to being in your presence in that day. I look forward to it. And you know what? I know you look forward to having me in your arms. That's what we're going to do here, Lord, is we're going to meet up in the arms of each other, and it's going to be awesome. Thank you, Father God, for your word and your blessings in the name of Jesus. Amen. God bless you, and I will see you in the next message. Bye bye.