Jim Bakker Show - Thief in the Night?
Aired: 2014-07-28
Duration: 06:43


=== Revelation's Coming Thief (06:42) ===

[00:00:00]  I do know this.
[00:00:01]  God 200 times says, I'm sending some signs.
[00:00:09]  We haven't been looking for the signs.
[00:00:12]  You gave us Revelation, Mark, and it said, I'm coming for those who are looking, those who are watching.
[00:00:26]  Is that right?
[00:00:27]  That's totally correct.
[00:00:29]  And one of the amazing things to kind of bring this full circle, Dave Wilkerson was my next door neighbor.
[00:00:37]  What?
[00:00:38]  I lived in Tyler, Texas.
[00:00:39]  I was with a group called the Agape Force, and I would play ping pong with David Wilkerson, and he was one of my mentors.
[00:00:45]  Oh, my God.
[00:00:48]  In 1975.
[00:00:51]  In 1975, 76.
[00:00:53]  It's getting a little more.
[00:00:56]  Whoa.
[00:00:57]  And it's also amazing.
[00:01:00]  You just keep blowing us away, Mark.
[00:01:04]  Going back to the verse you said, the problem is, he says, concerning the times and the seasons, you are not ignorant.
[00:01:10]  For that day will not overtake you as a thief in the night.
[00:01:14]  Can you get that?
[00:01:19]  Listen, if you want to show your ignorance, you keep telling people that he's coming as a thief in the night.
[00:01:31]  If you're saying that, it means you're not born again.
[00:01:35]  You're not saved.
[00:01:37]  He's not coming for believers as a thief in the night.
[00:01:42]  Read the whole chapter.
[00:01:48]  The Bible says they will believe a lie in the last days.
[00:01:53]  That's where we are.
[00:01:55]  That's where the church is preaching money, money, money, money.
[00:01:59]  It's a lie.
[00:02:01]  The love of money is the root of all evil.
[00:02:06]  Why do you change the word of God?
[00:02:10]  People, this is going to catch us unaware.
[00:02:13]  What does it say in Revelation?
[00:02:15]  What does it say in Revelation?
[00:02:19]  Somebody find it.
[00:02:20]  In Revelation 3.1, it talks about the church of Sardis.
[00:02:23]  And it's saying, wake up.
[00:02:25]  It's saying, you are a dead church.
[00:02:27]  If you don't wake up, I'm going to catch you unaware.
[00:02:30]  He's coming unaware.
[00:02:31]  He's coming as a surprise for the dead church.
[00:02:35]  Or the sleeping church in Laodicea.
[00:02:37]  Laodicea.
[00:02:39]  Can I add something?
[00:02:40]  A thought that came to me when all of this was coming to my heart was that right now the church is asleep by and far.
[00:02:49]  And there's a verse that says, in such an hour as you think not, what hit me was, at such a time as you think it couldn't happen, it's going to happen.
[00:03:00]  And this is that time.
[00:03:02]  Well, let me add one more thing.
[00:03:04]  Yes.
[00:03:05]  That's why you're here.
[00:03:07]  Concerning the times and the seasons, the feast days were appointed times.
[00:03:14]  It was at Passover that Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed in the spring.
[00:03:31]  The Bible teaches the kings to write the word, to make it clear, and read it, and read it.
[00:03:50]  Do you know how many churches in America have banned the book of Revelation?
[00:03:57]  You say, oh no.
[00:04:00]  Where's my stairs?
[00:04:01]  So help me.
[00:04:08]  You say, oh, we don't ban it.
[00:04:12]  No, you just don't allow it to be preached.
[00:04:15]  When I got out of prison, I went to church after church, and the pastor said to me, Jim, you can preach whatever you want.
[00:04:24]  I could preach prosperity that you love money.
[00:04:27]  I could preach anything.
[00:04:28]  But they said, please don't preach revelation.
[00:04:32]  It scares our people.
[00:04:36]  And we don't want to scare our people.
[00:04:38]  It's hard to get money unless we have happy church.
[00:04:44]  So what do we have today?
[00:04:45]  We're not teaching revelation, and the people aren't going to be ready.
[00:04:48]  And these things are going to come on us unaware.
[00:04:53]  And God spoke to me.
[00:04:54]  He said, people are going to shake their fists in the hands of the preachers.
[00:04:59]  And they're going to curse them and say, you didn't teach us truth.
[00:05:04]  Why did you lie to us?
[00:05:06]  You told us it was going to get better and better until we're raptured out in glory.
[00:05:10]  It's okay.
[00:05:10]  Glory and glory and glory and glory.
[00:05:13]  But you can't live in that.
[00:05:14]  You've got to live in the word of the living God.
[00:05:22]  I bet you've never heard this verse.
[00:05:27]  Obey.
[00:05:28]  Change your hearts and lives.
[00:05:30]  That's what he's saying to America.
[00:05:32]  This is Revelation chapter 3.
[00:05:35]  So you must wake up.
[00:05:38]  Wake up.
[00:05:41]  Or I will come like a thief.
[00:05:46]  And you will not know when I come to you.
[00:05:52]  What?
[00:05:53]  He's saying you can know when he's coming.
[00:05:56]  Yes.
[00:05:57]  Yes.
[00:05:59]  You can know.
[00:06:01]  It's in his word.
[00:06:04]  He's giving you.
[00:06:05]  I mean, if you were a detective, my God, you would know.
[00:06:11]  All the clues are right here called the Bible.
[00:06:15]  So you must wake up or you will, or I, who's speaking?
[00:06:20]  Jesus.
[00:06:21]  This is the word.
[00:06:23]  This is the revelation of Jesus.
[00:06:24]  Not the revelation of John.
[00:06:26]  It's the revelation to John.
[00:06:28]  Jesus is saying, so you must wake up or I will come like a thief and you will not know when I will come to you.
[00:06:39]  What does that mean?
[00:06:41]  That you can know.
[00:06:42]  Wake up.