Jim Bakker Show - We Are in the Final Days
Aired: 2015-05-07
Duration: 03:45


=== Persecution Is Coming (03:01) ===

[00:00:00]  I believe that if we are not in the time of sorrows that the first eight verses of Matthew 24 talks about, then we are entering into them at this moment.
[00:00:13]  You see, I want to read a couple of scripture verses and you tell me if you think this is where we are right now.
[00:00:18]  And it says this in Matthew 24, verse 3.
[00:00:22]  Now as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately saying, Tell us, when will these things be?
[00:00:31]  When will the end of the age be?
[00:00:34]  And what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?
[00:00:37]  And Jesus answered and said to them, take heed that no one deceives you.
[00:00:41]  That's the first thing.
[00:00:43]  For many will come in my name saying, I am the Christ and will deceive many.
[00:00:48]  And Pastor, you've taught us that that doesn't mean that people are going to be coming and saying, hey, listen, I'm Jesus.
[00:00:54]  I'm the Messiah.
[00:00:55]  And then they're going to be deceiving people.
[00:00:57]  That actually means that they're going to be saying Jesus is the Messiah.
[00:01:02]  They're going to be saying that Jesus is he.
[00:01:04]  And then they're going to deceive you.
[00:01:08]  And then it goes on by saying, it says, and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.
[00:01:13]  See that you are not troubled, for all these things must come to pass.
[00:01:16]  But the end is not yet.
[00:01:18]  And then here it is.
[00:01:18]  For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.
[00:01:24]  Now, that word there, nation, it's ethnos, ethnos against ethnos, which means ethnic group against ethnic group.
[00:01:33]  That's what we're seeing right now in America.
[00:01:37]  And you see, it can't be, you know, it can't be red versus yellow versus white versus black.
[00:01:43]  It's literally, we've got to unite as Christians.
[00:01:46]  And then it goes on by saying this.
[00:01:50]  It says, see that you're not troubled, for these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
[00:01:54]  For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.
[00:01:57]  And there will be famines.
[00:01:58]  There will be pestilences.
[00:01:59]  And there'll be earthquakes in various places.
[00:02:02]  But all these are the beginning of sorrows.
[00:02:05]  These are simply just the birth pains, the contractions of the even larger things that are coming.
[00:02:11]  But he's saying, listen, when you see these things on the horizon, be prepared.
[00:02:17]  Understand that it's the same way of a woman feeling contractions and knowing that she's getting ready to give birth.
[00:02:24]  That is what we're experiencing right now, not only in America, but in the entire world.
[00:02:29]  You know, the headlines today, many of our great men of God have made statements the last few days.
[00:02:37]  Franklin Graham, what is he warning?
[00:02:39]  Franklin Graham warns Christians in America, persecution is coming.

=== Christianity Persecuted: The Final Days (00:58) ===

[00:02:46]  And then James Dobson, he said, Christians soon to be hated minority in the United States of America.
[00:02:55]  Navy chaplain is censored.
[00:02:58]  Don't pray in the name of Jesus.
[00:03:02]  What's going on?
[00:03:03]  Student reprimanded for saying, God bless America.
[00:03:07]  A report has just come out.
[00:03:10]  Christianity, most persecuted faith worldwide.
[00:03:15]  What is this saying?
[00:03:16]  The Bible is happening.
[00:03:19]  What God said would be in the last days is now.
[00:03:23]  And you keep saying it, oh, it's just going to get better and better.
[00:03:26]  It's just going to make, we're going to get happier and happier and get more money and everything's going to be great.
[00:03:31]  And yet that's not what the leaders are saying.
[00:03:34]  And it's not what God's word is saying.
[00:03:39]  We must realize that we are in the final days.