Jim Bakker Show - The Day of Mutiny - Rick Renner
Aired: 2020-09-04
Duration: 07:20


=== The Final Revolt (07:02) ===

[00:00:00]  The Bible tells us in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 that at the very, very, very end of the age, there is going to be a revolt.
[00:00:10]  Really, it's the word mutiny in Greek.
[00:00:12]  It's going to take place all over the world.
[00:00:14]  It's happening in America, but it's not just in America.
[00:00:17]  It's happening right now in most of the Western civilization.
[00:00:22]  They're throwing off their standards and they're saying we're going to form a new world order, a new world.
[00:00:28]  They even call it a kinder and gentler world, which is a total joke.
[00:00:32]  There's nothing kind or gentle about it.
[00:00:35]  It's a world of revolution, bedlam, hysteria.
[00:00:38]  Just look at the nonsense that's going on in the streets across the world today.
[00:00:44]  We might say peace, peace, peace.
[00:00:46]  This is not an age of peace.
[00:00:48]  We are in the age of great disaster.
[00:00:52]  And actually, it's one age getting ready to give birth to another age.
[00:00:58]  And when one age gives birth to another age, it always has convulsions.
[00:01:03]  And right now we're going through convulsions as an age ends and another age is about to begin.
[00:01:09]  That's really where we are.
[00:01:11]  But you know, I want to read a verse to you, if I may, in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.
[00:01:15]  I have my Bible.
[00:01:17]  Brother Jim and Laurie, if you need to interrupt me, just interrupt me.
[00:01:20]  But in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 1, the Apostle Paul said, now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto him.
[00:01:30]  So he's talking about the coming of the Lord.
[00:01:32]  And he says that you be not soon shaken in mind or troubled.
[00:01:38]  And here he says that just before the coming of the Lord, there will be lots of opportunity to be shaken in mind and to be troubled.
[00:01:46]  Well, today people are very shaken.
[00:01:48]  They're very, very shaken.
[00:01:50]  People are wondering, where are we prophetically?
[00:01:54]  How soon is the coming of the Lord?
[00:01:55]  What's going to happen next?
[00:01:57]  Is the Antichrist here?
[00:01:58]  Is he about to show up?
[00:02:00]  Where are we?
[00:02:01]  And people are very shaken.
[00:02:02]  And unfortunately, there's a lot of people that don't know the Bible.
[00:02:05]  And Brother Jim, it's so important people know the Bible.
[00:02:09]  And there's even a lot of preachers on television who don't know the Bible.
[00:02:13]  Maybe they know a little piece of the Bible, but they don't know enough to see the whole picture.
[00:02:18]  And so they're preaching things that really brings fear to people.
[00:02:22]  And when you understand the whole picture, God never gives you fear.
[00:02:25]  He's not in the business of giving fear.
[00:02:27]  That's just not what God does.
[00:02:29]  He will prepare us, but God never scares us.
[00:02:33]  And in this verse, Paul says, there's going to be opportunity to be shaken in mind and to be deeply troubled.
[00:02:41]  But then he says this in verse 3.
[00:02:43]  Listen to this.
[00:02:45]  Let no man deceive you by any means.
[00:02:48]  For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
[00:02:58]  And when Paul says a falling away, in Greek it is the word apostasia.
[00:03:04]  And maybe you hear another word.
[00:03:06]  It's where you get the word apostasy.
[00:03:08]  But it's from the word apo, which means to step away It describes a definite break in time or in belief, and the word stasia from the word stasis, which means to stand.
[00:03:20]  When you put the two words together, it is a deliberate stepping away from something.
[00:03:25]  And in fact, it is the same word translated in the Old Testament Septuagint as the word mutiny.
[00:03:32]  And you find it in Joshua chapter 22, where it is literally translated a revolt, a rebellion, or a mutiny.
[00:03:39]  And in this verse, Paul says, at the very end of the age, before the whole thing is wrapped up, there is going to be a worldwide mutiny against God, where society as a whole will be so modified to think differently that it will believe that it's throwing off the shackles of past religious thinking.
[00:04:01]  They might even declare themselves to be progressive thinkers on the cutting edge of a new kind of thinking, a new day, a new way.
[00:04:10]  But in fact, in order for them to create this new world that they want, they have to cut free of the shackles of the past.
[00:04:18]  And those shackles to them are the teachings of the Bible, Judeo-Christian principles and ethics, a world that's going to try to throw all of that off.
[00:04:28]  And it will be a mutinous attitude toward God and anything that even smacks of God.
[00:04:34]  And the Bible says this has to happen worldwide before the man of perdition can be revealed.
[00:04:42]  Then when you go to verse 7, look what he says in verse 7.
[00:04:45]  This is amazing to me.
[00:04:47]  In 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 7, Paul says, for the mystery of iniquity doth already work.
[00:04:54]  Well, that is really important.
[00:04:56]  You know, today, if you listen to YouTube, and I listen to a lot of YouTube because I want to hear what people are saying, I'm amazed at some of the nonsense that some preachers are preaching.
[00:05:07]  The people are speaking conspiracy theories.
[00:05:10]  There's a conspiracy about this and there's a conspiracy about that.
[00:05:13]  And did you know such and such is involved in a conspiracy?
[00:05:16]  I mean, if you listen to all of this, it will totally shake you to your core.
[00:05:21]  Well, quit listening to all that craziness and listen to the Bible.
[00:05:25]  The Bible tells us there is a conspiracy.
[00:05:27]  There's a big conspiracy.
[00:05:30]  And it's this one in 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 7.
[00:05:34]  And Paul said the mystery of iniquity does already work.
[00:05:36]  The conspiracy was at work when Paul wrote that verse.
[00:05:41]  What is it?
[00:05:42]  Well, first of all, the word mystery describes something that is not evident.
[00:05:49]  It's hidden, or it is a covert operation.
[00:05:53]  You know how this really could be translated?
[00:05:56]  There is a covert operation happening right under our noses that most people are not aware of.
[00:06:04]  And the Bible calls it the mystery of iniquity.
[00:06:07]  That word iniquity is the Greek word anomia.
[00:06:11]  The word nomos is the word for law, established standards of the scripture.
[00:06:17]  You put an A on the front.
[00:06:19]  It's the effort to remove all those standards, to remove the word of God, to throw off those shackles.
[00:06:25]  And the Apostle Paul is saying, even in the first century when he was writing this verse, there already was a diabolical plan at work, at work, to begin modifying the world step by step, decade by decade, century by century, changing the world from the world that was then to a world that will not know the Bible.

=== World Confused, Lawless Morally (00:32) ===

[00:06:51]  Talk to the younger generation today.
[00:06:53]  They don't even know the Bible.
[00:06:55]  A world that does not know what is right and wrong.
[00:06:57]  That's a lawless world.
[00:06:59]  Now, today we have rioting in the streets and the looting to buildings.
[00:07:03]  That's lawlessness.
[00:07:04]  But the word lawlessness here doesn't really mean anarchy.
[00:07:07]  It just means a world that is free of law.
[00:07:09]  They have thrown it off.
[00:07:10]  They don't want to be told anymore what's right, what is wrong.
[00:07:14]  A world that is so confused, so confused morally, it won't know what's right and what's wrong.