Jim Bakker Show - Enduring Tribulation | Derek & Sharon Gilbert on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2022-06-24
Duration: 03:05


=== Birth Pangs of Tribulation (03:05) ===

[00:00:00]  I'm shocked how many people differ between when the tribulation takes place, pre-trib, you know, mid-trib, what trib.
[00:00:09]  But people just fight over it.
[00:00:13]  I'm not going to fight over it.
[00:00:15]  No.
[00:00:15]  So if you're disagreeing with me because I believe we're going through some tribulation, and I'm not saying we're going through all of it, but I know we're going through some tribulation because we're in it right now.
[00:00:26]  Jesus warned explicitly.
[00:00:27]  He basically said his followers would endure tribulation.
[00:00:30]  So regardless of when the great tribulation takes place, we know that we're going to, and I think a lot of this is kind of an American view anyway.
[00:00:38]  When you ask Christians in China whether or not they're being tribulated.
[00:00:42]  There you go.
[00:00:42]  You know, ask Christians in the Middle East if they're being tribulated.
[00:00:45]  In the battlefield.
[00:00:46]  Or in the Sudan.
[00:00:47]  Or in the Sudan.
[00:00:49]  So, yes, we believe that when you look at Revelation chapters 4 through 6, and John arrives in heaven, and they're calling out for someone who can open the seals on the scroll.
[00:01:02]  And no one is found worthy on heaven or in heaven, on the earth, or under the earth, which is interesting.
[00:01:08]  And then suddenly the lamb who was slain appears between the guardians, the four living creatures, the cherubim, and the throne.
[00:01:16]  So, okay, that's Jesus.
[00:01:17]  He's in heaven.
[00:01:18]  Well, we know from the book of Acts, when Stephen is stoned, he sees one like the Son of Man at the right hand of the Father.
[00:01:25]  The Apostle Paul writing to the church at Ephesus.
[00:01:27]  He's already at the right hand of the Father.
[00:01:30]  So John, as in Revelation 12, when he sees the woman clothed in the sun, is getting a view of history, because that's Revelation 12, the birth of Christ.
[00:01:39]  He's seeing when the Lamb appears in heaven, which was when he's caught up in heaven after the resurrection.
[00:01:45]  Those writers were released in the first century.
[00:01:49]  That's what we believe.
[00:01:50]  And that makes sense.
[00:01:52]  I think we're waiting for the next event, which would be the sixth seal.
[00:01:56]  You've got the fifth seal, which are the souls under the altar crying out, how long, O Lord?
[00:02:02]  Which, you know, watching the news these days, you can understand why they're crying out, how long, O Lord.
[00:02:06]  That's the truth.
[00:02:08]  But they're on a leash.
[00:02:10]  These four riders are given some latitude, but they don't have free reign at this point.
[00:02:16]  But a day is coming when the restrainer will be removed, and then it'll be literal hell on earth.
[00:02:22]  That is so true.
[00:02:23]  Well, you said that you and I do believe that those writers began their ride in the first century.
[00:02:30]  And the first century certainly had its share of persecution and plagues and warfare, all the things that we see in the writers.
[00:02:40]  Well, Jesus called these birth pangs.
[00:02:43]  And any woman who has experienced birth pangs understands that they start out, oh, and then they get worse and closer together.
[00:02:52]  And that's exactly what we see over the last 2,000 years.
[00:02:56]  It's like there's this waveform of the writers, but as we're approaching the return of Christ, it is really getting bad.