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Preparing for Tribulation
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| The Lord allowed his son, his own son, his own heart, to be betrayed, hated, mocked, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in order to overcome the evil one. | |
| And he will have an equally yoked bride. | |
| You know, we are called to imitate him. | |
| Everyone goes, yeah, but look at Lot. | |
| The Lord removed Lot before he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. | |
| And I go, yeah, but our model that we are to imitate is Jesus. | |
| Our primary model is not Lot. | |
| Now, hey, like, if the Lord's about to burn my house down, I hope he removes me first. | |
| But the reality is we have a job, which is to be faithful witnesses. | |
| The word in Greek for witness, we're all called to be witnesses, right? | |
| Amen. | |
| The word in Greek, witness, is martyr. | |
| Wow. | |
| We're all called to be faithful martyr witnesses. | |
| And that means we don't just get removed beforehand because we're Americans and we're privileged and God loves us so much. | |
| I go, if he loves us so much, does he not love Israel? | |
| Does he not love all of the multitude of believers that will be on the earth? | |
| They're all at the tribulation that they call tribulation saints. | |
| I go, beloved, brothers and sisters, if we are alive into the tribulation, we're the tribulation saints. | |
| And so, yes, we need to, and how do you get your heart ready? | |
| We align it with the word of God. | |
| Amen. | |
| And like from pastorally, I love these guys. | |
| They believe in the pre-trib rapture. | |
| No problem. | |
| At least teach your people. | |
| Say, hey, at least be prepared for the worst. | |
| This is wisdom for all of life. | |
| Hope for the best. | |
| Fine. | |
| But by all means, be prepared for the worst. | |
| But they teach it dogmatically. | |
| Don't worry. | |
| You don't even have to think about this. | |
| Don't even listen to anyone else. | |
| And it's this, I'm going to use the word cultic. | |
| It's almost like a cultic mentality. | |
| It's like a brainwashing to when someone else speaks the word of God, they actually react and get angry. | |
| I mean, what part of after do we not get? | |
| Because that's what it says. | |
| After the tribulation of those days. | |
| Yeah. | |
| After the rapture takes place. | |
| That's right. | |
| And also Luke 21 says that men's heart will fail them for fear. | |
| And if you have constantly prepared someone to say, hey, you'll never go through anything. | |
| You'll never go through any hard times. | |
| There'll never be tribulation. | |
| And tribulation comes, that is setting the ground for a heart to fail someone because of fear because they're not mentally, spiritually, emotionally prepared for these events happening. | |
| Our mission is to fulfill the great commission of Jesus Christ to go into all the world and to preach the gospel to every person. | |
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