Jim Bakker Show - Faithful Witnesses | Joel Richardson
Aired: 2023-10-02
Duration: 02:50


=== Preparing for Tribulation (02:50) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:13]  And he will have an equally yoked bride.
[00:00:17]  You know, we are called to imitate him.
[00:00:19]  Everyone goes, yeah, but look at Lot.
[00:00:22]  The Lord removed Lot before he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
[00:00:24]  And I go, yeah, but our model that we are to imitate is Jesus.
[00:00:30]  Our primary model is not Lot.
[00:00:32]  Now, hey, like, if the Lord's about to burn my house down, I hope he removes me first.
[00:00:37]  But the reality is we have a job, which is to be faithful witnesses.
[00:00:41]  The word in Greek for witness, we're all called to be witnesses, right?
[00:00:45]  Amen.
[00:00:46]  The word in Greek, witness, is martyr.
[00:00:50]  Wow.
[00:00:51]  We're all called to be faithful martyr witnesses.
[00:00:54]  And that means we don't just get removed beforehand because we're Americans and we're privileged and God loves us so much.
[00:01:00]  I go, if he loves us so much, does he not love Israel?
[00:01:03]  Does he not love all of the multitude of believers that will be on the earth?
[00:01:07]  They're all at the tribulation that they call tribulation saints.
[00:01:10]  I go, beloved, brothers and sisters, if we are alive into the tribulation, we're the tribulation saints.
[00:01:18]  And so, yes, we need to, and how do you get your heart ready?
[00:01:21]  We align it with the word of God.
[00:01:23]  Amen.
[00:01:24]  And like from pastorally, I love these guys.
[00:01:26]  They believe in the pre-trib rapture.
[00:01:28]  No problem.
[00:01:29]  At least teach your people.
[00:01:31]  Say, hey, at least be prepared for the worst.
[00:01:34]  This is wisdom for all of life.
[00:01:36]  Hope for the best.
[00:01:37]  Fine.
[00:01:37]  But by all means, be prepared for the worst.
[00:01:41]  But they teach it dogmatically.
[00:01:43]  Don't worry.
[00:01:43]  You don't even have to think about this.
[00:01:45]  Don't even listen to anyone else.
[00:01:47]  And it's this, I'm going to use the word cultic.
[00:01:50]  It's almost like a cultic mentality.
[00:01:52]  It's like a brainwashing to when someone else speaks the word of God, they actually react and get angry.
[00:02:00]  I mean, what part of after do we not get?
[00:02:03]  Because that's what it says.
[00:02:04]  After the tribulation of those days.
[00:02:06]  Yeah.
[00:02:07]  After the rapture takes place.
[00:02:10]  That's right.
[00:02:10]  And also Luke 21 says that men's heart will fail them for fear.
[00:02:14]  And if you have constantly prepared someone to say, hey, you'll never go through anything.
[00:02:17]  You'll never go through any hard times.
[00:02:18]  There'll never be tribulation.
[00:02:19]  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.
[00:02:29]  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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[00:02:47]  Remember, like my dad always says, God loves you.