Sermon #075 - Zephania 1-3 - The Lord DEVOURS the Earth with fire and turns BLOOD to DUST
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Welcome to today's sermon.
I'm Mike Adams of Abundance.Church.
And thank you for all of your support and your prayers.
As right now, as I'm recording these sermons, we are helping those who are in need, the suffering in North Carolina, suffering from a Haleen, the hurricane super storm that also harmed people in Tennessee and South Carolina and Florida.
And then of course, Hurricane Milton striking Florida.
We are helping those in need and our church is fulfilling its mission of delivering food aid to those in need.
And I don't know if I mentioned this in yesterday's sermon, but thanks to the support of our commercial donors and our customers who are purchasing food from our commercial operations, we were able to raise $558,000 in food aid, over half a million dollars in food.
And that's going out to people in need.
And again, thank you for your support that allows us to do that.
And I also give blessings to God for being able to do this.
It's actually a blessing.
You know, as we're all looking at the book of life and what is that record of how we lived our lives, how do we live close to Christ, how do we help others, how do we demonstrate selflessness and charity and humanity, you realize that every opportunity to help others is actually a gift.
It's a gift from God in a sense.
It's the silver lining of the storm.
Is that there's a gift of being able to demonstrate what Christ taught, which is love for fellow human beings.
So I don't consider this to be a burden to give up all kinds of profits on our commercial side and to just ship out free of charge, you know, donations that we could otherwise sell for profit.
I don't consider it a burden. I consider it an opportunity.
It's a calling and it's a blessing to be able to give to those in need.
It's absolutely a blessing.
So thank you for all your support.
We also know, together, if you've been listening to my sermons, we know how this whole thing ends.
We don't know when it ends.
That's important.
We don't know. And you'll notice I have not said that we are absolutely in the end times or that...
I haven't said we're in the first seal, the second seal, or the tribulation or anything.
I don't know when this occurs.
I don't know yet. Perhaps we will be shown very clear signs, like a giant comet impacting the earth. That would be trumpet number one, you know, kind of hard to miss that one.
But at the moment, we don't know when, but we do know how it ends. And what's so astonishing to me is that as we now go read books of the Old Testament and other books in the New Testament, we find repeated, repeated descriptions of comets and meteors impacting earth, even in books that we may have previously read and had no
clue what they were talking about.
And in yesterday's sermon, for example, we covered the book of Joel.
And a lot of people reading Joel would say, well, I didn't mention any comets or anything in Joel.
Yeah. Really?
Actually, it does.
And I just want to review that here very quickly so that we can re-familiarize ourselves with the terminology.
But if you go to Joel 1, verse 15,"...alas for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come as destruction from the Almighty." And skipping ahead because I'm summarizing, verse 19, O Lord, to you I cry out, for fire has devoured the open pastures, and a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
And that's what trumpet number one or impact number one describes, which is a burning of one-third of the trees of the earth and a burning up of all the grass.
And then if we go to Joel 2, verse 1, blow the trumpet in Zion.
So it invokes the trumpet, which is the first comet impact, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain.
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, because the earth is shaking, for the day of the Lord is coming.
And remember, this phrase, day of the Lord, This refers to the final comet, the seventh trumpet.
Now, day of the Lord is used in other contexts also in other places in the Bible, but in the context of end times, it refers to the seventh great impact.
And then in Joel chapter 2, it goes on and says,"...a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains." A people come great and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor will there ever be any such after them, which is actually talking about the armies coming out of the sky, which is the comet fragments.
And then, verse 3, a fire devours before them, which means fires coming out of their mouths, and behind them a flame burns.
That's the tail, the tail of the asteroid or the comet.
The land is like a garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Surely nothing shall escape them.
And then, even more descriptions that can only refer to comets in the skies.
Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like swift steeds, so they run with a noise like chariots.
Over mountaintops they leap.
Over mountaintops they leap.
So we're talking about Okay, remember all that?
And then, in case you're still not convinced, verse 10 in chapter 2, Because the comets always accompany great earthquakes because of the impacts.
The heavens tremble, the sun and moon grow dark, and the stars diminish their brightness.
So... There it is.
100% match with Matthew 24, with Book of Revelation.
And there's more.
Verse 11, the Lord gives voice before his army.
That's the booming voice of the Lord, which is the sound of the comet entering the atmosphere.
For his camp is very great.
For strong is the one who executes his word.
For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible.
Who can endure it?
And that's where we end covering this in Joel.
So, again, it says the day of the Lord is great and very terrible.
It doesn't say it's great and awesome, and everything is awesome, and there's endless grapes and figs and pomegranates for everybody.
No, it says it's great and very terrible, actually.
Who can endure it?
And then, as I mentioned yesterday, that also refers to the sixth seal in the book of Revelation, Which is, let's see, I think that's chapter 6, I believe.
Verse 17, for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?
So it's the same question.
Who can endure it? Who is able to stand?
That's the same question, okay?
So that's the summary, again, of Joel.
Now, the reason I wanted to bring that up again is because today we're going to be covering Zephaniah.
And this is why it's so important to read the Old Testament and to understand the framework of what we're talking about here is that it's not just Christ warning about the day of the Lord or the final wrath of God upon the wickedness of humankind, which is the total destruction of all human civilization through the seven trumpets.
I mean, the complete obliteration of planet Earth as we know it.
It's not just Christ warning about that.
It's also the same warnings that you read about in Matthew 24.
Well, these same warnings are in Joel, they're in Daniel, and they're in Zephaniah.
So, Old Testament Oh, and Ezekiel.
Forgot to mention Ezekiel. Old Testament and New Testament have references to the exact same events.
The darkening of the sun and moon, the falling of the stars, or the dimming of the stars, the earthquakes, the great booming voices in the sky, and the coming of an army out of the sky that's leaping over mountains, and so on and so forth.
Okay? These are all the same events that And these are events that are shared by Old Testament prophets, as well as Christ himself, as well as New Testament teachings and New Testament prophets through visions from God and angels.
Now, why would this tapestry of warnings exist?
About the coming destruction of humankind through comets unleashed by the wrath of God as the day of the Lord.
Why would this be woven throughout the entire Bible?
And also, why would it be so well hidden to the point where most Christians today don't even realize it's mentioned at all?
It's astonishing. But of course, now that you know what we know, you can't miss it.
It's all over the Bible.
It's all over the Bible.
But why? Why are these warnings repeated?
And then why did Christ have to repeat the exact same warnings?
And the answer is very clear.
Because humanity never turns from its wickedness.
Now, there is always a remnant of people who do turn against wickedness and do choose to serve the Lord in the Old Testament or serve Christ in the New Testament.
And those people are saved.
They are the remnant. And that's probably people like you listening to this and people like myself and others.
But by and large, the human race rejects God.
And even though God tried to threaten people in the Old Testament and even showed them the power of His wrath from time to time with plagues and so on, they still did not change.
Not permanently, maybe for a short time.
They continued to be wicked.
They continued to worship false idols.
They continued to engage in mass perversion and fornication and all other horrible things and selfishness and greed and murder and whatever.
And then even God tried to send them an ambassador, which is Jesus of Nazareth, to say, hey, I'll try the good side of this.
Let's send love and openness and forgiveness and humanitarian ambassadorship here through Jesus Christ.
Let's teach people to just be good without threatening them so much.
Tried that in the New Testament, and that didn't work either, as you can read through Paul's letters and all the warnings throughout the New Testament.
The apostles and the teachers pretty much running around trying to correct everybody, saying, why are you so wicked and evil, and have you forgotten the teachings of Christ?
And lots and lots of stories surrounding that.
And then in the end, in the book of Revelation, God basically says, well, I've tried everything, and now we're just going to reset the whole thing.
And that's the seven trumpets and the tribulation, and then the good souls are saved.
But if we go to the book of Zephaniah, then we also, believe it or not, we also see references to the same events.
And this is very surprising for a lot of people to hear.
Now, this is Zephaniah.
It even says in the opening line, the word of the Lord, which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedalia.
Is that right? The son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah in the days of Josiah, the son of Ammon, king of Judah.
So it gives the whole lineage right there.
It's like, oh, right.
Okay. But what was given to Zephaniah is a very detailed description of how the Lord will unleash his wrath upon humankind.
And, by the way, in particular, as we get through this, he has a very special set of warnings for the people of Israel because they have become so wicked, like special judgments just on Israel, too. And given how modern-day Israel has been taken over by a leadership class, kind of like the United States has been occupied by a leadership class of Satanists, same thing is true in Israel right now.
The people running it are Satanists.
Well, God is very unhappy with Israel and the United States and pretty much most of humanity.
So, with this in mind, we're going to read through many parts of Zephaniah, And you're going to notice some important things.
I'll make some comments. So here we go.
Verse 2. And this is the Lord speaking to Zephaniah, okay?
These are the Lord's words.
And the first verse here, verse 2, just says everything.
I will utterly consume everything from the face of the land, says the Lord.
I'm laughing because...
Today's sermon is done.
What we're going to read next are just all the different versions of how that happens, but more details.
But that's the end of the story.
I will utterly consume everything from the face of the land.
And isn't that what the Lord does with the seventh trumpet?
He obliterates the earth.
He flattens the mountains.
He destroys the islands.
Every wall falls.
Every man is destroyed.
Every living creature on the surface of the earth is obliterated.
That's the seventh trumpet.
And he was describing this to Zephaniah.
You know? I don't know what year this was, but more than 2,000 years ago.
Maybe 2,500 to...
I don't know. Maybe 2,500 years ago.
I'm just going to guess. But the Lord was saying, hey...
You know what? If you don't become good people, I am going to destroy this planet, is what he was saying.
So, now let's go into the details of his promise.
Verse 3, I will consume man and beast.
I will consume the birds of the heavens, the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks along with the wicked.
I will cut off man from the face of the land, says the Lord.
And then he goes on to describe why he's really unhappy with the fake priests, which you would say today is like the fake Christian church leaders, you know, the mega church people that don't even preach from the Bible anymore.
Verse 4, he says, I will stretch out my hand against Judah.
That means to slap Judah, by the way, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
See, not happy with Jerusalem either.
I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place.
Get rid of the demons. The names of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests, those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops, those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord, but who also swear by Milcom, In other words, people who are worshipping other gods or worshipping Satan or the ambassadors of Satan.
Now, there's that phrase, the day of the Lord.
What does the day of the Lord refer to?
That's the seventh trumpet.
That's the final comet that destroys the entire surface of the entire planet and kills physically every living human being.
And then that's the end of the tribulation.
And then the souls rise up.
We've already talked about that. That's the rapture.
It is post-tribulation.
So again, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice.
He has invited his guests.
Yeah, what do you think is going to be sacrificed, by the way?
Hmm. We're going to find out.
Verse 8, And it shall be in the day of the Lord's sacrifice that I will punish the princes and the king's children and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
So, you know, all the dignitaries and the royalty and everything.
Verse 9, In the same day I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's houses with violence and deceit.
Yeah, they should be punished.
And there shall be on that day, says the Lord, the sound of a mournful cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a loud crashing from the hills.
What would be a loud crashing from the hills?
Could it be, you know, the comet horses leaping over the mountaintops?
Perhaps, perhaps, right?
And I'm skipping forward to verse 14.
The great day of the Lord is near.
It is near and hastens quickly.
The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter.
See, it's referring to booming sounds, large trumpets and booming sounds.
The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter.
There the mighty men shall cry out.
That day is a day of wrath.
A day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet and alarm.
Against the fortified cities and against the high towers.
So here's the invocation of the trumpet itself, with the darkness of the clouds, the darkness of the sky, a day of wrath, a day of trouble, and also who is being sacrificed here. It is the kings, and the mighty men shall cry out.
Now, what does this remind you of?
It should remind you of the sixth seal, which refers to exactly these same things.
And I'll read it for you.
Stay with me here. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
And here we go, verse 15.
And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks...
Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.
For the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?
And then going back to Zephaniah, the Lord continues.
Verse 17. This is still chapter 1.
I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord.
Listen to this. Their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like refuse.
What would turn your blood to dust?
To turn your blood to dust, you would have to be vaporized.
What would vaporize human bodies and turn them instantly into dust?
Obviously a comet impact, or you could argue possibly a nuclear detonation, but comet impacts have far more energy than nuclear detonations.
And what we're reading here is totally consistent with a comet impact, you know, the darkness in the sky and so on.
So their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like refuse.
So that's not a mild thing.
It's not saying you're going to walk with a limp.
No. No. Your elbow might hurt.
No. Your blood's going to turn to dust, you know?
That's how bad this wrath of the Lord is going to be.
And then he goes on.
He goes on. Verse 18.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath forever.
It doesn't matter what your financial wealth is.
That doesn't give you a pass into heaven because, you know, obviously it's your spiritual currency with God that matters.
But the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.
Are you getting the picture now?
Now the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he will make speedy riddance of all those who dwell in the land.
You see what he's saying here?
He's saying, I'm going to unleash a comet, I'm going to vaporize all your bodies, you're going to turn to dust, and I'm going to destroy the whole land with fire, and I'm going to get rid of all y'all.
It's basically, if God were saying this in a little bit of a southern speak there, that's what he would be saying.
And again, if you go back to the first verse of what the Lord is saying, which is verse 2, I will utterly consume everything from the face of the land.
Period. Mic drop.
Oh, that's big.
And then if we go to Zephaniah 2, Chapter 2, there's a little bit of some advice to say that if you can repent, then maybe you will be spared.
It says, gather yourselves together.
Yes, gather together, O undesirable nation, O nation of wickedness, which also you'll find out is Israel.
Before the decree is issued, that is, before the Lord issues this decision, O Or the day passes like chaff.
Before the Lord's fierce anger comes upon you.
Before the day of the Lord's anger comes upon you.
See, there it is. Again, the day of the Lord.
Before the day of the Lord's anger comes upon you.
Notice the structure of that sentence.
It's not before the Lord's anger, but the day of the Lord's anger.
Then verse 3, seek the Lord.
You know, repent, seek the Lord all you meek of the earth who have upheld his justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility.
It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord's anger.
Wow, he's saying it right there.
You know, repent and try to be a good person and you might be spared, possibly.
Maybe your blood won't be turned to dust.
Anyway, we're going to skip some things, but it's interesting that the very next verse is talking about the judgment on all the different nations.
It even says, For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon desolate.
It goes on and it mentions all the Philistines and the Canaanites and so on.
It's going to wipe out everybody.
Well, that's referring to the sixth trumpet, which strikes the Middle East.
And it destroys every nation in the Middle East and nearly all the people in the Middle East.
That's the sixth trumpet, the sixth bowl, the sixth seal.
And he goes on, he names all the countries.
Verse 12, you Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by my sword.
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and make Nineveh a desolation as dry as the wilderness.
And that's interesting because the sixth seal talks about the drying up of the Euphrates River with all the fire.
Massive fireballs from the atmospheric explosions from the comet.
Verse 14, the herds shall lie down in her midst, every beast of the nation.
Yeah, because they're burned alive.
They're dead. Both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge on the capitals of her pillars.
It goes on.
Basically, it says that the Lord's going to destroy every country, every nation in the Middle East, all of them.
And then he's got special wrath for Jerusalem.
That's chapter 3.
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted to the oppressing city.
She has not obeyed his voice.
By the way, you notice in the Bible that cities are referred to in the feminine voice very often, like the great harlot in Revelation, which we believe to be New York City, and all the other nations of the world fornicated with her, which is New York City, which is all about the United Nations and world trade and banking and all that.
Well, in the Old Testament, she...
Is the pronoun to refer to Jerusalem.
She has not obeyed his voice.
She has not received correction.
She has not trusted in the Lord.
She has not drawn near to her God.
And it goes on, verse 4.
Her prophets are insolent, treacherous people.
I love it when the Lord doesn't hold back in his descriptions.
Her judges are evening wolves.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's a different line.
Her priests have polluted the sanctuary.
They have done violence to the law.
I think this would make a really good rap song, by the way.
You know how I did Song of Solomon with all the spices?
I think this could rhyme.
Her prophets are insolent, treacherous people.
Her judges are evening wolves.
They leave not a bone till morning.
You know, it goes on. We could make it rhyme.
The Lord is righteous in her midst.
He will do no unrighteousness.
Every morning he brings his justice to light.
He never fails. But the unjust knows no shame.
And then the Lord speaks again.
I have cut off nations. Their fortresses are devastated.
I have made their streets desolate.
With none passing by, their cities are destroyed.
There is no one. No inhabitant.
Now, doesn't that sound like the aftermath of some of these trumpets, like the sixth trumpet?
I said, surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction, so that her dwelling would not be cut off, despite everything for which I punished her.
But they rose early and corrupted all their deeds.
And then we have another very important question.
A series of lines here that speak to the total destruction of the earth.
And this begins in verse 8 of Zephaniah chapter 3.
Therefore wait for me, says the Lord, until the day I rise up for plunder.
My determination is to gather the nations to my assembly of kingdoms.
So he wants to gather the nations into the Middle East, into essentially Israel or southern Lebanon, to my assembly of kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, all my fierce anger.
All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Again, it's not mincing words here.
All the earth shall be devoured.
So he actually gathers together the nations of the Middle East, which is interesting because, of course, in Ezekiel 38-39, there are signs that call on Gog to bring his armies from the land of Magog out of the north, which refers to southern Turkey or perhaps the EU or Europe, does not refer to Russia.
But to gather those armies and to bring them close to Israel into the mountain ranges of southern Lebanon, which is all in the news right now because, you know, Israel's bombing southern Lebanon and Israel's trying to move north to the Latani River and take all of that real estate.
So what we describe as southern Lebanon today may soon be, you know, greater Israel or northern Israel.
Those borders, of course, keep moving over the ages due to, you know, war and conquering and whatever.
But God calls Gog to come to Israel, and then, as in Ezekiel 38 and 39, he unleashes the sixth comet onto the Middle East and destroys almost all of Israel and the enemies of Israel at the same time.
That's what's being described here in Zephaniah.
And he even names all the countries, even Ethiopia.
And you're like, what did Ethiopia do wrong?
Yeah, probably nothing, you know, except they turned away from God, I guess.
Well, that is a big deal.
But, I mean, politically they didn't do anything wrong, but God's like going to wipe out Ethiopia too.
And then finally in verse 13 he speaks...
He mentions that this is all about Israel here, this last section.
The remnant of Israel shall do no unrighteousness and speak no lies.
So these are the survivors of the sixth trumpet.
And we know that the survivors hide out in the caves in the mountains of southern Lebanon, probably Mount Harmon, which has one of its peaks, is known, I believe this is what I've studied, is known as Zion.
Isn't that interesting? So they're hiding out in the caves within Zion, in essence, at the base of the winepress region as the sixth trumpet arrives or the sixth comet hits, wipes out almost everything.
And here's God saying,"...the remnant of Israel, the survivors, shall do no unrighteousness and speak no lies." Yeah, because they're horrified at what just happened.
And also, from Ezekiel, they have to spend seven months burying the dead bodies, by the way.
Remember that? Nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they shall feed their flocks and lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
So, in other words, God's judgment is done for now until the seventh trumpet.
And he gives these survivors a bit of a break.
Gives them time to bury the dead.
Gives them time to consider what just happened.
And as you recall from Ezekiel, that's when they're burning their shields for fuel because all of civilization has been obliterated.
Everything's been destroyed that would make up a modern nation.
There is no internet.
There's no power grid.
Nothing. At this point, most of the nations of the world are destroyed.
And that's why people are humbled.
It even says in verse 11 here, In that day you shall not be shamed for any of your deeds in which you transgress against me, for then I will take away from your midst those who rejoice in your pride, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.
Okay? And so that's after he says, All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy, which is a pretty big deal.
And then, after that, in Zephaniah, then the Lord sings.
Sing, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart.
And he talks about how, in essence, some people will be saved, but all of this could be easily interpreted as saved in the spirit, not saved in the flesh.
So this is all consistent with the rapture and the total destruction of all human beings with the seventh trumpet.
And then, yes, if you think of Israel as referring to all those, not just Jews, but all those who have faith in the Lord and who walk in faith, you know, the elect, well, then Israel is Rises up again in the souls of those who qualify to go to heaven.
But those souls may be, you know, they may be Christian, they may be Catholic, they may be Jews, they And Christ was very open, so all those who recognize Christ in whatever way they do so, in whatever words or languages they use around the world, will be included in this if they're deemed worthy enough, if they're sincere in their hearts and in their souls about walking with Christ.
So that's why there's no more fear.
That's why there are no more disasters.
That's why there's rejoicing.
And remember that the angels rejoice following the third trumpet.
Angels rejoice, and you can see this in the fourth and fifth trumpets and seals, the angels rejoice at the destruction of America in particular.
They rejoice at the destruction of New York City.
Angels rejoice at the destruction of wickedness in its physical form on earth.
They rejoice because God uses comets to destroy evil.
Now, I was talking with a family member about this, and she pointed out something really worthwhile.
And she's aware of the hurricanes, the weather weaponization by globalists who are Satanists, and they do control weather systems.
storms, and they exploit technology to control hurricanes and storms.
They can accentuate them.
They can steer them to some degree.
They can use selective ionization.
And I've covered in other podcasts, the NOAA, which is part of the government, has an entire web page dedicated to weather control systems or weather modification, as they call it, and they list nine methods for weather modification.
And one of those methods is ionization of the atmosphere, by the way.
And they list other methods, such as using lasers pointed at the sky.
It's all... It's all on the government website.
In fact, if you want to go to that page, it's called the Weather Modification Project Reports at the NOAA Library, and that's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
It's NOAA.gov, or technically library.NOAA.gov, and there you can read about weather control.
Well, my family member said, I am so glad that the globalists can't control the comets.
They can control hurricanes, and they can weaponize hurricanes to attack good people, but God uses comets to attack the wicked.
See? So yeah, globalists on Earth, they can wipe out a city, but God can wipe out a planet.
You got it?
This is God exercising His ultimate authority on a planetary scale.
God can wipe out a planet.
Actually, He can wipe out a whole solar system, depending on what He sends our way.
But He can easily wipe out a planet And if you did not watch the sermon, I think two or three sermons ago, I showed you the videos of what that looks like.
I showed you comets coming out of the sky, and I also showed you simulations of what it looks like for Earth to be utterly destroyed by a comet impact.
And that's what God uses.
So when God says, if we go back to the very beginning here of Zephaniah chapter 1, let me go back and read it word for word, quote, I will utterly consume everything from the face of the land.
He's not kidding.
He's not exaggerating.
He's saying that that's what's coming, because comets or meteors, asteroids, I'll use those terms synonymously, those are God's artillery to destroy wickedness and evil on the planet.
Now, of course, God realizes these are area-effect weapons, and that's why there's a remnant.
There are good people whose souls are saved.
Remember, this is a simulation.
This is a testing ground created by God to test your soul, to see what kind of person are you, really.
And so you're not going to be saved in human form.
There's not going to be a new heaven on earth.
There's not even going to be a new earth on earth.
There's going to be a fireball earth.
Every living creature burned or vaporized and blood turns to dust is And then your soul is saved where it counts, which is for eternity with the Lord in heaven, which is a different dimension.
It's not a three-dimensional world in heaven.
It's not the same dimension that we're in right now.
It's a totally different, you know, time and space created by God.
And that's what counts.
So if you think about the big, big picture here, even if we're wiped out by comet impacts, If you live your life with Christ, you're going to be fine.
Your soul is going to be fine.
But if you were wicked and evil, well, then you probably fit in with the planet, like the population of all the people on earth, and you're going to be destroyed and wiped out, and you will not be allowed to enter heaven, and you'll be forever isolated from the Lord for eternity.
And that's called hell, by the way.
Hell is eternal isolation from the Lord.
That's almost the definition of hell, actually.
Whereas eternal unity with the Lord is love, and that is heavenly to have that unity with the Lord, to be accepted, to be embraced by the Lord, to be judged as worthy of entering heaven.
And you don't have to be perfect, by the way, because Christ died for your sins.
You don't have to be perfect. You can ask for forgiveness.
You can repent. We even read verses where Zephaniah is talking about that.
You can repent. That was, was that right at the top of chapter 2?
Right. Before the decree is issued, or the day passes like chaff, before the Lord's fierce anger comes upon you, seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth.
Right? Seek righteousness.
Seek humility. This is the instruction manual for how to win this game, if you want to call it a game, this simulation, this life.
The Bible gives you the secret...
I don't want to call them cheat codes because it's not cheating, but they give you the...
It's like you're going to take a final exam, but then somebody gives you all the answers in advance, and then you take the test.
You're like, wow, I already know all these answers.
Yeah, that's the Bible. The Bible is giving you all the answers for the final exam.
All you have to do, which isn't even that hard, is be a good person.
And you're covered. You're covered no matter how many trumpets sound and whether they hit you right in the face or not.
You're covered. So, it's amazing.
The Bible, it's not just a book of moral lessons.
Although, it's often described as that.
Like, oh, be a good person. You know, don't steal.
Don't lie. Don't cheat.
Don't kill. You know, the Ten Commandments.
That kind of thing. That's just the surface level.
That's the... I say that's kind of like the watered-down comic book version that you might tell your children.
It doesn't mean it's not true.
It's just... It's not the full depth of it.
It's just the simple version, you know?
So the simple version is, yeah, be a good person.
The in-depth reality of the Bible is that it's a secret manual for how to win the simulation, which is your life.
And it tells you over and over and over again, number one, what's coming, which is the total destruction of earth, And secondly, how to survive it where it counts, which is in your soul.
And all you have to do is be a good person, ask God for forgiveness, accept Christ into your life, and do all these things before the comets hit.
That's pretty much it.
Think about how amazingly simple that is.
And yet, most people will fail.
Most people will fail that.
Because they're too distracted by, I don't know, money or sexual perversion or greed or arrogance or whatever.
You know, all the things that characterize, like, most of the political leaders in the world.
They're horrible people.
And they're demonic people.
Well, they're not going to heaven, but you can.
And the Bible tells you how.
So a lot of what I'm doing here with these sermons, and I didn't realize this right at first, I thought I was just going to be teaching about food and nutrition and, you know, incense and things like that, essential oils for anointing.
And it turns out what I'm actually teaching is how to read, how to recognize that the Bible is a secret code for winning this simulation.
That's really what the Bible is.
And now that you know it, you can't miss it.
You read it, you read any chapter in the Bible, it's going to resonate with all of this, and some chapters will specifically state these types of things.
But every chapter, Old Testament and New, echoes the same theme.
You want to win life?
If you call it winning, I don't know.
You want to graduate?
You want to have achievement?
You want to be recognized?
I don't know. Those don't even seem to be the right terms.
How would you describe it?
You want to transcend this world?
It's very simple. Be a good person.
That's the message of the Bible.
And when you are a good person, even comets can't destroy you.
Your soul is immortal.
You become more than bulletproof.
You become comet-proof.
Think about it. That's a big deal.
Even if your blood turns to dust, your soul is fully intact because your soul isn't part of this 3D world.
Your soul is not made of carbon.
Your soul is made of God.
God's consciousness, see?
And comets can't beat God's consciousness.
Like, if you're playing rock, paper, scissors, or rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock, or whatever you're playing, then, you know, comets don't beat your eternal soul.
Your eternal soul beats everything, because that's an expression of God.
Good to know, isn't it?
Very good to know. And that's why, like what I said at the very beginning of the sermon, When there's a natural disaster or actually a weaponized hurricane in our world, and when our church here, the Church of Natural Abundance, and our commercial companies, when we are given the opportunity to serve God by serving the humanitarian needs of the people, this is like a bonus round.
Even though, yeah, we're giving away a lot of money, we're giving away a lot of time, a lot of food, a lot of resources.
A lot of people would look at that as a loss because on the accounting sheets, that's a loss.
Oh, you know, negative $300,000.
You lost money giving it away.
What are you, crazy? You know, that's the way accountants would look at it.
I'm looking at it on the spiritual balance sheet.
Which doesn't work on, like, Excel spreadsheets.
The spiritual balance sheet, the Book of Life, has a different ledger.
And in that ledger, we were just given the opportunity to earn some good graces with God by helping people.
So from every, quote, disaster...
There's actually, there's a treasure in the spiritual world, the treasure of being able to express through your actions your obedience to God and your commitment to being a good person.
So tragedy also brings spiritual opportunity.
And that ledger is what counts in the end.
If you gave away every last dollar, But you walked with Christ, then you're way ahead.
Whereas, we even read the verse here, if you just gather gold and silver, but you're a bad person, that's not going to buy you anything into heaven.
You can't buy your way into heaven with currency or even precious metals.
You can only earn your way through moral behavior, through being a good person.
That's it. That's the currency that the Lord embraces. So every day that there's someone in need and every day that you are blessed with the ability to help, it could just be verbal help, emotional support. It doesn't have to be financial, it doesn't have to be physical donations. There's so many ways to help so many people. If you can find a way to help, then you have turned that tragedy into a
win-win for everybody. The person you're helping wins and you win spiritually. And yes, you might have given up your time, your energy, some of your resources, whatever, but you gain so much in the eyes of God for doing what you're doing that everybody comes out ahead.
Everybody's a winner. Remember, I call this God's economy.
I did a sermon on this early on in this series of sermons.
In God's economy, it's not based on scarcity.
It's not like you win and someone else loses.
It's not a zero-sum game economy.
It's an economy where everybody wins.
Quite literally, everybody wins in a different way.
But there is abundance in God's economy, which is why Our church is named the church of natural abundance.
There's so much abundance, it's unlimited.
It's not scarcity in the world.
If you're operating in the realm of scarcity, you're operating in man's economy.
You're using man's accounting methods and spreadsheets and, you know, QuickBooks or whatever you're using.
That's not God's economy.
That's not how it works. Your QuickBooks accounting spreadsheet doesn't even track God's good graces or your spiritual inheritance.
There's no column for that.
So, of course, man's economy and man's accountants can't even fathom the existence of what we're talking about here.
If they could, the IRS would tax it.
Have no illusions.
The IRS would tax your spiritual eternal inheritance.
Unrealized gains, if they could.
Trust me, the IRS would do that.
But fortunately for us, the IRS is run by anti-God demons, and they don't even believe in the afterlife, and so they only try to confiscate money from you in this world.
Otherwise, they would try to take money from you for eternity.
Seriously, that's how crazy they get.
Can you imagine if they pass a new law taxing the unrealized gains on your spiritual wealth?
What? How would we even report that?
Yeah, imagine.
Like, the more of a good person you are, then the more you're punished by the IRS. Yeah, that would make perfect sense, actually.
All right, well, that's today's sermon, and I really love what we covered here today.
I think this is a big picture assembling of core themes of what we're teaching here.
And I hope you understand this is way beyond what typical churches teach, way beyond what, you know, scripture academics talk about.
Most of them don't even know this stuff, I've come to discover, by the way.
They don't know this stuff.
There are people who have taught the Bible for 30, 40, 50 years, and they don't even know there's comets all throughout the Bible.
It's like, how do you not know?
It's right there.
But they've never mentioned the comets.
It's incredible. Okay, everybody's got a different role to play.
I get it. But what you're getting with these sermons, this is the uncensored version of what I believe Scripture is trying to tell you.
And we say big boy rules here.
We're all adults. We can handle the truth about what the Bible is saying.
At least, I hope everybody can handle it.
And we know the earth is ended.
All physical human beings are ended.
And that's how God destroys wickedness.
And yet, we are saved if we are good people.
So I think it's time for Christians to wake up and smell the coffee of the comet, basically, because that's how this ends.
And it's not something to fear.
It's something to, you know, to earn your way into heaven.
Whatever days we have left, use them wisely and take every opportunity that you can to walk with Christ in your life.
That's the message. It is an urgent message.
So thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share this message with you.
Of course, I'm Mike Adams.
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And by the way, we do not yet have a donate button on the website.
At some point, we will.
Our team is going to put something together, but I'm not asking for donations.
We've been blessed through our commercial operations.
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I'm not sure what exactly is their thinking about that.
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Be a good person.
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