The Coming Lawlessness Part 3
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Imagine a world where:
There is complete peace and harmony.
There are no wars of even threats of wars.
Everyone gets along.
There is complete economic equity.
There is no rich nor poor everyone will have enough to live comfortably.
No hunger or starvation.
No crime.
No illegal drugs.
No disease nor pandemic.
That there is a technological innovation that a microchip can be implanted in everyone’s body that a virus can be detected and even attacked in its early stages.
Life is made easy by artificial intelligence that there will be more self driving cars, robots doing the hard labor, the food supply chain is unbroken because of technology that grows crops and makes sure they are delivered in our groceries.
Imagine a world that there are less storms or natural calamities because of less pollution and human policies that are implemented that are more conducive to the climate.
Imagine a global solution for all of the world’s problems that work for everyone.
Image of the global solution here.
Now let me ask you, what did you feel just imagining these things.. did you feel a sense of excitement and longing for all these?
Secondly, how did you imagine that the world will arrive at such a solution?
Let me tell you this morning that there are already elite think tanks in the world and even in this country that are planning ways to arrive into that solution that works for everyone.
I call it the..
Global Delusion
I called it that way because it is a delusion in two ways:
It will be a delusion or a false hope that will be embraced in a global scale, which means most of mankind will believe this global solution.
Secondly, it is a global delusion because it is the globalist’s dream.
Globalism:
noun
noun
the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
With the current issues the world is facing, the pandemic, social and political unrest.. more and more forces in high places want to move to a one world government..
A One World Government
If there will be a One World Government, who will lead it?
9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Last time I talked about the lawless one, this world leader who is to come.
The Antichrist
Just by his name, the Antichrist will be the complete embodiment of anyone who opposes Christ.
When you study the word for lawlessness.
Image of Anomia here.
There will be lawlessness and total disregard for God that most of mankind will fall into. It will be under the rule of this antichrist.
How can that even happen, certainly nations like America will not give up its sovereignty in favor of this world ruler, would it?
You may not believe it but nations like Israel and America stand for nationalism, they stand in the way of globalism, but forces are already at work that will lead to this one world government because of the false hope or global delusion that I talked about.
9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
The world’s elites and technocrats are pulling together to combat this pandemic, politicians are trying to find a solution to social issues like racism..
But don’t be fooled, the real enemy are the evil forces behind this pandemic, behind the social unrest there are diabolical forces that are pulling the strings that make a global solution more attractive and justified. so that people will be deceived.
The Rise and Rule of the Antichrist is the work of Satan.
The Tribulation Period
The Timeframe of the Tribulation (7 years)
Image of Daniel’s 70 weeks from Daniel 9:24-27.
The Tribulation
There is the first half of the tribulation.
This man will rise that will promise a solution to world problems, even the conflict in the Middle East. Israel will be deceived to enter into a seven-year covenant with this man, the antichrist.
He will be Israel’s false Messiah.
He will work according to the power of Satan, what would appear to be natural diplomatic skills and brilliance in negotiation will actually be through the working of Satan himself. Many believe that this will be a demon-possessed man.
Then Daniel 9 says that in the middle of the seven years, he will break his covenant with Israel.
The Great Tribulation
There is a difference.
3. The distress of the Great Tribulation
21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
It is going to be a period of distress for Israel
The prophet Jeremiah:
7 Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.
4. The Prelude to the Great Tribulation
The promise of giving us that one world solution I talked about earlier.
One World Government.
10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
There would be a great disruption in the world that many would begin to justify a one world government.
Where would America be?
Theories:
Christians will be raptured that the loss of all these human resources will impact America’s economic system and its government.
There will be a major attack on America, remember there are malevolent players in the global stage, Russia, China, Terror nations like Iran and they are all enemies of this country..
Some analysts say there may be a biological, chemical, nuclear attack or it may simply be bringing down America’s power grid by a man made EMP or electromagnetic pulse, that will certainly bring America to its knees.
Imagine, if there is a total long-term power blackout, what it will do to the food supply chain, communications and all form of industry will halt, that will throw this country back to the dark ages.
Or it could just be a America will just be destroyed from within, another great depression, a political upheaval, that politicians will make bad decisions that will weaken this country, or there will be a civil war, which is not too farfetched given that the country is so divided at the present time.
I personally believe that if the rapture is going to happen in the middle of the tribulation, that it will be too late a timing for America’s weakening, America must become very weak before that. So I personally don’t believe the rapture would be the reason why America will be diminished in the global stage. Not dogmatic...
There will be a Global Delusion.
You would wonder that if the world already knows that millions of Christians had already disappeared, therefore proving the rapture is true, would they not believe?
That will be the kind of delusion...
11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Which begs the question, does God choose to not save this people, why would they send them the strong delusion, once the New Testament indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit is taken away, there will be a rebellion in the hearts of many that they will even defy God.
This is the spirit of rebellion that was in Israel, when God judged them they replied with arrogance from Isaiah 9:10
10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
But there will be few, who will not be raptured but after the rapture takes place and they see these prophecies unfolding, they will remember the preaching about the end times, that they will realize that they heard the truth but they were not really saved, they will give their life to the Lord.
There will also be a national salvation for Israel, that they realize they have been deceived as they go through their worst distress in history, an anti-semitism that is going to be worse than Hitler’s holocaust, they will call on God and the Lord will send them messengers of the gospel and they will believe.
26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;
These things will happen because they are written in the word of God.
You don’t want to be made part of the suffering in the Great Tribulation, just to describe the severe persecution of the Great Tribulation, the Apostle John said:
10 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Praise be to God! There is still time.
There is a promise to those who will overcome.
Complete Peace and Harmony
Complete Equity and Justice
No disease
All these things that we imagined at the beginning of my sermon will happen someday but it will not be through the way of man, not through one world government, not through the united nations, not through the antichrist.
It will be
The Way of the Prince of Peace
Revelation 19 and 20, Ezekiel 28
There will be a great war called Armageddon.
Then Our King Jesus will finally return.
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
All this will happen, but it will be through the way of the Prince of Peace.
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Your own Peace, Personal Prince of Peace