Matthew-112

Today is a beautiful day; it’s like spring outside. I wonder what happened to winter this year. Well, we don’t mind if the winter doesn’t come. Moreover, winter is almost over; we are at the end of January. But we don’t know what will happen in February. Some people say that the winter we did not get will come back with full force in February. We never know what the future holds, do we?

Many people don’t care about the coming of Jesus, unless they are in need

Some brothers and sisters in the church have asked me to talk about the future: What are the possible effects which the coming of Jesus will have on the world as a whole, and on each one of us in particu­lar? We are always, to some extent, curious about the future. But for me to speak on a subject like this, we need to have more than curio­sity. Is it really important to us? I only like to talk about important things.

Some subjects are not important to us because we don’t feel the need. If you have a very good life—your income is good, your work is satisfying—you have things to look forward to in this life. Some people are looking forward to marriage. Some people are looking forward to having a baby before too long. Some are going to get their degrees soon. And if Jesus comes, it will ruin all your nice plans, wouldn’t it? At least, that is what you worry about. I mean, can you imagine if you get raptured to meet the Lord (1Thess. 4:17), what about your baby? If the Lord Jesus comes, what happens to your wedding? And all this wonderful life ahead of you will suddenly and literally vanish into thin air! You were just going to get your doctoral degree, and you are raptured! You are gone! What happens to your doctoral degree? No one is going to call you “Dr. so and so” anymore because it doesn’t matter anymore. So who wants to talk about the coming of Jesus? Let’s forget it!

This message about the coming of Jesus spoke to people who were in very different circumstances during the time of the Early Church. Likewise, this message will certainly speak to the hearts of many people in China. If you have just been sentenced to 20 years’ hard labor, you have something to look forward to with the Lord’s com­ing. Or if you walked into the doctor’s office and he said, “I’m sorry to tell you, you have got 2 years to live. Your cancer is terminal,” then you have the Lord’s coming to look forward to. If you live a life in which you don’t know whether you are going to have another meal or how soon that meal will be, when you live in hunger and thirst literally, physically, you have the Lord’s coming to look forward to. Do you see what I am getting at? The coming of Jesus is something that people look forward to if they are in need.

Who needs Jesus to come again in Canada? You have everything you want. You just bought a nice new house, and if Jesus comes, when are you going to enjoy your house? You are enjoying your new car with air conditioning and many other fascinating features, and then Jesus comes! What did you spend $30,000 for? Everything is gone! Do you see what I am getting at? The coming of Jesus speaks to some, while others don’t really want to hear it.

What about you? Do you really want to know about Jesus’ coming? Right now, to be honest, no. What’s the need for his coming as far as you are concerned? You are doing nicely right now, aren’t you? We don’t need Jesus to come when we have this wonderful life in Canada. No, thank you very much. You think, “If Jesus has to come, come when I am old and ready to go.” So this message in the New Testament about Jesus’ coming again, speaks to the suffering, the persecuted and to the people who are weary of sin, but hardly to the well-to-do, or people who are comfortable in this world.

September 11^th is a foretaste of awful things to happen on a global scale

But let me tell you something else about Biblical prophecy as it affects us. From it, we know that things are going to change in Canada. All these good times will suddenly disappear. Oh yes, things will change in the world. We already got a foretaste of what can happen on September 11^th. Two planes hit the Twin Towers in New York, and one hit the Pentagon. As a result, over the past four months, the stock markets have not been able to get back to normal. If you invested your money in stocks or shares, I am sure you looked at them and said, “When is it going to get back to where it was before?” Only two planes hit two buildings, why does the whole economy come tumbling down?

Now think of something happening on a bigger scale than that, and your stocks and shares will be in real trouble! The whole standard of living comes down. As you can see, it doesn’t take very much to bring this whole system down. Moreover, as you know, one of the planes was aiming for the White House with the intention of killing the President. Try to imagine this a little more. What if they suc­ceeded? What if they killed the President and destroyed the White House? Can you imagine that? I don’t think most people stopped to think about it. What would have happened then? Do you remember how much trouble it was to elect President Bush? If he is killed, we are going to start this process all over again. It boggles the mind what will happen then! Of course, the Vice-President steps in with his heart trouble. Maybe the very fact he suddenly becomes the President will finish him off as well. Anyway, we cannot imagine what would have happened.

Only four planes! Do you know how many planes went to bomb Europe from the United Kingdom in WWII? In one single mission alone, there were hundreds of planes. Yet here, we have four planes that could bring this kind of chaos to a nation, with far-reaching effects for the whole world. And the four planes were not even armed; they were passenger planes.

So my dear ones, you don’t think you need Jesus to come now? Who needs Jesus to come now? Your health is good. Your future is bright. Who needs Jesus? For that matter, who needs salvation? What are you to be saved from? As for sin, well, you’re a decent guy; you didn’t kill or rob anyone. You think, “Who needs Jesus to save me from what sin? In any case, I am much nicer than that Christian who works with me in the office. I agree that Christians need to be saved, but not me.”

I will say it again: The Bible tells us that the whole situation is going to change. The economy will see horrible things happening to it. When you look at the book of Revelation, it speaks of awful things happening on a global scale. The problem is, if you wait until then, it may be too late. Do we forget so soon those few thousand people who went to work on that sunny September morning in New York, not knowing that it would be their last?

Two principles of prophecy:

1. The principle of describing the indescribable

I will just try to be brief since we only have a short time to talk about some of these things. I want to mention two principles about prophecy so that we can understand how prophecy works. The first thing we need to understand about prophecy is that the prophet is describing the indescribable. What do I mean by this? The prophet is looking at something in the far future, which he cannot even understand. He doesn’t know what he is looking at, yet he has to describe the indescribable to someone who doesn’t have a clue about what he is saying. If you want to understand what I am saying, just look at the book of Revelation and see if you understand two sentences of its prophecies. You open the book of Revelation and you say, “What is he talking about?” So that is the first principle of prophecy. When speaking of the future, the prophet is trying to describe the indescribable.

Let me give you an example from present life. Suppose you go into the jungle and meet some savages who live at the Stone Age level. And you say to them, “There is a metal box, very hard and heavy that flies in the air. It flies in the air and carries 300 people and flies halfway around the world.” They would look at you and think, “This guy is crazy! If I climb on the tree and try to fly, I’d fall and break my neck!” So they would say, “Let’s be reasonable. Don’t talk nonsense, okay? No metal can ever fly in the air. And you are telling me 300 people sit in this thing and fly halfway around the world! I can’t even get across the river, and you want to get halfway across the world? Talk some sense, all right? Be down to earth for a change!”

Let’s suppose we are talking about a prophet 2,000 years ago, who is shown in a vision, this huge box in the air with 300 people in it. He looks at it and asks, “What is this?” You know what an airplane is, but the prophet doesn’t have a clue what an airplane is.

Supposing the savage who heard you talk about this thing flying in the air, and also doesn’t have a clue what that might be, he goes to the other savages and says, “You know, there is something out there, a huge metal box that flies in the air.” Can you imagine what they will think of this savage? What he says does not make any kind of sense to them, does it?

Or you tell them that someone can pick up this little device (a mobile phone), which has no wires, and talk to another person on the other side of the world. (For that matter, the savage also does not know what the “world” means). The savage will say, “Come on, talk some sense! This is ridiculous!” For those of us who do it regularly, it’s nothing remarkable. But for a man who has never seen this before, supposing you try to describe it to him, won’t he think you are out of your mind? Little wonder that prophets were often regarded as somewhat abnormal or even crazy, speaking or writing very strange things.

When you look at the book of Revelation, you see a prophet trying to describe something in the future that frankly, he himself does not understand, and his hearers understand even less. This principle of prophecy means we must be very careful how we interpret prophecy. When we look at a prophecy, there is only one way to know whether what is said is true. You can only identify it when you actually see it. “Ah, this is it!” This savage could never be convinced until he is actually brought to an airport and he looks at an airplane taking off into the air, and he will say, “Oh, that’s what the man was talking about! Now I understand.” You’ll only know what the prophet was talking about until you actually see it. This is the nature of prophecy. But before that, any attempt to identify the prophecy is going to be liable to error. I will give an example of that in a moment.

2. The Uncertainty Principle

There is a second principle about prophecy we must understand in order to avoid error. There is what we can call the principle of indeterminacy or uncertainty. When I speak of the principle of uncertainty, those of you who know some physics will know that I am using a term from physics. This principle derives from quantum mechanics when Heisenberg in 1927 defined that principle. He discovered in physics that there is a principle which he simply called the Uncertainty Principle. There are certain things at that level of physics that you cannot determine or predict with precision how it is going to work out. It’s very disturbing to scientists when they cannot predict with certainty the outcome of something. And in more recent time, you have what is called chaos in physics. Again, this refers to the fact that there are many things which cannot be predicted with certainty because they will not repeat in the same way as before.

But the God who created the world and its physics is the same God who gives us prophecy. That means it’s a mistake which many people make to try to predict, for example, the date when Jesus will return, as though it is fixed or certain. In fact, at this moment, we cannot even predict it within an accuracy of 2 or 3 years. We cannot say, for example, the Lord is certainly going to come in the year 2005, 3 years from now. All we can do at this time is to suggest that the possibility of his coming at a particular point in the future is likely to be in 2005, for example, and give the Scriptural reasons for saying so. The hearers must then evaluate the Biblical evidence for themselves.

The principle of indeterminacy is very clearly seen in the Bible, just as in physics. It’s like what the Lord Jesus spoke about in Matthew 23:32, “Fill up, then, the measure...” There is a measure of sin or wickedness, and the Judgment comes when that measure of sin or wickedness has reached a certain level. So you can see the level of sin rising, and rising, and it’s coming to the point where the Judgment is going to come. It’s like boiling water. When it reaches boiling point, the water will boil. And if it is kept under pressure, it will explode. But what happens if someone reduces the heat before the boiling point? The boiling point is not reached when the temperature drops.

Take for example, the sin of the Amorites in Genesis 15:16. God is going to wait before he judges the Amorites. He waits until the measure has been reached, the boiling point is reached, then there will be the judgment. Later on, we do find the Scriptures saying that the judgment of the Amorites has come, which means they have reached the level of boiling point. Here we have an important principle by which we know that judgment comes when the boiling point is reached. But many factors can influence the rise or drop of the temperature. Consequently, the boiling point of judgment could be reached sooner or later.

A very well-known example, is the case of Jonah’s mission to Nineveh. The boiling point for that city was about to be reached for judgment, but what happened? The Ninevites repented in dust and ashes when they heard Jonah’s warning message. They turned off the heat. But why did Jonah get so very upset? It’s because he wanted to see judgment come on them, for they were the enemies of his people. The Ninevites repented, of all things, and spoiled his prophecy!

What happened after September 11^th? After that event, the churches were full. Everyone goes and prays to God. Suddenly, there is an outpouring of repentance. In such a case, if God’s judgment was about to reach the boiling point, the temperature would drop. And if you are someone hoping for the Lord Jesus’ coming, you may get a little frustrated. When is he going to come if they keep repenting? Someone might even get frustrated enough to say, “Please stop repenting so that Jesus will come!”

Here is where the servant of God is caught between two possibilities. On the one hand, he hopes that Jesus will come soon. He loves that slogan, “Maranatha” – “Our Lord Jesus, come!” But on the other hand, he also wants people to repent. But these two are going to affect each other in such a way that it could delay his coming. And that means those of us who said, “Jesus may be coming next year, or in two years’ time,” are going to be proved wrong, just like Jonah was wrong in that the predicted judgment did not come. Now you know why Jonah ran away when God said, “Go and tell Nineveh to repent.” He said, “I don’t want them to repent. I want them to perish. I’m going off in the other direction.” You may say, “What kind of a prophet is this? He has no love.” Don’t forget, Nineveh was the nation that persecuted Israel almost to extinction. He wanted to see justice done to the enemies of God’s people. But as far as Jonah was concerned, the problem is God is always too merciful. He will delay his judgment as far as possible.

How September 11^th helps us to identify events in the last days

1. The “mark”

Let me come quickly to the matter of identification, identifying the events. We only have time to discuss three points. The first of these is how the September 11^th event helps us to better understand things we did not understand before. In other words, in relation to prophecy, September 11^th is a very important event, as you might expect. Let me give you the first example of this. In the book of Revelation, it says that in the last days before the Lord returns, everyone will receive a “mark,” either on the forehead or on the hand. But that did not make a lot of sense in the past. We could perhaps imagine some circumstance where the placing of a “mark” might take place, but it’s very hard to imagine such a circumstance. After September 11^th, the picture now becomes quite easy to understand.

For identification to enjoy security, convenience, medical history record

Why is this? The reason is, now there is a war against terrorism, and now there is also a realization that you only need a handful of terrorists to cause worldwide chaos. Exactly how are you going to identify a terrorist? There is only one effective way: absolute identi­fication of every individual, because a terrorist can only slip through the security net if his identity is disguised. So they change their faces. They may use plastic surgery, for example, to change their appearance. As you know, most of them have false identifications. A small group of people can hold the whole nation, indeed the whole world, to ransom. The only remedy is the precise identification of every person that cannot be changed.

That is where the “mark” comes in. You will be told you need to have such identification for the sake of your security. It’s not just an identification on a piece of paper because a piece of paper can be taken by someone else and used, as so often is the case of false passports, false identifications. But if the identification is a mark on you, that is, a small microchip implanted in the skin in just a fraction of a second, and every detail about you is in that microchip. It doesn’t hurt; nobody can see it; and it’s not going to mar your face. Then, they can see your ID and know exactly who you are as you walk past a scanning device. Don’t be surprised if you enter the United States one of these days, and they require you to have a microchip put in your skin, so that you won’t change your ID when you get into the United States. As a matter of fact, every first world country will probably use this technology because it already exists. It’s just waiting to be implemented.

It will be very convenient in the long term because you don’t even have to carry a credit card. It’s already in the microchip. So you don’t have to be afraid that your credit card will be stolen, because when you pay the bill at the shop, they will just take all your credit card information from your microchip. It’s simply scanned in much the same way as when the cashier runs the bar-code of the product over the scanner.

If you are a diabetic, you don’t have to wear an inconvenient identification around your neck or wrist. The “mark,” the implanted microchip will have your medical history record.

A lot of information about you can be put on that little microchip, for example, where you stand politically – right or left-wing or whatever you are. When you travel, you don’t need a passport or any other documentation. It’s all in the “mark.” So you can see the potential and the many benefits of the microchip.

Controlled by the “mark”

Its selling point is that it sounds very convenient, but that is also the way you will be controlled. Yet, it will be inevitable because there is no other effective way to control terrorism. Only in this way, not one enemy can get through the border without having been checked by means of his microchip. And if by some means he managed to climb, swim, or tunnel across the border, scanning devices at the entrance to public buildings, banks, supermarkets, etc. would quickly discover the intruder and alert security personnel.

The newest identification technology will soon be out-of-date. One of the newest technologies recently put into use is photographic identification by computer. When you enter the airport, you don’t know that you are already photographed, and the computer is checking your picture with those of known terrorists. The disad­vantage of this method is that they need to have a database of all the pictures of known terrorists. But there are many terrorists who are not yet known, and there are newly recruited terrorists as well. None of these will be on the existing database. But with a microchip on every person, this problem can be dealt with more effectively, because as soon as a person is born, the details about his life is recorded and updated all the time. For example, where he went to school, where he traveled to, who were the people he associated with etc. If the microchip is implanted in adults, their past history and other details can also be recorded there.

Revelation 13:16-17 speaks about the “mark,” and the “mark” is mentioned seven times in Revelation. It has taken 2,000 years for us even to understand what the “mark” is about. It’s amazing that 2,000 years ago, the prophet said the day is coming when that will happen! Now try to think back 2,000 years to the time of the apostle John. In his time, it would have been hard to see the way in which it could be implemented. For example, the Roman Empire, even at the height of its power controlled only a portion of the known world. And even within the area it controlled, there were large areas it had only limited control. Therefore, any kind of “mark” it could place on its people would only have had limited effect.

Especially after September 11^th, we not only know that it is possible, because the technology has already existed for quite a few years, but now we begin to see why it might need to be implemented. Also, we can see that within all the first world countries where the threat of terrorism is the greatest, the use of the identifying mark could be almost totally effective.

Of course, we cannot say yet for certain, that terrorism will be the only reason for implementing the application of the mark. Some other reasons may yet arise to make its implementation expedient to the point that it will not be further delayed. At the moment, although its implementation would be undeniably effective for security reasons, the political climate in North America, Europe, and elsewhere may not yet be ready to accept it. So some other events would need to occur first before its general implementation could become a reality. No doubt, those events will be directly connected to the advent of the Antichrist.

2. The “plagues”

Let us take another example. The book of Revelation says a lot of things about plagues killing a lot of people, sometimes one third of mankind. Some people want to say that the prophecy is so vague that you can interpret it any way you like. Not so! John is very specific. Strangely enough, all of this again, would be very hard to understand until the September 11 event. You will remember that soon after that event, the anthrax scare came up and some people died of it. But anthrax is not the most dangerous of biological agents available today. What we now understand is that the war of terrorism will involve biological warfare, which will use “plagues”—exactly this word used in the Revelation—to kill those they consider their enemies. And where will the chief target of all these things be? North America! You and me living here, if we are still here, will become the object of this kind of attacks.

So we now see that Revelation has prophesied long ago, biological disasters of this kind. Life can become pretty unbearable when that happens. In a number of the prophesies in the Revelation, it is said that one third of the people will die. Perhaps that refers to one third of the people in the affected areas of the world. We are talking about huge numbers of people. The chief target will quite certainly be North America.

Do you still think I was exaggerating when I said earlier that everything is going to change? You don’t want this nice lifestyle to change, but there are those who want to change it for you! And how it will change! Who knows what kind of biological or chemical weapons are going to be used? With an attack of this kind, the consequences are unimaginable. Anthrax can be treated with certain antibiotics, but the kind that they would be using is not going to be that easy to deal with. And when hundreds of thousands of people are affected by these chemical and biological agents, the whole healthcare system will collapse. There is no way to deal with it. The result is people cannot go to work. Whole companies and businesses will collapse. Did you notice how many airlines went bankrupt after September 11^th? Just one event and the airlines collapsed. But prophecy tells us that disasters like September 11^th are just small, early indicators of what is yet to come.

3. The army of 200 million from the East

Let me come quickly to the last example. Revelation 9:16-17 [NAS] speaks about an invasion from the East:

Here is an invasion by a very strange and huge army of 200 million so-called “horsemen” from the east. But their horses don’t look like normal horses at all! What kind of horse is this that has a lion’s head? The prophet doesn’t know how to describe what he is looking at, so it doesn’t make any sense. All we can say is that a horse with a lion’s head must look very frightening. It must be very fierce and dange­rous. No horse is going to devour you, but a lion will. But a horse is a symbol of strength and speed. He is saying, therefore, that an attack of enormous proportions will come from the east with great speed and ferocity. We can gather that much. But until that event actually happens, we have no way to say for certain what it is.

Misinterpretation of prophecy: China invading Africa and Israel

Here we must be careful to avoid error of identification. I have a little booklet in my hand entitled, China and Prophecy, written by a certain Dr. Tatford. This was printed in 1968, some 33 years ago. When I first read it a long time ago, I thought it was ridiculous because it identified that these 200 million horsemen are from China. He said this because only China had the number of people that could pro­duce an army of 200 million. What logic! Again, I stress the danger of wrong identification. Presumably, China is breeding 200 million horses now—so you will see horses everywhere in China—and the Chinese army will be riding horses across the world when we are in the 21^st Century! Moreover, if the size of the population is all that matters for this identification, why can’t the 200 million be drawn from a combination of different nations? Let it be noted that India today has a population of 1 billion, which is more than the popula­tion of China 33 years ago. What I particularly disliked about this suggestion is not only its political but also racial implications, that China of all people, would have some kind of interest to ride across the world on horseback.

In this booklet, do you know where he says the Chinese people would be going to? They will be going to Africa! Think of that! You might be one of the 200 million Chinese going to Africa! You might want to ask this gentleman, Dr. Tatford, why 200 million Chinese want to go to Africa, because that is not the place any of us particu­larly want to go. I don’t think very many of you will be interested, except perhaps for a holiday by some beautiful seashore, or on a safari. As you well know, there are also very few people in China who would be interested to go to Africa. Well, his astonishing answer is that the Chinese people will go to Africa to find food. It seems to be a fact that there is a lot more food in China than in Africa, and this situation does not appear likely to change in the foreseeable future. Moreover, which part of Africa has the vast tracts of arable land needed to feed another 200 million people and their horses in addition to the needs of the population of Africa itself?

Again, according to this gentleman, in the process of riding on horses going to Africa, the 200 million Chinese will invade Israel. Can you picture this for yourself? Why would China want to invade Israel? I have no idea. Of course, strange things happen in the world, and maybe one day he might be right. Perhaps one of these days, when we visit China, let us look to see if there are lots of horses around, and whether these horses have lion’s heads, because if they don’t have lion’s heads, they don’t fit the prophecy.

In fact, if we had understood this principle that the prophet is trying to describe the indescribable, and that he is evidently not talking about actual horses at all, we would not fall into this kind of misinterpretation. Here is a respected gentleman, who actually has a doctorate, and who wrote this kind of interpretation. I apologize for being somewhat rude in regard to this gentleman’s misinterpre­tation of prophecy. But I want to show you that in my view, the kind of interpretation he put forward as a teacher of the Bible, degrades the prophecy in the Revelation, and indeed, prophetic revelation generally.

Possibly 200 million Muslims coming westward

What kind of clue does September 11^th give us? It gives us a much better clue that 200 million Muslims coming westward is a likely possibility. From then on, we realize it is a war of Muslims against Christians, as Mr. bin Laden declared. Could the Muslims raise 200 million people? I don’t see any problem. There are over 1-1/2 billion Muslims, so 200 million is not a problem. The conflict between Islam and Christianity goes all the way back to the Crusades, over 800 years ago. The Christians came from the west and the Muslims came from the east. They met in the middle in what is today, Israel, and fought it out in many, many battles. The bitterness remains to this day, as can be seen in the recent events in Serbia, and the even more recent report of the persecution of Christians in Turkey, and the killing of Christians in a church in Pakistan. Then of course, Israel is another hated foe for the Muslims. So there is a lot of hostility to motivate a mammoth attack of this kind. This never crossed my mind before September 11^th.

You will say, “Only a relatively small group of extremists are present­ly involved.” That is right, but extremism can rise for many reasons, just as in the time of the Crusades. Watch the future and see the possibility of Muslims gradually becoming more and more radical or extreme than they are now, especially under a charismatic leader, like bin Laden, for example, who is able to stir the people up.

You never imagined that Germans could behave the way they did in the WWII. Surely, it could never happen. They are such nice, cu­ltured, polite people. But when a Hitler appeared on the scene to stir the whole nation up, they went crazy! When I talk to Germans today, especially my dear German friends, they feel very embarrassed about that. And if you go to Germany today and look around, you will say, “These are nice people. I don’t understand how they could be the same people who went to fight at Stalingrad, attacked Moscow, many countries in Europe, and did a lot of things which are painful to talk about. Are these the same people?” So I say, you only need one charismatic leader to change the whole situation.

Right now, there are many nice Muslim people, just like the nice Germans. But human nature is such that it takes very little to change them. I don’t want to say anything against our Muslim friends. I don’t want to stir up anti-religious feelings. Unfortunately, what can we say when we look at the facts? Isn’t it the truth that every major terrorist act in the last 20 years or so were performed by Muslims? The bombing of Pan Am in Scotland, killing the whole planeload of people. They even tried to assassinate the Pope, shooting him with 3 bullets right through his stomach. Who did it? A Muslim! Just look at every incident and at who did it. Of course, most recently, it was the September 11^th event. We call them extremists, and rightly so! All I am saying is watch out because everyone can become extremist under certain circumstances, including you and me. We should watch ourselves.

Know Yahweh God; be ready for Jesus to come – be faithful unto death

If there were a massive invasion to attack Christians, and there was a call to arms to resist them, would you take up weapons and say, “No, we can’t let them walk over us and destroy us. We’ll stop them!”? I wouldn’t be surprised if millions of Christians will take up their M16s and fight. Then what will we have? We will have a world war. There you can see that religion is a very powerful and dangerous thing. The power of religion is very frightening, whether it is Islam or Christianity.

I myself am not interested in religion. I only want to know Yahweh. The only thing that matters is a living relationship with God. But if you are carried away with religion, one of these days, you may take up an M16 to fight the Muslims with their AK47’s, and the whole world will be torn apart by religion. Hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions will die. The Muslims talk about jihad, holy war all the time, and they have been indoctrinated with the idea that to die as a martyr is glorious. For a Christian, to die as a martyr is also glorious. Now you have the clash of two religions that both believe in martyrdom. Can you imagine what will be the outcome of that? I say to you, I believe in God and in the Lord Jesus. I do not fight for a religion. You will say, “In that case, Christianity will be defeated.” I believe in God who saves his people, and defeats forces of any magnitude as he carries out his eternal plans for mankind. Do you?

Our time is gone so we have to stop here. I just pray that this message will cause you to ponder carefully what kind of person we ought to be in these last days, and that you realize Jesus Christ whom God sent said,

I have studied the Bible most of my life, and the more I study the more amazed I am, because I see it is indeed true that his words never fail. As the time of his return gets nearer, we now begin to understand things we could never understand. Are you ready to meet with him?