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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

A Shelter in Time of Storm

You know, I'd like to read something to you from the word of God.

Now the message today is the only safe shelter in the last days.

Maybe you've been hearing a little bit about, how the bunker business is booming.

Bloodshed and violence escalate in the Middle East, radical tensions erupt in violent protests, terrorism keeps cities in high alert, and a deadly pandemic sweeps around the planet.

Backed by such headlines, a number of U.S.

Companies that sell doomsday bunkers are seeing sales skyrocket, some up 1, 000%.

Most are preparing to live off the grid in these self-sufficient country retreats.

Some of these are a patchwork of farms and backwards ingenuity.

Others are expensive, cutting-edge bunkers built by millionaires that are nervous about an impending collapse of civilization.

What's causing this surge in stockpiling rice packets and underground bunkers?

According to a 2019 study, researchers from the Journal of American Studies say that there's an ever growing sense of impending doom in the American culture.

People just seem to have this sense that something was coming.

I think many folks know that from 2011 to 2014, National Geographic ran a reality show called Doomsday Preppers, and it was giving the day to day activities of these people, kind of a quirky team of survivalists that were getting ready for a myriad of circumstances, everything from an asteroid to a tsunami to a pandemic that they wanted to protect themselves.

In August 2018, the Financial Times reported that there's the nation of New Zealand was now banning foreigners from buying existing residential property within its borders.

And this was a blow to the global super rich who in recent years have been snapping up scores of luxury properties, many for vacation homes, but yet often they're called a bolt hole, a getaway shelter.

Sometimes it's a luxurious bunker to protect them in case the end of the world.

They've done research and they found New Zealand is 1 of the best places.

So this is not just quirky people from the fringe of society, but some of the richest, most educated, talented people in the world sense that something is coming and they're buying these properties.

In 2017, the New Yorker magazine confirmed that New Zealand was indeed a favored destination for rich survivalists preparing for the apocalypse.

Saying that you're buying a house in New Zealand as a kind of wink wink.

Reed Hoffman, co founder of LinkedIn, told the magazine in the article, doomsday prep for the super rich.

Billionaires such as Peter, Peter Thiel, co founder of PayPal is 1 of the growing band of foreign super rich, including James Cameron, the director, Julian Robinson, the hedge fund guru, Mikhail Kimche, the Russian oil magnate who have bought remote properties in the Pristine Nation to escape Armageddon.

So it seems like there's this overriding concern that people have around the world that something is coming.

You know, the Bible says there is a storm coming.

You can read where Jesus teaches in Matthew chapter 7.

Whoever hears these words of mine and does them is a like a wise man who builds his house on a rock And the rain descends and the flood came and the winds blow and beat on that house and the house does not fall because it's built on the rock.

But you notice it also says the foolish man builds his house on the sand, but the storm comes to the foolish man and the storm comes to the wise man, which means that a storm is coming to 100%.

The question is, What kind of fallout shelter do you have?

The Bible is full of storms from Noah to Jonah to Jesus and the Apostles on Galilee twice on the Sea of Galilee.

Paul and a boatload of prisoners are on their way to judgment.

And something else you notice is at the end of each 1 of these storms, worship takes place.

At the end of the storm for Noah, they worship.

At the end of the storm when they're on the Sea of Galilee, they're worshiping.

At the end of the storm when they're on the Sea of Galilee.

They're worshiping at the end of the storm in the story of Paul.

And so we know that in order to get to that place, sometimes you've got to go through a storm.

Now, I've got some good news I want to share today, but in order for people to appreciate the good news, first you've got to hear the bad news.

The bad news is the reason the good news is such good news.

The reason that people would be really excited to hear that there is a cure to the coronavirus is because they know there's a coronavirus.

Once you know that there is a problem, the cure is all that more exciting.

The reason eternal life is such good news is because people are aware that without it, they've got eternal death.

And so I'm going to take a moment and I hope that you'll sit up and don't don't get discouraged.

But I need to tell you what the Bible says.

I've been a little bit surprised as I hear pastors and different leaders are sort of texting everybody, preach messages that are going to comfort and calm people.

Well, I want to comfort and calm people, but I want to do it where it's really beneficial.

I want to read to you from the book of Romans, chapter 1, verse 18.

Now, Romans is a book where you find a lot of salvation and grace.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness.

How often do you hear a sermon about wrath?

Do you know that wrath is found 200 times in the Bible And a lot of that's in the New Testament.

Wrath means strong, vengeful anger, indignation, retributory punishment for an offense or a crime, a divine chastisement.

You find 3 examples of the word wrath being used here.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness that leads you to repentance?

But in accordance with your hardness of your impotent heart, you are treasuring up.

That means you're storing, stockpiling for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each 1 according to his deeds.

Now here are the 2 options everybody has.

You know, John 3 16 is eternal life or perish.

He'll render to each 1 according to his deeds eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality.

So the Lord tells us there's eternal life when you accept the mercy of Jesus and His spirit to live a life of patient continuance in doing good, seeking for glory and honor and immortality.

To those who are self-seeking, who do not obey the truth, but unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

There is a storm of wrath that is going to come on the world in the last days.

Please don't get upset with Pastor Doug and say you're being negative.

Paul establishes this in the Book of Romans before he goes on and talks about the wonderful gift of salvation.

A person first needs to understand that without that wonderful gift of salvation, it is a very bleak future.

And so we're going to talk about that in a moment.

I end up with people's blood on my hands.

If I tell them peace, peace when there isn't peace.

There is only peace for those who have Christ.

The only shelter that you can trust in in the last days is offered to those who are in Christ.

If you do not have that relationship, you do not have that shelter, it's going to be very frightening.

John the Baptist is preaching to the multitudes.

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