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Weimar University

Don Mackintosh

God’s Great Objective

Father in heaven, Lord, thank you so much today that you are our Father, you are in heaven, there is hope and there's help and there's strength and there's support.

We ask that that would join us now through the agency of the Spirit as we open your word and as we study in Christ's name, amen.

And you know, as we look at that, last week we noted that there's kind of a, what would you say, a summary of things in Matthew chapter 24, so let's turn there for a minute to Matthew chapter 24.

There's a summary of things that are listed that are connected with what we would call the end of time, end time events we would call them.

And as I spoke this morning, my focus was that we are not actually waiting for the end of time.

And I think it's important to understand that as we look this morning.

So in Matthew 24, verse 7, Jesus was talking to his disciples in this passage and he was explaining to them not only the end of that era, that being of the time that the Jews would live in Jerusalem for quite some time, he was also explaining what would happen at the end of time, at the end of the world.

And 1 of the things he said in verse 7 was that nation would rise against nation.

And we talked about that last week, how there would be ethnic unrest, nation against nation.

The word there is actually ethnos against ethnos.

Not only that, in the same verse it says, verse 7, nation would rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom.

We have ethnic unrest, we also have kingdoms against kingdoms, We have a lot of people that are concerned about America as a nation and a lot of nations that America is concerned about and people are concerned about what various leaders are doing or how they're doing it.

And then it says there would be pestilences.

And we certainly have had a pestilence or a pandemic that's probably like none other in any of our lifetime and probably in the entire history of the world never has been something that gripped everybody's attention around the world like COVID-19.

That has been as rapidly communicated, at least in terms of talking about it, and people responding in various nations.

And those are what were called the beginning of sorrows in Matthew chapter 24.

And then it says, Verse 9, many shall be, actually verse 10, many shall be offended and shall betray 1 another and hate 1 another.

And we certainly see that as unrest has increased people, their underlying hate and disregard, or newfound hate and disregard, seems to have come bubbling up.

That's why we spent a number of messages on the tension, the racial tension and whatnot.

And thank you, by the way, many of you have given me feedback on those various messages, and you've said thank you to the church for actually talking directly about the issue, as the places you were attending have not been talking about those issues.

I don't think it does us any good to not talk about what we're all thinking about and apply God's word to it, amen?

And also I don't think it does any good to have just 1 voice on an issue like that.

Fadidas, we had Narlin, who gave a great message, we had Dr.

We're going to have 1 of our students this next week, Elijah, who's going to give a message.

And so, it doesn't do it any good to back away.

And then, this morning, we talked about, by the way, I encourage you to watch this 08:00 message that we gave here.

And this certainly, or false, rather prophets will arise.

This certainly has happened this past week.

We had someone that had ties in the past with the Adventist church, Jeff Pippenger, who took out $14, 000 ads across certain areas of Tennessee, talking about how there would be a nuclear attack on July 18 and the city would be obliterated.

Because he had time prophecies that he had put together.

And so we talked about this morning, because the Bible is clear and the Adventist church is clear in its teaching, which is why that gentleman was disfellowshipped from the church and no longer is an Adventist years ago, is that in Revelation chapter 10, it says that there would be time no longer.

That doesn't mean no time of probation closing, that doesn't mean There's no time right now, we're all alive, but no time prophecies.

And that's why I'm saying we're not living near the time of the end, time of the end.

The time of the end is here, and it's been here for quite some time.

And not to re-preach the sermon of this morning, the Lord has shown me that the message of the third angel must go and be proclaimed to the scattered children of the Lord, but it must not be hung on what?

I saw that some were getting a false excitement arising from preaching time, but the third angel's message is stronger than time can be.

I saw that this message can stand on its own foundation and needs not time to strengthen it and that it will go in mighty power and do its work and will be cut short in righteousness.

So our message, anytime you hear a message where people are saying, okay, I'm setting a new time that hasn't already been explained in Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Daniel 8 and 9, Daniel 10 through 12, that you should know right there that that's a red flag.

So if you want more information on that, which I think you should have, please listen to this morning's message, the 08:00 message later on.

So not only that, racial unrest, pestilence, beginning of sorrows, and then offended, betraying 1 another, false prophets will arise.

And then, picking up on last week, but I thought we should talk about a little bit more, lawlessness shall abound.

So let's look at that, lawlessness shall abound.

Last week we mentioned this, but I just want to make an observation.

There has been criticism of the Supreme Court of the United States in several cases, beginning back in the 70s, where the interpretation of the law, various, you know, Title VII last week, but civil rights amendments and different things that were passed in the 60s were kind of reinterpreted or ruled to be different than what most of the people thought perhaps in the country.

1 was road versus way, road versus way with abortion.

And whatever you think about that, and there's a huge discussion you can have, we certainly know that abortion leads to the ending of life.

And millions of lives, they have been brought to an end.

And so, that ruling of the Supreme Court was actually against 1 of God's laws, thou shalt not kill.

Then, more recently, we talked about this last week, in 2015, the high court decided, not Congress, not we the people, not those kind of things in the Republic we live in, that same-sex marriage was in fact the law of the land.

Is same-sex marriage, whatever you think, do you think same-sex marriage is taught within the Bible?

In fact, as we discovered last week, as we looked at that, same-sex marriage goes against 5 of the 10 Commandments.

This visiting iniquities of the fathers upon the children assumes a family structure.

Thou shalt honor thy father than thy mother, assumes a male and female.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.

In the Bible times, it was always written in masculine singular, the whole 10 Commandments, And so this was not a wife of a wife, this was a husband and wife.

Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.

But then finally The fifth commandment we considered of the 5 that this ruling was against is the Sabbath commandment.

It talks about sons and daughters in the Sabbath commandment.

It's addressed to the fathers again, and it ends with the idea that this was a natural law.

It was rooted in creation, for in 6 days, he made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and the rest of the seventh day.

So this whole idea of marriage between a male and a female actually comes from 5 of the 10 Commandments, and then you add abortion to that, 6 of the 10 Commandments have been ruled against by the High Court of the United States of America.

And then the ruling last week was expanding this ruling to marriage.

I mean marriage, most people, you know, they don't care that much about it.

I mean, in culture, people just kind of do what they want.

The only reason they were kind of interested, they had benefits that would come from the state, and it was kind of a commandment that was a blending of church and state.

I don't do it anymore, but I used to say, by the power invested in me by the state of wherever I was living, I pronounce you man and wife.

I let the people go down and get their paperwork, I'll sign it, but I'm not representing the government anymore.

Okay, so you come to the church, get married before God and God's people.

And there's many nations in the world, by the way, that ministers have to do that because the laws have become so corrupt that they can't really even say that.

So now this has been expanded to the workplace, not just marriage, but 6 days, shut down labor and all that work.

That 6 days of the week, there is this potential for lawlessness to be expanded there if you want Title VII coverage or you get Title VII coverage.

Now, let me hasten to say, that's not a done deal.

You know, the high court said, bring it back to the court because there are discrimination policies that are intrinsic to the civil rights law of 1964.

In other words, religious organizations actually had a cut out and they still do today.

Ministerial or religious organizations can still discriminate because there's a separation of church and state.

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