Pastor Jim, with special guest John Shorey, discusses the troubling times we live in and the church’s role during the times of trouble ahead and the end of days.

Quotes

We’re hated in the United States of America because we’ve stood up to not murder babies. We’ve stood up for the gospel. We have stood up for the cross. -Jim Bakker

The message of the Lord’s coming will save people it won’t scare them away. We need the divine warning of the word of God. -John Shorey

Scripture

2 Thessalonians 3:10 MEV   For when we were with you, we commanded you that if any will not work, neither shall he eat.

Romans 13:1 MEV Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are appointed by God.

Revelation 14:10 MEV He too shall [have to] drink of the wine of God’s indignation and wrath, poured undiluted into the cup of His anger; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

1 Corinthians 1:27 AMPC  [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.

Revelation 17:5 MEV  On her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 18:24 MEV And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Revelation 17:16 NIV And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will [be the very ones to] hate the harlot (the idolatrous woman); they will make her cheerless (bereaved, desolate), and they will strip her and eat up her flesh and utterly consume her with fire.

Revelation 18:21 NIV  Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.

Revelation 19:1-3 NIV  After this I heard what sounded like a mighty shout of a great crowd in heaven, exclaiming, Hallelujah (praise the Lord)! Salvation and glory (splendor and majesty) and power (dominion and authority) [belong] to our God! Because His judgments (His condemnation and punishment, His sentences of doom) are true and sound and just and upright. He has judged (convicted, pronounced sentence, and doomed) the great and notorious harlot (idolatress) who corrupted and demoralized and poisoned the earth with her lewdness and adultery (idolatry). And He has avenged (visited on her the penalty for) the blood of His servants at her hand. And again they shouted, Hallelujah (praise the Lord)! The smoke of her [burning] shall continue to ascend forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities).

Jude 1:22-23 MEV  And have mercy on those who doubt,  and save others by snatching them from the fire, and have mercy on others with fear, hating even the tunic stained by the flesh.

Luke 21:25-26 KJV And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Matthew 24:7-10 MEV  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, epidemics, and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these are the beginning of sorrows. “Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. And you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. ¹⁰ Then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another.

Matthew 24:3 MEV As He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”

Matthew 24:12 KJV  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

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