Pastor Jim & Lori Bakker discuss the Tribulation for Day 3 on The Jim Bakker Show.

Quotes

False doctrine is coming from religion. -Pastor Jim Bakker

Narrative

Pastor Jim continued his warnings in Part 3 of his message on the tribulation and time of trouble and sorrow the world has now entered. Great emphasis was placed on the need for food and clean water reserves and how they will assist many in surviving the days and years ahead.

Pastor Jim highlighted news reports from Europe that gave an overview of the extent of conditions there with mass public rebellions taking place to protest the loss of entitlements, or the things residents have come to expect freely from government. The same types of rallies have swept through countries of the Middle East, as well.

Here in America, Pastor Jim noted one example of entitlement loss relates to the United States Postal Service which is in financial trouble since people no longer use snail mail as much as they used to. In asking his young co-hosts when they last mailed a letter, their answers were given in years. “We love the post office . . . but we can’t keep funding everything because of tradition,” Pastor Jim said, adding that he can reach 20,000 people with ease just by sending out an email from his computer.

Great minds, he continued, can come together to suggest ways to reduce entitlements, such as Saturday delivery, to help the postal service survive the crisis.

As the time of trouble at home continues to worsen, he suggested the government, rather than exerting efforts to control what preachers or others say on TV, would benefit more by working with churches that are focused on preparing families to survive coming disasters and emergencies. He assured Christians that the Bible clearly indicates they will not be raptured out of the world prior to the start of the tribulation, therefore, they would do well to take precautionary steps.

Those who teach another gospel that is not found in the Bible, he said, fall in the category of those the New Testament labels as “preachers of false doctrine” who come teaching that Jesus is, in fact, the Christ but have pieced together scriptures to make the Bible appear to condone their own misinterpretations or misunderstandings.

These false teachers, Pastor Jim declared, in some cases are very sincere but are unaware that they are deceived and are deceiving others. The only safety for believers is to study and know the word of God for themselves. That word, he said, shows that we are “living in the beginning of the time of sorrow” even though many find the book of Revelation to be a joke. Pastor Jim said he and other well known pastors have, on separate occasions, called together their executive staff members to warn them that a major and severe time of trouble is just ahead and that “we better prepare” for it.

Scriptures

Daniel 12:1-2 KJV And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Daniel 12:4 KJV But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Proverbs 25:21 KJV If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

Psalm 41:1 KJV Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

Acts 1:14 NIV They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Psalm 18:2 KJV The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Psalm 37:39-40 KJV But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Psalm 27:5-6 KJV For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.

Matthew 24:3-6 KJV And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Matthew 24:15 KJV When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

I Timothy 6:10 KJV For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

II Corinthians 11:4 KJV For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

Matthew 22:37 NCV Jesus answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’

Matthew 22:39 NCV And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

Romans 1:28 KJV And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Proverbs 27:17 NCV As iron sharpens iron, so people can improve each other.

I John 3:14 KJV We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Luke 4:18-19 The Year of of the Lord’s Favor