Mick Roberts – Class 5: Are You Watching? (Youth Program Class 1)

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so now, as your kind attention,
as brother McRoberts, speaks to

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us on the topic, Jesus really is
coming back, but when Next one.

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Afternoon, everybody.
Just make this check again to

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make sure you’ve not all not at
all.

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Yet, you’ve got time.
Just hang on for a while.

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Some of you, some of you, I will
know.

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And some of you will know me,
but I’m looking around the room

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and I can recognize one or two
phases.

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That doesn’t mean I’m going to
talk particularly those who I

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don’t know or do those.
I do, but I’m just pleased to

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see some places.
I do recognize and if you’re not

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spoken to me yet, please make
sure you do.

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In case you owe me anything,
anything like that.

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This is probably the most
important subject, isn’t it?

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That we might think about today,
I don’t know what you thought

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about today.
Since you woke up.

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Jesus really is coming back, but
when Is that that has that even

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crossed your mind today up until
this point here, we are at what

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2:15 in the afternoon.
Has it even crossed our mind

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anything to do with the return
of the Lord Jesus.

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When you woke up.
In all honesty, you answer this

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for yourself when you woke up.
Did you think for a split second

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that it could have been today?
You just answer this for

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yourself.
You know what the answer is?

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Did you think that it could be
today?

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Now Gordon said, you know, this
is a subject that we know pretty

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good and I suspect that if I
said to you could you just give

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me a few verses.
Could you give me a few ideas?

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Could you give me a few themes
about the return of Jesus?

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I am probably a hundred percent
sure that everybody in this room

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could could give a list.
Which is strange.

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When you answered that question
your head.

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I’m pretty sure not 100% of us
said, yep, I thought about that

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this morning.
In fact, I thought about it a

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few times because I’m so
convinced and certain Jesus

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coming back and that it could be
imminent that I think about it

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every day.
And usually, when I wake up,

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it’s one of the first things
that crosses my mind another day

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has gone by and Jesus isn’t
here.

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So it might know these things at
an intellectual level.

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We might appreciate them, we
might be able to quote all sorts

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of verses but this isn’t
preparing for our exams are

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grades.
This isn’t this isn’t about

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being able to demonstrate that.
We know that Jesus is really

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coming back.
This is about do you really

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really know he’s coming back in
such a way that an emotional

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level at a personal level is
actually changing the sort of

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person that you are and it
shapes what your day looks like,

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what your life looks.
Like so it’s not just about

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doing no it and can I give a few
verses?

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Do you really really believe it?
And did you think it might?

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Do you still think it might be
today?

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Here we are talking about it.
And is it going to be in the

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next hour that Jesus is back?
Would you be?

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Yeah, you’d be surprised.
But would you have expected it?

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Did it cross your mind that it
was possible?

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And I suspect, you know, that
because we might talk about this

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a lot and with our parents and
our grandparents, I suspect

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everyone in this room has had
lots of conversations with their

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parents or their grandparents,
or with their Sunday school

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teachers or with other people in
the, in the Ecclesia about the

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return of Jesus.
I’m sure you have.

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And therefore, you know, that
Jesus is coming back at that

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level that intellectual level,
but I’m wondering as this

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afternoon, just to push that a
little bit further.

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And I hope that the, the time
that we spend, we’ve got two,

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two, two, two, two.
Two talks to to explore this.

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Firstly, when is he coming back?
And that’s where we are.

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Going to focus.
Now, when is he coming back?

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So if I was to say to you, so
give me a verse.

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From scripture that is absolute
evidence for you.

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That, you know, that Jesus must
come back.

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Just in your head, what is it?
Or write it down.

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What’s the verse that you would
give right now?

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Okay, if I stopped you on the
street and said so once told me

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that Jesus is coming back and it
says, in the Bible, can you show

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me?
Where would you go?

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Just where is it?
Where would you go?

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What verse would you show them?
We got a verse in your head or

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write the first, the reference
down.

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What’s the verse that you would
use that?

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You would say, I know that Jesus
is coming back.

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I know he’s really Coming back,
because this is what it says

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here.
Let me show you now, if you

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haven’t got a verse in your
head, that’s not a bad thing.

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But if you haven’t got a verse
in your head, I wonder why you

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haven’t got a verse in yet.
Because if you want this book

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and almighty God, to shape the
life that we live and he’s

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communicated to or through this
book, we should really know what

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he’s telling us about the coming
of his son.

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Now, here’s a verse.
Was this the verse was that?

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Good hands up, those who came
with that verse.

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Okay, good.
So, we’ve got plenty of other

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verses that you can share with
me when we have a break, but

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there’s a verse men of Galilee.
Why do you stand gazing up into

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heaven?
The same.

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Jesus, who was taken up from you
into heaven?

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Will so come in, like manner as
you have seen him go into

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heaven, that’s the promise.
That was made by the Angels.

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When Jesus ascended into heaven,
can just open your Bibles with

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me at that section. in Acts
chapter 1, And the point we want

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to bring out here is just
imagine if you had been with the

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Lord Jesus after his
resurrection, you had spent the

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best part of six weeks in his
company.

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You would you had been with him
as he as he traveled and taught

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the people for maybe three
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He’s now been crucified, he has
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your now have had six with six
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While he’s been speaking to you
about his kingdom and about

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God’s master plan, for what’s
going to happen and his Part in

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it.
So if we look in Acts chapter 1,

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the disciples are with Jesus.
And despite all the conversation

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and all the explanation.
The discussion goes like this.

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Down at verse 6.
Therefore, when they had come

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together, the apostles are come
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They asked him, they asked
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Lord.
Will you at this time restore

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the kingdom to Israel?
So they knew that there’s going

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to be a kingdom established
that, and they knew that Jesus

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was going to be king and was
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But when wasn’t quite clear, it
wasn’t quite sorted in their

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minds.
It wasn’t absolutely understood.

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And so Jesus says to them it’s
not for you to know the times or

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Seasons which the father has put
in his own authority but you

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shall receive power with the
Holy Spirit when he comes to you

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and you should be a witness to
me in Jerusalem and in all Judea

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and Samaria and to the end of
the world, as a job to do to go

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and tell the world about me and
about this King. but right now,

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this kind of isn’t being
established, it’s not for you to

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know when It’s not for you to
know when these are the apostles

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and they didn’t know when. so
the chances are if they didn’t

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know when, That you and I are
going to struggle. with knowing

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when in fact, Jesus said, of the
day and hour, no one knows not

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even the angels, but my father
only When I read verses like

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that and and maybe you’re the
same, you ask yourself a really

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fundamental question. if you
ever asked yourself this

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question, Why hasn’t the Lord
revealed to us when Jesus will

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come back?
You see there’s lots of

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occasions in scripture when we
are given information about

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events.
That would happen with some

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degree of precision and timing
and waited just look at an

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example with me, if you go back
to the Book of Genesis Right.

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Back to the time of Abraham.
Genesis 15.

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Here’s God, revealing things to
Abraham.

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Okay, so we their Genesis 15.
We’re going to start reading at

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verse 12.
When the sun was going down a

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deep sleep, fell upon Abram and
behold, horror and great

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Darkness fell upon him.
And then, he said to Abraham.

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No, certainly that your
descendants will be strangers in

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a land.
That is not theirs.

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And will serve them and they
will afflict them 400 use.

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So this is God saying to Abraham
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The people, the sons, the family
of Jacob, they’re going to go

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down to Egypt, they’re going to
become their of people who were

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going to dwell there for 400
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And then at the appointed time,
they will be released.

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And if you just turn over into
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It’s recorded for us at winners
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They come out of Egypt.
Down at verse 40.

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Now, the sergeant of the
children of Israel who lived in

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Egypt was 430 years and it came
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on that very same day, it came
to pass that all the armies of

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the Lord went out from the land
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So this is just an example of
how God gives big pieces of

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information about big events to
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Quite precise and it’s
interesting to isn’t it.

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That when we come across in the
New Testament, when Jesus is to

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be born, we find that there are
wise men who are looking for

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him, we come across individuals,
like Anna, who are waiting and

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expecting a messiah to come into
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And God has given all sorts of
proofs of his existence and of

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his power through the prophets.
When remember, they’ve declared

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things will happen, and the test
was, if it happened, then you

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would know that it had come from
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So it’s not that God can’t tell
us when There are occasions when

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God does tell with some
Precision when things are going

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to come to pass.
But when it comes to the return

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of the Lord Jesus, we haven’t
been told so we come back to the

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question, why are we not told
when How about this?

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This is from an unusual version.
Men of Galilee, why do you stand

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gazing up into heaven?
The same.

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Jesus, who was taken up from you
into heaven?

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Shall so come in, like manner.
As you have seen him go into

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heaven, in around 2000 years
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Imagine if that was what the
text had said, if that’s what

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had been said to those apostles.
How would you have felt had you

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been the likes of Peter?
Going out into the streets of

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Jerusalem and telling people
about the Lord Jesus.

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Could you imagine how if we were
told that?

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Which clearly we’re not in
Scripture, but if if we had been

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told, there’s going to be a
period of time before Jesus

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comes back.
What do you think that would

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have done for the generations
that have followed?

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Where’s the incentive to be
ready for the Lord?

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Jesus.
Where’s the incentive to preach?

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That Jesus has come and give it
so distant and it seems so far

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removed from my experience.
It’s not in my lifetime.

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But what this does bite by, not
telling us, when it means that

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for you, and for me, Jesus could
come back in our lifetime,

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that’s what it means.
And I think the way in which the

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scriptures have revealed these
things to us, I’ve God has

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chosen to communicate with us,
means that every person has ever

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lived since Jesus went to
heaven, could live in a way that

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says, Jesus could come back in
my lifetime.

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That’s why we’ve not been told
when.

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That’s why we’ve not been told
when so right from the

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beginning.
We know in the, in the letters

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that were written, they were
expecting the Lord.

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Jesus.
We know that that will work

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Leisure at thessalonica when
Paul writes to them in every

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single chapter, he writes in
that first letter, he talks

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about Jesus coming back and
about people being ready for it.

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So, for all generations, since
that time there has been the

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urgency to act now, to be ready
now because the Lord Jesus could

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come at any time.
And there’s a downside to this,

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isn’t it?
There’s a challenge and a danger

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to this. that we find that is
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that Peter wrote and it’s
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notice verse, when in this
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there’s gonna come people who
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so where is he then you’ve been
saying his coming, but is it

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says Where’s the promise?
Since the father’s fell asleep?

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All things continue as they were
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Nothing Stanley different.
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to you here. knowing this first
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days walking according to their
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themself, And saying, where is
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So these are clearly people who
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Well, we started the beginning
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speak it out loud but in your
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I know Jesus coming.
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I can find you a verse that says
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Well, there’s going to be people
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saying, well, where is he?
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when you read that it says,
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the beginning of creation, so
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believe the idea of God creating
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a purpose and that there is
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But they still scoff, they still
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Yeah I’d I don’t know, right
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or not Jesus is coming back.
I’m not convinced.

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that any of us could be sucked
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We could be seduced by that very
idea, where then is he How many

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times do you reckon?
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in the New Testament.
How many times Give me a number

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somebody, 20 times.
It’s like auction here. 20

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times.
Who’s been me 20, 50 50.

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I’ve got 250 got 250 beds,
hundred got 100, don’t scratch

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your nose, your bidding, 100
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the back 200 device going once
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Now, Advance on 200.
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back?
300 times. 300 times directly or

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indirectly, there is an allusion
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back.
So this isn’t just a little bit

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that some christadelphians
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couple of art versus and said,
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And I say that because of all
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the world I’m amazed how many
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Toronto area, but of all the
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we’ve got a book here.
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the New Testament alone 300
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And yet, I don’t know whether I
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shouting about that. and it
could be that all the other

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distractions and all the other
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from the moment we wake up when
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your dies, Or you jump onto
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Instead of the faith book and
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You kind of get drowned out with
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And the idea that Jesus is
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in all of that noise. so it’s
not Jesus might be could be,

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maybe should be It’s Jesus
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He really is coming back.
And did you notice in the

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reading that we had?
Do you want to just open your

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Bibles there in Matthew 24?
I’m not sure whether you are.

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Kind of people that would mix
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What do you call a burglar over
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You called him a burglar.
What you calling a robber?

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We had was that a Thief?
What a kind of guy that breaks

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in overnight when you’re asleep?
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What would you call him?
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Louder a criminal.
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Yeah, it’s a criminal.
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they don’t steal cats, but in
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that now you look like the kind
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association with criminals
burglars thieves or whatever.

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But if you had a kind of a
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Criminal, Who said, you know I’m
going to I’m going to do a break

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in And I’m thinking this place
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I’m going to break in and help
myself and I’m thinking about

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going at 5:30 in the evening
when they’re having their tea or

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supper, Yeah, you’d say that’s a
bad idea.

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No, you don’t do that.
You want to go when then not

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going to be expecting you when I
going to be go prepared when

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they maybe even going to be
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And it’s interesting that on so
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around 10.
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conveys of him coming like a
thief in the night. not

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expected, perhaps, when even
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ill-prepared.
So if we look in Matthew and 24,

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Verse 42 watch.
Therefore, for you do not know

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what hour your lord is coming
but know this that if the Master

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of the House had known, what
hour, the thief would come he

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would have watched And not
allowed his house to be broken

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into.
Therefore, you also be ready.

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for the son of man is coming at
an hour, you do not expect Now I

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suspect I’m just telling you,
lots of things that you know, I

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don’t think I’ve told you
anything here that you don’t

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know and I don’t apologize for
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Because when I asked you the
question, right?

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The beginning and said, so did
you think Jesus might come

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today?
And you answer the question in

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your head.
I suspect that some of you may

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be quite a number of you haven’t
given it much thought.

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You maybe thought what you’re
going to wear you maybe thought

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who you might see you, maybe
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Do I need to do that homework
yet you maybe thought what’s for

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breakfast?
you maybe thought wearing my

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shoes, you maybe thought are
there any messages on my texts?

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But I wonder, how many of us
thought is this the day?

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That Jesus is coming back.
You see these words aren’t Idle

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Words.
They’re not just words that we

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read over and over and we can
quote and when we’re at Sunday

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school and we got to give a
verse that we know, When our

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parents I know, you know, you
know, Jesus is coming back,

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don’t you go?
Yeah, you quote a verse that’s

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that’s not what it’s for.
This is about our life and about

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the world that we live and been
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When Jesus comes back and we’re
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to be a world, not prepared and
individuals, not prepared.

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And what scares me is the is the
thought that in this room are

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every single one of us going to
be prepared or are some of us

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not going to be prepared even
though we knew Even though we

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knew we weren’t ready.
Even though we knew we weren’t

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ready.
Even though you knew this

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morning, did you think that he
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You see that’s this is, this is
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This this is this is not a
textbook for us to think about

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this is the book that God has
used to communicate with us how

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he wants us to live our life and
we ready for his sons return.

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Have you seen that before?
Some of you seen this.

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I was quite interested to see
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This Here’s a, here’s a date
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There’s a, there’s a whole lot
of billboards right across the

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parts of North America, where
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But Jesus coming back in May
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Let’s met, is it next week?
20th May 21st.

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according to this individual.
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He’s gone back and he’s taken a
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He’s worked out.
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flood.
And he’s concluded from his

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calculations, that that’s when
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And that the thing is, you know,
that there have been throughout

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history, a lot of people who
have in all sincerity and with

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good intent, try to warn people.
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There’s been people even within
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in all sincerity.
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looking at scripture, and you
get really excited about

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scripture, it’s very easy to
say, you know what?

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When I look at this, and look at
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and connection here, I think I
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possibility that this could be
the date or the When Jesus

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coming back and want to share it
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But it’s kind of putting to one
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Those verses that said no one
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Not even the angels, six weeks
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the apostles still couldn’t get
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And the message really is that
none of us are going to get it

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right?
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There will still be people with
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doing great damage and great
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is that, that people We’ll be
searching for a date because

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it’s the big question is the big
question you’ll know the story

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of Daniel and the image, you’ll
know the prophecy.

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You will know the situation.
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the day for a year principle,
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helps us understand all sorts of
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But it will mean that there will
be some individuals who will

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take that principle and apply it
in a number of ways and come up

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with dates when they believe
that the Lord Jesus will be

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here.
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continual thing over the
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Ages decided that if he took the
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added to it, what he felt
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religion.
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the Beast, 666, that that would
give the Euro when Jesus would

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come back.
There was a reverend Miller was

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a Baptist minister in the, in
the 1800s, in England who had

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worked it out.
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he’d hit apply the line of logic
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Yeah, it’s a line of logic, but
because it’s logical doesn’t

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mean it’s right.
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He applied a principle of the
day for a year.

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He went back to when he thought
certain events that happened and

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added to it, the 2,300.
He came to a date.

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Taking it from, from The Book of
Daniel 2300 days, 2200 Euros,

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added it together.
And said, 1844, Jesus is coming

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back.
And most of his followers gave

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away all their possessions.
And we’re all ready for Jesus to

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come back and of course Jesus
didn’t come back. all the

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Watchtower Society who we talked
about the Jehovah’s Witness

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community, They too had carried
out there.

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Detailed exposition of the
prophets and they in fact

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concluded that Jesus was going
to return visibly and physically

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in 1874 he didn’t.
So they went back to the drawing

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board and I worked it out again.
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And when Jesus didn’t come back
in 1914, the said what?

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We got it wrong, he did really
come back, but you just can’t

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see him.
And I took a word that took a

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Greek word that took one word in
the the chapter we read part of

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what will be the sign of your
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The Greek word piracy, I think
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What will be the sign of his
appearing and his eye?

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That can mean his presence?
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He’s just present.
He’s really ruling now.

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What is it?
We’ve read about lightning from

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the East to the West.
Every eye will see him and

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nobody knows the day or the hour
and they said, oh yeah, yeah, it

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says they are now but it it
doesn’t say, you don’t know the

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Eur.
It’s not right, it’s not right.

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They take the word of God and
they would use it in a way that

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they believe, perhaps With all
sincerity and all good intention

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will help them know when Jesus
coming back.

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So they can tell their
followers, be ready, because

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Jesus is coming back, but we are
not told for a reason so that we

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can all be ready.
As if it was today not for a day

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that’s set in the future that we
can just work towards.

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And, you know, it’s kind of put
off your exam revision till

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nearer.
The time, we’ve got weeks, we

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got yours before.
Jesus is back.

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Just, I just wait a bit.
I’ll be got yours and then we’ll

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maybe get converted get
baptized, it’s fine.

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It could be today.
And that’s why we’re not told,

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that’s why we’re not told when
we just told he is and it could

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be even today.
So, ignoring warnings Is Not

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Unusual.
You’ll know the passengers.

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We’ve seen here in in Matthew 24
of your Bible, still open in

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Matthew 24.
There it is, in verse 36.

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Of that day and hour.
No one knows not even the angels

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of heaven but my father only but
as the days of Noah were so also

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will the coming of the son of
man be And you have read these

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passages hundreds of times.
I’m sure.

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And you might be left thinking.
So what’s that got to do with

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me?
Got a lot to do with you and a

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lot to do with me.
Because it’s part of the warning

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and it’s telling us, Jesus is
telling us that when there’s

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been warnings before, people
have ignored them, we’re told

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that Noah didn’t just build the
ark.

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Imagine if there was just the
art being built, that’s enough

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of a witness, but he preached
righteousness, There was also to

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a bit of a sign in the name of
one of the people who are alive

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at the time, who when he died
was a signal, a sign that

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something big would happen.
But people ignored what was

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being said?
And Jesus said that’s what it

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will be like.
People will ignore what’s going

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on.
They’ll ignore the signs.

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And in fact, this idea of people
marrying and giving in marriage

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and eating and drinking.
In fact, if you link it to, with

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the passage in Luke, where we
read about the time when they

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were all taken unaware, as when
there was destruction, People

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were eating and drinking, but
they were buying.

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They were trading, they were
building, they were planting.

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In other words, if you build a
new plans, it’s because you

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think there’s a future, you’re
kind of doing things for the

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future.
You don’t plant.

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Now, expecting a crop.
Now, you plant now because of a

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return in the future, you build
now for somewhere to live in the

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future and Jesus said, that’s
how people were, they were

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concerned with preparing
themselves for their future.

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They saw no intervention
whatsoever from God.

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They had no idea that the Lord
God was going to intervene and

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judge the way he did.
They ignored, they were

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willfully ignorant.
They didn’t want to know, they

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close their ears, their shut
their eyes.

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They just pushed it to one side
and when it came, it says, they

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were taken unawares.
And Jesus said that’s how it’s

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going to be.
That’s how it’s going to be.

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Imagine if that was you.
When Jesus comes back.

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And you are too busy wondering.
Is there enough food in the

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fridge?
When you woke up this morning,

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you know, you who’s had the
milk.

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There may have been something
you were so concerned about this

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more, you were more concerned
about that.

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Than thinking whether Jesus was
going to come back today,

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perhaps but that’s the world
that Jesus said existed, when

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people got their priorities all
wrong.

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One of the big things that’s
happening.

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That we need to just be aware
of.

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I have fast, things happen.
Either, what you saw this

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picture, whether you’ve seen it
in the, any of the magazines of

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the news programs, but just a
few weeks ago, it is literally

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18 weeks ago.
There is a man because of unrest

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in Tunisia.
There was outrage at poverty and

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inequality and if they were
taking their protest to the

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street, I miss mom decided that
he was a mark of protest, would

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set himself on fire, set himself
alight in the Market Square and

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kill himself.
Took his life, and it resulted

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in various other people sort of
copying, and a whole, upheaval

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of unrest, followed.
And he’s being visited thinks,

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he’s in hospital in a dreadful
State and he died.

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But it kind of was a spark
that’s going across the Middle

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East. 18 weeks ago, people were
kind of out there was something

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being talked about a happening
in the Middle East in Tunisia.

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Or, you know, could you even put
Tunisia on the map?

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Where is it in relation to the
Middle East?

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Where is it in relationship to
Israel?

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And before we know where we are,
there’s a kind of a chain

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reaction in other countries.
Some of them all have heard of

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that one.
I’ve heard of Egypt.

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Yeah, And certainly in Egypt,
there is an overthrow of a man

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who’s been in charge for 30
years.

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And suddenly, we’ve got Colonel
Gaddafi was a great friend of

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the West an ally in as much as
he was allowing all sorts of

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things to happen.
And suddenly he is now.

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Well, I guess, depending on what
time it is, is he still in

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power?
Is he not in power?

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We’ve literally got things
happening but literally a few

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weeks ago, we’ve gone from a new
story that may have just been on

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the end that there’s been
someone taking their life in

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Tunisia.
And suddenly, they’ve been

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Uprising and Uprising.
And the reason I’m making these

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points is because there is
something about speed and the

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speed of communication, we live
in a generation where we know

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about these things faster than
than any other of Our

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Generations have gone before.
For if we were to put that a

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history of the world over the
last, what if we took the last

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2,000 years across the stage
here, where the far end was 2000

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when Jesus was alive and I’m
standing here at the present day

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and we think right?
So where have all of the changes

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happen which have enabled mass
and fast communication?

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We haven’t got to go back very
far.

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Where are, you know, 100 years?
And you well not much not much

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around here.
We probably had your mail was

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delivered by a guy on a horse.
I’m back here.

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You probably wouldn’t even know
what was happening.

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The other side of the world?
And now we live in a generation.

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Where you almost know in real
time.

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What’s happening around the
world?

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Every eye shall see him.
Men’s Hearts, failing them for

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00:35:55,400 –> 00:35:56,900
fear because of what’s
happening.

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If I live back here when I have
known about what happened in

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Fukushima It would have just
been.

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Completely out of my sphere of
knowledge, wouldn’t it?

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But here where I live now, where
you live now, in the age that we

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live, we know so much.
And it’s fueling and feeding all

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sorts of instability around the
world.

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People are fearful for what is
happening.

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The knock-on effect, the mass
communication, which is driving

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people to want more.
To take power into their own

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00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:36,000
hands.
But the keyword and what’s

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happening is it’s creating
instability things, aren’t

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00:36:41,100 –> 00:36:46,500
certain things aren’t sure in
the world that we live in It’s

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precarious, it’s dangerous
things, happen fast real fast.

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That’s why when we read like a
thief in the night, why we read

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Jesus saying, watch because you
don’t know, we can’t.

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So say, yeah, we’ll watch our
watch.

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I’ve kind of on a Sunday, I’ll
go to the meeting and I’ll watch

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I’ve kind of do the readings,
every now and again and watch

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what the word tells me.
This is about watching like

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we’ve never watched before,
because Jesus really is coming

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00:37:23,900 –> 00:37:26,800
back.
It’s not a story.

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00:37:26,900 –> 00:37:30,000
You know, your folks may have
told you about Santa and about

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the tooth fairy and you kind of
thought that’s pretty cool.

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But they also told me about
Jesus coming back and if we’re

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00:37:36,800 –> 00:37:39,200
not careful, we put it in the
same camp.

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This is real.
This is real.

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It’s so real.
That Jesus is coming back that

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00:37:47,800 –> 00:37:59,000
we can’t just push it to one
side. when I’ve tried to do, Is

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this to start you?
Thinking a bit more about when I

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00:38:04,800 –> 00:38:08,300
can’t tell you when we’ve seen,
I can’t tell you when.

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But you, I’ve also tried to
offer you a reason why I can’t

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and why nobody can tell you
when, but it shouldn’t stop us

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00:38:16,000 –> 00:38:21,000
being curious.
I’m being anticipate, tree being

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00:38:21,000 –> 00:38:26,800
excited and being watchful.
Being watchful.

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Because that’s what Jesus told
us to do to watch.

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You can’t be ready if you’re not
watching.

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So when we’ve had a short break,
the question is Are you

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watching?
And we’ll look at one or two

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00:38:47,600 –> 00:38:51,700
things that may be worth a watch
a few themes for us to think

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00:38:51,700 –> 00:38:56,300
about and also how we’re going
to watch so that we are ready

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00:38:56,300 –> 00:38:57,100
when the Lord returns.