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Eric Walsh:  The Dragon's War on the Remnant

Eric Walsh

The Dragon’s War on the Remnant Part 1

The Dragon’s War on the Remnant Part 2

The Dragon’s War on the Remnant Part 3

The Dragon’s War on the Remnant Part 4

The Dragon’s War on the Remnant Part 5

The Dragon’s War on the Remnant Part 6

All right, so the last of my sessions here before I head back to sunny Southern California, where I can wear shorts, is the remnants counterattack on the dragon.

And so after talking all the different things, and there's a lot more, obviously, we could say on a lot of things we discussed, but I do want to spend the last session really dealing with the counterattack.

What is God's remnant church supposed to do now to go back against the dragon.

And Matthew 16 verse 18 it says, and I say all...

And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church." And I like the last part of this verse.

Last part of verse says, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Now is a gate an offensive or a defensive weapon?

Understand that when you have Christ and when you as we as the remnant church are doing what we're supposed to do, in fact, the defensive positions of the enemy will be broken down.

See a lot of times we're thinking about like, they're coming at us.

And it says that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The gates of hell will not be able to stand against the God's true church.

God's true church will run over the gates of hell.

And a lot of times we read this almost exactly the opposite.

It's like the gates of hell won't fall on you or something.

The Gates are made to protect other people, and the gates will not be able to stand when the truth is out.

Ellen White says this, she says, with such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, mightily furnished, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Savior might be carried to the whole world?

How soon might the end come, the end of suffering and sorrow and sin?

How soon, in place of possession here, with its blight of sin and pain, Our children might receive their inheritance, where the righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein forever, where the inhabitants shall not say I am sick, and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard." An army of youth.

And so I say that 1 of the things that's happening to really counter attack what the enemy is doing is the fact that we have these powerful organizations and movements now coming into the remnant.

Because there was a time when a lot of people were thinking the Seventh-day Adventist Church is flailing and being watered down, and there's no hope for the Adventist Church.

Because if I believe that, then I believe that God isn't on his throne.

And Elowite specifically talks about that the old ship Zion will reach its port.

The children of Israel messed up, stumbled, fell, fall.

Christ was still born in the line of David.

The church with all of the problems it's had, even when you look at the great revivals of Europe, the great revivals that have swept through the United States, many, many times the gospel, the Holy Spirit has fallen and God's work goes on mightily, even in the most dire of circumstances.

In fact, God does his best work when things seem the most impossible.

That's why God is about to do a mighty thing because many of us inside Adventism, now we're ready to actually trust God.

See, there was a while when we thought church structure, and the organization, and the general conference, and the divisions, and the unions, and our schools, and our hospitals, that we had it all in place, that we could just cruise control into the second coming.

Guess what we now realize, those of us who are Bible-believing Christians in the Adventist church?

Then all of our devices that we have on earth, all of the possessions and wealth or whatever the Adventist church has, is not enough if the Holy Spirit, if the light of rain, is not falling on God's people.

So God is waiting for us to make that realization clear, and then God will show up and work.

But God is waiting for us to be prepared to do that.

And I'm amazed at how many young people are here now.

And I did the West Coast Youth, I don't know what to say to YNC as far as they switched it.

Generation of Youth for Christ is what we call it here.

So, but when I did that 1 up at Weimar, again, it was a whole other group that is able to make it.

I like the idea of having 1 big 1 every year and then little ones all over the place.

I'm not at all a part of the planning of all of this.

But I think that's brilliant, because it'll get more people able to be exposed to it.

I guess that was around summertime this year.

These are powerful things that are going on.

On college campuses, secular college campuses, young people are becoming acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ because of this.

And they do things like cook food for students and give the food away while finals are going on, just to become acquainted with them and sign people for Bible study.

It's powerful ministry in the heart of the youth of the United States of America, that organization.

Avid Hope is at Loma Linda, and I believe also possibly in Orlando now.

But at Loma Linda, this is a powerful ministry.

It is so also because of AudioVerse, which I have listed down here at the bottom.

And I've gone around the world and run into people who say, I listen to sermons on AudioVerse.

So there are parts of the world where people aren't disconnected from present truth.

How powerful that technology, with all of the bad things we could talk about the technology has done, I think it's powerful that the very same technology is now allowing the 3 angels' messages to be delivered in stealth behind the lines where they never could otherwise be preached.

I mean, I know that 3ABN gets into Muslim-dominated countries.

And there are people that I've watched when they've said that they get letters from some of these countries where people have given their lives to Christ because they have a satellite dish and they can watch 3ABN.

Some of our Adventist institutions are still doing great work.

Our lifestyle centers, There is a tangible force that God can use with the remnant to get the work finished.

And I want to make sure that all of us need to find our place.

And if it's not here, there are other ministries.

And he's doing this great work with the Muslim community.

Paul tells Timothy in the book Second Timothy, he says, make full proof of your ministry.

Each 1 of us needs to have a ministry and be doing something.

This isn't for Mark Finley and Doug Batchelor.

I mean, those guys do the work God has commissioned them to do, but each 1 of us has work to do.

This is not a, you know, this is not a, being an Adventist Christian and part of the remnant is not a spectator sport.

It's real easy to show up to the conferences and hang out and go home.

But realistically, you should come here, have your batteries recharged, get new pieces of truth, or see deceptions a different way, or whatever it is God wants to show you.

Make connections, network with other people, and go back home and be active in doing something tangible for God at home.

That's how we're going to, the battle of the end is going to be won bit by bit, piece by piece, square by square.

It's not like 1 day 1 of us is going to get up and preach in front of Congress and the whole world converts over.

And in fact, the Bible says the gospel is going to be preached into all the world as a witness.

Really doesn't say how many people are going to hear it and believe it.

Series

Eric Walsh: The Dragon's War on the Remnant

The Dragon’s War on the Remnant Part 6

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Attachments

Plenary

Here’s Your Church Back

2h 13m

Above and Beyond: Keys To Personal Revival And a Lifestyle of Vibrant Living in Christ!

2. Above & Beyond Humility at the Foot of the Cross

59m

Biblical Faith - Secular World

The Remnant: Elitism or Evangelism?

51m

GYC 2012 Seminar: Streams of Light

The “In” of the “In and Out”: The Shaking, Literature, and Eschatology

52m

Biblically Correct: How to be Male in the 21st Century

3. Addicted to Purity in a Pornographic World, Part 1

1h

WYC 2012 Breakout Sessions

Overcoming As Christ Overcame, Part 1

1h

Health Evangelism

The Hour of Victory- Part 1

1h 49m

Sanctuary Under Siege

6. The Omega Apostasy

1h

The Wheel of Faith

6. Bare Naked

59m

Biblically Correct: How to be Male in the 21st Century

6. Review and Your Questions/Testimonies

1h 10m

Morning Devotional

The Belly of the Beast

1h 7m

Knees, Keys, and Please!

5. Victory in the Final Conflict

1h 4m

Sound Doctrine