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Eric Walsh

The War for Your Mind Part 2: Ready Minded

Let's start with our scripture reading for this afternoon session.

Matthew 24, and we're going to read 1 and 2, and then we'll get into the story of it.

The Bible says, and Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.

And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things?

Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here 1 stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.

Father God, we thank you for this opportunity to study your word.

We thank you for your wonderful, beautiful Sabbath day today, Lord.

We ask now, Lord, that you just lead us into truth by the power of your Holy Ghost.

So the talk, we'll come back to those verses in a second, is ready-minded.

How do we make sure we have the kind of mind that is ready for what's about to happen in the world?

So we read already that the disciples were shocked.

Jesus in Matthew chapter 23, Jesus had gone into the temple, remember he had thrown out the money changers and he said to them, I leave your house unto you desolate.

This blew the disciples' minds because the disciples were thinking, wait a minute, he's gonna be the king of Israel, how can he say that the temple is desolate?

So they started to panic and then they follow Jesus, you know, they're following Jesus and they ask him, you know, how is this going to happen?

We'll see in a second but just to give you an idea that's what the temple looked like in Jesus' day.

Prophetically 1 of the things happening right now that is very relevant is that there is a move to try and build a third temple in Israel.

We'll come back to that but this is based on a false interpretation of biblical prophecy and here's the interesting thing is it helps drive a good chunk of American foreign policy.

So it's an interesting tidbit that is based on the false doctrine that some believe there's going to be a secret rapture 1 day, not biblical, but they believe in order for that to happen the Antichrist has to exist in the rebuilt third temple.

So the Antichrist has to be in the temple.

Tony Evans from right here in Dallas, I think he just stepped away from ministry from what I was reading.

No, he wasn't really He's restored, but he's not running the church is what I just read.

Really nothing to do with what I'm saying.

What he said years ago is that out of that third temple which will not I don't believe is biblically prophetically accurate Jesus will 1 day reign for a thousand years and force the world to keep his commandments Tony Evans I heard him preach that years ago let me say this do we need a third temple because where is Christ now in the heavenly temple and he is there now interceding on our behalf if you read the book of Hebrews it is very plain any work what would an earthly temple do Would you take a bull and kill it and put it on what good would it do when Christ has brought as the Hebrew says his own blood into the most holy place?

What good is the blood of calves or lambs gonna do you when the blood of Christ is in the heavenly sanctuary?

Anyway that's that's that's 1 of the things that do so if you did if you go to Israel I've been Israel this all that's really left and it's not even this is not from the original this is not from Herod's temple or Solomon's temple this is what the Ottomans actually built the Turks when they ruled they built this so this is not actually just like Jesus said ever you know he put he prophesied here, every stone would be torn down, every stone was torn down and was never rebuilt.

Satan was so bad to build this thing back up, but we'll see what happens.

Sometimes I think well maybe he builds it up right before the close of probation but we'll see.

Matthew 24 3 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 your coming and of the end of the world so the disciples ask the questions your neighbors are going to ask we've had people at my our real term that we saw I think we just sold our house in Connecticut he was a once an Orthodox Jew really good guy now he's an atheist really doesn't want anything to do with God.

2 years ago when October 7th happened, he called me and said, you got to tell me what this means.

He knows the only perspective I'm gonna give him is a biblical 1, Yet when the chaos of the world was high enough, he said, listen, let me turn to someone who might be able to give me an answer from the scripture.

So we have to be able to answer this question.

So the disciples asked, when will the end of the world be?

Here's Jesus' response, and this is where this connects back to the frontal lobe.

Verse 4, and Jesus answered and said unto them, take heed that no man deceive you.

I said it this morning we are living in an age of deception.

The word for deceive there that's the Hebrew word it's pronounced planeo.

Jesus, before he gives 1 prophecy about the end of the world or what's going to happen to Israel or the temple, the first thing out of Jesus' mouth is, listen, don't be fooled.

In 1 of my recent sermons, I told a story about, you know, they have these AI things now, so you don't even know when you watch it, like, you get like something on social media and then you don't know if it's real or not anymore.

I mean I saw this thing and this big bird of prey came down and grabbed the baby cub lion and the big bird of prey was taking off with the lion baby cub and the lioness started running and she jumped way up in the sky and grabbed the bird.

There's no lion, no lioness, no cub, no bird, nothing.

It's just some dude sitting in a room somewhere telling chat GPT or somebody what to do.

The ability to deceive us today is astronomically greater than anything the disciples could have even imagined.

So we have got to have sharp minds to make it through these last days.

So verse 4, "...and Jesus answered a son of them, take heed that no man deceive you." Why?

Because many will come in my name saying I am Christ and do what?

So there is going to be a not just plain old-fashioned deception, false Christ, false messiahs, people leading people in a certain direction.

So when I do this full thing, I have a lot of these, but I'll give you just a few.

The guy on the left there is Yahweh Ben-Yahweh.

If you go back to the 90s, he was worshipped as God.

They even had a whole dance they did to the hip-hop music to this guy.

Then he switched to 666 and then later he tacked and said, well, that's crazy.

Of course, here in Texas, Waco, Texas is famous for David Koresh and the Davidians, but Sun Myung Moon was also worshipped.

Some of you may even remember, and I sometimes have slides on this, the guy from San Francisco, Jim Jones.

I mean, Jim Jones led all those people all the way to Guyana and had all those people put to death.

It was prophesied that this would happen, but it's not just there.

This is, again, when I do a full music talk, I get into this a lot deeper, but this is a guy named Kendrick Lamar.

He's the guy who did the Super Bowl last year.

Now, I don't know about you, and I grew up listening to rap music.

I said, he's just talking, rapping, and it's just blending like bad macaroni and cheese.

But I have the slides of Kanye West and Nas, all these rappers pretending to be Jesus.

What a lot of people don't know about hip-hop, rap music, And unless you come from the Northeast, specifically from New York, you may not know that actually rap music, hip-hop music, is born out of a religion in large part.

The name of that religion is the 5% nation of Islam.

So if you don't know that, that's old school rappers like Big Daddy Kane, the Poor Righteous Teachers, famous rappers like the Wu-Tang Clan that were big, I don't know who's big now, but I know Jay-Z is still a 5%er, I would have to believe he was a 5%er back then.

The 5% Nation teaches that the black man is God and the white man is the devil.

When rap music started selling, guess who bought all the albums?

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