GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Last Day Events, The Remnant, and Church Organization

Mark Finley

01 Revelation’s Remnant

02 The Holy Spirit, Laodicea, and Revival

03 The Rise of a Prophetic Movement

04 The Shaking, the Sifting, and the Remnant Church

05 The Triumph of God’s End Time Church

Father in heaven, thank you so much for the opportunity to work here in this seminar together, to study together really, to sense your spirit working among us, clearly outline the events that are coming so that we can be prepared for them.

Lead us to a deep abiding experience with Jesus.

Enable us to know your will and Father prepare us for what's coming in Christ's name.

Now let's suppose you are attending a concert in Carnegie Hall.

All right, Let's suppose you're attending a concert in Carnegie Hall.

And you have looked forward to this concert.

It's a special event that you've saved for, you've purchased tickets for.

And about in the middle of the concert, some guy jumps up and cries, fire, fire, fire.

First, the guy is an absolute lunatic, and you're hoping that some New York security guards will come and carry the guy out.

Second choice is the guy's a terrorist, and he wants people to jump up so he can pull out his guns and start shooting people.

The third possibility is that there is really a fire.

Would your attitude toward the guy who stands up be any different if it's 1 of those 3 scenes?

If the guy's a lunatic, you're thinking to yourself, this guy's absolutely crazy, he's interrupting my concert.

If the guy's a terrorist, your heart is filled with fear.

But if this is really a fire, at the end of that, when people are evacuated, everybody's safe, you're gonna throw your arms around the guy and say, thank you for saving my life.

When you look at coming events or last-day events, We are looking at something that comes to us from the heart of a loving God because there is a genuine crisis that's coming.

It's not some wild-eyed fanaticism, but it's rather a loving God shares with us a message in the last days to prepare people for the coming crisis.

Now when you study coming events there are 3 things to keep in mind.

First, Jesus makes clear what's most important.

There is no area that I know of that has greater speculation than the area of last day events.

You get all kind of speculation that takes place, but Jesus makes clear what is it, what's most important.

So if something is not real clear, It obviously is not real important.

So we're not going to look at speculation in this class.

We're not going to look at what might happen and because somebody's theory of 7 popes from Revelation 17 or all this kind of stuff.

We're not gonna look at these purported time periods that from this national Sunday law to the close of probation, it has to be.

We are gonna look at clear, lucid statements in the Bible and the spirit of prophecy.

That's where we are going to land in this class.

Secondly, there are 3 principles we're going to look at.

Second principle, Jesus is the center of all prophecy.

If you present prophecy without presenting a Christocentric Jesus center of prophecy, wherever you end up you're not going to end up right because what is the purpose of prophecy?

The purpose of prophecy is to prepare a people for the coming of whom?

And so Jesus must be the center of all prophecy.

The third thing is Jesus has given us last-day events not to scare us, not to frighten us, but to prepare us.

If you study last-day events and you come away frightened and scared, if you come away trembling, think, oh, I can never make it through that time, there's something wrong with that approach, because Jesus does not give us last day events to frighten us.

He doesn't give us last day events to scare us.

He gives us last day events to prepare us and to encourage us.

Now, I want you to take your Bible and turn to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5.

Of course, to get the most out of this seminar, you're going to want to be bringing your Bibles.

Now, you'll remember in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, the Apostle Paul talks about the coming of Jesus.

He talks about Jesus coming in power and glory.

He talks about the reality of the resurrection, the resurrection of the righteous, the resurrection of the translation of the righteous.

Paul says, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God and the dead in Christ who rise first, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air.

The Thessalonian Christians then need to understand something about the day of the Lord.

And if you look at First Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 5, 6 and 7, it says, but you, brethren, are not in darkness that that that this day, what's this day?

The second coming of Jesus should overtake you as a thief.

You are sons of light and not sons of day and our sons of the day.

Therefore, let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be sober.

So Paul is saying, look, we can have clarity about the coming of Jesus.

We're not sons of the night, we are sons and daughters of the day.

God has given to us light on the road ahead.

In the eighth volume of the Testimonies, page 28, I read this important statement, transgression has almost reached its limit.

So here Ellen White says transgression has almost reached its limit.

We can see that in the world today, can't we?

Next sentence, confusion fills the world.

And then it says, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings.

That's what we're going to be studying about.

That Great Terror has to do with famine, fire, flood, conflict, war, Great Terror.

Then this important sentence, God's people should be preparing for what is to come upon our world, to break upon the world, as an overwhelming surprise.

God's people should be preparing for what is to come upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.

Does the average person in the world today have any idea what's coming?

But we who know the truth should be doing what?

Preparing for what's to come upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.

When we study coming events, all of those coming or last day events, are pointing forward to the glorious event of Christ's second coming.

In Scripture, Jesus' second coming, you're going to want to note this, is mentioned 1, 500 times.

For every prophecy in the Old Testament speaking about the first coming of Jesus, there are 8 that speak about the second coming of Jesus.

In the New Testament, the second coming of Christ is mentioned once in every 25 verses.

So the second coming of Christ is mentioned once in every 25 verses.

So the second coming of Christ is the great mountain peak of the Bible.

Series

Last Day Events, The Remnant, and Church Organization

01 Revelation’s Remnant

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Plenary

Lightened With His Glory

1h 5m

The Blessed Hope

42m

Talking Points 4th Quarter 2022: On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope

04 The Old Testament Hope

29m

Christianity 24-7

2. The Long and Winding Road

1h 9m

Elijah: Part 1 - Where Is Your Fire?

49m

Alistair Huong and Norman McNulty: The Book Of Revelation

Revelation 10: The Second Advent Movement

46m

Time No More

49m

3rd Quarter Sabbath School 2023: Ephesians

09 Living Wisely

20m

Summoned to Court

57m

Talking Points 1st Quarter 2024: Psalms

10 Lessons of the Past

27m

SWYC 2009 Plenary Sessions

Watch

39m

Plenary

The Storm Is Here

1h 22m

Sound Doctrine