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

Let's review a little bit about the purpose of our seminar.

You know, when you look at a seminar on coming events, I mentioned to you that there are 3 things that we want to keep in our mind.

1 is that God makes most clear what's most important.

So there may be some things in the book of Revelation or even in the writings of Ellen White that we're not 100 percent clear on, but God makes most clear what's most important.

God's great goal is to get you and to get me from here to heaven.

And if you had a child on a stormy, snowy night, roads are icy, snow's pounding down, wind is blowing, bridges are out, trees are falling, But there's 1 road that's been plowed by the county.

And you were telling your child, wouldn't you want to make that?

There, it, just a hair louder I think for the back.

If you were making a map for your children, wouldn't you make that map as clear as possible?

And so revelation is designed by God with clear anchor points to enable us to get home.

The second thing that we second principle we're operating on is that every prophecy reveals Jesus, his grace, his goodness, his love.

So when you study last-day events, if you're studying simply about dates and timelines as important as they are.

And thirdly, the study of Revelation's prophecy, the study of books like great controversy, early writings, Ellen White's writings, should not leave us in fear, but should fill us with hope.

And so when we look at last day events, The purpose is not so that we quake in fear.

The purpose is to bring deeper spirituality to our lives.

And in this session, we're going to look at true and false revivals.

We're going to look at the strategy of Satan to destroy God's people and destroy the world, and then we're going to see how God counteracts that with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Demonic activity from beneath calls for all God's power from above.

The power of the Holy Spirit is greater than the power of the evil 1.

Some people talk to me about the power of demons, I talk to them about the power of Jesus.

Some people talk to me about how strong Satan has a hold on them, I talk about how Jesus can set them free.

Some people talk about how they fail in temptations, and I talk about how Jesus can set them free.

Some people talk about how they fail in temptations and I talk about how Jesus can give us victory.

The power of Jesus is greater than the power of the evil 1.

But it's important to know the strategy of Satan in the last days.

Father in heaven, thank you that you are in control.

Thank you that your power is greater than the power of the evil 1.

Thank you also for truth that reveals the majesty of God's love, his grace, and his goodness.

I pray now that as we study true and counterfeit revivals, that you'd reveal the plans of God, unmask the plans of Satan, and clearly enable us to know what's on the road ahead.

A number of years ago in Miami, Florida, there were a number of burglaries and the police and the investigators couldn't figure out what was going on.

There was a burglary, and 1 home was burglarized, and they took a very expensive stereo set.

Another home, different part of town, burglarized.

They took some very, very exclusive artwork.

Another home burglarized, took electronic equipment like computers.

And The police are saying, what is going on here?

They just couldn't figure out what was happening.

There's 1 detective on the case, and he began to look very, very carefully.

And he saw that there was an interconnectedness between each of these robberies.

And he saw as well that these robberies most likely weren't the robberies of 1 person, or 2 people, or 3 people, or 4 people.

It wasn't like a gang that was working in different parts of the city, but that there was 1 person.

These were not separate, distinct robberies by different people, but there was 1 golden thread between each robbery, and it was likely 1 robber.

The robberies took place over a period of time.

And so the police studied them, and they said, wait a minute.

Based on this information, we think we can tell you where the robber is going to strike next.

They put together all the pieces in the puzzle.

Because there was somebody that had an idea of what was going to happen in the future.

When you look at the activities of Satan in the last days of Earth's history, and you put together the pieces in the puzzle, you can be prepared for where he's gonna strike next and what he's gonna do.

Now, if you look at our world, as we approach the final crisis, there's basically 3 classes of people.

If you were the devil and you were catapulting the whole world into a final crisis, what would you do?

What strategies would you use on unbelievers to harden them in their unbelief?

They have a certain measure of belief in Christ.

It may be a belief in Buddha, maybe Hinduism, but they're believers.

If you were the devil, what would you do for people that already believe but are embraced in false doctrines?

How would you crystallize those false doctrines?

And then There are Seventh-day Adventists.

What do you think the devil's strategy would be for them?

So in this class, we first want to take a look at these strategies.

We're going to look at first Satan's strategy for unbelievers.

I'd like you to take your Bible and turn to Matthew chapter 24.

This is the great chapter in the Bible on last day events as outlined by Jesus, the signs of the times.

We are told by Ellen White that it would be well for us to study carefully these signs of the times.

You remember Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives looking across the Kidron Valley at the temple.

And as he was sitting there, he said, not 1 stone will be left on the temple.

As he made that statement, the disciples thought that an event as cataclysmic as the destruction of the temple must be the end of the world.

So they said to Jesus, tell us when these things shall be and what shall be the sign of your coming in the end of the world.

He describes false Christs and false prophets, but then he says in verse 6, you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.

See that though you are not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there'll be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in different places.

Wars do not occur simply because some human despotic authoritarian leader motivates their army to invade another country.

Wars occur precisely because Satan is behind those wars and when the wars occur, Satan wants to sweep thousands who don't know Christ into death.

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Last Day Events, The Remnant, and Church Organization

02 The Holy Spirit, Laodicea, and Revival

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Every Wind of Doctrine Part 2

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Revival Now!

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