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Ceres SDA Church

Anil Kanda

Havoc

Father, the Bible says, let all the earth keep silent before you.

Lord, in the midst of everything, in the activity here at this church, and just the energy of the Sabbath, Lord, help us to remember that this is the time for us to be still.

For we know that you are a holy God, and even angels cover their eyes in reverence to you.

Lord, Help us not to simply pretend submission, but in our hearts right now, God, possess humility.

Dear Jesus, we pray and ask that you would speak to us, that you would challenge us.

Because the Bible says, those who you love you rebuke, but you rebuke that they may live.

So, God, we pray in Your mercy, in Your goodness, that You would correct us, that You would help us to be on the right path.

And Lord, we just want to pray and ask that Satan and his angels would not be welcomed here at all.

God, if there's any strongholds He has in our hearts right now, we just give You permission to send Him off.

And Lord, we pray and ask now for the Holy Spirit to minister to us, to speak to us, God.

Well, Church Family, I believe this is going to be 1 of those messages in which we are going to walk away very challenged.

We're going to walk away questioning our own spirituality.

Hopefully we'll walk away knowing that God has revealed some things to us.

Because if He does, then we know He is close to us.

The Bible says in Psalms 139, talking about all the things and all the places where God is at.

He's with us in heaven, He's with us in hell, He's with us through the trials and darkness.

At the very end, describing all the external places where God is with us, David still has to ask God to be in his heart.

Folks, sometimes God has to speak very strongly to his people.

And many times when God speaks strongly, we can be very disappointed at that because we know that what he is saying means I'm going to have to change.

And we mean that in more ways than just speaking about money.

We love being, love having our intellect stimulated, we love being comfortable, we love staying in the same spot.

This is something that's part of having a nature just like the Bible says we do, a selfish nature.

And so when we want God to speak to us, many times he will reveal things to us that are hindering us, that may be an issue in our lives that we ourselves may not recognize.

But it's very important that God reveals that, because when He is revealing it, it's that He knows something that we don't know.

And that is, if that is not taken care of, it could lead to our destruction.

And I know we love going to Ceres Church here.

But folks, sometimes we have to hear things very strongly.

And I hope to God that after this sermon instead of thinking to yourself well I don't want to ever go back to this church or thinking to yourself well I don't like Pastor Nell I want you to go out thinking is this the Lord speaking to me right now amen amen I've been studying something very late recently I've been studying the Holocaust it's been my personal study I've enjoyed also watching several documentaries about the Holocaust and things that took place towards the very end of World War II.

I also have been studying about the Final Solution and about these concentration camps.

Been learning about the horrible things, the tragic things that took place during World War II.

I've been learning about the things that the Jews went through during that time that Hitler's regime was sweeping across Europe.

How they were persecuted, how they were chased, how they were marked, how they were treated like animals, and many times killed right there, right in front of their own Family the most degrading things took place to the Jews during that time Unfortunately after they decided to remove the theocracy that God would be their king, the devil, made up for all those years in the Old Testament that he couldn't get to Israel.

And soon the Jews became the victim of Satan's wrath.

And it has been that way for the last 2, 000 years.

Unfortunately, Jews are sometimes considered the most hated people in all the world.

Now it's very interesting, we're going to be talking about a very unusual verse in scripture and you're wondering to yourself, why are we kind of slow?

It's a passage that we turn to many times.

And God here is describing some very interesting things.

If you don't have a Bible, just look in the pew in front of you or ask your friend if you could borrow it.

Or you can sit down next to them and just share.

Matthew chapter 24, starting with verse 3.

And if you're there, go ahead and say amen.

Privately saying, tell us, when will these things be?

What will be the sign of your coming, and then the end of the age.

What's that all gonna be all, what's that gonna be about?

And so as they begin to ask Jesus these questions, Jesus begins to give them the veritable grocery list starting with the very first thing look at the very next verse and Jesus answered and said to them take he that no 1 what?

Deceives you very first thing Jesus says about the end times.

There's going to be worldwide Deception we've heard this a million times Let's keep going For many will come in my name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many.

And you will hear wars and rumors of what?

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

For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.

And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

All these things are the beginning of sorrows or birth pains." In the King James.

So when Jesus begins to talk about end time events, you hear how he begins to list off all the destruction and the disasters and the death that is going to be taking place at the end of time.

Learn about the earthquakes, we learn about war, we learn about all the horrible things and in your mind As you're hearing Jesus speak about this, you're thinking about this apocalyptic wasteland that has been just destroyed by these cataclysmic events.

That's what you're thinking when you're thinking end-time events.

You're thinking destruction, chaos, just all sorts of anarchy taking place, people running for their lives and just all of a sudden you see these hurricanes coming in and these tsunamis, you see all these horrible things, war, nuclear bombs taking off, boom boom boom, I mean that's when you're hearing this you're thinking to yourself the very end of time Everything is gonna go just crazy But watch what Jesus says in verse 36.

I want you to see the paradox But at that day or hour no 1 knows not even the angels of heaven But my father all else only but is the days of Noah were so also will be the what?

For as in the days before the flood they were what?

Eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and did not know until the flood came and took them all away so will all be the coming of the Son of Man.

2 men will be in the field 1 will be taken 1 of the other left.

This is something I want you to see the paradox.

Jesus here is talking about death and destruction, all the horrible things taking place at the end of time.

But then at the very end of Matthew chapter 24, he describes how people at the very end of time will go on as if nothing is going wrong.

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