In this video Seventh-day Adventist Pastor Mark Finley, talks about some of the prophetic events yet to come using a biblical perspective. Many Christian’s are unaware of the things about to take place. While most churches preach doctrine contrary to what the Bible teaches it is possible to find people who do actually teach and follow the truth. Watch and listen as Pastor Mark Finley shares what the Bible says about end time events in prophecy.

<p>In this video Seventh-day Adventist Pastor Mark Finley, talks about some of the prophetic events yet to come using a biblical perspective. Many Christian’s are unaware of the things about to take place. While most churches preach doctrine contrary to what the Bible teaches it is possible to find people who do actually teach and follow the truth. Watch and listen as Pastor Mark Finley shares what the Bible says about end time events in prophecy.</p>

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Mark Finley

Prophecy Reveals What’s Coming

Now there are many that fail to discern the signs of the times. They fail to understand what's taking place in our world today. So let me paint this in broad strokes for you. What events are yet to take place in our world? Bible prophecy clearly reveals the future. Prophecy does not guess. It knows because prophecy has been inspired by a divine mind who longs for us to know what's coming upon this world so we can prepare for it. The tragedy is that millions of people, many of them Christians, think they know what's going to take place in the future, but have no real idea what the Bible teaches. They may have read a book about prophecy. They may have heard a sermon about prophecy, but they've never delved into the Bible themselves. You know, we can divide the world probably into four or five classes. There are those people who think they know what's going to take place, but really don't know. They have no clue. There are those people that don't know what's gonna take place and they don't know that they don't know, and they're really confused. There are those people that don't know what's gonna take place and they don't care their living life for today. And there are those people that know what's gonna take place. They are heartfelt, seeking God in prayer, seeking him through his word, concerned about what's coming and preparing for what's gonna break upon this world as an overwhelming surprise. Now, there is no reason not to know the general events that are coming in the future. In First Thessalonians chapter five, the Bible puts it this way, verse four. But brethren or sister brethrens use generic term, men, women, but brethren do You're not in darkness that the day, that's the coming of Christ should overtake you as a thief. Your children of the light in children of the day, we are not of the night nor of the darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. In other words, watch and be alert for they that sleep. Sleep in night and they that are drunken are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day be alert, put on the breast plight of faith and love in the helmet of in in a hope of salvation. In other words, we need not be locked in darkness. In Christ's day, many of the Jewish leaders thought they knew what was going to happen, but yet although prophecy predicted that Christ would come as the suffering servant, he would come as the dying lamb. They thought he was was going to come in glory and might they misunderstood the events about Christ coming and therefore they missed the coming of the Messiah. They missed the greatest event in the history of the world. Up until that point, Jesus said, come and they did not even know it. Now there are many that failed to discern the signs of the times. They fail to understand what's taking place in our world today. So let me paint this in broad strokes for you. What events are yet to take place in our world? In Matthew chapter 24, verse 14, Jesus said, this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations. Then the end shall come. So before the coming of Jesus, the gospel of Christ, the truth about Jesus, the truth of his word is gonna go to the ends of the earth. Do you think Satan can read? He certainly can. Lucifer was once a bright shining angel in heaven. He certainly can read. You think he's read that prophecy in Matthew chapter 24 14. He sure has. So if he sees the gospel going to the ends of the earth through internet, through YouTube, through Facebook, through radio, through television, through the printed page, through the witness of God's people, don't you think that the devil would do everything possible to stop those events from taking place? Indeed, he will. In Revelation the 18th chapter, we find this prophecy again, the prophecy that God's word would go to the ends of the earth just before the coming of Jesus. And we see in Revelation 18 just how Satan is going to try to destroy that proclamation. Revelation 18 one, after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven. When you read about an angel coming down from heaven, it has to do with a divine message, a divine messenger coming to earth, inspiring god's people, motivating God's people after these things. I saw another angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightened with his glory. So here again is a prediction that the word of God will go forth with power. In the last days of verse history, the gospel's not gonna flicker like some light on a candle and go out, but the gospel message is gonna go forth with power. Now Revelation 18, one is really a commentary on the book of Habak chapter two and verse 14. And here's what Haba says in chapter two. Verse 14, for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as waters cover the sea. So every town, every village, every community, every individual in every major city is gonna have a chance before the coming of Christ to understand the gospel, to understand the grace of God, to understand that Jesus came once he lived the perfect life we should have lived. He died the death. Death we should have died. He rose from the dead. He is our great high priest in heaven. He leads us to live obedient, godly lives and he is coming again. That message according to back chapter two, what did our text say? For the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Now the devil knows this is gonna come. The devil knows that Revelation 18 one, I saw another angel come down from heaven having great power. The earth is filled with his glory. The devil knows that. So what's the devil gonna do? What is coming upon our world? What should we expect to take place at a time of crisis, at a time of national and international disaster at a time of climate change, at a time when this world is suffering from economic, political, and natural disasters? The scripture says in Revelation 18 verse one, that God's message, the angel cries mightily with a strong voice saying, Babylon the great has fallen, is fallen has become the habitation of devils, the hold of every foul spirit in a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. What does it mean Babylon, the greatest fallen has fallen. Now this not the city of Babylon, the city of Babylon fell years ago when Cyrus attacked Balin in 5 39 BC and over through that city. In the book of Revelation, Babylon is a symbol of confused false religion. The Babylonians worshiped idols. The Babylonians worshiped the dead that they believed lived on in the immortality of the soul. The Babylonians were sun worshipers. So Babylon represents a false religion. It represents apostate religion that's drifted from the truth of God. It's drifted from the truth about dead. When the death, when the Bible says the living no, that they shall die, but the dead. No, not anything because if there's an immortal soul that leaves the body at death, then that soul can communicate back with the living. And if it can, it opens us for deception. 53 times in the Bible it says death is, but what? Asleep. And then Babylon was the center of son worship. But throughout ancient Israel, the Bible said in Ezekiel 20 verse 12, how am I sabbath the shall they shall be a sign between me and you? So the Sabbath was always a sign between God and his people that he created them, that he fashioned them, that his creative power would sanctify them. So what does Babylon represent? False religion that accept that has accepted false doctrines. And God said that is fallen, that is falin has fallen, is fallen. It's become the habitation of demons. In other words, spiritualism has infiltrated Babylon. Now notice verse three, all nations, that is all people have drunk of the wine, of the wrath of her fornication. In the Bible, Bible wine represents false doctrine. In the book of Psalms, it says that God would pass around the cup of salvation. In other words, in God's cup there's the pure juice of the grape. It's not fermented, it is not a a tainted with falsehoods. Here all nations have drunk the wine of the wrath of her fornication. What is fornication? Fornication is an illicit union. The book of James says, you adulterous and adulteress friendship with the world is at enmity with God. And so in the Bible, a pure true woman represents the bride of Christ, a pure true woman. Jeremiah six, verse two, I liken the daughter of Zion to a delicate, humbly woman. The daughter of Zion is the church. So God's church is likened the bride of Christ, a pure woman. In Revelation 12, verse 17, the Bible says the dragon Satan is angry with the woman. That's the true church. The pure church goes to make war with the remnant of her seed. That's the last church that keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus. In Revelation chapter 14, verse 12, you say, where are God's people? Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. So God will have a people at end time that are filled with the faith of Jesus. They are totally loyal to Christ. They're totally committed to Christ. And in this loyalty, it leads them to obedience to God, to his commandments, including the Bible Sabbath. They worship the creator on the day that the creator is set aside as a memorial of his creative activity. But Babylon, all nations have drunk the wine of the cup of the false doctrine. They commit fornication, they leave their true govern Jesus. And who do they unite with? The Bible says, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication, wither who are the kings of the earth. The political leaders and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. So here you have a triple union. Get this picture. There's a time of crisis. The gospel's going to the ends of the earth. It is the earth is being filled with the glory of God. There's famine, earthquake, fire, flood, natural disaster on the world. The devil moves to unite false religion that's drifted from the word of God, political powers and also economic powers. This triumphant of error unites. They unite and see God's people standing loyal and firm to him. They see the world in chaos and confusion with earthquakes. Natural, disastrous, economic collapse. Did you know the book of Revelation predicts that economic collapse? Let me read it to you, revelation chapter 18. We're looking there at Revelation 18. We begin with verse seven, how much she has glorified herself and lived deliciously. So much torment and sorrow I give to her. Therefore, her plagues will come in one day, verse eight. They'll be mourning, famine, fire, and she shall be utterly burned with fire. The Lord is judging her. So you see what's happening here? Everything that can be shaken is being shaken. What about that economic collapse? You'll find that here in Revelation 18 verse 12, the merchandise of her gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen. That will be no more. Verse 15, the merchants of these things that were made rich by her stand far off in fear for her torment, weeping and wailing. The Bible goes on to say in verse 19, they cast dust on their heads and cried, weeping and wailing saying the last, the last, the great city wherein she made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costly. In one hour she is made desolate. One hour. So what does the Bible predict? It predicts that at this time of the union of church and state and false religions and economic powers in this triumphant of era that's supposed to bring peace on earth, that there indeed is famine, earthquake, fire, flood, war, and that very quickly there is a rapid economic collapse. This infuriates the devil. And so what does the devil do? The devil attempts to destroy God's people who are standing loyal and firm to him and keeping his commandments. Revelation chapter 13 describes the working of the devil and it says in Revelation chapter 13 that the devil will deceive those that dwell on the earth by means of the miracles that he had power to do in the side of the beast. So there's false miracles that are being worked by apostate religion that is not keeping God's law. He has power to give life to the image of the beast. So the image of the beast should speak. What is the beast? The beast is a political, religious union. How does the beast speak? How do any nations or political alliances or religious alliances speak through the laws they make? He should speak that they should make an image of the beast. And if they don't make an image of the beast, they should be killed. He causes all verse 16, small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads that no man might buy or sell. Say if he had the number he had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. So God predicts in the future that at a time of international chaos, at a time of conflict around the world, at a time of natural disaster and economic collapse, at a period of this time that the mark of the beast will be enforced in an attempt to unify the world to supposedly bring peace back on earth again. What is God's appeal during this period of time? What is God's appeal to his people during this period of time? We go back to Revelation chapter 18 and we look there at Revelation 18 four. This is God's appeal. And I heard another voice come up out of heaven saying, come out of her my people. Where are many of God's people? They're in religions that are confused. They're in a religions that have turned their back on the principles of God's word. Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and receive not of her plagues. Verse sins have reached under heaven and God has remembered her iniquities. Notice come out of her my people. You receive not of her sins. How does the Bible define sin? What is this a call to come out of one? John chapter three and verse four, first John, chapter three, verse four, whoever commits sin transgresses also the law for sin is the transgression of the law for you know that he was manifest to take away our sins in him is no sin. So here the Bible says sin is the transgression or the breaking of God's law. So in Revelation 18 verse four, when it says, come out of her my people, that you may be not partakers of her sins, what it's really saying is come out of every law breaking church you remember we quoted Revelation 1217 and Revelation 1412 talking about God's in time, people talking about the people in the last days. Now what I want you to see is the context of Revelation 14, verse 12. In Revelation 14 verse six, we have God's last day message to go to the ends of the earth. In verse seven it says that God's people would be saying the message would say with a loud voice, fear God. That's reverence, respect God give glory to him. In the way we live, the arvi judgment has come. In other words, we're living in the judgment hour just before the coming of Jesus worship him that made heaven earth in the sea, in the fountains of waters. In other words, worship the one that made heaven, earth, sea in the fountains of waters worship the creator. You know that expression, the he the one who made heaven, earth, sea, in the fountains of waters. That is an expression from the fourth commandment that says, remember the Sabbath? And then it says, for in six days the Lord made heaven earth to see all that in the mis. So worshiping the creator is linked to worshiping the Sabbath. So rather than worship the creator, verse nine says, the third angel followed them saying, if any man worships what? The beast in his image. So you have worshiping the creator by keeping the creators day, the Sabbath you have worshiping the beast and in contradistinction to worshiping the beast. In verse 12, here is the patience of the endurance of the saints. Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. So you have those in Babylon who are in confused religion, who are part of this triumphant of error of political, of economic and religious powers. All that unite and God says, come out of her, my people, his people in those law breaking churches. So you have those who are part of Babylon who are in organizations or churches that are breaking God's law, but yet they're honest in heart and God calls them to come out to be part of his true church, to be part of his true people, to be part of those that love Christ with all their hearts that stand loyal to Christ in the last days. That by his grace and through his power, keep his commandments. Jesus said in John 14, verse 15, if you love me, keep my commandments. He says in one John two, verse six, if you, if you say that, I know him, but keep it not his commandments. He's a liar. And the truth is not in him. Jesus is making his final appeal. Do you hear Christ's appeal? Many people have no idea what's coming in the future. They have no idea that the mark of the beast will be enforced. No idea that they are part of apostate religious systems. No idea that church and state and economic powers are gonna collapse, are gonna unite. No idea the economy's gonna collapse. No idea the crisis we're facing. But Jesus says, you can be a children of dead and a children of the light. Listen to the appeal of God to your heart. There is no accident that you are watching this YouTube video. Jesus is appealing to your heart. He's appealing to you to make a decision. He's appealing to you to follow him. He's appealing to you to step out and be part of his last day. People that love him enough to be obedient and stand loyal for him and keep his commandments will you say, Jesus, I wanna fu you Jesus. I keep give my life to you. Jesus. All I want is what you want. I see the crisis is coming and I want to be on Jesus' side. Jesus will protect you. You are secure in the arms of Christ. He is our refuge. He is our security. He is our confidence in him. We are safe until the day that he comes again. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we thank you with all of our hearts that in Jesus we're safe. In Jesus we're secure. In Jesus we have refuge. We indeed not fear what's coming because in Christ, in Christ alone, we are protected from the Wil of the devil. In Jesus name, amen. This media was brought to you by audio verse, a website dedicated to spreading God's word through free sermon, audio, and much more. If you would like to know more about audio verse or if you would like to listen to more sermons, please visit www.audio verse.org.

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