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This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, March 24, 2024, during the service at Liberty Fellowship.

This is Pastor Baldwin's 7th Prophecy Message. This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, May 29, 2022, during the service at Liberty Fellowship. To purchase a copy of this message or to support the fellowship, please visit LibertyFellowshipMT.com.

This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, May 19, 2019, during the service at Liberty Fellowship. To purchase a copy of this message or to support the fellowship, please visit LibertyFellowshipMT.com.

Final Episode in Series Thanks to TruthCat Media WEBSITE: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ This video is a call to Christians to think seriously about Jesus' return! Was Israel's 1948 "Restoration" as a nation really a "fulfillment of Biblical prophecy" and "a sign that Jesus' return is very near"? It has been 75 years since 1948 & Jesus has not shown up! DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY: - every "prophecy huckster" (for 1800 years) has a different list of "signs of the end" and every "out-of-context" item plucked from Scripture or current event, portrayed as a "sign," never results in Jesus showing up? I believe Jesus will return on God's schedule, but there are good reasons to be suspicious about human claims that never come to pass! Want to know more?

Thanks to TruthCat Media WEBSITE: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Signs of the Second Coming? If the Bible really taught that, wouldn't you expect all of the "Prophecy Experts" to have, at least roughly, the same lists? And wouldn't you expect Jesus to actually "show up" in connection with the "signs" allegedly identifying the nearness of His return? But, this has been going on since the later 2nd century AD, Jesus has not shown up yet, and comparing the lists being offered in our time, they vary from 4 to 65 "signs of the end"! Unless the approach is valid and God is "messing with us" (very doubtful), perhaps 1800 years of continual failures should cause us to question the popular premise that there are specific "last-minute warning signs" just before Jesus returns.

Thanks to TruthCat Media https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ What is the "1,000 years" of Revelation 20:1-6? Is the "millennium" another future earthly age for this earth or is it the current Age which will end with Jesus' return and Final judgment? Popular expectations aside, what the passage actually tells us bears little resemblance to what many people are taught to "imagine" into the passage and other information from the Gospels and New Testament writings suggest that this is another passage that has acquired a "life of its own" in popular thinking. We can learn something from the misguided Rabbinical scenario that confused 1st century Judaism about the Messiah's first coming as we try to sort out the various popular scenarios that are presented to those awaiting the Messiah's return.

Thanks to TruthCat Media WEBSITE: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ There are probably few books of the Bible that have led to as many suggested "scenarios for understanding" as the Book of Revelation. However, many of these are pushed on people and then keep them confused for a long time. Wouldn't it be better to contemplate the contents of the book BEFORE you embrace an imagined mental picture of "what it is all about"? Do the letters to the "7 Churches" (chs. 2-3) really summarize 7 periods of "church history"? Do chapters 4-19 really describe a future 7-year "Tribulation" period just before Jesus returns? Does chapter 20 really describe a future Jewish kingdom age, with Jesus sitting on an earthly throne in Jerusalem? Having once believed those ideas, I must confess that I did so because of what alleged "prophecy experts" asserted, NOT because I ever saw anything in the text that pointed me in that direction! Could it be that the story underlying the symbolism in the book of Revelation is reflecting the larger Biblical story itself? Read the book of Revelation as a part of God's larger revelation and let the rest of Scripture help you make sense of this book.

Thanks to TruthCat Media WEBSITE: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Who has not heard - "The Signs of the Times are wars, rumors of war, famines, & earthquakes just before Jesus' returns - They are happening now, so Jesus' return must be very near"? This notion has been promoted for decades (if not centuries), but Jesus never shows up! If you want to know why, check out this video for some "Straight Talk" on where the Bible actually mentions these things and what it says about them. Hint: the Bible & Jesus are NOT the problem!

Thanks to TruthCat Media https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Popular beliefs about the "end times" include the idea that Europe, Russia, and China will be involved in a horrific bloodbath in the Middle East, just before Jesus returns to stop it - "the Battle of Armageddon"! I embraced that and its larger scenario from Hal Lindsey in the 1970's, because he claimed what he was saying WAS what the Bible taught.. However, continual study of the Bible (paying attention to context, content, valid parallel passages, & counter-balancing truth), led me to eventually reject all of the sub-topics and larger popular scenario. Rather than huge armies meeting in the Middle East to battle each other just before Jesus returns, the passages in Revelation seemed to be describing a different kind of conflict. The prooftexts from elsewhere in the Bible, read in context, did NOT seem to be teaching the popular view either. This video will explain what I found concerning "Har-Magedon" (Revelation 16:16).

Thanks to TruthCat Media WEBSITE: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Does the Bible really foretell a single political leader to arise in Europe, make & break a 7-year covenant with Israel, proclaim himself to be "God" in a restored Jerusalem Temple, and then lead the world into the bloodiest war in human history, just before Jesus returns? Or, have terms and phrases been taken from their Biblical context, redefined, and then sewn together with a number of unrelated passages to create a fictional "bogeyman" to fit into a popular, man-made scenario that leads to lots of book sales to explain what people cannot find, on their own, in the Bible?

Thanks to TruthCat Media WEBSITE: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ A crucial element of the currently popular scenario for "the End Times" is a "7-year Tribulation Period" just before Jesus returns. It is presented as "assumed truth" & beyond question, but where does it actually appear in the Bible? Would you be surprised if the idea of a 2-phase Second Coming (secret rapture, seven year tribulation period, then glorious appearance) is only about 200 years old? Would you be surprised to learn that you cannot find a "7-year Tribulation period" or a 3.5-year "Great Tribulation" in the Bible? You have to learn those ideas elsewhere and then "imagine" them into Bible passages where the "experts" tell you to do so. I believed these things until I began asking tough questions and examining each element in the currently popular scenario to see if each really portrayed what the Bible writers were telling us. If the smaller topics are distorted fictions, then what does that say about the bigger picture assembled from them? Are people being taught to be excited about things that will never unfold as they have been taught? I believe they are, because these same things are taught decade after decade, with "signs that Jesus' return is "very near," yet Jesus never shows up on schedule. I am not denying that Jesus will return - but it will probably not be accompanied with all of the stuff that people have been taught to expect. If you care about the "Biblical Validity" of what you are being taught, please at least "hear me out" and then consult Scripture to see if these things are so (Acts 17:11).

Thanks to TruthCat Media WEBSITE: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Many followers of Jesus have been taught to expect that "the righteous will be 'snatched out' of this world - the RAPTURE - before a 7-year tribulation period begins, Antichrist appears, and the world will experience greater evil as it is moved towards the battle of Armageddon!" However, these ideas are found in popular literature and the imaginations of those who have been taught them, but they are not concepts that one learns "from" Scripture, but "read into" the Bible after learning them elsewhere. The Bible does teach that Jesus will return, the saints will be raised and glorified and join Him in the air, and the words "tribulation / Antichrist / Harmegeddon" do appear in Scripture, but not with the meanings popularly attached to them. In this video, we will see that none of the proof-texts cited for "the rapture" teach what people think they do, but just the opposite. In fact, Jesus appears to have taught - in three separate passages - that it is the unrighteous who will be "taken/gathered out" first at the end of the age.

Thanks to TruthCat Media Website: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ This video will summarize what 19th century Rabbinical scholar turned follower of Jesus, Alfred Edersheim, found concerning the concepts and scenario that 1st century Rabbis were teaching the Jewish people. This will help to explain why many Jews rejected Jesus and why those who did accept Him, had trouble with some of what He said and did. After this video, watch "The Messiah & End Times - God's Interests or Man's? Background - I gradually turned away from the popular End Times view "Dispensational Premillennialism" that I adopted from Hal Lindsey's writings, because its concepts and definition of terms did not match what I found in Scripture, plus it ignored or downplayed important passages that did not fit that narrative. I gradually also realized why these things never came to pass or fit with Biblical information - it was a repackaging of the misguided Rabbinical scenario that kept many 1st century Jews from recognizing Jesus as their promised Messiah in His first coming.

Thanks to TruthCat Media Website: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ This video is a follow-up to "The Messiah & the End Times - According to 1st Century Rabbis"! Once you know what 1st century Rabbis were teaching the Jewish people, you can understand the problem many had accepting Jesus as the Promised Messiah - He did not fit the mold the Rabbis had imagined. The misguided Rabbinic scenario was eventually "brought back to life" in the 1800's and has became the most popular "End Times" scenario taught in many churches and promoted in countless YouTube videos. If you have ever wondered why Hal Lindsey's entire scenario failed to unfold during the 1980's, this video may help to explain why that happened and why every major uproar in the Middle East stirs up another round of the same expectations that continually fail to develop as many expect. ---------------------------------------

Thanks to TruthCat Media Website: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Continuation of "Understanding the Kingdom of God"

Thanks to TruthCat Media Website: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Did Jesus intend to establish an earthly kingdom in His 1st coming, fail & have to postpone it? Will Jesus return to rule a 1,000-year earthly kingdom of peace & prosperity? Or has a lot of "kingdom nonsense" developed over the centuries because Israel wasn't interested in God's kingdom intentions and made a wrong turn by wanting to copy their pagan neighbors' earthly monarchies, which later Judaism and elements of modern Christianity have embraced as what God has always wanted? Erroneous emphases on a few OT prophecies and ignoring crucial passages in the Old Testament and much of what Jesus and His Apostles taught has produced another area of "End Times" expectations that is very popular, but is probably causing people to miss what God intended from the beginning. In these two videos, you will encounter some Biblical information that those promoting popular ideas never mention, but may give you a new and clearer understanding of what God had in mind concerning the "Kingdom of God/Heaven."

With Thanks to TruthCat Media Website: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Is national Israel really going to be the focus of Jesus' Return and an earthly kingdom age to follow? Is the Biblical "Israel " totally distinct from Jesus' New Covenant people? What does the Bible tell us about the identity & role of "Israel"? The answers may surprise you. (Continuation from Part I)

Mirrored from TruthCat Media Website: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ Is national Israel really going to be the focus of Jesus' Return and an earthly kingdom age to follow? Is the Biblical "Israel " totally distinct from Jesus' New Covenant people? What does the Bible tell us about the identity & role of "Israel"? The answers may surprise you.

This Eschatology series is mirrored from TruthCat Media on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Ij4P4M5XI&list=PLYb8r7KPSqlxmUkplRKlaWKLQI-3vsfGL&index=1 Website: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/ The "End Times" are a very exciting topic filled with lots of popular expectations that never come to pass nor do they reflect what the Bible teaches. People learn popular scenarios, but usually trust the "experts" because they have no idea where to find these things or evaluate the claims. This will be a no-nonsense look at what people often hear and what the Bible actually says about the popular terms, phrases, and concepts associated with "the end times."

I was sent this video with some excellent links. Thanks to: https://rumble.com/v2uyeba-detox-zionist-false-prophecy-deception.html "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire This video covers recent news about draconian laws that Israel wants to pass making it illegal and with jail time amounting up to two years for witnessing to someone about Jesus. Florida's Ron DeSantis actually made it a felony to criticize Jews, including not only by speech but in print media! Covered is the violent behavior of Israel towards Christians. False prophecy has created Zionist Christians who support a counterfeit end times Jerusalem scenario. Helpful links to deprogram from Dispensational Zionist teachings: Truth Cat Media: https://www.truthcatmedia.com/copy-of-videos The Major Errors of Christian Zionism: https://1inspirational.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/the-major-errors-of-christian-zionism

This is Pastor Chuck Baldwin's 9th Prophecy Message taken from Revelation Chapter 6. This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, October 2, 2022, during the service at Liberty Fellowship. To purchase a copy of this message or to support the fellowship, please visit LibertyFellowshipMT.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM_hdgtAUD8

Thanks for this excellent Podcast from Apologia Studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2S604yJFbw Video Starts at the 1:54 Mark. I tried to edit this down but my editing software keeps crashing. The discussion is excellent and thought provoking, especially for Zionist, Evangelical Christians.

Jonah 2:8 “Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them" I Corinthians 10:14-22 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to wise people; you then, judge what I say. 16 Is the cup of blessing which we bless not a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is the bread which we break not a sharing in the body of Christ? 17 Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf. 18 Look at [a]the people of Israel; are those who eat the sacrifices not partners in the altar? 19 What do I mean then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, but I say that things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become partners with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

There is some misinformation mixed in here, for example the "Gnostic" moron who claims the book of Revelation is a Kabbalistic text, so watch with discernment! That said there is some excellent information in this documentary. Dispensationalist, Zionist Christian's will have to reconcile that their futurist eschatology conforms to all other fake religions and doctrines of demons that satan has used to deceive the creation since the beginning. Faux Israel is a stumbling block for many.......

This is a great old video that goes over the importance of time indicators in the Bible relating to prophecy. Thanks to Gary De Mar and Ralph Barker from American Vision. https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanVision https://americanvision.org/about/ Part 1 "When", is Most Important Part of Prophecy 0:00 Part 2 Matthew 24 28:06 Part 3 Matthew 24 56:09 Part 4 Questions & Answers 1:24:05 1 Timing of Writing of Revelation? 1:24:32 2 2 Thes. 2:2 Man of Lawlessness? 1:29:20 3 Antichrist? 1:34:38 4 1000 Years as a Day? 1:38:24 5 How Should We Live? 1:42:43 6 Any Prophecies Left to Come? 1:45:56 7 Credibility of Scripture? 1:47:28 8 What Value Does Book of Revelation Have Today? 1:49:43