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Pastor Jack Morris: Friend, when you turn Jesus down, you're just vulnerable to anything and anyone. Are you with me? When you reject Jesus, you're open to something else. Open your heart to the Lord, sing His praises, know His word, be abundantly blessed in Christ. And know this, you are secure, 100% secure in Him.

Guest (Male): Welcome to the Healing Word, a radio ministry of the Largo Community Church. Here's Pastor Jack Morris with today's message that will grow your faith in God and lead you to a closer walk with Jesus.

Pastor Jack Morris: The rise of the Antichrist and the great tribulation that is coming upon this world. Now, I want you to know this, I'm not looking for the Antichrist, I'm looking for Christ. I need to say that again. I'm looking for Christ, not the Antichrist. The Antichrist is Satan's masterpiece.

Just as God had His man, Jesus, Satan has his man, the Antichrist. That's going to happen, a real living, breathing human being is going to be so filled with Satan's power. And he's going to look and act and talk and deceive many, many people. People are going to think he's Jesus.

He is not. Only the word of God will strengthen you and help you to understand. The word of God is a light unto your pathway. Without the word of God, you live and walk in ignorance and darkness, regardless of how intelligent you may be. So we want the word of God, we have the word of God.

Antichrist means against Christ or instead of Christ. Now the Antichrist is going to imitate Jesus. He's going to imitate him. He's going to promise what Jesus promises. Are you listening carefully to me today? He's going to promise peace, he's going to promise happiness, he's going to promise prosperity. Why, you would think honey is dripping from his lips. He's going to deceive, deceive, deceive, deceive.

You and I as born-again believers will never know him. We'll never hear one of his promises because the church is going to be raptured out and then he's going to come in. Isn't that wonderful? You talk about being in the arms of the Lord and safe in Jesus. Neighbor, if you're not a Christian, come to the Lord today. Receive Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior.

The time of his appearing comes after the rapture of the church. The church will not be here to put up any fight, any resistance. The church is not here, the church is gone. And he just comes in and takes over, and the people who are left are so gullible and they buy up what he is saying, everything that he is saying.

He is not an American. He will not be an American. And I'm going to be very hesitant today to speak of countries. I was going to talk about the countries, but you know we are being streamed all over the world. All over the world. They're picking us up in the Philippines and the Orient. I just got a couple of emails about it last week. It goes into Russia, it goes everywhere.

I can't start naming names, but I'm going to try to work out a program where we can go to the Bible and look at the names of the countries that are going to bow down and the Antichrist is going to take over and subject it. Now friend, be subjective to Jesus and His word. Don't debate the word of God, believe it, accept it, receive it. Just eat it up. It's the word of God to bless you.

The world is looking for that man. And I have a strong idea, a strong biblical feeling that I know the area of the world that he's going to come out of. But I do know this, he is not an American. America is hated all over the world. People of other countries despise Americans, so they're not going to accept America and an American.

He will not be an American. I wish I could tell you more, but you have to understand why I can't. But just believe the word of God, stick with me, and in the weeks to come, you will know a strengthening from God's holy word.

The world is looking for this man right now, and he may be alive right now, and he may have come to this country and been educated at one of our great universities. He's going to be a brilliant, smooth-talking person. And then he goes back to his country. He is not an American.

Arnold Toynbee said this, that nations are ready to give their kingdoms of the world to any one man who will offer a solution to our world's problems. The world is on standby. Who has an answer? Who can calm the wars and ISIS and the financial problems and the difficulties? We're moving very quickly to a one-world government and a one-world monetary system.

We're not going to have to look after a while to Japan or to China or to Britain or to any other country to see if the stocks are going up and down. Everybody's going to have the dollar is a dollar is a dollar all throughout the world. The Antichrist is moving in to a one-world government and it's coming down so quickly. And the world is waiting for him.

Who can do this for the world? He can because he has the wisdom of hell behind him. And the enemy of your soul, Satan, is a brilliant archangel. He was an archangel, but he was cast out of heaven. So he is brilliant. He has a brilliancy that I don't know how close it is to God's brilliancy, but he has the answers, or at least the world thinks he has the answers, and he's moving in.

Are you going to serve Jesus or you're going to serve the Antichrist? But you will bow, everybody will bow. You're going to bow your knee to Jesus, you're going to bow your knee to him. But in the end, you'll bow your knee to the Lord, but it'll be too late. Bow now while you still have a choice and a will to do so.

Friend, you're safe and I don't want to scare anybody. This is not a message to scare anybody, this is a message to give you hope that you're in the arms of the Lord and well protected. So you heard what Arnold Toynbee said. Now let me tell you what these are not ministers or theologians.

Paul Johnson, an eminent British theologian, said this in Forbes magazine. "There's no substitute for prudent, strong, and courageous leadership. This is what the civilized world currently lacks and must find soon." We've got to find this soon. We can't keep waiting. The world is going to disintegrate if it isn't happening soon. So we're getting up there, we're real close.

Isn't it good to know that we're that close to the rapture of the church? Can you say praise the Lord? Praise the Lord. You're safe in the arms of the Lord Jesus. I want you to turn to a person on your left and on your right and say, God has his arms around you. He really does.

The scripture says in 1 John 4:3, "The spirit of Antichrist even now." The spirit of Antichrist, the man Antichrist is not here yet, or at least we don't know who he is yet. But his spirit is here now, already in the world. 1 John 4:3, "Spirit of Antichrist even now is already in the world."

There is already a notion, a teaching, a thought that's being put forth constantly forever every day saying, do this and you'll have peace. Buy into that and you'll have peace. Come over here and you'll have happiness. The world is duping people to think that they can find peace in just about anything and everything. Drugs, marriage, money, power.

The world is holding out this and people say, oh if I just had some of this, if I just had some of that, if I had something else. That's the spirit of Antichrist that many people are already being duped and dragged into right now. There's only one peace and that comes from the Prince of Peace, the Lord Jesus Christ. Every other peace, joy, happiness promise is a counterfeit.

Yesterday I went in a store and I was buying something. I had a $50 bill, boy I was rich. I handed it to the lady, she puts it up to the light and she was looking for that little strip in there. I told her I just made that one. And she said you did a good job. You see because there's a counterfeit, there has to be the real genuine thing. If there wasn't the genuine, there couldn't be a counterfeit.

Someone says there's hypocrites in the church. Yes, because there are hypocrites mimicking the genuine real thing, that means the real genuine is there. I talked to this lady and she told me the church she used to go to, she doesn't go to church anymore and why? There are hypocrites in that church.

Jesus had 12 and one of them was a Judas. He was a hypocrite. And Jesus let him go ahead. Let the wheat and the tares come up together. I'm not your judge, you're not my judge, you're not needing to judge one another. Say how could somebody pray and sing like that and they live like that? Then that's none of your business. That's his business. And he's going to take care of it all.

The counterfeit is out there spreading everywhere and people are thinking, if I could just get more money I would be happier. If I could just get that house, if I could just get that vacation, if I could just retire at that date and on and on. Friend, that's the spirit of Antichrist and you're buying into it.

Notice in Revelation 13:4, "Men worshiped the dragon because he has given authority to the beast." The Antichrist is the beast. "And they also worshiped the beast and asked, who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"

Now listen to this in verse 8, "All the inhabitants of the world and the earth will worship the beast and whose names have not been written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world." So it's going to be this kind of religion. Everybody's a child of God. Whether you go to church or whether you don't go to church, we're all part of God's fatherhood. And that's going to satisfy so many, many people.

Now they know they don't have to serve God, they don't have to read the Bible, they don't have to obey the Bible, they don't have to go to church, but they have religion and they're all under the father. He is going to be so brilliant in how he presents it that people are going to buy it up. The scripture just said so.

His religion, the fatherhood of God, is the fatherhood of God without Calvary, without the blood of Jesus. It's a fatherhood just based on a theory and on a thought, but there's no Calvary there, there's no blood of Jesus there. So he's going to be a very religious man. Why, you could almost think he could walk on water. Really.

Secondly, he's going to be a political power. Now who can bring religion and politics together? We're always fighting church and state, church and state, separation of church and state, right? That's been going on ever since there's been an America. But somehow he's going to be able to bring the two together and it's going to click and it's going to work for a while, but not long.

In Daniel 7:8 and 25, it talks about he shall speak great words against the Most High and think to change times and laws. Friend, the Bible is under attack. Scripture verses are being overlooked. People are saying today this verse or that passage doesn't apply. They're saying it, the government's saying it, the federal government is saying, Congress is saying it.

People in high places, elected and appointed, they're saying it. Everything is okay. It's an okay time, but it isn't. The law of God is perfect, infallible, and it'll stand forever. But that's what the Antichrist says, and that very spirit of Antichrist is here right now.

Power is given to him over all, Revelation 13:7, "over all kindreds and tongues and nations." He is going to be the new world dictator. The whole world. You name the nation, that's why no need for me to name it. He's going to dupe everybody because he's going to have everybody under one money system, one government, and it's going to be his government because he's always going to have the right answer.

People are going to say, I wish I'd thought of that. That's working. That's what the Antichrist is going to do. He's going to be a religious power, a political power, and a commercial power. He shall cause craft to prosper, Daniel 8:25.

Buddy, ma'am, mister, if somebody could give everybody a job, a good job, a high-paying job, boy they'd vote that person into office immediately. And everybody's promising that. Vote me in and we'll get jobs for everybody. We'll get housing for everybody. Prosperity, prosperity. There's no prosperity under sin, none whatsoever. And there's no human being that is that brilliant.

It's going to take a miracle supernatural power to bring that about and it's all going to happen. In Revelation 13:17 and 18, we're told that no man can buy or sell unless he carries or she carries the mark of the beast, which is the number of his name.

Now such an economy is fast coming when all dollars, all monetary money is going to be very much like what has happened with the Euro, but it's going to encompass the whole world. You see friend, it's already beginning to take over nations already. And it's going to hit here. It's definitely going to come. It has to. It has to for the beast to become the beast that he is predicted to be.

He is a counterfeit false messiah. The rapture's going to take place and we're going to be in heaven at the judgment seat of Christ, the marriage of the Lamb. And while we're up there, see we've gone away. We have been holding back. Your prayers, your faith, your worship of God has held back the powers of evil.

We have resisted and resisted and resisted. But soon when the rapture of the church takes place and we go to the judgment seat over to the marriage supper, when that happens there's no power here on earth to hinder him from taking over and he moves in very, very quickly.

The first three and a half years is where he makes all of these wonderful promises. That's where he really dupes the people. And he begins by duping Israel. Israel, oh I shouldn't have maybe said that, but it's true. Israel is the one. The world it seems like it hates Israel and all those nations around Israel wanting to do away, liquidate that country and those people.

It goes all the way back to Abraham, that people have been under attack. Well he'll come in and Israel will buy into him. Now when Jesus came, the scripture says he came unto his own and his own received him not. But they will receive the Antichrist for the first three and a half years. They will. He will dupe them and he will lead them and they will hail him.

In the middle of that week in Daniel chapter 9 verse 27, he will make a firm covenant with many for one week, seven years, but in the middle of the week, in the middle of that seven years three and a half years, he will put a stop to the sacrifices and grain offerings.

On the wing of abominations will come one who will make desolate even until a complete desolation, one that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes the desolation. In the middle of the week, in the middle of that three and a half years, he turns on Israel and he rebukes them and he comes against them and they hate him.

They hate him. He has literally deceived them. He is not for them at all. He only wiggled and twisted and wiggled his way into their favor and now they've been duped. And friend, when you turn Jesus down, you're just vulnerable to anything and anyone. Are you with me?

When you reject Jesus, you're open to something else. Open your heart to the Lord, sing His praises, know His word, be abundantly blessed in Christ and know this, you are secure, 100% secure in Him. The world's balance of power will be in his favor. The world will be dazzled by him. But in the middle of the week he shows his true colors and he will come and now crush all opposition.

At that time when he attacks Israel, here comes Jesus with ten thousands of His saints, and it says that we'll all be on white horses. Remember last week I asked you, can you ride a horse? Well, I don't know that that's going to be literally riding a horse.

White horses in that day was and in this day to come is symbolic of conquering power. Remember when Jesus went into Jerusalem he rode a little donkey, a little beast in humility? Well brother, sister, when He comes back, He's not going to be riding a donkey. He's not going to come in humbly. He's going to come in as the mighty conqueror to conquer sin and the world and the Antichrist and all who are following the Antichrist.

I think it's symbolic because it says out of His mouth will come a sharp sword. Well not a literal sword, the Bible is referred to as the sword of the spirit. So the sword that comes out of His mouth is going to be His word. That's why it's so important, so important to know the word of God.

We cannot be casual with our study of the word of God. And that's why the Holy Spirit has talked to me and said strengthen my people, strengthen them. And I said amen Lord, I will by your grace and by the power of the Holy Spirit strengthen the church, at least one church, the Largo Community Church, and anybody else in Change Point who desires to look in and study it.

He will attack Israel. Revelation 16:14, he gathered them together, Israel, into a place called in Hebrew tongue Armageddon. This is the battle of the great day of the great God.

The Antichrist's intention is to destroy every Jew. But before he can and it looks as though that it is about to happen, that's when the heavens open and you and I and Jesus will lead us right down to save our Jewish brothers and sisters. And at that time the scripture says the Jews will look upon Him whom they pierced.

He will come and He will show His people, and you will be with Him and I'll be with Him. He'll show them the scars, the scars, the scars. And the scripture says they will drop to their knees as a nation and say my Lord, my God, we crucified the son of God. They will turn back and give their hearts to the Lord Jesus, those that are alive at that time and who will make it through the tribulation.

Untold numbers of thousands will not make it through the tribulation. The scripture says in Jude 14 and 15, "Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment upon the earth." All the nations of the world will be gathered there and He will come. He is the mighty conqueror. Jesus our Savior. Can you say praise the Lord forevermore? How blessed and how privileged we are in the Lord. Blessed in Christ forevermore.

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