A lot of people think "It's over.
We're through.
Everything's falling apart, and I am, too."
If you are one of them, stay tuned.
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
It seems that I'm hearing a lot from people, even some pastors, saying,
"That's it.
We're done.
The End is upon us.
We're out of here.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus!"
Others say, "It's the something'th
(whatever number) trumpet."
Or "We're in the tribulation.
666 is upon us.
The mark of the beast, the whore of Babylon,
everything's coming true."
I'll give this to you: it sure seems like the end.
And it sure looks like you can't turn your head
without seeing more stuff you never, ever thought
would happen in your lifetime.
And yet, there it is.
666 seems like the end.
But it's followed by 667, 668 and 669.
Let me show you.
John 6:66 "From that time many of his disciples went back,
and walked no more with him.
6:67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
thou hast the words of eternal life.
6:69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ,
the Son of the living God."
A lot of people dropped out of their
preparation for ministry, back in 1981.
People calculated 40 years from May 14, 1948,
when Israel became a nation.
Subtract 7 years for the Tribulation and you get ...
1981!
I was in Chuck Smith's Thursday night Bible study
when he said that that was the last year
before the rapture.
I had a new friend who was going to leave school,
since it didn't matter, anyway.
Someone close to me wanted me to quit school,
since I had failed my first semester, anyway.
And 1981 came, and went.
It's been 35 years since that date.
I'm glad I stuck it out and got my BA and MDiv
and Bible translation training.
New Year's Eve, 1999 was supposed to be
the end of the Internet and computers and
all sorts of things.
I had learned my lesson by that time.
I just sat online and watched while
the End didn't come.
If you think things are ending, then they're probably not.
But we're not supposed to be looking for and dreading the End.
We're supposed to hasten to it.
2 Peter 3:11-12 11 "Seeing then
that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be
in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto
the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens
being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat?"
I think things are just beginning.
Just in my own life, in the last 9 months
I have learned more actual facts about the fakery involved
in creating modern Bibles from hoaxes like the Sinaiticus,
than in the 52 years before that.
And we and others are just beginning
to publish these facts, to make them known.
We have videos, Chris Pinto has Bridge to Babylon
(that we'll soon have with subtitles), I'm writing books on it.
And others are doing the same.
I can't believe this is when God wants us to give up.
That's not my God!
Yes, pastors and teachers are pushing toward One World Bible
with reckless abandon.
Yes, they are putting down the King James
--even while they allow the New King James--
and starting to use Catholic-approved Bibles,
some of them with the Apocrypha.
People are going away from the preserved words of God,
for the opinions and doubts of men, even in their Bibles.
But so what?
"Will ye also go away?"
Of course not!
We have the words of eternal life!
Why settle for green bologna, when we've got filet mignon
right here?
I'm sticking with the 400+ year, tried, tested and proved
King James Bible.
Yes, some pastors and teachers and youth leaders are saying,
"Gospel tracts don't work!
You've got to establish a dialogue and life-witness
with your unsaved friends!
So stop using those gospel tracts.
They're offensive!"
But so what?
We believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God!
There is no other way to the Father, but by Him.
People have got to know this!
And we can't develop a life-witness
with the people we meet in Wal-Mart.
We often have just one opportunity
to reach them.
And a gospel tract has been the means that
God has used to save so many, including me.
I don't even know the name of the guy who gave me
"This Was Your Life" in 1972.
But it worked, didn't it?
God used it, and here I am today.
Trusting just one Bible, and actively giving out the gospel,
at least with gospel tracts --they go together.
When you're unsure about what God said,
you'd might as well just stay home.
You have no sure message to give to anyone,
much less from God.
But when you know what God said,
you have a clear message.
And you can share God's words with confidence.
Then they can get saved and have the same confidence
that you have.
This is the time for people to make a choice.
We can give up and quit, just short of the finish line.
Or we can ask God for strength, dig in, and keep going.
We can be faithful.
I think this is the time we will tell our kids and grandkids about.
This is the time to not give up.
This is the time to say, "It was tough,
some of the toughest stuff we've ever faced,
but we faced it anyway, and the Lord was with us."
So are we going to faint, like the rest of the world,
when it gets hard?
Or are we going to stand (Ephesians 6)
with the sword of the Spirit, the word of God?
I have so made my choice: the words of God
and giving out gospel tracts.
This is your time to make yours.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.