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once again good evening everyone thank you for coming it's good to see so many
people come out on a Saturday night this is night number two of our amazing
discoveries Bible prophecy seminar if you have your Bibles i invite you to
open up to the book of Matthew chapter 24 Matthew chapter 24 we're going to be
reading verse 3 in just a little while that's page 975 if you're using our
seminar Bibles Matthew chapter 24 the third verse the title of tonight's
meeting is called it's a very high impact subject on the eve of the end and
let's begin as we always do with prayer let's bow our heads and lift up our
hearts and ask God to bless us as we study his word tonight dear father in
heaven dear God thank you for for every person that is here tonight thank you
that I have a chance to share the word of Jesus Christ the Bible this evening
as we study we pray that your spirit will be with us and that you will
impress us deeply with the truths of Scripture to realize that we are living
in the final time and that soon Jesus Christ will come again please bless us
now as we study your word in Jesus name man on the eve of the end the date was
April 10
the year was nineteen twelve a great ship named the Titanic was just about
getting ready to sail across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage to New
York how many of you've seen the movie Titanic okay most of you have it's
amazing that the the movie Titanic is actually has become one of the biggest
box-office hits in world history there's a lot of lessons that we can learn from
this this fateful ship again the date was April 10 1912 large crowd had
gathered on English soil this is an actual photograph and that particular
day a reporter is said to have walked up to the captain his name was Captain John
Smith and the reporter said to him Captain Smith we have heard it said that
this ship is considered to be unsinkable what do you think about that the captain
is reported to have responded and this is what he said he said even God cannot
sink this ship can you imagine that's the wrong thing to say wasn't it well
that's what he said so on that day April 10 1912 the Titanic began her maiden
voyage across the Atlantic to New York the first four days were smooth sailing
no problems everything was fine people are having a lot of fun getting drunk
falling in love they had no idea what lie just ahead of them Sunday morning
April 14 1912 the sky was blue and the sea was just like glass beautiful day
historians tell us that just about nine o'clock in the morning a message was
sent to the Titanic from a nearby ship the first one was from the Caronia and
the message said Titanic there is ice ahead of you watch out but she didn't
pay attention to that because of course she thought she was unsinkable before
noon another message a second one came to that ship from another ship called
the Baltic and the message was the same Titanic there's ice ahead of you watch
out but once again she paid no attention because she was of course the unsinkable
ship late that afternoon another message came from another ship called the
Californian and the message was the same Titanic
there's ice ahead of you watch out would you believe that throughout that day and
on into the evening there were not just three four five six but there were seven
warning messages that were sent to that ship from other ships and they all said
the same thing Titanic watch out there's ice ahead of you and guess how many
messages the Titanic paid attention to take a guess zero that's right not a one
of them because she thought she was unsinkable Sunday night there was no
moon the sea was just like glass beautiful night everything seemed calm
and peaceful around eleven-thirty in the evening there was a lookout on top of
the deck he looked off into the distance and finally he saw it it was a small
black dot on her eye on the horizon and as the ship got closer and closer this
dot got bigger and bigger and bigger finally a message was sent to Captain
Smith and the message said Captain Smith there's there's ice directly ahead of us
we've gotta move she tried the Titanic tried to get out of the way but she
didn't quite make it and historians tell us that about 20 minutes to midnight
people on top of the deck heard what they said was a strange ripping noise a
300-foot gash on down below one of the sides of that ship and the Titanic began
to go down first the women and children were lowered into the lifeboats the band
continued to play many jumped into the icy waters because there weren't enough
lifeboats I've been told that there were some people sleeping down in the lower
levels and they actually never did wake up they never knew what hit them she
began to go down during the final moments as the ban was still playing the
captain captain john smith he suggested to the band that it plays something
sacred or at least somebody did and so they played a very famous Christian him
and these are the words nearer my God to thee nearer to thee maybe you've heard
that him and finally by 2 20 april 15 1912 she tipped up and she went down on
her way down down down down to the bottom of the Atlantic
ocean with approximately half of her passengers still on board one of the
greatest disasters in the history of the high seas now why do I open this second
night of our seminar by talking about the Titanic is there a big lesson that
we can learn from this ship there surely is there are lots of lessons tonight we
are all passengers aren't we we are all passengers on a huge ship it's not the
Titanic it's the good ship mother earth and we are moving fast not across the
Atlantic but we're moving through space and we are heading as a whole planet
according to this book we are heading towards something big and it is not ice
messages are now being given right now and we're going to study them tonight
not from ships like the Baltic or the California but from someone up there who
loves us very very much and it's my deepest conviction that if we listen to
these messages we have nothing to fear and we will be guided safely into the
heavenly shore but if we do not listen then eventually we will go down just
like the Titanic so many years ago the messages that we're going to be studying
tonight come from not Steve Wahlberg but they come from Jesus Christ and they're
found in Matthew chapter 24 2,000 years ago approximately 2,000 years ago Jesus
Christ was sitting on a mountain right next to Jerusalem there you see
Jerusalem on the screen and right next to Jerusalem is a mountain called the
Mount of Olives it's there today and two thousand years ago Jesus was sitting
upon that mountain and this is where are our evening picks up from the Bible if
you look at verse three Matthew 24 verse three the Bible says that as he SAT upon
the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately and they said tell us
when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of your what what
shall be the sign of your coming and then what of the end of the world right
that's a big question the disciples of Jesus this was not long before he died
on the cross for our sins the disciples came to him as
sitting on the mountain and they said Lord Lord please tell us what's going to
be the sign of your coming and at the end of the world and so in this chapter
what Jesus does in Matthew 24 is he lists a series of signs a series of we
might call them trends or warning messages just like we're given to the
Titanic it's my conviction that as i mentioned we're heading towards
something big it's not ice but it's his coming in the end of the world that's
what we're going to be studying about tonight and in this chapter Jesus lists
many signs or trends or warning messages helping us to know when we're getting
closer and closer to this big tremendous event his coming in the end of the world
so that's what we're going to be studying about tonight now in Matthew 24
Jesus lists