YP Sing Address—B. Imbeau
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OK. In just a second you'll have a chance to ask me a question, but I want to ask you a question and that is what is the theme of the meeting so far in the conference?
Eddie Tribulation trials problems.
You know your parent, you think kids. If your kids, you think parents, you know. OK, so there's something for everybody.
OK.
There's a future in this world.
There's a future now. What about this future?
And so there's going to be some people here that have some questions about that future.
And so I'm gonna elicit questions from you. And of course, if you don't ask the questions, I will ask you the questions.
So who wants to start?
Who wants to start with a question?
Shall I call on someone?
Titus, go ahead.
Then I will ask you a question.
There is a time of trouble that's coming ahead for this world, and how long is that time of trouble going to be?
OK, can you turn me to a verse that says it's seven years long?
No, you can't. But you can come very, very close to that.
So perhaps that should raise about two or three questions right there. OK, well, let's ask, uh, someone else. Another question, Christelle.
There's someone that's sometimes called the Beast.
What is the beast or Who is the beast or?
Then you'd better you'd better ask me a question.
OK, you ready to ask me a question?
Oh, Oh my. Wow. You know, that is a really, really good question.
You know, there's, there's this time that's gonna come along that's gonna be 7 years and the Bible refers to it as a week.
Maybe someone can?
Ask or if or figure out how a week and seven years kind of get along together. But anyway, during that time there's going to become a person. There will be a person who is going to head up what's called the revived Roman Empire, the revived Roman Empire. And very likely we are sitting at this moment in a place called the revived Roman Empire, or at least part of it. And whoever is going to be the head honcho of that is called the beast.
He's called the Beast because he's a very wicked, cruel person.
And the Bible calls them a beast.
And so we call them the Beast.
A wicked, cruel person.
I wonder if he has any buddies?
There's a young man here who spends some time in probably one of the hottest places in the world.
And that'd be you, right? Where do you hang out occasionally?
Maybe I have the wrong person.
You sometimes go overseas? No. OK, well, I might have the wrong person then. Who are you?
Oh, OK. Thank you.
OK.
Who can tell me what country nowadays is kind of a center of going to be a center of prophecy? Maybe your brother can help me out.
Russia, No.
No, not Russia.
Yeah, they're pretty cool, but, uh, they're, they're not going to be the center of things.
Yeah, yes.
Iraq, Yeah. You know that you're getting really, really close to someone. A little closer, but. And your name is.
Caitlin. Caitlin. Connor.
Minnesota.
OK.
Yeah, Iraq.
Is Iraq ever mentioned in the Bible?
Tim.
Yeah, there's, I was saying this to him, but yeah, there's one. You're Tim also, right? So Tim. Yeah.
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OK.
Yeah, pretty wild places over there who at the moment is occupying Iraq.
Oh.
Who is occupying Iraq?
US, yeah. How many days did it take for the United States to take over?
Iraq.
No idea. Well, they have an idea. It was less than a month. It was 28 days.
28 days the United States took over a country that was 7000 miles away.
And took him over.
You know, if we were Romans, whoa, man, we would have thought that was so cool. The Romans never took over anybody in 28 days. Well, they probably did somewhere smaller, but.
You know, that's pretty impressive. And especially from 7000 miles away. Oh yes.
The Romans would have cheered. They would have thought that was pretty cool. They would have would have run it a little bit different. But, you know, I was very impressed. I was very impressed that when the United States, who may be part of the revived Roman Empire, that we think of Europe as as kind of the good idea, as kind of we think of Europe as being kind of the center of that.
You know what the United States set up? The head person over there was called counsel.
You know, one of the big honchos in the Roman Empire was, it was a pro council. That's right. And they took over a country. They would, they would put up, uh, someone, they call them a pro council and that's the United States. Did this guy, the guy's name was Bremen if I remember right, or Brennan or Brenner or something.
OK.
What's going to kick off the Tribulation? Tribulation is that word used in the Bible.
Yes, it is where.
Might be I usually think of somewhere else, but it is used in the Bible. OK Rachel, you have a question.
You should.
He.
You have a question, Luke.
When OK can the tribulation happen without the rapture happening?
What do you think?
OK, well that's obviously one of the biggest events that's going to happen before the Tribulation is that every single person who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is going to be gone. And if you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ tonight, you will still be.
Somewhere here, maybe here in this room if the Lord comes this evening, or in your home city if the Lord comes next month.
And you will go through these seven years of tribulation.
OK. So that's the first big thing. What's the next big thing that's going to happen?
Next big thing Real important.
What are these countries of this world just love to do? They get together and they have these big, uh, summit meetings and everything and they're talking about what?
They just.
Yes, peace. We just love peace, don't we? As we fire a missile at them, of course.
And so.
The big empire, or what's going to be the empire, which maybe the United States might be Europe, but anyway, you get the idea. They're going to sit down with Israel. OK, so Israel, Caitlin. No, not.
Who said Iraq over here? Yes, OK, Thank you.
Uh, it's really it. Israel is probably more the center of things, though they're not very far away from each other, Iraq and Israel. So whoever is the honcho over here is going to make a peace treaty with, with Israel. Not actually a peace treaty. It's more of a a cooperation treaty.
For to protect Israel. To protect Israel now who has the strongest army in the world?
Who has the strongest army in the world?
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Right now.
It would be the United States, as a matter of fact, if you took the armies of the world, lined them up, and you took the next 20.
Countries The next 20 countries that the budget that is spent on the United States is equal to the next 20 countries budgets for military.
OK, what's the second strongest military in the world?
Israel.
OK, it's second. It's possible it's third, but I don't think so. It's second. Don't mess with Israel, OK? They kind of get out there and they bomb things in Iran. They just bomb something in Syria about a month and a half ago. And, you know, a lot of this stuff is kind of kept below, a little bit below the radar isn't big news. It's like, hey, you know, this is common occurrence. If someone messes up within 600 miles of Jerusalem, Israel is right there on the doorstep saying hi.
And that's the way it goes.
So they're going to make a connection the the the beast or what will be the empire of the beast and Israel are gonna make a pact together, Say we're buddies.
Very, very important because.
That is going to start what's called the tribulation. It's going to last for seven years.
Do you think this time is a spiritual time or a political time or just a military time? What do you think?
What do you think about it? But yeah, so you're Aaron, right? What do you think?
Time of war. But you know, it's a big religious time too, which is really weird. Big religious time halfway through. This is through the tribulation time. There's gonna be a big idol set up in Jerusalem. They're gonna build a temple.
Don't ask me how or where, but I can give you a pretty good guess that one of the, uh, that probably one of the agreements that Israel, the United States gonna make together or I shouldn't say United States because we don't know who it is, but.
That probably one of the things is, is hey, you make an agreement with us, we're gonna get along here. And guess what, Israel, We're gonna do something really cool for you. We're gonna kick everybody out of your country except for you.
Now, if the United States could take over Iraq in 28 days, how long do you think it would take them to clear out the West Bank in Gaza?
I don't know your name, but you can make a guess, yes.
Well, let's ask the question again if the United States could take over the country of Iraq in 28 days.
The West Bank and Gaza, which is about the size of.
Connecticut.
How long do you think that the United States would take to clear that out?
Yeah.
Says two weeks, probably less than that, but it could be done. No one would doubt it could be done. So the deal is we'll give you a country.
And we'll protect your borders. We'll send helicopters around your border. Yeah, at one mile intervals, 24 hours a day. And, uh, no one's going to pester you, OK?
That was easy.
So they're gonna say, good, we're gonna build our temple now, and they're gonna go right on up there in Temple Mount. They don't even have to tear down the mosque that's up there. They don't have to because the temple was about 100 feet away from there. And they can build a temple. And after about three years, 3 1/2 years, someone's gonna come come along with a really smart idea and say, you know that fellow over in Europe or the United States, wherever he is, the guy who's the beast.
He is such a hero. He is such a hero. We're going to make an idol of him and we're going to stick it in our temple.
Oh nasty, what does God think about something like that?
What do you think, Bethany?
God doesn't doesn't look on that with very great favor. Well, but it's really not God's temple. They built it themselves. They can do what it with the what they want, right? Think again. You know, if you call something as belonging to God, you know what God can take you up on that and that's true in your own life too.
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If you say, yeah, I'm a Christian and you say my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and you go and build something else inside there, guess what? God has something to say about it.
Yeah, so God's paying attention to all this.
OK, let's jump to the end. By the way, the the idle gets set up in the middle of the Tribulation. That's after 3 1/2 years. So let's jump forward another 3 1/2 years and say there's all these battles at the end of the Tribulation, and we have a name for those battles the Bible does. What do we call it? You can find books and movies and all kinds of stuff with this name. Yes. Armageddon. Oh yeah, Armageddon.
It just sends shivers up here spine, doesn't it?
Well, no, because we're not all that familiar with war.
You go hang out in some parts of the world right now. You'd be familiar with war, but we're not very familiar with it over here.
Who's going to kick off the big wars over there called Armageddon? There's going to be a country over there that's going to be the.
Let's see.
That's going to kind of initiate a whole series of of battles that are going to happen really, really fast.
Just just pick a country over the Middle East. That's where everything's going to happen, yeah.
They are late bloomers. The Russians wait until every until the smoke is cleared and then they think they can kind of move in, so they come way at the end.
Syria. Who said Syria very close? Who's South of of Israel?
Egypt, Yeah, actually Egypt. Egypt is going to be the person who's going to, uh.
I'm gonna hand this up to Caitlin, please.
Let's see who else has been.
Helper here.
Bethany.
You guys over here.
And those two, the two guys above you there?
I have a few of these. Anyone else can have them also? And if I OK, who's uh, so Egypt, right?
Do you think the Egyptians like the Israelis?
Nah. Does anybody like each other in the Middle East? No.
You know what they say over there? They say if you leave us alone, we'll fight like brothers. If you mess with us, we'll fight with you like.
OK, or the other way around. But anyway, you get the idea. If you just leave them alone, they will just battle without themselves. They all hate each other in the Middle East. They do not like each other.
The groups in Iraq, there's like four groups at least in Iraq and maybe more. And they would slit each other's throat if they could, if you'd let them. And that says won't let them. But if you just back out and go, haha, we're going home, there wouldn't be any Iraq left, almost.
Not because they'd be taken over, but because they just battle it out themselves St. warfare.
I know some people that are from that area.
Lady was born actually in this country, but she's Palestinian and she spent four years over in Ramallah, which is kind of the capital of the, uh, the Palestinian state.
Her opinion is very clear and very obvious, she says. They are crazy.
I wouldn't spend, I wouldn't. I wouldn't go back there again if I had to.
That simple.
That's where our family is from. Yeah. So those people are crazy.
So Egypt's going to try to meddle with Israel and who mentioned Syria? Somebody mentioned Syria here.
OK.
And they're gonna go, no way, Israel's ours. And bam, they're gonna attack Israel. Just plow over the place. And then when they're done doing that, they're gonna attack Egypt. Good friends they are.
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Along with a bunch of other countries.
And lo and behold, the folks from the West are gonna come in, like from Europe or from the United States or whatever, and they're gonna go, wait a minute, somebody just got done attacking Israel. We're supposed to be protecting Israel.
But you know, they're too late.
Sorry, we're just a little bit too late. So they come into the Middle East and they're going to really take over. Yes, Sir.
Yeah.
Let's see, you mean right at the end thing, Egypt is going to attack Israel.
The Syrians, which are north, are going to go, hey, that's we're going to, we want Israel. And so they're going to attack and take over Israel actually. And when they're done doing that, they're just going to take over Egypt.
OK, now Saddam Hussein, who's no longer in this world.
He wanted their flag has three colors or something on it. It was a big thing. He wanted Syria and Egypt and somebody else to all be kind of old buddies and make a big country over there. And they pretend that they're friends, but they're not.
The folks that live in Syria do not like the Egyptians and the Egyptians don't like them. Nobody likes each other.
It's really, really interesting.
So in other words, it's like a powder keg. Once you let the fuse go boom, the whole thing is going to basically blow up. OK, now look, somebody from the West is going to come charging in. There might be the United States or Europe combination. And you know what? They're going to meet somebody there, somebody they never anticipated. And Sarah, who do you think that's going to be?
They're going to meet somebody out of heaven.
Who might that be?
It'll be the Lord, right? What a surprise.
Hi. You're messing in my territory. That's what the Lord's gonna say.
We call that the appearing.
The appearing. What is the appearing? Well, it's just that when Jesus shows up.
Hi, I'm here world.
Do you think that's the end of the Tribulation, though? Oh, no, you can't stop these. You can't stop these people. They are on A roll. They are an absolute role. And so folks come over from Iran and they charge into the Middle East.
And well, believe it or not, the Lord's there. Surprise, surprise, at about that point, they shouldn't be too surprised.
Yes.
When do they return to the Lord? Actually during the tribulation?
And especially during the last half.
So during that whole time of seven years, the Lord is going to be working with people individually just like He worked individually with this person. And I don't know your name, but what is your name? Clayton Jennings. OK.
And has worked with each person here. And that's how the Lord is going to work with those people for seven years. And actually there's probably going to be way more people saved or at least come to the knowledge of salvation during those seven years than any other seven-year period in world history.
Pretty cool, huh?
Yes.
You're not.
There's only one way of salvation that's through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Same way you do through the power of the Spirit of God.
Well, depends on your definition of saved.
What happens to them? They have eternal life. They have, uh, a new life. They're born again and some of them will die because they will have their heads cut off and they will go to heaven. They will not be part of the bride of Christ, though.
Yeah, there's different families in heaven. Like probably at least seven different families. Yes, there.
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That was cool. Yes, Barry.
Very good. I was hoping that was gonna be one of the questions that would come up, but since someone seemed to have too many questions, yes. Thank you.
OK.
Did you hear the question over there? Could you hear him OK?
What does any of this have to do with us? Josh, do you have an answer?
If a lot of these things are going to happen in the future, none of us are going to be around. What does it have to do with us? Why are we talking about it tonight?
Why does anyone in this care? Yeah, why does anyone care in this room?
That's a good question.
You know what?
Number one.
Why does anyone care? Good question. I think that's excellent question. First of all, if the rapture is what's gonna start off everything, then we expect to leave here and that should make our lives different. OK? Should also encourage us in preaching the gospel, letting your friends and relatives know about it, and to see if you you know they'll accept Christ as Savior before this time happens.
Also I saw a hand though. Just a second, yes.
Oh, OK.
Also, it kind of indicates what kind of God we have.
Why don't you think about that?
Do we have a God of grace?
What do you think? Less?
You have a question, OK.
Why is 666A special number and chosen for the devil you say?
For the beast.
Good question. I don't have a really really good answer but.
OK, we'll get to that in just a second. But do we have? Let's see.
Abigail.
Hannah or Anna?
Hannah, sorry.
Do we have a God of grace or a God of vengeance?
OK.
I appreciate that.
And you know, we talk about a thing called the tribulation and we go, all these things are going to happen and God's really getting down on everybody. But you know what? During that time, whoever asked about the, the, uh, remnant, there's going to be millions of people saved. Well, some people don't like to use the word saved. There'll be millions of people born again during that time.
And so out of trouble will come blessing.
And God's final result after those end of those seven years is blessing for this world, tremendous blessing, blessing that has never ever been seen, ever seen before in this world. That's going to be God's end result of this time called the Tribulation. So yes, he's a God of he's holy, but he's a God of grace. 666 Not exactly sure, except that six is kind of a people call it man's number.
Because the number seven is considered like a perfect number.
And you gotta be a little careful, because you can find some really good sixes in the Bible that refer to Christ.
So, you know, we can't say that six is always a bad number.
But, uh, absolutely. You know, 666 is gonna be the number of the beast.
Umm hum.
Well, yes.
That's correct. Just like the Roman emperors, they, they, they made statues of them, of themselves, and have people bow down and worship their, their statues and worship them and so forth.
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Uh-huh.
Well, not it. I assume it.
How does it affect us now?
Yeah.
How are we involved?
Well, I can sure tell you a couple ways that you're involved.
Who owns the Bible here?
How many of your Bibles are going to be left here when you go to heaven in the rapture?
How many people do you think are going to read your Bible?
Probably quite a few.
There'll be a lot that'll be burned.
It'd be a shame somebody burning your Bible, but there's going to be a lot of the Bibles that are going to be left around and people are going to come to know who Lord is.
Even the books on your shelves, the notes you put in the pages of your margins, people are gonna read those.
I don't know about during the tribulation in the Millennium we will the 1000 years.
Will be part of the administration of the Kingdom.
Yeah, Chris.
Yes, a lot of that'd be dramatically noticeable. The judgments that God will bring on this world that come in, in terms of, of seals and trumpets and vials and thunders will be very dramatically known and felt, some of them literally felt on the earth. Yes, it'll affect the politics, you know, the the leaders will become very oppressive.
Will, you know, skyrocket, uh, persecution against fringe groups, uh, that are not appreciated by the government will be basically pursued, knocked off.
Yeah, and all of those are going to be be directed by things that are happening in heaven, which is opening up seals, blowing up trumpets, pouring out bowls of stuff.
Yeah, you can read that all in the Book of Revelation.
Yes.
Absolutely. So that's involvement that we have here. Barry's question.
To show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass, and consent, and signify it by his Angel, and to his servant. John Verse three. Blessed it is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy.
And keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand. So here our Lord is given a revelation from God to give to us to servants and we are blessed to read, to hear and to keep the things that get kept here that are in this book. That was I I found a very personal and I I read it more. This is written to me.
It is.
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That's right.
Now these are written to the the churches.
Whole Book of Revelation.
OK, now I haven't been very good about handing these out. Who wants?
You sure?
Oh OK, that's 1000 years later.
That's a question that I don't think we have a real clear answer to. We'll be with the Lord, OK? So wherever he is, we will be. So if he's going to be spending time on the earth and administration of his Kingdom or whatever will be with him, OK. If it doesn't seem like he's going to be spending all this time on earth, though.
Just a feeling that you get from Scripture. He's not going to always be spending time in Jerusalem. So wherever he is, we will be.
OK, and that'll be during the 1000 years. After the 1000 years, there will then be the burning up of the universe, and there'll be a new heaven and new earth.
Yeah.
We really got way ahead of ourselves on that. But that's, that's good because we need the perspective. Yes, Dan.
I have stopped using the word Antichrist.
Because it's become way too confusing trying to describe who is and why you think he is. And so you won't find the Antichrist mentioned in Revelation or any of the prophecies of the Old Testament, you'll only find it mentioned in the book of First. John mentioned directly that word Antichrist, so I've stopped using that and just use the beast for the head of the Roman Empire and the false prophet as the king in Jerusalem.
No, I think it's given the illusion of life, but I don't think it does.
You know, hang in there for another four years and you'll find out for sure.
And yeah, we're gonna see all this. We're gonna be watching all of this going on, and you're gonna go wow.
This is pretty amazing.
OK, yes.
Yes.
No. OK, better do that.