The Rapture Won't Happen How You Think

Will the church go through God's wrath?

For see, the day of the Lord is coming,

a terrible day of his fury and fierce

anger. The land will be made desolate

and all the sinners destroyed with it.

So this is absolutely the great and

dreadful day of the Lord. Now the day of

the Lord is actually the day of his

wrath. Now the question becomes where

are we? the faithful followers of Jesus

going to be during the time of his

wrath. This is the first time publicly I

have ever said this that I believe the

church is going to be.

Hey everyone, welcome to the John Bevere

podcast. I'm here joined with my son

Ardan. Ardan, it's great to see you

today. It's good to see you. We're

coming to an end of second Peter. It's

kind of crazy. It's been a year. It's

been almost a whole year. And to be

honest with you, we could spend another

3 years on this, but I I want to keep it

rolling. And uh but and we want to keep

going through other books, too, as it

comes up. So, also, if you have book

recommendations, throw them into the uh

the comments below. Yeah, that'd be a

great idea. I'd love to hear from our

friends what they'd love to hear taught.

We've gone verse by verse, and I realize

that Peter is moving through this book.

First of all, talking about our

character. Second of all, war warning

about deception from false teachers

leading into the coming of the Lord. And

the more I I I I don't think I've I've

prepared so much for a podcast as I have

for this one. And yet, the more I study,

the more I realize how much I don't

know. And so, I am so crying out to the

Holy Spirit. I was up at literally I was

awake at 3:00 this morning and at 4:00,

I finally rolled out of bed and said, "I

just need to go get on this." And I'm

just so excited. I mean, the more I

study this, the more I get excited. And

I want to emphasize to everybody, you

know, Peter talks in really raw language

about the day of the Lord, about the

second coming of Jesus. And I realize

that we could spend a lot of time

talking about the

logistics just as, and I want to take us

back to an example I gave earlier. I

remember back in the days of university

when I had final exams. Now, you better

believe I wanted to know what time that

final exam was and I wanted to know

where it was. Yeah. But that's not what

I spent all my time preparing for. I

spent hours and hours preparing for the

exam. And I feel what is more important

for the body of Christ is not to know

the logistics of the second coming, but

more importantly, how do we as the body

of Christ, how are we readied? How are

we prepared for his second coming? And

we started talking about the things that

would lead up to the return of Jesus.

Number one being the apostasy. Number

two, we talked about the latter reign.

How exciting. Always gets me excited.

Yeah, it does. I could talk about that

one for podcast. And then third, the

Elijah anointing that would come.

Calling those people, the millions that

have walked away in the apostasy back to

the Lord because God loves people so

very much. He's going to give them every

chance to come back. Right. Well,

today's podcast, we're going to talk

about the day of the Lord. Now, let me

say this. First John 2:28. And now,

little children, abide in him. There's

your prep work. Abide in him. All right,

that's preparing for the exam final

exam. Why? That when he appears, we may

have

confidence. I wanted to walk into my

final exams with confidence. If I didn't

prepare, I was shivering. Yeah. that we

might have confidence and not be ashamed

before him as at his coming. If I

flunked a test in college, I was ashamed

before my parents. Okay? They still love

me. They didn't throw me out of the

family, but I never wanted my dad and my

mom ashamed of my work. And so hopefully

you will receive what we're saying in

this podcast and even in the next one

with that kind of a heart. Second Peter,

let's go there. Most importantly, I want

to remind you that in the last days,

scoffers will come mocking the truth and

following their own desires. So when we

live in the flesh, it will actually

cause an attitude in us to mock the

truth. What truth will we mock? They

will say, "What happened to the promise

of Jesus coming again? For since the

fathers fell asleep, all things continue

as they were from the beginning of

creation." So living a fleshly life will

actually position our heart to where we

will actually mock the coming of the

Lord Jesus Christ. That's the truth

we'll mock. But you must not forget this

one thing, dear friends. A day is like a

thousand years to the Lord and a

thousand years like a day. Now we move

on. Verse 10. But the day of the Lord, I

want everybody to take notice. The day

of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as

a thief. Then the heavens will pass away

with a terrible noise, and the very

elements themselves will disappear in

fire, and the earth and everything on it

will be found to deserve judgment. I'm

going to continue, but we're not going

to focus on that. We're going to voc

focus on verse 10. Since everything

around us is going to be destroyed like

this, what holy and godly lives should

you live, looking forward to the day of

God and hurrying it along? Mhm. We hurry

it by being busy about the work of the

kingdom, living godly lives, being

prepared because God wants us to be

what? He wants us to be joyful on the

day of his return, not terrified like

the sinners. Well, and also that he's

saying before that he's patient for his

coming because he wants to see the whole

world saved. He he wants all men to be

saved. So, so to repentance, but that

understanding that we can hasten, we can

quicken the day of the Lord is pretty

amazing and it should put people more

onto mission. Yeah, I do believe that.

Yeah. And so, it's really important that

I that's why I wanted to read the rest

of these without really focusing on them

today. On that day, he will set the

heavens on fire and the elements will

will melt away in the flames. But we are

looking forward to the new heavens and

new earth. He has promised a world

filled with God's righteousness. So

Peter is actually spanning the coming of

the

Lord all the way to the new heavens and

earth. So he's actually in these few

verses spanning over a thou a little

over a thousand years. Wow. It's really

important that we understand that

because if we're trying to pinpoint all

of what he just said into one time

period, it's impossible. And so verse

14. And so, dear friends, while you are

waiting for these things to happen, I

might add, eagerly waiting, make every

effort to be found living peaceful lives

that are pure and blameless in his

sight. And remember, our Lord's patience

gives people the time to be saved. Let's

go back to verse 10. Peter makes the

statement, "But the day of the Lord will

come as unexpectedly as a thief." Now,

we have questions to ask. Yeah. Is this

unexpected? Is this for everybody? Is

this for the

unbelievers? Is the day of the Lord does

it affect us believers who are the body

of Christ who are were really called the

bride of Christ? This is what we want to

answer on this podcast. These are some

big big questions. Okay. So, where we

need to begin, Ardan, is what is the day

of the Lord? Yeah. So Deb, we actually

use Logos to not only just take a

summary of what the day of the Lord is,

but actually to pull from 75,000 using

their AI pull from 75,000 of the

resources that you have to come up with

this definition. Yeah, the definition of

the day. What's the summary? I think we

have a pretty good summary here. It

says, "The day of the Lord is a

significant concept in the Bible or in