Q&A with Jack Hibbs

Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey you guys in this subcombing podcast episode we're going to be shifting gears a little bit and answering questions that have come in over the last several weeks on our topic of the End Time events. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Kibs. Hey you guys welcome to Real Life podcast and we are continuing on really because it's been driven by you which we're very excited about. I have to tell you that I'm a great beneficiary, a recipient of a Bible teaching church. I was spiritually born and raised at a verse by verse chapter by chapter book by book church and so for me I am grateful to you. So many of you are saying I never heard this before. I've never even read that in the Bible before and that really helps me because I'm very guilty of making assumptions. I thought everybody knows this to somebody who reads their Bible. If somebody says I read my Bible I assume that they read it all the way through but apparently I'm wrong and that's that's fine but let's fix that because the topics that we are mentioning regarding the last days events I was absolutely overwhelmed to hear. Even yesterday I was at a political event. I say a political event. I was asked to a comment and to pray at one of our cities here in the area at the invite of the mayor to pray and to make a comment and what was amazing to me was how many people came up to me. They just so happened to be every one of them happened to be Catholics who came up to me and said and I didn't know who they were. Pastor Jack I've been watching your podcast and that caused me to watch your three-part series on your Sunday morning message, sermon on what are the coming signs of the Antichrist and I have been born and raised Catholic and we don't even read the book of Revelation. We're not even in fact we're told to stay out of the book of Revelation which is oh my gosh satanic. Book of Revelation says you're supposed to read it yourself and hear it read by others and the book of Revelation of itself says do not seal up the prophecies of this book but proclaim them and it's a tragedy. I'm not beating up on Catholics. I love Catholics in fact. In fact the church that I pastor it's got to be 75% either Catholic or former Catholic in congregation because they've simply fallen love with the word of God the Bible and so we're gonna do things a little bit different in this particular segment of end time installment events but before we do that let me say this. Some of the comments that we've received from people I can't take the time to entertain them. They're good questions but please hear me. You're asking for example can you dig deeper on or give more information on the post tribulation rapture view? I've said enough about it why don't you study it and find out for yourself. The same question is being asked for mid-trip. Somebody just talked me on Sunday. Can you explain to me the mid-trip position? I did on a Sunday during services and 15 minutes later the person still didn't get it. There's nothing I can do about that except for you to be provoked to go study deeper. I want to spare you guys a lot of grief. I've said it before I'll say it again. It is an epic book. In fact it's in it's it's in my leather bag by Jack by Dr. John Woolfred. It's the book you want to get because John Woolfred in this book it's it's a decent publication it's in depth. Small print Dr. John Woolfred wrote this book the rapture question revised and enlarged edition and Dr. John Woolfred wrote this in response to the questions that you and I are going through. This is epic. Why? Because even those who are for example pre-rath or mid or post-tribulationist he argues all the views from their position and I believe it was Marvin Rosenthal I could be wrong on that but I think post-tribulationist Marvin Rosenthal even commented that John Woolfred argues the post-tribulation rapture view better than any post-tribulationist does but make no mistake about it. Dr. John Woolfred is a a pre-tribulationist and he'll tell you why many of you've asked the questions what's what the seven years you keep saying it's all about Israel read this book so encourage you to get this I don't know where you get it get it where it's cheap or they say Jackibs.com Jackibs.com or wherever you can get it cheaper so anyway here we go listen we're gonna dive in with with the questions and then we'll see how this goes and we're just going to start calling this our mailbag or mail call okay so question number one from last week is please will you explain this who are the ten virgins waiting for the return of the bridegroom okay first of all Jesus gave that parable and he said he he couched it in very important listen he couched it in the context of the region of Galilee he was in Galilee when he taught it this is this is this is really important he taught it while he was in Galilee that's northern Israel he taught it because the Galileans would have understood what he was talking about he taught it to the Galileans in the Galilean region because he pointed out to them the practice of a Galilean engagement and a Galilean wedding that is really important I might want to recommend to you watching the documentary on Amazon Prime titled before the wrath look I know the producer I think it's a bad title the title's dumb but it should have just said you know before before the second coming or something it talks about a Galilean wedding that's key and it deals with beautifully the ten virgins and having oil ready so listen to answer your question you ask is it is it the church is this the church or the five wise those who are truly trying to keep God's commandments and walk his walk are the five of those who claim to Jesus but are the other five those who claim to believe in Jesus but live in sin it's this Jesus is simply teaching that he's gonna go away and all the Galileans would have said we understand how that works when you when you get engaged here in Galilee the bridegroom goes away and he prepares on top of the house that's how they do it they are still to this day many places on top of the home your new home for your bride so you build on your father's house and it's what they do it house top house top house top and so he's gonna go away he's gonna prepare a place for them and when that when it's ready by the way the father is the one who tells the son your your buildings complete looks great son go getter then the father who communicates that to the son remember Jesus said nobody knows the time of my coming nobody the angels don't know I don't know only my father knows all the Galileans would have went wow that's awesome that's just how that's exactly how we do that he's now Jesus is in heaven resurrected and does he know I don't think he knows I think he chooses not to know I just think he chooses not to know he's gonna hear his father say it's time to go did her when he comes he's coming for those who are waiting how do you know because he says throughout the entire four gospels and the epistles of the apostles stress that we need to be waiting because we don't know when eminency eminency boy I'm shocked at how many people vehemently commented I disagree with the doctrine of eminency that's your problem it's in the Bible so I don't care he's gonna come back on an hour that you're not thinking you don't know the day or the hour but he said concerning the times and the seasons that's a general comment those who are walking in the light will have a general feel wow the Lord's got to be coming back soon so the virgins were waiting they're waiting for what they're waiting for the what is known as or described as the midnight call meaning midnight symbolically meaning it could come at any time when you're least expected you're supposed to be sleeping at midnight well the parable is a parable to communicate true that doesn't mean the virgins that the that had oil all all of the all the five that had oil didn't go to sleep you sleep you work you eat you do your life but the issue is are you full of the Holy Spirit are you obeying the scripture and are you ready and when the announcement goes out will you will you make it so that your follow up or your next question is is it the church who is that it's not the church although the principal applies for all of us to be ready that applies to every age of living believers to be ready the Old Testament saints were to be ready to die by trusting in the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the church age saints are to be ready for his appearing and if we die before his appearing we die ready make sense during the tribulation period the tribulation saints need to be ready to either die for their faith in Christ or for the remnant they'll survive and live into the millennium the point is this the ten are invited to the wedding which answers one of the questions by the way is is the church invited to the wedding the answer is no the church is not invited to the wedding the church the believers the trip the the church age saints are not invited to the wedding I always love saying that because it gets people what the church is the wedding the church is not invited to the wedding there is no wedding without the church and the groom who's invited people like this the Old Testament saints are invited the tribulation saints are invited the listen at this at the end of the second coming I but this is my opinion this is my opinion I right now this is my opinion everything else I've told you is biblically sound I speculate right now when I look at Isaiah 26 verses 19 to 21 when I look at the things of the Galilean wedding when I see what's happening during the tribulation period I understand that the church has taken up into heaven and at some point after that we don't know when the tribulation period begins I believe in Isaiah 26 19 to 21 when he says come up here and hide yourself as it were in the chambers those are wedding chambers in the chambers for a little while isn't that amazing this is Isaiah 26 he's he's gonna say to his people now remember if you're trusting Christ you're you're his people and if you're Jewish and you trust Christ's Lord as Yeshua Hamashia that's that's you do he says come up here oh and by the way your dead shall live together with my dead body shall they arise so come my people enter into the chambers hide yourself for just a little moment while I pour out my indignation upon the earth we mentioned that last time that's where he gets his robe splattered in blood the Lord will go and fight for Israel as he fought in the day of battle it says notice he's not going to come back to earth during the tribulation period and fight for the church he's fighting for Israel where are we we are in our wedding chamber what are we doing I think we are preparing for the last few moments before the wedding I believe that our wedding takes place some moment sometime after the the tribulation saints that die are resurrected because I believe that they attend the wedding they attend they're invited I hope that answers your questions again Dr. John Wolver would comment more on that does the tribulation start at the signing of the treaty spoken of by Daniel with the Antichrist in Israel or is it the rapture of the church the tribulation period does not begin with the rapture of the church it does not that we just know this it's the signing of the treaty in Daniel 9 that commences the tribulation period now let me say this because it gets a little foggy and I know it's it's it's kind of contradictory what I'm saying a bit because you and I think on a timeline that is linear we like things nice and neat I want to see this and this and this in a box and it's clear and it's clean let me put it in a general general you know I'm trying to say generality it's this way right now we're living the church we're being used by the Holy Spirit to restrain evil in the world it's the spirit of God's power through us second Thessalonians to doing that but when he steps aside and he deposits that deposits us in the hands of Jesus that is called the rapture second Thessalonian first Thessalonians chapter four you know this and John 14 you already know this that the the day of the day of Christ has happened the day of Christ triggers the day of the Lord but we don't know is it five minutes after the day of the Lord begins that the Antichrist is seen on CNN or Fox or worldwide news broadcast we don't know I personally believe that the intrigue of the end times if it's a fact that he rises out of the ancient Roman Empire that's the Remnant of it the tentos then he he may be somebody that we don't know but we start to see a European based leadership that starts to take dominance as a church we could see that could we see the implementation of the cashless system we could see that we could see even implantable or or data chips or stuff we could see that it doesn't mean the tribulation has begun doesn't mean the Antichrist doesn't mean anything it means we're just deeper into the last days but this we know that the church must be gone because the seven years is God dealing with Israel and and remember an unbelieving world number two he will preserve the Remnant Israel and he will also promise and guarantee to deliver the believers who die in faith during the tribulation period to come in to come into to heaven to enter his presence be faithful and to death was a word and it's still viable today for the last two thousand years be faithful and to death and I'll give you the crown of life Jesus said that's true for all believers of all age of all the ages but having said that listen the Antichrist when he apparently according to the book of Daniel and Matthew 24 begin another round verse 15 when the Antichrist signs the treaty it appears that the seven year treaty Daniel 924 to 27 is also maybe under like page 9 as they go through the treaty I mean I'm being silly but I'm not it might be hey right here in page 9 sign the treaty everybody and oh by the way right here in page 9 sign right here because this this is the building permit for the temple in Jerusalem how do we know that well we know this that Israel's gonna want that temple they're talking about it now but we know this at the midpoint 1,260 days from the signing of the treaty 1,260 days the Bible says 42 months other translations reference it or 3 and a half years at that point the Antichrist stands in the temple and declares himself to be God that triggers the last three and a half years of the tribulation period which is an extremely horrific time so the church could be raptured today the signing of the peace treaty could take place next week next year three years from now 10 years from now we don't know but we do know that the signing or the revelation of the Antichrist in signing the seven year tribulation period is graphically referenced in Daniel chapter 9 and Matthew 24 so that's very very important it's a great question by the way final one is this and it says that Hi Pastor Jack I've got a question I was hoping you could help me with this if a person believes on or I guess you're saying in the atoning blood of Jesus Christ for their salvation yes during the tribulation period that means the tribulation saints not church age saints I assume then they'll become a tribulation saint you assume correct what happens though if they then take the mark of the beast they won't they will not why because there's their profound contradictory their contradiction there the Bible says all those whose names were not written in the book of life received the mark of the beast so your question is a contradiction it can't happen they'll they will accept Christ during the tribulation period they will most likely die for their faith in Jesus death of some means some will be beheaded some will starve to death some will die of natural causes some will die because they might have cancer some will die because they get hit by a truck or somebody punches them out because they're witnessing and during the tribulation period it doesn't matter the point is they will not receive the mark no believer will receive the mark of the beast it's impossible do they forfeit their salvation no they die for their salvation they die for Christ so in the church age it's once saved always saved but is that the case during the tribulation period can I just rephrase your question because the ones phrased always I'm I mean one saved always saved is like red meat to people in a debate let's let's make it really clear once born again forever born again the question is are you born again let's not talk about one saved always saved because that's that is a subjective response well I think he was saved my friend was saved I got a friend he went to the crusade he went to church he raised his hand I don't care any about that stuff that stuff's junk listen there's a lot of people who believe there's a lot of people who attend every single church who believe but they're not saved they believe like the demons do like Satan does but they're not saved their belief never took them to the place of faith in Christ very important the question should be asked if you're born again are you always born again and the answer from scriptures and overwhelming yes but is this the case during the tribulation period multi part and conditional salvation no no such thing new rules requirements for salvation question mark they have no not at all it's always as it was with Adam and Eve all the way through to the last person during the trip to the last person making a decision for Christ during the millennial age it's faith in Christ no works who are the guests at the wedding if it's not us and I thought I answered that the Old Testament saints I I did the Old Testament saints tribulation saints so those are great questions listen we've been into this 22 minutes I hate the shortness of these things but I hope these are helping you and again I'm a big fan of John Woolford dot com John Woolford dot com I'm a big fan of his book it's they changed it's the publisher changed his title used to be called 1000 prophecies of the Bible they changed it to the the prophecy I think it's called a prophecy knowledge handbook I think by doctor John Woolford it's only about this thick don't let that fool you it's a it's a reference book of every book in chapter of the Bible what prophetic content is there it's overwhelming every Christian should have that book and again I don't know where to get it but get it cheap somewhere the prophecy knowledge handbook by doctor John Woolford it's a Christian classic you if you're if you're a pre-post or all millennial or if you're pre-post or tribulationists you'll appreciate it greatly listen you guys hit the subscribe button that's how you can encourage us please encourages if no one's going to be watching these I have other things to do and but if you care 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