Pastor Ray Bentley takes us to revelation and the turbulent times coming to planet Earth. During this time, the seven years of tribulation. Not only are judgments going to come, but God says, I'm going to do it in a rapid fire way and the judgments will accelerate. Starting now to the end of revelation. It covers the last three and a half years, and that's called the Great Tribulation spread.
Pastor Ray Bentley on how the issues of life are tied to the title deed of the Earth. One of the mysteries is why has God allowed evil so long? There's so much suffering, so much pain, so much death. And when will he finally end it? That's what in the middle of the tribulation, Jesus was had stretches from the glory of the throne in heaven.
Pastor Ray Bentley introduces today's study here on Maranatha Radio. Heaven is coming to the Earth. Hence the title of the message Heaven and Earth collide. Long ago, we rejected God and he sent His Son to live and show us the way, the truth, and the life, and to die and resurrect and to ascend. But there's coming a day when heaven and earth will come back together and collide at the second coming of Christ.
Pastor Ray Bentley on the location of an event of the end Times Iraq. Wow. This is where the Garden of Eden was, kind of there. And dabble and Babylon. And now these four angels are unleashed. And we read. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was 200 million. The question is this army physical or is it a spiritual army?
Pastor Ray Bentley with encouragement for last days believers. The normal mode of operating in this world doesn't work in the spiritual arena. You have to have spiritual weapons. The Word of God, number one, abiding and knowing and believing and trusting and meditating and living in the Word of God. And then a life of prayer. For the battle is not yours, but God's glory.
Insights on revelation from pastor Ray Bentley. Revelation is talking about the realities of unseen things to our physical eyes, but they are just on the other side of this veil that we are hidden The abyss is the home of demons. This place is to be avoided at all costs. And the key to this place obviously belongs to Jesus Christ.
Pastor Ray Bentley points out, the upheaval we see in the book of Revelation all has a point. It's part of God reasserting his kingdom. Exemplify five and four trumpet judgments. These first four trumpet judgments all happen in the natural realm. They affect the land, the salt water, the fresh water, as well as the heavenly bodies above us. And God's purpose is to bring down the idols so that he is the last God standing.
Today on Maranatha Radio. Pastor Ray Bentley says there's a central message surrounding the return of the Lord. What was the message of John the Baptist 2000 years ago, before the first coming of the Messiah? Prepare. Get ready, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And even after John the Baptist was beheaded, Jesus then picked up that same message and said, Get ready.
Pastor Ray Bentley takes us to a great scene in revelation about angels, seven angels who stand before the ever present Lord. The first thing that John noticed was the seven angels standing right there in the presence of God, and each one of them having a trumpet. What is the sound of the trumpet mean to you? And to me? The trumpet is always the symbol of the intervention of God in the history spread.
Coming up today, pastor Ray Bentley rolls the clock ahead for a sneak peek at the events of the End Times. This is something I've learned about our Father in heaven. God loves to save the best for last, and I believe the last generation that is alive at the personal return of Christ will see the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit as prophesied by the prophet Joel.
Pastor Ray Bentley with insights from Revelation seven. It's like an action-packed movie. You know, you're watching. You're seeing all of this from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. You've seen war, death, famine, and plagues. Now this little interlude. And the angel cries out, Dof not harm the earth or the sea or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.
We know the Lord could come back at any time. Pastor Ray Bentley says we need to be ready now. Right now. I think that we have already been experiencing some tremendous winds of change economically, politically, wars, and rumors of wars. And so the word the Lord gave me for this year is the word prepare. I want to be ready to go and to be with him.
We've had some pretty, rockin earthquakes in the last decade. Would you agree? And from what the Bible says, they're not going away. Pastor Ray Bentley talks about the signs of the Lord's return. The first sign is this massive earthquake as a sign of the second coming of the Messiah. This is God dismantling the old order of doing things in preparation for the Kingdom of God.
Pastor Ray Bentley comments on the delicate state of the world economy. There's going to be more economic crisis. This is what the Bible, prophets said would happen in the last days, and that the economic turmoil that will continue to ripple will bring people to the streets, and it will bring the world leaders together to say, we need a new way.
Pastor Ray Bentley points out the real dynamic of the judgment to come during the last days. The presence of God is restraining, holding evil back from its full, disgusting intent. So when we come down and it says, oh, God's going to, you know, here's this judgment. You know what the judgment is. All he does is he lets loose, he lets go and says, okay, who starts the wars?
Pastor Ray Bentley explains how Jesus was treated 2000 years ago and will be treated as the Last Days plan unfolds. What did Jesus receive when he came? He received beatings. He received a beard pulled from his cheeks. He received a crown of thorns on his head. And he was the creator of all things. Now he will receive power, which he is.
Pastor Ray Bentley reveals a portion of Revelation where John, the earthly author, was tearful. John's tears represent the tears of all God's people throughout all the centuries. No wonder John wept so fervently. If no Redeemer could be found to remove the curse, it meant that God's creation was forever consigned to remain in the hands of Satan. But then all of a sudden, everything changed.
Today, pastor Ray Bentley looks to revelation for the Lord's plan of redemption. The Book of Revelation has comforted the church that there is a plan. There is an unfolding of the divine will of the father in heaven. And the central theme is the sun. And it's going to a conclusion. And the conclusion is that the very title deed of the earth that was lost and forfeited is to be reclaimed spread.
Pastor Ray Bentley offers a glimpse of angels, and it may be different than we think. You know, you have those little novelty shops and you go in and they have these chubby little babies that they call cherubs with little miniature wings and dimples, and they're really cute. Okay. That's fine. That's cool. But that's not what real cherubim look like.
Pastor Ray Bentley on life, death, and the future. And our guardian angels. We have hope that this mortality, when I die, shall put on immortality. And that's what gives us hope. And so if we should die as a believer here upon the earth, the last responsibility of your guardian angel is to, I believe, carry your soul into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven.