Antichrists Far and Near

If you have your Bibles, and I hope you do, turn to Daniel 7 and 8. If you don't have your Bibles, I have some printouts there. Now, I can't fit everything on these sheets, so you'll probably have to take some notes and some things like that to take back to your small groups, or take back to your families and talk about. So, we've been talking, we've been going through the narrative of Daniel, learning about the stories of Daniel, and Daniel living bright in Babylon. Babylon to live light and life in a world of darkness.

And this next part of Scripture deals specifically with prophecy and end-time prophecy. Daniel talks a lot about end-time prophecy, or in his prophecy he talks a lot about end times. Now, with prophecy, if you're a church person that is, maybe some of you are like, what the heck is prophecy and what is all that about? But, how many of you are really excited about prophecy? You know, are you like, oh, I'm really...

Some people are like, I know churches that fill up, you know, because they just want to know what's happening in the future. And then there's others that's like, I wish we could just skip practical teachings of it. But the fact is, 25% of the Bible is prophecy. In fact, for every one mention of Christ's first coming, there are eight more about his second coming, when he comes back, when the Lord comes back. Remember how the chapters are written in a different language than this.

This particular section of Scripture is written in Aramaic because he was living in Babylonian exile, which the language of Babylon was Aramaic. So, now he's speaking in Hebrew or writing in Hebrew because it's for God's people. This is God speaking through Daniel to God's people. Now, in a word, what word characterizes your outlook of the future? Is it stressful or is it peaceful?

For instance, are you the kind of person that's always depressed about what's going on in the world? Are you that person that's addicted to cable news and cursing out the anchor person for what they say? Or the world's going to hell in a handbasket? And you're always depressed about what you're going to leave your kids one day. It's like always happening.

Or worse, you hate the people that vote for the other person. And we've got an election coming up. And they call themselves Christians and they're voting for that person. And that just makes you mad and infuriates you. How could anybody be so dumb?

How could you be so idiotic to think that that person or this person should be the next president? And you're always trolling around on social media. Does that define you as stressed about the future? Are you the kind of person who, while concerned about the future, which we should be, you still have a sense of optimism about what God's up to. That God is doing something.

That's fascinating. That's fascinating. You can eat higher content. Even love those, get this, you can even love those who vote for the other person. Maybe you don't agree with them, but you can actually love them and practice good, godly relationships.

So my hope today is to leave you with making a choice in either being stressful, if you want to go that direction, or what we see in Scripture, that we can actually be hopeful and be peaceful. So Daniel 7, we're going back a few years, last week we learned that Daniel was an older man, now he's going back to his sixties, and there's a lot of confusion here, man. When you read prophecy, and this is why I think a lot of church pastors, they'd rather just kind of skip over this section and leave it to the prophecy people, you know, to talk about these things, because it seems like Daniel is on an acid trip. I mean, he's saying all these things, like these details, these things that are just kind of out there. But my hope is that when we look at the details of it, I'll make it real simple for you.

So let's start with Scripture, chapter 7, verse 2, and here's what Daniel says. In my vision at night, I was watching, and suddenly the four winds of heaven stirred up a great sea. Four huge beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other. So, in the Old Testament, so we're talking about four world governments rising up, and the sea would be symbolic, coming up out of the sea. The first beast, in chapter 4, or verse 4 rather, it says, The first was like a lion, but with ingles' wings.

I continued watching until its wings were torn off. It was lifted up from the ground, on its feet like a man, and given a human mind. So, as we can see here, this is Babylon. How do we know this is Babylon? Nebuchadnezzar went insane, right?

We learned about that a few weeks ago. He went insane. His wings were torn off. His high power was torn off, right? He became insane, but God eventually picked him up, put him back on his feet, and gave him his mind back.

So that's Babylon. Then we have the second beast. Verse 5, Suddenly, another beast appeared, a second one that looked like a bear. It was raised up on one side, with three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, Get up!

Gore! Right? But, simply put, this bear represents the Medo-Persian Empire, which conquered Babylon. So the three ribs represent Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, most scholars say. They were the ones that the Medes and the Persians had eventually taken over.

And then we have the bear that was raised up on one side. One side of the bear is bigger than the other, meaning that the Persians eventually conquered, took over the Medes. They just kind of merged in and became the Persian Empire, which fulfills that prophecy. And then the third beast. After this, while I was watching, suddenly another beast appeared.

It was like a leopard with four wings of a bird on its back. It had four heads, and it was given dominion. So the third animal represents Greece, under the leadership of Alexander the Great, a leopard with wings. It communicates the speed and hastiness in which Alexander took over the world. In fact, he was only 30 years old by the time he had pretty much conquered all the known world.

He's maybe one of the greatest conquerors that ever lived, according to historians, we know that. And in 323 BC, the prophecy was fulfilled. When Alexander conquered Persia, he brought, get this, he brought with him 35,000 soldiers to go against Persia's 100,000 army, yet he won magnificently. Persia, in the battle, lost 20,000 soldiers and Alexander only lost 100. Wow!

A leopard with wings. And then the four wings that became heads, this image is the prophecy that Alexander's kingdom would be divided between four kings or four generals. That happened, by the way, after Alexander won. There was a bit of a power struggle between the four, which we'll talk about more in a minute. And then the fourth beast is Rome.

Let's look at that. 7, verse 7. After this, suddenly, a fourth beast appeared, frightening and dreadful and incredibly strong, with large iron teeth. We learned about iron representing Rome. You know, that was kind of their thing, wearing iron and all that kind of stuff.

It devoured and crushed, and it trampled with its feet, whatever was left. It was different from the beast before, and it had ten horns. Okay. So, the fourth beast is Rome. It conquered Greece, right?

It took over. And Rome had teeth. Rome had incredible strength. And horns often represented the damage, represented power. Ten horns, a lot of power.

The ability to damage. And it makes sense, right? If you have an animal with horns going up against the animal with not horns, there's kind of an advantage there, especially if the other animal is equal size or smaller, right? So, if a ram's coming up against a rabbit, what's going to happen? The ram's probably going to win.

So, it represents strength. Now, so far, everything parallels with Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the statue that we talked about a few weeks ago, except this detail in verse 8. While I was considering the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns, the eye of the human and the mouth that was speaking arrogantly. So, out of Rome comes this little horn. This is the first prophecy of Antichrist.

This is the first prophecy when we talk about this thing, this system called the Bible talks about as Antichrist or the man of perdition. Notice Daniel says that it's a little horn, and it has eyes like the eyes of human, meaning there's something behind it. It looks like a human. It acts like a human. But there's something a lot more deep in this.

If you look into their eyes, it's like watching one of those thriller movies or one of those horror movies, and you look into the eyes of a man, and you see something down in there. That's what he's talking about here. And his mouth speaks arrogantly. He boasts taking place. Now...

Now let's move on to chapter 8 because it parallels. Chapter 8 is just another point of view of what is in chapter 7 and it has to do with a goat with one horn. I know there's horns and goats and stuff like that. One horn and then there's a ram with two horns and they begin to fight each other, they ram each other. It says in verse 5 of chapter 8, the goat came toward the two horned ram and rushed at him with savage fury.

He struck the ram and the ram was not strong enough to stand against him. Now the two horned ram represents again the Medes and the Persians, the two kingdoms that came together, right? And the goat represents Alexander the Great. So he came in, he took over the Medes and the Persians and he won. And then verse 8, the goat acted even more arrogantly, but when he became powerful, the large horn was broken.

And then four suspicious or strange horns came up in its place pointing toward the four winds of the heaven. And from one of them a little horn emerged and grew extensively towards the south and the east, towards the beautiful land. So I want you to picture this goat and the horn. If y'all can't see, if you need to move around a little bit, that's fine. But the goat kind of extends from the east to the west and we see that image there.

And then Daniel starts getting an interpretation from Gabriel. So as you see in the rest of scripture, you see Daniel's giving interpretation of dreams for the king. Now Gabriel's coming down giving interpretation for Daniel because Daniel's like, what in the world is going on? You've got to tell me about this. And what we're seeing here is this little horn come up as another indication of this Antichrist figure.

Daniel said, I heard a human voice calling Gabriel, explain the vision to this man. So he approached where I was standing and when I came near, I was terrified. I fell face down, the son of man. And he says, son of man, understand that the vision refers to the time of the end. The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, as we learned just a second ago.

And the large horns represent the eyes that represent the first king, Alexander the Great. The fourth horns that took place of the broken horn represents the four kingdoms and they will rise from the nations but without its power. And as we know, Alexander died in a power struggle between these four generals, greatly weakening Greece's power. And by the way, let's remember that Daniel lived 200 years before all this happened. Isn't that amazing?

That this prophecy that was written 200 years before Alexander, anything of this happened, he was laying it out. And in verse 23, near the end of the kingdoms, when the rebels have reached the full measure of their sin, a ruthless king, skilled with intrigue. A ruthless king, skilled with intrigue. A ruthless king, skilled with intrigue. Will come to the throne.

His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause outrageous destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the powerful along with God's holy people. And he will cause deceit to prosper through his cunning and by his influence. And in his own mind he will exalt himself, put himself up on an altar, and he will destroy many in a time of peace.

And he will even stand against the prince of princes, yet he will be broken, not by human hands. Now out of the four horns of Greece, a roofless small horn would arise, and this symbolizes, and sure enough, this actually happened. A hundred and seventy B.C., a name, a man named, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.

I'm trying to roll through this quick because I know we've had some time. Uh, uh, Antiochus, Antiochus Epiphanes, a man named Antiochus Epiphanes arose from out of... Nine prophesied that this little horn would aim to conquest towards the south and the east, right? And, and, and, which would be Egypt and Israel. Exactly is what Antiochus did.

The, the specificity of this prophecy is amazing. So, so, so when Antiochus came in, he is considered the Hitler of the Old Testament. He came in, uh, it is said that 80,000 Jews upon, uh, were martyred, or murdered upon his entry into Jerusalem. He issued a coin that, that on the coin he says, I am God. He set his statue, Zeus' statue, in the Holy of Holies.

Can you, can you imagine that? At the place, the symbol of, of God's presence, here's his statue. He, he required sacrifice, uh, of, of pigs. And, and, and, and, and, and the presence of the temple. And, and made the Jewish people eat the flesh of the animal.

This is, is called what Dan said. This is the consolation that we see that he, he prophesied. And then, Antiochus died. But he didn't die by human hands, it was a small virus that he had, and it took him out. So the prophecies say that Antiochus was a, a specific fulfillment of this prophecy, but it's really interesting how later writers handled this prophecy, because they treat it as, it didn't happen yet.

And they were well-knowledged of Antiochus and everything that had happened. So this brings an interesting point. When Jesus and John and Paul, who lived 200 years after this, used Daniel 7 and 8 to point to something in the future, the first point I want to make, the prophecies about Antichrist are already and not yet. They didn't know that that prophecy was fulfilled in that day, but they knew that something in the future was happening. Here's how we handle prophecy, guys.

When we look at prophecy and the Bible is spoken, there's always something that's going to be fulfilled in that time. Yet, there's something way in the future as well that they're seeing, that God's putting out there for His people to see. So it's like driving in Colorado and you're looking at the Rockies and you see two peaks on this one mountain. You're like, oh man, that's beautiful. Look at the two peaks on that beautiful mountain.

But the closer you get to those mountains, they start to separate, right? And they become two mountains. So the prophecy is speaking to one thing, but there is a deeper meaning even in what is practically happening in that Jesus. There's something actually happening in that time that's being fulfilled. But yet we see Jesus in that time that's being fulfilled, but there's something greater happening.

This idea of the second coming of Jesus. For example, Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 2 talks about a future Antichrist. Because people are saying, well, you know, Antiochus and all this other stuff, it's already happened. But he's correcting the people and saying, don't let anyone deceive you in any way. For the day will not come unless the apostasy comes first.

And when the man of lawlessness is revealed and the man doomed to destruction, he opposes and exalts himself. And this is what happens when Antichrist comes and raises himself up in the end times, right? And he exalts himself above every so-called God and object of worship so that he sits in God's temple proclaiming that he himself is God. The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan's working with every kind of miracle, both signs and wonders serving the lie. And the Lord Jesus will destroy him, and I love this, with the breath of his mouth and will bring him to nothing at the appearance of the coming.

So you see that he uses Daniel's injury and he says a future Antichrist is coming. Although Antiochus happened and those things happened and it's clear that Daniel was predicting that to happen, he also was aiming, Paul was like, that's not it, there's more to the story. And what's interesting is that the temple was destroyed. In 70 A.D.

, Titus came in and basically tore Jerusalem to rubble. So, just as a side note, Jesus prophesied in the Olivet Discourse where he's standing talking about the end will not come until every stone has been unturned on this temple, meaning that the temple will be torn to the ground. They were like, what are you talking about? The disciples knew that he was talking about a near event that was getting ready to take place. And for sure, Jerusalem was laid to the ground and until this century wasn't even a nation.

It was scattered across the world. So that prophecy that Jesus gave in the Gospels, we call it the Olivet Discourse, actually happened. Something cool to study on your own time and dig in a little more. But back to the rebuilding of the temple. We're talking about the temple here.

He says that this Antichrist will set himself in the temple. And there's been talks of that happening, but it hasn't yet. But the passage implies that this might just happen. I plus all the activity. We say for sure.

We say for sure, this weekend, He sits right now. We say the seventh day. We say that, this inf 원� pi will truly thank you. I mean, Israel's a nation now, and if a temple is erected, then we have the ability for this prophecy to come to being. My point is that the prophecies of Daniel 7-8 are both behind us, and they are before us.

They are behind us, and they are before us. Antiochus was the first fulfillment, and the Antichrist is the ultimate fulfillment of that prophecy, the Antichrist. Which leads me to my second point, the spirit of the Antichrist is at work in every age. The spirit of the Antichrist is at work in every age. It isn't just a person that we look to in Scripture, it is a spirit in this world.

Notice what the Apostle John says, 1 John 2-18, children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard, the Antichrist is coming. Even now, many Antichrists have come. So, the ultimate Antichrist hasn't came yet, but we've got Antichrist systems in the world right now. For example, Jesus in Mark 14, he calls the Sanhedrin the Antichrist, basically.

He says, I'm coming in the clouds. He uses Daniel imagery that the Son of Man will be coming in the clouds of glory. Meaning that you're going to be judged, you're the Antichrist, and I represent God's people. So, it was happening in his age. He saw that system.

And there's three things we can take in reference to this real quick here. First of all, what does the Antichrist do? What is he up to? Chapter 7-5, he aims to devour much flesh. We saw that in the earlier...

The ESV says, arise, devour much flesh, when he talks about the bear. He destroys people. He aims to destroy people is what that means. He wants to destroy your life. He wants to take away your giftings and your purpose.

And he wants to ruin your marriages. He wants to ruin your families. He wants to ruin your jobs. He wants to ruin everything in society. And it's not hard to believe that, is it?

He wants to do that. Just in the last 100 years, we see the spirit of the Antichrist taking place. Adolf Hitler flunked out of art school and developed some nationalistic leaning. Next thing you know, he's marching 6 million Jews to their death in gas chambers. There's more to it than just merely human anger there, right?

There's such a moral and technological advance, but it hasn't been any better, has it? I mean, we see mass Jews, Turks and Armenians, and the murder of 600,000 people in cold blood. Stalin executed over 10 million of his own countrymen, starved another 7 million to death through enforced grain quotes. Tutsis in Rwanda that mass murdered a million people in just 100 days. Is this a mere man?

There's something greater. There's something more there. Just in the last 100 years can be seen as probably some of the most brutal years in history. He's working today. He's working in the abortion industry, slave trade.

He celebrates the oppression. And takes liberties away from those who desire liberty. We see it all over the place. The spirit of the Antichrist which has the eyes of a man. There's something else there.

If you look deeper. And then the second, third thing I find in this one passage here, 8.20.25. And by his influence, and in his own mind, he will exalt himself.

That's what the spirit of the Antichrist does today. He does two things. He questions God's word. That God's word isn't true. We deconstruct scripture.

We do all of our thinking and all of our warding away scripture, you know, making it what it isn't. And it exalts man. It puts man in place of it. Man. We leave God behind.

We put God down here and then we exalt ourselves. It's happening in university classrooms. It's happening in entertainment studios, newspaper offices, corporate boardrooms, social media platforms. And boy, he loves social media because that exalts man. He loves that.

It magnifies this self-obsession that's taking place in our society. I know I'm going a little long today, guys. Hang with me. The prayer kept us back, but I've got to share this stuff with you. Some of you say, well, I need to question the Bible.

I'm questioning my sexuality and I'm trying to figure out myself. No, you're not trying to figure out yourself. You're trying to exalt yourself. See, God's word stands. His thoughts stand throughout time.

He is the ancient of days, meaning he's got it all down. The word of God. There's only two paths. The path of truth, God's word, and the other path is doing another path. There's only one truth.

It's idiotic even to think there's two truths. There can't be logically two truths. There's only one truth. There's the truth and not the truth, right? So the question that Pontius Pilate had for Jesus is what is truth?

What is truth? He didn't know what truth was because he knew. So the question is, what is truth? What is truth? We have God's word, but the Antichrist says God's word isn't true.

So in our age, we can expect to encounter the spirit of the Antichrist. And here's the bad news. We can expect it to get worse. It's just going to get worse. That's what Scripture says.

It's not going to get any better. The closer we come to the return of the Lord, it just gets worse. And you say, well, that's depressing, Pastor. I came to church today to get an encouraging message, and you're telling me that we're all doomed. Let me lead you to the third point, which I think will give you some hope.

Even in the age of the Antichrist, the Ancient of Days still rules. He still rules. Verse 9 of chapter 7, As I kept watching, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was white like ... Snow, and the hair of his head was whitest wool, and his throne was flaming fire, its wheels were blazing fire.

And in verse 10, a river of fire was flowing, coming out from his presence, and thousands and thousands served him, and ten thousands times ten thousands stood before him. And the court was conveyed, or convened, and the books were opened. Here's God, the judge. And I can just imagine God walking out, he's not worried, he's not scared, and his throne's there, and he just kind of walks out. Things are happening, the world's getting worse, but let me sit on my throne, because I'm the ancient of days.

He says, I like that word, ancient of days, because it symbolizes, I wasn't born yesterday, guys. I've been around a long time, I'm everlasting. To insinuate that we know more than God is just ridiculous, because God is the ancient of days. His clothes were white, meaning he is pure, and he is perfect, and he is righteous, he doesn't make mistakes. His throne blazes like fire, meaning he is the judge, and he consumes all things.

His judgment will consume that which is evil, and lift up that which is good, and hold on to that which is good. And he has, and these little horns are there in the, and the by and by. He's involved all the time. His throne's moving, guys. He's moving, rolling.

He's involved in your life. He's involved in my life. He's, he's working. He's been predicted, which seem to be dark times. They all seem to be things that were just horrible, yet they all begin to align.

They begin to align in the fullness of time. In the fullness of time. What was the fullness of time? Well, when Persia took over Babylon, the temple was rebuilt. Persia paid for the temple to be rebuilt.

And then God raised up Greece and united the world under one trade language. And then the, and then God lifted up Rome, made him ruler, so that there could be a infrastructure, so that the gospel could be preached to all the nations. That Jesus, in the fullness of time, no other time in history could it have been possible for the gospel, the temple place, for this word to be given to us. And Paul summarizes up in Galatians by saying, when the fullness of time had come, God brought forth His Son. And all this mess, God was creating a situation perfect for His coming, His first coming.

The point is, God is involved in everything, okay? God is involved in everything. The point is, in general, apa' Celine. He's involved in the details and everything, and more good news, that's true for providence. He talks about the people in the Bible and how God was working through hundreds and hundreds of little situations they weren't even aware of, but they could only see one or two at the time.

You might see Him working in one situation or two situations, but all the other little things that we can't see, He's the Ancient of Days, He's constantly working, and He's moving. And even better, Daniel tells us in our last point, that one day the God who rules over the world will come to rule in the world. That's hope, guys. He rules over the world right now, but one day He will come and rule here. That's what prophecy tells us.

Verse 11, I watched, then because of the sound of the arrogant words the horn was speaking as I continued watching, and suddenly one like the Son of Man was coming with the clouds of heaven, clouds of heaven coming in and taking over, and He approached the Ancient of Days and was escorted before Him. And He was given dominion and glory and a kingdom so that those, every nation, every people, every language should serve Him. His dominion is everlasting dominion that will not pass away. One day the Lord who is working in history invisibly will be the Lord that is working and assumes His throne right here in front of us. He is coming again.

He went away. He says, hold on, disciples. Hold on, church. And you can expect His return. In 2 Thessalonians, you know, Paul says, just with just a breath in His mouth, He will destroy the enemy.

Just a breath. John says, not by human hands. Human hands will not destroy the enemy. No person will destroy the enemy. Only God will.

It was an invisible stomach bug that killed Him. The defeat of the Antichrist doesn't happen through a stomach bug, of course, but through doing something that human, to raise themselves from the dead, not by human hands. The resurrection of Jesus Christ has the power to defeat everything. That's the good news of the gospel. Jesus was the Messiah who came to the lion, the bear, the ram, the goat of the kingdoms of this mighty, horned, power, powerful world.

But He didn't with a horn of His own. He could have came as a dragon. He could have, but He came as the weakest lamb there possibly was. And He allowed the beast of this world to gorge Him, to eat Him, to gnaw Him. And through that death, He broke the power of Satan.

That's the power of the gospel. It's not man's power, but it's the power of God that's completely different. It takes it from a different direction. That a humble lamb would come to this world to save us. So for the church, let me just say this.

I've heard it said, Seeing the secret behind history may not keep me from pain, but it will keep me from panic. I might experience fear, but I need never feel frantic. The Ancient of Days is on the throne. He still honors his promise. He will return again.

He is moving in everything, in our lives and in the world. So be encouraged. Every setback that happens in your life, as we prayed today for people who are going through setbacks, who are going through hardship, every setback is a part of his overarching plan. It will be for his glory. Cancer, broken marriages, wandering children, chronic pain, frustrating, lacks of promotion in your job.

Whatever it is, whatever's happened, your relationship troubles, the doubt of what's next, and what... God, where are you? Let me be of hope to you that the Ancient of Days is working it out in your life. Every person in here to bring a blessing by his good hand. And when the fullness of time has come, God will bring Jesus back again.

So what do we do during this time? You know what we're called to do? To preach the gospel. Believers, we're called to share the gospel. To do everything we can to get the gospel out.

We are a dot on the great timeline. We live in the age of mercy and light. When God desires, none perish but all have eternal life. We live in a time where we need to do everything and anything. And that's why I do what I do.

That's why you do what you do. That's why you serve. That's why you give. That's why you put in the time and you study scripture and you grow in Christ. So this is the age of the church.

It's time to get busy and let's spread the gospel. Let's not sit on our religion and get up and show the sacred society. It's gospel. It's good news. And this is the age of the church to spread the gospel.

So that's the application for the church. But for those who don't have a personal relationship with Christ or haven't submitted their hearts to Jesus today or completely and fully submitted your life to Jesus, the goal of the enemy and the Antichrist is to destroy you. It's to confuse you, to hurt you. And sin hasn't turned out too good for you, has it? I mean, it was good for a season, but you're here today because you're trying to figure out something else, I'm sure.

The reason God brought you into this place is because he's seeking you. Sin hasn't done it and that's what the ruler of this world for a time and he's doing everything he can to devour to deceive and to exalt man and mark it down he is going to make it progressively harder for Christians to get the good news out to everyone else so this world is going to get worse line the bears this world are going to oppose you and there but there's going to be a reckoning one day there will be a reckoning and we know that our Lord will return and he will separate boats and that reckoning is coming the unbeliever the false Christians the half committed Christians from the true ones he will he will judge my question is where are you going to be what side of the aisle are you on I got hope for you my friend you don't have to be scared because Jesus gave his life so that you could be with God the reason that Jesus died on the cross so that you can have life with him if you submit your life you submit your heart you open your heart to God today and say Jesus I believe that I'm a sinner I find hope in you today come into my life come into my heart I want a relationship with you today God God, Jesus Christ Jesus Christ jesus Christ offers that relationship would you do that with me would you pray that with me with all heads bowed and eyes closed father we thank you for your word we thank you for your spirit we thank you that it is moving today it's moving in the hearts of people right now in this place that they're pulled towards you my friends if you feel that tug in your heart today that is God saying come to me come to my son I wish none to perish I don't wish you to perish I wish for you to have life if you would just submit your heart to him by just confessing Lord I'm a sinner I come into my life Lord cover me with your blood I look to the cross I see what you've done and I receive what you've done for me so make me a new creation in Jesus name