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2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

I woke up and I heard this Scripture playing as though it were playing out on a loudspeaker.   And I looked and I had already put my MP3 player away and laid it on the nightstand several hours before.   And there were no tapes playing.   I listened to see if somebody else in the house was listening to a tape.   And I didn’t hear anything.   And I lay there for just a few minutes and all of a sudden, I began to hear it again.

It was exactly as it’s found here in verse 34.   The Words just boomed in the room

(Matthew 24:34)   Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

And it all came about because of this little discovery of the transistor chip in 1948 that really signaled the birth of the computer age that we know today.

And something that was prophesied in the Scripture could now easily be carried out - that no one could buy or sell or trade because it could be tracked.   It could be kept up with with a computer, and it wouldn’t take a computer as big as this room.   It could be something that someone could carry around in the palm of their hand.

And how did that come about?   In 1948.   A lot of things changed.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

What about earthquakes?   Did you know that these seismologists who study these kinds of things say that all of a sudden in 1948, there was a measurable increase in the size, scope and intensity of earthquakes.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

And in 1948, historians say, it was the death of colonialism and it was the beginning . . .   Instead of everybody raising up to fight against this big European country, the United Kingdom, or England or Great Britain, now they started fighting one another.

There was no need.   Colonization was over.   And England was no longer in control.   And so immediately the emphasis of fighting changed.   Instead of fighting the great enemy, they started fighting one another.

And this is what the Scripture said, “nation rising against nation.”   And many historians say this whole concept unfolded in 1948.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

Medical science says that there was such an outstanding increase of deadly diseases in 1948 that there were ten or eleven new, very serious diseases that came on the scene for the very first time in recorded human history in 1948.

And the Bible talks about the increase of pestilences.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

Oh, my, how far America has fallen, how far society has fallen.   And we can trace all these things back as far as 1948.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

There’s something that God is trying to tell us about the generation that we’re living in right now.

“This generation shall not pass away until all these things be fulfilled.”

Do you know, I believe there is absolutely no possibility whatsoever that these verses of Scripture are speaking about any other generation than the one we’re living in right now.   I don’t see any way in the world that it could be prophesying another generation out there.

This must be the generation that will see the consummation of all things.   This has to be the generation that will see the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

When will this come?   It must be sooner than what we live like we believe.   It must be sooner than what we live like we believe.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

And if a generation is 70 years . . .   Somebody said, “Are you saying we have ten or twelve more years?”

I don’t know how long we have, but I can tell you this.   If we did, if I knew for a fact that it would be ten years before the Lord would come, I would still say it is so close.

How many of you know there’s so much to be accomplished for the Kingdom of heaven?

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

I just received a thought in my spirit last night why it’s so important to stand before the Throne of God.   The Throne of God represents His government.   It represents His authority.   And it represents His will.

And the reason why we want to stand before the Throne and worship is because we want to know the will of God.   Because in order to do it, to carry it out, we have to know it.   And the only way we’re going to know it is to come before His Throne.   And that’s one of the reasons why praise and worship is so important.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

The nearness of all these things - the coming of the Lord, the consummation of the ages, the adopted sons of God being raised up in the earth to work the works of the Lord Jesus . . .

All these years You’ve been building a people, searching for a people, trying a people, molding and making a people that would come forth for a short season and manifest Your character, Your attributes and Your power in the earth.

And we’re closer to that reality than we have ever been before.   And we submit ourselves for Your service.   Use us fully.