Jihad and the Gospel

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

Revelation 1:10

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day.”

Revelation 4:2

“At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.”

Revelation 17:3

“So he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names.”

Revelation 21:10

“And in the Spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.”

Joel 2:1-2, 12-13

“Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near… Now therefore says the Lord, ‘Turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your garments.'”

Revelation 8:13

“Then I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, ‘Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!'”

Revelation 9:1-12

“And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit… They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads… They have a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.”

Isaiah 9:15

“The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.”

Revelation 9:13-21

“Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, ‘Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.’ And the number of the mounted troops was two hundred million… By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed by fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.”

Revelation 11:14

“The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is coming soon.”

Revelation 11:15-18

“Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.’ The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged… for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

Daniel 11:45

“He shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, and no one will help him.”

Joel 2:13

“Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.”

Memorable Quotes

“I don’t know if you know, when you have a sermon coming up, you feel under a certain amount of pressure. Every preacher feels that. But I want to share this morning that in the process of studying for these sermons, I’ve just felt this increasing sense of urgency that Jesus is coming soon.”

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ is not about war, world war, and jihad. It is a revelation of Jesus Christ and his glory and his beauty.”

“Jesus is the Lord of history. And that’s good news, is it not? That history may seem to be out of control, but Revelation from chapters 4 through chapter 17 portrays Jesus Christ as the Lord of history.”

“When you hear the trumpets ringing through history, God is not trying to deafen us with the sound of the trumpets. God is calling us personally to a renewed and restored right relationship with Him.”

“The first woe, the fifth trumpet or the first jihad was from 612 AD, the starting of the preaching of Muhammad, through to 1449, when the last Christian emperor ascended the throne of Constantinople, but he only did so with the permission of the Ottoman Sultan.”

“The prophecy was fulfilled to the day through history. The Millerite movement accepted the second advent message because they realized that prophecy is accurate.”

“We serve a great God. Jesus truly is the Lord of history.”

“The first two woes were redemptive scourges upon an apostate Christian religion designed to lead men to repentance, indicating that the fifth and sixth trumpets sounded before the close of probation.”

“The third woe began in 1844, the ending of the 2300 prophetic year prophecy of Daniel 8:13 and 14. It extends through to the close of probation. Which means today we are living in the era of the third woe or the seventh trumpet.”

“The third woe or the seventh trumpet includes a resurgent papacy and a dominant United States seeking to impose false worship through an alliance.”

“The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”

“There is to be a rapid and triumphant spread of the gospel.”

“The first two woes involved attacks against powers or nations connected with an apostate Christian faith: the Arab jihad and the Turkish jihad.”

“In the end times, identities will no longer be national. It will not matter whether you are American or Hungarian or Guatemalan. What will matter will be your relationship with God.”

“The only solution, the only safety for us is to be loyal to Jesus Christ first and foremost and to His kingdom.”

“The trumpet sounds to call God’s people to repentance, to a renewed and restored right relationship with a loving heavenly Father.”

“The world is full of the unreached even today. There are people who like in the city of Nineveh do not know their right hand from their left hand, and it’s not just around the world, it’s here in Berrien Springs.”

“If this message has meant anything to you, join the fray. We have an evangelistic series coming up. Invite someone who is not a Christian to come to that series.”

“God has a people. The gospel will be proclaimed.”

“I don’t want to read the news. I want to be the news.”

“It is my prayer that each one of us will hear the trumpets sounding through history. We’ll hear the trumpet sounding in our own lives.”

“Jesus is coming soon. Let’s not be shy about it. Let’s tell people of a soon returning Savior.”

Other Quotations

From Ellen G. White, Great Controversy, page 334

“In the year 1840, another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers in the Millerite movement, preached the second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and specifying not only the year, but on the very day in which this would take place. According to this exposition, which was purely a matter of calculation on the prophetic periods of scriptures, the Turkish government would surrender its independence on the 11th day of August, 1840.”

From Ellen G. White, Early Writings, page 36

“I saw that the anger of the nations, the wrath of God, and the time to judge the dead were separate and distinct, one following the other.”

From Ellen G. White, commentary on Revelation 11:15

“The kingdoms of this world are soon to become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. The seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.’ There is to be a rapid and triumphant spread of the gospel.”