A Grateful Goodbye, A Global Mission Ahead

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Greetings to the brightest audience in the country and welcome to Bob and Yart Live. Friends, we are now entering our final full week on KLTT Radio. It’s hard to describe the emotions I feel right now, gratefulness and sadness, but especially gratefulness for all these years. A touch of sadness at saying goodbye and a lot of excitement for the incredible things God is doing. in the world and in this ministry. The truth is, this is not an ending. It’s a new chapter for the KGOV ministry, for the Enyart ministry, as we are now accelerating the YouTube channel, Enyart Theology, Real Science Radio on YouTube, the daily podcast at kgov.com with hundreds of thousands of downloads, and the YouTube with millions of viewers. God has taken what started here and he’s expanded it across the globe, reaching believers and unbelievers alike. I recently heard from someone in Australia who is a fan of the Enyart Theology YouTube channel and how cool that is. And we encourage you guys to be with us for the ride. Listen to our daily podcast at kgov.com. Get all of our Bible studies at www.anyart.shop and subscribe to the anyart theology and real science radio youtube channels if you can support this mission subscribe donate either one time or monthly or more important than either of those is pray for us as we continue to produce content that edifies believers and shares the gospel with the lost that’s one big reason that we’re saying goodbye to KLTT is because KLTT reaches such a great Christian audience, but we want to reach both Christians and unbelievers alike and preach the gospel to unbelievers. Sometimes they trickle in, but generally speaking, unbelievers are not so much on Christian radio, and so we want to dive into the belly of the beast, and we know that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church. and that is why we want to go on the offensive. My email is enyarttheology at gmail.com. If you want to share any favorite memories of our time here on KLTT Radio, or if you have any questions about this transition in ministry, enyarttheology at gmail.com. Our farewell gift to you is the Plot Bible Overview. This has been behind a paywall for the entire life of our ministry. It is my father’s work, Bob and Yart’s life’s work, the Plot Bible Overview. It’s been behind a paywall. It still is behind a paywall everywhere, except here right now, live on KLTT Radio. Today, we bring you the seventh segment’s that’s ever been on KLTT Radio live right now. Let’s jump right into it. The plot, Bible overview.

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What is it? Is it law or is it grace? Paul’s out there doing grace. We’re here doing law. Every time they get together, there’s conflict. Paul goes to Jerusalem. Paul, there’s trouble. Our followers are going to hear that you’ve come. There’s going to be uproar. We need you to keep the law. Not your converts. Let them do their thing. That’s fine. But you’re here in Jerusalem. Keep the law. Peter comes to Antioch. Now he’s in Paul’s territory. We’ve got the tension all over again. And Peter brings a little bit of the law with him to this Gentile fellowship. And Paul rebukes him and calls him a hypocrite and confronts him. You see the whole story developing, and it’s a complete story. It has a beginning, a middle, twist, and an end. But it’s a story. The story I’m telling you now is an unknown to the Christian church. It’s unknown. It’s not refuted. It’s not like, oh, yeah, we’ve dealt with all those verses, and here’s what we think of them. It’s unknown. It’s unknown. We just saw Jesus saying that in three years, I’ve come looking for fruit, three years of Christ’s earthly ministry, I’ve found no faith, cut off Israel, but now they’re going to wait one more year. They’re going to fertilize with the Holy Spirit, look for fruit, perhaps the nation will repent, and then they’ll be refined as if by fire, purified, and then they could have their kingdom. But after one year of the ministry of the Holy Spirit out of Jerusalem, there was no fruit. And so God cut off Israel, grafted in the Gentiles. Now, if that is the plan, then we should see many indications of that in the gospels and in the Old Testament. That the plan was that after Jesus died, it would only be a short time until he returned to establish his kingdom. And let verses run through your mind right now in Old Testament and New Testament. And do you think that there are verses that would show that after Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, it would only be a short time until he returned? Is that something we could find in the Bible? Or is that not in the Bible at all? Was there a belief among the apostles, the 12, that there would be just a very short time until Jesus returned to establish his kingdom? Or was that notion totally foreign to them? Did Jesus in the gospels suggest that he would leave for a little while and then return while they were still alive? And he would come back quickly? In fact, they wouldn’t have time to get through all the villages of Israel before he returned. In fact, he was thinking about having John the apostle not die until he returned. Is there any of that? In the Old Testament, does it give us a timeline about when Christ would die? Is there any timeline? And from the point that he died until the point of the tribulation and then the establishment of the kingdom, was that to be a long period of time or a short period of time? The Bible, we will see after this break, indicates clearly that there would be a short time between Christ’s ascension and his return to establish the kingdom. A very short period of time. And the apostles administered their ministry out of Jerusalem based on their belief that Christ would be coming right back real soon. He did not come back real soon. And what happened to the ministry of the 12 in Jerusalem? Did it flourish? Paul single-handedly converted the whole Western world. As a figure of speech, he planted churches throughout the Roman Empire. How about the Twelve? Acts tells us they never left Jerusalem, except for some small little excursions, very brief, and right back home. And they stopped evangelizing. We don’t read of the churches planted by Thomas in the Bible. Peter, James, and John, these guys, where’s all their great evangelical work? It’s not there. Why not? Why is it all Paul and all his establishment of churches throughout the regions of the Gentiles?

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Matthew 24, 34, we’re going to look at Christ giving us the timeframe of when his return would be. It’s been 2000 years. He hasn’t come, but what did he say would be that timeframe? In that verse, speaking of the tribulation in Matthew chapter 24, he said, assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Now, what is that verse used to teach today? Jesus, speaking of the tribulation, right? The seven year time of Jacob’s trial where the believers would be persecuted, even killed. It would be a terrible time. And then he would return at the end of the tribulation. And in that context, he said, this generation will by no means pass forever. until all these things take place. In our century, in this past century, we’ve been told that that referred to Israel becoming a nation That happened on May 14th, 1948. And that that generation would not pass till all these things took place. Well, we’re also showed in the Bible that a generation is about 40 years. And so Hal Lindsey, for example, became very well known, writing in the late great planet Earth, sold millions of books that, well, you just do the math. 1948, a generation is 40 years. So Christ would return by 1988. The tribulation would be seven years, so the rapture would be in 1981. Millions of Christians believe that. Millions of Christians believe that and were somewhat shocked when the rapture did not happen in 1981. Then a lot of the teachers shifted a little their theology and said, okay, he’s going to come back in 1988. in the full 40 years. In fact, there was a book out, 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988. And the weird thing about that book is every one of those reasons was wrong. Every single one. You think you get one right out of 88. And I think there might have been a sequel, you know, 89 Why It Will Be in 89, but we were spared that, I guess. The latest silliness I heard on Christian radio was that they figured out from the Bible a generation is 53 years. Oh, there we have it. Okay, I’ll sell my house. Jesus was speaking to his listeners. And they said, what will be the signs of the end times in your coming? And he said, well, it’s going to be really bad. And this generation will by no means pass till all these things take place. You know, if a president said, we’re going to put a man on the moon, we’re going to put a man on the moon and this generation will not pass until this takes place. Everybody would know what he was saying. Would anyone be confused? What if we translated that little sentence? We’re going to put a man on the moon and this generation will not pass till this is fulfilled. What if we translated that into every language in the world? And we let people all over the world read it. Would they misunderstand it? No one would misunderstand it. It’s not misunderstandable. It’s obvious. These things will happen before the end of this generation. That’s what Jesus said. But that meaning, the obvious meaning, cannot be considered. We can’t entertain that because it didn’t happen. And since that generation did not see the tribulation and all the prophecies come to pass, then that must not be what Jesus meant. But we here today have learned something, that God is a living God who changes. And he could give a prophecy about a coming kingdom that does not come to pass because he decides to put it on hold. Or he could give a prophecy about the destruction of a city that does not come to pass because the circumstances changed. So I’d like to read you some verses now. The same sentence in three different Gospels, because each one adds a little. Luke 9.27, Jesus said, There are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God. There are some standing here who will not taste death. till they see the kingdom of God. All right, maybe the kingdom of God is used in a more figurative sense. And maybe Jesus meant his resurrection or something like that. So there’s some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God. Mark 9, verse 1. There are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power. I read that verse to a man just recently in Lansing, Michigan, suggesting that Jesus meant that he would be returning soon, even before some of them died. He said, that’s not what that means. That kingdom of God present with power, he said, that refers to the Roman Empire when they destroyed Jerusalem in AD 70. That was the kingdom of God present with power. And I got this like contorted look on my face. And he said, you know, the Romans were persecuting. No, he said the Jews were persecuting the Christians. And so God used the power of Rome to destroy their enemies and destroy Jerusalem. I said, oh, that’s the power of Rome is the power of the kingdom of God. He said, yeah. I said, and then the power of God turned on his own and the sword of Rome slaughtered the apostles and the believers. That was the power of the kingdom of God that persecuted to death the believers. That wasn’t the power of the kingdom of God. Some of you will not taste death till you see that. What Jesus means, some of you will not die until I get my hands on you. Then we’re going to slaughter you. That’s not what he’s talking about. He takes it a little bit further in Matthew 16, 28, and I’m so glad that he did. Or the recording of it by Matthew is a bit more complete. Matthew adds a few words. You know, three people could hear something and retell it. And they each could tell different parts of it. And that happens every day. That’s fine. Matthew 16, 28. That’s pretty explicit. All right. Son of man coming. Jesus talked about his coming a handful of times, and it was always his second coming. And he talked about the kingdom that he was going to establish on earth. He’s going to judge the nations, the sheep and the goats, and those who pass the judgment will enter into the kingdom. And he says, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the son of man coming in his kingdom. Now, when he says there are some who shall not taste death, what does that mean? Well, it means it’ll be a little bit of time because some will probably die. In fact, he promises that they will kill some of you. But there are some who will not taste death until the Son of Man returns. So some will die because it’s going to be a terrible time of tribulation and torment. Some will die and be martyred, but some will remain to see the coming of the Son of Man. Now some Christians say, well, that was… You know, that happened with the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit was given. Or that happened at the Mount of Transfiguration. So you couldn’t really see it, but it happened. And Christ came in that way. It was like a mystical coming or something like that. That doesn’t wash. it’s the cults who refer to the passages when Christ said he would come. Like the Jehovah’s Witnesses say, oh, that was in 1914. They say, yeah, but we didn’t see him come. In power and glory, as the lightning flashes from the east and the west, Jesus said, if they tell you he came, but you didn’t see it, don’t believe it. So the Jehovah’s Witnesses say, yeah, he came in 1914, and we don’t buy it because we didn’t see it. And who else is it? Sun Myung Moon, the Unification Church, the Moonies. They say, well, the Christ came back and it was in Korea and it’s Mr. Moon. Sorry, we don’t buy it. Because Jesus said, if they tell you I came and you didn’t see it because it’ll be dramatic worldwide, don’t believe it. So when he says, some of you will not taste death until you see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom, that’s a dramatic statement of his return. In Matthew 10, 23, Jesus said to the twelve, When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. We have this same sentiment in all different contexts. So Jesus said he sends the 12 out. Especially after he rises from the dead, he’s going to send them out to minister throughout Israel. But he says, if you get persecuted, if you go to the city of Nain and they persecute you, don’t just beat your head against the wall and try to win them over. It’s not worth it. Don’t cast your pearls before swine. Flee to the next city. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. So when we get into the book of Acts and we see that the apostles believed that Jesus was coming back real soon and that their time was short, we understand why. Because he predicted that he would come back soon. Israel was small, like the size of New Jersey. And they had 12 guys plus 70 others plus a growing following. So they’d be able to get through the cities of Israel in a relatively short period of time. But Jesus said, you will not have accomplished that task before I return. John chapter 14, verse 3. Jesus said, if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself. Now, people could argue that, but there’s a flavor there of, hey, I’m going to go to my father’s house, but I’m going to return to receive you to myself. He didn’t say, and then I’m going to bring you back. I’m going to bring you where I am, but I’m going to go and prepare a place for you and I will come again. You see? Also in John… the same chapter 14, verse 28, you have heard me saying to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you love me, you would rejoice because I said I’m going to the Father. So he had been saying all along, and now he says, you have heard me say that I am going away and coming back to you. That was his plan, consistent with the Old Testament prophecies that the Messiah would come, would be crucified, and seven years later would return to establish a kingdom. So Jesus said, you have heard me say that I am going and that I will come back to you. Not that I am going and then I will transport you to where I am, but I’m going and where I am and then I will come back to you. At the end of this gospel, John, chapter 21, verse 22, there’s this interesting story where Jesus, a rumor had started that John the apostle would not die before the Lord returned. That was the rumor among the early Christians. How did that rumor get started? Jesus started it. But John sort of found a loophole. He said, now wait a minute, look carefully at what he said. Here, John 21, verse 22. Jesus said to him, and this is to the beloved disciple, John, Jesus said to him, If I will that he remain till I come. What is that to you? You follow me. He was talking to Peter. And Peter, you know, Peter had gone through just a disaster in the past weeks. And he was a bit of a basket case. And so he’s walking along with Jesus. And here’s John. And Jesus and John had a special, deep, intimate, loving relationship. And so Peter said, what about him? because Peter’s probably gonna be crucified and martyred. Peter said, what about him? Jesus said, if I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? Follow me. Then the saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but if I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? See, Jesus had planned to return swiftly within seven years. That was the prophecy, the time of a tribulation that Israel would be purged and then God would give them their kingdom with their king. But God is a living God. So even though he gives a prophecy, he could change it. So Jesus said that those days will be shortened for the sake of the elect. What does that mean? Well, God had prophesied a seven-year tribulation, but it would be shortened because God would have mercy on Israel and God is the living God and he could change. So if he wants to do it in a certain timeframe, but people are evil, he could change the timeframe or cut it off. So Jesus was planning on coming back soon, and he had this relationship with John, and he liked the idea of John being there to greet him when he returned. So he said, if I will, that he remain till I come. He wasn’t thinking that, you know, maybe John, I’ll keep him alive for 2,000 years. And he’d be here in Warsaw, Indiana today. That’s not what Jesus was thinking of. He was thinking, as all the prophecies had indicated, that his second coming would be swift. Okay, now, when we go back and look in the Old Testament, we see Daniel in chapter 9 gave this startling prophecy that, of the timeline of the Messiah and when he would come. In Daniel 9, 24 through 27, it’s called the 490 year prophecy. It’s the prophecy of weeks. And God lays out a timeframe for when the Messiah would die. There’d be 490 years. The Messiah would be cut off. He’d be crucified after 483 years. Now, when does that start? It started back in the year 454 BC, if I have that right from memory, when King Artaxerxes issued a command to rebuild Jerusalem. That was the beginning, the trigger that launched Daniel’s prophecy of 493 years. 483 years later, the Messiah was cut off just as Daniel had prophesied. Well, that’s only 483 years. The prophecy was 490 years. What does the prophecy say would happen in the next seven years? That was the tribulation. Israel would live through the last half of their 1,000-year kingdom before the Messiah. David established a throne in Jerusalem, 1000 BC, approximately. They have a 1000 year kingdom. The last half of that, a lot of wickedness and misery and sin happened. But then it would lead up to the point where the Messiah would be crucified 483 years into that prophecy. The next seven years were the tribulation where the Antichrist would be involved in the abomination of desolation and Israel would be persecuted and two thirds of the Jews would be killed and one third would be refined as if by fire. and that one-third would greet the Messiah when he returns, and God would establish the kingdom on earth. So then there’d be a 1,000-year kingdom afterward. 1,000 years before, 1,000 years after. That was the plan. Daniel 9 makes that plan very explicit. It tells us what year the Messiah would be killed and that the next seven years would be the tribulation. And after that, we could tell from a number of prophecies after the tribulation would be the millennial kingdom with Christ on earth. That was the plan. Now, when we get into the book of Acts, I’d like to look at Acts chapter three, verse 19. And we will see something that startles so many Christians. When they first see it, they say, you know, one man told me he’d studied the Bible for 40 years and never saw these verses in Acts chapter 3. What the verses tell us is that Peter is preaching to Israel. He says, We’d like to have our kingdom on earth, but Jesus is in heaven. So men of Israel, if you repent, God will send Jesus back down and establish our kingdom. And the times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord because we’ll have God’s kingdom on earth because Christ will be here present among us. Let’s read Acts 3.19. Now, in the whole early part of that, stop the tape, stop the tape.

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That was segment number seven of the plot Bible overview. Sharing this with you during our final week is my way of saying thank you for walking with us all of these years. This has been behind a paywall for our entire ministry and it continues to be. Be so everywhere except right here on KLTT Radio. Remember, the ministry lives on on the Any Art Theology YouTube channel, on the Real Science Radio YouTube channel. the daily podcast at kgov.com, which has hundreds of thousands of downloads, the YouTube channels with millions of views. Visit www.enyart.shop for our entire library of Bible study content, including the full plot study. And subscribe, again, to the YouTube channels. My email is enyarttheology at gmail.com. If you want to share just any favorite memories of our time here on KLTT Radio, or if you have any questions about anything at all, I like talking to you guys. Questions about the transition of ministry, questions about theology, about apologetics, whatever it is, reach out. We love you guys, and we love to hear from you. If you at all can, please subscribe to the channels, donate either one time or especially monthly. Monthly donations give us a sense of security, but more importantly than any of that is please pray for us. Keep us in your prayers that we have wisdom. that we know how to navigate this transition. And we know that your prayer and your support, it keeps the mission alive as we edify believers and reach unbelievers worldwide, not just here in Denver, but all across the globe. Hey, this is Dominic Enyart reminding you to do right and risk the consequences.