John Bevere & Second Coming of Jesus | Girls Gone Bible

Hi guys, I'm Anne and I'm Ari and this is Girls Gone Bible and you know when I'm on this side of the I was gonna call it a bench. It's not a bench. If I'm on this side of the table You know we have a very special guest and today we are so excited to introduce our friend Mr. John Bevere Husband of the infamous Lisa Bevere who we had on Hi John how are you? Angela and yes, I am Lisa Bevere's husband and proud of it. Okay, we I'd be greatest time with Lisa. I picked up from the airport and I got to drop her off And I was just like this is one of the most incredible women I've ever met. I mean she has stories For days. She's one of the most dynamic interesting women. I think I've ever been real Yeah, I know and I would say the same thing. She's remarkable. You know I just did a conference in Tampa Thursday night. Lisa did the conference Wednesday night We actually didn't see each other But all they kept talking about is she stayed out two and a half hours and signed books and talked to to ladies right This we sent three people out three different times to go get her and she wouldn't budge and so that's just my wife She is the most remarkable lady I've ever met. That makes me so happy We've been married 40 40 years this year. Wow. I'd marry in a heartbeat if I could again That is so sweet. You guys have such a beautiful marriage. You really do I feel like the resources so if you guys don't know and I'm sure you do because you guys are just like you guys are pioneers and staples Of the Christian faith and like especially you guys I feel like you and Lisa do such a good job at merging like genuine Faith and walks with Jesus With the online world and I feel like sometimes you don't get that It's not like people's online life is not birthed out of like their real fiery walk with Jesus. Yeah, and you guys have A really solid foundation in your faith like really really it's so real the faith that you guys have the spiritual life that you live is Incredibly genuine. So here's here's the thing. I've been a ministry for 40 To 43 years this year. I've been in a lot of green rooms where I don't know how they started, but they lost the fire they lost the passion they lost the genuineness. Yeah There was cynicism. I'm not saying that this is rare, but it's happened Um, and I saw it and I saw a lot of people leaving the ministry A lot of people fell for ministry and my heart was broken And I suddenly realized the most important goal in ministry is to be more in love with Jesus than when you started ministry So the day I leave this earth I want to be more in love with Jesus than the day I started ministry Because you know when you start ministry you you you're on fire right? So the key is keep yourself free from offense Keep yourself from pride. Yeah, walk in the holy fear of God and be genuine Right And and you don't you don't have to build yourself or your ministry It's so true. God get God's the one that gives the increase. Yeah, so if God wants me Because I remember I was on a program one time And the guy started putting to focus more on me Instead of the book wow And I got really uncomfortable because all these this is back in the days for flip flora producers before podcasts, right? I like God, what do I do and the Lord showed me something I looked at him and I said you know There's a lot of let you've you've got me on as a minister There's a lot of pastors that pastor a little 400 member church 200 member church in rural communities. Yeah, and they're obeying God You'd never have them on this program. Wow I said the Bible says that I know whatever God does it shall be forever nothing can be added to it nothing taken from it God does it that men should fear before him I said I can't add anything to what God wants to do through my life I said but I can mess it up Because if you look at the next verse it says that which is has already been that which is to be has already been and that which is in the past We're going to give an account I said so what is and what is to be God's already planned it All right guys everyone's talking about New Year's goals and Jim routines But lately I have been thinking about something bigger like the health of the kids in our lives Our nieces our god kids our friends babies or your own kids because if for honest They're growing up on ultra processed everything dies sugar in literally every snack And it's kind of wild when you really think about it and that's why we love high a health They make kids vitamins without all the gummy candy chunk no sugar no artificial dies Just clean real nutrition the first time we got them I actually tasted them myself just to see and they're actually so good you guys which explains why kids actually like them My niece Sierra is obsessed with them. 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This deal is not available on the regular website go to Haya hot dot com slash ggb and get your kids the full body nourishment they need to grow into healthy adults Only thing I can do is mess up what he planned wow, and I said that causes me to fear And the guy went yeah, that's right and the whole interview went back to healthy Wow Oh my gosh Yeah, the way in which you guys live is so so pure I you know we just want to glorify Jesus. I mean That's what we want to do. I told my family. I said look there are millions of our books out there your moms in my books I have prayed and I've meant this prayer God if you see me going off the rails I want you to take me out because I don't want to shame the name of Jesus. Yeah Yeah, that's what we all he gets all the glory. Yes, right all how could we ever earn What he did for us ever yeah, okay, so all we do is out of thanks giving For the unspeakable gift he gave us of eternal life and freedom from the lake of fire forever never never Yeah, how can we ever pay that we can never pay that back? So anything we do is just out of thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you And you get all the glory So I love that about you guys. I can see that with you So thank you so kind Let's let's get into your book. So your new book is called the king is coming For not a name by the way Um, please You know writing books is hard Ha you said you hit 45 or no no 25 books 25 books. Yes, we written one. It was hard It's a word for me here. I understand. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. It is Um, so your new book the king is coming. It's all about the second coming of Jesus and just how to live life with an eternal perspective Will you just get into just tell our listeners what the book is about and how You came about this. I know you had an experience five years ago that kind of birth this whole situation So just get into that a little bit. Well, Angela I avoided the subject of the second coming for years. Yeah, and the read decades. Let's say decades So at least an eye were in our 20s We were in a big church and this guy wrote this book 88 reasons of why Jesus coming back in 1988 Oh wow, and it was September of 88 and the guy's name well, I don't need you even need to say it but yeah Anybody my age will know but it went wild. I mean it It went viral, okay, and a bunch of my friends and I we all bought it hookline and sinker Lisa didn't By the way, and when septic september came and went Um, there was a lot of devastation The other thing I noticed was people stopped paying their credit cards They started running up their credit cards. They started eating anything they wanted because hey we're out of here So I didn't like what I saw And people got lazy people got apathetic. They got an escape mentality wow and so for decades People would say John Hutchy preach on the second coming and I'm like no That I'm not called to do that wow and so about five years ago as you just said the Holy Spirit start dealing with me To start really for me personally. I thought I was just doing it for me Really diving into the second coming because I I start seeing it and seeing it well, I didn't I didn't realize how much it's emphasized first of all I I didn't spend hundreds I spent thousands of hours Studying on the second coming reading healthy writers Listening to healthy ministers And girls what I saw is good fruit wow I I started becoming more passionate to get soul saved. I started becoming more passionate about ministry I was already passionate, but I got twice as passionate wow. I just remember mornings Weeping there's a tennis court near our house And that's where I go pray in the mornings Because nobody's around like I'll go out there five in the morning. It's just wonderful And so I find myself weeping god, I just want to win souls please just just just give me the chance to do alter calls I was kindered on my family. I didn't get upset with my staff as much And I started thinking wow, this is good fruit Well, then I learned that it's the second most talked about subject in the Bible The second coming of Jesus There's 318 verses in the New Testament, which is one out of every 30 verses The church fathers of the first three centuries. It was the second most talked about subject It is the seven-year time period of the tribulation is the most written about time period in all of the Bible So even more so than when Jesus walked the earth for the three and a half years. It's more written about that seven years So the question comes up God, what is the wisdom behind this? Why would you emphasize this? It's it's a it's a foundational doctrine of the church And so I started discovering why I noticed what the first thing I did is I went back and I thought okay, you know Winston Winston Churchill made this statement He said those that failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Wow So I felt the Holy Spirit was saying go back because there was controversy. There was ambiguity. There was there was mockery. There was you know, I mean there was There was fear of not fear. There wasn't fear But there was a lot of uncertainty about Jesus first coming. People were divided. They he created an upper right? And you have people that recognize them and people that didn't if you look at the Pharisees The Pharisees could quote the first five books of the Bible from memory That's like memorizing Matthew Mark Luke and John and Acts. Yeah Finding a doctor you actually like honestly feels like discovering a diamond in the rough sure You want someone in network nearby with open time slots, but guys let's be real. 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That's wild Then when he's 40 days old when Jesus is 40 days old Mary and Joseph bringing into the temple And the temple would have crowds of people in it every single day And this guy named simian does a b-line Right to him right to the parents holds up the 40 day old Jesus and says the Messiah And it blows Mary away. Yeah How come he recognized Jesus? How come the Pharisees didn't So what I see about simian is a man he was a man that pursued godly living He pursued humility he pursued holiness he pursued godliness The second thing this is Luke 225 is that he was Rev- he was reverent Okay, it said he was devout the word devout means he took the word of god seriously That he feared god So the fear of the words the beginning of wisdom right? So the third thing was and this one's really interesting He was eerily waiting for the Messiah Then Anna recognized the for 40 day old baby. She was eagerly waiting for the Messiah. Wow Well all of a sudden last year now girls I've been reading my Bible for 45 years. Yeah, I've never noticed this But I started noticing especially in the new living translation All of you that are eagerly waiting Paul said to the Corinthians as you eagerly wait for the Lord's return Paul said to Timothy hey the crown is for me not just for me But it's for all those who are eagerly waiting for his coming. I started noticing eagerly waiting is everywhere Yeah, so what creates eager eager anticipation Think about being a kid at Christmas You count the days you count the hours on Christmas Eve you can't go to sleep You have you are eagerly awaiting Christmas morning when you get to open up the gifts that mom and dad give you right What creates eager anticipation and engagement? I remember when Lisa and I were engaged You know she was home for two months getting the church ready. I was in Texas Those the longest two months of my life girls They seem like weeks weeks seem like months right wow and I remember When I finally got with her the anticipation so what what caused Me to be so eager was It was something I greatly look forward to mm-hmm, right? Yeah, so Why is eager anticipation so important because John the Apostle who wrote the book of Revelation says all who have this eager expectation Will purify themselves even as he is pure So what I discovered was The anticipation of his second coming gives us the power To purify herself Now the blood of Jesus purifies me absolutely yeah, but sanctification is when I cooperate with the grace of God To live the godly life he's called me to live That we have to cooperate with So John says when you have that eager expectation it gives you the power to purify yourself So if you look at the antithesis Jesus talks all about a second coming in Matthew 24 then he tells a parable And he says the servant that says my lord delays his coming the servant who says my lord delays his coming Yeah, we'll begin to eat and drink and get drunk and beat the male servants wow So what Jesus is saying is when you say his return is delayed You'll become more worldly. Oh wow what John is Echoing is he saying when you are eagerly looking forward to his coming Then you will purify yourself as he is pure I'll give you an example Lies as an Indiana were engaged. 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I was an interested. Well Because I'm eagerly anticipating being married to Lisa Now if I'm sitting there going I can't look at that girl. I shouldn't look at that girl. I'm engaged then Yeah, that's that's that's law. Yeah. Yeah When we are so anticipating his coming because we are so in love with him because we're Right the love creates the eager anticipation. Yeah This world loses its its attraction. You're right God that's that is so good. That's so good. That's so good. Okay now here's where it gets really good You're gonna find all through the New Testament The Lord is coming soon The end of the world is coming quickly. The Lord is returning quickly Jesus is four times in revelation. I'm coming quickly. Wow Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, these are guys in the first century quickly soon. Yeah, we're talking about two thousand years later What's going on here? It's God deceiving us. No Peter says that mockers are going to come in the last days And what are they going to do? They're gonna they're gonna live very fleshly lives And what are they gonna mock? They're gonna mock the fact that Jesus is returning. They're gonna say where is the promise of his coming now? Listen to what they say ever since the fathers fell asleep All things remain the same as the beginning of creation Now first of all are these guys atheists are they quote believers atheists don't call church fathers fathers. Hmm atheists don't call creation creation. They call it evolution Here's actually saying there's people That claim to belong to God Did are gonna say man, it's been two thousand years. Hey the 12th century expected in the 13th century But he said you must not forget this one thing. This is what he says to us a day with the Lord's a thousand years and a thousand years as a day Okay, so All right, stop and think about this one of God's days a thousand of our years. Whoa, that means my life Okay, an average human being let's just say they live to be 80 years old That's a little less than two hours to God That is one hour to God is 42.6 years A day with the Lord 24 hours divide a thousand years by 24 hours and you get 42.6 years Now think about eternity Never ever ending your mind gets blown. Yeah, so 2000 years in the scope of eternity is a very short time So now is he being deceptive with us? No God knows That the 12th century church if they had the eager anticipation that the Lord could come today They would have the purify the pure the power to purify themselves from worldly desires and things that would pull them away from his heart So he is allowed every generation. I'll give you an example when Lisa and I were engaged two months were apart, right? Two days before the wedding I flew two day. I mean two days before I fly up to Indiana after being apart for two months I'm on the phone and what do I say to Lisa? I'm gonna see you soon babe So I'm not lying soon is soon compared to the last two months. Yeah, God's not lying. He's just protecting us So the way we should live is we should live like he's coming today with that kind of eager and anticipation But we should plan our lives like he's not coming for 400 years. Wow. Yes. Yes. I love that Why is that because? Because he said occupy until I come which means you are to be about my business until I come back free Yes, such girls are doing. Yes. I love that. That is so good. That's like mind blowing. That is amazing In this book impacted you more than any book I've ever read Maybe driven by attorney might have been equal but there were mornings I came down to breakfast and because I write early in the morning Yeah, and that's at least I'm I'm so sorry. I'm quiet this morning. I I'm I'm just Shaken in a good way by what the Holy Spirit showing me as I'm writing this book. That is so special It it it it really impacted me personally. Wow Can we talk about the book of Revelation? Sure. I hope Is it Revelation 4 where it says like you're blessed if you read this book or is it Revelation 1 verse 3 verse 3 Okay. Yeah, it's what is the verse? Blessed is he who reads the words of this prophecy to the church blessed is he who listens to the words Of this prophecy and blessed is he who bays the words of this prophecy Okay, I want to know why You're blessed if you read it to why it's so critical to read the book of Revelation 3 What does it mean? And how do people read it? That's very good questions Angela. Okay, first of all what I just shared with you That Okay, that it gives me the purifying effect because it keeps before me. He's coming. He's coming is coming Do you girls know about the ancient Jewish wedding? No, okay, now I'm gonna go off topic. It's seen it's gonna seem like I'm going off topic the reason we have so much Trouble misunderstanding the end time events. Yeah Is because we don't understand the way a Jewish wedding was conducted two thousand years ago Okay, so a lot of what Jesus says to his guys They got it Because let's face it if you guys been to a lot of your friends weddings So you know exactly how the wedding goes. It's the engagement the guy gets down on his knee opens up the ring box that's your friend she screams she goes yeah They can marry four or five six months a year later Right there is an engagement period totally different for the ancient Jewish wedding. 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Wow They would discuss the terms of the marriage Especially one of the things they discussed was the mohar Now I've read three books on this last year to make sure I get it because this is fascinating The mohar is the bride price Back in those days everybody in the family pitched in So if you're you're one of the daughters you're washing the clothes you're or preparing food you might be Getting the water for the family So the groom and the and and the groom or the groom and the groom's father would come in and say okay We're gonna give you know 50 cattle for your daughter We're gonna give five uh 50 pieces of silver It would be silver whatever anything of value If you look in the if you look further in the Old Testament You see Jacob work for seven years for Rachel and and Leah 14 years actually David was a hundred Philistines four skins that was the bride price for Michael right so you see this All right, so once they agreed to the bride price The bride in the groom would drink a glass of wine together and they'd smash the glass The groom would leave and he's going back with his father and you know he's going back to do To build a room office father's house For he and his bride Jesus said don't let your heart be troubled believe in God believe in me In my father's house there are many rooms if it were not so I would have told you Behold I'm going to prepare a place for you Wow And if I do I will come back and receive you Paralumbano is the Greek word he uses Receive you to myself well That is the same Greek word that Jesus said Two women will be at the mill one will be taken the other left Two men will be in the field one taken the other left two will be in the bed one will be taken one will be left All three times the word taken is parallel Wow now The bride Would would then immediately like a day or two later Go through a bat she would be immersed into clean water they called that the mig va The Jerusalem Bible actually says that he's washing his bride With the magna so to speak okay, yeah So now what was her responsibilities because they're going to be separated for about a year He's going to be back there building the room for about a year She's going to be Making her wedding dress She's going to be packing her trunk and she's going to be getting making sure she's got a lamp with plenty of oil for the torchlight procession The groom has no idea when he's going to go get his bride It's not until his father looks at the room that he's built for her It's usually about a year later and he says go get her wow when he comes and gets her He has a bunch of guys That all have torch lights they have showfars and they wait until night Because everybody is together at night. They don't have street lights You don't have any like like here in Hollywood you have lights all over the streets and all that stuff Now there's none of that everybody's in their homes at night. Yeah So they come into the bride's community making all kinds of noise along the showfars They go straight to her house the groom catches her away literally pulls her out of her house She hears the torchlight she puts on her veil She puts on her travel out her wedding outfit excuse me and Now when the bridesmaids in her community hear the groomsman come in they join the torchlight possession Remember the parable about the bridesmaids. 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There are so many Similarities to the language we have in the Bible of this wow First of all we get baptized When we're baptized what happens we're washed with the water of the word and we're baptized in water That is us saying I'm purified and set apart from my groom to come back and get me Secondly, if you look at the betrothal the moment they drink that wine they're betrothed Our engagements can be broken Right We all know that You have to get a divorce if you're betrothed So the moment they sign that contract they're actually married remember Joseph was gonna put away married privately He had a divorce her you could divorce her publicly or privately privately She would be shamed publicly would shame her entire family He chose to do it privately because he was a just man So think about Jesus he says I'm gonna come I'm gonna go and prepare a place I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna get you where is bride now if you look at revelation 1917 I know six and seven it says the wedding of the lamb has come and the bride has made herself ready How did she make herself ready she has to make her wedding dress Then have Vogue magazine back then She couldn't go into a bridal store and buy a a a a dress yeah So she's got to make her wedding dress that's what everybody is up to 150 years ago. That's what all bride is to do I'm thinking we can imagine if we had to make our wedding dress and our men had to build homes like we can't do that now We need to wake up we need to wake up and get in between I'm knocking For Russian I'm knocking that but I'm saying you got to think back to the time Okay, so listen to what revelation 19 the wedding of the of the lamb has come his wife has made her self ready. We are his wife She's got to make her wedding dress to her it was granted To be a raid in fine linen Clean and bright for the fine linen is the righteous acts works of the saints What we're doing for him what you girls are doing for him You're literally making your wedding garment Now if you look at the western church We have people to go to church for 90 minutes and then they go out and live for themselves or rest of the week Yes, I don't think we've got enough material to make a bikini let alone a wedding dress Wow Are you seeing what I'm saying? 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I got land. I've just married somebody So he's furious. He says go out to the streets compel him to come in A guy comes in and the king walks in and notices this guy doesn't have a wedding garment on He said why did you come here without your wedding garment? Wow Find him hand in foot and take him out Matthew 22 Okay Wait a minute we're saved by grace. Yes, we are But I want you to consider a scenario. Let's say there's a a royal a royal family the greatest king that's ever lived And he comes to my community. I live in a slum. I have absolutely nothing. I mean literally nothing. I'm a street kid He says I want you to come to my wedding my wedding feast Here's $2,000 By by yourself a wedding outfit. Wow But I use the $2,000 to get NBA tickets to get Xbox To go out and have fun with my friends. Yeah, and I speak I blow through it. Yeah Now I go and I have nothing So here here here is the bride has made her self-work ready Remember those virgins their lamps were going out at midnight And they said to the wise who feared God Who obeyed the word of God our lamps are going out And the wise what did the wise say? Oh, yeah, here's some they said Go to those who buy who sell and buy for yourself Remember Jesus said to the leo to see in church. I advise you to buy from me gold refine and fire and buy from me I said and buy from me white garments We can't earn our salvation. Yeah, but he gives us the grace that we can do the works that make our wedding dress Yeah, does that make sense? Yeah, so cool and so you know I look at I look at people today And in in America And it's like we're not telling them the full picture. Yeah, we're creating people who are going to possibly miss His coming yeah, or be saved but it's through fire. Yeah, instead of telling What what you do with the cross does indeed determine where you're going to spend eternity? Yeah If I believe with all my heart in Jesus, which means I'm going to live for him I'm saved. Yeah, me But the way we live determines how we're going to spend eternity whoa Okay, so There are actually people that think heaven's going to be boring Okay, so that's ridiculous What created all of this is going to be more boring than this? Yeah, yeah, do you think it's going to be an eternal worship service? They think you know Whatever yeah There's going to be activity. There's going to be building. There's going to be communities. There's going to be planning They're going to be people that will be ruling ten cities Jesus said yeah, there'll be people that won't rule any city. Yeah What determined that how they obeyed him now? Yeah, yeah, you see what I'm saying. Yeah totally okay, so we are actually We're forming our job descriptions for eternity right now in this short life. Wow But can you walk everyone through what that looks like? Mm-hmm can you do that because some people like okay? Well, I read the word I but like can you walk us through step-by-step how to live that out? Okay, so how that happens or how to live that out like how to live that out like I read the word I obey it But you said how you live here determines where you'll be an eternity What is most important is that we live a life that's obedient to God. Yeah, so every day when we get up We should be Lord. I'm yours. Whatever you want to do with me today. I'm yours And if that's talked to one person If that's preaching to a thousand people if that's working In my factory if that's being a stay-home mom and taking very good care of my children It's what God has given us all different tasks We have people in the marketplace and healthcare. We have education God has put all these people in there because why we're the restraining force that is holding back lawlessness You will find believers in every sector of society and that is what's holding back lawlessness from just running rampant and taking over