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SHAREEmail thismoreIN TIMES LIKE THESE DRAW NEAR TO GODNELSON PRICEJAMES 4:7-108/30/98

JESUS CHRIST said, "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give toyou; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart betroubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27).

Memorize that. Put it on the screen saver of your mind and reflecton it often. Invest your life in it and it will pay eternal dividends. Weneed such a truth to which to anchor our soul in our societiestempestuous sea.
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Jesus Christ also said there would come a day in which therewould be "distress among the nations, with perplexity" and "men'shearts failing them for fear and expectation of those things whichare coming on the earth" (Luke 21: 25, 26).

Is this that day? The international money market crisis seems tobe worsening by the day and our own economy beginning to quakeas a consequence. There is a moral crisis in the White House thatappears to be being condoned by a majority of Americans andyouth confused as to what is right or wrong.

Because of our tendency to assert there are no absolutes and alltruth is relative we have lost our moral compass. Truth is nowspoken of as being subjective. That is I alone, the subject,determine truth. There is no absolute objective truth in themarketplace. What influence is this having on our society?

Extensive studies show that youth who refuse to accept objectivestandards that govern their lives are:

65% more likely to mistrust people. Why shouldn't they?

48% more likely to cheat on exams. Why not!

36% more likely to lie to their parents.

Twice as likely to lack purpose in life.

Twice as likely to be resentful.

People without objective truth, that is, the Bible to guide them liveby what is called "cultural ethics." That is whatever the ethic of theculture that is what is right. Whatever the culture approves isproper. In light of that America is headed toward a deeper abyss ofimmorality than ever imagined. By approving of the immoralitymade so public in Washington we are saying it is our new "culturalethic." There is a problem with that.

Many saw the movie "Schindler's List" which depicted the horror ofthe holocaust. Was there anything wrong with the atrocities of theholocaust?

After the war when the Nazi officials were tried for war crimes inNuremberg, Germany their defense was "how can you come fromanother culture and condemn what we did when our culture said itwas acceptable?"


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In condemning them the world court said there is something aboveculture that determines what is right or wrong. We say thatsomething is the Scripture.

The international threat of terrorism is causing us to barricade ourmonuments and cower ourselves. There is indeed "distress amongthe nations, with perplexity." The hearts of people are failing thembecause of fear.

Oscar Wilde once wrote that in our postmodern society,

"People ...

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Sermon delivered January 20, 2007 by Nathaniel Higgs

McDonald Road Seventh-day Adventist Church

McDonald, Tennessee

In Times Like These

Revelation 13:11-14

(RealAudio Version available)

I would like for you to open your Bibles to 2nd Timothy, chapter 3 and Im going to read thefirst verse for our scripture this morning. We had read in our hearing, Revelation chapter 13, afew verses beginning with verse 11. Here the disciple John has envisioned a beast coming up outof the earth, but before that second beast he had seen a beast coming up out of the sea. And now,let us read 2nd Timothy chapter three, verse one in which Paul now sends a letter to his friendTimothy, and he says This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come. Themessage this morning Ive entitled, In Times Like These. Let us pray.

Loving Father, which art in Heaven, in times like these we recognize that You are soon to come.And so, as we pause now in this service to invite Your presence to this particular desk, we askthat You would take Nathaniel Higgs and use him as Your mouthpiece for the next fewmoments. Well be careful to give You the praise, the honor and the glory. In Jesus name we

pray, Amen.

We live today in the very best of times. And yet, we live in the worst of times. We live in thebest of times in that knowledge and technology facilitate life. And yet, we live in the very worst
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of times in that the same knowledge and technology threaten our lives. With the knowledge andtechnology of these times, scientists were able to clone the worlds first mammal, Dolly, a sheep.

And it was just a few years later that a religious sect known as the Rialians claimed to havecloned the worlds first human being, whom they named Eve. And with egotistical arrogance asthough they were challenging the very intellect of the Almighty, they shake their fist into the

face of God when they say we are standing at the threshold of eternal life.

Dr. Stewart Newman, a biologist at the New York Medical College wants to patent his version ofa modern day chimera. Now a chimera is a mythical creature that is half human and half animal.And Dr. Newman explains how he plans to do this. He says all you have to do is to take theembryonic stem cell of one species and implant it into the embryo of another species. And theninsert that into the womb of either species and he says a chimera is on the way. Now he goes onto explain how this will be an advantage to us. He says it will have the strengths of bothkingdoms, because it will have the higher intelligence of a human being. It can reason, it canthink, but at the same time it will have the brute strength of an animal. And he says we can trainthese creatures to go out and perform tasks that we human beings find undesirable to perform

and we wouldnt have to worry about human rights. Now the patent office refuses to issue thepatent for this and so Dr. Newman has taken them to court. Thats the last Ive heard about it.

But he goes on to say that later on we can develop these creatures to have hard shells on them,natural armor, such as a turtle or such as the armadillo and we can train them to go out and fightbattles for their masters.

Sound like science fiction. But so did walking on the moon 50 years ago. When the children ofmen were building the tower of Babel, God said nothing will be restrained from them that theyhave imagined to do. Let us go down. I believe that its time for Jesus to come down again and I

want to be ready when he comes, what do you say?

Theres a rock bottom decline in moral and corporate ethics. The Kenneth Lays and MarthaStewarts have breeched consumer confidence. The threat of terrorism has created the Departmentof Homeland Security. Nations cannot agree upon a peace plan. The gap between the affluentand the indigent is widening and the stress of just staying alive on this planet is overwhelming.Today more than ever we live in perilous times. The unrelenting, mercurial pace of life on thisplanet would make us want to cry out and say just stop the world, because I want to get off.

And so, Paul in his letter to his friend Timothy reminds him that the coming days ahead beforeJesus comes will be filled with peril and dripping with grief and with difficulty. There was a timewhen Adventist pastors could preach a message of health reform, such as proper rest and diet andexercise and this would give us longevity and life but its not necessarily true anymore because

there are so many environmental challenges that are threatening our very existences on thisplanet today. Our fruits and our vegetables have been sprayed with pesticides that have later beendiscovered to be carcinogenic. And vegetarians can no longer eat lettuce and spinach and greenonions that have been irrigated with water from a cow pond where livestock have been presentbecause of the threat of E Coli. Second-hand tobacco smoke is as injurious to the bystander as itis to the smoker himself. And global warming is another threat that affects pulmonary processesin our bodies. And I heard just a week ago, that 2006 was the hottest year that they had on record


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since theyve been keeping records back in the middle of the 1800s. And we blame El Nino

when we really ought to blame El Diablo.

New diseases are emerging faster in our society than were able to come up with a cure for them.

We have the avian flu that is threatening to be a global pandemic. Before then we had SARS, a

severe acute respiratory syndrome disease, and the amazing thing about it was no one knew howit started, no one knew how it was communicated, and no one knew how to cure it. But there wasa Chinese physician by the name of Dr. Xie Yingjun according to the Washington Post that wasstudying the residents of the Guangdong province of China to determine if there was anyrelationship between SARS and their exotic diet that consisted of monkey brains, snake and catsoup and stir-fried rats. But what Dr. Yingjun was about to discover was what Seventh-dayAdventists already know. And I will read it to you from Counsels On Diets And Foods. Diseasenever comes without cause. The way is prepared and the disease is invited by the disregard of thelaws of health. They discovered new diseases that are being found in cattle thatare loaded up ontrucks going to the slaughter-house. Not while they are in the barnyard, but only when they loadup on the truck going to the slaughterhouse that a mucous forms in their eyes and there noses,

and the veterinarians have yet to discover what causes it. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy,commonly referred to as mad cow disease has brought a halt to much of the beef market inEngland and Canada for awhile. And it was even scaring folk in the United States and many havejoined the ranks of vegetarianism. And then ebola virus once thought to be confined to monkeysand apes on the continent of Africa is now killing thousands of human beings on that continent.The Newsweek magazine refers to these time as the new age of epidemics.

But Jesus refers to them as signs of the times. It is in times like these dear friends, that we needan anchor of hope. We cannot expect a medical breakthrough that will bring us hope and goodhealth. We cannot expect the United Nations to pass some resolution that will bring about worldpeace. We cannot expect the Congress of the United States to pass some law that will bring usprosperity. Our hope and our trust today must be in the Word of God. It is in times like these thatwe need an anchor, and the best anchor that we can find in times like these is the anchor uponJesus Christ, that Solid Rock.

The great controversy between the King of Kings and the prince of darkness is about toculminate. And it is centered around a day of worship. You see, the prince wants to be like theKing. He wants to be the center of worship. He wants to have his particular day of worship. Andhe will do whatever he can to gain the allegiance of men. There is no wonder that Ellen Whitesays that the great test of loyalty is going to be the Sabbath. Last Day Events, she says theSabbath will be the great test of loyalty. So it is in times like these that we need an anchor andthe very best anchor is the word of God.

In our text this morning, John sees a beast coming up out of the sea. And then he sees anotherbeast coming up out of the earth. Now the second beast that John sees that comes up out of theearth is different from the ferocious beast that John saw come up out of the sea. According toRevelations, chapter 17, verse 15, in prophecy, water represents people. So a beast coming upout of the sea would be an entity or a nation that would be formulated upon many people. But abeast coming up out of the earth then would be a nation or entity formulated upon the scarcity ofpeople. Now there are many other descriptors that would identify what this second beast is. But


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most Bible commentators will agree that this beast is the United States in prophecy. And Ill tell

you what the author of The Great Controversy has to say about this beast. She says, One nation,and only one meets the specification of this prophecy. It points unmistakably to the United Statesof America.

Now this beast had two horns like a lamb. The icon of tranquility. But yet, in its schizophrenicpersonality it speaks with the voice of a dragon, the idiogram of ferocity. Two contrastingcharacteristics of this beast. It looked like a lamb in that its Declaration of Independence sets

forth the truth that all men are created equal but yet it speaks with the voice of a dragon with itsmilitary power of shock and awe. It looks like a lamb in that it has become the global city ofrefuge, where the under-privileged and economically depressed can flock to its shores seekingprosperity and freedom. But yet it speaks with the voice of a dragon when its leadership declares,every nation of every region now has a decision to make. You are either with us or you are withthe enemy, the terrorists. There is a striking difference between the appearance of the beast andthe actions of the beast. It looks kind and humble and gentle, but in its actions it can bepersecuting, it can be arrogant. It looks like a lamb when it walks softly, but it speaks with the

voice of a dragon when it carries the big stick.

Now I want you to notice in chapter 13 of Revelation, that the word worship is used time andtime again, or some form of the verb worship, used time and time again. It lets us know that thefinal chapter of earths history is going to be centered around worship. And I submit that itll be

a day of worship. And I want you to note that this second beast, the United States in prophecy,according to the Word of God, causes the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the firstbeast. Now we know that the power of the first beast was to make war with the saints andovercome them. Thats religious persecution. So we can conclude then that the power of the

second beast, the United States in prophecy, is through persecution, that it will cause theinhabitants of the earth through persecution to worship this false religion.

Now many people believe that in the United States, because about 83% of the people areChristians, then we ought to pass laws that will elevate their interpretation of Christianity. Andback during the last century, about 1961 I believe it was, there was a case in the state ofMaryland, McGowan vs. Maryland, in which Maryland had some Sunday blue laws and someJews took them to court. And the United States supreme court ruled on behalf of the state ofMaryland, saying that it is not the establishment of religion for the state to set aside one commonday of rest that just may coincide with the common day of rest by the majority. And since thattime, in the eight states that comprise the Southern Union, they have formulated 143 Sunday bluelaws that are waiting on the books, for the prince to give the nod for their enforcement. Satangains our cooperation on matters such as a common day of rest for mankind. And then he movesto the point where he wants us to compromise on matters of doctrine such as the Sabbath.

Let me illustrate my point. Police entered an apartment in Houston, Texas about four or fiveyears ago, and they encountered to adult males in a homosexual act. Since this was contrary tothe sodomy laws of Texas, the two were arrested, John Lawrence and Tyrone Garner, and theywere carried to jail and they were fined. But the story doesnt end there. You see, John Lawrence

sued the state of Texas, and he argued that the state of Texas has no compelling interest as towhat two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home. And that is a compelling


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be neutral toward religion, hence it is impermissible government endorsement of religion. Andfriends, looking at it strictly from a legal standpoint, Im afraid the court is right. But such an

unpopular decision brought an immediate response from the White House and from congress andfrom evangelicals. And so, they introduced in both houses, the senate and in the house ofrepresentatives in the last congress, they introduced bills that would remove from the jurisdiction

of the federal court system anything that had to do with the pledge of allegiance.

Now you know that the congress can set the jurisdiction for the federal court system. Now thismay seem to be like something insignificant. But, if you had a matter that may be un-constitutional but yet at the same time would have wide spread public support, then all you haveto do is to have congress remove it from the jurisdiction of the federal court system and youcould have an unconstitutional law that could stand by public proclamation or by executive fiat.If this were a national Sunday blue law, all congress would have to do, and it would not beconstitutional, but all congress would have to do would be to remove it from the jurisdiction ofthe federal court system and you could actually end up with a national Sunday blue law. Nowthats a hypothetical situation but dear friends, its something to be concerned about. Satan gains

our cooperation on matters that we have in common, such as patriotism, and then he will movefor a compromise on issues of doctrine, such as the Sabbath.

Conscience of minority beliefs, once thought to be protected by the Constitution of the UnitedStates is now under siege by judicial activism and by public proclamation. The president of thereligious coalition a few months ago made this statement in one of her meetings in herintroductory remarks. She says, We are here on a mission to save America. We need to bringthe spiritual and the legislative together and to swell the Christian ranks of our government.

And at the same meeting, judge Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the supreme court ofAlabama was there and he had this to say. He said, The idea of a wall of separation betweenchurch and state is a fable. No phrase is more widely used or widely abused. And the mood of

the meeting was something like this. America is on the decline, and we as Christians andCatholics are going to have to join hands together and do something about it. And while were

going to have to pass some laws that will have an adverse effect upon some of the minorityreligions that are in the nation, were going to have to do so and were going to have to do it, and

Im quoting now for the good of the nation.

This statement in part fulfills the very words of the Great Controversy that says, and Im readingfrom page 443, In order for the United States to form an image of the beast, the religious power

must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will be employed by thechurch to accomplish her own ends. You ought to know that there is another movement and Ithink it started right here in Tennessee. Its called the Christian Reconstruction. And Gary

DeMar, the head-man of this describes a new order in which the government of the United Stateswill be staffed with God-trusted servants. And he says its a society in which only the faithfulare citizens and democracy is a distasteful memory of the past. And he says that the primaryexistence of any state government is to conquer this planet for God.

Now he is not talking about the earth made new. And hes not talking about when we get toheaven, hes talking about right now. He is saying that the purpose of the government of the

United States is to make Christians out of everybody in the world. Now that may be the purpose


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of the church but not the purpose of the government. Now listen very closely to what he has tosay here. He says, In winning a nation to the gospel, the sword, as well as the pen, must be

used. If you read the article, hell tell you he will give folk about three years to join the church.And then if they dont join the church they need to be put to death. Thats a radical movement.

But the movement is prophecy fulfilling, for Revelation predicts that it is America, that second

beast, that will cause inhabitants of the earth to worship in a false religion. One of the mostdangerous propositions today is this concept of a Christian nation. Because forced religion at itsvery best will only create hypocrites. And on its very worst will make martyrs. So what

Revelation expresses through the apocalyptic beasts is a universal movement under theleadership of satan to try to obtain allegiance from the inhabitants of the earth for his cause. Andin the final crisis, America is going to play a key part in the fulfillment of this prophecy.

And so dear friends, our only hope in times like these is to be anchored upon the word of God.The church is going to experience a shaking time such as never seen before. Those who havebeen anchored to a tel-evangelist, those who are anchored to mamas religion, who are anchoredto vegetarianism, who are anchored to their check-books, who are anchored to their education

will be shaken away. If you want to survive the shaking time, you have to be anchored to theRock, Christ Jesus.

Jesus Himself talking about the shaking time says that there will arise false christs, theres goingto arise false prophets that are going to show signs and wonders that if it were possible the veryelect would be deceived. Paul in talking about these delusive times says let no man deceive youby any means, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first of the man ofsin be revealed, the son of perdition. Paul says that before the second coming of Christ comestheres going to be a shaking time and some people are going to be shaken away. Some will fallaway. Paul further says and no marvel for satan himself is transformed into an angel of lighttherefore it is no great thing that his ministers also be transformed as ministers of righteousness,whose end shall be according to their works. Our only deliverance in times like these is to be

anchored to the Word of God.

So if a beautiful angel were to appear before you and tell you that the law of God has been doneaway with, that the fourth commandment is no longer binding, I want you to just think aboutwhat God said in the Old Testament. He says I am the Lord, I change not. I want you to think

about what Jesus said in the New Testament. He says, heaven and earth will pass away before

one jot or title will be removed from His law. If you are awakened in the middle of the night bythe apparition of your departed mother and she has come to advise you of your future, you adviseher that the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, neither is thereanymore reward for the memory of them is forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9:5. If you want to be able to

withstand the shaking times you have to be anchored in the word. If the message comes to youby the messenger that Christ has come and we need to go down to the mall or go down to thestadium where we can see Him, you send a message by the messenger that when my Lord comesbehold He cometh in clouds and every shall see Him. Revelation 1:7If you want to survivethe shaking times dear friends, we have to study the word, we have to build a relationship withGod. Ellen describes the shaking times. She says many a star we have admired for its brilliance

will then go out in darkness. It is in times like these that those who are not anchored to the rockare going to leave the church and become some of the vilest opponents of the truth and of light.


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Some will leave the church because of their employers requirement that they work on Sabbath

and they lack the faith, the trust, that the God of heaven can provide for their needs. Others willleave the church because the church will not change its Biblical tenets to meet their personalstandards and they will go out and join the ranks of societal mediocrity. Then others will leavethe church because of what some member said and hurt his or her feelings and so they will leave

the church. You see, they have spiritual myopia. They cannot see any further than their neighborsfaults. Others will leave the church because of what the treasurer did or what the deacon did orwhat the elder did or what the pastor did. You see, their relationship is horizontal, it is notvertical. But it doesnt matter why you leave the church, the devil is exuberant whenever he can

shake you away from the people of God. If you want to survive the shaking time you have to beanchored in the Word.

And so it is in times like these dear friends, we need not be shaken away by unbiblical doctrineor the vain philosophy of some tel-evangelist. The other day I heard on the radio a commercialthat said if you want to secure your future, then read the Wall Street Journal and read it everyday. And I said to my wife how wrong he is. If you want to secure your eternity read the word of

God, and read it every day. For it is the Word of God that will fortify your mind against error.

Back during the dark days of world war II, Ruth K. Jones was reading our text that I read thismorning. II Timothy 3:1 This know that in the last days, perilous times shall come. The Spirit

of God impressed her so that she picked up a pen and began to write the words of our closingsong. In times like these we need a Saviour. In times like these we need an Anchor. Be very

sure, be very sure, your Anchor holds and grips the solid Rock. Where is your anchor thismorning dear friends? Is it upon the Solid Rock? Or is it upon the times in which we live? Whena ship comes in to harbor and drops an anchor, if that anchor drags the sludge of the river floor,when the tide comes in that ship will drift away. But if that anchor grips the bedrock of the riverfloor, a hundred ton freighter will not drift any farther than the tolerance of that anchor. Where isyour anchor this morning, dear friends? Lets anchor upon the word of God. The word of God

incarnate, Christ Jesus, the solid Rock.

Hymn of Praise: #12, Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Scripture: Revelation 13:11-14

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