PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 179: FIVE NECESSARY QUALITIES FOR END TIME LIVING - PT 1
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 179: Five Necessary Qualities for End Time Living – Part 1
Today I begin a new series about five qualities we need to establish in our own lives and in the lives of our children as we get closer to the end times. Please don't miss one episode in this series. It is a MUST for everyone. Today we talk about FEARLESSLESS, the first of F F P P and K. You'll find out what they as we go along. Or you could start guessing.
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I’m going to start a new series today. It’s called “Five Attributes for Living in the End Times.” I discovered these as I was reading through the book of Revelation. Recently, I felt pulled toward reading Revelation again. I read it through a couple of times personally. As I was reading it through, I became aware of these very important qualities that we will need in the end time hour.
In fact, we need them now, of course. We’re going to talk about them. I have a little alliteration to remember them: S S P P & K. Each one of those letters stands for the five points. I quite like doing something like that. It helps me to remember things.
I have a little alliteration for remembering the seven churches that are mentioned in Revelation. Remember the first three chapters? It’s a message to the seven churches who were in Asia at that time. These churches were literally in Turkey.
Colin and I had the privilege one year of visiting these seven churches in Asia. Colin and I used to take tours to Israel. After going to Israel, we’d take all our people on to another country. One year after Israel, we went on to Turkey and visited the seven churches. It was a most amazing time, to just go to those churches although they are no longer there. We could go to the cities where they were. When we went to Laodicea, there was not even a city, just some ruins of where it was. That was a great time.
Anyway, I made up this little song, and I can’t even sing for nuts! But it goes like this:
ESP, TSP and L,
These are the seven churches
That I know so well!
Oh, ESP, TSP, and so it goes on.
But remembering that little ditty helps me to remember them because, OK, when I sing ESP, I know it’s Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos. Then TSP, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and L, Laodicea. So, that’s how I remember the seven churches of Asia.
Well, we are living in very challenging times. In this time of history. I don’t believe it is the end of the world. I believe there’s still much prophecy that we see written in the Word that has yet to come to pass. But I do believe we are living in practice times. We are seeing a glimpse of what we will face.
In fact, here in the States, we are not facing as much as in some other countries. As you know, Colin and I are New Zealanders, and then we lived in Australia for ten years before coming to the states many years ago. We came to the States in 1991.
But, oh, how we are praying for Australia at the moment! The state of Victoria, I think it’s the most locked-down state in the whole of the world at this present time. Today, well it was most probably yesterday now, because Australia is just about a day ahead, so I don’t know what has happened.
But, oh my, can I ask you to be praying constantly for this country, especially for Victoria? The premier, Dan Andrews, is wanting to pass legislation that will give him absolute power, ultimate accountability. If people don’t comply to what he says, well, there’s just no life for them at all. They’ll most probably end up in jail. The slogans there now are, “No jab, no job.” “No shot, no shop.”
We have friends calling us. We had a family call us last night, “Please, is there any way you can make a way for us to get to the States? Both my wife and I, we have no job, we cannot shop, our home is going to be taken from us because we have no money to keep paying.”
There was just no hope. Well, just humanly speaking if they stick it out, and will not take that poisonous jab. Of course, there are many who are standing strong and who will not give into tyranny. But their lives are in incredible danger. There is just nowhere for them to go. Even elected politicians in Victoria cannot, if they don’t take the jab, they cannot vote or even enter Parliament. They’re not even allowed to do it digitally.
So, people can’t do anything, can’t eat out, can’t get a haircut. And even those who are vaccinated, they don’t really have much more freedom either, because they have to use what is called the Victoria App, so they can be traced. They can be tracked. They have to show it everywhere they go, so they can be traced for every single thing they are doing. It is total control.
The current fines for not wearing masks for children under 15 are $181.74. I cannot understand where that amount, and even the 74 cents come from, but that’s what it is. Children 15 to 18, if they do not wear masks, they’re fined $726.96. It is so ridiculous.
And then now they have PAL, Police Assistance Line, so you can snitch and tell on those who are not keeping up with what they’re meant to do. Can you imagine living like this? I mean, we lived in Australia, this glorious, free, happy-go-lucky country. It has been a happy-go-lucky country. I think a favorite saying down under is “She’ll be right, mate.” But perhaps that has been a little to their negativity in that they have not really realized the danger where they are. All of a sudden, it catches up. So, do pray for them, won’t you, please?
We are living in times where we are facing issues, and where when we’re not prepared to give into tyranny, we are facing persecution, maybe hunger, maybe homelessness. Goodness knows what.
FEARLESSNESS
Let’s look at these five things, shall we? The first F, remember F F P P and K. Our first F is the word “Fearlessness.” When I was reading through Revelation the first time, I came across chapter 15:2-4. They really arrested me. I mean, I knew it, but I hadn’t really got hold of this Scripture before.
Revelation 15:2-4: “And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had GOTTEN THE VICTORY
OVER the beast,
and OVER his image
and OVER his mark,
and OVER the number of his name,
stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying ‘Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of Saints.’”
Do you notice there that four times in verse two where it says the word “over”? Yes, I actually shared this with you a while back, when I first read it, but I do have to share it with you again today, because now it’s the first part of the first point that I am going to talk about with you. But it’s good to be reminded.
In fact, I remember saying to you, “This is a great Scripture for you and all your children to memorize together.” I wonder, did any of you memorize it with your family? I hope so. If you didn’t, will you perhaps try again? I do believe that this is a Scripture that everyone of us needs to know. When I read that Scripture, I realized, yes, I must know this Scripture by heart. I must have it in my very being. Our children must have it in their very being.
Now I don’t believe we are facing the mark of the beast at this time, although you would think so in some parts of the world. But we haven’t seen the appearance yet of the Antichrist. We do have the spirit of Antichrist so powerfully in this world. But there is going to come the Antichrist and the beast.
When that time comes, the Scripture tells that we must never take the mark of the beast, because that would be completely siding on Satan’s side. Those who take the mark of the beast will not enter into the joy of the eternal realm.
So, it is very important. It’s something that we need to prepare our children. Every generation needs to be prepared to know you must never take the mark of the beast. I grew up with this, even when I was a child. We received messages from the pulpit, “Don’t ever take the mark of the beast.” It was ingrained into me. It should be ingrained into our children so that it is there for when that time comes. It could be very, very soon, or could be a while. I don’t know. But we always must be prepared.
Let me say it again. “And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory OVER the beast, and OVER his image, and OVER his mark, and OVER the number of his name.” Now that word “victory” means “to conquer, to overcome, to prevail, to subdue.” This word is used 15 times about overcoming in Revelation.
In fact, when writing to the seven churches, there are eight different promises that are given to the overcomers. That same word, those who got the victory. Now, how did they get the victory? Did they get up to that beast and knock him out? No, there was no possibility of doing that. They had to overcome by resisting, by not giving in. Many of those people, they actually overcame by being prepared to be martyred.
It’s the same word. Revelation 12:11: “And they OVERAME him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Do you notice that Scripture starts, “And I saw”? John looked into the heavenly realm, and these are the ones that he saw before the throne of God, singing praises to the Lamb, the ones who had gotten the victory. The ones who caved in weren’t there.
Now, we should see some other Scriptures about that. Revelation 6:9. Once again, John was beholding, and what did he see? So much of Revelation is what he saw. And what did he see? Revelation 6:9: “I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held.”
We go to Revelation 14, and we see again, what did he see? Revelation 14:9: “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, ‘If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.’”
That is so powerful. Help. It’s pretty tough reading those Scriptures, isn’t it? But what does Revelation say? It starts off in Revelation 1:3: “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” So, even though it’s pretty tough to read that, we are blessed if we read it and hear, because we will be prepared.
It goes on, Revelation 17:6. And John saw again. He saw “the woman who was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.” And so, we see that many of those who overcame the beast and got the victory over him, and over his name, and over his mark, and over his image, many of them were obviously martyred.
Now “martyrs,” that word in the Greek is martus and is the same word in Acts 1:8: “Ye shall be witnesses.” Jesus said you wait until the promise of the Holy spirit is come upon you. You will receive power from on high. And you will be witnesses.” That’s martus. The word is “witness” or “martyr,” because many who were not afraid to witness for Jesus and to stand true to the faith, they became martyrs. “Ye shall be witnesses,” or martus, martyrs, “unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
Another Scripture where John saw, because everything he saw is what will be in heaven, he saw the heavenly realm. Revelation 20:4: “And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
WHO WILL BE IN HEAVEN?
I was recently preparing the Above Rubies magazine. Often, in the magazine, I love to put a little spot in the magazine where it tells people how they can receive Christ into their lives and be converted. I think that is so important. As I was thinking about it this time, I was thinking, “Wow, who really will be in heaven?”
So, as I was reading Revelation, I began to see, OK. And I found three kinds of people who will be in heaven. I think this is important to see because we know we’ll be there if these three things:
- Those who are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Read that in Revelation 5:9-10.
- Those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. We read about that in Revelation 20:15, and 21:17, and other parts as well.
- Those who did not take the mark of the beast. We just read all those Scriptures.
Those are the people who John saw in the heavenly realm. That’s a challenge, isn’t it? That’s more than just saying, “Lord Jesus, please come into my heart,” and then living how you want. That’s not the people who John saw in heaven. He saw those who were redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
Yes, number two, whose names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and number three, those who had gotten the victory over the beast, and his mark, and his name. Yes. So, that’s pretty powerful, isn’t it?
Now, another thing that I noticed here, and we’re getting on to our talk more about our point, the first one, fearlessness. In Revelation 21:8, it talks about eight different things that will keep us out of heaven. “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Now, that sounds like a pretty bad lot of people, doesn’t it? But do you notice, ladies, this is the amazing thing. At the top of the list, at the top of all those baddies, it says, “But the fearful.” At the top of the list! Goodness me! You would think maybe the whoremongers, and the sorcerers, and the murderers, one of them would be at the top of the list.
But no. It’s the fearful. Nearly every other version of the Bible translates it, “the cowards,” or “the cowardly.” My, that’s an incredible challenge, isn’t it? The Amplified Classic version really challenges us. It says: “But as for the cowards, and the cravenly lacking in courage, and the cowardly submissive.”
Whoo! Wow! They will not enter the Kingdom of God. That’s so challenging, dear precious ladies. This is my first point, because this is what we see, that we must have fearlessness. We must not give into fear. We must not become cowards.
Now, as I was saying, I don’t think that we are at the final end at this time. I believe there is more to happen yet. But we are facing a time when we must show courage. There are so many people here in our nation who have been fired from their jobs. So many are losing jobs, so many are even leaving jobs, because they cannot continue unless they are vaccinated.
But there are many who understand what is in these vaccinations, that there are many, many poisonous things in these vaccinations. They are not for the purpose of our health. I mean, there are more people who are getting the so-called “Delta Variant” who have been vaccinated than those who are unvaccinated.
Really, the Delta Variant is something that has come out of those who have been vaccinated, because their immune system is weakened and depleted. Every shot they get, their immune system will be depleted more. I would encourage you. I trust that you have not been vaccinated. If you have, I would encourage you please don’t get a second shot. If you did, please don’t get the booster, because every shot will be lowering your immune system even more.
Of course, they’re not going to stop the boosters. They’re going to keep going, and every shot that’s taken will weaken you even further, until you won’t keep alive without shots. And how long will you last?
We know it’s not about health. It’s about tyranny. It’s about the one-world order. In all the countries where they are locking down most, they’re all leaders who have been trained and prepared for this one-world order. As in New Zealand, as in Australia. This is all what it’s about, a complete take-over of our lives. If you read the agenda, you will have read number one on the top of the list is, “You will own nothing, and you will be happy,” because it will be total take-over of our lives.
WE MUST STRENGTHEN OUR COURAGE MUSCLE
But to stand against this, to have courage, is not always easy, is it? Courage is something that God asks us to have. He wants us to be strong and courageous. But courage is also, it’s even more that an attribute. Courage is the muscle that we must work at, that we have to use. If we don’t use it, it will atrophy. It will become weaker.
If we use it, it will become stronger. And so, I do encourage you, that in this hour, to have courage. I know, it’s not easy, but God will help you. He doesn’t say, “Be courageous,” and not help us to be courageous. He will give us that courage.
I believe too, although I don’t believe this is the final time when we are facing the mark of the beast, I believe that we are now preparing. We are gathering courage in the face of incredible adversity, and loss of jobs, and not even, in some places, not even being able to shop.
But if we cave in now, if we give in now, what will we do in the time of the mark of the beast, when we definitely will never be able to buy or sell? And where we are commanded that we must not take the mark. We may be martyred for not taking it.
We don’t get courage suddenly. It just doesn’t suddenly come. We must build up courage. Therefore, I believe it is so important in this hour, as we prepare for the end times, that we exercise our courage muscle. We say “No!” to tyranny. We say “No!” to their total authority over our bodies, because they do not have authority our bodies. This is not God’s plan. No one is meant to have authority over our bodies. We are a free people, although they’re seeking to bring us into bondage.
For many years, I’ve read this Scripture in Nehemiah. It’s always been such a sad Scripture to me to read. And now I see it happening! And I can’t believe it. Nehemiah 9:36: “Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that Thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.” Imagine! God gave the Land to His people. He said, “It’s yours, for an everlasting covenant, forever. An everlasting possession.”
And here they are, in Nehemiah’s time, they’re servants in it. He goes on to say: “Also, they have dominion over our bodies at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.” Isn’t that incredible? And that’s what’s happening now. Our governments are taking, taking dominion over our bodies, and commanding that we are vaccinated with something that is not proved, and is only going to cause our whole bodies to be weakened. Not helped but weakened.
But we must stand against it. We must have courage. Yes, we may lose our job. We may face all kinds of issues. But as we have courage, God will strengthen us to face the next thing, and the next thing.
I think back to that Scripture in Hebrews 11. This is the “faith chapter.” This is the great heroes of the faith. Verse 34 tells us that many of those heroes didn’t start out with great courage.
They didn’t start out strong. They were weak. But they were courageous in a little bit, and then God gave them more courage, and more courage, and they became stronger and stronger. They became heroes of faith.
The Darby Translation says they “became strong, out of weakness, became mighty in war.” Lovely ladies, you may feel weak. How can you get courage to face these things? Maybe some of you are already facing that your husband has lost his job, and you’re wondering how you can get through. Just keep having courage. God will be with you. He loves courage.
HAVE YOU MET THE TWINS, ASAH AND CHAZAQ?
Now in the Bible, there’s lots of twins. Yes, there are physical twins, Esau and Jacob and other twins. But there are spiritual twins, loads of them. Faith and love, peace and righteousness. Oh, there’s so many of them. I’ve done a wonderful study on all the twins. But there’s another set of twins that you wouldn’t pick up when you’re reading your English Bible, because they’re twins in the Hebrew. These twins are called asah and chazaq. And my, they are amazing twins. Let me tell you about them.
The word asah is an action word meaning “to do, to make, to take action.” This word is used 2630 times in the Old Testament! because the Bible is an action book. It’s a to-do book. God doesn’t just write a lovely story that kind of calms and teaches how to have a peaceful life. No! it’s a to-do book. He commands us. He gives us things to do.
But many of the things that God gives us to do, wow, they’re kind of beyond us, and we think, “How can we do them? I don’t have strength to do them. How can I do this?” And so, He also gives us chazaq! They go together! And chazaq, this word means “to be strong, courageous, valiant, to conquer, to hold fast.” So, we need, when God tells us to asah, to do something, we usually need chazaq to go along with it, so we'll have the courage to do it. And we see this in quite a lot of Scriptures. Let me give you just one or two as we’re coming to the end.
Joshua encouraged the Israelites. In Joshua 23:6, when they were going into the Land, he said: “Be ye therefore very courageous (chazaq) to keep and to do (asah) all that is written in the book of the law of Moses.”
David encouraged Solomon when he was building the Temple. 1 Chronicles 28:20. And he said to his young son, Solomon. He was only young. He said: “Be strong (chazaq) and of good courage and do (asah) it: fear not nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be with you; He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the service of the House of the Lord.”
In Ezra’s time, a lot of the Israelites had married foreign wives. Ezra told them they had to put them away. He says to them in Ezra 4:10: “Be of good courage (chazaq) and do it.” You see those twins together?
Then Daniel 11:32, one of my great favorite Scriptures: “And the people that do know their God shall be strong (chazaq) and do (asah).” Now, there they go, together. So, you see, lovely ladies, we need the twins. We need, OK, when God says, “Do it,” when you know you’ve got to do something, when you know you’ve got to be strong and not cave in, just look to the Lord for His courage. He will give it to you. He says: “Be courageous and do it!”
Daniel 11:32, King James version: “And the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits.” Well, if you go back to the Hebrew, “exploits” is not actually in the original! But it’s a good word, and it means that, because it ends with “do.” It ends with the asah. “Be strong and do.” So, of course, that does mean that you’re going to take action, and you’ll most probably do exploits.
Let’s look at a few other translations.
The Good News Translation says: “They will be strong.” Remember who will be strong? The people who do know their God. Who know their God. Lovely precious ladies, seek to know God. Don’t just know about Him. Seek to know Him. Can you teach your children to know Him? Not just to know about him. Too many children grow up in Christian homes knowing about Him, but they don’t know Him.
You’ve got to know Him. If you want your children to survive in the end times, if you want them to be overcomers, if you want them to be there in that heavenly kingdom, if you want them to be those who will have the courage to say “No!” and to overcome the beast, and his name, and his mark, and his image, they’ve got to be children who know God. It’s only when we know Him that we will have courage. We’ve got to know Him.
The people who know their God shall be strong and the Good News Translation says: “will fight back.” I like that.
The Holman Translation says: “They will be strong and take action.”
The Complete Jewish Bible says: “They will stand firm and prevail.”
The New Living Translation says: “They will be strong and resist.”
The Berean Study Bible says: “With flattery he will corrupt those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.”
Yes! We are commanded to resist! When tyranny is happening, we resist. Yes. So, lovely ladies, do not fear. We’re not going to have fearlessness, are we? We’re going to be those who exercise our courage muscles, starting in weakness, but growing stronger and stronger. We’re practicing. We’re preparing now for that coming day, or whenever it will be. And preparing our children for that day.
Let me close with some encouraging Scriptures.
John 14:27, Passion Translation: “Don’t yield to fear, or be troubled in your hearts. Instead, be courageous.”
The Amplified says: “Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed, and do not permit yourselves to be fearful, and intimidated, and cowardly, and unsettled.”
John 16:33, The Amplified: “In the world, you have tribulation and trials, and distress, and frustration. But be of good cheer. Take courage. Be confident, certain, undaunted, for I have overcome the world.”
Let’s pray.
“Dear Father, we thank You that You have overcome the world. You are in charge of this world, and everything that’s going on. We can completely trust You. We put our trust in You, Lord God.
Dear Father, we just want to know You more. We want to walk with You. We want to know You. We want to know Your Word. Lord, it is knowing You and knowing Your Word that makes us strong and courageous.
I pray for every dear mother and every family, Lord, that are represented today, listening to this podcast, that You will strengthen them, that You will make them strong in this hour, that You will make them overcomers, Lord, that they will learn to overcome now, even overcoming in the little things, Lord, that they face each day. Overcoming stress, overcoming depression and self-pity, temptation. Lord God, help us to be overcomers in every thing we face each day, that we will become stronger and stronger, ready to face, Lord, whatever happens in the final end times. I ask this in the precious Name of Jesus. Amen.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell * www.aboverubies.org
Transcribed by Darlene Norris * This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.