00:01If I showed you a map with three places in the world where no Christian should be when the Great
00:06Tribulation begins,
00:07would you be interested in seeing that map?
00:10The Bible describes with impressive precision the kinds of places that will turn into real traps in the end times.
00:19And what is most concerning is that millions of Christians are living in these places right now, going about their
00:25routines as normal.
00:28And when you understand what the Bible reveals about each of them, you probably start looking differently at your city,
00:34your neighborhood and even the place where you work.
00:39In today's video, I'm going to show you what these places are and what you need to do to prepare
00:45for that moment just in case you're here.
00:48But before that, subscribe to the channel, because I want to help you on your walk with God every day,
00:54okay? So let's go!
00:57The first places you should watch out for are major cities. Think with me for a moment.
01:04A city with millions of inhabitants works exactly like a giant machine. Everything there depends on electricity, from hospital equipment
01:12to the traffic light on the corner.
01:14It also depends on fuel for the trucks that arrive every day bringing food.
01:20It depends on piped, treated water, on buses, subways and communication systems that need to work all the time.
01:28It's an entire network of connected things.
01:32Now try to imagine what happens when this whole machine simply stops working.
01:37Not for a day, not for a week, but for a few years.
01:41We've already seen small examples of this on a smaller scale.
01:45When the power goes out for two or three days in a big city, what happens?
01:51Supermarket shelves empty out, gas stations close their doors and people start fighting over the basics.
01:58A little water, a little food, a propane tank.
02:02And mind you, this happens while society is still standing, with the police on the streets and the government working.
02:09Now imagine this scenario without any of that.
02:13Multiply that by months, years and throw in millions of desperate people trapped in the same space, with nowhere to
02:20run.
02:20In chapter 18 of Revelation, starting at verse 2, the Apostle John describes the fall of a great city that
02:30he calls Babylon.
02:32The way the Bible portrays this city is striking, because the picture drawn there is very reminiscent of a modern
02:38metropolis.
02:39A huge commercial center, with abundant wealth and merchandise on all sides.
02:45Merchants from all over the world depend on it to survive.
02:48And when this city falls, the collapse happens suddenly, in a single day, just as the text says.
02:54The merchants begin to weep and mourn.
02:57The ships stop sailing and no one buys anything anymore.
03:01The entire system collapses completely.
03:04Notice that John isn't just talking about a city that existed in the past.
03:08What he is showing is a pattern, a type of place where people's entire lives revolve around a centralized system.
03:15And when that system is brought down, whoever is inside is left with no way out.
03:20Today, more than 80% of the Brazilian population lives in urban areas.
03:27Most of these people don't grow what they eat, rely entirely on the public water system for clean water, and
03:33have no backup plan whatsoever if everything stops working.
03:38Second, the places of worship controlled by the system.
03:42When someone thinks about seeking refuge during a major crisis, the first thing that comes to mind is the church,
03:49the temple, the house of prayer.
03:51Except the Bible itself shows that during the Great Tribulation, many of these places will not serve as a refuge.
03:57On the contrary, they may end up becoming traps.
03:59In Revelation 13, from verses 11 to 15, John describes a second beast that appears with the likeness of a
04:09lamb, but speaks like a dragon.
04:12It exercises religious authority.
04:14And what does it do?
04:15It forces all the earth's inhabitants to worship the image of the first beast.
04:19And whoever refuses to do so begins to be persecuted and treated as an enemy.
04:26This shows that during this period, religion will not be a space of spiritual freedom, but rather an instrument of
04:32political and social control.
04:34Imagine a scenario where the world's major religious centers are swallowed up by a global system.
04:40In this context, the government begins to dictate what can or cannot be preached at the altar.
04:46Worship ceases to be a choice of the heart and becomes something imposed by law.
04:51And those houses of worship, which were once places of faith and unity, turn into surveillance points,
04:57where attending a service practically means bowing down to a system that goes against everything the Bible teaches.
05:04This is not far from our reality.
05:06Today, there are already countries where the government controls what pastors can say.
05:11In some nations, the content of the messages must be approved by authorities before it is even preached from the
05:18pulpit.
05:19Now imagine that kind of control on a global scale, coordinated by a single system, and led by the one
05:26the Bible describes as the false prophet.
05:28The real danger of these places is that they will seem safe, they will carry the name of a church,
05:35they will look like a house of worship, and they will use language that seems full of faith.
05:40But on the inside, what will be happening there is the exact opposite of the Gospel.
05:45And whoever walks in without discernment could end up swallowed by that system, without even realizing what happened.
05:53And third, the controlled economic system.
05:57In the first two cases, you can still look from the outside and think, well, I can leave the city
06:02or I can change churches.
06:04But this third place has no physical address.
06:07It is connected to the system you already live in every single day.
06:11In that same chapter 13 of Revelation, John reveals something that, when we read it today, feels like it was
06:19written yesterday.
06:20The Word of God says this,
06:22And He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their
06:29right hand or on their forehead,
06:31so that no one can buy or sell, except the one who has the mark.
06:36Notice a very important detail.
06:38The text doesn't say that food will disappear, nor that products will vanish from the shelves.
06:43What it states is that access to them will be controlled.
06:47Food will continue to exist, water will continue to exist, and medicine will still be there.
06:53But, but only those who accept the system and submit to the mark of the beast will have access to
06:59all of this.
07:00Think about the way most of us live today.
07:04Almost everything we do goes through the system.
07:07We buy food using a card, pay bills through a mobile app, and keep our money in a digital bank.
07:14A person's job today depends on a record that can be deactivated, with a simple click of an administrator.
07:22We already live in a world, where if your social security number is blocked, you practically cease to exist for
07:28society.
07:29You can't rent a house, you can't buy a ticket, you can't get anything done.
07:33Now, imagine this taken to the extreme, exactly as the Bible describes.
07:38A scenario where continuing to participate in ordinary life depends on you accepting something that goes against your faith in
07:45God.
07:45I know people here in Brazil, serious Christians, who have already gotten together with brothers from the same church,
07:52and decided to buy together a piece of land in a rural area out in the countryside.
07:57Their idea is to have a place where they can plant, where they have access to water from a spring
08:02or well,
08:03and manage to build a community structure that doesn't depend on anything coming from the outside.
08:09I'm not saying everyone needs to do this tomorrow, but anyone whose eyes are open has already started preparing in
08:15some way,
08:16because surviving outside the system won't just be a lifestyle choice.
08:20It will be the only way to remain faithful to God, without having to kneel before the beast.
08:26But there is a detail that unites these three places, and that almost no one notices.
08:32The metropolis, the controlled temple and the economic system are not separate threats.
08:38In fact, they are part of the same machinery.
08:41The city brings people together in a space, where they become vulnerable and dependent.
08:46The temple that was taken over begins to influence the minds and faith of these people.
08:52And the economy controls who can or cannot eat and survive.
08:57When these three things come together, they form the exact structure that the book of Revelation describes.
09:04A government that dominates the body, the soul, and everyone's livelihood.
09:07That is why in chapter 18, verse 4, when God speaks to his people about this Babylon,
09:15he does not tell the people to resist from within.
09:18He also doesn't just say to hold on tight until he returns.
09:21Look at the order God gives.
09:23Then I heard another voice from heaven say,
09:26Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins,
09:30so that you will not receive any of her plagues.
09:34What God is saying is very simple.
09:37Don't try to fix this system from within.
09:39The instruction is to live it.
09:41Because this system is not going to be reformed.
09:44It is going to be destroyed.
09:46I know hearing all of this can be hard to hear.
09:49And I'm not saying these things to spread fear or cause panic in anyone.
09:53My intention here is simply to open your eyes.
09:57Because the worst thing that can happen to a Christian is not going through tribulation,
10:02but being caught off guard by it, trapped in a place you can't get out of,
10:07depending on a system that will demand your very soul in exchange for survival.
10:12I don't know when all of this will happen or if we will even be here,
10:17because Jesus can come for each one of us individually at any moment.
10:21But what you can tell is that the signs are becoming clearer and clearer as time goes on.
10:28And the Bible didn't review these things to leave us paralyzed with fear,
10:32but to give us the chance to prepare while there's still time.
10:36That's why I ask you a question.
10:39And I want you to think about it very honestly.
10:41If tomorrow this system started closing in around you, would you have any alternative?
10:47Do you have a plan?
10:48Do you know anyone you could count on outside of this system?
10:52The Great Tribulation isn't going to come with advance warning in the newspapers.
10:56It's not going to wait for anyone to calmly get organized.
10:59And many of the places that seem like the safest in the world today
11:03might become the very chains that will trap those who haven't prepared.
11:07That's why the time to reflect on your life and your spiritual safety is right now.
11:14Amen?
11:15I am Pastor Antonio Junior.
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