Predicting the Future/Powerful Word from Apostle Al Simmons

Be encouraged and strengthened by this impactful message from Apostle Al Simmons. This word will inspire your faith, renew your mind, and help you walk boldly in God’s purpose for your life.

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Imagine you can predict the future. I just want you to grab a hold of that now. Imagine the power you have over the stock market if you was a gambling person, you knew who won the game before the game was even played. You understood when to- who, where to be What am I trying to tell you today? We're talking about if you was able to predict the future That's the message: predicting the future. Now, I want you to grab ahold of that, of God telling you the future. Now, he don't tell everybody, but he tells certain people the future. The message for today is predicting the future. Let's go right to the Word. Let's go to the Book of John. John 16:4. John 16:4. We talking about predicting the future. It says, "But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said unto you at the beginning, because I was with you." It say, "Now, I said not these things unto you in the beginning because I was with you, but I'm gonna tell you a thing that's coming that is gonna really shake your world." When I started getting revelation of the future, it changed my whole world. I could see things that I wasn't there. Uh, okay, hold on, hold on now. Let, let's go into the Word now. Go to Daniel chapter 2. The Book of Daniel 2:45. We're talking about predicting the future. Who can predict the future but God? When God is connected to you, he's gonna show you things that other people can't see. Jo- Daniel 2:45: "For as much as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces-" The iron, the gold, now watch this now 'cause I want you to notice this, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. See, predicting the future, God doesn't operate like we do. He operates in eternity. He can see what's coming, what ha- what has been. He can see it all, and he reveals those to his people I want you to hear me now. When you understand that Hey, my brother Can you hear me? I'm st- I'm, I'm on, buddy Okay. Now stay with me now because we're talking about predicting the future now. Here's the revelation of understanding that scripture. Most of it haven't been completed yet. He said every kingdom up until Christ kingdom has arised will be broken. Why? Because the only kingdom that can stand is God's kingdom. Okay, hold on now. We talking about predicting the future. Why though? See, go to Acts chapter 1. Acts chapter 1 verse 16. Now, d- don't worry now, you're gonna get this every place. This is revelational knowledge. In Acts chapter 1 verse 16, "Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus." He said that was a prophecy. Judas had to betray Jesus. Why? Because Jesus must die for our sins. Now I know you're saying to yourself, "Man, this is good stuff." Well, God is still showing us his plan. He said, "I will not do anything without allowing my prophets to know my plans." Okay, you say, I know you're saying to yourself, "But man, uh, it, this is really getting good." Well, stand by 'cause I'm about to blow the roof off this top right now. 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 3. 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 3. Now, the scripture I'm about to show you right now has already been fulfilled. Wow. It's been fulfilled in your lifetime. Okay, okay, okay, okay. 2 Timothy 4:3 it says, "For the time will come," uh-oh, the time is here, "when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears." It said the people who call themselves of God, we're talking about the church now, they will hire their own pastors to teach them and lead them in their own desires. Wow. That, that scripture has been fulfilled in your lifetime. We're talking about predicting the future. This was done thousands of years ago, it said this was gonna happen. Every corner you turn on, the people are choosing their pastors. Now you're saying to yourself, "Come on." It gets even better. God is predicting the future, and he's telling us what's to come. 1 Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians 3:4. 1 Thessalonians 3:4. "For verily when we were with you, we told you before that we must suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass." And you know that scripture is still coming to pass. We are suffering, but not at the level we're gonna be suffering at. What is he showing us? There's a lot of believers that must be killed. predicting the future. Why is God doing this though? He says, "So you can believe." Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't say it with me. Don't say it. Just follow me. Just follow me real quick. 2 Peter Second Peter chapter three, verse two. Second Peter chapter three, verse two. Now, while you're going there, watch what we do. Every day we go to the news. Why? Tell us what's gonna happen tomorrow. Tell us is it gonna rain so we can be prepared. Tell us is the sun gonna be hot. Let us know so we can prepare our tomorrow by the predictions. Now, I know the weatherman is pretty accurate. They go- they gonna pretty much get it 50/50. They got 50/50. It's gonna rain or it's not gonna rain. That's a 50/50. Now, I can do that. I can do that, but God is saying, "This is not 50/50. This is 100%. These things are gonna happen so my believers can believe that I am that I am." In second Peter chapter three, verse two, "That you may be mindful," of what? "Of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets." Now, watch what He did now. He wasn't playing now. He says, "My prophets have been tapped in to this predicting the future." Whoa. See, when I got the job I got now, the Lord showed me in a dream that a woman would call me and offer me the job. See, most people see the blessing, but they don't understand I was walking on faith because He told me what to do. But He goes on and He says, "Before by the holy apo- holy apo- holy prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior." See, I'm not an apostle for the world. The world didn't call me. I'm an apostle by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. When He came to me, He, He was the one that sent me. That's what apostle means, a sent one. He said, "I'm sending you into the world." Why? "To proclaim my gospel." Why? "Because there's a not, there's not a lot of people proclaiming my word." Yes, they're reading from the Bible. Yes, they're telling you about God. But they're not living righteous. They're not seeing into the future. They're not proclaiming, when I say the gospel, the hard part of the gospel. Those people who are walking in fornication, where the word tells you they will have their room in the lake of fire. Let me go on, let me go on. We, we talking the word now, predicting the future. Let's go to Book of Revelation. Revelation 1:19. Revelation 1:19. Now, Jesus is talking to John, and guess what he's telling him? Write the things which thou hast seen. Uh-oh, he's allowing John to see into the future. Now, I know you're ready for the Revelation now. We talking about predicting the future now. These things that John saw, we haven't seen it yet. They are still to come. When we are reading in the Book of Revelation, that's still gotta come. That hasn't happened yet, but we know what to look for. What's sad is when most of the believers who call themselves believers run after Satan, thinking it's Christ. I will be sitting back, if I'm still alive, and saying, "Y'all have gotta be kidding me. Y'all can't tell that's Satan? You don't even know how Jesus looked? You didn't even listen to His Word when He tell you how He's coming? You have no revelation of the Word of God, and you went and bowed to Satan, and now you are damned forever?" Once you bow your knees to Satan, you cannot recover That's your scripture. But let me go on, let me go on, let me go on. He told John, "Write the things which thou hast seen." He said, "I have shown you, John, into the future. Write it down. And the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter." What we're reading right now is John writing what he saw Whoo. Predicting the future. That is the Book of Revelation, revealing Christ. I know you're saying to yourself, "Man." Uh-oh, don't worry. We going further. Revelation 4:1 After this, I looked and behold, a door was opened in heaven. Whoa. Heavy. Hold on now. John is telling you, he said he looked and a door was opened so he could see into heaven Man, come on now. You, you gotta be kidding me. When I listen to people, they, they say, you know, sometimes kids and sometimes adults say, "I went to heaven," and then they came back and... All you gotta do is listen now. Be careful now, listen. And I said, "Yeah, they ain't saw heaven." They said, "Well, how do you know?" Um, he told me. What they saw was not heaven, and I know they didn't even read, because if they read they would've known they didn't see heaven. They say, "Well, I saw Jesus." Well, um, yeah, I didn't believe that either now. Why? Doesn't line up with the scriptures See, everybody, you know, I l- I watch people and they got all these pictures painted of Jesus. Uh, nobody read how Jesus looked For one, Jesus was a Jew. I don't know if y'all know that. He wasn't Black and he definitely wasn't white, but he was a Jew Do you not know that? You got all these different colors worshiping a Jesus, they don't have a clue how he look. He doesn't look like you 'cause you want him to. Let me go on, let me go on. We talking about predicting the future. But he said a door was open in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was as it was of, watch this now, of a trumpet talking with me, which said, "Come up hither and I will show thee things which must be hereafter." Well, the minute I heard trumpets, I automatically know that was Jesus because his wa- his, his words was as a trumpet. When, when Saul, which we know as Paul, saw the Lord, people thought it was thunder, but he was speaking to Paul Wow. See, this understanding, when you start getting a revelation of the metaphor that Jesus uses, it's changing your whole perspective. He doesn't care if you read the Bible. You can read the Bible all day long and have no understanding. We talking about predicting the future. Let's go to the Book of John, John 16:13. Book of John. Well, that John is a heavy hitter now. In John 16 verse 13 How about, now what, no, no, no. Watch this now, 'cause this is beautiful when you hear it now. How be it when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. Now, here's the problem with the average person. They don't have the spirit of God, so there's no spirit of truth to them, so there's no guiding. You know, people go all the time saying, "Well, I was talking to the Lord." And what did he say? Because you ain't got the Spirit of God, pretty much wouldn't say nothing. But let me go on now. "For he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things," what? "To come." Wow Wow. See, when I heard from the Lord and I walked away from the military, nobody could understand why. I didn't need nobody to confirm what I heard. It was time to end that season, to start a new season. Now, I'm gonna be honest with you. I had no idea the world was this corrupt. Forget the rest of the world, I'm talking about the religious people who go to church and proclaim Jesus. I had no idea how corrupt the church really was They have no form of godliness, no predicting of the future, no revelational knowledge, no understanding of the illuminating Word of God. I couldn't understand why a woman would cry and say, "I don't know how much more I can do of following my husband that's supposed to be preaching. He says one thing, and he lives another life." When I hear stories how men are sleeping with women in the church, how women are sleeping-- How can you call us godly? form of godly with no power. But let me go on, we talking about predicting the future. Let's go back to the beginning, the Book of Genesis. Let's go back to Genesis 41. Genesis 41, we talking about predicting the future. Now, I know most people be like, "I've never seen some of these things you're talking about." Guess what? Most people have never seen it Genesis 41 verse 25. What does he want us to know in this scripture? And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. God," who? "God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do." Wow. Now, if you ready for this revelation now, hold on 'cause I'm about to take you some place now. God, Lord Jesus Christ, showed Pharaoh his plan. Now, you would say, why Pharaoh? Because Pharaoh was a king, and he's showing the king what the king is about to do. I don't know you missed that now. See, yeah, Pharaoh, you're a king, but you can't tell me what you're, what was gonna happen, but I can tell you because I'm the King of Kings, and I'm gonna show you order even though you won't understand. But Joseph had to give the interpretation, why? 'Cause he was a man of God. Yes, I'll show you, Pharaoh, but you won't understand what I'm saying, but when you understand, I showed it to you, but you won't understand because it takes a man of God to explain that to you. Now, you're saying to yourself, just predicting the future, why is this such a big deal? Because we're in the time right now where everybody's running free. They're talking about, well, well, the chip. The chip is a choice, that nobody can slip a chip in on you. How much do you have to know the Word of God to at least know that simple fact- I sit down sometimes and I get frustrated. Do you at least try to read the word of God? Try. But let me go on, let me go on, let me go on, let me go on. Matthew 24. The Book of Matthew chapter 24, verse 25. You, haven't you figured out by now I always got you in the scripture? Why? These are not my words. It's His words Let me say that again now. These are not my words. It's His word. The Lord never called me and asked me to write one scripture. I have to follow Him just like you. So I'm shocked when people says, "I want to, I, I want to, I want to preach the Word of God," but they won't, don't want to follow God. That makes no sense. That is, that... You know one thing about the military, it teach us how to follow orders. When the captain says, "We leaving at 7:00," it's not a debate It's we're leaving at 7:00. If you are not on board, you just got left. Why? Because He, that's His boat. He is the God of that boat. We can see it in the real, but we can't see it in the spiritual. If God is your Lord, you have no control on what He wants. You are to do His will. Let me go on, let me go on. In Matthew 24:25, we, we, we, we get, we getting nasty now, we getting in the word now because we gotta know the word for what it says to us. It said, "Behold, I have told you before." He said, "Before anything happens, I've already told my h- my holy apostles. I've already told my prophets what I'm gonna do." The flood didn't shock nobody. Abraham, Noah told them what was gonna happen. Egypt didn't shock nobody. The Lord told Abraham they're gonna be in bondage. Everything through scripture, He says, "Guess what? Told you. I warned you." But we seem not to wanna listen. Predicting the future. In the Book of Mark, Mark 13:23. Mark 13:23. We talking about predicting the future. Only God can predict the future It said, "Then said one unto him, 'Lord, are there be, there, are there few that be saved?'" Uh-oh, uh, oh, uh, oh. "And he said unto them," now watch this now, 'cause he said that, that's shocking when we really understand how powerful it is. "Then said one unto him, 'Lord, are there few that be saved?' And he said unto them," verse 24, "Strive to enter," where? "In at the strait gate." Whoa. These religious people ain't trying to go through no strait gate. They trying to go through the wide gate. This is everything goes. Jesus is saying, "No." He said, "Strait gate will seek ye in and shall not be able." See, a lot of people, they're proclaiming Jesus But they don't know nothing about who he is. They're proclaiming to be godly, but they have no revelation of the word of God. When the last you met people trying to walk righteous. Walk righteous, you mean with no sin? Yeah. Why not? He says, he said, "You walking in sin, you have no part in him." Did you miss that scripture? Let me go on, let me go on, let me go on, let me go on. We, we, we, we finishing that, we finishing that, but I'm, I'm gonna bring it on home now. I'm bringing it home now. In John 14, John 14:29. John 14:29, "And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, you might believe." You know how it feels to be one of the only people you know That's trying to walk straight I want you to hear me now. The people that's listening, the people that's hearing now, I know you trying to walk straight, but look at how many people you know that's proclaiming God Walking in adultery, lying, whoremongers, jealous, envy, backbiting, bitterness, all for what? Why proclaim God You can do all of those things without God because they will have a form of godliness with no power. He said, "I told you this gonna happen." They don't know the word, but they won't read They won't follow somebody who knows the word. All they wanna do is feel good. I asked somebody, "When is the Sabbath?" "Uh, Sunday." Where did you get that from? Lord, that's not important. Yes, it is. Jesus didn't write all of this for no reason. When did John speak to the Lord? On the Sabbath, Saturday Other day. If you don't, uh, you know, we, we celebrating Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter, and all these other m- manmade holidays, but ask them, ask the person who say they're believers, what about the days He tell you to celebrate? Passover, unleavened bread, first fruits, Tabernacle, Pentecost, Booth, Sabbath. N- none of those you celebrating, but you celebrate Valentine Day Christmas Easter. Thanksgiving. What are we thankful for? 'Cause we took the land from the Indians? Wow, we did something, didn't we? The word of God is the most powerful word we have, but yet people don't want to even learn that. We talking about predicting the future. He said, "That's what I'm doing. I'm telling you before it comes to pass." That's why everybody pick their own pastor now. Why? I don't really wanna know the truth. He said they won't, they won't endure sound doctrine. You know, people are already starting to believe off teaching that Jesus ain't coming back. Wow. He said, "I told you they're gonna do that." We talking about predicting the future, only God can predi- predict the future. And he said, "I will lead and I will tell my holy apostles and my prophets what's my plan." I hope you enjoy hearing the word of God. There's no more hiding now. Everything is being revealed.