This is a message from Dr. Michael Yousef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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The story told that in July of 1919, Henry Ford took the witness stand in a court in Chicago

in a libel suit against the Chicago Tribune.

And in his testimony of his testifying, he burst with a loud voice and said, history is bunk.

But a lot of people believe that history is bunk.

There are a lot of people in our culture believe that history is meaningless.

Others have said that history is a cycle. And I know that some people teach the

stuff, even in churches. That it keeps on going and going and going. It's in cycle,

keeps going. But the Word of God declares that history not only is his story, but that he and he alone is going to bring history to an end.

History will end when he and he alone appears in majesty and splendor and glory and power.

The Christian view of history is far from being

a circle or far from being cyclical. It is linear. That is what the Bible teaches. History will come to

an end with a glorious end for those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ and His alone.

History will come to an end, to a dreadful end, for those who refuse to believe him to be the

king of history. That's the message of the Bible. And it is the message of the Apostle Paul's

two epistles to the Sassalonians, the first and the second. Today, I'll begin

with you to look at this second epistle to the Thessalonians about the signs of the end of history.

And what does God say through the Apostle Paul will happen? What are the signs of the history

coming to an end? The amazing thing is that the Apostle Paul does not begin by talking about these

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