The King Is Coming with Jeff Kinley

The King Is Coming with Jeff Kinley

Wake the Bride, Episode 1: The Lukewarm Church at Laodicea

Jeff Kinley launches a new teaching series called Wake the Bride by opening Revelation 3's letter to the church at Laodicea, tracing why lukewarm faith provokes Christ's harshest rebuke and how he still offers a way back.

Opening a New Series Called Wake the Bride

Jeff Kinley opens The King Is Coming by quoting Christ's promise to let repentant believers reign with him, then plays the show's theme before returning to introduce a new teaching series called Wake the Bride, drawn from his book of the same title and built around waking up the churches addressed in the book of Revelation. He tells listeners today's focus falls on the last of those seven churches, Laodicea, which some Bible scholars believe pictures the last-days church because of where it falls in Revelation's sequence. Before diving into the text, the broadcast runs two sponsor appeals: one for the Incomparable Christ DVD set describing Jesus as unique among history's figures, and one for As It Was in the Days of Noah, Kinley's series on parallels between Noah's culture and today's. Both offers ask for a gift of forty-five dollars or more to World Prophetic Ministries. Kinley then returns to Revelation chapter 3, reading the opening address to the angel of the church at Laodicea.

The Wealthy City of Laodicea

Kinley traces Laodicea's place among the Asia Minor cities, noting it sat near Colosse, where Paul tells the Colossians his heart struggles for a church he never personally visited, and near Hierapolis, whose hot springs fed Laodicea's water supply after running cold springs down from Colosse as well. He describes roughly 7,500 Jewish men living in the city and explains Paul's usual pattern of preaching first in the synagogue before moving to the marketplace. Kinley then details Laodicea's famous wealth, recalling that after a devastating earthquake in 60 AD the city refused financial help from Rome, confident in its own banking and commerce. He lists its other claims to fame: soft black wool woven into clothing and carpets, and a renowned medical center that produced an eye salve called Phrygian powder, said to restore eyesight. This wealth and self-sufficiency, Kinley notes, sets up everything Christ is about to say to the church.

Christ Identifies Himself as the Source of Creation

Kinley turns to how Jesus addresses the Laodicean church, calling himself the Amen, a word meaning yes, it is true, let it be so, found throughout the New Testament wherever Scripture reads "verily, verily." He explains that Jesus also calls himself the faithful and true Witness, meaning every word he is about to speak can be fully trusted, just as he is described in Revelation chapter 1 and as he declares himself the truth in John 14:6. Kinley then addresses the phrase "the beginning of the creation of God," explaining that the Greek word arche does not mean Jesus was the first created being, a view he associates with Mormon teaching, but rather that Christ is the source and spring of all creation, citing John chapter 1 and Colossians chapter 1. He notes this mattered because a local heresy in nearby Colosse taught that Jesus was merely an emanation of God rather than God himself, an error Paul's letter to the Colossians was written to correct.

A Lukewarm Church That Makes Christ Nauseous

Kinley explains the background of Christ's rebuke that the Laodiceans are neither hot nor cold. Hot water from Hierapolis and cold water from Colosse both arrived through aqueducts already turned lukewarm and mineral-laden, so unpleasant that visitors would spit it straight back out of their mouths. He links this to the Greek word emeo, meaning to vomit or violently reject, and says Jesus uses it because the church is not passionately for him or openly against him, just indifferent. Kinley calls this cultural Christianity, religion without relationship, and connects it to Jesus' warning in Matthew 7 that many who performed miracles in his name will still be told, "I never knew you." He walks through warning signs of lukewarmness: self-sufficiency, misplaced priorities, neglected prayer, and church growth mistaken for spiritual health. Quoting A.W. Tozer's remark that most churches would barely notice if the Holy Spirit left them, Kinley compares the condition to Samson, who did not realize the Spirit had already departed from him.

Gold, White Garments, and Eye Salve

Kinley reads Christ's diagnosis in verse 17, that the Laodiceans call themselves rich and in need of nothing while actually being wretched, poor, blind, and naked, and then his offered cure in verse 18: gold refined by fire, white garments, and eye salve. He points out Jesus deliberately uses Laodicea's own exports, its banking wealth, its wool, and its famous Phrygian eye salve, to show that true riches, righteousness, and spiritual sight can only come from him. Turning to verse 19, Kinley explains that repentance there is a compound Greek word meaning a change of mind that produces a change of life, and that Christ demands it be zealous, from a word meaning to boil over with passion rather than offered half-heartedly. He then reinterprets the often-quoted image of Christ standing at the door and knocking in verse 20, arguing it pictures Jesus outside the actual church door rather than an individual's heart, asking just one person inside to let him back in for renewed fellowship.

A Promise to Co-Reign and a Closing Appeal

Kinley closes the teaching with verse 21's promise that whoever overcomes will sit with Christ on his throne, just as Christ overcame and sat with the Father, insisting this is no hollow offer of second-class status but a genuine invitation to reign close beside him. He stresses that Christ has zero tolerance for lukewarmness yet still loves his church and wants it restored to intimate fellowship, urging listeners who recognize their own life or church in the description to repent and ask the Lord to make them different, since only Jesus can produce that change. Kinley signs off promising a bright future for anyone who returns to the Lord. The broadcast then previews the new Wake the Bride series and its companion five-part DVD set, drawn from his book of the same name, with details available at thekingiscoming.com. A closing appeal asks listeners to become monthly or weekly donors, and the announcer notes that World Prophetic Ministries is IRS-recognized, making gifts tax-deductible charitable contributions.

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Revelation's Guide to Knowing God: The New Heavens, the New Earth, and the City of God

Jeff Kinley closes his series Revelation's Guide to Knowing God by turning to Revelation chapters 21 and 22, describing the new heavens, the new earth, and the New Jerusalem that God creates after the millennium and the Great White Throne Judgment.

A New Book and a Promise of Something Better

Jeff Kinley opens the broadcast by asking whether anyone looking at the state of the world can believe it will ever get better, and answers that it will, because God is going to create a new heavens and a new earth. He previews his new book, God's Grand Finale: Wrath, Grace, and Glory in Earth's Final Days, explaining that it walks through the entire Book of Revelation not simply to predict the future but to reveal thirteen attributes of God that help believers grow more intimate with him. Kinley places the day's teaching at the close of his series Revelation's Guide to Knowing God, noting that God wrote Revelation's judgments and apocalyptic imagery so that readers need not fear the book, since its real purpose is a closer relationship with him. The announcer reads offers for the book and for the six-part DVD series Revelation's Guide to Knowing God before Kinley returns to welcome listeners into Revelation chapter 21.

Setting the Timeline After Armageddon

Kinley orients listeners to where Revelation 21 falls in the prophetic timeline. Christ has already returned at the second coming, he explains, defeating the Antichrist and the false prophet in a brief battle of Armageddon and casting them into the lake of fire. Satan is then bound in a dark abyss for Christ's thousand-year millennial reign, a length Revelation 20 repeats six times in seven verses. At the millennium's end, Satan is released, deceives the nations born to tribulation survivors during that reign, and launches a doomed coup against Jerusalem that fire from heaven consumes. Kinley then describes the Great White Throne Judgment of Revelation 20:11-15, after which, he says, every form of evil has been dealt with: the Antichrist, the false prophet, the devil, sinners, and sin itself. Only after all of that, Kinley explains, does John write the opening words of chapter 21, describing a new heaven and a new earth, with the first heaven and earth having passed away.

Splitting Every Atom in the Universe

Turning to Second Peter, Kinley reads that the heavens will pass away with a roar, the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth's works will be burned up, telling listeners the old phrase "it's all going to burn" is literally true according to Scripture. He explains that the Greek word for "pass away" means to unleash or unbind, arguing this describes God unleashing the very atoms of the universe, splitting apart the mysterious force physicists call the strong force that, per Colossians chapter 1, actually holds together in Christ. Kinley recalls meeting the personal secretary of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who helped split the atom for the atomic bomb, and says God is about to split every atom in creation, producing an explosion believers will witness while being protected from it. Because God is the creator, from the Bible's opening words "in the beginning, God," he alone has the right to destroy his creation and remake it.

The New Jerusalem Comes Down From Heaven

Kinley reads Revelation 21's description of the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven adorned as a bride for her husband, and walks through the dimensions the chapter gives: 1,500 miles wide, long, and high, a cube he compares to a space stretching from Canada to the Gulf Coast and from Colorado to the East Coast. He calculates that eight billion Christians living there would each have roughly 175 acres, though he notes believers will move freely in and out of the city. Citing John chapter 14, Kinley identifies the New Jerusalem as the Father's house Jesus promised, furnished with everything heaven contains. He reads the loud voice from the throne declaring that the tabernacle of God is among men, that he will dwell with them as their God, and offers his simplest definition of heaven and eternity: it is, above everything else, being with God, who will wipe away every tear and end death, mourning, crying, and pain.

Everything Heaven Will Not Contain

Kinley walks through what Revelation 21 and 22 say will be absent from the new heavens and earth. There will be no more sea, which he says symbolizes chaos and disorder, no more tears because all hurt is removed, no more death because mortality is swallowed up in life, and no more mourning, crying, or pain because every sorrow and disease is eradicated. He assures listeners they will not relive bad memories there. Citing verse 6, he says there will be no more thirst because the water of life is given without cost, and in verse 8 no more wickedness, since the cowardly, unbelieving, and immoral are consigned to the lake of fire. There will be no temple, he explains, because God himself will be everywhere, and no need for sun, moon, or stars because God's glory will light everything. Finally, the city's gates will never close, and the curse of sin, already stripped of its power, will be removed in his presence.

A New Creation Now and an Invitation to Come

Kinley brings the teaching back to the present, citing Second Corinthians chapter 5, that anyone in Christ is already a new creation with old things passed away, even while believers still struggle with sin as Romans chapter 7 describes. He connects this to Romans chapter 8's image of creation groaning like a woman in labor for its own remaking, suggesting today's earthquakes and disasters reflect that groaning. He reads Revelation 22's closing invitation, where the Spirit and the bride say "Come," and anyone thirsty is welcomed to take the water of life without cost. Kinley tells the story of an elderly missionary couple returning from decades in India the same day President Theodore Roosevelt arrived in New York Harbor to parades and cheering crowds, while the couple stood unnoticed; the wife tells her husband, "we're not home yet." Kinley closes by promising listeners a true home awaits them, reminding them God can remake their lives now, before thanking listeners and closing the broadcast.

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Revelation's Guide to Knowing God, Episode 5: The Second Coming and the King of Kings

Jeff Kinley continues Revelation's Guide to Knowing God by examining the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in Revelation chapter 19, tracing the rider on the white horse called Faithful and True, the gathering at Armageddon, and the armies that follow Him.

Opening With a Promise and a New Book

Jeff Kinley opens The King Is Coming by reminding listeners that people break promises all the time, while Jesus never does, because He is the ultimate promise keeper. He then previews his new book, God's Grand Finale: Wrath, Grace, and Glory in Earth's Final Days, explaining that it walks through the entire Book of Revelation from a slightly different angle. In Kinley's view, John's Revelation was not written only to describe the end times, but to show readers who God is, so that believers can grow closer to Him. He describes the book as highlighting thirteen attributes of God that rise out of the text. Kinley then places today's teaching inside his series, Revelation's Guide to Knowing God, and says the broadcast will focus on the return of Jesus Christ, which he calls the crescendo of all human history. The announcer reads an offer for the six-part DVD series, and Kinley returns to say the Second Coming is the moment the Bible has been moving toward.

Armageddon and the Nations in Revolt

Kinley describes the state of humanity when Christ returns. Turning to Revelation chapter 19, he says the world is still hating God, blaspheming Him, and taunting Him to the point that the world's armies have gathered on one battlefield outside Jerusalem called Armageddon. He quotes a claim that Napoleon called it the most natural battlefield on planet Earth, and notes that the armies have come not to fight one another but to fight God. Kinley connects this rebellion to Psalm 2, reading the psalmist's words about the nations raging and the kings of the earth taking their stand against the Lord and His anointed. He explains that God the Father laughs at this defiance and then speaks in anger, declaring that He has installed His King upon Zion, His holy mountain. Kinley says this is why the Second Coming should be studied in detail, and he prepares listeners to look at the particulars of what the return will be like and which attributes of God it reveals.

The Faithful and True Rider on a White Horse

Kinley reads Revelation 19:11 and says heaven opens so that Jesus can come out, just as it opened in chapter 4 so that John could come in. He stresses that Christ is not coming back to rescue anyone at the end of the tribulation but to do battle. He contrasts this kind of coming, which many signs precede, with the rapture, which he calls a signless event with nothing that must happen before it. Kinley notes that Jesus describes His arrival as coming like a thief, citing Revelation 16:15, and says nobody will know what is about to hit them. He then explains the white horse, comparing it to the victory steeds of first-century Roman generals returning from war. Jesus has traded the humble donkey of His triumphal entry for a horse, Kinley says, because He is coming not to die but to reign. He calls the rider Faithful and True, linking that title to Revelation 1:7 and 3:14, and says that a Savior who keeps every promise will return exactly as He said.

A Robe Dipped in Blood and Crowns of Enemies

Kinley turns to the eyes, crowns, names, and garment of the rider. He says the flaming eyes recall Revelation chapter 1, a penetrating gaze that nothing can hide from, the same eyes that once wept over Jerusalem and at Lazarus' funeral. The many crowns, he explains, use a Greek word for a ruler's crown, and most commentators take them to be the crowns of the earth's rulers, which Kinley believes Jesus has taken for Himself as the ruler over all rulers. He compares this to David taking the crown of the Ammonite king in 2 Samuel. Kinley says the secret name that only Jesus knows is probably tied to His intimate relationship with the Father, and he refuses to guess at it. For the blood on the robe, he points to Isaiah chapter 63, where a figure comes from Edom in garments of glowing colors from Bozrah. He places Bozrah in modern Jordan near Petra and believes tribulation Jews will flee there after the abomination of desolation. The blood, he concludes, belongs to His enemies.

Armies in White and the Mount of Olives

Kinley describes the armies that follow Christ, citing Revelation 19:14 and reading that they are clothed in fine linen, white and clean, on white horses. He identifies them as the church and the saints in heaven, and adds that tribulation martyrs and Old Testament saints may ride with them. He jokes that listeners will have to learn to ride, though they will not need to fight, because Christ alone does battle with the sword from His mouth. Kinley reads Revelation 19:15, where the sword smites the nations and Christ rules them with a rod of iron, and calls the Word of God the weapon. He then turns to Zechariah 14:4, saying Christ's feet will touch the Mount of Olives, which will split apart in a great earthquake. He recalls that the Mount of Olives is where Jesus spoke of the last days and where He ascended. Kinley also cites a 2004 NBC News report on a fault line there, offering it as evidence that Scripture is accurate.

The Reasons for the Return and a Closing Appeal

Kinley closes with the reasons Christ returns, giving several in turn. Jesus returns to make good on His promise, and because He is faithful, every other promise God has made can be trusted. He will restore Israel, which Kinley says will see the remaining Israelites saved, and He will judge the nations at the sheep and goats judgment. Kinley adds that Christ will resurrect Old Testament saints, bind Satan for a thousand years in a bottomless pit, and reign on earth as King. He connects this to the familiar Christmas verses about a child born and government resting on His shoulders, noting that the first coming was as Savior and the second as sovereign King. He calls the Second Coming more exciting than a last-second touchdown and more emotional than a soldier's homecoming. The announcer then reads an offer for the book Biblical Discernment, and Kinley closes by declaring that God is faithful and urging prayerful support of World Prophetic Ministries.

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Revelations Guide to Knowing God, Episode 4: The Grace of God and the Tribulation Revival

Jeff Kinley continues his series Revelation's Guide to Knowing God by turning to the grace of God, tracing how a vast multitude of tribulation believers, the 144,000 Jewish evangelists, two witnesses, and three flying angels help bring about a last-days revival after the rapture.

A New Book and the Fourth Attribute of God

Jeff Kinley opens The King Is Coming by teasing the question at the center of this episode, whether Scripture promises a last-days revival before the end, and promises an answer drawn from the Bible itself. He then turns to his newest book, God's Grand Finale: Wrath, Grace, and Glory in Earth's Final Days, explaining that it walks through the entire Book of Revelation not simply to forecast future events but to draw out thirteen attributes of God that help believers know Him more intimately. Returning from the break, Kinley places the day's teaching inside his larger series, Revelation's Guide to Knowing God, reminding listeners that earlier broadcasts have already covered the glory, the sovereignty, and the wrath of God as they appear in Revelation. Today, he says, the subject shifts to something warmer, the grace and graciousness of Jesus Christ, and he previews the question many listeners keep asking him about whether a final, great revival is coming.

No Revival Promised Before the Rapture

Kinley turns to Second Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 3, where Paul writes that before the day of the Lord a great falling away, or apostasy, must come first. He tells listeners that Scripture prophesies this departure from the faith but nowhere promises a final revival during the church age, before the Tribulation begins. That does not mean, he adds, that God cannot send pockets of revival breaking out around the world even now, only that no chapter and verse can be pointed to as proof of one. Kinley says he is nevertheless watching many believers awaken to Bible prophecy, calling it the front porch that leads people back into serious study of their Bibles, and he reads from listener emails describing how prophecy pulled them out of a lethargic, mediocre faith. He then asks the harder question: if no revival is promised this side of the rapture, does Revelation describe one happening on the other side, during the Tribulation itself.

A Great Multitude Before the Throne

Turning to Revelation chapter 7, Kinley reads the passage that follows the sealing of the 144,000, where John describes a great multitude that no one can count, drawn from every tribe, nation, people, and tongue, standing before the throne in white robes with palm branches, crying out that salvation belongs to God and the Lamb. He explains that an elder identifies this multitude as those who have come out of the great Tribulation and washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb, a detail Kinley stresses means these are new believers converted during the Tribulation itself, not leftover Christians from the church age. He estimates the majority come to faith in the first three and a half years, before the Antichrist's midpoint mark of the beast forces every remaining person into an irreversible choice for or against Christ. Kinley notes John's own word for the number, a Greek term tied to arithmetic, meaning that John himself cannot calculate how enormous this multitude truly is.

How the Holy Spirit Still Draws the Lost

Kinley turns from who these believers are to how they are saved, breaking the question into the manner, the method, and the means. On the manner, he asks whether the Holy Spirit is absent from earth once the church is raptured, and answers no, because the Spirit is omnipresent and cannot be confined to any one place. Citing John chapter 16, he explains that the Holy Spirit continues His convicting ministry during the Tribulation exactly as He does now, persuading people of their sin and their need for a Savior. He adds, citing John chapter 6, that God the Father is the one who draws people to Himself, while Jesus Christ alone saves through His shed blood, describing salvation as a work shared between all three persons of the Trinity. Kinley calls this an amazing thought, that the very process that brought him and his listeners to faith continues operating for those left behind after the rapture, even without the church physically present on earth.

Witnesses, Evangelists, and Left-Behind Bibles

Moving to method, Kinley lists several ways he believes people will come to Christ after the rapture, some drawn directly from Scripture and others he offers as reasoned speculation. Many, he suggests, will remember previous exposure to the gospel and immediately fall to their knees once they realize what has happened. Left-behind Bibles, Christian books, and recorded programs will give others tools to understand the disappearance, and newly saved believers will rush to tell friends and family before the Antichrist and his judgments arrive. Kinley then turns to what the Bible explicitly names, starting with the 144,000 sealed Jewish evangelists of Revelation chapters 7 and 14, twelve thousand from each tribe, described as chaste, blameless, and fiercely loyal to the Lamb. He also introduces the two witnesses of Revelation chapter 11, who prophesy for 1,260 days in sackcloth, calling fire from their mouths and shutting up the sky, and whom Kinley believes, based on their miracles, are most likely Moses and Elijah.

Three Angels and a Limited-Time Grace

Kinley closes his list of methods with three angels from Revelation chapter 14, naming them himself: a gospel angel flying in mid-heaven and preaching an eternal gospel to every nation, a Babylon angel announcing that the Antichrist's capital city has fallen, and a final angel warning that anyone who takes the mark of the beast will share the beast's fate in the lake of fire. He compares the Babylon angel's message to hearing that Washington has been destroyed, proof that the Antichrist's kingdom is collapsing while God's kingdom endures. Turning finally to the means of salvation, Kinley insists it never changes, citing Romans 5:8 and John 14:6 to affirm that the shed blood of Jesus Christ remains the only way to God in the Tribulation exactly as it is now. He marvels at God's patience toward sinners, warns from Second Corinthians 6 that salvation is a limited-time offer, and urges anyone listening to believe on Jesus Christ immediately before the broadcast closes with its usual appeal for donations to World Prophetic Ministries.

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Revelations Guide to Knowing God, Episode 3: The Wrath of God in the Tribulation

Jeff Kinley continues his series Revelation's Guide to Knowing God by examining the wrath of God poured out during the tribulation in Revelation chapters 6 through 18, tracing the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments and explaining why even God's wrath is cause for gratitude and worship.

A New Book and a New Series

Jeff Kinley opens The King Is Coming by previewing his new book, God's Grand Finale: Wrath, Grace, and Glory in Earth's Final Days, explaining that he walks through the entire Book of Revelation to highlight thirteen attributes of God rather than simply forecasting future events. He also revisits As It Was in the Days of Noah, the book he first published in 2014 that reached the top of Amazon's prophecy category and led to appearances on national programs such as Fox & Friends and The Glenn Beck Show. Kinley says the book's warnings about a coming global storm feel even more relevant today, and notes that he has updated it with two new chapters. He then reintroduces the umbrella series Revelation's Guide to Knowing God, reminding listeners that a previous episode covered the sovereign, occupied throne of God in Revelation chapter 4, and that today's episode turns toward the darker judgments described later in the book.

Where the Church Stands During the Tribulation

Kinley argues that chapters 6 through 18 of Revelation form a parenthesis describing a future tribulation period, and he lays out his case that believers are removed from earth before it begins in a pre-tribulational rapture. He points to 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, and Revelation 3:10 as promises that Christians will be kept from the coming hour of testing. As evidence, he traces the word church through Revelation, noting it appears roughly nineteen times in chapters 1 through 3, vanishes completely from chapters 6 through 18, and returns once in chapter 22, while the saints are shown gathered in heaven around the twenty-four elders during the judgment chapters. Kinley connects this absence to 2 Thessalonians 2, explaining that the Holy Spirit's unique restraining of sin, not his presence, is lifted before the Antichrist appears, warning that the rapture will unleash a sudden surge of evil once that restraint is gone.

Five Faces of God's Wrath

Kinley outlines five expressions of divine wrath found throughout scripture. Catastrophic wrath describes sudden judgments like Noah's flood or the plagues on Egypt. Harvest wrath, drawn from Galatians 6:7, reflects the principle that people reap what they sow. Everlasting wrath refers to the eternal lake of fire described in Revelation 14 and 20, where Kinley stresses that God himself, not Satan, presides over the torment of the unrepentant. Abandonment wrath, taken from Romans 1, occurs when God repeatedly gives a person or nation over to their own depraved choices after continual rejection, closing off any further reaching out. Kinley says Revelation 14 shows this same abandonment happening to those who take the mark of the beast during the tribulation. The fifth and final category, end times wrath, is the specific series of end-of-age judgments recorded in Revelation chapters 6 through 18, which becomes the focus of the rest of the teaching.

Why Talk About God's Wrath

Before detailing the judgments, Kinley explains why he chooses to preach on such an unpopular subject. He gives three reasons: wrath runs throughout scripture from Genesis to Revelation, so it deserves attention; wrath is itself an attribute of God, standing alongside love, mercy, and holiness because a truly righteous God must punish sin; and confronting wrath serves as a healthy deterrent that motivates people toward repentance, much like a doctor's frightening diagnosis is meant to spur a patient toward better choices rather than simply to scare them. Turning to Revelation chapter 6, verse 1, Kinley identifies the Lamb, Jesus Christ, as the one who breaks the first of seven seals in response to a living creature's command to come, establishing that the coming judgments originate from God himself even though nations and human evil become his instruments. This sets the stage for the specific judgments Kinley walks through next.

Seal, Trumpet, and Bowl Judgments

Kinley moves rapidly through the tribulation's judgments. The seal judgments open with a white horse rider he identifies as the Antichrist, conquering peacefully by treaty, followed by a red horse that removes peace and brings roughly eight hundred percent inflation, a black horse bringing famine, and a pale horse bringing death that Kinley says will claim a fourth of the earth's population, roughly two billion people today. A fifth seal reveals martyred believers later described in chapter 20 as beheaded for their faith, and a sixth seal brings earthquakes and cosmic disturbances that send the world's powerful into hiding. The trumpet judgments that follow destroy a third of vegetation, sea life, and fresh water, darken a third of the sun, moon, and stars, and unleash tormenting locusts and two hundred million demonic horsemen. Finally, Kinley says the bowl judgments arrive in the tribulation's second half, bringing sores, blood-red seas, scorching heat, darkness, and a drying Euphrates River.

Humanity's Rebellion and the Believer's Response

Kinley describes how humanity reacts as the judgments intensify, moving from fear and hiding in caves to continued blasphemy and, eventually, gathering at Armageddon in open rebellion against God, a trajectory he says Jesus himself warns about in Luke chapter 21, where fear causes people's hearts to fail. He contrasts this with how believers should respond to hearing about coming wrath, offering three responses: gratitude that Romans 8:1 means no condemnation awaits those in Christ, a renewed urgency to warn others before what he calls the bridge going out beneath them, and worship, since Revelation chapter 11 shows heaven's saints and angels rejoicing when God's judgments finally set the world right. Kinley closes by promising further attributes of God in the next episode of the series, and the broadcast ends with the announcer promoting a donation offer tied to Kinley's book Aftershocks and Kinley's appeal for ongoing financial support of World Prophetic Ministries.

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Revelations Guide to Knowing God, Episode 2: John's Vision of the Throne of Heaven

Jeff Kinley continues his series Revelations Guide to Knowing God with a study of John's vision of heaven in Revelation chapter 4, walking through the occupied throne of God, the twenty-four elders, and the four living creatures who cry that God is holy.

Opening Tease and a New Series

Jeff Kinley opens the broadcast by asking listeners whether they have ever wondered what the very first thing they will see is when they arrive in heaven, promising an answer later in the program. Before turning to that question, he circles back to a project he has already been discussing on The King Is Coming, his book As It Was in the Days of Noah, first published in 2014 and now updated with new chapters. He recalls that the book reached the top of Amazon's prophecy category and led to appearances on several national programs, and he argues its warnings about a coming global storm remain relevant today. Kinley then reminds listeners that the current teaching sits inside a larger series called Revelation's Guide to Knowing God, drawn from his book God's Grand Finale: Wrath, Grace, and Glory in Earth's Final Days, which surveys thirteen attributes of God revealed in the book of Revelation.

John's Invitation Through an Open Door

Turning to Revelation chapter 4, Kinley explains that immediately after Jesus finishes evaluating the seven churches, John sees a door standing open in heaven and hears a voice like a trumpet inviting him, come up here. He notes that this same phrase appears later in Revelation chapter 11, when the two witnesses are killed in Jerusalem and a voice calls their bodies up to heaven, and he says some readers have wondered whether similar words might be spoken at the rapture, while stressing that this cannot be confirmed. Kinley describes John as being in the spirit, caught up in a supernatural vision rather than a physical journey, and prepares listeners for what John sees first once he arrives. Rather than angels, streets of gold, or reunions with loved ones, Kinley says the very first thing that captures John's attention in heaven is a throne, and he treats that detail as significant enough to build the rest of the teaching around it.

An Occupied and Sovereign Throne

Kinley walks through Revelation 4:2, where John sees a throne standing in heaven with someone seated on it, and stresses that the throne is occupied rather than empty. He argues this detail shows that God's rule is established, immovable, and unshakable, quoting Psalm 115:3 that God does whatever he pleases and is not subject to the actions of nations, presidents, or laws. From this, Kinley draws a personal application, telling listeners that if the throne scene is true, then history, humanity, and individual lives carry meaning, purpose, and destiny because God is orchestrating events rather than leaving anything to chance. He describes this as one of the greatest comforts available to believers, the assurance that God remains in charge of a world that often looks chaotic and out of control. The throne, he says, is not just occupied but sovereign, and that sovereignty undergirds everything else John is about to witness in the vision.

A Throne Beyond Human Description

Kinley moves to Revelation 4:3, where John compares the figure on the throne to jasper and sardius stones surrounded by a rainbow with emerald tones, and he treats this as John's attempt to put an indescribable sight into human language. He explains jasper as a crystal-clear stone resembling diamond and sardius as a ruby-red stone, arguing that these images point to colors and hues in heaven that human eyes have never encountered. Kinley compares the moment to standing at the edge of an ocean and trying to take in its vastness, saying language simply fails when describing something this glorious. He notes that John repeatedly uses the word like, signaling that he is reaching for comparisons rather than exact descriptions, and he points to a similar vision in Ezekiel chapter 1. For Kinley, the passage illustrates that heaven's beauty and God's glory exceed anything the human mind can fully picture or contain.

Elders Enthroned Around God

Kinley then examines Revelation 4:4, where twenty-four elders sit on their own thrones around God's throne, dressed in white garments and wearing golden crowns. He argues that these details identify the elders as the bride of Christ rather than angels, since white garments describe the bride in Revelation 19 and Scripture never depicts angels wearing crowns. Because the elders already appear in heaven at this point in the vision, Kinley concludes that the church has been taken up after the evaluation of the seven churches but before the tribulation period begins. He connects their crowns and thrones to promises in Second Timothy and Romans that believers will one day reign with Christ as joint heirs. While the exact meaning of the number twenty-four remains uncertain, Kinley suggests it may signal completeness or wholeness. The elders, he says, surround the throne in a posture of homage, reinforcing that this is a throne worthy of deep respect.

Holiness, Worship, and Resting in God's Rule

Kinley closes by describing four living creatures covered in eyes who cry holy, holy, holy before the throne, and he explains that holiness at its root means being separate and set apart rather than merely sinless. He argues that God's transcendence, not just his perfection, is what these angelic beings are proclaiming, and he connects human access to that holiness to Christ's shed blood and Second Corinthians 5:21, describing believers as receiving an imputed righteousness they could not earn. Kinley walks through the elders casting their crowns before God's throne, calling it one of Revelation's fourteen worship scenes, and says the proper response to seeing God this way is worship rather than argument. He closes the teaching by urging listeners to rest in God's sovereignty regardless of surrounding chaos, repeating that the throne in heaven remains occupied and permanent. The broadcast ends with an appeal for prayerful financial support of World Prophetic Ministries and its outreach efforts.

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Hope For America - Episode 7 Is there hope for America?

This Is Your Finest Hour: Living as Light in a Nation in Crisis

Summary

Heavenly Citizenship and Earthly Responsibility

Jeff Kinley concludes the series by asking whether there is hope for America and by framing the answer through Christian responsibility. He argues that believers have a form of dual citizenship: an earthly connection to their country and an eternal citizenship in heaven. While expressing strong love for the United States, he says a Christian's highest allegiance should remain with God and the eternal home promised in Scripture. He uses travel and the image of a soldier returning home to illustrate the temporary nature of earthly life. His central point is that concern for the nation should be governed by a heavenly perspective rather than by politics, comfort, or fear alone.

Reordering Life Around Heavenly Priorities

Kinley distinguishes between earthly necessities and what he calls heavenly priorities. He says work, family, education, recreation, possessions, and other ordinary parts of life can be enjoyed as gifts, but they should not displace a believer's relationship with God. He encourages listeners to examine how they spend their time, what they desire, and where Scripture and service to Christ fit within their goals. He also describes this ordering of priorities as something he personally has to revisit continually. Passages from Colossians, Philippians, Hebrews, and other biblical texts are used to support his call to seek what is above while continuing to live responsibly on earth.

Four Ways Christians Can Respond to Culture

The episode presents four possible responses Christians can have to a culture Kinley describes as morally and spiritually declining. He rejects retreat from the world, constant condemnation of the world, isolation inside a Christian subculture, and absorption into the surrounding culture. Instead, he argues for engagement that combines conviction with love, humility, dignity, and gentleness. He uses workplaces, schools, teams, neighborhoods, and families as examples of settings where Christians can remain present without adopting values they believe conflict with Scripture. His preferred model is to enter culture as a Christian influence without allowing the culture's value system to reshape the believer.

Being the Church Beyond Church Walls

Kinley says the next responsibility is not merely to do witnessing but to be a witness through one's life, words, attitude, and character. He emphasizes that the church should not become a self-contained world that meets every need while leaving believers disconnected from people outside it. Using the image of a football huddle, he describes church gatherings as a place for preparation before Christians return to everyday life and carry out their mission. He repeatedly uses the biblical image of light to describe the role believers should play among people who do not share their faith. In his presentation, Christian hope is carried into the wider culture through visible conduct, personal relationships, and spoken testimony.

The Gospel, New Birth, and the Cost of Being Light

The teaching then moves from cultural engagement to the gospel message itself. Kinley says Christian conduct is important, but he also insists that people need to hear the message of Jesus Christ, sin, forgiveness, eternal life, and reconciliation with God. He addresses both people who have never embraced the faith and Christians who may have become spiritually lethargic, calling both groups toward a new or renewed beginning. At the same time, he warns that living openly as a Christian may provoke hostility because, in his view, light exposes darkness. The episode therefore presents Christian witness as both an invitation to hope and a responsibility that can carry personal risk.

A Finest-Hour Appeal for Hope

Near the conclusion, Kinley invokes Winston Churchill's "finest hour" language as an analogy for what he sees as a limited opportunity for Christians to act faithfully in the present moment. He does not claim to know whether America as a nation will be saved or restored, saying that only God knows. His more definite conclusion is that individual Americans can be saved and that Christians therefore have a role in bringing the gospel to others. He returns to the opening appeal for listeners to begin with their own hearts and lives and become what he calls hope bearers and hope bringers. The broadcast closes with repeated offers related to the Hope for America series, Jeff Kinley's book, ministry donations, and support for distributing the gospel.

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Hope for America - Episode 5: Is America in Bible Prophecy?

Jeff Kinley opens the teaching by addressing one of the most common questions he receives: whether America appears in Bible prophecy and what role the United States may play in the end times. He explains that people ask this because they love their country, recognize America's historic influence for Christianity, understand America's superpower status, and may assume that a nation so prominent must be explicitly mentioned in the Bible. He cautions, however, that Bible interpretation must begin with the text rather than with national pride, personal preference, or a desire to force current events into prophetic passages.

Israel at the Center of the Prophetic Narrative

Kinley emphasizes that the end-times narrative in Scripture is centered on Israel, not America. He points to the large portion of the Bible from Genesis 12 through Acts 2 as evidence of Israel's central role in God's covenant storyline. He teaches that Israel is currently under a partial hardening, referencing Romans 11, while the church age continues and Gentiles and individual Jews come to Christ. He argues that after the rapture, God's prophetic focus will turn again to the Jewish people.

Nations Specifically Named in End-Times Prophecy

The episode reviews several nations Kinley identifies from Ezekiel 38 and 39 as part of the Gog coalition, including Rosh, Magog, Meshech, Tubal, Persia, Cush, Put, Gomer, and Beth Togarmah. He interprets these as Russia, Central Asia, Turkey, Iran, Sudan, Libya, and related regions. According to Kinley, these nations come against Israel in the War of Gog and Magog, but God Himself supernaturally intervenes to defend Israel. He suggests this divine intervention may help set the stage for Israel's future temple developments.

Six Proposed "USA Sightings" in Scripture

Kinley then reviews six ways some interpreters claim to find America in Bible prophecy. These include Babylon the Great in Revelation 18, the eagle's wings of Daniel 7, the seven heads or kingdoms in Revelation 13 and 17, the great eagle of Revelation 12, the tall smooth-skinned people of Isaiah 18, and the young lions of Tarshish in Ezekiel 38. In each case, he explains why he does not accept the interpretation. His core argument is that similarities between a passage and America do not establish identity unless the text itself supports that conclusion.

Why Kinley Rejects America as Babylon or the Eagle

A major portion of the episode focuses on America-as-Babylon and America-as-eagle interpretations. Kinley acknowledges that Babylon in Revelation 18 has similarities to America - immorality, wealth, power, pride, trade, and sudden destruction - but he argues that Revelation identifies Babylon as a city, not a nation. He also rejects the idea that the great eagle of Revelation 12 refers to an American airlift rescuing Israel. In his view, the great eagle is better understood as Yahweh Himself, based on imagery from Exodus 19.

America's Present Responsibility

Kinley concludes that America is not specifically named in Bible prophecy, but she has had an end-times role through blessing Israel and extending the gospel throughout the world. He argues that America should not focus on trying to locate herself in prophetic passages, but on her present spiritual condition. The final emphasis is that America needs new life in Jesus Christ, repentance, revival, and a renewed commitment to the gospel.

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Hope For America - Episode 4: Divine Abandonment, Sexual Morality, and America’s Spiritual Crisis

Jeff Kinley presents Episode 4 of Hope for America on The King Is Coming, teaching from Romans 1 about what he calls the stages of God’s abandonment wrath, the spiritual consequences of rejecting God, sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, the depraved mind, the limits of political solutions, and the Christian responsibility to live and share the gospel while awaiting Christ’s return.

Romans 1 and the Question of Hope for America

Jeff Kinley continues the Hope for America series by asking whether the nation can turn around spiritually and whether God has begun withdrawing from a culture that rejects Him. He reviews earlier stages from Romans 1: suppressing divine revelation, refusing God’s rule, and replacing the worship of God. He then introduces what he calls “abandonment wrath,” meaning that God allows people or societies to experience the consequences of repeatedly rejecting Him. The episode presents this as Kinley’s theological interpretation of Romans 1 rather than as a universally accepted Christian conclusion.

“God Gave Them Over” and the Meaning of Paradidomi

Kinley focuses on the repeated phrase “God gave them over” and connects it with the Greek verb paradidomi. He explains the term as handing someone over, permitting arrest, or releasing a person into the consequences of a chosen direction. In his illustration, God not only lets go but gives a push, after which human desire and consequence take over. He compares this with Pharaoh’s hardened heart and argues that persistent rejection of God can eventually lead to divine withdrawal.

Sexual Promiscuity and Dishonoring the Body

Kinley identifies sexual promiscuity as the fourth stage in his outline of divine abandonment. He interprets Romans 1:24 as teaching that people who reject God are given over to desires that dishonor their bodies. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 6, he says sexual behavior is not merely physical but also spiritual because the believer’s body is described as the temple of the Holy Spirit. He contrasts marital intimacy between a man and a woman with sexual activity outside marriage and argues that different sins can carry different practical and spiritual consequences.

Pornography, Technology, and Cultural Consequences

Kinley describes modern America as saturated with sexual imagery and pornography. He cites statistics about pornography websites, viewing habits, childhood exposure, industry revenue, and sexually transmitted diseases to support his argument that sexual behavior is reshaping minds, emotions, relationships, and bodies. The transcript itself warns that these figures were preserved as speaker claims and should be independently fact-checked before being reused as verified data. Kinley also warns that smartphones and social media expose children to content that earlier generations had to actively seek.

Homosexuality and Kinley’s Interpretation of Romans 1

Kinley describes homosexuality and lesbianism as the fifth stage in what he calls God’s abandonment protocol. He interprets Romans 1:26–27 as teaching that same-sex relationships are contrary to God’s design, nature, and creation. He criticizes churches and Christian leaders who affirm same-sex relationships and links social acceptance of homosexuality with national judgment. These are Kinley’s theological and cultural claims, and the transcript does not present them as independently verified medical, scientific, legal, or universally accepted religious conclusions.

Judgment, Mercy, and the Possibility of Salvation

Although the sermon strongly condemns same-sex behavior, Kinley also says God loves homosexual, lesbian, and transgender people and that salvation remains available through Jesus Christ. He compares the present opportunity for repentance to the open door of Noah’s ark and says people from every background may receive forgiveness and a changed life. At the same time, he warns that continued rejection of God can reach a point where God “gives them over.” This tension between warning and invitation forms a major part of the episode’s message.

The Depraved Mind as the Final Stage

Kinley identifies Romans 1:28–32 as the sixth and final stage in the episode’s outline. He reads the passage’s list of unrighteousness, greed, envy, murder, deceit, arrogance, disobedience, and lack of mercy, and interprets the “depraved mind” as a mind that has failed God’s test and become spiritually ruined. He says individuals and nations at this stage not only practice sin but celebrate and approve it. Kinley concludes that America is already experiencing all six stages of what he calls divine abandonment wrath.

Government Cannot Save the Nation

Kinley warns that the crisis may worsen through additional laws, mandates, and social changes. He says the final future stage will involve the rapture of the church and the spiritual emptying of America, a subject he intends to address later in the series. He rejects government, presidents, and political parties as ultimate solutions, saying only God can save the nation. His practical response is to trust Scripture, rely on the gospel, live the Christian message, love people, speak truth, and remember that Christ is returning.

Ministry Resources and Closing Appeal

The program includes several ministry offers connected with the Hope for America DVD series, Jeff Kinley’s book The End of America, and another series titled America in Crisis. The narrator also appeals for financial support for World Prophetic Ministries. Because the transcript lists differing donation amounts for some offers and contains an uncertain speaker name in the America in Crisis segment, those promotional details should be checked before publication.