Speaker 1: All right, let's wave our bibles around and make Jesus glad.
Speaker 1: The devil, mad, say this together.
Speaker 1: Say, haven't he?
Speaker 1: Father, I'm so glad to be here today.
Speaker 1: This is where I receive revelation upon which my faith is built.
Speaker 1: My faith is built on the rock, and that rock is the reveal, knowledge of your word given to me by your spirit, and with that combination I shall not be defeated and I have the victory on every hand.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen, praise God, glory, glory, glory.
Speaker 1: Let's turn in our bibles to two places, both in the gospels, matthew 24 and Luke 21.
Speaker 1: And we will read what Jesus is saying here, the head of the church, and Matthew 24, verse one.
Speaker 1: And Jesus went out and parted from the temple and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.
Speaker 1: In other words, they were so impressed with the temple.
Speaker 1: They were very impressed with the World Trade Center, number one World Trade Center.
Speaker 1: The other trade centers are gone, but now we've got number one World Trade Center.
Speaker 1: And so they were so impressed.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said to them you see, these things Verily, I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.
Speaker 1: See, our prophet is talking, and not just a few years after this, 40 AD, the heritage temple was destroyed and one million Jews died.
Speaker 1: Now he didn't prophesy that one million Jews died, but I mean he knew it.
Speaker 1: I mean you know things can get tough.
Speaker 1: So he's letting them know, he's prophesying ahead of time, so when it happens they won't be amazed, they won't be tempted to faint.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna faint, you're gonna faint right here in your mind.
Speaker 1: And as he sat verse three on the Mount of Olives, you know, guess what?
Speaker 1: He's coming back to the Mount of Olives.
Speaker 1: As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately.
Speaker 1: So he was talking to the Jews and then suddenly they wanted a private audience because they were shook up.
Speaker 1: He's showing them what they were so impressed with.
Speaker 1: He said they're not gonna be one stone left upon each other, it's gonna be totally destroyed.
Speaker 1: And so they said came unto him privately, saying tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming, thy Perusia the Greek, thy glorious appearing?
Speaker 1: What will be the sign of thy glorious appearing?
Speaker 1: The sign and of the end of the world.
Speaker 1: Really, world is not the right word, it's age, end of the age.
Speaker 1: What are the signs?
Speaker 1: All right, and then let's turn over to Luke 21.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go into all of what Jesus said about the signs because we mostly know it.
Speaker 1: I'll say a few things, but we're living through one right now Luke 21, verse 25,.
Speaker 1: There will be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth, the stress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring.
Speaker 1: How many of you know?
Speaker 1: It's not talking about the ocean, talking about people, seas and the waves roaring.
Speaker 1: Anybody see the partial eclipse yesterday, the annular eclipse?
Speaker 1: Somebody lent us their glasses, so that's when I got to see it at the peak right and it was kind of strange, you know.
Speaker 1: It went back home after that, my house.
Speaker 1: I could tell it more at home because the house was just darker.
Speaker 1: I face south and I've got a lot of windows on the south side of the house and it was just darker in there.
Speaker 1: You know, you could really tell it, even though we only got about 84% of what they got in parts of Texas.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a sign, you know, isn't it amazing?
Speaker 1: It's happening right.
Speaker 1: This sign occurred right during this war in Israel.
Speaker 1: It's not an accident.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you something else.
Speaker 1: It's not an accident.
Speaker 1: You know, months ago we have a calendar meeting and they get together and decide and chart what we're gonna have ahead of time, six months ahead of time on the church calendar.
Speaker 1: And it gets busy and they have to decide.
Speaker 1: And they decided a long time ago that in our Bible study that last Sunday was gonna be Rise Up and Bless Israel.
Speaker 1: That was determined six months ago.
Speaker 1: How many of you know?
Speaker 1: I mean, we taught on Israel in the Bible study the day of the attack.
Speaker 1: That's a sign.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't get it.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean God is saying y'all are out on the course.
Speaker 1: All right, let me keep reading here.
Speaker 1: And so verse 28,.
Speaker 1: And when these things begin to come to pass, how many of you know they are?
Speaker 1: A lot of them have come to pass and a lot of them are yet to come to pass.
Speaker 1: When these things begin to come to pass, then dig a hole.
Speaker 1: No, get you a bomb shelter.
Speaker 1: Make sure it's radiation proof.
Speaker 1: No, he said.
Speaker 1: Then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.
Speaker 1: And he spake unto them a parable behold the fig tree and all the trees.
Speaker 1: The fig tree, according to Joel 1-7, is Israel.
Speaker 1: All the trees he's talking about are the nations that pertain to the persecution of Israel.
Speaker 1: Well, where does it say that?
Speaker 1: Well, you've got to read the Bible with a New Testament understanding.
Speaker 1: He's talking to the Jews there.
Speaker 1: He's talking to spiritual, the dead people and, yeah, yeah, he's talking to his disciples, but they're spiritually dead.
Speaker 1: They can't even understand a lot of the stuff.
Speaker 1: And let me, while I'm at it, jesus never talked about the rapture of the church.
Speaker 1: So anything Jesus said is not talking about the rapture.
Speaker 1: This is where people get so fouled up.
Speaker 1: They think the church is going through the rapture.
Speaker 1: I mean going through the tribulation.
Speaker 1: No, would Jesus go through the tribulation?
Speaker 1: Well, we're in him.
Speaker 1: I mean just that understanding alone ought to let you know that we're not going through it.
Speaker 1: But if you're just insist on tribulating, go ahead, be my guest.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 1: Behold, take a look, focus on, pay attention to Israel in the context of the signs of his return, the signs of the times.
Speaker 1: He's answering this question.
Speaker 1: He's answering the question for our benefit.
Speaker 1: Keep your eyes on Israel when they now shoot forth, you see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
Speaker 1: So likewise ye, when you see these things come to pass, know that ye, that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Speaker 1: Verily, I say unto you this generation, what generation is that?
Speaker 1: The generation that witnesses these things, especially Israel becoming a nation in 1948.
Speaker 1: Big sign, yes, that's my generation.
Speaker 1: This generation, that's my generation, shall not pass away until all be fulfilled.
Speaker 1: Whew, glory to God.
Speaker 1: Heaven and earth shall pass away.
Speaker 1: Now, he's not talking about heaven, where God is.
Speaker 1: He's talking about the heavens just above the earth.
Speaker 1: Heaven and earth here.
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 1: Because of global warming, peter said the whole thing's gonna burn up.
Speaker 1: I mean, how foolish it is for us to think that we can somehow preserve the earth by buying electric cars.
Speaker 1: You want an electric car?
Speaker 1: Fine, I'm not.
Speaker 1: But don't buy it because of the earth, because this is all gonna go away.
Speaker 1: There'll be no sea.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine on earth without the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, without the Gulf of Mexico, without all the sea?
Speaker 1: I mean, the earth is two thirds water, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Or something like that?
Speaker 1: I forgot what my geography taught me.
Speaker 1: Think it's two thirds.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna be overpopulated?
Speaker 1: No, so he's giving us some clues here.
Speaker 1: He said heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Speaker 1: So today I do wanna speak on signs of the times.
Speaker 1: You know our God signs of the times.
Speaker 1: It's right to, and I speak on it often.
Speaker 1: I talk about it a lot and I go back to what God has given me supernaturally, with visitations that are spectacular guidance, visions, dreams, things that he's shared with me over these years, many years, and we're living in these days.
Speaker 1: I mean he gives us this not to scare us but to prepare us.
Speaker 1: Amen, this message really is really meant to be an encouragement for you.
Speaker 1: It's meant to take some of the mystery out of what's going on and for us to see what's going on without it affecting us emotionally, to where we're just like this instead of like this.
Speaker 1: He said when you see these things start to come to pass, lift up your heads, look up, lift up your head.
Speaker 1: You know, really it means to stand up and be elated.
Speaker 1: That's the great.
Speaker 1: Stand up and be elated.
Speaker 1: That's not really talking about look up to heaven.
Speaker 1: It's really.
Speaker 1: The sense of these is that you're walking like that and this is the Jews.
Speaker 1: We got a better covenant than them.
Speaker 1: They are gonna go through the tribulation.
Speaker 1: The Jews are going through the tribulation, the Gentiles going through the tribulation, but the church is not.
Speaker 1: So if he's talking to them and telling them, hey, don't be looking like when this stuff comes to pass, don't be doing like this, do like this.
Speaker 1: Well, how much more should we do that?
Speaker 1: Well, I just don't feel like it.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's such death and destruction.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, death and destruction has been going on for a long time.
Speaker 1: You know you can get all underneath that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we don't have compassion, we do.
Speaker 1: We stand with Israel right now.
Speaker 1: We stand with Israel and what's being done is outrageous.
Speaker 1: It's, but it just proves that the Bible says the heart of man is desperately wicked.
Speaker 1: Who can know it?
Speaker 1: This proves what's in the heart of every man.
Speaker 1: Every man that's not saved can do this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go through all of what you already heard.
Speaker 1: It's tear.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to talk about it that much.
Speaker 1: I will say the church has sent $5,000 to Christians United for Israel.
Speaker 1: Pastor John Hagee is head of that organization and this church is a charter member, was there when it started in 2006.
Speaker 1: We've been partners all these years, gone to many of their events.
Speaker 1: And Christians United for Israel has got you know, mainly a political lobbying arm that goes to Congress regularly to make sure that Congress doesn't turn anti-Semitic.
Speaker 1: The Democrat Party is about as anti-Semitic as you can get.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why Jews continue to vote Democrat, but they do.
Speaker 1: And then they have an education in the presence of the colleges and universities to educate young people about Israel.
Speaker 1: Boy, is that needed.
Speaker 1: I think they need a chapter at Harvard and Yale and they, you know, right now they voted this week I heard the video from Pastor Hagee and his daughter that the board of directors voted to send to Israel a million dollars and so we're putting 5,000 along with that to help out with that million dollars.
Speaker 1: And it's going to.
Speaker 1: Every dollar is going to Israel and it's going to the hospitals, the first responders and the ambulances.
Speaker 1: Now see, everybody's got a part.
Speaker 1: Well, what about feeding?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there's gonna be a lot of food.
Speaker 1: Go there, I think, maybe a lot of aid go there.
Speaker 1: But we, I mean, I wanted to get involved with CUFI because this is where we've partnered all these years, so we sent the 5,000.
Speaker 1: How many of you really want to do something.
Speaker 1: You haven't known what to do.
Speaker 1: Well, you can help us then, because we're helping them.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: And if anything comes in over the 5,000, we'll send that too.
Speaker 1: But we didn't wait to receive an offering, we sent it.
Speaker 1: It's there right now Because people are dying right now.
Speaker 1: And the thing about Israel you know, netanyahu said this is our 9-11.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a lot worse than our 9-11.
Speaker 1: It's nowhere near.
Speaker 1: Listen, 9-11 was nothing compared to what they come through.
Speaker 1: I mean right now, regardless of any other further casualties.
Speaker 1: Right now, we would have had to have lost 37,000 people on 9-11 to be equal to what they've lost.
Speaker 1: If you compare the population of Israel to the population of America, they've had a huge hit.
Speaker 1: They don't have a hospital on every corner.
Speaker 1: You ride, drive in Houston alone.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a hospital everywhere there's a hospital hospital.
Speaker 1: There's not that many there.
Speaker 1: They've got to treat these horrendous injuries.
Speaker 1: If they survive the wounds, they've already lost soldiers, but they're getting wounded.
Speaker 1: If they, as they proceed to do what they're going to do, it's going to be a lot of what we did in Iraq door to door.
Speaker 1: It's huge, hugely deadly.
Speaker 1: This church is going to be doing a lot of praying the next season over Israel.
Speaker 1: Just let you know, we've already prayed last Sunday night and we'll be praying some more.
Speaker 1: But, with all that said, let's not get heavy over this to where we just get down and we have this countenance, like this hang dog.
Speaker 1: Listen, we're not victims, we're on the winning side.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about what Jesus told us to do.
Speaker 1: Jesus told us to look up, lift up your heads, be elated.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because your king is about to come.
Speaker 1: He's about to come.
Speaker 1: I mean you know I tell this story all the time, but I mean I remember when I was a junior at A&M and I proposed, you know, and my parents didn't want me to get married for got out of school.
Speaker 1: But they came and says you know, john, if you want to get married, go ahead, we'll help you.
Speaker 1: Well, they didn't even have to help me.
Speaker 1: I mean Gladys and I put ourselves together.
Speaker 1: I mean we made the money to pay our own way.
Speaker 1: I think my parents had sent me $100 every great once in a while, but we made all of our payments and all our you know, college and everything.
Speaker 1: But it was my junior year at A&M and I was at school and she's in refurio and she's going back and forth working in Corpus and June the 29th is on my calendar and it's a log about April, may, february, march, april, and I'm X in the days off, x in the days off.
Speaker 1: I'm looking ahead at that date, june the 29th, and I'm X in the days off, x in the days off Every day.
Speaker 1: They went by X in the days off.
Speaker 1: I mean, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Talk about elated.
Speaker 1: I was grinning like a possum.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm telling you I was elated, amen.
Speaker 1: Well, we ought to be that way with Jesus.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't know the date, but we know we're getting closer every day.
Speaker 1: He's coming soon.
Speaker 1: Let's not lose that.
Speaker 1: Let's not lose that just because people are dying.
Speaker 1: I know people are dying.
Speaker 1: People are a lot more people gonna die when we're gone.
Speaker 1: This is just how it is, and so we get caught up in the negative side.
Speaker 1: That's how human beings are basically wired.
Speaker 1: But Christians are not like that.
Speaker 1: Christians, you know, if you renew your mind of the word of God, you'll stay full of joy.
Speaker 1: And what's our job anyway?
Speaker 1: It's to get people saved.
Speaker 1: And so who wants to get saved by a bunch of people that look like everybody else?
Speaker 1: Big old hang dog and fear and fear and everything else.
Speaker 1: No, they're gonna wonder why are you so happy?
Speaker 1: Why are you so happy?
Speaker 1: Dima Shaqarian, who founded Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International back in 1953.
Speaker 1: He wrote a book years ago, 40 plus years ago.
Speaker 1: I read his book.
Speaker 1: It's called the Happiest People on Earth.
Speaker 1: The People on Earth, that's us.
Speaker 1: We ought to be the happiest people on earth.
Speaker 1: Well, that sounds so selfish.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what Jesus said to do.
Speaker 1: We ought to be happy, we ought to be joyful, we ought to be elated, not for the trouble, but for what it's signaling.
Speaker 1: It's signaling he's coming.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, all right.
Speaker 1: So a sign is something material or external that indicates something spiritual, or it's a remarkable event indicating God's will, the sons of Isacar, 1 Chronicles 1232,.
Speaker 1: He's one of the tribes of Israel, and they had this trait that they had understanding of the times, so that they might know what Israel ought to do.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have a sign you're supposed to respond.
Speaker 1: A sign is for you to know where you're at and where you're headed.
Speaker 1: I mean a sign is for guidance.
Speaker 1: We have these fancy navigation systems, but we didn't always have those and so you know you'd call for directions.
Speaker 1: How do I get to your place?
Speaker 1: Well, you turn on Walnut Street and you go to the third red light and you turn right at the bank building.
Speaker 1: It's got, you know, gray brick and it got bronze windows.
Speaker 1: And you go down another couple of blocks and turn left at the such and such.
Speaker 1: You know they would use landmarks to guide you.
Speaker 1: Now we've got GPS.
Speaker 1: We can be lost and still find our way.
Speaker 1: You don't even have any idea whether you're going north, south, east or west.
Speaker 1: You just follow in the little cursor.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: Turn left at next intersection.
Speaker 1: I've got a British car now.
Speaker 1: So my lady that lives under my dashboard, she's got a British accent.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I've had Japanese accents, I've had English accents.
Speaker 1: Now I've got British accents telling me how to go.
Speaker 1: So Jesus and Matthew 16 rebuked the Pharisees.
Speaker 1: He said you all know how to tell the weather.
Speaker 1: You look at the sun, you look at the sky and the clouds, you can discern the face of the weather, but you can't discern the sign of the weather.
Speaker 1: So you can't discern the sign of the weather, sign of the times.
Speaker 1: They were deaf, dumb and blind.
Speaker 1: Let's not be like that.
Speaker 1: Let's heed the signs.
Speaker 1: Jesus, james, peter, paul, jude and others.
Speaker 1: They have given us foolproof scriptures.
Speaker 1: They have given us the truth.
Speaker 1: They've given us accurate information about the end days and we are living in them now.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be a Bible prophecy expert to know that Jesus is coming.
Speaker 1: He is coming.
Speaker 1: We need to tell people Jesus is coming.
Speaker 1: Brother Oral Roberts had a visitation in 2004, august, or rather July of 04.
Speaker 1: Jesus God spoke to him, wasn't Jesus?
Speaker 1: God spoke to him in such a loud voice that blew his sweater open like this.
Speaker 1: He showed me right there in the hallway where it happened, just a little short hallway out of his bedroom, going back in through the living room to the kitchen.
Speaker 1: It was lunchtime.
Speaker 1: He was headed there to get a sandwich and God started speaking to him.
Speaker 1: Boom, loud voice and he said God said, my church is not ready for the second coming of my son.
Speaker 1: He told Jesse to plan is the same thing in 1988.
Speaker 1: Jesse to plan has had a visitation where he was taken to heaven and Jesus told him tell my people I'm coming soon.
Speaker 1: Well, lord, they know that.
Speaker 1: No, they don't know that.
Speaker 1: Tell my people that I'm coming.
Speaker 1: So this is 1988.
Speaker 1: 35 years ago, 35 years ago.
Speaker 1: Tell my people I'm coming soon.
Speaker 1: Well, lord, they know that.
Speaker 1: They don't know that.
Speaker 1: And Jesus eyes flashed and he was angry Don't argue with me, boy.
Speaker 1: Tell my people that I'm coming soon.
Speaker 1: Man, I mean I heard his testimony way back there.
Speaker 1: I said, brother, those things we need to get him to Lakewood.
Speaker 1: And he came to Lakewood and one of his pro I think he's replaced it since then, but I mean he ran that episode that he preached at Lakewood where he told that testimony.
Speaker 1: He ran that thing for decades on television, no telling how many million people have seen it.
Speaker 1: Well, we need to tell people Jesus is coming soon.
Speaker 1: So you know, I just want to remind you, I want to refresh you, encourage you and inform you so that you won't you know when you have a sign.
Speaker 1: You know God wants to give you the sign so you don't get off track.
Speaker 1: If you don't have a sign post, you can get off track, and God doesn't want us to get off track.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's too late to get off track.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if you miss an exit, gladys was telling me we were going to an appointment yesterday and she said now, if you miss this exit, it's a long way.
Speaker 1: So the spring cypress exit off of 249.
Speaker 1: If you miss that exit you got to go all the way.
Speaker 1: It's a long way down, there's a couple of miles and then you got to do a U-E.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just way down the road.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of those kind of exits on Beltway where you miss the exit.
Speaker 1: Man, I mean you're going to cruise down to Beltway for a long time before you get back, so we don't have time to miss an exit.
Speaker 1: So this past week, let's look at Psalm 83.
Speaker 1: How many of you came to Power Hour Plus last Sunday night?
Speaker 1: So most of you didn't.
Speaker 1: So I you know I needed to repeat myself, which I'm not afraid, god, god that delivered me from the fear of repetition.
Speaker 1: Psalm 83 is a prophetic prayer of a future at that time, a future war that had not taken place by what we call the inner ring nations, who came against Israel because they hated them.
Speaker 1: About to say the Psalm 83 war.
Speaker 1: Now that's what's going on in the heat right now.
Speaker 1: Right now is the Psalm 83 war.
Speaker 1: But it didn't just start last Saturday, billy Brim years ago, said she and her opinion.
Speaker 1: It started in 2000 with the bus bombs, when these same people, same people would strap a bomb on their wife yeah, he had women doing it because they're worthless in that culture.
Speaker 1: They're worthless, they're oppressed, they're the late, they're, they're slapped around, they're abused.
Speaker 1: I'm aware, all these feminists when are they?
Speaker 1: You want, you want a group of people on the earth that mistreat their women?
Speaker 1: Why don't you just look right there and they would get on a bus and there's women and children and babies on that bus and that bus would blow up.
Speaker 1: Some people would survive, but most people would.
Speaker 1: I went to the hospital where a surgeon came out to talk to us in 2003.
Speaker 1: Gladys and I were there and he told the story of what it was like and he said we, we treated the, the Palestinians, and God.
Speaker 1: I don't like the word Palestinian because it's a made up word.
Speaker 1: They're not.
Speaker 1: There is no such thing as a race of Palestinians.
Speaker 1: That's a false race.
Speaker 1: They're Arabs typically.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that in a moment.
Speaker 1: Who they are Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who they are.
Speaker 1: They're just.
Speaker 1: They have a false religion.
Speaker 1: And so you know, we would go to as many, many links to save a Palestinian life as we did a Jewish life, and one day I was working on my wife and child and they died.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you could have heard a pin drop in that room.
Speaker 1: I mean, tears filled everybody's eyes.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine that you're on duty?
Speaker 1: I mean you're, you're a crack emergency room.
Speaker 1: You're, you're able to fix people that have been blown up and and and yet he couldn't save his own wife and child, had to watch them die.
Speaker 1: Well, they fixed that issue.
Speaker 1: You know how they fixed it.
Speaker 1: They put a fence up.
Speaker 1: So you know, barriers do work, democrats.
Speaker 1: But so this has been a long war.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Psalm 83, verse one.
Speaker 1: Keep not thou silenced.
Speaker 1: This is a prayer.
Speaker 1: Keep not thou silenced, o God.
Speaker 1: Hold not thy peace and be not still, o God, for low with vine enemies didn't say Israel's enemies.
Speaker 1: Vine enemies make a tumult, isn't that what this is?
Speaker 1: You've got a bunch of civilians there in God that are not Hamas, but they live in Gaza and Israel has warned them to flee, to get back to the south, and the Hamas won't let them go.
Speaker 1: They want to hold them hostage there so they can die.
Speaker 1: They kill their own people.
Speaker 1: Israel knocks on.
Speaker 1: I say knocks.
Speaker 1: They don't knock, but they use social media, telephones, leaflets to warn the civilian population, non-hamas population in Gaza.
Speaker 1: We're about to hit you in two hours.
Speaker 1: Get out of the building.
Speaker 1: We're going to destroy your building when they leave, hamas shoots them in the back.
Speaker 1: They kill themselves.
Speaker 1: They kill their own people.
Speaker 1: Oh, you won't hear that on CNN.
Speaker 1: You won't hear that even on Fox News, much All right.
Speaker 1: So low vine enemies make a tumult.
Speaker 1: They that hate thee, they hate God.
Speaker 1: They hate the God of Israel.
Speaker 1: They hate our God.
Speaker 1: They hate us just as much as they hate Jesus.
Speaker 1: They hate Americans.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because they conclude that Americans are Christians.
Speaker 1: We're a Christian nation as far as Islam is concerned, so we deserve Jihad.
Speaker 1: For the life of me.
Speaker 1: Understand why anybody would vote for somebody that believes that We've got the squad.
Speaker 1: And that's what they believe.
Speaker 1: They have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Speaker 1: They have said come and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel shall be no more in remembrance.
Speaker 1: See, that's exactly what they want.
Speaker 1: They want to wipe Israel off the face of the planet.
Speaker 1: They're not interested in a two-state solution or anything.
Speaker 1: They want to get rid of Israel and occupy that whole talk about occupy.
Speaker 1: They want to occupy God's land, and that's God's land.
Speaker 1: If you're a person of the book, you know that that belongs to the Israel, for they have consulted together with one consent.
Speaker 1: They are confederate against thee.
Speaker 1: Well, one of the confederates about this is Iran.
Speaker 1: Iran is behind all of this.
Speaker 1: When did they start planning this?
Speaker 1: They planned it as soon as they saw Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, paragliding across the border In Gaza.
Speaker 1: They manufacture weapons, they manufacture ammo.
Speaker 1: That's pretty new.
Speaker 1: Where do you think they got that?
Speaker 1: Iran, the IDF, has taken American arms out of the hands of Hamas.
Speaker 1: They've got carbons.
Speaker 1: They got the same weapons that we use.
Speaker 1: Where'd they get them?
Speaker 1: Well, they got them out of Afghanistan, or they might have gotten them from Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't surprise me if Ukraine sold them a bunch of weapons that we gave them.
Speaker 1: Folks, I have to teach you these things because you guys have to think accurately about it, not to make you mad.
Speaker 1: We could all get our teeth on edge.
Speaker 1: I just want to inform you.
Speaker 1: Okay now, who is it?
Speaker 1: The Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites?
Speaker 1: Well, edom is the son of Esau.
Speaker 1: We can go through all these names, but basically what you're talking about is you're talking about the sons of Esau.
Speaker 1: You've got the sons of Lot, lot by his two daughters.
Speaker 1: His two daughters went into him after Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed and they brought forth Ammon and Moab.
Speaker 1: That's part of this group.
Speaker 1: The Ishmaelites are the descendants of Ishmael, who is Abraham's son all right, but he's not the son of promise.
Speaker 1: He hated Isaac when Isaac was born, made fun of Isaac.
Speaker 1: His mother was Hagar and, of course, sarah was made.
Speaker 1: So that's the history of it.
Speaker 1: It goes way, way, way back.
Speaker 1: And those people, the descendants of them, basically it's just Arabs.
Speaker 1: That's what they are Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could call Egypt.
Speaker 1: Egypt is right there too, and they're not letting the refugees come across their border.
Speaker 1: They don't care if people die.
Speaker 1: Jordan could take some.
Speaker 1: Jordan never wanted any of them.
Speaker 1: When you look at the land around Israel, there's lots of places for these people in Gaza to be, but rather than in Gaza.
Speaker 1: But they're handy to have for the Hamas to use just as much.
Speaker 1: They use them just as much as human shields and they use them as captives.
Speaker 1: So everybody say the inner ring nations.
Speaker 1: And so what's their motive?
Speaker 1: Hate the, hate Israel.
Speaker 1: They wanna wipe the face of the earth off of.
Speaker 1: So this is prophesied.
Speaker 1: It's never happened until when I'm talking about it, it started ginning up.
Speaker 1: How could that be?
Speaker 1: Why didn't it happen?
Speaker 1: Well, because Ariel Sharon, who was a prime minister of Israel for a time, he was a great general in the IDF.
Speaker 1: Ariel Sharon decided on his own, unilaterally to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 1: The Gaza Strip is part and parcel of Israel.
Speaker 1: It's just right there.
Speaker 1: It's on the Mediterranean's prime real estate.
Speaker 1: They got miles and miles of Mediterranean frontage, which makes it a problem Cause now that Israel's not there, well, they can get resupplied by sea, they can get all kinds of arms, and it's pretty hard for Israel to cover that much territory in the Mediterranean, though they do try.
Speaker 1: And so he unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and, at gunpoint, forced the settlers or they weren't settlers, they just lived there.
Speaker 1: Billy Brim used to stay with a family that had hot houses.
Speaker 1: They grew fruit, vegetables and flowers.
Speaker 1: They exported the flowers to Europe.
Speaker 1: They had a booming business.
Speaker 1: They'd been there 30 years.
Speaker 1: That was their home, and by gunpoint, the idea of forced them out of their homes made them leave.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds you of us taking the Japanese out of their homes Japanese Americans, they were American citizens.
Speaker 1: Who was in charge of that?
Speaker 1: Democrats, and out of fear.
Speaker 1: In World War II, they were afraid that they were spies, so they made them leave their homes and put them in internment camps.
Speaker 1: This is kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't hear anybody crying for their land being stolen.
Speaker 1: I don't hear anybody crying for reparations they didn't get any, by the way and the first thing the Palestinians Arabs did is bulldoze the hot houses down, turned it into a war zone, turned it into a humanitarian disaster when it was fruitful.
Speaker 1: Are y'all getting this now?
Speaker 1: So the motive is hate, and of course then we had the eclipse coinciding with it.
Speaker 1: It happened on the last day of Sukkot.
Speaker 1: That's another pattern that terrorists use.
Speaker 1: They always attack Israel, usually on Shabbat or on Rosh Hashanah, in this case, the Yom Kippur War 1973.
Speaker 1: I mean, they always attack when Israel is rejoicing the Feast of Sukkot, or the Booths.
Speaker 1: That's the Feast of Tabernacles, that's the Feast of In-Gathering.
Speaker 1: It's where the Orthodox Jews build little booths and it reminds them that God was there covering when they were in the wilderness 40 years.
Speaker 1: They didn't have a certain dwelling place, they lived in tents and they were exposed to the harsh elements, but God was there covering and God protected them from the harsh desert climate.
Speaker 1: And so they do that to remember where they came from.
Speaker 1: And they're commanded to rejoice, they're commanded to dance, and they do all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: They eat their apples and their honey and they finish that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: That was over with.
Speaker 1: And then, boom, here comes this unprecedented attack.
Speaker 1: And some of the secular Jews were out in the desert and having a concert, a rock concert or something, and 200, and some out of them were killed, slaughtered.
Speaker 1: They're not really celebrating Sukkot, they're just going along with the celebration.
Speaker 1: See, not everybody in Israel is a person of the book.
Speaker 1: Not everybody in Israel even knows what the Bible says.
Speaker 1: That's why we have to pray for them.
Speaker 1: Amen, I tell you.
Speaker 1: Everybody say Jesus is coming soon.
Speaker 1: Jesus is coming soon.
Speaker 1: So what's happening?
Speaker 1: Well, we're just seeing more and more of the judgments that God is.
Speaker 1: In order for there to be a harvest, there has to be a separation.
Speaker 1: If I've got a field of corn, that corn is not any good.
Speaker 1: If I just chopped all the corn down, all the stalks, and I've got the stalks and I've got the ears, and I just throw that on the truck and take it, I mean, the only thing anybody wants is the corn.
Speaker 1: It has to be separated and then in some cases you've got to actually take the corn off the cob.
Speaker 1: You can turn the cob into something.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with all of that, but I do know there's a separation involved.
Speaker 1: Wheat you can't just take the whole plant.
Speaker 1: You've got to thresh it.
Speaker 1: You've got to separate the chaff from the wheat.
Speaker 1: Then there's a little plant that grows right along wheat.
Speaker 1: It's called a tear.
Speaker 1: It looks identical to the wheat, but it's not wheat.
Speaker 1: It sucks the moisture out of the crop.
Speaker 1: It diminishes the crop.
Speaker 1: So what do you have to do?
Speaker 1: At some point You've got to separate the tears from the wheat.
Speaker 1: All of that is an allegory.
Speaker 1: To the end days, god is separating out the peoples of the earth, out of which he can get a harvest.
Speaker 1: That's our job is to reap the harvest.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: But it necessitates judgment.
Speaker 1: Oh, that sounds so terrible when.
Speaker 1: Let me remember number one God is fair.
Speaker 1: God is fair.
Speaker 1: He'd never unjust.
Speaker 1: Anybody that falls into that category of judgment has had lots and lots of chances.
Speaker 1: Lots and lots of chances.
Speaker 1: I think about Mark Hankins.
Speaker 1: We had a big part of them going to Turkey.
Speaker 1: Just month before last they went to Turkey, did a big meeting there, and all the nations that were in Jerusalem at the day of Pentecost were at that meeting.
Speaker 1: They had pastors from Afghanistan, iraq, iran, turkey, cyprus on, and the entire Middle East was represented at that meeting.
Speaker 1: They got filled with the Holy Ghosts.
Speaker 1: They got books that were translated into their languages.
Speaker 1: Listen, there are laborers right there that are gonna reap a harvest of the people that are getting separated out.
Speaker 1: This has helped you to make sense of what's happening.
Speaker 1: God's not the author of death, the devil is, but yet God is a righteous judge and his judgments the people that are falling on the wrong side of this judgment have filled a cup and they have not repented of their sins and accepted Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: That's all there is, you know.
Speaker 1: So out of that, we're gonna have a ripe harvest Out of that Florida call and we have nothing to fear.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're witnesses.
Speaker 1: We just sang that song this morning.
Speaker 1: We're witnesses.
Speaker 1: We have witnessed his faithfulness, we witnessed his healing power, we've witnessed his goodness.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, part of this judgment is nations.
Speaker 1: Matthew 25 talks about the sheep nations and the goat nations.
Speaker 1: The sheep nations are the ones that helped Israel.
Speaker 1: America can still be a sheep nation.
Speaker 1: We've helped Israel a lot.
Speaker 1: We've done things that were wrong.
Speaker 1: We've made Israel sit together with their enemies.
Speaker 1: We've made Israel give land for peace.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's a scale and I believe right now the scale is if Biden will do the right thing.
Speaker 1: He's saying some of the right things.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't think he means them, but I think he's in a place, he's in a box.
Speaker 1: God put him in a place where he can't escape and he's gonna have to do the right thing.
Speaker 1: A lot of Democrats are saying the right things.
Speaker 1: They don't like it, but they're having to say the right things and God is listening.
Speaker 1: God is listening for every nation, and just look at all the nations that are against Israel.
Speaker 1: Henry Kissinger came out the day before yesterday said well, I've made a mistake.
Speaker 1: My life's work was wrong.
Speaker 1: He was a big author in opening the borders and bringing in all these immigrants in Europe and America.
Speaker 1: He was an open borders fool.
Speaker 1: I said so then and thank God it's too late now.
Speaker 1: Thank you, henry.
Speaker 1: Thank you for admitting it.
Speaker 1: It's rare that anybody admits making a mistake.
Speaker 1: I don't think Democrats ever admit to making a mistake.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a Democrat.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he was, but I know one thing he was goofball and he had a lot of influence as Secretary of State under Nixon.
Speaker 1: He was a world traveler and just.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember the guy.
Speaker 1: I remember him very well.
Speaker 1: He's still alive, he's probably a hundred years old, I guess, but he did admit.
Speaker 1: I mean, in Great Britain the number one name is Mohammed, not Nigel, not Terrence, not Michael John.
Speaker 1: No, none of those.
Speaker 1: Mohammed is the number one baby name in Great Britain.
Speaker 1: And I think if you went across all of Israel, all of Europe I'll get it right in a minute you'll find that the Islamic world has flooded in and changed the whole landscape there.
Speaker 1: So what should we do?
Speaker 1: See, I said that the signposts always require an action.
Speaker 1: So what should we do?
Speaker 1: Well, number one, I've already said it look up.
Speaker 1: Another word is be elated.
Speaker 1: You know, don't be down, be up.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying look up to the sky, I'm saying, you know, hold your head up, get your stand up and your redemption draws nice.
Speaker 1: So be elated, rejoice, your king is coming.
Speaker 1: You know, just rejoicing and being happy is gonna draw people to you.
Speaker 1: They are attracted to happy, they're attracted to joy.
Speaker 1: They're attracted to that.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because there's a little of it, so little of it.
Speaker 1: Let's look one more time down in Luke 21.
Speaker 1: I want you to see this Again.
Speaker 1: Jesus is not speaking to the church here.
Speaker 1: He's speaking to the Jews, and specifically to His disciples, because they got a private audience with Him.
Speaker 1: It's unclear whether some of the others kind of gathered back around it's pretty hard for Jesus to ever be by Himself, because people just were drawn to Him and wanted to hear what he had to say.
Speaker 1: But let's look at verse 34, luke 21.34.
Speaker 1: Take heed to yourselves that at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfacing and drunkenness.
Speaker 1: And really that Greek word is not talking about alcohol, but it's talking about being satiated with the cares of this world, being filled with care, being filled with heaviness.
Speaker 1: That's what it's talking about.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because we're living in a time where we're seeing all this terrible stuff going on.
Speaker 1: We're seeing America go down, down, down.
Speaker 1: It's real difficult to watch and stay elated.
Speaker 1: So if you're going to sit there and watch Newsmax or Fox News or any news I mean, you know, be informed, but don't be satiated with it.
Speaker 1: Be informed.
Speaker 1: You can't hide, you can't just throw your communication out in the backyard and don't oh, I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 1: No, you need to hear it, but don't meditate on it.
Speaker 1: He said take heed to yourselves that at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfacing and drunkenness and cares of this life.
Speaker 1: And so that day come upon you unawares.
Speaker 1: A hundred million Christians don't understand the Israel and so they miss the signpost.
Speaker 1: And there's been a lot of work in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I mean, you had, and you had the left behind series was popular.
Speaker 1: But you know, nicholas Cage made a movie about the rapture one time, but I don't remember any big push.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think people know the end of the world is coming, but they don't understand the rapture of the church.
Speaker 1: The church is going to get out of here.
Speaker 1: Jesus is coming for us sooner than everybody else.
Speaker 1: He's not going to come all the way down to the earth, he's going to come up to the air.
Speaker 1: And 1 Thessalonians, chapter four you know, the only one that wrote about the rapture of the church was Paul.
Speaker 1: He said in 1 Corinthians 15, behold, I show you a mystery.
Speaker 1: We should not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
Speaker 1: Sleep means die.
Speaker 1: We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about the rapture.
Speaker 1: Jesus never talked about the rapture Paul did.
Speaker 1: Paul talked about the rapture in 1 Thessalonians, chapter four.
Speaker 1: We're going to meet the Lord in the air.
Speaker 1: He's not coming all the way down to earth, he's going to come up and we're going to hear his trumpet.
Speaker 1: We're going to hear the sound of the archangel and we're going to be instantly changed.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to have brand new bodies.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's enough to get happy about.
Speaker 1: We can get happy that we can lay this thing down.
Speaker 1: Fine, some of you are happier than others.
Speaker 1: All right, so verse 36.
Speaker 1: Verse 36.
Speaker 1: Watch ye, therefore, and pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man that used to give me a pause right there.
Speaker 1: Pray always that you.
Speaker 1: What is he not talking about the rapture?
Speaker 1: He's talking to Jews and others that are going to survive and be in the tribulation.
Speaker 1: And really, when he says pray, be made worthy to escape, it means here, you know this version.
Speaker 1: I like to flee away and stand unharmed in the presence of Jesus.
Speaker 1: So if that Jesus said that to people, and he's not talking about the rapture, he's talking about the second coming, where people are going through the tribulation period, the mark of the beast, all this destruction that's listed there in the book of Revelation.
Speaker 1: It's a horrendous time, and yet you can really flee away from that and stand unharmed in the presence of Jesus if you'll just have a prayer life.
Speaker 1: Well, how much more is that true of us?
Speaker 1: We really have nothing to fear.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what?
Speaker 1: We have?
Speaker 1: The same people that have been imported, the same people that committed these atrocities and are still doing it.
Speaker 1: They're living right here in America.
Speaker 1: So that's another subject of prayer.
Speaker 1: We're going to have to pray a little bit more about these things and bind the spirit of antichrist Amen, pray, everything hidden, come to the light.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of prayer subjects.
Speaker 1: We have a lot to pray about, but we don't have to be afraid.
Speaker 1: We don't have to be afraid of terror or terrorism.
Speaker 1: I mean, god is able to hide us in the cleft of the rock.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hand right now.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, glory to God.
Speaker 1: We've got a better covenant, found upon better promises, be encouraged.
Speaker 1: So look up.
Speaker 1: And number two, look in.
Speaker 1: I love this verse.
Speaker 1: Look at 1 John, chapter 3.
Speaker 1: You getting anything out of this this morning?
Speaker 1: Well, again, I don't want to be a downer, I want to encourage you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, really it's hard to watch these things, but we don't have to marinate ourselves in them.
Speaker 1: So first John, chapter 3.
Speaker 1: Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.
Speaker 1: Therefore, the world knoweth us not because it knows him not.
Speaker 1: Beloved now, now, everybody say it.
Speaker 1: Now, everybody shout.
Speaker 1: Now, now are we the sons of God.
Speaker 1: And it doth not yet appear what we shall be.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to have a new body.
Speaker 1: We're going to look totally different.
Speaker 1: Jesus looked different.
Speaker 1: They didn't even recognize it.
Speaker 1: I know we're always saying, oh, you'll recognize people in heaven.
Speaker 1: Well, after we get our new bodies, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I might get a facelift.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Speaker 1: Ooh, that'll make you elated when he appears.
Speaker 1: When he appears, he's coming and every man or person that hath this hope in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about some action items.
Speaker 1: First of all, look up.
Speaker 1: Number two look in.
Speaker 1: Let's purify ourselves.
Speaker 1: Let's make sure that we're watching.
Speaker 1: We're staying awake.
Speaker 1: Jesus said there in Luke and in Matthew he said you know, blessed is my servant, whom, when he comes, shall find watching.
Speaker 1: What does watching mean?
Speaker 1: It means staying awake.
Speaker 1: You don't go back to sleep once you've been awakened.
Speaker 1: We've been awakened.
Speaker 1: We've been awakened to the end times.
Speaker 1: We've got the signs.
Speaker 1: We know what the signs are.
Speaker 1: We're not going to go back to sleep.
Speaker 1: We're watching and we're praying.
Speaker 1: We're preparing ourselves to see him.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, hallelujah, matthew 24-44.
Speaker 1: Action item these are some things we need to check up on for ourselves.
Speaker 1: Jesus told the disciples therefore, be also ready for, in such an hour as you think not, the Son of man coming See a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I see people all the time.
Speaker 1: They just oh, jesus not coming.
Speaker 1: It's two minutes.
Speaker 1: We've got this.
Speaker 1: They've got a list of 10 things that have to happen.
Speaker 1: Listen, nothing has to happen.
Speaker 1: He could come at any time.
Speaker 1: I happen to believe we're going to see one more big, huge influx of souls, an end time revival.
Speaker 1: I just believe that.
Speaker 1: But I am I going to say, wait, don't come.
Speaker 1: Now there's a preacher wrote a whole lot of oh, don't go.
Speaker 1: I hope the Lord doesn't come now.
Speaker 1: I've got too much to do.
Speaker 1: Are you stupid or what?
Speaker 1: No, I was asking those dates off till the marriage day.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I didn't want anything to get in the way.
Speaker 1: Thank God she didn't say John, we need to put this off.
Speaker 1: She went ahead and walked down the aisle with me.
Speaker 1: Praise God.
Speaker 1: Second Timothy 4, 8,.
Speaker 1: Paul was writing Timothy.
Speaker 1: He said henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day, and not to me only, but to all them who love his appearing.
Speaker 1: Do you love his appearing?
Speaker 1: See, I look forward to his appearing.
Speaker 1: I look forward to him coming.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of work to do, I know there's a lot of suffering on the earth, but you know I'm fixated on the fact that Jesus is coming soon, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So look up, look in and look out.
Speaker 1: Look out, look at the right parvist.
Speaker 1: Look at the right parvist.
Speaker 1: Seize the moment it's time for this generation to reach its generation with the good news.
Speaker 1: We all have a testimony.
Speaker 1: Let's get busy about giving it.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hands and receive Glory to God, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: What did you get anything out of this?
Speaker 1: Are you encouraged today, hallelujah?
Speaker 1: Are you excited today?
Speaker 1: Are you elated today?
Speaker 1: Amen, amen, amen, amen, Praise God.
Speaker 1: Thank you, lord, wonderful Jesus, we look forward to your return.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, we tap into the grace through faith in order to live our lives in this time.
Speaker 1: You know there's a special grace.
Speaker 1: You know I heard Billy Brim say this years ago no one is pastor to church in the end days, and I believe the time was 9-11-99.
Speaker 1: When that date hit, not 2001, but 9-11-99.
Speaker 1: The Jewish sages looked through the scrolls and they found, you know, because of Hebrews numerical language, and they determined many of them determined that that was the day that everything changed.
Speaker 1: That was when the clock started ticking, the final, final countdown.
Speaker 1: And just think about how long ago that's been 24 years ago, just that last month, 24 years ago.
Speaker 1: We're in the 25th year since the 9-11-99.
Speaker 1: Look at all this that happened since then and so, praise God, he's coming soon, hallelujah.