Latest / Divine Timing / 🕰️ The Timepiece of God: Jacob's Trouble, The Fig Tree, and The Very Door
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Church family, grace and peace to you in the name
- 0:02Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is David. Like many
- 0:06Speaker 1: of you, I am keenly aware in the uptick of
- 0:08Speaker 1: anti-Semitism and just plain Jewish hatred in general. For the
- 0:13Speaker 1: Bible student, this is not by surprise. Jeremiah 37 gives
- 0:17Speaker 1: us one of the most chilling yet profoundly hopeful prophecies
- 0:21Speaker 1: in the entire Bible. Alas, for that day is great,
- 0:25Speaker 1: so that none is like it. It is even the
- 0:28Speaker 1: time of Jacob's trouble. but he shall be saved out
- 0:31Speaker 1: of it. Israel is the timepiece of God. It is
- 0:35Speaker 1: the prophetic clock that tells the church exactly how close
- 0:38Speaker 1: we are to the end of the age. And right now,
- 0:41Speaker 1: the hands of that clock are moving faster than ever before.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Remember the spirit of hatred. This is how we are
- 0:48Speaker 1: gauging where we are. But let's go back to the beginning.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Think about Jacob. He wrestled with the angel of the
- 0:55Speaker 1: Lord all night in the dust. It was a brutal, physical,
- 0:59Speaker 1: and spiritual struggle. And that struggle perfectly depicts the historical
- 1:04Speaker 1: existence of the nation of Israel. For thousands of years,
- 1:08Speaker 1: their very survival has been a constant, grueling struggle against
- 1:11Speaker 1: the nations of the world. And here is the profound
- 1:14Speaker 1: truth we must grasp. Even when Jacob was not walking
- 1:18Speaker 1: perfectly in God's will, God still blessed him. His name
- 1:23Speaker 1: literally meant trickster or deceiver. But after that wrestling match,
- 1:27Speaker 1: when he finally surrendered, God changed his name to Israel,
- 1:31Speaker 1: which means Prince with God or God prevails. Look at
- 1:35Speaker 1: the nation of Israel today. In their current spiritual state
- 1:39Speaker 1: with the secularism, the idolatry, and the national rejection of
- 1:43Speaker 1: their true Messiah, they are operating as Jacob. They are struggling,
- 1:48Speaker 1: but God has not abandoned them. When the true Messiah returns,
- 1:52Speaker 1: the Bible promises they will become the head and not
- 1:55Speaker 1: the tail. But right now, the hatred against them is
- 1:58Speaker 1: reaching a terrifying boiling point. We are living in 2026,
- 2:03Speaker 1: and the signs are flashing red across the globe. Radical
- 2:08Speaker 1: Islamists are attempting to take down airliners and attack preachers
- 2:12Speaker 1: in the skies. The mayor of New York City is
- 2:15Speaker 1: falsely accusing Israel of genocide while completely ignoring the unspeakable
- 2:20Speaker 1: demonic atrocities of Hamas. The International Criminal Court is issuing
- 2:25Speaker 1: arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, which Donald Trump and many
- 2:29Speaker 1: others rightly disqualify as an illegitimate, anti-Semitic rule of law.
- 2:35Speaker 1: The world's hatred is the sign. But how do we
- 2:38Speaker 1: know when the end is truly near? Right at the
- 2:42Speaker 1: very door, just as Jesus told us in Matthew 24.
- 2:47Speaker 1: The world is fixated on the tensions between Iran and America.
- 2:51Speaker 1: looking at Daniel chapter 8, but something else is waiting
- 2:55Speaker 1: in the background, quietly setting the stage. I believe that
- 2:59Speaker 1: after the midterms, God is going to permit the Abraham
- 3:02Speaker 1: Accords to be fully completed. The great horn on the
- 3:06Speaker 1: goat will wax very great, but what will cause the
- 3:09Speaker 1: horn to break? The completion of the Abraham Accords, which
- 3:13Speaker 1: will ultimately compromise God's land covenant with Israel. The Board
- 3:18Speaker 1: of Peace is a massive deal. Many nations protest it
- 3:22Speaker 1: as illegitimate, but it will happen. And this is where
- 3:26Speaker 1: the man of sin will sit, fulfilling Daniel 9.27. If
- 3:30Speaker 1: we see a third temple permitted to be rebuilt, and
- 3:33Speaker 1: Muslims granted a portion of Jerusalem, something that blatantly violates
- 3:38Speaker 1: God's blood covenant with Israel, Church, if we see that,
- 3:42Speaker 1: guess what? We are near at the very doors. We
- 3:45Speaker 1: must look at the parable of the fig tree. The
- 3:48Speaker 1: fig tree is Israel. Jesus said this generation will not
- 3:52Speaker 1: pass away until all these things are fulfilled. Psalm 90.10
- 3:57Speaker 1: tells us a generation is roughly 70 years, or 80
- 4:01Speaker 1: by reason of strength. Then it says we are soon
- 4:05Speaker 1: cut off and fly away. That is a hidden rapture parable.
- 4:09Speaker 1: It is true in death, but it is very real
- 4:12Speaker 1: for the rapture of the church in 1 Thessalonians 4.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Church family, we are the generation that will see all
- 4:19Speaker 1: of these things come to pass. The darkness is intensifying,
- 4:23Speaker 1: but the light is about to break through. Do not
- 4:26Speaker 1: let the fear of the coming tribulation paralyze you. Let
- 4:30Speaker 1: it drive you to the cross. The time of Jacob's
- 4:33Speaker 1: trouble is coming, but you do not have to face
- 4:36Speaker 1: it if you are covered by the blood of the Lamb.
- 4:39Speaker 1: If you are not saved, this is your moment. The
- 4:42Speaker 1: door is closing. Run to Jesus. Wash your robes, keep
- 4:47Speaker 1: your eyes on the sky, walk in the light of
- 4:49Speaker 1: His imminent return. As Jesus commanded us, Behold, I come quickly.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take
- 4:59Speaker 1: thy crown. Revelation 3.11 Grace and peace until the morning
- 5:04Speaker 1: star appears, brothers and sisters.