Latest / Prophecy Watchers / Is Turkey Preparing for Armageddon? | Avi Lipkin

Transcript

Is Turkey Preparing for Armageddon? | Avi Lipkin · Prophecy Watchers

0:01
Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Gary Stearman. Welcome to Prophecy Watchers. We have
0:06
Speaker 1: a guest today. Many of you have seen him before,
0:10
Speaker 1: but Avi Lipkin is back at Prophecy Watchers. And when
0:14
Speaker 1: he comes, he always brings an amazing new way to
0:19
Speaker 1: look at the Middle East. And do we ever need
0:22
Speaker 1: to look at it correctly now, the way things are happening?
0:26
Speaker 1: Avi Lipkin, welcome to Prophecy Watchers.
0:29
Speaker 2: Great to be back again.
0:30
Speaker 1: Again. And what I just said is very true. I'm
0:34
Speaker 1: looking at a book called Lepanto II, Turkey and the
0:38
Speaker 1: Battle of Armageddon. And the first time I looked at
0:42
Speaker 1: the title of the book, you put two things together
0:45
Speaker 1: that are not usually put together, Turkey and the Battle
0:48
Speaker 1: of Armageddon. And this book is amazingly interesting. And you
0:54
Speaker 1: have a very, very broad but accurate view of war.
1:02
Speaker 1: geopolitics in the Middle East. And I'd like for you
1:05
Speaker 1: to share those thoughts with our audience, because Americans need
1:10
Speaker 1: to know what's happening. And we basically do not get
1:15
Speaker 1: this kind of information from the daily news.
1:18
Speaker 3: Well, I have to tell you, I've been in this
1:21
Speaker 3: business 35 years already. And I was very close to
1:27
Speaker 3: Chuck Missler, in Idaho. He was originally from Costa Mesa
1:34
Speaker 3: in California. And I worked very closely with Chuck Missler.
1:38
Speaker 3: I did many CDs, DVDs. I loved Chuck Missler very much.
1:44
Speaker 3: And I would like to say I was very close
1:46
Speaker 3: to him until he died. One thing about Chuck Missler
1:51
Speaker 3: that we would fight, we would fight in the Lord.
1:54
Speaker 3: It was a very friendly fight. And he would say, oh, Armageddon,
1:58
Speaker 3: That's Russia, the Soviet Union.
2:00
Speaker 1: Yes.
2:01
Speaker 2: Okay. And I said, I think I disagree with you. Why?
2:05
Speaker 3: I said, because Russia is a Christian country. And I
2:10
Speaker 3: was right, but I was wrong. Because at that time,
2:13
Speaker 3: when I first started working with Chuck Missler, it was
2:16
Speaker 3: the Soviet Union. And the Soviet Union had a Muslim
2:20
Speaker 3: majority population. Wow.
2:23
Speaker 1: Yes.
2:24
Speaker 3: And it was 350 million. population of the Soviet Union.
2:30
Speaker 3: It was bigger than the United States at that time.
2:32
Speaker 3: America was 250 million. And we're going to do another
2:36
Speaker 3: program where we're going to talk about how America today
2:39
Speaker 3: is 350 million with 30 million Muslims. But in those days,
2:43
Speaker 3: it was 350 million, but 200 million were Muslim. And
2:48
Speaker 3: they were in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, all the stands. And
2:55
Speaker 3: after the fall of the collapse of the Soviet system
3:00
Speaker 3: and Russia basically was dislodged from the Islamic Republics, also
3:07
Speaker 3: the Baltic Republics and Ukraine and others, the people who
3:13
Speaker 3: broke away from the Soviet Union were the Muslims, were
3:16
Speaker 3: 200 million. So Russia's population became 150 million and there
3:19
Speaker 3: are 17 million Muslims in Russia, but it's a Russian
3:26
Speaker 3: Orthodox Christian country. It's not, you know, white Anglo-Saxon Texas
3:30
Speaker 3: Christian country. But a Christian country in the old fashioned
3:35
Speaker 3: Eastern Orthodox way of thinking. And I'll tell you the truth,
3:40
Speaker 3: Putin himself with all his faults and all the crazy
3:43
Speaker 3: stuff with Ukraine, Putin is very pro-Jewish and he blesses
3:48
Speaker 3: the rabbis, he gives them a salary. Ukraine does not
3:50
Speaker 3: give a salary to the rabbis. they have to get
3:53
Speaker 3: money from abroad. But the Russians pay a salary and
3:56
Speaker 3: they defend their Jewish population. So Russia is, I said,
4:02
Speaker 3: this cannot be Armageddon. Armageddon has to be an enemy
4:06
Speaker 3: that is totally ruthless and totally against the Jews and
4:09
Speaker 3: the Christians.
4:10
Speaker 2: And that's the Islamic world.
4:13
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna give you the bottom line at the
4:15
Speaker 3: end of, which is the end of my message this
4:17
Speaker 3: morning on this program, is that Turkey, is the Armageddon,
4:23
Speaker 3: and it gives citizenship to any Turkic Muslim from the
4:28
Speaker 3: former Soviet Union, so Turkey is not 100 million, it's
4:32
Speaker 3: 300 million. In other words, if a war breaks out
4:36
Speaker 3: between Turkey and Israel, 300 million Turkic Muslims and more
4:41
Speaker 3: will join up in a war against Israel.
4:43
Speaker 1: I should say that from my perspective, I hear rumors
4:47
Speaker 1: to that effect that Turkey might make a move.
4:51
Speaker 3: We're getting closer. That's why I wrote this book as
4:54
Speaker 3: a warning. And we did a show, you and I,
4:57
Speaker 3: about five, six years ago, where we spoke about this,
4:59
Speaker 3: but in its more, how shall I say, embryonic stage.
5:02
Speaker 3: But we're getting very close now to a confrontation with Turkey,
5:06
Speaker 3: which we do not want. Israel does not want confrontation
5:09
Speaker 3: with Turkey. And the Turks are lining up with Egypt,
5:13
Speaker 3: which has this one-track mind, which is to destroy Israel,
5:16
Speaker 3: in spite of the peace process. So the Egyptians and
5:19
Speaker 3: the Turks are going to come together to attack Israel.
5:22
Speaker 3: That is the war after Iran. I think Iran war
5:26
Speaker 3: will be over very soon. And we spoke about this,
5:30
Speaker 3: that the Israeli troops are on the ground. They are
5:33
Speaker 3: training the Iranian protesters and opposition. And Iran one day
5:40
Speaker 3: will be free. The Iranian people will be free. And
5:42
Speaker 3: they will be allies of America and allies of Israel.
5:46
Speaker 3: Who's going to take over?
5:47
Speaker 2: The Turks.
5:48
Speaker 3: The Turks are going to be the next enemy of Israel.
5:51
Speaker 3: Because all Muslims are told in the Quran, chapter 5,
5:54
Speaker 3: verse 51, do not take the Jews or the Christians
5:58
Speaker 3: for your friends. And I have many other quotes also
6:00
Speaker 3: which we'll get into.
6:01
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your book, Lepanto II, Turkey and the
6:06
Speaker 1: Battle of Armageddon. Now, Americans don't think about Turkey and
6:09
Speaker 1: the Battle of Armageddon. This is something we don't connect
6:11
Speaker 1: in our minds. And But you've documented a great deal
6:16
Speaker 1: of political thought in the Middle East that we in
6:22
Speaker 1: America don't watch. Because what we watch is really what's
6:26
Speaker 1: on the nightly news. We are very, very much involved
6:30
Speaker 1: with what's going on with Iran and Donald Trump. And
6:33
Speaker 1: that whole problem occupies 95% of the space in the news. Turkey,
6:44
Speaker 1: we hear about occasionally, but not much. Not much going
6:48
Speaker 1: on there, so we kind of ignore that. And you're
6:50
Speaker 1: saying we should be looking to the north of Israel.
6:54
Speaker 2: Very carefully, very carefully. I wanted to add another thing.
6:59
Speaker 3: As you can tell, I'm an American, born in America,
7:02
Speaker 3: raised in America, and I've been in Israel 58 years,
7:07
Speaker 3: but I'm kind of schizophrenic because I don't know if
7:10
Speaker 3: I'm an American or if I'm an Israeli. I don't
7:14
Speaker 3: know if I'm a Jew or a Christian. That'll get
7:16
Speaker 3: me very much into trouble in Israel also. But I
7:19
Speaker 3: love all Christians. I love all Jews. By the way,
7:21
Speaker 3: I love the Muslims also. A very important part of history,
7:26
Speaker 3: which is also in this book, is that the Jews,
7:30
Speaker 3: why do the Jews love Turkey?
7:33
Speaker 2: There's a good reason.
7:34
Speaker 3: Because the Catholics destroyed us in Spain in 1492.
7:38
Speaker 2: They expelled the Jews. Who took them in? The Turks did.
7:43
Speaker 3: And the Jews played a very, very major role in
7:45
Speaker 3: the Turkish empire for centuries. And the Jews fought in
7:50
Speaker 3: the Turkish army against the Christians. The Jews were the
7:53
Speaker 3: basis of the economy of the Turks in many instances.
7:57
Speaker 3: My wife's grandfather was a tax collector in Istanbul. And
8:01
Speaker 3: the Turks said, if you try to collect money from us,
8:03
Speaker 3: we're gonna kill you. He was on the next boat
8:05
Speaker 3: to Egypt. So he went to Egypt and that's where
8:08
Speaker 3: he met my wife's grandmother. And so my wife is Egyptian.
8:11
Speaker 3: but she has Turkish roots. And the grandmother was from
8:13
Speaker 3: Fez in Morocco. So the whole Turkish empire from Morocco
8:19
Speaker 3: to China was Turkish. And you go into a school
8:23
Speaker 3: or a public building in Turkey, you're gonna see the
8:25
Speaker 3: map from Morocco to China, Xinjiang province.
8:30
Speaker 1: Right now, in other words, you're talking about today.
8:32
Speaker 2: Today. And they reached Vienna.
8:35
Speaker 3: They were defeated by Jan Sobieski, the King of Poland
8:38
Speaker 3: in 1683.
8:40
Speaker 2: And they reached Yemen. They reached Mecca. They want to
8:44
Speaker 2: go back. They want to go back to their caliphate.
8:48
Speaker 3: But the point is that the Turks were never really
8:51
Speaker 3: ever enemies of the Jews. They were relatively much better
8:55
Speaker 3: to the Jews than the Christians, the Catholics. And many
9:01
Speaker 3: times I'm in synagogues all over the world on the Sabbath.
9:04
Speaker 3: They say, well, the Muslims are closer to us than
9:07
Speaker 3: the Christians are. And what I'm saying is, there's been
9:10
Speaker 3: a switch. The evangelical American Protestant Christians are the allies,
9:15
Speaker 3: some of them are allies of Israel, whereas the Muslims
9:18
Speaker 3: are now solidly united against the Jews and against the Christians.
9:24
Speaker 3: And all of this is because of the rise of
9:25
Speaker 3: the oil wealth, the oil power, which has given them
9:29
Speaker 3: the victory in the eyes of Allah. This is the
9:31
Speaker 3: way they look at it, Turks included. So many, many
9:35
Speaker 3: Jews are living in the 1492 period It was like
9:39
Speaker 3: a Holocaust, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and
9:42
Speaker 3: the forced conversion to Catholicism by the Catholic Church. 1588,
9:49
Speaker 3: there was a battle of the Spanish Armada. Everybody in
9:54
Speaker 3: America knows about the battle of the Spanish Armada because
9:57
Speaker 3: the Protestants, the Dutch and the English, licked the Catholics,
10:02
Speaker 3: destroyed their fleet. And it was a monumental thing when
10:06
Speaker 3: you destroy the fleet of a country. But nobody knows
10:10
Speaker 3: about Lepanto. The Battle of Lepanto, 1571, 17 years before
10:18
Speaker 3: the Battle of the Spanish Armada, was the Battle of Lepanto,
10:22
Speaker 3: in which the Holy Alliance Catholic fleet of Spain, Genoa,
10:26
Speaker 3: and Venice sank the.
10:28
Speaker 2: Whole Turkish fleet.
10:30
Speaker 3: But nobody knows about it because you don't want to
10:32
Speaker 3: give any good credit to the Catholics.
10:33
Speaker 1: And now I'm looking at your book, Lepanto II. So
10:39
Speaker 1: you filled us in on Lepanto I.
10:41
Speaker 2: Yes.
10:41
Speaker 1: Which took place when again?
10:43
Speaker 3: In April of 1571, 17 years before the Battle of
10:47
Speaker 3: the Spanish Armada.
10:48
Speaker 1: So we fast forward to today.
10:51
Speaker 2: Yes.
10:51
Speaker 1: And you're writing about something that you've titled Lepanto II.
10:56
Speaker 3: Which is the destruction of the Turkish fleet today off
11:01
Speaker 3: the shores of Cyprus.
11:03
Speaker 1: And you see, should I say clearly see, a movement
11:10
Speaker 1: in this direction.
11:11
Speaker 2: Correct.
11:12
Speaker 3: This is not only about Islam versus the Jews and
11:16
Speaker 3: the Christians, because if they take Cyprus, they're going to
11:19
Speaker 3: kill half a million Cypriot Christians, or the Cypriot Christians
11:22
Speaker 3: will be given 24 hours.
11:24
Speaker 2: To leave the island.
11:25
Speaker 1: Wow.
11:26
Speaker 3: But now that Israel, Cyprus, and Greece have found gas,
11:31
Speaker 3: natural gas, under the Mediterranean's seafloor, And this alliance of
11:37
Speaker 3: the Greeks and the Jews is going to have a
11:41
Speaker 3: pipeline to Italy and supply.
11:42
Speaker 1: All of Europe. A little side note. I have heard
11:45
Speaker 1: and I continue to hear rumors about the undersea, under
11:49
Speaker 1: the Mediterranean, I guess, oil and gas. And apparently the
11:56
Speaker 1: discoveries continue to be made. Correct.
11:59
Speaker 2: Correct.
12:00
Speaker 1: And that's going to be a huge political problem, you're saying.
12:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the Turks are saying it belongs to Turkey.
12:06
Speaker 1: And, of course, the Israelis are saying, wait a minute.
12:09
Speaker 2: Yeah. This is a package deal.
12:14
Speaker 3: And so the Israelis are looking at everything from a
12:18
Speaker 3: civilizational perspective. You know, as a footnote, I have to
12:22
Speaker 3: say that the Greeks and the Greek Cypriots were pro-Arab
12:27
Speaker 3: until they found the gas.
12:29
Speaker 4: Ah.
12:30
Speaker 3: And now all of a sudden the Greek economy is
12:33
Speaker 3: picking up. The Greek Cypriot economy is picking up. Tourism
12:37
Speaker 3: is picking up. And the Israeli population in Cyprus is
12:42
Speaker 3: picking up. We're very good neighbors with the Cypriots. There
12:45
Speaker 3: are very good relations with them. But today we have
12:49
Speaker 3: a situation, and I spoke about this on another program
12:52
Speaker 3: we did, the Druze and the Christians in Syria and
12:57
Speaker 3: Lebanon are threatened with annihilation by the Muslims. the Greek
13:00
Speaker 3: Cypriot Christians are threatened with annihilation by the Turks. And
13:04
Speaker 3: the Turks have now come down into Syria, and they
13:07
Speaker 3: have established Ahmed al-Shahra, Julani, as the dictator, as the
13:12
Speaker 3: president of Syria. And Israel has a line drawn from
13:18
Speaker 3: Damascus to Mount Hermon, which is now in our hands,
13:21
Speaker 3: and going east to Suwaida, which is a Druze village,
13:24
Speaker 3: a Druze city, in our hands. And the Druze are
13:27
Speaker 3: demanding Israeli citizenship. The Christians are demanding Israeli citizenship because
13:33
Speaker 3: we are the only people who will defend them from
13:35
Speaker 3: the Muslims. And now Cyprus and Greece are allies of Israel,
13:41
Speaker 3: and we are going to work with them to make
13:42
Speaker 3: sure that the Turks do not reclaim and reconquer Cyprus.
13:47
Speaker 2: Wow.
13:48
Speaker 1: We're listening to a summation of Middle East conflicts, very complex.
13:55
Speaker 1: By the way, we here at Prophecy Watchers have a
13:59
Speaker 1: monthly magazine, and we're going to pause for a moment
14:02
Speaker 1: to show you how you can get your copy. And
14:05
Speaker 1: it contains a lot of the material that Avi is
14:09
Speaker 1: talking about.
14:12
Speaker 4: Prophecy Watchers just celebrated 12 years of ministry, and we're
14:16
Speaker 4: marking the occasion with one of the biggest offers we've
14:19
Speaker 4: ever made. Some might even call it too good to
14:22
Speaker 4: be true. For years, tens of thousands of people around
14:25
Speaker 4: the world have enjoyed the Prophecy Watcher magazine, packed with
14:29
Speaker 4: cutting edge prophetic teaching you may never hear about in church.
14:33
Speaker 4: You can still access both the print and digital magazine
14:36
Speaker 4: subscription offers online. But this anniversary, we're doing something different.
14:41
Speaker 4: Over the years, we've built an incredible library featuring Gary Stearman,
14:45
Speaker 4: Mondo Gonzalez, L.A. Marzulli, Tom Horn, Bill Salus, Jan Markell,
14:50
Speaker 4: and many more. We're talking about the Rapture, Revelation, the Antichrist,
14:56
Speaker 4: the Nephilim, artificial intelligence, Gog and Magog, Israel's future, and
15:01
Speaker 4: much more. Now here's where it gets exciting. With a
15:04
Speaker 4: gift of just $ 50, we'll send you Anniversary Grab Bag
15:08
Speaker 4: Collection number one, five books and five DVDs worth $ 200.
15:14
Speaker 4: Give $ 100 and we'll send you collection number two, $ 400
15:19
Speaker 4: worth of Bible prophecy resources. And with a gift of $ 200,
15:23
Speaker 4: get ready, collection number three is packed with an incredible $ 1, 000
15:29
Speaker 4: worth of books and DVDs. And shipping is included anywhere
15:32
Speaker 4: in the USA. But here's what really matters. Your gift
15:36
Speaker 4: helps keep this ministry moving forward. You're helping us proclaim
15:40
Speaker 4: the gospel, teach Bible prophecy, and reach people searching for
15:44
Speaker 4: answers in an increasingly uncertain world. So dive into these resources,
15:49
Speaker 4: read them, watch them, share them, give them to someone
15:52
Speaker 4: who needs to hear about the hope we have in
15:55
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ. And part of the fun is the surprise.
15:58
Speaker 4: you won't know exactly what's coming until you open the box.
16:02
Speaker 4: Quantities are limited, and with Christmas just around the corner,
16:05
Speaker 4: this is the perfect time to stock up, share the truth,
16:09
Speaker 4: and bless someone else. Call the number on your screen
16:12
Speaker 4: 24-7 or visit prophecywatchers.tv. Stand with Prophecy Watchers today and
16:17
Speaker 4: help us continue sharing the gospel and the truth of
16:20
Speaker 4: Bible prophecy with a world that desperately needs both.
16:25
Speaker 1: Well, we're back with Avi Lipkin, who has written a
16:28
Speaker 1: book called Lepanto II, and in the first part of
16:31
Speaker 1: this program, we learn about Lepanto I, a battle that
16:35
Speaker 1: was fought long ago, but it has kind of rolled
16:38
Speaker 1: forward in time, and the old conflicts are rising again.
16:44
Speaker 1: And this is fantastic to listen to, because as Christians
16:49
Speaker 1: who read about Bible prophecy and weed, I read about
16:54
Speaker 1: wars in the Middle East, and a lot of Christians
16:56
Speaker 1: are looking very, very deeply into Scripture to see what
17:00
Speaker 1: the Bible has to say about the conflicts in the
17:03
Speaker 1: Middle East today. You come along with details we don't
17:08
Speaker 1: often think about.
17:10
Speaker 3: Indeed, as I said before, the Jews who were expelled
17:16
Speaker 3: from Spain in 1492 were given asylum. in the Turkish Empire,
17:21
Speaker 3: whether it be Morocco or Istanbul. And so there is
17:26
Speaker 3: this mantra by Jews to be Democrat, to be socialist,
17:32
Speaker 3: to be communist, anything which is anti-Christian, because the Christians
17:37
Speaker 3: were bad to us in Europe. Now, the Christians are
17:41
Speaker 3: good to us in America, but American Jews don't know
17:45
Speaker 3: about it because American Jews will not step into a church.
17:49
Speaker 2: And I've been in a thousand churches. Do you remember
17:52
Speaker 2: the King and I getting to know you?
17:56
Speaker 3: When a Jew goes to the church, I'm not saying
17:58
Speaker 3: he will convert or she will convert to Christianity, but
18:01
Speaker 3: they will begin to understand the love that the Christians in.
18:05
Speaker 2: America have for us. But we are locked in.
18:08
Speaker 3: I don't say I, we as a people are locked
18:11
Speaker 3: in to the persecutions of Christian Russia, Christian Europe, Nazis,
18:17
Speaker 3: Spanish Catholics, By the way, today in America, a lot
18:20
Speaker 3: of Catholics are getting Protestantized and becoming Americans and loving
18:25
Speaker 3: the Jewish people.
18:25
Speaker 2: The Pope, however, is still pro-Islamic.
18:29
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of things going on that we
18:31
Speaker 3: don't really understand. In World War I, the Turks reached their,
18:40
Speaker 3: I think the word is nadir, you know, their lowest level.
18:44
Speaker 3: Ottoman Turkey was the sick man of Europe. I grew
18:47
Speaker 3: up with Lawrence of Arabia. that famous movie.
18:50
Speaker 2: With Peter O'Toole.
18:52
Speaker 3: And I was actually always very pro-Arab and anti-Turkish. The
18:56
Speaker 3: Turks looked like mean guys, like the Nazis and everything.
19:00
Speaker 2: Turks were good to the Jews.
19:04
Speaker 3: Their great hero for many decades was Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
19:12
Speaker 3: And he was actually lionized. He was very, very much
19:16
Speaker 3: praised by the Jews of Salonika, Saloniki. And the Christians
19:21
Speaker 3: hated the Jews because they liked this Turkish leader, but
19:24
Speaker 3: he was a liberal, he was secular. And he created
19:28
Speaker 3: a new Republic of Turkey and he banished the caliphate,
19:33
Speaker 3: which he thought was a retarded Arabic idea.
19:37
Speaker 2: And he said, Turkey has to be European.
19:40
Speaker 3: And every Turkish family should be a father, a mother,
19:44
Speaker 3: a child, and a dog, like the Europeans. And for decades,
19:49
Speaker 3: from 1921 1923, I would say until 1983, Turkey was
19:53
Speaker 3: a secular country. They even had a woman prime minister
19:57
Speaker 3: at a time that I remember, Tansu Çiler, a woman
20:03
Speaker 3: prime minister. The prime ministers were secular. The judges in
20:06
Speaker 3: courts were secular. The military leaders were secular. They were Muslim,
20:11
Speaker 3: but they were secular. And we had relations with these people.
20:16
Speaker 3: And the downfall happened because Ataturk said one child per family.
20:25
Speaker 3: But the conservative Turkish Muslims who lived in the villages,
20:29
Speaker 3: in the agrarian back hills and stuff, they had many children.
20:33
Speaker 2: And there was no work.
20:35
Speaker 3: So the children would emigrate to the big cities, Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir.
20:40
Speaker 3: And what happened after a few decades, the fanatic Muslim
20:44
Speaker 3: Sunnis returned little by little to power. And before Erdogan,
20:49
Speaker 3: this one who's ruling now, there was another.
20:52
Speaker 2: Leader called Erbakan.
20:54
Speaker 3: And people looked at this guy and said, this guy's
20:56
Speaker 3: a threat to secular Turkey. And then Erbakan was finished,
21:00
Speaker 3: Erdogan took over, and now they are on steroids.
21:03
Speaker 1: The clock is catching up with us, and I want
21:06
Speaker 1: to get to the main point of your thesis. Where
21:11
Speaker 1: is all this headed, say, in the next five years?
21:15
Speaker 1: Where should we be watching to understand the complexities of
21:21
Speaker 1: this thing?
21:22
Speaker 3: The restoration of the caliphate. Turkey was the head of
21:27
Speaker 3: the caliphate. from Morocco to China, from Vienna all the
21:30
Speaker 3: way to Yemen. They were defeated in a whole bunch
21:34
Speaker 3: of wars. And I'm a Sovietologist, so I know all
21:38
Speaker 3: of the wars the Russians defeated the.
21:40
Speaker 2: Turks and they want all their land back.
21:45
Speaker 3: That includes Southern Europe, that includes Turkey and North Africa,
21:50
Speaker 3: that includes Arabia.
21:51
Speaker 1: Is Erdogan thinking this way?
21:53
Speaker 2: Absolutely. And he has a plan.
21:56
Speaker 3: And my wife and I are watching all the time
21:59
Speaker 3: everything that's happening in Turkey. Now they push down from
22:04
Speaker 3: Turkey all the way to Damascus. So the Turks are
22:07
Speaker 3: already on the border of Israel, very close to Israel.
22:13
Speaker 1: What will the current war in Iran do to this
22:18
Speaker 1: picture you're painting?
22:20
Speaker 3: Turkey will become the bad guy. And Iran will become
22:23
Speaker 3: the good guy because Iran will be an ally of
22:26
Speaker 3: America and Israel. And Israel has its boots on the ground.
22:30
Speaker 3: We are training the Iranian protesters and opposition. And at
22:35
Speaker 3: a certain moment, you're going to wake up one morning
22:38
Speaker 3: and Iran is liberated by America and the Israelis. I
22:42
Speaker 3: believe Trump will go down in history as the liberator
22:45
Speaker 3: of Iran. That's one of the reasons why he says
22:48
Speaker 3: to the Israelis, don't get involved.
22:49
Speaker 2: You know, I'm taking care of this.
22:51
Speaker 3: And Trump is very, very angry with these liars and
22:55
Speaker 3: crazy people, as he calls them.
22:56
Speaker 1: You're listening to Avi Lipkin, his book, Lepanto II, Turkey
23:01
Speaker 1: and the Battle of Armageddon. The Middle East is complex.
23:05
Speaker 1: I don't think the average American, even the average Christian
23:08
Speaker 1: who reads about the Bible prophecy and the Middle East
23:14
Speaker 1: and the latter-day Middle East and so forth, I don't
23:17
Speaker 1: think even the average American has the full grasp of
23:21
Speaker 1: Middle East politics. And what you're laying out here is eye-opening.
23:28
Speaker 1: It's amazing because we watch Israel. And for good reason.
23:33
Speaker 1: The Bible speaks of the re-emergence of Israel the latter day.
23:37
Speaker 1: And there's much, much, much Bible prophecy about latter-day Israel.
23:42
Speaker 1: And so that's why we're interested. And of course... since
23:46
Speaker 1: we're interested in Israel, we're watching the politics of the region,
23:51
Speaker 1: and we don't quite get it, I think, because there's
23:56
Speaker 1: much more to look at than we realize.
23:59
Speaker 3: Well, America is blessed because America, firstly, has a Judeo-Christian
24:04
Speaker 3: Western civilization way of thinking. But Atlantic Ocean on the right,
24:09
Speaker 3: Pacific Ocean on the left, Canada, which is going through
24:12
Speaker 3: some form of insanity now, but Canada is the best
24:16
Speaker 3: neighbor and ally America could have. Mexicans, they're a different
24:20
Speaker 3: type of Christian, but they're wonderful people and they're strong
24:23
Speaker 3: allies of America. Why should they think about the Middle East?
24:26
Speaker 2: Why should they think about China?
24:30
Speaker 3: What do they care about? China is on the verge
24:33
Speaker 3: of invading Taiwan. This could be really like World War III. Americans,
24:39
Speaker 3: They just want to be left alone. Americans are very Jewish.
24:42
Speaker 2: They just want to be left alone. But God has plans.
24:47
Speaker 3: And I believe that the defeat of communism is an
24:50
Speaker 3: historic event. The defeat of Nazism is an historic event.
24:55
Speaker 3: And it's always America that defeats the enemy, the bad guys.
24:59
Speaker 1: Listening to Avi Lipkin, let's pause right now and you
25:02
Speaker 1: can find out how you can get his book.
25:07
Speaker 4: It's always an education and an eye-opening history lesson when
25:10
Speaker 4: our old friend Avi Lipkin joins us, all the way
25:13
Speaker 4: from the land of Israel. We've known Avi and his
25:16
Speaker 4: son Aaron for the past 25 years and value their
25:19
Speaker 4: unique insights into something few Americans understand. What it's like
25:24
Speaker 4: to be a Jew, completely surrounded by enemies in your
25:27
Speaker 4: own land, whose ultimate goal is no Israel, no matter
25:31
Speaker 4: how long it takes. Mondo and Daniel Wright will be
25:34
Speaker 4: leading another tour of Israel next March 3rd through the 14th.
25:38
Speaker 4: So if you've always wanted to set foot in the
25:40
Speaker 4: Holy Land, here's your chance to walk in the footsteps
25:43
Speaker 4: of Jesus with the Lipkin Tour Group. Visit the Lipkin's
25:47
Speaker 4: registration website at visitisraeltoday.com for all the details. Students of
25:52
Speaker 4: Bible prophecy are well aware of Turkey's involvement in the
25:55
Speaker 4: soon-coming Ezekiel 38 attack on Israel, the Battle of Gog
25:59
Speaker 4: and Magog. But very few people understand the background that
26:03
Speaker 4: brings Turkey into the last day's war. Avi is one
26:07
Speaker 4: of the few people warning the world about Turkey's intense
26:10
Speaker 4: hatred of Israel and their plans for this future attack.
26:13
Speaker 4: And as you've heard today, he has a deep understanding
26:16
Speaker 4: of the Islamic threat to America and the world. Avi's
26:20
Speaker 4: new book, Lepanto II, Turkey and the Battle of Armageddon,
26:23
Speaker 4: and his insightful prophetic look into the future, Islamic Rivalry,
26:27
Speaker 4: takes us back in time to the roots of the
26:29
Speaker 4: Islamic and Turkish conflicts. It lays the groundwork for the
26:33
Speaker 4: battles between Iran and Israel and teaches the American public
26:37
Speaker 4: why the Sunnis and the Shiites continue to battle each
26:39
Speaker 4: other for Middle East domination. Turkey's goal of restoring the
26:43
Speaker 4: Islamic caliphate lies at the center of this regional nightmare
26:46
Speaker 4: with one common enemy, Israel. Each book is available for
26:50
Speaker 4: your gift of $ 25 or more with shipping included.
26:54
Speaker 1: In the USA.
26:55
Speaker 4: When you ask for both of Avi's books in the
26:57
Speaker 4: Turkey and Armageddon package, available for your gift of $ 50
27:01
Speaker 4: or more, we have a special bonus, a set of
27:04
Speaker 4: four DVDs on the Battle of Gog and Magog and
27:07
Speaker 4: the coming attack on Israel, produced by Mondo Gonzalez and
27:11
Speaker 4: Israel expert Bill Salas at $ 25 value. Call us toll-free
27:15
Speaker 4: 24-7 where our live operators are waiting. Or visit us
27:20
Speaker 4: online at prophecywatchers.tv where you can find the Turkey and
27:24
Speaker 4: Armageddon package along with all of Avi Lipkin's well-written books.
27:28
Speaker 4: For our international friends, please note that additional shipping fees
27:31
Speaker 4: do apply and all prices listed are in U.S.
27:34
Speaker 1: Dollars.
27:35
Speaker 4: And don't forget about our upcoming Prophecy Conference in Branson, Missouri,
27:38
Speaker 4: December 10th through the 13th of this year. We are
27:41
Speaker 4: anticipating a sellout crowd of well over a thousand fellow
27:45
Speaker 4: Prophecy Watchers, so make plans to join us. Head over
27:48
Speaker 4: to bransonchristmasprophecyconference.com where you can learn all about this one-of-a-kind
27:54
Speaker 4: event and the 25 expert speakers who will be blessing
27:57
Speaker 4: us over four days. Christmas and Branson, come and join us.
28:01
Speaker 4: Thanks for watching today, and thanks for your faithful support.
28:04
Speaker 2: Of Prophecy Watchers.
28:05
Speaker 4: Remember, Jesus loves you, and He has a plan for
28:08
Speaker 4: your life. God bless.
28:12
Speaker 1: And we're back with Avi Lipkin. And Avi, it's eye-opening
28:17
Speaker 1: to think about these things because we try to simplify.
28:23
Speaker 1: We take the newspaper history view of things. What's going
28:26
Speaker 1: to happen today and tomorrow? And how is it going
28:29
Speaker 1: to affect me personally? And that's about as far as
28:33
Speaker 1: we go into global politics as a people. but there's
28:39
Speaker 1: a lot to look for, or let's put it this way,
28:44
Speaker 1: there are many places to look behind to really get
28:47
Speaker 1: the real story.
28:49
Speaker 3: You know, I have to tell you, I'm changing the subject,
28:53
Speaker 3: but it's going to wrap up, come back to where
28:54
Speaker 3: we were. Israel used to provide electricity to its people
29:01
Speaker 3: through the burning of charcoal, burning of petroleum, which is
29:06
Speaker 3: very expensive, very contaminating, polluting.
29:12
Speaker 2: We now go with the gas, which is much cleaner.
29:16
Speaker 3: Our electricity generating stations now work on Israeli gas taken
29:24
Speaker 3: out of the Mediterranean floor. We are now exporting actually
29:29
Speaker 3: to Egypt. They have a plant there where they liquefy
29:33
Speaker 3: gas and they send it to Europe. So this whole
29:36
Speaker 3: question of gas and natural gas makes us allies. God
29:41
Speaker 3: is cementing our alliance with the Greeks, with Greek Cyprus,
29:45
Speaker 3: Greek Cypriots. But the Turks are saying, no, no, no, no.
29:51
Speaker 3: In 1878, the British took away Cyprus on a 99-year
29:56
Speaker 3: lease like Hong Kong. And that was 1977. Cyprus should
30:02
Speaker 3: have reverted to Turkey. And so the Turks see Cyprus
30:06
Speaker 3: as a Turkish empire, but that would be a threat
30:08
Speaker 3: to Israel's existence.
30:10
Speaker 1: It is more complex than you can possibly realize. I
30:13
Speaker 1: wish we had more time to talk with Avi because, well,
30:18
Speaker 1: on the other hand, you should read his book. Ah, yes.
30:23
Speaker 1: The world turns and we are watching. In fact, we
30:29
Speaker 1: are Prophecy Watchers. I'm Gary Stearman. We'll see you again soon.
30:35
Speaker 4: Prophecy Watchers is a viewer supported ministry made possible through
30:39
Speaker 4: the faithful support of friends like you. We would truly
30:42
Speaker 4: be grateful for your financial support. You can give easily
30:46
Speaker 4: by visiting prophecywatchers.com.