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Iran and the Blood Moon: Prophetic Signs or Sensationalism? | Joe Hawkins | The Week in Bible Prophecy · The Week in Bible Prophecy

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Speaker 2: calmed down by then. But today what we want to
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Speaker 2: talk about is certainly over the past few days we've
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Speaker 2: seen again war number two with Israel and Iran, and
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Speaker 2: this time with the United States at the forefront of
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Speaker 2: it as well. Because of some of the threats that
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Speaker 2: have been happening. And then after that, we're going to
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Speaker 2: talk about tomorrow. There's a lunar eclipse tomorrow morning, March third,
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Speaker 2: and we're gonna talk a little bit about what that means,
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Speaker 2: what it doesn't means. As always, there's there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of people online that are creating a prophetic hysteria and sensationalism,
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Speaker 2: I think personally on the whole lunar e clips solver
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Speaker 2: clips blood moon idea, and so we want to address
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Speaker 2: that as well. Should we be excited about it? It doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean anything, what doesn't mean A lot of people are
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Speaker 2: claiming it means something, and so we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 2: But Joe here, we are welcome.
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Speaker 1: May not tell you what. We got a lot to
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Speaker 1: talk about, don't.
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Speaker 2: We Absolutely so for the audience here, you know people
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Speaker 2: probably heard, you know, there was the negotiations we're going
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Speaker 2: on with Iran for a while, and if they kept
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Speaker 2: getting dragged on, dragged on, and this is typical for
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Speaker 2: people who have watched negotiations, even going back to Obama,
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Speaker 2: that Iran is their masters at delay, their masters at equivocation,
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Speaker 2: and for them, they they chose wrong on this part
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Speaker 2: with Trump and Trump was Trump gave him many many opportunities,
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Speaker 2: as we saw last June, you know, the United States
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Speaker 2: bombed some of their nuclear thing. But kind of tell
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Speaker 2: us what happened here recently, what's been happening over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Give us an update.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, unless you're under Iraqi, you definitely
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Speaker 1: haven't missed out what's going on in the news cycle.
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Speaker 1: So we can go back to February nineteenth. You know,
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Speaker 1: Trump gave his ultimatum to Iran, you know, ten or
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Speaker 1: fifteen days if you don't get right, if you don't
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Speaker 1: come to the table, we're going to attack you. And
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Speaker 1: what happened well over the weekend Saturday morning, early our time,
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Speaker 1: I think was around nine o'clock, you know in Tehran
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Speaker 1: where they just got massacred right during the Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know Kamane he was gone, and it
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Speaker 1: was it was started by this trigger event, as we
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Speaker 1: have Operation Epic Fury on the United States side and
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Speaker 1: Operation Roaring Line on the Israeli side, and Operation Epic
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Speaker 1: Fury was started by this trigger event. And I believe
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Speaker 1: that trigger event was the compound that held Kamanee, that
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Speaker 1: that ultimately killed him with that strike, and then what
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Speaker 1: ensued afterwards was just a barrage of attacks by the
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Speaker 1: Americans and the Israelis so much so and as of
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Speaker 1: right now, of course, you know, at the recording of
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Speaker 1: this video, we're right around two thousand missiles that have
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Speaker 1: gone off there in Iran. You know, their leadership has
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Speaker 1: been absolutely decimated. It seems like it's non existent. Trump
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Speaker 1: came out on Saturday morning, you know, before this really
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Speaker 1: went down, and he basically gave the people of Iran
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Speaker 1: an opportunity, you know, amnesty, lay down your weapons, joined
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Speaker 1: the revolution, joined the resistance. You know, we're going to
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Speaker 1: give you your country back. It's going to be up
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Speaker 1: to you whether or not you do the right thing.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we see a lot of resistance still
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Speaker 1: going on there. We see a lot of celebration going
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Speaker 1: on there. Right There's definitely an opportunity for the the
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Speaker 1: people of Iran to take, you know, take this opportunity
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Speaker 1: and run with it and have a little bit of peace. Now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we know, you know from our Bible that
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be a long lived piece, if
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Speaker 1: there even is one there in Iran, because we know
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Speaker 1: eventually they're going to come back against Israel and the
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Speaker 1: Ezekiel thirty eight invasion. But we do know that, and
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Speaker 1: we pray for a short time that a lot of
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Speaker 1: the people there that they come to know Jesus, that
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Speaker 1: they come to know Christ as their savior, and that
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Speaker 1: they could turn away from these wicked things that have
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Speaker 1: been going on. But it seems like the leadership there,
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Speaker 1: they've already put in place their new interim leader, which
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Speaker 1: I just read that he maybe have already been taken
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Speaker 1: out as well. You know, there's nothing kind you know,
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Speaker 1: no confirmation on this, and that's one thing that I
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Speaker 1: would implore the people that are really on social media
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Speaker 1: that are looking at the news outlets, take pretty much
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Speaker 1: everything that you see with the grain of salt right
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Speaker 1: now unless it's one hundred percent confirmed. I mean, even
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Speaker 1: whenever I was reading that Kamanee had been killed, I
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Speaker 1: was like, I'm not going to believe it until it's
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent verified, because you just you just don't know.
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Speaker 1: There's so much information out there that's false. But you know,
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Speaker 1: we're we're looking i mean, this is all out war
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Speaker 1: we're looking at. You know, hundreds and thousands of people
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Speaker 1: have already been killed. I want to say around two
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Speaker 1: thousand have been killed on the Iranian side. Unfortunately, we've
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Speaker 1: had I think six at the moment American soldiers have
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Speaker 1: lost their lives. We've even had some unfortunate friendly fire incidents.
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Speaker 1: There was an incident in Kuwait where three of our
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Speaker 1: fighter jets were shot down, fortunately friendly fired, but fortunately
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Speaker 1: the the pilots were able to eject and they survived that.
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Speaker 1: But this is all due to and we're having this
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Speaker 1: these friendly fire incidents because once the head of the
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Speaker 1: snake was cut off, basically once Commande was killed it,
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Speaker 1: you know, they didn't know what to do and what
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Speaker 1: did they start doing. They said, you know what, if
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go down, we're gonna take everybody down with us.
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Speaker 1: And they just started throwing missiles out, they started hitting
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Speaker 1: their own allies, They started hitting areas that they didn't
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Speaker 1: even care about. And we have, you know, we have
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Speaker 1: residential areas that have been hit and decimated, Saviolians that
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Speaker 1: have lost their lives. And that's one of the most
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Speaker 1: horrible things when it comes to war is the loss
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Speaker 1: of innocent lives. And it's it's something that that we
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Speaker 1: definitely need to continue to pray about and pray for
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Speaker 1: those that are in the in the midst of this
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Speaker 1: battle that they can be protected, but ultimately that they
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Speaker 1: have their faith and trust and hope in Jesus Christ
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Speaker 1: as their savior.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, it's it's you know, let's let's make sure
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Speaker 2: that we keep this in context. So here you have
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Speaker 2: this regime that has been a master of terror uh
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Speaker 2: in the area through for generations now, really since the
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Speaker 2: revolution nineteen seventy nine. And so when you think about that,
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Speaker 2: the snake that has his tentacles into Syria, into even
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Speaker 2: with Turkey, certainly all the way into even many places
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Speaker 2: in Iraq and other places Katar. When you look at
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Speaker 2: that overall, the amount of money that they put in
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Speaker 2: every single year for terrorism is tremendous. This goes back
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Speaker 2: as well to the Obama era where Obama is releasing
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Speaker 2: to them hundreds of billions of dollars, and so it's
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Speaker 2: it's really it's really unfortunate. But so the fact that
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Speaker 2: many people are rejoicing over this, as you said, there
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Speaker 2: people in the streets are rejoicing that Comanian was killed,
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Speaker 2: that they had a picture of his body in the compound,
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Speaker 2: amongst many of his mother, many of his associates. There's,
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Speaker 2: as you said, there's estimates of hundreds and hundreds and
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Speaker 2: hundreds of key leadership people in the in the Revolutionary
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Speaker 2: Guard have been killed, other defense officials, et cetera. So nevertheless,
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Speaker 2: what did they do. They they began to launch indiscriminately
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Speaker 2: these ballistic missiles because what they were hoping was, well,
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Speaker 2: if they start bombing, uh you know, Oman and especially
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Speaker 2: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, all across the Persian Gulf.
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Speaker 2: They were hoping even Saudi Arabia. They were hoping that
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Speaker 2: if if there's this indiscriminate bombing, that there would be
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Speaker 2: pressure by Oman in Saudi Arabia on the United States
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Speaker 2: like hey, hey, can you you need to stop this.
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Speaker 2: So they were hoping for international pressure to be put
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Speaker 2: on the United States to stop their their offensive. But
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Speaker 2: it backfired because now Saudi Arabia is like, well, we're
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Speaker 2: going to get involved. We're we're actually going to attack.
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Speaker 2: UAE has has decided they want to may possibly join
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Speaker 2: in the attack on your run. Certainly Jordan has had
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Speaker 2: missiles towards them as well. And uh so, uh I
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Speaker 2: just read earlier that the that Britain and Greece because
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Speaker 2: some of the missiles are been heading towards Cyprus or
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Speaker 2: drones a lot of the Iran has been one of
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Speaker 2: the leading world advancers of technology of suicide drones, and
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Speaker 2: so it's fascinating all these things are happening. So you
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Speaker 2: do have a very almost united coalition now against Iran.
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Speaker 2: Many come to European Union has condemned Iran. The ones
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Speaker 2: that are the outliers here is you don't see anything
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Speaker 2: from China or Russia. Russia MC came out of come
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Speaker 2: and said this unprovoked attack needs to stop. And you're like,
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Speaker 2: talk about hypocrisy. What here you are? You're actually saying
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Speaker 2: this while you're in Ukraine. So nobody puts them, gives
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Speaker 2: them any credibility at all. But the fascinating thing is
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Speaker 2: the United States has attacked over twelve hundred targets. Israel
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Speaker 2: has attacked at least that many, and what they've discussed
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Speaker 2: was there are over twenty thousand targets that are that
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Speaker 2: are going to be targeted, and they're hitting again. Over
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Speaker 2: the first few days, of course, they're hitting probably about
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Speaker 2: a thousand targets a day, so that's a massive amount
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Speaker 2: of munitions, firepower, and so you figure how long is
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Speaker 2: this it's gonna last. Well, Trump has come out, others
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Speaker 2: has said it's gonna be a few weeks at least
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Speaker 2: in order to really destroy all you know, the whether
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Speaker 2: they're bases, missile launchers, other they're gonna they're gonna certainly
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Speaker 2: go after the nuclear nuclear sites to bring those to
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Speaker 2: smitherings as well as Israel is getting rid of all
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Speaker 2: of the court systems, any sort of court police stations
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Speaker 2: massively bombed, because that is the power structure that the
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Speaker 2: Iranian regime is using in order to squash protests and
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Speaker 2: to kill civilians. So they're getting rid of all of
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Speaker 2: that police really communications buildings that allows for all of
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Speaker 2: the integration of responses. So this is absolutely phenomenal. And
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Speaker 2: you know, Joe, you bring up a good question. A
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Speaker 2: lot of people asking two things and we'll get into it,
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Speaker 2: But how does this affect eas eqal thirty eight? How
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Speaker 2: does this affect Jeremiah forty nine? Other things like that.
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Speaker 2: But what we're seeing right now. You had a good
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Speaker 2: quote earlier. Let's talk about some of the things that
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Speaker 2: heg Seth has been saying, which I think is really
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Speaker 2: poetic justice. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Higgs Seth came out whenever he
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Speaker 1: did this press conference today and he said that, you know,
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Speaker 1: the regime that chanted death to America and death to
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Speaker 1: Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that is poetic. That's exactly what happened. They
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Speaker 1: wanted it, and that's exactly what they got, maybe not
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Speaker 1: necessarily in the way that they wanted. I was listening
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Speaker 1: to a few earlier today and they were talking about, well,
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Speaker 1: this is exactly what Commane he wanted. He wanted to
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Speaker 1: go out in this way. And I definitely think that
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Speaker 1: he wanted to go out with the bangle. This is
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Speaker 1: the way that he envisioned the end of his life.
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that he envisioned it happening this way.
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Speaker 1: I do think that this was taken by surprise in
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Speaker 1: a sense. They weren't, you know, completely ready for this,
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Speaker 1: which is why we see the type of response that
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Speaker 1: we've seen. And you talk about the tentacles of basically
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Speaker 1: terrorism that have reached out into the countries surrounding him,
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Speaker 1: that the proxies that they have in these other regions,
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Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately we have those even here in America,
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Speaker 1: and we saw that come to play yesterday morning, on
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Speaker 1: Sunday morning, when when this guy in Austin, Texas went
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Speaker 1: and killed two injured fourteen, had a property of allah
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Speaker 1: shirt on or sweater on, and he had things in
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Speaker 1: his vehicle that would lead us to believe that he
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Speaker 1: was an Iranian sympathizer. That he was upset about this. Now,
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Speaker 1: you know, the FBI released statements prior to that that
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Speaker 1: we should be on the look out for these sleeper
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Speaker 1: cell activity here in America. You know, all this stuff. Now,
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Speaker 1: thankfully that's the only thing that's happened to this point.
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Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people are drawing the
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Speaker 1: situation that happened in Cincinnati and even in d c
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Speaker 1: in that I don't think that there's any any evidence
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Speaker 1: that would point those events to be in Iranian sleeper cells.
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Speaker 1: But we definitely have sympathizers here in America that are
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Speaker 1: upset that we did what we did and that that
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Speaker 1: here here Israel is again dragging America into a war
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Speaker 1: that that we don't need to be in. And you
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Speaker 1: know when our our soldiers are gonna are gonna suffer
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Speaker 1: for it, you know, that that they don't really quite
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Speaker 1: understand the ramifications of of what's going on and and
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Speaker 1: and really what's happening here and the prophetic significance of
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Speaker 1: what's happening here. Just like you mentioned Ezekiel thirty eight,
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Speaker 1: you know, Ezekiel thirty eight has been one of those
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Speaker 1: passages that's been on people's minds for years, and Jereedmiah
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Speaker 1: forty nine is one that kind of oftentimes gets overlooked.
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Speaker 1: And our good brother Bill Sallas has done a lot
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Speaker 1: of extensive writing and a lot of videos on this
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Speaker 1: one that we actually posted earlier today on our channel.
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Speaker 1: But Jeremiah forty nine, it specifically references this area there
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Speaker 1: in southern Irana. And just and I know you're going
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Speaker 1: to read through Jeremiah forty nine here to minute, but
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Speaker 1: just to give people a little bit of context on
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Speaker 1: who who is Alie, what is it? Where did these
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Speaker 1: people come from? Well, well, Elam is the son of Shim,
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Speaker 1: which is the son of Noah. Right, this is the
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Speaker 1: people that we're referring to. And the historical context behind
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah forty nine is the question is has this prophecy
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Speaker 1: been historically fulfilled? We know that the prophecy in it
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Speaker 1: itself has not been fulfilled in its entirety because that's
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Speaker 1: not going to occur until the latter days and we're
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Speaker 1: talking about in the Millennial king. This is not going
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Speaker 1: to reach one hundred percent fulfillment until the end.
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Speaker 2: But has it been.
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Speaker 1: Historically fulfilled as far as the bow of Elin being broken?
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Speaker 1: What do you have to say about this? Because I
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Speaker 1: know it's a lot of questions going on with whether
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Speaker 1: or not Jeremiah forty nine or what we're seeing right
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Speaker 1: now is this Jeremia forty nine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, even in the prophecy camp, you have a lot
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Speaker 2: of different perspectives on this. But as you mentioned, our
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Speaker 2: brother Bill Solaz has done extensive work on this, and
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Speaker 2: you know, he's done a lot of stuff over the
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Speaker 2: years where he's interacted with other prophecy teachers who there's
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Speaker 2: many prophecy teachers that say, no, this has been historically fulfilled.
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Speaker 2: We I even saw a comment just in the last
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Speaker 2: twenty four hours forty hours from a mirror it Sarfati
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Speaker 2: who said, yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw this and it's
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Speaker 2: it's fulfilled. It's been fulfilled. And elam Is is you know,
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Speaker 2: basically Persia is Iran and Ilam is not. I think
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Speaker 2: there's a couple of things wrong with that. I think
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Speaker 2: that again, Bill Solaz has done so much work on it,
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Speaker 2: and he's provided verification. In fact, he's he even will
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Speaker 2: say publicly that one of the detractors was Mark Kitchcock,
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Speaker 2: which we love Mark Kitchcock, great scholar, and Mark had
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Speaker 2: believed this was fulfilled, fulfilled historically, and you know, Bill
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Speaker 2: was just like, hey, bro, let's talk about it. You know,
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Speaker 2: can you show me where it is? And so Bill
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Speaker 2: has mentioned recently that Mark has since acknowledged that there
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Speaker 2: it has not been historical fulfilled historically from Nebu Canezer
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Speaker 2: and other passes, because the prophecy in Jeremi for and
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Speaker 2: I was given around five ninety seven BC. So there
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Speaker 2: was no subsequent thing after that where this has been fulfilled.
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Speaker 2: And you still have other prophecy teachers that are maybe
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Speaker 2: trying to hold strong. But if you look again at
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Speaker 2: some of Bill's work he has shown John Walverard and others,
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Speaker 2: Charles Dyer, they have very clearly said, look, there's no
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Speaker 2: history of this being fuilled. Now let's talk about a
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Speaker 2: couple other things we know, for example, and Ezeka thirty eight.
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Speaker 2: It talks about Persia. Well, that's easy. Persia is definitely
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Speaker 2: an area that we know is easy. Wrong. But when
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Speaker 2: it talks about Gog and Magog and the land of
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Speaker 2: Rash and Mishek and Tuball and Tagarma, you have all
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Speaker 2: these other ancient phrases, these ancient labels for either lands
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Speaker 2: or people groups. And so the important thing is to
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Speaker 2: say that, well, the Elamites are all gone. Okay, that's
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Speaker 2: that's That's one of the arguments by many is the
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Speaker 2: Elamites are gone, They're no longer around today. It's it's
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Speaker 2: they're all Iranians. Well, if you're gonna say that, then
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Speaker 2: what do you say about Execa thirty eight? Most of
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Speaker 2: those people are gone. But what you do see in
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Speaker 2: Execa thirty eight again are labels for geographical locations. And so, yes,
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Speaker 2: peoples migrate, they ebb and flow. Certainly we know that
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Speaker 2: from history. So when you think about, as you mentioned,
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Speaker 2: for the geographical location of Elam, it's southwestern Iran. It's
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Speaker 2: right along again the northeastern side of the Persian Gulf.
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Speaker 2: Across you have Katar, you have Bahrain, you have basically
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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia. It all centers around that. But that southeastern
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Speaker 2: portion of modern day Iran is the geographical location of
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Speaker 2: the Elamites, and this is Elam and it's again it's
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Speaker 2: a prophecy against Elam. So just like inn Eazeko thirty eight,
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Speaker 2: even though you've had a migration of people, the location
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Speaker 2: is whom God is discussing. And what do we see. Well, again,
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Speaker 2: as Christians, we don't want to see anybody die. Let's
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Speaker 2: be honest. We want everybody to come to faith in
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Speaker 2: salvation through Jesus Christ. So you know eek eighteen, God says,
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Speaker 2: I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, okay,
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Speaker 2: And that's our attitude. So when Komeni dies, I'm not
19:55
Speaker 2: necessarily rejoicing because you know, he's in hell now according
19:58
Speaker 2: to what the scripture would say, because he doesn't have
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Speaker 2: in Jesus. Okay, that's a sad event. But the fact
20:03
Speaker 2: of the matter is it is good that he's gone
20:06
Speaker 2: because he was again the blood on his hands is phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: And again for sending indiscriminately, even going to last year
20:17
Speaker 2: where you have them sending missiles that are landing, just
20:20
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. He didn't care if it landed on
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Speaker 2: a hospital, a elementary school. They sent them indiscriminate. So
20:29
Speaker 2: here's a guy that was extremely evil and wicked. In
20:31
Speaker 2: is good that he's no longer on the face of
20:34
Speaker 2: the earth. But in Jeremi forty nine, I'll just it's
20:38
Speaker 2: not very long. It's only a few verses, five verses.
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Speaker 2: It says the word of the Lord that came to
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah the prophet against Elam. Okay, So this is again
20:46
Speaker 2: right here out of the gate, in the beginning of
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Speaker 2: the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah. So right out
20:52
Speaker 2: of the gate, Elam is a location. If you notice
20:56
Speaker 2: people who are trying to say, well, the Enlites are
20:58
Speaker 2: no longer Elamites. They're gone, been scattered. It's against a
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Speaker 2: geographical location here, okay. So again like like Meshak and Tuball,
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Speaker 2: as we mentioned in Ezeco thirty eight, which is typical,
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Speaker 2: it says, thus says the Lord of Hosts, behold, I
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Speaker 2: will break the bow of Elam the foremost of their might.
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Speaker 2: So right you're out of the gate. I find this
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Speaker 2: extremely interesting. The question is, is what we're witnessing right now?
21:27
Speaker 2: Is this Jeremiah forty nine being fulfilled? I won't say
21:31
Speaker 2: one hundred percent because I have to wait and see
21:33
Speaker 2: what happens, but it sure is fascinating that if you
21:36
Speaker 2: look at this and if you look at what's being attacked,
21:40
Speaker 2: a lot of the places in southwestern Iran, which is
21:43
Speaker 2: the Elam geographical location, Bouchure and other there are a
21:46
Speaker 2: lot of the nuclear sites are in this area. It's
21:49
Speaker 2: it's pretty amazing when you look at it. The second
21:52
Speaker 2: thing I would say is that when when you look
21:55
Speaker 2: at the geographical locations of this stuff, the the mountains
22:00
Speaker 2: are there, and so you you have coming along the coast,
22:04
Speaker 2: the mountains are up kind of more towards uh Tehran
22:07
Speaker 2: and more of the initial sites of the of the
22:10
Speaker 2: of the area. But down here Shiraz down, I would
22:14
Speaker 2: say south is where you have a lot of these reactors.
22:17
Speaker 2: So what else is Iran known for amongst everything else? Uh?
22:23
Speaker 2: If you if you were to ask them, and this
22:24
Speaker 2: is what we've seen, what is their greatest weaponry? Well,
22:29
Speaker 2: it's their ballistic missiles and it's and it's there. It's
22:32
Speaker 2: their drone technology. There's no doubt. And in fact, there
22:36
Speaker 2: was an interesting thing a few years ago, not even
22:38
Speaker 2: a few years ago, just well the last since Trump
22:40
Speaker 2: has been in. Iran is known for his shod drone,
22:46
Speaker 2: and Trump came in and said, hey, we're behind the
22:50
Speaker 2: game here. I want some drones like this and so,
22:54
Speaker 2: and I want them cheap thirty five thousand dollars dollars each.
22:57
Speaker 2: So so the military industry responded and said, yeah, we
23:01
Speaker 2: got a great drone. It's forty million dollars. He said,
23:03
Speaker 2: you didn't listen to me. I said, forty thousand these.
23:07
Speaker 2: And so what they did is they basically reverse engineered
23:11
Speaker 2: Iran's drone and that they matched it, and of course
23:15
Speaker 2: they did their own advancements on it. And so now
23:18
Speaker 2: we have our own fleet of basically Kamakazi drones that
23:22
Speaker 2: we used now with again no human potential of death.
23:27
Speaker 2: And so it's been again kind of like poetic justice
23:30
Speaker 2: that the one thing that Iran has been known for
23:32
Speaker 2: has now been used by others, and especially the United
23:35
Speaker 2: States military. But it's interesting here that the foremost of
23:40
Speaker 2: their MND has been their bow and their ability to
23:43
Speaker 2: launch from a distance ballistic missiles. And now that's exactly
23:46
Speaker 2: what Israel's goal is to take to get rid of
23:49
Speaker 2: all of their ballistic missile abilities to construction manufacturing technology.
23:54
Speaker 2: The United States is primarily more interested in the nuclear efforts,
23:58
Speaker 2: but it goes on. It says against Elam, I will
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Speaker 2: bring the four winds from the four quarters of Heaven
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Speaker 2: and scatter them toward all those winds. There shall be
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Speaker 2: no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go.
24:12
Speaker 2: So it'll It's interesting here that you have a description
24:17
Speaker 2: of God coming in that is going to attack and
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Speaker 2: get rid of the ballistic you know, the bow, the
24:24
Speaker 2: foremight of their strength. But he's going to do it
24:27
Speaker 2: from all of different directions. And that is exactly It's
24:30
Speaker 2: not like again you look, for example in E's Eco
24:32
Speaker 2: thirty eight, they come from the north, right, that was
24:35
Speaker 2: pretty typical and warfare in Israel because you didn't really
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Speaker 2: come from the south too much. You came from the north.
24:40
Speaker 2: But in this sense, there isn't just some force coming
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Speaker 2: in from one direction. God says they're going to come
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Speaker 2: from everywhere. And so you see, whether it's Diego, Garcia,
24:49
Speaker 2: whether it's Israel, whether it's all the bases surrounding from
24:53
Speaker 2: the south in the Persian Gulf are aircraft carriers. All
24:56
Speaker 2: these things are coming from all the different directions. I
24:58
Speaker 2: find that very fascinating. It says in verse thirty seven,
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Speaker 2: for I will cause Ilam to be dismayed before their
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Speaker 2: enemies and before those who seek their life. I will
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Speaker 2: bring disaster upon them, my fierce anger, says the Lord.
25:12
Speaker 2: And I will send the sword after them and tell
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Speaker 2: I have consumed them. I will set my throne in Elam,
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Speaker 2: and I will destroy from there the king and their princes,
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Speaker 2: or their leadership, he says. But it shall come to
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Speaker 2: pass in the latter days that I will bring back
25:28
Speaker 2: the captives of Alam. So that's it, that's the prophecy.
25:31
Speaker 2: So there's a lot going on here. I find it
25:33
Speaker 2: interesting that God says that you have a connection to
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Speaker 2: the latter days, which again historically there's no evidence anywhere
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Speaker 2: that this was fulfilled. You have evidence that God is
25:42
Speaker 2: going to break the bow, which is their long range efforts,
25:45
Speaker 2: which is their strength. God is also going to destroy
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Speaker 2: the leadership, but he's going to set up his throne
25:50
Speaker 2: in Elam. There's other that phraseology is using other prophets
25:57
Speaker 2: in speaking about just the sovereignty of God. I find
26:00
Speaker 2: it interesting that one of the largest revivals in the
26:04
Speaker 2: world right now is happening in Iran people are coming
26:09
Speaker 2: and are reaching out to the Lord Jesus Christ. We
26:13
Speaker 2: know from for years that Jesus has been appearing too
26:16
Speaker 2: many in dreams because again there's not a lot of
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Speaker 2: churches going on there in the sense of overt public churches.
26:22
Speaker 2: So all those seeds that have been planted in the past.
26:26
Speaker 2: People are rejoicing in the streets because comane is gone.
26:29
Speaker 2: Leadership's gone. So there's a lot of hope and confidence
26:33
Speaker 2: that there could be an even greater spiritual revival of
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Speaker 2: the gospel in Iran. Is that what God means by
26:39
Speaker 2: setting his throne in Elam. We do know that again,
26:44
Speaker 2: Persia is a variet is a big area. Persia is going.
26:49
Speaker 2: That's what Ezego thirty eight. Persia is going to still
26:51
Speaker 2: be involved in Exege thirty eight, but they're down on
26:54
Speaker 2: the list. They're not some of the key leaders. So
26:58
Speaker 2: in that sense they have this future involvement, but it's
27:03
Speaker 2: not as strong. They're not the ones leading to charge,
27:06
Speaker 2: and so that the hatred of Israel by many there
27:09
Speaker 2: Right now you have two groups. You have those that
27:12
Speaker 2: are pro regime and there's there was a massive basically
27:17
Speaker 2: march or protest that was pro regime. There was a
27:22
Speaker 2: lot of people, I mean thousands and thousands of people.
27:24
Speaker 2: So no doubt you have those that hate the government
27:27
Speaker 2: and those that are favorable of the government. But when
27:29
Speaker 2: we look over all, this last thing I'll say in
27:31
Speaker 2: Jeremi forty nine is that it's it's a little too
27:36
Speaker 2: early to say, yep, this is happening in our time,
27:39
Speaker 2: but man, it sure has a lot of similarities to
27:42
Speaker 2: what we're seeing in the text.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I think it would be certainly irresponsible for
27:48
Speaker 1: us to say factually that this is Jeremiah forty nine.
27:51
Speaker 1: It certainly seems like there's a lot of moving parts
27:55
Speaker 1: that could potentially lead to that as being a fulfillment.
27:59
Speaker 1: I hold the same as as you do. I don't know.
28:01
Speaker 1: I'm always one of those guys that's kind of a
28:04
Speaker 1: hurry up and wait kind of out of let's just
28:06
Speaker 1: see how this plays out, because and let's let the
28:10
Speaker 1: dust settle and we'll go from there. But you know,
28:13
Speaker 1: the terminology there that's used in Jeremiah forty nine, the
28:16
Speaker 1: breaking the bow of elim, you know, and in some
28:19
Speaker 1: of the research that I've done, the Elamites were were
28:22
Speaker 1: known to be archers. I think that we have a
28:24
Speaker 1: little bit of confirmation of that, and I think it's
28:28
Speaker 1: in Isaiah twenty two, if I'm not mistaken, the Elamites
28:31
Speaker 1: are referred to as as those that have their quivers
28:35
Speaker 1: in their chariots. So I mean, you know, I think
28:37
Speaker 1: that there's some some terminology there that that would tie
28:40
Speaker 1: that to being archers. And like you said, the nuclear capabilities,
28:43
Speaker 1: the bow is the mechanism that would hold the missiles
28:47
Speaker 1: right the order, that whole, that would hold the arrows.
28:50
Speaker 1: And from the nuclear side, the nuclear facilities is what
28:53
Speaker 1: would hold the missiles. That would you know, the launching mechanism,
28:57
Speaker 1: I guess is what I'm trying to get at there.
28:59
Speaker 1: So you know, it would certainly make sense if we
29:02
Speaker 1: see all of their nuclear facilities being taken out and
29:06
Speaker 1: there's absolutely zero nuclear capabilities, you know at that point, Yeah,
29:12
Speaker 1: we could revisit it and say, yeah, Iran has no
29:15
Speaker 1: more nuclear capabilities, everything's been decimated. That's very possible that
29:20
Speaker 1: that was fulfillment of Jeremiah forty nine. But let's just
29:23
Speaker 1: kind of wait and see what happens. Because but we
29:26
Speaker 1: definitely know that that Persia Iran they're not going away
29:30
Speaker 1: because we know, we read about them again into Ezekiel
29:32
Speaker 1: thirty eighth. So whatever short lived potential peace that there
29:36
Speaker 1: may be. And like I said, and there's no guarantee
29:38
Speaker 1: that these people are going to turn turn that way.
29:40
Speaker 1: They may just go the complete opposite of what they're doing.
29:44
Speaker 1: You know, they're being given a golden opportunity. And I
29:47
Speaker 1: don't you know pun intended when I say golden you know,
29:49
Speaker 1: the golden age? Are we about to see the golden
29:52
Speaker 1: age of Iran? You know, there's a lot of people
29:54
Speaker 1: that are hoping for that. I certainly hope that a
29:57
Speaker 1: lot of people do turn their faith and hope to Jesus.
30:00
Speaker 1: And we do know that there's a large revival going
30:02
Speaker 1: on there. But on but look, and you kind of
30:05
Speaker 1: touched on this a little bit at the beginning. You know,
30:09
Speaker 1: a lot of people are talking about the fact that
30:11
Speaker 1: this is happening around the same time that purem is happening.
30:16
Speaker 1: But also there's this blood moon that's coming and and
30:19
Speaker 1: and and is this loss stone on what's going on?
30:22
Speaker 1: I mean, is there any significance to this blood moon
30:25
Speaker 1: that we're going to be seeing tomorrow morning and and
30:27
Speaker 1: the and what's happening right now.
30:29
Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting that that. Uh, you know, I I
30:34
Speaker 2: have very strong opinions about some of this, only because Joe,
30:39
Speaker 2: I've been doing this a long time. Okay, So I've
30:42
Speaker 2: been around a long time, and I've seen, unfortunately a
30:47
Speaker 2: lot of sensationalism, and I just I despise sensationalism and
30:50
Speaker 2: height because I deal a lot with apologetics and over
30:55
Speaker 2: the years, evangelism, because and I've seen the way that
31:00
Speaker 2: prophecy has been hijacked, especially the blood moon hysteria going
31:04
Speaker 2: back to twenty fourteen and fifteen, and how it gives
31:07
Speaker 2: a black eye to those that are trying to evangelize
31:11
Speaker 2: and talk because then these comments get made, these these
31:14
Speaker 2: potential prophecies or predictions get made, and then nothing happens,
31:19
Speaker 2: and then people will come to me and they'll mock
31:22
Speaker 2: prophecy people because oh, yeah, what happened, and what happened
31:25
Speaker 2: with the blood moons? You know, we're still here. And
31:28
Speaker 2: so look, I understand to be excited about Jesus coming back. Man,
31:33
Speaker 2: I'm excited. Let's just do it without predictions. And so
31:37
Speaker 2: just today I was reading something I won't say the
31:38
Speaker 2: name because it's not worth it, but people are going
31:42
Speaker 2: this blood moon's happening tomorrow. It has potentially, it has
31:44
Speaker 2: tremendous not potential, has tremendous significance. You need to look
31:47
Speaker 2: at this. And I just think, here we go again
31:52
Speaker 2: with this nonsense, because if you go back to the
31:55
Speaker 2: eclipse of April of twenty twenty four, same thing. I mean,
31:59
Speaker 2: millions upon millions of hits and views and everything else,
32:03
Speaker 2: and all these things about its significance, and here we
32:06
Speaker 2: are almost two years later. Now we're in March next month,
32:08
Speaker 2: it'll be two years and there was nothing specific in
32:13
Speaker 2: any of those comments and predictions that came true. Zero.
32:19
Speaker 2: And so what I want to say is that I
32:23
Speaker 2: wrote an article and we're going to share this in
32:25
Speaker 2: our substack. We just encourage people to check out Prophecywatchers
32:28
Speaker 2: dot substack dot com. And I have an article that
32:31
Speaker 2: I wrote about what does the Bible say about signs
32:33
Speaker 2: in the heavens? What are the limits to what it says?
32:36
Speaker 2: What does it really mean? There's no doubt that we
32:39
Speaker 2: see stuff in the book Revelation, these very amazing events
32:44
Speaker 2: with the heavens. Jesus said the heavens would be shaken
32:48
Speaker 2: out other Matthew twenty four. But in the book Relation
32:51
Speaker 2: we see a lot of things. So we're gonna post that.
32:54
Speaker 2: If people want to go to a prophecywatches dot com
32:56
Speaker 2: slash blood Moon, or they can go to our substack page,
33:00
Speaker 2: they can see it there too. That should be up
33:02
Speaker 2: by tomorrow. But the fact of the matters, let me
33:05
Speaker 2: just outline a couple of things here, Joe, because what
33:09
Speaker 2: people will say is, well, it can't be coincidence, can't
33:12
Speaker 2: be coincidence. Well, what we say is coincidence, God means
33:20
Speaker 2: other things. Many times we know that God's sovereignty he
33:23
Speaker 2: works over all things. I find it very fascinating. There's
33:26
Speaker 2: certainly a sense of interesting and irony that here we
33:30
Speaker 2: are at Purim, going back to the story of Esther,
33:34
Speaker 2: which the story of Esther takes place in the location
33:37
Speaker 2: roughly of Susa, which is where Elam, ancient Elam. And
33:41
Speaker 2: so you have the story of Esther where Hayman was
33:46
Speaker 2: going to kill the Jews, and of course it turned
33:48
Speaker 2: back on his head, kind of what we said earlier.
33:49
Speaker 2: So you're here you have a Komane doing something similar.
33:52
Speaker 2: E mean, though he wasn't down Anylam specifically, so you
33:57
Speaker 2: don't have complete correspondence, but you do have similar things,
34:01
Speaker 2: which again I'm not opposed to God having a sense
34:04
Speaker 2: of humor. But in in the in the book of Genesis,
34:08
Speaker 2: we see again God make this statement, and I just
34:12
Speaker 2: I just want to I just want to read it
34:14
Speaker 2: because people have used this again, the blood moon hysteria,
34:17
Speaker 2: the solar eclipsed hysteria. They've made all these these these comments,
34:22
Speaker 2: and it just simply doesn't hold hold water at all.
34:26
Speaker 2: And so in Genesis it says, this is Genesis one fourteen,
34:31
Speaker 2: it says, and God said, let there be lights in
34:34
Speaker 2: the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from
34:38
Speaker 2: the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons,
34:41
Speaker 2: and for days and for years. So from this passage
34:45
Speaker 2: we see that God set up the heavenly realm. If
34:51
Speaker 2: you want to say, stars, constellations, the moon, the sun.
34:57
Speaker 2: He set them up for five things to separate the
35:01
Speaker 2: day of the night. Well, there's your sun to nothing
35:05
Speaker 2: be for signs. Where I could talk about that for seasons,
35:08
Speaker 2: there's no doubt. Like for example, I tell this people
35:12
Speaker 2: often if you look at the Big Dipper at midnight,
35:17
Speaker 2: it'll tell you exactly which month you're in and so
35:20
Speaker 2: if you want to talk about a harvest season or
35:23
Speaker 2: planting season, if you go out on the spring equinox
35:27
Speaker 2: and you look, for example, at the Big Dipper, it'll
35:29
Speaker 2: be in a very specific twelve o'clock, nine o'clock, three o'clock,
35:33
Speaker 2: six o'clock. So it's fascinating to me of where it's
35:37
Speaker 2: at in the summer or the winter. It's very specific.
35:41
Speaker 2: So the stars give you the seasons, certainly for days,
35:45
Speaker 2: we know again the even the moon cycle. Years we
35:49
Speaker 2: see the overall Mazarath. So all these things were given
35:54
Speaker 2: for all those reasons. Day and night, signs, seasons, days
35:57
Speaker 2: and years. Well, what about signs mode, what about signs? Well,
36:01
Speaker 2: people will use this as that the sun and the
36:07
Speaker 2: moon were given as omens. They will equate signs with
36:11
Speaker 2: like a negative omen. But that that simply is simple
36:16
Speaker 2: is just not true. If you look at the word there,
36:20
Speaker 2: the word oat, it has a lot of different meanings
36:23
Speaker 2: in Hebrew, but one of them in Joshua chapter four,
36:28
Speaker 2: it says I've given these things as a memorial to you.
36:32
Speaker 2: That's really the word where it's the idea of a
36:34
Speaker 2: sign or a memorial or a remembrance, and there's no
36:37
Speaker 2: doubt that when you look at the constellations or the
36:40
Speaker 2: other things, they are meant as a remembrance. They are
36:43
Speaker 2: also helped to bring the festival cycles that the modeem,
36:49
Speaker 2: the seasons, the modeem. It's it's very, very fascinating. But
36:51
Speaker 2: let me say this, Remember all these things were done
36:56
Speaker 2: prior to Genesis chapter three, when sin in the world.
37:00
Speaker 2: That means their original tension. There was nothing negative about
37:03
Speaker 2: these The normal astronomical cycle of the sun and the moon,
37:09
Speaker 2: and the orbit around the Earth, and the twenty four
37:11
Speaker 2: hours and all the constellations. None of those were meant
37:15
Speaker 2: as omens. Not a single time in the Bible do
37:17
Speaker 2: you ever have the natural order of events being used
37:22
Speaker 2: as something ominous? And jeremih chapter ten, the evil, the
37:28
Speaker 2: wicked religions would worship the sun and the moon and
37:31
Speaker 2: the stars and the host of heaven, and that's why
37:32
Speaker 2: God was so upset. But they would use them to
37:36
Speaker 2: control people through omens and fear. God didn't create these
37:42
Speaker 2: things to provide fear or judgment or even a sign
37:45
Speaker 2: of judgment, not a single time ever in the Bible.
37:48
Speaker 2: So well, what about in the Book of Revelation. Well,
37:50
Speaker 2: if you notice. For example, in jul chapter two, it
37:56
Speaker 2: talks about the moon turning to blood. Well, that's before
37:59
Speaker 2: the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord. But it
38:00
Speaker 2: also says there that in other portions Revelation sticks that
38:05
Speaker 2: the sun is darkened. Well, tomorrow morning five o'clock at
38:10
Speaker 2: least for me, if it's clear there's going to be
38:13
Speaker 2: a blood moon, Well, how do you have that the
38:15
Speaker 2: sun is shining light? The light is bending around the
38:18
Speaker 2: Earth's atmosphere and through dust and other things. It then
38:22
Speaker 2: shines on the moon, which causes it to be red
38:25
Speaker 2: because the Earth is blocking the Sun and it casts
38:29
Speaker 2: as shadow on the moon. But that basically light that's
38:33
Speaker 2: bending around is what causes the blood moon. But if
38:38
Speaker 2: the sun is dark, which the Bible says it will be,
38:41
Speaker 2: you can't have a blood moon. So what that tells
38:44
Speaker 2: me is when those events happen in the book Revelation,
38:49
Speaker 2: or even in Matthew twenty six and twenty seven, where
38:53
Speaker 2: you have the sun going dark for three hours, there
38:57
Speaker 2: is no natural mechanism for that. That is a supernatural event.
39:02
Speaker 2: So what I'm saying is this God set up all
39:05
Speaker 2: of the signs and or the sun and the moon
39:08
Speaker 2: and the stars to be for those five reasons. None
39:11
Speaker 2: of those are negative. God never says a lunar eclipse
39:15
Speaker 2: is bad. When you do see the blood turning red,
39:19
Speaker 2: it's a supernatural event. There are lunary eclipses, blood red
39:24
Speaker 2: moons constantly, and in fact, this blood moon is not
39:27
Speaker 2: even going to be over the land of Israel at all.
39:31
Speaker 2: And so when people say this is significant significant, what
39:34
Speaker 2: is it signifying. There's no there's nowhere in the Bible again,
39:40
Speaker 2: anybody that's trying to say that this is an an
39:42
Speaker 2: ominous event or it's predicting judgment. That's that's Jeremiah chapter ten,
39:47
Speaker 2: verse two. And well, you know, God says, avoid those
39:50
Speaker 2: people because they are pandering God's natural order for fear.
39:55
Speaker 2: And God never does that with the natural order. Now,
39:57
Speaker 2: when you have took a revelation, all bets are off
39:59
Speaker 2: because you have the sun being darken, the moon being
40:02
Speaker 2: dark and the stars themselves being darkened. You have this supernatural,
40:05
Speaker 2: unheard of events that are happening during the booker relations.
40:10
Speaker 2: So all that to say is this one encourage people,
40:13
Speaker 2: do your homework. Look at what the Bible says. Again,
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Speaker 2: we'll have the article put up there. But there is
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Speaker 2: nothing to fear, and anybody that claims to that this
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Speaker 2: is signifying something very specific, avoid them, Ignore them, because
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Speaker 2: that's God tells you to avoid those people in Jeremiah
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Speaker 2: chapter ten, verse do because they're pandering God's normal order
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Speaker 2: of things and they're using it to bring fear or
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Speaker 2: something ominous that is not what the Bible says.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And as the kids say these days, diddo on
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Speaker 1: all that mondo, right, diddo. So but with that, you know,
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Speaker 1: there was so many people last year whenever it came
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Speaker 1: to the Feast of Trumpets that got so bold up
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Speaker 1: in this is going to happen, the Rapture's gonna happen,
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Speaker 1: and it led so many people to walk away that said,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm done. I don't want to have
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Speaker 1: anything to do with the church anymore. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to have anything to do with the prophecy. I'm not
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Speaker 1: watching it. You know, they were robbed of the blessed hope.
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Speaker 1: They were robbed of of, you know, looking for the
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Speaker 1: appearing of our Lord, the Savior, right, and potentially robbed
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Speaker 1: of a crown that they may receive one day because
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Speaker 1: they're no longer looking right, And and any time that
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Speaker 1: we see things like this, these blood moons, that's taking
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Speaker 1: our attention completely, you know, off the the way that
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Speaker 1: we should be. And I think you the most profound
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Speaker 1: thing that you said in that entire thing is that
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Speaker 1: this blood moon it's not even over the nation of Israel.
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Speaker 1: It's not I mean, like so like, why are we
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Speaker 1: even concerning ourselves with it? So, you know, we have
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Speaker 1: to be careful, we have to be more responsible when
41:56
Speaker 1: we when we look at these types of things, because
41:59
Speaker 1: there are people that are looking to us. There are
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Speaker 1: people that are looking on these YouTube channels and all
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Speaker 1: these people they're looking for direction, they're looking for teaching,
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Speaker 1: they're looking for somebody to tell them what's going on.
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Speaker 1: I hear that there's some kind of significance to this thing,
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Speaker 1: this blood moon thing. Tell me what it is. And
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Speaker 1: then when they go watch these channels, they may get
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Speaker 1: their hopes up just to have them bashed. Just like
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Speaker 1: last year with the unbelievable date setting that was going on.
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Speaker 1: So many people got their hopes up and they were
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Speaker 1: just dashed. And you know, it's something that we definitely
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Speaker 1: don't want to do here. I mean, we definitely want
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Speaker 1: to look at what's going on in the world. But
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Speaker 1: we you know, sensationalism has never done anything good for anybody.
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Speaker 2: Nope. I tell people that listen church, be excited about Jesus,
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Speaker 2: but don't be gullible. And we saw this two years
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Speaker 2: ago with the solar eclipse, remember the solar eclipse of
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Speaker 2: August of seventeen and then of April of twenty four
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Speaker 2: and the X Marxist spot, and it was this is
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Speaker 2: this is it? The X is there, it's gonna it's
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Speaker 2: it's a sight of judgment. It's the sign of this.
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Speaker 2: It's the sign of that. Again, millions upon millions of
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Speaker 2: views and hype and sensationalism. Well, what was it? Nothing?
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Speaker 2: It came to that. So don't be glible in this regard. Now, granted,
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Speaker 2: and I've heard other people say, and it's it's very unloving.
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Speaker 2: They'll be like, well, it didn't hurt my faith even
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Speaker 2: though it came and went. I don't mind the predictions.
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Speaker 2: It didn't hurt my faith. Well, you know, good for you. Honestly,
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Speaker 2: I really am glad that your faith is able to
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Speaker 2: be strong in that regard. But the loving thing to
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Speaker 2: do in Romans fourteen, it says to love the brother
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Speaker 2: that has weaker faith in you, because I had some
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Speaker 2: people go well off if their faith, if their faith
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Speaker 2: was weak and it frustrated them, well, then that's on them,
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Speaker 2: that's their problem. Have you not read Romans fourteen? Paul says, Hey,
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to even deny ourselves for our brother or
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Speaker 2: sister in Christ who has a weaker faith, show compassion
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Speaker 2: for them. And so don't simply just dismiss them as
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Speaker 2: having weaker faith, because I'm not saying that. Paul says.
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Speaker 2: Those who have more rules and more legalism, whether it's
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Speaker 2: related to drinking or days or days of the week
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Speaker 2: or food or things, yeah they have a weaker faith.
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Speaker 2: But Paul doesn't. He says, why do you show contempt
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Speaker 2: on Why do you think you're more arrogant? Why do
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Speaker 2: you show an arrogance towards them and contempt that that
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Speaker 2: just because your faith is stronger, Well, don't don't set
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Speaker 2: a stumbling back before them. So in this regard, what
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Speaker 2: I hear people saying is, well, let the predictions continue
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Speaker 2: because it doesn't hurt my faith. Well it hurts theirs, Yes,
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Speaker 2: it does hurt theirs, and so it is extremely unloving.
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Speaker 2: Uh to encourage predictions or other things, or just even insinuations.
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Speaker 2: I think the lovliness is to recognize, Listen, these things
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Speaker 2: don't they don't help anybody. And granted, if you've got
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Speaker 2: strong faith, that's fine, but you know what, for the
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Speaker 2: sake of are those that are weak stop doing it.
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Speaker 2: And again, even for those that are strong, I would say,
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Speaker 2: how strong is it if you are allowing yourself to
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Speaker 2: be gullible enough to believe these hype these hype people,
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Speaker 2: these sensationalists. Just because you're just because your excitement is
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Speaker 2: allowing you that doesn't it shows you have a lack
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Speaker 2: of discernment. Be excited, but be excited with discernment. And
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Speaker 2: that's really the key in all of this. Again, listen,
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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go today. Okay, I'm as excited as anybody,
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Speaker 2: But I also want to see again having a pastor's
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Speaker 2: heart for people. I want to I don't want see
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Speaker 2: anybody gulible. I don't want to see the cause of
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Speaker 2: Christ get hurt. Because again, just today, I'm telling you
45:26
Speaker 2: I've seen things that this is super significant. This lunaric
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Speaker 2: clips for tomorrow. Lunar eclipses every year, there's at least
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Speaker 2: two per years somewhere in the world, and does every
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Speaker 2: single one of them have significance over the last two
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Speaker 2: thousand years or five thousand years or whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: The answer is no, they don't. So anyways, appreciate you
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Speaker 2: bringing that up, Joe. Oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: And the last thing that I'll say on that is,
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Speaker 1: with all that's going on with Israel, Iran, all these attacks,
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Speaker 1: people are looking for answers, They're looking for hope. They're
45:59
Speaker 1: not looking for a blood moon. So don't you know
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Speaker 1: your primary your primary goal right now to people that
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Speaker 1: are seeking hope, that are seeking answers, is to point
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Speaker 1: them to Jesus. Don't point them to a red moon
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Speaker 1: or a blood moon. Point them to Jesus.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Amen, And well Joe, it's always good and giving
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Speaker 2: a little update here. Thanks everybody for watching it again.
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Speaker 2: We're watching the thing with Israel, will continue to be
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Speaker 2: talking about it, no doubt, We'll be assessing. I have
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Speaker 2: plans to talk with Bill Solis as well. We're waiting
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Speaker 2: to see some of this unfold a little bit more.
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Speaker 2: We're being cautious as you as we should. I find
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Speaker 2: it interesting so far, no doubt, and as we know
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Speaker 2: in the Middle East, things can change quickly. I mean
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Speaker 2: over the last couple of years, after pre October seventh,
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Speaker 2: post October seventh, the whole geopolitics of the Middle East
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Speaker 2: has changed dramatically. I mean, who would have thought that
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Speaker 2: the potential for the current regime in Iran might go down,
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Speaker 2: which again was hoped for. So keep watching as always
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Speaker 2: we are, keep looking up, keep looking up, keep hoping.
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Speaker 2: May the Lord come back today? That would be exciting,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't it. So thanks Joe and thanks everybody for watching,
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Speaker 2: and we will catch you next time.