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862. Bible Study: Ezekiel 38 (War, timing? Before the Rapture? or After the Rapture?) Both theories presented. · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 38 from the book of Ezekiel.
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  Dear Lord, please be with us as we read through this chapter and
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  please help us to have insight inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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  Please bring any thoughts to mind that you would like us to
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  know. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So this one might be a little longer one because there's a lot
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  to cover here. And what I'm going to do on this
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  one is read the text first, go through the questions and
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  answers from the Study Bible. Then I'm going to dive into Amir
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  Sarfati's book, which I highly recommend.
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  There's a lot of great insight in here and especially on this
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  chapter. So you can find that on Amazon.
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  It's called exploring Ezekiel and his last name.
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  Well, first name is AM IR last name is TSARFATI with Doctor
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  Rick Yohn YOHN. They're the authors of this book
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  and you probably, if you find this interesting, there's a lot
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  more content in it. But I'm just going to address
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  the part part of it that we're dealing with on chapter 38
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  because he has some really good insights in here.
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  So let's get started. The OK, the word of the Lord
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  came to me. Son of Man, set your face
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  against Gog in the land of Magog, the chief pre Prince of
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  Meshech and Tubal. Prophecy against him and say
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  this is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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  I am against you Gog, Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal.
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  I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you
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  out with the your whole army, your horses, your horsemen fully
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  armed, and a great horde with large and small Shields, all of
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  them brandishing their swords. Persia, Cush and Put will be
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  with them all with their Shields and helmets.
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  Also Gomer and all of its troops, and Beth, Torgoma from
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  the far north with all of its troops, the many nations with
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  you. Get ready, be prepared, you and
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  all the hordes gathered about you and take command of them.
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  After many days you will be called to arms.
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  In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from
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  war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the
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  mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate.
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  They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them
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  live in safety. You and your troops and many
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  nations with you will go up advancing like a storm.
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  You will be like a cloud covering the land.
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  This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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  On that day, thoughts will come into your mind and you will
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  devise an evil scheme. You will say, I will invade a
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  land of unwalled villages. I will attack a peaceful and
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  unsuspecting people, all of them living without walls and without
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  gates and bars. I will plunder and loot and turn
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  my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered
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  from the nations, rich in livestock and goods living at
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  the center of the land. Sheba and Didan and the
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  merchants of Tarshish are all let's see.
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  And all her villages will say to you, have you come to plunder?
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  Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and
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  gold, to take away livestock and goods, and to seize?
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  Seize much plunder, therefore, Son of Man, prophecy, and say to
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  God, this is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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  In that day when my people Israel are living in safety,
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  will you not take notice of it? You will come from your place in
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  the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them
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  riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army.
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  You will advance against my people Israel, like a cloud that
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  covers the land. In days to come, Gog, I will
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  bring you against the land and wait.
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  In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against My land, so
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  that the nations may know Me when I improved wholly through
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  You before their eyes. This is what the Sovereign Lord
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  says. You are the one I spoke of in
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  former days, My servants, the prophets of Israel.
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  Let's see, I want to read that again.
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  This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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  You are the one I spoke of in former days by My servants, the
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  prophets of Israel at that time. They prophesied for years that I
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  would bring you against them. This is what will happen in that
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  day when Gog attacks the land of Israel.
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  My hot anger will be aroused. Dec declares the sovereign Lord.
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  In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there
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  shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
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  The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and the beasts of
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  the field, every creature that moves along the ground and all
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  the people on the face of the earth will tremble at My
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  presence. The mountains will be
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  overturned, the cliffs will crumble, and every wall will
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  fall to the ground. I will summon a sword against
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  Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord.
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  Every man's sword will be against his brother.
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  I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed.
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  I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning
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  sulphur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with
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  Him. And so I will show my greatness
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  and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of
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  many nations. Then they will know that I am
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  the Lord. And that's the end of chapter
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  38. Now for me and studying this, I
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  mean, there are so many different opinions and you may
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  get really confused by all these different opinions, but the most
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  important thing for all of us is to go back to scripture and
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  remember what Scripture says. There's lots of speculation
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  about things, but what does Scripture say?
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  And but I think the speculation, you know, is helpful as long as
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  it's not distorted too far from the truth.
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  Because I always think about when Jesus first came, when he
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  was born, that many people missed him because they didn't
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  recognize him, because they had their own mind set how it was
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  going to happen. And because of that, they denied
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  that he was the Messiah. And and so we can very well do
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  the same thing if we are not careful to really focus on
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  scripture. And while opinions are
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  interesting and could open our minds to various possibilities,
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  we have to know that they are opinions or theories about how
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  this will all happen. So as far as who's involved with
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  this, we can go through. I'm going to go through what I
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  had written in my study Bible and then I'll read Amir's book
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  too because there may be a contradiction there, I'm not
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  sure. But this is just thing.
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  These are things that I was searching because I always like
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  to see what countries do these represent.
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  So in studying this, the word of the Lord came to me.
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  Son of man, set your face against Gog.
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  Now, Gog is a word that doesn't necessarily.
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  It's not a name of someone, but it's basically like a chief
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  leader. And I'm just going to throw this
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  out there because it, you know, perhaps this could be something
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  a spiritual entity. And I'll probably get into this
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  a little bit more when we get through other parts of scripture
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  that I've looked up and have ready.
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  There's, like I said, this is going to be long because there's
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  a lot to discuss about it. But this is against a leader.
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  Now the chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal know when he says a
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  chief Prince, it could be a Prince, it could be a spiritual
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  Prince. And the why I would say that is
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  because of what Daniel said when his prayers went up to God.
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  And the Angel Michael came to him and said, as soon as your
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  prayers went up, I was on my way, but I was stopped by the
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  Prince of Persia. Now he's talking about something
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  in the heavenly realms. And so perhaps this could be
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  something in the heavenly realms.
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  And when you study the Bible and I guess other, you know, other,
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  well, actually Ephesians chapter 6 talks about it, talks about
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  principalities in the heavenly realms.
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  It does seem like God for a temporary period has given
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  heavenly beings, probably angels, to oversee certain areas
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  of land. I've talked about this in prior
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  podcasts before and there's there's some validity to it.
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  It's almost like certain lands are overseen by certain entities
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  because no matter who the people are in the land, it seems like
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  there's always the same result, just like Israel has, you know,
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  enemy nations surrounding it. And throughout the history of
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  the Bible, this is going back thousands of years, You will see
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  the same thing like you. You will just see it repeated
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  over and over. And so it just seems like it
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  might be a spiritual influence over the people that caused them
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  to act the same. Like history repeats itself over
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  and over again. Just a OK, that's a thought.
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  It's derived from the Bible, something to consider, but not a
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  fact. It's just an inference that's
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  been made because of what the Bible says.
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  OK, so let's see Meshach and Tubal, I came up with this is
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  representative of Turkey, but I'm going to look to see like
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  it's kind of West of the land of Magog is currently western
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  Turkey. And so we'll see what what that
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  is on my notes I wrote down like Russia, Turkey, Iran, Egypt,
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  Sudan. These are different countries
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  that I thought were represented here.
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  Persia is certainly Iran and that's listed here.
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  Kush is let's see, I've got let's see, Gomer would be
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  Russia, Beth Togomar was Asia Minor and some of Turkey and
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  Kush would be like an Egypt cushion put Sudan.
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  And I think those are the the names of the countries that I
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  pulled from. And then in verse 13 it says
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  Sheba and Didan. So Didan is I think Saudi Arabia
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  and Sheba, well, Sheba I think is modern day Yemen because I
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  remember looking at the Queen of Sheba before and the merchants
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  of Tarshish, which I believe are Western Europe, her villager,
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  her villages will say to you, have you come to plunder?
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  It's not saying they are in the alliance, but they are, they are
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  affected. They are seeing this and they're
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  saying, you know, are you coming to plunder to Gog and and so Gog
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  is said to come from the place in the far north, you and many
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  nations with you. So there, you know, is that are
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  those people nations or are they spiritual nations?
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  I'm not really sure, but you will advance against my people
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  Israel like a cloud. So this is a comparison like a
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  cloud that covers the land. In days to come, Gog, I will
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  bring you against my land so that the nations may know me
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  when I improved wholly through you before their eyes.
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  So just something to consider. I did write down a few notes
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  where I had listened to different eschatologist people.
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  I'll say eschatologist. I don't know if there's such a
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  word, but the study of eschatology is the end times.
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  Anyway, there's there's a couple of different opinions about
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  this, this war. There's the timing.
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  Some say it could be before the 70th week of Daniel.
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  Then some say it's at the end of the 70th week of Daniel.
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  And then there's a third opinion that says it starts before the
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  midpoint, but it's a long war that ends at the end of the 70th
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  week with the Battle of Armageddon.
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  So as we can see here, people who study eschatology or the end
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  times and Bible prophecy do not agree on when it happens.
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  So there's multiple theories. So again, the the word that's
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  found in the Bible is the most critical to look at.
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  Those were kind of the ends of the notes that I had.
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  I'm going to read what the study Bible says for these chapters.
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  So it says, was this a curse? It may be better to think of the
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  phrase set your face against as a prophetic judgment rather than
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  a curse. Because of their sin and hatred
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  for Israel, the nation's received a prophecy about the
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  judgment God would send against them as He defended his people.
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  Makes me think about that verse where it says you know I will
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  bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.
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  Like anyone who comes against Israel, you have to know what
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  Bible prophecy says about it. It's not going to not going to
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  go well. So who were all these nations?
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  Some identify Gog as a specific historical figure.
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  Others think he symbolizes the leader of the forces of evil.
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  Magog, as well as Meshech and Tubal, may refer to peoples Gog
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  ruled rather than a geographic. Gog ruled rather than a
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  geographic area. While it is true that Ezekiel
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  used the name of nations and peoples from his time, his
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  prophecy seems to fit the end times.
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  Nothing in history corresponds to the severity of this
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  judgment, suggesting that it remains yet to be fulfilled.
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  So it, you know, this one does say in future years and then it
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  says on that day. And so the day of the Lord is
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  kind of what that makes me think of.
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  And also when we get into the deeper into the chapter, there
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  are a few phrases that I did write about that I didn't talk.
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  I didn't reference just a minute ago about my comments on it
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  because I think some of this happens at the 6th seal and I
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  will point that out. But I have a whole lot of Bible
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  verses to compare this to. So let's go to the study Bible
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  question and answer first. Why put hooks in their jaws?
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  Fish hooks were literally used in ancient times to lead
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  prisoners into captivity. By inserting fish hooks into
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  their jaws or noses and attaching the hooks to strong
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  lines, 1 soldier could lead many prisons into captivity.
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  And then let's see, does God sometimes cause war?
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  God can use anything to accomplish His purposes, even
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  those things that humans intend for evil.
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  God used war to punish the wicked.
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  He also engaged in battle to defend the righteous and the
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  honor of His name. God is sovereign and He and uses
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  all human affairs to bring glory to Himself.
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  What had early What had earlier prophets said about Gog?
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  Some suggest Gog was the leader of Assyria.
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  They say that the prophets. They say that the prophets
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  Isaiah in chapter 10 verses 5 through 16 and Micah chapter 5
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  verse five had spoken earlier about him.
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  Another view is that the earlier prophets had never prophesized
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  specifically about Gog, but had foretold God's judgment on the
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  ungodly nations of the north. And that's found in Joel chapter
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  3 verses one through 16 and Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 8.
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  Those who hold to this view say these prophecies will be
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  fulfilled in God's judgment on Gog.
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  So you can see right there, there's a lot of different
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  opinions about this. Are earthquakes acts of God?
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  Earthquakes are just one means God uses to bring about his
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  judgment. This prophecy says that Gog will
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  also be judged by anarchy, pestilence, and other natural
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  disasters. It may be hard to accept
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  earthquakes as acts of God, particularly when they bring
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  indiscriminate suffering on both the wicked and the righteous.
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  Yet God established the laws of nature.
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  As a result, though he may not be the immediate cause of the
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  let's see. Yeah, let me read that again.
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  As a result, though He may not be the immediate cause of a
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  disaster, He allows it. So again, that the allowance of
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  it could be because of judgement on something too.
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  So then it says what is holy about wiping out a nation?
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  Simply put, wiping out a nation can be holy if it is just.
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  Such justice must include the authority to impose behavioral
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  and moral standards on awareness of the requirements and true
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  guilt. Only God can administer these
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  standards of justice. That's a really important
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  statement to make because there's a lot of religions who
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  think that they can administer moral standards, but it's only
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  God who can administer the standards of justice.
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  Here's there's just four different statements about this.
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  Number one, God has the right to require certain behavior of
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  people. Because He is the creator of
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  heaven and earth, He expects certain behavior from those He
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  has made #2 God's requirements are not arbitrary or
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  inconsistent. His laws are moral and just,
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  rooted in His holy and righteous character #3 people know about
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  God's requirements most clearly through His Word, but also
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  through their consciences. For even those who have never
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  heard God's written, written revelation have had moral truth
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  imprinted on their hearts. And you can find support for
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  that statement in Romans chapter 2, verses 14 through 16 #4 All
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  who are judged have broken God's law.
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  Often judgment comes only after a nation has long spurned God's
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  mercy and patience. God gave the Amorites more than
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  400 years to abandon their Wiccan way wicked ways.
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  You can find that in Genesis chapter 15 verses 13 through 16.
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  But he removed them like a cancer from humanity when they
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  refused to change. Later, it was Israel's turn to
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  be judged for disobeying God's commands.
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  God's justice then is holy and righteous.
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  And that's the end of what the study Bible covers for this
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  chapter. Now I'm going to get into Amir's
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  book, which is very, very interesting.
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  And I think you'll, you'll find, you'll find it interesting too.
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  And then I'll get into all the scripture that that came to mind
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  when I was reading this. Again, like I mentioned,
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  actually, I'll just talk about it, but I won't get into the
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  Scripture. So in verse 19 from chapter 38,
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  it says in my zeal and fiery wrath, I declare that at that
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  time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of
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  Israel. So and then it says also that
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  all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my
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  presence. Well, that sounds like when
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  Jesus returns when they see him coming in the clouds, which I
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  believe is at the 6th seal, and I will show you that a little
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  bit later. And then it talks about like
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  judgement and wrath because when Jesus comes on the clouds, right
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  after that is his wrath because people start hiding and wanting
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  the rocks to cover them. And it also talks about an
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  earthquake happening at that time.
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  There's several different times in Scripture where it talks
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  about earthquakes in these end times.
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  So we will get into all of that at the very end of this podcast.
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  So right now I'm going to jump into Amir's book and we're on
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  page 200 of his book and it kind of mid paragraph, the second
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  paragraph. I'm going to just actually I'll
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  do the second paragraph and I'll start there and read through
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  probably the end of this chapter.
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  So given the geopolitical alliances of today's world, it
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  would be very difficult to picture anything but a post
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  rapture Ezekiel war. There is one primary reason for
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  this the United States. The commitment that Washington
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  has made to Jerusalem makes it inconceivable that any alliance,
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  no matter how great, would come against Israel.
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  Economically. It would be a disaster because
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  of the inevitable trade sanctions.
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  These would be imposed not only by the US but also by many other
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  NATO countries that America would draw into its alliance.
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  It is also conceivable, even probable, that an attack on
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  Israel would lead to a military response that could very well
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  turn nuclear. That is something no one wants
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  except for some of the crazy radicals of Iran's Islamist
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  regime. Regime for IS For the Ezekiel
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  war to take place, the US must first be neutralized.
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  That could be achieved through some overwhelming attack by
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  terrorists or by a foreign regime like China.
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  However, the risk of attacking a nation are incredibly high.
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  If the plans were found out, or if the devastation was not
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  thorough enough, the cost in Rep retribution would be exorbitant.
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  A second way that the power of the US could be neutralized is
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  to let the nation gradually deteriorate prior to 2024.
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  Prior to the 2024 presidential election, America's self
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  deletion from relevance was moving at a rapid pace.
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  But suddenly the emergency brake was pulled, the car spun at a
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  180, and a heavy dose of common sense and strength was infused
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  back into American leadership and culture.
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  The question is whether this will last.
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  Will this lead to a two year change, a four year change, or a
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  more long lasting revitalization of traditional values?
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  If this renewal of sanity turns out to simply be a blip in the
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  downward slide of America, then it won't be too long before
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  Israel will be on its own. The 3rd, and what I believe to
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  be the most likely possibility for causing the US to fall off
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  its number one seat on the world stage, is for the Rapture to
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  occur. There is no other nation on
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  earth that will experience the same level of internal wreckage
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  due to the astonishing number of people who will disappear in a
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  single moment. A quick search on the Internet
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  will provide you with a widespread range of percentages
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  relating to the number of evangelical Christians in
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  America. By quote evangelical, I'm
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  talking about the true born again, spirit filled believers
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  in Jesus Christ who will take flight in the rapture.
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  Optimistic polls say as many as 30 to 35%, which seems high to
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  me. On the more pessimistic side,
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  there are those who say less than 10%.
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  Just for the sake of argument, let's go with an especially low
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  number of one in 20 Americans being truly saved.
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  With a population of just under 350 million, that would mean
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  17.5 million believers would suddenly vanish from the
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  populace the US would absolutely shut down.
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  Think of what happened when COVID hit.
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  By the loosest definitions, 1.2 million died over a four year
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  period. Businesses, food supply,
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  entertainment, and everything else you can think of came to a
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  screeching halt. Well, all except for government,
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  which went into hyperdrive. If instead of less than a half a
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  percent dying over 4 years, you have 5% or more gone
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  instantaneously, the US will immediately fall from its
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  position as a world player, at least for a time.
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  There will be way too much for the nation to do to try to get
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  its legs back under itself. That will open the door for
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  other nations to carry out the secret plans they've had neatly
• 28:11
  stored away in a file cabinet. Marked quote for when the United
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  States collapses China. China will immediately take over
• 28:19
  Taiwan and then sweep through the Eastern Pacific.
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  The Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, and possibly even
• 28:27
  Australia will all come under Beijing's sway.
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  While that's going on, Russia will make a pact with China,
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  essentially saying you do your thing over there and we'll do
• 28:37
  ours over here. Then they'll gather the allies
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  that they already have today, Turkey, Iran and a few others,
• 28:44
  and will put into action a plan for Israel they've had waiting
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  for such a time as this. OK, so that's all Amir's opinion
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  there. And later on we will see some
• 28:58
  various ideas along with us. And here's the timing.
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  This is another thing. Oh, actually there's one thing
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  that Amir didn't talk about that does make me wonder sometimes.
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  You know, I his third theory about the Christians, the true
• 29:14
  born again believers being raptured before all this happens
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  does sound very pleasant. And I that's, that would be very
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  nice. But I also wonder because of our
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  past and our history and all of that, if you know that whole
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  thing about mystery Babylon, you know, could we actually, could
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  the United States actually be mystery Babylon or a portion of
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  it? Like, I think Mystery Babylon is
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  spiritual and I think there are multiple nations that are
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  influenced by that somehow. I think right now we may have a
• 29:52
  reprieve in it, but I'm not really sure.
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  And I, you know, this is not a theory that anyone in the United
• 29:58
  States wants to consider, but it is something that you know, to
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  be, you know, look at what the word says.
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  I mean, it's think about like just the the personification of
• 30:15
  Mystery Babylon and what it actually represents.
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  It's immorality. And I think the United States
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  has a lot of that and, and just it talks about being a, you
• 30:29
  know, a very strong merchant, you know, who is the greatest
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  buyer of goods in the world. I mean that the United States
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  does a lot of that. So I don't know if it is.
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  I really hope that we are not Mystery Babylon, but I'm not too
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  proud to say that we couldn't be.
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  I still think that could be a possibility as well.
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  I would much rather us be just like a mere, you know, assumes
• 30:57
  that we'd be like removed because of a rapture occurrence.
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  But anyway, none of us will know.
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  We're only going to know in hindsight how it unfolds.
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  But it's interesting to think about.
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  Now here's the next thing that he talks about the timing
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  confusion with Revelation 20. So this is this is interesting
• 31:16
  about the timing of things. A second question I this is
• 31:19
  Amir's book. A second question I also receive
• 31:22
  has to do with conflating the Ezekiel war with the final great
• 31:26
  battle of Revelation 20. It's an understandable mistake
• 31:30
  given the name of the primary antagonist.
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  Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of Man, set your
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  face against Gog of the land of Magog, the Prince of Rosh
• 31:41
  Meshech and Tubal, and prophecy against him, and say, Thus says
• 31:46
  the Lord God, behold, I am against you, O Gog the Prince of
• 31:50
  Rosh Meshech and Tubal. From Ezekiel 38, verses one
• 31:54
  through 3, the prophecy was addressed to Gog of the land of
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  Magog. But that isn't the only time we
• 32:00
  hear of Gog. At the end of the Millennium
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  Satan will be released from the abyss, and he will go out to
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  deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth,
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  Gog and Magog, to gather them to battle to to gather them
• 32:15
  together to battle whose number is as the sand of the sea.
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  Revelation 20 verse 8. If Gog of Magog appears to be
• 32:25
  defeated before the tribulation according to Ezekiel 38, then
• 32:30
  why are we seeing him 1007 years later, give or take a few years?
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  Is it possible that the Ezekiel war could really be referring to
• 32:41
  that final battle before the end of the of the world?
• 32:46
  Amir says no, it's not. First, the battle in Ezekiel
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  comes primarily from the north and involves only a few nations.
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  The battle in Revelation 27 through 9 will draw in all
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  nations coming from all directions.
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  Second, while Satan is undoubtedly involved in the
• 33:06
  behind the scenes in the Ezekiel War, Revelation 20 verse 8
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  places him out front leading the charge. 3rd Ezekiel said that
• 33:17
  after after his namesake war. And then here's the quote from
• 33:23
  Scripture. It will come to pass in that day
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  that I will give Gog A burial place there in Israel, the
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  valley of those who pass by east of the sea.
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  And it will, it will obstruct travelers, because they will
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  bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the
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  Valley of Haman Gog. For seven months, the House of
• 33:48
  Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
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  This makes sense if the land is to be purified for further use.
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  But immediately following Revelation 20, war is the Great
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  White Throne Judgment, which is then succeed.
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  Succeeded by the creation of a new heavens and new earth.
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  Cleaning up, then, would be akin to straightening the deck chairs
• 34:17
  on the Titanic. Scripturally, it's clear that
• 34:21
  Ezekiel 38 through 39 and Revelation 20 are talking about
• 34:25
  two different events. So why the similar names in
• 34:28
  Revelation 20? Rather than God being the name
• 34:31
  of a specific report person, it refers to a spirit and the
• 34:37
  attitude of rebellion against God.
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  OK, that's kind of what I believe too.
• 34:42
  That's not to say that Gog, the Prince of Roche, Meshech and
• 34:47
  Tubal could not also be a person who represents that rebellious
• 34:52
  spirit. However, I doubt that you'll
• 34:54
  find that three letter name on his driver's license.
• 34:58
  The forces coming out of the far north in Ezekiel 38 are rising
• 35:03
  up to destroy the children of Israel, God's people.
• 35:07
  In Revelation 20, Satan is making a last, futile effort to
• 35:12
  take down God himself. In both cases, there is
• 35:16
  rebellion against God, and in both cases Gog is defeated.
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  Who's who? The bad guys, a coalition of
• 35:25
  enemies is journeying down toward Israel.
• 35:28
  Some are easy to identify, but others take a little more work
• 35:32
  to figure out. To get a good idea of who we're
• 35:35
  talking about, we need to go all the way back to the flood.
• 35:38
  When God washed the world clean, He saved Noah and his family
• 35:43
  which included one wife, three daughters in law, and three
• 35:47
  sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. Noah and his sons were given the
• 35:53
  mandate be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
• 35:57
  Genesis 9 verse one. Unfortunately they liked it
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  where they were. Lush greenery, strong tower
• 36:04
  building soil. So the Lord mixed up their
• 36:07
  language and the people scattered.
• 36:10
  The descendants of Shem went S to Arabia and Asia.
• 36:16
  The children of Ham also went S, but they kept going all the way
• 36:19
  to Africa. Jaypeth, though, went north and
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  West. When we look at the names of his
• 36:27
  sons and grandsons, we'll see that a few fit into our story
• 36:30
  now. The sons of Jaypeth were Gomer,
• 36:35
  Magog, Mayday, Jayvan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tyrus.
• 36:41
  The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riffath and Togarmah.
• 36:47
  We already met Gog of Magog, the Prince of Rosh Meshech and Tubal
• 36:52
  above. The leader will travel down to
• 36:55
  invade the nation of Israel and he'll he'll be bringing friends.
• 36:59
  I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and lead you
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  out with all your army, horses, horsemen and splendidly clothes.
• 37:07
  A great company with bucklers and Shields, all of them hand
• 37:11
  handling swords. Persia, Ethiopia and Libya are
• 37:16
  with them, all of them with shield and helmet.
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  Gomer and its troops. The House of Tagarma from the
• 37:23
  far far north and all its troops.
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  Many people are with you. That's Ezekiel 38 verses 4
• 37:29
  through 6. On first glance it seems quite
• 37:33
  easy to determine the location of Magog.
• 37:35
  Rosh sounds a lot like Russia. A case could be made for Meshach
• 37:40
  being Moscow and for Tubal. It could, it could it could it
• 37:46
  maybe be Tobolsk, that smallest smallish city located way E
• 37:52
  above Kazakhstan? Maybe, but maybe not.
• 37:58
  I'm not denying that Gog refers to a Russian leader.
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  I'd just like stronger evidence. In Ezekiel 39, when God told Gog
• 38:08
  once again he was going to lead the Prince down to Israel, he
• 38:12
  added one more detail. Behold, I am against you, O Gog,
• 38:16
  the Prince of Rosh Meshech and Tubal, and I will turn you
• 38:21
  around and lead you on, bringing you up from the four far north,
• 38:27
  and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
• 38:30
  Verses one through 2. Where is Gog being LED from the
• 38:33
  far north? What country is to the far north
• 38:38
  of Israel? Russia.
• 38:40
  So geographically this makes sense.
• 38:43
  One more source lends credence to this Gog and Magog connection
• 38:47
  to Russia. Josephus, the 1st century Jewish
• 38:50
  historian, equated these two entities with the Scythians, who
• 38:55
  lived north of the Caspian Sea. These warlike people caused so
• 39:01
  much trouble from the 8th through the 3rd century BC that
• 39:04
  Alexander the Great supposedly built a wall to keep them from
• 39:10
  invading his territory. The name of this Great Barrier?
• 39:15
  The Wall of Magog Amir. Did I just see a supposedly in
• 39:21
  that last piece of evidence? At last you did.
• 39:24
  The reason is because the historical confirmation of that
• 39:28
  wall is not at a great level that I would call a sure thing.
• 39:33
  Also, Josephus, while a great resource for the feel of
• 39:37
  historical time period, is not always 100% accurate on the
• 39:41
  details. That is why I relegate this to
• 39:45
  lens credence category instead of the IS evidence list.
• 39:51
  Doctor John Wool, Board former president and chancellor of
• 39:56
  Dallas Theological Seminary, sums up the argument for a
• 40:00
  Russian Magog. The only nation that the
• 40:04
  description far north would fit would be Russia and so anyway,
• 40:17
  which of course is to the north of Israel with Moscow being
• 40:21
  directly north of Jerusalem. Those though some attempt to
• 40:26
  question the identification because Russia extends more than
• 40:29
  6000 miles east and West. Any reference to a nation to the
• 40:36
  far north of Israel would have to be Russia because of the
• 40:42
  geographic facts involved, What we know of Russia, its military
• 40:48
  strength, its expressionistic ideologies, and its overwhelming
• 40:52
  desire for energy. It is a perfect fit for Magog,
• 40:58
  where are located, Roche, Meshech, and Tubel.
• 41:02
  OK, so I'm going to pause here on Amir's book because I do kind
• 41:07
  of struggle with this Russia. I do think if you go like it,
• 41:10
  Russia is north. There's no question that it is
• 41:14
  north. But immediately to the north of
• 41:17
  Israel would be like Lebanon and Turkey and then skip over the
• 41:24
  Black Sea and then you get to Ukraine and Russia.
• 41:30
  So I mean, if you look on a map, just look on Google Maps and you
• 41:34
  know, see Israel and all the surrounding.
• 41:36
  I mean, Lebanon is still north of Israel.
• 41:39
  Syria is still like northeast of Israel and Turkey.
• 41:43
  So I don't know why eschatologist dismiss that it
• 41:49
  could be Turkey, Syria or Lebanon.
• 41:52
  To me personally, those are still candidates for these, for
• 41:58
  this area and less, you know, they would be considered part of
• 42:01
  Shem, but he said they went South.
• 42:03
  So I don't think that's part of Shem of the, that group.
• 42:07
  I, it would have to be part of Jaypath.
• 42:10
  And I think Jaypath actually, I don't know.
• 42:14
  So anyway, it might be good. And I didn't do this right now I
• 42:19
  have in the past, but just to pull up a map of where Japheth
• 42:23
  settled, where Shem settled, and where Ham settled the three sons
• 42:27
  of Noah and, and see, because it, it clearly, I think the
• 42:33
  Bible clearly is from the land that Japheth settled in.
• 42:38
  And especially with all those names and the children's names
• 42:41
  being associated with that part of the lineage from Noah's son.
• 42:46
  So I definitely think someone from the north is up in that
• 42:50
  area. But what modern day country it
• 42:54
  is. I, I don't know that I'm so
• 42:56
  quick to say that it is going to be Russia, but it could be, you
• 43:00
  know. So again, I just want to put
• 43:02
  that out there and just things to consider when we're looking
• 43:07
  at these kinds of speculations about who might be involved.
• 43:12
  All right, so then it says, then it talks about the rest of the
• 43:16
  alliance. So then there is the rest of the
• 43:19
  alliance. This is Amir's book.
• 43:21
  Persia is Iran. Ethiopia is a translation of the
• 43:25
  Hebrew word Kush and is centered on Sudan.
• 43:30
  Put is the next country which the NKJV accurate accurately
• 43:36
  translates as Libya. Gomer and the House of Togarma
• 43:41
  or Beth Togarma are both part of Turkey.
• 43:46
  It is true that Togarma is also referred to as the far north,
• 43:51
  but Turkey is just a is just a Baltic Sea or small country of
• 43:56
  Georgia away from Russia. Depending on where you're
• 43:59
  looking. All of it is far north of
• 44:02
  Israel. What we gather from the Lord's
• 44:05
  words is that an axis of evil made-up from countries to the
• 44:10
  north, east and West of Israel will form with the intent of
• 44:15
  destroying the Jewish nation. It's interesting to note that
• 44:20
  for the first time in Israel's history, it will be it will only
• 44:24
  be second tier countries that will attack.
• 44:28
  No nations along Israel's borders will be part of this
• 44:32
  attempted invasion. Lebanon, Syria, and possibly
• 44:36
  Jordan will possess the land that the attack will come from.
• 44:41
  However, the nations themselves will not be participants.
• 44:46
  The question remains why these powers, particularly the three
• 44:50
  main players, would be so intent on invading and destroying
• 44:54
  Israel. The answer is not complicated,
• 44:57
  especially if you understand who these nations are.
• 45:00
  For Russia, their purpose is power, and that is in two
• 45:04
  senses. First, they are an energy
• 45:08
  economy. Israel is cutting in on their
• 45:11
  revenues with massive natural gas fields located just off the
• 45:16
  Mediterranean coast. Russia covets the fields and
• 45:20
  needs to reclaim their former customers that Israel is now
• 45:25
  supplying. Second, the Soviet Union used to
• 45:29
  be on par with America in strength and begrudged respect.
• 45:33
  That is no longer true, especially with the current
• 45:36
  status of the war with Ukraine. That may change by the time this
• 45:41
  book is published, but right now both sides are taking heavy
• 45:44
  losses and both are looking for a dignified way out.
• 45:48
  If Russia becomes the major player in the Middle East by
• 45:51
  leading this takedown of Israel, it can resume its place as one
• 45:56
  of the world's superpowers. For Iran, the purpose is
• 46:00
  revenge. The Islamist regime in Tehran
• 46:04
  has experienced 1 humiliation after another from Israel.
• 46:08
  From bombings to targeted killings, to have their nuclear
• 46:12
  secrets stolen, to having their nuclear facilities sabotaged, it
• 46:18
  is always the ayatollahs with egg on their face.
• 46:21
  They're done with all of this and they want payback in the
• 46:24
  worst way. I'm fully expecting that by this
• 46:27
  time, by the time this book is published, Iran's nuclear
• 46:32
  program will have been dealt with one way or another.
• 46:37
  Well, that still is remaining, actually, and quite literally
• 46:41
  right now as I'm recording this, it's still going on.
• 46:46
  Turkey has been considered the sick man of Europe for decades.
• 46:51
  The Ottoman Empire is no more, and Turkey is a shell of what it
• 46:56
  once was. The purpose for Turkey's
• 46:58
  participation in this military endeavor is respect.
• 47:03
  They don't want to be snickered at anymore when their backs are
• 47:05
  turned. As one of the leads in taking
• 47:07
  down Israel, they will attempt to garner the prestige they once
• 47:11
  enjoyed, particularly within the Muslim world.
• 47:14
  A successful attack won't be bad for Turkeys financial bottom,
• 47:19
  which is essentially trashed right now.
• 47:22
  Who's who The onlookers? An unexpected development has
• 47:25
  taken place in the last decade. Isolated Israel has made friends
• 47:30
  with some of its neighbors thanks to the efforts behind the
• 47:33
  United States. Abraham Accords walls began to
• 47:37
  break down between the Jewish state and some nearby moderate
• 47:41
  Muslim countries. Morocco, Bahrain, and the United
• 47:46
  Arab Emirates have all forged reasonable relations with
• 47:50
  Israel. Saudi Arabia's walking the line
• 47:54
  of furled brows in front with an arm of semi friendship hidden
• 47:59
  around the waist and back. This forego forging of
• 48:04
  camaraderie is a necessary step for the easy heel war to take
• 48:09
  place. Because when the invasions, when
• 48:12
  the invasion comes, moderate Sunni Muslims are going to be
• 48:17
  asking the axis of evil. What in the world are you guys
• 48:21
  doing, Sheba? Like we talked about Sheba
• 48:25
  Didan, the merchants of Tarshish and all their Young Lions will
• 48:27
  say to you, have you come to take plunder?
• 48:30
  Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver
• 48:34
  and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great
• 48:38
  plunder? Verses 13 through 14, This will
• 48:42
  be a first one Muslim nation nation asking another Muslim
• 48:48
  nation why are you messing with Israel.
• 48:51
  Sadly, their criticism won't go beyond words.
• 48:54
  Most people have their work friends and their friend
• 48:58
  friends. Their work friends are the ones
• 49:00
  they'll joke around the water cooler and team up with for a
• 49:04
  job. But if you're having a special
• 49:05
  occasion party at your house, they aren't the ones you will
• 49:09
  who will be getting an invitation.
• 49:11
  These those are reserved for your friend friends, the ones
• 49:15
  you really like and who you spend time with because you want
• 49:18
  to, not because you both happen to have been hired by the same
• 49:22
  HR department. Israel is making friends, but
• 49:26
  their work friends. Chances are they won't be
• 49:29
  invited over to any Saudis EDA future party anytime soon.
• 49:34
  The verbal admonishments against the Axis may be harsh, but
• 49:38
  verbal they will remain. They are still the merchants of
• 49:42
  Tarshish and all their Young Lions to identify.
• 49:45
  The merchants most likely belong to Europe.
• 49:49
  When the Ezekiel war approaches, they'll yell and stomp their
• 49:52
  feet, but the Russian coalition knows their Western neighbors,
• 49:57
  United Nations voting record. They'll recognize they have
• 50:00
  nothing to worry about from the European Europeans.
• 50:03
  As far as Israel is concerned, a good case can be made for
• 50:08
  Europe's Young Lions. Being the United States born out
• 50:12
  of Europe, there is certainly a familial relationship.
• 50:15
  Unfortunately for Israel, as we saw earlier, the US will be too
• 50:20
  busy trying to keep its head above water to lend a helping
• 50:23
  hand. The attack.
• 50:26
  The world will be in upheaval. Millions of people will have
• 50:30
  just disappeared. The number one superpower will
• 50:32
  be reeling from a near knockout blow.
• 50:34
  Many other countries will have lost citizens to 1 extent or
• 50:38
  another to the great vanishing. And the people will wonder
• 50:42
  whether they've been visited by aliens or if some wild new
• 50:47
  pandemic is stealing others away.
• 50:49
  In other words, civilization will be going crazy.
• 50:53
  What an opportune time the Russian President will think to
• 50:56
  launch an invasion. His executive secretary will set
• 50:59
  up a conference call with the Supreme Leader of Iran, the
• 51:02
  President of Turkey and the leaders of Sudan and Libya.
• 51:05
  The Russian President will tell them I will go against the land
• 51:08
  of unwalled villages. I will go to a peaceful people
• 51:11
  who dwell in safety, all of them dwelling without walls and
• 51:14
  having neither bars nor nor gates.
• 51:17
  To take plunder and to take booty.
• 51:19
  To stretch out my hand against the waste places that are again
• 51:22
  inhabited and against the people gathered from nations who've
• 51:26
  acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the
• 51:29
  land. From chapter 38, verses 11
• 51:33
  through 12. Then, he'll add, want to come
• 51:35
  along? Before you know it, there is a
• 51:37
  massive army pushing down through Syria and Lebanon
• 51:42
  towards Israel's northern border.
• 51:44
  Meanwhile, the combined air forces of the nations are
• 51:47
  landing at Syrian and Lebanese military bases and their navies
• 51:52
  are flooding the Mediterranean off Israel's coast.
• 51:55
  This coming war is not, is not going to be settled with an air
• 52:00
  offensive or a nuclear strike. This is a ground invasion
• 52:04
  designed to make October 7th pale in comparison.
• 52:09
  There will be nothing subtle about the build up to war.
• 52:13
  Then you will come from your place out of the for far north,
• 52:17
  you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a
• 52:20
  great company and a mighty army. You will come up against my
• 52:24
  people Israel like a cloud to cover the land.
• 52:27
  Verses 15 through 16 Israel will be helpless.
• 52:31
  Their only option would be to go nuclear, but with the build up
• 52:36
  right on their borders, doing so would be incredibly dangerous to
• 52:40
  their own people and land. Besides, with the proximity of
• 52:44
  the massive nuclear arsenal of Russia, the small nation of
• 52:48
  Israel would cease to exist in a matter of minutes.
• 52:51
  All that's left to the Israelis will be to shake in their boots
• 52:55
  as they await the attack. Or could there be more?
• 52:59
  If there is one thing that the Jewish people know through and
• 53:03
  through, it is the Tanakh, AKA the Old Testament.
• 53:08
  I'm not saying that all Israelis know it, but enough do to ensure
• 53:11
  a connection will be made with the Ezekiel war.
• 53:15
  The acceptance of this event as a fulfillment of prophecy may
• 53:20
  start small at first, but as the odds against Israel grow worse
• 53:26
  and worse, the number of prayers for God's intervention will grow
• 53:31
  greater and greater. Soon it will become evident to
• 53:35
  all, both inside Israel and to those watching from the outside.
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  Sheba, Didan and the rest of the world that only a miracle from
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  God can save Israel. God prophesied to Gog.
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  You will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to
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  cover the land. It will be in the latter days
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  that I will bring you against my land.
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  So the nations will know me when I am hallowed in you.
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  Oh God before their eyes. Verse 16.
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  In other words, when when the world sees me crush you, then
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  they will know that I am the Lord.
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  The defense, the battle lines are drawn.
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  Any countermeasures Israel tried will have no effect.
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  Zero hour has come. Engines roar to life.
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  Tanks, military transport, jet, fighters, UAV, these bombers all
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  ready to go in the Mediterranean.
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  A final check is given to the missile systems of each warship
• 54:33
  and the fighters and attack helicopter scream awake.
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  The signal is given and the seemingly unstoppable army will
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  rumble across the border, unaware that it is about to
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  barrel head on into an immovable force.
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  At first all will seem to be going just as planned as the
• 54:52
  combined armies drive through and and level abandoned town
• 54:57
  after abandoned town in northern Israel.
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  Once Gog's confidence is at its highest, God will step into the
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  picture. It will come to pass at the same
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  time when God comes against the land of Israel, says the Lord
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  God, that my fury will show in my face.
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  For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken.
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  Surely in that day often referred to as the day of the
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  Lord, Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake.
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  We will see this in a moment in the 6th seal.
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  That's when an earthquake occurs in the land of Israel, so that
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  the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the
• 55:40
  field, all creeping things that creep on earth, and all men who
• 55:44
  are on the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence.
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  The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall
• 55:51
  fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
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  I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all my mountains,
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  says the Lord God. Every man's sword will be
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  against his brother, and I will bring him to judgement with
• 56:06
  pestilence and bloodshed. I will rain down on him and his
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  troops and on the many peoples who are with Him, flooding rain,
• 56:15
  great hailstones, fire and brimstone.
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  Now if you read the Book of Revelation, you'll see that all
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  those things happen during the wrath of God.
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  And this is my side note that not necessarily what Amir is
• 56:30
  saying, but during the trumpets all these things happen.
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  Thus I will magnify myself and will sanctify myself, and I will
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  be known in the eyes of many nations.
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  Then they shall know that I am the Lord, Amir says.
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  This is not an allegory. It's not a word picture.
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  There are no use uses of the words like or likeness in this
• 56:54
  narrative. You are reading exactly what
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  will happen. An earthquake, murderous
• 56:59
  confusion with brother killing brother, deadly disease, floods,
• 57:04
  massive hail and a return of Sodom and Gomorrah like fire and
• 57:09
  brimstone. So of course when we read the
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  Book of Revelation, we we see that these things happen during
• 57:19
  the trumpets and it sounds like the wrath of gods.
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  That's when I believe the trumpets are part of the wrath
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  of God. And but then there's some
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  confusion on that because again, you get into the pre Trib and
• 57:33
  the mid Trib and the post Trib rapture.
• 57:37
  I still currently think it's a mid Trib and in the middle of
• 57:42
  the tribulation. It happens specifically because
• 57:46
  of Matthew 24 and the order of events that Jesus talked about.
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  I do think that there, I don't know how long people will go
• 57:54
  through the tribulation, but I believe they will see the
• 57:58
  abomination of desolation and experience the beginning of the
• 58:02
  distress. And then just as Jesus said, if
• 58:05
  that time were not cut short, no one would survive.
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  That's also when Jesus rescues his elect.
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  But there's going to be a, a time that of, of things that
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  people don't want to go through that will come upon the land.
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  So now I'm going to get into at this point, I'm going to get
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  into some of the scripture that I was looking up about this.
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  And there's still like a lot more that Amir has written.
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  So I'm just going to jump into the scripture part.
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  So I was curious from what Amir wrote, like what is the sequence
• 58:39
  of events that most people agree upon or what is?
• 58:44
  And so I just Google search this.
• 58:46
  What is the sequence of events? Jesus arriving on a cloud, Jesus
• 58:50
  arriving on the Mount of Olives, and then Jesus arriving on a
• 58:55
  horse to defeat the earthly armies.
• 58:58
  And I was just curious like what do people think about this?
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  Because I know there's lots of different beliefs.
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  So here's what it says. Based on prophetic
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  interpretations of the end time. The sequence generally moves
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  from the initial appearance to the final victorious return.
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  First Jesus arrives on a cloud to gather believers.
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  That's the rapture followed by the seven-year tribulation.
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  Now for me personally, I don't know if it's seven years.
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  I I tend to think it's 3 1/2 years that that happens
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  afterwards because of what's written in the Book of
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  Revelation. But again, this is what most
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  people think. Followed by the seven-year
• 59:42
  tribulation culminating in Jesus returning on a horse to defeat
• 59:46
  the earthly armies. And finally Jesus arriving on
• 59:49
  the Mount of Olives. So here's a breakdown of the
• 59:53
  sequence based on prophetic non historical end time events.
• 59:58
  Jesus arriving on the cloud, The rapture slash The second coming
• 1:00:01
  Part 1. Jesus comes in the clouds to
• 1:00:03
  gather believers, which is often considered the start of his
• 1:00:06
  return. I believe that number 2.
• 1:00:10
  Jesus returning on a horse. The second coming Part 2.
• 1:00:13
  Jesus returns from heaven on a White Horse, as described in
• 1:00:17
  Revelation 19, to defeat his enemies.
• 1:00:20
  And #3 Jesus arriving on the Mount of Olives.
• 1:00:23
  Following his victory, Jesus lands on the Mount of Olives,
• 1:00:28
  fulfilling prophecy regarding his return to Jerusalem.
• 1:00:33
  That kind of makes sense, but so let's see.
• 1:00:38
  Isaiah 29 verse 6 is what I wrote and this is another
• 1:00:43
  scripture. I always like to look at all the
• 1:00:47
  different places that address this event and God uses two to
• 1:00:55
  three. That was part of the code 2 to 3
• 1:00:58
  witnesses to establish truth. So His word also does that same
• 1:01:03
  thing. So that's why I like to look at
• 1:01:08
  other places. Where do we see something
• 1:01:10
  similar and can we learn something by cross referencing
• 1:01:13
  all these different prophecies? So in the book of Isaiah chapter
• 1:01:18
  29, verse 6, it says the Lord Almighty will come with Thunder
• 1:01:24
  and earthquake and great noise with windstorm and Tempest and
• 1:01:30
  flames of a devouring fire. Then the hordes of all the
• 1:01:35
  nations that fight against Ariel, that's another name for
• 1:01:38
  Jerusalem that attack her and her fortress and besiege her
• 1:01:42
  will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night.
• 1:01:48
  And so then it goes over. I mean, there's just, you know,
• 1:01:52
  it continues on describing this event.
• 1:01:55
  But the point is it talks about, you know, what I was referencing
• 1:02:01
  is that the Lord Almighty is coming with Thunder and an
• 1:02:04
  earthquake. So we're going to see that
• 1:02:06
  repeated again, the earthquake piece and the Lord coming with
• 1:02:09
  that. Then in Zechariah chapter 14,
• 1:02:16
  verse 5, it says you will flee by my mountain valley, for it
• 1:02:22
  will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from
• 1:02:27
  the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah.
• 1:02:30
  Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
• 1:02:37
  On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold,
• 1:02:39
  frosty darkness. It will be a unique day, a day,
• 1:02:44
  no, a day known only to the Lord, with no distinction
• 1:02:49
  between day and night. When evening comes, there will
• 1:02:53
  be light. On that day water will flow out
• 1:02:57
  of Jerusalem, half of it to the east to the Dead Sea, and the
• 1:03:01
  half of it to the West of the Mediterranean Sea.
• 1:03:03
  In summer and in winter the Lord will be king over the whole
• 1:03:06
  earth. On that day there will be 1 Lord
• 1:03:09
  and His name, the only name. So prior to that in Zechariah 14
• 1:03:18
  verse 4, it says on that day His feet will stand on the Mount of
• 1:03:21
  Olives east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be
• 1:03:24
  split in two from the east to the West, forming a great valley
• 1:03:29
  with half of the mountain moving north and half of it going
• 1:03:32
  South. I think I need to go up a little
• 1:03:36
  bit further. This is OK.
• 1:03:37
  Let me just start at the top at Zechariah chapter 4 verse one, a
• 1:03:42
  day of the Lord is coming Jerusalem, when your possessions
• 1:03:45
  will be plundered and divided up within your own walls.
• 1:03:48
  So this sounds like the Gog and Magog.
• 1:03:50
  I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it.
• 1:03:56
  The city will be captured, the houses ransacked and the women
• 1:03:59
  raped. Half the city will go into
• 1:04:00
  exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from
• 1:04:04
  the city. Then the Lord will go out and
• 1:04:08
  fight against those nations as he fights on a day of battle.
• 1:04:13
  On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives east of
• 1:04:17
  Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from
• 1:04:21
  east to West, forming a great valley with half of the mountain
• 1:04:24
  moving north and half moving S. You will flee by my mountain
• 1:04:29
  valley, for it will extend to Azel.
• 1:04:32
  You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of
• 1:04:37
  Uzziah, king of Judah. So right now when I'm reading
• 1:04:41
  this, what most people think as the order of events, I'm
• 1:04:47
  wondering if he comes down on the Mount of Olives before, like
• 1:04:51
  he's in the cloud first and the rapture happens and then he
• 1:04:55
  comes down onto the Mount of Olives.
• 1:04:59
  Because it says in Matthew 24, it says when the abomination of
• 1:05:05
  desolation happens, that everyone who's in Judea should
• 1:05:08
  flee to the mountains. So I'm just wondering if it's,
• 1:05:14
  you know, first he's in the cloud, then his feet touch on
• 1:05:16
  the Mount of Olives and then he has his, the sealed people of
• 1:05:26
  the 12 tribes. Those are his first fruits that
• 1:05:29
  he's purchased. Do they then go up with him into
• 1:05:33
  the clouds? I and then the wrath begins.
• 1:05:37
  I just don't know what at what point he is riding on his horse
• 1:05:42
  with all of his holy ones with him that I, I haven't figured
• 1:05:49
  that one out yet. But this earthquake, you know,
• 1:05:53
  it's, it talks about this earthquake.
• 1:05:55
  There's an earthquake when Jesus returns.
• 1:05:58
  And so if we look at Revelation chapter 6, let's go with verse
• 1:06:06
  eight first and we'll read down through 12.
• 1:06:12
  So I looked and there before me was a pale horse.
• 1:06:15
  It's rider. OK, so this is actually I'll
• 1:06:17
  start at verse 7. When the Lamb opened the 4th
• 1:06:22
  seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say come.
• 1:06:28
  I looked and there before me was a pale horse.
• 1:06:31
  It's rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind
• 1:06:36
  him. They were given power.
• 1:06:38
  Death and Hades were given power over a fourth of the earth to
• 1:06:43
  kill by sword, famine and plague, and by wild beasts of
• 1:06:48
  the earth. I'm going to pause here for a
• 1:06:50
  minute. This is the fourth seal, so 1/4
• 1:06:55
  of the earth. They are, they are given power
• 1:06:59
  over a fourth of the earth. Is that fourth of the Earth
• 1:07:02
  geographic? Is it landmass that they're
• 1:07:05
  talking about or is it population?
• 1:07:07
  Can you know population 1/4 of the Earth?
• 1:07:11
  And I looked up about the population and it's very
• 1:07:15
  interesting. We roughly have about 8 billion
• 1:07:20
  people in the world right now, and someone prepared a a map
• 1:07:27
  that shows a hypothetical division of four different areas
• 1:07:34
  with 2 billion people. It's kind of interesting.
• 1:07:37
  SO1 cluster of that represents 2 billion people would include
• 1:07:44
  Russia, both of the Americas and North America and South America
• 1:07:51
  and Greenland and Europe too. I mean, all of that land mass
• 1:07:57
  would equate to 2 billion people.
• 1:07:59
  So that's a pretty wide broad spread area.
• 1:08:04
  And that's what I was thinking. Like if this affects 1/4 of the
• 1:08:07
  earth, that's 2 billion people. And you know, what does that
• 1:08:12
  look like when when tragedy comes in that amount of space?
• 1:08:19
  So then there's another graphically imagery.
• 1:08:23
  They show that Africa, all of the Middle East and Australia
• 1:08:29
  and some of the islands surrounding Australia would
• 1:08:32
  represent 2 billion people. So that's another cluster.
• 1:08:36
  That's about 2 billion people. Then there are two like just
• 1:08:42
  simple countries that represent the others.
• 1:08:45
  India is roughly 2 billion people, India alone, and then
• 1:08:52
  China is roughly 2 billion people.
• 1:08:56
  So a lot of the other areas where a fourth of the earth are
• 1:09:02
  very broad in their geographic presence, equaling the same
• 1:09:08
  population. And we don't know what the Bible
• 1:09:12
  is really talking about it just a fourth of the earth, you know,
• 1:09:15
  whether it's square feet or square meters of area or if it's
• 1:09:20
  talking about people, more than likely it probably would be
• 1:09:24
  people. But this is just a hypothetical.
• 1:09:27
  Like if you divided up the the world into 4 equal parts equally
• 1:09:31
  populated parts, what would that look like?
• 1:09:34
  So just very interesting that images.
• 1:09:39
  OK, so we know at the 4th seal, 1/4 of the earth is going to be
• 1:09:45
  affected by sword, which is war, famine and plague.
• 1:09:49
  Plagues can be all sorts of things including like sicknesses
• 1:09:55
  and illness and stuff like that and by the wild beasts of the
• 1:09:58
  earth. So, you know, that's how that
• 1:10:04
  unfolds. Who knows, But that's what it
• 1:10:05
  says. So then in Revelation 6, verse
• 1:10:09
  9, it says when he opened the 5th seal, I saw under the altars
• 1:10:13
  the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God
• 1:10:17
  and the testimony they had maintained.
• 1:10:19
  So this is talking about Christian martyrs.
• 1:10:24
  It's talking about Christians being martyred because of the
• 1:10:28
  Word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
• 1:10:30
  That's at the 5th seal. And it says that he, these are
• 1:10:37
  under the altar. This is in the heavenly realms,
• 1:10:40
  under the altar. The souls, they don't have their
• 1:10:44
  bodies yet of those who had been slain because of the word of God
• 1:10:48
  and the testimony they had made. And they called out in a loud
• 1:10:51
  voice, How long sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge
• 1:10:54
  the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood.
• 1:10:57
  Then each of them was given a white robe and they were told,
• 1:11:01
  so I guess they do have a body because you get a robe.
• 1:11:04
  Then they were told to wait a little longer until the full
• 1:11:09
  number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were
• 1:11:13
  killed just as they had been. So in the 5th Seal, there's
• 1:11:17
  going to be this. There already were prior to the
• 1:11:21
  fifth seal being open, martyred Christians and they were
• 1:11:24
  waiting, but God's basically saying there's going to be more
• 1:11:27
  wait until all your brothers and sisters come up who had been
• 1:11:29
  killed. And we know that stuff is
• 1:11:31
  happening right now. So the ones who have just been
• 1:11:33
  martyred, there was some, you know, in Africa who had been and
• 1:11:37
  they were martyred by the Muslims.
• 1:11:40
  And they are under the altar and God's presence right now.
• 1:11:46
  And they are probably the ones who are saying like, how long
• 1:11:48
  are we going to be here before you do something about this?
• 1:11:51
  And God's saying, wait, there's going to be more.
• 1:11:54
  And we see that is coming up. There's going to be more.
• 1:11:58
  Now then we get to verse 12. I watched as he opened the 6th
• 1:12:03
  seal. Now this is where I believe
• 1:12:04
  Jesus comes. There was a great earthquake.
• 1:12:07
  Remember paying attention to the earthquake?
• 1:12:10
  Then it says the sun turned black like sackcloth made of
• 1:12:14
  goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the
• 1:12:20
  sky fell to the earth as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken
• 1:12:26
  by a strong wind. The heavens receded like a
• 1:12:30
  scroll being rolled up, and every mountain, an island was
• 1:12:33
  removed from its place. So it sounds like a pretty
• 1:12:36
  strong earthquake. Then the kings of the earth, the
• 1:12:39
  Princess, the generals, the rich and the mighty, and everyone
• 1:12:42
  both slave and free, hidden caves.
• 1:12:44
  And among the rocks of the mountains, they called to the
• 1:12:47
  mountains. And the rocks fall on us and
• 1:12:49
  hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the
• 1:12:52
  wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and
• 1:12:57
  who can withstand it? So that's at the 6th seal.
• 1:13:01
  Now some of the things that talks about in the 6th Seal, you
• 1:13:03
  know, the sun turned black like sackcloth.
• 1:13:08
  Interestingly enough, when I had three rapture dreams, each time
• 1:13:14
  before the rapture occurred, everything went black.
• 1:13:17
  I did not know that detail when I had those dreams.
• 1:13:21
  But as I was reading scripture, I started noticing, wait, here's
• 1:13:24
  when it talks about the, you know, the sun will not shine,
• 1:13:27
  the moon will not give its light.
• 1:13:29
  Talks about those things on the day of the Lord.
• 1:13:31
  And I just thought it was very ironic and insert interesting
• 1:13:34
  and maybe coincidental that I had three rapture dreams and
• 1:13:39
  every single rapture dream had everything go pitch black before
• 1:13:44
  the light came. So maybe that was God showing me
• 1:13:49
  something. I don't know.
• 1:13:50
  I mean, I did not know this detail before I had those
• 1:13:53
  dreams. And again, like I said before,
• 1:13:55
  God has three witnesses and I had three dreams that were
• 1:14:02
  rapture dreams. The first one was phenomenal.
• 1:14:04
  The second one I was explaining to other people, don't worry,
• 1:14:08
  this is the rapture because I recalled my first dream in the
• 1:14:11
  second dream. And then the third dream was a
• 1:14:14
  little while later. And honestly, I don't the
• 1:14:19
  interesting detail about that dream was that a siren went off
• 1:14:23
  like a storm warning siren went off.
• 1:14:28
  And then right after that, everything went black.
• 1:14:31
  So it made me think something and then I started raising.
• 1:14:36
  So, but I don't know if these are from God or not, but they
• 1:14:42
  certainly made me look deeper into Scripture to say, like,
• 1:14:46
  does this match up with Scripture or is it different?
• 1:14:49
  And what I found is it matches up with Scripture.
• 1:14:52
  So that's another reason why I'm doing this podcast, to share
• 1:14:55
  this with other people so that everybody starts waking up.
• 1:15:00
  All right, So we went through some of the details.
• 1:15:05
  Actually, we read all of Revelation 6.
• 1:15:07
  Then we get to Revelation 8, and I have verses 5 and verses 7.
• 1:15:15
  So in verse 5, it says then the Angel took the sensor, filled it
• 1:15:20
  with fire from the altar and hurled it to the earth.
• 1:15:22
  And there came peels of Thunder, rumblings, flashing of lightning
• 1:15:26
  in an earthquake. Now, when the earthquake comes,
• 1:15:30
  does that mean this is right before the the trumpets happen?
• 1:15:34
  When Jesus returns, there's flashes of lightning, everybody
• 1:15:37
  sees him coming on the clouds and there's this earthquake.
• 1:15:41
  So Revelation 85 says this happens, then 86 says then the
• 1:15:47
  seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
• 1:15:51
  So it sounds like after these seals is when there is the
• 1:15:58
  trumpets come. And I know there's differing,
• 1:16:03
  differing opinions about that. Some people believe that the
• 1:16:08
  trumpets happen in conjunction with the bowls and in
• 1:16:13
  conjunction with the seals. I see it a little bit
• 1:16:15
  differently. I see the trumpets coming after
• 1:16:18
  the seals, and we won't know until it actually happens.
• 1:16:24
  But when you get into the trumpets, it starts talking
• 1:16:26
  about there's hail mixed with blood.
• 1:16:28
  It's hurled down to the earth and the third of the earth is
• 1:16:31
  burned up. There's fire that's happening.
• 1:16:34
  And it's, you know, this destruction all over that's
• 1:16:39
  happening. And the waters turn bitter.
• 1:16:44
  There's quite a bit that's happening, I think.
• 1:16:47
  So the first Angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and
• 1:16:50
  fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth.
• 1:16:52
  1/3 of the earth was burned, 1/3 of the trees were burned up, and
• 1:16:55
  all the green grass was burned up.
• 1:16:57
  So in this verse from Ezekiel 18 through 23, it talks about
• 1:17:06
  pestilence and bloodshed, rain down on him, flooding rain,
• 1:17:11
  great hailstones, fire and brimstone.
• 1:17:14
  So those things sound very similar to what's happening in
• 1:17:18
  the trumpets. Then let's see.
• 1:17:21
  The next part of the next verse I found was in Revelation
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  Chapter 11, verse 13. It said at that very hour there
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  was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed.
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  7000 people were killed in the earthquake and the survivors
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  were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
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  Now this is occurring at the time of the two witnesses, after
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  the two witnesses go up into the cloud.
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  So they were like prophesying for a period of time and then
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  there was this earthquake. So, and it's kind of interesting
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  because I was trying to, I get confused a little bit about when
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  the two witnesses were here, not were, but when they are present
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  and they give testimony for about 3 1/2 year, 3 1/2 years.
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  But then it says that the beast that comes up from the earth is
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  the one that kills the witnesses.
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  So and also it says, you know, there's going to be this great
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  tribulation. But then I don't think the beast
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  comes up from the earth until the 5th trumpet because of the
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  what it says in that. And I'm going to get to that in
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  a minute. But so that does confuse me a
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  little bit. If you know the trumpets.
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  I was. That's why I'm not sure if they
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  do come after the seals or if they are happening
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  simultaneously with them and we're not recognizing them.
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  That's what I mean about having an open mind of these things,
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  just to know what scripture says and trying to cross reference
• 1:19:04
  scripture to see when these timings are and and then how
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  many earthquakes are happening. Is is this all truly
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  representing 1 earthquake or are these different earthquakes that
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  are happening at different times?
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  I truly don't know, but just pointing out these things.
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  So the next scripture that I came to these, this is during
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  the bowls of wrath and Revelation 16, verse 18, and
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  what it says there it says then there came flashes of lightning,
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  rumblings, peals of Thunder, and a severe earthquake.
• 1:19:42
  No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been
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  on earth. So tremendous was the quake, the
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  great city split into three parts, and the cities of the
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  nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great
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  and gave her the cup filled with the wine of fury of his wrath.
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  Every island fled away, and the mountains could not be found
• 1:20:07
  from the sky. Huge hailstones, each weighing
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  about £120, fell on people. They cursed God on account of
• 1:20:15
  the plague of hail because the plague was so terrible.
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  So this certainly sounds like the wrath of God.
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  The great city splits into three parts.
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  Well, it talks about the mountain splitting.
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  Is that when Jesus's feet come and touchdown?
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  Is it, you know, but this right now is what we're talking about.
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  And it actually talks about Revelation 1616.
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  They called the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is
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  called Armageddon. And this is during the the
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  bowls. So, so again, it it does, you
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  know, there are different camps of beliefs that some say, you
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  know, believers don't see all this stuff.
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  But then if these are another eschatologist, if you want to
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  call it that, said that this is kind of like a Symphony where,
• 1:21:11
  you know, the bulls are, you know, the trumpets are blowing,
• 1:21:13
  the bulls are being thrown, There's all these different
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  things happening, you know, together, but each one is
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  described separately. So again, that's another theory.
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  And I don't truly know, but I definitely think that at the 6th
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  seal, Jesus returns and gathers people.
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  It does seem like as I'm reading through this right now, that
• 1:21:37
  maybe the witnesses do go up at the same time the people go up.
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  And so they've already been on Earth for 3 1/2 years at that
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  point. So I mean, if that's the way it
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  is, then it's interesting to find the identity of the two
• 1:21:52
  witnesses out. And it's, is, it's, I just don't
• 1:21:57
  see the things that are described that the two witnesses
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  do having it happen. Like right now that just doesn't
• 1:22:07
  seem like that that is happening.
• 1:22:10
  They are called the 2 olive trees and the olive trees
• 1:22:14
  represent Israel and, and the two lampstands.
• 1:22:20
  So these are, I think they probably references like the two
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  churches and the 2 olive trees. They stand before the Lord of
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  the earth. You know, those are obviously
• 1:22:32
  metaphors for something. So is there like, church
• 1:22:36
  representative? Could it be people, you know,
• 1:22:38
  who are today like prophecy, not prophesying or preaching the
• 1:22:42
  gospel or, you know, warning people are telling people to
• 1:22:45
  repent. Is that happening right now?
• 1:22:49
  The thing that doesn't seem to fit is that if anyone tries to
• 1:22:52
  harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemy.
• 1:22:56
  This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.
• 1:23:00
  You know, the fire coming from their mouth could be symbolic of
• 1:23:05
  the word of God coming out of somebody's mouth because it does
• 1:23:09
  burn like a fire when someone is convicted.
• 1:23:14
  And that is how they must die. I mean, that's like a rejection
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  of the word. And then they could, you know,
• 1:23:19
  die from it. But then there's like they have
• 1:23:21
  the power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during
• 1:23:25
  the time they are prophesying. And they have the power to turn
• 1:23:28
  the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind
• 1:23:31
  of plague as often as they want. I don't think we've seen that
• 1:23:35
  yet. So I don't, I think this is, you
• 1:23:38
  know, yet to come. And it just, it is confusing and
• 1:23:44
  I don't, I don't really see it really clearly yet.
• 1:23:48
  So let's see. Going back to Revelation 1618 is
• 1:23:55
  another one that I, oh, I could, I just read that about the
• 1:23:58
  earthquake. Then Revelation 16, 19.
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  Oh, that's, you know, that's talking about when Babylon the
• 1:24:09
  great. So like, does Babylon the Great
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  get destroyed when Jesus's feet come down to the Mount of
• 1:24:21
  Olives? If that's when the great city is
• 1:24:23
  split into three parts, now it just said split into two.
• 1:24:28
  I don't know if I'm mixing things up or they're similar.
• 1:24:32
  This all requires a little bit more investigation.
• 1:24:36
  If they're there may be different events because they're
• 1:24:40
  not identical. Maybe they're similar.
• 1:24:46
  But what's what's also interesting is that the let's
• 1:24:53
  see, 1714 they will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb
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  will triumph over them because he is the Lord of Lords and the
• 1:25:00
  King of kings and with him will be his called chosen and
• 1:25:03
  faithful followers. Now this is talking about Jesus
• 1:25:09
  coming on the horse and he's with his chosen, called and
• 1:25:14
  faithful followers, but he's going to battle against the
• 1:25:18
  beast. And so this is about in
• 1:25:23
  Revelation 17, it talks about Mystery Babylon and the beast.
• 1:25:27
  And later on we'll find out that Mystery Babylon is is done with
• 1:25:31
  before the beast. And again, I think the beast
• 1:25:36
  rises up, so Babylon falls and I think I have that in where did I
• 1:25:47
  do that? So Babylon falls in verse 6,
• 1:25:53
  chapter 16, verse 19. Oh, he no, that's not when
• 1:26:03
  Babylon falls, but it just says that God remembered Babylon the
• 1:26:07
  Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of his
• 1:26:12
  fury. In Revelation 14 it says 14/8
• 1:26:22
  says a second Angel followed and said fallen.
• 1:26:24
  Fallen is Babylon the Great, which had made all nations drink
• 1:26:28
  the wine of her adult adulteries.
• 1:26:30
  So it sounds like Babylon is eliminated at this point in
• 1:26:35
  Revelation 14/8. But listen to what comes right
• 1:26:38
  after that in verse 9. A third Angel followed them and
• 1:26:42
  said in a loud voice, If anyone worships the beast and its image
• 1:26:46
  and receives the mark on their forehead, they too will drink
• 1:26:50
  the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength
• 1:26:54
  into the cup of His wrath. They will be tormented with
• 1:26:56
  burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the
• 1:26:59
  Lamb. So Babylon falls first.
• 1:27:03
  We know the beast turns against Babylon.
• 1:27:05
  Babylon is controlling the beast.
• 1:27:09
  But then the beast turns on Babylon, and there's a warning.
• 1:27:16
  At that point. The third Angel warns them,
• 1:27:19
  warns all people not to worship the beast and its image.
• 1:27:24
  If anyone does, they're going to be subject to God's fury.
• 1:27:28
  So people always, you know, worry about, gosh, what if I
• 1:27:31
  accidentally got the mark of the beast?
• 1:27:34
  I don't think that's possible. I think there's, first of all,
• 1:27:37
  Babylon, the great mystery. Babylon is going to fall first.
• 1:27:40
  Everybody's going to be shocked by that.
• 1:27:42
  Then then an Angel or a messenger is going to be telling
• 1:27:47
  everybody, don't take it or you're going to get the wrath of
• 1:27:50
  God. So there's going to be great
• 1:27:52
  warnings with all of this stuff. In verse 6 it says here's
• 1:28:00
  another thing that people say, oh it's not fair that God would
• 1:28:04
  do this because what about all these people on remote islands
• 1:28:07
  that never heard the gospel? That's not a fair God.
• 1:28:10
  Well all you have to do is read Revelation chapter 14 verse 6.
• 1:28:14
  Then I saw another Angel flying in mid air and he had the
• 1:28:19
  eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth, to
• 1:28:26
  every nation, tribe, language and people.
• 1:28:32
  He said in a loud voice, Fear God and give him glory because
• 1:28:37
  the hour of his judgement has come.
• 1:28:40
  Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, and the sea
• 1:28:44
  and the springs and the water. Then is the verse 8 where it
• 1:28:49
  says Babylon's fallen. So before Babylon even falls, an
• 1:28:54
  Angel is going to every single nation and tribe.
• 1:28:59
  You know, people have taken this on them to say, oh, the church
• 1:29:02
  needs to go and get, you know, have all these missionaries to
• 1:29:05
  talk to the people all over the world.
• 1:29:08
  Well, that's a good thing because Jesus did want everyone
• 1:29:12
  to be disciples and to spread the news about the Kingdom of
• 1:29:15
  God. That is true.
• 1:29:17
  But for churches to feel like, well, if we get every single,
• 1:29:21
  you know, place that will our job will be taken in like, you
• 1:29:25
  know, our job. I mean, Jesus will return then,
• 1:29:27
  but it's not the way that the revelations written.
• 1:29:31
  It doesn't seem like it's the IT seems like a supernatural Angel.
• 1:29:37
  I saw another Angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal
• 1:29:40
  gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth.
• 1:29:43
  So churches don't need to worry that they didn't get to every
• 1:29:46
  single ass person. They should try to do that
• 1:29:50
  because that's what Jesus called people to do.
• 1:29:52
  But ultimately, God's going to handle this.
• 1:29:56
  He's going to tell everybody. And so you don't have to worry
• 1:30:00
  that people will be unaware of Jesus.
• 1:30:02
  They will all know before this happens.
• 1:30:05
  That's another thing that just shows how merciful God is.
• 1:30:08
  He gives us the answers to the test before it actually happens.
• 1:30:12
  If we just read His word, we will know these things.
• 1:30:16
  So then what else is there? Let's see Revelation 17 verse
• 1:30:25
  14. Let's see what I had on there.
• 1:30:29
  Revelation 17 they will warn. OK, I read that already.
• 1:30:33
  This is about Jesus with His chosen people.
• 1:30:37
  Now the east arises out of the this is in the 5th trumpet and
• 1:30:48
  you can find it. I don't think I had this opened
• 1:30:51
  here. It's in Chapter 9.
• 1:30:54
  I've got to find that. If I had that open, I don't
• 1:30:57
  think I have that open. So let me look that one up real
• 1:31:00
  quick. Revelation Chapter 9 So here's
• 1:31:07
  why I think the beast comes up at the at the trumpet.
• 1:31:12
  So the 5th Angel sounded his trumpet and I saw a star that
• 1:31:17
  had fallen from the sky to the earth.
• 1:31:19
  Now the stars in Revelation are representative of angels, so
• 1:31:25
  like fallen angels. So here's a fallen Angel that
• 1:31:28
  came. The star was given the key to
• 1:31:32
  the shaft of the abyss. When he opened the abyss, smoke
• 1:31:36
  rose like the smoke of a giant gigantic furnace.
• 1:31:41
  The sun in the sky were darkened by the smoke from the abyss.
• 1:31:45
  So is that how the sun and moon go dark?
• 1:31:49
  Because the abyss is open? And as Jesus comes down, is
• 1:31:55
  Satan coming down at the same time with his fallen angels?
• 1:31:59
  And that's when Jesus like grabs his people and Satan has 3 1/2
• 1:32:03
  more years to terrorize the earth.
• 1:32:06
  I don't know. I mean, this is this is
• 1:32:09
  something that I'm just looking at.
• 1:32:11
  I'm throwing it out there for people to look further into it.
• 1:32:16
  In Revelation chapter 6 verse 13 it says when the 6th seal is
• 1:32:25
  open there was a great earthquake, the sun turned black
• 1:32:28
  like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned
• 1:32:30
  blood red and the stars in the sky fell to the earth as figs
• 1:32:34
  drop from a fig tree when a when shaken by a strong wind.
• 1:32:40
  And let's see if what wind actually is the word for that a
• 1:32:47
  wind is animos. It's a a wind of violent
• 1:32:52
  agitation, a stream of air, a very strong tempestuous wind,
• 1:32:57
  the four principal or cardinal winds, hence the four corners of
• 1:33:00
  heaven. So there's, there's something
• 1:33:02
  that it seems, you know, it's not pneuma or spirit, but is
• 1:33:09
  it's a literal more like a strong wind.
• 1:33:14
  That's and that's when the heavens receded like a scroll
• 1:33:17
  being rolled up. I mean, does that mean Satan
• 1:33:19
  doesn't have access to that anymore?
• 1:33:22
  You know, it's like a scroll is closed up now you can't get in
• 1:33:24
  here. It just seems to me like right
• 1:33:29
  at that 6th seal, Jesus comes back, Satan is thrown out of
• 1:33:33
  heaven and is coming down to the earth.
• 1:33:37
  Somebody has a key, a fallen Angel has a key and opens up the
• 1:33:40
  abyss and all these horrible things come out of it.
• 1:33:45
  It just again, that does seem like that's the sequence of
• 1:33:49
  events in my mind as I'm going through scripture.
• 1:33:52
  So there I don't know if there's if I should read any more of
• 1:33:59
  this. There's, there's a lot more that
• 1:34:03
  goes on about the aftermath, but I think this is probably a long
• 1:34:05
  enough recording and I probably made more questions than
• 1:34:11
  answers, but stuff that you can look into and just, you know,
• 1:34:16
  notice the things that are going on in the world and make sure
• 1:34:18
  that you are prepared as far as meaning that you are born again,
• 1:34:25
  that you are a true believer, that you've repented and that
• 1:34:29
  you're letting Jesus, you know, you're, you're agreeing to be
• 1:34:32
  obedient to Jesus. You're saying, you know, your
• 1:34:34
  Kingdom rules are something that I want to follow, and Lord, let
• 1:34:39
  the Holy Spirit transform me into somebody who appreciates
• 1:34:44
  what your laws are. Because we don't naturally
• 1:34:46
  appreciate the holiness of God, but the Holy Spirit changes us.
• 1:34:52
  But since God gave us free will, we have to give that
• 1:34:56
  authorization because God gave us that that free will.
• 1:35:01
  And so we have to make it known that we want God to do that.
• 1:35:05
  Now unfortunately he doesn't supernaturally just control us.
• 1:35:09
  He still gives us free will so we can still reject him.
• 1:35:13
  But it we have to make that known, like who is our alliance
• 1:35:16
  with, who is the Lord of our life?
• 1:35:19
  Do we want to control our lives or do we want God to control our
• 1:35:23
  lives? And if God, if we give that
• 1:35:25
  authority to God, it really truly is his.
• 1:35:28
  But if we are willingly submissive, if we submit to his
• 1:35:32
  authority, then he will send a helper, the advocate, the Holy
• 1:35:36
  Spirit. That's what Jesus said.
• 1:35:38
  So we believe in Jesus. Jesus took care.
• 1:35:40
  The only way we can get into the Kingdom of God is because of
• 1:35:44
  what Jesus did on the cross. But we have a response to that.
• 1:35:50
  We are obedient to Him because of what He did.
• 1:35:54
  It's our gratitude to Him for what He did on the cross.
• 1:35:57
  We are thanking Him. We are showing God.
• 1:36:00
  God, I love you back. You showed me love first when I
• 1:36:04
  was still a Sinner. You died on the cross.
• 1:36:06
  You gave love, You gave that love to me to save me, to let me
• 1:36:12
  be in your Kingdom. Now I'm going to respond to you
• 1:36:16
  with my love by being obedient. But I need your help, the Holy
• 1:36:20
  Spirit, to do this with me. And that's what Jesus promised
• 1:36:27
  to all his believers. And that's what we need to
• 1:36:33
  prepare for this, what is coming.
• 1:36:35
  So I, oh, I didn't even get into the part I might hold up.
• 1:36:39
  I have another part that I need to really talk to because it's
• 1:36:42
  in the book of Matthew, Jesus talked about the sequence of
• 1:36:47
  events. And I really do want to read
• 1:36:51
  this to you. So because it's important.
• 1:36:55
  It really talks about and it clears up like the order of
• 1:36:58
  events and revelation. Another eschatology person
• 1:37:03
  pointed this out to me. I didn't discover this on my
• 1:37:06
  own, but I looked back on it and I'm like, Oh my gosh, he does
• 1:37:10
  say exactly the same order as in the Book of Revelation.
• 1:37:14
  So let me read this to you. As Jesus was sitting on the
• 1:37:17
  Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately.
• 1:37:20
  Tell us they said when will this happen and what will be the sign
• 1:37:24
  of your coming and of the end of the age?
• 1:37:27
  Jesus answered, Watch that no one deceives you, for many will
• 1:37:31
  come in my name, claim claiming I am the Messiah and will
• 1:37:35
  deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors
• 1:37:39
  of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.
• 1:37:42
  Such things must happen. The end is still to come.
• 1:37:45
  Nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom.
• 1:37:49
  There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
• 1:37:54
  All these are the beginning of birth pains.
• 1:37:57
  So right now we are in the birth pains.
• 1:38:00
  There's no question in my mind that we are in the birth pains.
• 1:38:04
  Then it says then you will be handed over to be persecuted and
• 1:38:07
  put to death and you will be hated by all nations because of
• 1:38:11
  me. Now Jesus is talking to his
• 1:38:14
  followers about that. They were hated by all nations.
• 1:38:17
  All of his followers were put to death, I think except for John.
• 1:38:21
  He was sent to exile. I think he dialed died a natural
• 1:38:24
  death, but the rest of them, they were all killed and so and
• 1:38:31
  then that. Does this also translate to
• 1:38:34
  Christians who are martyred for their faith as well as we were
• 1:38:38
  talking about in the seals at the 5th seal when all of them
• 1:38:41
  were being martyred. So continuing in verse 10 of
• 1:38:44
  Matthew 24. At that time, many will turn
• 1:38:47
  away from the faith and will betray and hate each other.
• 1:38:50
  Of course, if you're seeing all this stuff happen to people and
• 1:38:54
  people are getting killed because they won't deny Christ,
• 1:38:58
  there's going to be a falling away from the faith by people.
• 1:39:01
  There's going to be people who won't want to say that because
• 1:39:04
  they will try to save their save their lives.
• 1:39:06
  And like Jesus said, those who try to save their lives will
• 1:39:09
  lose it. He's talking about it eternally.
• 1:39:13
  Like you're trying to save your life, you're going to deny.
• 1:39:15
  If you deny Christ, you're going to lose your eternal life in the
• 1:39:20
  Kingdom. And those who let's see, those
• 1:39:24
  who love their life will lose it, and those who lose their
• 1:39:26
  life will gain people, will gain eternity.
• 1:39:30
  And we have to know that, OK, so Jesus continues and many false
• 1:39:34
  prophets, we sure have a lot of that right now, right?
• 1:39:37
  Will appear and deceive many people because of the increase
• 1:39:41
  of wickedness. The love of most will grow cold.
• 1:39:46
  It certainly seems like we are in that time frame right now.
• 1:39:50
  People are, you know, delaying getting married and, you know,
• 1:39:54
  opting for being single. And, you know, marriage is not
• 1:39:59
  really something that people want to do unless they are same
• 1:40:05
  sex marriage, then they want to do it.
• 1:40:07
  And that is one of the sins that God talks about that is not
• 1:40:12
  permissible in His Kingdom. So that's not a good thing.
• 1:40:17
  But it says the one who stands firm to the end will be saved
• 1:40:21
  and this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole
• 1:40:24
  world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will
• 1:40:29
  come. So again, is there going to be a
• 1:40:32
  literal Angel in mid air proclaiming the gospel to all
• 1:40:35
  nations? Who knows?
• 1:40:37
  You know, is that symbolic? Is that Angel a messenger where
• 1:40:42
  there are going to be like human messengers that are, you know,
• 1:40:46
  going out to all of the earth to tell people It could be, I don't
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  know. We don't, we don't, we won't
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  know until hindsight, but then it's going to be too late to
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  prepare. But what we can know from this
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  is that the gospel of the Kingdom, of God's Kingdom, is
• 1:41:03
  going to be preached to everywhere before the end comes,
• 1:41:07
  because God is just and he is merciful, and he does not want
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  anyone to perish. Now, here's what Jesus says.
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  This is what we have to pay attention to too.
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  So when you see standing in the holy place, the abomination that
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  causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel, let
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  the reader understand. Then let those who are in Judea
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  flee to the mountains. And that's what I was talking
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  about before. Is this because when Jesus
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  splits the mountains, they're going to have an escape route?
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  I don't know. I don't know.
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  But you know, the mountain splits into three parts in as
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  this this stuff is going on this tribulation.
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  Now the question is when you see what's standing in the holy
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  place, the abomination that spoken of through the prophet
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  Daniel. I'm like, OK, that's great.
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  But Daniel spoke about a lot of things.
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  And so which one is is Daniel talking about now?
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  Daniel's vision, if you go to Chapter 7, he talks about this
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  beast that comes up and I don't know if I I am, he talks about
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  like the 10 horns. You know, it's very much like
• 1:42:23
  the same beast that's talked about in the Book of Revelation.
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  So Daniel 7, you have to read that along with read that and
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  compare it to the beast from the Book of Revelation.
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  That's not necessarily the abomination of desolation, but
• 1:42:41
  the beast is spoken of there. And then when I let's see
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  Revelation 90, I did have that called up.
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  Never mind, I've read that already.
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  I'm just going through all the tabs that I had opened and
• 1:42:56
  trying to read through these these different books.
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  So we talked about the Angel with the gospel.
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  OK, here's Daniel 9/27. He will confirm a covenant with
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  many for 1/7. So it could be for seven years
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  is basically what it talks about.
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  And then in the middle of the seven, he would put an end to
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  sacrifice and offerings. And at the I don't it says at
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  the temple, but I think it also says the holy at the wing.
• 1:43:29
  I see these translations. This drives me nuts about these
• 1:43:31
  translations because it says and at the temple he will set up the
• 1:43:35
  abomination that causes desolation until the end that is
• 1:43:39
  decreed is poured out on him. So when you read that you think,
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  oh, the temple has to be built first.
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  But no, that's a translation thing.
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  It literally says in Hebrew wing is what the word is and somebody
• 1:43:55
  decided temple was the right word to replace for the Hebrew
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  word wing. And so that could actually be on
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  the. I do think it is probably on the
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  Temple Mount somewhere and just like on the wing on the side
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  somewhere there is going to be an abomination of desolation.
• 1:44:16
  I don't think there has to be a temple for this to happen.
• 1:44:20
  I think again the translation caused people to misinterpret
• 1:44:23
  this. And then I guess the the next
• 1:44:28
  one is Daniel Chapter 11. It says his armed forces will
• 1:44:39
  rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the
• 1:44:45
  daily sacrifice and they will set up the abomination that
• 1:44:48
  causes desolation. Now we know that at one point
• 1:44:54
  this did happen with a king. It's written in the Book of
• 1:44:59
  Maccabees, which is not a part of the Bible, but it's part of
• 1:45:02
  the Catholic Bible. But all of these things there
• 1:45:05
  was like a statue of Zeus that was there to be worshipped.
• 1:45:08
  And so history repeats itself. So I don't, you know, that does
• 1:45:14
  cause some confusion whether or not this actually happened.
• 1:45:17
  But it seems like this abomination of desolation is
• 1:45:20
  going to happen in the end times because Jesus says for people to
• 1:45:23
  flee at that time. And in this, let's see.
• 1:45:30
  So it says forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary
• 1:45:35
  fortress, do away with the regular sacrifice and they will
• 1:45:41
  set up the abomination of desolation.
• 1:45:44
  So again, there is really no word that talks about the
• 1:45:48
  temple. So it's talking about the area.
• 1:45:52
  And then I do there was someone who talked about the do away
• 1:46:00
  with the regular sacrifices which is tamid and the tamid is
• 1:46:08
  continuity perpetuity to stretch the tamid.
• 1:46:15
  There is a specific meaning for Tamid and I'm not seeing this
• 1:46:25
  here what someone had described. But anyway, there's, there's
• 1:46:32
  some kind of a perpetual or continual Tamid and that might
• 1:46:39
  be something to look up because somebody did a study about the
• 1:46:42
  abomination of desolation and they were, they were talking
• 1:46:45
  about like, it's not the same like sacrifices, like animal
• 1:46:50
  sacrifices that people think of. But look up Tamid.
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  It's a Hebrew word and find out what that means 'cause I did not
• 1:47:01
  look that up. And it this, it's important
• 1:47:04
  because his armed forces will rise up to desecrate.
• 1:47:08
  Now this says the temple fortress, but it's not the
• 1:47:11
  temple fortress. It's just a, you know, it could
• 1:47:14
  be the whole the, the, oh gosh, the I'm just throwing a blank
• 1:47:22
  right now. The Temple Mount, the Temple
• 1:47:25
  Mount, not the actual temple and abolish the daily Tamid.
• 1:47:30
  So find out what Tamid is and then they will set up the
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  abomination that causes desolation.
• 1:47:35
  We don't know what that is. We know it's something it's
• 1:47:38
  something horrible. That is the abomination of
• 1:47:43
  desolation. Then in Daniel chapter 12 verse
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  11, it says from the time that the regular sacrifice is
• 1:47:49
  abolished and the abomination is set up, there will be 1290 days.
• 1:47:54
  Well, this is another thing that these numbers I don't, I need
• 1:48:00
  somebody with a lot of study in this because when I went to
• 1:48:05
  blueletterbible.org and I looked in multiple translations and I
• 1:48:10
  looked at the English to Hebrew translation, the 1290 days says
• 1:48:18
  1000 days. And the only one, I think it's
• 1:48:22
  the new King James that actually had 101,190 days.
• 1:48:29
  The numbers are all messed up and I can't make sense of it,
• 1:48:34
  but 1000 days would be 33.33 months.
• 1:48:41
  And so that would be like 2 years, nine months.
• 1:48:48
  So two years and nine months would be roughly about the time
• 1:48:52
  for 1000 days to occur. And from the time that the the
• 1:48:58
  regular sacrifice is abolished. And that's another thing I want
• 1:49:01
  to look in detail what the Hebrew actually says.
• 1:49:03
  The regular sacrifice is called the tamid is abolished.
• 1:49:08
  Let's see what that word says. It's Sir that is turned aside,
• 1:49:13
  set aside, departed from, removed.
• 1:49:16
  The important thing is to find out what Tamid means.
• 1:49:18
  So when that when Tamid ends, there's going to be roughly a
• 1:49:23
  roughly 1000 days because like I said, these numbers don't add
• 1:49:26
  up. You can search for yourself and
• 1:49:28
  look back to the Hebrew and the translation.
• 1:49:32
  I just, I don't know what that number really is.
• 1:49:35
  I think the numbers got messed up in translating.
• 1:49:39
  So. And let's see, we talked about,
• 1:49:44
  I think we covered all the different tabs that I had opened
• 1:49:48
  anyway, going back to Matthew 24.
• 1:49:50
  So this, this abomination of desolation spoken through the
• 1:49:55
  the prophet of Daniel, that's when Jesus says, then let those
• 1:49:58
  who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
• 1:50:00
  Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the
• 1:50:04
  house. Let no one in the field go back
• 1:50:06
  to get their cloak. How dreadful it will be in those
• 1:50:09
  days for pregnant women and nursing mothers.
• 1:50:11
  Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the
• 1:50:14
  Sabbath, for then there will be great distress unequalled from
• 1:50:19
  the beginning of the world until now, now and never to be equaled
• 1:50:23
  again. So pay attention to this.
• 1:50:26
  This is Jesus's words, Jesus telling his disciples the
• 1:50:30
  sequence of events. So all of the sequence of events
• 1:50:33
  that he talked about. First, they match up the seals
• 1:50:36
  in the Book of Revelation. Compare Matthew 24 to Revelation
• 1:50:40
  chapter 6 and you will see the seals lining up with the
• 1:50:44
  sequence event of events. And it seems like the seals are
• 1:50:48
  potentially the birth pains and and then, you know, once, OK, so
• 1:50:58
  we have this great distress that happens when this abomination of
• 1:51:02
  desolation and it's like the worst that's never going to be
• 1:51:06
  equaled again. And then it says if those days
• 1:51:09
  had not been cut short, no one would survive.
• 1:51:11
  But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened at
• 1:51:15
  that time. If anyone says to you, look here
• 1:51:17
  is the Messiah are there he is, don't believe it.
• 1:51:19
  For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform
• 1:51:23
  great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the
• 1:51:27
  elect. See, I have told you ahead of
• 1:51:30
  time. So if anyone tells you there he
• 1:51:32
  is out in the wilderness, do not go out, or here he is in the
• 1:51:35
  inner room, do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from
• 1:51:39
  the east is visible even in the West, so will be the coming of
• 1:51:44
  the Son of Man. Wherever there is a carcass
• 1:51:48
  there the vultures will gather. Now here, order, Listen to the
• 1:51:51
  order. This is from Jesus, immediately
• 1:51:54
  after the distress of those days.
• 1:51:58
  So the abomination has already happened, and there's going to
• 1:52:01
  be this, this time that has never been nor will ever be of
• 1:52:06
  great distress. So immediately after the
• 1:52:09
  distress of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will
• 1:52:14
  not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the
• 1:52:17
  heavenly bodies will be shaken. The Book of Revelation talks
• 1:52:21
  about shaking like a fig tree, remember, And this is when I
• 1:52:24
  think it's the fallen angels are coming out of the sky, the stars
• 1:52:28
  from the sky. In the Book of Revelation, the
• 1:52:31
  stars are representative of angels.
• 1:52:33
  The, the book itself tells us that so the sun's going to be
• 1:52:37
  darkened is that when the abyss is opened?
• 1:52:40
  Because that's when it says that there is an Angel, a fallen
• 1:52:43
  Angel that comes down and he was given the key to the abyss and
• 1:52:47
  he opens it up and smoke comes out and then these locusts come
• 1:52:50
  out. But then that is at the 5th
• 1:52:53
  trumpet. So that's why, you know, I do
• 1:52:55
  see the the theory that these things are happening at the same
• 1:53:00
  time because I was thinking the seals open first before the the
• 1:53:04
  trumpets. But somebody had also said that
• 1:53:06
  this was just a the way he saw that John saw the visions that
• 1:53:12
  it was after that then trumpets were given.
• 1:53:15
  So, but there was this moment of silence too after the 6th seal
• 1:53:20
  and then the trumpets were given.
• 1:53:22
  So I don't know, maybe these Trump things happen so quick and
• 1:53:27
  it's like 12345 right after Jesus, you know, comes in and
• 1:53:31
  all these things start happening because there's like hail and
• 1:53:34
  there's all this kind of stuff that's happening.
• 1:53:36
  We aren't going to know until after the fact.
• 1:53:39
  But this is what Jesus said. There's distress, and then this
• 1:53:45
  happens with the sky. The sun's dark and the moon
• 1:53:48
  doesn't give it lights. The stars from the sky.
• 1:53:50
  Now the next thing he says then will appear the sign of the Son
• 1:53:55
  of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the
• 1:54:00
  earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the
• 1:54:04
  clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
• 1:54:09
  And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they
• 1:54:15
  will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the
• 1:54:20
  heavens to the other. Another, gospel says, also
• 1:54:24
  includes earth. So it seems like angels are
• 1:54:29
  gathered, people are gathered, and all at this same time.
• 1:54:35
  And he, Jesus says, now learn this lesson from the fig tree.
• 1:54:39
  As soon as his twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you
• 1:54:43
  know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these
• 1:54:45
  things, you know that it is near right at the door.
• 1:54:48
  Truly, I tell you, this generation will certainly not
• 1:54:51
  pass away until all these things have happened.
• 1:54:54
  Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass
• 1:54:58
  away. What about that day or hour?
• 1:55:01
  No one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,
• 1:55:06
  but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah,
• 1:55:12
  so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
• 1:55:16
  For in the days before the flood, people were eating,
• 1:55:19
  drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage up to the day Noah
• 1:55:22
  entered the ark. And they knew nothing about what
• 1:55:25
  would happen until the flood came and took them all away.
• 1:55:28
  That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
• 1:55:31
  Two men will be in a field, one will be taken and the other
• 1:55:34
  left. Two women will be grinding with
• 1:55:36
  a hand mill. One will be taken, the other
• 1:55:37
  will left. Therefore keep watch, because
• 1:55:39
  you do not know what day the Lord will come.
• 1:55:42
  But understand this, if the owner of the house had known
• 1:55:44
  what time the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and
• 1:55:47
  would have not let his house be broken into.
• 1:55:50
  So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come
• 1:55:55
  at an hour when you do not expect Him.
• 1:55:57
  Who then is the faithful and wise servant who the master has
• 1:56:00
  put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their
• 1:56:04
  food at the proper time? I think Jesus when he's saying
• 1:56:07
  food here, he's talking about like the word of God, like
• 1:56:10
  spiritual food at the proper time it will be good for that
• 1:56:13
  servant. When who's for that servant
• 1:56:16
  who's master Jesus finds him doing so when he returns, truly
• 1:56:21
  I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
• 1:56:23
  But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, my
• 1:56:27
  master is staying away for a long time or this everybody's
• 1:56:31
  been saying Jesus is coming, but it's been thousands of years.
• 1:56:33
  He's not coming. Kind of that's would be the
• 1:56:35
  modern day version of that. And then he begins to beat his
• 1:56:39
  fellow servants. Doesn't care.
• 1:56:41
  He's, you know, not living like Christ, you know, gave us as an
• 1:56:45
  example. And to eat and drink with
• 1:56:48
  drunkards. The master of that servant will
• 1:56:51
  come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is
• 1:56:54
  not aware of, he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place
• 1:56:58
  with the hypocrites where there will be weeping and gnashing of
• 1:57:02
  the teeth. So hypocrites are going to go to
• 1:57:06
  the same place where weeping and gnashing of the teeth, that's
• 1:57:09
  hell, that's Hades or probably the Abyss, you know.
• 1:57:15
  So hypocrites, that's where they go.
• 1:57:18
  So if we are hypocrites right now, if we say we're Christians
• 1:57:22
  but we're not living it out, it's the time to repent and get
• 1:57:27
  right with God. And I explained that a little
• 1:57:30
  while ago, But that is the order of events as Jesus spoke.
• 1:57:34
  I would say study Matthew 24, compare it to Revelation chapter
• 1:57:39
  6 and so many other verses that we talked about today.
• 1:57:42
  But the ultimate point is it does seem like this Ezekiel 38
• 1:57:48
  war does seem to be at the same time with this earthquake.
• 1:57:52
  And then what's these things that are described match up with
• 1:57:56
  the wrath of God that comes about with the trumpets.
• 1:58:02
  So to me it seems like the Ezekiel 38 war, when that's
• 1:58:06
  happening, that's when Jesus returns.
• 1:58:08
  And I may I, I think I definitely disagree with what
• 1:58:14
  Amir's book had, but at the same time, there's two perspectives.
• 1:58:18
  Now you have one that's a pre tribulation that Amir indicated
• 1:58:25
  and then you have another one that I just presented that is in
• 1:58:29
  the middle of all this mess. Jesus is going to come and and
• 1:58:33
  my greatest fear. In fact, when I first
• 1:58:35
  corresponded with Amir, he is such a wonderful guy.
• 1:58:39
  Believe me, he is so great. I was, I, I didn't know who he
• 1:58:44
  was. I had just seen a YouTube video
• 1:58:46
  of him and it was right at the beginning of me being saved.
• 1:58:50
  And I had this compassion and concern for people that they
• 1:58:54
  were, you know, just for people to know God and not to fall away
• 1:58:57
  and not to be taken by surprise when all this happens.
• 1:59:00
  And so I wrote to Amir and he honestly replied back to me with
• 1:59:06
  all of his hundreds of thousands of followers.
• 1:59:08
  He actually replied to me and was supporting his pre
• 1:59:12
  tribulation theory and I was saying I don't know about that.
• 1:59:16
  I'm not sure if it's the pre Trib and and it doesn't matter
• 1:59:19
  except that if things don't turn out to be pre Trib and then
• 1:59:25
  people start going through this tribulation.
• 1:59:27
  I don't want people to fall away from their faith because if they
• 1:59:32
  get it in their head, we're going to be out of here before
• 1:59:35
  any of this begins. But then this stuff starts
• 1:59:38
  happening. Then they're going to say, oh,
• 1:59:40
  there isn't. You know, people might start
• 1:59:42
  doubting. They might start saying oh there
• 1:59:44
  isn't a God because this wasn't supposed to happen this way.
• 1:59:47
  Just like people didn't realized Jesus was the Messiah when he
• 1:59:53
  arrived because they thought it was going to be different.
• 1:59:56
  We need to keep open minds about this and and not be dogmatic
• 2:00:02
  about its pre Trib, it's post Trib, it's mid Trib.
• 2:00:05
  I mean know all of these different theories and then
• 2:00:08
  watch and don't be caught by surprise because if you think
• 2:00:12
  it's pre Trib and then it isn't. Don't fall away from your faith,
• 2:00:17
  realize that there are other viewpoints that didn't think it
• 2:00:20
  was pre Trib. And then when that happens, if
• 2:00:24
  it does happen that way, then you'll just know that Jesus is
• 2:00:27
  still coming. Like you would still have your
• 2:00:30
  faith, you would still believe. And that's what my concern is,
• 2:00:33
  is that people don't get their mindset so strongly in one way
• 2:00:39
  that if it doesn't happen exactly the way we think, then
• 2:00:43
  Oh well, it's not true. No, it is true.
• 2:00:45
  It's going to happen. It's just we might get some of
• 2:00:48
  the details mixed up. So just be aware of that and
• 2:00:52
  stay grounded in scripture and things that you're not sure of,
• 2:00:56
  like memorize these things. Look at the sequence of events
• 2:00:59
  and, and you know, get two or three witnesses within Scripture
• 2:01:04
  so that you have a better understanding of when the timing
• 2:01:07
  is. But just above all, stay close
• 2:01:12
  to Christ. Keep in the word and in prayer
• 2:01:16
  and let let Jesus know everything that you're concerned
• 2:01:20
  about because he is our provider.
• 2:01:22
  He's our creator and he loves us.
• 2:01:26
  So if you are surrendered to him, he's going to take care of
• 2:01:29
  us. So have No Fear, it's only those
• 2:01:33
  who do not know the love of God that haven't been made perfect
• 2:01:37
  in love who have fear because those who know God are not
• 2:01:44
  fearful and know that we're going to be fine.
• 2:01:47
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  to stay in the word every day because I I know that's
• 2:01:58
  important. That's Our Daily Bread.
• 2:02:00
  The word of God says Jesus is the word.
• 2:02:03
  He is the bread of life. I mean This is why we stay in
• 2:02:06
  the word. Anyway spoken long enough.
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  So hope this was beneficial for you and come back for the next
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  chapter.