Bible Prophecy & The Last Days: Israel, God’s Prophetic Timepiece | Harley Doneburg | January 18th, 2026

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Hey there! Is today your first time here? Or

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maybe your first time in a while? If so, maybe

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you're wondering exactly who we are and what

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this church is all about. Well, we'd like you

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to know that we're a group of ordinary people

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who are on an amazing journey together following

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Christ. Our guide is the Bible because it's the

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divinely inspired Word of God and it will never

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take us in the wrong direction. Along the way,

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we hope you'll see that we are welcoming and

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spiritually passionate. and that getting to know

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you is a big deal to us. We know that the road

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is rough sometimes, but we'll work really hard

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to bring you practical and relevant messages

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to equip and encourage you through life's ups

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and downs. We want you to know that we care about

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this community, and we believe that it's our

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job to make it a better place. So no matter who

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you are or where you've been, we're glad you're

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here with us today, and we hope that you'll join

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us on our journey, following Christ and living

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out His plan for us. So welcome to church. Thankful,

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God. Pray that, Lord, your word would meet us

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right where we're at. We're confident in the

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fact that, Lord, it's your desire to talk to

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us and meet with us, Lord. You want to speak

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to us, Lord, and minister to our hearts, remind

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us of your love, challenge us, warn us, all the

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things we need, Lord. So I pray you do that this

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morning, God, that we as a church would have

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an ear to hear what you'd have to say today.

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In Jesus' name. We had a whole wall full of baptism

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pictures at one time here. Almost 20 of them,

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20 years of them, plus give or take different

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other times we baptized people. We had men's

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retreats on the Genesee River and several baptisms,

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Silver Lake. Currently, we do it at the Breezeway

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Barn at our kind of church anniversary in August

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every year. But I remember looking at them. At

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one point, we would look at baptism pictures.

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We baptized 20, 25 people at a time every year.

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Great, super encouraging. A lot of people would

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show up. And then as we began to look at those

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pictures, What you'd see is one of the signs

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of the last days is people began to disappear.

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The people that were getting baptized, they weren't

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just not attending Calvary Chapel. Because it's

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great. If you're not attending here and you're

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going to a Bible -believing church, amen. That's

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where you need to be. Find a good, healthy church

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that teaches the word of God and find a home,

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a family. That's it. It's where you want to be,

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and you want to be connected. You want to be

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part of it. You're part of a family, part of

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the church. It's the bride of Christ. It's one

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bride. It's not all these different brides. It's

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the church. So plug in. But what we were seeing

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is people were just falling off the map, falling

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away. And that's the warning in these last days.

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One of the earmarks, and we talked about it last

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week, is that people would fall away. They would

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begin to walk away from God, walk away from the

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Lord. And typically, it's a gradual descent,

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right? It starts small, maybe with just becoming

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busy, too busy to get together, too busy. We've

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got so many things going on, or fears, or finances,

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and then it turns into something else, and pretty

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soon, you're gone. You're out of a place of fellowship.

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It's easy not to go to church. It's easy not

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to. But church is the place where you hear the

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word of God. You get stirred up, but you're part

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of a family. You get sharpened, challenged. There's

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accountability. You should have friends at church.

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You should be making friends. That's part of

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it. But slowly, as you get drawn away, pulled

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away, all those things, they begin to crumble.

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And then you're a target. But the devil does

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not want to see you in church, does not want

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you part of a body, wants to pull you away. You

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become a very easy target. It says this, one

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of the most sobering verses in the Bible, a little

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portion as Jesus is talking about kingdom living

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in Matthew chapters 5, 6, and 7. He issues a

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warning at the end of chapter 7. It says in verse

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21, you don't have to turn there. But not everyone,

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Jesus will say, he's telling his disciples, everyone

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who followed him up onto this mountain, not everyone

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who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into

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the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will

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of my Father in heaven. Then he goes on to say,

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In fact, many will say to me in that day, Lord,

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Lord, haven't we prophesied in your name, cast

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out demons in your name, and done many wonders

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in your name? Haven't we done this? We've done

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these works. You owe us heaven. I've been a good

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person. I've tithed. I've served. I've done this

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and that. That doesn't get you into heaven. It's

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the work of Calvary and what Jesus Christ did.

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And Jesus says, then I will declare to them,

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I never knew you. Apart from me, you who practice

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lawlessness. There was never a relationship.

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The relationship was based on what you could

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do to be good enough and not what Jesus did to

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make you good enough. That's the problem. But

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I can't imagine being there that Jesus literally

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says people will be standing there someday. Saying,

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Lord, Lord, they're not claiming some other God,

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but they're claiming Jesus Christ, the God of

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the Bible. Lord, Lord, didn't we do this? Didn't

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we do that? To hear those words, the final words,

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depart from me, I never knew you. That's it.

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No do -overs, no second chance. It's here to

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get your chance. Now. And so the Bible, we're

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looking at these signs. One of those signs is

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a departure from the faith. I pray that God,

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his spirit would move one more time and there

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would be a great revival again. And I think what

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we saw back in, I think it was September, that

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God used the seed of another martyr, which God

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always does. Charlie Kirk, as he died, it stirred

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and ignited faith again in this country. Bible

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sales went up exponentially. Church attendance

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went up. because of what he represented, who

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he represented. And it just started stirring

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hearts in people. Who is this guy? And people

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were looking him up and pretty amazing. And so

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I pray God does do a great revival, but we know

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what's going to happen is there'll be a departure

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from the faith. There'll be people leaving the

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faith. And so Jesus gave his disciples signs

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of the last days. As we're looking through Matthew

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24, there'll be wars, rumors of wars. There's

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always been that, but nothing like we know today.

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Today we see wars, rumors of wars. We know what

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is going on in Iran today, Persia. Iran is Persia

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in the Bible. And they're very significant players

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in the last days. We're going to read in Ezekiel

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38 and 39 because there's one great war that's

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coming. It's not the final war, but there's a

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war coming. And the Bible lists all the players.

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Amazing. These people, some of them that never

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had a relationship before are now coming together

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and very close ties, very close relationship.

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especially Turkey and Persia, Iran, and Russia.

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Kind of amazing. And you're hearing threats from

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Russia, right? If you do something, we're going

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to do something. They're threatening nuclear

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war on Europe. Nuclear force. It's kind of amazing

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that these guys are in place, that the Bible

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says it before. It's never even happened. Calls

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these people out hundreds and sometimes thousands

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of years in advance. How could God know? How

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could God know? But the Bible clearly states

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it. And so Jesus gives the earmarks of these

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things. Wars, rumors, rumors of wars, famine,

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pestilence, natural disasters, earthquakes, persecution.

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And he begins to talk about this time of tribulation

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that's coming on the earth, which the number

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one, and you need to know this because we're

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going to talk about Israel today. But you need

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to know that the tribulation period, there'll

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be many people who get saved during the tribulation.

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The seven year period on planet earth that God

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pours out finally judges the planet. Kind of

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like in the days of Noah. In fact, Jesus is going

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to say that. In the days of Noah, when there

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was a global judgment, a flood, there's going

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to come another day of judgment. But God is so

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patient, not willing, the Bible says, that any

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would perish, but that all would come to repentance.

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He's giving people time. A space to repent. Time

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to hear the gospel. Time to understand that,

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yeah, what is life after death? Why are we here?

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How did we get here? Answer all these questions

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that are in the DNA of every person. He's giving

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us time and space and room to answer those questions

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and come to Christ. And so Israel is a key player.

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Ezekiel chapter 36 or 37 and 36. We'll look at

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that. But God has given people a space, a time

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to repent. As the tribulation period, many people

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will get saved during that time. But it is the

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time. And if you remember, Daniel chapter 9.

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People are like, don't say Daniel chapter 9.

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Daniel chapter 9, we're not going to go there,

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but it's something very important. The angel

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gives Daniel this 70 week of years, period. 490

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years. It's going to take place. The first 69,

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God gives Daniel to give the exact day that Jesus

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Christ was going to ride into Jerusalem. And

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he did. But there's a space, an age of grace.

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It's the church age. There's one more week, week

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of years, seven years. We know as the time of

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Jacob's trouble, Daniel's 70th week. And it's

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a time where God is going to save people in the

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tribulation, but he's going to deal with this

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nation, Israel. Israel is key during the tribulation

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period. And we have that. You read the book of

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Revelation. It's laid out. Chapters 6 through

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19 is the tribulation period. There's no quiz

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on that, so don't worry. But it's important.

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God saves 144 ,000 Jewish people. They're Jewish

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Billy Grahams, evangelists. They're proclaiming

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the gospel to Jewish prophets in Jerusalem. It's

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very Jewish. So as we're going through this,

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we're seeing different signs, looking at them.

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And we get to a verse. In Matthew 24, it says

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this. Matthew 24, it says in verse 32, Now learn

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the parable of the fig tree. When its branch

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has already become tender and puts forth its

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leaves, you know that summer is near. So also

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when you see all these things, you shall know

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it's near even at the door. So he's relating

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this to the signs in the same way you would see

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a tree. In fact, Luke just talks about. Any tree,

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the way you see the leaves come on the trees

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or fruit coming, you know, you can tell the seasons

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by what you're seeing in a tree, right? You look

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outside, there's, if you live in New York, there's

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not many leaves on the tree. If there are, they're

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shriveled up, right? We're waiting for another

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couple months and we start seeing some buds come

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out and everyone starts talking about the crocuses

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that are, oh my gosh, look at this, it's amazing,

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right? We want. the warm weather to come. Well,

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that's part of what Jesus is relating this to.

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He says, when you see all these, know this, that

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it's at the doors. Assuredly, I say to you, this

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is important, that this generation will by no

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means pass away till all these things take place.

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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words

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will by no means pass away. Something's going

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to happen. Because the fig tree is also emblematic

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of the nation of Israel. The Bible talks, if

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you read the Old Testament, Micah, I think it's

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Chronicles, where Israel is looking for a day

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where it sits under its vine and its fig tree.

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And it's emblematic of this nation, Israel, the

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fig tree. And Jesus says something that I think

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is significant here. He says, when you know this

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parable of the fig tree, when its branch is ready

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to become tender, and it brings forth leaves,

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you know that summer is near. And something the

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Bible declares and promises, and it's unfortunate,

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and I've talked about it before, Martin Luther,

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unfortunately, John Calvin, and many of our forefathers

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who did not understand or see Israel, the potential

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of them becoming a nation again, created this

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thing. And believed in something known as, and

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I mentioned it before, replacement theology.

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Wherever you see Israel in the New Testament,

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the church replaces Israel. Israel is no more.

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They're insignificant. And the church has replaced

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Israel. Well, God doesn't say that. Paul doesn't

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say that in Romans. It's very important to know

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because it's the super sign of the last days.

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Israel becoming a nation again. But it's something

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that most people wrote them off. Lots of people

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wrote Israel off. Like there's no way they can

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become a nation again. It's impossible. Because

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they're out of the land. But Jesus said that.

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We won't go there. But Jesus said that your house

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is left to you desolate. Because they rejected

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their Messiah. And we know 70 AD, it's not overly

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important. It is important. that Titus of Aspasian

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comes into the city and ransacks. It kills over

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a million Jews. Cannibalism is part of what they're

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doing in the city, and they take 100 ,000 people

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captive because they rejected their Messiah.

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And the fruit of that was they went back into

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this last day's dispersion during the church

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age. But the Bible promises that there's going

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to be a regathering. That Israel is going to

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become a nation again. Most people didn't believe

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that. Most people thought it is impossible that

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that could happen. It says this. I wrote down

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a couple of quotes. Encyclopedia. Anyone ever

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have an encyclopedia Britannica at their house?

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When I was growing up, my grandmother had this

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whole shelf of encyclopedia Britannicas. I would

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just go through them. Well, the one from 1911

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says this. If you look up and. Maybe you could

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look this up online. It says this with the entry

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of the Hebrew language. It says, the dream of

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some Zionists that Hebrew, that is to say a would

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-be Hebrew, will again become a living popular

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language in Palestine has less prospect of realization

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than their vision of a restored Jewish empire

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in the Holy Land. Like, that ain't going to happen.

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There's not going to be a Hebrew language again.

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The Jewish people are not going to be in the

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Holy Land again. It's impossible. I mean, that's

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just over 100 years ago. Mark Twain, on his tour

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to the Holy Land, said this in 1867 in his writings

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called Innocence Abroad. It says, of all the

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lands of dismal scenery, I think Palestine must

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be the prince. Israel is desolate and unlovely,

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a barren wasteland, rich in soil, but wholly

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given over to weeds, a silent, mournful expanse.

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He remarked that he didn't encounter one single

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human being and hardly a tree or shrub. That's

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in 1867. He wrote that. And now we're talking

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about a nation that is birthed May 14th, 1948,

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produce goods, distribute goods. They're top

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15 in the world on certain things, but top 25

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in the whole world, which may not seem like a

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lot, top 25. Gee, that's not great. There's a

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lot of countries. There's 15 million Jews on

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the planet, on the whole planet, 15 million Jews.

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Seven and a half million live in Israel. Jews.

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There's 10 million in the whole country, but

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seven and a half million Jews and their top 25,

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in some aspects, in some ways, they cut flowers

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to Holland, who was the number one exporter in

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the world. They sell flowers, cut flowers to

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Holland. Their top five or top 10 in citrus,

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avocados, pomegranates. I mean, Israel has become,

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from what Mark Twain said, to our day and age,

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this major superpower. In fact, in terms of military,

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they're top 10 or 15 in the world today. Top

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five in some instances, their Navy, their Air

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Force, and their tank divisions. Top three in

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terms of secret service. I mean, we're talking

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about a nation that was born less than 100 years

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ago. And they become a global superpower. That

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at one time, the church itself that had the scriptures

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thought, this is impossible. There's no way they

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can become a nation. And guess what they have?

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May 14th, 1948, to become a nation. It's incredible

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what God has done. And he said it before it ever

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happened. And some people, Christians. Had to

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replace the church with Israel because they were

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in such disbelief. Just kind of amazing. Isaiah

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27, 6 says, in those days, the days that God

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is going to bring Israel back into the land,

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it says, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom

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and bud and fill the world with fruit. So I'm

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going to look at my notes for a second and tell

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you guys exactly what they're. They're tropical

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fruit exports. Avocados, dates, mangoes, citrus.

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They're number seven in the world in tropical

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fruits. Who would have thought that? They sell

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cut flowers to the Netherlands and Holland. Netherlands

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is the number one exporter in the world, and

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they purchase flowers from Israel. This land

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that was barren, desert. The army is top 15 in

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the world of 145 countries, but top 10 in their

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air force. Naval fleet, top five in the tank

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fleet. And like I said, they're intelligent agencies.

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The Mossad and Chimbat, they're top three behind

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the CIA and the UK's intelligent agencies. And

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you remember what happened with Hezbollah and

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the pagers. You guys remember that a couple of

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years ago where Hezbollah has all these pagers.

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And Israel convinced them to buy pagers from

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them so they could track them. And then one day

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they have this little bomb in them. And Israel,

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the Mossad ignites them, sets them off. People

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die because these people are constantly attacking

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Israel. Israel, their intelligence is amazing.

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But the Bible declares that people are going

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to go back to Israel. It's called Aliyah. They're

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going to go back to their homeland. And I was

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talking to someone recently who works with Jews

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in our area, Jewish people, Jewish community.

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And he was just telling me how much they get

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together and they're in contact with the Mossad

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in their country. They send billions of dollars

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back to their country all the time. Like these

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groups of Jews, these communities, Rochester,

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Buffalo, New York City, they're in contact with

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the CIA, the Mossad. They get updates on alerts,

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things to watch out for, and they're constantly

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sending money back to their homeland. And since

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the massacre October 7th, thousands of, tens

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of thousands of people have gone back to Israel

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to live, to move. Right? But the Bible says that

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they're going to do that. That they're going

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to go back. That they're going to enter back

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into the land in unbelief. Like they're not Christians,

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but they're God's people. If you turn with me

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for a second to Genesis chapter 12. This fig

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tree is going to blossom. It's a promise. As

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God calls Abraham out of his country and his

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nation, it says this in verse 1 of Genesis chapter

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12. It says, now the Lord had said to Abraham,

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Abraham, get out of your country and your family

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and from your father's house to a land that I'm

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going to show you. I'll make you a great nation.

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I'll bless you. I'll make your name great and

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you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who

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bless you and curse him who curses you. He's

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talking about this nation. That he's reestablishing,

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not just Abraham. And in you, all the families

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of the earth will be blessed, right? Messiah

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is going to come out of this nation, this Abraham

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seed. In chapter 15, you turn there with me for

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a second. God reiterates a promise to them. And

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makes a covenant with Abraham. It says in verse

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1, after these things, the word of the Lord came

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to Abraham in a vision saying, don't be afraid,

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Abraham. I'm your shield, your exceeding great

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reward. And then Abraham argues and says, listen,

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I don't have a seed. Only Eleazar in my house

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is my only seed. I don't have anyone from my

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wife and I. What are we going to do? What am

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I going to do, Lord? And God makes Abraham, and

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I'm skipping through this because I don't have

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enough time to read the whole chapter and explain

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it. But God basically tells Abraham, do this

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for me. Take these animals and cut them in half

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and spread them out. One on one side, one on

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the other. Kind of a gruesome scene, but it was

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the way they would cut a covenant. And then you

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would make this promise to each other and you'd

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basically hold hands and walk down the middle

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of these animals that were cut in half. And it

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was such a severe thing that, hey, this is what's

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going to happen to you if you don't keep your

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promise. You'll be like these animals. And but

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when Abraham was there and he cuts the animals

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in half, it says that he fell asleep and all

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he was trying to do is keep these birds from.

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from landing on these animals. That's all his

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job was. Then he finally fell asleep and it says

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that God went through the midst of it by himself

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and burned up these animals. And it was a sign

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to Abraham that Abraham, listen, I'm not depending

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on you to keep your side of the promise, but

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I'm going to keep my side. You don't need to

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come through the center of these animals, Abraham,

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because I'm going to keep the promise. You're

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going to have a seed and this seed is going to

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last forever. This land is yours forever. And

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no nation on the planet has ever been out of

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their country, off their land for 1900 to 2000

00:27:32.109 --> 00:27:36.069
years and gone back to take it over again. But

00:27:36.069 --> 00:27:38.549
that happened to a nation of Israel. They're

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out of their land for almost 2000 years and they

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go back. There's no other nation, country or

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people. that God says that that's my land and

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these are my people and I gave it to them. It's

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the only place in the Bible. Those are my people.

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This is my land and I gave it to them. And God

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brought them back in and gave them land. So turn

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with me to Ezekiel 37 for a second. I'll just

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read this to you, what God says. Ezekiel 37.

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If you're a note taker, you can write down Isaiah

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11, verse 10 and 11. And there's tons of scriptures

00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.059
in the Bible talking about God bringing his people

00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:53.039
back into the land in unbelief. But it says this

00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:58.319
in chapter 36, verse 22. Therefore, say to the

00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:02.500
house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, I do

00:29:02.500 --> 00:29:05.500
not do this for your sake, O house of Israel,

00:29:05.660 --> 00:29:09.599
but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned

00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:12.940
among the nations wherever you went. But I will

00:29:12.940 --> 00:29:16.420
sanctify my great name, which has been profaned

00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:18.799
among the nations, which you have profaned in

00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:20.880
their midst. And the nation shall know that I

00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:23.980
am the Lord, says the Lord God, when I'm hollowed

00:29:23.980 --> 00:29:27.059
in you before their eyes. For I will take you

00:29:27.059 --> 00:29:29.940
from among the nations and gather you out of

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all countries and bring you into your own land.

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That's God's promise. And we can bounce around

00:29:38.049 --> 00:29:41.670
and spend a lot of time talking about this. Chapter

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37 is pretty profound because these are the last

00:29:46.849 --> 00:29:49.450
days. This is the vision of these dry bones.

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It says this in chapter 37. The hand of the Lord

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came upon me and brought me out in the spirit

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of the Lord and set me down in the midst. of

00:30:02.910 --> 00:30:05.289
the valley, and it was full of bones. So if you

00:30:05.289 --> 00:30:08.309
can imagine this valley full of bones, they're

00:30:08.309 --> 00:30:11.029
dry bones, he's going to say. He caused me to

00:30:11.029 --> 00:30:13.509
pass by them all, and behold, there were very

00:30:13.509 --> 00:30:15.849
many in an open valley, and indeed, they were

00:30:15.849 --> 00:30:18.670
very dry. And he said to me, Son of man, can

00:30:18.670 --> 00:30:20.950
these bones now live? And I answered, O Lord

00:30:20.950 --> 00:30:24.849
God, you know. I don't know, you know. And he

00:30:24.849 --> 00:30:27.349
said to me, prophesy to these bones and say to

00:30:27.349 --> 00:30:30.190
them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

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Thus saith the Lord God to these bones, surely

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I will cause breath to enter into you and you'll

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live. I will put sinew on you and bring flesh

00:30:41.089 --> 00:30:43.829
upon you and cover you with skin and put breath

00:30:43.829 --> 00:30:46.470
in you and you'll live and you'll know that I

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am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded.

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And as I prophesied, there was a noise and a

00:30:51.609 --> 00:30:53.930
sudden rattling and the bones came together bone

00:30:53.930 --> 00:30:56.509
to bone. Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and

00:30:56.509 --> 00:30:58.549
the flesh came upon them and the skin covered

00:30:58.549 --> 00:31:01.349
over them, but there was no breath in them. And

00:31:01.349 --> 00:31:04.609
he said to me, prophesy to the breath. Prophesy,

00:31:04.710 --> 00:31:06.549
son of man, and say to the breath, thus saith

00:31:06.549 --> 00:31:09.869
the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath,

00:31:10.049 --> 00:31:12.869
and breathe on these slain that they might live.

00:31:13.289 --> 00:31:15.569
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath

00:31:15.569 --> 00:31:17.890
came into them, and they lived, and they stood

00:31:17.890 --> 00:31:21.109
there on their feet. Listen, an exceeding great

00:31:21.109 --> 00:31:26.109
army. That's who Israel is today. And he said

00:31:26.109 --> 00:31:29.390
to me, son of man, this is important, these bones.

00:31:29.930 --> 00:31:34.910
are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say,

00:31:35.089 --> 00:31:38.490
and this is what they said, our bones are dry,

00:31:38.670 --> 00:31:41.769
our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off.

00:31:41.990 --> 00:31:44.049
And that's what the nation was saying for a long

00:31:44.049 --> 00:31:48.170
time. Therefore prophesy and say to them, thus

00:31:48.170 --> 00:31:50.529
saith the Lord, O my people, I will open your

00:31:50.529 --> 00:31:52.609
graves and cause you to come up from the graves

00:31:52.609 --> 00:31:55.630
and bring you into the land of Israel. You'll

00:31:55.630 --> 00:31:58.250
know that I'm the Lord when I've opened your

00:31:58.250 --> 00:32:01.109
grave. Oh, my people and brought you up from

00:32:01.109 --> 00:32:03.710
your graves. And I'll put this is future. This

00:32:03.710 --> 00:32:06.430
is during the tribulation. Verse 14. I will put

00:32:06.430 --> 00:32:09.809
my spirit in you and you'll live. Right. They're

00:32:09.809 --> 00:32:13.730
going to become a nation that's saved, redeemed,

00:32:13.750 --> 00:32:18.769
born again. You'll live and I'll place you in

00:32:18.769 --> 00:32:21.349
your own land and you'll know that I, the Lord,

00:32:21.390 --> 00:32:23.369
have spoken it and performed it. They're going

00:32:23.369 --> 00:32:25.769
to be in belief during the tribulation. They're

00:32:25.769 --> 00:32:30.920
going to get saved. We don't have time. We're

00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:33.859
not going to look there. Ezekiel 38 and 39. I

00:32:33.859 --> 00:32:35.759
just want to look at a couple of verses. I want

00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:40.720
to read more. There's coming a battle that's

00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:44.180
significant. The timing of it is in question.

00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:46.880
When's it going to happen? Ezekiel 38 and 39.

00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:57.859
I believe before the tribulation kicks off. And

00:32:57.859 --> 00:33:03.289
I believe. Maybe in close correlation with the

00:33:03.289 --> 00:33:07.769
rapture of the church. But these players are

00:33:07.769 --> 00:33:11.390
in play. So I'll just read them and then tell

00:33:11.390 --> 00:33:15.529
you what these names are. Verse 2. Son of man,

00:33:15.589 --> 00:33:18.049
set your face against Gog, the land of Magog,

00:33:18.049 --> 00:33:21.329
the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal. That's

00:33:21.329 --> 00:33:28.349
Russia. And the prince of Russia, Gog and Magog.

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And say, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I'm

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against you, God, the prince of Rosh, Meshach,

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and Tubal. I will turn you around and put hooks

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into your jaws and lead you out with all your

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army, horses and horsemen, all splendidly clothed,

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a great company with bucklers and shields, all

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of them handling the sword. And listen, here's

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who he's gathering with them. Persia, that's

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Iran, Ethiopia, Libya. Are with them, all of

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them with shields and helmets. Gomer and all

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its troops, the house of Tagarma from the far

00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:06.480
north and all its troops. Many people are with

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you. Prepare yourselves and be ready. You and

00:34:09.099 --> 00:34:11.179
all your companies that are gathered about and

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be on guard for them. And then if you keep reading,

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these people come together. I just want to tell

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you who they are. It says this. Gog and Magog,

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that's a title. Rosh, that's Russia. Meshach,

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Moscow. Tubal, that's a city of Russia. But that's

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this northern, far north. If you put a line right

00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:44.119
from Israel straight north, that's who it is.

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It's Russia. And they're aligned with Persia.

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And you could follow all their war spending and

00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:55.659
military might. A lot of it comes from Russia.

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and China and these nations that are aligning.

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And Russia is pouring into this nation. Why?

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For money. We're going to see that people question,

00:35:08.769 --> 00:35:10.610
you know, why are you doing this? Why are you

00:35:10.610 --> 00:35:13.329
going to war? As you continue reading the chapter,

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which I encourage you to do, why are you going

00:35:15.530 --> 00:35:18.210
to war? To take a spoil? And yeah, that's exactly

00:35:18.210 --> 00:35:19.949
what they're doing. They're coming down for a

00:35:19.949 --> 00:35:24.650
spoil. They want to take Israel. They want to

00:35:24.650 --> 00:35:28.489
take the land. They want to destroy them. And

00:35:28.489 --> 00:35:30.869
people will question, but nobody's going to step

00:35:30.869 --> 00:35:35.329
in. God has to step in himself, it says, in this

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battle. But it's Iran. Ethiopia and Kush is Sudan

00:35:39.250 --> 00:35:45.809
and Ethiopia. Libya is Algeria, Tunisia. Gomer

00:35:45.809 --> 00:35:48.809
is Poland, the Czech Republic, East Germany.

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Tagarma is Turkey. The people, Sheba and Dedan,

00:35:53.380 --> 00:35:56.500
verse 13, I didn't read it. One of those people,

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that's the Arabian Peninsula. And one of those

00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.800
places is Saudi Arabia, where you think of Osama

00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:06.559
bin Laden and 9 -11, right? But now with the

00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:09.760
Abraham Accords and the new president, they're

00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:13.980
sympathetic. They're friendly to Israel. In fact,

00:36:14.019 --> 00:36:16.920
they're worried about Iran themselves. They said

00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:21.750
that... Iran and its leadership, it's the next

00:36:21.750 --> 00:36:25.750
Hitler. And they're worried. And they said, no,

00:36:25.829 --> 00:36:28.610
we don't have nuclear weapons. But if Iran has

00:36:28.610 --> 00:36:31.909
them, we have no choice. But we'll have them

00:36:31.909 --> 00:36:34.889
too. Because they're worried. Right? It's all

00:36:34.889 --> 00:36:39.750
shaken up. Zechariah says that Israel is going

00:36:39.750 --> 00:36:42.710
to be a cup of trembling. And the whole world

00:36:42.710 --> 00:36:45.840
is going to tremble. At that one little nation,

00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:47.699
the size of New Jersey, they're going to worry

00:36:47.699 --> 00:36:51.639
about this one little plot of ground on this

00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:54.739
whole planet. Why is it significant and important?

00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:57.679
Because they're God's people and he's not done

00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.619
with them. Romans says that. Not done with them.

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Blindness in part has happened to Israel until

00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:07.659
the fullness of the Gentiles. The church comes

00:37:07.659 --> 00:37:09.980
together. God raptures the church out of here.

00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:13.119
We're going to look at that next week. And then.

00:37:14.680 --> 00:37:18.360
Antichrist comes, tribulation starts, and God

00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:21.880
deals with this nation of Israel that came out

00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.519
of nowhere, that people wrote off, even people

00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:28.519
in the church wrote that nation off. And they're

00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:32.039
back in the land. They're a major player. They're

00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:36.820
a world power. They're a global influence, financially,

00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:43.079
militarily, intelligence -wise. 15 million on

00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:46.630
the whole planet. Add them all up. There's 15

00:37:46.630 --> 00:37:49.389
million Jews. There's 10 million people in New

00:37:49.389 --> 00:37:53.690
York City. One city in the United States. And

00:37:53.690 --> 00:37:59.789
the whole world is worried about Israel. Every

00:37:59.789 --> 00:38:02.630
Muslim nation around there, many of them, not

00:38:02.630 --> 00:38:04.630
all of them, want to push them into the sea.

00:38:04.869 --> 00:38:08.170
They're not happy with a peace agreement or a

00:38:08.170 --> 00:38:10.389
little more land. They want them dead, wiped

00:38:10.389 --> 00:38:15.949
out. And we could go on and on. There's a lot

00:38:15.949 --> 00:38:18.989
of history here. Track it in your Bible. I challenge

00:38:18.989 --> 00:38:22.929
you. The devil has always attacked this nation.

00:38:23.030 --> 00:38:27.329
Why? Because of the promise of Messiah. God can't

00:38:27.329 --> 00:38:31.429
lie. But if the devil can do something to thwart

00:38:31.429 --> 00:38:34.329
God's plans, that's what he wants to do. He can

00:38:34.329 --> 00:38:38.030
stop it some way. So listen, here's the reality.

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Is if you don't know the Lord, listen, the Bible

00:38:42.929 --> 00:38:47.050
says that God knows the end from the very beginning.

00:38:48.809 --> 00:38:51.329
Your future matters. Where are you going to spend

00:38:51.329 --> 00:38:56.289
eternity? God wrote this not to, and it's fun

00:38:56.289 --> 00:38:59.349
to look up. It's fun to study these things. I

00:38:59.349 --> 00:39:02.489
really enjoy it. But here's the reality. It's

00:39:02.489 --> 00:39:05.190
written there for a reason. It's a warning. God

00:39:05.190 --> 00:39:07.489
knows the future and he knows if you don't receive

00:39:07.489 --> 00:39:10.420
him, guess what? You'll be separated forever.

00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:14.619
For all of eternity. Because the Bible's true.

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God is real and he sent his son. On your behalf

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and mine, he loves you.