Signs of The Times | Don Stewart

exciting time to be alive it really really is and so I just asked Bob my question was how long do you want me to go tonight and he says well you go as long as you want work but we're all leaving about 5:30 so well so anyway well though we I want to open it for questions too to have a do this just just to let you know if you're not familiar I do a program on his channel his channel calm is 24/7 a Christian television on the internet it's the largest Christian television network by far on the Internet in fact if you watch it recently we've got a little thing we do a little kind of PSA public service announcement we have these data centers I think there's a hundred and forty-six of them around the world we're a total you know self-contained network as it were we're not on Facebook we're not on any type of social media we're just on the Internet we have something like 60 million people that tune in various times during each month literally around the world and we're in countries where I can't even mention we're at with the data centers in that because it's countries who are very shall we say friendly with Christianity but five days a week an hour a day from 10:00 to 11:00 Pacific time I do a program called breaking news where we look at the events of the day and how they fit with my end time Bible prophecy and we're the only as far as we know the only program anywhere on earth that does this it gives five hours a week live about what's going on with respect to Bible prophecy and times that's all we do so any story we do it's gonna have to be something that has to do with the signs of the times that the Bible warns us about what we're to look for so it's a very exciting exciting time to be alive now I love coming to this church because Bob if this is your first time here this is one of the greatest pastors we have in this country Bob co-pending it really is hi I just I just love this guy and I love the people here it's just one of my favorite places to go to you guys have been wonderful and it's always exciting what's gonna happen so we're gonna have a good time together tonight now when are we doing one 53545 something like that I'll be back at the table they're answering questions if you have questions you know because I want to spend some time doing them because so many things are going on literally so many things are happening every program I do I have 10 headlines there 10 headlines so if you start doing the math that would be 5 times 5 50 a week 200 a month or basically 50 weeks we have the program so about 2,500 headlines per year and all of them have something to with the last day's Bible prophecy and that so I picked out a few of them tonight I want to go over with you to let you know what's going on even right now cuz right now is a very very interesting time if you were watching the news the last day or so you find out that our embassy it sounds familiar our embassy has been overrun this time in Baghdad Iraq but by the same people who did it back in 77 the Iranians that you know they're their consorts as it were there and so the Middle East is really heating up in a very fascinating way right now many of the stories that we'll be doing tomorrow actually I'll be back again tomorrow we took today off obviously some of the headlines of what's going on right now the Temple Mount for example and more people going up there than ever before for the for the Hanukkah the last day of Hanukkah the feast of lights have just gotten over we've got well what's go the headlines right now we'll just tell you what's going on and then we'll open up some questions here here are some recent headlines and this is mind-boggling Prime Minister Netanyahu said this recently and he also said this I was a soon as a recent is like the day before yesterday he said Israel Ponder's a pre-emptive operation to prevent Iranian cruise missiles all right one of the things that happened remember the Iranian cruise missiles in September they hit the Saudi oil fields what was interesting about that a cruise missile is not like a missile that comes out of the sky it's on the surface of the the land and it's a whole different ballgame because they shot 24 cruise missiles and drones and hit the oil fields and the refining center biggest refining center in the world in Saudi Arabia and the cruise missiles came from Iran the drones came from only God knows where it came from Iraq because they're like as many of you may have drones are not the same type of drones probably that hit their oil fields we all but you've got the drone technology which you can pilot these things so even though they come in from one direction doesn't mean they started there so it's a whole new ballgame now with the modern warfare because they're low to the ground they're you know they can get underneath the radar there and they're very very effective and so Netanyahu says look we're not going to wait around for you to do this to Israel we may do a preemptive strike against you Iran so he's threatened that and we've had actually some more sabre-rattling in the last couple of days from the not only the Iranian from the Israelis but also from Donald Trump in the Americans because of the what they did to the embassy they killed one of our contractors there in Syria and President Trump you know like Lindsey Graham misty said to the Iranians he said look this is not Barack Obama you watch he'll he can reduce you to a cinder so don't don't mess with him and so anyway we're gonna see what happens there so anyway he's Netanyahu is pondering a peremptory strike against thinking about that against the Iranian cruise missiles again to prevent that from happening in Baghdad where the embassy was basically taken over yesterday they're supposed to be leaving now today these terrorists that are there there's a huge Iranian Guard base in Baghdad and you know what they're there for - again to put missiles and drones closer to Israel because if we if when you have the map there you've got around on the one side of the pond on the Persian Gulf you got the Persian Gulf that Iraq is closer obviously geographically to Israel and so the missiles would go a shorter distance the drones will be going a shorter distance are actually building this the Iranians there these this base near Baghdad for their missiles and for their drone attacks on Israel so they're attempting to surround Israel and here it's the idea and in fact there's a one story that's very very fascinating it's kind of most people are missing we'll talk about that in a couple of minutes that the idea is the Rainie ins what they want to do is literally surround Israel surround them there in Syria there in Lebanon there in Iraq of course they're there in Iran they're down south and Yemen what they want to do is have troops surrounding them so they can attack them from all sides the north south east and west now what we know is there is going to be an attack on Israel but what's going on now I should probably say this at the beginning if something happened because there could possibly a regional war there this is not a zekiel 38:39 for many many reasons number one Iran isn't the one that leads it it's Russia that leads it number one number two they catch Israel off guard Israel's not off guard right now number three the United States is not a player in the Ezekiel 3839 war the United States right now has a battleship in Bahrain looking straight at Iran ready to take them on if Iran tries to do anything any funny so if a regional war does break out it is not impossible because they've been saber-rattling the last two months about this god help us if it does because like MBS mohammad did Salman the young leader of Saudi Arabia says it would just devastate the world economy 20% of the oil going to the world goes through the Persian Gulf fortunately we're self-sufficient now self-sustained but it could be a huge huge huge mess of something like that goes on and so this would not be a zekiel 38:39 if you remember back in 92 when the Gulf War took place a lot of people said it was just prophesied in Scripture this is prophesied in the Bible the churches were filled for a while but then nothing happened and people tended to dribble out of that again we've been saying this over and over again on the program if something does happen a regional war this is not one that's been predicted in the Bible cave but it's setting the stage or what's going on so this is one of the things we're concerned about now what had happened recently in the Persian Gulf two missiles sent an Iranian tanker on fire near the Saudi coast there's an Iranian tanker going through the Gulf and two missiles hit them now remember Iran set missiles to hit some ships in the Persian Gulf the oil fields in Saudi Arabia and yet two missiles hit these Iranian tankers so who does Iran blame it's really interesting you know who the culprits are it's always Israel's fault right Israel number one also the u.s. is fault but the third one is fascinating they're blaming also Saudi Arabia why is that interesting it's interesting cuz as we will see it's not only who's in this battle that we talk about that God prophesies at the time of the end Ezekiel 38 and 39 it's who is not in there and who will not be fighting Israel in one of the countries that won't be fighting are the Saudis the Saudis will not be there and Iran of course is blaming them for this tank or attack that's why everybody's you know kind of waiting to see what's going on now these next two stories and we're going to go over and explain what they all mean in some detail that the prophecies were there I at the scripture Russia and Iran they're special forces are now Gore this is by the way these are secular headlines it's not from some Bible site these are secular headlines get from the you know from the various new sources around the world Russia and Iran their special forces are going to conduct their first-ever joint exercise in Syria Russia and Iran now let's remember that conducting joint exercises then the next story we have Turkey and Russia will be also doing joint patrols in Syria so you got Russia and Iran and you got Russia and Turkey doing joint exercise okay find out a minute why that's so profound and then here's a headline again secular news source Turkey Russia Iran filling the vacuum in the Middle East Turkey Russia and Iran and you're gonna see it a couple minutes you really can't make this stuff up exactly how it's gonna fill with what the Bible has to say about the time of the end now this one here I've got a couple stories on fact I'll be getting done tomorrow I had them for you yesterday but I didn't have time to get him in this is about Libya and as well Turkey used Syrians to fight in Libya well what's that going Libya I thought they had some United Nations type of government there ever since Gaddafi you know died what about fighting in Libya what's going on then the one that's really interesting as far as we're concerned I'm going to develop this somewhat tomorrow Libya's political instability makes room for Isis to regroup for Isis to regroup Isis 20,000 square kilometres in both Iraq and Syria at one time where they had their Caliphate there a few years ago now it's zero none but they are regrouping in various spots of the world and possibly in Libya does that have anything to do with Bible prophecy it could be huge as we'll see in a minute and then this I don't we been reading the stories the anti-semitism in the state of New York they've had nine separate incidents in the last couple of weeks anti-semitic incidents there and American Jews are finally getting a hint of the dangers they're facing anti-semitism is reaching a fevered pitch and it's only gonna get worse and worse and worse the closer we get to the time of the end in fact I don't know if you heard the story we did this in their great wisdom they're the legislators in New York push through something that even liberal prosecutors didn't want them to push through there are a number of crimes now starting today if you commit like second-degree murder manslaughter things like that I mean you know sexually abusing a child whatever it might be you will get arraigned and then that's it you're out no jail no bail until you supposedly show up for the trial so there's gonna be 125,000 criminals in New York who won't be in jail who theoretically will show up when there's a due date in court but no bail whatsoever because the Liberals in the state of New York and their great wisdom thought wow these people are just harmless what does it leave him out there and I don't if you saw the one story the one woman that was arrested in New York she beat up three Jewish women started calling him names this and that got thrown she got thrown in jail overnight came out and then that was it no bail you know you have to take bail just show up for the trial so that she went out two hours and she didn't stall to start punching out another Jewish woman right then and okay well I'm sorry we can't do anything against you because this is the new law here in the great state of New York it's not that sounds like California doesn't in a lot of ways what's going on here I never thought I'd see the day where I wish Jerry Brown would governor of california again I but anyway but be that as it may this is some of the recent headlines going on and then here's another headline eighty percent eighty percent of the religious persecution in the world is against who against Christians eighty percent against Christians there's a country in Africa burka Burkina Faso it's a country probably most of us have never heard of there is basically what's going on there the desired is to wipe out all the Christians there in this country there was thirty five of them killed the other day and we do headlines on this no one else will talk about we do mostly women were killed murdered by these terrorists that are there because they were murdered because they are Bible believing Christians 80 percent of the religious persecution the world is against Christians right now as we speak there two hundred and forty five million Christians living in countries where they're persecuted for being a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ that is the world we live in right now these are some of the headlines so you say well what does it mean with respect to the Bible okay let's go down the list number one Israel is threatened Israel's existence is threatened by its neighbors as we see now modern-day Iran which is the same as ancient Persia Zechariah 12:3 in the future listen what it says on that day when all the nations of the earth all the nations of the earth are gathered against earth that's Israel Jerusalem particular I will make Jerusalem and a movable rock for all the nations all who try to move it will injure themselves Zechariah 12:3 we're told in Zechariah chapter 12 that two different groups the regional nations and all the nations of the world will be against Israel in other words their existence will be threatened so what we see right now with Iran is something that's going to happen not only regionally but actually worldwide as we're moving towards towards the anti-semitism of the time of the end so that's why Netanyahu wants to do this preemptive strike number two Russia and a coalition with Iran and Turkey okay remember join exercises with the Iranians joint exercises with the Turks these are headlines and then you have the the story filling the vacuum you know you've got Iran Turkey in Russia filling the vacuum they're filling the vacuum in the Middle East the United States is on its way out is we're gonna see in a minute we're still there now because of what Iran has done recently but we are on our way out there will develop that in a minute or two but anyway Russia and a coalition with Iran and Turkey Ezekiel 38 Ezekiel is told to turn his face towards Gog that is the name of this leader that's going to be there at the end of days in the land of Magog that's in Central Asia he's the chief Prince of you know he's the chief of rosh russia Meshach and tubal he's from modern-day Russia as we will see and so what we go down the list we have the ancient names of this these people groups are going to invade Israel like Bob mentioned in the last days Ezekiel 38 what we do we put them on the map where they were at the time of Ezekiel then we put the modern nations in there because it's the geographical area they're coming from GOG from the land of Magog or it's coming from this is where this person is but he's the cheap prince of Ross Ross is modern-day Russia not because it sounds like Russia because Ross is at the far north that both Babylon or Ezekiel was prophesy and of Israel the country to the furthest part of the north coming down that's where again not because the sound rosh in russia it is a proper name that we find in ezekiel we also find they this other group people group will invade called Beth togarmah and Gomer they're in modern-day Turkey but also it's interesting in the area of Armenia where turkey Russia and Iran all kind of come together interesting there's kind of an area where they're all kind of geographically located the invasion comes from people groups from that particular area along with Persia now Persia is ancient you know as modern-day Iran is ancient Persia in fact the name Iran I'm told us the Farsi word for Persia and so that is in 1935 it changed but these three nations are going to be front and center according to Ezekiel 3839 in the invasion that's taking place now didn't we read the headline turkey Russia Iran filling the vacuum there in Israel mmm hmm now how can this be Turkey Russia and Iran strange bedfellows as it were in the history of the human race Turkey excuse me Iran yeah Iran and Russia have never ever had any military alliance the two countries geographically related were modern-day Russia's modern-day Iran is never had a military alliance until today predicted in Scripture and so you've got that predicted number one and so they're there today against seemingly all odds of history attempting to form a coalition filling the vacuum there in the Middle East now what's interesting about this if we were doing if we were here in the 1970s doing this talk let's say 1975 and we mentioned a coalition of Iran Russia and Turkey we would be greed I would be greeted with blank stares from each and every one of you because in 1975 Iran was the best friend of Israel in the Middle East when the Shah was in charge there it was a ran that resupplied them in the 1973 Yom Kippur War that helped them win the war at that particular time Iran had been a great great friend of Israel until 1979 the Ayatollah Khomeini took over and the Islamic Republic of Iran was created now there is really in fact we've told the story here before it's always new people worth telling again faster Chuck Smith the last couple years his life he loved to tell the story in fact he told about every week when we're on the on the TV program he loved to mention it because how do you know these things in my in their mid 70s he's up there at Israel's northern border right where Lebanon and Syria are and he's talking to these generals in the Israeli Defense Force he says guys this is not the place you're gonna have to worry about it's not going to be Syria it's not going to be Lebanon your worst enemy is going to be the Iranians and they looked at him and they started laughing chop the Iranians they're our best friend what do you mean if it weren't for them we wouldn't probably beer 1973 Chuck says just trust me they're the ones you have to look out for in the future or a couple years later when the Shah was to pose when home a knee took over the same general start Colin pastor Chuck from Israel get all these calls from Israel member to the extension there at Calvary Costa Mesa and their question was a Chuck what's gonna happen next you know what's gonna happen yet you seem to know that and we used to say when we did this program together Chuck and I do world news briefing for a number of years on his channel so look we're not prophets we're not sons of prophets it just says it in Scripture you've got Iran Russia and Turkey now turkeys come along waited it was just a few years ago these Raley's would take their vacations in Turkey Turkey's a member of NATO the Turks for a hundred years we're a secular country seemingly out of it you know very friendly with the West Muslim and name only but this Mendham air Dewan comes into power in the early 2000s and now he becomes the dictator they're wanting to bring Turkey back to the glory of days you can't make this stuff up Turkey Russia and Iran well how did they get there how did they get to be this coalition how did all this work well this is where the Islamic state Isis comes in remember Isis is they're taking over one-third of Iraq one-third of Syria to fight them there were soldiers from Iran Russia Turkey the United States also came in at the end and cleaned up there but the bottom line was when Isis was removed 20,000 square kilometers now now zero what their caliph they're in both Iran excuse me with both Iraq and in Syria what happened was the Russians the Iranians the Turks they didn't move out in fact today if you go to Israel if you go to the northern border of Israel that go on Heights and you look across the border in the past you would see United Nations soldiers you know what you'll see today you'll see Russian soldiers there are eight Russian outpost on the border they're looking over towards Israel manned by Russians you'll also have the Syrian army there but it is not the Syrian army its conscripts dressed as the Syrian army from Afghanistan and from Iran that are they're also in right above Israel's northern border so for years and years we're wondering how in the world could this invasion take place because according to ezekiel 38:8 they're caught by surprise how the world in the modern warfare could be caught by surprise if you have to come all the way from Russia all the way from around even turkeys got to hop over Syria that they're in the way how in the world could that happen we don't wonder now because they're right there knocking on Israel in their northern border there is a land bridge and we talked about this some time to time we put the map up all the way from Tehran through Iraq through Syria through Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea a land bridge they are creating to bring munitions people and whatever supposedly to rebuild the war-torn country of Syria that an actual 'ti to put a beachhead there so they can eventually invade Israel just like the Bible says so Russia and a coalition with Iran and Turkey were not making this stuff up now what's really interesting here when it talks about the leader of this coalition he's gone from the land of Magog but he's the chief Prince of rosh the chief prince of russia now it's interesting of all the nations that are invaded invading Russia is the ones you know basically singled out here as the leader the leader will come from what is modern day Russia it won't be from any of these other countries now what's fascinating about that is you know could come any of the eight or nine modern countries but they're coming from Russia now when we have the various meetings the leaders of the particular countries have met Russia Iran and Turkey on four different occasions have gone to the capital of each country but the big cheese always has been Vladimir Putin in fact we have another headline I'd like to read to you this is from an editorial by Pat Buchanan is Putin the new king of the Middle East is Putin the new king of the Middle East why did he write that Putin is the only leader that talks to every single country in the Middle East he talks to Israel he talks to Iran he talks to Syria he talks to the Turks us can't talk everybody the Iranian won't talk to us you know you know they won't Putin is the only leader that can talk to everybody so we asked the question he's he the new king so remember this person is Gog will come from the land of Magog but he will the chief Prince of Rosh which is Russia so we're looking for a Russian leader now as Joel Rosenberg says Vladimir Putin may certainly not be Gog but he's acting very Gog esque and what he's doing and trying to take things that don't belong to him like with the Ukraine so the leader of the coalition the leader group as Russia and the leader of Russia the new king of the Middle East Vladimir Putin so what do we have here prophecy setting the stage being fulfilled Israel's existence threatened by its neighbors Iran and Persia Russia and a coalition with Turkey and Iran okay Russia is the leader of the coalition and the leader of Russia is the big cheese as it were the person now who is the question is asked rhetorically is he the new king of the Middle East the only leader that talks to every country there you can't make this stuff up this is happening right now the United States will soon be leaving the area soon not yet fortunately of they're sending possibly 4,000 soldiers back to do a little mop up work there but we will be leaving President Trump said he wants to get out of the area and there's gonna come a time it's not during this administration there's gonna come a time when they'll be an administration who will not be there geographically militarily politically anywhere in the Middle East so when Israel is invaded one of the things we know u.s. is conspicuous by its absence we're not there we're just simply not there because this this hit me a number of years ago I think I've mentioned this to you before when there was a I was doing this talk a number of years ago on the Ezekiel 3839 invasion you know and one thing that hit me was this personage who is the leader this GOG character he knots his title he has this evil thought evil thought that he's going to invade but he doesn't have any second thought about anybody coming to the aid of Israel none whatsoever none whatsoever and nobody does no country does the living God does he wasn't counting on that but the point is there's no country there that will come to the aid of Israel so what does that tell us there is no superpower in the world at that time who can or will a fight with the United States fight with Israel Israel will be by itself and so where's the United States very much conspicuous by our absence however our next point and this is another headline we have I'm going to read it to you historic first official Saudi delegation enters Israel preys on the Temple this has never happened before the Saudis and the Israelis will have some type of friendship Israel is working on a historic relationship with the Saudis why is that interesting because when this invasion takes place there is a protest that happens against these countries that invade against Russia against a rant against Turkey where does it come from the Persian Gulf the Saudis meaning they have some type of a relationship with Israel they're not you know buddy-buddy or anything like that but at least they have a relationship not to the place with our intervene on the side of Israel but there'll be a having a working relationship and so what we see now remember that's why I mentioned earlier who did Iran blame for getting their tanker hit Israel the u.s. the Saudis because the Saudis and Iran are the two ones fighting for power there in the Middle East and so now Israel working on a historic relationship with the Saudis who will protest the invasion now here's the one that's really really interesting I don't know if anybody's caught this or talked about this we are we're going to talk about tomorrow we've mentioned in the past Turkey and Russia are attempting to gain a foothold in Libya Turkey and Russia well Turks use Syrians to fight in Libya now why do I say that Libya is one of the countries the invading armies will come from if you draw a circle around Israel you've got countries the stage is set there for Iran turkey Russia northern Sudan they're another one of those the countries that will be part of this terrorist country however Libya is also mentioned ancient put but Libya is kind of an a mess right now they've got like I said this United Nations back government there but what's interesting here and here to me is the headline of headlines I don't know if anybody caught this we're going to talk about it tomorrow big time it says Libya Libya's political instability makes room for Isis to regroup why did Russia Iran and Turkey go to Syria why do they go to Iraq because that's where Isis was they weren't there to drive them out if Isis regroups in Libya who's going to show up you know who the headlines tell us are going to show up Turkey and Russia and that would complete the circle they would drive Isis out but they're gonna stay so they can attack Israel from Gaza Libya's to the south of Israel you've got Russia to the north you've got Turkey to the north you've got around to the north and the East fully circled by that particular time so this story was fascinating to me again Russia and Turkey are attempting gate a foothold in Libya and that would complete the circle to surround Israel from these different nations all right we read about the Christians being persecuted jesus warned us about that matthew 24:9 the eighth sign here they will hand you over to be persecuted and put to death you will be hated by all nations because of me now one of the interesting things that a lot of people miss on this because they're two people groups this is our two signs the Christians and Jews that will be persecuted at the time of the end according to the Lord Jesus but let's think about this for a second when Jesus made this statement he was in this backward country Judea under you know a vassal state of the Roman Empire he's not even accepted by the religious leaders of his own day he's from the Galilee where they have an accent they sound like Hicks you know their worth to the people in Jerusalem and so he makes the statement about the time of the end about being persecuted at the time of the end about his return to the earth so what is assumed there in Scripture there's a bunch of things assume when you start thinking about this they're gonna be Christians at the time of the end they're going to be hated by everyone they're going to be persecuted but they're gonna be the numbers of them are going to be so much that again they can't escape the notice of the people of the world so the Christians will exist at the time of the end that is you know that's basically what Jesus prophesied well here we are you know 2020 and they're still Christians that were the biggest religion in the world still right now when you talk about all the people that profess Jesus around the world and yet when he made that statement he just had his twelve disciples and a few others hanging on but he said at the time at the end you know not only the whole world will hate you the whole world would be against you just like with Israel but you'll still exist and you'll get the attention of the world wait cross that one off he's right on that one - what knee but the fact that we do exist her at the time of the end and the hatred for Christians will literally be worldwide will be persecuted because of him he said in Luke 21 12 and 13 they will seize you and persecute you they will hand you over to synagogues put you in prison you will brought before kings and governors on account of my name and that's been the story of the Christianity since the first century in the 20th century when I was going to Biola same place where bobland got our education our biblical education that particular time we were told this there were more Christians that were martyred for the cause of Christ in the 20th century than in the first 19th centuries put together more people died for the cause of Christ in the 20th century martyred for being a Christian than the first 19th centuries put together now the 21st century the rapid rate is even ahead of the 20th century persecuted because believers in Jesus an average of 11 people a day or murdered worldwide simply because they're Christians 245 million people like we said are under some type of persecution today that is Christians and countries that they're persecuted because the faith in the Lord Jesus so we can cross that one off Christian still exists at the time of the end they have a worldwide influence and they're being persecuted just as the Lord Jesus said but the second people group are the Jews and what do we see the rise of anti-semitism the rise of that going on well we see in New York State recently what we literally seen we had it out here in Poway we thought of course in this in Pittsburgh we see that constantly happening all around the world so this sort of thing is going on and on and on and on just as scripture said now here's the really good news in all of this and this is the point I want to emphasize here according to the Book of Daniel Daniel chapter 12 verses 9 and 10 at the time of the end the Christians will understand what's going on Daniel was told in the 12th chapter to seal up the book verse 4 and Daniel 12 to the time of the end he said you know many will run to and fro trying to find an answer knowledge will increase that's knowledge of course of the Book of Daniel Bible prophecy then Daniel says in Daniel chapter 12 and verse 8 when he heard people talking about these events of the end he said this I heard but I did not under stand down to the profit that man was given more insight of the future than arguably anybody else with the possible exception of John and revelation to the future of the world Daniel given though as a record of the Book of Daniel he didn't understand but in Daniel 12 9 and 10 the Lord says him Daniel go your way this is sealed until the time of the end and then we're told this in Daniel 12:10 the wise will understand what's going on the wicked will never understand they'll come a time when people can understand what's taking place and that's us right now in the world today all of this makes sense so let's go down the list what did we just see just in the few headlines again I had to pick these out of the hundreds of headlines I got over the last year Israel's existence threatened wait a minute doesn't that mean Israel's gotta still exist at the time of the end that's no slam-dunk we've talked to you about this before Israel was attacked by five different people groups in the Old Testament and God said to each of those people groups you're not gonna exist anymore because you're attacking my people trying to destroy them and you have never seen a Moabite an Edomite an ammonite a Philistine or in our malachite those different five people groups all attempted to destroy Israel and God predicted judgment on all of those they don't exist as a distinct people group but Israel does today it's rayul exists the time of the end and they're in the world's spotlight and so their existence is threatened by its neighbors and member what Zechariah says the whole world is against him well the whole world can only be against if the whole world knows about him right in this little tiny country about the size of you know Lake Michigan the size of New Jersey is you know in the spotlight that they had you know if the world today in the day and age which we live so we see that happening Russia in a coalition with Iran and Turkey who'd have thunk it you could even believe it a few years ago literally fulfilled Russia is the leader of this coalition in the Middle East and what's interesting all the other countries that they're leading are Muslim countries in Russia is the one that's taken the lead here okay the leader of Russia is going to be the king the new king of the Middle East we have a man right now Vladimir Putin who fills the bill on that United States will be leaving the area they're not a player what we're trying to do get out of the area here and that would literally fulfill the predictions that are made in Scripture so when Russia does invade with Iran and Turkey in these other countries there's no America to help them out Israel working on a historic relationship with the Saudis meaning the Saudis will have some type of friendship they will protest but but they will not get involved on the side of Israel we see that happening now Turkey Russia attempting to gain a foothold in Libya because of Isis just like they did in Iraq just like they did in Syria if that happens here we go again totally surrounded from all sides again literally fulfilling the circle the nations that will invade Christians and Jews both being persecuted they both have to exist at the time of the end to be persecuted the Second World War six million Jews were put to death because they're descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob three short years later the modern State of Israel was formed when Jesus made the statement about his people being there at the time of the end remember what he died on Calvary's cross the only a John the only disciple that was even there all the rest is scattered in the history of the messiahs that have come on Israel's history they've been about 40 of them whenever the Messiah sucko so-called Messiah left the scene and died one of two things happen either the people split up they disbanded or someone took that person's place in other words someone came on the scene and said well so-and-so died I'm now the Messiah the only exception is the Lord Jesus when he died the movement came out keep going on because he died and rose again and so believers will still exist at the time of the end hatred worldwide then the Jews they will be persecuted to the ends of the earth so it's happening right now anti-semitism like reminds a lot of the European Jews like the Second World War those that are around at that time and finally we see the Christians those who believe the Bible you and I we will understand what is taking place because we understand what the Bible says it lays all of this out for us and that's what I've done real quickly for you tonight these things are here they're laid out in God's Word so we can under stand the times we are told in Scripture about the men of issue car in first chronicles chapter 12 the men official car it specifically speaks of them in chapter 12 verse 32 it says this from YCJA car there were two hundred leaders and all the relatives at their command listen how they're described they understood the times and knew what Israel should do they understood the times and knew what Israel should do according to Daniel 12 nine and ten you and I can understand the times the world in which we live in and then know what to do here we are in 2020 one of the first things we need to do as Paul says in Philippians 3 13 and 14 forgetting those things behind 2019 in the rearview mirrors and a lot of us say well thank God for that right let's get let's hope 2020 is a little bit brighter as it were but we're moving forward and we know because we're not prophets we're not sons of prophets we know what's gonna happen cuz the Bible gives us the outline here so what we're telling you in the short time we've been with you today is the Bible from anywhere from 2,000 to 2,500 and 3,000 years ago predicted a scenario what the world would be like at the time of the end it's precisely what you and I see right now as we look at the world it's all set up it's all there this is not a coincidence this did not happen by chance this is there because God is telling us I'm setting the stage for my coming we don't know the day or the hour we cannot know but we can know the times and the seasons and the times of the seasons are there upon us right now so I don't know about you but I think it's a tremendous time to be alive because for the last 2,000 years people have longed to see the days that you and I seen have not seen them longed to hear the things we're hearing haven't heard them yet all these things are falling into place right now in such an so exponentially so fast right in front of our eyes it's literally hard to catch up I have the hardest time each day of settling on which headlines to do I have to limit it to ten and and sometimes they don't even get to all 10 stories sometimes I get to that a few more because so many things are going on we could go on and on about other things second Timothy one of my favorite passages three one two five the people in the last days take this one with you and think about this tonight you know what their characterizes doing opposing that which is good opposing that which is good is this kind of sound a little bit familiar what's going on America right now opposing that which is good yes having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof and opposing that which is good hmm you really can't make this stuff up gang but it's right happening in front of our eyes so that's why as we enter 2020 let's have our eyes wide open we know we know how the story is going to end okay we don't know how we're gonna get there but it's the stage is pretty much set for that what's gonna happen the United States this year here's something I'm not a prophet or Sunnah prop but I'm gonna make this prediction if we meet again 365 days from now January 1st 2021 I bet we'd all say this I wouldn't I can't even in my wildest imagination would have thought would have dreamt what happened in 2020 I think we're all going to say something like that and you know both good and bad I think 2020 has some things for us that we can't even begin to imagine and we'll take it as it comes it's a spiritual battle and the oxymoron here it's gonna get lighter and darker at the same time God's gonna be doing some wonderful things in the world it's gonna continue to do them but it's gonna get darker at the same time and so it's a fascinating world we live in right now it really really is never a dull moment and so if you know Christ if you have that relationship with him you know that everything's gonna work out all right in the end you know we're gonna we're gonna win or we're the victors but in the meantime we have to put that armor on there's a spiritual battle going on there's a battle that's raging and again we are in the crosshairs as Bible believing Christians and the Jews are also because God made the promises to those people that they would exist to the time of the end and what do we see we see everything being literally fulfilled just as the Bible said by different people in the past writing at different times not even knowing one another on different subjects but all talking about what's going to happen at the time of the end on future unknowns and they've all come to pass literally just as the scripture says and so we are confident people not arrogant we're confident but we know there's a battle here we have to have the armor on so god help us as we're fighting the spiritual battle in 2020 in 2020 with spiritual weapons all right prayer in the Word of God we don't want to be too clever we don't want to be too smart we want to trust the Lord and one other thing too and this is this is the key I want you to take with you tonight and that is this God's got everything under control it's all under control because he's told us what's gonna happen ahead of time right so in that a great blessing to understand that if he's got it all laid out he's got your life in my life under control too so it's all gonna work out he's you know he started with a hundred sheep he's gonna end with a hundred sheep he started good work Philippians 1:6 he's gonna continue it so take this thought with you please when we see all these things happening that means it's all under his control his promises are true so please please please trust him and realize no matter how dark it gets how bad the tough the battle gets that all things are under his control and sooner or later it's all gonna work out and so we asked the Lord in 2020 to work out supernaturally things in our own lives to do things above and beyond anything we can ask her thing to show his glory to us by just trusting him and letting him be God here in the 20 20 20 s for us all right that's my message tonight pastor Bob's got the mic right all right let's stay right there oh so what should it be thinking of your question but I do want to say something first of all thank you I want to say thank you to Don for coming [Music] I have a word for you for 2020 okay most of you have heard it some of you maybe have never heard it maybe some of you have heard of but I've never said it it's a word that's from the Bible it's only used once by the Apostle Paul writing to the church at Corinth he writes the whole epistle in Greek but at the very end he slips into Aramaic and he says the word not marinara but what and I wonder the last time you said that word wonder if you've ever said it as a greeting to somebody we used to say that to one another as Christians Maranatha or we'd go like this one way here there in the air we're gonna see each other soon I want to encourage you this year to make that a word that like Paul did isn't just a word you know it's in the Bible maranatha it is a statement Oh Lord come it's a prayer it's a statement I I want him to come back I'm I'm ready for him to come we're to pray daily thy kingdom come so may it be your prayer but may it be your greeting to each other learning to say that in your own language to your friends but we want to answer it not weep Don's gonna have three questions are to Bob yeah well I'll throw my opinion and they're probably you know me but let's anybody have a question for Don he's here don't ask where the bathrooms are anybody have a question have a mic so we can hear you but Bible question for non prophecy or anything that you'd like to know okay stand up tell us tell us well oh yeah it's for the recording here they need you to tell us your name and what your questions okay okay that's a great question and that's the big anote where will we be if we're not a player can and here's how we Devine this because when we read Ezekiel 3839 this this leader has this evil thought to come in and invade Israel he doesn't have a second thought wondering about someone you know fighting on the side of Israel and no one does no nation does so basically what it's telling us there's no superpower who can or will come to the side of Israel now what is going to happen to the United States Bob what do you think you got any well I think most of you who have heard me speak on this know what I think my prayer is is because the rapture has exactly we're gone and and the United States even though it's gone very liberal and very corrupt in recent years there's still a lot of believers you wonder why goddess and judge the United States just remember what happened and the story of Sodom d'amour and Locke God will not judge till the righteous to remove but when we are those who support Israel and this nation are gone yeah exactly and so that's what we want to happen but if that's not the answer then I think all we have to do is kind of look around don't wait to see what the direction the country is going and literally god help us when things change and like some of these laws that are enacted particularly in New York and California this year did you know another one California I'm sure Bob knows about this probably we're going to have you back on focus but we haven't focused on for the last four months or building news studio that's why you haven't been on okay so we'll get you back on there and so what the program hadn't been on not because you know the lousy job you did a great job but but we will be doing at the beginning of the West here this year does 2020 already did you hear it about the law that will be enacted in September that will be impossible for a teacher or a superintendent of a school to suspend any student from gate grade K through 5 by mouthing back against the teacher no matter what they say they cannot be suspended for anything they say to the teacher that is the new Wow can you imagine okay now think about this for a second California sets the trend not just for the US but for the entire world the fifth biggest economy in the world what do you think is gonna happen when you know some because we all knew them in the class there's always some mouthy person right you know in high school remember them well this is in high school this is even earlier 5th grade 4th grade someone who's real you know who just can't keep their mouth shut say something against the teacher and then they can't suspend them you mean I can't get suspended what do you think that's gonna do well John you can do what I think don't do it too you think it's gonna indent and get and gender people to start obeying the teachers and start being law-abiding little boys and little girls just the opposite I can get away with this because they can't do anything with me just like in New York now you commit all and you go down the list of these you know manslaughter crimes like that you don't even go to jail you're just booked and out you go and not even bail until you hopefully show up for the trial and so Bob you know as you so eloquently talked about when you were on the program you know with your you know in fact once you tell the people for a minute that again remind them of what you've been doing here and what you've been your word your hearts been with respect to that well isn't that I think most of you are aware that the Lord's raised up one of our former elders from here Mark Snyder and our salt light ministry to put on it's called P ok protecting our kids how many of you are aware of this we're gonna have them come back and get but that is a seminar educating parents and teachers and really pastors and and just everybody about what's going on in our school system here in California as now really porn pornography really and and and things that you would consider absolutely immoral are now required to be taught in our public school system kids cannot opt out parents cannot opt out of all of it and they have to know about it and ask to opt out yearly to even get out of some of it it's it's hard to imagine how we can have our children even in our public school system and protect them anymore this is just a one example of where our state is and our state does lead the nation and so many things including education yeah there were two stories they did this last year about two different school districts like what it was in Michigan I believe in West Virginia doesn't matter the states and the teachers basically said the same thing when confronted by by the by the parents and they said this well sometimes parents don't know what's best for their kids we do so this is what's best what we tell you what spent literally this is what they're telling the public schools jesus said lawlessness will be increased when he's in the Olivet discourse referring to the times the end and the love of many will wax cold and the times of people being in rebellion against Authority is only going to increase you think it's bad now it's going to get worse I want to get a couple more questions than before we run out of time yes your name and your question yeah great question join it's coming and right now it's it's optional of course but what happens if it gets mandatory now that whatever the mark of the beast is he's referring to of course the mark that revelation 13 no one can buy or sell without the mark on the right hand or forehead this is this is not what the mandatory shipping will be the mark of the beast and Bob you can you know elaborate on this to is something people take voluntarily but in doing so they're pledging allegiance are worshiped to the Beast and actually Satan himself so this is not just some type of chip that you know has all the information on this is the name and the number of the name of this final Antichrist this final world leader and by taking it you are acknowledging him and you're shaking your fist at the God of the Bible but what it does it's a great question what it does tell us the world just they just being sent for that for people get used to that right exactly what Don says I think it's I don't know if you originally said it but what was it when you see Christmas decorations coming out you know that Thanksgiving is almost early on and these things that you're seeing the technology there and how close we are it's not the technology that is evil that evil is going to use it I don't believe we're gonna be chipped before the rapture that's not going to be happening that people will do it voluntarily yes you're not going to be mandated to do it I don't believe before we're out of here and I don't have any reason to think that the technology itself is of the devil it's simply something the devil's going to use so other questions come on up and ask your question you're right you are not alright thank you go for it hey there my place makes AB me yep yeah it's a great question there Carter I thank you not good to see again okay what's the distance there Bob and this is a good question does the when the rapture of the church takes place is the final 70 weeks of Daniel the final seven years start right then or is there a lull in the action this is some people are debating right now I like your thoughts on that what do you think he wants my thoughts I'm not working forward to here you know I I've always understood but it's I would love to be corrected too if you want to I've always understood the rapture to be the beginning of the seven year time period for a number of reasons in terms of the bride being the seven days etc with the Lord but that here's what Peter says God knows how to rescue the righteous out before he pours out his wrath and that's on the same day on the same day that lot went out the fire fell okay Noah went into the ark God shut it and the rains came so I don't see any evidence in the model of something that says yeah a few months and years later it seems to be that is the mechanism the Lord takes out the righteous in order for the and I know it doesn't start out with the full wrath of God where there's gonna be a time of peace but that that time change is right there that's how I understand it yeah and I think that's the right answer some people have argued there'll be maybe you know days or weeks some people said years in between I don't see that at all I think you know I think it's pretty much at the same time one thing happens almost after the other that the final seven years official begins with a confirming or the sign it can be a confirming of an agreement of peace agreement that this final Antichrist will make with the nation of Israel and at that particular time the Lord will come back you know sometime around that time I believe for for his believers do we know exactly when it's gonna be no we don't we don't know the day or the hour but I tell you what we do know we can know the time of his second coming once certain events take place as we're told that in Revelation chapter 12 and verse 11 that once this abomination the desolation takes place the temple the desecration of the holy of always in the temple you count 1290 days and the Lord Jesus is here on earth so you know right then the time of this coming and so what the rapture of the church nobody knows we don't know when it will happen but I don't I don't see a gap of time you know other people that think they do if anything I think it's it's just infinitesimal if any because I think it's pretty much the same time but what that covenant is what that agreement is and exactly how it's confirmed again that remains to be seen but we're looking Our Blessed hope Titus 2:13 is for the coming of a glorious God the Savior Jesus Christ we're not looking for Antichrist Florida for Jesus Christ and God doesn't beat up his bride either that's why we're not going to be her during this race amongst other reasons the Great Tribulation Amen another question we have time for come on let's go right here just stand up and tell us your name and great question this is this is the as you if you watch his channel we talk about God's you know caulk is Israel the nation is the hour-hand the city of Jerusalem is the minute-hand but the temple mount's the second hand right now the implements have all been made the preparations have been made for a building of a third temple a third temple has to be functioning midpoint of the final seven-year period how long must it be up o day a week or two doesn't get it can be up for years it can be up for weeks we don't know what has to be defiled but the sacrifices have to begin so how long does it take it to build let me give you a couple of answers to that there is a conference we did the late chuck Missler and I did this in Israel back and what was it 91 something like that 92 I can't remember back back whenever and it was a conference on that we had one of the speakers as was one of the leaders of the group that he's still around hime Richmond of the temple Institute and someone asked him this question say okay let's say tomorrow you get the OK to build the temple how long it's gonna take for everything to be up and running and sacrificing and he looked at us this in the early 90s he said from the moment we get the OK to build a temple we will be sacrificing in 3 to 4 months that's how ready they were in the 90s oh can you imagine how ready they are right now when I was there in 2010 we had our group going into the you know the temple Institute there this group that does the dog and pony show about you know what they're gonna do when the temple is built and all that it's more of a political thing not so much a religious thing anyway I was down the outside waiting for it some British guy I want this belongs to Graham hey you wanna see something yeah he had the altar of sacrifice it said altar sacrifice we've just built here it's gonna be put in the new temple and so everything's there everything's ready just a matter of getting the okay and what's gonna lead to that that's a whole nother story and they literally have the blueprints I've seen the blueprints they have yeshivas they are training priests in blood sacrifice and animal sacrifice these things are just ready for believe me they're gonna build it faster than you can imagine because they've been waiting for 2,000 years to do this so they're very excited about that happening we have no time but I'm gonna let us take a couple more questions yeah once you stand tell us your name I've read since last year did you have any in 2090 did you have an aha moment like where you saw somebody recognize something and the other question is is what's in the from a secular point of view what do you why does Russia interested in even getting involved in Israel a good question Russia's interested because it needs a port and the Mediterranean there which Syria offers them number one Vladimir Putin doesn't want to be a communist leader he wants to be like an old-fashioned Tsar he wants to be a you know a world of like ruler as it were they need the port there in the Mediterranean Sea in Syria they've got that they need to have control of that area and there's also something else they need desperately and that is oil because Russia's the price of oil has gone down is hurting their economy very very much and remember in Ezekiel 38 they're gonna take a spoil on his pasture Chuck used to say you just take the first two letters off spoil that's probably what they're coming down to take you know they're in the invasion because Israel is a great producer of that there's a natural gas field a tremendous one out in the Mediterranean Sea there's a possible oil field there in the Golan Heights it's 350 meters deep and so it's that's what they're doing for that now the aha moments it's funny you ask because like Bob said I have to you know I'm constantly reading the news putting these stories together listing and every single day the you know the head keeps turning on things start clicking more and more into place every day as I'm reading this and that's why I go into the studio I think I can't believe all I mean I can't believe but all this stuff it's just is mind-boggling the recent one this is Olympia thing because Libya has been kind of out in left-field they're one of the players there but again since Gaddafi died they've had this UN's kind of sponsored government there's been civil war there but there's no way they could coalesce with these other nations but see if Isis comes in that'll give the excuse of who Turkey and Russia I want to come in and what will happen they'll drive the ISIS out they'll remain that will complete the circle that's kind of the latest aha moment I get one about every day though that's the problem reading these stories and only got an hour to do the program so anyway it's so so much it's it's mind-boggling all the things you know once that we're learning that's why I'm glad I have five hours a week to do it that's why I'm glad I can write books on the subject and do other things but it's exciting time to be alive doesn't say a word I know you don't usually do a lot of advertising but we need to know your books that are available the kinds of things you cover just about everything but a lot of people have questions and most of these books are done in the format of answering questions yes yeah yeah we have a 31 books now and print they're not all out there in fact people keep buying them off me and so I've got to replenish him I don't know everywhere I go there at which I'm glad for that they gets a lesser and lesser but to deal with subjects we have a four book series a God wants us to know the future which is an introduction to Bible prophecy then the second one is 50 major prophecies have been fulfilled in history that yeah he tells us he knows the future is fulfilled that of course that we talked about today 25 signs were near the end now what most the material I did tonight's from that and then of course a timeline of 50 major events are going to take place starting with the dead in Christ rising the rapture the church so there are available on our website educating or WorldCom if you we run out tonight on any of those and so they're available through Amazon and and thank you for mentioning that Bob we're very proud of them and we're excited that we've got those and many others let me bug you about one of the things and I know you need to close up oh no I mean you say a word about this possible Bible Institute sure okay yeah okay okay I can do now since January first I guess one of the things I could really use your prayer this is something I've to do actually I did do when the internet first started I put a Bible Institute as it were on a website and called the net Bible answer and Bible org this is before any social media any presence of social media went on the radio anything like that we had over 10,000 people sign up from 107 countries to take advantage of the material well that lasts about a year year to half stop what I'm going to do now many of you some of you know I am no longer on pastor's perspective as of today my last day was doing well I wasn't was it my called I've got the I was replaced with a younger guy okay yeah sir that's what they said that literally so that's okay that's okay so I've got I've got to do something different so one of the things we're going to do so here's what I could appreciate your prayers on we're gonna start to promote this we're redoing our websites not there yet but educating our world right now I've written 59 complete books 31 have been published 28 have not but 59 are complete they'll be there on the website and Portable Document form right now there's 12,000 700 pages if you had with the sizes of books out there laid out that way we answer over 1900 questions eventually what I want to do is put them all on audio be about 500 hours worth of audio and then we'll have a daily thing on the site with what I'm talking about day the latest questions the latest issues that we're doing where we can put that in front of the world and would be having that and it's gonna be all for free we're giving it away well they're not gonna call us anything okay so I have recently I've joined this organization as a missionary I'm gonna be a missionary to the world and giving all my stuff away that's what I want to do so I want to have it there where anybody's got any place in the world any question on this you cannot only read it you can download it for free you can tell others this and that and eventually you couldn't listen to it so I will have my voice will be back answering questions once we get the studio thing set up and so anything people want to know anywhere it will be there so pray for that for us as we put all that together very very excited about because it's fulfilling a lifelong dream I've had to get all my stuff out there so people can read it any time and and do it so that's kind of the thing we're working on right now and at the redesigning is just beginning right now the website so probably a few months before it's up but again they'll have all the books they'll be up there in PDF form Portable Document for me Caen you can download any one you wanted the whole shootin match and then when we start recording those you can listen to the audio there or download the audio will have current events every single day listed there and what you can watch me on his channel at the same time and that's gonna hopefully go viral will tell everybody to shamelessly promote it to everybody it's gonna be there for free and that's why I'll be able to shamelessly promote it to so that prey for us that's our new project what we're doing starting in 2020 and this is day one so onward we go on behalf of our pastors and staff we want to thank you for tuning into today's video if you want to stay informed about what's going on here at Calvary Chapel UC Anaheim we'd love for you to subscribe to our Channel go ahead and do so by clicking the button below we'll see you next time

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