Well if you have a Bible please turn to Luke chapter 21. We're gonna do just a
little something different this morning. I thought I'd do a little bit of a
prophecy update and it's important to know what is going on in our world
especially through the lens of God's Word and Jesus gives us some pretty
awesome insight in Luke chapter 21. He tells us what's gonna happen at the end
of the age and I don't know about you but I'm pretty excited about that and
he's got a whole lot more to offer than anything I've ever tasted in this life
so it's gonna be it's gonna be really good and I'm gonna use Luke kind of as
my security blanket this morning as we go as we go through this but before we
start let's let's pray. Father we we thank you for your Word Lord we thank
you that that you tell us what's gonna happen before it happens and and Lord
then when it happens it increases our faith that you are God and there is no
other there's no one beside you Lord no one like you and you truly have no
rivals and so Lord Jesus we ask that you would speak to our hearts on this day
Lord that we would maybe put some of these scriptures to memory and and Lord
that we would remember your Word and that when we see the things coming and
the things happening in our world Lord that that we would be very aware and
very discerning of the times and that we wouldn't be rebuked by you and so Lord
we just offer this time up to you now pray that you'd speak to our hearts Lord
and you by your Spirit can confirm truth to us and so give us ears to hear in
Jesus name amen. So I'm so glad we have this book. If this if we didn't have this
book what would be the point to anything really? Isaiah 46 verses 9 and 10 says
this to us listen to this "remember the former things of old for I am God and
there is no other I am God and there is none like me listen declaring the end
from the beginning and from ancient times thanks things that are not yet
done saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure" that's what God
that's who God is he knows the end from the beginning and everything in between
he knows the end of your life in the beginning of your life and everything in
between he sees it all at the same time go chew on that one for a while right
how do you I can't even get my mind around the gravity the weight of this
God that we that we serve and that you and I are subject to just reminder
you're subject to God right you're gonna stand before him naked with no excuses
you and I are and and so prepare yourself and he will give you a garment
he will clothe you with his righteousness and that way you don't
have to be embarrassed when you stand before him because the Bible says that
if you do stand before him without his righteousness you are naked but naked
from the inside out he sees it all right and so occasionally I want to I want to
look through these these scriptures and also kind of bring to light some of this
stuff we see going on and and look at the things that were prophesied of old
old and New Testament and compare that with what's happening today I can't
remember which Bible scholar it was but he said he would have his Bible in one
hand and the newspaper in the other hand every morning and now it's all
electronic mostly though I just want I just want to encourage you please have a
hard copy right this thing can't be manipulated other than it can get beat
up but I had an old boy tell me one time I had my grandma's Bible and I mean it
was old and it was ragged and I read a quote in fact I wrote it in the inside
of that old Bible it says a Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to
somebody who isn't and I thought that's a good one and so like I said I'm going
to use Luke 21 simply because the disciples came to Jesus and asked him
probably the same question that a lot of us have right there and then in verse
seven they said they said teacher but when will these things be and what sign
will there be when these things are about to take place now we are called to
walk by faith right so Jesus doesn't give absolute date and time that things
are gonna happen but he does tell us what's gonna happen and the chapter
starts with an interesting story in there in chapter 21 about a widow and
the Bible says and I well I'm gonna read it okay you never go wrong reading the
root and he looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury
and he saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites and so he said
truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all for all these
out of the abundance out of their abundance have put in offer offerings
for God but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had years
ago I heard her Bill Gates had given a charitable charitable donation of a
million dollars and people were talking about it and an old guy in my our church
there in Twin Falls he said somebody asked him said hey do you hear Bill
Gates gave a million dollars to a certain charity could be largest donation ever
given and he said really I thought the middle widows mites was right because it
says notice she gave more right she gave more because they gave out of their
abundance and that that kind of sets the stage what's important to you in this
life when you when you really analyze your own heart and your own pursuits in
this life what's important to you and and and I think it's important to be
able to answer those questions you know pretty seriously and you know I don't
know I don't know what your pursuits are but I know that Jesus will not take
backseat to anything or anybody okay he his his place in our lives is the
preeminence in other words it is the first place in our lives everything else
should come after that and and he's called us to that by you know saying you
know if you're gonna follow me you gotta lay down her life verse 5 says then
summoned then some spoke of the temple how it was adorned with beautiful stones
and donations and he said these things which you see the days will come in
which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down so
right here he gives the first prophecy he says this temple that you put all
your stock in right you're you're putting your I don't know maybe your
hope or your pleasure in this building it's gonna come down right kind of like
this life that you and I try to build it's gonna come down just saying
I got started in the ministry doing funerals and I've never seen a u-haul
yet right and I've heard people I've heard people pompously say well if I
can't take you with me I ain't going they're dead no you're going right and
you ain't taking nothing with you except for maybe the either good or bad seed
that you sowed in this life and so I think that we should prepare for that we
know that this happened this happened in 70 AD when Titus the Romans sacked
Jerusalem and to this day around the the wall there you see the stones are still
piled up Jesus will challenge you and I what we put our trust in in verse 7 it
says so they asked him saying teacher but when will these things be and what
sign will there be when these things are about to take place and he said take
heed that you do not be deceived for many will come in my name saying I am he
and the time has drawn near therefore do not go after them but when you hear of
wars and commotions do not be terrified for these things must come to pass first
but the end will not come immediately and that's been going on for eons right
country against country wars and rumors of wars it's been going on for a lot
long time the first thing but he says here is interestingly enough is do not
be deceived why did he say that because he don't want you to be deceived I know
that's elementary that's the truth and there is in this world that we live in
the the greatest opportunity for people to be deceived than ever before in the
history of mankind and there are several reasons for that one reason is we live
in a tech technological age and the ability of tech techno lot technology to
powerfully suggest something that is unhealthy spiritually is endless
everything from buying something to contacting the dead right and that's
where technology is taking us it's taking us into a world that is is a
spiritual black hole and it will suck you in that's why you need to have a
hard copy and of course if you have a hard copy please use it there have been
several articles out lately about via AI they say that you can contact the
dead dead relatives and that you can talk to Jesus it is laughable Michelle
it is laughable but the sad thing about it is so many people are starting to put
do you realize what an open door this is you are open the door for Satan you're
selecting you open your chest open the little door of your heart said sit and
jump in there would you have a heyday it's exactly what you're doing you're
dancing with demons right you are in a very very dangerous place and that's the
scariest thing about how we live today this this AI stuff is it's it's it's
gonna go off the rails right the Antichrist will use this in a big way I
don't need to talk to Jesus via AI I've got his word right here right I do not
need to try to contact him and the Bible says a lot about this you guys yes I
realized one of the one of the things in my life that when I've lost loved ones
is man I just want to say one more time I love you or I just want to have that
last conversation that's why necromancy is such a big thing right people are
fascinated with it why do you think Twilight was such a hit right it's
that's necromancy and it's the whole desire to to contact our dead relatives
and the Bible condemns it severely severely Leviticus chapter 19 verse 31
says give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits do not seek after them
to be defiled by them I am the Lord your God and and the Bible tells us in Luke
chapter 16 right there's a great goal fixed it's fixed God fixed it and we're
trying to jump over it and when you do that it's blasphemous right it's
disrespectful to the to the Lord and and he brings that out I am your Lord your
God I am and in another place Deuteronomy chapter 18 verses 10 through
13 it says there shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or
his daughter pass through the fire or one who practices witchcraft or a
soothsayer or who calls up the dead for all who do these things are an
abomination to the Lord and because of the abominations the Lord your God
drives them out from before you you shall be blameless before the Lord your
God and then the last one kind of finito a man or a woman who is a medium or as a
familiar spirits shall surely be put to death they shall stone them with stones
and their blood shall be upon them that's what God thinks about that stuff
and we live in a society where it's all it's all acceptable no it's not it's an
abomination to the God of heaven don't go there all my loved ones are waiting
there I'm gonna get to see him talk to him we're gonna have a party all right I
just got to wait they that wait upon the Lord the Bible says that you'll renew
your strength you're gonna have a good time don't try doing something that God
condemns right it's just it's just not right and it's it's it's a scary place
that we're in because it's so it's it's so easy Jesus warned of being deceived
in Matthew 24 same message Luke comes from the Gentile side Matthew comes from
the the the Jewish side it says for false Christ and false prophets will
rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive listen if possible even the
elect that's why people who don't have their guard up they're done they're
toast they're gonna get swept away in the current of spiritual darkness by the
lies that are out there the word elect there something oh that's just talking
about the Jews no not necessarily this scribes those who who have chosen to
follow the Lord that has become God's choice by freely receiving him by faith
that's what elect means it's just too easy you guys if you do not pursue him
on purpose you won't because I'm gonna tell you something the hounds of hell
are pursuing you right you remember when Jesus comes to Peter goes hey Peter
Satan's asked for you by name he's asked for every one of us by name to sift us
his wheat but thank you Jesus for that bud right but I have prayed for you he
says our our great high priest who ever lives to make intercession for us has
prayed for us ask him to pray for you that your faith will be stronger than
what Satan throws at you because it's gonna do nothing but get more bizarre
it's just gonna get more bizarre I was sharing on Wednesday night I saw a
woman this this week and I'm just gonna oh my gosh she was so blatantly demon
possessed I mean blatantly demon possessed I'm just going I don't even
know if I've ever really recognized that before but I mean this woman had some
critter a critter or critters in her and the closer we get to the coming of the
Lord and the the shorter the enemy knows his time is the more crazy it's gonna
get and so you better have some Jesus going on all right so the first reason
is we live in a tech not tech age of technology that is is just spinning out
of control it seems secondly we're at the end of the age realize we're we're
we're in the last of the last days most people believe the last days fools from
the time of Christ from the Ascension the birth of the church we're in the
church age and that we are the church is alive and well when Jesus comes and
takes his bride the church out and Paul warns Timothy in 2nd Timothy 3 1 verses
1 through 7 it says but know this that in the last days perilous times will
come that we're perilous can mean fierce for men will be lovers of themselves
lovers of money boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents
unthankful unholy unloving unforgiving slanderers without self-control brutal
despisers of good traitors headstrong haughty lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power and from such
people turn away for of this sort are those who creep into households and make
captive of gullible women loaded down with sins led away by various lusts
always learning and never never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and
that's what fascinates me about the church and what the church has embraced
over the years that they just oh it's everything's cool peace love and
brotherhood all over America right just do whatever feels good and you can
embrace any kind of spiritual idea and we know that that's not true but notice
what's the problem people men are lovers of themselves lovers of money and not
lovers of God you show me a lover of God I'll show you somebody who changes the
world that they live in right and you show me somebody who loves himself and
loves money and are boasters and proud and blasphemers and also show you
somebody who destroys the world that is around them so he says there don't be
deceived test all things and hold on to what's good test the spirits John tells
us in first John to see whether they be of God or not is it consistent with
what's being said or what's being taught with the Word of God so many people
don't know the Word of God so they don't know if it's consistent sure sounds good
right I remember my brother went to a scorpions concert when he was in eighth
grade and and his buddy says hey man do this do this Rick goes what does it mean
he goes I don't know but it's cool right I think that's a satanic brotherhood
sign the sign of the goat but anyway it's just it's just crazy we just we
just blindly do these things sometimes not even thinking I know my mom was
fascinated with horoscopes and she grew up knowing about the Bible but she
wasn't consistently in the Bible if you're not consistently in the Bible you
forget the Bible and you do what's in front of you she was always looking at
that and always talking about it and I'm just doing what's up with this like I
read a horoscope one time said don't make any bad business deals today like
you're gonna go out and purposely make bad business deals it's stupid but it's
suggestive and people give themselves over to it and the enemy gets a hook in
them don't have anything to do with that now we can study the stars the is the
astronomy and and studies of the stars is fascinating in fact years ago I heard
dr. G James Kennedy did a powerful net message on the gospel in the stars using
the constellations connected to the twelve tribes of Israel is it's it's
fascinating study but it's a study it's not a worship our worship is to be to
one the one God like Jesus told the woman at the well the father is seeking
those who would worship him in spirit and in truth let's take another chunk
Taylor read in verse 10 of Luke 21 he says then he said to them nation will
rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be great
earthquakes in various places and famines and pestilences and there will
be fearful sights and great signs from heaven but before all these things they
will lay their hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to the
synagogues and prisons you will be brought before kings and rulers for my
namesake but it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony therefore
settle in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer for I
will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to
contradict or resist you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers
relatives and friends and they will put some of you in some of you to death and
you will be hated by all for my namesake but not a hair of your head shall be
lost by your patience possess your souls so he starts with some stuff that's
gonna happen from the time that he speaks all the way through great
earthquakes in various places famines pestilences fearful sights great signs
from heaven and so he starts with that but then he zeros in on the disciples and
the Apostles he says they're gonna come get you I don't if you've ever read Fox's
book of martyrs but all the all the Apostles save John were martyred they
were killed and they were they they they did it with a smile on their face right
because they knew their end they had come to grips with their death they had
watched their Savior die on a cross broke their heart but then they saw him
rise from the dead and spend 40 days with them and speak into them and their
fear was gone their fear of death was gone is yours it needs to be it needs to
be gone because I believe that we're living in an age where they are talking
about stuff you guys it's like are you serious you want to kill people these
these pestilences it kovat was a pestilence the new one that's coming so
there everyone's talking about it it's almost like we're trying to be they're
trying to condition us oh yeah you'll have to you know the conspiracies you
hear pretty wild right but but the last one I heard it was it was it was
provocative even if it's just a they said the first covert was kind of dialed
in to attack the old kill the old some of you would agree with that maybe I
know I had some old friends that died the next one is gonna be dialed in at
kids because with kids they got leverage right you'll do anything for your kids
you wouldn't want your kids to die would you you know kids die all the time
but death has no hold should have no hold over us when you start thinking
about those things is wow that's heavy right that's a heavy thing what would
you do to save their life or would you just prefer to have them with Jesus
that's kind of where the rubber meets the road isn't it it's a lot of silence
in here right now that is very thought-provoking is it not I mean years
ago they had the old the old end of the age movies you know thief like a thief
in the night and one of them was they had these parents and a child and they
took the child to the guillotine we're trying to get them to denounce Christ
the guillotine is the thing that cuts their head off and some of you are
sitting here and saying well I didn't come to church to hear this today but I
just I just want to be real and people lose their kids been praying for the
the right family Spencer's a little boy that was swept down a kind of a a flash
flood sort of a thing there by their house and they don't they don't know if
he's gonna make it I don't know if he's still alive or not but three years old
praying for them but who's that little guy I belong to really when when we
dedicated our kids the pastor he was here a couple weeks ago pastor Greg and
when you dedicate your children at lighthouse they would make you fill out
a form and on that form was this kid belongs to God and he's God's anytime he
wants to take him and you had to sign off on that so if you can dedicate them
you're really gonna dedicate him or it's just you just going through the motions
so I don't know there's so many conspiracies out there all I need to do
is focus on Jesus cuz I can't figure it at all I mean this this fiasco in
Manhattan was just what a farce right and so it but it's the times we live in
right although all the things I just read there in and in Timothy right
telling a second Timothy there chapter 3 it's it's so true it's what we see going
on around us even right now and so part of this prophecy that Jesus prophesies
fulfilled but some of it is still coming right the the Bible calls the the the
the trouble and the turmoil that the world goes through is like a like a
birth pain right now I know some of you have have experienced birth pains and
some of us guys have witnessed it wasn't quite as painful for me as it was for my
wife but the intensity level and the frequency right it increases it's more
frequent and more intense and that's what we seen we're seeing crazy storm
cycles all over the world it snowed in Dubai guys know where Dubai is we flew
into Dubai here about 15 years ago we got there at midnight we got out of the
plane was a hundred and five degrees at midnight and bizarre bizarre stuff but
Jesus said that's right he says earthquakes in various places and
famines and pestilences and fearful sites great signs I love what he tells
you listen I don't care what they do to you he says here verse 18 but not a hair
of your head shall be lost I will totally preserve you through this this
trial and this the in the killing of your body I'm gonna preserve every cell
of your being and by your patience possess your souls we have to be
patient in these times for several reasons because the Lord calls us to be
to be patient and to count it all pure joy James tells us when you fall into
various trials that's a hard thing right he says count it joy doesn't mean you
need to do jumping jacks yeah right joy is different than happiness joy as your
as something deep in your heart where you're you're you're at peace no matter
what verse 20 says but when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies then know
that its desolation is near then let those who are in Judea flee to the
mountains let those who are in the midst of her depart and let not those who are
in the country enter her for these are the days of vengeance that all things
which are written may be fulfilled but woe to those who are pregnant and to
those who are nursing babies in those days for there will be great distress in
the land and wrath upon the people and they will fall by the edge of the sword
and be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem will be trampled by
Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled this is a fascinating
scripture here and when it says when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies that's
happened several times in the last couple thousand years it's happened in
the last hundred years many believe that in in 1948 in 1967 that they were
surrounded by armies and so the the tribulation that it talks talking about
here there's two two thoughts the first thought is that it's it's when Titus did
come in in 70 AD and demolished Jerusalem they that's when they tore it
all the rocks down because they set fire to the temple they said not not intending
to because Herod had just remodeled it for the last 40 years but that because
of the gold went down between the the rocks melted and went down that's why
they tore it stone upon stone to retrieve the gold out of the temple
there in Jerusalem the other thought is that this is the tribulation period
which I would have to agree with here in Luke that it is it is it says for these
are the days of vengeance that all things which are written must be
fulfilled but woe to those who are pregnant and nursing babies in those
days for they will be in great distress and the land will and wrath will be upon
this people and they will fall by the edge of the sword many believe that
that's when the woman in Revelation flees into the wilderness Revelation 12
6 and the woman fled into the wilderness where she had place prepared by God that
they should feed her there for 1260 days that's the last half of the
tribulation period so there's a seven-year tribulation period that's
going to come people say when after the rapture of the church the church will be
gone when the tribulation period starts right so the next thing on the prophetic
calendar is the rapture of the church that Jesus is going to come and snatch
his bride out that word rapture right people say oh that words not in the
Bible no what's caught up rap to sources is Latin the or ha puzzle in the Greek
it means to be snatched out taken out I always from being you know horse got the
word equine isn't in the Bible either but horses so that's a set that's a sad
argument but that's the next thing that's gonna happen right and that she's
she's gonna be protected one-third of the Jews are gonna survive the
tribulation period the seven-year tribulation period spoken of dance no
called Daniel 70th week it's called Jacob's trouble it's a seven-year period
of time and it's coming maybe faster than we think but what starts the clock
ticking people want to know the peace treaty the Antichrist will sign a peace
treaty with Israel with the Jews and that starts the seven-year clock because
Daniel tells us in the middle of the week 300 1260 days in that he's gonna
break that covenant that peace treaty he's gonna start taking over Jerusalem
do you realize if we did not have Israel if Israel was not present with us today
like they are we would know none of this nothing absolutely no direction no idea
of future events it's true Missler nailed it when he said Israel is God's
timepiece that's where time began and that's where time's gonna end and boy is
it getting hairy over there right Netanyahu's coming and I'm probably
getting ahead of my notes here I'm I'm already lost so they can mess they can
mess with Israel all they want they can mess with Jerusalem all they want they
will listen they will not be victorious they will not and it's promised in
Zechariah 13 verses 8 9 it says and it shall come to past in all the land says
the Lord that two-thirds right this is through the tribulation period that
two-thirds in it shall be cut off but one-third shall be left and I will bring
one-third through the fire will refine them as silver is refined test them as
gold is tested they will call on my name and I will answer them I will say this
is my people in each one will say the Lord is my God that's what that seven
years is for is to to get the Jews attention Daniel says that specifically
70 weeks are determined for your people 69 of those weeks are behind us there's
only one in front of us that's the seven year tribulation period now people say
well all right who's the Antichrist Trump he's going to jail you realize
this guy might be the first guy ever to rule America from a jail cell now I'm
not Satan Trump's not guilty he's probably guilty of a lot of things just
like you and I are right but this this what they did there is just it it's it's
a sham man it's just it's it's it's wild totally political the people see it
I don't know the last part of this this little bit that I just read was the time
of the Gentiles right we've we've all heard that right anybody in Bible
circles heard the not till the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled what is Jesus
talking about honestly I think well the Gentiles kind of ruled and reigned the
whole Palestinian area till 1948 and so some think that the time of the Gentiles
was completed in 1948 but there were still some skirmishes they didn't
totally have their feet under him yet and then the 1967 war happened people
said well now the time of the Gentiles has been fulfilled years ago I was
listening to John course and teach he was one of my favorite Bible teachers
and he said you know we've been in spiritual overtime since 1967 because he
thinks the time of the Gentiles was completed then but then you have 1973
the Yom Kippur War when they took back over Jerusalem what about now they just
took Gaza back so those Gentiles are out the penance Palestinians are Gentiles
just like you and I are right for most of us some there are some Jews in here
I think or you got some got some Jewish roots interesting stuff but they're
they're calling for this this this two-state solution it's not gonna happen
ever there nobody wants a two-state solution except for the other countries
and so maybe that's what this is talking about with the the time of the Gentiles
being fulfilled all the Gentiles nations around Israel are telling trying to tell
them what to do when the Gentiles quit meddling with Israel then maybe but
that's only when Jesus comes so the time of the Gentiles not gonna be fulfilled
till Jesus comes I don't know I'm not saying that doctrinally I'm just saying
that these Gentile nations Spain Ireland and Norway have all expressed their
intention to make official their recognition of a Palestinian state while
dozens of countries have recognized a Palestinian state none of the major
Western powers have done so praise the Lord because Israel don't want a
Palestinian or a two-state solution and Palestine definitely don't want a
two-state solution Israel I think would do it but they know that Palestine don't
want the Palestinians don't want it they want Israel gone they don't want a
two-state solution there is no two-state solution and God won't allow it because
it's his and he's only sharing it with the Jews for a while in Ezekiel 38 right
we see Russia Turkey Iran Sudan Libya come against Israel and Israel stands
all by itself so this is gonna be really interesting Netanyahu's I think he might
be over here right now he's gonna talk to our leaders some of them are
questionable Mike Johnson I think he he has Israel back Israel's back I don't
know who else in the administration I know Biden doesn't that's why Biden
didn't want him to go into Rafa because of what they found in Rafa right the
smuggling tunnels going into Egypt and and the US had knowledge of that so
they say and that's that's why they didn't want him going to enter Rafa and
I guess Netanyahu begrudgingly agreed to a ceasefire but I think that's only
until the the Hamas you know takes a potshot and then ceasefires over but in
in 38 it says that Russia Iran Turkey Sudan they all they call all come in
they come against Israel they hate Israel they want to take Israel some
think they want to do it monetary for a monetary reason which it does say in
Ezekiel 39 that they come to take a spoil what's interesting is Erdogan
from Turkey and Raisi from Iran were talking in January January 24th and this
is what Raisi said he said inshallah inshallah means Allah willing the
Zionist regime will disappear it's interesting that he said that because
just a few days ago he's the one that disappeared yeah Raisi from Iran told
Erdogan Allah willing the Zionist regime will disappear well Allah ain't got much
power right because Jehovah said no you're gonna disappear and he's dead in
that helicopter crash just 12 days ago on the 19th of May is when that chopper
went down God does God's gonna keep doing this stuff so the whole world
will know that he's God the whole world's gonna know he's God I don't know
why they don't now all you have to do is look at that little strip of land from
October 7th till now and see what has happened it's like you don't believe God
has a hand in this you're a fool
Ezekiel 38 23 says thus I will magnify myself and sanctify myself and I
will be known in the eyes of many nations then they shall know that I am
the Lord Ezekiel 39 says so I will make my holy name known in the midst of my
people Israel and I will not let them profane my holy name anymore they
profane it now they profaned the name of the Lord now the Jews do and that's why
people get so upset with me you're standing with Israel yeah I'm standing
with Israel because God stands with Israel do I agree with Israel no they're
a bunch of sinners back Tel Aviv is the gayest city in the world I don't agree
with that he says they will profane my name no more then the nation shall know
that I am the Lord the Holy One in Israel surely it is coming listen to
this it is coming and it shall be done says the Lord God this is the day which
I have spoken God settled said it and that settles it it is a done deal and
you either believe that or you don't he is dead serious about this stuff don't
mess with these people don't mess with these land and definitely don't mess
with his son because there is going to be hell to pay just saying yesterday
congressional leaders invited Netanyahu to come in and address the US lawmakers
I wonder what he's gonna say right our government is so corrupt well they even
recognize what's just I mean should the should the should Netanyahu listen to
anything that the Americans have to say who are they to tell them what to do
that'd be like Australia or Canada coming and telling us what to do if
Mexico or China or somebody invaded us it's ridiculous now they need to totally
eliminate Hamas and it looks like it has below is next on the list they won't
quit and I think that they'll do it
Israel has a just cause and our our judicial system obviously is in
question now after this last week and it's amazing the the corruption that is
in our government actually I they lie when the truth would serve them better
and judging from the primaries here in Eastern Idaho the last couple weeks it's
looking like we need to go down a little further we're still spiraling down
there's not a reprieve in the in the near future so either get your army
boots on and keep pressing in or we I guess we can just fold and let them have
everything and let them do whatever they want to do and I guess they can tell us
whatever we want to do it appears to me that tyranny has begun here in our
country yes so what's the next step hey pastor what do we do I don't know okay
we pray we vote we let our voices be heard and if that don't work
load your Winchester I mean that's why our founders gave us the Second
Amendment right it's like oh Lord now now no people said now you Christians
you can't take up arms a whole bunch of our founders did that were believers in
Jesus right they took up arms to keep the tyranny of of England away I think
we're not far away from civil unrest and as Christians the thing that is kind of
the kicker is we're the government right in Bible times Caesar was the government
right it was a dictatorship but in this government it's of for and by the people
now I I want to be with the Lord I mean if I am NOT supposed to carry and weapon
and and just be a lamb for the slaughter so be it I don't it doesn't really
bother me I mean it's not that big a deal right I win and but if if God's
calling me to preserve something for my kids and my grandkids now now wait a
minute that kind of sounds and then they're gonna have to do that they're
gonna have to do the same thing I don't know honestly I know that's something
that we all have to be persuaded in our own mind what Paul tells us there in in
Romans but I do know this I know that Jefferson said a little bloodletting is
good for the Republic a little bit of bloodletting is good for the Republic
but he's the same one that said the Republic is great if you can keep it I
don't know if we can keep it when it gets this corrupt how do you reestablish
the Constitution everybody knows it they just ignore it what's kind of like the
Word of God a lot of people know the Word of God they just ignore it they're
lovers of themselves there were lovers of money there are lovers of their own
pursuits in this life verse 25 I'm gonna try to get through this oh wow sorry and
there will be signs in the Sun and the moon and in the stars and on the earth
distress of nations with perplexity the sea and the rate and the waves roaring
men's hearts failing them for fear and the expectation of those things which
are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven will be shaken then they will
see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory now when
these things begin to happen look up and lift your heads because your redemption
draws near so signs in the heaven yes northern lights there's solar eclipses
there's lunar eclipses there's there's blood moons there's all those things
what are those things mean don't get what all watered up about him just
watch him hey signs signs the God of heaven controls the blood moons and he
controls the eclipses and we've got to see two in the last whatever and it's a
it's an awesome thing does it turn your heart to the Lord when you see these
things it should distress of nice nations with perplexity the idea that
there is no way out people are feeling that way and a lot of nations around the
world I think it's interesting that the young people in in Iran they love the
West they love America it's the regime that calls us the great Satan because of
the freedoms that we have little do they know they're growing wings and flying
away these freedoms that we have so it says men's hearts failing them for fear
of those things coming upon the earth people actually dying revelations 9 6
talks about a time during the tribulation when men can't even die and
they want to in those days men will seek death and will not find it they will
desire to die and death will flee from them revelation 9 6 imagine that what
yeah
on a little a little bit of bright news I can share some good news with you this
was the House of Representatives on Thursday voted along bipartisan lines to
advance legislation backing the Federal Reserve from creating its own central
bank digital currency three Democrats joined all Republicans in voting for the
bill moderate represent or excuse me Republicans Jared or excuse me moderate
representatives Jared Jared Golden Mary Patola and another gal I can't pronounce
her last name from Washington all Democrats they voted to have the central
bank digital currency blocked they call it an anti-surveillance state act was
led by a house majority whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota and backed by Republican
members of the House Financial Services Committee once the once the and this is
something that when I'm gonna end here with Jesus telling us to watch and pray
this is something we need to be watching right we're watching the whole financial
world it's just it's bizarre right you got dollars and you got bricks and you
got Bitcoin and you got guys talking about gold what's better Bitcoin or gold
what's you know what's more fluid Bitcoin is what's more solid gold is
obviously but all the financial stuff going on when when when there's one
currency around the world hang on to your hat Fred right it's gonna get crazy
and and this seems to be a coming much faster maybe than then we think I don't
know but it's it's coming and they actually they're they're actually
talking now about digital IDs digital IDs and I read this article it says
governments seek to digitize their citizens in an effort to universalize
government services while the banking while the banking travel and insurance
industry aim to create more seamless processes for their products and
services right seems good right but then they they can control your every move
they know exactly where you're at all the time so there is no privacy with
this stuff when it's going to be instituted and it's happening in other
nations the central digital banks are all the rage in some nations already so
we're gonna get there it's like these guys kind of said no wait a minute let's
give ourself a little time see what we do here these are all things you and I
need to be watching right don't just go about your own little thing be watching
engage in conversation with people Jesus says I'm gonna jump down to verse 34 but
take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing and and
the cares of this life for the day that day will come on you unexpectedly for it
will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth
watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all
these things which will come to pass and to find and to stand before the Son of
Man pray you know being a pre-tribulationist any tree pre trippers
in the house don't condemn yourself you're incriminating yourself right a
pre-tribulationist that's that's somebody who believes that Jesus gonna
came take his church out but before the signing of the peace treaty that starts
the seven-year clock ticking they call us pre-tribulationist escapist well
Jesus said to pray that you escape these things coming upon the earth right so
okay that's biblical that's right in line with the teaching of Jesus you know
okay if I have to go through tribulation like I said I don't really care but it
says here pray that you counted worthy that you escape these things coming upon
the earth and so that's what I'm gonna pray for watch pray watch pray do it
every day I try to do it every day I watch and pray I first watch God's Word
right I check what's going on in the world and I'm praying watching and
praying because you know what he's coming quickly right at the end of the
book of Revelation Jesus says it three times in chapter 20 22 three times he
he says four times actually three times in 22 once in chapter 3 chapter 3 it
says behold I am coming quickly hold fast what you have that no one may take
away your crown and then I'm gonna turn there real quick and rev rev 22 where he
says in verse verse 7 he tells us
behold I am coming quickly blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of
this book maybe you need to do a little refresher course and read the book of
the Revelation right I can't do it it just freaks me out well be freaked out
because it'll get you ready right it'll remind you that that Jesus is coming
quickly then again he interrupts in verse 12 and behold I am coming quickly
and my reward is with me to give to everyone according to his work I am the
Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last right and
last of all in verse 20 he who testifies to these things says surely I am coming
quickly and then John ends it with even so come quickly Lord Jesus you know if
if if you've got something you want to do before he comes you you're crazy
there is nothing that can compare to his coming some you know some young people I
want to get married oh please let me you don't want to get married I won't have a
baby no yeah promise you you don't want to have a baby compared to Jesus coming
you want to get married and have a baby have you lost your mind this is so much
freer and so much more painless for Jesus to come I want to get my driver's
license believe me everybody in here doesn't want you to have your driver's
license I mean it is really ridiculous the things we come up with right but in
comparison there is no comparison to our God amen and he's coming and he's coming
quickly I hope you're ready if you're not then do get ready right now let's
pray father thank you and I know there may be some that need to get ready and
Lord they can do that by just surrendering to you right now Lord they
can physically throw their hands of the air in their heart they just said Lord
my life is yours please take it do with it what you will forgive me of my sin I
turn from my sin and I turn to you with all my heart you pray that prayer and
you mean it from the bottom of your soul you're a new person and your
citizenship is in heaven the place where we all want to end up so Lord would you
be with us this week and Lord as we watch and as we pray about the things
that we see coming up on the face of the earth Lord would you give us give us a
passion to know you and to go deeper with you Lord and that that we could be
like those apostles and disciples Lord that didn't even need to prepare what
they were gonna say but you filled their mouth by your Holy Spirit Lord would you
do that in us Lord as we talk to our neighbors as we talk to our co-workers
Lord as we talk to you Lord that you would speak your truths into our hearts
and our minds and our souls Lord that we would be a bold fruitful people Lord
until you come we pray it in Jesus mighty name amen let's all stand