1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: Well, again, we're going to take communion at the end of service, so if you don't have that, 2 00:00:05,820 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: you can get it. 3 00:00:07,660 --> 00:00:16,260 Speaker 1: And I said last week that I was encouraged by a couple of folks, not that I get encouraged 4 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: that often, because a lot of Mondays I just want to quit and it will be a cowboy again, 5 00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: but I'm getting too old to even do that. 6 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: So also I want to sing happy birthday to my friend George King. 7 00:00:36,820 --> 00:00:40,060 Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you. 8 00:00:40,620 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 2: Oh, you guys sound good. 9 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:45,060 Speaker 2: Happy birthday to you. 10 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 2: Happy birthday, dear George. 11 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,740 Speaker 2: Happy birthday to you. 12 00:00:56,860 --> 00:00:57,860 Speaker 2: We love you, George. 13 00:01:04,699 --> 00:01:06,820 Speaker 1: your grandson put me up to that so 14 00:01:08,140 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: Clay, you're in big trouble. 15 00:01:14,180 --> 00:01:16,660 Speaker 1: Well, if you have your Bible, I hope you have your Bible. 16 00:01:18,820 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: I'm not even going to tell you where to turn 17 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: because we are going to be all over. 18 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,140 Speaker 1: This session is called biblical gymnastics. 19 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:30,260 Speaker 1: So hang on tight. 20 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:37,020 Speaker 1: But I just thought, man, we just need to be aware of the times that we live in. 21 00:01:37,380 --> 00:01:38,460 Speaker 1: We're in the last days. 22 00:01:39,580 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: And I know some people say, well, haven't we been in the last days forever? 23 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: Yes, we've been in the last days since Jesus came. 24 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: Right? 25 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: We've been in the last days. 26 00:01:48,860 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: Now, if we were in the last days 2,000 years ago, how much more so are we in the last days today? 27 00:01:56,460 --> 00:01:56,660 Speaker 1: Right? 28 00:01:57,260 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: it's at the very hour. 29 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: In fact, I think that's what I dubbed my message. 30 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: Is this the 12th hour? 31 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:04,700 Speaker 1: Question mark. 32 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: If it's not, then it's 1155. 33 00:02:09,820 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: And so Jesus said in Matthew chapter 24 and 25, 34 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,220 Speaker 1: watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 35 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: Now, some think this applies to the second coming. 36 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: some to the rapture. The fact is 37 00:02:28,660 --> 00:02:30,380 Speaker 1: that the Bible teaches both. 38 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:32,660 Speaker 1: That the Lord's going to come. He's going to 39 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,420 Speaker 1: come in a cloud. He's going to 40 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,500 Speaker 1: snatch out. Or actually, that's 41 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:38,300 Speaker 1: the word rapture. People will argue 42 00:02:38,660 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: well, the word rapture is not in the Bible. 43 00:02:42,660 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of words that aren't in the Bible 44 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: that equine's not in the Bible, 45 00:02:46,380 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: but horses. 46 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:54,100 Speaker 1: So you get it? 47 00:02:56,860 --> 00:03:03,900 Speaker 1: it's in the Latin was raptus or raptuso i think is what it's what it is but it means to be caught up or to 48 00:03:04,140 --> 00:03:11,020 Speaker 1: snatched out by force that the Lord's going to come with a shout with the trump of the archangel and he's going to 49 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: take us out take the church the believers out and and so that's the rapture and then the second coming is when 50 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: Jesus comes and sets up his thousand-year reign at the end of the seven-year reign at the end of the 51 00:03:24,180 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: in your tribulation period. 52 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,220 Speaker 1: And that's going to happen these seven years. 53 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: And so regardless of what this is referring to, 54 00:03:33,660 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: the fact is, is Jesus is coming and you and I need to be ready. 55 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:38,220 Speaker 1: Right? 56 00:03:40,940 --> 00:03:47,100 Speaker 1: And the word, watch there, it means to stay awake figuratively 57 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: or literally to be vigilant, to be responsible, to be watchful. 58 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: right to watch and mark 13 verses 32 through 37 i'm going to read it to you and so we get the 59 00:04:07,460 --> 00:04:16,859 Speaker 1: end time idea from matthew 24 luke 21 and mark 13 and in mark 13 verse 32 it says but of that day 60 00:04:16,859 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: an hour no one knows not even the angels in heaven nor the sun but only the father take he 61 00:04:23,420 --> 00:04:26,140 Speaker 1: watch and pray, for you do not know when the time is. 62 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,860 Speaker 1: It is like a man going to a far country who left his house and gave authority to his 63 00:04:32,140 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: servants to each his work and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. 64 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming in the evening 65 00:04:40,220 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: at midnight or at the crowing of the rooster or in the morning, lest coming suddenly he 66 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,860 Speaker 1: find you sleeping and that which I say to you, I say to all, watch. 67 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: And so as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, if you are not watching, you are being extremely 68 00:05:00,980 --> 00:05:01,100 Speaker 1: foolish. 69 00:05:01,540 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: Because when you watch, it does something to you and me. 70 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: Right? 71 00:05:06,460 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: When we are watching for the coming of the Lord, it affects how I live my life. 72 00:05:11,660 --> 00:05:11,780 Speaker 1: Right? 73 00:05:11,860 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: It affects me. 74 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:14,100 Speaker 1: It affects me morally. 75 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:18,780 Speaker 1: Because I am extremely bent towards wickedness and sin and evil. 76 00:05:20,220 --> 00:05:20,820 Speaker 1: It's terrible. 77 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,460 Speaker 1: Why is it that this flesh just wakes up every morning, 78 00:05:25,420 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: lusting and desiring and in darkness? 79 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: It's just, it's, you get weary, right? 80 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,660 Speaker 1: Don't you get weary of your sinful bent? 81 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,500 Speaker 1: You just kind of keep fighting against? 82 00:05:39,980 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: But it's a good fight is what the apostle Paul told us. 83 00:05:44,010 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: So you say then, well, what then, pastor, are we watching? 84 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:48,980 Speaker 1: What do we watch? 85 00:05:50,140 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: Right? Do we watch the sky? 86 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:53,900 Speaker 1: and see all the Kim trails? 87 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: You know, I don't get too watered up about that stuff 88 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:04,540 Speaker 1: because you've got to die somehow. 89 00:06:07,060 --> 00:06:10,500 Speaker 1: So I just want to be focused on Jesus, you know, 90 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:11,780 Speaker 1: when I take my last breath. 91 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,140 Speaker 1: So could be a Kim trail, could be a violent car wreck. 92 00:06:18,460 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: I got on a young horse yesterday. 93 00:06:20,980 --> 00:06:26,300 Speaker 1: could have easily thrown me on my head, you know, and that would be the end. And it's not the how 94 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: that you die, but when you die, are you ready to meet your God? And I think the Bible speaks to that. 95 00:06:33,050 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: He says, prepare to meet your God. And we all should be prepared for that. So for starters, 96 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:44,380 Speaker 1: a good way to watch is media, right? We've got more media now than you can shake a stick at. 97 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,540 Speaker 1: Right? There's all, there's liberal media. 98 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,740 Speaker 1: There's conservative media. 99 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:55,940 Speaker 1: There's psychotic media. 100 00:06:58,260 --> 00:06:58,460 Speaker 1: Right? 101 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: Some of these people, some of the hairbrain stuff, they come up, and you go, wow. 102 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: Right. 103 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: And so what kind of media do you watch? 104 00:07:09,220 --> 00:07:12,900 Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'll occasionally flip on CNN. 105 00:07:14,860 --> 00:07:16,060 Speaker 1: And my wife's like, looking at me. 106 00:07:19,260 --> 00:07:19,700 Speaker 1: Sacrilege. 107 00:07:20,020 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: Just kidding. 108 00:07:22,020 --> 00:07:25,780 Speaker 1: No, they have a, they have their bent and their ideas, right? 109 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: Some people think Fox News can do no wrong. 110 00:07:30,340 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: And then others think they're demon possessed. 111 00:07:36,020 --> 00:07:42,060 Speaker 1: So I've got a Bible verse that I want to share with you today that is really, it's just, 112 00:07:43,620 --> 00:07:45,540 Speaker 1: it's just so full of wisdom. 113 00:07:45,780 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: And it's only a few words. 114 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,620 Speaker 1: It's found in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 21. 115 00:07:51,180 --> 00:07:52,220 Speaker 1: Listen to this what it says. 116 00:07:53,140 --> 00:07:56,580 Speaker 1: Test all things hold fast what is good. 117 00:07:58,260 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: Test all things, hold fast what is good. 118 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: How do you test things with the truth? 119 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:05,660 Speaker 1: The truth is found right here. 120 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: It's not truths. 121 00:08:07,780 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: It's not your truth and my truth. 122 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,460 Speaker 1: It's one truth from God. 123 00:08:13,140 --> 00:08:14,060 Speaker 1: God is truth. 124 00:08:14,180 --> 00:08:17,220 Speaker 1: The Lord Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life. 125 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,580 Speaker 1: So you test all things with what, with the truth? 126 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: That's how you test things. 127 00:08:25,180 --> 00:08:26,340 Speaker 1: And then hang on to what's good. 128 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: And so most, you know, media in today's world is, 129 00:08:39,740 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: it's got their bent and their opinions. 130 00:08:45,060 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: opinions are truly like feet. Most everyone has them and they all stink. But it's really, 131 00:08:55,940 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: listen to watchmen, people who know, right? I love it when people come and ask me what I think 132 00:09:02,460 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: about what's going on in the world as it pertains to the Bible and what God's word shares with us. 133 00:09:08,780 --> 00:09:14,820 Speaker 1: In the Bible, there were watchmen, and they were there to watchmen, and they were there to watch for the 134 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,860 Speaker 1: and watch for the communities 135 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,380 Speaker 1: and to watch for the next generation. 136 00:09:21,540 --> 00:09:23,340 Speaker 1: And that's why we need to speak up 137 00:09:23,940 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: when things start going awry. 138 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:29,380 Speaker 1: It was my birthday this week, 139 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: and my dear friend, 140 00:09:33,980 --> 00:09:38,780 Speaker 1: Chris Cottle, give me a little plaque 141 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: that I can hang on my wall. 142 00:09:42,540 --> 00:09:43,060 Speaker 1: And it says, 143 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:48,260 Speaker 1: if you are confused about genders, try milking a bull. 144 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:53,380 Speaker 1: Caching! 145 00:09:55,260 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: Caching! 146 00:10:03,459 --> 00:10:04,260 Speaker 1: See, that's... 147 00:10:04,820 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever tried milk and a bull. 148 00:10:06,740 --> 00:10:08,260 Speaker 1: Can I just suggest don't try that? 149 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: Right. 150 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: But there were watchmen, right? 151 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: Isaiah 21 6. It says, for thus says the Lord to me, go station the lookout. Let him report what he sees. 152 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:26,020 Speaker 1: What he sees in accordance with what God's will is and who God is. That's how you and I live our life. 153 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: That's how we determine the rights and the wrongs. It's according to the truth of God and his word. 154 00:10:34,580 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: Again, in Isaiah, it says, listen, your watchmen, lift up their voices. They shout joyfully together, for they will see with their own 155 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:51,900 Speaker 1: own eyes when the Lord restores Zion. Zion's coming. Are you watching? Are you watching for it? 156 00:10:53,260 --> 00:10:58,580 Speaker 1: People are so confused about, oh, Zionism, that's not good, is it? Because they don't know. 157 00:10:59,340 --> 00:11:06,260 Speaker 1: There's an ignorance in the church. There's an ignorance in this generation. There's an ignorance in my generation. 158 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: about who's in control? 159 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:13,940 Speaker 1: What is all this stuff with Israel? 160 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:18,780 Speaker 1: So there's some watchmen that I personally, 161 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: I test what they say. 162 00:11:21,220 --> 00:11:26,060 Speaker 1: I hold on to what's good because not everybody gets it right. 163 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,420 Speaker 1: And so I just wanted to share some of them with you, 164 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: and you might want to write some of them down, 165 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: some of these people. 166 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: So, and some of the watchmen that I listen to today, one is Amir Sarfate. 167 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:50,380 Speaker 1: He's a Jewish Christian who lives in Galilee, and his ministry is called Behold Israel. 168 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: So you can write that down probably Behold Israel. 169 00:11:53,860 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: There's another one, another Jewish Christian, who was born and raised in America and then moved there. 170 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,479 Speaker 1: And his name's Joel Rosenberg, and he has a thing called the Rosenberg Report. 171 00:12:03,580 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: And he reports what's going on in the Middle East. 172 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:13,260 Speaker 1: And then there's another fella that is sometimes with some of these other guys, 173 00:12:13,420 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: and his name's Tom Hughes. 174 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:15,980 Speaker 1: It's called the Tom Hughes Report. 175 00:12:19,740 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: And Tom Hughes, a lot of times, will hook up with a guy named Dennis Swick. 176 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: And Swick is the inventor of his channel and has been on some of the cutting edges, 177 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:40,500 Speaker 1: some of the technology that we see today and has a very good take on what's coming as far as 178 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,820 Speaker 1: technology's concerned, which is we're going to get to some of that here in a little bit too. 179 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:55,239 Speaker 1: Another one is Eric Stacklebeck, and his program is called the Watchman Newscast, Eric Stacklebeck. 180 00:12:56,620 --> 00:12:59,020 Speaker 1: And then, of course, Jan Markell, All the Tree Ministries. 181 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,980 Speaker 1: I listened to a little blurb that she put out today. 182 00:13:02,620 --> 00:13:10,980 Speaker 1: J.D. Farag is who grew up in Lebanon and has a really good feel for what's going on. 183 00:13:11,580 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: The Mid-East News station that I've been kind of just watching recently is called I-24 News. 184 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: I-24 News. 185 00:13:20,660 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: And so you listen to these people and these newscast, and you can find out what's going on in the world, 186 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:32,140 Speaker 1: some that are trusted, some that claim the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. 187 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:39,300 Speaker 1: And so another guy we just got hooked up with because his sister-in-laws go to church here is 188 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: Noam Cohen. 189 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:43,820 Speaker 1: And he lives there in the Galilee in Israel as well. 190 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:46,940 Speaker 1: And they're seeing some really cool things happening over there. 191 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: So all of these have something in common, right? 192 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: They are connected to the Middle East. 193 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,500 Speaker 1: They're reporting on what's going on over there. 194 00:14:01,060 --> 00:14:01,700 Speaker 1: Why is that? 195 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: Because the Middle East is a geographical area where God has been, has placed his name. 196 00:14:16,780 --> 00:14:17,300 Speaker 1: There in Israel. 197 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: Just been reading about it in the Bible. 198 00:14:22,860 --> 00:14:25,580 Speaker 1: In fact, everywhere I read in the Bible, it's about that. 199 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: right it's about god geographically setting his name there god personally calling abraham 200 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:40,860 Speaker 1: isac and jacob and god establishing them and their descendants as a nation now he established the 201 00:14:40,980 --> 00:14:46,420 Speaker 1: other ones as nations as well right he said that ishmael is going to be a great nation 202 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:53,299 Speaker 1: and he is but it also said he's going to be a wild man and his hand is going to be against every man 203 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: including his brothers. 204 00:14:57,700 --> 00:14:59,060 Speaker 1: And we see that going on today. 205 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: Somebody has rightly said that Israel is God's timepiece. 206 00:15:06,750 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: I believe it was Chuck Missler. 207 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:08,980 Speaker 1: That's where time began. 208 00:15:09,180 --> 00:15:10,940 Speaker 1: That's where time will end. 209 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,620 Speaker 1: Jerusalem is considered the eternal city, 210 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,180 Speaker 1: aka Zion. 211 00:15:17,820 --> 00:15:19,940 Speaker 1: And so that's what you watch. 212 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:22,700 Speaker 1: When war is going on, 213 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,780 Speaker 1: it's it's crazy 214 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: Israel is fighting right now on seven fronts 215 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: seven fronts 216 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: the Houthis and the Hamas and Hezpala 217 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: and Syria 218 00:15:37,260 --> 00:15:39,700 Speaker 1: in Iran and Lord knows what others 219 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:40,460 Speaker 1: right 220 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: so that's what we're watching 221 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:48,260 Speaker 1: we're watching this and and as believers 222 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: and what we're seeing not just in the 223 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:51,819 Speaker 1: in the American church 224 00:15:51,880 --> 00:16:00,340 Speaker 1: in Christendom, but in the world, it seems like there's two camps. The one camp is there's extremes, 225 00:16:01,180 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: right, and this is just in the church. One extreme is, is the replacement theology that God 226 00:16:06,340 --> 00:16:14,220 Speaker 1: has allowed the church to replace Israel. That's not right. Nowhere has he said that. You know, 227 00:16:14,220 --> 00:16:21,780 Speaker 1: the word Israel is in the Bible almost 2,500 times. And Israel means, some believe, 228 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: he who wrestles with God, some have said prince with God, but it's connected to God. 229 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:34,140 Speaker 1: And they have their place in this world. 230 00:16:35,380 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: And so people say, well, no, they've done too many bad things, they've gone too far away from the Lord, 231 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: therefore he's replaced them with the church. 232 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:45,900 Speaker 1: Nowhere do we find that in Scripture. 233 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:50,940 Speaker 1: And then you really have to throw out Romans chapter 11. 234 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: So that's the one thing that they're not legitimate at all, right? 235 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:07,660 Speaker 1: The other one is that thinking, well, to say that God has replaced Israel would suggest that God is a liar 236 00:17:08,819 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 1: because he hasn't kept his promise to them, right? 237 00:17:12,459 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: If God can't keep his promise to Israel, could he keep his promise to us? 238 00:17:18,439 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 1: Or won't? 239 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:20,900 Speaker 1: Can you go too far? 240 00:17:21,780 --> 00:17:22,500 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. 241 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: It doesn't appear that Israel has. 242 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: Some people in Israel? 243 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: Some people have. 244 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:28,820 Speaker 1: Some people have gone too far. 245 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: And God deals with those. 246 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: And God will deal with you and I. 247 00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: And he will deal with our heart towards one another. 248 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: Now, what's interesting is when God made his covenant with Israel, 249 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,940 Speaker 1: or with, shall we go back to Abraham, it was a unilateral covenant, right? 250 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:57,060 Speaker 1: That means that it was one way. 251 00:17:58,140 --> 00:18:00,900 Speaker 1: God made the promise, therefore God will keep the promise. 252 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: Right? 253 00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: It's a unilateral covenant. 254 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,460 Speaker 1: Now, when Moses comes along, that's a bilateral covenant. 255 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: The law was a bilateral covenant. 256 00:18:11,780 --> 00:18:14,620 Speaker 1: Remember, the Bible says, if you do this, this, this, and this, then this, this, 257 00:18:14,620 --> 00:18:15,260 Speaker 1: and this will happen. 258 00:18:15,780 --> 00:18:18,700 Speaker 1: But if you do this, this, this and this will happen. 259 00:18:19,700 --> 00:18:27,540 Speaker 1: right that's by that that's a two-part covenant that god really gave us to show us we all need a unilateral 260 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: covenant right because why because we break the bilateral one we can't keep up our end of the deal 261 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: and that's what the law does and so and the lord promised that and he says kaching that's going to 262 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 1: happen and in isaiah chapter 11 verses 11 and 12 he says this 263 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with his hand 264 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:02,100 Speaker 1: the remnant of his people who will remain from Syria, from Egypt, from Pathos, from Kush, Ilam, Shinar, 265 00:19:03,179 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: Hamath, and from the Isles of the Sea. 266 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 1: And he will lift up a standard for the nations and assemble the banished ones of Israel 267 00:19:13,060 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: and will gather the dispersed of Israel from the four corners of the earth. 268 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: That's what God has been doing since 1948. 269 00:19:21,140 --> 00:19:23,700 Speaker 1: He's been reestablishing this nation of Israel. 270 00:19:25,140 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 1: And it's never going to go anywhere. 271 00:19:28,260 --> 00:19:32,980 Speaker 1: Though we hear, right, in all these newscast that you hear, 272 00:19:33,460 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: is that radical Islam wants to destroy them 273 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: and wipe them off the face of the earth, as well as us, Americans. 274 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,360 Speaker 1: The great Satan and the little Satan. 275 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: I think Israel seems to have a little more stock with God than we do. 276 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:53,580 Speaker 1: I don't know why they call us the great Satan, but he's going to do that. 277 00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:56,300 Speaker 1: Because they have been scattered. 278 00:19:56,820 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: They did transgress, and they did worship false gods, and they did evil, just like you and me. 279 00:20:03,740 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: See, when people point a finger at Israel, they have to realize the judgment that they would pass on Israel is the same judgment that's going to come back on them. 280 00:20:12,620 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: And so it is with everyone, correct? 281 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: Even our enemies. 282 00:20:17,540 --> 00:20:19,860 Speaker 1: So you watch that. 283 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: But if it was true that God had replaced Israel with the church, then 1948 would have never happened. 284 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: Right? 285 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 1: And salvation would have never come to you and I. 286 00:20:36,620 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: Because Jesus talks about it when he's talking to the woman at the well. 287 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,260 Speaker 1: You guys remember the story there in John chapter 4. 288 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:43,140 Speaker 1: He goes to the well. 289 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:44,660 Speaker 1: This gal shows up. 290 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:56,660 Speaker 1: she's a woman of questionable character. And Jesus starts talking to her. And he kind of puts 291 00:20:56,740 --> 00:21:04,580 Speaker 1: his finger on her sin. He goes, hey, go get your husband. You remember the story, right? And she goes, 292 00:21:05,060 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: well, you know, girls are. Girls can be so cocky. Well, I have no husband. And Jesus goes, 293 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: you have rightly said you have no husband. You have five. You've had five husbands. And the dude you're 294 00:21:23,180 --> 00:21:32,260 Speaker 1: shacked up with now, he's not your husband. Oh, she gets kind of serious. And she goes, oh, I perceive 295 00:21:32,420 --> 00:21:43,959 Speaker 1: you're a prophet. Right? He called her on the carpet for her life. Not that he wasn't, I don't think the Lord was 296 00:21:46,179 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: being flippant or belligerent to her. 297 00:21:49,180 --> 00:21:51,100 Speaker 1: I think he was just calling a spade a spade. 298 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,660 Speaker 1: He goes, I know you have no husband. 299 00:21:52,780 --> 00:21:54,740 Speaker 1: You've had five husbands, right? 300 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:00,820 Speaker 1: Maybe he was putting his finger on the pulse of her desire in life 301 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,860 Speaker 1: thinking that a man could satisfy her soul. 302 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 1: And girls, can I just tell you, 303 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,860 Speaker 1: there ain't no man going to satisfy your soul except Jesus. 304 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:13,780 Speaker 1: And so anyway, 305 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 1: So he starts talking to her and Jesus said to her, 306 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,780 Speaker 1: Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain 307 00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. 308 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,020 Speaker 1: For you worship what you do not know. 309 00:22:26,980 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: We know what we worship. 310 00:22:28,580 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: For salvation is of the Jews. 311 00:22:32,660 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: Salvation is of the Jews. 312 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,940 Speaker 1: That's why the Jews are a prominent fixture. 313 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: Whether they're good or evil, they're a prominent fixture because of God's promise. 314 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: And they were the vehicle that God was going to bring his salvation through, this people group. 315 00:22:50,580 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: See, they're no better than you and I, but they're no more wicked than you and I. 316 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:03,460 Speaker 1: And so Jews, it's interesting, that word, it means those who praise God. 317 00:23:04,740 --> 00:23:09,420 Speaker 1: Right, it comes from the word Judah or Judea, those who praise God. 318 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: And they should. 319 00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:16,580 Speaker 1: but so many don't because so many of the Jews are atheistic today. 320 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: But God's going to reel them in, right? 321 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: He's going to reveal himself to them. 322 00:23:26,460 --> 00:23:28,220 Speaker 1: And he's going to show them. 323 00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:30,940 Speaker 1: Because Jesus goes on and says, 324 00:23:31,020 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: but the hour is coming and now is 325 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: when the worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, 326 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: for the Father is seeking such to worship him. 327 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:40,780 Speaker 1: Is that you? 328 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: Are you worshiping him in spirit and in truth? 329 00:23:46,940 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: Are you just kind of doing things your own way? 330 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: If there's ever a time, folks, I sound like a broken record because I say this all the time. 331 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:00,260 Speaker 1: If there's ever a time for us to be walking close to Jesus, it's right now. 332 00:24:01,180 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: Right? 333 00:24:01,460 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 1: It's right now. 334 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: So the other extreme is, that's the one extreme that they're not legitimate. 335 00:24:07,460 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: The other extreme is that Israel cannot do no wrong. 336 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,660 Speaker 1: and if you criticize them, you're anti-Semitic. 337 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:16,820 Speaker 1: Well, that's not true either. 338 00:24:18,220 --> 00:24:18,420 Speaker 1: Right? 339 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,740 Speaker 1: They make mistakes just like you and I make mistakes. 340 00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: Do you criticize your kids' mistakes sometimes? 341 00:24:24,060 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I let them know. 342 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: It's funny, Pastor Stephen and I had lunch with a guy that's retired from the IDF, 343 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,300 Speaker 1: from the Israeli Defense Force here about a month ago. 344 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,300 Speaker 1: His name's Roney Simone, and he's from, he's from, 345 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: Israel. He does tour guides over there. And as we were talking to him, he had a lot to say about 346 00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:54,980 Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanyahu that wasn't too good. Right? He totally disagrees with him. Does that mean he's 347 00:24:55,140 --> 00:25:01,460 Speaker 1: anti-Semitic? No. It doesn't. It means he disagrees with some of the decisions that his leader 348 00:25:01,580 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: has made. You ever done that? Right? We have. Right? So, 349 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: it's not anti-Semitic to be critical of stupid decisions that nations make. 350 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: But that's where you have to leave it. 351 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: Okay, yesterday the day before was a huge upheaval. 352 00:25:25,380 --> 00:25:29,020 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk had a big event, had Tucker Carlson come talk. 353 00:25:29,980 --> 00:25:30,100 Speaker 1: Right? 354 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: Some of the, who saw the spat between Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz? 355 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:34,140 Speaker 1: Anybody see that? 356 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: Right? 357 00:25:35,420 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: So you've seen the spat between Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz. 358 00:25:39,220 --> 00:25:43,100 Speaker 1: Well, Tucker kind of went on the same kind of little rant at the Charlie Kirk event. 359 00:25:43,940 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 1: And everybody's just up in arms. 360 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: Michelle Bachman and Jan Markell and, you know, others are just up in arms about what Tucker did. 361 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,880 Speaker 1: Because he did call Israel into question. 362 00:25:57,460 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: And people said, well, these 20-year-olds, they're, you know, he's impressing them. 363 00:26:02,220 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: and, you know, when you take a poll among the 20-somethings, 364 00:26:06,580 --> 00:26:08,340 Speaker 1: and not many of them support Israel. 365 00:26:12,740 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: And so people are all watered up. 366 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,700 Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry, I have to go back to First Thessalon and chapter 5 again. 367 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: Test all things, hold on to what's good. 368 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:25,900 Speaker 1: And I think our 20-year-olds are, you know, our 20-somethings, are smart enough. 369 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:27,700 Speaker 1: I don't think they're stupid. 370 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: They're smart enough to figure this out. 371 00:26:32,399 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 1: that all you have to do is read the Bible and realize that God has a plan for Israel 372 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: and that we as believers in Jesus are to have a unconditional love for Israel. 373 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:48,780 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean we always have to agree with them. 374 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,620 Speaker 1: It means you have to have an unconditional love for them, 375 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 1: just like you have to do your enemies. 376 00:26:55,060 --> 00:26:55,180 Speaker 1: Right? 377 00:26:55,180 --> 00:26:57,420 Speaker 1: The Bible says that you have to love your enemies. 378 00:26:59,200 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: Your family members. 379 00:27:00,020 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: I look at Israel, you guys. 380 00:27:02,340 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: I look at them like an older sibling 381 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,100 Speaker 1: that didn't get everything right. 382 00:27:07,020 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: I had one of those. 383 00:27:12,780 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 1: I had an older sibling 384 00:27:14,140 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: that two of them older than me, 385 00:27:16,060 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: my sister Shana and my brother Randy are both older than me, 386 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: and I looked at their life and I thought, 387 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,700 Speaker 1: well, it's probably not a great way to live. 388 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,860 Speaker 1: And I didn't agree with 389 00:27:29,940 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 1: what they had done in their life. 390 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: And, but that's, that mean I don't love them? 391 00:27:35,260 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: I don't, yeah, no. 392 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,380 Speaker 1: That means I do love them. 393 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,180 Speaker 1: It's an unconditional, right? 394 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what they did. 395 00:27:41,940 --> 00:27:43,140 Speaker 1: It's kind of like parents for children. 396 00:27:43,780 --> 00:27:45,140 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what your children do. 397 00:27:45,140 --> 00:27:45,980 Speaker 1: You still love them. 398 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,300 Speaker 1: And so it is with, with the church in Israel, we're grafted in. 399 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 1: We're one. 400 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: We're to be one. 401 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,060 Speaker 1: We can't, it's not us and them. 402 00:27:54,580 --> 00:27:55,140 Speaker 1: It's just us. 403 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,020 Speaker 1: Because in Jesus, there is no Jew. 404 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: there is no Greek, there is no male, there is no female, right? We're all one in Christ Jesus. 405 00:28:05,860 --> 00:28:10,540 Speaker 1: And so that's how you have to see it. If you lose sight of that, that's a scary place. 406 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: That's a really scary place to be if you lose sight of that. And so God has called us to love these people, 407 00:28:18,050 --> 00:28:28,620 Speaker 1: to pray for them, and because God isn't done with them. It says, Paul tells us there in Romans 11, 408 00:28:28,660 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 1: I had mentioned it earlier, for I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, 409 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:38,580 Speaker 1: lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the 410 00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: fullness of the Gentile has come. How many of you've heard that phrase, the fullness of the Gentiles? 411 00:28:44,260 --> 00:28:48,540 Speaker 1: You've heard that phrase, right? What does that mean? Many believe that it was fulfilled, 412 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:53,860 Speaker 1: the fulfillment of the Gentiles, the time that they would rule over Palestine, over Israel. 413 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,300 Speaker 1: Some believe that ended in 1948. Some believe it was 1967. 414 00:28:59,179 --> 00:29:00,340 Speaker 1: Let's just say this. 415 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: We've been on spiritual overtime for the fulfillment of the Gentiles that ruled over Israel. 416 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: We're this close of that being completed if it's not already. 417 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:12,940 Speaker 1: And God's just waiting. 418 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:15,140 Speaker 1: Maybe for you to give your life to Christ. 419 00:29:15,460 --> 00:29:17,420 Speaker 1: So please do that today and get us out of here, would you? 420 00:29:24,060 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: Until the time fullness of the Gentiles has come in, verse 20, 421 00:29:28,780 --> 00:29:29,940 Speaker 1: This is Romans 11. 422 00:29:30,340 --> 00:29:33,100 Speaker 1: And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written. 423 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,500 Speaker 1: The deliverer will come out of Zion, 424 00:29:35,540 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob, 425 00:29:38,060 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: for this is my covenant with them. 426 00:29:39,980 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: When I take away their sins concerning the gospel, 427 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: they are enemies for your sake. 428 00:29:45,020 --> 00:29:46,260 Speaker 1: But concerning the election, 429 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 430 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,420 Speaker 1: For the gifts and the callings of God, listen, 431 00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:53,020 Speaker 1: are irrevocable. 432 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,460 Speaker 1: When God calls somebody, when he calls you, right? 433 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,740 Speaker 1: On his part, it's irrevocable. 434 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: It can't be done away with. 435 00:30:09,180 --> 00:30:11,060 Speaker 1: So he's not done with them. 436 00:30:12,540 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: So it says, 437 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,100 Speaker 1: for as you were once disobedient to God, 438 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 439 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,740 Speaker 1: Israel's no different than you and I before we come to Jesus. 440 00:30:26,060 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: We're all in a place of disobedience. 441 00:30:29,079 --> 00:30:31,900 Speaker 1: and God is long-suffering. 442 00:30:32,420 --> 00:30:35,180 Speaker 1: He meant what he said when he said that to Abraham. 443 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,500 Speaker 1: I'm going to establish you as a person 444 00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: and give you a great name right now, around the world. 445 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: Abraham has a great name, right? 446 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,540 Speaker 1: The Jews claim Abraham, the Christians claim Abraham, 447 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: the Muslims claim Abraham, 448 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,260 Speaker 1: the Druze that you're hearing about, D-R-U-Z-E, 449 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:54,500 Speaker 1: they claim Abraham. 450 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,020 Speaker 1: All is their father. 451 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: All of them claim him. 452 00:30:58,920 --> 00:30:59,980 Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a great name. 453 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,980 Speaker 1: I'm going to make you a great nation. 454 00:31:03,340 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: That little tiny strip of land there on the eastern side of the Mediterranean. 455 00:31:08,140 --> 00:31:11,460 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is that God has about that, but it's his. 456 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: Right? 457 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: It's his. 458 00:31:14,660 --> 00:31:19,780 Speaker 1: And so people say, well, pastor, that's just your interpretation. 459 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:21,580 Speaker 1: Really? 460 00:31:22,690 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: You want to talk about interpretation? 461 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: Can't we just read the Bible? 462 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: at face value in context and get what it says. 463 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,020 Speaker 1: Okay, let me read this real quick. 464 00:31:33,980 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: This is God's, and I've had so many notes. 465 00:31:38,780 --> 00:31:40,780 Speaker 1: This is God's take on Israel, okay? 466 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: Please listen. 467 00:31:42,580 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: This is talking about the new covenant in Jeremiah chapter 31. 468 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,620 Speaker 1: This is verses 35 and 36. 469 00:31:47,940 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this. 470 00:31:50,140 --> 00:31:51,580 Speaker 1: This is what God's saying about Israel. 471 00:31:52,140 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: He says, 472 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,380 Speaker 1: Thus says the Lord, 473 00:31:54,780 --> 00:31:57,060 Speaker 1: who gives the son for a light by day, 474 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:06,380 Speaker 1: the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night who disturbs the sea and its waves roar, 475 00:32:06,540 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: the Lord of hosts is his name. That's a good description of the Lord. 476 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:17,060 Speaker 1: Verse 36. If those ordinances, which one, the sun and the moon and the disturbance of the ocean, 477 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:23,860 Speaker 1: if those ordinances depart before me, says the Lord, then the seat of Israel shall also cease 478 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: from being a nation before me forever. 479 00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:29,220 Speaker 1: Right? 480 00:32:29,340 --> 00:32:34,460 Speaker 1: The only way that Israel can disappear off the face of the earth is if the sun 481 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:39,060 Speaker 1: quits shining and the moon quits coming up at night and the sea 482 00:32:39,780 --> 00:32:41,300 Speaker 1: doesn't have waves anymore. 483 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:43,060 Speaker 1: That's the only way. 484 00:32:45,460 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: Sad to say, radical Islam believes that the Quran cannot be true as long as Israel exists. 485 00:32:52,690 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: And that's why we see what's happening. 486 00:32:53,860 --> 00:33:01,980 Speaker 1: today. That's why they're fighting on seven fronts right now. The Quran cannot be true if Israel 487 00:33:02,220 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: exists. That's why there is such a bent to wipe them out. That's why it's called the 488 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:15,980 Speaker 1: religion of death. Because what do they call? They call death to Israel, death to America. That's what 489 00:33:15,980 --> 00:33:23,820 Speaker 1: they call. And what does God call? Death, life to Israel. Life to America. Death, death, the 490 00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:29,020 Speaker 1: to those who love death. If you want death, the Lord is saying, you got it. I'll give you all you want. 491 00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: Interpretation of the Bible. Just read it. Because there is so much in the Word of God. 492 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 1: I want to tell you something, folks, the word here, this thing, it is the eternal Word of God. 493 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: It has no end. And I'm going to do you a case and point, and I'm running out of time. And I've 494 00:33:53,820 --> 00:33:55,380 Speaker 1: I've got so much word that I want to share with you. 495 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,660 Speaker 1: But I ran across Chuck Missler. 496 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:02,980 Speaker 1: As many of you know Chuck Missler. 497 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 1: He's crazy smart. 498 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,980 Speaker 1: Maybe he's crazy and smart all at the same time. 499 00:34:10,539 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 1: But in the book of Genesis, and I did not go over this when we went through Genesis, 500 00:34:14,700 --> 00:34:15,240 Speaker 1: chapter 38. 501 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:16,659 Speaker 1: Some of you know chapter 38. 502 00:34:17,020 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 1: It's the story of Judah, right? 503 00:34:19,980 --> 00:34:20,260 Speaker 1: Judah. 504 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:21,340 Speaker 1: Who came from Judah? 505 00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:23,260 Speaker 1: Jesus, right? 506 00:34:23,580 --> 00:34:26,240 Speaker 1: Jesus is the lion of the tribe of Judah, right? 507 00:34:26,659 --> 00:34:29,460 Speaker 1: So in the middle of Joseph's story, 508 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:31,700 Speaker 1: we read in 37 where his brothers betrayed him, 509 00:34:32,020 --> 00:34:34,639 Speaker 1: in the middle of Joseph's story in chapter 38 510 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 1: is this story of Judah. 511 00:34:36,540 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: Bizarre story, he moves away, 512 00:34:39,060 --> 00:34:40,639 Speaker 1: probably takes some Gentile chick, 513 00:34:40,780 --> 00:34:42,620 Speaker 1: has some boys, the boys are wicked, 514 00:34:42,780 --> 00:34:43,700 Speaker 1: so God kills them. 515 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: God kills these boys. 516 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:48,540 Speaker 1: Maybe he's saying, 517 00:34:48,629 --> 00:34:50,159 Speaker 1: all right, my Messiah ain't coming from them. 518 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: These are too wicked. 519 00:34:52,879 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: Well, so the one had gotten married and was Judah's daughter-in-law. 520 00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: Her name's Tamar. 521 00:34:59,620 --> 00:35:02,140 Speaker 1: So Judah, his wife, dies. 522 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: So he's a man. 523 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,300 Speaker 1: So he's going by and she plays a prostitute and they have a thing. 524 00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:17,060 Speaker 1: And she gets pregnant with twin boys. 525 00:35:18,390 --> 00:35:20,420 Speaker 1: And you remember the scarlet cord was around the one 526 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,660 Speaker 1: and then the other one was born, and his name was Perez. 527 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:30,360 Speaker 1: It's a story of just bizarre, kind of perverse, kind of scary, 528 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: because God kills these two dudes because they were wicked, right? 529 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,740 Speaker 1: And then we read about Judah, we read about the two boys, 530 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,300 Speaker 1: and then Perez is in the line of Jesus. 531 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,500 Speaker 1: So it goes from Judah to Perez all the way down to Jesus. 532 00:35:45,740 --> 00:35:47,100 Speaker 1: Jesus comes from this Perez. 533 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:50,360 Speaker 1: But if you look at it, 534 00:35:50,380 --> 00:36:00,260 Speaker 1: at it in the Hebrew, Hebrew reads right to left. Correct? James? Yes. Hebrew reads right to left, correct? 535 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:08,360 Speaker 1: And when you break that down, check this out, you guys. When you break that down every 49th letter, 536 00:36:10,180 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: the first word that it spells is Boaz. You guys know who Boaz is, right? The Kinsman Redeemer, 537 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: the one who took Ruth, who is a descendant of Perez. 538 00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: And then you take it the next 49 letters, 539 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,260 Speaker 1: and it comes up with the name Ruth. 540 00:36:31,220 --> 00:36:32,360 Speaker 1: Do you remember Ruth and Boaz? 541 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:41,200 Speaker 1: And so Ruth and Boaz hook up. 542 00:36:41,740 --> 00:36:43,580 Speaker 1: She's a Moabite, a Gentile bride. 543 00:36:45,260 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: And then you do the 49, 544 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:57,380 Speaker 1: letters again, and it comes up with the name Obed. Well, who's Obed? He's the offspring of Ruth and 545 00:36:57,620 --> 00:37:05,780 Speaker 1: Boaz. Guys, and this is in sequence. This is in chronological order. In the Word of God. 546 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:17,540 Speaker 1: Do you read the Word of God? Because when you do, it absolutely blows your mind. It's 547 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: the eternal word of God. It speaks life into your soul. Well, we're not done yet. One more time, 548 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:34,660 Speaker 1: it does it again, and it comes up with another name who was the son of Obed, and his name is Jesse. 549 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:44,020 Speaker 1: In 49 letter intervals, seven times seven, God has something about the number seven, right? 550 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: You do it one more time. 551 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 1: Who was the son of Jesse? 552 00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: David. 553 00:37:50,340 --> 00:37:51,240 Speaker 1: One more time, David. 554 00:37:52,460 --> 00:37:52,620 Speaker 1: Right? 555 00:37:53,140 --> 00:37:53,580 Speaker 1: Beloved. 556 00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:57,580 Speaker 1: Interpretation, really? 557 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,460 Speaker 1: Guys, I can barely read this thing at face value. 558 00:38:03,060 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: And get what I need to get. 559 00:38:05,940 --> 00:38:06,920 Speaker 1: There's so much here. 560 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:12,140 Speaker 1: If you're willing, if you're willing, and you dig in to God's word, 561 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:16,020 Speaker 1: you're going to have abundant life. 562 00:38:17,620 --> 00:38:20,940 Speaker 1: And so many people, it is the thing that we do the least. 563 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:23,840 Speaker 1: Well, prayer is the thing we do the least. 564 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,800 Speaker 1: Bible reading is the second thing we do the least. 565 00:38:29,959 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 1: So you think about this stuff and, okay, we got Israel. 566 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:36,700 Speaker 1: But now you've got to watch what's going on in the world. 567 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,320 Speaker 1: So as soon as Israel attacks Iran, what's that, two weeks ago? 568 00:38:40,540 --> 00:38:41,260 Speaker 1: Three weeks ago now. 569 00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:43,580 Speaker 1: They call it the 12-day war, right? 570 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:49,420 Speaker 1: As soon as America jumps in, hits their nuclear sites, everybody's thinking that's a watchman, 571 00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:53,300 Speaker 1: that's a Christian, that's read the Bible, read the Old Testament. 572 00:38:54,180 --> 00:38:55,620 Speaker 1: Too many people don't read the Old Testament. 573 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:57,500 Speaker 1: It's relevant for today. 574 00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,840 Speaker 1: They think Ezekiel 38 and 39, surely, right? 575 00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:03,320 Speaker 1: Because Iran, what's the old name for Iran? 576 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:04,580 Speaker 1: Persia. 577 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 1: Persia. 578 00:39:06,140 --> 00:39:06,300 Speaker 1: Right? 579 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:11,140 Speaker 1: And we know that in Ezekiel 38 and 39, man, Persia's in there, Russia's in there. 580 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,460 Speaker 1: but Russia and Persia aren't together in this. 581 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:14,680 Speaker 1: Libya is in there. 582 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:15,980 Speaker 1: Ethiopia is in there. 583 00:39:16,260 --> 00:39:17,400 Speaker 1: They're all not together in this. 584 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:18,940 Speaker 1: So it can't be, right? 585 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:22,240 Speaker 1: No, it can't be, but it's not. 586 00:39:23,060 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: If you're a watchman and you know what's going on in the world. 587 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,540 Speaker 1: But Gog is going to come down. 588 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,340 Speaker 1: Russia is going to come down and Persia will be with them. 589 00:39:37,060 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: Because some people are thinking right now with this whole Iranian thing, 590 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,320 Speaker 1: okay, there's going to be a regime change. And then we're going to have peace and safety, right? 591 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:51,940 Speaker 1: We don't know that. It doesn't seem like they're wanting to turn much. It's not appearing that they want peace. 592 00:39:53,460 --> 00:40:01,920 Speaker 1: They just want to keep fighting. And so notice it says in Ezekiel chapter 38, verse 11, this is the leader of Magog, 593 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 1: you will say, it says, I will go up against a land of unwalled villages. I will go to a peaceful people. 594 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:16,100 Speaker 1: this is speaking of Israel, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates. 595 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,240 Speaker 1: And Russia is going to see, oh, we can go into Israel. 596 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,080 Speaker 1: And later it says they see he's going to take booty. 597 00:40:26,180 --> 00:40:29,480 Speaker 1: But notice, this is what's interesting is God's going to do this. 598 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:31,280 Speaker 1: God's going to do it. 599 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,500 Speaker 1: God's going to put the hook in his jaw. 600 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: Verses four and five of Zeke of 38 says, I will turn you around and put hooks into 601 00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:44,980 Speaker 1: to your jaws and lead you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, 602 00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:51,340 Speaker 1: a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Listen, Persia, Ethiopia, 603 00:40:51,920 --> 00:41:00,140 Speaker 1: Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet. Some think that's going to happen 604 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 1: right before the rapture. Some think it's going to happen after the rapture. It hasn't happened yet, 605 00:41:07,060 --> 00:41:09,140 Speaker 1: but does that mean the rapture's close? Could be. 606 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:18,300 Speaker 1: so people are saying, okay, pastor, so is this going to happen before the rapture? 607 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,100 Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure. 608 00:41:22,260 --> 00:41:28,440 Speaker 1: But obviously, like I said earlier, as long as Israel exists, the Quran can't be true. 609 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:33,160 Speaker 1: So radical Islam is going to continue until maybe somehow it's miraculous destroyed. 610 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,900 Speaker 1: I don't know how that would be. 611 00:41:36,980 --> 00:41:39,140 Speaker 1: But the fact is, is we are coming into a. 612 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:45,080 Speaker 1: time, yes, there's always been conflict with Israel and the people have been scattered. 613 00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:46,400 Speaker 1: They're back in the land now. 614 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:47,780 Speaker 1: And there's uncertainty. 615 00:41:48,220 --> 00:41:50,120 Speaker 1: And we're wondering, when is the day or the hour? 616 00:41:50,540 --> 00:41:51,100 Speaker 1: We don't know. 617 00:41:51,180 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 1: But we do know some things that are happening in the world that we've never seen before. 618 00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:02,880 Speaker 1: And that is the foundation or the infrastructure of the kingdom of the Antichrist is in place. 619 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 1: It's in place right now. 620 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:05,700 Speaker 1: Right? 621 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,060 Speaker 1: Because we're fast moving toward, I think we're already probably there. 622 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:16,540 Speaker 1: with a one-world banking system, a one-world banking system, we're going to be pressed to 623 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:23,660 Speaker 1: partake in a one-world religion, right? And then there is going to be a one-world government. 624 00:42:24,740 --> 00:42:29,920 Speaker 1: And we're fast heading in that way with technology and how all of the nations can be connected 625 00:42:30,420 --> 00:42:39,040 Speaker 1: right now, right? All of the monetary systems can be connected now. And, and, and, 626 00:42:39,060 --> 00:42:43,640 Speaker 1: And so some watchmen to watch on this is a guy by the name of Billy Crone. 627 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:44,320 Speaker 1: Right? 628 00:42:44,420 --> 00:42:46,180 Speaker 1: Billy has written a book. 629 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:52,140 Speaker 1: I believe it's called the kingdom, the main players in the kingdom of the Antichrist. 630 00:42:52,480 --> 00:43:00,140 Speaker 1: And he's saying that this infrastructure for the Antichrist is in place now. 631 00:43:00,260 --> 00:43:04,640 Speaker 1: They're also calling this one world government, one world religion, one world economy. 632 00:43:05,020 --> 00:43:07,940 Speaker 1: They're calling it the Great Reset. 633 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:08,660 Speaker 1: You heard that one? 634 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:15,700 Speaker 1: the Great Reset, right? That's what they're calling them. So you have players like Yval Noah Harari. 635 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:26,000 Speaker 1: It's interesting. Jesus said that as in the days of Noah, so will be the days of the coming of the son of man. 636 00:43:26,580 --> 00:43:38,660 Speaker 1: Yval Noah Harari. Interesting. That was in Luke 61726. And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be. Also in the days of Noah. 637 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:46,420 Speaker 1: of the son of man. And, and also just here a couple days ago, one meteorologist said, 638 00:43:47,660 --> 00:43:52,940 Speaker 1: we're calling the year 2025 the year of the flood. Well, what happened in Noah's Day? 639 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,700 Speaker 1: Right? But there was a flood, right? There was a flood of wickedness. There was a flood of 640 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,380 Speaker 1: spiritual perversion with the Nethelim and the sons of God and the daughters of men and all the 641 00:44:04,820 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 1: bizarre things that were taking place there that is taking place. That's a flood. That's 642 00:44:09,619 --> 00:44:10,740 Speaker 1: Genetic manipulation. 643 00:44:13,580 --> 00:44:17,140 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not just transgenderism, it's transhumanism. 644 00:44:18,140 --> 00:44:22,840 Speaker 1: And I believe that there's a spiritual element to this stuff that's coming. 645 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:31,940 Speaker 1: So you've got guys like Harari, George Soros, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and this one kind of shocked me, King Charles. 646 00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:36,400 Speaker 1: King Charles is right there in the mix with them. 647 00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:41,740 Speaker 1: Harari is fulfilling prophecy with the whole genetic manipulation. 648 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,200 Speaker 1: He says that we'll be able to control all humans. 649 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,660 Speaker 1: That's why he'll tell us that you'll have nothing and be happy. 650 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:51,580 Speaker 1: Right? 651 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,840 Speaker 1: That's what Harari is doing. 652 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,220 Speaker 1: He's fulfilling prophecy and doesn't even know it. 653 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:56,740 Speaker 1: Right? 654 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,960 Speaker 1: The genetic modification of humans, 655 00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:01,900 Speaker 1: that seemed to be what happens there in Genesis 6. 656 00:45:02,660 --> 00:45:06,640 Speaker 1: And then they're also calling these people, 657 00:45:07,020 --> 00:45:15,120 Speaker 1: that are genetically modified human 2.0, post-human species, or augmented humanity. 658 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:16,600 Speaker 1: That's what they're calling these people. 659 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:22,600 Speaker 1: That they're going to put chips and this weird stuff. 660 00:45:23,619 --> 00:45:24,800 Speaker 1: That's Harari. 661 00:45:25,250 --> 00:45:33,000 Speaker 1: And then you have, right, Soros, who as many believe, he's funding Antifa and BLM and 662 00:45:35,780 --> 00:45:36,600 Speaker 1: calling evil good. 663 00:45:37,140 --> 00:45:37,940 Speaker 1: and good evil. 664 00:45:38,810 --> 00:45:41,120 Speaker 1: I think Isaiah addresses that in Isaiah 5. 665 00:45:41,150 --> 00:45:41,520 Speaker 1: He says, 666 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,780 Speaker 1: woe to those who call evil good and good evil, 667 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,620 Speaker 1: who put darkness for light and light for darkness, 668 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,960 Speaker 1: who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. 669 00:45:50,180 --> 00:45:52,720 Speaker 1: Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes 670 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,900 Speaker 1: and prudent in their own sight. 671 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:57,880 Speaker 1: Woe to those. 672 00:45:59,280 --> 00:45:59,900 Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa. 673 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,860 Speaker 1: And then you have the one world 674 00:46:08,660 --> 00:46:17,240 Speaker 1: government banking system, Bill Gates is a part of the Who, the World Health Organization, 675 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,060 Speaker 1: no doubt the part of the WEF, the World Economic Forum. 676 00:46:21,540 --> 00:46:26,280 Speaker 1: I think there's a reason that Klaus Schwab stepped down, somebody different's going to step into 677 00:46:26,420 --> 00:46:26,920 Speaker 1: his place. 678 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,460 Speaker 1: But one of the biggest pushers for this great reset is King Charles. 679 00:46:33,980 --> 00:46:35,840 Speaker 1: And they say he has, they say he has. 680 00:46:35,860 --> 00:46:39,780 Speaker 1: power and influence in 53 to 56 countries. 681 00:46:42,020 --> 00:46:46,240 Speaker 1: So these are things we watch as we get closer and closer. 682 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:51,100 Speaker 1: And you say, well, is there any hope? 683 00:46:51,460 --> 00:46:52,460 Speaker 1: Well, of course there's hope. 684 00:46:52,980 --> 00:46:57,680 Speaker 1: Well, you mean, can I go ahead and live my, well, sure, live your life, right? 685 00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:58,780 Speaker 1: You got dreams? 686 00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:05,400 Speaker 1: But do not, do not let your dreams exclude the Lord Jesus in your life, right? 687 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:06,560 Speaker 1: Go do what you want. 688 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:08,060 Speaker 1: Do you love him? 689 00:47:09,220 --> 00:47:11,920 Speaker 1: Obviously, you're going to be a witness to the world. 690 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,200 Speaker 1: But please don't forget to watch. 691 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:16,440 Speaker 1: Because he's coming. 692 00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:19,520 Speaker 1: Soon and very soon, as the old song says, 693 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:21,040 Speaker 1: we're going to see the king. 694 00:47:24,140 --> 00:47:27,160 Speaker 1: And everything will pale in comparison. 695 00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:30,000 Speaker 1: This life has nothing, 696 00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:33,440 Speaker 1: nothing that compares with the one to come. 697 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 1: And that's what he is. 698 00:47:35,620 --> 00:47:42,020 Speaker 1: called us to set our mind on things above, not on the things of the earth. I was just talking to 699 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:47,080 Speaker 1: my old friend this morning, you know, after having a birthday and seeing some of the struggles he's 700 00:47:47,140 --> 00:47:53,340 Speaker 1: going through and he's in his 70s, and I'm just thinking, all this life affords is labor and 701 00:47:54,300 --> 00:48:01,100 Speaker 1: sorrow. That's what it allows. You see, Pastor, do you got to be such a downer? No, I'm excited 702 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,540 Speaker 1: about these things. Yeah! You know, if I could, I'd jump up and click my heels together. But 703 00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:06,240 Speaker 1: it'd probably hurt. 704 00:48:10,180 --> 00:48:10,680 Speaker 1: Because why? 705 00:48:10,780 --> 00:48:12,360 Speaker 1: Because Jesus is my focal point. 706 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:13,600 Speaker 1: Jesus is my life. 707 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:25,800 Speaker 1: So somebody sent me a little video of a boy who was coming out of the anesthesia from a broken arm 708 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:26,860 Speaker 1: at a skateboard accident. 709 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:33,460 Speaker 1: And he seems to be kind of in and out of, you know, different dimensions. 710 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:40,100 Speaker 1: He seems to be seeing and talking to his father, who had died a year earlier, and he's talking to Jesus. 711 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,800 Speaker 1: And this boy goes, oh, Jesus, you're so beautiful. 712 00:48:45,140 --> 00:48:46,580 Speaker 1: He says, Lord, Jesus, we need you. 713 00:48:47,980 --> 00:48:49,200 Speaker 1: Lord, Jesus, I need you. 714 00:48:52,620 --> 00:48:53,920 Speaker 1: Are you desperate for the Lord? 715 00:48:55,620 --> 00:48:59,300 Speaker 1: Being desperate for him every day, it fills my life with life. 716 00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:04,020 Speaker 1: People think, oh, no, no, you're just looking at it. 717 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:06,080 Speaker 1: You're such a doom and gloom, pastor. 718 00:49:08,100 --> 00:49:08,300 Speaker 1: Right? 719 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,080 Speaker 1: You just talk about woe. 720 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:12,700 Speaker 1: No, not woe. 721 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:14,520 Speaker 1: Yeha! 722 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:16,120 Speaker 1: Right? 723 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:20,180 Speaker 1: Soon and very soon we're going to see the king. 724 00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:21,460 Speaker 1: He's coming for us. 725 00:49:21,540 --> 00:49:25,140 Speaker 1: And so I just want to close with communion today. 726 00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:26,820 Speaker 1: And we're just going to remember him. 727 00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:28,740 Speaker 1: Remember the great sacrifice. 728 00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,560 Speaker 1: Jesus came into this life. 729 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,020 Speaker 1: Like I said, it only affords us labor and sorrow. 730 00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:39,400 Speaker 1: And the Bible says he was a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. And he came for you and me. 731 00:49:40,220 --> 00:49:45,560 Speaker 1: Right. And he came to give us hope in the midst of these things that we experience in our human 732 00:49:46,460 --> 00:49:55,840 Speaker 1: experience. Life and death and struggle and all these things. And Jesus come and he came to give us life 733 00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:00,940 Speaker 1: and that more abundantly. And we want to remember that now as we enter into communion. So if you'd take 734 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,800 Speaker 1: your elements and go ahead and pull out the bread and we're just going to, 735 00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:10,600 Speaker 1: hold it before the Lord and we're going to pray over it and thank him for for his broken body. 736 00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:16,520 Speaker 1: And he said, as often you do this, do this in remembrance of me. And so Lord, we just hold the bread before you right now. 737 00:50:17,130 --> 00:50:24,860 Speaker 1: And Lord, we're remembering you and what you did when you came and you experienced this life that we experienced. 738 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:32,220 Speaker 1: Lord, you lived in the flesh, Lord, you experienced trouble, no doubt death and then torture. 739 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,000 Speaker 1: and the scourge and the cross on our behalf. 740 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,640 Speaker 1: Lord, that as your body was broken and beaten, Lord, you, 741 00:50:43,020 --> 00:50:44,780 Speaker 1: Lord, you were in our place. 742 00:50:45,500 --> 00:50:49,200 Speaker 1: And really, we deserve that punishment that you received. 743 00:50:50,740 --> 00:50:57,820 Speaker 1: But it satisfied the father to bruise you on our behalf. 744 00:50:58,140 --> 00:50:59,900 Speaker 1: And so we thank you for that, Lord. 745 00:50:59,900 --> 00:51:02,560 Speaker 1: And we want to remember your body that was broken. 746 00:51:02,620 --> 00:51:08,360 Speaker 1: and we want to partake now thanking you for being willing to do this, Lord, 747 00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,800 Speaker 1: for the crown of thorns and the nails and the scourge 748 00:51:12,220 --> 00:51:16,460 Speaker 1: and all those things you experienced in your body for our sake, Lord. 749 00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:20,220 Speaker 1: So we remember the bread now, blessed it as we partake in Jesus' name. 750 00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:21,420 Speaker 1: Amen, let's partake. 751 00:51:25,140 --> 00:51:32,040 Speaker 1: And likewise, the fruit of the vine that he took and he blessed it, 752 00:51:32,140 --> 00:51:34,780 Speaker 1: He offered it up, and we're going to bring it before the Lord. 753 00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,540 Speaker 1: And Lord Jesus, we thank you for the blood that was shed. 754 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:42,000 Speaker 1: Lord, it truly washes us from our sin. 755 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:50,700 Speaker 1: And as Apostle Paul said, he preaches nothing but you and you crucified, Lord. 756 00:51:51,100 --> 00:51:57,080 Speaker 1: And your blood poured down on the ground and ran down that cross, Lord, for our sakes. 757 00:51:57,900 --> 00:51:59,200 Speaker 1: Lord, that we would be washed. 758 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,100 Speaker 1: And I just thank you for forgiving me for all. 759 00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,140 Speaker 1: all the wicked things I've done in my life, Lord. 760 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,440 Speaker 1: And Lord, I pray that you'd fill us all with your Holy Spirit, 761 00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:09,460 Speaker 1: that we wouldn't go there, 762 00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,160 Speaker 1: that we would resist by the power of your Holy Spirit. 763 00:52:13,020 --> 00:52:15,580 Speaker 1: And, Lord, that you would bless the cup as we partake, Lord. 764 00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,760 Speaker 1: And remember your precious blood that was shed on our behalf. 765 00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:21,780 Speaker 1: Bless the cup in Jesus' name. 766 00:52:22,340 --> 00:52:23,140 Speaker 1: Amen, let's partake. 767 00:52:28,820 --> 00:52:30,340 Speaker 1: Amen, let's all stand, shall we? 768 00:52:59,940 --> 00:52:59,960 Speaker 1: Thank you.