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[0:00] Father, we just thank you. Thank you for the opportunity this morning, Father, to come and to share your word, and we thank you for that, and for your love, and for your grace that you gave to us through your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and what he did for us here on the earth, and we thank you for that. We thank you for the new life that you've given us through him.

[0:20] Father, we just think of the new year coming up, and we just pray that your will will be done this year, and there's all kinds of things going on in this world and here in the United States, and we just have to leave it in your hands, and we just pray for a good year. So we thank you for your word this morning, and just guide us as we go through it, and pray for Betty and Ed and those that are caring for them, and also for Julie and all the others in this congregation who has health problems this morning. So we just thank you in all these things, and ask it in Christ's name. Amen.

[1:02] Okay, well this morning we're going to talk about some end time wars. I don't know if we call all of them wars. They just may be something that's going on there in Revelation, but so we're going to get to some of those and talk about them. I think first, I know a lot of people are concerned about what happens in the United States. We're not there in the end times. At least there's nothing in the Bible about us. Now you could go to the place that we might become a part of that European nation thing, because we did come from Europe. I don't know how that's going to happen. Any thoughts about that?

[1:47] I know there's just speculation. That's all you can do, isn't it? Just speculation. And some think that, you know, this is a Christian nation, and when the rapture comes, there's going to be gobs and gods of people. And it may take out part of the government, the financial institutions, all kinds of things could happen. That's one theory. Of course, the other is the fact that this country has left God out, and God may leave us out. So, you know, we've lost the faith, idolatry, indifferences, and we've taken, we may be taking over some kind of military power. Who knows? Maybe there'll be a nuclear war. We don't know that either. But anyway, the United States, we really don't know what's going to happen, but we do know that the United States is not as powerful as we used to be. And how that's going to play as far as Israel is concerned may be a big thing, because what's happening right now in

[2:59] Israel is a lot to do with the United States. We're one of the bigger nations that's backing the nation of Israel. So we don't know how that's going to work out, do we?

[3:11] So, next pathetic war. And many scholars believe that the next great war would be the war that we talk about Gog and Magog. It's described there in 38 and 39. Ezekiel 38 and 39. That's the war from Russia and all the Muslim countries that is talked about there in 38 and 39. But again, there's others that say, hey, that conflict described in Ezekiel 38 and 39 will not be the next war.

[3:48] At the end time Bible prophecy, there are two reasons this might be. First, there's the condition of the war in Ezekiel 38 and 39 that states the war described in this chapter. Israel are living in a security and unwell villages. Israel is not living in security today, is it? They're getting bombarded, rockets, everything is going across. So if they call that security, I don't know.

[4:18] So it doesn't seem to be that way. And there's also the terrorist attacks there all the time. So in response to that, there was Israel's belt walls to protect them. They've built fences along the border of, yeah. And they have like these electronic fences and all the security type things that detect all this coming in. And they do a great job of protecting the nation of Israel.

[4:50] So most of the rockets and stuff that come in are shot down before they even get there. So they do have that going for them. But there's a lot of things that's going on there.

[5:05] The second reason that Ezekiel 38 and 39 may not be that is because of the countries that's spelled out in Ezekiel 38 and 39. And these countries are not the countries that's alongside the nation of Israel.

[5:25] These countries are further north, further south, further west, or east, you know, west, than the nation, these bordering countries. So the nations are Persia, which is Iran, and Kush, most likely modern-day Sudan, and all these, Libya, other possibilities, and Turkey.

[5:49] And these countries are not right next to the nation of Israel. So why aren't these other countries mentioned then, the ones that's right next to Israel? Well, some propose that the next war could be Psalm 83. So if you want to turn your Bible to Psalm 83, that's a Psalm written way back during King David with Asaph.

[6:25] So today when we see Israel and all the things that's going on, one of us, some of us wonder if this is Gog or Magog, or even if it's Armageddon, and where does the rapture fit in?

[6:35] So let's run down some of the nine wars of the end times. We're going to see some of those wars coming on. But Psalm 83, the psalm reads as interperclary prayer, which means that something invokes evil or cause in the context of the psalms, and it's calling on God for judgment on one's enemies.

[6:59] It's given by the seer Ashfoth, and wrote during the time of King David, and his time of peace after he conquered all those countries.

[7:11] So once Israel defeats these bornering nations, the nations of Israel will be naturally growing in a good amount of land mass. This expansion will bear some resemblance to the former borders of the ancient territories allotted to the twelve tribes.

[7:27] And these type of things have been going on there. So let's start with verse 1 of Psalm 83. A song of song by Asaph. Askivers A song of man Programm .

[7:44] have exalted themselves. They make shrewd plans against your people and conspire together against your treasured ones. They have said, Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.

[8:01] For they have conspired together with one mind. Against you they have a covenant. The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, and it's going to name all these countries that surround them.

[8:13] So, well, the rest of that verse just talks about all these different countries, and we're going to point them out here really shortly here.

[8:24] So as we go on there, in Psalm 17, Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever, and let them be humiliated and perish, that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.

[8:40] So God is going to intervene. And these countries will probably go against, they'll be, and now they're going, like sometimes it's in one country going against them, the others, it's others.

[8:52] Right now, what is it? Lebanon is going against them, and also from the east of that, all these nations will gather and come against Israel.

[9:03] And there are verse 34 and 5 again come, they say, Let us destroy them as a nation. They want them completely off the earth.

[9:15] It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and Haggites, Jebel, Imam. Well, instead of naming all those, we'll just go to what the new names are, the today names are of those countries.

[9:28] And I'm going to hand out a map. Joyce, I've got two sets of maps back there. Give each one of them, yeah, just give one to each one. One of them is a map of Psalm 83, and the other would be a map of the Gog and Magog.

[9:45] So these countries no longer buy these old names, they have the new names that you'll see as we hand out the map for Psalm 83.

[9:59] So the tents of Edom are descendants of Esau, which would be Palestine, refuges of the southern Jordanians.

[10:11] You see there that Jordan is one of these countries that's up against them. The Hagarites, which would be the Egyptians, Jebel, northern Lebanese, Hezbollah, Imam, Palestine, refugees in the northern Jordanians, Amalek, Arabs south of Israel's Sinai area, Felicia, which would, of course, would be Palestine refugees, and Humas and Gaza Strip, inhabitants of Tyre, which would be Hezbollah and the southern Lebanese, the Syrians, and perhaps northern Iraq, could even be included in that.

[11:05] And then, of course, the children of Lot, which would be Moab and Ammon. So these are countries that they're going against. Some historians and Bible scholars recognize that these nations have never formed an alliance where they've all came together against them.

[11:22] And this is why the prophecy has yet not been fulfilled. All the nationalities of the list of the beloved and the Psalms 83 are exact neighboring neighbors. And this alliance is forming today.

[11:36] A 300-year-old prophecy written in the book of Psalms appears to be already closing, close to finding its final fulfillment. The exact timing of the war is not given.

[11:47] There are some who believe Psalm 83 was, war was completely fulfilled in the six-day war of 1967. However, most believe that Psalm 83 would seem to pave the way for the Gog-Magog war referenced in chapters 38 and 39.

[12:07] Nevertheless, the prophetic hourglass is running out and things are going to start happening somewhere along the line. So in 1948, Israel became a recognized nation, right?

[12:19] What happened immediately after that? They were attacked. And some of the surrounding Arabs were not going to have any of this, and they came together to destroy the nation of Israel.

[12:31] They failed. The following wars against Israel reveal the hatred the Arabs have against them and their determination to wipe out Israel and all that have failed.

[12:44] And there's a lot of wars that's going on. We have the War of Independence. That's in 1948 and 49. When they came against Israel, Israel defeated them.

[12:56] And nobody could even understand why Israel defeated them because there were so many coming against them. So in 1967, you have the Six-Day War.

[13:08] Got Jerusalem back, but not the Temple Mount. So again, Israel came out. Jan-Koplar War, 1973. Lebanon War, 1982.

[13:22] The second Lebanon War in 2003. The present wars with Humas that started back November 23, and they're still going there.

[13:34] Iran fired rockets into Israel in April of 2024. Now that's a first. That Iran has actually got to the point where they fired a missile.

[13:48] And now Israel has even fired back on Iran. So there's a real tenuous time right there when we're talking about Israel and Iran.

[13:59] Iran, when all this started back in 48, Iran was for Israel. They voted on Israel getting back their land. It wasn't until, I think it was in 19, I don't know, it was in 1967 or 73 where all that changed.

[14:17] And that's when one of those erratic people got in control and went along with the other countries bordering them saying, let's get the nation of Israel off the map.

[14:28] So well, Psalm 83 finally finished the war before the war is describing Ezekiel. Well, we don't know. We can't say that for sure.

[14:39] Yeah, Roger. I should have brought this up earlier, but some of the grace teachers believe that the unlawed villages are at the end of the thousand year reign. Yeah, okay. That's when their attack because the devil brings all the nations against Israel.

[14:55] The Lord just saps the heck out of it. Okay. And sometimes some people are saying that that last, before Armageddon, it could be a second Gog and Magog because when they do come against them, God's going to wipe them out just like they did in Ezekiel 38 and 39, which is going to be a God thing.

[15:19] It's not going to be a people battle, all that type of thing. God will take care of that. So all this stuff is out there. All we can do is say this is what somebody else says and this is what somebody else says and you have to read and kind of come to your own conclusions about all this stuff.

[15:37] So the psalm states that the immediate neighbors of Israel will launch a war for the purpose of wiping them out. The nations described, we've already talked about, and the rest of the prayer there in Psalm 83 is about the prayer of victory that the nation of Israel will see.

[15:59] And a lot of people even say, you know, this psalm is being played out all the way back, all the way till now. And that's a good possibility too because the nation of Israel has always been fighting for their life, haven't they?

[16:13] So, but as far as all this happening at one time, I don't think it's happened yet. That would be my, I thought, but again, there's a lot of people that have different things.

[16:27] And Bill Silas is one of those. He's written the book. Israelist time? Israelist time, right? He believes this war will result in an overwhelming victory for Israel resulting in great territorial expansion and enhanced national resources.

[16:43] It was also produced, this section, security broken of in Ezekiel 38. So, I guess that is what we'll see and see how it works out.

[16:56] And we may not be here, but it eventually is going to get worked out. Now, how about the Gog and Magog? We're talking about 38 and 39, Ezekiel 38 and 39.

[17:08] Look at that map. If you look at the map, you can see the distinctions there. What we see in Psalm 83 is all those countries that's neighboring Israel, that touches Israel.

[17:21] Now you're going to be backing up and the countries that's talked about in Ezekiel would be countries on past the bordering states of the nation of Israel.

[17:34] and you see it's Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and of course Russia is going to be involved in that, we think. And even goes all the way out to Morocco, Algeria, some of these other countries that's going to be involved in that.

[17:53] And so that's this great distinction between these two different wars is the countries that's involved in them. So, the Gog Magog and the Russians will be very happy to respond for the way they've dreamed about taking over the oil fields of the Middle East.

[18:13] Now, some of these Arab countries that might be Iran, I don't know, that's going to go to Russia and see if they'll help them out. And that's a good bit of what this war will be about.

[18:23] some say that this may be when Russia takes out the USA also, and that's a possibility too. Again, if you're going to go against Israel, who's the primary people right now that's alongside with Israel?

[18:40] That would be the United States, right? So it's a good possibility that something like that could also happen too. Now, you see when I'm talking here, I'm not saying anything specific except this may happen.

[18:51] So, however, the invading armies will be supernaturally destroyed by God, which is what's going to happen during the Galk and Magog War.

[19:02] The Lord will accomplish this destruction through earthquakes, pestilence, hailstorms, fire, brimestone, and battlefield confusion. We see that in Ezekiel 37, 38, and 39.

[19:15] Even the Jewish people will recognize that this victory belongs to the Lord and many will open their hearts to the Lord that we see in Ezekiel 38. I will magnify myself, sanctify myself, and make myself known in the sight of many nations, and they will know that I am the Lord.

[19:35] The greatest mystery concerning this war is its timing. Most have placed it at the beginning of the tribulation. Others delay its start to the middle of the tribulation.

[19:46] Increasingly, in recent years, a tendency has been to place it before the beginning of the tribulation. Ron Rhodes, in a book called Northern Storm Rising, he concludes that it is the most likely to declare three and a half years prior to the tribulation.

[20:04] One of the most important reasons that he gives for that is the fact that Jews will spend how many years burning the weapons captured in the war? seven years.

[20:18] Burning all the weapons captured in the war in the book of Revelation says that they will run out of the land in the middle of the tribulation period. Since the middle of the tribulation will occur three and a half years into the seven year period, that means the only way the Jews could spend that many years cleaning up the mess would be before that three and a half years before the tribulation begins.

[20:40] Does that mean that the wars of Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38 and 39 must come before the rapture? And all these things have taken place.

[20:52] How about the rapture? No. The rapture could occur any time before, during or after these wars. Keep in mind that the rapture is not what makes the beginning of the tribulation.

[21:05] The tribulation will begin when the Antichrist signs a security treaty with the nation of Israel. There could be a period of seven years between the rapture and the beginning of the tribulation.

[21:19] So, there's a lot of things there in the end times. It's just amazing and all we can do is read and think about it. We're never going to know exactly the timing of all these events.

[21:32] So, I think if we jump into Revelation, there's other type wars that we're going to see going on during the Revelation time.

[21:43] And there's going to be conventional wars and that's Revelation chapter 6. We've moved now along to the prophetic time flame into tribulation.

[21:56] We read in Revelation 6 about the conventional war of the tribulation. This war leads to the Antichrist to rise in power and peace, but he consolidates his global empire by setting off into the conquered of the whole world and that's what he'll do as he takes over as the Antichrist.

[22:15] The conventional war is a traditional war which causes famine, plague, and everything else as a result. Many people will die as the Antichrist consolidates his power, conquering all these different countries and nations.

[22:31] Another could be the nuclear war of the tribulation which would be Revelation 8 and 9. The conventional war will lead to the fourth war of the end times that will be a nuclear end nature.

[22:44] The Bible describes the fallout of a nuclear war with the world's inhabitants getting loathsome sores and the devastating fallout impacting across the entire world. A nuclear exchange would create those kinds of repercussions of the people still looking out a life on the earth during this time of tribulation.

[23:03] The prophecy also suggests the type of weaponry used in this war and it could involve neutron bombs since these vaporize flesh and it talks about that during the nuclear wars and could at close range.

[23:23] In Zechariah 14.12 it says, Now this will be the plague which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem. Their flesh will not or will rot while they stand on their feet and their eyes will rot in their sockets and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

[23:42] That's some nasty stuff we're talking about. But that's some time of the weaponry that we're sometimes using today and other times going to be using in the future.

[23:54] Also nuclear devices referring to the type time of fierce heat when attackers will be burnt to ashes. Malachi 4.1 For behold the day is coming burning like a furnace and all the arrogant and evil doers will be shaft and the day that is coming will see them ablaze.

[24:16] That's exactly what a nuclear war could be. It just mushrooms and wipes out everything in its path. everything in its path. Buildings people so unless you have a place deep in the ground you're going to be affected one way or the other.

[24:36] Another type thing that they're talking about in Revelation would be in Revelation 12 war in the heavens. Read here in Revelation about a great war in the heavens.

[24:48] One of the nine and end times wars doesn't happen on earth but rather up in heaven. Revelation 12 reveals that Satan tries one last time to overthrow God in his throne.

[25:01] Satan loses big time and ends up being kicked out forever from his access to the throne of God. Resigned to earth Satan and his demons now that their time is short and so they really ratchet up their plans and that's when we see the last three and a half years before the Jerusalem returns and before Christ returns.

[25:25] And then we have the Revelation 12 the wars against the Jews and the saints having lost his last bid to take over God's throne Satan will be filled with such fury that he will return all his burning hatred in an even more aggressive manner toward the Jewish people and toward those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ during the tribulation whom we call the tribulation saints that will lead to a final war against the Jews and the tribulation saints.

[25:58] Chapter 11 the Middle East campaign or the Antichrist really that's not Revelation that's something we've already talked about and that was in Daniel 12 or Daniel chapter 11 due to the history in the world being destroyed by God's wrath the Antichrist starts falling apart we'll see that starting to happen in Revelation or Daniel 12 it reveals that the Middle East campaign of the Antichrist we learn from prophecy that in the Antichrist time the world will have been divided among ten sub rulers of kings the kings of the south rose against the kings against Antichrist then the kings of the east start amassing an army to also rebel against the one world leader so he's having to deal with a civil war his empire is engrossed by an internal battle and we see that's going to be happening the battle in Revelation 19 every time a war breaks out in the

[27:06] Middle East we see the news media people asking questions could this be the war of Amageddon this question is prompted by the fact that most people are familiar with the only one end time type war and that's of course Armageddon most people see that all the television things you see or movies you see it doesn't talk about these other things but it does talk about Armageddon the end of the world and the only thing that's going to happen so this concept comes from the book of Revelation where it says the armies that will gather in the end times place which in Hebrew is called Arm Mageddon Revelation 16 the Bible mentions that the world Armageddon does not just once and that's there in Revelation 16 16 it comes from two Hebrew words Har which is a mountain range and Medigo which means Medigo was one of the fortified cities of the Canaanites overlooking the valley of Jezreel and so this thing that's called

[28:11] Armageddon it's really not the event that's Armageddon it's a place and that's where this final war is going to take place at Armageddon so between these two mountains runs the valley of Jezreel which is 15 miles wide at this widest point so as Revelation 16 says then the evil spirits gathered the kings together to the place called Armageddon this is a place not the event the event associated with Armageddon is the great day of the Lord we see in Revelation 16 14 so Armageddon is located 80 miles north of Jerusalem many battles have been fought there if you go through the Old Testament a lot of those battles are fought in this area of the land so it's a prime place it's a valley there's mountains above it and that's a very good place to gather and have a battle so it's a prime battlefield so what happens as the sixth bowl of revelation is poured out demonic spirits entice the leaders of all the nations to gather for battle rereading

[29:27] Revelation 16 12 the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river the Euphrates and its water was dried up so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east we talked about that a little bit who do we think that is in this great battle with all the number of people it's talking about when it dries up this river it could be talking about China and the river being dried up so they could come in and be present in this battle Revelation 16 13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the beast and out of the false prophet three unclean spirits and frogs for they are spirits of demons performing signs which go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them together for the war of the great day of God and almighty it's amazing how all this comes together at this point of time and all these things that's happening that gathers these people to this end time war and it's well we're not going to be here to see it so that's a good thing don't want to be here

[30:42] Revelation 16 15 behold I am coming like a thief blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes so that he will not walk about naked and man will not see his shame and 16 and they gathered them together to the place which is called in Hebrew is called Armageddon as mentioned the armies gather in a place called Armageddon in northern Israel near Mount Carmel as they prayer a war against Jerusalem in particular for a war against Christ and his armies and a unique man God war and what's that going to look like we can't ever even imagine what that's going to like except God is going to do it and we just don't understand that this man God bore is a final war of the age the great day of God almighty revelation 16 14 the important point here is that

[31:43] Israel will not be alone since God since her God the Lion of Judah protects her during this time during that pitch battle between Antichrist and the rebelling kings is when Jesus Christ at last comes to defeat the Antichrist to set up his millennial kingdom that is known as the battle of Armageddon as all these armies are arrayed in the valley of Medigo Jesus Christ gloriously arrives Jesus will set foot on the Mount of Olives he will merely speak a word and the soldiers in these armies will fall apart wow people have been under false impression that Armageddon is going to be a horrific war with a great clash of armies but really it will be one of the shortest wars ever because Jesus Christ all he has to do is speak a word and it will be complete at that time so the events of Armageddon can be found in Joel 3

[32:43] Zechariah Revelation these climatic events will usher in a millennial reign of Jesus Christ and some see now the second battle of Gog and Magog and after Christ's victory Jesus will usher in a thousand year reign defined by peace righteousness and justice Jesus rules his kingdom from Jerusalem then he does something quite confounding at the end of a thousand years what does he do he lets out Satan doesn't he he's been thrown in the pit and now he lets them out and tragically many will side with Satan again that's something that just blows my mind of all the things that some of these people may have seen now it's going to be generations go here during that thousand reign time but look at the history that's there but again today we don't look at history and really do anything about it either do we how easy is it when

[33:53] Satan comes back out of there to say you can have your way and do whatever you want for people to change their mind and to go against God again it's amazing that this type of thing will go on but it will and which is in Revelation 20 Jesus wastes no time in responding he calls fire down and incinerates all those who do that so that last battle demonstrates how in every era mankind has a choice to make and I think that's probably the way he's closing out this book and his word is the fact that I am God I have sent my son Jesus Christ to come and take away your sin not his sin and you can come before me and he's saying at this point all those who have done this you will be with me and during this after this thousand time thousand year reign and those

[34:59] Satan is released and if you go back to Satan then you will not be with God and that's what they have to look for and of course then we have the white throne judgment and all the things there and eventually we will come to where we have eternal life and what a time that's going to be too so these are the type things going on now that the end of the millennial area in human history God commences the great white throne judgment once completed the time moves on to eternal state so for all here this morning and for anyone listening right now on this prophetic timeline each of us have an opportunity don't we we can choose are we with God and his chosen people or are we not we have opportunity to choose whether to honor God to worship Christ or whether to rebel against him don't wait to make that decision

[36:01] I mean it's by the time these things happen it'll be too late so Jesus Christ has already won the victory in that war and so all we have to do is put our faith in Jesus Christ and then we too can be victorious and that's what Jesus Christ does for us we accept Christ in our life he changes us in the instant that we accept him now does our life change instantly no it doesn't sometimes some people have done that but most of the time when we accept Christ it's a growing process and that's where we're at right now we are growing in Christ we are gaining more righteousness every day that we grow in Christ so when he comes we will be the righteousness that we have in Jesus Christ and it's not our righteousness it's the righteousness that we receive because of believing upon Jesus Christ and what he did so any comments or questions about anything that we've covered here in the last

[37:07] I don't know 17 weeks I guess yeah Roger I guess they live longer in the thousand year reign don't they that's possible these people are sitting under perfect justice and they're grinding their teeth because they don't want to be under the well it seems like as soon as they release the devil and it all comes back yeah yeah yeah Roger I I'm thinking about in thinking about this as well as going back into Genesis the question came to my mind why do we why do we study history why do we study prophets and God answers that in 2nd Peter he says

[38:08] I don't want to be negligent to put you in remembrance of these things so that you know them and be established in the present truth and then Paul goes in Romans and he says look whatever things were written were written for your learning so that we through patience and comfort of the Holy Spirit might have hope and the God of patience and consolation keep you so I look at this and I say the study of these things and even always the day of the Lord is called the great and terrible day of the Lord we don't sing it that way in that little chorus but that's what it's referring to is the day of the

[39:09] Lord and it's but even that gives us hope because first of all we know that God in fact is in control and isn't going to lose control and we know how it works out and we know that Jesus Christ came took our sin we are justified and we have an eternal hope so for those of us who look at prophecy we shouldn't be getting worried we should be getting peace and comfort in description so if I'm getting worried about what's coming I'm probably not studying it right exactly I mean God laid out his word in such a way that it's all this history that's before us and all we have to do is go back and think about it read about it all the prophecies that's already came true and that's what a prophecy is it's not something that this might happen it's going to happen and that's been proven time and time again and it's going to happen and all we have to do is remember that and pray upon it so you so so will be ready for a leader to come on who will have power to have that power.

[40:59] Yeah, and that's something sometimes a little confusing because it talks about the thousand-year reign as a time of peace and prosperity for all. But, you know, are there going to be unbelievers during that time?

[41:13] Well, I'd say there's got to be because when Satan comes back out, that's what's going to cause all this to happen and come to the forefront and God to take control.

[41:24] Yeah. Yeah, Pam? Can I understand you say that you think that it's possible that the tribulation will start with you?

[41:35] Oh, no. No, I didn't say that. Well, now the first half, it's possible, but definitely not the second half.

[41:46] Okay. I didn't know where you came up with that. Well, there's no time frame for it. And there's a lot of things going on in that first seven years where the Antichrist is getting all this stuff set up.

[42:03] It's not to the second half that he actually takes control. He's in the temple, and it's when all the other stuff starts happening to happen.

[42:17] So is it possible? Well, I think it is possible, but I don't know. I don't think you can really say that. Terry? I don't believe the rapture can happen any time in the tribulation because we had the Great Commission, and we had Paul come on the scene for the mystery, and that's the pause, and then the kingdom is going to come back after the mystery.

[42:45] So the mystery has to end the rapture before the tribulation can begin. That is true. So I don't believe that the first three and a half years, I don't think the rapture can happen any time in the end.

[42:59] It hasn't happened before. Otherwise, the pause of the mystery cannot stop and lead into the continuation of the kingdom.

[43:10] Yeah, I see what you're saying. That's because you know too much, Terry. No. I've been studying, Roger. Okay.

[43:21] It's very, you know, all this stuff we've talked about here in Daniel, all these prophecies. You know, why did God chose Daniel to show him all these nations of the world and what they were going to do and seeing all these evil things come out of this stuff?

[43:38] And yet, God is in control. Terry. I've been studying a little bit about the rapture. And one of the websites that I found is doctrine.org.

[43:54] D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E dot C-R-G. Okay. If you go to that website, you will see numerous articles that talk about the Apostle Paul, the mystery, and it lays it out so clearly that there's just, in my mind, there's no mistake.

[44:16] Yeah. But I encourage anybody to go to that website and he has articles on baptism, the Great Commission, the rapture, and it is so easy to understand once you've read that.

[44:30] Yeah. You know, the things we've been talking about here during this study really is talking, you know, we know all this stuff about the Apostle Paul.

[44:43] We're Christians. we know that we're in this time that's set aside for us. And so all we're doing is gathering information. And there's just no way to know the exact timing of any of this stuff.

[44:57] So it's, all we can do is leave it in God's hand. And you know what? He's going to show us at one point. We will know. So, anything else before we close up this morning?

[45:09] Okay. If not, have a good week. Happy New Year.