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[0:00] I want to mention I I had a video that I was planning to show this morning in connection with what's taking place in our world now and with a technological glitch with the equipment over there we just weren't able to get it underway but we will get that resolved and we'll do our best to bring it next time we meet which will be the last Thursday in the month of September if you can believe that and you can look forward to it because it is very very well done very powerful very enlightening and you will appreciate it I'm sure so that being the case we are simply going to go to plan B and I've jotted down some things that I want to mention to you in connection with what's taking place right now so we'll start off with what's taking place right now and that is in Afghanistan I'm not going to belabor the point as to the ineptitude that is behind this whole fiasco which is exactly what it is but it is turning out to be an international embarrassment for the United States and we can live that down it will not be an easy thing to do but it's got disaster spell all over it however the thing that

[1:26] I want to to mention that I think is very very significant and we need to know this and we need to prepare ourselves for it because what is happening now in Afghanistan is not going to end when Afghanistan is over this is going to be seen by the radical left the Islamic terrorists it is going to be seen as a wonderful victory from Allah and it is going to incite them and encourage them to further activities throughout the world sometimes we Americans tend to think that we're the only ones bearing the brunt of this because of the 9-11 thing and for sure that was the most significant of all of their activities no question about that and it involved the greatest loss of life but you need to understand that other parts of the world particularly in Europe have been suffering from Islamic terrorism as well and all this is going to do is move that forward even more it's going to embolden even more Muslims who are on the borderline it's going to encourage them as renew recruits to join the effort because everybody wants to be on what seems like a winning side and now they are going to be convinced that Allah is at work and now is the time to join the international jihad and we need to remind ourselves that they have for a long long time regarded the US of a as the great

[3:16] Satan and Israel is the little Satan Israel figures into the end-time program much more keenly than those the United States and we do not know that we're going to play any part in that final showdown at all at least we are not mentioned in prophecy in regard to that so what we need to be praying about and thinking about and alerted about is that what is happening in Afghanistan right now is as I said going to be seen by the Islamic world as a great victory and they are going to to interpret this I fear as nothing more than the will of Allah pushing them to further victories over the USA and Israel and the Western world in general so that's where we're going and that's I'm confident what is going to be happening the Islamic world is considerably divided between two factions one of which is the Sunnis s-u-n-n-n-i the Sunnis they comprise about 80 percent of the Muslims in the world they are Sunite Muslims the remaining 20 percent or so are referred to as Shiite and they would be considered the more extreme you may not recall this but prior to the United States being involved in bag of the formula in Iraq and Iraq when we went in because of what was happening with Kubiottement and we sent Ukrainian troops there and one thingon on theYA invece said of the New York where it was ?

[4:52] he had never and he never pit ór at what was happening with Kuwait, recall that, and we sent troops there and one thing that began escalating and so on. The countries of Iran and Iraq were engaged in a great conflict.

[5:15] This was in, I believe, the 1980s, and there were over one million killed in that conflict. We, of course, were totally removed from it, and we weren't terribly concerned because this was just Muslims fighting it out among themselves, but the Iraqis were Sunni, and the people in Iran were Shiite, and they are Shiite today.

[5:47] Okay, and let me go back a little bit. I don't want to get, well, I can't say I'm going to get off track because I don't have a track since the videos are. So this is going to be just Wiseman catch as catch can, but it's going to involve a little bit of history, and it's something, I just want you to see the connectedness of all of this because it's all going somewhere, and it's going to end in the tribulation conflict. At least it has every indication of that.

[6:17] And I don't know how close we are to that, but as I've told you before, we're closer than anybody has ever been. So it may be in our lifetime, and it may be another 50 years. I don't know. But at any rate, we need to remember history because those who forget history or don't know history have no idea how they got where they are, and that's very important.

[6:41] And I'm taking you now back to 1970, well, the 1970s, when the country of Iraq, which by the way, in the Bible, I mean not Iraq, but Iran, in the Bible, Iran is Persia.

[7:01] This is where Queen Esther was, in Persia. And in the 1970s, Iran was becoming very much influenced by Western thought, and Western culture and Western values, so much so that Iranian women were not wearing the burqa, and the fashion fad among Iranian women was Levi jeans.

[7:35] And they were wearing them and becoming more and more westernized, and all the while they were becoming more westernized and more comfortable and more appreciative of what was taking place in the rest of the world.

[7:48] There was a smoldering number of people that were incensed about the whole thing, and they were the Muslim clerics, led by a man by the name of Ayatollah Khomeini.

[8:03] And he caused such a ruckus that the Shah of Iran drove him out of the country, made him leave Iran, and he took up residency in France and lived there for several years in exile.

[8:22] All the while he was writing incendiary articles and sending them back and having them published secretly, stirring up the Iranian people because he could no longer personally be there, but he was influencing them from afar, and so were his minions.

[8:38] And then it wasn't too long after that that the young radicals, influenced by him and others, took over the American embassy.

[8:49] And Jimmy Carter was president. There was a failed attempt made to rescue them, and the helicopters crashed in the desert, and it was a nasty scene and all the rest of it.

[9:00] And they were there for something like a year as hostages in the American embassy. And when President Ronald Reagan took office, they released them.

[9:17] They were not going to give Carter the satisfaction of doing it under his reign, and not only that, but they knew that Ronald Reagan was a whole new ballgame, and they weren't sure what they could expect from him.

[9:28] And as a result, they were released. And when they were released, there was great jubilation, and people came from everywhere in Iran. And at about that same time, the Shah of Iran, who for all practical purposes was what you would call the king, came down with cancer.

[9:47] And he came to the United States for treatment. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, he was either at Cleveland Clinic or Mayo Clinic, one of the two. And he did not survive the cancer treatment.

[9:59] He did not survive. He passed away. And there was great rejoicing in Iran. And with that event, the radicals in Iran sent for Ayatollah Khomeini in France to return to Iran and take over the realm of government.

[10:20] That's exactly what he did. And I can still see over a million people in Tehran welcoming Ayatollah Khomeini in a helicopter landing there in the city of Tehran while he was greeted by a million people who saw them as the most wonderful thing that ever happened, especially since the Shah was dead.

[10:45] Anyway, the Mullahs took over immediately. Everything came to a screeching halt regarding the Western influence. Women were forced back into the burqa and they were not allowed to wear the American clothing and they were back under Islamic rules where a woman could not go out of her home alone unless she was accompanied by her husband or a family member, male.

[11:12] And that's where they are today. And women were actually beaten physically with rods on the street if they caught them out. And that went on for quite some time. And then the Khomeinis, they continued to power and they're still in power today but there is a great deal of unrest in Iran.

[11:28] There is economic difficulty with all of the sanctions that have been placed on them, et cetera. So this is a very, very volatile situation. And in connection with that, you've got to recall in the 19...

[11:45] I'm not sure. I think it was the 1980s or 1990s, of all things, who shows up in Afghanistan but Russia?

[11:59] And they are there with their helicopter gunships and carried on a shooting war with the Afghans for quite some time and everybody thought that would be a slam dunk situation that the Russians with all of their military prowess and equipment and ingenuity and everything would put down anything and everything real quick.

[12:23] Well, it didn't happen that way. They were there for years. They weren't there for 20 years like we were. But they were there for several years and long story short, they simply could not succeed.

[12:36] And the reason they were there was because there was a communist faction that had taken over the Afghani government and had pled with the Russians to come in and help them make the rest of the country communist.

[12:53] But the Mujahideen, that's what they were called then, the Mujahideen are now the Taliban. Just a different name, same people. and there is something ferocious that comes to the fore whenever a country is dealing with a foreign invader.

[13:17] They fight like they would never fight before because they're fighting for the homeland. This is always the way it is. It's the way it was in Germany, it's the way it was in Japan, and all the rest of it.

[13:27] When you're on your own turf and you're protecting your own turf, you fight like you would never fight before. And that's exactly the Afghani spirit. And it would be true of any nation.

[13:39] It would be, can you imagine what would happen and how people would put up a defense if we were invaded by a foreign enemy here in the United States? Of course we would go to the mat for it.

[13:50] So what happened was the Russians eventually gave up and pulled out. And of course the Mujahideen considered that a great victory.

[14:01] And by the way, one of the most devastating things that the Mujahideen had to deal with was the Russian helicopters, the gunships.

[14:13] Guess who provided them with surface to air missiles so the Afghanis could shoot down the Russian helicopters? Uncle Sam.

[14:25] We did. Why? Because the enemy of our enemy is our friend. That's the way it works. Now right now there is a thing going on that of all things unites Iran with Russia.

[14:45] Iran with Russia? And Russia's there in Iran big time. Lots of influence, lots of equipment, lots of personnel. personnel. And guess who else they're getting help from in Iran?

[14:59] China! How do you account for that? China and Russia are both what? Atheistic.

[15:10] No bones about it. Atheistic. There is no God. Well, what is Iran? They're far from atheistic.

[15:21] They're Muslim. How can they possibly be bedfellows? The answer is simple. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[15:34] And they can turn on each other overnight. And by the way, anybody here besides me old enough to remember when Russia and China were bosom buddies and they had a falling out?

[15:49] Well, they can heal that thing overnight. So, anyway, let me go on. What we are dealing with now is a situation like, I guess, I guess we would say we've never been here before.

[16:05] All of the Afghanis are Islamists. And we have little or no appreciation for the Islamic mindset.

[16:15] We just don't understand these people, how they think or what their value system is. And perhaps there is nothing that makes them such a formidable foe so much as their philosophy of life and death.

[16:32] in the Western world, our great emphasis any time and every time, we have to send people into combat.

[16:45] Our great objective is to bring them home again in one piece. And we bend every effort to make that possible.

[16:57] We provide them with the best equipment, with the best armor, with the best information, with the best food, with the best of everything, because we value life. And that's why we're fighting, is because of our way of life.

[17:13] Their attitude, the Islamic attitude, particularly the Shiites, is entirely different. Believe it or not, these people value death, not life.

[17:26] Their great goal is martyrdom. and they are confident and completely sold out to the concept that under Islam, under the worship of Allah, there is no such thing as knowing where you stand with Allah.

[17:46] There's no assurance, none, no guarantees, nothing in the Koran would give you any impression that you do thus and so and thus and so and Allah will smile on you except for one thing and that's jihad.

[18:06] If you lose your life in jihad, and J-I-H-A-D jihad simply means struggle, the struggle.

[18:19] And Hitler wrote a book called Mein Kampf translated into English is my struggle.

[18:33] And their concept of jihad is that if you die serving Allah by jihad, which is the struggle against opposition to Allah, which is anything and everything that is not Islamic, if you are killed in combat or whatever, that is the one way that you are guaranteed that you have earned the favor of Allah and you will be in his paradise forever, and it comes complete with a package of virgins whom you can have at your disposal, and whatever delicacies and food and all the rest, in other words, it is the Islamic paradise, and it is wonderful, but it is only for those who die in jihad.

[19:27] Now, how many times have you heard me say, the issue is authority, always has been, always will be. What I just told you about the virgins and all the rest is pure, absolute hogwash, and the Quran doesn't even say that, but the mullahs do, and they infuse that into these young Islamicists who are going off to fight, and it is their desire to give their life on behalf of Allah, and they will be rewarded with the virgins and the food and the paradise and everything that goes with it.

[20:09] Now, it doesn't make any difference whether that is true or not. What makes the difference is whether you believe it. See what I'm saying?

[20:20] This is where we are. This is what makes them such a formidable foe. This is what makes them so difficult to counter. It's their mindset. It's their attitude. We love life.

[20:32] They love death. They make no bones about it. This is not a secret. This is public information. It's spread all over Islamic papers everywhere. And you need to keep this in mind too.

[20:45] And I remember when President George W. Bush was standing on a pile of rubble and he had his arm around one of the workers there, one of the, what do they call them, first responders.

[21:04] Yeah, first responders, thank you. First responders. And I'm sure he meant it very well. he said, Islam, we must not blame Islam.

[21:18] Islam means peace. And when I heard him say that, and this was 20 years ago, when I heard him say that, my heart sunk.

[21:32] Mr. President, where did you get that information? Islam does not mean peace. Islam means one thing. Ask any Islamist.

[21:44] Islam means submission. That's exactly what it means. Submission. And it is submission to Allah. And all who do not submit to Allah are infidels.

[22:00] infidels have no right to live, period. They may exist and survive if you as an Islamist are willing to grant them life and allow them to serve you, then you may let them live.

[22:22] Otherwise, their life is worth nothing and you are free to kill them. So the big move on now, and has been since before the World Trade Centers, is death to infidels, death to America, death to Israel, death to everything that isn't Islamics.

[22:44] Now there are two different classes and you need to keep this in mind because not all people who worship Allah as their deity share these values. There are two different ways of interpreting the Quran.

[22:59] And believe it or not, and this came as a surprise to me, really did come as a surprise to me, that the Quran is considered a progressive revelation.

[23:13] You ever heard that term before? Yes, sir. A progressive revelation? And the progress, though, goes from the earliest establishments of Islam under Muhammad himself, and by the way, we're talking 7th century.

[23:33] This was like in the year 630 something. And Christianity had already been established for over 600 years. This is 600 years after the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.

[23:45] You follow me? So Muhammad didn't even come on the scene until the 7th century, and then when he began his exploits and his successes and so on. And of course, the claim was that he was instructed by Allah to write what he wrote, you know, in the Koran, etc., which we, of course, do not accept as valid, but which they accept completely as valid, especially if it's written in Arabic.

[24:12] And the idea is that in the beginning jihad was more physical, more brutal, more conquering, more militaristic, and more bloodshed, but as Islam progressed and moved forward, it became less and less so, and it became watered down, if you will, more peaceful, and more negotiable, and making less demands, and so on, until you get to the place of where most of the Islamic people are today, that's with the Sunnis.

[25:03] 80% of all Islam is Sunni, and they are not the ones that, from which the radical Islamists come.

[25:14] the radicals come from the Shiites, and the Shiites reach back into the earlier stages of Islam and the Koran, where there was a lot of war, a lot of carnage, a lot of bloodshed, a lot of beheadings, and so on, and that is their view of jihad.

[25:34] The more liberal view of jihad is more spiritual, and the emphasis is the struggle is not so much with the world and with other people who are not Islamic, the struggle is within.

[25:52] It is a spiritual struggle. Huh, kind of sounds like Romans 7, doesn't it? Where you are laboring to make yourself, now this has nothing to do with God or the Spirit of God or anything else, you are laboring to make yourself a better person, a more responsible person, a kinder person, and so on.

[26:13] I guess we would call these a kinder, gentler Islamic, as opposed to the jihad kind. So jihad has two different meanings. One is a jihad that is physical and is committed, committed under a mandate from Allah to convert the whole world to Islam.

[26:36] and those who will not be converted must be subjugated as second class citizens, forced to pay a fine, afforded none of the benefits that Muslims are afforded, and they are allowed to live at the pleasure of the Islamists who owned them as slaves.

[27:00] That's the more radical kind. And the less radical or, and by the way, you need to keep in mind that according to the information that I've given you, 80% of the Muslims in the world were horrified at the Twin Towers coming down.

[27:20] They did not support that, they did not want it, they did not approve of it, but most of them are scared to death to say anything against it, because they know that the radicals will come after them if they do.

[27:36] And by the way, neither of these two groups consider the others legitimate Muslims. Especially the Shiites consider the Sunnis, who are 80% of the Muslims, the weaklings, and those who do not really honor Allah at all.

[27:55] They are not at all serious about their Islamic faith. we are, and that's why we pursue jihad. That's why we brought down the Twin Towers.

[28:06] That's why we have created all of this throughout the world. And this is only the beginning. You are going to see, I've told you before, I'm not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but you may expect the rest of this year to be pretty bad, probably in multiple places because this has fueled the fires.

[28:33] What's happening in Afghanistan is going to be a great impetus for radical Islam worldwide. And they are stationed all over everywhere.

[28:44] One of the, well, if it keeps me awake at night sometimes, I can only imagine what it must do to those who have responsibilities in these areas.

[28:58] But I cannot help but wonder how many of those people that have already crossed our southern border are here to do us harm.

[29:13] We have absolutely no way of even knowing who they are or where they are. They may be just settling down as ordinary transplanted Americans awaiting orders from another source.

[29:31] We just don't know. We are a sitting duck in so many ways. And I don't want to unnecessarily alarm you, but I do want to alert you.

[29:43] and this is the thing that really concerns me more than anything else.

[29:58] And that is the state of our if anybody else has got a cell phone this would be a great time to turn it off.

[30:15] Don't feel bad. Mine went off one time. My shirt pocket went off at a funeral I was conducting. And I never heard people chuckle at a funeral before, but they did that time.

[30:28] And fortunately, the deceased was... Chuckling also? Yeah, well, the deceased was a well-known chuckler. And I heard one of the people lean over to the one next to him and say, so-and-so would have loved this.

[30:45] Well, the worst part of it was I hit the button to turn it off, but I didn't hold it in long enough. I put it back in my pocket, and a minute later it went off again.

[31:01] Okay, where was I? Oh, yeah. And it was about your car's extended warning. Important call. Well, I'll tell you, seriously, folks, if this, I hope this never happens, but if it does, you will remember this morning, and you will remember, oh, that must be what Marv was talking about, and you would be right.

[31:33] I hope that it never comes, but I'm speaking of the terrible neglected condition of our national grid. And that national grid is so vulnerable that a number of years ago, and I'm not talking too many years ago, I'm talking maybe 15 years ago, the whole northeast coast was shut down, blackened, just blackened completely by a squirrel, a squirrel that got electrocuted in New York.

[32:15] And they talk about all kinds of activity and money for infrastructure, but precious little is getting done about it, and that ought to be job one.

[32:26] That thing ought to really be beefed up and secure and everything else, but it isn't, because what's going to happen, if it does happen, and God forbid, but there are enemy nations now, probably four or five of them, that have the ability to do this, that a submarine off the coast of New York could launch a missile into our atmosphere that would not destroy any buildings, wouldn't kill any people, but it would fry everything electronic and electrical, and it would stop.

[33:11] You'd have no lights, no radio, no television, no communication, nothing that had a computer chip in it would work, including your car, planes would not fly, nothing would work, everything is grounded, food, all refrigeration is nil, massive amounts of food would spoil, people would be dying of starvation within weeks, the suicide rate would be incredible, the United States would be absolutely paralyzed, taken out of action from any further involvement militarily or anything else, nothing would work.

[33:51] Your tanks wouldn't work, your ships wouldn't work, nothing would work. And I cannot help but wonder something like that happened, I wouldn't be a bit surprised by what the United States, if we had the ability and could do it, find out who did that, and it'd be tit for tat.

[34:09] We'd take them out and their power grid, and nobody would be able to do anything mechanized. You know what that would do? That'd put you back to horse and wagon. Isn't it interesting?

[34:22] Revelation talks about horses? That's crazy. I was going to war with horses, and we've got tanks, armored equipment, a lot of which we're leaving behind, by the way, in Afghanistan.

[34:43] But you see, all of these things seem to be coming together, and what I want you to be alerted to is this. the faster those pages of the calendar flip, the faster these events are going to transpire.

[35:01] You're going to see one thing after another worldwide. You'll scarcely be able to keep up with it. Now, I don't know that that's what's coming, but I'll tell you this, and I say this without apology, that sure is what it looks like is coming.

[35:22] And I'm not saying it is, I'll just say I won't be one bit surprised if it is, because this thing's going to end somewhere, sometime. And, yep, we may go on with life as we know it for the next hundred years.

[35:42] I wouldn't fight that one bit, or it may come to a pretty abrupt halt within a relatively short period of time. I don't know about that. We'll see. Well, I wasn't looking forward to giving you such a cheerful message, but these are things you need to know.

[36:10] Now, the question is, what can we do about this? And if this is, if this is what God has in mind, if he has already given the U.S. of A all of the reprieves that he intends to give us, and we have not taken advantage of them, then the curtain may very well be coming down.

[36:36] Is there anyone here who could honestly say, we don't deserve it? can I have another 15 minutes?

[36:55] Okay. Would you go to Ezekiel 38, and we've looked at this before, but it's been a long time, and I just want to run by you some possibilities. There is a great controversy among evangelicals, among believers, regarding the tribulation, whether it's pre, post, or all, or mid-trib, or whatnot, and so it is with the Russian invasion of Israel, but personally, and this is just a Wiseman opinion, I wish I could tell you that you could take this to the bank, but you can't, because I may well be wrong, and it wouldn't be the first time, but I honestly think that this Russian invasion of Israel is going to be before the tribulation period begins, and there's one thing that we can identify for sure, and there's not a lot of things we can identify for sure, but there's one thing we can identify for sure, and that is when this seven year tribulation period will begin, because

[38:10] Daniel chapter nine tells us when it's going to begin, and it's going to begin when Israel signs a seven year contract, a pact, an agreement that will guarantee their safety and security for seven years, and this pact will be entered into between Israel and the Antichrist.

[38:38] That will start the clock ticking, the seven year clock ticking, that's when it begins. Three and a half years through that, that is twelve hundred and sixty days, or times, times, and a half a time, three and a half years into that seven years, is when the Antichrist breaks the contract and reveals himself for who he is.

[39:04] In Matthew 24, Jesus says, when you see the abomination that desolates, that abomination that desolates is the Antichrist, and he will desolate or contaminate or abominate the holy place in Israel.

[39:24] Well, it has to exist for him to do that, and there is no holy place there now. There's that Muslim mosque of Omar that sits there, and we're not even sure that's the exact spot, but that's another issue.

[39:36] But at any rate, he will then reveal himself, and he will declare himself to be God. He will cause the sacrifice and the oblations to cease.

[39:49] That means that Israel is going to reinstitute their sacrificial system once the temple is rebuilt. They can't do that now. They don't have a temple, they don't have an altar, they don't have any of those things.

[40:00] But that's going to be rebuilt, and that will be the third temple. And then they will have the altar, and they will return to Judaism, the pure Judaism of the Old Testament, and the sacrificial animals, etc.

[40:13] And three and a half years in, the Antichrist will force the cessation of the sacrifices to stop, and he will promote himself as deity.

[40:27] And Jesus said in Matthew 24, when you see the abomination of desolation, stand in the holy place, and get out of town, flee to the mountains, because everything is going to break loose.

[40:43] And this, my humble opinion, is going to flee to, at least many of them, will be the ancient ruins of Petra.

[40:57] And there they will be sequestered, while the Antichrist is going to try to eliminate them, and he will be unsuccessful. And it will make him absolutely livid, because he can't, and I cannot imagine why he wouldn't be, if you know anything about Petra, and I can't describe it, because you need to see a picture of it and everything, it's a huge, huge area, where I believe Christ is going to return to, and that remnant, I don't know how many of the remnant will be, but it will be a remnant of Jews, who will gather there in Petra, and there they will mourn, and they will repent, and they will weep, regarding the one whom their forefathers crucified, and they will cry out for him to return, and just like Jesus said before he left, he said, you'll not see me again, until you say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the

[41:59] Lord, and that will be the second coming, and that's where he's coming to, and I can't figure out why the Antichrist, with all of the military equipment and everything that he's going to have, why wouldn't he be able to completely eliminate, with flyover, with machine guns, with bombs, with whatever, just completely eliminate those people that are gathered there?

[42:25] Well, if what I suggested about nothing working, it won't work for him either, and maybe that will add to their providential protection, and by the way, during this time, I must hasten along here, but I want to remind you, this is all part of the same package.

[42:46] During the tribulation period, with the church gone, we are not an entity, as believers in Christ, the church, the body of Christ, we are not an entity that is dealing with, or is intended to be dealing with, the miraculous and the supernatural.

[43:04] That's not for us. What is for us is what Paul was talking about when he said, we walk by faith, not by sight. The miraculous and the physical manifestations are things you can see.

[43:21] That's walking by sight. You believe because you can see it. I was there, I saw it with my own eyes, I believe it. But when it's nothing to see, and yet still something to believe, you take it by faith, not by sight.

[43:35] And this is why Paul says the Jews require a sign. But we walk by faith, not by sight. We operate simply on the basis of what God says.

[43:46] And the miraculous, even though there are miracles that can happen and do happen in the church age, let me tell you, brethren, they are not standard operating procedure. But in the kingdom involving Israel, they are standard operating procedure.

[44:06] The miraculous is common. And you are going to see a return to that once the church is removed, the tribulation is underway. One of the things that will significantly characterize it is the return of the supernatural.

[44:20] And it's, you read the revelation. The tendency is you read those things in the revelation and you say, oh, I can't believe that's literal. Well, believe it.

[44:31] It is literal. It is not in keeping with what we are experiencing today, but it is the miraculous that is in keeping with what Jesus performed and experienced when he was here during his three years.

[44:45] And for him, the miraculous was standard operating procedure. And it was for the twelve apostles also. But once that kingdom concept is gone and the churches here, it's a different set of procedures.

[44:59] It is the faith principle, not the works and the miracles. See what I'm saying? So the revelation is replete with the return of the miraculous manifestations, and this may well be why the Antichrist does not have the ability to eliminate those people as he would like.

[45:17] Because with the warfare and equipment that is today, they would be a piece of cake. They wouldn't have a chance. You know, they could be eliminated overnight, easily. But that's not going to be the case then.

[45:28] So they'll be supernaturally protected. And by the way, during that time, this is particularly the last half of the tribulation period, that remnant of Jews, they are also going to be miraculously nourished by God himself and protected by God himself.

[45:48] And they will be the ones of whom Zechariah is speaking when he says, and they shall look upon him whom they pierced, and they will mourn. It's going to be an enormous Bible study going on during those three and a half years.

[46:04] And these people are going to come to faith in Yeshua HaMashiach as their Messiah, and they're going to cry out to God to send him. And God will say, he's on his way, and he will be here.

[46:17] and he will rescue that remnant of Jews. And they will march north to the Mount of Olives from which Jesus left. The Antichrist will be coming south from the valley of Megiddo, the plains of Megiddo, and they will clash right in front of the holy city of Jerusalem in the valley of Jehoshaphat, also called the valley of Kidron, the Kidron Valley.

[46:50] And that's where the conflict is going to end. I have one other thing I want to share with you, and I don't even have time to get to it, because I had to turn to Ezekiel 38, and we're not going to get there.

[47:01] But anyway, I just want to share this with you because it all ties in. It's all part of the package. All this stuff is connected. One of the things that is going to be so miraculous during the tribulation period, is the sealing of the 144,000, 12,000 from each of the tribes.

[47:22] They're found in Revelation 7. It's repeated again in Revelation 14. It is supernatural as it can be. These are referred to, now feature this if you can.

[47:33] This is kind of mind blowing, because I just don't understand. These are young men. The scripture is very clear to call them virgins. They are young men who have never known a woman sexually.

[47:50] Single men too. And how many of them? How many?

[48:02] 144,000. How many? 144,000. Yeah. 144,000. Where in the world are you going to get 144,000 young Jewish men who have never been sexually active?

[48:19] Where are they going to come from? How are you going to? So you know what the typical response is? Well, that's not literal. You don't take that literally. That's figurative.

[48:30] Okay, it's figurative. What does it figure? Well, I tell you, I think it is literal and just encapsulate this as quickly as I can.

[48:41] I want to leave you out of here by 1030. And by the way, if anybody needs to leave, feel free to just get up and leave and nobody will think you're rude for doing so. Ezekiel 38 and 39 that we didn't get to is an account of the Russian invasion.

[48:59] It's a Russian invasion of Israel. It is not a Russian invasion that is intended to decimate the Jewish people or eliminate the Jewish people. The text makes it very clear that they and their allies, and I believe this is going to be Russia and Iran.

[49:21] They're already tight. They're really together. And it could very well be Syria also. Syria's right to the north. You know, all three of those are gathered together and they are coming to Israel not to make war with Israel or to destroy the Jews, but the text says they are coming to take a spoil.

[49:44] That means there is something there in Israel that they want and they're coming after it. I don't know if it involves the enormous oil reserves.

[49:55] I don't know if you are aware of it or not, but oil has been discovered off the coast of Israel that is in a quantity that they say dwarfs the oil supply of Saudi Arabia and the value that is estimated chemically from the potash and other chemicals that are in the Dead Sea is estimated in excess of a trillion, that's with a T, trillions of dollars.

[50:27] And depending on how desperate these nations are for the chemicals that are there or for the oil or for what they can do with it, at any rate, they are coming against Israel to attack and they, the text makes it quite clear, we'll not be able to go into it, but the text makes it quite clear that they are going to be absolutely decimated and it will not be the result of the Israeli defense forces.

[51:00] It won't be the Jews who will defeat them as they have in previous wars. It will be God himself who will devastate this enemy of invaders into Israel.

[51:15] And the chapters 38 and 39 tell us about their corpses falling in the hills of Israel, Israel, and they will be in such abundance, it will take seven months to bury the dead.

[51:32] It's going to be quite a burial detail. Seven months to bury the dead. Can you imagine the impact that will have on the millions of people living in Israel right now when they see that their invading enemies have been supernaturally destroyed in a way that they will not be able to deny?

[51:58] And the Israeli defense force did not lift their finger to defeat them? God took care of the whole thing. Now I ask you a question. Would that be a great recruiting poster for 144,000 young Jewish men to come to the aid of their country?

[52:19] And the text tells us that they are going to be sealed with the seal of God and they will be indestructible. The Antichrist and his minions of course would love to eliminate these men because you know what they're going to be doing?

[52:36] They're going to be preaching the gospel of the kingdom. And the message is going to be the same message that John the Baptist delivered repent the kingdom of heaven is at hand and the king is right around the corner.

[52:55] Wow. Now you need to be warned. I could be wrong about everything I've said.

[53:07] So there's my disclaimer. I could be wrong about everything I've said. And if the time comes when I discover that I've told you something that I later find to be untrue I will do the same thing that I have done in the past even though it was no fun to do it.

[53:26] Blame me. But I have to admit that I had it wrong and this is what I taught and I'm sorry I did but I didn't have as much light then and now I do and I don't believe that anymore and I think you need to know that I acknowledge that.

[53:45] So all I can say is as I've said so many times none of us have this thing called doctrine or theology altogether.

[53:57] None of us cross all our T's dot all our I's perfectly. Every believing person has flaws and wrinkles in their theology because holding something in good faith does not make it true.

[54:19] Isn't that so? You can believe it with all your heart and still be wrong. So you need to qualify things.

[54:31] Scott? I was just thinking why would any invading forces going into Israel say after oil what use would that be if the electric grid is down and nothing runs on oil?

[54:47] Yeah well I don't know I have no idea regarding the mechanics of any of that but all I know is whatever you know whatever it is during this time that is broken as a result of the grid doesn't mean it isn't something that can't be repaired it can be fixed I mean maybe not easily maybe not quickly but hey if it was humanly invented and put in place the first time they can fix it you know you're not going to fix it overnight but they can fix it and it will be fixed and if that's what happens and I don't know that that's what's going to happen but but I there listen I can say this and I can say this with absolute confidence I don't have any fear of contradiction if our grid goes down the US of A is taken right out of the contents there will be no contest we will not be able to contest with anything you will not have lights you will not have heat you will not have food other than what you stored away and can you imagine how the criminal element is going to flourish at a time like that when the name of the game will be survival money will be worthless drinking water will be at a premium we just can't imagine living like that you know what that's called ho flips us that's tribulation the great one never experienced that before but somebody's going to it but that's coming that's coming okay well

[56:29] I've already overstayed my time so thank you for being here and I'll do my best to get if the grid doesn't go down we'll have that video next week but but I encourage you I really want you to see it you need to see it because it it has a way of putting so many of these things in perspective that this kind of leaves you with wow you talk about connecting the dots you'll be connecting some there Rob pastor I want to bring to attention I've talked to several people here and other there have been three programs put out by the catholic church one's called wolf in sheep's clothing saw alinsky wolf in sheep's clothing to the gender bender the gender issue and the third one is an old bishop bulton j sheen quote bottom america what what word word which he quote down with the police there that was the thing six week broadcast it's safe while and people not listen all this america catholic church bringing salt into the catholic six well people 11 hundred communist and it's all fact and they're saying people she still it's still consistent go to joe if you want to see how things work first thing destroy everything around catch here who's for it then catch now and then have everybody left down on cancel so that's that's a sparing up it still work now and it's so straightforward yet we keep think we're recreating this or something new because it's always the hip yeah well if you catch those and they're available on youtube or whatever i appreciate that and that goes clear back to 2016 with the catholic church talking about counter or cancel culture yeah critical race theory and all that means is they criticize everything yeah i have a 1915 dictionary that's it's nihilism that's what it is nothing yeah says even the things that were positive in that thing you're disclaiming or going against you destroy it anyway yeah their concept is that america cannot be saved it needs to be destroyed eliminated and we're on the way i mean and you know something that's one of the most maybe the most frustrating thing to me as an american is our government seems to continue to find ways to help our enemies to hurt us go figure and and it is done under the guise of being the good guys you know and it's crazy yeah yeah yeah absolutely and thank you and you need to know this about saul alinsky this is not opinion this is fact look it up it's all over everywhere saul alinsky was a poster boy a favorite of hillary clinton and bill clinton and obama obama and bill ayers they're all in bed together they all see everything the same way and if that name doesn't mean anything to you get on the internet google it look it up saul alinsky a l i n s k y one of the most rotten human beings that ever walked the face of the earth and he ranks right up there with stalin and marx and lenin red as he can be all the way through and by the way as you would expect

[60:31]  a thorough going card carrying atheist and well you've had your cheery report for today here i i i i i i i i i i i i