Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021645A
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00:14 >>OUR PRESENTATION TODAY IS GOING TO BE THE THIRD AND, GOD
00:17 WILLING, THE FINAL PART IN A THREE-PART SERIES DEALING WITH 00:21 THE SUBJECT OF CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, AND PROPHECY . 00:26 AND TODAY'S MESSAGE IS MORE SPECIFICALLY CALLED CRITICAL 00:29 MASS . I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW, 00:31 YOU KNOW, EVEN AS I WAS PRAYING THERE I SAID, 'LORD, I AM NOT 00:34 SUFFICIENT TO THESE THINGS.' AND THIS IS REALLY THE FIRST TIME 00:37 THAT I'VE DELVED INTO TALKING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT AND SOME OF 00:41 THE DEEPER THEMES OF DANIEL 11. I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I 00:45 WAS AT PEACE WITH WHAT I WAS SHARING. 00:47 IT'S VERY - KIND OF AN AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY WHEN YOU'RE A 00:50 PASTOR AND YOU'RE TEACHING THE WORD, THAT YOU TEACH IT 00:53 FAITHFULLY, BUT I DO THINK THAT ISLAM PLAYS A PROMINENT ROLE IN 00:59 PROPHECY. NOW, JUST IN THE INTEREST OF 01:01 REVIEW - WE ALWAYS HAVE VISITORS OR SOME WHO ARE WATCHING THAT 01:04 DID NOT SEE THE PREVIOUS PROGRAMS. 01:06 WE TALKED FIRST ABOUT SIBLING RIVALRY AND I THINK WE MADE A 01:10 GOOD CASE THAT YOU CAN TRACE THE LINEAGE OF THE TWO SONS OF 01:16 ABRAHAM BEING ISHMAEL AND ISAAC - SOME VERY INTERESTING THINGS - 01:21 THEY ARE THE FOUNDERS OF TWO GREAT PEOPLES, NAMELY CHRISTIANS 01:26 AND JEWS UNDER ISAAC, AND YOU HAVE THE MUSLIMS - THE ISLAMIC 01:32 RELIGION - UNDER ISHMAEL - ISHMAEL AND THE OTHER SONS OF 01:36 KETURAH BECAME THE FOUNDERS OF THE ARABS - ARAB PEOPLE - AND, 01:43 OF COURSE, FROM ISAAC YOU HAVE CHRISTIANITY. 01:47 INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THEM: ISAAC HAD JACOB WHO HAD TWELVE 01:51 SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER - BECAME A GREAT NATION. 01:54 GOD NAMED ALL OF THEM - THEY WERE GIVEN NAMES BY GOD - AND 01:58 THEN YOU HAVE ISHMAEL HAD TWELVE SONS - AT LEAST ONE DAUGHTER. 02:02 GOD SAID HE WOULD GROW INTO A GREAT NATION - HE WAS NAMED - 02:06 ONE WAS FROM EGYPT - HAGAR WAS AN EGYPTIAN. 02:11 HAGAR PICKED AN EGYPTIAN WIFE FOR ISHMAEL AND THE OTHER, OF 02:14 COURSE, CAME FROM MESOPOTAMIA, ORIGINALLY, BUT THEY WERE THE 02:18 JEWS - LATER KNOWN AS THE JEWS. THEY ARE THE TWO GREATEST 02:22 RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD TODAY - BY NUMBERS. 02:25 THERE'S MANY PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO JEWISH BLOOD OR THAT HAVE GROWN 02:29 INTO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION ALL AROUND THE WORLD - 2.2 BILLION 02:32 AS OF THIS MESSAGE - AND THEN YOU HAVE ABOUT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 02:37 1.6 AND 1.7 BILLION MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD TODAY. 02:42 THE MUSLIMS ARE GROWING MORE RAPIDLY - MUCH OF IT BIOLOGICAL 02:45 GROWTH, BUT THEY'RE GROWING MORE RAPIDLY. 02:47 IT'S ESTIMATED THAT BY 2050 THERE WILL BE - IF PRESENT 02:52 TRENDS CONTINUE - THERE WILL BE MORE MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD THAN 02:55 CHRISTIANS. THESE ARE TWO VERY INFLUENTIAL 02:59 RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD WHEN YOU LOOK AT, EVEN THE POLITICAL 03:02 SCOPE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD TODAY. 03:06 AND - SHARED A LITTLE BIT LAST WEEK ABOUT HOW IT'S INTERESTING 03:10 THAT IN GEOGRAPHY YOU HAVE THIS NORTHERN KINGDOM WHERE YOU HAVE 03:18 ITALY, A PENINSULA, IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT PENINSULA, ON THE 03:24 WESTERN SIDE, YOU'VE GOT THE CAPITAL, MANY SAY, OF THE 03:29 CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IN THE VATICAN AND THEY MAKE PILGRIMAGE 03:33 TO THIS PLACE AND THE HOLY SITES. 03:35 WELL, AND THE LARGEST PENINSULA IN THE WORLD IS SAUDI ARABIA AND 03:38 THERE ON THE WESTERN SIDE - IT IS SOUTH OF ISRAEL ON THE 03:41 WESTERN SIDE - YOU'VE GOT MECCA, ANOTHER PLACE WHERE PEOPLE 03:45 AROUND THE WORLD MAKE PILGRIMAGE AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU'VE GOT 03:48 THESE TWO SIMILAR YET DIFFERENT RELIGIONS THAT ARE JUXTAPOSED IN 03:56 THE WORLD TODAY, POLITICALLY AND BIBLICALLY. 04:01 JOIN ME IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL FOR A MOMENT - DANIEL 11, VERSE 04:04 40, "AT THE TIME OF THE END OF THE KING OF THE SOUTH SHALL 04:11 ATTACK HIM (THE KING OF THE NORTH); AND THE KING OF THE 04:15 NORTH WILL COME AGAINST HIM LIKE A WHIRLWIND WITH MANY CHARIOTS, 04:19 HORSEMEN, AND WITH MANY SHIPS; AND HE SHALL ENTER THE 04:24 COUNTRIES, OVERWHELM THEM, AND PASS THROUGH. 04:27 HE SHALL ALSO ENTER THE GLORIOUS LAND, AND MANY COUNTRIES SHALL 04:30 BE OVERTHROWN;" - HE'S TALKING ABOUT WHOLE COUNTRIES - BUT 04:33 THESE SHALL ESCAPE FROM HIS HAND: EDOM, MOAB, AND THE 04:36 PROMINENT PEOPLE OF AMMON. HE SHALL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND 04:40 AGAINST THE COUNTRIES, AND THE LAND OF EGYPT SHALL NOT ESCAPE. 04:44 HE SHALL HAVE POWER OVER THE TREASURES OF GOLD AND SILVER, 04:47 AND OVER ALL THE PRECIOUS THINGS OF EGYPT; ALSO THE LIBYANS AND 04:50 ETHIOPIANS SHALL FOLLOW AT HIS HEELS. 04:53 BUT NEWS FROM THE EAST AND THE NORTH SHALL TROUBLE HIM; 04:56 THEREFORE HE SHALL GO OUT WITH GREAT FURY TO DESTROY AND 05:00 ANNIHILATE MANY. AND HE SHALL PLANT THE TENTS OF 05:03 HIS PALACE BETWEEN THE SEAS AND THE GLORIOUS HOLY MOUNTAIN; YET 05:07 SHALL COME TO HIS END, AND NO ONE WILL HELP HIM." 05:11 THOSE ARE SOME VERSES THAT WE'RE GOING TO DELVE INTO TODAY - IT'S 05:15 VERY MYSTERIOUS. IT SAYS 'AT THE TIME OF THE END' 05:18 - WHAT IS THIS TALKING ABOUT? WE KNOW THOSE VERSES THERE FROM 05:21 40 TO 45 ARE VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IF YOU READ THE NEXT 05:24 VERSE, "AT THAT TIME MICHAEL SHALL STAND UP, THE GREAT PRINCE 05:27 WHO STANDS WATCH OVER THE SONS OF YOUR PEOPLE; AND THERE SHALL 05:30 BE A TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS NEVER WAS SINCE THERE WAS A 05:34 NATION, EVEN TO THAT TIME." JESUS SPEAKS ABOUT THIS GREAT 05:38 TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN. 05:41 "AND AT THAT TIME YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED" - THE 05:45 ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE - EVERYONE WHO WAS FOUND WRITTEN IN THE 05:47 BOOK" - THE BOOK OF LIFE - AND MANY OF THOSE WHO SLEEP IN THE 05:50 DUST OF THE EARTH WILL AWAKE - A RESURRECTION - SO IT'S PRETTY 05:54 CLEAR THAT WHEN MICHAEL STANDS UP, THAT IT'S OVER. 05:58 YOU'VE GOT THE RESURRECTION, YOU'VE GOT THIS TIME OF TROUBLE, 06:00 YOU'VE GOT THE GREAT DELIVERANCE - SO WHAT'S HAPPENING JUST 06:04 BEFORE THAT? WELL, I THINK IT'S GOING TO 06:07 REPRESENT A SHOWDOWN WHERE THE TENSIONS THAT HAVE SIMMERED 06:15 FROM THE TIME OF ABRAHAM AND THROUGHOUT THE CHRISTIAN ERA, 06:19 ARE GOING TO REACH CRITICAL MASS. 06:21 NOW, I KNOW THAT AMERICA IS A BLESSED COUNTRY AND WE'RE A RICH 06:24 COUNTRY - MUCH OF THE ECONOMY OF THE WORLD IS MEASURED BY THE 06:28 U.S. DOLLAR BECAUSE IT'S A STABLE CURRENCY, BUT WE ARE NOT 06:32 THE RICHEST COUNTRY. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE - ANY OF YOU 06:36 BEEN TO DUBAI? OR KUWAIT? OR THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES? 06:44 WOW - JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA: UNITED STATES GROSS DOMESTIC 06:51 PRODUCT PER CAPITA - $57,000 A YEAR. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 06:59 67,000 PER CAPITA. KUWAIT: $71,000, QATAR: $146,000 - 07:10 ALMOST THREE TIMES THE U.S. THEY'VE GOT ENOUGH MONEY JUST 07:14 POURING IN - IF YOU COULD PICTURE A PIPE WITH MONEY 07:20 FLOWING OUT ALL DAY LONG - A VERY BIG PIPE - THERE IS A 07:24 CATARACT - THERE IS A RIVER OF MONEY THAT FLOWS INTO THESE 07:28 COUNTRIES EVERY DAY AND IT'S BECAUSE OF OIL. 07:33 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE UNITED 07:35 STATES, EVEN THOUGH, THANKFULLY, WE DO PRODUCE A GOOD PERCENTAGE 07:38 OF OUR OWN OIL, WE ARE STILL DEPENDENT ON FOREIGN OIL, BUT IF 07:43 SUDDENLY THERE WAS SOME - I REMEMBER A CALIFORNIA REFINERY 07:47 WENT DOWN NOT TOO LONG AGO AND PRICES JUST SHOT UP AND PEOPLE 07:51 WERE WAITING IN LINE - SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THE OIL EMBARGO 07:54 FROM THE 70S WHERE PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY WERE WAITING IN 07:58 LINE. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE TRUCKS 07:59 COULD NOT DELIVER FOOD IN NORTH AMERICA IN OUR CITIES? 08:03 DO YOU THINK EVERYONE WOULD BEHAVE WELL? 08:06 A COUPLE WEEKS GO BY - SHELVES WOULD BE STRIPPED IN A FEW DAYS 08:10 ONCE PEOPLE KNEW THAT THE TRUCKS WEREN'T MOVING. 08:13 NOT THAT I'M TRYING TO GIVE TERRORISTS ANY IDEAS, THEY 08:15 ALREADY PROBABLY THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING, BUT WE'RE JUST 08:18 LIVING, RIGHT NOW, ON A HAIR-THIN TRIGGER - I MEAN 08:22 EVERYTHING IS HANGING BY A SPIDER'S WEB RIGHT NOW. 08:26 SO MANY THINGS COULD HAPPEN THAT WOULD QUICKLY SEND THE WORLD 08:29 INTO A TIME OF TROUBLE THAT CANNOT BE IMAGINED. 08:33 WELL, IF YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 8:13, "AND I LOOKED, AND I HEARD 08:37 AN ANGEL FLYING THROUGH THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, SAYING WITH A 08:40 LOUD VOICE, 'WOE, WOE, WOE TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH, 08:46 BECAUSE OF THE REMAINING BLASTS OF THE TRUMPET OF THE THREE 08:50 ANGELS WHO ARE ABOUT TO SOUND!'" SO THE LAST THREE TRUMPETS IN 08:53 THE SEVEN TRUMPETS OF REVELATION ARE CALLED 'WOE'. SO 'WOE' 08:57 MEANS A TIME OF GREAT SORROW, DISTRESS, OR TRIBULATION. 09:03 IT ALSO TRANSLATES THAT WELL FROM THE GREEK, ADDITIONALLY. 09:08 SO THE SEVEN TRUMPETS IN REVELATION - OFTEN WHEN THEY 09:11 WENT INTO BATTLE THEY COMMUNICATED WITH TRUMPETS. 09:14 PAUL SAYS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 14, "IF THE TRUMPET MAKES AN 09:16 UNCERTAIN SOUND, WHO WILL PREPARE FOR BATTLE?" 09:19 AND WHEN JERICHO WAS TAKEN THEY HAD SEVEN TRUMPETS GOING AROUND 09:22 THE CITY AND THEY BLEW THESE SEVEN TRUMPETS FOR SEVEN DAYS - 09:27 THEY MARCHED AROUND THE CITY ONCE FOR SIX DAYS, SEVEN TIMES 09:30 ON THE SEVENTH DAY - THIRTEEN TIMES AROUND THE CITY - BUT THEY 09:33 STILL HAD SEVEN TRUMPETS. THEY BLEW THE TRUMPETS, THE CITY 09:36 FELL, THEY ATTACKED THEIR ENEMY - TRUMPETS OFTEN HAD TO DO WITH 09:38 BATTLE, IN THE BIBLE, AND SO THESE LAST THREE TRUMPETS OF THE 09:44 SEVEN - I DON'T HAVE TIME TO STUDY THE SEVEN TRUMPETS WITH 09:46 YOU RIGHT NOW - THEY'RE - WELL, LET ME SAY THIS: YOU'VE GOT 09:51 SEVERAL SEVENS IN REVELATION - YOU'VE GOT SEVEN CHURCHES - 09:55 COVERS THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM THE TIME OF REVELATION - 09:58 FIRST COMING OF JESUS - TO THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 10:01 IT'S THE SPIRITUAL HISTORY. YOU'VE GOT THE SEVEN SEALS IN 10:05 REVELATION; IT COVERS THE POLITICAL HISTORY THAT 10:08 INFLUENCES GOD'S PEOPLE, FROM THE FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND 10:11 COMING. AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE SEVEN TRUMPETS; THEY COVER A 10:15 MILITARY HISTORY FROM THE FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND COMING - 10:20 BATTLES AND FORCES AND POWERS THAT WOULD BE AT ODDS - AND IT'S 10:24 NOT TALKING ABOUT ALL THE KINGDOMS AND ALL THE WARS OF ALL 10:27 THE WORLD. YOU WONDER, DOES THIS PROPHECY TALK ABOUT CHINA OR THE 10:31 INCA INDIANS, OR DOES IT TALK ABOUT THE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE 10:36 OTHER NATIONS? NO, IT'S DEALING WITH THE NATIONS THAT WOULD HAVE 10:42 A DIRECT IMPACT ON GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE PROCLAMATION OF THE 10:46 GOSPEL. SO IT STARTS IN ISRAEL, IT EXPANDS FROM THERE THROUGH 10:50 EUROPE WHERE THE GOSPEL SPREAD AND IT BECAME THE FOOTHOLD - 10:54 MAKES ITS WAY TO AMERICA - ARE YOU AWARE THAT AMERICA SENDS OUT 10:57 MORE MISSIONARIES THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? 11:00 THAT MORE MISSION DOLLARS COME FROM AMERICA THAN ANY OTHER 11:03 COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? SO IT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE YOU 11:05 THAT THESE PLACES THAT HAVE BEEN THE GUARDIAN OF THE MESSAGE ARE 11:09 THE ONES THAT ARE PRINCIPALLY MENTIONED IN PROPHECY. 11:13 SO THEN THESE THREE PROPHECIES - IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE - 11:17 WE'RE GOING TO GO NEXT TO THE RISE OF ISLAM, AND IF YOU READ 11:20 IN REVELATION 9 - GO IN YOUR BIBLES, YOU TURN A LITTLE BIT 11:24 OVER AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT THAT NEXT TRUMPET. 11:26 "THEN THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED: AND I SAW" - THIS FIFTH ANGEL IS 11:30 THE FIRST OF THE THREE WOES - "I SAW A STAR FALLEN FROM HEAVEN 11:34 TO THE EARTH. TO HIM WAS GIVEN THE KEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. 11:38 AND HE OPENED THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND SMOKE AROSE OUT OF THE 11:40 PIT LIKE THE SMOKE OF A GREAT FURNACE. SO THE SUN AND THE AIR 11:44 WERE DARKENED BECAUSE OF THE SMOKE OF THE PIT. 11:47 THEN OUT OF THE SMOKE LOCUSTS CAME UPON THE EARTH." 11:49 - NOW, IF YOU LIVED BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, THEY WOULD SAY, 11:52 'SMOKE IS COMING! THERE'S A FOREST FIRE!' - AND 11:55 THEN WHEN THE SMOKE GOT CLOSER, IT WASN'T SMOKE, IT WAS 11:57 LOCUSTS - A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS. 12:01 NOW, I READ TO YOU LAST WEEK - IF YOU READ IN JUDGES CHAPTER 6 12:05 IT TALKED ABOUT WHEN THE AMALEKITES AND THE MIDIANITES 12:08 AND THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST COVERED THE LAND LIKE LOCUSTS - 12:10 WITH THEIR CAMELS - THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT COMPRISED THE 12:13 ARABS AND IT DESCRIBES THEM AS LOCUSTS - AND THEY ATE 12:17 EVERYTHING IN THE LAND. THAT'S WHY GIDEON WAS THRESHING 12:20 WHEAT SECRETLY, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO FOOD - THE LOCUSTS ATE IT 12:23 ALL - THE ARAB ENEMIES, AT THAT TIME - AND SO, THIS WOULD NOT BE 12:29 THE FIRST TIME THAT THERE WAS A BATTLE BETWEEN THESE TWO 12:31 PEOPLES. SO HERE, THIS SMOKE COMING OUT 12:33 OF THE PIT IS DESCRIBING THE BIRTH AND THE SPREAD OF THE 12:38 RELIGION OF MOHAMMED, WHO WAS THIS INFLUENCE. 12:47 NOW WHEN AN ANGEL FALLS, HE'S NOT A GOOD ANGEL. 12:49 AN ANGEL IS A MESSENGER AND HE GOT THESE MESSAGES OUT OF HIS 12:53 CAVE AND I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S THE TRUTH. 12:56 AND THIS WHOLE NEW RELIGION GREW UP - IT'S INTERESTING, IT ALL 12:59 TOOK PLACE RIGHT ABOUT THE TIME OF THE COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIAN 13:05 MOVEMENT, WHICH WAS 538 - ISLAM, WELL, IT'S HARD TO PEG A DATE 13:11 WHEN IT REALLY BECAME A RELIGION, BUT ABOUT 612 IS THE 13:14 TIME THE HISTORIANS PUT ON IT. NOT LONG AFTER THAT ANOTHER 13:18 GROUP CAME UP AND THEY HAD THEIR OWN VERSION OF THE BIBLE. 13:22 THEY DID HAVE SOME CHRISTIAN TRAPPINGS AND ROOTS AND, OF 13:24 COURSE, CATHOLICISM'S GOT A LOT OF CHRISTIAN ROOTS, BUT IT WAS 13:27 CO-MINGLED WITH SOME PAGAN RELIGION, JUST AS ISLAM HAD A 13:30 LITTLE BIT OF LUNAR WORSHIP CO-MINGLED, CHRISTIANITY HAD 13:34 SOLAR WORSHIP CO-MINGLED. SO THIS IS WHAT'S BEING 13:38 DESCRIBED HERE IN CHAPTER 9 IN THE FIRST TWELVE VERSES - IT 13:43 TALKS ABOUT THESE LOCUSTS PREPARED FOR BATTLE. AND THIS IS 13:47 THE FIRST TRUMPET - OR THE FIRST WOE OF THE FIFTH TRUMPET. 13:52 MOST CHRISTIAN EXPOSITORS - MARTIN LUTHER, SIR ISAAC NEWTON, 13:59 HISTORIAN EDWARD GIBBON, AND MANY OTHERS ALL SAW THE FIFTH 14:03 AND THE SIXTH TRUMPETS IN REVELATION 9 AS THE RISE AND THE 14:08 SPREAD OF ISLAM AND ITS BATTLES WITH THE EASTERN AND WESTERN 14:14 CHRISTIAN WORLD THAT WAS GROWING THERE THROUGH EUROPE. 14:19 AND, AGAIN, I MENTIONED IT STARTED ABOUT 612 AND ITS 14:22 INCREDIBLE RISE FROM ALMOST NOTHING - ONE REASON THEY AROSE 14:26 SO QUICKLY IS RIGHT ABOUT THIS TIME THERE WAS A TERRIBLE PLAGUE 14:31 - IN 542 - AND IT LASTED ALMOST 200 YEARS - IT CAME AND WENT. 14:35 YOU'VE HEARD OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE? 14:37 WELL, THE FIRST BUBONIC PLAGUE WAS CALLED JUSTINIAN'S PLAGUE 14:40 BECAUSE IT STARTED IN CONSTANTINOPLE, WHICH WAS ALSO 14:42 THE SAME PLACE THAT THE MUSLIMS FIRST ATTACKED AS THE CAPITAL OF 14:46 CHRISTIANITY AND, DURING THAT TIME, 50 MILLION PEOPLE DIED AND 14:51 IT SO DEVASTATED THE CHRISTIAN WORLD THAT, AT THAT SAME TIME, 14:54 THE ARABS THAT WERE PRETTY MUCH ISOLATED FROM ALOT OF THAT, THEY 14:58 EXPLODED IN NUMBERS THROUGH ARABIA AND THEY WERE, OF COURSE 15:03 GREAT TRADERS DURING THAT TIME AND THE RELIGION OF ISLAM 15:07 SPREAD. AND SO, YOU NOTICE IF YOU GO 15:11 TO VERSE 9 - SO REVELATION 9:1 THROUGH 12 IS THE FIFTH TRUMPET 15:17 AND THE FIRST WOE - IT'S THE RISE OF ISLAM - AND IT SAYS THEY 15:20 WOULD TORMENT - THERE'S A NUMBER ASSOCIATED WITH IT - THEY WOULD 15:23 BE TORMENTING CHRISTIANITY - THEY DIDN'T KILL THEM, THEY 15:25 TORMENTED THEM LIKE THE STING OF A SCORPION - IT'S NOT A DEADLY 15:29 SERPENT - FOR FIVE MONTHS. NOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE BIBLE 15:33 PROPHECIES AND THERE'S A TIME PERIOD, WHAT'S THE 15:35 PRINCIPLE WE USE? A DAY IS A YEAR. 15:39 A BIBLICAL MONTH HAD 30 DAYS, THAT'S WHY THE 42 MONTHS COMES 15:44 TO 1,260 DAYS - BECAUSE THEY'RE 30-DAY MONTHS - IT'S THE ONLY 15:48 WAY THOSE TWO COULD BE RECONCILED. 15:50 THAT'S 150 DAYS IN FIVE MONTHS, RIGHT? 15:54 150 DAYS - A DAY IS A YEAR - 150 YEARS - AND IT STARTED IN 1299 16:00 AT THE BATTLE OF BETHUNE - THE TURKISH MUSLIMS BEGAN A 16:03 PERSISTENT ASSAULT ON THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE IN 16:07 CONSTANTINOPLE. IN 1449, EXACTLY 150 YEARS LATER, THE CONFLICT OF 16:12 THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE, OR BYZANTINE EMPIRE, IT BECAME A 16:16 VASSAL STATE - IT SUBMITTED TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, WHICH WAS A 16:21 MUSLIM POWER - EXACTLY WHAT THE PROPHECY SAID WOULD HAPPEN. 16:26 NOW, YOU GO TO REVELATION 9:12 - IT SAYS - THE ANGEL DOESN'T WANT 16:31 US TO LOSE TRACK SO HE SAYS, "ONE WOE IS PAST. 16:34 BEHOLD, STILL TWO MORE WOES" - TO MAKE UP THOSE THREE - "ARE 16:37 COMING" - THESE WOES - THE FIRST TWO WOES - ARE A BATTLE BETWEEN 16:42 CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM. COULD IT BE THE THIRD 16:44 WOE IS MORE OF THE SAME? THAT'S WHAT I'M PUTTING FORTH. 16:49 NOW, IF YOU READ IN REVELATION 9:14, IT TALKS ABOUT FOUR ANGELS 16:54 AND IT SAYS THESE FOUR ANGELS - AND I'LL READ THIS TO YOU, 16:57 "SAYING TO THE SIXTH ANGEL," - WHO HAS THE TRUMPET, SO THIS IS 17:01 THE SIXTH TRUMPET - HE SAYS, "'RELEASE THE FOUR ANGELS WHO 17:06 ARE BOUND AT THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES.' 17:09 SO THE FOUR ANGELS, WHO HAD BEEN PREPARED" - AND 17:12 YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER TIME PERIOD HERE - "FOR THE HOUR AND DAY AND 17:16 MONTH AND YEAR, WERE RELEASED TO KILL A THIRD OF MANKIND." 17:20 THIS REPRESENTED A DIFFERENT WOE - A DIFFERENT PHASE OF BATTLES 17:24 THAT LASTED OVER 300 YEARS, BETWEEN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY, 17:30 WHERE NOW THEY STARTED ATTACKING THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE AND 17:34 THEY, BASICALLY, HAD ALREADY SWALLOWED UP AND CONQUERED THE 17:36 EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE AND - WELL, YOU KNOW, BEFORE I GET INTO 17:42 THAT, IT TALKS HERE ABOUT FOUR ANGELS. 17:44 I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THIS A LITTLE BIT. 17:47 YOU READ IN REVELATION 7 ABOUT FOUR ANGELS HOLDING BACK THE 17:50 FOUR WINDS OF STRIFE, HERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT FOUR ANGELS AT THE 17:52 RIVER EUPHRATES. NOW, KEEP IN MIND, IN THE BOOK 17:56 OF DANIEL YOU'VE GOT FOUR KINGDOMS THAT END UP COMING DOWN 18:03 AND ATTACKING ISRAEL - OR AT LEAST OCCUPYING ISRAEL. 18:07 THE FIRST WAS BABYLON - ACROSS THE EUPHRATES RIVER - 18:11 MEDO-PERSIA CAME ACROSS THE EUPHRATES RIVER, GREECE - 18:16 ALEXANDER WENT ACROSS THE EUPHRATES AND CAME BACK TO 18:18 ISRAEL - ROME HAD TO COME IN FROM THE NORTH AGAIN. 18:24 ALL THESE EMPIRES CAME FROM THE NORTH AND SO THE TERRITORY OF 18:28 SOLOMON REACHED AS FAR AS THE EUPHRATES RIVER AND IT MEANT AN 18:31 ENEMY FORCE IS COMING IN, SO YOU'VE GOT THESE FOUR FORCES. 18:35 WELL, NOW YOU'VE GOT THEM COMING BACK AND THEY'RE BEING RELEASED 18:38 TO ATTACK THE PEOPLE OF GOD - AND THIS IS THE SIXTH TRUMPET, 18:43 OR THE SECOND WOE. LET'S LOOK AT THE TIME PERIOD 18:46 HERE, AND I'LL HAVE THE NUMBERS UP ON THE SCREEN FOR 18:48 YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. IF YOU'VE GOT A DAY AND AN HOUR 18:54 - YOU'VE GOT AN HOUR, A DAY, A MONTH, AND A YEAR - WELL, AN 18:57 HOUR, EVEN IN THE BIBLE THERE WERE 24 HOURS IN A DAY. 19:01 YOU CAN READ WHERE JESUS SAID, 'ARE THERE NOT TWELVE HOURS IN A 19:04 DAY?' AND SO YOU'VE GOT 1/24 OF A DAY OR 1/24 OF A YEAR IS 19:09 EXACTLY 360 DAYS TO THE JEWISH YEAR - THAT'S GOING TO BE 15 19:13 DAYS. THEN YOU'VE GOT A DAY, WHICH IS ONE DAY, THEN YOU'VE 19:21 GOT A MONTH, WHICH IS 30 DAYS, AND THEN YOU HAVE A YEAR, WHICH 19:23 IS 360 DAYS. YOU ADD ALL THAT UP AND YOU END 19:28 UP WITH - LET'S PUT - THERE WE GO, THANK YOU. YOU ADD THAT UP 19:32 AND THAT COMES TO 391 YEARS AND 15 DAYS. THIS IS INCREDIBLE 19:38 BECAUSE, IF YOU START AT THAT EARLIER STARTING POINT OF 1449, 19:43 IT EXTENDS TO 1840 AND, AT THAT POINT, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE LOST 19:49 ITS INDEPENDENCE AND AUTHORITY. IT REQUESTED HELP FROM OTHER 19:53 EUROPEAN NATIONS TO CONTINUE EXISTING. 19:56 AND WHAT'S INCREDIBLE - THIS IS ONE OF THE RARE TIMES IN HISTORY 19:59 - MOST OF THE TIME WE UNDERSTAND PROPHECY CLEARLY, LOOKING BACK. 20:04 JESUS SAID, 'WHEN THIS COMES TO PASS, THEN YOU WILL KNOW.' AND 20:07 SO WE ALWAYS TRY AND USE PROPHECY TO SAY WHAT'S GOING TO 20:09 HAPPEN, MORE TIMES THAN NOT WE SAY, 'OH.' AFTER IT HAPPENS WE 20:13 SAY, 'OH.' BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE RARE TIMES IN HISTORY WHERE 20:16 SOMEBODY STUDIED THE PROPHECIES AND PREDICTED IN ADVANCE WHAT 20:20 WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND IT HAPPENED. 20:21 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE READ ABOUT JOSIAH LITCH? 20:24 AND WHEN HE STUDIED THIS PROPHECY BACK DURING THAT GREAT 20:27 MILLERITE MOVEMENT WHEN THEY WERE ANTICIPATING THE LORD'S 20:31 COMING, HE PREDICTED, USING THE DAY FOR THE YEAR PRINCIPLE, THE 20:35 OTTOMAN EMPIRE WAS GOING TO FALL AND EVEN PREDICTED THE DATE IT 20:39 WOULD FALL BASED ON THE DATE IT STARTED, AND IT HAPPENED. 20:42 WELL, THAT REALLY INSPIRED EVERYBODY ELSE THAT 1844 WAS A 20:46 GOOD DATE, WHICH IT WAS, THEY JUST HAD THE WRONG EVENT. 20:49 BUT IT WAS VERY INTERESTING THAT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, WHICH HAD 20:55 EXPANDED DURING THAT TIME, FELL. 20:56 NOW I WANT TO GO BACK TO - GO TO REVELATION 9 AND WE'RE GOING TO 21:03 BE READING THE VERSES FROM 13 ON. 21:12 "THEN THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED: AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM THE 21:14 FOUR HORNS OF THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH IS BEFORE GOD, SAYING TO 21:18 THE SIXTH ANGEL WHO HAD THE TRUMPET, 'RELEASE THE FOUR 21:21 ANGELS WHO ARE BOUND AT THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES. 21:24 SO THE FOUR ANGELS WHO HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR THE HOUR AND DAY 21:27 AND MONTH AND YEAR, WERE RELEASED TO KILL A THIRD OF 21:30 MANKIND." NOW SOME HAVE WONDERED, 'WHAT 21:33 DOES THAT MEAN, A THIRD OF ALL HUMANITY?' 21:35 WELL, MAYBE AS MANY AS A THIRD OF THE SOLDIERS INVOLVED IN THE 21:38 BATTLES OVER THIS 300-YEAR PERIOD - OR 391-YEAR PERIOD. 21:43 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE ACCURATE BECAUSE THE ARMIES OF 21:46 CHRISTIANITY WERE DECIMATED DURING THIS TIME. 21:51 VERSE 16, "NOW THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE HORSEMEN WAS TWO 21:57 HUNDRED MILLION;" - NOW EVERY COMMENTATOR I'VE READ ON THAT 22:02 SAID, 'WE'RE MAKING A MISTAKE HERE.' 22:05 NOW, I DON'T KNOW, WHAT DOES YOUR BIBLE SAY? 22:07 KING JAMES IS - YEAH - AND HERE I'M READING THE NEW KING JAMES 22:12 THAT SAYS "200 MILLION" AND MANY OTHER VERSIONS PUT THAT; THE 22:15 REASON IS, THAT NUMBER IS ACTUALLY TWO MYRIADS OF MYRIADS. 22:20 THE PROBLEM IS, THE WORD 'MYRIAD' IS AN END - IT'S AN 22:25 IMPRECISE NUMBER. MATTER OF FACT, IN THE BOOK OF 22:28 ACTS, I THINK IT'S CHAPTER 20, IT SAID, 'MYRIADS OF PEOPLE CAME 22:32 TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD.' WELL, IT WASN'T A HUNDRED THOUSAND. 22:35 SO YOU'LL SEE THAT WORD IS SOMETIMES USED AS AN INDEFINITE 22:38 NUMBER. IT MAY, SOMETIMES, MEAN TEN 22:40 THOUSAND AND SOMETIMES IT CAN MEAN 100,000. 22:44 WILLIAM MILLER, WHO I AGREE WITH ON THIS, HE BELIEVED THAT THAT 22:47 NUMBER WAS SAYING, TWO TIMES 200,000 - THAT WOULD BE 400,000. 22:54 WELL, IT IS INTERESTING THAT IN THE SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE 23:00 MEHMED HAD AN ARMY THAT NUMBERED AT LEAST 350,000 AND SO IT'S 23:07 TALKING ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLE ARMY ON HORSEBACK, BUT IT'S NOT 23:11 NECESSARILY GIVING YOU A SPECIFIC NUMBER. 23:15 AND IT SAYS, "AND THUS I SAW THE HORSES IN THE VISION," - HE 23:18 USED, PRINCIPALLY, CAVALRY - "AND THEM THAT SAT ON THEM, 23:21 HAVING BREASTPLATES OF FIERY RED, HYACINTH BLUE, AND SULFUR 23:25 YELLOW;" - THEY DID WEAR IRON BREASTPLATES AND THEY DID HAVE 23:28 BLUE GARMENTS - "AND THE HEADS OF THE HORSES WERE LIKE THE 23:32 HEADS OF LIONS; AND OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS CAME FIRE, SMOKE, AND 23:36 BRIMSTONE." NOW, MANY OF THE - MANY 23:39 HISTORIANS BELIEVE THIS IS DESCRIBING THE INTRODUCTION OF 23:43 GUNPOWDER. THE MUSLIMS WERE SOME OF THE 23:46 FIRST WHO BEGAN TO TAKE FROM THE EAST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GUN POWDER 23:49 AND USE IT IN WARFARE FOR CANNONS AND ARMS. 23:53 THERE WERE PRIMITIVE RIFLES, BUT THEY SAW THE SMOKE AND THE FIRE 23:57 AND THE BRIMSTONE FIRING OUT OF THE FRONT OF THESE HORSES AND 23:59 THEY'D TURN AROUND AND FIRE BEHIND THEM, LIKE A GOOD 24:02 CHEYENNE SOLDIER, AND THEY'D SEE THEM COMING FROM THE FRONT AND 24:05 THE BACK AND THEY'D HEAR THE ROAR OF A LION - THEY COULDN'T 24:07 DESCRIBE - ARROWS DON'T MAKE THAT NOISE WHEN YOU SHOOT THEM - 24:11 AND SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT IT'S LIKE A ROAR COMING - "AND" - YOU 24:14 CAN READ THIS - "OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS CAME FIRE, SMOKE AND 24:16 BRIMSTONE." AND I THINK THAT THIS IS 24:19 DESCRIBING SOME OF THE EARLY FIREARMS. I'VE ACTUALLY GOT 24:22 PICTURES, I THINK, THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THE SCREEN. 24:25 ONE ARTIST'S RENDITION OF AN EARLY OTTOMAN CANNON - NOW THERE 24:29 YOU HAVE IT - FIRING - THEY COULD FIRE - THEIR CANNON BALLS 24:33 WERE MADE OF STONE BACK THEN, BUT IT WOULD FIRE ONE AND IT 24:36 JUST BLEW THE WALLS TO SMITHEREENS. 24:40 IT COULD FIRE ONE MILE, WHICH WAS A LOT BACK THEN - I THINK 24:44 THE GERMANS INVENTED A CANNON THAT WOULD GO 20 MILES, BUT - 24:49 AND THEN SOME OF THE SMALL ARMS - THE - EVEN THE EARLY 24:52 PAINTINGS, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE OTTOMAN SOLDIERS, THEY DID HAVE 24:55 PRIMITIVE GUNS THAT THEY USED BACK THEN AND THEY THOUGHT, 24:58 'WELL, MAYBE HE'S DESCRIBING THIS IN VISION.' NOW WE GET TO 25:02 THE SEVENTH TRUMPET - THE THIRD WOE - AND RIGHT NOW, FRIENDS, 25:07 JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING, UP UNTIL THIS MOMENT I'VE BEEN 25:10 TALKING ABOUT WHAT'S BEHIND US. 25:12 NOW I'M GETTING READY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT'S AHEAD OF US - 25:15 OR WE'RE ON THE THRESHOLD RIGHT NOW. 25:19 REVELATION 11, VERSE 15, IT SAYS, "THEN THE SEVENTH ANGEL 25:23 SOUNDED:" - YOU KNOW, SEVERAL THINGS HAPPENED BETWEEN THE 25:25 SECOND WOE - FIRST WOE/SECOND WOE - AND THEN THE THIRD WOE - 25:29 BETWEEN THE FIFTH/SIXTH TRUMPET THERE'S SEVERAL CHAPTERS, THEN 25:32 YOU GET TO THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. "THEN THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED: 25:36 AND THERE WERE LOUD VOICES IN HEAVEN, SAYING, 'THE KINGDOMS 25:39 OF THIS WORLD HAVE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD AND OF HIS 25:42 CHRIST, AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER!'... 25:45 THE NATIONS WERE ANGRY, AND YOUR WRATH HAS COME," - IT'S TALKING 25:50 ABOUT A TIME OF UNPRECIPITATED INTERNATIONAL TURMOIL - NOT A 25:54 NATION, THE NATIONS - "AND YOUR WRATH HAS COME," - A TIME OF 25:58 JUDGMENT - "AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE 26:00 JUDGED," - A TIME OF JUDGMENT - "AND THAT YOU SHOULD REWARD YOUR 26:04 SERVANTS" - IT'S A TIME OF REWARD - "THE PROPHETS AND THE 26:07 SAINTS," - AND THAT WOULD BE A RESURRECTION. THIS IS SIMILAR 26:10 WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING IN DANIEL 12 AND THE END OF DANIEL 11 - 26:15 "AND THOSE WHO FEAR YOUR NAME, SMALL AND GREAT," - AND SO, WITH 26:18 THAT INTRODUCTION, NOW, I'M GOING TO JUMP TO DANIEL 11. 26:21 NOW, I SHOULD TELL YOU, AS WE GO THERE, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ 26:26 ALL 45 VERSES AND EXPOUND ON THEM, BUT I'M GOING TO JUST SHOW 26:30 YOU - I'M GOING TO CHERRY PICK A FEW VERSES - I'LL JUST BE HONEST 26:33 WITH YOU - THAT ARE PRETTY EASY TO UNDERSTAND, SO THAT WE CAN 26:36 GET TO THE VERSES WE'RE CONSIDERING. 26:39 FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL 11, VERSE 2, IT'S TALKING 26:45 ABOUT PERSIAN KINGS: "AND NOW I WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH: BEHOLD, 26:51 THREE MORE KINGS WILL ARISE IN PERSIA," - DANIEL IS HAVING THE 26:54 VISION DURING THE TIME OF, I BELIEVE IT WAS IN THE TIME OF 26:59 CYRUS - "...I WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH: BEHOLD, THREE MORE KINGS 27:02 WILL ARISE IN PERSIA, AND THE FOURTH SHALL BE FAR RICHER THAN 27:06 THEM ALL; BY HIS STRENGTH, THROUGH HIS RICHES, HE SHALL 27:10 STIR UP AGAINST THE REALM OF GREECE." 27:13 YOU'VE HEARD OF ARTAXERXES AND HISTORY CALLS HIM XERXES I - AND 27:20 THIS KING, ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD THE STORY ABOUT THE 300 SPARTAN 27:25 SOLDIERS THAT WERE ABLE TO RESIST THE PERSIAN ADVANCE? 27:29 THIS IS THE XERXES THAT HAD AN ARMY THAT THEY SAY NUMBERED 27:32 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 600,000 AND ONE MILLION. 27:36 THAT IS A MASSIVE, MASSIVE ARMY. HE INVADED GREECE, BUT HE 27:40 DIDN'T SUCCEED IN TAKING IT. AND HE WAS VERY RICH AND THIS IS 27:43 WHAT'S BEING DESCRIBED HERE IN DANIEL 11, VERSE 2. 27:48 AND JUMP OVER NOW TO VERSE 3, DANIEL 11:3, "THEN A MIGHTY KING 27:53 SHALL ARISE, WHO SHALL RULE WITH GREAT DOMINION, AND DO ACCORDING 27:58 TO HIS WILL. AND WHEN HE HAS ARISEN, HIS 28:01 KINGDOM SHALL BE BROKEN UP AND DIVIDED TOWARD THE FOUR WINDS." 28:05 WHO DO YOU THINK THIS IS TALKING ABOUT? 28:06 THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S ALEXANDER THE GREAT, WHO WAS A MIGHTY KING 28:10 - INCREDIBLE GENERAL - VERY YOUNG, CONSIDERING WHAT HE 28:13 ACCOMPLISHED - AND HE CAME FROM THE NORTH. 28:17 MATTER OF FACT, SEVERAL OF THESE KINGS, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND OUT, 28:19 ARE COMING DOWN FROM THE NORTH. 28:21 AND WHEN HE DIED - HE DIED - THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS A 28:26 COMBINATION OF MALARIA OR HE DRANK TOO MUCH AND DIED THROUGH 28:30 SOME KIND OF ALCOHOL POISONING - HIS KINGDOM WAS BROKEN UP. 28:33 THERE WERE DIFFERENT RUMORS AND LEGENDS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. 28:38 SOME OF HIS GENERALS, WHEN THEY SAW THAT IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 28:40 GOING TO DIE, SAID, 'WHO WILL RULE IN YOUR PLACE?' 28:42 AND, OSTENSIBLY HE SAID, 'THE STRONGEST.' AND, AT ONE POINT, 28:47 HE TRIED TO TAKE THE HAND OF ONE OF HIS GENERALS AND PUT IT ON 28:49 THE HAND OF A CONCUBINE WHO WAS PREGNANT AT THAT TIME WITH WHAT 28:52 WOULD BE A BOY, HOPING THAT HIS DYNASTY WOULD CONTINUE, BUT THAT 28:56 DIDN'T WORK OUT AND IT ENDED UP HIS KINGDOM WAS DIVIDED, AS THE 29:00 PROPHECY SAID, TOWARDS THE FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN. 29:03 THE FOUR GENERALS CARVED UP - FIRST THEY TRIED TO DO IT 29:07 PEACEABLY AND THEY ENDED UP ALL FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES 29:09 BECAUSE POWER CORRUPTS - THEY WANTED MORE POWER - AND HIS 29:13 KINGDOM WAS DIVIDED AMONG THE FOUR GENERALS. 29:15 YOU ALSO FIND THIS BEING OUTLINED IN DANIEL'S CHAPTER 8 29:19 AS WELL - 7 AND 8 - AND THOSE GENERALS BEING LYSIMACHUS, 29:25 CASSANDER, PTOLEMY, AND SELEUCUS. 29:28 AND THOSE - YOU SEE A MAP UP THERE ABOUT THE PINK IS ONE, 29:34 YOU'VE GOT A GOLD COLOR THERE, YOU'VE GOT - AND CASSANDER, BY 29:37 THE WAY, IS THE PINK, LYSIMACHUS IS THE GOLD, PTOLEMY IS THE 29:41 GREEN, AND WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT LIGHT GREEN COLOR? 29:45 >>LIGHT GREEN. >>YOU CALL IT LIGHT GREEN? 29:47 YES, THANK YOU, VERY MUCH. GIRLS, I THOUGHT, HAD ABOUT 29:49 TWELVE DIFFERENT NAMES FOR THAT ONE COLOR. 29:51 BUT WE'VE ONLY GOT ONE. AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE DARK 29:56 GREEN WOULD BE THE PTOLEMY; SELEUCUS IS THE LIGHT GREEN. 30:01 AND SO THOSE WERE THE FOUR DIVISIONS. 30:03 NOW, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE, AS YOU LOOK AT THE MAP, BEFORE WE 30:05 TAKE IT AWAY, THERE'S ONE LITTLE STRIP OF LAND THAT CONNECTS 30:08 THEM. THAT LITTLE STRIP OF LAND IS 30:11 CALLED ISRAEL, BECAUSE THEY'RE IN SAUDI ARABIA, FROM WHERE 30:16 MOHAMMED CAME, IS A VAST DESERT - MUCH OF IT WAS NOT EASY TO 30:21 INHABIT, AND WHENEVER THERE WAS A BATTLE BETWEEN AFRICA AND 30:27 ASIA, THEY CROSSED OVER THROUGH ISRAEL. 30:31 THEY OFTEN CAME DOWN FROM THE NORTH. 30:33 MATTER OF FACT, I MIGHT PAUSE HERE AND JUST BEAR THAT OUT A 30:36 LITTLE MORE. THIS IS FURTHER DOWN IN MY NOTES 30:38 SO I'M GOING TO DIG FOR IT A LITTLE BIT. 30:43 YEAH, IF YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH CHAPTER 30:47 25, VERSE 9, "BEHOLD, I WILL SEND AND TAKE ALL THE FAMILIES 30:53 OF THE NORTH," - NOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS, 30:55 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE KING OF THE NORTH AND 30:58 THE KING OF THE SOUTH - HE SAYS, "I WILL SEND AND TAKE ALL THE 31:00 FAMILIES OF THE NORTH,' SAYS THE LORD, 'AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE 31:04 KING OF BABYLON," - NOW, PUT THE MAP BACK UP FOR ME FOR JUST A 31:07 MOMENT, PLEASE, SHERLE. YEAH, YOU CAN SEE BABYLON IS ACTUALLY, 31:11 WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FROM A SATELLITE, BABYLON IS MORE 31:13 NORTHEAST AND EAST OF ISRAEL, BUT THEY ALWAYS CAME IN FROM THE 31:20 NORTH BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T CROSS THROUGH THE DESESRT. 31:22 THERE WAS ONE TIME WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR WENT THE DIRECT 31:24 ROUTE AND TOOK A GREAT RISK AND CROSSED THE DESERT BECAUSE HIS 31:27 FATHER DIED - HE HAD TO TAKE THE KINGDOM BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE TOOK 31:30 IT AND HE RODE FULL BORE THROUGH THE DESERT AND TOOK THE 31:33 SHORTCUT. BUT YOU COULD NEVER TAKE AN ARMY THERE BECAUSE OF 31:35 THE EXPOSURE - YOU'D LOSE THEM. AND THERE WAS NO FOOD ALONG THE 31:38 WAY AND SO THEY ALWAYS CAME IN FROM THE NORTH. 31:41 AND YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THESE KINGDOMS - BABYLON AND 31:45 MEDO-PERSIA AND GREECE AND ROME - ALL CAME IN FROM THE NORTH. 31:49 YOU CAN ALSO READ THAT, BY THE WAY, IN JEREMIAH 1:15; IT CALLS 31:53 IT 'KINGDOMS' FROM THE NORTH THAT WOULD COME. 31:57 AND BEFORE I LEAVE THE SUBJECT OF THE KING OF THE NORTH, SATAN 32:05 - THE KING OF THE NORTH IS ULTIMATELY GOD, REMEMBER SATAN, 32:08 HE WANTED TO EXALT HIS THRONE ABOVE THE THRONE OF GOD? 32:12 YOU READ IN ISAIAH 14:13, "FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART, 'I 32:15 WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN. I WILL EXALT MY THRONE 32:18 ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD. I WILL SIT ON THE MOUNT IN THE 32:22 CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH." 32:25 THE ANCIENTS, AT NIGHT, NOTICED THAT WHEN THEY LOOKED UP AT THE 32:29 HEAVENS, THE STARS CLOSER TO THE POLE MOVED VERY SLOWLY, WHEREAS 32:34 THE ONES CLOSER TO THE EQUATOR WERE SPINNING - THE STARS DIDN'T 32:37 MOVE, THE EARTH MOVED, BUT THEY FIGURED THAT THE CENTER WAS UP 32:41 AT THE TOP WHERE IT WAS MORE STABLE AND THEY SAW GOD AS 32:44 ENTHRONED IN THE NORTH. OF COURSE, ISRAEL'S IN THE 32:47 NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, SO YOU CAN SEE WHY THEY WOULD SEE THAT. 32:50 AND SO, THE KING OF THE NORTH ON EARTH - SEE, JESUS SAID 'THE 32:54 KING OF THIS WORLD' BECAUSE THE DEVIL TRIED TO HIJACK OUR 32:56 PLANET. HE WANTS TO BE THE KING OF THE NORTH. 32:59 AND SO, IN THESE PROPHECIES, THE KING OF THE NORTH IS TALKING 33:01 ABOUT EARTHLY KINGS THAT WANT TO CONQUER GOD'S PEOPLE THAT ARE 33:05 TAKING THE PLACE OF GOD. DID THAT ALL MAKE SENSE? 33:08 I KNOW I'M TALKING REALLY QUICK BECAUSE I'VE GOT A LOT TO COVER 33:10 AND I'M LOOKING AT THE CLOCK. ALRIGHT, WE TALKED A LITTLE 33:13 ABOUT ALEXANDER THE GREAT - GO IN DANIEL 11 TO VERSE 20. 33:19 NOW, I TOLD YOU I CAN'T COVER IT ALL SO I'M JUMPING. 33:22 DANIEL 11:20, "THERE SHALL ARISE IN HIS PLACE" - THIS IS AFTER 33:27 THE GREEKS FELL, IN THE NORTH AT LEAST, THE GREEKS FELL TO THE 33:32 ROMANS. THEY STILL HAD THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM THERE IN EGYPT. 33:35 IT SAYS, "THERE SHALL ARISE IN HIS PLACE ONE WHO IMPOSES TAXES 33:40 ON THE GLORIOUS KINGDOM;" - WELL, THIS IS REALLY EASY TO 33:43 FIGURE OUT BECAUSE YOU FIND THE ANSWER TO WHO THIS IS RIGHT 33:46 THERE IN LUKE 2:1, "AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT A 33:50 DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT ALL THE WORLD 33:55 SHOULD BE TAXED." AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT 33:58 AUGUSTUS CAESAR DID. MATTER OF FACT, IT'S 33:59 MENTIONED TWICE IN THE BIBLE. LOOK IN ACTS 5:37, "AFTER THIS 34:04 MAN, JUDAS OF GALILEE ROSE UP IN THE DAYS OF THE TAXING." 34:08 IT WAS SO BIG, THE TAXING HE DID WAS, SORT OF, A UNIVERSAL TAXING 34:11 THAT IT HAD A HIGH POINT IN HISTORY SO THE JEWS REFERRED TO 34:14 IT - 'OH YEAH, THE DAYS OF THE TAXING' - AND AUGUSTUS CAESAR, 34:19 HE BASICALLY TOOK A CENSUS OF THE WHOLE KINGDOM SO HE COULD 34:23 ACCURATELY IMPOSE TAXES ON EVERYBODY. 34:27 AND IT TALKS ABOUT HIM IN DANIEL 11. 34:31 SO NOW WE'VE TRANSITIONED, YOU CAN SEE, TO WHERE THE ROMANS 34:33 HAVE REPLACED THE GREEKS IN THE NORTH. 34:36 THEN YOU GET TO DANIEL 11:25, "HE SHALL STIR UP HIS POWER AND 34:41 HIS COURAGE AGAINST THE KING OF THE SOUTH WITH A GREAT ARMY. 34:45 AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH SHALL BE STIRRED UP TO BATTLE WITH A 34:48 VERY GREAT AND MIGHTY ARMY; BUT HE SHALL NOT STAND, FOR THEY 34:51 SHALL DEVISE PLANS AGAINST HIM." 34:54 MANY COMMENTATORS BELIEVE THIS IS DESCRIBING WHEN - HOW THE 34:57 ROMAN POWER HAS TRANSITIONED INTO THE ROMAN CHURCH, AFTER 35:01 AUGUSTUS CAESAR, ABOUT THE TIME OF JUSTINIAN, CHRISTIANITY WAS 35:05 LEGALIZED DURING THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE, AND NOW IT'S 35:08 TRANSITIONING MORE INTO A SPIRITUAL KINGDOM IN THE NORTH 35:11 THAT'S FIGHTING WITH A SPIRITUAL KINGDOM IN THE SOUTH, ISLAM, 35:16 THAT HAD TAKEN THE HOLY LAND, NAMELY, THE CRUSADES ARE BEING 35:20 DESCRIBED HERE IN DANIEL 11, VERSE 25 - MIGHTY ARMIES 35:25 CROSSING THE OCEAN, THE KING OF THE NORTH AGAINST THE KING OF 35:28 THE SOUTH - BUT DON'T MISS THAT - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - I'VE 35:32 GOT TO TAKE A BREATH AND MAKE SURE WE ALL TAKE A PIT STOP HERE 35:35 - I WANT YOU TO - BECAUSE I KNOW I'M JUST GOING 'AAAH'. 35:39 IT STARTS OUT TALKING ABOUT POLITICAL BATTLES AND KINGDOMS, 35:45 BUT WHEN YOU GET INTO THE TIME OF JESUS, IT STARTS TURNING INTO 35:49 SPIRITUAL KINGDOM, BECAUSE THE NATION OF ISRAEL - CHRIST SAID, 35:55 YOU KNOW, 'MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.' 35:57 HE SAID, 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.' 36:00 AND NOW IT BECAME A BATTLE FOR WHO HAS THE TRUTH. 36:03 THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE BEAST POWER - HAVE YOU READ DANIEL 8? 36:06 CAST THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND AND PRACTICE AND PROSPER. 36:11 CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY IS THE RESTORING OF TRUTH ABOUT 36:15 GOD, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER THINGS. 36:18 SO IT'S - THIS IS ALL DEALING WITH THE BIG BATTLE FOR THE 36:21 TRUTH, BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS WHAT SAVES. 36:23 IT'S THE GOSPEL THAT SETS PEOPLE FREE - SETS PEOPLE FREE. 36:27 SO THEN YOU GET TO DANIEL 11:33 - NO, I'M SORRY, DANIEL 11:31 - 36:34 "AND FORCES SHALL BE MUSTERED BY HIM, AND THEY SHALL DEFILE THE 36:38 SANCTUARY FORTRESS; THEN THEY SHALL TAKE AWAY THE DAILY 36:42 SACRIFICES, AND PLACE THERE THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION." 36:46 - THIS IS DESCRIBING WHAT WAS HAPPENING WHERE - WHEN 36:49 CATHOLICISM BECAME A POWER - IT COMPROMISED - IT'S THE BIG 36:54 CATHOLIC COMPROMISE OF THE GOSPEL. 36:55 IT'S WHAT THE REFORMATION WAS ALL ABOUT. 36:57 THEY BEGAN TO - THEY WERE PRAYING TO IDOLS, THEY WERE, YOU 37:01 KNOW, SELLING SALVATION WITH INDULGENCES AND IT BECAME WORKS 37:05 ORIENTED AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION AND SO MANY OF THESE DOCTRINES 37:10 THAT WERE UNCHRISTIAN, SLIPPED INTO THE CHURCH. 37:14 WELL THEN, YOU JUMP TO VERSE 33 - IN THE FACE OF THIS GREAT 37:18 CATHOLIC COMPROMISE IS THE REFORMATION, AND I'LL READ THERE 37:25 - AND I'LL READ THROUGH VERSE 35, "AND THOSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO 37:28 UNDERSTAND SHALL INSTRUCT MANY; YET FOR MANY DAYS" - A DAY IS 37:32 WHAT? >>A YEAR. 37:34 >>A YEAR. FOR MANY YEARS - "THEY SHALL FALL BY SWORD AND FLAME, 37:39 BY CAPTIVITY AND PLUNDERING." - THIS IS DESCRIBING WHAT 37:44 BELIEVERS WENT THROUGH DURING THAT TIME OF GREAT COMPROMISE. 37:48 JESUS SAID, 'YOU'LL BE HATED OF ALL NATIONS.' 37:50 IT'S DESCRIBING A TIME OF 1,260 YEARS OF SUFFERING 37:54 AND PERSECUTION THAT THE CHURCH WOULD GO THROUGH. 37:57 YOU CAN READ VERSE 34 OF DANIEL, "NOW WHEN THEY FALL, THEY SHALL 38:01 BE AIDED WITH A LITTLE HELP;" - GOD'LL SUSTAIN THEM. 38:03 IT'S LIKE THE CHURCH WAS STILL PROPHESYING, BUT IT WAS CLOTHED 38:06 IN SACKCLOTH. GOD HELPED THEM, BUT IT WAS 38:09 RESTRICTED BECAUSE THERE'S THIS BATTLE GOING ON BETWEEN THE 38:12 DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS AND GOD'S FORCES. "AND SOME OF THOSE OF 38:17 UNDERSTANDING SHALL FALL," - A NUMBER OF MARTYRS FELL - "TO 38:21 REFINE THEM, PURIFY THEM, AND MAKE THEM WHITE, UNTIL THE TIME 38:25 OF THE END; BECAUSE IT IS STILL FOR THE APPOINTED TIME." 38:28 IT'S SAYING, 'THIS WON'T LAST FOREVER. 38:29 THE END IS GOING TO COME.' GO DOWN TO VERSE 36 - THEN IT SAYS 38:35 - DANIEL 11:36, "THEN THE KING SHALL DO ACCORDING TO THIS OWN 38:39 WILL: HE SHALL EXALT AND MAGNIFY HIMSELF ABOVE EVERY GOD, 38:43 - WE'VE READ IN REVELATION 17 ABOUT THIS RELIGIOUS SYSTEM 38:46 THAT WOULD SPEAK BLASPHEMIES, PUTTING HERSELF IN THE NAME OF 38:51 GOD - "...SPEAK BLASPHEMIES AGAINST THE GOD OF 38:55 GODS," - WHO IS THAT? - "AND SHALL PROSPER TILL THE 38:58 WRATH HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED; FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED 39:01 SHALL BE DONE." IT WON'T LAST FOREVER. 39:03 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT A REVIVAL OF PAPACY AND THE - THE 39:07 ARROGANCE OF PUTTING THEMSELVES IN THE PLACE OF GOD. 39:10 NOW, YOU NOTICE, WE'VE GONE TO DANIEL 11:36; NOW WE'RE GETTING 39:14 TO THE MAIN PASSAGE THAT WE CAN - WE CONSIDERED EARLIER, AND 39:20 THAT'S DANIEL 11, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT VERSES 40 TO 45. 39:24 NOW, AT THAT TIME - THIS IS A PROPHECY OF THE END TIME - "AT 39:28 THE TIME OF THE END" - BY THE WAY, THAT'S WHEN WE'RE LIVING 39:32 NOW - THE KING OF THE SOUTH WILL ATTACK THE KING OF THE NORTH. 39:39 ALRIGHT, I THINK THE KING OF THE SOUTH IS ISLAM. 39:44 I JUST LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED THROUGH HISTORY - THE FIRST WOE, 39:48 THE SECOND WOE - IT WAS THE SPREAD OF ISLAM - THE THIRD WOE 39:51 - WHY DID THE PROPHET SEPARATE OUT THOSE THREE WOES? 39:56 IS THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE SONS OF ISHMAEL AND THE DESCENDANTS 40:00 OF ISAAC - THAT ARE NOW THE TWO GREAT RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD 40:04 TODAY, AND IT IS A VERY POWERFUL, WEALTHY, GROWING 40:07 RELIGIOUS POWER, BUT IT'S NOT THE TRUTH. 40:12 AND SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN - NOW, IF YOU SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, 40:14 WHAT'S THE ATTACK GOING TO LOOK LIKE?' I DON'T KNOW. 40:18 SOME MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS THE TWIN TOWERS, BUT I THINK 40:21 IT'S GOING TO BE BIGGER THAN THAT. 40:23 SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN - YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, THE LEADERS 40:25 OF THE WESTERN WORLD ARE VERY CONCILIATORY TOWARD ISLAM 40:29 BECAUSE THEY KNOW, IF THERE'S AN INCIDENT, THAT THE FEELINGS 40:35 BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF THESE VARYING RELIGIONS - THESE TWO 40:38 PRINCIPLE RELIGIONS - ARE GROWING THREADBARE, AND IF THERE 40:44 IS SOME MAJOR ASSAULT - I READ, LAST WEEK, IN THE NEWS, THAT 40:49 THERE HAS BEEN CHATTER, ACCORDING TO THE CIA OR HOMELAND 40:52 SECURITY, THAT THEY HEAR THAT ISIS IS THREATENING AN ATTACK ON 40:56 ROME, MAYBE EVEN THE COLISEUM OR THE VATICAN. 41:00 NOW JUST - I'M NOT MAKING THIS STUFF UP, FRIENDS. 41:02 YOU CAN READ - ANYONE ELSE READ THESE THINGS? 41:05 WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ISIS ASSASSINATES THIS BELOVED POPE? 41:13 DO YOU THINK THAT THE WORLD IS GOING TO SIT BACK AND SAY, 41:15 'LET'S JUST ALL LOVE EACH OTHER; IT'S JUST A FEW RADICALS'? 41:18 WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? 41:19 I DON'T KNOW, BUT I'M SAYING THAT THERE COULD BE SOME EVENT 41:22 THAT WOULD TRIGGER - YOU KNOW, IF THE FLOW OF OIL IS SOMEHOW 41:28 CUT OFF, PEOPLE WILL PUT UP ALL KINDS OF THINGS ON THE NEWS. 41:33 PEOPLE WILL WATCH ABOUT DIFFERENT TERRORIST THINGS THAT 41:35 ARE OUT THERE HAPPENING TO OTHER PEOPLE. 41:38 I HEARD SOMEONE SAY ONCE, 'WHEN YOU'RE OUT OF A JOB IT'S A 41:41 RECESSION, WHEN I'M OUT OF A JOB IT'S A DEPRESSION.' (LAUGHTER) 41:45 AND, AS LONG AS IT'S OUT THERE SOMEWHERE - BUT IF ALL OF A 41:49 SUDDEN YOU CAN'T BUY STUFF AT THE STORE AND YOU CAN'T GET YOUR 41:52 GAS AT THE PUMP, YOU'RE GOING TO - SOMEONE IN POLITICS SAYS, YOU 41:55 KNOW, 'WE NEED TO GET A FORCE TOGETHER. 41:56 WE NEED TO GET A COALITION FROM EUROPE AND WE NEED TO PUT AN END 42:00 TO THIS.' FOLKS ARE GOING TO GO, 'YEAH, IF IT'S GOING TO PUT GAS 42:03 IN MY TANK, LET'S DO IT.' AND IF WE'RE OUTRAGED BECAUSE WE FEEL 42:10 LIKE CHRISTIANITY IS BEING ATTACKED OR OUR WAY OF LIFE IS 42:13 BEING ATTACKED - BUT SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHERE IT SAYS 42:16 THE KING OF THE SOUTH WILL DO SOMETHING TO PROVOKE - SOME 42:19 MAJOR INCIDENT - THE KING OF THE NORTH. 42:22 DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT WILL BE, BUT THE KING OF THE 42:24 NORTH IS NOT GOING TO SIT BY ANYMORE AND TALK ABOUT PEACE. 42:27 YOU READ HERE, IT SAYS, 'THE KING OF THE NORTH WILL COME 42:30 AGAINST HIM LIKE A WHIRLWIND.' NOW, YOU KNOW, PROPHECY TELLS US 42:35 OTHER PLACES THAT THERE'LL BE A CONFEDERACY OF CHRISTIANS - 42:38 PROTESTANTS IN NORTH AMERICA WILL BE FOREMOST IN STRETCHING 42:41 THEIR HAND ACROSS THE ABYSS TO CLASP THE HAND OF CATHOLICISM, 42:46 AND THEN, JOINED WITH SPIRITUALISM UNDER THAT 42:49 THREE-FOLD UNION, THEY'RE GOING TO COMPEL THE WORLD TO BELIEVE A 42:53 CERTAIN WAY. YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD FOR YOU TO 42:56 TAKE POWERFUL MOVES LIKE THAT UNLESS THERE'S SOME SCARY EVENT. 43:00 PEOPLE GET SCARED AND THEY'LL SACRIFICE ALL KINDS OF FREEDOM. 43:04 AND I THINK THAT AN ATTACK FROM ISLAM - A MAJOR ATTACK - 43:09 IS GOING TO PRECIPITATE A COALITION OF CHRISTIANS. 43:13 IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT - IS IT JUST ME OR HAVE YOU NOTICED THE 43:15 POPE - HIS FIRST TIME - FRANCIS - VISITING WITH A LEADER OF THE 43:19 RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH, LEADERS OF THE 43:25 CHARISMATIC CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA, LEADING PROTESTANTS IN 43:28 NORTH AMERICA, PROTESTANTS IN SOUTH AMERICA - HE COMES FROM 43:31 SOUTH AMERICA. THIS POPE HAS DONE MORE AND MADE 43:34 MORE OVERTURES TO BRING TOGETHER CHRISTIANS FROM AROUND THE 43:37 WORLD. WHY? 43:39 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT HISTORY IS GOING TO REPEAT ITSELF - THAT 43:43 ISLAM IS GROWING, THEY ARE LOSING A FOOTHOLD IN EUROPE, 43:46 BOTH THROUGH IMMIGRATION AND MULTIPLICATION, ISLAM IS 43:50 SPREADING THROUGH EUROPE AND THEY REALIZE THAT THE FUTURE FOR 43:53 CHRISTIANITY IS AT RISK AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME MAJOR EVENT. 43:59 YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT PROUD OF IT, BUT IT IS A FACT THAT, DURING 44:03 WORLD WAR II WHEN WE WERE ATTACKED AT PEARL HARBOR, ALL OF 44:07 A SUDDEN, OUR JAPANESE NEIGHBORS THAT WE ALL LOVED, WERE PUT IN 44:10 CAMPS. AND NOW WE'RE HORRIFIED LOOKING 44:13 BACK AND WE THINK, 'OH, THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.' AND 44:17 WHAT HAPPENED IN GERMANY WITH THE NAZIS; THAT WOULD 44:19 NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. WELL, PROPHECY TELLS US A TIME 44:22 OF TROUBLE IS COMING SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN AND, YOU 44:24 KNOW, HUMAN NATURE HAS NOT CHANGED. 44:28 WE'VE BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED, BUT PEOPLE ARE STILL KILLING 44:32 EACH OTHER IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. 44:34 LET ME KEEP READING, "...THE NORTH SHALL COME AGAINST HIM" - 44:37 I'M IN DANIEL CHAPTER 11, STILL VERSE 40 - "LIKE A WHIRLWIND, 44:42 WITH CHARIOTS, HORSEMEN, AND WITH MANY SHIPS;" - 44:45 THIS CAN'T BE UNDERSTOOD. NOW, I DOUBT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 44:47 CHARIOTS - THERE'LL PROBABLY BE HUMVEES AND TANKS AND I - YOU 44:49 KNOW, THEY'RE TRYING TO DESCRIBE MOVING, MASSIVE MILITARY, BUT A 44:55 GREAT CONFEDERACY OF MILITARY - MANY SHIPS AND A NAVY WILL ENTER 44:59 THE COUNTRIES - NOT COUNTRY - COUNTRIES. 45:03 THIS MIGHT BE SOME OF THE ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. 45:07 BUT YOU REALIZE, IT'S NOT JUST TERRORISM THAT'S HAPPENING IN 45:10 EUROPE AND AMERICA, IT'S IN AFRICA, IT'S IN INDIA, IT'S IN 45:14 INDONESIA, IT'S IN THE PHILIPPINES - EVERYWHERE I'VE 45:16 GONE IN THE WORLD THEY ARE HAVING FRICTION WITH THEIR 45:20 MUSLIM NEIGHBORS. NOW THIS MAY NOT HAPPEN NEXT 45:23 YEAR - IT COULD HAPPEN IN A MONTH - I DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'S 45:26 GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT I DON'T THINK THE PROPHECY'S 45:28 GOING TO FAIL. I THINK IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 45:31 THIS'LL BE THE THIRD WOE - WHAT THEY CALL THIS THIRD CALIPHATE. 45:36 YOU KNOW, THEY HAD THE FIRST ONE THAT TOOK PLACE THERE AGAINST 45:40 THE EASTERN CHRISTIANITY, AND THEN WESTERN CHRISTIANITY AND 45:43 THEN - MAYBE THE U.S. WE ALREADY KNOW HOW THEY 45:48 FEEL, IF YOU READ THE NEWS. KEEP READING - AND IT GOES ON TO 45:52 SAY "...MANY COUNTRIES SHALL BE OVERTHROWN; BUT THESE SHALL 45:54 ESCAPE FROM HIS HAND:" - THIS IS A LITTLE BIT MYSTERIOUS, BUT 45:58 I'LL GIVE YOU A THEORY: EDOM, MOAB, AND THE PROMINENT 46:01 PEOPLE OF AMMON." NOW, THOSE THREE COUNTRIES 46:05 BORDERED ISRAEL - EDOM, MOAB, AND AMMON. 46:09 IF YOU LOOK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THAT KING 46:12 JEHOSHOPHAT - GREAT KING - WAS ATTACKED BY A CONFEDERACY THAT 46:17 SAYS THE MOABITES, THE AMMONITES, AND THE PEOPLE OF 46:19 MOUNT SEIR - MOUNT SEIR IS THE EDOMITES - SAME GROUP. 46:23 SAME THREE-FOLD UNION ATTACKED. YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE 46:26 JEHOSHOPHAT WENT OUT IN THE BATTLE AND GOD SAID, 'DON'T 46:28 FIGHT, HAVE THE PRIESTS SING.' AND THE PRIESTS WENT OUT 46:31 SINGING, AND WHILE THEY WENT OUT SINGING, THE MOABITES, EDOMITES, 46:34 AND AMALEKITES ALL TURNED ON EACH OTHER AND ATTACKED EACH 46:37 OTHER, SO HE NEVER HAD TO ACTUALLY ENGAGE THEM IN BATTLE. 46:41 AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN YOUR BIBLE - I CAN'T REMEMBER 46:44 THE VERSE, BUT TRUST ME, IT'S IN THERE. 46:47 BUT, EVEN MORE THAN THAT, MOAB, EDOM, AND AMMON WERE ALL RELATED 46:54 TO ABRAHAM AND THEY'RE RELATED TO ISLAM. 46:58 THEY ALL BELIEVED IN ONE GOD, ORIGINALLY. 47:00 THEY PRACTICED CIRCUMCISION - THEY WERE SORT OF CONNECTED. 47:04 AND SO, THE REASON THAT IT MAY BE SAYING THAT EDOM, MOAB, AND 47:07 AMMON SHALL ESCAPE IS THERE MAY BE BIG GROUPS THAT WILL COME 47:11 OVER AND SAY, 'LOOK, DON'T ATTACK US, WE WANT PEACE FROM 47:14 THE MUSLIM WORLD.' OR 'WE'LL CONVERT.' I DON'T KNOW WHAT 47:17 THEY'LL SAY, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME COUNTRIES THAT WILL 47:19 ESCAPE. I DON'T THINK IT'S THE SAME 47:21 MODERN COUNTRIES BECAUSE THEY DON'T EVEN EXIST NOW, SO WE 47:24 MUST BE TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL TERMS. 47:26 THE EDOMITES, MOABITES, AND AMMONITES HAVE ALL BEEN 47:28 CONQUERED, INTERMARRIED, OR DISAPPEARED. 47:31 "HE SHALL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST THE COUNTRIES, AND THE 47:34 LAND OF EGYPT SHALL NOT ESCAPE." - EGYPT WAS THE LAST HOLDOUT 47:37 FOR THE KING OF THE SOUTH - "HE SHALL HAVE POWER OVER THE 47:41 TREASURES OF GOLD AND SILVER, AND OVER ALL THE PRECIOUS 47:44 THINGS" - THIS IS SAYING HE'LL HAVE CONTROL OF THE WEALTH. 47:48 YOU KNOW, THAT WEALTH, IT'S INTERESTING THAT SO MUCH OF THE 47:52 WORLD TODAY IS POWERED BY OIL AND THAT OIL IS WHERE IT IS 47:59 BECAUSE OF A WORLD BEING CURSED BACK IN THE DAYS OF NOAH. 48:02 AND THAT'S ALMOST LIKE THE BLOOD OF A CURSED WORLD IS WHAT'S 48:06 POWERING EVERYTHING. BUT IT TRANSLATES INTO 48:09 TREMENDOUS WEALTH. AND I KNOW THE POLITICIANS WILL 48:13 ALWAYS ARGUE THAT WE ENTERED THE GULF FOR, YOU KNOW, PURELY 48:16 MORAL REASONS, BUT I CAN ALMOST GUARANTEE YOU THAT THEY WERE 48:21 ALSO THINKING, 'WE NEED TO PRESERVE THE FLOW OF THE OIL.' 48:25 WHICH WAS MONEY. AND WHOEVER CONQUERS THESE 48:29 COUNTRIES WILL HAVE CONTROL OF THAT FANTASTIC WEALTH AND POWER. 48:34 RUSSIA'S STRIVING TO HAVE CONTROL OF THE PIPELINES FOR 48:37 EUROPE AND THE GAS LINES, BECAUSE YOU'RE CONTROLLING THE 48:41 AIR FOR THE ECONOMY FOR THESE COUNTRIES. 48:45 VENEZUELA IS IN A TERRIBLE DECLINE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY 48:48 HAD OVERSPENT, BASED ON THEIR OIL, AND THE OIL PRICES WENT 48:51 DOWN AND THEY'RE HAVING AN INCREDIBLE RECESSION THERE. 48:54 AND - THEY'RE ON THE VERGE, I THINK, OF A REVOLUTION RIGHT 48:58 NOW. KEEP READING - "ALSO THE LIBYANS 49:03 AND ETHIOPIANS SHALL FOLLOW AT HIS HEELS." 49:06 BOY, THIS IS AN INTERESTING VERSE - "BUT NEWS FROM THE EAST 49:09 AND THE NORTH SHALL TROUBLE HIM;" - MY CHARISMATIC FRIENDS 49:12 READ THIS AND THEY THINK THAT MEANS RUSSIA AND CHINA. 49:14 I DON'T THINK IT MEANS THAT AT ALL. 49:16 READ IN ISAIAH 41:25, "I HAVE RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH, 49:22 AND HE SHALL COME; FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN" - NOW, DOES 49:24 THE SUN RISE IN THE NORTH? THE SUN RISES WHERE? 49:28 >>EAST. >>IN THE EAST. 49:30 AND SO HERE ISAIAH SAYS, 'I STIRRED ONE FROM THE NORTH. 49:33 HE'S COME FROM THE RISING SUN. HE WILL CALL UPON MY NAME. 49:37 HE WILL TRAMPLE ON RULERS AS ON MORTAR,' - THIS IS WHAT - 'AS A 49:40 POTTER TREADS CLAY.' REVELATION TALKS ABOUT JESUS TREADING DOWN 49:45 THE POTTERS AND BREAKING THE POTS - THAT JESUS IS THE ONE - 49:49 AND SO, TIDINGS FROM THE NORTH AND THE EAST ARE TALKING ABOUT 49:52 THE REAL OWNER OF THE THRONE IN THE NORTH - THE REAL ONE WHO 49:57 COMES FROM THE EAST. JESUS SAID, 'AS LIGHTNING 50:00 SHINES FROM THE WHAT? FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST. 50:03 HOW'S THE LORD COMING? FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST. 50:07 SO WHAT'S MAKING HIM NERVOUS - WHAT MAKES THE DEVIL NERVOUS? 50:11 HE'S COME DOWN WITH GREAT WRATH BECAUSE HE KNOWS HIS TIME IS 50:14 SHORT. TIME FOR WHAT? FOR JESUS COMES. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE 50:18 DEVILS SAY, 'JESUS, HAVE YOU COME TO TORMENT US BEFORE OUR 50:21 TIME? THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE GOING TO 50:23 BE CAST INTO THIS BOTTOMLESS PIT AND, ULTIMATELY, INTO A LAKE OF 50:27 FIRE AND SO TIDINGS FROM THE EAST AND THE NORTH TROUBLE HIM. 50:31 SO, IT GOES TO SAY, "THEREFORE" - VERSE 44 - "HE SHALL GO OUT 50:36 WITH GREAT FURY" - THE DEVIL'S COME DOWN "WITH GREAT WRATH TO 50:39 DESTROY AND ANNIHILATE MANY." 50:41 TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN. 50:45 WHO ARE THE ONES HE WANTS TO ANNIHILATE? 50:47 THOSE WHO SERVE THE KING COMING FROM THE EAST. 50:49 IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT BATTLE AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE - "AND HE 50:53 SHALL PLANT THE TENTS OF HIS PALACE BETWEEN THE SEAS AND THE 50:56 GLORIOUS HOLY MOUNTAIN; YET HE SHALL COME TO HIS END, AND NO 51:00 ONE WILL HELP HIM." IT TALKS ABOUT HOW THE KINGS 51:02 TURN ON BABYLON IN THE END AND NONE WILL HELP HIM. 51:06 WHAT DOES IT MEAN, HE'LL PLANT HIS PALACE BETWEEN THE SEAS? 51:09 YOU'VE READ WHERE JESUS SAID, 'WHEN YOU, THEREFORE, SEE THE 51:11 ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION STAND IN THE HOLY PLACE - THAT'S 51:15 MATTHEW 24:15 - "THEN LET THOSE WHO ARE IN JUDEA FLEE TO THE 51:19 MOUNTAINS." THERE'LL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE 51:21 SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN. JESUS IS QUOTING DANIEL 12 - A 51:25 TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN. 51:27 READ IN 2 THESSALONIANS 2, VERSE 3 - PAUL SAYS, "LET NO ONE 51:32 DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS; FOR THAT DAY" - THE 51:34 DAY OF THE LORD - "...WILL NOT COME UNLESS THE FALLING AWAY 51:38 COMES FIRST, AND THE MAN OF SIN IS REVEALED, THE SON OF 51:40 PERDITION, WHO OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS 51:44 CALLED GOD OR THAT IS WORSHIPED, SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE 51:49 TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD." 51:51 SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THIS KING OF THE NORTH - THIS BEAST 51:54 POWER SETTING HIS TABERNACLE IN THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, IT'S TALKING 51:59 ABOUT THAT FINAL BEAST PAPAL POWER - THAT CONFEDERACY THAT 52:05 SAYS, 'I AM GOD. WORSHIP ME.' 52:08 AND IF YOU DON'T WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, YOU CAN'T 52:10 BUY AND SELL, ULTIMATELY THERE'S A DEATH DECREE - SEVEN PLAGUES 52:14 FALL - A GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE - IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT TIME OF 52:17 WRATH. DURING THE SMALL TIME OF TROUBLE 52:19 IT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY SEVERE TOO. 52:22 BUT YOU NOTICE, THE SCRIPTURES ARE ALL LINING UP. 52:24 IT'S TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU SEE THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION 52:27 STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE, CHRIST IS TALKING ABOUT THAT 52:30 SAME THING WE JUST READ THERE FROM DANIEL CHAPTER 11, WHERE IT 52:35 SAYS THAT "HE'LL PLANT THE TENT OF HIS PALACES BETWEEN THE SEAS 52:39 AND THE GLORIOUS HOLY MOUNTAIN;" - YOU KNOW, MY GUESS IS THAT 52:44 WHEN THIS COALITION OF POWERS FROM THE NORTH - CHRISTIAN 52:47 COALITION - DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER CHRISTIAN COALITION - THAT 52:54 A CONFEDERACY - THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'ISRAEL IS OUR FRIEND.' AND 53:00 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S THIS GREAT ISLAMIC STRUGGLE 53:04 AGAINST THE WEST, THERE WILL PROBABLY BE AN ATTACK ON ISRAEL 53:08 AT THE SAME TIME AND THEY WILL USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE TO PROTECT 53:12 OUR JEWISH FRIENDS. THEY WILL ENTER THE PROMISED LAND 53:14 LITERALLY. I REALLY THINK THAT MAY LITERALLY HAPPEN. 53:18 I TELL YOU, THERE'S NOTHING MORE THAT A LOT OF ARAB COUNTRIES - 53:23 NOT ALL, BUT MANY OF THESE ARAB PEOPLE IN COUNTRIES WOULD LOVE 53:26 TO SEE ISRAEL DISPLACED. THEY WON'T EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE 53:29 THEM AS A NATION. THAT WOULD BE A GOOD EXCUSE FOR 53:33 THIS MILITARY TO COME IN AND CREATE A BEACHHEAD THERE. 53:38 BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING IT'S TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUALLY - THAT 53:41 THE BEAST POWER IS GOING TO PUT THEM SELF IN THE PLACE OF GOD, 53:45 ASKING FOR THE PREROGATIVES THAT BELONG TO GOD, AND WE'RE GOING 53:48 TO HAVE TO DECIDE WHO WE WORSHIP. 53:50 ARE WE GOING TO WORSHIP THEIR WAY, THEIR DAY? 53:53 OR ARE WE GOING TO WORSHIP THE WAY GOD SAYS AND THE TIME HE 53:57 SAYS? YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? THE BOTTOM LINE 54:01 IS GOING TO BE WORSHIP. THE BIBLE BEGINS WITH TWO BROTHERS 54:09 BEING TOLD TO WORSHIP GOD. ONE WORSHIPS HIS WAY - CAIN DOES IT 54:13 HIS OWN WAY - MAN-MADE WORSHIP - AND HE GETS UPSET AT HIS BROTHER 54:17 WHO WORSHIPS THE WAY GOD SAYS AND HE KILLS HIS BROTHER. 54:21 THE BIBLE ENDS THAT WAY. IT'S THE STORY OF JACOB AND ESAU - 54:24 ONE FLESH, ONE SPIRIT - IT'S THE STORY OF ISAAC AND ISHMAEL - AND 54:28 THESE ARE THE TWO POWERS. I THINK, IN THE LAST DAYS, THIS 54:31 BATTLE BETWEEN TRUE AND FALSE IS GOING TO BE PLAYED OUT BETWEEN 54:35 THESE TWO COUNTERFEITS. NOW, I'M TALKING ABOUT 54:39 COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY AND I'M ALSO TALKING ABOUT ISLAM, WHICH 54:43 IS A COUNTERFEIT RELIGION, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A WAVE OF 54:47 MUSLIMS COMING TO JESUS, I BELIEVE. I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO 54:51 SEE A WAVE OF JEWS COMING TO ACCEPT CHRIST AS THE MESSIAH. 54:56 AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A WAVE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE TRAPPED IN 54:58 BABYLON - FALLEN CHRISTIANITY - COMING BACK TO THE BIBLE. 55:02 JESUS SAID, 'MANY SHEEP I HAVE THAT ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD, BUT 55:06 THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE AND THEY'RE GOING TO COME OUT OF 55:08 BABYLON AND THERE'S GOING TO BE ONE FOLD AND ONE SHEPHERD. 55:11 AND SO, YEAH, THERE IS A TIME OF TROUBLE COMING. 55:14 I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT THAT. I THINK THERE IS ALSO - A TIME 55:16 OF GREAT EVANGELISM IS GOING TO COME BECAUSE, DURING THIS TIME 55:19 OF PERSECUTION, JESUS SAID, 'YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE KINGS 55:22 AND THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD TO BEAR TESTIMONY FOR ME.' BECAUSE 55:25 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE TRIED FOR THEIR FAITH. 55:28 AND SO, THAT'S A QUICK OVERVIEW OF WHAT I THINK IS COMING. 55:33 CHEER UP, IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE - BUT THEN IT'LL GET 55:35 BETTER. (LAUGHTER) IT'S GOING TO GET 55:36 REALLY GOOD BECAUSE IT SAYS, 'MICHAEL WILL STAND UP.' YOU 55:40 KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS WHEN IT SAYS MICHAEL STANDS UP? 55:42 WHEN SOMEBODY STARTS PICKING ON MY KIDS, I'M GOING TO STAND UP. 55:50 AND, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KING OF THE NORTH PERSECUTING GOD'S 55:53 PEOPLE - THE LORD SAYS, 'MICHAEL WILL STAND UP.' NOT ONLY DOES IT 55:57 MEAN HE CEASES HIS INTERCESSION, THE JUDGMENT IS OVER, NOW HE IS 56:01 GOING TO COME AND ACT AND HE IS COMING FOR HIS PEOPLE. 56:05 AND IT SAYS, 'THEY WILL BE DELIVERED, EVERYONE THAT IS 56:07 FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK.' SO THAT'S THE BIG QUESTION - ALL OF 56:11 THIS IS VERY INTERESTING, BUT ARE YOU IN THE BOOK? 56:14 HAVE YOU ACCEPTED JESUS? I DON'T MEAN IN A POLITICAL, 56:19 ORGANIZATIONAL WAY, BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE PLENTY OF 56:23 POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT TAKE THE NAME OF CHRIST - THEY 56:26 EAT THEIR OWN BREAD AND WEAR THEIR OWN APPAREL. THEY USE HIS 56:28 NAME TO TAKE AWAY THEIR REPROACH, BUT THEY'RE NOT REAL. 56:32 ARE YOU GOING TO BE SOMEONE WHO HAS A PERSONAL, DAILY, SAVING 56:36 RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, WHERE HE IS THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE AND 56:39 YOU DO HIS WILL BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM AND YOU WANT TO PLEASE HIM? 56:42 THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SAVED - TO ACCEPT THAT HE DIED ON THE 56:45 CROSS TO SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SIN. ALL OF THESE PROPHECIES ARE JUST 56:50 HELPING US KNOW THE TIME IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING. 56:52 AND GOD WANTS US TO KNOW DON'T WAIT, BECAUSE THE TIME COMES 56:56 WHEN PROBATION CLOSES AND IT'S TOO LATE. 56:59 SO NOW IS THE TIME TO ACCEPT THAT CALL AND TO COME TO CHRIST. 57:03 I WANT TO BE READY, AMEN? >>AMEN. 57:04 >>I SEE THE FINAL EVENTS ARE HAPPENING ALL AROUND US, AND - 57:07 BUT WE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID. JESUS PROMISES HE WILL PROTECT 57:11 HIS OWN. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS 57:14 BIBLE STUDY? 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