1 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:13,520 What I can say is that since 2023, since October the 7th 2 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:20,840 2020, third this horrific day and until September 2024, anti 3 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:28,320 Semitic incidents surged by 360 percentage with over 2000 case 4 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,080 reported threats, assaults, vandalism and intimidation. 5 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:39,640 In October and November 2023 alone, episodes increased over 6 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:44,880 700 percentage compared to the previous year, reflecting 7 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,360 incitement by those with extremist views and 8 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,320 misinformation in the media and online. 9 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,040 Now is the time to make sure that anti Semitism will be 10 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:01,320 uprooted. Sorry, that's the ambassador 11 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:06,720 from Israel to Australia. Because what we want to look at 12 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,120 today in the Book of Revelation is why Israel? 13 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:20,560 Why Israel? The small, unique nation born 14 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:25,960 from Abraham and Sarah has never been out of the world spotlight. 15 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:32,360 Throughout history, each of the great empires of the past have 16 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:38,800 had a rendezvous with Israel, this tiny sliver of land in the 17 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,880 middle of the world. One side of the world writes 18 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,520 this way, and the other side of the world on Israel writes the 19 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:52,720 other way. Egypt powerful empire built by 20 00:01:52,720 --> 00:02:00,920 God, says raised by the Lord. 400 years, 7274 people went to 21 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:06,440 Israel from Abraham and Sarah and turned into two to three and 22 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:13,920 a half million people. Slaves for 400 years in Babylon, 23 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,720 Mighty Babylon small nation and it became a great nation under 24 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:25,560 Nebuchadnezzar. Captured, desecrated Israel, 25 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:33,800 captured the Israelis and took them back to Babylon. 70 years 26 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,520 in captivity. Then came the Medes and the 27 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:45,000 Persians, and following the Persians, who would forget a 28 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:52,080 fellow called Haman, who in the book of Esther, chapter 5, set 29 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,240 out what was going to be the final solution. 30 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:02,160 Even back as far then on a certain day, certain month, at a 31 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:07,320 certain hour, to kill every Jew, to kill every Jew. 32 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:16,800 Then the Greeks came, and lastly the mighty Roman Empire. 70AD 33 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:22,280 The Romans conquered, invaded Jerusalem. 34 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:29,320 The Temple was destroyed, the Jews were dispersed. 35 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,800 That survived, but didn't stop there. 36 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:41,200 This acrimonious action against Israel continued on after that 37 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:52,800 1938. 45 Germany and after the war, the United Kingdom stopped 38 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:58,880 the Jews from coming home, refused entry. 39 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:09,240 Yet in 1948, somehow Israel was reborn. 40 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,760 What happened? The day that Israel was reborn, 41 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,600 war broke out with every Arab nation. 42 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:27,200 We find ourselves in August of 2025 and the spotlight now is no 43 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:32,960 never been greater on Israel. It's never being as intense as 44 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,040 it is now. Why? 45 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:41,920 Let's pray Lord, so we open your word, speak to our hearts, let 46 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:48,200 our ears be listening ears to your voice, that only your 47 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:55,200 voice, not the voice of a man be heard, but will. 48 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,360 Let our hearts be deep rich soil to receive the word of God. 49 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,480 Let us grow an understanding and maturity. 50 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:09,760 Let us grow on our love for you. We pray and ask this in Jesus 51 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:16,240 name, Amen. Revelation Chapter 12 Today we 52 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,800 are set to begin as our journey through the Book of Revelation. 53 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,120 Chapter 1. John on the Isle of Patmos. 54 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:29,880 He's in these 90s as a vision sees Jesus and all his glory. 55 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,800 Chapters 2 and three in the vision that he's given, he 56 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,120 writes down the period of the church age. 57 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,600 Chapter 4, John has taken up into heaven, sees the throne of 58 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,480 God, the type of the rapture of the church. 59 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,680 Chapter 5 is the great chorus. We glorify the Lord and the Lord 60 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,120 takes the scroll on the right hand of the Father, 7 seals on 61 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,320 the scroll, the tile deed of the dead, redemption of the earth, 62 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,360 and he begin begins to break the seals. 63 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:08,520 We had 7 seals and then we had the seven trumpets. 64 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,760 We're in those trumpets now. We're going to get to the 7 65 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:19,360 balls, but we're in Chapter 11. We're 11 chapters down. 66 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,520 We're in the second half of the Book of Revelation, 11 chapters 67 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:30,400 ahead. We find ourselves in the second 68 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,920 half of the Tribulation period, often referred to as the Great 69 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:40,800 Tribulation. In this chapter we are able to 70 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,400 come to the answer as to why Israel. 71 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,240 I remember walking into the Fremantle Football Club, being 72 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,760 the chaplain down there since the year 2000. 73 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:56,400 I remember the head of Sports Science, PhD in Physiotherapy 74 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,800 was talking to one of the players as I walked in. 75 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,680 They said you, you know as I walked in. 76 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:06,880 Why? What's the deal about Israel? 77 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,080 Why is everything about Israel? I said, well, you really want to 78 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:11,520 know, do you? You want me to answer you and 79 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,640 how I believe that what the answer really is. 80 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,040 Yeah. Yeah. 81 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:22,400 It's a spiritual conflict. It's a war between evil and the 82 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,240 Lord. Yeah. 83 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:37,920 Anyway, So why Israel? Why is there such a hatred 84 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:46,360 venomous for this tiny nation, some 8 to 9 million people, 1/8 85 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:51,440 of them Russian, 2 million of them are Arabs. 86 00:07:54,720 --> 00:08:00,160 Part of what is to believe a total worldwide of some 15.7 87 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:08,200 million, only remembering that 6,000,000 were murdered between 88 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:17,920 1938 and 1945 by the Nazis, of which 1.5 million were little 89 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,360 children and babies. Horrific. 90 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,920 Why this vile hatred towards them? 91 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:31,320 Revelation chapter 12 could easily be entitled A History of 92 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,080 Hatred. Let's read verse one now. 93 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:40,240 A great sign appeared in heaven, a woman, first character, 94 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:45,760 clothed with the sun, with the moon and her feet, and on her 95 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,720 head a Garland of 12 stars. 12 was the number of government 96 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:57,680 then being with child, second person we're introduced to, she 97 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:00,880 cried out in labour and in pain to give birth. 98 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,640 And another sign appeared in heaven. 99 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:13,280 Behold a great fiery red dragon, third character, having 7 heads 100 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,400 and 10 horns, 7 diadems of crowns on his head. 101 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:25,720 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven angels and threw 102 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,920 them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the 103 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:36,880 woman who was ready to give birth to devour her child. 104 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:46,520 As soon as it was born, she bore a male child, Capital C notice, 105 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:52,280 who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. 106 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,800 And her child was caught up to God and his throne. 107 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:07,440 Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place 108 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:15,640 prepared by God that they should feed her there 1260 days. 109 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,080 In this passage we are introduced to three main 110 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,720 characters. The woman. 111 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,280 Who is this woman? Well, some say it's the Virgin 112 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,600 Mary because look at the description, you know, no, it's 113 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,120 not the Virgin Mary. She was not in heaven prior to a 114 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,840 birth. And some say, well, it's the 115 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,400 church. No, it's not the church. 116 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:44,360 The church did not give birth to Jesus Christ. 117 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:53,200 Mary Baker Eddy, who birthed what's called Christian Science, 118 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,320 which is a cult. Mary Baker Eddy said it's me. 119 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,560 She actually said that that's me. 120 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:09,280 We find much of the scripture written here by John the 121 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,320 language you go back to Genesis chapter 37. 122 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:20,520 There is a young boy by the name of Joseph who had dreams 2 123 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,200 dreams and he shared his dreams with his father Jacob and his 124 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,560 mother Rachel and his eleven brothers dreamed. 125 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:33,520 Remember, they were gathering all the wheat gathered up their 126 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:38,280 sheaves and and then there was a sun on the moon and and the 127 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,840 sheaves and the sun on the moon all bowed down to him. 128 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,080 And of course, his brothers are when? 129 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,440 Yeah, that's going to happen. Even Dad Jacobson, what are you 130 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:54,080 going on about? But we know as we read through 131 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:59,440 Genesis that the sun and the moon were Joseph's father and 132 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:05,200 mother and that the 12 stars became known as the 12 tribes of 133 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:10,360 Israel. We remember that God changed 134 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:15,040 Jacob's name to Israel after that all night World 135 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:26,080 Championship Wrestling match which our premier paid for the 136 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,080 woman in Israel. The woman is Israel. 137 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,040 Revelation chapter 12. So we find out who that first 138 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,080 person is. Our second character mentioned 139 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:41,000 here is Jesus. The woman brings forth a child. 140 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,840 Jesus was born a Jew, a descendant of the Jewish tribe 141 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:51,640 of Judah, through the people and nation of Israel. 142 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,320 We as Christians, believers today, we owe a great debt of 143 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,600 gratitude to the people of Israel. 144 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,640 I, I gave us the word of God. No, they didn't invent it, but 145 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,480 they wrote what God wrote gave to them and they wrote it down 146 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,720 painstakingly. Not a jot or a tiddlers out of 147 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,720 place, not a not a spot, not a grammar. 148 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,280 They painstakingly wrote and gave us the word of God. 149 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:22,000 And thus we have the word of God on our hands because of the 150 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,360 Jewish people. They gave us the Saviour, they 151 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,600 gave us the prophets. And on the day of Pentecost, as 152 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,560 the Holy Spirit fell, as Jesus said, the promise of the Father 153 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:41,280 would come, and the disciples were waiting and praying in 154 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,680 Jerusalem, they gave us the church. 155 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,680 The church began with just Jewish believers on a Jewish 156 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:55,640 holiday, day of Pentecost in a Jewish city, Jerusalem. 157 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,440 In verse 2, the woman gives Israel. 158 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,120 The woman Israel gives birth to our Saviour Jesus. 159 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:08,560 And he is described as the one who shall reign notice forever 160 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:13,280 over all nations, verse 5. And he who ascended to heaven. 161 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,400 And we have the third character, a fiery red dragon. 162 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,960 This tells you as you see much in Asian culture, particularly 163 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,480 the dragon and the colour red it comes. 164 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:31,720 From the source, sadly, verse 3. And another sign appeared in 165 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,320 heaven. Behold, a great fiery red dragon 166 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,680 having 7 heads and 10 horns and seven diadems on his heads. 167 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,800 Now when you read many of the books that try to write these 168 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,880 animals and creatures and scripture, again, that's freaky 169 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,600 and it just blows you away. You know, what is this? 170 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:54,960 But we all know who this is, and verse 9 clarifies it for us. 171 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,120 Drop down to verse nine. So the Great Dragon was cast 172 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:04,240 out, that serpent of all. Old called the devil and Satan 173 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,920 who deceives the whole world. He was cast to the earth. 174 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,400 And his angels. Were cast with him red in 175 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,080 colour. Why the colour red? 176 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,720 It signifies bloodshed. Because he's a destroyer, the 177 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:22,960 seven heads and the 10 horns a symbolic of his world kingdoms. 178 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,160 We see again mentioned in chapter 13 of this beast and 179 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,880 also Daniel Chapter 7 prophesied. 180 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,480 That these would be the kingdoms and the kings who would give 181 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:40,560 over their power to the coming Antichrist, the lawless. 1 It 182 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:45,880 says in verse four he drew a. 3rd of the stars of heaven, 183 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,840 that's not stars like a planets etcetera threw them to the earth 184 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,800 and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give 185 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,360 birth to devour her child capital C as soon as it was 186 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,680 born. This verse takes us back before 187 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:09,800 the days of Eden to the original fall of Satan and a third of the 188 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:15,680 angels with him. It says drop down to verse 7 and 189 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,920 a war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought 190 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:24,520 with the dragon Satan and the dragon and his angels a third of 191 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:30,920 them, but they did not prevail. Nor was a place found for them 192 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,400 in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast 193 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,440 out, the serpent of old called the devil, and Satan, who 194 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:44,200 deceives the world, he was cast to the earth, and his angels 195 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,800 were cast out with him. This passage tells us that Satan 196 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,760 wanted to be like God. He was created. 197 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,560 And we have this thing, you know, you know of the devil and 198 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,200 the of of you know the pitchfork and the horn feet and. 199 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,480 And the little horns, actually, that's the God Pan. 200 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:09,760 Lucifer himself was created as a most magnificent creation. 201 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:15,079 He had instruments built into his actual body. 202 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,119 He was in charge of worship, LED worship. 203 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:29,880 He was probably a terrorist. And Isaiah chapter 14 verse 12 204 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,160 tells us about what happened with Satan, Lucifer. 205 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,080 It says in Isaiah 1412 how you are fallen from heaven, O 206 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,720 Lucifer, He was called the sun of the morning. 207 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,920 How you are cut down to the ground, you who weaken the 208 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,360 nations. For you have said in your heart, 209 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,520 I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the 210 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,640 stars of God. I will also sit on the mount of 211 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,120 the congregation of the farther sides of the north. 212 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,920 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. 213 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,280 I will be like the most high I will be. 214 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:13,040 God, that's his plan, that's why he was cast down. 215 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,400 It's interesting that when Satan tempted Jesus 40 nights or 40 216 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,680 nights on the wilderness, whatever he said to Jesus, 217 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,280 Jesus, you don't have to go to the cross, You don't have to do 218 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:31,600 any of that rubbish. Just bow down to me, worship me, 219 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,000 I'll give you the world and he, he got the world. 220 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,800 Remember, Adam and Eve forfeited it, gave over the minion to 221 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:46,280 Satan. Jesus, just bow down and worship 222 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,600 me. That's what he wants and that's 223 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,640 what he's going to do through the Antichrist. 224 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,960 When Jesus was born back in verse 4, chapter 4 that we read 225 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,920 in Bethlehem, we celebrate his Christmas. 226 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,080 Satan was waiting for him. What for? 227 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,160 To kill him. And the dragon stood before the 228 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,800 woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her child as 229 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,520 soon as it was born. How did he go about this? 230 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:23,280 Well the Magi remember turned up, been over 2 years now. 231 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:27,480 Jesus as a 2 year old. They turn up and they come to 232 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,640 Herod. OK, we're looking for the king 233 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,320 born. Follow the star. 234 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:36,000 And he went king, and he's, Herod said to his counsellors, 235 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,360 where is this king? Well, he's to be born, the Jews 236 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:43,160 say, in Bethlehem. Herod said to the Maggie, when 237 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,360 you find him, let me know when you because I want to go there. 238 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:53,400 And I worship him too. And So what happened in Matthew 239 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:59,160 chapter 2, verse 16, the Lord said to the Magi, don't go to 240 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,360 Herod, go back, go where you came, leave. 241 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,840 And So what did Herod do? He got angry and he said, every 242 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:14,480 Jewish child, Bethlehem two years and under, kill them all. 243 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:21,040 Kill them all. So the dragon stood before the 244 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,720 woman was ready to give birth to devour her child. 245 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,440 Now jump down to verse 6. Now we find ourselves in the mid 246 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,560 Trib. Then the woman who is it? 247 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,640 Israel fled into the wilderness. What's going on here? 248 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:44,360 This is the desert where she has a place prepared by God during 249 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:48,360 the tribulation period that they should feed her. 250 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:53,200 Look after the people of Israel. 1260 days. 251 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,280 So we're travelling now some 202,000 years on from the time 252 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,200 of Christ's birth, plus to the days of the great Tribulation 253 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,080 period midway. So the Antichrist up to this 254 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,560 place. Remember the first of the seals 255 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,840 broken by Jesus on the scroll was 4 horsemen. 256 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,720 First horsemen. White Horse diadem comes and he 257 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:22,720 brings what peace. White Horse brings peace. 258 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:28,920 The following him is is war, death and destruction and and 259 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:36,520 and famine. So the Antichrist up to this 260 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:41,520 stage has got the world in his hand and he's got Israel in his 261 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,560 hand. He has set up his rule. 262 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:52,920 The the 10 horns are 7 heads and 10 horns are nations who will 263 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:57,640 give over their authority, their government to this man because 264 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,000 they think this guy is. And he will be brilliant. 265 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:06,520 He'll be the most brilliant political leader, savvy, most 266 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:13,080 powerful orator the world has ever seen, and he'll be in Rule 267 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,680 at this time he has brought. Peace to the Middle East 268 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,720 situation. And you can imagine every, every 269 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,280 U.S. President is, you know, thought 270 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,880 my man, if I can bring peace to the Middle East, man, I'll be 271 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,280 the greatest president ever. They've tried, they've tried. 272 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,040 They named a place where they're going to meet all the time, Camp 273 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,560 David. They set it up. 274 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,040 They meet, they meet, they meet. Doesn't work, does it? 275 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,440 And today we still have war going on in Israel. 276 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,640 And now? Sadly, our Prime Minister again 277 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:54,200 made of another step toward another step away from Israel, 278 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:58,560 away from God, and toward judgement of coming upon our 279 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,960 nation when he spoke strongly. Now he's going to sign the 280 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:08,640 agreement that Palestine must become a state, and we're 281 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:14,400 sending $30 million there. And so up to this point, we find 282 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,200 ourselves in the passage of Scripture. 283 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,120 It's been 3 1/2 years. And in that. 284 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:23,080 Period of time, because how does this man bring peace to the 285 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,720 Middle East? Well, he's got to satisfy the 286 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,600 Muslims and he's got to satisfy the Jews. 287 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,680 And somehow or other he makes an arrangement where the Jews can 288 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,240 rebuild the Temple. They even struggled to go up on 289 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,160 the Temple Mount. I touched on that on Wednesday 290 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:45,200 night. Israel at this time has 291 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,640 reinstated temple worship. So the priests are going there, 292 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,960 the children of Israel are going there, and they're taking their 293 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,160 lambs, their doves, They're doing this. 294 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,600 The Holy of Holies is there. The priests are going about 295 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,120 their thing. It's happening. 296 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,040 All this is happening in Israel. The priests are all adorned, the 297 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,400 the sacrifices, the lambs, the goats, the calves, all going 298 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:15,240 through. Because the Antichrist has 299 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:21,240 allowed this to occur. Suddenly, you can picture this, 300 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,320 the Antichrist flies into Israel, lands at Tel Aviv. 301 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,640 I think he's great because, man, it's just things are going so 302 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,760 great. Worship place, We got peace. 303 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,720 You know, this is just wonderful. 304 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,440 Muslims aren't warring against us. 305 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,440 Look at the Temple Mount. Here we go. 306 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,200 The people are gathering there. It's just, oh, man, you are 307 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:48,360 awesome. He arrives up to in his limos. 308 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,360 Imagine they're just clapping in, waving flags as he drives 309 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:52,800 out. Maybe he's just going out the 310 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,480 temple site. He's going to just look at this 311 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,800 magnificent. What's going on? 312 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,640 And he gets out, walks straight up, walks into the holy of 313 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,720 holies and he says everything. Stop right now. 314 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:10,640 Stop all this. Now you'll worship me. 315 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,920 Now you and all the world will worship me. 316 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,680 And if you don't, I'll kill you. You might be able to eat, sleep, 317 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,160 you'll bear my mark as a mark of who I am. 318 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,360 And Israel goes. What has happened? 319 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,400 Daniel prophesied of this in Matthew 2415. 320 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,960 Jesus said this would occur. He says, therefore when you see 321 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,720 the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet 322 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:47,120 standing in the holy place, he'll actually walk into the 323 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:51,800 holy of holies. Jesus said whoever reads this, 324 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,680 let him understand you're going to know this. 325 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,640 Let him understand what this is about. 326 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:02,480 Then let those who are in Judea, this is Israel, this is talking 327 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,360 to Israel during the time of the mid tribulation. 328 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,360 Those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 329 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:12,760 Run. How desperate. 330 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,880 Let him who was on the housetop not go down to take anything out 331 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,440 of here. Just go run. 332 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,800 Let him who was in the field not go back and get his clothes. 333 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,800 Just leave. Flee, but woe to you who are 334 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,280 pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days. 335 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,880 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the 336 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,240 Sabbath. Notice the Sabbath has been 337 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,280 reinstituted. 1280 steps on the Sabbath. 338 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,840 That's as far as you can go. Oh, we can't. 339 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,360 We can't run. We'll break the Sabbath. 340 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:54,920 Now go for them. There will be great tribulation, 341 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,560 Jesus says. Such as has not been seen since 342 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,760 the beginning of the world until this time no nor ever shall be. 343 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,040 And unless those days were shortened, Jesus says no flesh 344 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,360 should be saved. But for the elect's sake those 345 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:12,280 days will be shortened. So the woman Israel, mid Trib 346 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,280 Antichrist is mighty stand. He's let everyone know really 347 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:20,320 what's going on. Flee into the wilderness, to a 348 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:26,000 place God has prepared for her. 1260 days, 3 1/2 years. 349 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,240 The second half of the Tribulation. 350 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,760 Now what's beautiful in this tragic moment for Israel is the 351 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,400 very Greek language that the apostle John uses to describe 352 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,720 this place of safety prepared by God. 353 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:46,280 Because only in one other place in the Bible are these exact 354 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,000 words used or found in any other passage of Scripture. 355 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:55,280 John chapter 14, Remember the verse, Let not your heart be 356 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,320 troubled. You believe in God, believe in 357 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,720 me. Also in my Father's house are 358 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,360 many mansions. If it were not so, I would have 359 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:09,200 told you, I go to prepare a place for you. 360 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,960 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, 361 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,960 receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be 362 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,840 also. So as Jesus prepared a place for 363 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,760 believers in heaven, when we are raptured, we go to that place. 364 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:30,880 So too, during the Tribulation period, God has prepared a place 365 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,760 for his people, Israel, the woman in the wilderness during 366 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,440 this most savage, traumatic and dangerous time. 367 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:46,960 But the Jews who stay and don't flee, who remain. 368 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,360 The Antichrist was savagely put to the sword. 369 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:51,920 More than two. Thirds of them. 370 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,600 The place Daniel Chapter 11, verse 41 he shall also enter the 371 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,400 glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown, 372 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,760 but these shall escape from his hand Edom, Moab and the 373 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:09,960 prominent people of Ammon. Now, as we go down the the drive 374 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,920 from Jerusalem down to sorry, from the Galilee down to the 375 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,440 Dead Sea, on our left is the Jordan, on our right, all these 376 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:20,800 cliffs. We're heading down to the Dead 377 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,160 Sea. We're in the bus on the driver. 378 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,680 We're heading down on the left. Here, River Jordan and the 379 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:33,680 mountains over there, Moab, all along opposite the Dead Sea 380 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,440 where we stay, it's all Moab, it's all Jordan. 381 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:43,800 Jordan is going to be the place of sanctuary for Israel during 382 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,200 the Tribulation period. Now back to verse 7. 383 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:48,800 Hang with me. I know you're going. 384 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,760 We'll keep where are we? Verse 7, War broke out in 385 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,120 heaven. Michael and his angels fought 386 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,280 with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, but they 387 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,600 didn't prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any 388 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,600 longer. Notice that so the great dragon 389 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,360 was cast out, serpent of old called the devil Satan, who 390 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,880 deceives the whole world. He was cast to the earth, his 391 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,720 angels were cast out with him. Verse 10 Then I heard a loud 392 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,640 voice saying In heaven now salvation and strength and the 393 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:26,880 Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come for the 394 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:32,880 accuser is the Satan of our brethren who accuse them before 395 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,960 our God. How often day and night has been 396 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,240 cast down. Take a journey back. 397 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,480 We go to the book of Job. Remember how the book of Job 398 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,480 starts is Job wonderful man? He's doing sacrifices for his 399 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,200 children. He loves God and God says to 400 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:54,600 Satan, because Satan at this time is going up from the earth 401 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,880 and he's able to go to the courts of heaven. 402 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,520 He says, yeah, but Joe Bunny worships you and loves you 403 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,680 because you protect him. You give him everything. 404 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,080 Let me have a crack at him. He'll turn against you. 405 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,440 No problems. And we know the story. 406 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,000 Well. Satan has been able to do that. 407 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,560 And each time he's gone to heaven, he's had you and I also 408 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,560 on his lips. Keep calmly. 409 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,280 He's an idiot. He's only worshipping you 410 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,840 because you look after Him. But let me have a crack at him. 411 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:36,640 He'll turn tail on you, it says. And they overcame him by the 412 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,760 blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony. 413 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,760 And they did not love their lives to death. 414 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,560 You see, when you apply the cross of Jesus Christ to your 415 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:50,440 life, when you make Jesus Christ your Lord, when you pray and 416 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,160 repent and say, God, forgive me, I'm a Sinner. 417 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,440 I believe you died on the cross for me. 418 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,760 I believe you died on my sins. For my sins I receive your 419 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,800 grace, your forgiveness. Now be my Lord. 420 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,120 The Bible says you are forgiven of your sins completely. 421 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,200 All of them are gone. That's why we celebrate 422 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,600 communion. We remember and it says and they 423 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,320 overcame him by the blood of the Lamb. 424 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,200 You see, there's the devil is a lie. 425 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,280 He's the father of lies. And each and every one of us in 426 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,880 this room had said lies. Every hand would go up if I 427 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,400 said, have you ever felt that you're not a Christian? 428 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,680 Has there ever been a time when you thought, yeah, man, I know 429 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,920 I've been to church, but till I look, look what I said, look 430 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,440 how? Oh yeah. 431 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:39,400 And felt that we see salvation has nothing to do with you. 432 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,000 We accept salvation. It's all to do with God, what 433 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:42,960 God has. Done. 434 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,320 That's why we have grace and peace. 435 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,920 It's not like why we don't wake at night and go, oh Lord, I had 436 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,840 an argument with my wife. If the rapture comes now, just 437 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,880 she will go or I've been so cruel and my kids, I've been 438 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,120 terrible. Father, I the, the rapture was 439 00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,720 to come. I mean, I'd be home. 440 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,000 I'd just be just just me and they'd go. 441 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,120 That's how the devil plays on. Your mind, doesn't it? 442 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,840 No, because the Bible says and so where we go, you have come in 443 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,000 by the blood of the Lamb. The blood of the Lamb says when 444 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,560 Jesus died on the cross for you there was 1 sacrifice and one 445 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,360 only. It's done, it's finished. 446 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:24,360 He said it is finished when he arose from the dead the third 447 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,680 day. That's the exclamation mark and 448 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,280 we sang about it. All our sins are paid for, every 449 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,800 one of them. Done and dusted for good. 450 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,120 I'm a Sinner, but I'm saved by grace and that salvation is 451 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,200 forever and ever and ever and ever. 452 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,880 It's eternal life. And since they overcame the 453 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,640 devil by the word of their testimony, you see your personal 454 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,040 testimony of what Christ has done in changing your life. 455 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,560 This is your testimony. People say, well, I don't 456 00:33:58,560 --> 00:33:59,960 believe in God. Well, I don't care whether you 457 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,000 believe in God or not. I know what's happened in my 458 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,440 life. I once was lost, I once was a 459 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:10,800 savage, stupid, selfish idiot and now God has changed me and 460 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,080 I, I actually care about you. Even though you don't like me 461 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,639 and you abuse me or whatever, I care for you. 462 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:22,199 I pray for you. I know what God has done in my 463 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:23,800 life. I'm changed. 464 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,679 I'm no longer the despicable, selfish person that I hated 465 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:30,960 myself, that I wanted to kill myself. 466 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,920 I want to be rid of myself. That's gone. 467 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,679 And I know I'm not alone anymore. 468 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,600 I know I'm loved. I know I'm cared for. 469 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,040 I know that when I die, I know I'll go to heaven and I'll be 470 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,560 with my Lord. You see, that's your testimony. 471 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,360 And it says they did not love their lives to the dear. 472 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,960 They did not consider their lives more valuable than loyalty 473 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,520 to Jesus. So they are willing to pay the 474 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,640 ultimate price. And many people are doing that 475 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,160 in Africa, in India and Pakistan at this time. 476 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:11,760 Christians, John 1225 says, do you want to follow me? 477 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,800 Take up the cross, deny yourself. 478 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,160 And so when you come to church and you get saved, it's not 479 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,440 like, well, what do I have to do? 480 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,960 What do I have to give up? Here's the deal. 481 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:28,160 You got to give up everything. Well, does it cost to follow G? 482 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,440 Yeah, absolutely everything. You can have your own life. 483 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,200 You can have all the toys and all the things and but all the 484 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,440 problems that go with it. Besides, hell comes with that 485 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,360 old life. Loneliness, depression, 486 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:48,840 heartache, heartbreak, grief, sin. 487 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:58,080 But you see, I've given that all away, and now God, whatever God 488 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:05,480 wants to do with my life, it says in verse 12. 489 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,440 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them, woe 490 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,040 to the inhabitants of the earth. Notice that we've discovered 491 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,840 that before. Woe to the inhabitants of the 492 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,280 earth. Therefore rejoice, O heaven, and 493 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,080 you who dwell on them. That's the church. 494 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,920 Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea, for the devil 495 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,480 has come down to you having great wrath. 496 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,800 He's been kicked out because he knows that he has a short time. 497 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:38,760 So there's war in heaven. Satan and his demons were cast 498 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,680 out of heaven thousands of years ago, but Satan had access to the 499 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,080 courts of heaven. We spoke about that with Job. 500 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,240 And he it is here that Satan has brought you and I before the 501 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:55,320 Lord continuously accusing us. But one John 2 verse one says 502 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,000 each time Satan has accused us before God. 503 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,800 John says if any man sin, we have an advocate with the 504 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,480 Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous and Jesus. 505 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,080 That's all right, Keith. Keith is mine. 506 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,760 I died for him. My righteousness is on him. 507 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,280 So the devil has no argument. He can't argue with that. 508 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,480 You see, when the Holy Spirit convicts you of sin, he lovingly 509 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,960 uses the Word of God to bring you back to repentance. 510 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,000 When the difference between condemnation and conviction, 511 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,640 conviction by the Holy Spirit is when you know you've done wrong. 512 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,760 You said the wrong thing to your wife, you acted foolishly, you 513 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,480 did the wrong thing. You've done that and you go. 514 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:45,960 You, you, you feel in your heart you're troubled. 515 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:51,560 Sin weighs you down. David was troubled and we're 516 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,640 weighed down. And so we go to the Bible and 517 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,840 the Bible tells us if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just 518 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:02,600 to cleanse us and make us righteous once more by the blood 519 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,720 of Christ, we can go to God. And God will take that away. 520 00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:10,320 So I understand, forgive him. But you see the devil. 521 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,400 And This is why people come to church and then the devil just 522 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,200 gets hold of them and they take off because they're not reading 523 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,320 the Bible, but they don't understand the Bible. 524 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,520 The devil, on the other hand, uses your sin in a hateful way 525 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,320 to drive a wedge between you and God. 526 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:26,680 You're not going back to church, are you? 527 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:34,040 He says to you, you're unworthy. You know who's unworthy? 528 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:39,640 We're all unworthy, aren't we? But the devil just says you're 529 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,920 unworthy. Better not go to church, better 530 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,920 not take communion, better not read the Bible and all that 531 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,840 stuff. And So what happens is the devil 532 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,360 gets you to leave and to walk away from God. 533 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,880 That's the difference between condemnation and conviction. 534 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:05,600 There is now no condemnation to those who walk in Christ Jesus, 535 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:13,160 but here we see God pulls the pin on his axis at Satan's and 536 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,480 Satan is far from happy. He's booted out at this time. 537 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,280 What are the inhabitants of the earth and the sea for? 538 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,040 The devil has come down to you having great wrath because he 539 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:28,560 knows that he has a short time. Israel is that nation that just 540 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:34,080 won't die. They're the only nation that has 541 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,920 been dispersed, years removed from their lands. 542 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,520 And and you know, you do that with any other culture, any 543 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,280 other people's tribes and they've disappeared. 544 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,080 Israel. Everyone's tried to do that and 545 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:54,640 they remain Israel. No matter how hard other nations 546 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,600 have tried to wipe them out in the past. 547 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,960 They can their continued existence. 548 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,640 That's why Israel is so important, is one of the 549 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:08,680 greatest signs to the power and plan of Almighty God and God's 550 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,440 chosen. People, it says in verse 13. 551 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:16,080 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he. 552 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:23,160 Persecuted the woman Israel who gave birth to the male child, 553 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,320 but the woman was given 2 wings of a great eagle that she might 554 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,680 fly into the wilderness. This is during the tribulation 555 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:36,400 period to her place where she is nourished for a time and times 556 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,560 and half the time from the presence of the serpent. 557 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:45,920 The word nourished here means feed supernaturally. 558 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,520 Could it be that God once more brings manner from heaven during 559 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,840 this 3 1/2 year period? I don't know. 560 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,760 All I know is that and some say, well, the two wings of the 561 00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,320 eagle, is that the is that the US Air Force getting them out? 562 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:05,400 I don't think so. It's God getting them out of 563 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:11,240 Judea into Moab Jordan. And there he says, I've got a 564 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:14,800 place and I got food. This is God. 565 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:21,320 He's does this. So the serpent verse 15 spewed 566 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,480 water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman. 567 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,360 He's angry as they flee that he might cause her to be carried 568 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,440 away by the flood, but the earth helped. 569 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:37,040 The woman and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the 570 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,520 flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 571 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,480 Now what is? This for sure. 572 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,440 We don't know. Could it be that he sends his 573 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:50,440 military might out after all these people fleeing Judea? 574 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,960 Could be. And that as the military might, 575 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:59,120 this great flood of soldiers and equipment head out after these 576 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,920 people or heading to Jordan. And then God says I open the 577 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,640 earth and close it again. Go on. 578 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,440 This is this is this is amazing stuff. 579 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,160 The 17 the dragon was enraged with. 580 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:20,920 Women. So he's getting, you know, he's 581 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,680 ticked off. So he's just getting. 582 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,720 Angrier and angrier. With who? 583 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,760 With Israel. And he went to make war with the 584 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:34,880 rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have 585 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:40,080 the testimony of Jesus Christ. Believe Jews turning to Christ. 586 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:45,840 So Satan becomes even more enraged, seeking to kill any 587 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,080 Jewish person or family he can find. 588 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,880 Now during this period, remember the church is in heaven. 589 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,760 So Keith, why do we need to know all this stuff? 590 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,920 If it's got nothing to do with Australia, what's what's it 591 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,960 going to do with us? And what why Israel? 592 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,640 Well, Paul says in One Thessalonians, chapter 5, this 593 00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,800 one. But concerning the times and the 594 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,720 seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you, 595 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,440 for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the 596 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,560 Lord, the tribulation period, comes as a thief in the night. 597 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:30,200 For when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction 598 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,760 comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman. 599 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,800 They shall not escape. But you brethren, the Church. 600 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:44,000 Are not in darkness so that this day should overtake. 601 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,440 You as a thief, you are all sons of light and sons of the day. 602 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,120 We are not of the night nor of darkness. 603 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:57,560 Therefore let us not sleep as others do and all, and not just 604 00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,000 carry. Go about my business. 605 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,480 No, but let us watch and be sober. 606 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,440 In other words, live your life for Christ each day, because 607 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:09,360 He's coming. Paul was in Thessalonica. 3 608 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,880 Sabbaths and in the three Sabbaths Paul loaded on them the 609 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:18,200 gospel and all the prophetic stuff about the rapture and the 610 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,560 Tribulation period. In just three Sabbath periods, 611 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:27,120 we're living in what the Bible calls the last days just prior 612 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,440 to the events. These events we're reading about 613 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:35,160 unfolding. We must be cognizant, aware of 614 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:39,960 the fact that our world has a spiritual dimension and it's 615 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,720 just not material. It's true, isn't it? 616 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,440 You have a soul, each one of us. You have a spirit as well as the 617 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:52,920 body. Man basically has 3 needs, one. 618 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,520 We don't want to be alone. Loneliness kills us. 619 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,560 We want the truth. We always wanted to be told the 620 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,040 truth. We hate being lied to. 621 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,600 We want to know what's the truth? 622 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,360 What is the purpose of my being? Where am I going? 623 00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,080 What happens after I die? Where do we come from? 624 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,160 And we want peace. We want peace in our soul. 625 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,760 Where we say, if only I can get go on a holiday, if only I can 626 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,360 be on a tropical island somewhere. 627 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,280 If only I can get away from all this. 628 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:19,920 Isn't that what drives your life? 629 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:27,560 You see, the struggles in our lives are not just broken bones 630 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,240 and things. Oh, blast price of petrol's gone 631 00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:31,640 up. Oh, that's terrible. 632 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:40,560 No, the things that cause grief are complex in our lives because 633 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,880 we're complex beings. The Bible tells us that as 634 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:49,120 Christians we are engaged in a spiritual war. 635 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,440 And behind all the wickedness, the evil, the darkness, is a 636 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,800 figure who is relentless in his hunger to destroy. 637 00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,960 Destroy you personally, have you kill yourself, destroy your 638 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:05,800 marriage to ruin it, destroy your children to bring heartache 639 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,920 and grief. That's his modus operandi and 640 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,000 you and I are living in a world. We come back and forward and we 641 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,000 have all those things going on, phone calls, this happens. 642 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,400 The job, the boss said. That person said a stranger says 643 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,520 something to you, someone breaks into your house. 644 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,960 All these things, these events happen in and around you, in 645 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,480 your family. Someone dies. 646 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,400 All things happen and we're grieved. 647 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:37,640 We're broken because Paul says we wrestle not against flesh and 648 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,720 blood, but against principalities, powers, against 649 00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:44,840 the rulers of darkness. They're all the ranks of the 650 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,200 three of the third of the stars, the third of the angels that 651 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:53,640 went with Satan. Both the prophet Daniel and the 652 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:58,720 Lord Jesus himself tells us we are to know and understand what 653 00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:02,240 life is about and what your future and the future of the 654 00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:05,120 world holds for each of us. Christians should be the most 655 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,600 intelligent people in the world because we actually know what 656 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,560 the world is about, how it exists, how it came into being, 657 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:16,160 what's going on, who runs the show, who's in charge, and 658 00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:21,080 what's going to happen. Daniel chapter 10, verse 14. 659 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,400 The Angel came to Daniel and said, now I've come to make you 660 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:28,000 understand what will happen to your people in the latter days. 661 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,960 Daniel, I'm going to tell you, for the vision refers to many 662 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,920 days yet to come. When he had spoken such words to 663 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,480 me, Daniel said, I turned my face toward the ground and 664 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,920 became speechless. He went, What These things are 665 00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,760 going to happen? Oh my, Jesus said in Matthew 666 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:45,200 2415 to the disciples. Therefore, when you see the 667 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,760 abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet 668 00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,320 standing in the holy place, whoever reads, let him 669 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,600 understand, know what's going on. 670 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:59,680 Matthew 2432. Now Jesus says, learn this 671 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,960 parable from the fig tree. Learn when you know when you go 672 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:04,040 on, I'm going to show you something. 673 00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:05,280 We're going to learn how to do this. 674 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,320 In other words, you ought to know this. 675 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,720 Now learn this parable from the fig tree. 676 00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,360 When it's branch has already become tender and puts forth 677 00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,440 leaves, you know that summer is near. 678 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:22,240 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is 679 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:26,720 near at the doors. So each of these statements are 680 00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:31,000 directly related to Israel. So why Israel? 681 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,000 Because they are God's chosen people. 682 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:42,120 If Satan can destroy Israel, then God's ultimate plan for the 683 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,320 nation's salvation cannot happen. 684 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:51,120 No Israel, no plan, no Jerusalem, no Jesus throne. 685 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:56,200 If God's plan is not carried out exactly as God has established, 686 00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:02,800 then God's word is proven wrong because the Bible says these 687 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,920 things are going to happen. Satan's out to try and go. 688 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:12,560 I'm stopping them. Satan hates what God loves, and 689 00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,880 the Bible tells us that Israel is the apple of God's eye. 690 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,200 So Satan's plan is simple. Listen to this. 691 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,720 He will make the nations want to get rid of Israel. 692 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:29,240 Is that happening? It is before our eyes each day, 693 00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:34,080 even our own nation. We had soldiers fight in Israel. 694 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:40,400 When Australian troops turn the battle, they're the charge of 695 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:45,880 the 10th Light Horse turn the battle, Battle of Bathsheba, our 696 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,600 men died, shed blood. There's even a War Memorial 697 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,080 there. And now our nation's going no, 698 00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:58,480 we'd rather have Hamas, our soldiers, our nation, our 699 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,360 character. What's happened? 700 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:05,040 Secondly, he will make Christians think that God is 701 00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,240 done with Israel. How many churches today are 702 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:12,360 saying Israel's finished, we're the spiritual Israel, and that 703 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,320 needs a good because no, you're not. 704 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,160 Israel is Israel. We are the unnatural branch 705 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,520 grafted in. We're going to be taken out, and 706 00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:26,080 Israel will be the nation that God intends them to be. 707 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:32,160 Lastly, He will set out to make Israel, and He's working on 708 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,120 this. Tired of being persecuted. 709 00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:36,400 How? How? 710 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:37,840 Long have they been fighting there. 711 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,400 Remember, Yaniv was with us. He'd been six months fighting in 712 00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,680 Lebanon. How many soldiers are going back 713 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:48,240 and forth, back and forth? Fighting in Gaza and he wants 714 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:53,120 the nation and people of Israel to forsake the things I've got. 715 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,240 Well let's just who needs we don't need. 716 00:50:55,840 --> 00:51:00,040 That's what he's working on. Israel has suffered greatly 717 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,200 throughout history. This vile and growing anti 718 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,680 semitism has been fuelled, promoted and unleashed by Satan 719 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,320 himself. He was the leader of the band of 720 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:18,160 the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The Holocaust is a vivid 721 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,120 memorial memory for many Jewish people. 722 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,480 Yad Vashem. We go and visit it and as we 723 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:28,360 come out of the main part, and then we wander over into the 724 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,720 Dome and we walk into the Dome and there's all these pictures 725 00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:36,520 of all these little kids everywhere and their names of 24 726 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:41,880 hours, seven days a week. You hear their names spoken over 727 00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:50,320 over over over 1.5 million children beaten, destroyed, 728 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:57,080 tortured by the Nazis. The day of Jacob's trouble. 729 00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,200 Is yet to fall. The church will be raptured 730 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,880 while Israel remains. 2/3 of the nation of Israel will be wiped 731 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,520 out. Zechariah chapter 13. 732 00:52:07,240 --> 00:52:13,320 They are a sign for you and I to be ready to repent, to watch, to 733 00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:15,360 look up for our redemption draws near. 734 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,880 How do you and I stand against Satan's onslaught, his attacks 735 00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:23,280 on us and upon Israel? Charles hadn't spurred and said 736 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:29,880 I have a great need for Christ and I have a great Christ for my 737 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:33,840 name. It's not your hold on Christ 738 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,760 that saves, it's His hold on you. 739 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,000 Let us pray now. Think about this man. 740 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,000 It hit me like never before because I prepared this. 741 00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:49,040 Let us pray for Israel and God's chosen people. 742 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,520 Let us pray for one another for the time is short. 743 00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:56,800 Let me ask you this who else in the world can actually pray to 744 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:03,720 God? Besides Israel, there's only one 745 00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:09,760 group, there's only one one body, one persons that can do 746 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,880 that. The church, you know, Psalm 747 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:18,320 A1226 says pray for the peace of Jerusalem. 748 00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,160 You know who that's for? It's not for the Muslims, not 749 00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,680 for the Baha'i, Confucianist, Taoists, Jehovah Witnesses. 750 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:34,240 The only people who can respond to Psalm 122 is you and I. 751 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:42,320 God says pray for my people because that's why you're here. 752 00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,960 That's why I'm here, because they have no one else. 753 00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:54,720 They have no one else who can pray or who cares about them. 754 00:53:56,160 --> 00:54:03,360 The most ashamed I have ever been of being an Australian is I 755 00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,400 walked into the Yad Bashem, the Holocaust Museum, and there's 756 00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:12,120 this great white sign, huge. And it was the Commissioner of 757 00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:18,320 Australia written out in 1938 when the Jews were trying to get 758 00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,800 out of Israel, out of Germany. Sorry. 759 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,120 The Commission of Australia said we will not allow Jews to come 760 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,120 to Australia because we don't want to import a racial problem. 761 00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:41,290 I was discussed so we didn't insect them and Hitler burnt 762 00:54:41,290 --> 00:54:46,250 them. We didn't accept them and Hitler 763 00:54:46,250 --> 00:54:49,890 burnt them. We are the church. 764 00:54:51,210 --> 00:54:54,720 It's time. If you don't know Jesus Christ 765 00:54:54,720 --> 00:54:58,640 as your Lord and Saviour. Today I beg you to turn your 766 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:03,920 heart today to Christ. I'm not to be a church person, 767 00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:08,080 but to be a godly person. I want you to pray. 768 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,200 I'm going to pray right now. If you're here, you don't know 769 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:12,480 Christ, I'm going to pray for you. 770 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:17,680 Repeat this prayer after me. Heavenly Father, I sent you, 771 00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:23,000 Holy Spirit calling me today. I repent of my sins before you. 772 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:27,680 Now I believe Jesus Christ died on the cross for me. 773 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,800 I believe he rose from the dead, that he's coming soon. 774 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,920 Right now where I sit, I give my heart to you. 775 00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:40,000 I want to follow you. I turn my back on my old life 776 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,080 and I turn to you. Now help me to walk before you. 777 00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:47,320 I pray and ask this in Jesus name, Amen.