1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,960 But Satan himself strains and struggles under great 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:10,280 limitations. One of the strengths of this 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:14,280 house is worship. It just is. 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:20,680 You do the priestly so well, and the priestly always goes 1st and 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,240 then the kingly. Judah always went first into 6 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:27,320 battle. And when Judah went first they 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,880 paved the way for victory in battle. 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,800 The priestly always happens before the kingly. 9 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,720 And as Pastor Dave said about authority, authority is in the 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,120 that part of who God says we are by identity as both priests and 11 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,080 kings unto Him. And not to preach on authority, 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,240 but just as to give you a little encouragement, we all through 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:58,480 Jesus blood and name have a first level general, general 14 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,360 authority in his name through his blood. 15 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,480 Amen. And then there there are other 16 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:10,120 layers of authority. I like to call the next layer 17 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,920 authority by assignment or authority by mission. 18 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,320 There's a Bible word metron, which means measured out place 19 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,880 or metered out place. Literally it means this. 20 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,840 So when God gives you something to do for Him, He will measure 21 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:31,720 out a jurisdictional level of authority from where you are now 22 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,240 to where you complete that assignment. 23 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:39,560 And that is another layer of authority, and it's operational 24 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,160 authority. So we have a general authority 25 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:46,280 that we all have in Jesus through His name and by his 26 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,440 blood, Amen. But we also all walk in 27 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,160 assignments from the Lord. All of us are men and women on a 28 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:58,200 mission, and he gives us operational authority or 29 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,000 jurisdictional authority that extends all the way to the 30 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,400 completion of your assignment and mission. 31 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,320 That's very important to understand that there's a 32 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,759 military term that is said in the Pentagon. 33 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,720 From what I'm told there is that there's a concept in military 34 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:20,040 called inherited authority. An inherited authority simply 35 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,000 means this, that if you are a captain in one of the branches 36 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,320 of service, let's say in the Army and and you work at the 37 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,080 Pentagon for let's say a four-star general, and that 38 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,560 four-star general sends you down the hall to deliver some 39 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,240 classified information to another general. 40 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,200 Then when you leave that office of the general you work for, you 41 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,320 then operate under what's called an inherited authority of that 42 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:52,920 general's 4 four-star rank until you finish delivering those 43 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:57,640 papers and come back and report that that your task was 44 00:02:57,640 --> 00:03:00,880 completed. And then you go back into, if 45 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,680 you're a captain, back to the captain rank. 46 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,640 So there's a technical part that anyone that is sent by a 47 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,840 superior officer is operating under an inherited authority of 48 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,680 the one who sent you. And then in Matthew 28, Jesus 49 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,680 said all authority has been given unto me in heaven and in 50 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,280 earth. So he was making a declaration 51 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,000 that he had been given all authority in all realms of 52 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,680 existence. And then he said, therefore you 53 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,800 go and disciple the nations. And so there is a perfect 54 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,240 picture of inherited authority that comes from Jesus. 55 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,720 It's never ours by ownership, but we have been loaned that 56 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,280 operational authority to to more than conquer darkness and to 57 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,920 complete the mission of the Lord. 58 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,640 Amen. But I believe that this house 59 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:55,040 has been marked by the Lord for the things that are the most 60 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,920 important to him, and worship is one of those. 61 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,800 The church at Antioch came together and the first thing 62 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,440 they did when they met was they ministered unto the Lord. 63 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,280 You know that. And then it says as they 64 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,560 ministered under the Lord, that's the, that's the priestly, 65 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,080 that's the worship, that's praise and even intercession 66 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,960 falls in there. It said. 67 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,279 Then the Holy Spirit spoke and then the Holy Spirit sent out 68 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,800 Saul and Barnabas to the missions that they went out to 69 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,120 do, and they were sent by the Holy Spirit. 70 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,840 So everything begins with the priestly and culminates and 71 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:35,480 climaxes at the completion of missions in the kingly. 72 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:41,160 But I heard the Lord say about you, is this He said there would 73 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:46,040 be worship that is now emerging out of this house that will 74 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:51,320 break the spiritual sound barriers because there are sound 75 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:57,120 barriers that block the fullness of what God really wants to 76 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,520 release through you and me and worship and in praise. 77 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,440 I believe we're doing the best we can out of a heart after God. 78 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,880 But I think there are some limitations to regions and 79 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:12,880 territories and things and places that often try to limit 80 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,520 the full release of the worship God is worthy of through his. 81 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:21,880 People but he said you here are going to break the spiritual 82 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:27,240 sound barriers. That will also create the Sonic 83 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,880 boom because that's what happens when an aircraft breaks the 84 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,760 sound barrier. Usually there's a Sonic boom to 85 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,640 follow, right? We've all been around those, I'm 86 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,120 sure. And in the pictures on the walls 87 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,520 of your house vibrate from the the boom of the Sonic boom. 88 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,120 But I believe God is releasing. From. 89 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:51,680 Your worship that is breaking the sound barrier to create the 90 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,440 Sonic boom in the deep places of darkness that are the real true 91 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,680 core structures of the of enemy evil things in the world, both 92 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,640 locally and clear across around the world. 93 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,720 Amen. So you're you're destined to 94 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,080 break the spiritual sound barriers. 95 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:16,840 You're also destined to exceed the spiritual light spectrum. 96 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:23,960 Jesus is going to use this house to bring light into the darkest 97 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,040 places of the world. Amen. 98 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,640 I like the story of 1 missionary who spent his entire life taking 99 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,800 the gospel of Jesus into some of the darkest and the most 100 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:40,360 difficult regions of Africa, eventually dying on that mission 101 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,000 field, showing honor to that missionary they had come to love 102 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,640 so dearly. The African tribesmen of that 103 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:52,400 territory buried the missionary in the jungle at the spot that 104 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,320 he came and preached the gospel for the first time. 105 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,960 They placed a cross at the head of his grave and then they 106 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:04,520 placed a small plaque beside the cross and hear the words that 107 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,040 the Africans inscribed upon that plaque. 108 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:12,880 They said when he came there was no light, when he left there was 109 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,920 no darkness. And I think that should be said 110 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:23,160 of all of us, that when God sends us on a mission under His 111 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,520 inherited authority, he doesn't just give you his authority to 112 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:32,280 take the gospel as a message, but also to bring even nations 113 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,200 into the discipline, because that's what he said. 114 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:40,240 He said to disciple the nations. There's an inference to bring 115 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:45,520 discipline to nations and bring them out of incorrect places 116 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,960 into an alignment pleasing to the Lord. 117 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,760 Amen. So I hope that would be your 118 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,000 testimony, that wherever God sends you, you may not have 119 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,280 found a lot of light there, but when you left that assignment 120 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,400 and completed it, you didn't have much darkness there, if any 121 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:03,320 at all. Amen. 122 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,320 Isaiah 60 says arise and shine, for your light has come, and the 123 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,480 glory of the Lord has risen upon you. 124 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,800 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and even a deep 125 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,760 darkness shall cover the people. Do you believe we're living in 126 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:21,400 such a time when it seems so? But the Lord will arise over you 127 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,800 and His glory will be seen upon you. 128 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,000 And then I love what verse 3 says. 129 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,120 The Gentiles, that is, the unbeliever, shall come to your 130 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:34,159 light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 131 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,799 We're living in the days of the sharpening contrast between 132 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,000 darkness and light. I know of no other time in my 133 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,760 lifetime where evil seems to be apparently conspicuously evil 134 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,280 and light and righteousness is obviously right and righteous 135 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,760 and the Lord is drawing the contrast. 136 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,200 You know, as a as a kid, I remember when we got our first 137 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,880 televisions set, you know, it wasn't the big string, big 138 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,120 screen TV's we have today. It was a big block of wood and 139 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,680 it had this big tube and you had to turn the the TV on by 140 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:12,200 twisting this knob that powered it up. 141 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,160 But it took like 5 minutes for it to warm up before a picture 142 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,280 ever came on the screen, right? And, and I remember the 143 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,400 excitement of when my dad would turn on the TV and we would see 144 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,680 this little flicker of light on the street. 145 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:28,960 You know it's black and white TV, right? 146 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,560 Nobody even thought about color TV in that time. 147 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:36,240 And then the little black, the, the little white dot just kind 148 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,280 of filled out the screen and it was like a mess. 149 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,920 And then finally, you know, if you move the antenna around and 150 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,640 put some aluminum foil on the antenna, how many of you ever 151 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,800 been there and done that? And you finally get in the best 152 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,640 signal you can from the antenna and the aluminum foil and it's 153 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,520 still not real clear. It's black and white and kind of 154 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,680 fuzzy. And then there was a, there was 155 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:03,880 a knob on the TV called contrast and you could turn up the 156 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:09,640 contrast that sharpened the dark tones and the light tones so 157 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,040 that you got a clear picture. We're living in an hour when God 158 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,240 is turning up the contrast to obviously show us the 159 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,560 differences between dark and light. 160 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,680 Amen. And kings are coming to the 161 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:28,920 brightness of our rising in the sharpening of contrast. 162 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:33,080 The clarity of difference between evil and good is 163 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,880 sharpening. And kings that are hungry for 164 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:42,080 learning how to govern righteously are coming to that 165 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,960 light. I've never had more government 166 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,000 officials and presidents come and ask to be trained how to 167 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,120 rule and govern righteously in their realms of authority. 168 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,720 And it's wonderful to watch. And it's a fulfillment of the 169 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,600 Isaiah prophecy. But I believe kings are also 170 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,400 coming to the light, not to be trained because they don't want 171 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,080 to be trained, but they're coming to the light because 172 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,360 God's bringing them into judgment. 173 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,000 The evil kings of the earth are being brought to the light to 174 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:20,640 expose themselves and they're they're horrible evil deeds that 175 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,640 are that they've been doing. So we're living in the hour when 176 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:28,480 kings are coming either with hearts open to the Lord to be 177 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,640 trained and taught, or they're being pulled into the light and 178 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,520 their darkness is being exposed. Amen. 179 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,120 Now we know that God is omnipotent, that is, that is, He 180 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,640 is all powerful. He is omniscient. 181 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:47,760 That means he knows everything. And he is also omnipresent. 182 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,840 That means He's everywhere, all at one time. 183 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,760 But did you know that Satan has none of those characteristics? 184 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,520 He has none of those qualities. He is not omnipotent, He is not 185 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,120 all powerful, He is certainly not all knowing, and he is 186 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,960 certainly not everywhere all at the same time. 187 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,480 Now he has his generals and his principalities that are 188 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,360 scattered around everywhere. But Satan himself strains and 189 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,400 struggles under great limitations. 190 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,240 Amen. And you know, somebody said to 191 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,840 me the other day, boy, it just seems like the devil's getting 192 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,000 stronger. But you know what I said to 193 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,160 them? I said that's impossible because 194 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:31,240 his power levels were set. He cannot get more powerful 195 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,480 because he is not omnipotent. And omnipotence is not a 196 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,720 characteristic that Satan enjoys. 197 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:39,720 So his. His. 198 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:46,520 Powers are greatly limited and he cannot get strength by power. 199 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,000 They're fixed. But what it feels like sometimes 200 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:55,800 is when darkness is being exposed by the light of God, 201 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:01,000 darkness becomes more reactionary by the exposure 202 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,360 itself. And when darkness reacts, it 203 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,080 looks like that it might be getting stronger, but it's not. 204 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,240 It's just becoming more reactionary because it begins to 205 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,240 UN destable at the exposure of light. 206 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,720 So a lot of good things are happening around the world. 207 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,200 Amen. But I believe this house has a 208 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,600 has a powerful, powerful assignment from the Lord. 209 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,640 And a big bulk of your assignment is worship and 210 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:34,320 intercession. You're going to break the sound 211 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:41,360 barriers, you're going to exceed the light spectrum limitations. 212 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,920 Most of you know about Hubble telescope. 213 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:49,960 When NASA sent up Hubble many years ago, the mission of Hubble 214 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:56,080 was ultimately to find the end of the universe, the edge, the 215 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:01,160 outer limits of the universe. But Hubble could not see far 216 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,880 enough to see the edge. So they set up James Webb 217 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:09,840 telescope with much higher technology and better optics 218 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:14,600 than Hubble. And James Webb is sending back 219 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:21,240 some new batches of photographs of looking at the farthest 220 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:25,720 reaching edge of the universe. And there's a couple of things 221 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,600 that is puzzling the scientific community is what they thought 222 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:35,360 was just going to taper off into nothingness is actually they're 223 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:41,680 seeing new galaxies being created because when God said 224 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,960 let there be light, he set creation into motion. 225 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,320 And His word, just like the words that you speak, are 226 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,280 vibrating when you speak. Them. 227 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,440 They never stop. Can you imagine God's word never 228 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:02,240 stopping And it has the power of creative energy to create. 229 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:07,120 And so science through James Webb Telescope is discovering 230 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:13,680 some fascinating facts that they can see new galaxies unfolding. 231 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:20,640 And the further out you look, science has believed the dimmer 232 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,200 light is the further out you look. 233 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,920 And they're finding that light from these stars and galaxies is 234 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:33,360 getting brighter the farther out James Webb Telescope sees, which 235 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,000 is by itself a miracle. But we serve the God of light. 236 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:42,320 Light exposes darkness. And when darkness gets exposed, 237 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,640 it becomes reactionary. Amen. 238 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,680 You know, in Texas. We have these snakes where I 239 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,800 live called copperheads, and copperheads are everywhere in 240 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,640 East Texas, where the Piney woods part of Texas, we call it 241 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,560 the pretty part of Texas, East Texas, But copperheads are 242 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,480 everywhere. And we used to have a lot of 243 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,240 trouble with these copperheads coming to try to get inside our 244 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,360 house. And we would get very near to 245 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,800 almost step on some of these copperheads. 246 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,440 Then they're very aggressive. They're not like some snakes 247 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,840 that'll try to get away from you. 248 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,160 They will come after you. They're very offensive. 249 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,720 And my wife had had enough of that and she just started to 250 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,440 pray. So God, I want you to put a 251 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,880 boundary around our property. We have one acre of land we live 252 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,560 on. And she started to pray that God 253 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,760 would put a spiritual boundary. And we've not had a copperhead 254 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,120 since then. So she's got faith for that. 255 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,960 You know, she's really got more faith than I do. 256 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:48,040 She's got a faith that when she goes to the shopping mall, she 257 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,960 believes her parking places at the front door of the mall. 258 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,120 And when I'm with her, I'm so I'm saying to her, honey, don't 259 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,280 bother God with a parking spot up front. 260 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,920 I said, besides, we probably need to walk. 261 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,200 We need the exercise. And lo and behold, the Lord will 262 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,800 give us a parking spot right up at the entrance of the mall. 263 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,040 So she's got faith for parking spots at the mall and keeping 264 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,680 Copperheads off of our property. But that's what darkness does. 265 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,920 It reacts. It actually comes after you. 266 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:22,440 It moves into an aggressive, offensive posture when you're 267 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,280 exposing it. But read that the way it is. 268 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,480 Read that as a positive and not a negative. 269 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,320 Some of you are feeling the push back of darkness and it's 270 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,360 causing you to even question maybe your assignment or what 271 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:39,280 you're believing for. See that as a positive, 272 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,000 guaranteed evidence that you're on the right track, doing the 273 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,520 right thing. If you're getting a reaction 274 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,560 from darkness, that's a good sign. 275 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,480 Amen. Amen. 276 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:53,080 Daniel chapter 2 verse 20 through 22. 277 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,920 Daniel chapter 2 verse 20 through 22 Daniel. 278 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,920 Daniel answered and said, blessed be the name of God 279 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:02,640 forever and ever. I like that because he begins 280 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:07,920 with worship and praise for wisdom and might are his. 281 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,680 Now watch what he says in verse 21. 282 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,400 He says he changes times and seasons. 283 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:20,880 So Daniel recognized that God is a God who's first of all worthy 284 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,560 of worship, worthy of praise. And then he declares that God is 285 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:31,520 the one who changes times and seasons and removes kings and 286 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:35,520 raises up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and 287 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,680 knowledge to those who have understanding, and he reveals 288 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:44,080 deep and secret things. He knows what is in the 289 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,120 darkness, and light dwells with him. 290 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:56,840 We're serving a God who commands in his first the winds and the 291 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:02,000 ways of everything, and he even owns and sees what is in 292 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,000 darkness. Last year I was struck by a 293 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,680 contrast between darkness and light at the US Capitol building 294 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,800 in Washington, DC I was there for an evening to speak to a 295 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:20,800 group of US Congressmen and we were in the Rayburn Room of the 296 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:25,080 Capitol. And when I was standing at the 297 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:30,360 podium to speak to this group of members of Congress, I was 298 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:34,360 struck by the contrast because behind me was a full length 299 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,560 original painting of George Washington. 300 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,800 So within a a three or four feet was were the feet of George 301 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,240 Washington. And then as I looked out the 302 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:51,120 Rayburn room, I could see in the corridor the the door of Hakeem 303 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:54,760 Jeffries office building or office array. 304 00:19:55,240 --> 00:20:01,000 Hakeem Jeffries is the Minority Leader, Democrat leader, and and 305 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,320 I was struck by the contrast of being right at the foot of 306 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,880 George Washington, which reminded me of our history as a 307 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:13,800 nation and yet seeing the darkness represented there as 308 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,120 well. But I love the fact that God is 309 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:21,320 changing times and seasons and removing kings and raising kings 310 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,560 up. I'm going to tell you dark evil 311 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,080 kings are lining up to be removed. 312 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:34,920 They're standing in a sequential order of removal, not by the 313 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,280 United States government, but by the king of all kings, Amen. 314 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:44,480 And we're going to see more kings, dark kings, removed, 315 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,280 especially in the next couple of months. 316 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,280 Amen. Well, Daniel said it would 317 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,080 happen. He changes times. 318 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,360 I don't know about you, but it just feels like time is speeding 319 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:58,280 up to me. I don't know if I'm just getting 320 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:02,240 older, but it just seems like yesterday we were celebrating 321 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,800 Christmas and the New year and here we are just pushing toward 322 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,200 the end of the month of February and spring is right around the 323 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,600 corner. What is happening to time? 324 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,880 Is it possible that God, who is enthroned in the eternity of 325 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,520 heaven, that is not bound by time or space? 326 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,520 Is it possible God is speeding things up? 327 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:28,240 He said he would hasten his word to perform it. 328 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,800 That means he he wants to do his word. 329 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,080 He wants to do what he's promised, maybe earlier and 330 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:39,760 certainly never later. Then I thought about the wedding 331 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,320 at Cana that in John chapter 2, we won't take time to read 332 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:48,120 through it, but you know the story well, when Jesus and his 333 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:52,400 disciples and even Jesus mother Mary were invited to a very 334 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,320 important wedding. Obviously it was some someone 335 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:03,120 wealthy and they had, they had set up a beautiful wedding and 336 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,080 during the wedding there at Cana, something terrible 337 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,640 happened. The worst thing that could ever 338 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,560 happen at a wedding was they ran out of wine. 339 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,640 And in that culture and in that time period and that part of the 340 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:21,080 world, that was a crisis. And Mary, mother of Jesus, 341 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,960 overheard the servants who discovered that the the wine had 342 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,960 replenished, went to the master of the wedding feast to tell 343 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,560 him, we're out of wine. And what does Mary do? 344 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,800 Mary walks right over to Jesus and says, son, they've run out 345 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,560 of wine. They've run out of wine and 346 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,880 Jesus. Almost sounded disrespectful, 347 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,280 but I think he was speaking out of the strength of knowing what 348 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:55,040 heaven's plans and timing were. When he said woman, what does 349 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,640 that have to do with me? My time has not yet come. 350 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:06,480 He knew that if he did a miracle to meet the need of that wedding 351 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:11,800 feast, that his identity would surely be exposed as to who he 352 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,640 was. And it wasn't yet on Heaven's 353 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,720 schedule for that to happen. And so he says to Mama Mary, 354 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,680 It's not my time. And Mary didn't try to argue 355 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,200 with him. She just walked over a few feet 356 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,480 to those servants and she says whatever he says for you to do, 357 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,720 do it right. And then he said to them, fill 358 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:40,120 the water pots full of water. By the way, that wasn't clean 359 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:42,040 water. That was kind of dirty water 360 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,920 because those water pots were there for purification and 361 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,720 washing, ceremonial washing of the Jews. 362 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,760 So it wasn't clean water. He said fill them all the way to 363 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,440 the top with water. And you know the rest of the 364 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,840 story. He turned that dirty water 365 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:03,480 miraculously into not just not just cheap wine, but the best 366 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:10,520 wine anyone had ever tasted. The point is this, he changed 367 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:15,600 his mind and when he changed his mind, he changed time itself. 368 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,160 He literally at the persuasion of his. 369 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,640 Mother. He moved Heaven's plans and 370 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:28,400 timetable forward and did a miracle that exposed and 371 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,840 identified who he was before it was on the schedule. 372 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:38,480 For that to happen, and that's what we do in intercessory 373 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,480 prayer, we come into the place of making petition to the King 374 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,680 of all kings and to our Heavenly Father. 375 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,680 We come and ask God to change his mind. 376 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,720 Think of all the times God's changed his mind. 377 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,880 When Moses and Abraham and others came and made an appeal 378 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,600 to heaven and it changed the mind of God to do something that 379 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:04,120 he wasn't planning to do. You had the power of persuasion. 380 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,280 I think we do that when we step into the place of prayer. 381 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,920 We're asking God to change his mind. 382 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,800 And when he changes his mind, sometimes he changes time 383 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,600 itself. So he was moving time forward to 384 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,480 do something earlier than had been planned. 385 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:28,360 He also might have been moving time out because he changed the 386 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:32,840 water into not just ordinary cheap wine, but he changed it 387 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,160 into the best wine, which was wine with age. 388 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,000 So I just wonder if God was just messing with earthly time, 389 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,560 turning the dial up and turning it back. 390 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,760 Daniel said he would. He's the God who changes times 391 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:54,240 and seasons and removes kings and raises kings up. 392 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:59,120 So there are evil dark kings in the world lined, lined up, 393 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:01,320 waiting their turn to be removed. 394 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,160 And that's a good thing. Amen. 395 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,880 Now I'm going to shift gears a little bit here with you and 396 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,960 talk about the Middle East for just a few minutes. 397 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,360 I want to give you a briefing on what God is doing in the Middle 398 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:25,360 East, specifically with Israel and Iran, and I'd like to take 399 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:28,680 you on a little scriptural journey here for a minute. 400 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:37,760 First of all, in Psalm 74, Psalm 74, verses 18 through 20, now 401 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:47,080 before we read that God has a protection plan for Israel and 402 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,160 He has a redemptive plan for Iran. 403 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:57,480 He has a protective plan for Israel and He has a redemptive 404 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:03,680 plan for Iran. So there are evil kings and 405 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:09,040 there are evil systems that are warring against Israel, against 406 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,120 God's people, against America, against you and me. 407 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:19,240 We are the enemy of an old ancient Persian principality 408 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:24,080 that is in a hierarchical, structured place in what is 409 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:29,840 modern Iran or ancient Persia. God has a protection plan for 410 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,480 Israel. He will protect Israel at all 411 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,320 cost. And. 412 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,200 When I began working with Israel and helping them on some of 413 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,440 their security matters years ago, he spoke to me and he said, 414 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,880 I want to get this very clear to you as you begin what I have you 415 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,120 to do for Israel, to bless Israel and to keep them safe. 416 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,360 He said I will protect them at all costs. 417 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:54,920 And the reason I do is because of the covenant I have with 418 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,680 Israel. The covenant that God made with 419 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:02,920 Abraham is the reason we should bless Israel and the reason we 420 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,040 should pray for the peace of Jerusalem. 421 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,120 We should have respect to the covenant that God made. 422 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,080 But he went on and just said I will protect them because of my 423 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,360 covenant. And he said, if I have to, I'm 424 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:17,600 going to rain on the Iranians, I'm going to rock the Iraqis, 425 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,160 I'm going to sear the Syrians, and if I have to, I'm going to 426 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:27,000 roast a Turkey. I never had God speak that to me 427 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,520 in prayer ever. And I wrote it down. 428 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,320 It was just kind of stunning and almost shocking because God was 429 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,960 just matter of factly saying, here's how it's going to be. 430 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,880 I'm going to protect Israel because I have a covenant with 431 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,480 them, not because they do everything righteous. 432 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,040 Because guess what? We got a whole Bible of Old 433 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,160 Testament history where Israel was wicked more than anyone else 434 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,520 and disobeyed God and rebelled against God more than any other 435 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,640 people. We got a biblical history of the 436 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,080 disobedience of Israel. But that doesn't mean we don't 437 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,560 bless them. We bless them because of the 438 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,880 covenant that God will never break with them. 439 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,560 Amen. Now, I don't believe in 440 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,160 replacement theology. I don't believe the church 441 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,120 replaces Israel. I believe through the blood of 442 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,040 Jesus, you and I are grafted into that family. 443 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:19,400 We become God's people too, the cause of the blood of Jesus 444 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,440 sacrifice, Amen. So let's get that straight. 445 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,320 I don't know where you stand on that, but that's my theology. 446 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,640 I was brought up in a denomination that strongly 447 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,880 believed in replacement theology, that the church just 448 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,400 outright straight up replaces Israel. 449 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,840 I don't think so. I think Israel still has a very 450 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,960 prominent special place in God's heart because of the covenant. 451 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,120 Amen. So God has a protection plan for 452 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,760 Israel. He has a redemptive plan for 453 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,840 Iran. Here the problem, I called him 454 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,520 the three H problem of the Middle East. 455 00:29:53,720 --> 00:30:01,000 Number one is Hamas. Hamas #2 is Hezbollah #3 are the 456 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,880 hoodies. So you have the Hamas primarily 457 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,480 in Iran, you have Hezbollah primarily in Lebanon, you have 458 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,920 the hoodies primarily operating out of Yemen. 459 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,200 But all three of those HS are spread out throughout the entire 460 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,680 Middle East. So God's God's going to deal 461 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:23,800 with those 3HS. Those hierarchies of evil are 462 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:28,240 satanic, They are demonic. They are not just another form 463 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,600 of government. They are of a structure of dark 464 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:37,720 evil that hates God and hates anyone who serves the Lord and 465 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,480 God's dealing with those 3 entities. 466 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,440 Look at Psalm 74 and I want to show you a little bit of what I 467 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:49,320 mean regarding Hamas verse 18. Remember this, and by the way, 468 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,360 this is a prayer of Asaph, but it sounds like an imprecatory 469 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,440 prayer of David. It's a prayer of God being asked 470 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,600 to judge his enemies. So he says, remember this, he's 471 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,720 telling God remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O 472 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:13,440 Lord, and that a foolish people has blasphemed your name. 473 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,480 So looking at the Hebrew meanings here, when it says a 474 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,360 foolish people, it is literally referring to a Pagan and godless 475 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,520 people. And the word blasphemy literally 476 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:30,440 means to be openly defiant and disrespectful to the Lord. 477 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,760 So there is an amazing thing that Asaph does He's. 478 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,640 Calling God into remembrance. God's not this old forgetful man 479 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,680 that sometimes forgets things that we need to remind him of. 480 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,640 But you know what? Sometimes it's a, it's good for 481 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:52,400 us to call out to God and bring him to remembrance of the things 482 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,680 that he already wants to do. He didn't forget any of them. 483 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,840 But I think sometimes it's us that need to be reminded that 484 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,400 we're bringing God into remembrance, but we're really 485 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,200 remembering ourself and it brings our faith into a level 486 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,840 that God is pleased with. All right then verse 19. 487 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,000 Oh, do not deliver the life of your turtle dove to the wild 488 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,480 beast. The word turtle dove, there is a 489 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,360 reference to Israel. Do not forget the life of your 490 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,200 poor forever. Another direct reference to 491 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,920 Israel. So he's asking God to recognize 492 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,280 and remember what darkness and what the enemy is up to, but 493 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:35,280 he's also asking God to bless and protect Israel. 494 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,200 And then he ends verse 19 by saying, and have respect to the 495 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:44,440 covenant, the covenant. It's all about the covenant. 496 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,320 That's why we should bless Israel. 497 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,120 We're blessing Israel, but beyond Israel itself, we're 498 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,840 blessing the covenant that God made with Israel. 499 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,560 Amen. So Asaph is actually asking God 500 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,600 not just to remember what the enemy's doing, but to remember 501 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:07,360 and respect his own covenant that he has with Israel. 502 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,640 Verse 20 says for the dark places of the earth. 503 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:16,240 The dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty. 504 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,320 Some of your translations may say violence, very important 505 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,480 verse because the word cruelty or violence there is literally 506 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:30,520 the Hebrew word Hamas. It is the exact word Hamas. 507 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:37,040 So in that day that Asaph prayed this prayer, he was praying 508 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:43,160 against an enemy force. That is today operational in the 509 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,720 nation of Iran. And in fact the first part of 510 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,840 verse 20 says for the dark places of the earth, this is 511 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,520 where he's saying Hamas is. And in the Hebrew, it means the 512 00:33:55,520 --> 00:34:00,720 very underground tunnels and caverns underneath the ground, 513 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,840 which is primarily where Hamas operates, not only Hamas but 514 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,040 Hezbollah and. And some other terrorist 515 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,920 organizations. Their primary place of 516 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:17,480 transportation of weapons and soldiers is in deep underground 517 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,560 tunnels. Some of those are 40 feet 518 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,440 beneath the surface of the desert, and others are as deep 519 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,520 as 100 feet underneath. Some are only a few feet wide 520 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,760 enough for one man in his gear and equipment as weapons to get 521 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,800 through the tunnel. Others are 10 feet wide that you 522 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,880 can drive it's small military vehicles, vehicles through. 523 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:43,320 But isn't that amazing? This is where a lot of military 524 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,840 operations are going on right now. 525 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,120 And being formulated and planned is to do a final blow to these 526 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:55,280 tunnels and underground passages of Hamas, because in doing so, 527 00:34:55,280 --> 00:35:01,560 we cut off their activities, their supply lines, and all of 528 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,440 their ability to position themselves strategically against 529 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:11,200 Israel and even our own folks. All right, so that's a little 530 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,640 bit of something to give an insight of how God has set a 531 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:22,080 plan to to do something to stop the darkness. 532 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,000 God, we sang about it today. Did you notice everything we 533 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,280 were singing in worship had to do with God dealing with 534 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,280 breaking darkness? It's a win, win. 535 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,360 It's a win for God and a win for you and me. 536 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,320 And I think Israel will win. Amen. 537 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,440 All right, then one other verse or maybe two more. 538 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:46,400 Jeremiah chapter 49. Jeremiah chapter 49, and verses 539 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,840 34 through about 39. One morning recently I woke up 540 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:57,160 out of a dead sleep and I woke up shouting Elam, Elam, Elam. 541 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:03,640 I think I literally woke myself up shouting Elam, Elam Elam and 542 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,040 Sherry. My wife said what is? 543 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,080 Who is Elam? I was like calling unto 544 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,400 something. I didn't even know what it was. 545 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,320 Well, here's what Elam is. Verse 34, the word of the Lord 546 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:21,720 that came to Jeremiah, the prophet against Elam in the 547 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,440 beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah 548 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,000 saying thus says the Lord of hosts, behold, I will break the 549 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,360 bow of Elam, the foremost of their might. 550 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:38,640 So what is Elam? Elam in that time period was 551 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:43,000 what was a sliver or a little portion of modern Iraq today, 552 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:48,960 but primarily it was a portion of Iran, mostly Iran. 553 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:59,320 So Elam is modern Iran, and God's talking about dealing with 554 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,600 and breaking the bow of Elam. That's a weapon system. 555 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,480 In fact, he says even the foremost of their might, you 556 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:14,000 know what that is? That is nuclear weapons, so Elam 557 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,520 is modern Iran and what is the big to do? 558 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,000 It's all about stopping the nuclear weapons development of 559 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,120 Iran, which is tagged and purpose to destroy the whole 560 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:34,040 nation of Israel. Just to bring you into 561 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:39,880 remembrance, in June of last year, AUS military operation 562 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:45,560 under the code name Operation Midnight Hammer, where our 563 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:50,040 aircrafts, some of our most advanced aircraft carried about 564 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:55,440 a dozen GBU Dash 57 massive ordnance deep penetration bomb 565 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,920 bunker Busters. We call them unnoticed, 566 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:05,240 undetected right into the heart of Iran and at three different 567 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,160 target locations, which represented some of the most 568 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,160 advanced portions of the nuclear weapons development program of 569 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,200 Iran. Our guys dropped, surgically 570 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:23,400 struck those facilities, dropping some of those GBU Dash 571 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:28,560 57 bombs down a four foot wide ventilation shaft that came up 572 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,920 out of those deep bunkers up to the surface of the desert. 573 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:39,400 Try that when you're trying to avoid enemy anti aircraft 574 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,760 batteries. And it was a great success, but 575 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,200 it did not destroy the entire weapons program. 576 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,880 But it set Iran back significantly in their pursuit 577 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:55,320 of nuclear weapons. Well, God said to Jeremiah, this 578 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,000 is my plan. I'm going to break the bow of 579 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,920 Elam. I'm going to destroy and break 580 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,400 the foremost of their might. That's nuclear weapons. 581 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,040 Amen. God cares about it. 582 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,840 Did you know in 2009 I literally taught the Israelis how to use 583 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,200 the. Power of prayer. 584 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,960 To defeat inbound enemy missiles. 585 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:22,840 And they'll never admit it, but there are people in in Israel 586 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:28,560 today that deploy that as part of their missile defense system. 587 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:33,520 Because I showed them that if you knew what the enemy was 588 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:37,960 about to send your way, you could do something in prayer to 589 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,640 pray against the guidance system module, which is the most 590 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,640 sensitive part of a guided missile. 591 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,640 And I said, you could literally cause a disturbance and create a 592 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,280 catastrophic failure in the guidance system module of an 593 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,680 inbound enemy missile. And you know what? 594 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,480 They listened to me, they took notes. 595 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,160 I was there teaching on this in Israel when they were being 596 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,080 bombarded by thousands of Katusha rockets out of the West 597 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,960 Bank and out of out of the Gaza Strip. 598 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,760 And there was a couple there. And that's one of those sessions 599 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,720 that I was teaching this on. And I just said, it's a, when 600 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:17,520 you pray, you pray with the target in mind, right? 601 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:20,960 If you have a financial need, you're asking God to meet a 602 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:25,280 financial need, right? God answers specifically when we 603 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,520 what pray specifically. I learned that in Sunday school. 604 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,640 God likes it for us to tell Him what our target list is and then 605 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,080 He answers accordingly. So I said, what is the 606 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,960 difference between praying for a healing for somebody or praying 607 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,680 against a Katusha rocket or enemy inbound missile? 608 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,760 Because God can change that situation just like He can heal 609 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,320 someone of cancer. It's really easy. 610 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,800 So a couple that were there that headed up what's called the 611 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,240 House of Pre House of Peace in Jerusalem, a couple that have 612 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,320 been there leading, that's Gwyn Shaw's ministry, for those that 613 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,280 may know. They're in that, that one 614 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,720 session. I'm teaching them how to combat 615 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,760 enemy missiles. They're taking notes because 616 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,760 everybody's spending more time in the bomb shelters in 617 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,920 Jerusalem than up above ground because we were getting hit, 618 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,160 bombarded. I was, I was staying in a secure 619 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,280 location, but not right next to my pillow. 620 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:28,080 I had a gas mask every night because of the threat of the 621 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:35,480 chemical weapons of Hezbollah. So Jean and Mary Ann, the, the, 622 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,360 the couple I'm talking about, they went home that on that 623 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,840 Friday afternoon and went to their home. 624 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,520 It was located on the outskirts of Jerusalem and the, the, the 625 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,840 bomb sirens went off and everybody's supposed to go to 626 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,600 the bomb shelters in Jerusalem. Instead they went up onto the 627 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,680 flat roof house that they lived in. 628 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,960 All the roofs over there are usually flat and, and they they 629 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:04,360 look toward the Gaza and they could see not the missiles, but 630 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:09,520 they could see the white smoke contrails of two Fodger 5 631 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,800 Iranian made missiles being fired toward Jerusalem. 632 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,160 They saw them in the distance, but they could tell they were on 633 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:22,400 a parallel trajectory to Israel from the Gaza and they knew they 634 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,440 had a matter of seconds to pray. They threw their hands up and 635 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:30,320 they just said we command failure and confusion in the 636 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,040 guidance system module of these two missiles. 637 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,160 And they didn't even yet have a chance to say Amen. 638 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,080 And those two parallel missiles side by side parted ways. 639 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,040 One went the other one way, the other the opposite, and both 640 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:48,880 nose down into the ground and exploded in an unpopulated area 641 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:54,680 just outside of Jerusalem. I believe they used the power of 642 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:58,640 interruptive intercession to save Jerusalem. 643 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,120 Later I found out through the Pentagon, because anytime 644 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,920 anybody shoots a missile anywhere on the planet, we know 645 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,760 all about it. We know it before they shoot. 646 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,520 We know what it is. We know that all the technical 647 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,800 data, if it's guided, unguided, etcetera. 648 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,680 So I checked in with the Pentagon and I found out those 649 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,800 were two Fazer 5 Iranian made guided missiles and they were 650 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:25,160 considered what we call tactical nuclear small charge. 651 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,000 Not like a strategic nuclear like an ICBM missile that 652 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,480 carries A nuke, but these have these for small tactical nukes. 653 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:38,200 Enough explosive in both of the warheads of those two missiles, 654 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,920 one was designated for Jerusalem, the other was going 655 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:45,640 to go right on past to Tel Aviv, enough to destroy entirely the 656 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,200 two cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. 657 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:54,120 But for that couple that believed, you see, because they 658 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:58,360 know the word of God, God promises to protect Israel. 659 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,200 God has a protection plan for Israel. 660 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,520 Amen. And it's part of what Jeremiah 661 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:11,360 talked about, Amen. So here in a nutshell, as I 662 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,000 close this today is what I believe God is going to do and 663 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:20,320 is doing and as we speak He's doing right now by the way, He 664 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:25,640 is going to destroy the three HS that have breathed out the most 665 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:30,440 terrifying and violent threats against the United States and 666 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,680 against Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah and the hoodies. 667 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:42,080 Now listen, Ezekiel says, God said in Ezekiel, I take no 668 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:46,760 pleasure in the death of even the wicked, but he goes on and 669 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:53,440 he says, therefore repent and live because even when God is is 670 00:44:54,240 --> 00:45:00,000 releasing judgment, he also has a redemptive plan of his mercy 671 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,080 connected with the judgment. And if you don't believe that, 672 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:08,080 think about your own life. I think about my life that even 673 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,960 in God's kindness and mercy, sometimes he's had to bring 674 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,920 judgment to my front door. But with it has always been a 675 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,200 component of mercy, that if I would turn away from wickedness, 676 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,440 I would receive the redemptive power of his mercy. 677 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:30,840 So God has a plan even for the wicked, but he says if they 678 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,600 don't repent, he says I'm going to bring death to their door. 679 00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:40,000 So my thought and my belief of everything I'm looking at on the 680 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,160 landscape of what's happening in the Middle East, God is going to 681 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:47,920 further destroy the hierarchy of evil, of radicalized Islamic 682 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:52,560 terrorism being perpetrated primarily through Hamas, 683 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,320 Hezbollah and the hoodies. But he's going to redeem the 684 00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:02,200 Persian people of Iran. God is not going to destroy the 685 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:08,040 nation of Iran. Now listen, there are folks, let 686 00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,440 me just say, there are some people in government that would 687 00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,600 like to see Iran destroyed. But I don't think that's God's 688 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,720 plan. I don't think it's his will. 689 00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:20,160 I don't think it's his way. He's going to destroy the the 690 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:26,240 foremost weapons of Islam, but he's going to redeem and save 691 00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:29,560 the people of Iran. He is. 692 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,680 But, and we're seeing it happen to this day, more people are 693 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:38,400 coming to Jesus in Iran than anywhere else in the world, even 694 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,440 more than in China. China has held the record for 695 00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:45,440 the most hour to hour, day-to-day salvations of people 696 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:51,720 coming to Jesus right in China. But Iran has just has just run 697 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:54,960 right past China. They hold the world's record for 698 00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,440 the most people coming to know Jesus. 699 00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:02,640 It's incredible. So I believe we have the 700 00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:06,360 evidence that God is going to redeem and restore the Persian 701 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,440 people. He's going to destroy the 702 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:14,280 hierarchy of evil of Islam, including the Iranian 703 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,760 Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the military might and the 704 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:23,160 real core evil that drives what is happening in the the the 705 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:27,720 destruction and killing of over 30,000 Iranian protesters 706 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:31,240 against their government. And that's probably going to end 707 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:35,120 up being a conservative figure. God's going to take out these 708 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,680 kings and they're just standing in line waiting their turn. 709 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,240 But God's got a redemptive plan. He's got a protective plan for 710 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:47,880 Israel and he's got a redemptive plan for the people of Iran. 711 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,760 Think about the Persian the the Persian people in the history of 712 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:58,280 the Persian people when it was. King Darius and King Cyrus and 713 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:04,280 other Persian Pagan kings that even did the will of God and 714 00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:09,560 rebuilt Jerusalem, paid for it out of their own treasuries and 715 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,680 in those days were a friend to Israel. 716 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:20,840 It was only beginning really after 1979 when the Shah of Iran 717 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:25,160 was disposed and and radical Islam came into power. 718 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:31,320 The Persians loved Israel, Mordecai and Esther. 719 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:37,560 Esther was Jewish by birth, but she was Persian by nationality 720 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,800 and culture. And Mordecai said, don't tell 721 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,040 these Persian officials that you're Jewish. 722 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:49,240 So he gave her a her name, Esther, her Persian name. 723 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:54,800 And it was Esther and Mordecai that were given the ring of 724 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:59,200 authority over the entire Kingdom of Persia. 725 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,560 They exposed Haman, who was out to destroy the Jewish people. 726 00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,600 I'm telling you, Mordecai and Esther today are still counted 727 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:13,880 as heroes in Iran, and school children are still required to 728 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:19,720 read the book of Esther in Iran because they are counted as 729 00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:22,800 heroes. There was a day there is a 730 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:29,120 righteous thread that runs through ancient Persia that is 731 00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,160 righteous. And I believe God is going to 732 00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,680 pull that thread of righteousness and pull out the 733 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,840 harvest from Iran, which he's doing now. 734 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:43,080 But he's going to destroy these wicked systems that are killing 735 00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:47,160 the innocent people. Oh, God's got a redemptive plan. 736 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,000 So when you pray for Israel, pray for Iran, pray for the 737 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,360 harvest in Iran Church, get ready. 738 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,320 Some of you are going to go to Iran. 739 00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:59,120 Some of you are going to be sent there to steward the harvest of 740 00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:00,600 souls. What are they going to do? 741 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:02,280 Who's going to go and train them? 742 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,480 I can't go over there. They won't. 743 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:10,560 Washington won't let me go. But you can go if you have a 744 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:14,360 heart for the Persian people and even if you have a heart for 745 00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,600 Israel. I believe God's going to do 746 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,480 this. We're not in the Ezekiel 38 time 747 00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,280 period yet. In Ezekiel 38, it talks about 748 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,720 all nations rising against Israel. 749 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,240 That is the end of the very end. I think we're probably around 750 00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:34,720 Ezekiel 36, maybe 37, but I believe the day is coming when 751 00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:39,400 God is going to cause Iran to be a bright shining light to the 752 00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,840 world and maybe even a good friend of Israel. 753 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:54,480 In fact in that same chapter of Jeremiah chapter 49, this is 754 00:50:54,840 --> 00:51:00,520 amazing what God said in verse 38 after he does all of this to 755 00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:04,760 deal with the hierarchy of evil of that ancient principality of 756 00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:09,680 Persian structure, that anti God Antichrist system. 757 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:17,200 In verse 38 he declares I will set my throne in Elam. 758 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,800 It's the only place I found in scripture besides Jerusalem 759 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,760 where God said he would set his throne in Iran. 760 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,280 How is that possible? Because I believe God is so 761 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:37,400 going to so thoroughly deal with the three HS, the real threats 762 00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:43,680 against God in his Kingdom and his people, that he will have a 763 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:48,120 presence in Iran. It will be so rich and so real 764 00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,400 and so powerful. And, and to think about this, 765 00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,400 think about all the souls getting saved in Iran right now. 766 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,680 What are they doing? They're worshipping first thing 767 00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,280 they do. They're going to be worshippers 768 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:04,800 of Messiah Yeshua and they. Are and what are they doing? 769 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,960 They're doing what the Bible says, that God is enthroned upon 770 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,360 the praises of his people. Israel. 771 00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,760 When we worshiped this morning, we were creating a throne for 772 00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,720 God to sit into. In fact, the Hebrew says for the 773 00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:24,200 word enthroned there, it literally means to be seated 774 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,920 deep into a throne. When we worship, we create a 775 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,040 throne. Listen, the the, the body of 776 00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:34,080 Christ is expanding and Iran is coming into the Kingdom. 777 00:52:34,240 --> 00:52:37,240 They're coming to know Jesus and they're worshiping and by 778 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:39,440 worshiping they're creating a throne. 779 00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:46,880 Any lamb and God is going to rule from that throne. 780 00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:50,920 We're in an hour. When God is doing the most 781 00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:57,360 unusual things in the most unexpected places, and it's just 782 00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:01,400 like God to do that of all places, to set up his throne and 783 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:05,920 do something incredibly powerful and righteous would be Iran. 784 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:10,640 Are you kidding me? But I think God loves to do what 785 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,600 everybody says he couldn't do or wouldn't do in some ways just to 786 00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:18,920 prove us wrong. I've heard a lot of talk about 787 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,680 your neighboring state of Illinois. 788 00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:26,600 Oh, it just, it's so dark there. Chicago, Springfield, so dark. 789 00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:32,240 And, and listen, just because people call it that has got 790 00:53:32,240 --> 00:53:34,680 God's attention. And he's going to turn the 791 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,600 states of Illinois and Iowa right around. 792 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,840 Watch it. He's going to do the most 793 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,240 phenomenal things in these two states that are divided by the 794 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:47,880 great Mississippi River. He's going to do what everybody 795 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,240 said could not happen and you're going to be a part of it here in 796 00:53:51,240 --> 00:53:53,720 Iowa. The other day I was in Moline, 797 00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:58,520 IL, and they put me in a hotel right on the Mississippi. 798 00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,720 So out of my window I could see the the great waters of the 799 00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:06,240 Mississippi River. And I had an open vision. 800 00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,480 And I'm not a prophet, so might want to judge this and take it 801 00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:14,520 for what it's worth. But I had a prophetic vision and 802 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:20,240 I saw the waters of the Mississippi stop and reverse and 803 00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:25,240 flow the other direction. And I said, Lord, what does that 804 00:54:25,240 --> 00:54:27,160 mean? Because I thought the only thing 805 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:31,160 that could cause that would be some kind of seismic event in 806 00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:35,240 the natural right. He said no, this is, he said 807 00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:40,400 this is a spiritual signal to you that everything in Iowa and 808 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:45,280 Illinois is about to have a turn around and flow the right 809 00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:49,160 direction. So I speak that to you today. 810 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,040 But the Lord is going to set up his throne. 811 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,840 He is setting it up in Iran. He is. 812 00:54:55,840 --> 00:55:01,960 Do you know that 10 to 15% of the Muslim population of Iran 813 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,960 even go to mosque? Do you know that? 814 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,280 You see, we have this concept that all these Muslims, they're 815 00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,600 all just so powerful and plentiful that they're just 816 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:16,400 packing into the mosque to worship Allah, to read the 817 00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,560 Quran? No, not so. 818 00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:21,480 They've abandoned most of the mosque. 819 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:26,040 Hundreds and hundreds of mosques are boarded up, closed up, 820 00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:31,200 because no one was showing up. Do you know that 10 to 15% of 821 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,600 the population of Iran even go to mosque? 822 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:39,520 The Muslims, the Christians that are coming to know Jesus, are 823 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:44,000 now opening up some of those mosques and having worship to 824 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:49,880 Jesus in those mosques, not in Tehran, but in outlying areas 825 00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,320 throughout Iran. In the smaller town areas, 826 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,880 they're literally taking possession of mosque where Allah 827 00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:00,920 and Muhammad and the Quran were worshipped and adored, and now 828 00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:04,520 Jesus is being enthroned there. Amen. 829 00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:11,080 So we need to pray and pray for the protective plan of God for 830 00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:15,640 Israel, but we also need to pray for the redemptive plan for 831 00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,240 Iran. Do you feel it? 832 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:23,320 Does anybody sense that? You know, I, I'm here because 833 00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,560 I'm, I, I bring what I believe the Lord says to bring. 834 00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:30,680 And that's what I, I believe. He wants to cast vision today 835 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:36,080 that we, we shift our thinking that we want to see Iran 836 00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:37,680 destroyed. No, we don't. 837 00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,760 We want to see the precious Persian people of Iran redeemed 838 00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:44,160 and brought into the Kingdom of God. 839 00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,600 Amen. And as we pray for the peace of 840 00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,720 Jerusalem and the blessing of Israel, you should continue to 841 00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:52,600 do that. I do it every day. 842 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,480 I pray for a blessing on Israel. But when I pray for a blessing 843 00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:00,880 in my blessing, I'm praying and asking God for for Israel 844 00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:05,240 contains justice and judgment and correction. 845 00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:10,680 The Bible says God disciplines the Son He loves. 846 00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:15,360 He does that for us, doesn't He? The discipline of the Lord is a 847 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,680 sign and evidence of His love for you. 848 00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,600 Well, why doesn't he do that for nations? 849 00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:26,160 I believe he's going to discipline Israel and bring 850 00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:29,200 Israel into a knowledge of the Lord Jesus. 851 00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:37,280 Remember this, Islam is an Antichrist system, an ungodly, 852 00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:43,640 unholy, false religious system, Islam, and they believe in the 853 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,600 implementation of Sharia law. And I promise you, there's a 854 00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,560 plan for implementation right here. 855 00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,680 Hey, thanks for watching. At Heartland Church, we love to 856 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,440 worship the Lord and we love His Word. 857 00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:59,400 In fact, if you could jump on and subscribe to our YouTube 858 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,640 channel, you could make sure that you don't miss any of the 859 00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,760 services. We'd love to have you join us 860 00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,880 live or in person every week. See you next time.