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Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Thanks for the worship, brother. That was a brand new song. That first one I've never seen before. That's cool.
>> And that second one, that's so beautiful. All right. Good to see you guys. Let's uh bow our hearts before the father.
Father God, we come into your presence and we thank you for your just mind-boggling incomprehensible love for us. Father, that while we were yet sinners, rebels, you sent your son to die for us. Father, you're such an amazing God. And we pray, Father, right now in the name of your son who gave himself for us and rose again on the third day. We pray in your son's name that you would by your holy spirit open up our hearts to understand your word. Speak to us, father, and help us to grow in our knowledge of the truth, to understand the times, to be like the sons of Issachar who knew what to do because they understood the times. There's so much blindness going on in the world today. And we just pray that you would minister to us and your name would be glorified in your son's name. Amen.
Please take your Bibles and turn to the book of Acts, chapter 1. Uh it's just interesting timing. We're in the book of Acts and we're in chapter 1 and we're on some verses that talk about Christ's ascension and also his second coming. And there's crazy things going on in the world. And we need to understand the prophetic times in which we're in.
I'm going to play you a clip in a moment uh with probably the most cons, you know, one of the most popular conservative platforms uh in the United States, Tucker Carlson. incredibly popular uh guy. I remember, you know, uh years ago when he was on Fox News, he had the prime time spot on the biggest cable channel, news, you know, cable news channel, dwarfed CNN, still does and MSNBC, the left-leaning cable channels. And Tucker had the prime spot and he still has a huge following. He left there. yet he and Candace Owens and Megan Kelly and who was also on that channel and Candace was invited as a speaker all the time. Megan left that channel too. But all of them and more have come out very strongly against uh the United States's alliance with Israel and have condemned Israel in various ways to one degree or another or spoken ill and so forth. And not that we agree with all the politics of Israel. We don't agree with all the politics of Israel uh any more than we agree with all the politics of the uh United States. Amen. You know, there's politicians, but we recognize that God has a plan. And I want you to pick it up with me because we're going to be talking again about Christ's second coming in light of what is being set up.
I personally believe that Tucker Carlson people that you'd expect it on the left, I mean the left uh the Democratic party uh one a few years back before a couple campaigns ago uh they tried to make it you know anti-Israel being against the state of Israel as part of some of the Democrats did uh one of their rallying cries at their convention many of them but they didn't it didn't go through but many you know, Chuck Chuck Schumer, who by the way is Jewish. A lot of people call him a Palestinian because he sides more with, you know, Hamas or Hamas related uh positioning, political positioning than Israel. Uh but you'd expect that from the left, but it's interesting seeing guys on the right, politicians, right? You'd expect Omar Kelly, you know, and all these people, the the super woke crowd, uh, and many others on the left who are very anti-Israel, but you wouldn't expect it. We did. I mean, I I warned about it. I've been telling you for years and years and years. Be careful when you listen to political talking heads on the right as though they're theologians because many of them are politically motivated and they aren't speaking from scripture and all the nations will be turned against Israel one day. And we're seeing this happen before our very eyes.
But before I show you this clip, which I think is very interesting, look at Acts 1:es 9 through 11. Jesus has commissioned them to go into all the world in verses 7 and 8. And then in verse 9, and after that he had said after he said these things, he was lifted up while they were looking on and a cloud received him out of their sight. So they watched him go until he went into a cloud. They seem saw physically ascending uh until he went into a cloud. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while he was going, behold, two men in white clothed uh white clothing stood beside them. They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come what?" In what? in a totally different manner than he left. It will be invisible. You won't see him. It'll be a secret coming or it'll be in 70 AD and it'll be the Roman armies, but not really him. Is that what it says? That's pre-trib and predtoism. Okay. No, it says he will come in just the same way as you have watched him go into heaven. Amen. He had a visible ascension. He will have a visible second coming, second advent. And where did he ascend from? Verse 12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called what? Evette, which is near Jerusalem. A Sabbath day's journey away. In fact, Josh, I didn't really give you the verses. You can put uh Acts 1:es 11 and 12.
We're making a little bit of progress, you know. uh so in the book of Acts, but we've been studying the entire Bible and since we've been talking since this war has happened and crazy things are going on and you have commanders and generals and people like that talking about Armageddon and talking about things in in biblical, you know, tones. It's pretty pretty interesting. But the passage says that he's going to come back the same way he ascended. And if you look at the passage that's printed on the right side, it says, "Looking for the what? Blessed hope and glorious, does it say secret coming?" No. Glorious what?
>> Appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Just as they saw him, his appearance ascend and then vanished into the cloud, we will see him come in the clouds. And it's interesting in verse 12, where were they? They left what mount? Mount what? The mount of olives. According to Zechariah chapter 14, when Jesus returns, where will his feet stand? On the what? Mount of what? Olives. The same place he gave the Olivet discourse about the end of days. Fascinating stuff. Uh so this is such a powerful picture. I don't think Jesus accidentally said, "Oh, what a coincidence. I happen to be on the Mount of Olives, right where I'm coming back to." according to Zechariah. I this is interesting. No, it was chosen by design and he went up physically and he allowed them to see them because it was instructive that I'm going to come back in the same way.
Now, there are a lot of people that are, you know, professing Christians. Many of them are genuine believers, but are mixed up on this issue. They believe there'll be a secret coming when he comes back. You know how the Jehovah witnesses teach that he came back in 1914 but it was invisible. Well, Jesus is already with us invisibly. Remember he said, "I'm with you always, even to the end of the age." We already have that. Amen. We're going to be able to see his second coming. yet predtoist and there's two types of predtoist and this is a growing esquetology and you better know your Bibles because you're going to run into this more and more and more and more. Predtoist is a Latin word that refers to the past and predtoists believe that prophecy has already been fulfilled. You have what's called partial predtoist and you have full predtoist. partial predators believe that Matthew 24, Mark 21, you know, uh I'm sorry, Mark 13, Matthew 24, Luke 21 have pretty much for the most part been fulfilled. Some will say all of that has been fulfilled. Others would say most of it was been fulfilled. They'll say the book of Revelation has been fulfilled already or most of it if not all of it. And they say it happened when Jesus Christ returned in 70 AD. What? That's even worse than 1914, guys, by the Jehovah Witnesses, you know, to say he returned in 70 AD. The Roman armies came in judgment against Israel in 70 AD. That was part of God's plan. But that was not the second coming of Christ. Because when Jesus returns, it will be to vindicate Israel, to save them. The one they see whom they pierce, a fountain of cleansing will be open to them. In fact, he said, "You won't see me again until you say, "Blessed is he who what comes in the name of the Lord. Their hearts will be prepared because they will have gone through Jacob's trouble." You know, through the tribulation period, they'll be crying out to the Messiah. That's when Jesus is coming back. But 70 AD was a judgment on Israel. But when Jesus comes back, he'll judge the nations. Were the nations judged in 70 AD? Was Rome judged by God? Absolutely not. It's all backwards, guys. And we are just scratching the surface. And I hope and pray, Father, please in your son's name, equip my brothers and sisters who are here, those who are watching by liveream to please understand your word so they can rescue others out of the fire.
Then you have full predtoist. The full predtoist believe all the prophecies have been fulfilled. We're in the new heaven and the new earth. you know, the you know, the lion is laying down with the lamb or the in, you know, the tears have been wiped away. We've been resurrected. If we're resurrected, we got a bummer deal. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Big time. Amen. Jimmy's as old as me, a little bit older, actually a few years older. And uh he can agree big time. We got a bad deal, you know. And I we could joke about that because we know this is not the resurrection, man. Because our bodies were made liken to Jesus's glorious body. Oh, it's a spiritual resurrection. Woo man. Because Paul rebuked as a heresy a a damnable heresy those who taught that the resurrection has already come to pass. Predist chapter of Timothy chapter 2. He warned of men who in first Timothy are ship have shipwrecked their faith. And they were shipwrecking the faith of others in 2 Timothy 2. And because they were teaching the resurrection have already come to pass. They up the faith. They upset the faith of some it says or overthrow as some translations say. And full predtoism most Christians view as a heresy that puts you outside of Christianity. Yet these doctrines many many people today are full predtoist. Others partial predtoist. preerttrib. I believe it can be very very dangerous except I have a lot in common with our preerttrib brethren as far as understanding God's plan for Israel. Amen. And understand that God's not done with Israel. Their rapture cloud just needs to be moved to right before the millennium, right? Second coming. So that could be dangerous if you think you're out of here, not ready for persecution. But predtoism is a whole another animal, man. Super dangerous.
So what I want to talk about is Christ's second coming and the context in which it takes place in regard to the nations and Israel and the church because God's word clearly states that there will be a new world order that there will be a new world order a one world currency that the nations will gather together and they will come. Who will be the big problem for them? Who will stand in the way of the nations coming together? What country? Who?
>> Israel.
>> Israel. And all the nations will come against Israel. But when we look at Ezekiel, we see that there's Gog. And we had a whole study a couple weeks back. Who is Gog? Who does it refer to? The what? Who?
>> The Antichrist.
Amen. and he lives he he leads a coalition a an international coalition of nations who join together to form a new world order against Israel because they stand in the way God they've got to destroy the people that God made this covenant with and Israel's already almost been erased from the planet except by the grace of God remember the Holocaust 6 million Jews killed Now you have t concerned talking his doubting even the holocaust Nick Fuentes and others so wicked such a deception. I'm going to go through so many clear scriptures because what happens is you'll see these guys and they'll leave all kinds of on our website they'll you know, they'll leave no you know, you know Israel is a synagogue of Satan. they're of their father, the devil, and God's done with Israel. And and the people in the land of Israel aren't even Jews really right now. And God's done with Israel. And what's happening there right now, that that's just a big coincidence, you know, really. Out of the thousands and thousands of people groups that have ever existed, not one has come back from the dead like that after several hundred years. Exactly what God said would happen with his people. And that's a coincidence. You're going to bet your life on that. You're going to bet your soul on that. Well, you're going to have to reject a whole lot of scripture, which we are going to look at. This is going to blow you away.
So, I thought I might probably be out of Ezekiel this uh this Wednesday, just motor through uh the book of Acts Boyer. But, you know, we had verse 11 and 12, and there's so much going on right now. And there's something I just couldn't let go. And there's more I want to talk about regarding Ezekiel, but I'm going to wait a little bit of time because this Ezekiel 38 and 39 talk about this kingdom from the far north of Israel. And most evangelical Bible scholars that are into prophecy, they have identified it as Russia. Uh the Cythians when you look at the the far north in Israel's day, uh that that would be southern part of Russia at the time. And they were, you know, they were like potheads, some of them. It's kind of a trip when you look at ancient history, pagans and everything else. But it's not just the far north. When it shows the coalition of nations, it also shows the first nation that's mentioned by name. When it mentions the coalition of nations, what nation is it? Does anybody remember? Persia. Very good. Okay. Do you guys remember Persia? And Persia is modern day what? Iran. So it looks like Russia perhaps. Looks like Russia. Iran. Oh, and who is an all ally of Russia and Iran? China. Bible talks about the kings of the east. And it's it's crazy when you read that. We don't have time to get in that. So, you look at China could be in play. Uh, by the way, all of these regimes have historically been antichrist. Look what's happened with Persia in the last 50 years. How many Christians have fled the land and Jews? Look at Russia and the pres the present day leader of Russia Putin wants to resurrect the old Soviet Union and guess what? They oppressed Christianity. Oh, and is China friendly to evangelical Christian pastors and churches? Yes or no? Nope. You it's illegal to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ there. You could belong belong to the state church which doesn't spread the gospel and you're okay as long as you're under their control. So you have this alliance of these nations which is very interesting. And then when you look at Revelation 13, you see the bear there which represented Persia in the book of Daniel again uh and so forth, Iran.
So if I was the devil, what I would do, what my concern would be, how do I get these nations to join together? Which is kind of interesting when you look at the alliances between Russia, China, and Iran right now. But then the one country that is a stumbling block besides the United States, although many liberals want the United States to stop supporting Israel, remember that. But the conservatives have historically been against doing that. But now you have talking heads that have a lot of people following them like Candace Owens, like Tucker Carlson, like that incredible theologian Kanye West. You know, it's I'm joking, of course, who talks who's praised Hitler in Nazism and spoken wickedly against the Jews and Can Owens was giving him a hearing to a degree. This is demonic, you guys. Yet, I want to show you a clip because you can't make this stuff up. I want to show you a clip where Tucker Carlson is interviewing a Chinese professor who basically talks about the very scenario we are talking about, but it's inverted. It's about the new world order. And who does he agree calling a wise choice? And well, just let let's I want you to listen to this clip. I'll move aside for a second and watch it.
>> What I would do is basically sit down everyone, okay, including Russia, China, Iran, and say it's time for a new world order where we are partners in this relationship, right? Before America was a hedgeimon, before the US dollar was a world reserve currency.
>> Uh but now what we want to do is open a dialogue where everyone is respected where um America is no longer the bully but a winning willing partner in creating a new economic order that benefits everyone and not just and not just a few.
>> I I think that's the the wisest possible advice and probably the only path that preserves civilization. Um, and but there the one country standing in the way of that is Israel.
Come on, guys. Are you hearing that?
>> Yeah, we should do that. These great enemies against Christianity and against the Jews.
Yes. Tucker says that's a wise choice. But Tucker says, "But there's these pesky Jews that are in our way, the nation of Israel." You guys, this is prophetic. I've been warning you for years. Watch out because but if you asked me, hey, if you told me a few years ago, well, you know, say you said six, seven years ago, Tucker Carlson's going to come out and somebody's going to suggest this and he's going to say this and say Israel's in our way and and Candace Owen's going to be rabid against Israel and she's going to give a guy a platform that used to be this pop or this famous rapper who's quoting Hitler and stuff and you know and and and and she be talking I would be saying, "Well, yeah, that's a little extreme. mouth think it's going to go that far this quick and so forth, but woo man, here we are, guys. So, you guys, this is real life. This is what's going on right now. If you are paying attention to what's going on in the internet and what people are talking about, this is a big deal because right now, uh, there's people that are speaking against the war and so forth and we shouldn't even be supporting Israel and so forth.
But I want to ask you a question because one of the things that happens a lot is well Israel isn't God's people because Israel as a nation denies the Lord. Well, guess what? I can show you throughout biblical history where they were not following the Lord. But they did they cease to be his people altogether? Did they cease did they cease to be in his prophetic plan? No. And somebody might say, "Well, but it shifted. Now he's just all done with him. He's washed his hands. It's over." Really? Well, that means we need to look at the prophetic scriptures and see what God has to say because this is one of the most important things. And I and I've shown you scriptures before. We've talked about it. You know the scriptures, many of them where God's not done with Israel. And sometimes when I've done that, I've given you a few verses to show you that God even says that they'll be in a state of unbelief when they're in the land. But I didn't want to minor in that. I wanted to major in that because I want you to have answers. I want you to know in your heart of hearts, God's word is clear that Israel would reject, not only reject the Messiah, but they'd be dispersed through the nations and they be in a state of unbelief. Yet, he still claims during that time, he calls them his people still prophetically, oh, they need to be born again to be saved. But, and from a proet prophetic perspective, he has a plan whereby the nation of Israel, not every last one of them, but a remnant will turn to him. and he still focuses on the actual geographic area called Israel. He's coming back not to Washington, not to Beijing, not to Moscow. He's coming back to Jerusalem and his feet are going to stand on the Mount of Olives. Amen. And he's going to rule there for a thousand years. Six times it says that.
So, I want you to uh and I'm like, Lord, please help me. You know, I'm looking at the clock. I've got like 47 minutes and it's going to go fast, but I'm also going to I cut out three quarters of what I've got written here. Twothirds maybe. Uh to make sure I don't go too fast, but I want it to be very very clear because I want you to see the prophetic blueprint. Go to Zechariah 12 in the Old Testament. We just saw where Jesus ascended from uh the Mount of Olives and he's going to return in the same way. You're going to see him come back just as you seen him ascend. And when you go to Zechariah 14, it's it's fascinating because we see verse one, behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil will be taken from you and be divided among you. For I will gather how many nations? all the nations against Israel to battle. This has never happened in history. And the city will be captured and the houses plundered and the women ravished and half the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. And he says just before this in chapter 13 that twothirds of the Jews will perish at that time and one-third will go through the fire and be refined like silver. Okay. Now keep in mind this is on the heels of Zechariah 12 where they see him when he comes back to save them as a nation who they what pierced. Right? And then we read in verse three, then the Lord will go forth and fight against what? those nations. That's Armageddon. And when he fights on the day as when he fights on the day of battle, in that day his feet will stand on Washington DC. Is that what it says? No. On the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east. And on the Mount of Olives, which will be split in its middle from the east to the west by a very large valley. So that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. And it goes on and talks about the nations that are surrounding them that there will be an intense fire and their you you remember the passage. Their eyes will be consumed from their sockets and their tongues will be consumed. It's which is something that's obviously never happened. You can go to Israel. We've been in the Mount of Olives a number of times on our Israel trips because we go there to look at across the Kidan Valley and to look at the temple mount with the olam mosque and the Dome of the Rock on it. And you're on the Mount of Olives, which is huge olive trees, which is on the Mount of Olives. Olive trees where Jesus prayed in Gethsemane. They're huge trees. Some believe they're 16,700 years old, some of them. Some think they've dated where they were there small when Jesus was there praying. We doubt that, but you're right there. And guess what? It hasn't been split yet. And it talks about water will come, you know, flood out of there like, you know, streams into the two different seas. We'll have time to get that. I mentioned that recently. That hasn't happened yet. This is future. This ushers in the kingdom of God, the physical kingdom of God on earth where the nations then go up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem, which isn't happening right now, guys. The nations are getting ready to fight against Israel ultimately.
So, we see this global coalition forming already. Russia and China are are actually, believe it or not, they've been doing uh military coordinated, you know, you know, feats together. and so forth and to have supplied Iran both of them with weapons and so forth and Iran you know, is the greatest uh sponsor of uh state tourism around the world more than anybody else so it's interesting but in Ezekiel which we've been studying and now listen to this the prophets over and over again talked about this multiaceted international coalition of nations and we read in Ezekiel 38:16 You will come against my people Israel. In the latter days, you're going to come against my nation Israel, these nations. Chapter 38:16. When? In the what? Latter days. Okay? And this is all over the Old Testament through the prophets. In Joel 3:2, he says, "I will gather all the nations and I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them." He goes on to say because they have divided up my land and they've taken my people, you know, which is exactly what they want to do. All the the big dispute, it's the most disputed piece of real estate on planet earth. And that's why I said, you have to think of how magnanimous this is, how huge this is, how galactic this is, that Israel just wouldn't become a nation, but they become a world power and they'd have to to protect themselves and that their land would be disputed and it would be divided up in the end of days. That's what it's all about right now, guys. You think that's an accident? Really? You do? I got some swap land I can sell you for a lot of money. You know, because there's so many prophecies that are in play right now. We just have to look at them. Pro Joel 3:es 9-11. He says, "Proclaim this among the nations. Prepare a war. Rouse the mighty men. Let all the soldiers draw near. Let them come up." Wow. Zephaniah 3:8, not Zechariah, but Zephaniah. My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them my indignation, all my burning anger, for all the uh earth will be devoured by the fire of my zeal. In Isaiah chapter 25 and 26, sometimes called the many, all of it discourse, it talks about the nations and the earth, you know, being like a drunkard, you know, uh reeling like a drunkard and so forth. In Isaiah 4:34, uh, we read in verse one, "Draw near, O nations, to hear and listen, O peoples. Let the earth and all that contains here, and the world and all that springs from it, for the Lord's indignation is against all the nations, and his wrath against all their armies." There it is over and over and over again. Isaiah 63:3, I trod them in an my anger and and tra uh and trampled them in my wrath and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments. Remember Jesus when he returns in Revelation 19 with blood on his garments. That's Armageddon in Revelation 19 because Revelation 16:14-16 in the book of Revelation says all the nations will be gathered. The demons will go forth from one from the beast, one from the false prophet, one from the dragon, which is Satan. They'll gather all the nations together to the battle of Armageddon. I will trod them down. Verse six, I'll trot down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath and I will I I and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth. And in Revelation 19:15, you see the Lord Jesus Christ come back. Re revelation 1911, he comes back on white horse, the armies of heaven. And it says, I mean, it's a long passage. And behold, the beast was taken, with him, the false prophet, and the earth went alive in the lake of fire. And their armies are destroyed, and the foul they are called to the great supper of God to eat the flesh of mighty men and so forth. I'm just giving you seven 10 different passages on Armageddon. There's more actually about 10 when we count the Ezekiel ones I started with and Zechariah and so forth and Revelation with these other ones. There's many, many more.
But you have a great inversion. And this is what's just so crazy. We looked at Acts chapter 1. We've been going through the book of Acts, but we're hanging out the last few weeks and uh I haven't been here every Sunday because I had a wedding to do and then I had a men's retreat to do the Sunday before this last one. But I'm so glad to be back on this. But when we're looking at Acts 1:es 7-9, after he commissions them to go into not just in Jerusalem, but Judea and Samaria, but the other most parts of the earth, then he ascends. They see him ascend visibly. And just log in. Make sure you understand this stuff. They said he's coming back in the what? They'll see him come back. It's a visible coming, not a pre-trip coming, not a predous coming that happened in 70 AD. We talked about that, right? But where did Jesus give that prophecy or where did the angels say where was Jesus at according to verse 9 of Acts chapter 1? On the Mount of Olives. And where do we see Jesus returns at Armageddon in Revelation chap or Zechariah chapter 14? In the first few verses when all the nations come against Israel, the Mount of Olives, you this is law. You understand that? But then I mentioned in chapter 12 because guess what? What did Tucker just say? What did Tucker Carlson say? Who's standing in the way of this new world order? I mean, think of this guy. He's like a Benedict Arnold or something, man. I mean, he's like siding with China and and Russia and Iran. Talk about a shell game that Satan plays with people. Wow. Oh, by the way, you can understand why he said, I guess a few weeks ago, this this was just happened the 20th of this month, just week and a half ago or so, or just a little way ways ago when spring started. But a few weeks before that, you know what he said? He has a really hard time. his biggest enemy or the ones he hates the most. He either said enemies or he hates the most or something like that was really bad. Our pastors like me because guess what? You know why? Because we're calling him out, man. We're saying thus sayith the Lord. We put the word of the Lord, the word of the Lord Jesus Christ above Tucker Carlson, Kenneth Owens, and Kanye West. Amen.
>> Actually, I think he said white pastors. You know, I don't know what color has to do with it because I know many black brothers and sisters and Hispanic brothers and sisters. I see Steve laughing over there with Carol, you know, that have the same exact viewpoints. But I maybe it's because he's been called a racist so often. He's trying to do the, you know, do the woke thing a little bit. You know, I don't know. Quite interesting though because guess what he says? We need to, you know, this is a wise idea that you're coming up with. You know, a confederacy. But he but remember what Tucker said. It's wise. And he says, "But there's one nation that stands in the way." And he said, "It's Israel." Right? You can't you couldn't write a better script for Satan's plan in the end of days. Get a get a you would expect that as I said again from Omar or someone like that, but one of the most respected conservative voices. That's what I would personally expect. That's why I've been telling you for a long time that did I I said that that even surprised me though this early in in it. But Satan's already just upping the temperature. But guess what? When these nations come against Israel, guess who? They look at Israel as the one problem, the big problem to the new world order. Besides Christians, which Jesus said, "We'll be hated by all nations because of his name's sake." But look at Zechariah. Go back a couple chapters and just look at chapter 12 through 4. Behold, verse two, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling. Remember that's like drunkenness, you know, and the of Babylon, the false religious system in the end of days makes the nations drunk and should commit fornication with the kings of the earth. So they'll be drunk against Israel. They won't see straight. They won't see what God's saying. They'll just have these aspirations. They'll be saying peace and safety. The Bible says 1 Thessalonians 5, they'll be saying peace and safety for with regard to this new world order. They'll say, "Who can make war with him?" in Revelation chapter 13 referring to the Antichrist. Peace and safety. We just got to get rid of Israel. We just got to do it because we're going to save ourselves. We're going to build a utopia here. We're going to get rid of the God of creation. The God who made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has a plan for Israel. Going to get rid of the Christians who bear the name of Jesus. And we're going to deal with we're just going to say kumbaya. Let's be ecumenical. Let's all be religious. And you could be a Christian, too. As long as you take the mark of the beast to buy or sell, you can be a good Christian still. That's how it's going to be laid out. It's going to be false Christianity. The false prophet says he speaks like a dragon. Gets people to worship the beast. But he looks like what? A lamb. He looks like he represents Christianity. So that's why you have Tucker now. He didn't used to talk about being a Christian ever. I'd see him on Fox News. And even at those times there were some problems with the guy, but now it's like really apparent, you know. But now him and Candace Owens, they're all of a sudden Christians. Not even close to real Christianity. But look, he says, "Behold, I'm going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes ruling to all the peoples around. And when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. I uh now look at this. It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy what? a heavy stone. This is a stone, not just a stone in their shoe, man. A heavy stone that they can't move that prohibits the new world order that they want. Keep in mind, think of what Islam wants with their caliphates and their desire to have world dominion. Who is the stone that most upsets Islam? Israel. They hate Israel more than the United States because, oh, we're all Muslims. We just got to get rid of the stone. But guess what? The liberals are joining soon. It will come about on that day that I'll make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who will I'm sorry. All who lift it will be what? Severely injured. And the Hebrew work word speaks of like being getting a hernia. Just like you lift something too big and they're going to mess with it. But they're going to hurt themselves in trying to mess with Israel. By the way, Israel is like I've been mentioning to you as far as military power, I'm not talking about numbers, but as far as capabilities, they're like fourth or fifth in the world. It's p it's crazy. And all and by the way, they have Yahweh even though they need to get right and repent. God says, "When you touch my nation Israel, you're poking me in the eye. You're touching the apple of my eye." And he says the day of the Lord, you know how bad it's going to be for the wicked who think, "Yeah, we're going to take over Israel." It says the day of the Lord, it's going to be a day when somebody runs and when they run, they're going to run into it's be like running into a lion or a bear. Can you imagine that? Thanks, bro. They think that they're going to be safe. I'm out of here. And they're going to run into a bear. It's like running into a bear or a lion. Thanks, brother. And then he goes on to say, "All who lift will be severely injured." And what does it say? A few nations. No. Goes on to say in verse three at the end, "And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it." I've we've seen this over and over again. Amen. This has never happened in history, has it? Absolutely not. Like I said, go to Mount of Olives. It hasn't been split in two. There's not rivers coming out of the Mount of Olives. Hasn't been a big earthquake that's released those waters. Jesus Christ never came to the Mount of Olives yet. And he said, "Just as you saw him ascend, he will descend." Amen.
So the Gog Coalition, Gog and Beog, Gog refers to the Antichrist. And we know this because Gog is the world leader that leads this multinational confederacy against Israel in the end of days. And when he's destroyed at the end, then guess what? Then there's the millennial kingdom. And that's exactly what happens to the antichrist in Revelation chapter 19. That's exactly what happens to the antichrist in Zechariah. I'm sorry. Uh in the book of Daniel, he's destroyed. And it says the beast, his body, his little horn, he's called called the beast, his body's given to the fire to be burned. Now, this is a heavy thing. Think about this. Let this sink in because a lot of the predtoists want to say, "Hey, well, all these different quotes you're giving of all these nations, it didn't really happen like that." They're kind of, and then they try to allegorize them. They don't even know what to do with them. They try to basically explain them out of existence. Such a danger there.
When you go to the book of Revelation, I mean, think about it this way. Joseph Smith added and took away from the book of Revelation. The Bible warns in Revelation 22 18 and 19 not to add or take away from the book. If you take away from the book, their part will be taken out of the holy city. Man, if you add to the book, the plagues in the book will be added to you. Yet, I can show you Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible. I can show you where some of the verses are elongated a bit and where there's a bunch of verses just missing. Okay? And some say, "Well, he never really finished it." Well, maybe that's true. But guess what? What would you do if you said if you saw somebody and they opened up the book of Revelation and they crossed out a bunch of the verses? They left like twothirds of the verses, but they crossed out half a third of them. You say, "Why' you cross them out?" "Oh, I just don't like those verses." Would you warn them? Would you say, "Hey, let's go check out Revelation 22:19 18-19." You go in their Bible, you get there, you say, "Oh, wait, never mind. It's crossed out. Hey, look at my Bible. Look what you crossed out." Well, guess what? What if you commit the sin that Jesus warned about where you set aside, as Jesus said, the commandments of God by your traditions? You could take a prophetic tradition that's not biblical and impose it upon the scripture and they've wiped out many of them the entire book of Revelation. If you're a predtoist, I love you, man, but you are in incredible danger, man. I mean, that's worse than just taking an eraser and erasing certain verses. You just erase it with your theology by saying, "Oh, it's come to pass already." Which is ridiculous because many predators say it was fulfilled in 70 AD. But it was written in the '9s, 20ome years after 70 AD, after the incursion of the Romans into Israel by the Apostle John. And I'll have time to get into that. We've got other times sometime. I'll spend a lot more time on that. But according to Aronyaeus who sat under Polycarp who sat under the Apostle John who wrote it, it was written in the 90s. Oh well, some believe it was written, you know, and and some of this stuff was already fulfilled in 70 AD. Who? Uh, yeah. After 300 years of church history, over 300 years of church history, a Roman Catholic historian who basically said, "Oh, the Revelation wasn't really written by the Apostle John." already downplaying the book of Revelation way back then because that way, guess what? The Catholic Church didn't have to be concerned about being political and ruling the world. Oh, I'm just way away from my notes right now, but and that's a whole another thing I don't have time to get into. But Revelation 17 says that the of Babylon will make the nations drunk and they'll be drunk trying to remove Israel.
So Tucker Carlson calls Russia, China, Iran coalition with the United States, quote, the wisest possible advice. Gog would agree entirely with him. You know, the antichrist will as well. Isaiah 5:20 says, and this is in real time right now, man, woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness. So God, what God's calling rebellion, they're calling peace. Do you see? It's exactly what the word of God says. And Tucker Carlson is already taking many professing Christians who follow him and getting them to be angry at Israel and zero in on them as a stone that stops the new world order. And these same conservatives, perhaps millions of them, I don't know how many, but hundreds of thousands would have say he's out of his mind 10 years ago. But there's a spirit of drunkenness. The mystery of iniquity is already at work. The Bible says the spirit of Antichrist is already at work. It says it's already here. It's been here for a long time. It's a spirit that's behind these folks. It's demonic. We just did a show touching upon this a little bit, but we focused more on uh Tucker Carlson in that show, and I didn't give a ton of these scriptures. uh that will air on a Monday I believe. But uh it's just heartbreaking. And if you're in our audience right now and you're like, "Man, okay, I want to hear that too because kind of hit it from another angle, use a little bit some other scriptures and so forth is you might I just encourage you when that show that Good Fight show comes out, pray about it, but you might go to the comments below because I'm guaranteeing you we'll be delused by anti-semites, those who hate Jews, those who hate Israel, and uh they're the synagogue of Satan." And by the way, I'm going to do a message and we might have a I'll either do a message on it or we'll do a podcast on it where when you look at the synagogue of Satan quotes, you look at them in their context. It's really heavy when you think about it. And I was praying about this off and on when I looked at how that's being misused and it hit me like a ton of bricks. What that that's actually points ultimately to Israel's conversion when you look at the context of what was really going on back in those days. I'm looking forward to that. But uh and you can be a warrior for Jesus because there's all these warriors for the devil who are speaking against God's plan, inverting his plan, speaking against his plan for Israel. So there's these layers of wickedness. First, blame Israel while God actually calls them his people and says in the latter days, he'll bring the nations against them to judge the nations at that point. Second, they're blessing what God identifies as a path of judgment, you know, on the nations. They think it's a good thing and the nations should do it. This be a great idea. It'd be the wisest thing you could ever do, according to Tucker. Third, uh well, at least what he's, you know, the the direction that he's leading people, whether he knows it or not. Third, it's uh it gets it conditions Christians basically to despise God's covenant with Israel. It gets Christians. It conditions Israel to despise the covenant that God made and his purposes with Israel. Okay. Now, this is important. And now I want you to go with me through some of Ezekiel. Oh, by the way, before we do this, this is going to help you a lot because some predators, a lot of predators, most predators, when when you show them what it says in Joel, what it says in Micah 5, what it says in Isaiah 34, Isaiah 25 and 26, when you show them what it says, not just Joel 2, but Joel chapter 3, and Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14, Ezekiel 38-39, says, "Oh, these are unrelated situations.
And these are, you know, prophecies that had to do that something that was a war with the or this nation or that nation 100 years out or whatever. And it has nothing to do. These don't, these don't fit together at all. But then when you press him and say, "Well, really, uh, how was Zechariah 12 fulfilled?" Just, "Why don't you tell me, uh, you know, how is Zechariah 12, you know, 3, 4, 5, 6 fulfilled? How was, uh, Zechariah 14 the first few verses fulfilled?" How they, they all have to allegorize everything, and this just becomes just ridiculous. You realize that they don't know what they're talking about. They can't find anything in history that matches it. They just don't want it to be fulfilled. They want to believe in peace and safety now. God's done. You know, we're already resurrected, new heaven, new earth, or or those prophets are mostly fulfilled. We just wait for Christ's second coming. But it has nothing to do with the end of the age and and the the defeat of the Antichrist and the setting up of a thousand-year kingdom. It's just whatever they want to make it now. It's just like you kind of just, you know, you treat the Bible like it's a Gumby and you can just form it to mean whatever you want. And this is really, really tragic because we're getting away from the word of God.
But this is the thing. You know how you could totally refute that? Look at Zechariah chapter. Well, not Zechariah. Go now to Ezekiel. Ezekiel, uh, chapter, go to Ezekiel 38. Okay? And, uh, you go to Ezekiel, if you hit Zechariah or you know, Jeremiah, hang a left because Ezekiel was actually written before them. Not that the books are in order always. But look at verse 17. Thus says the Lord God. Speaking of Gog, just so you know, it's speaking of Gog, right? Verse 16. And you will come up against my people Israel like a cloud. Verse 16. Cover the land. It shall come about in the last days. Come out when, guys? In the last days, that I will, uh, bring you against my land. Against whose land? My land. So that the nations may know me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes. Oh, Gog. In other words, guess what? Gog, just like the Lord used Pharaoh through Moses to show who he was, I would use Gog because he's a second Pharaoh. And I'm going to show who I am by judging you. And in verse 17, look at this. It's critical. Thus says the Lord God, "Are you the one whom I spoke is in former days through my what? Servants, the prophets of Israel who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?" This is key. What did he just say? He used his servants, the prophets before Ezekiel to prophesy of this worldwide coalition that would come against his people in the end. What does that mean, you guys? That means that preterism is all backwards because preterism wants to disconnect all the prophets and their warnings of these day of the Lord's. Because when you look at the day of the Lord judgments and you realize when you read these different books, you realize there's certain things that were fulfilled, but you realize, guess what? There's certain things in these passages that have not been fulfilled yet. And they speak of the day of the Lord. But guess what? When you get to the New Testament, what does it speak of? The day of the Lord, right? And Armageddon is the day of the Lord. Amen.
So, what is Ezekiel doing? Oh, by the way, and you could go later in Ezekiel, and I'll, I'll mention the verse a little bit later, but he says, uh, well, actually, go to 39:8 since we're here. 39:8. "Behold, it is coming." What's coming? Verse 7. "My holy name I will make known in the minds of my people, Israel." They're going to know who I am. And I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. Right now it's profaned. Amen. And the nations will what? Know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. Do the nations know that Yahweh is the the Lord, the Holy One in Israel right now? Yes or no? No. It hasn't happened yet. Do his people even know that yet? No. Then look at verse eight. "Behold, it is what? Coming, and it shall what? Be done, declares the Lord." That is the day of which I have spoken. Do you catch that? Because he's spoken through the prophets of the day of the Lord. He spoke through the prophets of this coming world leader. In fact, he's even called, according to the Septuagint, according to many other, uh, older manuscripts, much older than the Masoretic, uh, texts that we have. He's actually called Gog by Balaam. It's a trip, even the same name. He's called the king of Babylon in Revelation chapter 14. I'm sorry, in Isaiah chapter 14. Both written obviously before Ezekiel, along with these one-world coalitions that will come against her. So what is God saying in Ezekiel? That there's a unified message that I've given through the holy prophets about the coming day of the Lord. Are you with me?
So when the preterist says, "Oh, these are all fragments and they're all been fulfilled in certain ways." Just look at what the word of God says. Amen. Just read the New Testament. Amen. And read what God's plan is about the end of days, and you'll see that Revelation shows more than any more than Ezekiel does in 38 and 39 with Gog and Magog. Okay, Magog is the land. Gog is the leader and the different nations, that coalition. The book of Revelation makes it really clear what's going to happen at the end. I'm glad he spelled it out to us in the book of Revelation. Amen. And you see it in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and chapter 1 and in 1 Thessalonians 4 and 5, right? And in Matthew chap 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, various passages and smaller passages like Acts 1:9-11 which we've been studying. Are you still with me? Does this make sense? I don't know how you could see this. And I know a lot of preterists aren't used to seeing this material that I'm talking about right now. I know that they're not used to seeing all these very, very clear scriptures. Because they listen to guys on the internet and they just, "Oh, that makes sense. Good. We don't have to face the tribulation of the Antichrist because it tickles their ears. They don't have to be concerned, you know, about the future." Not saying that's why everybody succumbs to it, but that's why many people do. You know, people have different reasons, but it's a huge concern.
And notice in Ezekiel chapter 36, now it's going to get really heavy because I want to show you the sequence that destroys replacement theology. The idea that God's done with Israel and the church is now replaced Israel. I want to show you the sequence in Ezekiel. And that's why I said, and I, I'm looking at that clock and I'm like, "Lord, help me because I think we'll get this done." You know, Josh, he's waving the 15 minutes sign right after I said that. But according to my clock, I got 16, brother. I'm gonna turn 15 any second now. I'm kidding him. I like two-minute extra warnings anyway. And that was one. That's good enough. But I want to show you the sequence that utterly destroys replacement theology. According to replacement theology, what's happened to Israel is just an anomaly. Oh, and by the way, that can't be what God's doing because they don't believe. They're not God's people over there right now. Woo! Watch this. Go to Ezekiel chapter 36:25. Go to verse 25. And what? Look what God says. "First, I will take you." Because they've, they'll be dispersed through all the nations and they're already being dispersed. "I will take you." The northern kingdom was at this point, and the southern kingdom would be as well. "I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, not just from Assyria, not just from Babylon, but all the lands and bring you into your own land." That's verse 24. So he's going to bring them into their own land. This is important. Okay? Only after he does this, only after he says he'll bring them in their own land after that, which he's done on May 14th, 1948. Amen. Israel became a nation again. Then he says, "Then I will what? Sprinkle clean water on you." Then goes on to say, "I will give you a new heart." Then after a little bit later, he says, "I will put my spirit what? Within you." So what happens first? They get regenerated, saved, born again. Then they all come back. Is that what it says? No. He brings them back in a state of unbelief. And only after that, when they're in the land, sometime later. Doesn't say when this happens here in chapter 36, but guess what it does in chapter 38 and 39. It makes it real clear when this happens. You have to context this, king. Amen.
So, and notice, uh, what God, why God does this. If you read verses 20 through 23, it reveals God's motive. And I'm not going to go through it all because I've got to get to the other verses. But it's not for Israel's sake, but whose? For the sake of his holy name. Amen. He's not doing it because Israel are such righteous people. The Jews are so pristine among the peoples. No, he's saying he's done it because they profaned his name. Just like Gentiles and just like many professing Christians have profaned his name. The Jews have profaned his name. But he's bringing them back because of the covenant that he made, to uphold the covenant he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's the context, guys. So when people say they're not righteous, "Oh, look at Rockefeller. Look at Rothschilds. Look at this person and that person." Guess what? That's smoke and mirrors, man. That doesn't subvert what God's plan is. Oh yeah, the enemy is at work, too. But guess what? He's not. These guys all knew, man. Well, the demons that try to use different people in different ways, they knew God was going to pull off his plan. They love to try to disturb it in some way.
But now look at Ezekiel chapter 37, the very next chapter. And this is one of the most visceral visions of all scripture. And God sets Ezekiel down in a valley. And this is a, this is a trip because he sees a valley full of bones. Bunch of bones. Think of a valley just packed with a bunch of bones. And it's not a battlefield that's still wet with blood. These bones are like really, really dry. It's not like recent dead, but they're dry. Ezekiel chapter 37:2. They're bleached. They're scattered. Uh, they've, they're long dead. Representing the Jews. And, uh, without any natural hope of revival, you would never look at that valley of bones and say, "Oh yeah, look at Israel." You'd look at that and say, "Israel's dead. God's done with her." You would think. And that's what the people were saying, the naysayers in chapter 36 saying, "Is this is the people that God blessed? I mean, God's done with them." Just like the replacement theologians, the preterists are saying today. And the anti-Semites and the Nazis and the skinheads. So God asks the prophet a question that hangs over every skeptic who looks at the modern state of Israel and declares it spiritually disqualified. God rebukes that idea. In verse three, he says, "Son of man, can these bones live?" "Son of man, can these bones live?" What's the answer? It's got, look, it doesn't look like it, man. They, they've been dead a long time, right? But Ezekiel prophesies and this is interesting because look at what God says happens next in real time. And the sequence, the sequence here again, like chapter 36, is everything. Look at what happens in verse 7 and 8. "So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a rattling." Starts hearing the bones rattle together. Woo! What a trip it would be to see this vision. And the bones came together. "The leg bone was attached to the," however that song goes, right? Uh, uh, and it says that they came together bone to its bone, and I looked, and behold the sinews were on them, and flesh grew, and skin covered them. And look at these, seen these bones. He's seen these flesh and tendons and skin. But look what he says. This is very important in verse eight at the end. "But there was what? >> No breath in them." Are you with me? Because they're physically gathered together first and brought into the land, but they don't receive the Holy Spirit till later. The sequence here is just like chapter 36. And you'll see again repeated in another way in chapters 38 and 39. So read that last clause again. "But there was no breath in them." The bones came together. The architecture is complete, right? Uh, the sinew is, you know, fully formed, and flesh has grown over them, their skin over them, but on the outside it looks like bodies, but there's no breath. Remember, God breathes the breath of life, you know? So this is quite interesting. Then it's interesting, look at chapter 37, just right after that, verse 9. "Then God commands Ezekiel to prophesy regarding the breath of life. Prophesy to the breath. Prophesy, said a man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord your God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain that they may come to what? Life." And so I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. Wow. And you know what removes all the ambiguity, which is crazy, I mean, it's amazing, is verse 11. "Son of man, these bones are what?" In case you're wondering, "Well, is this the church? Maybe this is us Christians. Maybe we could take this scripture and apply it to us as well." No, he makes it really clear, taking all the ambiguity away and all the false in translations or interpretation, I should say. "Son of man, these bones are the church of the living Christ, a bunch of Gentiles." Is that what it says? No. "This is the whole house of Israel." "Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.'" And that's what the Jews thought for so many years. Guys, what a devastating refutation of replacement theology. Amen. Because it shows two stages again. Like 36, I'll bring them in the land. They're in unbelief. Then in the land, I'll sprinkle clean water on them. I'll give them my spirit. The next chapter, boom, dry bones there. But guess what? He emphasizes they don't have any breath yet. But guess what? The second stage, I'm going to give them life. I'm going to breathe life into them even though they don't have it yet, which is still future. How do we know that's the correct interpretation? Because that's exactly what happens in Ezekiel 38 and 39, where actually then the the imagery becomes really clear. So the breathlessness is stage one is not a disqualification. Oh, they're there. They're alive, but they're not spiritually alive. That's exactly what chapter 36 and 37 prophesy. Are you with me?
Do you see how important this teaching is? Do you realize the church is being transformed with this eschatological, they're being dumbed down eschatologically right now by preterism? Oh yeah, he happened. Before it was like, "Let's just move the rapture so we don't have to go through it." Now it's like, "Oh, let's just remove everything so we don't have to go through it." But you can deny gravity and jump off a building. You're still going to splat, man. This stuff's still going to go down. You need to make sure you're right with God and that you're not standing against his plan. Amen. So it's a, it's a total scandal. But guess what? When you go through chapter 38 and 39, Israel's in the land, but guess what? They profaned his name. They don't believe yet. They don't believe. We know because guess what it says in chapter 38 and 39. It's not until he comes that Israel recognizes him and that they glorify him and he removes their sin from them. Just like Zechariah 12, remember he saves them from the nations or the stone of stumbling and of offense, and and then he saves them from the nations. Then it says in Zechariah, I didn't read the verses, but I've mentioned it several times. They see the one they what? >> Pierced. Jesus. Remember Revelation 1:7, "Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also who what? Pierced him." And it says in Zechariah 12 going into chapter 13 that he opens a fountain to cleanse them from their sins. That's when they're saved. When Yahweh comes back in Zechariah 12 and 14, where does he come back? He lands his feet on the Mount of what? Olives. It's only then that their unbelief is turned away and they're forgiven of their sins so they can receive the Holy Spirit. And guess what it says in Zechariah 12? "Then he pours his Holy Spirit upon them, the spirit of grace and supplication." And it mentions the different tribes of Israel. It's a national repentance. Repenting and weeping as one weeps for the only son, and God cleanses them and gives them his Holy Spirit at the end. That's why. Are you with me?
Chapter 36, I'll bring my people back. They'll be in unbelief. Then after their land, then I'll, then chapter 37, the dry bones, but they're dry bones, but there's no breath yet. But then later, then Zechariah, we just read, he saves them from the nations. Then he gives them his spirit. Then they're cleansed, right? And then here in Ezekiel, the same thing. And guess what? This is critical. Don't miss this because how does God view the nation of Israel right now while it's in a state of unbelief? Guess what he calls them over and over again still? "My people, my people, my people, my land." In fact, look at Ezekiel 38:14. "Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord God, on that day when what? My people,' they say, 'My people, the church.' No, 'my people, Israel, are living securely, will you not know it?'" Look at Ezekiel 38:16. "And all of you will come up against who? My people, Israel." I'm so glad the Lord does this. "Like a cloud to cover the land, and it will come about in the latter days that I will bring you against my land." Not talking about the church here, guys. "So that the nations may know me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog." No, in that single verse right there, we just read verse 16, there contains two possessions or possessive claims simultaneously: "My people Israel" and "my land."
Now look at chapter 39:7. "My holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel." That's when they come to know his name and get saved when he comes back to save them from God. Just like Zechariah 12-14. "And I, and I will not let my holy name be profaned what? Anymore." Did this happen yet? He says, "I will not let my name be profaned anymore." Is Israel's, is God's name no longer profaned in Israel? It certainly is all the time. And here as well, Jesus Christ's name is taken in vain. This has not happened yet. Preterism is a lie from the pit of hell. "And I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of who? Holy One in Israel, guys." And he keeps calling them "my people." Are they saved yet? No. But he has a plan. They're prophetically still his people because he knows that he will turn them again to himself. In verse 22 of chapter 39, "The house of Israel know that I am the Lord their God from that day onward." Does the house of Israel, when you go to Israel, do they talk about Yahweh being their God? No. They're into Buddhism. They're into whatever. They're just, you know, gay parades, everything else. Kind of like our country in a lot of ways. Verse 29. "I will not hide my face from them any longer. For I will have poured out my spirit." Here it is, guys. "For I will have poured out my what? Spirit on the house of Israel." Are you seeing this? How it fits with Zechariah? Please do not unsee what you see ever. Let it be written in your heart. This is the word of the Lord. And it fits like a hand in a glove perfectly, just like Zechariah.
So there's these different stages. First, Israel's gathered from the nations to the land. Ezekiel 36:24. Second, they are in a state of unbelief, yet they're still called his people. Third, God comes against them in the latter days. And fourth, God destroys Gog and vindicates his holy name in the sight of all the nations. Fifth, Israel comes to know the Lord and receive the outpouring of his spirit. Amen. So, what happens is the preterist says, they look at stage one or stage two. They say, "Oh, that can't be God's people." Because you're expecting stage five before stage five comes, because five comes when? At the end. Are you with me, guys? It breaks my heart because it's not one or two or three verses that we have to get an interpretation of. It's all over the scripture, guys. Yet, people aren't reading the word of God anymore. They're listening to Nick Fuentes. They're listening to Tucker Carlson to get their theology. They're listening to Candace Owens to get their theology. I'm embarrassed for those folks. But you know what? But wait a minute. Don't you know, Joe, that Israel, they're enemies of the gospel right now? You're right. But what does the Lord God say? Look what he says. I mean, I've got to pass a lot of scriptures up. You know what? Just go to Romans chapter 1 and we'll finish there. Romans chapter, I'm sorry, chapter 11. Romans chapter 11, verse one. "I say then," and basically this is the Apostle Paul summarizing a lot of Ezekiel. "I say then, God has not rejected his people, has he?" Preterists would say, "Yes, of course he has." Paul says, "May it never be. For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew." Amen. Verse 11. "Say then, I, I say then, did, uh, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they?" "May it never be. But by their transgression, that is Israel's transgression, the rejection of Jesus as Messiah, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous." Verse 12. "Now if their transgression, their rejecting Messiah, is the riches of the world, meaning we've got the gospel because they rejected Jesus. Now it's come to us. And their failure is the riches for the Gentiles. How much more will be their what? Will their fulfillment be?" Amen. Wow.
Now look at verses 28, 29. I wish you could read the whole chapter. We're out of time. Just got, let's look at verse 28 and 29. "From the standpoint of the gospel, they are what? Enemies." And the preterists would like to stop there. Yes. "See, they are enemies. God's done with Israel." No, that's not what he says. He says that, but he says something else. Yes, they are enemies. That's exactly what we'd expect according to the word of God. They were opposing Paul's preaching. Paul used to be one of the Jews that was opposing the gospel. But he got converted. And by the way, he's an incredible picture. But he says, "From the standpoint of the gospel, they are what? Enemies. For your sake." But "from the standpoint of God's choice, they are what? Beloved for the sake of the fathers." His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He still has a beloved. So yes, they're simultaneously enemies of the gospel, but also what? Beloved by the Father God because of his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And he has a prophetic plan where he's going to reveal himself, for the gifts and the callings of God are what? Irrevocable. Amen. It's so powerful. It's so powerful. And it goes on, it says in the same passage, look back up to verse 26. "And so all Israel will be what? Saved." Saved. "Just as is written, 'The Deliverer will come from Zion. He will remove.'" He will remove what? >> Ungodliness from Jacob. This same thing we saw in Zechariah. Same thing we saw in Ezekiel. Amen. "He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. This is my covenant with them when I take away their sins." From the standpoint of the gospel, yes, he says they're enemies, but for your sake, uh, for your sake, because of, you know, we preach the gospel, but from the standpoint of God's choice, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. God's not done with them. Christ is going to come back and turn ungodliness from Jacob and open up a fountain of cleansing and pour out his spirit upon them. It's here in Romans 11. It's in Ezekiel 38-39. It's in Zechariah 12-14. See, many of the other passages that we looked at, brothers and sisters, Christ is going to come back and they're going to see the one they pierced. And guess what? Paul is such a great example. He's on the road to Damascus. He's an enemy of the gospel, right? But he's beloved. And Jesus appears to him, blinding light. And guess what? He's blinded, but at the same time, he encounters the one he pierced. And he's transformed, and he's saved. He's a great picture of what God's going to do to Israel. Amen. I usually use Joseph as a picture, right? His brothers represented the the tribes of Israel rejected him. Then they all came and saw him after they went through a Jacob's trouble of their own, the famine, and they came to their senses and cried out, and they saw Joseph. Same thing will happen when they come to Jesus. I love you guys. Can we all please stand? I honestly believe this is one of the most important messages I've ever done on biblical prophecy because of the time in which we live and how the prophecies are being attacked. Father God, I pray in your son's name for any of our brothers and sisters who've been caught up in partial preterism and are ignoring your prophetic word, that you'd bring them to repentance. Many of them have just simply been misled, and help them to turn from these errors, Father, and embrace your truth and stop hating on those that you love. And Father, we pray for Tucker Carlson that he truly bow his knee to Jesus, and with Candace Owens and Kanye West, that they'd all bow their name to their knees to Jesus and truly be saved. We pray for the full preterists who deny the bodily resurrection, that they'd get saved, Father. That they would jettison these false demonic doctrines that Hymenaeus and Philetus and Alexander the coppersmith shipwrecked the faith of others with because they denied the resurrection as future and said it already had come to pass. We pray, Father, that we would recognize your plan and that everything is right on schedule, even the blasphemous words of Tucker Carlson. If anybody here is not saved, may they embrace your son who died for their sins and rose again and conquered the grave. For we know our lives are but vapors and soon we will stand before you. May we make sure we are cleansed by the blood of the Lamb in Jesus name. Amen. Sorry guys, I just got to get that out. Okay, you guys love the Lord. Let the redeemer of the Lord say so. Let's give him thanks for saving us. Amen. Father, we thank you for saving us. Give him praise, and we thank you for saving not only us, but that you're going to save Israel, and that you're going to save more and more Gentiles, and that'll be one people in the end. Jews and Gentiles united as one body in Jesus' name. Amen. Love you guys. Give somebody a big hug. God bless you. Have a great evening in Jesus.