Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] I'm Rich Young iii. And this is an amazing thing.
[00:00:17] I am here to facilitate learning the word of God on a fundamental level.
[00:00:23] So join me and let's grow together and build a relationship with our creator.
[00:00:29] And that starts now.
[00:00:41] Hello everyone and welcome to an amazing thing.
[00:00:44] We're here on our early week show where we cover all different types of subject matter.
[00:00:50] And this is going to begin a series that we're doing from now to eternity.
[00:00:55] And this is our first lesson on that. And we're going to show you on a chart what are some of the main things that are going to happen between now and when we get to eternity.
[00:01:06] So if you're listening to us on just an audio only podcast, then you won't have the visual, but I'll try to describe this in a way so that you can follow along. And if you are watching us through a video source, you'll get to see the chart here.
[00:01:23] Okay, we're going to go ahead and begin here by bringing up the chart and the first event we're going to. Well, let's first establish where we are. If you look at your chart, there we are at number four. There are some things that have happened in history, but this is where we are. And the next thing that is going to happen on our time chart here in going to be a war of a third.
[00:01:50] Now we know from a biblical perspective that the war of a third and the confirmation of the of the covenant are two things that happen so close together that we don't know which one comes first.
[00:02:04] So we're going to take a little bit of a liberty and say that the war of a third is going to happen first.
[00:02:11] Okay, the war of a third is found in Revelation, chapter 9, verse 13, 13 through 21. Now we're not going to read all of it. We're going to read enough to cover the part of it that we want to study today.
[00:02:24] And we'll begin with verse 13.
[00:02:27] And the six angels sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet loose, the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels, angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, a day, a month and a year to slay the third part of men.
[00:02:53] And the number of the army of The Horsemen were 200,000 thousand. And I heard the number of them.
[00:03:01] Now we know that 200,000 thousand equals 200 million soldiers. And so John is the writer of this in Revelations. Now he couldn't count all these people, so God had to tell him how many it was. And so if you want to study the trumpets in detail, you know, since we put the war of a third on this time chart, that will be our next lesson in this series. So you'll be able to go through the series everything we're going to cover from five, which is the war of a third throughout, or we're going to cover in the series over the next few weeks in our early week show unless something exciting happens around the world.
[00:03:44] So be sure to to follow us. Subscribe to the to the show however you get your podcast and your video content. If you Watch us on YouTube, make sure you subscribe to the show so you don't miss anything. And we're even on Spotify video. So however you choose to do it, be sure you do it. Okay, we're going to break down this first event here.
[00:04:07] There are four angels that have been prepared for a specific time.
[00:04:12] We know that angels. The Bible tells us that angels are ministering spirits to the, to those who are the heirs of salvation. Well, those are good angels. Well, these that are bound in the Euphrates River. Obviously they are not good angels because they are bound, they are bad angels. And if an angel's job is to be a ministering spirit, well, the good angels that are ministering to those who are the heirs of salvation are good angels. The other angels are still doing their job. What they were designed to do, that's minister to the people of the earth in a negative way. And so I always say when we talk about this, it, it makes me think that every major catastrophe, wars and people who are destroying a great number throughout the world, whether it be Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler or whoever it is, they were persuaded to do something by a ministering spirit, an evil ministering spirit. Well, when we think about these angels that are prepared for a month, the time of the day of the year are going to slay the third part of the human race.
[00:05:22] We've seen evil spirits before, but we have never seen any like these. And it's a very, very sobering thing here for us to think about that many people going into eternity. And so it's certainly going to be amazing thing. So these angels are to be released. They are chained up. Like I said, we know that they are evil angels. I wouldn't be chained up because if they weren't chained, they'd be ministering to take peace away from the earth, however long that's being. And so, so we don't want to. God certainly didn't want that to happen before. His purpose for us and his purpose to help deliver us from some of these things weren't, you know, that were done at a certain time.
[00:06:04] So they are going to escalate. This whole thing is going to turn into a nuclear catastrophe. Because when you start talking about destroying a third of mankind, right now the population of the Earth is more than 8 billion people. 8.1, some people say 8.2 to 8.3 billion.
[00:06:24] And so when you have a catastrophe that large, you're not going to funerals and things. You are burying people with bulldozers because that much death will contaminate the earth. And so we certainly will all be involved in that.
[00:06:40] America will certainly be involved in this war because afterwards, which we're gonna have to have lessons to prove some of the things that, that I say here. We know that the Bible shows us that the, that the power after this war swings to the European Union. And the European Union is the territory of the Holy Roman Empire. So we know after this war the United States is not as powerful as it is.
[00:07:06] And if you want to know where the United States is in the Bible, we have a show called Us in the Bible. So go back to the, to our cast archives on YouTube are where you get your podcast and you can listen to that. And I think you'll be convinced that the United States of America is in the Bible. And if you don't, you know, we'll be able to see how these things come to pass. And I think we'll all eventually know.
[00:07:31] We know that when you have that kind of destruction on the face of the earth, somebody is going to be blamed for it. And I'm afraid that the United States is going to be the people who are blamed for this.
[00:07:44] And so some say after this war, and we help to destroy so many, we will be considered a pariah. And people want to have a lot to do with us.
[00:07:57] The, the Bible says that after this war, men still would not repent.
[00:08:04] So this is the worst war the mankind will have ever seen. And still we are not reverting for our sins, our murderers, and all different other things that God considers an abomination.
[00:08:18] Also, we know that there, you know, not many countries on the earth that could feel one of the armies being an army of 200 million soldiers. Now, we know that could come from Islam if they banded together, which I don't see that happening. My opinion, it doesn't because a lot of and they will be involved and a lot of their population will be destroyed. But the Bible says that one of these countries is a country of 200 million soldiers.
[00:08:50] Now, we know that China is the probably the one who will produce this. And the reason we talk about China is because the late leader of China, Mao Zedong, in the late 70s, boasted that he could field an army of 200 million soldiers. And at his time, it was more. He thought of war more in a conventional way.
[00:09:15] So in his mind, nobody could stand up to an army that large. And we know that Mao Zedong was a atheist. He wasn't reading that number in the Bible and probably would not have understood it if he had read it.
[00:09:27] So that is who I believe will be one of the culprits in this war here.
[00:09:33] So this country could certainly feel 200 million soldiers for war breaks out that magnitude. And even though the war begins in the great river Euphrates, which is, is the entire duration of the Euphrates river is an Arab territory, we know that a lot of times when war breaks out, people tend to settle scores. And if, if the war is over someplace else, I can take care of my problem while the world is looking over there. Sort of the way magicians do things, with sleight of hand. And so I believe that we, when we have to deal with an Islamic aspect of that war, China will probably try to seize Taiwan because they believe in a one China policy and they don't recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation. So that is what probably will spiral this thing out of control and resort to nuclear war.
[00:10:31] So we know that China certainly could. So after this war, a third of the world is destroyed here. You know, we know leaders say things like we heard Hillary Clinton say one time that when you have a catastrophe of a great magnitude, people will do things and agree to things that they wouldn't normally. They will give up quite a lot of their sovereignty that they wouldn't normally give up any other time.
[00:11:02] So that may be the reason why our next thing on our chart here that we're going to look at is going to be number six, which is the confirmation of the covenant. Now, the war of the third is going to create such a havoc around the world until people say we can't survive another war like this.
[00:11:23] And so that is what they're going to say. Well, a lot of what caused this war is going to be religious strife.
[00:11:32] And so that is probably what is going to cause the, the world to create the confirmation of covenant. Okay, now we're gonna have to talk about what the confirmation of the covenant entails. And so that is going to be found in. That's number six in our chart that we just showed you. That's going to be found in Daniel, chapter nine, verses 24 through 27. I'm going to read the entirety of that. But we will focus on just the, the pertinent part of this lesson so that we can know and follow along and not get too complicated for the people who may have never heard these things before.
[00:12:09] But this will begin here. 70 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon the holy city to finish, finish the transgressions and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring an everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
[00:12:34] Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks. And that's seven weeks of year. So 40, 49 years is what that is saying to us.
[00:12:52] And three score and two weeks, so that's another 434 years. The streets shall be built again, and the wall, even in trouble is times. And after three score and two weeks, after 483 years shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself.
[00:13:13] And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
[00:13:19] And the end therefore shall be with a flood. And unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Now this is the part that verse 27 that is pertinent to what we're studying today. And he, meaning the Antichrist, shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.
[00:13:39] And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and the overspreading of abomination. He shall make it desolate even unto until the consummation, and that shall be poured upon the desolate. So this is a, a prophecy about the weeks of years from the time it was given to Daniel. Daniel. This is Daniel chapter 9, verses 24 to 27. And it's given us a prophecy of the things that would happen. So we'll look at these things briefly here. We know seven in, in seven weeks of use was 49 years that we talked about. We know that the, the. The command to rebuild Jerusalem was given twice, it was stopped and then it was started back. So that's what we can know from that. And then we know from the time that this is finished when Zerubbabel those people finished the temple until Messiah, the whole thing was going to last the 483 years, then Messiah would show up and be cut off, but not for himself. So if Messiah is going to be cut off, I think crucifixion certainly would come under that, the category of being cut off. And he was not cut off for himself. He was cut off for mankind.
[00:14:56] So from that point is from the time this is given to the time that is the 483 years are completed, Messiah had to come and be cut off.
[00:15:08] And so we know that that happened 2,000 years ago. And there's a gap in that prophecy. And there is one week of seven years left. And that is what starts that final week is what we're talking about here, which is the confirmation of the covenant. Okay. Now, it's very simple, I know, so if you.
[00:15:26] You may have some trouble following along, but we will have other lessons that we'll constantly do to help us to be able to understand that. That. And we also have a lesson that is on our platforms that you can go through with a video or audio.
[00:15:41] It's called Give me time, the final seven years. And that goes off into detail a little bit. And also we'll do other lessons because these things can be somewhat complicated to understand. It will take time for us to constantly go through these things and be able to know for sure. Not that Rich knows, but that, you know, how these things are to come to pass. So this is gonna. This, like I said, there was a quite a lot of reading, but 27 is what we were really, really shooting for. He is the reason why this verse has a. You know, he refers back to the last mentioned masculine noun, which is the prince that shall come. So we know that the prince that shall come this is talking about is the Antichrist.
[00:16:31] And so we know that the Antichrist would be among those people who confirmed the covenant, like the Antichrist would be a part of a large body of people like the United Nations. We know the United nations has 192 members or so. It could be more than that by now.
[00:16:50] And they are the ones who will confirm the covenant. What covenant are they referring to? The prominent covenant of the Old Testament is the covenant that God made with Abraham is found in Genesis 15:18.
[00:17:04] God made a covenant with Abraham, saying that this land from the river Euphrates to the north and to the river of Egypt to the south, and he gave Abraham borders. And now we know when this is confirmed by the world, which is going to be confirmed, they're not going to have all the property that's in the borders that God gave Abraham, but they will confirm Israel's right to exist in the Holy Land, which is where they are right now. And so that is what the agreement is. And that is the event that will start the final seven years to the Battle of Armageddon to begin here.
[00:17:45] And this gives Israel the right to build its third Temple.
[00:17:52] And so we know that the Abraham Accords that was prominent during President Trump's first administration.
[00:17:59] One important thing that that agreement did, that's not the confirmation of the covenant, but one important thing that that solidified that some of the Arab countries were willing to acknowledge that, that Israel had the right to exist and to worship on the Temple Mount the way they worship. Well, Israel can't worship on the Temple Mount without a temple standing. That's why they don't have the sacrifices and things going there on there now. And, and so that gives us another look at our chart. So number seven is the third temple being built on the Temple Mount. So that when the confirmation of the covenant happens, which is number six, we know that it has to include the right, which is number seven, for Israel to build their third temple. And so that is going to be a part of it. So when we see this event happen and the countries of the world sign this document that Israel has a right to exist and they'll want to have a two state solution there, shortly after that, Israel will start to build the temple. We would know that was the confirmation of the covenant and so that within and that will go ahead and start that whole thing. And we know that the Temple Mount will be shared by so a lot of different people will be able to worship there. And so, and the reason we know this, there's going to be a temple there because we find that God spoke to John in Revelation 11 verses 1 and 2.
[00:19:37] And this is John speaking here. And there was given me, John, a reed like unto a rod. And an angel stood saying, arise and measure the temple of God and the altar of God and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple, leave out and measure it not, for it shall be given to the Gentiles and the holy city that they would tread Underfoot for 42 months.
[00:20:03] Now we know that the everybody will be able to access the Temple Mount the way they do. And so God specifically told John to measure the people in the temple and, and, and the people that worship therein. But all the other space measure it not, because it'll be trotting down the Gentiles. We know that there are two Arab the Dome of the Rock is there and their worship and the Alask Mosque is there. So that will stay there. And Israel will be given a portion of the Temple Mount to be at her temple. And so that is what John was saying to us when God gave him a reed lap until rod. And you know, the, I don't think the pictures that we see of the Temple Mount do justice to the Temple Mount because it looks small, but we know that's more than 35 acres.
[00:20:50] 35 acres in my mind would be equal to the average size mall in America along with the parking lot. That's what I'm just, you know, guessing that from an observation point. So we know that Judea Samaria will be called the occupied territories, which is the west bank. And we know they will be given to the Palestinians as their state because the Bible tells us so. So this is a two state solution.
[00:21:20] The Jewish population will be, their borders will be defined by the world.
[00:21:29] And we know the Palestinians will, they will be given what they call the occupied territories or the west bank. But the Bible calls that territory Judea Samaria. And that's going to be given to the Palestinians.
[00:21:44] And so they will probably never agree on the Palestinians being able to have East Jerusalem as their capital because of what happened on October 7th. Israel would not want to have them that close to them because you got to think that the Temple Mountain in East Jerusalem is so close to Jerusalem proper until October 7 with, you know, they were, they were able to get over there and bombard those people very, very quickly. But if they were intermingled with them that close, Israel wouldn't have a buffer. And they're never going to want to agree to that.
[00:22:22] So, you know, and so this is going to culminate by them not being able to agree on the capital for the Palestinians. That's going to come and culminate in another event that we're going to talk about in a few minutes here.
[00:22:37] So this brings us to now to the, what I call the crazy eights, because there are so many things that happen on number eight.
[00:22:47] We're going to cover those things. The first thing we're going to talk about is going to be the abomination of desolation. So number eight at the top of this, of the chart that you're seeing, the first event is the abomination of desolation.
[00:23:01] And that is when an international leader of the world that rose up through peace and has given, been given the position of being the, you know, the position of that the world will see him as the greatest leader.
[00:23:19] And so he is the one that, that confirmed the covenant. But he, you know, three and a half years prior to this event, but they all agreed, so we won't know who he is.
[00:23:31] But the Bible says at this event called the abomination desolation, that is the revealing of the Antichrist. And so at that time he will stand up and be touted by the world as the greatest leader. So that's when the Bible says we, the man of sin will be revealed. And so that happens. He's the one who stands up and says that claims to be Messiah and God and claims sovereignty over the Temple Mount. And, you know, we have to be careful about these things because he's probably not going to stand up on the Temple Mount and say, I'm God and I'm the Messiah, but he will intimate it somehow. And so that is why shows like this is so important, so that we can start to relearn our Bible and understand things in the Bible that maybe we never understood before, so that we can identify what we're seeing and not just be deceived like most of the world will be. And so he's going to do that. And that's the man of the sin. He'll be revealed here. So he would stand in the holy place. The holy place is the first room inside the temple. You remember, you had the outer court and which, you know, where they killed the animal, the, the. And the labor where the priest washed and then he washed there and they had to kill the animal. And then he goes inside the temple. And the first room of the temple is called the holy place. And that's where the table of shoe bread was, was located, as well as the altar of incense, which represents worship. And the candelabra, the candlestick, which was oil and represented the spirit of God. And so that is where he's going to stand.
[00:25:12] And that is the event that is called the abomination desolation.
[00:25:16] And after this event, I don't know how many people, how many Jews will go to the temple and worship from the time that is built to this event.
[00:25:26] But after this event, it won't be as many as it was before, because it become. It makes it desolate. They're going to look like he's defiled the temple somehow. Why was he in there doing that? And so the population that visits the temple will be diminished after that event.
[00:25:42] And so that's one thing we can know. So, and so this event, at the time of this event, and we'll look at Our chart once again here at the time of the abominable desolation. The next thing that's down on our chart here is a war in heaven. That's while the Antichrist is on the Temple Mount claiming these things, there's a war in heaven that time.
[00:26:09] And so that's this. That war is described in Revelation chapter 12, verse 7 through 10. So when Michael the Archangel stands up and his angels fights against Satan and his angels which will be cast down and confined to the earth and there will be no more place found for them in heaven, this is the event that's prophesied that when Jesus said I saw Satan cast down, when he said I saw Satan cast to the earth and fall like lightning. A lot of people believe that that event happened a long time ago. I don't. I believe that Jesus was prophesying when he gave that scripture. The reason I believe that is because we know that Satan is the accuser of the brethren.
[00:26:59] Well, until Jesus was crucified and buried, rose again and went to heaven and sent the Holy Ghost back, there were no brethren.
[00:27:08] So we know that he had access to heaven through the duration of the New Testament church. And in the time that we live now in the church age. So he is accusing us today.
[00:27:20] And so we know that he's an accuser. He the same way he accused Job back in the Old Testament. He still has access that. But is he in God's inner circle? No. God is not going to share with him. That is why he didn't realize who Jesus was. And in our midweek shows we are going to get there. So our midweek show is dedicated to the Bible study so that we can understand what's going on in the Word of God and we can know what's going on there. And so he'll be cast down to the earth and confined.
[00:27:52] And we know when the war in heaven begins, that's when he, Satan knows he has but a short time then and he bum rushes the throne. And that's when Michael stands up. Michael the Archangel says that look, this is going far enough. And God gives him permission to go ahead and, and take care of him, confine him to the earth. And the Bible says that Satan is cast down to you having great wrath.
[00:28:15] And so we know that that is also the beginning of the great tribulation. Here we go to our chart again.
[00:28:23] We know that at the bottom of this, at the, at number eight is when the great tribulation begins. And Jesus talks about this in Matthew 24, 15 and 16 and also in 21.
[00:28:38] So I'm going to read that scripture here so that we can kind of get an idea of what this is saying to us.
[00:28:45] Beginning at verse 15.
[00:28:47] And when ye shall therefore see the abomination of desolation that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, whoso readeth, let him understand that, that the when this thing happens, let those people who are living in Judea flee into the mountains. Because then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever again shall be so at the time of this event, that is when the great tribulation begins there.
[00:29:25] This event happens in the midpoint of the final seven years.
[00:29:30] And so we know that this, when this has come earlier, we said there was a future event that would, would determine how we know the Jewish settlements will stay out there. We know that when they confirm the covenant, like we talked about, a few minutes, a few versus back, the confirmation of the covenant is what starts the final seven years which will define the borders that of the two state solution.
[00:29:58] And we know that there will be some people of Israel who will stay in the west bank.
[00:30:04] And they would probably tell them we'll respect your property and business boundaries and rights. So when we have Arabs living in Jerusalem proper abiding by Jewish law, which is similar to Arabic law and Muslim law, so they can stay out here in their property and, and we respect those rights and some of those people who live out there with in the place where the Bible calls it Judea will take that. And so Jesus told us, let those which be in Judea flee when you see this event. Because then shall be great tribulation.
[00:30:41] And so such as never was before, no never again shall be. So the great tribulation is not seven years, it's three and a half years. It begins in the midst of the final seven is what Jesus said. And so that's how we know that it's going to be in those people. Jesus said when you see that this is the time you want to run for your lives.
[00:31:03] And so when the Antichrist stands in the holy place claiming sovereignty there, he's probably going to say something like we don't need to wait for the final seven years. The Palestinians deserve East Jerusalem as their capital today. And that's what's going to incite them. And that's going to make October 7th event where they, the Palestinians seized a lot of the people and took them hostage and killed a lot of people. That's going to make that look like child's play when it's all over.
[00:31:32] So this event happens at the midpoint.
[00:31:35] And we know that's who Jesus was speaking to when he said, let those who be in Judea flee, because then shall be great tribulation. And again, we talk about this in our show that we did before, Give me time and that talks about the beginning of the final seven years there the Bible says in seven in several places that it's half of the seven place it says the Great Tribulation is time, times and the dividing of times, which is three and a half years.
[00:32:07] One place it says 42 months, another place it says 12, 60 days. So there's no dispute about it, even though it's been taught for generations that the Great Tribulation starts seven, you know, is a seven year period.
[00:32:22] But the one place that it counts, the Bible says it's half of that final seven.
[00:32:28] So we can know that and we know that at this time when that happens, the two witnesses that God sins will begin their ministry. And so as a part of this number eight, we have the two witnesses and they'll begin their ministry there.
[00:32:47] And so let me read it. That's Revelation chapter 3 through 11. I won't read it, but I'll give you the PowerPoint of this and I will give power to my two witnesses. They shall prophesize 1203 score days clothed in sackcloth. So that is equal. That's one of the places where we know that the Great Tribulation is three and a half years and not the whole seven years that we've been told for so long. And I wouldn't argue with somebody over that. But I think once we see the war over third, then the confirmation of the covenant and then Israel starts to build their temple, I think it'll be clear to everybody that it is three and a half years.
[00:33:30] The these two men will be powerful men that will use the word of God to defend themselves and they will prophesy and preach throughout the length of the Great Tribulation, which is three and a half years.
[00:33:43] They will have the same power that the great prophets had in the Old Testament and that, you know, and some of the things that they will do will be the same things that when we saw the plagues that during the time of Moses, when God was bringing the children of Israel out of Egyptian captivity, those plagues that Moses used, some of those plagues will be the same that these two witnesses were using. These will just be two preachers and, and again we're going to do future shows to make it plain who these men are. And a lot of people believe what is Moses and Elijah and all those different kinds of things. These are going to be two preachers, two human beings that are alive today. It's not going to be Moses and Elijah. They may come in the power of Moses and Elijah. It's not going to be them. And people say, well, Moses and Elijah, neither of them ever died. But we don't have anything in the Bible that will, that will let us know that people will come back who never died and all those sorts of things. So that's reaching that people are reaching for. I think there'll be two preachers that are on the earth today that God is preparing for this time, who will be able to answer those questions there.
[00:34:52] So they'll witness there for three and a half years.
[00:34:57] And at the time of their destruction, they're going to be causing the world and the Antichrist a lot of problems because they're going to be prophesying what's going on here, what these things mean. And finally the Antichrist is going to have enough and he's going to to destroy these men. And these men are going to be preaching and saying things like, we will be killed. We know that, but we're going to rise again three days after they kill us. And the world is going to be mesmerized watching this on whatever news outlets exist at that time, whether it be Fox News or whatever it is.
[00:35:34] And the Bible says no one will suffer to bury them because they've made these proclamations that we're going to lay in the streets for three days and rise again. So people are going to, well, let's wait and see. And the Antichrist is not going to suffer, suffer them to be buried. And the Bible says that when these at the end of the three and a half years and these two men are killed, the Bible says that people around the world will give gifts to each other to celebrate the demise of these men. So that gives us an idea of how the world will see these things and how far we will have falling when it comes to our ability to discern righteousness and those things.
[00:36:15] So at the end of these events, the three and a half years, that's going to be the end of the Great Tribulation. Now we know that the Antichrist has power during the Great Tribulation. Now it doesn't mean that at the end of the Great Tribulation, he'll just drop off a cliff. His power will slowly dwindle.
[00:36:34] And, and he's going to prepare for what we call the Battle of Armageddon. Okay, that's going to be number nine on our chart. And we have quite a few things that are going to happen at number nine on our chart. Now, we just talked about that. When the two witnesses are killed, that marks the end of the great tribulation there.
[00:36:57] And so Israel is not going to want to submit to what the world says they have to submit to.
[00:37:08] And I think the main issue of that, as we see the sentiment of the world, be toward Israel.
[00:37:15] They are not going to be willing to give the Palestinians East Jerusalem as their capital.
[00:37:21] So the Antichrist has already said that they we shouldn't have to wait. But Israel is not going to do that. And so that is going to be the primary reason that the Battle of Armageddon is going to be fought, is because Israel will not submit to the edicts of the world community.
[00:37:39] So we will have to make you do it. And that's what they're going to do. So at this time, the world is going to begin the Battle of Armageddon, which is in north Jerusalem at the heel of Megiddo. If you look at Armageddon, Armageddon is two combined words, Heel of Megiddo.
[00:38:00] We know that throughout the wars in Israel in the Old Testament, the hill of Megiddo was a blind spot that Israel enemies would try to come that way so they could surprise Israel. And that starts at the heel of Megiddo, which is Armageddon. And they fight throughout the duration of Megiddo. Armageddon, Megiddo.
[00:38:23] And that continues from Armageddon down to Jerusalem, the city proper.
[00:38:28] And if you look at that, that's 160 miles from Jerusalem. And they're going to fight. And so many wars were fought there in the Old Testament. And that valley from Armageddon all the way to Jerusalem changes names several times. It goes from the hill of Megiddo, Armageddon to the valley of Megiddo. That's where David killed Goliath at, down to the valley of Jezreel, the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And it changes name several times within that 160 miles.
[00:38:55] And so it's going to culminate at Jerusalem. And so this is what God says. This is Revelation, chapter 16, verse 16.
[00:39:04] And he gathered them together unto one place in the Hebrew tongue called Armageddon. And so that is where God gathered those people.
[00:39:15] Now a lot of the world will think it's their idea. They said, we're going to sneak up on them and cross the Euphrates river and surprise them.
[00:39:24] Now, the reason they're going to be able to do that is there is a dam that is in Turkey called the Ataturk Dam. And they're going to raise that dam. And when you think about the Euphrates river in the north, it's not a muddy river up there. It's rocky terrain. So you could, you could raise that dam and drive a car across that place in probably a couple of hours, which is what they are going to do. Now, as the Euphrates river continues, it becomes a muddy river, sort of like the Mississippi river is here in America. And so that's where they're going to cross and they're going to surprise Israel at the Battle of Armageddon, because that is a natural blind spot. And that's where the, the army will begin there. And we know that the people who will fight in that army will be Persia. That's Iran. We did a show about that called the Fate of Iran. If you want to go back and watch that.
[00:40:14] Ethiopia, Libya with them, and all of them with shield and helmet, Gomer and his bands, the house of Togarma and the north quarters and his bands and many people with thee. Now, we know that the common names for us Turkey is Gomer. It's not called by Gomer anymore, it's called Turkey. We know Togarma is Turkey in the north where Turkey and Armenia are located.
[00:40:42] Ethiopia, we know where that is. And Iran, which is Persia. And it was called Persia until 30, until 1935. So we know that that's talking about Iran. And so all of these people tell us who is going to be. They're going to be led by Russia. Russia is going to be in the midst of this.
[00:41:00] So. And the Bible tells us there's going to be nuclear weapons is going to be used at this event.
[00:41:04] So we know that they're going to use nuclear weapons once again because by that the Bible tells us that these are the plagues, one of the plagues that God will use to smite the enemies of Israel. And it talks about eyes melting in their sockets. And that's kind of, you know, it is what it is. But that we, that's how we know because that's what that does there. This war will rage on rage all the way through the, the Megiddo in those valleys in Israel will be backed up beyond the midpoint point of Jerusalem. So Israel is going to fight. Gavin Me. Israel has one of the greatest armies on the face of the earth, but not when it, when you fighting against the world combined. We remember what it was like back in the early 90s when the world got together to. To bring Saddam Hussein out of the Kuwait. Well, that's going to look like child's play too when it comes to the world's army at that time.
[00:42:01] And so that is what's going to happen. And when Israel gets to the point to where they are beaten, they're going to know that they're beaten.
[00:42:13] And that's when they're going to say Messiah. If you're ever going to come, you have to come now. And we look at our chart again here on number nine, we got at the bottom of where the nine is, that is the second coming of Jesus Christ. He's returning to this earth and he's going to fight for Israel there. And so I'm going to read the scripture from Revelation, chapter 11, verse 15 and this. And the seventh angel sounded and there was great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ and he shall reign forever.
[00:42:53] At that point God would no longer leave the earth to be governed by people who should know by now that they can't govern themselves.
[00:43:05] That is what God has been trying to show us since the beginning of time. We cannot govern ourselves. We need to be led by God himself. So God's wrath will be poured out on the wicked people of the earth.
[00:43:18] Jesus will be raptured out with him. And that's the time of it.
[00:43:22] I'm gonna have to do a lesson because I'm saying here, at the end of the great tribulation, Jesus gonna come back and that's the time the Rapture. I'm going to have to prove that I know.
[00:43:32] So be sure you subscribe to the show. I'm going to prove it. I'm going to show you the scriptures that prove it. And, and it's not a salvation issue. I'm not gonna be dogmatic about it. But you know, these are the things that God wants us to know, so why not know them? And I'm going to do my best to help you to see that.
[00:43:50] So we know the Rapture will happen. The Antichrist and the false prophet at the time of Jesus Christ returns. He's going to land on the Mount of Olives and he's. He's going to Israel is going to acknowledge that he is the Messiah at that time. And then he's going to go and fight those world armies for Israel as when he fought in the day of battle, like, like God did, no testimony, he's gonna fight like that again.
[00:44:14] And at that time he's going to put down the armies of the world who are trying to take down Israel.
[00:44:22] All the people of the world who were a part of this thing will have to be dealt with.
[00:44:28] And another thing is going to happen is Satan is going to be bound for a thousand years. So we'll have a thousand years. There'll be some people left that weren't raptured, that weren't killed. And I don't know who these people are, but I will say this. We know that we have a president to. When all the, when the people of the children of Israel came out of Egyptian captivity, when the children of Israel would not go into the promised land because they were afraid of the giants there, God didn't hold the, the children of these people 20 and below responsible what their parents did.
[00:45:04] So God sees that as an age of accountability in some cases. And, and so those are the people who will probably populate the earth at that time for a thousand years. And at the end of a thousand years there will be quite a lot of them. They will go back and they will population populate the earth during this time.
[00:45:22] And so they will be more beings. Those of us who are raptured out will be supernatural beings. We will rule and reign along with Jesus for a thousand years here.
[00:45:35] Now I'm going to read this to let us know that Satan is going to be put in the bottomless pit.
[00:45:41] And I saw an angel come down from heaven having the keys of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
[00:45:50] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomless pit, shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed for a little season.
[00:46:14] And so we know that Satan is going to be released for a little season there.
[00:46:19] And a lot of people say, well, why should Satan be loose for a little season?
[00:46:23] We see this here. Satan is bound on number 10.
[00:46:27] And at that time when Jesus comes back there, we see here the shaded area, if you're able to see this, is Satan being loosed for a little season. Now the Bible doesn't tell us what a little season is, but we know that it's a short period of time.
[00:46:44] And I'm going to read this scripture here.
[00:46:49] This is Revelation 20:7.
[00:46:54] And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and he shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth.
[00:47:06] Gog and Magog will gather them together to battle, the number of whom is the sands of the sea. And when the thousand years are up, Satan will be released for little season to tempt the nations once again.
[00:47:20] This is to fulfill the one thing that means quite a lot to God is choice.
[00:47:26] You know, we look at these things here and a lot of people say, well, why is God allow Satan to be released again? Well, the Bible says that God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt any man. Well, he really doesn't need to tempt with evil because Satan is the most powerful tempter that ever lived anywhere.
[00:47:47] Heaven I in earth. So he's going to do, I'm sure, quite a good job at that.
[00:47:51] When the thousand years up, Satan is going to be released for a little season to tempt the nations. And so you have people who were born during a time when there was no temptation of evil. There hasn't been a war fought for a thousand years. And people will not learn war anymore and they will learn this all over again. So the choice to serve God or to be deceived by Satan will be a decision that these people will have to make once again. And that is why Satan is going to be released to do that. And so by this time, a thousand years is earth. And you know, a thousand years of people populating the earth, it'll be as the sands of the sea. So we know that that's going to be quite a lot of people there to have a thousand years of peace and prosperity there.
[00:48:41] Russia, which is Gog and Magog once again will be used by Satan to bring war once again. The Bible doesn't tell us how long a little season is, but it's going to culminate there.
[00:48:52] Okay, we're gonna go now back to our chart here and look at now we're over here to, to number 12. We know Satan is, is going to be, you know, God is going to say enough is enough here and Satan is going to be cast into hell. What the Bible says, why the Antichrist, the false prophet already are. And then that'll be the end of the, of the human experience. So number 12 is Satan that you're seeing here is Satan cast into hell to hell fire, never to be released again. And then number 13 is the Earth destroyed by fire.
[00:49:34] Okay, I'm going to read this scripture here in Revelations 20, verses 9 and 10. And they went up onto the breadth of the earth and to compass the camps of the saints about and the beloved city and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
[00:49:55] And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever.
[00:50:06] So that is what's going to happen in those two events 12 and 13 there.
[00:50:11] So whatever the method of salvation is during the millennium these people will have had a chance to obey whatever that was, just like the dispensations throughout the history of the world were. And so some of these people will be gathered out from them that will serve the Lord. Not all of them will be devoured, but most of them won't. And so they will have had an opportunity to obey whatever the plan of salvation was at that time during the millennium. We know it won't be what it is now. Now you have to be born again of the water and the spirit like the Bible says.
[00:50:48] And so that requires faith and belief in Jesus Christ. That is accompanied by a physical act.
[00:50:54] That is why you have to be born again the way the Bible said to do it.
[00:50:57] And so we know that whatever that is in the thousand years will be a progressive thing because we'll see Jesus on the throne. We won't need to believe in something that we can't see. So that's how we know it'll be something different than what we have today.
[00:51:16] And so that's what that is. So because there are no more humans on the earth. And that is why God is going to destroy the earth by fire along with those people who were evil and wicked who remained on the earth. And he's going to destroy the earth because earth is a place where human beings reside.
[00:51:33] And at this time there will be no more human beings anywhere because we will. The Bible teaches that judgment is a part of the apostles doctrine that we are to to believe and preach and be taught and follow.
[00:51:49] Part of the apostles doctrine was judgment. And so now at this point in our lesson here, it's time for the judgment to happen. And the judgment happens when there are no more humans. So therefore we will have our bodies that cannot be destroyed. The Bible teaches that everybody has two bodies, a physical body for temporary existence, which is what we have now that you're watching me in my temporary existence. And we have a body that will be issued to us who are raptured out of the time of The Rapture. And those who were not raptured, they'll get their second body at this time when the world is destroyed. Because we have one more event that we're gonna have to talk about here, and that event is the Great White Throne Judgment here, which is number 14 on our timeline. So that's the final thing that we're going to talk about there. Number 14 is the great White Throne Jesuit. Okay, I am going to read this scripture, which is Revelation, chapter 20, verses 11 through 15.
[00:52:49] And I saw a great throne and him that sat on it. From whom face.
[00:52:55] I'm sorry, from whose face of the earth the heavens fled away, and there was no place found for them.
[00:53:03] And I saw the dead, great and small, stand before God. And the books were open, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which are written in the books according to their works.
[00:53:20] And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. And death and hell delivered the dead which were in them. And they were judged every man, according to their works. And death and hell were cast into. Into the lake of fire.
[00:53:36] This is the second death.
[00:53:38] And whose was not found in the Lamb's Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. And so we know that that's how God sees that whole thing.
[00:53:49] And so we know those that were not raptured and already given a glorified body will have to go through this period and get to the thousand years is over. The Bible tells us that mankind will be judged by their works. Unless you have that glorified body that will rule and reign with Jesus Christ and came out of Millennium obeying whatever that dispensation says you should.
[00:54:13] Your name is not written Lamb's Book of Life. And that is what is required to go to heaven and live with Jesus in heaven throughout eternity.
[00:54:22] And so the people are judged by their works, and we know their works cannot save us.
[00:54:28] So we need to be born again and we need to make our salvation sure.
[00:54:34] And, you know, the time and chance comes to all. So we're going to try our best to teach those things throughout this show. So make sure that you tell your friends and family to listen to the show, because we're going to slowly get there.
[00:54:48] We have to realize that this is the time the Great White Throne.
[00:54:52] And it does. It says the Great White Throne Judgment, not the Great White Throne Adjudication. This is not a trial. And I've heard people say time and time again, we'll find those things out at the great White Throne judgment, the great White Throne of judges is not the time when you need to find that out because that is a judgment.
[00:55:11] When we have trials and things in courts of law, when that judge brings the hammer down in the sentence, that's the judgment. Thirty days or five years, the life or whatever it is, that's the judgment. We are in the adjudication period right now and that's something that we should know.
[00:55:29] So like I said, we're going to teach that throughout this, this show and hopefully you will find these things very, very helpful to you.
[00:55:41] And I didn't have any commercial breaks doing this, this lesson because I wanted to get through it in one lesson. So it's quite long. You can always go back and pause, then watch it again and, or start where you left off.
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