WW 4 and Rapture Controversy pt. 2

Part 2 of End of the World: WW4 and Rapture Controversy goes deeper into what’s unfolding and what it demands from us right now. This message focuses on prophetic alignment, spiritual readiness, and the urgency of understanding the times we’re living in. As we continue unpacking Scripture, the picture becomes clearer—and more personal. This isn’t just about future events, it’s about being prepared, awake, and anchored in truth in a critical hour.

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Can we ask your anointing upon me and these lips of clay to speak forth your word with excellency, with accuracy, Father God, and with signs and wonders confirming? I pray for the anointing of God to remove burdens, to destroy yokes, to establish, Father God, spiritual stamina, to establish strength, Father God, to give us a strong and a firm foundation, that our beliefs in our worldview would be not solid ground, solid rock, not sinking sand. We bind every interceptor of light and we lose revelation knowledge. I declare that our ears are anointed to hear, our minds are anointed to understand, our hearts are anointed, Father God, are to receive the incorruptible word of God in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So last week we started off on the rapture. We began to speak about this controversy of the rapture. And I share with you a couple of very powerful, powerful truths and observations in scripture. One of the coolest and the most exciting ones, I think, is the clear evidence of the church being removed in the book of Revelation. Chapter 1, 2, and 3. We see the church in every single chapter, Ecclesia, Ecclesia, Ecclesia. Then at chapter 4, verse 1, a trumpet is blown, Christ comes, and the church never appears again for the rest of the chapters. This is alluding, it's a picture, it's not alluding to, it's a very clear picture of the harpazo, the seizing or the snatching, the suddenly snatching away of the church. In the Latin, it was the word uh I gotta practice my Spanish vowels. A-A-E-O-U, right? Rapier mur, I guess. Rapier mur in the Latin, which is the root word in English for rapture. This signals a sudden, forceful removal of the believers. Amen. Amen. Let's go to the next slide as we're just doing a little recap and review. First Corinthians, he said, I'll show you a mystery that we shall not all sleep. We're not all gonna die, but we shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. An instant change, uh a resurrection, a mystery revealed. This mystery, Paul calls it a mystery, is the the harpazo, the rapture, the taking away of the church. Next slide, please. We saw in for in John chapter 14, verse 2 through 3, Jesus said, I'm going to prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive you to myself. Why would he do that if the end goal in scripture is for heaven to come down on earth? John said, I saw the new Jerusalem descending upon earth, and this world, this world will not end. Let me just say this right now. This world will not end. Reminds me of Jack Van Impe, a famous pastor that lived a great, glorious life and had a successful ministry for many years. He's dead now. But Jack Van Impe, I grew in the 90s, and you know, like he was on TV, him and Rexella. He was had the perfectly white hair, and his wife was always like, hey, Jack, you know, oh, amen, Jack. They always did a head little show together. But he would famously say, There's whatever, he would give this number, I forgot what it was. There's 385 scriptures that says the world will not end. The world will not end. When we say the end of the world in church and in scripture, it doesn't mean that this world will end. This world will never end. There are dozens of dozens of hundreds of scriptures that say that the world will not end. When we say end of the world, we're speaking of the end of the world order. Can you say end of the world order? Amen. Now, nowadays, more than ever, we're hearing everybody say the new world order. We at first, it was first of all, the term New World Order was in all the pastors and sermons and prophecy, and also uh historians and people that studied the you know, studied uh geopolitics and these type of things, and the in the CIA created a term called conspiracy theorist. That was a term conspiracy theorist. That's a term the term I was listening today, something that you might have heard before. There's a term called, do you believe Israel has the right to exist? Right? Do you believe Israel has the right to exist? That question was actually formed by the Israeli government, it was formed by their intelligence, and because it presupposes a special right, but it always gets people to agree. Well, yeah, of course they have the right. But then Jordan has the right, Iran has the right, and then like what gives you the right? Well, in the Jewish mindset, what gives them the right, of course, is is is the scriptures in the Bible, so that's why they have the right, but they believe that their right to exist, they have a right to exist, but not you. You know, so so it's kind of a trick question, right? So a lot of these these phrases that are tossed around and used quite often, especially on academia and especially on the news, I mean, Operation Mockingbird, which is the CIA operation that started back in the 50s and 60s, I believe it was the 60s, where they where every single media outlet, conservative and liberal, both say the exact same thing. I used to watch these montages years ago about democratic talking points, and they had every single news media saying the exact, exact words. Now they did another one this week with the Republican talking points. Exact same words. And the words, I forgot what it was, but it has something to do with the Iran being a brief excursion. Oh, we'll we'll all have to, it'll be it'll be a hard for a short moment, something like that. It'll be difficult for a short moment, but you know, it's it's not gonna last long. And you see CNN saying it, Fox saying it, ABC saying it, you know, Max News saying it, every single media, left, right, Republican, this is all the illusion of there being two parties. This illusion that Trump is the one that's calling the shots. May I submit to you, if it was Trump or Kamala in office, we would be in Iran right now fighting, regardless of who it was. And it's interesting that we're seeing that things are in motion now that the Bible prophesied about thousands of years ago, and a lot of people are really playing their role, they're being the puppet playing their role. Do you hear me? So this term end of the world brings us to another term, new world order, because actually the world will never end. What will happen is the end of this world order. So, what is the new world order? May I submit to you that there are two new world orders. There is God's New World Order, and then there's man's new world order. And may I submit to you, under man's new world order, there are several fighting new world orders. China has a new world order to get off the US dollar, to get off the US dependency, to to to to to to you know realign the the global world in their favor. The West has their own order, and that is to box out Russia, box out China, do that by cutting off Iran, and that's really what the that's the what the reason of the Iran war is to control the power of Russia, and the power of China is the is is the energy that comes out of Iran. So they wanna, they're you're trying to establish their new world order, and whoever was the president, they would be doing that because this there are powers greater than them trying to establish this new world order. So you have Russia's uh plan for a new world order, China's plan for a new world order, you have the the you know the American, British, German, and France plan for a new world order, and then you have God's new world order, right? So what we're looking at in the Bible is God's new world order, and we see in the book of Daniel that there becomes a clash as the kings of men come together and try and form a world order. It says, Well, it you'll find that they will not mix, and then they'll be infighting, and then this king will kill that king, and the and the Bible spells it out in Daniel, and we're gonna look at that in a second. But may I submit to you that God has a new world order, and in God's world order, Christ returns with the rapture church, and heaven, the new Jerusalem, comes down on earth, and this planet will be populated with us and our families and the people that are living for God, knowing God, serving God, those who converted during the time of the tribulation, and those that had died in Christ, and those who were raptured, that didn't sleep but were changed. We'll come down, we will live on earth. We're not going to live in heaven. Heaven will come down and merge onto earth. And to take it a step further, which might I maybe I shouldn't do because it might take you guys to La La Land. You might start thinking this is fairy tale. But I personally don't believe that God made this big universe for us just to live here. If we're gonna live forever and we're gonna procreate and have children and they're gonna live forever, obviously the planet one day, like Elon Musk said, we're gonna have to start colonizing other places. Amen. We're gonna have to start colonizing other places. So I do believe the Mormons, this is central Mormon doctrine. The reason why Mormons is off is because Mormons believe that there are other planets right now where that's why Mormons allow you to have more than one wife. Because they feel like we got to fill up the universe, and so one guy can have 10, 20 wives and have hundreds of kids, and it's gonna help fill up the universe. So that's that's that's their doctrine, right? And so they believe that they believe that Elohim, this is what Mormons teach, and this is the heresy, right? But the concept is what I'm getting at. But the heresy is they believe Elohim is the god of planet Earth, and they that every man can be a god if you do the right things, be a good member of the Mormon church, have enough kids, have enough wives, you could become your own Elohim of your own planet. Now, is the concept possible that in one day God will allow us as human race to colonize the universe? That is possible, but they take it a step further, saying that Elohim is not the most high God, he's just a God of planet Earth, and that's where it gets into heresy. But would it be impossible or far-fetched to think that 10 billion years from now that God wouldn't have the people on earth colonizing other galaxies, other universes, other would that be far-fetched? Absolutely not. It makes perfect sense, amen. Do you think that we were gonna just go to heaven and not have any more children and stop procreating? And we could assume that because the Bible says there's nobody given a marriage in heaven, but God's plan was never for everyone to just relocate to heaven, flush heaven down the toilet, delete, and then trash it, and then we all live in heaven. That was not his plan. His plan was to put Adam and Eve on the earth and for them to fill the earth and populate it. His plan was for us to be on the earth. That's why hundreds of scriptures say that the earth will never end. This planet will never end. God is not going to have to delete and then trash. I'm talking to the computer people, you know, you delete it, then you trash it, and it is gone, right? Supposedly, unless they can mine it from your hard drive, right? But God is not gonna delete and trash the planet Earth. Do you hear me? When we say end of the world, it's talking about the end of the world order. So Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you, but I myself will come again and receive it to myself. He's preparing a place because we're gonna go up there for a time, and then we're gonna come back in the book of Revelation. Amen. So the restrainer, next slide. The restrainer is the church. I talked about this last week, and I probably could get into it a little bit more because there was kind of talking and moving around, and people go into the bathroom, people chasing people to the bathroom in the middle in the middle of this restrainer portion last week. That's why I'm doing a little recap. Amen. But 2 Thessalonians says, Now we know that withholdeth only he who now leth will let until he is taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked be revealed. The Greek word there is katicho, means to restrain, to hold back, to suppress. This is the church. The restrainer is the church, the primary force preventing the Antichrist is the church of Jesus Christ. We are the salt of the earth. There's a lot of false teaching out there that says the Holy Spirit's the restrainer, but that's a false teaching because the Holy Spirit will never leave the earth. In Revelations 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, there's miracles, the power of God's moving, there's manifestations, there's salvation, there's revival. All the Holy Spirit is moving. He's an overdrive. Revelations 4 to 18. He's an overdrive on the earth. He's not removed. Amen. The church is the only thing that is removed. The church is the restraining force. As long as there's people praying and fasting and preaching and evangelizing, the antichrist does not have, first of all, we got the church watchdogs. Every time an antichrist tries to reveal itself, we're like, oh, Trump's the Antichrist. Oh, Jerry Christian's the Antichrist. Oh, it's Hitler. Oh, the church is always quick to point out who the Antichrist is. Once we're gone, who's going to point out who the Antichrist is? He's restrained from being revealed because the church is all over it. There's hyper, there's TikToks coming on every day with who the Antichrist could be. We're on it like flies on dukey. Amen. Like right on rice or like beans on rice. Amen. We are on it. So once we're removed, now he could come to power. No one is there to call him the Antichrist. Do you understand that? And people will follow him. I want to do a little deep dive into the Antichrist. If you would go with me for a moment, I want to look at the early church on the Antichrist. This is before 1800 AD. Long before modern prophecy teaches, the early church held a consistent and unified view across centuries and across continents. The church fathers had three core convictions. And it last night we went to eat with the Muslim family to celebrate id, EID. It is the holiday. It is a Muslim holiday. I'm not he explained to me why. I don't understand why what it is about, you know. But uh it's not the new year, it's not the new year, it's but it's a global holiday for the Muslims now, EID. You might have seen our social media as happy id or whatever. It's a holiday right now. He had us over for the holiday and we ate, and he said, Mr. Joey. I love him. He's a great, great brother. He's like, Mr. Joey, this, you know. He said, We believe Jesus is coming back for thousands of years. The prophets in Islam have said Christ is coming back. He's coming back with Imam, something Baba or something like that, some Imam, the Mahadi. And they're gonna come back and they're gonna wage war. And the Christians and the Muslims will unite and with Jesus and with Mahdi, and they're gonna wage war against the Jews and the unbelieving people, the heathens. And he explained to me all the prophecies for thousands of years. They're expecting Christ to return. And they're expecting Christ to return with Christ's prophet, the Mehdi. So they're expecting two people to arise to wage war on Israel. Why does that shock me? If you're familiar with Bible prophecy, it should shock you because we know there's the Antichrist, right? There's the false prophet, and then there's the there's there's like an unholy trinity, right? And these wage war against Israel. So it's funny that their prophecies are the exact specific antithesis of what's going to happen in the end. So for thousands of years, the church has held stood that there was a literal antichrist, not a symbolic or institutional, but a real individual person who shall arise. Isn't that interesting? Now he told me the Jews, he said the Jews will have they will they will have a figure that's the antichrist. And Jesus and the Mahadi is gonna fight against this this antichrist. And I said, this is interesting because antichrist means anti-Jesus, right? And anti-Christ. And I said, the Muslims love Jesus, they love Jesus, they believe in Jesus, they talk about Jesus, they honor Jesus, they don't understand his God, but they respect him greatly, and they believe in him. The Christians, of course, that's our God, right? But who's anti Jesus? What religion in the world hates Jesus when you preach about Jesus? They walk up and slap you and they spit on you. The Jews. So he got me thinking. I said, Well, we gotta dig into this a little. Bit because some people say, and we're going to look at some of this. Some people have taught over the years the Antichrist is a Jew from the tribe of Dan. That is the longest thousands of year old teaching that he's a Jew from the tribe of Jan. It would make sense because they're anti-Christ, anti-Jesus, right? But there's other people more recently that have taught that he's a Muslim ruler. Let's look at scripture. I think I thought, you know what? As a church, let's look in the scripture. Why? So we're not deceived. Amen. But they taught that there is a literal antichrist, our early church fathers. They taught that the future tyrant ruler is a political figure of immense power. Which Muslim political figure has immense power? When we start talking about immense global power, we start talking about I mean the Whiteys. Somebody is uh it's definitely not the not the Arabs, right? The Arab nations have been some servant to British, US. Who created Al-Qaeda? We created Al-Qaeda. Why? We created no the Taliban. I'm sorry. I think we created Al Qaeda too. But we created Taliban, we created them to fight Russia. So who you know, we've been pulling the strings of the Arab people on the West for hundreds of years. Do you hear me? So this future tyrant leader is a political figure of immense power who would dominate nations and persecute believers. And he will come before Christ's return. His reign will immediately proceed and culminate in the second coming of Christ. Let's look at what Arenaus said in 130. Now, like I said before, this is not anti-Semitism. I'm not against the Jews. God said that the Jews have been blinded for a moment in the season, so the Gentiles could come and be saved, and which are his children. The Jews are not only God's only children. He chose them to give birth to Jesus. And because of the obedience of Abraham, he will return back and redeem them in the end. But those that are his children are those that choose him and know him. Amen. Amen. Iranius said in 130, he was a disciple of Polycarp, who himself was a disciple of the Apostle John, placing Iranius two steps from the source. In his writing against heresies, he wrote, When the antichrist shall have devastated all things in this world. So this anti-Jesus, anti-Christian person, anti-Jesus, hate Christ, will devastate things in the whole world. He will reign for three years and six months. So take a mental note of three years and six months. Okay. He described the Antichrist as a literal person, linked his reign to Daniel and Revelation, specifically identifying 3.5 years matching the Great Tribulation. Hippolytus, in 170, he said one of the earliest systematic prophetic theologians in church history, this man here, was one of the most systematic prophetic theologians in church history. Hippolytus wrote on Daniel in Revelation, insisting on a specific identifiable antichrist. It's not just a spirit or whatever. The spirit of the Antichrist has been presiding in this world for thousands of years. But the incarnate Antichrist shall come. Just like the spirit of Jesus Christ was in this world from the foundations of the world, from the beginning of the world, the spirit of Christ was on the earth. And Jesus Christ from Galilee of Nazareth was the incarnate person of Christ. Same thing with the Antichrist. The incarnate will come. The Antichrist, a specific, identifiable person, deeply rooted in Daniel's prophecies, possibly arising from Middle Eastern or Roman territory. Daniel chapter 9, verse 24 to 27. Can you look at that in your Bible, please? Daniel chapter 9, 24 through 27. What I'm saying here is very nuanced because there is this love-hate relationship, so to speak. Right? It's like you had that disobedient child, and you want to punish him and make him suffer, but you know, in the end, you want him to turn around and come back, and and when he turns around and comes back, you'll bless him when he comes back to doing right. That's that's kind of the situation with Israel right now. Out there doing all kinds of crazy stuff. God is is is is is is had it with them. They're doing all kinds of evil, but he's still, you know, Jesus still interceding for them. Paul interceded for them. They would come back around. And God says, when they do, he'll bless them, and we'll see a great revival. Amen. Daniel 9, 24 to 27. It says, 70 weeks are determined upon thy people. So say thy people. At this time, who was his people? Israel, the Jews. 70 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city. So this was not just a national thing, a race thing. It's also those on the broadcast, for those, it's not just a national thing, a racial thing, but it's also a geographical. Can you say geographical? The holy city. 70 weeks are determined upon you, people, and the holy city to finish the transgression. This is very powerful. Say finish the transgression. And to make the end of sins. Say the make the end of sins. This is very powerful. At the end of the 70 weeks, it's going to be the end of global transgressions, the end of global sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, to be reconciled to God, and to bring in an everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Very soon, we will enter into an everlasting righteousness on planet earth. We'll close the Bible and seal it up. It was spoken and it is finished. And we'll live on this earth with Christ our King and perfect health and youth and strength and joy with no more sin, no more iniquity, no more poverty, no more stress, no more fighting, no more crying. Amen. And it will happen in 70 weeks, he says. Amen. 25. Know therefore and understand. Now he's gonna give you the dates. He's gonna give you the specific dates. Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the prince, shall be seven weeks. And three score and about and two weeks, excuse me. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troubleless times. And after three score and two weeks, the messiah shall be cut off. Let's go back to 25. I want you to look at that carefully. He says, No, therefore, understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem to the until the Messiah, the prince, shall be seven weeks. Three score and two weeks. The street shall be built again understand. No, watch. And after three score and two weeks, shall the Messiah be cut off. Say cut off. Say cut down. He will be killed. Jews are waiting for a Messiah to come and take over the world, but their eyes are blinded to see that their prophets said he's gonna be cut off at this final week. He shall be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the prince shall come and destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war, desolations are determined. And he shall confirm with many for one week, say one week. And in the midst of that week, say three and a half years, in the midst of that week shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate even until the consummation and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. So he's saying there's gonna be a one-week period of time, a seven-year period of time that will be given. And then in the middle of that seven-year period, there'll be this horrible act. There'll be abominations and desolations, and meaning it's gonna be a vileness to heaven will happen. If you think about the crafters of some of the most vile things in the world right now, you can imagine. Amen. This is what it says here. So there's 70 weeks. What's seven times seven? 49. So seven groups of seven in this context, each week represents seven years, not seven days. So the entire prophecy, when the transgressions will end, sins will end, everlasting righteousness will come in, he said will be 490 years exactly. From the date that the king, I believe it was our Xerxes, but they gave the edict to go back and rebuild the wall. He said, from that day. From that, say from that day. So let's take a look at the next slide. So Daniel 25 says, 925, from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem until the Prince of Messiah comes. In other words, when this is done, said by the king, till Jesus comes, will be this time period. So the decree to command to build Jerusalem to the time the Messiah came was 69 weeks. Jesus Christ died. The year he died was the 430-year, 83rd year from the decree that Xerxes, whatever. It's interesting that we're living in prophetic times. They asked this Chinese, he's a uh game theory and historian. They asked him, Why do you think Trump is evading Iran? Doesn't make sense. He said, Well, perhaps he himself thinks he's a messianic figure, and he has to bring in the return of Christ. It's interesting that at his election, Jared Kushner, Trump, and Ivanka went to the Chabad, it's called Chabad Lutvid, Lut Lut Chabad, or something like that ceremony, the burial of the rabbi that is in charge of it all. Same one that Epstein was connected to. And he says to Trump the night before the election, he said, Bring back the Messiah for us. Finish the job, bring back the Messiah for us. So it's perhaps Trump has this feeling that he is the new Cyrus, which many Christians had said about him during 2015. He was the new Cyrus, the new Cyrus. Cyrus was a wicked person in the Bible, but he gave a decree. We find that many world leaders have tried to fulfill prophecies. Hitler, if you study Hitler's life, Hitler was trying to fulfill prophecies that he felt were written about him. He was uh you ever seen Indiana Jones? And Indiana Jones, he's you know, the German army is trying to find the shalom, they're trying to find the eternal life, this and the diamond that do this, and the you know, the what the sorcerer's store, you know, whatever, whatever. I forgot the Indiana Jones movie, but he was trying to find these holy grails and all these things that could give eternal life, trying to fulfill all these prophecies that was taken from actual fact. Do you follow me? So we're seeing prophetic patterns. Cyrus gives the decree. 69 weeks later, the prophecy was on the 70th week, it's the end. On the 70th week, he says, it will be the end of iniquities, the end of transgressions, and an everlasting righteousness will come in. But on the 69th week, the Messiah is cut off. He dies. Well, didn't we see that in the prophecy? That's why he says to him that understands, let them read carefully. It says here, 26, after three score and two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off. So 384 years, go back. And the 69th week, the Messiah will be cut off. So if he's cut off, there's one week left, there's seven years left. Go to the next one. What happened from the time that Jesus died, the return of Christ, the everlasting righteousness? All of this should have came in at seven years after Jesus died. But something happened. Let's take a look here. The decree, see, it says Artaxerces here. Was that is that another name for Cyrus? That's probably the way I got mixed up with Arxerces and Cyrus. So the decree of Artaxerces, the prophetic clock began with decree issued by the Persian king Artaxerces Longamenus. So I said Artaxerces, then I said Cyrus. Find out what the discrepancy was on. There were two decrees. So this is the one with Artaxerxes. So I was right the first one. I said maybe Cyrus. Okay, got it. The date 445 BC, the first month of Artaxerces, the 20th reignal year. The single historical event anchors the entire 70 weeks calculation. Here, go to the next slide. Amen. Okay, this is this is better. This is clear. Sir Robert Anderson spoke of the coming prince. Using this prophetic calendar, the scripture uses a 360-day prophetic year applied to this date. So from the time that our exercises gave the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was 170, uh 73,880 days. So it was March 14th, 445 BC, our exercise decree, and then the end, April 6th, Easter time, A.D. 32 was the triumphal entry of Jesus, and then he came in on the donkey, the triumphal entry. They say Hosanna, bless is he that comes the name of the Lord, and then he was crucified within three days, and then he rose from the dead. Amen. Exact specific calculations to the 483 years to the date of his the day he entered into Jerusalem. This is how you can convert any Muslim, any Jew, any Jehovah's Witness, or not Jehovah Witness, they believe in Jesus, but Muslim, Jew, Hindu. Do you know the chances of prophesying 173,880 days before the exact date that the Messiah would come into Jerusalem and be hailed as the king? It is scientifically and mathematically impossible. This is proof that God is real. This is proof that the Bible is true. There's no way. If you ever read some of the vague prophecies of Islam and the vague prophecies of Nostradamus and just the vagueness of all the false religions when they try to prophesy, it's a joke. God in the Holy Bible gives us exactly the date that he would enter in and be announced. Within 24 hours, he would be betrayed and hung on the cross and killed. Daniel 9, 26, next slide. It says, and after three score and two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off. This has been overread. It's been overread, overlooked. This little three words has been overlooked by Jews for 6,000 years. They expect him to come and take over. But Daniel, who is the one of the greatest prophets in my book, Daniel said, he will come and be cut off in 483 years from after the decree that's given. But not for himself. Who was he cut off for? Who did he die for? Who was he slain for? There's a pause, it ends in 483 years, and the next seven years doesn't start because he was slain. He was cut off for you and me, the Gentile, to be saved. You should be going to hell, you Vietnamese, Chinese, American. You don't deserve salvation. You're not part of the children of Abraham. He was cut off so that you can be his own, so you could belong to the branch, so you could be his child. He was cut off, but not for himself. After speed, that's the goodness of God. We don't deserve it, amen. I know I don't deserve it. You might you might feel like you deserve it, but I don't feel like I deserve it, amen. After the 69th week, the Messiah will be cut off, executed, not for his own sin, but as the substitutionary sacrifice. Two other passages say the same thing. Isaiah 53 says, He was cut off, using the same words as Daniel. He was cut off from the land of the living. Luke 19, 41 through 44. Jesus was weeping over Jerusalem, knowing what rejection would bring. So let's look at this prophetic gap. This is this is the heart of it. We see the 69 weeks fulfilled, the 173,880 days till the day he enters in and announced as the king. Same than 24 hours is betrayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, beaten, flagged, and crucified. April 2nd, he comes in. 69 weeks. There should have been seven more days, seven more years when the end happened, when the tribulation happens, where everlasting righteousness comes in. But what happened? He put an end to transgression here. He put an end to iniquity here, just like Daniel prophesied. He would come and on the 483rd year, he would put an end to transgression, an end to iniquity, but he would be cut off. He dealt with the sin then. Amen. But what happened? Seven years later, he should have returned with the armies of heaven. This is called the gap, the age of the church. Prophecy paused. Say prophecy paused. Paul talks extensively about this mystery. There were mysteries in the scriptures that the prophets and the prophets and the preachers and the holy men of old did not see. They were blinded. They overlooked he'll be cut off. They overlooked that there will be a gap, a time and a season. After the 69th week, the prophetic clock was stopped. And God did it in such accurate date detail that we can have faith and confidence now that the seventh week is coming. Say it's coming. Because if he was so accurate then, he's not going to miss it this time. Amen. The church age. From Abraham to Christ, that was Israel's age. And that's what the Jews are so upset about all over all over the world right now. Anti-Sematic, anti-Semitism, because this is the church's age. It's not their age. This is the church's age. The church age, not foreseen in the 70 weeks framework, occupies this gap. The final week, Daniel's 70th week, is the waiting of future fulfillment, the seven-year tribulation, triggered when the Antichrist confirms a covenant with Israel. It will be a covenant of peace. Turn to the next one. When they say peace, peace, peace, this concept came from the Bible. We see it in the Marvel Avengers movies, and we see it and historically in history recorded by different kings and different poets and literary arts. But this idea of peace signaling war came from here. The Antichrist will make a peace covenant. Why are we in Iran? Oh, we're in Iran to bring peace and stability to the world. We're blowing people up, killing them to bring peace and stability. To bring peace and stability. Right? To bring peace and stability, you know, there's some other other ways besides blowing everybody up and killing them, right? You know, possibly. Right? There is a time and a place sometimes for for, you know, if you have a bad guy going around the neighborhood, you know, raping women and killing people, you know, and you try and talk him down, he can't stop him. There is a place to for the police to put a bullet in his head. There is a place for that, okay? But the antichrist will use this, we'll make a peace covenant. So he'll make a peace covenant. It says in 27 of Daniel prophesied, he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. There will be a seven-year treaty. A seven-year treaty. This covenant spans the entire final week of Daniel's prophecy. Security for Israel, which they're gonna need it. They are being bombed to smithereens right now with drones. Talk that President BB is dead. I heard it was confirmed that his brother died in one of the drone attacks. I don't I think Bibi is still alive personally, but there's a lot of people that don't think so. Right? In Tel Aviv, their capital, they're being bombed. So Israel is gonna need to create a ceasefire. Security for Israel, seven-year peace treaty, likely a regional security agreement granting Israel unprecedented stability, which will be needed. Temple worship restored. This is what everyone's talking about, all the preachers online. Temple worship restored. They're talking about a red heifer, they're talking about starting sacrifices again. All of this has been in planning for years to rebuild the temple. Right now, I found out and I found out by the Chinese guy who's the professor in China that they're excavating under the temple mount of the Muslim's dome of the rock. And the plan is to have a the plan that's written and spoke about in Israel is to have it blown up and claim it's Iran so that the Arab nations in retaliation will help and invade Iran. I told this to to Bahil, he said, Oh yes, sir, you didn't know. I said, No, I just just saw this Chinese professor state this. He said, Oh, we've known this for a long time in Pakistan. He said, This is common knowledge, it's on our news. I said, Oh America, we only get we only get what the CIA tells them to tell us, right? They're gonna destroy that temple mount, and they're gonna build the Jewish temple. They're going to restore sacrifice, and the red heifer that's been prophesied about has been born and is waiting, and they're gonna bring worship back during this seven-year period, and all of these things are have fallen into place over the last 20 years. All these things have fallen into place. There will be a false peace. Say a false peace. First Thessalonians 5 3 says this for when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction will come upon them. I don't mind they're saying war, attacks, fighting, new. I'm like, all right, praise God. Because it's actually the opposite game. When they say peace, that's when you ought to be concerned. When they say peace and safety, sudden destruction shall come upon them as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. The world will calibrate, celebrate, excuse me, the covenant as a triumph of diplomacy. Wow, isn't he great? Kushner, whoever it does it, Kushner is in charge right now of all the diplomacies. No experience, nothing, no experience, no qualifications, nothing but being from groomed from the same outfit that's handling the administration right now out of Israel. And he's brokering the Abraham Peace of Course, brokering the same one who his leader was saying destroy Iran, bring the Messiah back for us, is the one that went to Iran to broker uh the removal of the uh the nuclear weapon stuff. Does that make sense? Then Iran comes on television saying that they agreed to Kushner and Heggs and Rubio's uh uh demands not to produce nuclear energy. We won't even do it for nuclear energy anymore. We agree to it, and the next day we strike them. Does that make sense? No. So the world will celebrate the covenant of triumph of diplomacy, a new era of peace and security. But Paul warns that this confident declaration is precisely the moment destruction arrives. The language of sudden and travail emphasize it's unexpected and it's inevitability. It's inevitable. The covenant with death. Isaiah 28, 15. It says, We have made a covenant with death and with hell, we are at agreement. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us. Isaiah prophesied that Israel would one day enter an agreement that they believed would protect them. What appeared to be security is in reality a fatal deception. The overflowing scourge will not be stopped by diplomacy, but by God Himself. Why diplomacy can't stop it? Because there's a lot of people that don't want diplomacy. That's why diplomacy will fail. Because there's a lot of people that believe they have to fulfill prophecy, they have to wipe out everybody there in the Middle East and control everything, and there's other people, and that will bring back the Messiah once it escalates. And you find this beliefs in Israel, you find it in the Arab nations, and you find it in the Christian nations. The only people are the Chinese. You know, I sat with a Chinese government leader for four or five hours, and you know what he said to me? He said, The whole world is divided up into three types of people. There's the Muslims and the Christians. I said, Who are the Christians? He said, All of Europe, North America, South America, Central America. Those are all the Christians. And I was like, I beg to differ. Those heathen, French, you know, but in their mind, they're Christians. I said, they're not Christians, they don't practice, you don't go to church. He said, What do they say when they're with their loved one in the bedroom? I said, uh, I said, Oh God. He said, See, Chinese, we don't say that because God's not in our blood, he says. He said, All of Europe, North, South, South America, Central America, he said, they're all Christians. And then you have the Arab world, they're all Muslims, and they're two brothers, two little brothers. This guy don't believe the Bible. He's a communist party leader, he's in charge of the propaganda ministry. He said they're two brothers fighting non-stop, fighting non-stop. And we Asians are over here. He said the Mongolians are Chinese, the Vietnamese are Chinese, the Thai, they're all really Chinese. We're all we're all come from China. He said, We're all Chinese. He said, and the Chinese are over here. This is how they how they think, you know. He said, the Chinese are over here trying to make these brothers get along, and we're controlling them based upon their own you know divisions. We're the Middle Kingdom, Jungwa. I said, Wow, I was fascinated. And I said, Oh, the world could really be carved up that way. The Christian world and the Muslim world, and they're all fighting each other, and the Asians are over here just trying to eat some pho, you know, watching them all fighting, you know, you know what's going on. What has that got to do with me? Amen. But that's how he said the government, Chinese government, that's how they see it all. Amen. There's people, lots of people. The people in the cave. That when you try and wake them up, they want to demonize you and attack you, and you're so bad and kill you. Because they're in bondage. They believe the illusion that they watch on TV. Amen. The church. We won't be here when these things begin to happen. When this tribulation comes. There's some people that believe we'll be raptured at the three and a half year point. At the three and a half years into that peace treaty, we'll be here for that peace treaty. And then right before the Antichrist comes to power and all world war breaks out, that's when we're taking up. They're called mid-trib. Then there's people who are pre pre-tribulation, they believe we'll be taken up before that seven-year peace covenant. I understand the scriptural reference for that, it makes sense. But if things are going to be calm and pretty cool looking for the first three and a half years, I imagine nothing too big happened on the earth to startle everybody. At the third and a half year, everything is broken. The abomination, the desolation comes to the temple, all hell breaks loose. Woe to the earth. There might be a dramatic event that triggers things. So that might be the catch in the way of the church. And then there's people who are post-trib. They believe the church will live through it and then will be taken up. But that doesn't make sense because Christ is coming down with us. So we have to go up to come down. Make sense? Amen. So there's a couple different opinions on this. I'm definitely pre or mid-trib. As long as I'm not here when all that crazy stuff is happening, I'm happy. Amen. I'm pre- or mid-trib. But there are people that are trying to force these things to happen. Powerful people that run the banks, that run the militaries, that run the AI, that run the computers, that are trying to make these things happen. If we're here in the in the first three and a half years, we need to know what's going to happen. Go to the next line. Next week, we're going to go into the midpoint betrayal. And we're going to have to, as a church, be prepared to see the signs of the abomination, the desolation, the antichrist, the temple being rebuilt, the heifer. There's certain things we have to know that we can see because our job is to number one, in the midst of this chaos, we have to thrive and take care of our families, right? And number two, we have to save as many people as possible. We have to preach the gospel and win as many souls as possible before things begin to break out. And we're not here to tell them. Let's stand to our feet. Oh, we should do here comes the bride. Amen. Because we're the bride of Christ, amen. Here comes the bride, amen. Thank you, Jesus. Praise you, Jesus. Praise you, Jesus. Father, we come to you today in the name of Jesus. And we praise you, Father God, and we thank you for giving us revelation and understanding. Giving us revelation, giving us understanding, giving us instruction, allowing us not to be deceived, Father God. But allowing us, Father God, and giving us wisdom. We don't want to be that one guy that goes into the cave and say, hey, wake up, everyone, let's go. And then they they want to stone us and say we're nuts and we're conspiracy theorists and whatever. But we need grace and we need tact, Father God, to communicate Christ. We don't even have to get into politics and these types of things with people, but we do have to communicate salvation, redemption, repentance of our sin, faith towards God, turning from our ways, and entering into relationship with God. Lord, there's so many people all across the city of Houston, up and down our streets, that hearts are hardened towards God, that are in rebellion, they are cocky, arrogant, prideful, they reject faith in God, religion, that can have contempt in their heart for the preaching of the word of God and for church. Holy Spirits, give us the burden removing, yoke, destroying words anointed by the Holy Ghost, prophetic words, words of knowledge, words of revelation that can be spoken at the gas station pump, at the grocery store, to our neighbors, God, that can bring salvation, transformation, that could bring deliverance. We thank you, Father God, that we are, we are Father God, the children of God, made for signs and wonders, made to be tools and vessels, weapons in this last age against the principalities and powers that have binded and blinded the masses, sharpen us, awaken us, revive us, give us a heart and a passion and a burden for Father God, the lost, the unsaved, the unregenerated, the blind, that surround us on every which way. In the name of Jesus, we pray for revelation. We pray that you begin to show us things about our neighbors, show us things about our co-workers, give us insight into their lives to prophesy and speak into their lives and bring salvation, Father God. Now is the chapter of the salvation of the nations. Now is the chapter, Father God, of the preaching of the gospel. Even with the war, people are more hungry. Church attendance has gone up. They say, I think it was I heard some statistics, church attendance has gone up 70% or 17%, something like that. But in the last two weeks, church attendance has gone up all over the West, Father God. People are ready to hear now, people are ready to be invited now, people are ready to be ministered to now. Prepare us, God, awaken us, strengthen us, help our priorities be in reaching the lost as we go throughout our life trying to just heap up and survive and take care of our families. Give us Father God the unction, the energy, and the strength, and the wisdom and the divine connections, divine meetings to bring people to Jesus, to bring people to repentance, to restitution, to restoration. Even as Zacchaeus, the tax collector, knew about God, knew about the Bible, knew about the scriptures, but was living his own way with the knowledge of God on his shelf. Until he encountered Jesus and came under conviction and restored and paid everyone back that he had earned, and committed his life to God. Let that mantle be upon us. The presence of Jesus be upon us. In Jesus' name. Amen. But you might be listening right now and you say, Pastor Job, I wanted to pray that prayer. If I was there, I would have prayed with you. I'd like to pray right now, as a matter of fact. I'd like to give my life to Jesus Christ. I would like to have God in my life, and I'd like to know Jesus as my Savior and my Lord and surrender my life to him. You know, repentance means to turn away from your way and Doing things and to turn to God's way. We've done things our own way. Like they used to say in Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. When I did the 12 steps, they said, your best decisions and your best ways of thinking and your best ways to handle life have gotten you to this situation. And now is time to trust a higher power. Well, there is no higher power than the God of all the earth. His name is Jehovah. And he sent his son Jesus to die for you. And through him, you can turn from your way of doing things to his way. And his way is the right way because he made you. Wash me in the blood of Jesus. I believe that your son died for my sins. And on the third day, he was raised from the dead. From this day forward, I belong to you. In Jesus' name, amen. You prayed that prayer. I'd like you to contact me, and we can send you some more resources and materials that could help you start this new life because this is the first day of the rest of your life. Email me at Joe at nationsabroad.com or email the church at nfcontact at gmail.com. And we'd love to speak with you and just correspond with you and put you on the right path. Maybe help you find some local churches there online or something, or maybe we know some pastors there that can follow up with you and help teach you the word of gum. Thank you for listening. And feel free to download the other podcasts and just feed on the word of gum.