1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,400 He's worthy. 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,720 He is worthy. 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:18,600 Isn't it amazing sometimes church is the only place we are shy? 4 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,680 We really get reserved when we get to church. 5 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:27,960 A hundred plus thousand, nearly a hundred and five thousand people yesterday gathered 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,420 in Neyland Stadium, a hundred thousand of them were shouting. 7 00:00:32,420 --> 00:00:37,080 The other five thousand were Aggie fans and they were in agony. 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,800 But there were a hundred thousand in orange and white. 9 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:48,280 Such fanatical fans that they can tell them what color of shirt to wear in the section 10 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,160 that they're sitting in and they do it without complaint. 11 00:00:52,160 --> 00:01:01,320 If I were to tell you this section wear black shirts, y'all wear red, y'all wear white, 12 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,120 y'all come in in blue and y'all come in in purple next week. 13 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,400 My God who's that preacher like he is? 14 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,740 But we'll go down there and get fanatical and do what they tell us to do. 15 00:01:12,740 --> 00:01:17,600 Come on my soul, don't you get shy on me. 16 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:24,080 Huh, don't get shy on me. 17 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:25,240 And you're going to, you can be seated. 18 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:26,880 We're getting ready to receive the offer. 19 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,560 They're tied this morning. 20 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,800 You're going to think it's odd what I'm about to share with you, but every time we sing 21 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:40,520 this song, it gets to that line that talks about all I have to offer is a hallelujah. 22 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,880 My mind goes straight to Christmas. 23 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,240 I'm not kidding. 24 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:52,920 And my mind goes straight to the little drummer boy. 25 00:01:52,920 --> 00:02:02,400 Now I know that's odd, but that's all he had. 26 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:09,600 Some of us all we have is a hallelujah. 27 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:19,280 People saying can't carry a tune in a bucket, but your hallelujah is an anthem. 28 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,760 It's an anthem. 29 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,880 And you can speak every language on earth when you say hallelujah. 30 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:33,240 It's the same in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish. 31 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,240 It's hallelujah. 32 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,920 And that's what we have to offer. 33 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:40,920 Amen. 34 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:45,480 Let's go before the Lord with our giving today, our tithe and offering. 35 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:46,480 It's worship. 36 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,280 I've told you many, many times. 37 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,600 It's the only tangible thing that we leave behind us. 38 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:57,440 And anymore it's remote and we don't even leave that. 39 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:02,560 Everything else we do here this morning, everything else you do as you engage in your worship 40 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,560 is done in spirit and in truth. 41 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,040 This is the part that we leave behind. 42 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,840 Has God been faithful? 43 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,160 I love it when prayer begins to work so much. 44 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,920 People say don't pray for me that no more. 45 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:22,200 I got more work and I can do more jobs coming my way. 46 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,720 We just keep praying God's blessings over you. 47 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Is that all right this morning? 48 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,320 Heavenly Father, I come before you today. 49 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,160 Your presence so sweet and so near. 50 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,160 I thank you for everyone under the roof this morning. 51 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:43,960 And I pray continual blessings in and on their lives with jobs and better jobs, increases, 52 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:49,840 checks in the mail, refunds, rebates, the best sale in town, inheritance in any other 53 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:50,840 way. 54 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:55,820 And Father, we pray not beyond the scope of your word, but in accordance to your word. 55 00:03:55,820 --> 00:04:00,000 Your word declares that you'll supply all of our need according to your riches and glory. 56 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 You said you'd cause our souls to prosper. 57 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,040 So prosper your people today Father in the name of Jesus. 58 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:08,680 And the church say amen. 59 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:09,680 God bless you. 60 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,880 Stand to your feet and come and worship in your giving this morning. 61 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:21,040 Oh glory to his name. 62 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,040 To my heart. 63 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:30,240 I'm glad to be here. 64 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:31,600 Hallelujah. 65 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,840 Give the Lord glory and honor in his house this morning. 66 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:45,520 If you have your Bibles with you, please turn with me to the 22nd chapter of Revelation. 67 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,020 Revelation 22. 68 00:04:49,020 --> 00:04:51,680 So good to see you in the house of the Lord today. 69 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:56,840 If you're visiting with us, I do not take that lightly. 70 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:02,400 It is an honor for me to have you in the house of the Lord and I trust and pray this far 71 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,480 that you have encountered the presence of the Lord through your worship. 72 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,120 Amen. 73 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:13,760 And before you leave here today, that the word of God will minister to your heart. 74 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:22,200 I have some dear friends with us this morning visiting pastor of 51 years, Brother Dwight 75 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,760 and Sister Sue Henderson, their grandson and his wife with him, Tyler, his beautiful wife 76 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:27,760 with us today. 77 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:35,720 Brother Dwight just retired recently of 51 years of ministry. 78 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,520 Amen. 79 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:45,920 And so he's a member of our covenant group, the only member of our covenant group that 80 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:52,600 is exempt from brotherly ridicule. 81 00:05:52,600 --> 00:06:00,000 We're ruthless with all the others, but Brother Dwight, he's our elder and we respect him. 82 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Amen. 83 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Revelation 22. 84 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,640 If you're visiting with us today, again, I say thank you. 85 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,720 I'm beginning at verse one. 86 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,960 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of 87 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,120 the throne of God and out of the lamb. 88 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:26,360 In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river was there the tree of life 89 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,640 which bear 12 manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month. 90 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,920 And the leaves of the trees were for the healing of the nations. 91 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:40,280 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the lamb shall be in 92 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:44,880 it and his servants shall serve him. 93 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:50,400 And they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads. 94 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,680 And there shall be no light there. 95 00:06:53,680 --> 00:07:02,920 And they need no candle, neither light of the sun for the Lord God giveth them light. 96 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,480 They shall reign forever and ever. 97 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,640 He said unto them, these sayings are faithful and true. 98 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,800 And the Lord God of the Holy Prophet sent his angel to show unto his servants the things 99 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,000 which must shortly be done. 100 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,600 Behold, I come quickly. 101 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,640 Blessed is he that keepeth the saying of the prophecy of this book. 102 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,200 And I John saw these things and heard them. 103 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:31,120 And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which 104 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:32,320 showed me these things. 105 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:39,160 Then said he to me, see, thou do it not for I am thy fellow servant and thy brethren, 106 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,560 the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book worship God. 107 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:48,840 And he said then to me, still not the sayings of the prophecy of this book for the time 108 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,600 is at hand. 109 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,280 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. 110 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,000 And he which is filthy, let him be filthy still. 111 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,400 And he that is righteous, let him be righteous still. 112 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,480 And he that is holy, let him be holy still. 113 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,720 And behold, I come quickly. 114 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,880 And my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be. 115 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:18,160 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 116 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:23,000 Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life 117 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,200 and may enter in through the gates into the city. 118 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:32,260 For without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whosoever 119 00:08:32,260 --> 00:08:35,240 loveth and maketh a lie. 120 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:40,480 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. 121 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:46,600 I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star. 122 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,320 And the spirit and the bride say, come. 123 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,320 And let him that hearth say, come. 124 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,520 And let him that is a thirst come. 125 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,760 And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 126 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,800 For I testify unto every man that hearth the words of this prophecy of this book. 127 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:07,880 If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written 128 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:08,880 in this book. 129 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:14,840 And if any man shall take away from the words of this book, of the prophecy, God shall take 130 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,960 away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which 131 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,920 are written in this book. 132 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:27,280 He which testifies these things says, surely I come quickly. 133 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:28,800 Amen. 134 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,840 Even so, come Lord Jesus. 135 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,400 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 136 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:35,400 Amen. 137 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,760 I want to speak to you on a thought, now that's more text than I'll read in nearly a dozen 138 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:42,540 sermons. 139 00:09:42,540 --> 00:09:46,160 But there was just no stopping place in that 22nd chapter. 140 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,920 And so we just wanted to read it in its entirety. 141 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:55,720 So this morning I just want to talk for a little while on this thought, current events. 142 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:56,720 Current events. 143 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,360 I'll pray for you if you pray for me. 144 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,200 Father, I love you today. 145 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,280 I pray over the household of faith. 146 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,360 I pray truly Lord, we that have ears to hear may hear what it is the spirit's saying to 147 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:07,360 the church. 148 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,120 Lord, as you speak to us through the power of your word, your word is life and your word 149 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,440 is light. 150 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:17,000 Let that light penetrate any darkness that may be within us. 151 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,560 So that truth and righteousness and holiness and love come forth. 152 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:22,560 Touch our hearts. 153 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:23,840 Touch the hearts of your people. 154 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,960 Touch the ears of the hear today. 155 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,640 And I ask Lord for that special anointing that makes it easy to preach. 156 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,320 And Lord, we give you the glory and the honor for it all. 157 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:33,680 And Christ's lovely name. 158 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:36,040 And the church said, amen and amen. 159 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,160 You can be seated this morning. 160 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:43,920 This is a much different message than I normally preach today. 161 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:49,200 I've just felt the drawing of the spirit of the Lord to and let me just preface this morning. 162 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,360 I am not a prophecy preacher. 163 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:58,040 I sometimes struggle with the understanding of some of the prophetic utterances throughout 164 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:59,480 the text. 165 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:00,560 I struggle with that. 166 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:06,280 I, I, um, brother Randy has a greater grasp on the book of revelation that he teaches 167 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,600 on Wednesday nights than I'll ever imagine within myself. 168 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:16,120 Um, I'm about a chapter three, I'll go to 11 and then we're gone kind of person. 169 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,000 I'm not worried about the seven bowls, the seven seals or the vials. 170 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,600 I'm not planning on being here when they're getting poured out. 171 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,880 Amen. 172 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,760 But I do read it because blessed is the man that reads the words of this prophecy. 173 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,200 Hello, I'm taking it in and I'm taking it all in. 174 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:38,880 So what we have read this morning in our hearing is the last chapter in the Bible. 175 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:43,920 It's the last chapter of the book of revelation and it kindly brings a surmise to the end 176 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,760 of things and where the end of things will be. 177 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:51,880 And if you're like myself, the current events of this past week have, and especially since 178 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:57,300 last Friday and Saturday have really stirred my heart and has stirred my mind to think 179 00:11:57,300 --> 00:12:01,480 about how soon is the Lord coming. 180 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:06,800 Now if you've been in church any day of your life, you sit through Sunday school and you've 181 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:12,600 heard preachers preach throughout your life, you have some type of a warning sign going 182 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,560 off in your mind. 183 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:16,600 Israel is at the heart of God. 184 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,560 I said Israel is at the heart of God. 185 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:25,720 And so what's going on with Israel actually affects those of us who are grafted in. 186 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:26,760 Amen. 187 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,280 Those who are brought in and that's who we, the Gentile people. 188 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:36,440 And so we're grateful because the contingency and the things that transpire in Israel, let 189 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,720 us know how soon and when we can be looking toward the coming of the Lord Jesus. 190 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:42,720 Amen. 191 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:47,880 And I don't know about you, but I've got my mind set on the coming of the Lord Jesus. 192 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:52,920 And when I see the Middle East in uproar and I see all the upheaval and the atrocities that 193 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,360 are going on, my mind is turned to the people of God. 194 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:01,640 Not just Israel, but for us, the child, the bloodbath, the born again, those who are named 195 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,040 under that wonderful bloodstained banner of Jesus Christ. 196 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:11,600 And so I landed on this verse this morning, this chapter of Revelation and begin to let 197 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:17,720 our minds be taken hold and really around that 13th verse where the Lord said, I am 198 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:21,200 Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. 199 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:28,280 And when I begin to think it reminded me of first Peter four in verse seven, you'll read, 200 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,440 but the end of all things is at hand. 201 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,980 Be you there for sober and watch under prayer. 202 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:41,120 When I think about the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, who is Christ Jesus? 203 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,200 Now my mind is not so much wrapped around the beginning. 204 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,000 We can go to Genesis and get a pretty good grasp on the creation. 205 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,660 We can see God's hand throughout history and we see how the Bible records it. 206 00:13:52,660 --> 00:13:58,400 And I know that there are none non-believers out there and others who are talking and they 207 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,740 all let you know that this is just a fable. 208 00:14:01,740 --> 00:14:03,360 It's fantasy reading. 209 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:08,240 There's no truth to it, but I'm here to declare to you today that the word of God is truth 210 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,920 and the word of God is life. 211 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,840 Despite all the naysayers and the unbelievers, his word is true. 212 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,080 There's too many prophecies that have been uttered over these thousands of years, too 213 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:24,680 many inspirations, inspired words that God had put in the hearts of humanity and they 214 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:29,360 begin to speak under the unction of the spirit of the Lord that have come to pass. 215 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:30,360 There's too many. 216 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:34,760 I think I forgot exactly the number around just the coming of the Lord Jesus. 217 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:40,400 I can take you to Zechariah 9 if you need more than one when Zechariah tells about him 218 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,800 coming in and going to be born in little Bethlehem. 219 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,800 And you can take Zechariah and he again begins to talk to us about his coming in one day 220 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,680 riding lowly and meek upon the dog. 221 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,560 There's just too many, too many truths to be happenstance. 222 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:56,560 Amen? 223 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,640 The Lord Jesus is going to return. 224 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,640 The Lord, are you hearing me today? 225 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,840 The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending is going to come. 226 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,840 And behold, the end of all things is at hand. 227 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:13,160 And when I think about the end of all things being at hand, the end is Jesus Christ. 228 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:14,900 He's going to be the focal point. 229 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:17,000 He's going to be the personality of it all. 230 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,240 He's going to be the one that brings it to pass. 231 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:23,600 But when we begin to think about the current events that has probably, how many of you 232 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:24,960 just kind of been curious? 233 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:30,400 Your curiosity has been stirred watching what's taking place in the Middle East and how the 234 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,760 nations are gathering around Israel and coming against Israel. 235 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,540 And you begin to think, why is Israel so important? 236 00:15:36,540 --> 00:15:39,160 So let's just do a little rundown this morning. 237 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,880 This is not going to be one of those shouters and runners today, but hopefully it's going 238 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:48,300 to be a little confirmation to us and let us know that our faith is intact and your 239 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:53,040 faith in Christ is intact and that your heart is secure and that your relationship, should 240 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:57,720 the Lord come today, you are ready to meet him because you do remember you've got to 241 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,320 be ready to meet him. 242 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,160 My God, I feel this thing starting to stir already. 243 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,000 We got to be ready to meet him in the air. 244 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,700 And there is a criteria that we have to live by in order to meet him there. 245 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:14,360 So let's think about Israel itself for a little bit this morning. 246 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,480 Let's look at the geographic center Israel is. 247 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,280 See, look at Ezekiel 5 and 5. 248 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,680 See, I have set thee in the midst of the nations. 249 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:28,960 When you stop and look at the geographical place of Israel, Israel's called the navel 250 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:29,960 of the earth. 251 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:36,400 It's strategically located at the hub of three different continents, right in the middle. 252 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,640 When you think about it, God is in the middle of everything. 253 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,280 So why would he not choose the place of Israel? 254 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:48,520 Why would he not choose Jerusalem to be the very center of focus of everything that he 255 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,320 was going to fulfill and do throughout history? 256 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,760 So now we understand the importance of where they are. 257 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:59,720 They are right in the center, little bitty nation about the size of New Jersey. 258 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:06,080 Isn't it amazing how that so many people could be mad at such a small people in such a small 259 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,600 place and scared to death? 260 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:14,560 Do you realize that Israel makes up 0.02% of the population of the world? 261 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:20,560 0.02% of the population of the world. 262 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:28,640 And the 99.8% of the rest are tore up about what's going on right where they are. 263 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,520 All the highs of the world are turned toward Israel today. 264 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:38,760 Iran is itching and all the Arab nations are itching and you see the continents where Asia 265 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:43,640 is being stirred up and everyone's eyes are focused on what's Israel going to do? 266 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,920 Well, they're not going to make any secrets about what they're doing. 267 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:48,920 They're just going to do it. 268 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:49,920 Amen. 269 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:54,600 Well, I don't need to get going too far down that road, but just understand they're right 270 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,040 in the middle of it all. 271 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:57,040 Who is Israel? 272 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,200 Israel is the center of revelation. 273 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:05,920 It's from this focal point, this geographical location, the land of Moses and all of the 274 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:11,200 prophets and the apostles from whence the word of God has come. 275 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:12,200 Hallelujah. 276 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,560 Oh, my, my, my, think about it. 277 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,280 That's where revelation has come from. 278 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:21,280 That's where we have learned and what we have received and our knowledge of God Himself 279 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,160 has come from the central hub. 280 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,520 When we think about Israel, Israel is the spiritual center of the world. 281 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,880 It's in Bethlehem that Jesus is born. 282 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,080 It was in Nazareth that he was raised and he grew to maturity. 283 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:39,720 He makes his way into Galilee where he walks and he teaches on the mountain sides and beside 284 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:40,720 the sea. 285 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:45,280 He doesn't just teach beside the sea, but he'll take a stroll from time to time on the 286 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,480 rocky waters of Galilee. 287 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:48,480 Hallelujah. 288 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:54,600 Oh, you're talking about a revelation when we talk about the central point of spirituality 289 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:55,600 coming from Jerusalem. 290 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:01,160 As he walks on the water, it's in Jerusalem that our Lord was crucified, buried and rose 291 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:02,280 from the dead. 292 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:07,640 And from the Mount of Olives, He ascended and to the Mount of Olives, He will return. 293 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,920 You better hold on with me this morning. 294 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:15,460 His feet will first touch down upon the Mount of Olives according to Zechariah 14 and 4. 295 00:19:15,460 --> 00:19:21,320 And when his feet strikes good terra firma solid, it's going to split to the one side 296 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,760 and split to the other entwine. 297 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:28,000 And he's going to be focused on a gate at the city called Jerusalem. 298 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 And the Eastern gate is where his gaze is going to log. 299 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,880 It's 15 feet thick full of concrete. 300 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,320 There's bullet holes all in it. 301 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:40,200 I've seen it with my own eyes where others have tried to breach the gate of Jerusalem's 302 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,360 Eastern gate. 303 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:46,220 But no, it's being saved for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 304 00:19:46,220 --> 00:19:51,200 And when his foot strikes down on the Mount of Olives, from the amount from which he ascended, 305 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:52,760 he will descend again. 306 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:58,080 And when he touches down, honey, she's going to split in two and a fresh gushing water 307 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:03,880 stream is going to flow down to the Dead Sea and revive her waters. 308 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:14,400 And he's going to expand the Kidron Valley. 309 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,880 And he's going through the gate. 310 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,960 They knew that touching dead bodies would defile the priesthood. 311 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:25,960 So you know what they've got? 312 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,800 The whole wall side right there, just tomb after tomb. 313 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,680 He shall not be defiled. 314 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:41,480 He's going through the central point of spirituality is Jerusalem. 315 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,960 Three of the greatest religions of the world are center hubbed in Jerusalem. 316 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:57,280 Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all flow from this central point of this place called 317 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:02,380 Israel and out of this city of David, which is the city of God. 318 00:21:02,380 --> 00:21:05,760 Come on somebody, which is the city of God. 319 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:06,760 Hallelujah. 320 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:07,760 Zion. 321 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:08,760 Hallelujah. 322 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,440 Jerusalem is her name. 323 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,760 Israel, the prophecy center. 324 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:17,720 It is here prophecy is a record of a pre-written history. 325 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,600 The land of Israel is the only land belonging to God's people. 326 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:26,360 The details of their future and minutely recorded in scripture. 327 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:32,760 If you want to know what God is doing, study his people and his words concerning them. 328 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:39,880 I read a article, a post from Charles Krauthammer before he passed away. 329 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,520 He talked about Israel. 330 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:46,360 He said they're the only people who are living in the original land, still worshiping their 331 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:50,480 original God and going by their original name. 332 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,080 And you can't mess with them. 333 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,080 You can't touch them. 334 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,080 Why? 335 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,640 Because they're in an apostate state right now. 336 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,200 They are still God's chosen. 337 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,600 Oh God in Jews Israel, he chose Abraham. 338 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:06,240 And from Abraham, the prophecy would be this, that your descendants shall be numbered as 339 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,560 the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore. 340 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:15,360 Oh Abraham who had not a sibling one, who had not a child, who had no posterity as of 341 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:20,160 yet, who lived to be a hundred before, he would see the promised son born. 342 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:27,360 And from that one son, we see where six million were taken out at one time at the Holocaust 343 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:30,840 from Abraham's faith who trusted in God. 344 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,880 You think about the prophetical history of the world is tied up in the centrality of 345 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,320 Israel and his beloved city, Jerusalem. 346 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:40,320 Think about it. 347 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:49,440 It flows from there. 348 00:22:49,440 --> 00:23:04,120 Israel, the storm center, the Middle East, specifically Israel is the world's greatest 349 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:07,120 trouble spot. 350 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:14,400 The only nations in the world that'll pick up rocks and go to a gunfight. 351 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,040 Never ceases to amaze me. 352 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:23,080 When they're showing this video, what's going on over there? 353 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:30,080 They're throwing rocks and everybody else got tanks and guns and they'll pick up a rock. 354 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:35,120 Why not a rock? 355 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:37,960 Don't you dare make me preach that. 356 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,120 Don't you dare make me preach it. 357 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:41,120 Why not a rock? 358 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:42,120 Huh? 359 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:46,380 If little David in his sling could take out a giant, come on somebody. 360 00:23:46,380 --> 00:23:49,560 They still think it can take out any enemy around. 361 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,320 So they'll just pick up a rock and let it fly. 362 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:58,080 Bullets may be fine, but they're going to know. 363 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:04,880 The Bible says Jerusalem in Zechariah 12, Jerusalem will be a burdensome stone for all 364 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,120 people of the world. 365 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:13,320 And indeed we can see it now beginning to unfold in this daily news and instantaneous 366 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,320 knowledge we get and all the storm is gathering too. 367 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:22,440 All these battles that we see are gathering toward the end battle that'll be fought one 368 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,880 day in the valley of Maghetto. 369 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,480 It's all drawing near. 370 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:27,960 Gog is coming down. 371 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,520 Magog is going to gather. 372 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:30,520 Come on somebody. 373 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,880 And the armies of this world are going to gather and it's going to be over and said 374 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,360 and done with one of these days. 375 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,040 It's going to be over and done with. 376 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:44,720 The storm is just brewing. 377 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:51,440 You take into account Matthew 24 and as the Lord would give an account toward the signs 378 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,320 of his return. 379 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,600 He talks about tribulation. 380 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,480 He talks about war and rumors of wars. 381 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:05,600 He talks about nation rising against nation, but he'll also instruct us, hold on, but the 382 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:06,960 end is not yet. 383 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,800 There's some worse things coming. 384 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,760 I don't know if the Lord is ready to come the very day in which we live and breathe 385 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,120 right now, but he could. 386 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:18,920 He could and do no damage to the prophecy of his word. 387 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,720 He could come at any moment, amen, and fulfill it to a T. 388 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:27,200 I don't know how long it's going to be, but when I read Matthew 24 and I think about the 389 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,720 pestilence across the land, I think about earthquakes and divers places just the other 390 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,720 day. 391 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:38,760 A 6.2 or 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit in Afghanistan and thousands of people were killed. 392 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,320 Why that earthquake? 393 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,960 And they happen every day. 394 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:46,840 That was just a larger one that got some notification, but there are earthquakes. 395 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:53,000 This world is so earth, it's so globe is shaking and quivering and trembling on its axis every 396 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,000 single day. 397 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Why? 398 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,480 Because this earth is moaning and groaning according to the book of Acts, waiting for 399 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,600 its day of redemption because this earth was not created. 400 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:08,440 Oh Lord, to how sin and to see the atrocities of mankind. 401 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:13,400 But it was created for the perfect image and the likeness of God so that we could live 402 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,400 on it and be at peace in it. 403 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,600 Come on somebody. 404 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,600 The earth is longing for its creators touch one more time. 405 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:32,760 The earth is waiting for that piece of God to be moved upon yet. 406 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,920 Israel's also not only the storm center, but it's the center of peace. 407 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,960 Huh? 408 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:46,920 We're instructed in Psalm 122 and 6 to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. 409 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,640 We're instructed in Deuteronomy. 410 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,480 We'll hear those words of prophetic utterance as God would speak. 411 00:26:54,480 --> 00:27:01,320 I will bless those that bless you and I will curse those that curse you. 412 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,560 That's God's promise back in the beginning to them. 413 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:10,580 But he also made a promise to them, you turn away from me, I'm going to strap your legs. 414 00:27:10,580 --> 00:27:15,820 You turn away from me, the plagues of this book, what we've read in our hearing today, 415 00:27:15,820 --> 00:27:20,440 you turn away from me and what I had put on Egypt, I'm going to put on you. 416 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,960 I will not tolerate rebellion and sin. 417 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:30,640 Oh my, my, my, think about God telling his beloved people that the descendants of Abraham, 418 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,680 who he called out of the land of earth, the Chaldee, and he called him out and by his 419 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,680 faith, God had raised up a mighty nation. 420 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:38,680 How about that? 421 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:46,560 God, even his favorite, you know, sometimes a favorite child doesn't get striped as much 422 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,560 as the least favorite. 423 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:54,520 Now don't tell me you don't have favorites. 424 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,400 Mama loved my baby brother, more so did me. 425 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,480 How do I know? 426 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:06,080 I carried more straps. 427 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,640 It's just like football. 428 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,440 It's the retaliator that always gets the penalty. 429 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:19,500 He instigate, I retaliate and get strapped for it. 430 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:23,880 Any other middle children in here? 431 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:32,440 They'll never cease to be peace on earth until there's peace in Jerusalem. 432 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,880 It'll be in turmoil. 433 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,600 The earth will be topsy turvy and that's not going to happen until Jesus Christ himself 434 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:46,880 returns to set up his kingdom until peace is on earth again. 435 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:47,880 Amen. 436 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,400 So therefore, when we're praying for the peace of Jerusalem, we're actually praying even 437 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:58,120 so Lord come quickly because there's not going to be peace in this earth until the Lord who 438 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:03,600 is peace personified is set upon his throne and he's going to make all things again. 439 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,680 Well, there's going to be a lot of shaking going on in this world. 440 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,520 There's going to be a lot of movement. 441 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,440 The heavens are going to open and the stars are going to fall. 442 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:12,440 Amen. 443 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,920 Go read the book and you'll see the end time events as they unscroll. 444 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:20,280 So the current events of where we are, I haven't seen the moon turn to blood, the sun to blood 445 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,960 and the begin to all the stars begin to quake and shake. 446 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,680 All these things haven't begin to come to pass. 447 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:30,040 So there may be a little more time, but then you stop and think, was there not an eclipse 448 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,040 yesterday? 449 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,840 Oh, did the moon not cross before the sun and begin to shine on the ring of fire? 450 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,760 My Lord, all this stuff could be looked at and all these things could be taken into consideration. 451 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,400 The Lord could come today. 452 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:58,960 So therefore we pray Israel not only be the center of peace, but will one day be the center 453 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,640 of his glory. 454 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:11,480 When our Lord does return, every nation in this world come and assemble in Jerusalem 455 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,280 to worship according to Micah two and three. 456 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:20,280 Jerusalem becomes the capital city not only of Israel, but of the entirety of the world. 457 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,720 And the word of the Lord shall go forth from Zion. 458 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:29,080 Isaiah two and three begins to declare and the Lord himself will reign from Jerusalem 459 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:36,940 Luke one and 32 and Israel is at the center of God's plan. 460 00:30:36,940 --> 00:30:42,240 So why is it so important that we pray for their peace? 461 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:50,040 We better be on their side because if we become part of the curse, we receive the punishment 462 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,600 of those who curse God's beloved. 463 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:59,480 Oh, they, I don't agree and we cannot agree with everything that Israel may do that is 464 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,080 wrong. 465 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,320 That's not what I'm talking about. 466 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:08,400 I'm not talking about being in total alignment to every political decision they make and 467 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,200 every practice that they may see. 468 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,200 No, no, no, no, no. 469 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,200 I'm not talking about that. 470 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:18,000 I'm talking about Israel itself. 471 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,560 God will judge them. 472 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:26,720 God has been judging them for their apostasy from him. 473 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:32,880 Israel is here today because of God's keeping and God's keeping only it's God's preserving 474 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:37,880 power upon his chosen throughout history. 475 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:48,040 Satan, you know him, Satan, the enemy of God's people has tried to eradicate and annihilate 476 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:52,800 God's people from their inception. 477 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:58,120 He's tried to demolish the promise that God had made, but he cannot do it. 478 00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,480 Are you hearing me? 479 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:04,360 He has not the authority nor the power whereby to bring that to pass. 480 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:10,120 Egypt's pharaohs couldn't diminish nor demolish nor take out God's chosen. 481 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,720 The Red Sea could not contain them. 482 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,640 Jonah's well, I like this. 483 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,440 Jonah's well could not digest them. 484 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,360 Come on, it's God's hand. 485 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,960 Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace couldn't consume them. 486 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,040 The gallows of Haman could not execute them. 487 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:31,280 The dictators of this world have not been able to annihilate them nor will the nations 488 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,840 of this world have not been able to assimilate them. 489 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,960 A lot of people, a lot of peoples in the world when they are dispersed and they go into other 490 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,840 nations they assume and they assimilate. 491 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:48,480 And within a few generations you can't tell what they were or where they came from, but 492 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:56,720 not the Israelite people when they're in Russia under atrocious conditions, they are Jews. 493 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,640 It doesn't matter if they're in Ethiopia, they are Jews. 494 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:05,640 They have never assimilated because they cannot assimilate because there's a mark of God's 495 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,920 promise on them and they stand out everywhere they go. 496 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:10,920 Hallelujah. 497 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:18,240 And you can't deny the blessings of God on his chosen. 498 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,720 I read in the Art of the 499 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,000 I think it was 22% of all the Nobel prizes given out have been given out to Jewish people. 500 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,560 How many have ever taken a Bayer aspirin? 501 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,080 Anybody taking an aspirin? 502 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,360 That Jewish man figured that one out. 503 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,760 Anybody know Albert Einstein? 504 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:45,560 How about Sigmund Freud? 505 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:52,840 Anybody know Osege? 506 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,840 Can't deny God's hand. 507 00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,080 When other peoples have been taken from their homelands, when they've been scattered, soon 508 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:06,760 they've been absorbed, swallowed up into the culture of their new location, but not God's 509 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,600 people. 510 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:13,240 You do realize that's why you and I are so different in the world in which we're living. 511 00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:16,160 You're in it, but you're not of it. 512 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,040 And by virtue of not being of it, you stand out. 513 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,600 Oh, don't try to fit in. 514 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,320 He saved you and cleansed you to be separate. 515 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:31,440 He cleansed you so that there would be a mark in society and culture that you walk a different 516 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:32,440 way. 517 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:33,560 You walk according to his way. 518 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,400 You walk in the statutes of his word in accordance to his promises. 519 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:44,840 Nineteen centuries, the Jewish people, wherever they've been found, kept themselves to be 520 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,720 Jewish people. 521 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:50,200 God's preserved them as a nation and identifiable people. 522 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:51,200 God said he would. 523 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:56,640 He said he'd visit their iniquity with stripes, and he has. 524 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,120 He's not taking it easy on them. 525 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:07,480 He's not let them by by rejecting his son, the promise that he'd made. 526 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:13,920 Genesis three early on that the seed of the woman going to the hill, going to bruise the 527 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,000 head of the enemy. 528 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,280 From then on, these prophesied told him his son was coming. 529 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,480 The Messiah would come. 530 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:28,120 Isaiah tells it. 531 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:32,760 He's not letting them by with anything. 532 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,080 But it's just like you and I with our rebellious children. 533 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:40,000 You may take them out of this world, but God forbid if somebody else tries to lay a hand 534 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,720 on them. 535 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:43,760 Huh? 536 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:52,360 You may feel like jerking them up and taking them out, but you brought them in. 537 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,800 That's what God is with his people. 538 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:55,800 He'll deal with his people. 539 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,320 He's not going to let. 540 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,760 He's not going to let any of the others. 541 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,960 You'll take care of them. 542 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,320 He has had me. 543 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,400 Hitler thought he had it done six million. 544 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,400 Nope. 545 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:24,160 400 and some odd thousand called up and we're standing on the border of Gaza the other day. 546 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,480 We're going to bring in. 547 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:32,520 Amos nine, 14 and 15 says, and I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel 548 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:39,560 and they shall build the way cities and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and drink 549 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:40,560 the wine thereof. 550 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,680 And they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them. 551 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,840 And I will plant them upon their land. 552 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,920 You get that? 553 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,920 I will plant them upon their land. 554 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,760 And I will plant them there. 555 00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,440 They shall no more be pulled up out of their land, which I have given them, said the Lord 556 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:01,440 thy God. 557 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,880 They shall no more. 558 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:10,520 They shall no more be pulled up. 559 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:17,480 Many believe 1948 is when that was established as the dysphoria of the people of Israel 560 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:26,920 begin to gather when the nation was born and one day and they've been coming home ever 561 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:36,200 since coming home ever since. 562 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:44,920 And if God's word is true and he's brought them back to their land and he says they will 563 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:53,240 no more be pulled up, I'll tell you what, you don't want to be against them because you 564 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:58,440 fight against God and you're going to lose. 565 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:04,920 I read some great testimonies of some of the stories as this nation has been birthed in 566 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,960 48, how God intervened. 567 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:08,960 The battle of the bees. 568 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,400 You ever read that one? 569 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:11,760 Go read that. 570 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:12,760 The battle of the bees. 571 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:17,440 I thought, God, you, you still showing up. 572 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:18,440 Hello. 573 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:19,440 Psalm 89. 574 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,120 I'm about to wind up this morning. 575 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:28,800 Psalm 89 beginning in verse 18 for the Lord is our defense and the Holy one of Israel 576 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,640 is our King. 577 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,880 I have found David my servant with my holy oil. 578 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,920 Have I anointed him with whom my hand shall be established? 579 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,320 Mine arm also shall strengthen him. 580 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:47,960 The enemy shall not exact upon him nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 581 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:54,200 And I will beat down, listen to this, I will beat down his foes before his face and plague 582 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,960 them that hate him. 583 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,400 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him. 584 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,760 And in my name shall his horn be exalted. 585 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,740 Also I'll make him my firstborn higher than the kings of the earth. 586 00:39:08,740 --> 00:39:17,840 My mercy will I keep for him forevermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 587 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,280 Verse 29. 588 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:29,520 His seed also will I make to endure forever and his throne as the days of heaven. 589 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:40,560 Folks, when God makes a promise to that magnitude, our God in whom we serve, a God who is not 590 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:51,840 like a man who cannot lie, if he stated that, that's it. 591 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,440 So not all are we only going to pray for the peace of Israel, but we're going to pray for 592 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:04,640 the wisdom of our national leaders so that we stay on the right side of God. 593 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,920 I'm not necessarily so worried about staying on the right side of Israel. 594 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,600 I'm concerned about being on the right side of God. 595 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,960 Hello, are you with me? 596 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,360 I'm on being on his good side. 597 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:17,920 I don't want to be on God's bad side. 598 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,080 I've been over there and it's not fun. 599 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,840 I've been in disobedience. 600 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:32,640 I've lived in a backslidden condition and trust me, he will get your attention. 601 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,080 He's getting Israel's attention. 602 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:41,280 Time will end not, I don't have the time nor really the capacity to take you to the end 603 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:53,680 of how God is going to ultimately reveal and redeem Israel, but he's going to. 604 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:58,960 There's a lot of things to happen, but as we've noted from last weekend to this, it 605 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,560 doesn't take long for things to align. 606 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,640 Stand with me this morning. 607 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:12,120 So when I think about these current events, I think about the people of God, you and I 608 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,380 are grafted in. 609 00:41:15,380 --> 00:41:17,580 We've been brought in. 610 00:41:17,580 --> 00:41:22,380 We've been adopted. 611 00:41:22,380 --> 00:41:28,960 That adoption is far different than what we know and think about as adoption in our culture. 612 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:35,560 You're a son, you're a daughter, not the redhead stepchild. 613 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:47,600 When the adoption is sealed with the blood of Christ, you're a son and a daughter and 614 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:52,920 the inheritance is promised to you. 615 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:58,440 You have a precious inheritance promised to you. 616 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:02,520 Father, I love you this morning. 617 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:08,000 Lord, I thank you today for your help. 618 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:16,180 I know it's been different today, Lord, but it's what you've laid on my heart. 619 00:42:16,180 --> 00:42:27,980 But with this also, Lord, you stirred me with a warning for us today. 620 00:42:27,980 --> 00:42:36,520 In that 24th chapter of Matthew, as the Lord begins to conclude the signs of the end, he 621 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,800 gives them the parable of a fig tree. 622 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:50,840 So you look at the fig tree when the leaves are coming on, you know summer's near. 623 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,480 Moves on through that 24th chapter in the beginning of the 25th chapter and he gives 624 00:42:54,480 --> 00:43:02,360 them the parable of the 10 virgins, the five wise and the five foolish who are preparing 625 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:07,240 to meet the bridegroom. 626 00:43:07,240 --> 00:43:11,800 Five have their lamps trimmed and burning. 627 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:17,160 Five have their lamps trimmed and burning but have extra oil because they do not know 628 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:29,180 how long the bridegroom is going to tarry. 629 00:43:29,180 --> 00:43:38,360 The warning is that when the bridegroom comes, you must be ready then because the five foolish 630 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:43,920 turn to the five wise and said, can we borrow some oil? 631 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,760 We don't have time to go to the market and back. 632 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,440 The bridegroom will have come and gone. 633 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,140 That's our warning. 634 00:43:54,140 --> 00:44:07,160 The oil symbolic of his spirit. 635 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,160 The bridegroom's coming one day. 636 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:14,200 Jesus is going to return. 637 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:19,480 What we see happening before our very eyes is biblical prophecy unfolding. 638 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:24,220 If you've ever had a doubt about scripture, doubt no more, it's happening right before 639 00:44:24,220 --> 00:44:29,080 your eyes. 640 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:39,720 And we don't know how much time we have before the Lord returns. 641 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:41,320 And see we're the bride of Christ. 642 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,320 The church is the bride. 643 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:45,560 Hello. 644 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:52,080 And so we got to be ready for when he comes to get us. 645 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:57,720 Got to be prepared. 646 00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:01,320 That's our warning. 647 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:02,680 Know the parable of the fig tree. 648 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,440 When you see the leaves starting to come on, you know summer's coming. 649 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:10,440 And he's just told them the signs. 650 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,160 Nation against nation. 651 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,040 All these atrocities taking place. 652 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:17,040 Look around us. 653 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:22,720 So we got to start looking and being ready. 654 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:24,360 I have thought about this. 655 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,360 Said, Lord, how do we end this service this morning? 656 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,000 I know I'm just going to basically give a history lesson. 657 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,680 So how do we end? 658 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,040 How do we close this morning out? 659 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,480 We close with this warning. 660 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,560 Jesus said, behold, I come quickly. 661 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,520 And our text this morning, behold, I'm Alpha and I am Omega, the beginning and the ending. 662 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:50,920 And I'm coming quickly. 663 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,240 We see these current events, church. 664 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:54,680 It's not for us to be in fear. 665 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,600 It's not for us to be afraid. 666 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:01,240 It's to be excited. 667 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,640 We pray. 668 00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:09,800 I'm not talking about being excited for the atrocities and the innocence of lives being 669 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,320 lost. 670 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,840 Some of the things you've read and some of the things you've watched. 671 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,960 That's just it's worse than barbaric. 672 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,200 The Lord has to come, doesn't he? 673 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:22,800 And he is coming. 674 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,520 But we must be ready. 675 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:35,120 So with that, I just give us all a heart check this morning. 676 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:41,840 I'm going to ask us all I'm going to repent. 677 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:48,640 If you have you've gotten away from a continual readiness to repent before God, let me urge 678 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:54,000 you to get back to that discipline and let repentance be a part of your daily prayer 679 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,000 life. 680 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,760 I'm just going to ask us all. 681 00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,520 So what does that mean? 682 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:03,040 If you're here this morning and your back slid or you're not aware, you should be with 683 00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:07,160 God and you know if he were to come today, you would be like the five foolish. 684 00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,040 You'd have to try to find some oil down here at the altar. 685 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,600 You're going to have to get some of his spirit back in your life to go. 686 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:18,400 Honey, you miss him. 687 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,560 The instruction we receive is in the moment in the twinkling of an eye. 688 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,720 I used to think it's when you could blink your eye. 689 00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:28,680 No, not a blink, a twinkle. 690 00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,480 How quickly eyes dilate. 691 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:33,840 And it's over. 692 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,440 You don't have time to get down here, plead the blood. 693 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:41,840 The blood, my Lord, has to be applied. 694 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,520 Father, I love you this morning. 695 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:49,720 Today a church wide altar call as serious as any other. 696 00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:55,200 Lord, I repent today before you and this people. 697 00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:00,280 If there be sin in my life, I ask Lord you purge me and you cleanse me. 698 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:07,120 I repent, purge me and cleanse me. 699 00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:13,920 As I echo the prayer of the psalmist of 51, take not the joy of your spirit from me. 700 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,680 Cleanse me and purge me, Lord. 701 00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:22,320 Repent in this room today, oh Lord, for any idea, any thoughts that are not pleasing to 702 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:28,120 you, any words, any offenses that I have given or I have received. 703 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:34,800 Forgive me today, Lord, that I may be ready should you come this very hour. 704 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,400 I repent, Lord. 705 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,240 Oh God, I repent before you. 706 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:40,600 I repent as our nation. 707 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,400 I repent for our nation, Lord. 708 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,960 Stay your hand of mercy and judgment from our nation. 709 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:52,640 We repent for sins of millions of innocent lives that are slaughtered. 710 00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:56,440 We repent for that sin, Lord. 711 00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,320 Pledge over and keep. 712 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:06,400 Now Father, as we've repented personally and as a nation, I pray for the peace of Israel. 713 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,920 I pray for their peace, Lord. 714 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:14,080 I pray for some, somehow, some way and I know there's a man in the waiting that's going 715 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:19,080 to come rushing in, the silver tongue one, who's going to have all the answers. 716 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:25,360 But Lord, if you can deescalate, do it so. 717 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:29,160 Watch over the innocents on both sides of that border. 718 00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,280 Watch over the innocent. 719 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:38,640 We pray for peace in your city, in your nation. 720 00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,120 We pray God today. 721 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,320 Pray blessings over the people of God. 722 00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,040 Watch over and keep, Father God. 723 00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:51,040 In the name of Jesus. 724 00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:52,040 Amen, amen. 725 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:53,040 Before I go, I want to say a few words. 726 00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:56,700 I remember, Father Khair isais, that God rouaki is with us today. 727 00:49:56,700 --> 00:50:00,960 I'm sorry for any optimistic needs of our church in the past days.