1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,800 Judgment Day Volume 2 Prelude to Armageddon Part 2 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:14,120 Israel Catapulted to Global Superpower as Russia Succumbs to Jewish Domination 3 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:21,680 Subtitle, A Muslim's Nightmare Hello everyone, welcome to yet another study 4 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:28,680 of End Times Bible Prophecy, based squarely upon the series we have titled The Bible Prophecy 5 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:34,800 Master Class. In this first episode of part 2 of a three-part study, we will be reading 6 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:41,720 from the text that is in fact volume number 2 of that tripart series called Judgment Day, 7 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:49,720 Volume 1, Prelude to Armageddon, Part 2. Israel Catapulted to Global Superpower 8 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:55,160 The question, or questions more or less, that we will be exploring will center around the 9 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:01,340 issue of the future and the fate of the tiny nation of Israel. Why on God's green earth 10 00:01:01,340 --> 00:01:07,340 does so small, so seemingly insignificant a piece of real estate figure so prominently 11 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:13,200 in today's news? Why the world's animus toward and its apparent determination to be 12 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:21,540 rid of all things Jew? On October 7th, 20th of 23, the Arab terrorist group Hamas destroyed 13 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:27,600 a relative peace in that region when it launched an unprovoked attack on a Jewish hospital, 14 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:33,760 murdering somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 to 1400 innocent civilians. Yet the nations 15 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:40,300 at large insist upon pointing fingers of accusation at the Jews for its response to this heinous 16 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:47,700 offensive, aimed at rooting out and holding Hamas accountable. And on and on it goes. 17 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:55,160 The Israel-Hamas conflict. The Russia-Ukraine war. China's threats to Taiwan. North Korea's 18 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:02,320 prevailing threat to South Korea. Iran's threat to Iraq. The Russia, China, Korea, 19 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:08,000 Iran threat to the USA. The Houthi attacks on ships that threaten to upend international 20 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:15,560 shipping and trading, etc. etc. One cannot but wonder, where is this all going? How, 21 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:22,080 where and when will it end? From the study titled Judgment Day, Volume 1, Prelude to 22 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:28,600 Armageddon, Part 1. We have seen and we have therefore settled the question relating to 23 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:34,120 the future and the fate of the United States of America, per the plans and the will of 24 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:43,640 Almighty God. That somber prospect then, in all of its awe-inspiring dread, begs the question, 25 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:49,760 how will the Jews and the nation of Israel survive in the face of overwhelming, relentless 26 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:55,800 hostility, hell-bent on its obliteration, in the absence of the restraining influence 27 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:00,440 of the only solid, reliable ally it currently has? 28 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:05,720 As we begin this time of study with an acknowledgement and a brief look at a few general thoughts 29 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:11,600 and considerations, join me in a word of prayer that God will add a blessing to this timely 30 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,160 dive into His prophetic word. Introduction 31 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:22,240 By His life, by His example, by His word, by His teachings and by His deeds, Jesus Christ 32 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:28,840 the Nazarene placed a premium upon the Bible's prophetic word. And rightly so, for His manhood 33 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:35,840 memory refreshed, and fully apprised of such by His Father. It was He who sent the prophets, 34 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:43,080 bearing messages He set in order when, as Almighty God, He hang out in the heavenlies, 35 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:50,640 by the side of Him who was to become His Father in a future then yet to be created. Hmm? Does 36 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:57,560 that freak you out? Any saint or servant professing himself to be a Christian and follower of Christ 37 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:04,160 can ill afford to do less, for that would be to make him and his Father liars. Thus we 38 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:10,560 understand, then, that the study of biblical prophecy is for the Christian, not an option 39 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:18,240 to be handled flippantly or dismissed lightly. The preparation and preparedness, with regard 40 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:24,360 to frame of mind, whether one waits and watches expectantly, of many a saint hangs in the 41 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:31,900 balances, subject in part to proper handling and interpretation. His life, habits, or manner 42 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:37,560 of living are governed and shaped, to a degree, by His level of expectation, which could be 43 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,400 considered a factor of His understanding, if He even believes. 44 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,340 The Divinely Ordained Soothsayer God's Divine Litmus Test 45 00:04:47,340 --> 00:04:52,260 Should ever a prophet presume to speak in My name, and the thing of which he speaks 46 00:04:52,260 --> 00:04:58,080 does not come to pass, that is the thing which I did not speak, and that is a prophet I did 47 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:06,200 not send. Deuteronomy 18 22. Thus, may we not conclude that the first litmus test of 48 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:13,720 the word of any prophet, far more than its religiosity, is its historicity. That is, 49 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:19,560 anyone claiming to be a prophet, speaking predictively on behalf of God Almighty, will 50 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:25,480 be speaking and delivering a message designed and calculated to have basis in future historical 51 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:31,640 fact. This applies whether or not the messenger and those hearing actually live to see the 52 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,880 fulfillment. It must come to pass, if the prophet's message 53 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:41,920 is from God. There is no other test. So, how have the prophets done? All of their words 54 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:48,000 have endured well the test of time. We have them on every hand, exactly as the prophets 55 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:54,120 delivered them, up to 2500 years ago at a time when all that they spoke seemed outlandish 56 00:05:54,120 --> 00:06:01,760 at best, downright preposterous at worst. In fact, the Almighty so tied his hands behind 57 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:07,960 his back, as it were, set a standard so tight that there was not the slightest possibility 58 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:14,080 that any of his words would ever find basis in reality, seeing the light of day, prior 59 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:20,720 to the year 1900, all things considered. Beginning actually in the book of Genesis with 60 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,880 God's promises to Abraham, continuing here in the book of Deuteronomy with the words, 61 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:32,400 I will raise up a prophet. And throughout the Psalms and the prophetic books, it is 62 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:38,920 a matter of historical record, accounted of in the greatest, most accurate of all historical 63 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:46,680 records that all the messianic prophecies came to pass, exactly as planned and scheduled. 64 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:54,080 Almost all odds and the voices of many naysayers, doubters, scoffers, critics and skeptics, 65 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:59,080 all of its purely historical claims have been borne out by the physical science of modern 66 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:05,140 archaeology, or all the work that has been done leaves little room for doubt in the case 67 00:07:05,140 --> 00:07:10,680 of those not yet proven, leaving the egg of falsehood and libel on the faces of those 68 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:16,040 who dared vent their disbelief in words of defamation against the God of the prophets 69 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:22,160 and his word the Bible. But the messianic prophecies and the historical statements represent 70 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:28,720 only about two-thirds of the story at best. That in them, the prophecies of messianic 71 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:35,480 and historical significance, God and his word have fared well so far, is a clinically testable 72 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:42,360 fact. There are other prophetic statements, scientific in nature, requiring and mandating 73 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:48,240 sciences and industries, tied together at the hip, as it were, by and built upon the 74 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:54,520 platform of an intellectual discipline known now as quantum physics, which either had not 75 00:07:54,520 --> 00:08:02,480 been conceived or were simply non-quantifiable prior to the year 1900, or thereabouts, that 76 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:08,680 is, some of the ideology necessary to the ushering in of the realization of these prophecies 77 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:16,280 were known, but not understood, until well after World War II. Given that these scientific, 78 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:22,120 predictive elements of the prophets' messages were eschatological in nature, signaling the 79 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:27,920 end of time and the return of Israel's messiah, just how well, in fact, do his prophecies 80 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:33,680 fare in light of the modern sciences, remembering that scoffers and skeptics allege that the 81 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:39,480 sciences have disproved the Bible? Was this aspect of his prophetic word ever doable in 82 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:45,680 the first place, or were the prophets simply blowing smoke and hot air? What are these 83 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:52,320 scientific prophecies which transpire before and during the era of the apocalypse? Motive 84 00:08:52,320 --> 00:09:00,000 behind the apocalypse? What is this apocalypse? When will it occur? Why? With these questions 85 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,840 in mind, we commence this study by observation of the following. 86 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:10,600 1. My spirit shall not always strive with man. Genesis 6.3. Since the penning of these 87 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:17,760 words by Moses, he lived roughly 1500 years B.C., the God of the Bible has been on record 88 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:24,040 as having his eye set on a day when the struggle between himself and his wayward creature, 89 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:30,840 man, would have an end. The biblical record signifies strongly, however, that this struggle 90 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:37,640 will end in neither truce nor stalemate, neither will there be any negotiated peaceful resolution 91 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:43,960 or settlements with men who will not bow or submit to his authority and sovereignty. Once 92 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:50,260 the bullets start to fly, there will be perhaps billions who will be saved, but maybe twice 93 00:09:50,260 --> 00:09:58,100 as many or more who will be lost. He will take no hostages. Sidebar, within 3.5 years 94 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:04,700 of the Perusia will not be tolerated in the least. All who dare to profess faith in God 95 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:11,240 and his Christ, refusing, if ever they are given the chance, to recant, will pay the 96 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:17,520 ultimate price with their lives. Truth be told, the Jews as a national, international 97 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:23,960 entity will for a time be among the persecutors of Christians, Jewish and non-Jew. 98 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:32,140 Psalm 2-1-12 Why are the nations of Gentiles tumultuous, restless, and the people murmuring 99 00:10:32,140 --> 00:10:38,240 a worthless thing? The kings of the earth position themselves, and the rulers consult 100 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:47,320 together against Yahweh and against his Messiah, Mashiach, Maoshiyach, anointed. Let us break 101 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:53,560 their restraints, chastisements, so as to minimize and or diminish their influence as 102 00:10:53,560 --> 00:11:00,600 we cast away their bindings from us. In retaliation to the aggression of his puny, hopelessly 103 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:08,180 inferior creature, man, he who sits in the heavens will take up defenses set upon foundations 104 00:11:08,180 --> 00:11:15,920 of laughter as he assumes an offensive posture awash in derision. Then he will get serious, 105 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:22,480 speaking to them in his wrath, causing them to tremble inwardly, being agitated and alarmed, 106 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:29,880 in his burning anger, Hebrew, sharound. He will break them with a rod of iron. 107 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:36,340 Belligerent man, cantankerous in his bid for freedom, wants his space as well, not only 108 00:11:36,340 --> 00:11:42,620 to set himself free from the constraints of the Almighty on the one hand, but he wishes 109 00:11:42,620 --> 00:11:48,200 to turn right around on the other hand and set himself up, both on the world stage and 110 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:55,080 in America, in place of God over his fellow man, even if he has to annihilate him to do 111 00:11:55,080 --> 00:12:01,480 it. History on every continent is replete with examples of this type of tyranny. Witness 112 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:09,160 all the wars of the past, most notably World War I and Hitler's World War II, the righteous 113 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:18,360 and bloody Stalin, Mao, Ceausescu, Milošević, Amin, Charles Taylor, the Marcoses, and the 114 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:25,700 heinous, atrocious attitudes and ideologies which drove them all. Consider also the nations 115 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:31,720 recently impoverished and devastated by the awesome forces of nature, which while some 116 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:37,920 are ready and eager to embrace foreign aid and dollar bills in one hand, do brandish 117 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:43,600 prohibition signs before the face of God in the other, if that aid happens to come via 118 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:49,880 the hand of Christian endeavor. Equally as bad as an unbelieving world that rejects God 119 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:55,840 are today's American churches, white and black, which while they pretentiously serve 120 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:02,280 him on the one hand, they do effectively brandish those same prohibition signs of their own 121 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:09,960 in the other, telling God that he is not welcome in their midst. Revelation 3, 14, 22. 122 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:16,360 What is this apocalypse? While the Old Testament prophets like Zechariah and the New Testament 123 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:22,880 writers of the Gospels and of the Epistles give us much in the way of previews, snapshots, 124 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:28,860 glimpses, intriguing pieces of a puzzle, if you please, what else is to constitute or 125 00:13:28,860 --> 00:13:36,480 characterize this apocalypse? For starters, the apocalypse might be characterized as a 126 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:42,560 time such that man will not only be given his day in court well in advance of the final 127 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:48,980 judgment, but he will as well be given space and a place on the battlefield, first to darn 128 00:13:48,980 --> 00:13:55,480 near obliterate the human race and the planet, venting and working out his frustrations with 129 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:02,560 his neighbor, particularly the Jew then to go toe to toe in a face to face repudiation 130 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:08,720 of his maker. God has set a date in which he will judge the world in righteousness. 131 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:16,280 Paul in Acts 1731. In so many words, the apocalypse is a detailing of an event that will happen, 132 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:22,800 but it will only do so as part of a predetermined plan set by God himself. It is not a happening 133 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:28,760 that just happens. Nor will it occur simply because something went wrong unexpectedly 134 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:35,680 in God's otherwise good creation. The apocalypse was the plan from the very beginning, before 135 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:42,440 the creation itself. Since man will not submit willingly to the authority of his maker, God 136 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:48,480 will give him ample opportunity and space to fight for the prize, title. Our world is 137 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:55,120 being prepared, even as we speak, for just that event. The alien bearing and honoring 138 00:14:55,120 --> 00:15:01,560 man's right to reject and disdain his creator will come, delivering that right, on the platter 139 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:08,680 of a silver bullet, as it were, face to face, mano o mono but at a price, and the price 140 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:14,600 will not be cheap, nor will he appear according to the antics and physique of that grotesque 141 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,080 creature of Hollywood fame. 142 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:24,680 Webster's New World Pocket Dictionary, Fourth Edition, defines apocalypse as a time of total 143 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:32,360 devastation as in doomsday. The Greek, however, from which this our English word is derivative, 144 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:40,160 is the term apokalopsis, ap-oke-al-oopsis. While it is somewhat akin in meaning to the 145 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:47,760 Greek term epiphania, meaning a manifestation, a shining forth, as in simply making something 146 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:54,440 visible, apocalypse is said to be more comprehensive in scope. In its simplest sense, it means 147 00:15:54,440 --> 00:16:01,120 disclosure. In its fuller, broader, biblical sense, this term apocalypse actually refers 148 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:07,640 to and depicts a progressive and immediate unveiling of things otherwise unknowable, 149 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:13,960 and therefore unknown to even the Church, except as God chooses to reveal them. 150 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:19,160 It is the word translated revelation in the title of the last book of the Bible which 151 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:26,120 has been aptly titled The Revelation of Jesus. Some have referred to the book as John's 152 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:33,480 Revelation. Insofar as it is his revelation, and is correctly cited as such in verse 1, 153 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:39,480 given to him by his Father God to be delivered to us, his Church by John the Revelator. 154 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:47,040 Hence the term apocalypse, its usual reference being or pointing to the book of the Revelation, 155 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:54,200 depicts a specific period in time, preceding which life will proceed normally, as usual, 156 00:16:54,200 --> 00:17:00,400 before experiencing a decided turn of events, all leading to the worst, all of which when 157 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:07,200 they start, will occur in what might be termed relatively rapid succession. 158 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:13,920 Herein and only herein lies the basis for the Webster definition, given that this period, 159 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:19,840 as set forth in the apocalypse, the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, will be characterized 160 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:28,480 by war, unrest, uncertainty, and great devastation, brought on first by man, then by God himself, 161 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:35,220 as well as by intensified hatred for and murder of untold multitudes of Christians. All born 162 00:17:35,220 --> 00:17:40,840 during these troublesome, turbulent times, Christians living just prior to the apocalypse 163 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:48,640 will be gone, first Thessalonians 5, 1, Tasha 8, and by a concerted global final push to 164 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:54,120 exterminate and eradicate the Jews from the face of the earth. Thus it will be a time 165 00:17:54,120 --> 00:18:00,720 effectively of institutionalized barbarism and of a barbarous brutality reminiscent of 166 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:07,640 Hitler and the Holocaust. Hence, it might be argued that the apocalypse proper, strictly 167 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:14,160 speaking, is the unveiling of the fact of history's destiny, an unavoidable, divinely 168 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:20,800 directed rendezvous with this global, most hellish of blights on the annals of time, 169 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:26,560 orchestrated and instituted by the Almighty himself, to be culminated and capped by the 170 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:33,400 triumphant appearance of the God-man, Jesus the Christ from Calvary's cross A.E.E., 171 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:38,360 the Day of the Lord. Hereby then, we know it to be a system of events occurring just 172 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:44,720 before the Perusia, of any substance backed by literature of any substance religious, 173 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:52,080 political, social, etc. Apart from the Bible's account, there is no apocalypse. When will 174 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:57,940 this time be? Is it possible to know? The route or road through the apocalypse is clearly 175 00:18:57,940 --> 00:19:05,040 spelled out in his word, the Holy Scriptures, but how might one know when it is near? Are 176 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:11,040 there actual indicators in modern historical events that correspond to Bible predictions, 177 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:16,680 by which one can know when, or approximately when, this great event will take place? Does 178 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:23,800 he envision pouncing upon men in fury, like an angry lion, without warning, without fanfare? 179 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:29,640 Can one in any wise be fully apprised, or has the God of all heaven and earth intentionally 180 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:35,680 left his doomed world in total darkness concerning this momentous event? The answers to these 181 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:39,840 questions and more could be startling. Signs of the times. 182 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:45,600 Introduction. Jesus often chided the Pharisees, scribes, and other religious leaders of the 183 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:51,520 day for their obstinacy and stubbornness of heart. They frequently sought of him signs, 184 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:56,080 by which he was to demonstrate and thereby validate his claim to authority. 185 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:02,520 "'You can read the skies and the winds,' he scolded, in which case, based upon past 186 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:08,220 experience, you are able to tell whether it will rain or not, and whether it will be hot 187 00:20:08,220 --> 00:20:13,400 or cold. But,' he continued in righteous indignation, 188 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:19,480 "'even with your knowledge of the Old Testament Scripture, in juxtaposition to this present 189 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:25,960 moment, the implications being greater than evident, you cannot draw the requisite parallels 190 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:31,360 by which you should have been able to ascertain their prophetic fulfillment. They had the 191 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:37,160 Scriptures, they had him in their midst, yet they could not make the connection. He was 192 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:42,760 the fulfillment of all they had hoped for, his point being that God at that juncture 193 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:49,000 was not come as the Almighty, but as a man, a humble servant to be despised and rejected 194 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:58,480 — Matthew 16, 1, 4, Luke 12, 54, 55. And so the story goes at this very hour. As with 195 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:04,240 those scribes and Pharisees, and as with the magicians and their pharaoh standing before 196 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:11,160 Moses, so likewise in these last times God has not only issued plenty in the way of advance 197 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:16,920 warning, he has as well given a plethora of signs, leading biblical indicators, one might 198 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:23,840 call them, by means of which we, potentially the terminal generation, terminology of how 199 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:29,600 Lindsay coinage, at this hour may know with certainty the validity of his warnings and 200 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:35,960 the nearness of his coming. Moreover, ultimately the prophecies suggest that the problem facing 201 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:42,920 mankind right now is not so much a matter of man against man, each armed with fantastic 202 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:49,400 new super-killing machines. Rather the problem facing humanity at this hour, and will until 203 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:56,680 the very last second, is God Almighty and his original pre-creation plan, his exit strategy 204 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:02,720 for humanity, if you please, by means of which he himself will initiate and set in motion 205 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:08,440 the cogwheels which will usher in the end of life as we have known it. He makes no bones 206 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:14,640 about it. It is he behind all the unrest we see around us today, if only in the sense 207 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:21,260 that he permits it, stoking, stroking, channeling it to his advantage, as he prepares to bring 208 00:22:21,260 --> 00:22:29,240 life as we know it to a close. Behold, look, observe, be attentive. I will make all things 209 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:37,240 new. What has been and what is will soon pass away. All things will be made new. And yes, 210 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:43,680 in answer to the cry of the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the scribes of yesteryear, as 211 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:49,260 well as those of our day, he has given us plenty of way-markers, the leading biblical 212 00:22:49,260 --> 00:22:55,880 indicators, if you will, all the signs of the times providing only the clearest, most 213 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:01,800 distinctive signals that mankind has now entered an orbit which will indeed prove terminal 214 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:08,160 to all that we know and cherish. While the words of Jesus himself indicate that it is 215 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:14,900 impossible to know or pinpoint the exact time of events of the apocalypse, even he, during 216 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:23,400 his earthly ministry, did not know. Matthew 24, 36, Mark 13, 32. This we know for sure, 217 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:28,080 based squarely upon what might be deemed the most graphic and most compelling of biblical 218 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:33,720 indicators. It has not happened, nor could it have ever occurred prior to the twentieth 219 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:40,740 century. And we know that it will narrowly precede the actual bodily, physical return 220 00:23:40,740 --> 00:23:48,460 of Jesus to the earth. Revelation 16. We can virtually see the future take shape, 221 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:55,720 vividly colored in living, life-changing detail. No one prior to 1900 could, because for the 222 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:01,920 most part nothing ever changed. What was, was for the average person, what had always 223 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:09,040 been. Technology and modernism, cornerstones to Bible prophecy. Overly simplified, though 224 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:14,760 it may be, this perception renders modernism as that intellectual train of thought said 225 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:20,040 to have been given birth at around the beginning of the twentieth century. It was an attack 226 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:26,480 upon traditionalism in every genre including religion and common views of God which basically 227 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:33,400 said, down with the old, up with the new. There is nothing entirely wrong with change 228 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:39,120 and new ideas. Things had to change if for no other reason than that the word of God 229 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:45,800 required it, given a backdrop of six thousand years of technological lethargy and industrial 230 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:53,280 malfeasance, one might say, that brought humanity nowhere near the realization, or the prophetic 231 00:24:53,280 --> 00:25:00,040 realization, God obviously sought to impress upon him, being left to his own devices to 232 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:07,280 figure things out on his own. The problem here, however, is that once his mind was stimulated, 233 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:13,560 he sought to challenge the reality, viability and the existence of God with its new ideas 234 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:19,080 and new ways of doing things, a rather bizarre thought when the Christian considers that 235 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:25,120 it absolutely cannot but be that it was God, who, with a view to the satisfaction of his 236 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:32,840 own eschatological ends, instigated the concept known as modernism in the first place. How 237 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:38,660 else is one to account for the spiraling achievements of the past one hundred years, all of which 238 00:25:38,660 --> 00:25:44,500 in one way or the other contribute to a validation of the prophetic word of God, none of which 239 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:51,240 were ever remotely imaginable hundred to hundred and twenty-five years ago, for six millennia? 240 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:57,680 Behold, we make all things new might easily have been his motto, as he arrogantly plotted 241 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:03,920 a course through the early 1900s that eventually led to the notion that, if there ever was 242 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:11,920 a God, he is not only irrelevant, he is dead by the 1960s. Through reason, intellectual 243 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:20,000 and technological prowess, he will be discredited, men of the sciences, the arts, of industry, 244 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:27,280 and of finance reasoned. Is it not the irony of all ironies that the very course plotted 245 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:33,120 by the modernist to get away from the knowledge and need for God has in the finale led without 246 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:40,800 escape straight into his lap? Flight of the Modernist. Oddly enough, it appears the modernist 247 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:46,600 was unwittingly on the right track to making good on his threats. Of the many signs of 248 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,920 the times listed and sprinkled throughout the Old and the New Testaments, not one had 249 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:59,120 basis in reality, as reality was defined from the year 1900 and backwards. Not even the 250 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:06,440 best educated theologian, regardless of his ability to expound, to reason from the Scriptures, 251 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:12,640 could ever have confirmed even one of the Bible's claims, scientific, chalve technological, 252 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:20,240 or many that were archaeological. From our vantage point, utilizing the benefit of hindsight, 253 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:26,840 it is plain to see now that not only had God intentionally left himself wide open, subject 254 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:32,840 shall we say, to scorn and ridicule at the hands of modernism's enlightened ones, he 255 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:38,120 was effectively sitting on the ground, in the very path the intellectual and informed 256 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:44,920 modernist would ignorantly have to trod, laying his track in dogged determination and pursuit 257 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:51,440 of flight that would take him far from the embrace of an almighty, all-powerful, biblical 258 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:59,720 God. Every sign of the times far, you see, required an explanation rooted in modernism's 259 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:06,120 technology, the infrastructure and framework for which had yet to be laid, unfathomable 260 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:11,720 though they were at the time of issuance by the prophets, these were things of which mankind 261 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:17,640 was obviously capable, and on the basis of which God should have been glorified. Before 262 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:23,400 any such foundational work could ever begin, his nose had to be rubbed and scrubbed in 263 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:29,280 or against the grindstone of a fundamental biblical reality, one he there-to-fore had 264 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:36,600 fervently denied. All things visible and tangible find basis for their being in that which cannot 265 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:41,480 be seen, per the book of Hebrews 11.1.4. 266 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:46,320 And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where we will end this presentation of the podcast 267 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:52,560 in the Bible Prophecy Masterclass. As we go our separate ways, please smash that like 268 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:59,160 button, be sure to tell others about our studies, and make plans to be with us next time for 269 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:05,480 episode number two in this thought-provoking series. Until we come together again, I pray 270 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:33,480 the Lord's richest blessings upon you and yours.