WEBVTT 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:06.200 Men today are literally like men on a chessboard. 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:12.160 Nations, literally, are as men on a chessboard. 00:00:12.820 --> 00:00:17.100 And world affairs are shaping up exactly like 00:00:17.100 --> 00:00:23.620 God's Word said they would. God's Word is infallible. 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:26.850 Know that. I don't care what your preconceived 00:00:26.850 --> 00:00:29.210 idea may have been regarding the Bible. It's 00:00:29.210 --> 00:00:32.070 more up to date than tomorrow morning's newspaper. 00:00:33.729 --> 00:00:41.049 God made a promise to Abraham. God made a covenant 00:00:41.049 --> 00:00:45.770 to Abraham and Abraham's seed. And when God makes 00:00:45.770 --> 00:00:50.070 a promise, when God gives a covenant, he'll keep 00:00:50.070 --> 00:00:52.880 it. I don't care whether it's to a nation or 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:54.619 to an individual, and you can stake your very 00:00:54.619 --> 00:00:59.380 life on it. And God made certain promises and 00:00:59.380 --> 00:01:01.859 covenants to Abraham and the seed of Abraham. 00:01:05.180 --> 00:01:12.799 For 39 centuries, the seed of Abraham has been 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:18.340 a scattered people, hated, a people of the country. 00:01:23.179 --> 00:01:28.900 murdered, spat upon. Around the world they've 00:01:28.900 --> 00:01:31.140 been scattered to the east, to the west, to the 00:01:31.140 --> 00:01:40.219 north, to the south. Name it. Unwanted. Without 00:01:40.219 --> 00:01:47.519 a homeland. And yet God made a covenant with 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:54.939 the seed of Abraham. Thirty -nine centuries have 00:01:54.939 --> 00:01:59.040 come and thirty -nine centuries have gone. And 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.900 it seemed like the most unlikely thing in the 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:08.879 world that there'd ever be a nation Israel. And 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:15.280 if the seed of Israel, the seed of Abraham would 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:18.620 be gathered together again. And I want to go 00:02:18.620 --> 00:02:21.659 on record this Saturday afternoon in Las Vegas. 00:02:22.490 --> 00:02:24.849 giving you the word of God, and you can stake 00:02:24.849 --> 00:02:28.909 your very life on it, regardless of how it looks 00:02:28.909 --> 00:02:32.870 in the Middle East, and remember, war is inevitable. 00:02:34.530 --> 00:02:39.819 Sometimes I think we like... To be like the ostrich, 00:02:39.819 --> 00:02:43.139 we like to bury our faces in the sand and we 00:02:43.139 --> 00:02:46.520 won't face reality. And we say with optimism, 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.400 tomorrow it's going to be better. Tomorrow it's 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:52.560 going to be better. And I'm the greatest optimist 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.659 in the world, but when it comes to the Word of 00:02:54.659 --> 00:02:57.699 God, we have to face facts. Remember, we've got 00:02:57.699 --> 00:03:05.379 to face facts. War is inevitable. There will 00:03:05.379 --> 00:03:08.520 be war in the Middle East. But I want you to 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:12.219 know something. The Bible says this absolute 00:03:12.219 --> 00:03:17.719 authority, that which is infallible, the Bible 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:23.280 says, for God gave it to Moses in that burning 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:32.699 bush, Israel will be absolutely indestructible. 00:03:43.990 --> 00:03:50.090 coming when Russia and her allies or going down 00:03:50.090 --> 00:03:54.949 after that oil and the potential wealth in the 00:03:54.949 --> 00:03:57.650 Dead Sea how do I know if you want to know how 00:03:57.650 --> 00:04:00.710 nations are going to line up and stack up read 00:04:00.710 --> 00:04:03.689 it they're called by name in the 38th chapter 00:04:03.689 --> 00:04:07.789 of Ezekiel and that my friend is not supposition 00:04:07.789 --> 00:04:11.150 that is his word and it's infallible believe 00:04:11.150 --> 00:04:21.199 me And these things are going to happen. And 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:26.660 they're happening so quickly, so rapidly. The 00:04:26.660 --> 00:04:31.100 Word of God says God has hooks in the jaws of 00:04:31.100 --> 00:04:36.079 the nation. Literally hooks in the jaws of the 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:44.639 nation. And when Russia and her allies go, After 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:50.779 a spoil, the Bible refers to it as a spoil, goes 00:04:50.779 --> 00:04:57.139 down after Israel, God himself in mercy will 00:04:57.139 --> 00:05:02.060 reach down with a gray sickle or scythe in his 00:05:02.060 --> 00:05:11.779 hand and will bow the enemies down as a scythe 00:05:11.779 --> 00:05:19.019 in the field. will be seven months bearing the 00:05:19.019 --> 00:05:24.899 dead. But my friend, this old world is going 00:05:24.899 --> 00:05:31.160 to see a miracle, a miracle of a nation in the 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:38.259 hands of a merciful God, a God whose word is 00:05:38.259 --> 00:05:43.560 infallible. And in that hour... a miracle will 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.680 be performed such as the world has never known 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.079 and will never know again. It's very stupid. 00:05:51.660 --> 00:05:54.800 The thrill of it all, I cannot begin to feel. 00:05:55.939 --> 00:06:04.199 And in that hour, not just a score of Jews, not 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:09.339 just a few hundred at the seat of Abraham, But 00:06:09.339 --> 00:06:16.920 the word of God says, the whole house of Israel. 00:06:21.060 --> 00:06:32.759 The whole house of Israel. The whole house of 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:39.230 Israel. We'll acknowledge. the son of the living 00:06:39.230 --> 00:06:47.110 God as the true Messiah. It'll be one of the 00:06:47.110 --> 00:06:50.589 greatest in gatherings in the kingdom of God 00:06:50.589 --> 00:06:57.029 that the world has ever known. And the world 00:06:57.029 --> 00:07:01.529 will crown him the king of kings and daughters. 00:07:02.430 --> 00:07:14.829 King. That is the word of God. On the other side 00:07:14.829 --> 00:07:17.470 of the coin, then, remember something. There'll 00:07:17.470 --> 00:07:20.750 be suffering in the world such as the world has 00:07:20.750 --> 00:07:24.230 never known. I would like to stand before you 00:07:24.230 --> 00:07:28.610 this Saturday afternoon and tell you, whatever 00:07:28.610 --> 00:07:31.889 you want to call it, a recession. Call it whatever 00:07:31.889 --> 00:07:35.790 you want to. But, beloved, the future is dark. 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:45.420 And it's getting darker. And it's getting darker. 00:07:47.300 --> 00:07:50.040 And the thing that we need most in our nation 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:57.480 is not something that can be legislated. I don't 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:00.420 care who our president would be. I don't care 00:08:00.420 --> 00:08:03.939 who the members of Congress might be. We put 00:08:03.939 --> 00:08:08.120 the blame on so many. We'd like to. What the 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:10.500 world needs is something the Democrats can't 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:12.720 give us and something Republicans can't give 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:18.379 us. It's something that the billions and billions 00:08:18.379 --> 00:08:22.660 of dollars cannot buy. What our nation needs 00:08:22.660 --> 00:08:26.000 more than anything else in this hour is the fresh 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:39.259 baptism of the love of God. for just a split 00:08:39.259 --> 00:08:42.620 second now. You want to know the why of these 00:08:42.620 --> 00:08:47.240 miracles? You want to know the why of it? It's 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:49.639 not Kathryn Kuhlman. It's not some personality. 00:08:50.620 --> 00:08:52.899 I'm giving you the picture, the world picture. 00:08:54.019 --> 00:09:02.279 But remember something. There is the spiritual 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:06.279 side. And the word of God says when you see these 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.720 things begin to come to pass, the things that 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.120 I've been talking about. When you see the world's 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:14.960 situation as we're seeing it today, he's saying 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:19.460 to his own, he's saying to the church, look up 00:09:19.460 --> 00:09:23.279 and rejoice for your redemption draweth nigh.