WEBVTT 00:00:02.819 --> 00:00:06.320 Welcome to the Kingdom Family Podcast, where 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:09.619 we rediscover our identity as sons and daughters 00:00:09.619 --> 00:00:13.019 of Yahweh and learn to live the life of the Kingdom. 00:00:13.660 --> 00:00:17.500 Let's jump in to today's episode. All right, 00:00:17.539 --> 00:00:22.079 guys, another week on Rethinking the End Times. 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:25.760 This week, we're going to dive into how biblical 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.410 prophecy actually works. And again, I'm going 00:00:29.410 --> 00:00:32.369 to preface this out of the gate with saying there's 00:00:32.369 --> 00:00:37.969 no way that I can cover all of this and just 00:00:37.969 --> 00:00:41.049 with the weeks that I have planned out. There 00:00:41.049 --> 00:00:44.289 is so much stuff that you could study and read 00:00:44.289 --> 00:00:48.789 on this and allow Holy Spirit to teach you. There's 00:00:48.789 --> 00:00:52.009 just a lot. But my goal again here is just to 00:00:52.009 --> 00:00:54.649 give you some information to cause you to rethink 00:00:55.210 --> 00:00:58.009 what you believe about the end times. I'm not 00:00:58.009 --> 00:01:00.030 here to say I'm right and everybody else is wrong 00:01:00.030 --> 00:01:03.590 or none of that kind of stuff. But I am, my goal 00:01:03.590 --> 00:01:09.329 is to give people a more hopeful outlook of what 00:01:09.329 --> 00:01:14.530 the so -called end looks like. I personally believe 00:01:14.530 --> 00:01:18.250 that Christ is in the process of restoring all 00:01:18.250 --> 00:01:21.769 things and has indeed restored all things. That 00:01:21.769 --> 00:01:26.840 we are simply catching up to this. So Jewish 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.819 prophecy uses a lot of imagery. We're going to 00:01:29.819 --> 00:01:32.819 dive right into this. And some of the examples 00:01:32.819 --> 00:01:35.439 I want to walk through, we're going to start 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:40.739 with stars falling, for example, in the way the 00:01:40.739 --> 00:01:43.739 scripture reads it. Stars falling would typically 00:01:43.739 --> 00:01:47.859 mean the fall of rulers, the fall of kings, the 00:01:47.859 --> 00:01:50.640 fall of governing authorities, a political collapse 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:54.459 of a nation, or removal of leadership or authority. 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:58.560 Hebrew thought stars symbolized rulers or governing 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:03.140 powers both partly and sometimes spiritual So 00:02:03.140 --> 00:02:07.540 let's read Genesis 37 verses 5 through 10 It 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:10.460 says one night Joseph had a dream and when he 00:02:10.460 --> 00:02:12.919 shared it with his brothers, they hated him even 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.879 more So already out of the gate we understand 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.060 that apparently Joseph's brothers hated him for 00:02:19.060 --> 00:02:22.419 whatever reason And he shared with them a dream 00:02:22.419 --> 00:02:25.710 that caused them to hate him even more He says, 00:02:25.889 --> 00:02:28.210 listen to this dream that I had in verse six 00:02:28.210 --> 00:02:31.050 and seven. He says, he told them, there we were, 00:02:31.129 --> 00:02:33.550 binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly 00:02:33.550 --> 00:02:37.229 my sheaf rose up and stood upright. Then your 00:02:37.229 --> 00:02:39.849 sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to 00:02:39.849 --> 00:02:42.870 mine. His brothers asked him, oh, so you think 00:02:42.870 --> 00:02:46.110 you're going to be our king? Do you actually 00:02:46.110 --> 00:02:49.270 think you're destined to rule over us? So the 00:02:49.270 --> 00:02:51.530 dream that he told them about made them hate 00:02:51.530 --> 00:02:54.789 him even more. There are some times it's okay 00:02:54.789 --> 00:02:57.650 to be quiet. Just throw that out there for free 00:02:57.650 --> 00:03:01.169 for you Verse 9 says that another night he had 00:03:01.169 --> 00:03:03.330 a dream and he shared it with his brother saying 00:03:03.330 --> 00:03:05.849 listen I had another dream so he did not learn 00:03:05.849 --> 00:03:08.909 his lesson the first time He's still excited 00:03:09.340 --> 00:03:12.520 that he's having dreams like this. This time 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:15.759 the sun and moon and 11 stars were bowing down 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.099 to me and when his father and brothers heard 00:03:18.099 --> 00:03:21.699 it, his father this time scolded Jacob and said, 00:03:21.740 --> 00:03:25.759 what kind of dream is that? Do you really think 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.560 that I and your mother and your brothers are 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:32.800 going to come and bow to the ground before you? 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:37.120 So already in this story, we already are beginning 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.280 to see some prophetic imagery happening. We have 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.800 the mention of the sun, the moon, and the stars. 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.379 So if you look at his dream that Jacob had, the 00:03:46.379 --> 00:03:49.080 sun would have represented Jacob, his father. 00:03:49.219 --> 00:03:51.400 The moon would represent Rachel, his mother. 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:56.780 And the stars would represent his brothers. And 00:03:56.780 --> 00:03:59.680 we can see that. Even Jacob picks up on it because 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.939 he says, this time the sun and moon 11 stars 00:04:02.939 --> 00:04:05.520 are bowing down to me. So his father even picked 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:10.780 up what the imagery was in his dream. Jacob understood 00:04:10.780 --> 00:04:15.240 the symbolism of what his son was actually saying 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:19.279 regarding his dream and the prophetic representation 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:24.660 here. So stars clearly, especially in this story 00:04:24.660 --> 00:04:28.600 represent people in authority and not literal 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.980 stars falling. another example that we have would 00:04:33.980 --> 00:04:37.259 be found in Isaiah chapter 13 verses 9 and 10 00:04:37.259 --> 00:04:39.540 and it says behold the day of the Lord is coming 00:04:39.540 --> 00:04:42.339 with pitiless fury and furious anger the land 00:04:42.339 --> 00:04:44.540 will be made desolate destroying the sinners 00:04:44.540 --> 00:04:47.839 who inhabit it for the stars of the heavens and 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.560 their constellations will not give their light 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.639 the rising Sun will be obscured and the moon 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:58.519 will not shine so dr. Simmons here may as says 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:01.399 it may be a metaphor for false teachers excuse 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:07.699 me backtrack words are hard sometimes Dr. Simmons 00:05:07.699 --> 00:05:11.879 says that stars may be a metaphor for false teachers 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:14.819 and constellations a metaphor for fellowships 00:05:14.819 --> 00:05:18.540 such as networks or denominations this is another 00:05:18.540 --> 00:05:21.899 example it's a prophecy about the fall of Babylon 00:05:21.899 --> 00:05:29.189 not a literal cosmic collapse And we can see 00:05:29.189 --> 00:05:31.629 that if you look at who was the prophecy about 00:05:31.629 --> 00:05:34.470 we can go back up to verse 1 in chapter 13 of 00:05:34.470 --> 00:05:37.889 Isaiah and it says this is the prophecy against 00:05:37.889 --> 00:05:42.550 Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah the son of 00:05:42.550 --> 00:05:48.850 Amos I'm gonna read that I Read that the passion 00:05:48.850 --> 00:05:54.610 I want to read his footnote regarding this Pull 00:05:54.610 --> 00:05:57.589 it up here for us. It says that that this verse 00:05:57.589 --> 00:06:00.810 begins a new section of Isaiah that contains 00:06:00.810 --> 00:06:06.029 10 prophecies against 10 nations. Babylon means 00:06:06.029 --> 00:06:09.629 confusion and points to the political and religious 00:06:09.629 --> 00:06:12.490 confusion and disorder among the nations. I think 00:06:12.490 --> 00:06:16.949 today that we can still see Babylon in full operation. 00:06:18.170 --> 00:06:22.110 Political and religious confusion causing disorder 00:06:22.110 --> 00:06:25.579 among the nations. This prophecy against Babylon 00:06:25.579 --> 00:06:30.060 was spoken by Isaiah at least 174 years before 00:06:30.060 --> 00:06:36.439 Babylon fell in 536 BC. The Greek historian Herodotus 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:39.459 described the city of Babylon as 15 miles wide 00:06:39.459 --> 00:06:42.300 on each side with walls that were more than 85 00:06:42.300 --> 00:06:49.310 feet thick, good day, and 350 feet high. It had 00:06:49.310 --> 00:06:51.870 100 gates to the city and was the commercial 00:06:51.870 --> 00:06:54.110 center of the ancient Near East. In the book 00:06:54.110 --> 00:06:57.089 of Revelation, Babylon becomes a metaphor for 00:06:57.089 --> 00:07:01.370 the world's political and religious system. Again, 00:07:02.029 --> 00:07:05.750 a lot of imagery happening. It's not, we can't 00:07:05.750 --> 00:07:08.519 just sit here and take this stuff literal. We 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:11.819 have to take this stuff, in my opinion, we have 00:07:11.819 --> 00:07:14.240 to take this stuff to Holy Spirit and allow Holy 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.379 Spirit to adjust our lens and begin to teach 00:07:17.379 --> 00:07:21.540 us what this stuff actually meant when it was 00:07:21.540 --> 00:07:25.120 written down and pinned down and who was it being 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.319 written to? What would they have understood this 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.699 stuff to be? What would early church fathers 00:07:31.699 --> 00:07:35.529 have understood? these verses to mean? How would 00:07:35.529 --> 00:07:38.569 they have taken this in? All of that to me I 00:07:38.569 --> 00:07:41.230 believe plays an important role of how we should 00:07:41.230 --> 00:07:45.810 interpret it still today. It's like if you think 00:07:45.810 --> 00:07:49.310 about in 2026 and I'm 36 years old so I may have 00:07:49.310 --> 00:07:51.029 some of this wrong but if you think about the 00:07:51.029 --> 00:07:53.970 term that's so sick you know when I was growing 00:07:53.970 --> 00:07:56.250 up if you said something about that so sick that 00:07:56.250 --> 00:07:59.250 means someone's not feeling well but today's 00:07:59.250 --> 00:08:01.310 world that's so sick would mean that that's a 00:08:01.310 --> 00:08:04.339 really cool thing a really great idea. So if 00:08:04.339 --> 00:08:07.740 someone in 2026 would write down that this is 00:08:07.740 --> 00:08:11.279 so sick, they may not be meaning that someone 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.459 is deathly ill or something. They may be saying 00:08:14.459 --> 00:08:17.199 this is a really good job. So it's important 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.600 for us to understand how the people then would 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.259 have understood this and take it from there. 00:08:24.670 --> 00:08:27.629 And not saying, again, I believe wholeheartedly 00:08:27.629 --> 00:08:30.269 that the Word is alive and active and when you're 00:08:30.269 --> 00:08:32.590 reading this thing with the Holy Spirit, the 00:08:32.590 --> 00:08:35.269 Holy Spirit can pull out so many different types 00:08:35.269 --> 00:08:38.110 of meanings depending on where you're at in life. 00:08:38.509 --> 00:08:41.269 If you take a grandfather at the age of 70 right 00:08:41.269 --> 00:08:44.169 now, me and him can read the same verse and Holy 00:08:44.169 --> 00:08:46.950 Spirit may teach him something completely different. 00:08:47.289 --> 00:08:50.889 Why? Because we're at different stages in our 00:08:50.889 --> 00:08:55.309 life. If you take me and put me with a female 00:08:55.309 --> 00:08:58.269 nurse, for example, the female nurse and I can 00:08:58.269 --> 00:09:00.929 read the same scripture and we may get something 00:09:00.929 --> 00:09:03.129 completely different. Number one, I'm not a nurse. 00:09:03.309 --> 00:09:05.529 Number two, I'm not a female. So that would be 00:09:05.529 --> 00:09:08.809 two objects right there. they may understand 00:09:08.809 --> 00:09:11.230 and see something completely different than what 00:09:11.230 --> 00:09:14.389 I'm seeing. Does that make either one of us wrong? 00:09:14.889 --> 00:09:18.129 No, it's just this is my journey that I'm making. 00:09:18.669 --> 00:09:20.450 This is their journey that they're making. So 00:09:20.450 --> 00:09:24.289 we have to understand and allow the Holy Spirit 00:09:24.289 --> 00:09:27.389 to be our guide, to be our teacher, to illuminate 00:09:27.389 --> 00:09:30.610 revelation to us and through us. I hope that 00:09:30.610 --> 00:09:35.340 makes sense. So what we are reading it is is 00:09:35.340 --> 00:09:37.519 announcing an Isaiah at least is announcing the 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:40.279 coming fall of Babylon Which again was historically 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:44.220 fulfilled when Babylon fell in 539 BC and you 00:09:44.220 --> 00:09:51.279 can find that in Isaiah Chapter 13 verse 17 Get 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:55.879 some of my notes back up here. Okay So we have 00:09:55.879 --> 00:10:01.110 Babylon ruled the region the Medes and the Persians 00:10:01.110 --> 00:10:04.990 conquered Babylon and this happened exactly as 00:10:04.990 --> 00:10:07.750 it was prophesied. So what are we doing here? 00:10:07.850 --> 00:10:10.809 We're putting prophetic imagery back in its place. 00:10:11.210 --> 00:10:14.269 This is about the fall of Babylon and not some 00:10:14.269 --> 00:10:18.169 kind of cosmic annihilation. So again Isaiah 00:10:18.169 --> 00:10:21.830 is saying Babylon's ruler and their power structure 00:10:21.830 --> 00:10:24.429 will collapse not that the universe will be shut 00:10:24.429 --> 00:10:27.470 down. And you can find this same type of imagery 00:10:28.140 --> 00:10:31.059 happening in other places. And this is stuff 00:10:31.059 --> 00:10:34.000 that I'm gonna just challenge you to pause, write 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.360 this down. You go read on your own time. Excuse 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:40.379 me. Ezekiel chapter 32, verses seven and eight 00:10:40.379 --> 00:10:43.259 talks about the fall of Egypt. Isaiah chapter 00:10:43.259 --> 00:10:46.659 34, verse four is judgment on Edom. So you can 00:10:46.659 --> 00:10:49.440 go and read these scriptures and see the imagery 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:54.120 that's being used in these verses. Another note 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:56.559 when it says the day of the Lord in verse nine 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.470 in Isaiah. Some assume that that means the end 00:10:59.470 --> 00:11:02.149 of the world, but in Scripture it often means 00:11:02.149 --> 00:11:05.750 God is judging a nation. This is where we have 00:11:05.750 --> 00:11:08.730 to understand judgment once again. Where is the 00:11:08.730 --> 00:11:11.590 Father's judgment aimed? I can promise you, judgment 00:11:11.590 --> 00:11:15.129 is never aimed at you nor I. Judgment, if you 00:11:15.129 --> 00:11:18.009 want to know what a judge is, turn off Judge 00:11:18.009 --> 00:11:20.070 Judy because that's not what Scripture is talking 00:11:20.070 --> 00:11:23.129 about. Go and get your Bible and read the book 00:11:23.129 --> 00:11:27.620 of Judges it shows you what a judge is in that 00:11:27.620 --> 00:11:30.059 time and what was a judge in the Old Testament 00:11:30.059 --> 00:11:35.100 a judge would so anytime Isaiah Had something 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:37.919 come against them God would raise up a judge 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:40.759 that would come against whatever was interfering 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:45.740 between the God and Israel so Israel would God 00:11:45.740 --> 00:11:48.309 would kept send up a judge and destroy whatever 00:11:48.309 --> 00:11:50.929 was coming against Israel and then Israel would 00:11:50.929 --> 00:11:52.730 fall again. What would God do? Raise up another 00:11:52.730 --> 00:11:54.970 judge and come and deal with whatever's coming 00:11:54.970 --> 00:11:58.070 against between him and Israel. So the way I 00:11:58.070 --> 00:12:00.289 understand this, and I have to give credit where 00:12:00.289 --> 00:12:02.929 credit is due to Damon Thompson for this, but 00:12:02.929 --> 00:12:05.350 if you want to know what judgment is, judgment 00:12:05.350 --> 00:12:08.710 is aimed at whatever in your life is interfering 00:12:08.710 --> 00:12:12.559 between you and the love of the Father. I'll 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:16.179 give you a perfect example on, this is how I 00:12:16.179 --> 00:12:20.720 understood his wrath. I have a little over one 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:23.500 year old son, about 15 months I think right now. 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:28.019 And it was probably before he turned one actually. 00:12:28.779 --> 00:12:32.320 I had him sitting in one of those Bumbo seats 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.750 and he was sitting on our counter. while I was 00:12:35.750 --> 00:12:38.769 washing dishes and I had failed to remember that 00:12:38.769 --> 00:12:41.210 in this moment he had learned to take his feet 00:12:41.210 --> 00:12:44.750 and kick and do all this other stuff. So when 00:12:44.750 --> 00:12:47.350 I had turned around to wash dishes somehow he 00:12:47.350 --> 00:12:51.330 had gotten back to the edge and leaned over and 00:12:51.330 --> 00:12:56.090 toppled into the floor. Of course, I began to 00:12:56.090 --> 00:12:58.909 freak out. My wife is in the living room on the 00:12:58.909 --> 00:13:01.950 phone. She hears the commotion. She's come running. 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.039 My son is face down on the floor after toppling 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:10.200 off the counter. And when we turn him over, his 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:12.899 lips are blue. He's not breathing, but he's got 00:13:12.899 --> 00:13:17.059 the crying face. Of course, the bumbo seat is 00:13:17.059 --> 00:13:23.460 on top of him. It was a huge mess. We ended up, 00:13:23.460 --> 00:13:25.259 we finally got him to breathe. I had to blow 00:13:25.259 --> 00:13:27.620 on his face and get him to start breathing again. 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:30.600 We called 911, had the paramedics come check 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:34.159 him out. And of course they... tell us that a 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.500 crying baby is a good thing because that's what 00:13:36.500 --> 00:13:38.960 means that he's able to breathe and stuff at 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:42.419 least. Even though as a parent, you're thinking, 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:49.279 please stop crying. It was a terrifying experience. 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.440 We kind of asked their opinion. Do we rush him 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:56.399 to the emergency room? What do we do? And they, 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.340 of course, told us, of course, there's nothing 00:13:58.340 --> 00:14:02.360 they can see. He seems to be fine other than. 00:14:02.539 --> 00:14:05.500 he'll have a bruise or I think he had a black 00:14:05.500 --> 00:14:09.120 eye or something. But they said we can't see 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.320 if there's anything going on inside. Is there 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.620 an issue inside? So they recommended at least 00:14:14.620 --> 00:14:16.580 take him, let him get scanned to make sure there's 00:14:16.580 --> 00:14:19.960 nothing broken, no issues internally. So that's 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:21.899 of course what we did. So my wife rides with 00:14:21.899 --> 00:14:25.379 him on the ambulance. I have to compose myself 00:14:25.379 --> 00:14:28.759 and grab my, I might be a big boy, but as a dad 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.990 that begins. That was that was hard. Let me just 00:14:32.990 --> 00:14:35.889 say that and so I grabbed my two daughters and 00:14:35.889 --> 00:14:41.529 we drive behind To go to the hospital But here's 00:14:41.529 --> 00:14:43.549 the thing when we get into the emergency room 00:14:43.549 --> 00:14:46.049 me and my daughters are sitting there and I'm 00:14:46.049 --> 00:14:48.269 waiting for updates I've texted my wife not heard 00:14:48.269 --> 00:14:51.590 anything. So there's part of me freaking out 00:14:51.590 --> 00:14:55.230 but then all of a sudden where the emergency 00:14:55.230 --> 00:14:59.059 room is there's Glass and doors and then on the 00:14:59.059 --> 00:15:02.080 other side of that supposedly is where they would 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:05.120 Bring in the the patients that's coming off the 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:08.740 ambulance and all of a sudden I heard my kid 00:15:08.740 --> 00:15:13.539 Crying like loud on the other side and I knew 00:15:13.539 --> 00:15:17.360 as a parent, you know, your child's cries I knew 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:21.120 that was my son and in that moment Something 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.379 rose up in me and I wanted to bust through every 00:15:24.379 --> 00:15:28.899 door till i could find my son and when i had 00:15:28.899 --> 00:15:31.720 that moment immediately the holy spirit spoke 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:34.059 to my spirit he said son he said now you understand 00:15:34.059 --> 00:15:38.360 my wrath the wrath was not aimed at my son it 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:40.960 was aimed at what was interfering between me 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:45.399 and my son um and if i had had the ability to 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.519 do so i would have took down the doors or whatever 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.779 and got to him now would that have been wise 00:15:51.779 --> 00:15:55.070 because i may be spending some time in jail uh 00:15:55.070 --> 00:15:57.629 no that was not I would not be wise so I sat 00:15:57.629 --> 00:15:59.929 there waited for people to respond my wife finally 00:15:59.929 --> 00:16:03.269 texted me back a nurse came out and said he was 00:16:03.269 --> 00:16:05.629 just fine back there they was doing the couple 00:16:05.629 --> 00:16:08.950 scans or whatever everything turned out great 00:16:08.950 --> 00:16:12.009 just a scary moment as a parent but I understood 00:16:12.009 --> 00:16:17.190 through that experience the father taught me 00:16:17.190 --> 00:16:21.070 what his wrath looked like So again, we have 00:16:21.070 --> 00:16:24.389 to understand like his judgment, his wrath. Listen, 00:16:25.389 --> 00:16:28.669 God is love. It is all love and it's all grace. 00:16:29.169 --> 00:16:33.669 That's it. His wrath is not the evil part of 00:16:33.669 --> 00:16:37.289 him, the dark side of him, the bad part of him. 00:16:37.549 --> 00:16:39.350 He doesn't have a bad side. He doesn't have a 00:16:39.350 --> 00:16:42.730 dark side. There is no trace of darkness in him. 00:16:43.649 --> 00:16:47.649 So understand that. Often the day of the Lord 00:16:47.649 --> 00:16:51.230 means the collapse of a kingdom under divine 00:16:51.230 --> 00:16:54.649 judgment. And this is important to understand 00:16:54.649 --> 00:16:59.649 because Jesus uses this imagery in Matthew chapter 00:16:59.649 --> 00:17:03.289 24 verse 29. And he says, then immediately this 00:17:03.289 --> 00:17:05.750 is what will take place. The sun will be darkened 00:17:05.750 --> 00:17:09.650 and the moon will give no light. The stars will 00:17:09.650 --> 00:17:12.609 fall from the sky and all the cosmic powers will 00:17:12.609 --> 00:17:15.809 be shaken. So let me read to you again, Dr. Simmons' 00:17:16.230 --> 00:17:20.089 footnote on this. It says, this can also be viewed 00:17:20.089 --> 00:17:22.730 as a Hebraic metaphor of the lights of the natural 00:17:22.730 --> 00:17:24.950 realm being shut off and replaced with heaven's 00:17:24.950 --> 00:17:27.809 glory. Lights out on the old order, the sun, 00:17:27.990 --> 00:17:30.210 moon, and stars are also representation of the 00:17:30.210 --> 00:17:33.809 governmental structures failing with great calamity. 00:17:34.289 --> 00:17:37.329 A new order, a new glory is coming to replace 00:17:37.329 --> 00:17:41.509 the fading glories of this world. So again, we 00:17:41.509 --> 00:17:44.910 have a lot of imagery being spoken even through 00:17:44.910 --> 00:17:47.329 Jesus. And Jesus would have understood when he's 00:17:47.329 --> 00:17:52.029 using phrases like this, he knows what the people 00:17:52.029 --> 00:17:57.170 listening would have understood. Then we have 00:17:57.170 --> 00:18:01.509 Isaiah 13. It shows us cosmic language equals 00:18:01.509 --> 00:18:04.970 a political collapse imagery. It's not a literal 00:18:04.970 --> 00:18:09.250 astronomical destruction. So when you understand 00:18:09.250 --> 00:18:13.009 stuff like this, this insight alone unlocks stuff 00:18:13.009 --> 00:18:15.970 in Isaiah, it unlocks stuff in Ezekiel, in Joel, 00:18:16.109 --> 00:18:19.930 in Revelation, in some of the words that Jesus 00:18:19.930 --> 00:18:22.869 speaks about. It's one of the most important 00:18:22.869 --> 00:18:25.750 prophetic interpretation keys is understanding 00:18:25.750 --> 00:18:28.690 what these symbolism would have meant to the 00:18:28.690 --> 00:18:34.890 people that they're talking to. Think about this, 00:18:34.990 --> 00:18:38.299 Isaiah did not predict the sun going down. Isaiah 00:18:38.299 --> 00:18:41.759 predicted Babylon going down. The darkened sun, 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:44.140 the moon, and stars were not about astronomy. 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:47.259 They were symbolism and they meant Babylon's 00:18:47.259 --> 00:18:49.559 rulers would fall, its powers would collapse, 00:18:50.059 --> 00:18:53.559 its kingdom would end, and historically that's 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:57.859 exactly what happened. So it's important to understand 00:18:57.859 --> 00:19:02.109 this. So if the sun going dark and Isaiah meant 00:19:02.109 --> 00:19:05.430 Babylon fail Then why do we assume it suddenly 00:19:05.430 --> 00:19:08.650 means the universe ends when Jesus uses the same 00:19:08.650 --> 00:19:12.349 language? Again, don't check your brain at the 00:19:12.349 --> 00:19:14.869 door. So let's look at look at some other stuff 00:19:14.869 --> 00:19:20.930 here Let's look at Daniel chapter 8 and we're 00:19:20.930 --> 00:19:23.890 going to read verses 8 and 10 It says, then the 00:19:23.890 --> 00:19:26.130 goat grew exceedingly arrogant. At the very peak 00:19:26.130 --> 00:19:28.829 of his power, his big horn abruptly snapped off. 00:19:29.210 --> 00:19:33.190 In its place, four prominent horns came up, each 00:19:33.190 --> 00:19:36.029 pointing to a different direction. From one of 00:19:36.029 --> 00:19:38.329 them, a small horn emerged. It eventually grew 00:19:38.329 --> 00:19:40.730 to be very big, and its power extended toward 00:19:40.730 --> 00:19:43.289 the south, the easy and toward the beautiful 00:19:43.289 --> 00:19:46.309 land. It grew so powerful that it attacked the 00:19:46.309 --> 00:19:48.690 armies of heaven and hurled some of the starry 00:19:48.690 --> 00:19:51.349 hosts to the ground and trampled them down. Again, 00:19:51.650 --> 00:19:53.970 we have a lot of imagery happening here. This 00:19:53.970 --> 00:20:00.069 is what I found while studying. Essentially, 00:20:00.829 --> 00:20:04.750 these verses refer to persecution and overthrow 00:20:04.750 --> 00:20:07.829 of leaders and priests. Why is that important? 00:20:08.970 --> 00:20:12.380 Because... Revelation speaks of the same type 00:20:12.380 --> 00:20:15.539 of stuff. Revelation speaks of stars falling. 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.920 And that typically signals, yet again, collapse 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.420 of ruling systems, removal of leadership, and 00:20:22.420 --> 00:20:25.460 judgment on governing authority, not literal 00:20:25.460 --> 00:20:29.259 astronomy disasters. If you think about mountains 00:20:29.259 --> 00:20:32.200 melting, for example. This would typically mean 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.180 the collapse of kingdoms or the collapse of empires, 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:39.200 the fall of powerful political systems, God overthrowing 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:41.660 nations of governments. And I want you to think, 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.839 why mountains? Because they symbolize kingdoms, 00:20:44.940 --> 00:20:47.759 nations, or centers of powers. Think about Jerusalem 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:51.099 itself being called Mount Zion, which is the 00:20:51.099 --> 00:20:55.200 kingdom of God's rule. So mountains melting means 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:58.519 kingdoms dissolving and not geology melting. 00:20:59.829 --> 00:21:05.250 Michael 1 2 says the 1 2 through 4 says listen 00:21:05.250 --> 00:21:08.089 you people all of you earth pay attention and 00:21:08.089 --> 00:21:10.710 everyone on it from his holy temple the Lord 00:21:10.710 --> 00:21:15.309 Yahweh himself will testify against you for behold 00:21:15.309 --> 00:21:18.170 Yahweh is leaving his dwelling place here he 00:21:18.170 --> 00:21:20.890 comes to tread upon the high places of the land 00:21:20.890 --> 00:21:25.730 mountains melt beneath his feet like wax melting 00:21:25.730 --> 00:21:29.190 near a raging fire and again don't take this 00:21:29.190 --> 00:21:32.730 literal like water pouring down a steep slope. 00:21:33.230 --> 00:21:36.809 This prophecy refers to judgment on Samaria and 00:21:36.809 --> 00:21:39.869 Jerusalem, which historically happens. So again, 00:21:40.170 --> 00:21:43.630 this is not literal mountains liquefying and 00:21:43.630 --> 00:21:46.309 becoming what we read about and make it literal. 00:21:46.849 --> 00:21:51.890 Mountains equals kingdoms. This stuff is important 00:21:51.890 --> 00:21:54.369 when we really begin to look at it and understand 00:21:54.369 --> 00:21:58.809 it. Isaiah 34 1 through 3, I'm not going to read 00:21:58.809 --> 00:22:00.849 it, but it talks about mountains will stream 00:22:00.849 --> 00:22:04.230 with their blood. What is that? What's the context? 00:22:04.309 --> 00:22:07.789 Is the judgment on Edom a nation? It's not literal. 00:22:08.910 --> 00:22:12.670 Again, it's not a literal mountain melting. So 00:22:12.670 --> 00:22:15.730 again, why is this important? Why do I need to 00:22:15.730 --> 00:22:18.049 understand what Micah says and what Daniel says 00:22:18.049 --> 00:22:20.089 and what Isaiah says and all this, that and the 00:22:20.089 --> 00:22:23.430 other? Because when you understand that imagery, 00:22:23.950 --> 00:22:28.339 it helps us understand that when Revelation talks 00:22:28.339 --> 00:22:31.640 about this, it's not talking about geographical 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:35.420 areas melting. When mountains shake or melt, 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:38.339 kingdom systems collapse, political or covenantal 00:22:38.339 --> 00:22:42.359 powers fall, and major shifts in national structures. 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:52.240 And then we look at beast rising. Typical meaning 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:57.289 would mean empires or kingdoms political systems, 00:22:57.430 --> 00:23:00.869 oppressive ruling powers, not a literal beast. 00:23:02.849 --> 00:23:05.730 We can look at Daniel chapter seven verse three. 00:23:05.730 --> 00:23:11.369 Let me pull that up. Give me just a minute. I 00:23:11.369 --> 00:23:13.690 do not have some of this stuff marked. Daniel 00:23:13.690 --> 00:23:15.690 chapter seven verse three says, then emerging 00:23:15.690 --> 00:23:19.250 from the tossing sea came four immense beasts, 00:23:19.329 --> 00:23:23.000 each different from the others. Dr. Simmons, 00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:25.079 again, I'm reading the footnote he has, says 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:27.539 Daniel's vision is impressive overview of human 00:23:27.539 --> 00:23:30.859 history. God has a plan for the world. History 00:23:30.859 --> 00:23:34.799 is his story. Many scholars view the four beasts 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:39.019 are representing empires and not people. The 00:23:39.019 --> 00:23:41.960 Babylonian, which is the winged lion, the Medo 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:43.900 -Persian, which is the bear, the Greek, which 00:23:43.900 --> 00:23:47.960 is the tiger, and the Roman, which is the apocalyptic 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:51.369 beast. Daniel's vision was an overview of nearly 00:23:51.369 --> 00:23:54.289 1 ,000 years of the future. Only God's supernatural 00:23:54.289 --> 00:23:57.950 knowledge could make this known to Daniel. And 00:23:57.950 --> 00:24:01.789 then we have Daniel chapter seven, verse 17, 00:24:02.650 --> 00:24:06.970 and it says, these four great beasts, so this 00:24:06.970 --> 00:24:09.529 is the answer to the question, these four great 00:24:09.529 --> 00:24:12.210 beasts represent four empires that will rise 00:24:12.210 --> 00:24:17.079 to power over the earth. So what he said in verse 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:22.480 3 he explains in verse 17 what he's saying This 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.339 is the Bible interpreting itself these equals 00:24:26.339 --> 00:24:31.220 kingdoms not monsters It's not some big beast 00:24:31.220 --> 00:24:33.960 that we see in a movie. This is this is empires 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:36.660 Again, there's no different dr. Simmons the four 00:24:36.660 --> 00:24:40.180 beasts represented Babylon me to Mediopurgia, 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:44.559 Greece, Rome. Each empire symbolized a beast. 00:24:45.539 --> 00:24:47.099 Now here's something else interesting I did not 00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:50.839 know until studying some of this. We have a sea 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:54.579 imagery. Why beasts come from the sea? So sea 00:24:54.579 --> 00:24:57.799 imagery would equal chaos in Gentile nations 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:01.299 and Jewish thought land was Israel and sea was 00:25:01.299 --> 00:25:04.140 Gentile world with chaos or unstable nations 00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:07.279 So a beast rising from the sea means a Gentile 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.799 Empire emerging into power Again, why important? 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:14.359 I'm gonna do this a lot Because the beast of 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:17.599 Revelation 13 follows Daniel's pattern. That's 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:20.000 how many scholars especially pre -modern ones 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.180 identify the beast as wrong Not a future monster 00:25:24.180 --> 00:25:26.880 not something in 2026 that we're trying to figure 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:29.660 out what the beast is. It's not a literal creature 00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:32.579 It's a political empire persecuting believers 00:25:32.579 --> 00:25:37.019 This fits the first century Roman context and 00:25:37.019 --> 00:25:41.380 we'll get into some of that later again These 00:25:41.380 --> 00:25:45.799 often represent political upheaval and not cosmic 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:50.240 collapse So why does this matter for in time 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:54.259 stuff? This is one of the biggest interpretive 00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:59.259 keys the Jewish prophecy uses Is covenantial 00:25:59.259 --> 00:26:02.220 cosmic language not modern sci -fi disaster language. 00:26:02.220 --> 00:26:04.980 So again, let's let's run through some of this 00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:08.299 Stars falling would mean leaders or rulers falling 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:11.740 Mountains that are melting as kingdoms collapsing. 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:15.980 Beasts rising would equal empires or political 00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:19.359 powers. The sun darken would mean national judgment. 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:23.240 Sea raging is gentile chaos or nations. Fire 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:27.599 would typically equal judgment or purification. 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:34.740 So I hope some of that makes sense there. Let's 00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:39.720 see. I got some other notes here. I want to see 00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:45.019 if I want to go through this. Yeah, let's, let's 00:26:45.019 --> 00:26:49.059 read, let's read song 46. One through six is 00:26:49.059 --> 00:26:51.059 gone. You're such a safe and powerful place to 00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:53.940 find refuge is encouraging. You are proven help 00:26:53.940 --> 00:26:56.279 in time of trouble more than enough and always 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.839 available whenever I need you. So we will never 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:03.220 fear even if every structure or support were 00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:06.599 to crumble away. We will not fear even when the 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:09.160 earthquakes and shakes moving mountains and casting 00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:13.420 them into the sea. For the raging roar of stormy 00:27:13.420 --> 00:27:16.039 winds and crashing waves cannot erode our faith 00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:22.859 in you, Paul's in his presence. God has a constantly 00:27:22.859 --> 00:27:25.950 flowing river whose sparkling streams bring joy 00:27:25.950 --> 00:27:28.609 and delight to his people his river flows right 00:27:28.609 --> 00:27:31.390 through the city of god high into his holy dwelling 00:27:31.390 --> 00:27:34.029 dwelling places god is in the midst of the city 00:27:34.029 --> 00:27:37.230 secure and never shaken at daybreak his help 00:27:37.230 --> 00:27:41.549 will be seen with the appearance of dawn so again 00:27:41.549 --> 00:27:44.930 just an important thing to understand what these 00:27:44.930 --> 00:27:55.440 things symbolize and what they mean Let's do 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:58.660 one more sign. We want to address this again 00:27:58.660 --> 00:28:03.160 later, but I think it's important and we'll end 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:05.160 on this one, I do believe. This will be a shorter 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:08.099 one, but I just wanted to help you understand 00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:12.299 the imagery and the symbolism that it's not, 00:28:12.420 --> 00:28:15.279 don't take it literal. Don't shake your brain 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.079 at the door. Again, let me help with some of 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:20.740 that. If you look at Matthew chapter 24 verse 00:28:20.740 --> 00:28:22.859 34, we're going to hit this verse again in a 00:28:22.859 --> 00:28:25.680 couple other ones. But it says, I assure you 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:28.539 the end of the age will not come until all I 00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:32.200 have spoken comes to pass. We look at this term, 00:28:32.339 --> 00:28:35.880 the end of the age, as the end of the age, end 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:37.920 of the world. That's what we think about. But 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:41.799 in that time, in that day, they would have understood 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.279 what that meant. And if you look at the Greek 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.900 in the word age, it actually means this generation, 00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:54.809 this present generation. 30 to 40 years roughly 00:28:54.809 --> 00:29:00.150 will not come Until all I have spoke spoken comes 00:29:00.150 --> 00:29:03.430 to pass and guess what my friend when we look 00:29:03.430 --> 00:29:09.109 at what happened in 70 ad You understand that 00:29:09.109 --> 00:29:12.490 it did happen the way Jesus prophesied that it 00:29:12.490 --> 00:29:15.509 would I'm just giving through some of my notes. 00:29:15.509 --> 00:29:18.710 We make sure I didn't miss anything We're gonna 00:29:18.710 --> 00:29:25.440 address that later i just want to make sure very 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:32.660 quickly oh there we go so while i read psalm 00:29:32.660 --> 00:29:35.460 46 i knew i had that in my slideshow but i did 00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:37.579 not have it in my notes i do have it in my notes 00:29:37.579 --> 00:29:40.660 psalm 46 1 through 6 when i read that it talked 00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:43.119 about the mountains shaking that literally meant 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:46.019 the kingdoms shaking not the literal mountains 00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:50.799 shaking but kingdoms that are shaking so again 00:29:51.099 --> 00:29:53.059 If you're taking notes, I'm going to help you 00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:54.660 one more time. I'm going to run through these. 00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:58.200 If you look at stars falling, it's leaders or 00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:00.779 rulers that are falling, not literal stars. Mountains 00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:04.180 melting as kingdoms collapsing. Beasts that are 00:30:04.180 --> 00:30:08.000 rising as an empire's or political powers. The 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.200 sun being darkened is usually national judgment. 00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:14.380 The sea that's raging usually talks about Gentile 00:30:14.380 --> 00:30:17.220 chaos or nations. And then if you think about 00:30:17.220 --> 00:30:19.660 fire and the importance of fire, it's judgment 00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:23.079 or purification. Think about this when you think 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:26.640 about fire. Jesus says that, or not Jesus, it 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.920 was John that said it about Jesus. He said, and 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:31.460 I baptize you with water, but there's one coming 00:30:31.460 --> 00:30:33.619 after me that's gonna baptize you with the Holy 00:30:33.619 --> 00:30:37.690 Spirit and with. Fire. If fire was a negative 00:30:37.690 --> 00:30:39.890 thing, then he would not be baptizing you in 00:30:39.890 --> 00:30:43.029 it. But what does fire do if he's baptizing you? 00:30:43.089 --> 00:30:46.410 It's purifying you. It's burning things out of 00:30:46.410 --> 00:30:49.730 you that do not resemble the image of Christ 00:30:49.730 --> 00:30:53.549 within you. So again, it's so important that 00:30:53.549 --> 00:30:56.710 we understand a lot of this imagery and where 00:30:56.710 --> 00:31:00.470 it comes from, what it means. There's just a 00:31:00.470 --> 00:31:04.009 lot of things to think about and not take stuff 00:31:04.009 --> 00:31:08.220 so literal. There's not a literal beast coming. 00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:12.500 A couple other things I'll mention, if you look 00:31:12.500 --> 00:31:15.900 at some prophetic meanings, the stars being darkened, 00:31:16.019 --> 00:31:18.059 rulers or leaders falling, moon that's darkened 00:31:18.059 --> 00:31:20.460 is national collapse, sun darkened typically 00:31:20.460 --> 00:31:23.579 means authority that's removed, and heaven shaken 00:31:23.579 --> 00:31:28.200 usually means political world overturned. So 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:30.700 again, is that the only meanings these things 00:31:30.700 --> 00:31:32.970 can have? I'm sure... I'm sure it's not. I'm 00:31:32.970 --> 00:31:36.410 sure you could go and find other meanings. But 00:31:36.410 --> 00:31:39.190 here's the thing, whatever you're reading or 00:31:39.190 --> 00:31:42.450 listening to or understanding about the, quote 00:31:42.450 --> 00:31:46.230 unquote, the end, if it's causing fear and anxiety 00:31:46.230 --> 00:31:50.809 in you, it's likely not from God. Think about 00:31:50.809 --> 00:31:54.789 that. So allow the Holy Spirit to judge whatever 00:31:54.789 --> 00:31:58.650 is in you that becomes anxious and fearful about 00:31:58.650 --> 00:32:03.829 the end, quote unquote. So again, I'm not saying 00:32:03.829 --> 00:32:06.609 I have all this right and man, there's a ton 00:32:06.609 --> 00:32:08.990 of ways you can go into this and look at the 00:32:08.990 --> 00:32:10.750 imagery and different things like that that would 00:32:10.750 --> 00:32:16.289 take me much longer than, I mean, I have all 00:32:16.289 --> 00:32:19.089 the time I guess I can take, but it would just 00:32:19.089 --> 00:32:21.650 take a lot longer to run through some of this. 00:32:21.970 --> 00:32:25.569 And my biggest goal in the next several weeks 00:32:25.569 --> 00:32:28.549 that we run through this topic of rethinking 00:32:28.549 --> 00:32:31.420 the end times. My biggest goal is just to give 00:32:31.420 --> 00:32:36.900 people a more hopeful approach about life. Remember 00:32:36.900 --> 00:32:40.779 that you've been given Zoe, the god life. When 00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:43.859 you remember that and understand that and begin 00:32:43.859 --> 00:32:46.640 to understand that the kingdom of God is within 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:49.140 you, that Christ is within you, just like there 00:32:49.140 --> 00:32:53.440 are previous discussions on the Christ in all 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:58.759 of relation. Christ is within you. But the Romans 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:00.960 8 tells us the earth is growing and traveling 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:02.819 for the manifestation of the sons and daughters 00:33:02.819 --> 00:33:06.299 of Yahweh Earth is waiting creation is waiting 00:33:06.299 --> 00:33:10.660 on you and I to discover that who we are in Christ 00:33:10.660 --> 00:33:15.220 that we are indeed little Christ Man, that's 00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:18.349 good news So when you begin to understand all 00:33:18.349 --> 00:33:21.250 this imagery and the symbolic stuff the symbolic 00:33:21.250 --> 00:33:24.309 language The prophetic language when you begin 00:33:24.309 --> 00:33:27.410 to understand and tap into that you begin to 00:33:27.410 --> 00:33:30.549 see things differently Especially pertaining 00:33:30.549 --> 00:33:32.650 to the book of Revelation that everybody is so 00:33:32.650 --> 00:33:39.269 afraid of So again take this Listen to it multiple 00:33:39.269 --> 00:33:41.589 times go and do your own reading and studying 00:33:41.589 --> 00:33:45.069 and you know dive it into some of this Don't 00:33:45.069 --> 00:33:47.789 just take Not even my word, don't just take my 00:33:47.789 --> 00:33:49.970 word for it. Go and do your own research and 00:33:49.970 --> 00:33:52.710 pray and ask Holy Spirit, reveal truth to me. 00:33:53.769 --> 00:33:57.069 And this is what it is. If you land somewhere 00:33:57.069 --> 00:33:59.470 different than what I do, that is totally fine. 00:34:00.670 --> 00:34:04.170 I'm not sitting here telling you I have all the 00:34:04.170 --> 00:34:06.390 correct answers and that I can't be wrong on 00:34:06.390 --> 00:34:10.469 any of this, because my friend, I can be. But 00:34:10.469 --> 00:34:14.130 I will say this has given me a more hope -filled... 00:34:15.210 --> 00:34:18.349 Perspective on life and understanding that and 00:34:18.349 --> 00:34:21.210 you won't argue me down on this that Christ came 00:34:21.210 --> 00:34:27.389 to restore it all So just think about this. I 00:34:27.389 --> 00:34:30.349 Hope this is blessing you. Let me see it. We're 00:34:30.349 --> 00:34:34.010 doing Next week. We're gonna jump. Okay, so next 00:34:34.010 --> 00:34:36.210 week. We're gonna actually begin talking about 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.659 Jesus' prophecy and the fall of Jerusalem. That 00:34:39.659 --> 00:34:42.340 may take us a couple weeks to run through, but 00:34:42.340 --> 00:34:44.420 we're going to be specifically talking about 00:34:44.420 --> 00:34:48.780 what happened in 70 AD and which solidifies my 00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:51.340 stance on there is no rapture coming. Again, 00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:54.719 am I right? I, in my opinion, I believe I am. 00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:59.239 Can I be wrong? Certainly. So anyhow, I hope 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:03.480 this has helped you. Be blessed. Enjoy life. 00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:08.340 Enjoy the kingdom. Tap into the God life that 00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:12.579 you have been given And understand that as he 00:35:12.579 --> 00:35:18.920 is so are you my friend be blessed Thanks for 00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:21.300 spending some time with me today on the kingdom 00:35:21.300 --> 00:35:25.460 family podcast This episode spoke to you take 00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:29.199 a moment to share it and help someone else Rediscover 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:32.099 their identity as a son or daughter of Yahweh 00:35:32.510 --> 00:35:35.510 And don't forget, follow the podcast so you can 00:35:35.510 --> 00:35:38.190 stay connected with everything happening through 00:35:38.190 --> 00:35:41.789 Kingdom Family Ministries. Until next time, live 00:35:41.789 --> 00:35:45.329 love, live free, and live from the life of the 00:35:45.329 --> 00:35:45.590 Kingdom.