Tonight we're going to look at what I
hope will be informative and at the same
time current and first of all grab your
Bibles and turn if you would to Ezekiel
and while you're turning there Ezekiel 33.
One of the standards and hallmarks of Calvary
Chapel is that it has always been teaching
and updating the body of Christ concerning the
end times.
We would sit under Pastor Chuck and there
were these jingles that he would do every
year.
He would say, for example, we could be
in heaven in 77.
He would come out each year and it's
going to be great in 78 and each
year he would have this little thing, you
know, that would always speak about the nearness
of the Lord's return and always be ready
and he was so faithful and is so
faithful to to instruct us but I think
also to warn and so in Ezekiel 33,
follow along with me, verse 1, again the
word of the Lord came to me saying,
son of man speak to the children of
your people and say to them when I
bring the sword up upon the land and
upon the people of the land take a
man from their territory and make him there
a watchman and when he sees the sword
coming upon the land if he blows the
trumpet and warns the people then whoever hears
the sound of the trumpet and does not
take warning if the sword comes and takes
him away his blood shall be on his
own head he heard the sound of the
trumpet but did not take warning his blood
will be upon himself but he who takes
warning will save his life but if the
watchman sees the sword coming and does not
blow the trumpet and the people are not
warned and the sword comes and takes any
person from among them he is taken away
in his iniquity but his blood will I
require at the watchman's hand so you son
of man I have made you a watchman
for the house of Israel therefore you shall
hear a word from my mouth and warn
them for me turn then if you would
to Matthew chapter 16 and that beginning at
verse 1 Matthew 16 verse 1 then the
Pharisees and the Sadducees came testing Jesus and
asked him if he would show them a
sign from heaven and he answered and said
to them when it is evening you say
it will be fair weather for the sky
is red and in the morning you will
be or it will be foul weather today
for the sky is red and threatening hypocrites
you know how to discern the face of
the sky but you cannot discern the times
or the times in which you live turn
again now to Matthew 23 beginning at verse
37 Jesus said oh Jerusalem Jerusalem the one
who kills the prophets and stones those who
are sent to her how often I would
have gathered you together as a hen gathers
her chicks under her wings but you were
not willing behold your house has left you
desolate for I say to you you shall
see me no more till you say blessed
is he who comes in the name of
the Lord chapter 24 verse 1 then Jesus
went out and departed from the temple and
his disciples came to him to show him
the buildings of the temple and Jesus said
to them do you not see all these
things assuredly I say to you not one
stone shall be left upon another that shall
not be thrown down now as he sat
on the Mount of Olives the disciples came
to him privately saying three things listen they
ask number one tell us when will these
things be number two what will be the
sign of your coming and three the end
of the age or the end of the
world and then finally we'll rest here it
is first Thessalonians chapter five go there if
you would and we'll just park it here
tonight first Thessalonians 5 Paul said but concerning
the times and the seasons brethren you have
no need that I should write to you
for you yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the Lord comes as a thief in
the night for when they say peace and
safety then sudden destruction comes upon them as
labor pains upon a pregnant woman and they
shall not escape but you brethren are not
in darkness so that that or this day
should overtake you as a thief you are
all sons of light and sons of the
day we are not of the night nor
of darkness therefore let us not sleep as
others but let us watch and be sober
for those who sleep sleep at night and
those who get drunk get drunk at night
but let us who are of the day
be sober putting on the breastplate of faith
and love and as a helmet the hope
of salvation for God did not appoint us
to wrath but to obtain salvation through our
Lord Jesus Christ who died for us that
whether we wake or sleep we should live
together with him therefore comfort each other and
edify one another just as you are also
doing before we end right here in our
reading look at chapter 4 verse 18 it
correlates to verse 11 of chapter 5 it's
the famous end of that wonderful declaration of
the rapture he says therefore comfort one another
with these words you guys our churches should
be comforted by the fact that the Lord
is going to return as pastors and and
what is distinct to Calvary Chapel is what
we hold to what is called pre-millennial
theology I have had the high and glorious
honor of spending time he's now with heaven
Dr. John Wolvert I've had a chance to
stay in his home and sit with him
in a few sessions at Dallas Theological Seminary
when he was there and to bring him
out to Calvary Chapel he spoke six times
at our church and then picked up the
phone and I called Chuck and I said
would it be possible for Dr. John Wolvert
you guys all know who he is right
please know who he is if you don't
by every book he has written on eschatology
he is probably the greatest or was the
greatest living theologian of our day regarding Bible
prophecy and when I asked Pastor Chuck I
said can he speak at my at my
class at the Bible College on prophecy and
Chuck said you know he's the grandfather of
our modern-day view absolutely but how are
you going to get him to come to
Calvary Chapel and I said Chuck he's in
my office he wants to come tomorrow and
Chuck said oh you know oh I'm gonna
be there and John Wolvert Dr. John Wolvert
was such a precious man and I think
he died at something like 86 or 88
years of age and he would scoot his
way up to the pulpit and kind of
sit halfway kind of on a chair sorta
and the guy would get so excited about
the eminency of doctrine the the fact that
Jesus could come at any second regarding the
rapture when he mentioned it last night how
it can happen without warning and it is
my hope and it is my prayer that
you are doing that as the scripture lends
in your teaching to your flock there's a
great huge difference and I wish I wish
we had the time to go through the
great difference between the second coming of Christ
and the rapture the second coming of Christ
is much like the first coming of Christ
he he came to Jerusalem he came to
Israel the book of Daniel records the fact
that Christ would come in the first coming
and Christ would come to Israel again in
the second coming it's a very Jewish event
guys listen you probably already know this I'm
probably preaching to the choir but just to
be safe the first and second comings are
very Jewish in context the rapture is something
altogether different the rapture is very Gentile in
its context it involves the church it is
a uh an an appearance of Christ not
a coming of Christ it is something that
is um without any prophetic prerequisite the rapture
we've got to teach it it's biblical but
I'm going to tell you now if you
haven't heard already you stay true to the
pre-millennial theological view of scripture meaning in
this study that we are futurist when we
look to the bible we believe that bible
prophecy is literal and when it is symbolic
you know the bible always says so for
example the bible says when Jesus Christ was
baptized and he came up out of the
water the bible says that the spirit of
God descended upon him what like a dove
that means that what happened to Jesus at
his baptism was something supernatural but we know
this from the study of the word a
dove did not land on Jesus's shoulder why
because the scripture says the spirit descended like
a dove when the bible says in the
book of revelation that it was like thunder
or like a great lightning that means it
was something that resembles that effect in a
human context but it was not that thing
the bible is very careful when the scripture
says that this is what John saw that
is a fact you can take that to
the bank so when we look at what
Paul is saying to the church at Thessalonica
it is an awesome thing to remember that
Paul was only in Thessalonica for four weeks
on his missionary journey and what did he
teach them the assurance of their salvation and
the imminent return of Jesus Christ the in
chapter four there is the famous we statements
of Paul we who are alive and remain
we shall be caught up and so on
Paul lived and breathed and ministered under the
glorious imminent thought that Christ could come at
any moment now I want you guys to
understand if you don't already get this and
run with it because Paul believed Jesus was
coming back at any moment during his life
and he lived like it it sent him
to the mission field it's the exact opposite
of what we're being accused of in Calvary
Chapel of preaching a pre-tribulation rapture view
so we're just going to sit around and
wear our white robes I was told this
recently in Washington where a brother I mean
I call him a brother I don't know
if he calls me a brother but this
this issue was about the fact that I
believe that Jesus could come at any moment
and his particular denomination teaches there is no
rapture but then when he found out that
we're involved in mission work and that we're
taking the gospel to the world he said
how how is it that you guys are
doing that when you believe Jesus is going
to come back at any moment I said
brother you've missed the very unction of ministry
purpose because Christ could come back at any
moment we've got to hurry up and go
we've got to get on the ball and
stop messing around because Christ could come back
now so let's get to the mission field
let's get to the homeless let's preach the
word of God let's go through the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation and let God interrupt
us with the rapture now we are to
live and minister that way unless like Paul
second second Timothy he comes there to chapter
four and what does he say in that
glorious closure of his life and it's a
it's a tough chapter to read without crying
if you think about it Paul says please
bring my parchments bring my cloak and my
beanie that's what he was asking for actually
a beanie bring my head covering it's it's
ridiculously cold in this prison in this mammoth
prison in Rome it's horrible conditions isn't it
isn't amazing he's already he's been sentenced to
death his head's going to roll but he
wants his Bible parchments the commentaries he wants
to still grow in the grace and the
knowledge of God and he says something there
that's amazing he says listen I know this
that the Lord he is going to give
me a crown of righteousness remember his head's
going to get cut off that's faith my
head's going to get cut off but I'm
going to get a crown of righteousness I
love it Paul saw himself now having lived
his life preaching the return of Christ but
now he has the sentence of death upon
him and he says the Lord is going
to give me a crown but not me
only but all those and it's the first
time and the last time Paul ever said
it in the past tense all those who
have loved his appearing isn't that beautiful he
lived and ministered and Paul taught about the
obvious Paul taught us to be careful Jesus
taught us to be careful the scripture teaches
us to be careful about things that are
forming to be watching Ezekiel tells us the
Lord speaks to him if you see something
coming announce it so we need to be
on the ball guys and what's happening in
current events and how it relates to the
Bible be very cautious and careful about that
but also to be speaking about the coming
of the Lord and so as we look
through these things tonight as we consider some
things tonight I want you to be uh
kind of jotting down in your notes if
you would some some of the things that
I'm going to share and you might say
well Jack what's the context of this um
it's it's this way as I speak about
some update type things you and I absolutely
could say well that could mean something or
it could mean nothing at all that's absolutely
true but we need to be very careful
that everything we look at it in the
current world scene is matched to scripture and
some stuff we just don't know having said
that I want you to be mindful of
some things that are actually taking place we
believe um as you and I sit here
and that is what number I would just
list as number one what's going on with
what we read about in Ezekiel concerning uh
the magog factor and the stuff that is
listed in Ezekiel uh 38 and 39 what's
happening and you've got this handout that the
guy that does our radio management of the
radio channel sent up here to Jan and
she was so amazing she got a note
from him today and put this thing out
on your seat and if you flip it
around to the prophecy site it's got the
disc back there there's a lot of data
on those discs that you can download or
listen online I guess but um I'm going
to be touching on some of that stuff
you guys it took four weeks to do
what we're just going to touch on here
in a moment um but there's there's data
on on these cds uh and what the
body at Calvary uh Chino Hill saw that
uh we're both grateful for but we have
to be careful about and here's the reason
why the Lord has blessed me with opportunity
to be on the board of the family
research council in Washington and a very good
friend that has become a lover of Calvary
Chapel is uh Tony Perkins and and uh
it's been a pretty pretty interesting thing because
we're holding forth to the word of God
he's excited about that and through that I've
had some amazing opportunities uh to go aboard
for example the USS Ronald Reagan for its
last and final sea trial off of San
Diego that was amazing uh in three weeks
we're going to be uh Tony Perkins and
I will have the opportunity to be meeting
President Bush in the Oval Office we're going
to be sharing some things about family values
and abortion and uh our view our view
on marriage God's opening doors but also as
we mentioned in this teaching thing and I'm
going to make some references to some things
tonight um we're very involved in the IDF
in Israel the Israeli Defense Force and specifically
the Israeli Air Force and uh we've had
uh at our home for two weeks and
his family uh the commander of the Israeli
Air Force how did that ever happen um
God opened up the door for us to
minister uh a couple of years ago on
an on what's called Ramat David it's Israel's
most northern air base it's a nuclear armed
F-16 base and we hit it off
together and uh we wound up vacationing together
and now we stay in close touch with
each other that these teachings that you see
on this piece of paper have uh some
pretty serious updates uh given by some Israeli
generals some colonels and some captains in Israeli
uh defense why am I mentioning first of
all in the way of updates and blowing
the warning trumpet to our flock this thing
about the factor or what is happening uh
regarding uh the Middle East Iran the connection
with Syria Lebanon and Russia Russia is absolutely
very involved and using as pawns uh the
Middle East right now our U.S. government
is very keenly aware of this and uh
right now as you and I sit here
we know for a fact the U.S.
government the Israeli government the Israeli intelligence the
Mossad uh Hezbollah they are rearming as we
sit here and Israel's watching this happen you
say why don't they do something about it
not like in July when they kind of
just kind of waited around um I've been
told in my ear that we will not
do this next time which is at any
time what we did in July we conducted
a military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon based
upon uh what our politicians were trying to
do to acquiesce to the world community we're
trying to fight so fair and so square
and be so nice it's going to be
different this time because now the animal has
completely changed what's going on it is an
absolute known actual an absolute known fact that
Russia is fueling this situation and don't be
surprised Israel is ready for the close of
Ramadan I forget the date I think roughly
it's about 25 24 more days away when
Ramadan comes to a conclusion and Israel is
ready for the second wave of what happened
a couple of months ago you guys are
all aware of what happened a couple months
ago but Russia is extremely involved and you're
going to see more and more involvement regarding
Russia and Israel is ready you guys since
the latter end of July I think it
was about July uh 26th or something like
that that all of Israel fighter bases uploaded
their aircraft with what's called regional nuclear devices
they're ready to go and uh they're not
playing they believe that they are fighting now
for their existence now you and I know
better once back in the land they're not
going to be uprooted out of the land
but what do we do and how do
we handle this regarding our our bodies our
our flocks and and teaching them we don't
want to put hysteria into their minds we
want to be current we want to be
ready but we also want to be very
careful about the fact that uh search the
scripture look to the bible and just wait
and see but we have never lived at
a time like we do now as i
mentioned dr john wolverine before wolverine uh dr
harry ironside performed dr wolverine's wedding can you
imagine and during that time in the early
30s 40s and 50s those two guys said
and and wolverine was just quoting ironside they
used to do prophecy conferences around the world
and he said that there'd be anywhere from
40 to 60 000 people attending bible prophecy
conferences around the world when they would take
their bible tours now you you call a
bible prophecy conference and nobody shows up and
yet we're closer to the return of the
lord than ever it's weird isn't it do
you think maybe there's a at a sleep
almost like an anesthesia that's going on we
need to be so in the prophetic word
of god not hobby horsing it in the
pulpit always but when you come to that
time you need to know what are some
of the things that are going on so
make no mistake about it regarding current events
russia its economy i found out this week
that russia will be converting in the not
too distant future to the euro that's a
scary thought can you imagine that's terrifying we
saw signs on the streets of russia this
last week of welcoming the euro and get
ready for the euro that's going to be
devastating to our economy as the euro is
already getting stronger but um the connection of
all things you've you've got this middle eastern
thing going on with oil and you've got
this guy also who's very connected with russia
the last few weeks i'm going to mention
his name in a moment the last few
weeks technically last couple of months he spent
a lot of time in moscow he was
over to china uh then to north korea
and over to iran and in tehran he
spoke at the university there and he called
for the destruction of america and the annihilation
of israel and you might be surprised who
i'm talking about i am not talking about
the president of iran i'm talking about his
little sidekick who's equally insane as he is
and that is hugo chavez the cia has
labeled hugo chavez as the next a dictator
of south america the central intelligence agency is
watching venezuela as they have been by the
week bringing in hezbollah believers from the middle
east there are training camps in venezuela and
bolivia did you see the recent vote by
the way in bolivia did you see the
president they elected the guy is absolutely anti
-american and pro-hezbollah and you have got
now training camps that the cia have been
monitoring for hezbollah in south america it's absolutely
amazing the connection russia does could care less
about the religious aspect just to play the
pawns but what happens is russia needs the
middle east russia needs iranian oil here's where
it gets extremely interesting we were taken i
was taken by an israeli captain in april
to a location where israel is not just
drilling for oil israel has hit oil israel
has oil and not only do they have
oil it is an extreme high grade of
oil the problem is if israel which is
the size of new jersey has oil its
surrounding neighbors are going to naturally ask just
like we do if somebody if canada taps
into some oil we want to find out
are you sucking it from underneath our borders
no truly or are you sucking it from
under your own borders not only does israel
have oil but israel believes that they have
struck what might be the largest natural gas
reserve under the mediterranean meaning that it could
possibly i just say possibly be one of
the hooks or part of the hook factor
that brings you guys know what i'm talking
about right the desire of russia to come
down when it says when the lord says
i will put a hook into your jaw
and turn you around if that is russia
and you say well some people say it's
iran or iraq well you know it doesn't
matter because you already know that persia is
involved and that is the region but here's
what does matter the scripture says ezekiel tells
you that you will come out of the
uttermost parts of the north uttermost parts of
the north from where pastors what is the
geographical dot of the bible in all geography
no it's jerusalem when the bible says i
mean okay i see what you're saying moscow
yeah but when the bible says east north
south what it's always from jerusalem always so
from the uttermost parts of the north if
you run a string on your globe to
the to uh from jerusalem to the top
either magnetic north or true north you're going
to run right through the territory of course
either mermans or moscow you're going to hit
it either way is it russia we'll wait
and see do i believe it is i
certainly do you say well wait a minute
jack you got you go to russia and
and and wayne and you guys go to
russia and you preach the guy you're starting
churches in russia what's that all about if
you believe that they're the big bad guy
you guys that's why we go there you
understand that we've read our bible and that's
the land god opened the door for you
guys to go so we went and by
the way the door's kind of closing we
don't have the freedoms there to do what
we once did as we did it the
window's starting to close that's awesome why do
we go there because if it is going
to turn and become very very uh hostile
towards israel and hostile toward the world then
let's get the gospel there while we can
right that's very very important keep your eye
on russia israel is and it's a very
very uh serious issue and it's going to
get more serious as time goes on i've
been told by israeli officers i've been told
by a massoud officer that israel will be
back at war with the middle east in
a highly intensive manner than what you saw
a couple months ago by the end of
this year if things continue to go as
they are anything can happen but they're ready
and those planes have been uploaded you guys
i got to sit in an f-16
that's plugged in with nukes under the wings
i couldn't believe it and you know their
cockpit is highly highly uh top secret general
dynamics is not even allowed to look inside
israel orders all of the aircraft without the
the avionics they put their own stuff in
and i said i'm not supposed to be
looking at this stuff am i and the
guy goes it is so advanced you don't
even know what you're looking at isn't that
great it's so cool anyway the next thing
that we need to be aware of concerning
the times and the seasons which i love
the bible says no man knows the day
of the hour but he said to us
in first thessalonians 5 brethren brothers concerning the
times and the seasons you'll have no need
that i should write unto you paul makes
a huge assumption that those of us who
are walking in the light and walking in
the word um i don't know how else
to put this but we're not going to
know the day or the hour of the
lord's return that's fine and i who wants
to know we'd freak out but he said
concerning the times and the seasons there's going
to be some sort of sense that when
we begin to look at the world scene
matching it to our bible how things look
what's going on the the very dynamic of
the world could it be just like seasons
why did god say to be sensitive about
times and seasons why did why did jesus
say to the pharisees you bunch of hypocrites
you you talk about it's going to be
a rainy day it's going to be a
clear day you judge by the color of
the sky and all this stuff and you
can't even figure out the signs in which
you live that they're indicating about a time
specific to prophetic events jesus rebuked them we
need to be in the know it's wonderful
to me that we can open up our
bible and it's more current we're waiting for
the newspaper aren't we to catch up to
our scriptures truly aren't we it's pretty amazing
next thing i want you to consider is
israel's growth it's absolutely remarkable they went and
i wish i had the chart here uh
to quote it exactly but something like 1945
in their birth there was something like zero
on the scale of producing fruit for the
world for example isaiah tells us by the
way that in the last days israel will
fill the world with fruit okay well in
1945 ain't gonna happen but then you begin
to see that shortly after 1945 it was
like 25th in the world and filling the
world with fruit okay then it went to
16 then it went to 12 then it
went to seven then it went to fifth
in the world then it went to third
in the world and now israel is second
in the world to filling the world with
fruit second to california in producing fruit to
the world israel their technology is absolutely amazing
if you've been the security is not that
big of a deal getting into israel have
you ever tried to get out of israel
have you taken tours and you have and
you take your group out of israel it's
no problem getting in i said what's what
are you guys doing i don't understand this
and they said our technology the world wants
it so bad we're not too much afraid
of what you're bringing in we kind of
know already before you leave where you're coming
from we're concerned about what you take out
of here that's why they're concerned about your
cameras if you've ever been on a tour
they want to see your film they are
absolutely amazing they have a silicon valley that
is greater than ours israel just took order
in may of this year of an aircraft
built by a joint venture it's top secret
it's got no name the plane has no
number it's got no id on it but
it was a joint venture between boeing and
grumman they don't get along those two companies
they're competitors they did a joint secret venture
israel just took order and what it is
um what we know of is that it
is actually a low-flying satellite it's an
aircraft but it's a low-flying satellite and
it is so advanced that there's no other
aircraft like it in the world all with
jewish thinking technology god has blessed these people
they're absolutely blessed by god they're getting ready
they're a nation that will not go away
no matter what somebody says on the press
no matter what a map by the way
that is produced by an arab nation have
you ever looked at a map produced by
an arab nation wayne will give you five
bucks out of his wallet if you can
find israel on that map they don't even
make israel on the map they can't admit
that israel exists because as long as israel
exists allah cannot rule the world did you
know that the crescent cannot close you ever
seen that the crescent moon it can't close
until allah until islam has controlled or it
has gained control of the world that's what
the credit the crescent moon in fact at
the alaska mosque in israel um it is
closed and it's wishful thinking did you know
that it's closed it's a perfect circle hasn't
happened it's not going to happen i got
news for them it's not going to happen
but israel is a thorn in the flesh
of the world you watch this next election
in the united states israel is going to
be a big deal how should you vote
i'll tell you exactly how you ought to
vote i don't care if it's a democrat
or republican i don't care if it's an
independent or whatsoever i want to know his
or her view on israel that's the issue
and let's get this squared away well i'm
not going to vote for that guy because
he's not this way or that way you
know what we already voted it's jesus that's
done okay we can't put some messiah into
office jesus has already come what you need
to do is see what politician or what
group is most pro bible concerning your views
scripturally that's very important what's their view on
israel that's the that's the first thing i'm
looking for very very important israel its growth
is a telling sign and how we can
be excited about the days and age in
which we live europe the euro is very
strong and growing but i find it interesting
that the european union is extremely concerned about
the economic rise of china and india if
the u.s is concerned about the euro
the euro is concerned about the economy of
china and india it's amazing this powerhouse you
say what's the big deal about that the
scripture tells us that in the last days
during the tribulation period that there'll be the
rise and the empowerment and the coming of
the kings of the east and we see
these powers forming this is an amazing time
in which you and i live in i
don't know if you realize it or not
but the united states its influence is waning
and it has nothing to do with george
bush and foreign policy it has nothing to
do with with our our product has nothing
to do with this thing or that thing
it's the timing of god america is waning
the influence of america is evaporating it's a
fact and it's happening and we're deluding ourselves
if we're thinking you know it's just america
is just going to be the top dog
forever we're not going to be the top
dog forever we're not going to be the
top dog for long because what's going on
right now is that america the united states
of america the threat of a terrorist attack
remember the last one we had the fear
was so great that it would affect our
economy what did our government do it took
the interest rate and dropped it down to
next to nothing you know why the economy
bounced back so quick for two reasons the
interest rate was dropped to stoke it up
didn't bush say get out there and spend
money he got on tv go spend your
money live your lives like normal what he
was saying was spend your money don't stop
the economy and the other reason why it's
grown so strong and so much is because
we haven't been hit again and the terrorists
know this it's not that they haven't tried
but god has been good to us but
they'll try again but the american economy the
the the thing that is allowing us any
influence now is our military might but how
is that fueled it's fueled by the economy
what if the economy dries up by virtue
of a another attack or by the fact
that the euro continues to to strengthen here's
the here's the part that's just terrifying to
me we are the richest nation on earth
that is technically we get paid more money
than anybody else on the planet and by
the way this data i'm giving you is
from the department of labor united states we
make more money than anybody on the planet
number two on paper listen we are the
poorest people on the planet see that's not
right that's wrong i talked to a man
this week in russia who paid 150 000
u.s dollars for his flat he he
paid 150 he paid the bank doesn't own
it he owns it i don't know about
your community but in my community where i
come out of it's highly asian community and
very very uh a lot of iraqi a
lot of pakistani where i live i kid
you not when i walk in the morning
there are more people walk ladies walking with
wrappings you know i don't know what you
call them they're not full burkas but they're
close with nike tennis shoes walking in the
morning you know what they don't charge anything
it's cash man the united states we make
more money than anybody but on paper we
are the poorest people because you say well
how can that be because the guy running
around in the the at the aborigine guy
in australia he's got this pitchfork and a
skirt and a bone in his nose that
guy's poor he's got this little hut he's
poor you know what he owns his spear
he owns that hut the united the average
american is in debt so so bad we
can't get out of it and if the
economy collapses if the economy is hit america
weakens you say jack you're terrifying me first
of all two things you guys the bible
says all nations will be gathered against israel
in the last days all means america the
bible means exactly what it says says exactly
what it means you think we're exempt from
going goofy do you think god is going
to tolerate the removal of the ten commandments
and the mocking of praying in jesus's name
and the ordination of homosexuals and and all
this stuff that's going on you think god's
just it's leonard ravenhill don't read any of
his books you'll just feel terribly condemned but
leonard ravenhill wrote in one of his books
that have in the book sodom had no
bible he makes a mention regarding the decadence
of america that god will have to say
sorry i know billy graham has made that
famous statement if god if god does not
judge america he'll have to apologize to sodom
and gomorrah didn't god judge israel for its
rebellion will god not judge america for its
rebellion we need to prepare our people without
scaring them we need to tell them we're
not exempt from god's loving judgments that'll help
them pray for the rapture you know but
this is a very important thing america will
not be and cannot be sustained as a
superpower for long while we're running in the
red as a nation we overspend we overindulge
and our nation is borrowing money my goodness
um those of you who are in the
banking world you could correct this uh and
say this better than i can but i
forget the number of how many banks of
the world bank organization the world bank how
many of them have switched over from the
dollar to the euro and it's increasing every
year they don't want dollars they want euros
which by the way have you guys been
following the uh the research that they're that
the government is doing on the on the
merger the what do they call it the
amero seriously the amero united states has the
money mexico has the workforce and canada has
the resources to compete against the euro the
loss of america's sovereignty it's all in my
opinion leading to leaving israel absolutely alone in
the last days israel's got to be left
alone in the last days all nations will
be gathered against her another thing regarding the
time in which we live this is this
is absolutely uh terrifying to me you guys
and i want you to follow along with
this um you guys know um senator zell
miller he has since retired he gave the
famous speech at the republican national convention as
a democrat um he spoke at our family
research council briefing and he shared with us
data from a senate uh study and this
is absolutely amazing since roe versus wade and
the abortion issue the united states has aborted
47 plus million children but it's our right
it's our choice we can do that we're
no one's going to tell us what to
do and it the decisions made 47 plus
million kids are aborted you want to know
one of the reasons why and this was
in the senate study you want to know
one of the reasons why there's all this
bickering and arguing about closing our borders look
i'm from california which is quickly becoming northern
mexico i kid you not they are heralding
that the mayor of los angeles that the
movement that the whole thing uh la raza
the race them holding holding a protest the
illegal aliens holding a protest shut down our
freeways they're walking on the freeways shut them
down they're they're looking to and they have
stated that it's just a matter of time
before california goes back because listen the people
of california are the modern day palestinian for
us we've been taken wrongly by the united
states listen watch this just like israel has
gone into the palestinian situation they're equating one
in the same now watch this the workforce
comes up from mexico daily or weekly or
monthly into california and into texas and into
arizona why because we need the workforce make
no mistake about it it's a border about
issues and security but we need economically the
influx of that work why this is what
zell miller put before the family research council
why what has happened the senate concluded there's
38 to 42 million illegal workers in the
united states they figured out that we killed
an entire generation of workers since roe versus
wade we killed a workforce of people so
we have to get help from the outside
to make it worse predominantly white couples or
white females are the ones that are committing
more abortions or boarding children more than any
other ethnic group whites what is the declining
color race in california white watch this what
is the rising racial group hispanic asian is
really taken off watch this but what has
now made a blip on the map is
a group of people they do not believe
in abortion watch this they do not believe
by the way the reason why the hispanic
population is so huge is because they're predominantly
catholic they don't believe in abortion so they
have babies asians in cal i'm talking california
demographics asians have their children because they're totally
committed to economy to wealth to study to
ownership of things it's just their culture one
is done for theological reasons the other one
is done for economic reasons but the blip
on the map this is absolutely shocking the
blip on the map they don't commit abortions
and they crank out babies and they're changing
the very fabric of america muslims muslims what
is watch this what is the what is
the largest u.s ethnic group converting to
islam in america today hispanics in los angeles
the fbi and the cia have been monitoring
for over 11 years south american flow of
weapons and money and drugs from south america
into los angeles into san antonio into houston
to fuel and feed the gangs connection watch
this it gets it's absolutely amazing connection is
it's coming from south america yes but it's
traced to iraq well it was iraq iran
syria in the middle east the money the
influence is coming from hamas and hezbollah down
to south america hugo chavez and the like
understanding that if we come up through the
southern borders of america we can control the
street gangs the most dangerous most wicked and
most global street gang that's in los angeles
was first born in el salvador they're ruthless
you can see that special on national geographic
channel it's absolutely terrifying what did they do
they're brilliant they were instructed by hezbollah you're
already an american join the marines they didn't
they didn't want them to join the air
force they didn't want them to join the
army they didn't want them to join the
navy they said join the marines they joined
the marines they learned street warfare tactics trained
by your tax dollars and mine in the
united states marine corps they're in iraq and
they've been coming back this is a serious
problem it is documented fact that in the
last several years we have been seeing crimes
committed in los angeles san antonio and houston
by gangs that were extremely well trained and
on these videos that they first detected them
again you can see this on the national
geographic channel they showed these gangs they were
using tactics that are taught by the marine
corps for urban warfare where did they learn
that when they finally arrested these guys there
were ex-marines that were employed to go
into the marines learn tactics commanded or instructed
by their gang leaders to come back to
los angeles san antonio and houston to conduct
their gang warfare with ties to south america
the south american ties to the middle east
there is a plan to subvert the united
states the rise of islam connected to the
hispanic population the hispanic population especially the ones
that are illegal aliens they are they're poor
they're disenfranchised they have no country they want
to work in america they're hard workers but
the infiltration of this islamic thinking and doctrine
gives them a voice where a voice is
is not heard it gives them power where
is islam growing in the most places of
the world where there is poor economy disenfranchised
people who don't have a voice and how
does this fit into the prophetic scene there
seems to be a massive pointing towards the
devaluing and the depowering if i can put
it that way of america what for what's
the big deal how come you guys it
all plays back to israel being abandoned in
the last days it's got to be this
way but it's a very very serious thing
it's a very challenging thing so when when
when paul says concerning the times and the
seasons you know we look at the scriptures
2 000 years old that that statement to
the thessalonian church but he's writing obviously about
a time that either you and i live
in or someone's going to live in in
the future it just precedes the rapture of
the church so if we are starting to
see signs in fact i'll put it the
way that dr john wolford put it he
said if we were to have a bus
and the bus was loaded up with everything
of the tribulation period in those seven years
and the bus is driving and it says
where it says school bus it says great
tribulation seven years and the lights are flashing
the bus is driving he said it's as
though jesus would say to you church i'm
going to come pick you up in a
red ferrari before that yellow bus ever gets
here just stand on the street corner and
wait for me as the bus gets closer
remember what jesus promised i'm gonna come and
get you you look down the road and
you see there's a that looks like a
yellow little yellow dot on the road hey
it's getting bigger it's getting closer i can
read great tribulation period kind of stuff nation
against nation in the greek it's ethnos versus
ethnos do you know what that word means
ethnic group will war against ethnic group kingdom
against kingdom are political powers against political powers
jesus said during that time there's going to
be pestilence incurable diseases there's going to be
wars and rumors of wars you see what
there's always been that globally wars and rumors
of war hugo chavez wants the united states
destroyed so does kim jong-il of north
korea wars and rumors of wars if the
bus is getting close and you and i
can begin to see things like implantable microchips
in hands for banking or tracking prisoners criminals
should they ever escape or whatever when we
see things like that do we say oh
my gosh we're in the tribulation period no
of course not but we don't ignore it
either we simply realize my goodness isn't that
something they're talking about technology being put into
the right hand or the left hand injectable
and you can track somebody from space there
are over 15 000 united states marines that
have already received received injectable microchips where satellites
can monitor them from space the technology is
already there go online to the verichip or
some of these corporations there's one out of
florida they've already injected a family with a
chip see you know what does that mean
it just simply means that the bus is
getting closer i expect a ferrari to come
around the corner and pick me up anytime
we don't panic we teach our people the
word of god they shouldn't be afraid of
the last days they should be reverently excited
they shouldn't run around now hear me out
you guys are you listening they should not
run around and say oh my goodness look
there's a war in the middle east isn't
that cool that's terrible that's insane you don't
do that the world's not going to understand
but when we see things begin to happen
we look up for our redemption draws near
we begin to realize my goodness our bible
tells us you guys there's going to be
a day when there's going to be times
and seasons that are going to be answering
to what paul wrote about how are you
going to know well it's just going to
happen he said you're going to know perfectly
the times in the seas that's what he
said right here you have no for you
yourselves know perfectly that the day of the
lord comes as a thief in the night
for when they say peace and safety but
he announces to us but it will not
be like that concerning you who walk in
the light we will not know the day
or the hour but we will begin to
sense lord could it be close could your
coming be near it seems to me ever
since may 14 1948 we should have in
fact it's my opinion we've been living on
overtime ever since then israel became a nation
in one day just as isaiah said it
would be shall a nation be born in
a day the answer is yes it's called
israel everything that has happened since then is
absolutely more and more indicators concerning the times
and the seasons we talked today about emerging
church stuff or church growth the church growth
this or going to the world and preaching
the gospel or whatever it might be all
these things can be indicators the calvary chapel
movement is an indicator in my opinion that
we're closer to the last days when we
went to russia in the early 90s and
now the door is starting to get tighter
we can't do street outreaches like we used
to do the door starting to close indicators
don't panic just view these things as how
lord how do you want me to view
this in light of scripture and what's going
on in the world around us we need
to encourage our church because you guys the
blessed hope it's titus 213 while we wait
for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing
of our great god and savior jesus christ
how wonderful is that there is no excitement
concerning waiting around for the second coming have
you read your bible if you're a believer
in the tribulation period you're going to die
but the doctrine of imminency is we wait
for our blessed hope that's why the scripture
warns in the last days people are going
to mock us and they're going to mock
the coming of the lord oh ever since
our fathers have fallen asleep since the creation
people have been talking like this where's the
promise of his coming that's not speaking about
the second coming it's speaking about a bunch
of crazy people who literally believe the word
of god that jesus said which is by
the way the first verse used by christ
in the gospels about the rapture you know
what it is you can't in fact it
drives post-tribulation people nuts it's john 14
verses 1 2 and 3 a post-tribulationist
cannot deal with it jesus said let not
your heart be troubled you got to watch
my hands when i when i quote this
verse watch this jesus said let not your
heart be troubled you believe in god believe
also in me for in my father's house
are many mansions if it were not so
i would have told you i go now
to prepare a place for you that where
i am there you may be also question
if there's not a pre-tribulation rapture how
do you ever get the church up into
heaven to a place that he's prepared where
he's going if you have a if you
have a post-tribulation rapture view it doesn't
work it's impossible you can do all the
dancing you want there's no hope in that
because you've got christ coming back in the
second coming and people who try to justify
their denominational view we've got the church now
watch this jesus is coming back in the
in the second coming the church raptures up
meets him and comes back down and then
the millennial reign begins have you followed the
scripture through you never if that's your view
you never make it up there to what
he's prepared you never get there john 14
1 2 and 3 will drive you crazy
if you don't understand that our blessed hope
is the glorious appearing of our great god
and savior jesus christ who paul says in
thessalonians chapter 4 he's going to come in
the atmosphere and receive us up into the
sky at that time or in that place
may it be tonight may it be now
and may we preach like it may we
teach like it may we reach the world
like it if jesus is coming back you
know in a couple of months then what
are we going to do i'm just going
to you know get a new credit card
and burn you know run that baby through
no you're going to run around and tell
everybody you know and you're going to you're
going to jump in fact you know what
you do you'll call you'll call for services
every day of the week all day long
if you believe that so amazing times in
which we live there's no doubt about it
things that are going on please pray what
what what how how can i say this
pray for america pray that god would revive
america you guys we can't conduct ourselves as
a nation and ask god to bless us
oh god god bless america get the ten
commandments out of court will you god bless
america stop praying in jesus name that was
a big deal in our town you can't
pray in jesus name stop praying in jesus
name oh god bless us hurricane hits pray
pray to who you've neutered us from our
god pray to what pray to god just
pray what god oh god bless america god
bless our economy god bless america he's been
evicted from our schools los angeles county has
distributed the quran for social or cross-cultural
study but we can't get a bible into
la county school without all kinds of amazing
permission and request what's going on oh god
bless america god who why should he what
kelly taught on today almost sounded like america
huh we won't listen i spoke to you
and you won't listen our founding fathers man
have you read their stuff have you read
their work our founding fathers loved god don't
listen to cnn's version of it george washington
loved the lord and wrote amazing stuff about
his love for jesus when you go to
george washington's tomb his four favorite verses are
there thomas jefferson thomas jefferson wrote a note
to his friend it's not even a federal
document it's a it's a private letter he
wrote to his friend who was the pastor
of the first baptist church of danbury and
he said i promise you when i get
into power i will see to it that
we don't become like england and all that
stuff that happened there won't be a state
church i will see to it that there
will be an absolute separation between between church
and state there won't be a state church
that's what the letter says i had a
chance to see the actual letter david barton
owns the letter it was written to a
friend of his do you think that's in
the in the bill of rights or constitution
or do you think it's the first amendment
a separation of church and state it's not
even in the it's not in any document
our founding fathers love this country my prayer
is oh god remember the prayers of our
founding fathers and lord revive america while we're
still here send revival lord father we pray
lord god that you would do exactly that
and frankly lord that you'd start with me
that you'd start with us father that you'd
send revival and lord these things that are
going on in the world father we pray
that we would not cower back and either
throw our arms up in despair or sit
in a corner and panic but jesus you
said i've told you these things in advance
that when they come to pass you will
know that i am he lord let us
be like the sons of ishakar who discerned
the seasons and they knew what israel ought
to do father may we be leaders in
our churches that frankly our churches find out
about what is in the news and how
it relates to the bible from us not
from cnn with their spin lord allow us
to be well-informed shepherds i thank you
for pastor chuck who's always been well able
to instruct the body of christ about current
events and to have us be ready and
lord i pray that you'd search our hearts
tonight are we ready are we so excited
to meet you tonight is there anything in
our lives is there some residual stuff left
over father god is there something going on
where there's a pastor asleep at the wheel
or or a christian worker a church worker
that's messing around or there's drug use or
something all something going on that would separate
us from from walking in the light and
and lord whatever might be going on that
would keep that father just purge that out
of our lives well lord we pray that
you'd come tonight we are supposed to say
and pray even so come quickly lord jesus
is that our heart lord if we are
into building some kind of building kingdom thing
whatever lord strike it from us father we
pray that there'd be an urgency about us
proverbs teaches us to prepare for the future
that's fine yes but lord you told us
to be so ready to be watching and
to be sober eagerly waiting for your return
and to those who look for him shall
he appear the second time apart from sin
unto salvation lord may that be tonight and
may we be ready while we give you
our lives and if need be tonight lord
we rededicate ourselves lord may you baptize us
in the power of your holy spirit lord
may we be so strengthened by you and
empowered by you lord may the gifts of
the spirit just come out of our people
and come out of us and lord may
we not be afraid of the holy spirit
what kind of thing is that lord may
we invite you to move freely among our
churches and fellowships and lord that if that
happens the word of god will be preeminent
worship will be holy our fellowship if there's
two of us or 20 000 of us
will be effective husbands and wives will be
loved children will be well taken care of
a community will know that we love jesus
if they agree or disagree it doesn't matter
they know we love jesus and lord i
pray that you would so so have us
be ready for these days thank you lord
in your holy name we pray and all
god's people said amen