According to the Bible, there are two great
wars that are yet to come.
Two battles still to be fought.
The first of the two will be fought
when the Muslim nations, with the aid of
Russia, will attack Israel.
This battle is recorded for us in the
Bible in Ezekiel chapter 38 and in chapters
39.
And according to the Bible, this battle will
take place in the last days.
This mighty army, like a cloud covering the
ground, will invade the Holy Land.
And in this battle, God Himself will intervene
and save Israel in a supernatural way from
certain destruction.
And in thus saving Israel, the world will
realize that God has miraculously intervened.
God said, And I will execute judgment upon
him with a plague and bloodshed.
I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones,
burning sulfur on him and on his troops
and many nations with him.
And I, and so I will show my
greatness and my holiness, and I will make
myself known in the sight of many nations.
Then they will know that I am Jehovah."
As God speaks about how He Himself will
destroy this invading army, God said that He
will destroy five-sixths of those that have
invaded, and that they will be seven months
in burying the dead.
And God promised that at the time that
He destroys these invading armies, that no longer
will blindness be upon Israel, but once again
their eyes will be opened to see the
truth.
And they will again be God's people.
God again will reveal Himself and work with
them as His people.
At the present time, the Bible tells us
that blindness has happened to Israel in part,
until the fullness of the Gentiles is come
in.
And so we are living in a time
when God is working basically among the Gentile
nations, drawing out from it a bride for
Jesus Christ.
But when God intervenes in this coming battle,
then God's Spirit will be poured out upon
the nation of Israel.
Now, when that takes place, it precludes the
church being here.
So sometime during the invasion, or as the
God intervenes, somewhere in there, God is going
to take His church on into heaven as
we looked at Revelation chapter four, where John,
representing the church, heard a voice like of
an angel or a strong angel saying, come
up hither, and I'll show you things which
must be hereafter.
God said in verse 29 of chapter 39,
I will no longer hide my face from
them, for I will pour out my Spirit
on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign
Lord.
Zechariah, when he was talking about this Bible,
this battle, he wrote about it, and he
said, this is the plague wherewith the Lord
will smite all of the people that have
come against Jerusalem.
Their flesh will consume away while they stand
on their feet, their eyes will consume away
in their sockets, and their tongues shall consume
away in their mouth.
Sounds like a, actually a neutron bomb with
extremely heavy radiation.
This would be the effect of that kind
of a radiation upon a person described quite
interestingly here about, or by Zechariah, some 2
,500 years ago.
Now, how close are we to that battle?
Well, we realize that right now there is
a real struggle going on between the Muslims
and Israel.
The Palestinian state, we read about it every
day in the paper.
Each week it seems that this war is
escalating.
Of course, we know about the 50 tons
of weapons that were seized by the Israelis
from this tanker or this cargo ship that
was bringing them in.
This morning I received on my email a
message from one of the intelligence digests that
actually comes from Israel, and I thought it
was quite interesting.
According to the latest intelligence reports, since the
Israeli army's massive takeover of the Palestinian town
of Tokarm, which of course was just yesterday
morning before dawn, the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
advanced the timetable for his planned Waterloo, the
battle he sees as his last heroic stand.
As he is confined to Ramallah since December
the 3rd, Arafat said to his intimates a
few days ago, words to the effect that
we are all in rapid motion toward the
laying down of our lives in the sacred
cause.
The expression he used was not contemporary.
It came from an old Muslim Hadith tradition.
And one feature of the intifada Arafat embarked
on 15 months ago is the increasing resort
to fundamentalist modes of speech and thought.
Our sources take his words to mean that
he is ready for the final showdown with
Israel, barring only the time and the venue.
Once they are decided, he will order the
secret Palestinian arsenals opened up and the heavy
weapons that he has stockpiled in the Gaza
Strip and West Bank to be brought out
for battle.
He is known to have hidden stores of
KSIM-1 and KSIM-2 rockets, mortars, anti
-tank and anti-air missiles.
They will be used for attacks on Israeli
population centers and setting Israeli tanks and helicopters
on fire.
Arafat will no doubt follow Osama bin Laden's
example and instruct his men to never surrender,
but to fight to the death.
It is far from sure that every last
Palestinian will obey his directive, but some may
prefer to lay down their arms and give
themselves up.
The Israeli army command has developed responses to
the various possible Palestinian scenarios, which may include
instructions from Arafat to a Palestinian force to
carry out suicidal attempts to capture an Israeli
town or village or part of one.
This force could scarcely hope to survive.
His last diplomatic act before all is lost
is likely to be a dramatic last hope
appeal from the battlefield to the Arab, American
and European rulers to intervene to save the
Palestinian people.
If this comes off, the Palestinian leader will
have won the final victory of turning the
conflict over to an international authority.
Even if his European backers let him down,
Saddam Hussein and Hezbollah may ride to his
rescue.
They could fire their missiles against Israeli targets,
thereby opening a second front and expanding Arafat's
fight to an Arab war proper.
Arafat's last gamble has been decided, all except
for the timing, the location, and the sequences.
By using the word mashri, meaning rapid, he
sends a strong signal that he does not
intend to let the grass grow under his
feet.
This is from the latest intelligence reports from
Israel.
The plan of Arafat to order suicide attacks
and to wage battle against the Israelis using
the rockets and so forth that they have
actually already brought in through the tunnels and
all through the Gaza area.
And it's just a matter of time.
He's just waiting for the moment to call
for the suicide attacks and then to call
for the help of the other Arab nations
to save him from destruction and the Palestinian
people from being destroyed by Israel.
So we are really, as it would appear,
on the verge of one of the great
battles that is going to take place in
the last days.
As we look at the conditions in Israel
today, we realize that it's just could take
place at any time.
The conditions there are very severe right now.
And he is being more or less held
as a prisoner in a house there in
Ramallah.
And they've destroyed his helicopter, they've destroyed his
air base.
He's sort of stuck in that position right
now.
And he's in a desperate, he's cornered, he's
desperate and he is apt to make this
final move by which he hopes to bring
in the international community and if not at
least the Arabs to help him and to
actually bring on this final battle.
So we're down to the wire and we
realize that we're living in perilous times like
the Bible said.
Now as we turn to Revelation chapter 14,
there is one more great battle to take
place after this battle between the Muslim nations
and Israel that is described for us in
Ezekiel 38 and 39.
They will be supported by Russia in this
battle, but there is this one final battle
to go.
So as we look at Revelation 14, he
first of all sees the Lamb Jesus Christ
on Mount Zion and the 144,000 that
we met back in chapter 7 who were
sealed in their foreheads by the seal of
God that they might be protected against some
of the judgments that are coming.
They are there with, and we are told
here what that seal is in their foreheads,
having his father's name written in their foreheads.
The name of God is Yahweh or Yehovah.
We're not certain of the pronunciation as it
appears in the Bible.
It is only YHVH.
And so they're in their foreheads, the seal
of God, the YHVH, the name of the
Father there in their foreheads.
I heard a voice from heaven.
It sounded like many waters.
Have you ever been to Niagara Falls or
maybe in Yosemite to the Vernal Falls where
you stand by the falls and you hear
the roar of that waterfall?
That is what the sound of the voice
of Jesus is like, like a roar that
comes from a waterfall and the voice of
many waters and the voice of a great
thunder.
I heard the voice of the harpers and
they sang as it were a new song
before the throne accompanied by the harps and
the four living creatures and the elders.
No man could learn that song but the
144,000 which were redeemed from the earth.
Each group it seems has their own special
song.
The church has its song and back in
chapter five we heard the church singing their
song of redemption.
Worthy is a lamb to take the scroll
and loose the seals for he was slain
and has redeemed us by his blood out
of every nation tribe tongue and people made
us under our God kings and priests we
will reign with him upon the earth.
That's the song of the church and only
the church can sing it.
Now the 144,000 have their special song
and only they can sing their song.
There is again the song of Moses and
of the lamb and it's the song of
Israel and redeemed Israel but the church has
its own song but the 144,000 have
their song and these 144,000 are described
as not defiled with women they're virgins they
follow the lamb wherever he goes they were
redeemed from among men and they are the
firstfruits unto God of those who are preserved
and brought out of the great tribulation.
I saw another angel and now we're going
to see three angels flying through the midst
of heaven and the first angel has the
everlasting gospel.
He is preaching to those that dwell on
the earth to every nation kindred tongue and
people.
Now the church has been commissioned to take
the gospel into all of the world but
when the church is removed then God will
use an angel to take the gospel to
all the world flying through the midst of
heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach to
those who dwell upon the earth to every
nation kindred tongue and people.
Now when Jesus was giving the signs of
the last days to his disciples he said
and the gospel will be preached as a
witness to all nations and then shall the
end come and so the gospel being preached
as a witness will be done during the
great tribulation by this angel flying through the
midst of heaven.
The message he has he declares with a
loud voice fear God give glory to him
for the hour of his judgment is come
worship him that made the heaven and earth
and the sea and the fountains of water.
So calling upon people to fear God and
to worship God he is the creator.
A second angel flies through the midst of
the heaven declaring the fall of Babylon when
we get to chapter 17 and 18 we'll
deal with that.
There is a third angel that follows them
and he is an angel that is warning
people not to worship the beast or the
antichrist or his image which is in the
holy of holies in the temple in Jerusalem
not to receive his mark in their forehead
or in their hand and this if they
do the warning is they will drink of
the wine of the wrath of God which
is poured out without mixture into the cup
of his indignation and he will be tormented
with fire and brimstone in the presence of
the holy angels and in the presence of
the lamb.
In other words warning people don't worship the
beast don't take his mark don't worship his
image if you do if you take the
mark there is absolutely no hope for your
salvation you will have sealed your own fate
if you take the mark better to be
put to death than to take the mark
hopefully you won't be here to have to
make that kind of a decision God has
made a way for us not to be
here but if you are not ready when
our Lord returns for his church then chances
are you will be here and you'll have
to make that choice of either taking the
mark or being put to death because they
have power to put to death those that
refuse to worship the beast or those that
refuse to take his mark but you will
do so with full knowledge of knowing that
in taking it you are sealing your own
eternal destiny.
The angel goes through the heavens to warn
people of that I'm amazed really at the
patience of God and at the grace of
God even at this time people who have
turned their backs on God throughout their lifetime
and suddenly realize the Lord has taken his
church these things are not just fairy tales
they're things that God has described and told
us that are going to come and now
they have come to pass and you see
this antichrist rise you realize that they're requiring
everybody to receive a mark in their right
hand or forehead in order that you might
buy or sell by means of this mark
and you'll be warned by an angel not
to do it lest you will seal your
eternal destiny and talking about the destiny it
declares that the they will drink of the
wine of the wrath of God which will
be poured out without mixture into the cup
of his indignation they'll be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of the holy
angels the presence of the lamb notice it
doesn't say in the presence of the church
I do not believe that we will have
any real remembrance or knowledge when we are
in heaven of unsaved loved ones the bible
says there will be no sorrow there if
if we were realizing when we're there that
our loved ones have uh are not with
us that they uh are not there in
heaven it would be a time of great
sorrow for us and the fact that there
is no sorrow in fact I think that
God is just going to remove that little
bit of of RNA from our memory bank
and and we'll be so excited and thrilled
with what's there we won't really remember too
much of what was here that was painful
or hurtful in Isaiah 63 the Lord said
well no 65 17 for behold he said
I create new heavens and a new earth
and the former shall not be remembered or
come into mind be ye glad and rejoice
forever in that I create for behold I
create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a
joy and I will rejoice in Jerusalem and
joy in my people and the voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her
nor the voice of crying now we read
in verse 11 the smoke of their torment
ascends up forever and ever and they have
no rest day nor night who worship the
beast and his image or whosoever receives the
mark of his name you say do you
really believe that they will be punished forever
well when I turn to the 22nd chapter
it tells me that if anybody takes away
from the words of this prophecy that his
name will be taken out of the book
of life now do you want me to
say something other than what God said I
can only tell you what God said I
believe it and if you want to take
away that's your business but not me here's
the patience of the saints here are they
that keep the commandments of God in the
faith of Jesus I heard a voice from
heaven saying unto me right blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from now
on yea sayeth the spirit for they have
rest from their labors and their works to
follow them better to die by martyrdom than
to worship the beast or to take his
mark now we get to the battle of
Armageddon this next uh battle that will take
place after the one we described tonight the
final battle this is the final uh rebellion
of man and this is what uh man
trying to govern man will ultimately end in
this great battle uh a truly world war
and I looked and behold there was a
white cloud and upon the cloud one that
sat like the son of man having on
his head a golden crown in his hand
a sharp sickle another angel came out of
the temple crying with a loud voice to
him that sat on the cloud and he
said thrust in your sickle and reap for
the time has come for you to reap
for the harvest of the earth is ripe
and he that sat on the cloud thrust
in the sickle and the earth was reaped
another angel came out of the temple which
is in heaven also having a sharp sickle
another angel came out from the altar which
had power over fire he cried with a
loud voice cry to him that has the
sharp sickle saying thrust in your sharp sickle
gather the clusters of the vine of the
earth and for her grapes are fully ripe
and the angel thrust in his sickle to
the earth he gathered the vine of the
earth and cast it into the great wine
press of the wrath of god and the
wine press was trodden without the city and
blood came out of the wine press even
to the horse bridles by the space of
185 miles a stream of blood four feet
for 185 miles coming from this battle of
armageddon now in isaiah isaiah uh in chapter
63 asked the question who is this that
comes from edom with dyed garments from bozrah
this one who is glorious in his apparel
traveling in the greatness of his strength and
the answer from this one is i that
speak in righteousness mighty to save the question
why is your apparel red and your garments
like one that has been treading in a
wine press the answer i have trodden the
wine press alone and of the people there
was none with me for i will tread
them in mine anger trample them in my
fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon
my garments and i will stain all my
raiment the time of god's judgment has come
no more mercy just the judgment of god
upon a christ rejecting world and jesus the
righteous judge bringing the battle of armageddon and
treading bringing them together into the wine press
and then treading it until the blood flows
185 miles uh from this battle now in
chapter 15 i saw another sign in heaven
it was marvelous there were seven angels having
seven last plagues for in these will consummate
or complete uh the wrath of god to
come upon the earth we've been going through
from chapter six looking at this period of
great judgment and this this is going to
culminate the judgments of god i saw the
sea of glass that was mingled with fire
that is before the throne of god we
had that back in chapter four and those
that had gotten victory over the beast over
his image over his mark over his number
of his name and they were standing on
the sea of glass having harps of god
and they sang the song of moses the
servant of god and the song of the
lamb saying great and marvelous are thy works
lord god almighty just and true are thy
ways thou king of saints who shall not
fear thee oh lord and glorify thy name
for thou only art holy for all nations
shall come and worship before thee for thy
judgments are made manifest and after that i
looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle
of the testimony of heaven was open the
seven angels came out of the temple they
had the seven plagues they were clothed in
pure and white linen having their breasts girded
with golden girdles and one of the four
living creatures the cherubim gave unto the seven
angels seven golden bowls that were full of
the wrath of god who lives forever and
ever and the temple was filled with smoke
from the glory of god and from his
power and no man was able to enter
into the temple till the seven plagues of
the seven angels were fulfilled so in chapter
16 again the battle of armageddon culminating and
the last of the bowls that were to
be poured out heard a great voice out
of the temple saying to the seven angels
go your ways pour out your bowls of
wrath upon the earth the first went poured
out his bowl upon the earth there fell
a noisome and grievous sore upon men which
had the mark of the beast and upon
them which worshiped his image a noisome and
grievous sore that is a running sore that
would not heal the type of sore that
comes from radiation the second angel poured out
his vial upon the sea it became as
the blood of a dead man and every
living soul died in the sea on the
second of the trumpet judgments one third of
the creatures in the sea died this will
finish it off uh all of these uh
ecologists and those that are worshiping the earth
will be chagrined when god does this the
third angel poured out his vial upon the
rivers the fountains of water and they became
blood it sounds like the nile river in
the time of moses the plague that god
sent and i heard the angel of the
water say thou art righteous oh lord which
art and was and shall be because you
have judged thus for they have shed the
blood of the saints and the prophets and
you have given them blood to drink they
deserve it and i heard another out of
the altar say even so lord god almighty
true and righteous are thy judgments now there
are a lot of people that question the
right of god to judge uh we have
become uh a a soft kind of people
uh and uh we have become very tolerant
of evil and we've sort of taken a
um attitude toward evil well you know that's
what they want to do let them do
it you know and rather than being righteously
indignant over evil we've come to just accept
many evil things and in that acceptance we
sometimes have difficulty and uh in our minds
with the severe judgment of god that's going
to come against evil but it is interesting
that as the judgment is being poured out
when this third bowl is poured upon the
fresh waters of the earth and they turn
to blood the angel there says right on
how appropriate they have shed the blood of
your saints and and all of these people
that died when they refused to take the
mark of the beast and all great multitude
of people they have shed their blood and
you have now given them blood to drink
oh that's so fitting for what they have
done the fourth angel poured out his bowl
upon the sun power was given to him
to scorch men with fire it is possible
that the sun will go into a supernova
and uh of course that would have a
disastrous effect here upon the earth the power
the sun actually uh begins to shine with
great power and men were scorched with the
great heat and what is their reaction you
know you can become so hardened to god
and to the things of god that you
will find it impossible to repent and that
when god begins to judge it will only
irritate you and anger you and turn you
that much harder against god and that's what
happens here the people have gone so far
they have tasted of iniquity so much that
even now as they're beginning to experience god's
judgment for the things that they have done
rather than repenting calling upon god confessing sin
and asking forgiveness we find that they blaspheme
the name of god which has the power
over these plagues and they repented not to
give him glory the hard stubborn obdurate art
of man who has rejected the lord when
the fifth angel pours out his bowl upon
the earth upon the throne of the beast
his kingdom was full of darkness and they
nod their tongues for pain and again they
blasphemed the god of heaven because of their
pain and their sores and they repented not
of their deeds when the sixth angel poured
out his bowl upon the great river euphrates
the water thereof was dried up that the
way of the kings of the east might
be prepared the river euphrates was often called
the great divide it divided the east from
the west those nations east of the euphrates
were called eastern those that were west of
the euphrates were called western nations the euphrates
river begins in the mountains of turkey and
it flows for some 1800 miles and became
the great divider between the east and the
west but now god dries up the river
euphrates to prepare the way for the kings
of the east and he said i saw
three unclean spirits like frogs they came out
of the mouth of the dragon and of
the beast and of the false prophet for
they are the spirits of devils working miracles
which go forth unto the kings of the
earth and to the whole world to gather
them to the battle of that great day
of god almighty behold the lord said and
this is just sort of interjected i'm coming
quickly blessed is he that watches and keeps
his garments lest they walk naked and they
see his shame and that's just sort of
thrown in i mean we're we're at the
end this is the horrible aspects of the
judgment he's gathering now these these demons are
gathering the the nations the kings of the
world into the valley of magetto for the
final great battle he gathered them together into
a place called in the hebrew tongue armageddon
and that's the only place that in the
bible where that uh word is used but
uh it is a uh it is of
course the valley that is there at the
base of uh magetto and uh that is
where many of the great battles of history
have been fought and that is where the
final battle of history will be fought when
the seventh angel poured out his bowl into
the air there came a great voice out
of the temple of heaven and from the
throne saying it's over the end of the
great tribulation and there were voices and thunders
and lightnings there's a great earthquake such as
when not since seen since men were upon
the earth so mighty an earthquake and so
great the great city was divided into three
parts cities of the nations fell great babbling
came into remembrance before god to give her
the cup of the wine of the fierceness
of his wrath every island fled away the
mountains were not found there fell upon men
a great hail out of heaven every stone
the weight of a talent the italian talent
was about 55 pounds and the israeli talent
was 105 pounds so those are pretty big
chunks of ice falling out of heaven because
of the plague of hail for the plague
thereof was exceeding great an interesting thing when
they were testing out at the bikini atoll
the hydrogen bomb they had those ships out
there you remember they put many ships out
there and to just find out what kind
of a destructive power would come from the
hydrogen bomb and the interesting thing after they
detonated that hydrogen bomb as they of course
many of the ships were just destroyed by
it but as they examined some of the
ships that were away from the center of
the blast they had these interesting uh dents
on the deck the the metal decks these
big dents and they tried to figure out
what in the world caused these dents on
the decks of these ships and what they
finally theorized is that when the hydrogen bomb
went off that it caused the the ocean
there uh where the bomb was detonated uh
the water was sucked up out of the
ocean by the explosion turned into the gases
hydrogen and oxygen gas and then as it
came up into the atmosphere and cooled it
again condensed together and actually fail fell back
as great chunks of ice and that these
dents on the battleships were actually created by
these chunks of ice falling from heaven uh
as the aftermath of the hydrogen bomb quite
interesting uh analysis or uh kind of uh
analysis of what had happened now getting back
to the Battle of Armageddon uh it will
probably take place seven years after the battle
that we referred to of the Muslim nations
when they are attacking Israel uh this period
that God is going to be dealing with
Israel once he puts his spirit upon Israel
again that will be a seven-year period
as we talked in the earlier discussions God
has this seven-year period yet to fulfill
with the nation of Israel so uh between
the battles will be a seven-year period
be divided into two halves three and a
half years will be uh a lot of
time of prosperity uh people will be worshiping
this fellow he comes up with a peace
program he comes up with a great economic
program uh everybody's working uh you know we'll
vote for him even though he is the
devil because the economy is good and tell
me if you haven't seen a pattern of
that in the past uh if the economy
is good we'll vote for him it doesn't
matter how he lives or or what he
does you know the economy is good and
so uh this fellow will develop a a
great economy and of course you can imagine
uh when the Christians are all raptured what
that's going to do I mean the wealth
of the Christians that is left behind their
goods and so forth everybody's going to come
in and and and sack uh you know
the houses and and of course there'll be
a lot of jobs available and uh it'll
it'll be really a great opportunity economically for
the world and uh for the first three
and a half years it's gonna everybody's gonna
say wow you know the Christians they were
the problem it's good that we got rid
of them you know and now look how
prosperous and everything is good you know we
can send everyone no one's gonna uh you
know make us feel guilty and all and
you know and it'll be a time of
people just giving themselves over to but then
after the three and a half years when
this antichrist goes to the rebuilt temple in
Jerusalem and he sets his image in the
holy of holies and he stands there and
he declares that he is God and demands
that they now worship him as God that
will then trigger this wrath of God that
will fill up the cup of the indignation
of the wrath of God and will bring
on this final three and a half years
which will culminate in this battle of Armageddon
now Daniel tells us talking about the antichrist
he said and the king the antichrist shall
do according to his will he will exalt
himself and magnify himself above every God and
shall speak marvelous things against the true God
and shall prosper till the indignation which is
the tribulation is accomplished for that which is
determined shall be done and neither will he
regard the God of his fathers nor the
desire of women many people believe that he'll
be a homosexual nor regard any God for
he shall magnify himself above all but in
his estate shall he honor the God of
forces and a God whom his fathers knew
not shall he honor with gold and silver
and precious stones pleasant things the time of
prosperity and all thus shall he do in
the most strongholds with strange gods whom he
shall acknowledge and increase with glory and he
shall cause them to rule over many and
shall divide the land for gain talking about
the promised land probably create the petition and
divide that land for gain and at the
time of the end shall the king of
the south push at him and the king
of the north shall come against him like
a whirlwind with chariots and with horsemen and
with many ships and he shall enter into
the countries and shall overflow and pass over
he shall enter into the glorious land that
is the land of Israel and many countries
will be overthrown but these will escape out
of his hand even Edom and Moab which
is Jordan today and the chief of the
children of Amman he shall stretch forth his
hand upon the countries and the land of
Egypt shall not escape but he shall have
power over the treasures of gold and silver
over the precious things of Egypt and the
Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his
steps it would appear that he is moving
to conquer Africa and the vast natural resources
of Africa he is ruling over the European
community and over the western powers but as
they are moving toward Africa tidings out of
the east and out of the north shall
trouble him therefore he will go forth with
great fury to destroy and utterly to make
away many as he is moving towards Africa
this will prompt the China probably join with
India and Japan the nations from the east
joining together with Russia and they will challenge
his advance into Africa he will bring the
troops back with great fury the river Euphrates
will be dried up to prepare the way
for the kings of the east they move
across from China from India Pakistan and they
move down from Russia and they meet in
the valley of Megiddo and that's where all
of these forces will be brought into that
valley of Megiddo for this final battle of
Armageddon and he shall plant the tabernacles of
his palace between the seas and the glorious
holy mountain and he shall come to his
end and none will help him and so
Daniel's account of the things that will proceed
or how it comes to pass where these
nations meet together in the valley of Megiddo
now when this battle is in full swing
millions upon millions of people involved practically the
world the eastern powers and Russia joined together
against the western powers there is a passage
of scripture that indicates as many as 200
million coming from the area of China the
east this is when blood will flow like
a river four feet deep at this time
during this battle Jesus Christ will return from
heaven Zachariah tells us that he will put
his foot in that day on the Mount
of Olives and the Mount of Olives will
split down the middle of new valley will
be formed and that he will destroy then
the Antichrist with the brightness of his coming
and the Antichrist and the false prophet at
that time and of course we'll get this
as we move into the next chapters will
be cast into Gehenna and he will bring
an end to man's rebellion against God he
will establish the kingdom of God and he
shall live and reign a thousand years upon
the earth and of course we as his
church will live and reign with him and
this is what is known as the kingdom
age this is what we're praying for when
we pray by kingdom come by will be
done in earth even as it is in
heaven now as we look at the world
today we realize God's will is not being
done in the world today man is in
rebellion against God but it shows you really
the folly of man because of our rebellion
we see all kinds of atrocities we see
all kinds of different things that just tear
at our hearts and we wonder how could
a God of love allow that to happen
well in reality God has let man just
go and he has let man live in
this rebellion against God if God were ruling
over the earth now these things would not
be going on we are told that Jesus
will be ruling with a rod of iron
and that these things will not be going
on during the kingdom age but there will
be peace like a not being afraid
that even the animals will resort to a
tame state that a lion and a lamb
will lie down together a little child will
lead them and speaks about the glorious conditions
there will be no physical infirmities in that
day the lame will be leaping like the
deer the blind will behold the glory of
God and the deaf will or the mute
will be singing his praises glorious day when
our Lord reigns his kingdom comes and as
we look at the sad conditions of the
world that seem to be getting worse every
day how our hearts long for and pray
thy kingdom come thy will be done in
earth as it is in heaven right now
we are on the verge of seeing the
first of the last two great battles you
know as well as I know that even
before this week is over it is possible
that this whole thing could blow up and
the Muslim nations would move against Israel and
of course when that happens fasten your seat
belt we're getting out of here the Lord
will then take his church before his judgment
and wrath will be poured out upon the
world and so um as Jesus said watch
and be ready because you don't know the
day or the hour the Son of Man
is coming Paul said now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed Jesus said behold
I'm coming as a thief in the night
but Paul said you are not the children
of darkness that that day should overtake you
as a thief you're children of the light
therefore walk as children of the light not
in wantonness that is open sin sort of
proud of it not in drunkenness but as
children of light as we look for that
glorious day when Jesus will take his church
to be with him the big question is
are you ready it could happen most any
time the rapture of his church are you
ready that's the question it's a question that
I can't answer for you only you can
answer for yourself as you examine your heart
and you examine your relationship with the Lord
only you can answer that question are you
ready if it should happen tonight are you
ready or would you be left here to
face the horrible calamities that will be coming
to pass upon the earth Jesus said to
his disciples pray ye always that you will
be accounted worthy to escape these things that
are going to come upon the earth that
you might stand before the Son of Man
is that your prayer are you ready ask
yourself search your heart what is your relationship
with God tonight are you ready let's pray
Father we thank you for your word that
it lays out so clearly your plans for
the future and Lord you said you are
God you declare the end from the beginning
no God like you who can tell the
things that are going to transpire in the
future Lord there are those here tonight that
are really not ready for you they're still
walking in darkness they haven't surrendered their lives
yet to Jesus Christ but I pray Father
that even now the conviction of your Holy
Spirit might come upon them and that they
might make that most important choice of their
entire life the choice to turn their lives
over to Jesus Christ to allow him to
rule and to reign within their lives and
even now Lord as your spirit is speaking
to their hearts may they make that decision
in Jesus name we thank you amen shall
we stand over to my left and your
right there is a door and behind that
door is the prayer room and there are
counselors back there to pray with you and
if you'd like to know for sure that
if the Lord would come tonight you'd be
ready and you'd be with him I would
encourage you as soon as we're dismissed you
go over and go through that door and
meet with these counselors who will be glad
to share with you the way to salvation
through Jesus Christ our Lord and so don't
go home with a question mark but go
home with the assurance that you're ready to
meet our Lord a couple of announcements number
one um pastor Romaine is um in very
serious condition tonight the doctors don't really expect
him to live much longer and so um
I hardly well you know Romaine if you
pray that God would heal him you'd have
to suffer the consequences he is wanting to
go and be with the Lord and it
would seem that the Lord is going to
answer his prayer unless there is some kind
of a divine intervention but just well what
can you say pray Lord just take him
home or be with him well that's it
be with him Lord in this time David
said yea though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death I will fear
no evil for thou art with me Lord
take his hand be with him at this
time and then also if you uh enjoyed
Santos music uh there is a table out
there in the front this uh Calvary Ranch
great program uh a rehabilitation program and as
Santos said it set him on the right
track helped him to be delivered from alcoholism
and drug addiction and all and also he
has that cd that bebop or whatever it
is uh if you like that kind of
music uh you can pick up his uh
cd and I have one and I enjoy
it I uh have to admit that that's
more my style but uh anyhow may the
Lord be with you and bless you and
and again don't go home in a question
mark but as you go may you know
for certain if the Lord would meet you
at the door you'd be ready to meet
him go on back to the prayer room
get things right with God