Caption transcript for Daniel and the Last Days’ Battle for Planet Earth: “The Culture Battle” (3/8)

• 00:41 ANGER IN GAZA
• 00:43 WAR IN LEBANON
• 00:45 RUMBLINGS IN IRAN
• 00:49 AS THE WORLD FOCUSES ON THE MIDEAST QUAGMIRE,
• 00:52 ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES PRESENTS,
• 01:01 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:03 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT
• 01:07 AND WE'VE GOT A GREAT PROGRAM IN STORE.
• 01:10 SHALOM. WELCOME BACK.
• 01:12 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT CULTURES TODAY,
• 01:14 A CLASH OF CULTURES.
• 01:15 CIVILIZATIONS HAVE ALWAYS CLASHED.
• 01:18 IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO ME, JEFF,
• 01:19 THAT IT'S THE GOOD AND THE BAD AND THE UGLY,
• 01:22 AND THE NOT UGLY AND THE -
• 01:23 EVERYBODY - THE CIVILIZATIONS CLASH.
• 01:26 SOLOMON SAID, "THERE'S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN".
• 01:28 I BELIEVE HE'S RIGHT.
• 01:30 RIGHT. NOW WE HATE THAT TENSION.
• 01:31 WE HATE THOSE CLASHES.
• 01:33 THE POINT IS,
• 01:34 IT'S OBSERVED IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE AT DAYS' END,
• 01:38 TITANIC FORCES COMING AND EXPRESSING THEIR ANGST
• 01:42 AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IT IN "DANIEL, THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH".
• 01:57 CIVILIZATIONS COLLIDED IN THE ANCIENT WORLD,
• 02:00 AS TODAY NATIONS LIFT SWORDS AGAINST NATIONS,
• 02:04 WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS ABOUND.
• 02:09 LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH DANIEL'S PROPHECIES
• 02:12 WE LEARN HOW, AS THE BATTLE RAGES ON,
• 02:15 GOD STILL WATCHES OVER AND PROTECTS HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL.
• 02:26 OUR JOURNEY ACROSS ISRAEL CONTINUES AND TAKES US TO CAESAREA,
• 02:30 ROME'S 1ST CENTURY MILITARY HEADQUARTERS IN JUDEA.
• 02:34 JOIN ME AS I VISIT THE PLACE WHERE EAST AND WEST ONCE COLLIDED.
• 02:41 JESUS IN HIS OWN WORDS SPOKE ABOUT A WORLD AT DAYS' END
• 02:44 THAT WAS FULL OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS.
• 02:48 I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHETHER
• 02:50 THE CLASH OF TITANIC FORCES
• 02:52 NOTED IN DANIEL
• 02:54 WAS ON HIS MIND AS HE SPOKE
• 02:55 FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 02:57 THAT FATEFUL DAY
• 02:58 SOME 2000 YEARS AGO.
• 03:00 SPEAKING FROM THIS PLACE, CAESAREA MARITIME,
• 03:04 THIS WAS THE ROMAN HOME AWAY FROM HOME AS THE ROMANS MIGHT PUT IT.
• 03:10 AS THE HEBREWS MIGHT PUT IT, THIS IS THE LAIR OF THE DEVIL,
• 03:15 FOR ROMAN LEGIONNAIRES CAME FROM THE SEA
• 03:18 AND HERE THEY WERE DISPATCHED TO THE ROMAN PROVINCE,
• 03:22 THE FAR EASTERN PROVINCE OF JUDEA.
• 03:25 AND THERE THEY OCCUPIED THIS SACRED LAND.
• 03:28 FASCINATING ARE THE TENSIONS AND THE WARS THAT ARE PREDICTED BY THE PROPHET DANIEL
• 03:34 WHO IN FACT EVEN SAW
• 03:36 THE KITTIM COMING,
• 03:38 THOSE FROM THE WEST.
• 03:40 HE ENVISIONED THEM SWEEPING UP
• 03:42 ONTO THE SHORES OF JUDEA.
• 03:44 AND HERE WE ARE AT THE PLACES WHERE THEY SWEPT UP.
• 03:48 BUT OUR STORY TODAY ACTUALLY BEGINS AT ANOTHER STORY IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL
• 03:54 NOTED IN THE 8TH CHAPTER.
• 03:55 IF YOU'LL PICK UP IN THE BEGINNING, CHAPTER 8, VERSE 1,
• 04:00 AND ON WE SEE THAT DANIEL HIMSELF IS TAKEN UP AND PLACED THERE BY A RIVER IN PERSIA,
• 04:09 IN ELAM, A CAPITOL CITY OF WHAT WAS THEN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE,
• 04:14 WHAT IS NOW OMINOUSLY THE NATION'S STATE OF IRAN.
• 04:18 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS, DANIEL THERE SEES A VISION.
• 04:23 HE SEES A VISION OF A FEISTY RAM
• 04:27 THAT'S PUSHING NORTHWARD,
• 04:30 WESTWARD AND ALL ABOUT.
• 04:32 AND THEN HE'S GOING TO VISION ANOTHER COMING AND CLASHING.
• 04:36 IT'S A VERY FANTASTIC TEXT FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 04:39 LET'S ATTEND TO IT AND THEN I'LL OFFER SOMETHING OF AN EXPLANATION.
• 04:44 IF YOU'LL LOOK IN CHAPTER 8
• 04:46 AGAIN IN VERSE 2, DANIEL SAYS
• 04:48 THAT HE SEES A VISION.
• 04:50 HE SAYS THAT HE WAS IN SUSA, THE CASTLE WHICH IS IN THE PROVINCE OF ELAM.
• 04:56 AND ELAM AGAIN IN ANTIQUITY WOULD BE IRAN IN MODERNITY.
• 05:02 THE LORD TOOK HIM THERE. AND HE SEES A BEAST WITH HORNS.
• 05:06 IF YOU'LL LOOK IN VERSE 4,
• 05:16 AS YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IN A FEW MOMENTS,
• 05:18 THIS IS DANIEL'S GIVING A DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE THAT WAS STRONG,
• 05:24 THAT WAS FEISTY, LIKE A FEISTY RAM THAT WOULD PUSH AND PUSH AND OVERWHELM IT'S FOES.
• 05:31 AS HE SAYS HERE IN THE TEXT, "NO BEAST COULD STAND BEFORE THIS ANIMAL.
• 05:39 THIS IS PERSIA AT IT'S ZENITH.
• 05:44 HE GOES ON TO SAY IN VERSE 5 AS HE WAS CONSIDERING THIS RAM,
• 05:53 SO IT'S INTERESTING YOU HAVE
• 05:55 AN ANIMAL AT THE EAST
• 05:57 THAT'S PRESSING WESTWARD.
• 06:00 AND THEN WHILE HE'S CONSIDERING THAT, SEES AN ANIMAL AT THE WEST THAT'S PUSHING EASTWARD.
• 06:08 AND IN AS MUCH AS HE LOOKS AT THE PERSIANS THAT ARE MAKING THEIR WAY WEST,
• 06:13 HE NOW ENVISIONS THE GREEKS AS YOU'LL SEE,
• 06:16 OR WESTERN CULTURE BY ASSOCIATION, PUSHING IT'S WAY EAST.
• 06:21 SO WE SEE HERE THE CLASH OF CULTURES.
• 06:26 I REMEMBER, BY THE WAY, WHEN VIEWING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
• 06:31 AND CONSIDERING
• 06:32 MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD'S BID
• 06:36 TO DESTROY ISRAEL
• 06:38 AND WHILE CONSIDERING BEN LADEN
• 06:41 AND HIS COHORTS,
• 06:43 THEIR WAR AGAINST THE WEST
• 06:45 BECAUSE OF THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH ISRAEL.
• 06:47 WHEN I SEE WESTERN CULTURE AND MOHAMMEDAN CULTURE CLASHING I ASK MYSELF THE QUESTION,
• 06:54 "DO I SEE THIS AT ALL IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE?"
• 06:57 WELL FRIENDS, WE SEE IT HAPPENING HERE IN THIS BOOK DANIEL, THE END TIME BOOK.
• 07:03 WE SEE THIS - TO USE THE LANGUAGE OF THE TEXT,
• 07:07 A RAM THAT'S PUSHING WESTWARD AND NOW A GOAT AS YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IS GREECE.
• 07:12 IT SAYS AS MUCH IN A MOMENT.
• 07:36 THIS GOAT THAT COMES FROM THE WEST AND SQUARES OFF AGAINST THESE EASTERN FORCES
• 07:40 JUST OVERRUNS HIM IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS.
• 07:44 WE'RE TOLD IN THE TEXT THAT THE RAM COULDN'T STAND BEFORE HIM
• 07:47 BUT THAT HE CAST HIM TO THE GROUND AND TRAMPLED UPON HIM.
• 07:51 THE STORY GOES ON AND IT'S A FASCINATING STORY
• 07:55 AND THE IMPLICATIONS TO ME ARE RATHER STRIKING.
• 07:58 WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
• 08:00 WELL, THIS IS A TEXT THAT'S INTERPRETED WITHIN THE TEXT.
• 08:02 IF YOU'LL LOOK WITH ME PLEASE IN VERSE 19 DANIEL IS TOLD
• 08:12 THERE'S A PROPHECY HERE FOR THE END. HE SAYS,
• 08:19 THAT IS TO SAY THESE ARE THE KINGS THAT COME OUT OF WHAT WOULD BE MODERN IRAN.
• 08:25 AND THEN HE SAYS,
• 08:31 AGAIN WHAT WE FIND HERE IN THE TEXT IS A CLASH OF CULTURES
• 08:34 OUT OF IRAN ON THE ONE HAND AND OUT THE WEST ON THE OTHER.
• 08:37 MY, ARE WE NOT SEEING THIS KIND OF STORY PLAYED OUT IN OUR VERY DAY?
• 08:53 I LOVE YOUR TEACHING, JEFF,
• 08:55 AT THE THEATRE IN CAESAREA.
• 08:57 TWO DIFFERENT PLACES, WE GO TO THE THEATRE
• 08:59 AND THEN WE GO TO THE HIPPODROME
• 09:00 WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY USED FOR RACING AND THINGS.
• 09:04 BUT LATER ON IT'S USED FOR MUCH MORE SINISTER THINGS.
• 09:07 YES, DASTARDLY IN FACT WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE.
• 09:10 THEY WOULD THROW JEWS AND BELIEVERS
• 09:13 TO THE LIONS THERE. CHRISTIANS! CHRISTIANS!
• 09:16 AS IT GOES WITH THE JEWS SO IT GOES WITH BELIEVERS.
• 09:18 IT'S UNFORTUNATE.
• 09:19 WE BETTER WATCH THAT WITH ISRAEL TOO.
• 09:21 YES, IT'S AMAZING.
• 09:22 THERE'S RANK WICKEDNESS IN THIS WORLD.
• 09:23 DANIEL ADDRESSES THAT IN THE PERSON
• 09:25 OF THE ANTI-MESSIAH, THE ANTI-CHRIST.
• 09:27 JOHN IN HIS OWN WAY QUOTES JESUS
• 09:30 SAYING THAT THE DEVIL COMES
• 09:32 TO STEAL,TO KILL AND TO DESTROY.
• 09:34 THAT'S A HORRIBLE NATURE.
• 09:35 THE DEVIL IS IDENTIFIED AS HAVING IT IN JOHN
• 09:39 BUT DANIEL SEES THIS TOO.
• 09:41 WE KNOW WHAT THE MESSIAH LOOKS LIKE
• 09:43 AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT THE ANTI-CHRIST LOOKS LIKE.
• 09:46 HE HAS GOT DEFINITE, DEFINITE CHARACTERISTICS.
• 09:49 RIGHT. IT'S NOT A PRETTY PICTURE
• 09:51 BUT IT'S A PICTURE TO SEE.
• 09:56 FOR SOME IT MUST HAVE BEEN A DEATH MARCH.
• 09:59 FOR HERE AT THE HERODIAN STADIUM JUST OUTSIDE OF THE THEATRE IN CAESAREA,
• 10:05 THIS MARKED A SPOT WHERE
• 10:07 MANY JEWS WERE DRUG OUT,
• 10:09 THEY WERE FED TO WILD BEASTS,
• 10:13 THEY WERE FORCED INTO GLADIATORIAL COMBAT.
• 10:16 AND AS IT WENT WITH THE JEWS SO TOO IT WENT WITH THE CHRISTIANS
• 10:21 RIGHT HERE IN THIS SPOT IN THE WALK THAT I JUST MADE FOR MANY
• 10:25 IN A DAY GONE BY WOULD HAVE BEEN THEIR LAST.
• 10:28 OH, WHAT A DREAD PLACE AT ONE LEVEL.
• 10:31 SEEMS TO ME AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE GREATEST TRIAL ON EARTH.
• 10:36 YOU MIGHT RECALL IN THE MATTEAN GOSPEL CHAPTER 24, VERSE 15, JESUS SAID.
• 11:03 JESUS WARNS OF A TIME OF DREAD TERROR ON PLANET EARTH.
• 11:09 THE CLASH OF TITANIC FORCES NOTED BY DANIEL BETWEEN FORCES EAST AND WEST COLLIDING,
• 11:17 IT WAS IN THIS CONTEXT WHERE DANIEL SPOKE OF THE ANTI-MESSIAH,
• 11:22 THE ANTI-CHRIST WHO WOULD EMERGE OUT OF THE GREEK CONQUEST.
• 11:26 HERE WE ARE AT THE PLACE WHERE ROME HELD SWAY,
• 11:30 THE LAIR OF THE LION WHERE THE ROMANS CAME IN MASS.
• 11:36 AND IT WAS AGAINST THIS BACKDROP IN PART
• 11:38 WHEN JESUS HIMSELF SPOKE OF A COMING DESTRUCTION
• 11:42 THAT WOULD BE BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE ROMANS
• 11:44 WHEN JUDEA WOULD BE SURROUNDED AND COMPROMISED.
• 11:48 OH, JESUS SPOKE OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS
• 11:52 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW THE WARS THAT HE SPOKE ABOUT WERE ENVISIONED EARLY ON BY DANIEL
• 11:58 WHO SAW A CLASH OF CULTURES BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
• 12:03 AND HE SAW ONE EMERGING OUT OF WESTERN CULTURE WHO WOULD BE THE ANTI-CHRIST TO COME.
• 12:16 I WONDER IF THEY REALLY ENJOYED THEMSELVES.
• 12:18 CERTAINLY THEY HOWLED, THEY SCREAMED, EMOTIONS RAN HIGH,
• 12:23 BUT WHATEVER EMOTIONS WERE RUNNING HIGH HERE IN THE SEATS,
• 12:27 PALED IN COMPARISON TO WHAT HAPPENED IN THE SAND
• 12:30 AS PRISONERS RAN FOR THEIR LIFE.
• 12:33 JEWISH PRISONERS, THROWN HERE TO MEET AN INGLORIOUS END WITH WILD BEASTS,
• 12:39 TO FACE GLADIATORS STRONGER THAN THEY
• 12:42 AND CHRISTIANS AS WELL WERE GATHERED IN MASS
• 12:45 TO GO TO A MASS GRAVE HERE, TO BE THROWN TO THE BEASTS,
• 12:49 HUNGRY, THEY TASTED BLOOD AND THEY WANTED MORE OF IT.
• 12:54 WHAT A HORRIBLE END AT ONE LEVEL.
• 12:56 AND SPEAKING OF THE END,
• 12:58 DANIEL HAD PRESAGED YEARS BEFORE JESUS MADE HIS ENTRANCE ON TO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA,
• 13:05 THAT THERE IN FACT WOULD BE A TIME OF THE END.
• 13:09 AND WHILE THE END AT ONE LEVEL WAS GOOD
• 13:12 BECAUSE THE END OF THE CURRENT AGE THEN WAS THE BEGINNING OF AN EPIC IN HUMAN EXPERIENCE
• 13:18 WHEN THE EARTH WOULD BE FULL
• 13:20 OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD
• 13:22 AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA.
• 13:24 THERE WAS A NEW WORLD DAWNING.
• 13:26 BUT AS IT IS THE CASE WITH THE SUN,
• 13:29 YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT IT GETS DARKEST JUST BEFORE THE DAWN.
• 13:35 AND BEFORE THE DAWNING OF THE NEW ERA OF THE MESSIANIC ERA,
• 13:38 THE WORLD GOES DARK, THE WORLD GOES PITCH BLACK AT THE END OF DAYS.
• 13:44 HORRORS ARE DECREED, TRIBULATIONS TO BE UNLEASHED ON PLANET EARTH.
• 13:49 DANIEL SAW THIS AND MORE, IN FACT, IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL
• 13:52 IN MORE THAN ONE OCCASION HE WAS LEFT SPEECHLESS.
• 13:56 EVEN AFTER SEEING A VISION MORE THAN ONCE, HE COULDN'T GET UP
• 14:00 SAVE FOR AN ANGEL COMING AND LIFTING HIM UP.
• 14:03 WELL, IN ONE OF THOSE MESSAGES WHEN HE WAS ON HIS FEET HE SPOKE ABOUT A LAST DAYS' WORLD.
• 14:09 HE SPOKE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8, VERSE 13,
• 14:13 HE SAYS IT EXPLICITLY,
• 14:21 DANIEL WAS SHOCKED TO CONSIDER SUCH AN INGLORIOUS DEMISE TO THE SANCTUARY,
• 14:26 THE "BEIT HAMIKDASH",
• 14:28 THE HOLY HOUSE.
• 14:29 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 15,
• 14:30 "AND I DANIEL, WHEN I SAW IT I WAS SHOCKED"
• 14:33 AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 16,
• 14:42 AND HERE GABRIEL
• 14:44 MAKES HIS ENTRANCE ONTO
• 14:45 THE STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY
• 14:49 PARTICULARLY TO HELP A SHOCKED DANIEL, ENVISIONED THE WARFARE AT THE END OF DAYS
• 14:54 WHERE IT BECOMES PITCH BLACK WITH THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS MAKING HIS PRESENCE KNOWN.
• 15:00 AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 17,
• 15:09 FANTASTIC LANGUAGE HERE.
• 15:11 I DON'T MEAN IN A GLORIOUS SENSE, I JUST MEAN YOU CAN FEEL THE EMOTION IN THE LITERATURE.
• 15:15 DANIEL IS PERPLEXED, HE NEEDS HELP JUST TO SEE AND CONSIDER WHAT HE'S LOOKING AT.
• 15:21 AND AS HE WAS SPEAKING, HE SAYS IN VERSE 19,
• 15:33 THIS RAGE IS LET OUT OF THE CAGE AND DANIEL IS THE ONE TO BRING THE WORD.
• 15:38 OH, IT'S A WORD SEALED UP
• 15:40 FOR MORE THAN ONCE AND PARTICULARLY AT THE END OF THE 12TH CHAPTER DANIEL WAS TOLD
• 15:44 THE VISION IS TO BE SEALED UP
• 15:47 UNTIL THE END. IT'S CONFUSING,
• 15:49 HERE WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 21 AND ON HE SPEAKS ABOUT THIS KINGDOM OF THE WEST
• 15:57 AND THE KINGDOM OF PERSIA
• 15:59 CLASHING AND FIGHTING
• 16:01 AND GOING AT IT.
• 16:03 AND ALL THIS IS A PART OF AN END TIME STORY ACCORDING TO THE TEXT
• 16:07 AND I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER AS I LOOK AT THE WORD ON ONE HAND
• 16:12 AND I AS I LOOK AT THE MODERN WORLD IN THE OTHER
• 16:15 AND I SEE THE FORCES, TITANIC FORCES,
• 16:19 FROM THE EAST, THE MIDDLE EAST,
• 16:21 CLASHING WITH FORCES FROM THE WEST, WESTERN CULTURE.
• 16:25 AND THEY SWEEP UP AGAINST EACH OTHER,
• 16:27 I'M WONDERING IF WHAT I'M SEEING IN THE WORLD TODAY IS WHAT SHOCKED DANIEL YESTERDAY.
• 16:35 THERE'S MORE TO BE TOLD AND THE STORY WILL UNFOLD AS WE CONSIDER
• 16:38 DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH.
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• 18:12 ISRAEL IS A WONDERFUL PLACE.
• 18:14 IT'S A GOOD PLACE TO GO.
• 18:16 IT'S A SAFE PLACE STILL.
• 18:18 WHY DON'T YOU JOIN ME AND SANDRA IN THE HOLY LAND
• 18:21 AND LET'S WALK WHERE JESUS WALKED.
• 18:23 I SAY IT AGAIN JEFF. WE GO TO CAESAREA,
• 18:26 WE SEE ALL THESE SITES,
• 18:27 IT MAKES THE BIBLE COME ALIVE.
• 18:30 ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT I REALLY ENJOYED INTERVIEWING WAS JOEL ROSENBERG.
• 18:33 WE TRIED TO GET HIM FOR MANY, MANY YEARS
• 18:36 AND OUR SCHEDULES WOULDN'T WORK
• 18:38 AND WE'RE IN ISRAEL
• 18:39 AND WE'RE INTERVIEWING CALEV MYERS AND CALEV SAYS,
• 18:42 "OH, I HAD DINNER WITH JOEL"
• 18:44 AND WE ALL JUST GET REAL EXCITED
• 18:45 AND WE CALL AND IN ISRAEL
• 18:47 WE GET TO INTERVIEW JOEL ROSENBERG.
• 18:49 HE IS SO FASCINATING.
• 18:51 HE'S WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED "EPICENTER" WHICH IS HIS FIRST NON-FICTION BOOK
• 18:55 AND HE IS A TERRIFIC GUY,
• 18:58 KNOWS HIS STUFF,
• 18:59 WAS ADVISOR TO NETANYAHU AND TO SHARANSKY.
• 19:03 REALLY TERRIFIC.
• 19:04 HE WROTE AS A GHOST FOR RUSH LIMBAUGH,
• 19:07 HE'S A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR.
• 19:09 HE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE.
• 19:11 I GET SO EXCITED EVERY TIME I THINK THAT WE TALKED TO HIM
• 19:14 AND A NICE, NICE GUY.
• 19:15 I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY THIS INTERVIEW.
• 19:24 FOR EXAMPLE, TO SHOW THAT IN
• 19:25 1967 AND 1973 THE SOVIET UNION
• 19:29 WAS THIS CLOSE TO
• 19:31 SENDING GROUND TROOPS INTO ISRAEL TO TAKE OVER ISRAEL
• 19:34 ALONG WITH THE ARAB FORCES
• 19:36 AND IT TOOK PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN THE FIRST CASE,
• 19:39 NIXON IN THE SECOND CASE
• 19:40 TO PUT AMERICA ON A NUCLEAR ALERT TO KEEP THE RUSSIANS OUT.
• 19:45 NOW, AT THAT MOMENT YOU COULD HAVE THOUGHT,
• 19:47 "WOW, THE WAR GOG AND MAGOG".
• 19:49 EZEKIEL CHAPTER 38 AND 39. RIGHT.
• 19:51 "I THINK IT'S COMING TRUE RIGHT THIS MOMENT!"
• 19:53 WE ALWAYS HAVE TO BE CAUTIOUS AND SAY,
• 19:55 "GOD COULD KICK THE CAN OF THIS PROPHECY UP THE ROAD A NUMBER OF YEARS."
• 19:58 AND SO NOW WE'RE WATCHING RUSSIA AND IRAN BUILD A MILITARY ALLIANCE FOR THE FIRST TIME
• 20:03 IN THE 2500 YEARS SINCE EZEKIEL SAID IT WOULD ONE DAY HAPPEN IN THE LAST DAYS.
• 20:09 DOES THAT MEAN THE WAR IS GOING TO HAPPEN SOON? I DON'T KNOW.
• 20:13 I CAN'T RULE IT IN. BUT I CAN'T RULE IT OUT EITHER,
• 20:16 ESPECIALLY IN THE LIGHT OF THE FACT OF EZEKIEL CHAPTER 36 AND 37 HAVE ALREADY COME TRUE.
• 20:21 WE'RE SITTING IN ISRAEL, IT'S REBORN, RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 20:23 THE ANCIENT RUINS HAVE BEEN REBUILT, JEWS ARE POURING BACK IN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 20:26 AND DOES BEG THE QUESTION,
• 20:28 "IF EZEKIEL CHAPTER 36 AND 37 HAVE COME TRUE IN OUR LIFETIME,"
• 20:32 "ISN'T POSSIBLE THAT EZEKIEL CHAPTER 38 AND 39,"
• 20:35 "COULD COME TRUE AS WELL?"
• 20:37 AND ANYTIME THAT HE DELAYS AT THIS POINT
• 20:39 IS A MATTER OF BRINGING PEOPLE INTO THE KINGDOM.
• 20:42 AND A BIG QUESTION FOR MY WIFE AND KIDS AND I IS,
• 20:44 WHEN WE SEE JESUS FACE TO FACE IS HE GOING TO SAY,
• 20:47 "JOEL, I'M REALLY GLAD THAT WHOLE THING WITH THE NOVEL HAS WORKED OUT. THAT'S FANTASTIC."
• 20:51 "BUT SON, WHAT PART OF THE GREAT COMMISSION, GO YE THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS"
• 20:56 " -YOUR JEWISH NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS, BECAUSE YOUR JEWISH."
• 21:00 "BUT ALSO YOUR ENEMIES IN IRAN AND IN RUSSIA AND SUDAN -"
• 21:03 "WHAT PART OF THE GREAT COMMISSION DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND SON?"
• 21:06 "I MEAN, WAS IT IN GREEK?"
• 21:08 ALRIGHT, WELL, ACTUALLY IT WAS.
• 21:09 ACTUALLY IT WAS.
• 21:10 "BUT YOU KNOW YOU HAD ALL THOSE TRANSLATIONS."
• 21:12 AND I DON'T WANT HIM TO BE ASHAMED OF ME OR MY WIFE OR MY BOYS.
• 21:15 WE WANT TO USE THESE NOVELS AS GOD GIVES US OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS
• 21:22 AND ABOUT HOW MUCH HE LOVES US AND THE WONDERFUL PLAN HE HAS FOR OUR LIVES.
• 21:27 YOU GOT A MUSLIM ARAB LEADER, WHO SOMEBODY HAD GIVEN HIM "THE EZEKIEL OPTION".
• 21:31 IN HIS COUNTRY, IN THE MIDDLE EAST. GOSH!
• 21:33 HE WAS COMING TO WASHINGTON FOR MEETINGS AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE
• 21:36 AND AN ASSISTANT CALLED ME AND SAID,
• 21:38 "HE'D LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH YOU AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF THE END TIMES"
• 21:43 I THOUGHT, "ONE WEEK WE'RE HAVING PASSOVER THIS DINING ROOM".
• 21:47 "SURE, OKAY WE'D LOVE TO HAVE HIM FOR DINNER!" OH, MY!
• 21:49 IT WAS AN AMAZING CONVERSATION.
• 21:51 ISRAELI LEADERS, JUST TAKING ME ASIDE, "I'D LOVED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS".
• 21:57 THE SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF IRAQ,
• 22:00 WHEN THE PRIME MINISTER CAME TO WASHINGTON
• 22:03 TO GIVE HIS ADDRESS TO THE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS,
• 22:06 I WAS PRIVILEGED TO GO. I THOUGHT THAT WAS ENOUGH.
• 22:08 I GET A PHONE CALL,
• 22:10 "HEY, WOULD YOU HAVE BREAKFAST WITH THE SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE PRIME MINISTER."
• 22:13 "WE UNDERSTAND YOU WRITE NOVELS THAT COME TRUE AND WE'RE CURIOUS."
• 22:17 "WHAT DOES THE BIBLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IRAQ AND IT'S FUTURE?"
• 22:20 OH,UMM!
• 22:21 SO, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT THERE.
• 22:23 DO THEY REALLY WANT TO KNOW? I KNOW.
• 22:26 WELL, YOU KNOW IT WAS INTERESTING,
• 22:28 I DID SAY TO THEM,
• 22:29 "LOOK YOU'VE TOUGHER TIMES AHEAD FOR YOU,"
• 22:31 "BUT IN THE NEAR TERM THE BIBLE DOES TALK ABOUT IRAQ BECOMING INCREDIBLY PROSPEROUS."
• 22:35 REVELATION CHAPTER 18 HE'S TALKING ABOUT, OF COURSE,
• 22:38 THE END OF THAT AND HOW BABYLON IS BEING DESTROYED
• 22:40 AND ALL THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH ARE HORRIFIED.
• 22:42 THAT MUST MEAN THAT THINGS AT SOME POINT QUIET DOWN AND WEALTH POURS INTO THAT COUNTRY.
• 22:48 SO THERE'S A ZONE, THERE'S A WINDOW THAT I THINK GOD IS GOING TO SHOW FAVOR ON IRAQ
• 22:53 AND A ZONE THAT WE'VE GOT TO GET THE GOSPEL IN THERE,
• 22:57 CAUSE THEY NEED GOOD NEWS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE.
• 23:00 SO YOU'RE SAYING WE SHOULD STAY THE COURSE IN IRAQ.
• 23:02 I THINK THERE'S TWO TRACKS.
• 23:04 AS BELIEVER'S THERE'S A GEOPOLITICAL TRACK THAT OUR PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS HAVE
• 23:08 TO WIN THE WAR AND DEFEAT RADICAL ISLAM
• 23:11 OR SEND A MESSAGE TO IRAN AND HEZBOLLAH AND HAMAS THAT WE GIVE UP.
• 23:15 AND I DON'T WANT THAT MESSAGE TO BE SENT.
• 23:17 SEPARATELY BELIEVERS NEED TO REALIZE THAT WE'VE GOT TO GET THE GOSPEL INTO THESE COUNTRIES.
• 23:23 THEY ARE DYING WITHOUT ANY HOPE OF SALVATION. RIGHT.
• 23:27 THEY'VE GOT NO ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
• 23:29 AND YET MORE IRAQIS ARE COMING TO CHRIST TODAY THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY.
• 23:34 ONE PASTOR TOLD ME. HE SAID,
• 23:36 "JOEL, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IRAQ, VERY MUCH LIKE DANIEL CHAPTER 2."
• 23:40 AND HE SAID, "YOU KNOW, IN THAT STORY OF SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO,"
• 23:43 "NEBUCHADNEZZAR HEATS UP THE FIRES IN BABYLON 7 TIMES HOTTER THAN BEFORE."
• 23:47 HE SAID, "WHEN YOU LOOK AT IRAQ TODAY, IT IS 7 TIMES HOTTER THAN IT WAS WHEN SADDAM WAS HERE."
• 23:53 "WE'RE GLAD THAT SADDAM IS GONE.", HE SAID,
• 23:55 "BUT IT IS ROUGH AND IT'S ROUGHER THAN IT WAS IN A NUMBER OF WAYS."
• 23:59 "BUT WHAT WAS THE REST OF THAT STORY?"
• 24:02 HE SAID, "WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR LOOKED INTO THAT FIERY FURNACE HE DIDN'T SEE 3 MEN",
• 24:05 HE SAID, "THE 4TH LOOKED LIKE A SON OF THE GODS."
• 24:08 HE SAID, "JESUS IS WALKING IN THE FIRES WITH US."
• 24:10 "IT'S WORSE THAN EVER BEFORE BUT WE ARE SEEING SO MANY PEOPLE COME TO KNOW THE LORD."
• 24:15 AND HE SAID, "GO BACK TO THE WEST AND TELL PEOPLE THAT GOD IS MOVING."
• 24:28 ♪(ORCHESTRA PLAYING)♪
• 25:33 WHAT DID JOEL SAY? HE SAID,
• 25:34 "TELL PEOPLE THAT GOD IS MOVING."
• 25:37 IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO KEEP OPTIMISTIC AT ONE LEVEL
• 25:41 BUT IT ISN'T JUST RAW OPTIMISM.
• 25:43 IT'S FASCINATING HOW AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES
• 25:46 GOD IS GETTING PAST THE IRON CURTAINS,
• 25:49 HE'S GETTING INTO WORLDS UNKNOWN TO US, PREVIOUSLY UNTAPPED BY THE GOSPEL.
• 25:55 I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER
• 25:57 THAT IT MAY WELL BE THAT THE LORD IS GETTING INTO SOME NEW WORLDS NOW AS YOU LISTEN,
• 26:02 AS YOU HEAR THE WORD OF GOD UNPACKED AND YOUR IMPACTED
• 26:06 AND WONDERING IF GOD IS SAYING SOMETHING TO YOU.
• 26:09 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS, "YES".
• 26:12 IF YOU WOULD JUST RESPOND AND SAY "YES",
• 26:14 IF YOU WOULD REACH PAST YOUR SINS AND REACH UP TO THE NEW LIFE THAT'S AVAILABLE TO YOU,
• 26:19 YOU CAN BE BORN ANEW AND EXPERIENCE BRAND NEW VISTAS THAT'LL OPEN UP YOUR LIFE.
• 26:25 ISN'T THAT TRUE SANDRA?
• 26:26 IT'S WONDERFUL.
• 26:28 I KNOW JOEL SAYS IT FUNNY. HE SAID,
• 26:29 "WHAT PART OF WITNESSING DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND,"
• 26:31 "A GREAT COMMISSION YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND?"
• 26:33 IT'S A FUNNY THING TO SAY,
• 26:34 BUT WE REALLY DO NEED TO WITNESS.
• 26:36 WE REALLY DO NEED TO KNOW THE MESSIAH, YESHUA HA'MASHIACH.
• 26:39 HE IS OUR MESSIAH. HE IS OUR WAY. HE IS OUR LIFE.
• 26:42 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.
• 26:44 GOD BLESS YOU.
• 26:45 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:47 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.