Caption transcript for Daniel and the Last Days’ Battle for Planet Earth: “The Leader of the Evil Empire” (5/8)

• 00:41 ANGER IN GAZA
• 00:43 WAR IN LEBANON
• 00:45 RUMBLINGS IN IRAN
• 00:47 AS THE WORLD FOCUSES ON THE MIDEAST QUAGMIRE
• 00:51 ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES PRESENTS,
• 01:01 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:03 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 01:04 WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:05 SHALOM.
• 01:06 WELCOME TO THE STUDY OF DANIEL.
• 01:08 THE PROPHETIC VISIONS THAT DANIEL HAD FOR THE PAST,
• 01:11 FOR THE FUTURE AND WHEN HE WAS IN BABYLON 553 B.C.
• 01:16 YES, MANY DON'T CONSIDER THAT WHEN WRITES HE'S THERE IN MODERN IRAN, IRAQ;
• 01:20 HE'S THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
• 01:22 AND THE VISIONS THAT HE HAS ARE SO GOOD FOR US TO KNOW
• 01:27 THAT WE WIN THE VICTORY OVER EVIL.
• 01:29 IT'S TERRIFIC.
• 01:31 RIGHT, THERE'S A BATTLE AND IT SPILLS OVER
• 01:33 AND HE GETS THAT MESSAGE FROM THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
• 01:34 IT'S INTERESTING. IT IS INTERESTING.
• 01:36 NOW, WE'RE INTERESTED IN THE BATTLE.
• 01:38 WE'RE INTERESTED IN THE COMMANDER OF THE BATTLE OF THE WICKED FORCES
• 01:41 AS TODAY WE CONSIDER THE ANTI-CHRIST.
• 01:43 THIS PERSONALITY GOES BY DIFFERENT NAMES.
• 01:46 "LUCIFER" IS A LATIN EPITHET FOR "LIGHT BEARER" BECAUSE THE DEVIL DECEIVES.
• 01:52 "SATAN" IS A HEBREW VERB.
• 01:53 IT MEANS "TO ACCUSE".
• 01:56 AND HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT A BEAST WHO TRAMPLES UP NATIONS
• 01:58 AS WE CONSIDER THE ANTI-CHRIST
• 02:00 IN "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH."
• 02:14 AT THE TIME OF THE END
• 02:16 EVIL FORCES MUSTERED BY THE ANTI-CHRIST
• 02:20 WILL BE MOBILIZED AND FOISTED UPON GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
• 02:38 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS THE EVIL FORCES FIRST HAND
• 02:42 WHILE VISITING THE BORDER OF GAZA AND THE SHELL SHOCKED TOWN OF SEDEROT.
• 02:49 HERE BEHIND THE POLICE STATION
• 02:50 AT SEDEROT.
• 02:52 SEDEROT IS AT THE NORTHEASTERN
• 02:55 AREA OF THE GAZA JUST OUTSIDE OF THE NORTHEASTERN SECTOR.
• 03:00 SEDEROT IS THE AREA THAT IS RECEIVED MORE KASSAM ROCKETS
• 03:06 THAN HAS ANY OTHER ISRAELI SETTLEMENT IN RECENT MEMORY.
• 03:09 IN FACT, WE'RE LOOKING AT BETWEEN 3,000 AND 4,000
• 03:12 THAT HAVE FALLEN HERE SINCE THE YEAR 2000.
• 03:17 WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT HERE IS SOME OF THE INVENTORY OF JUST OF RECENT MONTHS IN FACT.
• 03:21 THIS TOWN HAS BEEN HIT AND IT HAS BEEN HIT HARD.
• 03:26 THAT'S EVIDENCED JUST DRIVING OVER TO THE POLICE STATION,
• 03:29 GOING THROUGH THE TOWN YOU CAN SEE THERE'S NOT MANY PEOPLE OUT TODAY.
• 03:32 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 03:34 WELL, YESTERDAY A NUMBER OF BOMBS, A NUMBER OF THESE MISSILES RAINED DOWN
• 03:37 ON THIS AREA AND PEOPLE ARE NOT COMFORTABLE GOING OUT AND WALKING ABOUT
• 03:40 BECAUSE THE POPULATION IS TERRORIZED BY ALL OF THIS.
• 03:45 THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A KASSAM ROCKET.
• 03:48 THIS ONE FELL TODAY.
• 03:51 IN FACT, THEY'RE ALL DATED.
• 03:53 AND THIS IS TODAY'S FARE.
• 03:55 OVER HERE IS YESTERDAY'S.
• 03:58 AND SOME OF THESE MISSILES HAVE GRAFFITI WRITTEN ON THE SIDE.
• 04:02 ONE SAYS "FROM GAZA WITH LOVE".
• 04:06 ANOTHER ONE SAYS "TO JERUSALEM".
• 04:09 AND THEY'RE SENDING THEIR AFFECTIONS THIS WAY.
• 04:12 WELL, IT'S RATHER TRAGIC SENDING MISSILES AGAINST UNARMED PERSONALITIES
• 04:16 BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT PEOPLE THAT DON'T WORK WITH THE SAME VALUES THAT WE DO.
• 04:20 WE'RE LOOKING AT A SERIES, "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH"
• 04:26 AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK IN SOME BIBLICAL TEXT TO CONSIDER WHO IT IS THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH
• 04:30 FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE FROM TEXT WRITTEN MANY, MANY, MANY CENTURIES AGO.
• 04:35 AND THOSE TEXTS WERE YESTERDAY, THIS IS TODAY AND HERE WE ARE.
• 04:40 WE'RE GOING TO BRING THOSE TWO TOGETHER AS WE CONTINUE OUR STORY,
• 04:43 "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH"
• 04:54 IT'S A FEW BLOCKS FROM THE POLICE STATION.
• 04:56 AND THERE THE BOMBS FELL.
• 04:58 WHILE DRIVING TO THAT HOME I WAS REMINDED OF JESUS' WORDS
• 05:01 THAT BELIEVERS OUGHT TO REMEMBER THE NEEDY.
• 05:03 AND NEEDY THEY ARE,
• 05:05 THOSE ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE BATTLE AGAINST GOOD AND EVIL IN THE GAZA.
• 05:11 I'VE RESPONDED TO DISASTERS BEFORE.
• 05:14 I'VE BEEN IN HOMES WHERE THERE'S FIRES.
• 05:18 IN THIS HOME HERE, DINNER IS NOT BEING SERVED.
• 05:24 COOK POT - HOLES IN IT.
• 05:27 THE KASSAM ROCKET HIT THE HOUSE.
• 05:29 THE WALL FELL ON MOTHER.
• 05:32 FIRE ENSUED.
• 05:35 WHEN THOSE ROCKETS HIT THEY'RE LOADED WITH NAILS AND THEY'RE VERY - HOW DO YOU RESIST THEM?
• 05:39 THIS IS A METAL POT. GOES RIGHT THROUGH IT LIKE BULLET HOLES.
• 05:42 WANT TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THIS DESTRUCTION HERE.
• 05:46 AND AS I'D SAID, IN ANOTHER LIFE AS A FIREFIGHTER I'VE RESPONDED TO SCENES LIKE THIS BEFORE.
• 05:52 BUT I WANT TO BE VERY CAREFUL WHERE I WALK ON THIS ONE.
• 05:54 WE HAVE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT,
• 05:57 CLOTHING TO PROTECT US FROM NAILS AND OTHER THINGS THAT PROTRUDE
• 06:00 BUT HERE I HAVE NOTHING BUT THE SHOES THAT I'M WEARING.
• 06:02 IT'S AN INTERESTING SITE OF COURSE.
• 06:05 THE ROCKET HIT, A FIRE ENSUED, WALLS FELL DOWN AND THERE WAS SOME PERSONAL DAMAGE AS WELL.
• 06:11 WHEN I LOOK AMONG THE WRECKAGE I SEE THINGS - AND I DIDN'T SET THIS UP AT ALL.
• 06:15 I SEE A GAS MASK HERE.
• 06:18 THE POPULATION IN ISRAEL HAS BEEN INTIMIDATED FROM WARS GONE BY
• 06:21 WHERE THE CONCERN WAS IS THAT THE ROCKETS BEARING GAS WOULD BEAR DOWN ON PEOPLE
• 06:25 AND YOU CAN STILL SEE SOME OF THE DEFENSIVE MECHANISMS AGAINST THAT.
• 06:30 HOW DO YOU DEFEND AGAINST ALL THIS STUFF?
• 06:32 IT REALLY IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF WORLD.
• 06:36 DIFFICULT AS THIS WORLD IS I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THIS WORLD WAS PREDICTED IN THE WORD.
• 06:42 IF YOU WOULD TURN IN THE BIBLE TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL THE 7TH CHAPTER,
• 06:47 HEREIN THE PROPHET SAYS IN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 3, HE SEES..
• 06:55 GAZA IS JUST ON THE SEA, IN FACT, IT WAS KNOWN AS "AZZAH" IN ANCIENT DAYS.
• 07:01 IT WAS A PHILISTINE PORT CITY
• 07:03 AND HERE THIS PROPHET HAS A VISION OF THESE VARIOUS MONSTERS COMING OUT OF THE SEA.
• 07:07 HE SAYS IN VERSE 3,
• 07:10 THESE BEASTS CAME UP FOUR IN NUMBER.
• 07:12 THE FIRST, HE SAYS, WAS LIKE A LION, VERY AGGRESSIVE.
• 07:15 THE PROPHET IS PREDICTING IT FROM DANIEL'S DAY.
• 07:18 HE'S PREDICTING THESE VARIOUS ANIMALS THAT ARE GOING TO COME
• 07:21 AND BRING THEIR FORCE TO BEAR ON AN AREA.
• 07:24 THIS IS THE RESULT OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR RIGHT HERE.
• 07:27 HE SAYS THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION WITH WINGS.
• 07:30 AND WE SEE IMAGES OF BABYLONIA DEPICTED IN ANCIENT STATUES AS A LION, AS A WINGED CREATURE.
• 07:37 HE GOES ON THEN IN VERSE 5 TO SPEAK OF ANOTHER BEAST THAT COMES IN THE WAKE - A BEAR.
• 07:43 SOME HAVE CONSTRUED THAT THIS EMPIRE WOULD BE THE MEDES, THE PERSIANS,
• 07:50 THE CONFEDERACY OF THE TWO.
• 07:52 YOU KNOW, BEARS ARE VERY AGGRESSIVE NEXT TO THE LION; THEY'RE THE KING OF THE AREA.
• 07:58 THEY'RE KNOWN FOR PLUNDER AND FOR RAVAGING AND THE LIKE.
• 08:03 AND AFTER THE BEAR HE SAYS, - THE BEAR'S MENTIONED IN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 5.
• 08:06 AND IN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 6, THEN ALONG COMES ALONG ONE LIKE A LEOPARD.
• 08:11 THEY MOVE VERY SWIFTLY AND THEY TROUNCE UPON THEIR PREY.
• 08:14 BUT IT'S THE FOURTH BEAST THAT IS THE OBJECT OF MY ATTENTION,
• 08:19 IN PART BECAUSE IT WAS THE OBJECT OF THIS AUTHOR.
• 08:23 HE'S GOING TO INTERPRET THESE BEASTS TO REFLECT VARIOUS KINGDOMS,
• 08:27 THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE CAME AND HELD SWAY,
• 08:30 THE PERSIANS AND THE MEDES,
• 08:32 ELSEWHERE THE GREEKS WERE LIKENED TO A LEOPARD
• 08:35 THAT SWEPT AND MOVED SWIFTLY OVER JUDEA AND EASTWARD TO GET THE BETTER OF PERSIA.
• 08:45 WE'RE TOLD THEN THAT ANOTHER EMPIRE ARISES IN THE LAST DAYS IS THE WAY THIS PICTURE IS SET
• 08:52 THAT'S STRANGER THAN ALL THE ANIMALS THAT EVER CAME BEFORE.
• 08:55 IN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 7 HE SEES A VISION,
• 08:59 A LATER VISION WHERE HE SEES A FOURTH BEAST THAT'S TERRIBLE.
• 09:03 THE LANGUAGE IN THE HEBREW BIBLE IS "DREADFUL".
• 09:15 THIS HEINOUS CREATURE WITH IRON TEETH, WITH A METAL MOUTH
• 09:19 COMES AND DEVOURS AND BREAKS IN PIECES, A HORRIBLE CREATURE.
• 09:25 THEN IN VERSE 19 OF THE 7TH CHAPTER DANIEL IS ENQUIRING, "WHAT IS THIS BEAST?"
• 09:32 IN VERSE 19 HE'S STRUCK BY IT. HE SAYS,
• 09:43 IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S SOME EMPIRE, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S EMERGING
• 09:46 THAT'S BENT FOR WAR THAT MADE EVERYTHING THAT CAME BEFORE IT PALE IN COMPARISON.
• 09:50 IT'S A NEW KIND OF WAR.
• 09:52 IT'S A NEW KIND OF EMPIRE.
• 09:54 THERE'S THIS NEW KIND OF WORLD AND DANIEL IS STRUCK AND WANTS TO KNOW WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.
• 09:58 WELL, IN VERSES 23 AND ON, THE EXPLANATION IS GIVEN AND IT REALLY IS WORTH A LOOK.
• 10:03 HE SAYS,
• 10:12 THAT THIS ONE COMES AND IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE THAT CAME BEFORE IT.
• 10:23 EMERGING AT DAYS' END IS THIS HORRIFIC EMPIRE THAT CRUSHES EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF IT.
• 10:31 HE SAYS THEN THAT,
• 10:34 THIS IS WHERE EXPOSITORS GET THIS ONE-WORLD EMPIRE UNDERNEATH THE ANTI-CHRIST
• 10:39 AND FROM THAT WILL EMERGE THIS BEAST, THIS KING WHO WILL ARISE AND BE DIVERSE FROM ALL OTHERS.
• 10:54 WE'RE TOLD THAT THIS ANTI-MESSIAH IS GOING TO MAKE HIS ENTRANCE
• 10:56 ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA OUT OF THIS CONFEDERACY OF KINGS AND HE'S GOING TO RULE.
• 11:02 HE'S GONNA SPEAK WORDS AGAINST THE MOST HIGH GOD AND DO MORE.
• 11:06 WE'LL PICK UP WITH THIS STORY AGAIN IN A MOMENT.
• 11:17 COMING TO YOU FROM THE NEWSROOM OF [WWW.LEVITT.COM]
• 11:24 WHERE WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THE WORLD'S NEWS ON THE ONE HAND
• 11:27 AND LOOKING AT THE WORD OF GOD ON THE OTHER,
• 11:29 AND PUT THE TWO TOGETHER AND GIVE YOU COMMENTARY ON A WEEKLY BASIS IF NOT A DAILY BASIS
• 11:35 WHEN THERE'S BREAKING, PROPHETIC NEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 11:39 I HOPE YOU WILL MAKE IT A HABIT OF REFERRING TO [WWW.LEVITT.COM]
• 11:45 AND LET US CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN.
• 11:57 OH, IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE HERE IN THE JORDAN RIVER.
• 12:00 SANDRA LEVITT AND I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO JOIN US FOR A TRIP.
• 12:03 BUS LOAD OF PILGRIMS ARE HERE
• 12:06 AND 6 PASTOR'S CAME WITH US
• 12:08 THAT ARE BEHIND US HERE BAPTIZING INDIVIDUALS
• 12:13 AND WHY NOT YOU SOMETIME?
• 12:15 JOIN SANDRA LEVITT AND I FOR THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME HERE IN ISRAEL
• 12:18 AND BE BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER.
• 12:31 THAT'S BEAUTIFUL ISRAEL.
• 12:33 PEACEFUL ISRAEL.
• 12:34 WE DON'T GO TO THE PLACES
• 12:35 WE'VE BEEN SHOWING YOU.
• 12:37 WE DON'T GO TO PLACES
• 12:38 WHERE THERE'VE BEEN BOMBS OR THERE'RE ROCKETS.
• 12:40 WE TAKE YOU TO WONDERFUL PILGRIM SITES
• 12:42 THAT ARE WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL PLACES TO SEE.
• 12:45 JEFF, I AM AMAZED THAT THERE ARE BETWEEN 3000 AND 4000 ROCKETS
• 12:49 FALLEN IN SEDEROT SINCE 2000.
• 12:52 I THINK "WHAT OTHER COUNTRY WOULD PUT UP THIS?
• 12:55 YEAH, WHAT WOULD AMERICA DO?
• 12:57 IN 911 WE WERE HIT HARD
• 12:58 AND BINGO THE WHOLE WORLD UNLEASHED FOR US
• 13:01 AND HERE THERE'S THOUSANDS OF THESE
• 13:03 WEEK AFTER MONTH AFTER YEAR.
• 13:05 AND NOBODY REPORTS IT.
• 13:07 ALL WE EVER SEE ON THE NEWS IS THAT ISRAEL GOES INTO GAZA.
• 13:11 ISRAEL GOES AND TAKES THE ACTION.
• 13:14 AND PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO KNOW THAT ROCKETS ARE FLYING INTO ISRAEL.
• 13:18 RIGHT.
• 13:19 EVERY SINGLE DAY.
• 13:21 YES, THEY'RE REALLY AT THEIR RAGGED EDGE THERE.
• 13:23 IT'S NOT ONLY PATHETIC AT ONE LEVEL
• 13:25 BUT ITS PROPHETIC TOO AS THINGS HEAT UP THERE.
• 13:28 SEEMS THAT THESE HAVE BIBLICAL IMPLICATIONS.
• 13:30 IT'S WHAT DANIEL WAS TALKING ABOUT.
• 13:32 DANIEL IS TALKING ABOUT THE END TIMES.
• 13:34 WHAT ARE THE END TIMES?
• 13:35 THIS IS ALL LAID OUT BEFORE US.
• 13:37 RIGHT, ISRAEL GATHERED TOGETHER AS A NATION,
• 13:40 REGIONAL POWERS BENT ON ITS DEMISE,
• 13:43 AN ANTI-CHRIST MAKING HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA.
• 13:47 IT'S ALL THERE ISN'T IT?
• 13:48 ANY WAY HE CAN THE DEVIL USES ANYTHING HE CAN.
• 13:51 YES, IT MIGHT SEEM AT FACE VALUE, BY THE WAY,
• 13:53 THAT WE'RE BURNING BOTH ENDS OF THE CANDLE.
• 13:55 ON THE ONE HAND WE'RE SAYING,
• 13:56 "OH, IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT!"
• 13:58 ON THE OTHER HAND THERE'S WAR LOOMING ON THE HORIZON.
• 14:00 RIGHT. BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S DIFFERENT.
• 14:03 EVERYONE THAT GOES TO ISRAEL IS AMAZED AT HOW PEACEFUL IT IS.
• 14:06 RIGHT, IT'S THE BIBLE LAND.
• 14:07 THE PROBLEMS ARE MORE LOCALIZED RATHER THAN EVERYWHERE.
• 14:10 IN FACT, WHEN WE WENT TO GAZA
• 14:13 WE HAD TO GET MILITARY APPROVAL TO GO THERE.
• 14:16 WE WENT CLOSER THAN MOST PEOPLE GO. RIGHT.
• 14:19 AND NOW OFF TO GAZA WE GO AS WE CONTINUE ALONG IN THE JOURNEY AND CONSIDER
• 14:23 "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH."
• 14:37 WELL, THE SCRIPTURE TALKS ABOUT WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS
• 14:40 AND IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S MORE THAN A RUMOR HERE.
• 14:43 OVER THE HILL I SEE FIRE IN THE GAZA. BEIT HANOUN.
• 14:49 THIS IS THE AREA WHERE
• 14:50 THOUSANDS OF ROCKETS HAS BEEN
• 14:52 LOBBED OVER INTO THIS AREA.
• 14:55 WE JUST OBSERVED, I KNOW YOU HAVE WITH ME,
• 14:57 A UNIT OF TANKS MAKING THEIR WAY TO POINTS UNKNOWN TO US.
• 15:02 I KNOW THEY KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GOING.
• 15:04 WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GOING BUT WE KNOW AT ONE LEVEL WHERE THE WORLD IS GOING
• 15:08 AND SO AGAINST THIS BACKDROP WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS TO CONTINUE THE STORY
• 15:12 IN THE 7TH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL WHEREIN WE'RE TOLD OF A WORLD
• 15:18 WHERE A VERY STRANGE EMPIRE IS GOING TO EMERGE AT DAYS' END AND CRUSH AND REEK HAVOC.
• 15:26 DANIEL, AS YOU MIGHT RECALL WAS CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT ALL THIS MEANT.
• 15:30 HE SAYS AS MUCH AND THEN HE'S DIRECTED TO AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION,
• 15:34 "WHAT MEANS GOD BY THIS VISION?"
• 15:38 HE SAYS HE WANTED TO KNOW THE TRUTH, IN VERSE 19 AND THEN HE WAS TOLD.
• 15:41 WHILE PICKING UP ON VERSE 25 LET ME JUST GO THAT HE SPEAKS
• 15:45 OF THIS DIABOLICAL PERSONALITY THAT EMERGES OVER CONFEDERACY OF STATES.
• 15:51 THIS PERSON IN VERSE 25 HE SAYS,
• 16:02 APPARENTLY THIS PERSON IS SO INTENSE AND SO GIVEN TO BLASPHEMY THAT HE WEARS OUT GOD,
• 16:11 HE WEARS OUT THE SAINTS OF GOD, IF YOU WILL.
• 16:13 WE'RE TOLD AS WELL THAT THIS PERSON
• 16:16 WILL THINK TO CHANGE THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS AND THE LAW.
• 16:20 THIS PERSON WANTS TO REARRANGE LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.
• 16:24 AND OF COURSE, DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION AND IN MANY RESPECTS HE DOES JUST THAT.
• 16:30 THIS ANTI-CHRIST EMERGES AND HE IS GOING TO THEN BRING ARMIES INTO THIS REGION
• 16:35 AND SWEEP DOWN HERE IN A WAY THAT'S JUST UNPRECEDENTED IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT.
• 16:42 WE'RE TOLD THAT PEOPLE WILL BE GIVEN INTO HIS HAND FOR A TIME, TWO TIMES AND A HALF OF TIME.
• 16:50 NOW THIS YEAR, TWO YEARS AND A HALF A YEAR
• 16:53 IS WHERE BIBLE INTERPRETERS GET THE CONCEPT OF THE MIDWAY THROUGH THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• 17:00 THERE'S THIS 7 YEAR SEASON WHEN THE DOG HAS HIS DAY,
• 17:05 COMES OFF INITIALLY SPEAKING RATHER SMOOTHLY
• 17:07 AND ENTICING THE WORLD AND ISRAEL TO A CERTAIN EXTENT INTO A COALITION BEHIND HIM.
• 17:13 BUT THEN AS HE EMERGES THE MORE SO HE SHOWS HIS COLORS.
• 17:18 HE CLAIMS THAT HE'S GOD, WANTS WORSHIP, JEWS HAVE NOTHING OF IT,
• 17:22 THERE'S WARS, THERE'S ANGST, AND THEN A VARIETY OF FORCES ARE MOBILIZED IN THIS REGION.
• 17:28 THE ARGUMENT IS THAT HIS DECLARING HIMSELF GOD IS DONE MIDWAY THROUGH THIS 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• 17:36 YOU HAVE JEWS THAT IN MASS ARE BREAKING AWAY FROM HIS COALITION
• 17:40 AND OTHERS, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WORSHIP HIM,
• 17:42 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO RECEIVE ANY MARKS ON THEIR ARMS.
• 17:44 JEWS WENT THROUGH THIS IN THE HOLOCAUST. WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR ANY REPEAT PERFORMANCES
• 17:48 AND THEN THE LINES ARE DRAWN IN THE SAND AND THE BATTLE IS ON.
• 17:51 AND SO DANIEL SEES THIS THING REALLY, REALLY GETTING BAD.
• 17:55 HE SEES THIS MONSTER COMING AND HOLDING SWAY OVER THE EARTH
• 17:59 OF SUCH AS HAS NOT BEEN SEEN BEFORE.
• 18:01 AND THEN HE GIVES VOICE TO THE FACT THAT THE DOG IS GOING TO HAVE HIS DAY FOR A SEASON.
• 18:04 WE'RE TOLD, HOWEVER, IN VERSE 26,
• 18:12 YOU KNOW HE HAS HIS DAY FOR A SEASON.
• 18:14 ELSEWHERE IN SCRIPTURE WE'RE TOLD THAT SATAN IS THE RULER OF THIS WORLD.
• 18:17 AND WHILE THAT'S GENERALLY TRUE, IT'S PARTICULARLY TRUE IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• 18:22 BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO ENDURE, THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS.
• 18:26 WHEN YOU LOOK AT BIBLE PROPHECY THINGS SINK INTO THIS LOW PLACE.
• 18:30 HERE WE ARE RIGHT AT THE BORDER OF A WORLD AT WAR.
• 18:35 AND BEHIND ME IS THE GAZA STRIP.
• 18:38 PARTICULARLY BEHIND ME IS THE PLACE WHERE THOUSANDS OF MISSILES ARE LAUNCHED,
• 18:44 THESE KASSAM ROCKETS MOLESTING ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ROUND ABOUT.
• 18:48 IT'S JUST NASTY BUSINESS.
• 18:50 YOU SEE, YOU HEAR, TANKS HIT THE THROTTLE AND GO OFF TO POINTS UNKNOWN.
• 18:56 I MEAN AT ONE HAND YOU CAN SAY BIBLE PROPHECY IS A STORY ABOUT A WAR GONE BAD.
• 19:00 BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT GOD PULLS THE RABBIT OUT OF THE HAT.
• 19:04 IT'S BAD NEWS AT ONE LEVEL BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN
• 19:09 BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS HOPE TRIUMPHS OVER DESPAIR,
• 19:12 RIGHTEOUSNESS TRIUMPHS OVER THE UNRIGHTEOUS.
• 19:17 GOD HAS HIS DAY AND THE DEVIL IS TAKEN AND THROWN INTO A PIT AND WE SEE HIM NO MORE.
• 19:21 WE'RE TOLD HERE IN THE TEXT THAT THIS ANTI-CHRIST,
• 19:30 NOW THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
• 19:32 THERE IS THIS ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF GOD IN HUMAN HISTORY AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
• 19:37 WE'RE TOLD,
• 19:55 YOU MIGHT RECALL
• 19:56 IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
• 19:57 JESUS SAID,
• 19:58 "BLESSED OUR THE MEEK FOR THEY
• 19:59 SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH."
• 20:01 THERE'S A SENSE IN WHICH THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN OPPRESSED AND MALIGNED, THEY HAVE THEIR DAY.
• 20:05 THERE'S A VINDICATION IN HUMAN HISTORY AND TO THAT WE ALL AWAIT.
• 20:09 IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS THERE'S A VINDICATION. GOD'S GOING TO GET HIS EARTH BACK.
• 20:13 HERE WE ARE IN ISRAEL PROPER. ISRAEL'S GOING TO GET HER TERRITORIES BACK.
• 20:18 NOW THERE YOU ARE SITTING IN YOUR LIVING ROOM,
• 20:20 WHEREVER IT IS YOU'RE WATCHING THIS PROGRAM,
• 20:23 YOU'RE GOING GET YOUR LIFE BACK.
• 20:24 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE DEVIL COMES TO STEAL, TO KILL AND TO DESTROY.
• 20:28 YESHUA, JESUS SAID, "I CAME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT ABUNDANTLY".
• 20:32 THERE IS A RESTORATION WHERE YOU GET THE PROMISE MADE FOR YOU.
• 20:37 GOD SAID THAT HE MADE HUMAN KIND.
• 20:39 IT SAYS IN HEBREW
• 20:41 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 20:47 GOD MADE MAN TO BE VICTORIOUS, TO BE THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL, THE VICTOR AND NOT VICTIM.
• 20:51 SIN HAD ITS WAY, THE RACE WAS VIOLATED, IT WENT DOWN.
• 20:55 GOD'S GONNA GET YOU BACK IF YOU TURN TO HIM THERE'S A RESTORATION.
• 21:00 ISRAEL WAS GIVEN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 21:02 ISRAEL GETS ISRAEL BACK AND GOD GETS HIS PLANET BACK.
• 21:06 ONCE UPON A TIME GOD MADE MAN AND MADE MAN UPRIGHT AND PUT HUMAN KIND HERE ON PLANET EARTH.
• 21:13 BUT SIN WENT AND MADE IT'S ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE DRAMA AND THE THING WENT BAD.
• 21:17 WELL IT ALL COMES BACK TOGETHER AGAIN AS GOD HAS HIS TRIUMPH IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AT DAYS' END.
• 21:35 THAT'S JEFF IN THE GAZA
• 21:36 TALKING ABOUT THE
• 21:37 "MARK OF THE BEAST"
• 21:39 THAT PEOPLE WILL BE REQUIRED
• 21:40 TO TAKE "666"
• 21:41 OR WHATEVER THE MARK IS DONE
• 21:44 BUT THE INTERESTING PART, JEFF, I THINK
• 21:46 IS THAT THE JEWS WON'T DO THAT AGAIN.
• 21:49 THEY'VE GOT THOSE TATTOOS ON THEIR ARMS. THEY DO NOT FORGET.
• 21:53 THE MANTRA FOR THE HOLOCAUST IS "NEVER AGAIN!"
• 21:55 NEVER AGAIN.
• 21:57 AND THAT IS WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST.
• 21:59 WE CAN'T FORGET. THESE SURVIVORS WILL DIE OUT.
• 22:03 WE'VE GOT TO REMEMBER NOT TO TAKE THE MARK.
• 22:06 AND WHAT WAS MOST PRONOUNCED IN MY MEMORY GROWING UP
• 22:08 IN A POST-HOLOCAUST GERMAN JEWISH WORLD
• 22:10 ARE THOSE TATTOOS AND HOW SHOCKED I WAS
• 22:12 TO THINK HOW JEWS WERE RECORDED LIKE THAT.
• 22:14 NEVER AGAIN.
• 22:15 NEVER AGAIN. I AGREE.
• 22:17 AVI LIPKIN IS A FRIEND OF THE MINISTRY AND ZOLA LOVED LISTENING TO HIM TALK.
• 22:21 HERE'S ZOLA INTRODUCING AVI LIPKIN.
• 22:26 OUR FRIEND, AVI LIPKIN,
• 22:27 SPEAKS IN CHURCHES
• 22:29 A LOT OF THE TIME.
• 22:32 HE'S A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ISRAELI ARMY OR THAT WAS HIS WORK IN THE ARMY
• 22:35 AND HE'S VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THINGS MILITARY, ABOUT THINGS IN THE PROMISED LAND.
• 22:40 OF COURSE HE LIVES THERE EVERYDAY.
• 22:42 HE'S SPEAKS GOOD ARABIC.
• 22:43 HIS WIFE MONITORS THE ARAB NEWS SERVICES.
• 22:46 SHE IS AN EGYPTIAN JEW AND SPEAKS PERFECT ARABIC.
• 22:51 AND HE'S AN INTERESTING FELLOW TO TALK TO,
• 22:53 A LOT OF PERSPECTIVE, SO OF COURSE WE QUESTIONED AVI ABOUT, BEING ON THIS SUBJECT,
• 23:00 THE POSSIBILITIES OF AN UPCOMING INVASION OF ISRAEL.
• 23:04 SO NOW TO OUR EXPERT AVI LIPKIN.
• 23:09 THERE ARE TWO PRIMARY
• 23:10 IDEOLOGICAL AND STRATEGIC WAYS
• 23:14 OF THINKING IN ISRAEL TODAY,
• 23:15 THAT WE'RE FACING A GROUND WAR
• 23:17 AND WE ARE FACING A MISSILE WAR.
• 23:20 AND OF COURSE MISSILES DON'T STOP AT ANY BORDERS.
• 23:24 BUT IN A GROUND WAR IT IS USUALLY THE GROUND WARS WHICH DECIDE THE OUTCOME OF ANY WAR
• 23:31 AND YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN OCCUPIED KUWAIT IN 6 HOURS,
• 23:35 BUT IT TOOK THE U.S. AND THE ARAB COALITION 6 MONTHS TO EXPEL SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM KUWAIT.
• 23:42 ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT THAT HAS TO BE MADE MENTION OF
• 23:46 IS THE FACT THAT THE TERRITORIES AS ISRAEL KNOWS THEM TODAY,
• 23:49 JUDEA, SAMARIA AND GAZA, ARE THE SIZE OF KUWAIT.
• 23:52 SO THEORETICALLY IF YOU HAVE MILLIONS OF TROOPS INVADING ON THE GROUND
• 23:57 THIS AREA COULD BE TAKEN IN 6 HOURS.
• 24:00 SO THE GROUND PLAYS A VERY, VERY CRITICAL ROLE IN WHOEVER HOLDS THE GROUND
• 24:03 AND WHOEVER HAS THE TANKS AND TROOPS.
• 24:05 THESE ARE THE PEOPLE USUALLY WHO HAVE THE CONTROL OVER THE OUTCOME OF THE WAR.
• 24:09 YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE THE NON-CONVENTIONAL WEAPONRIES
• 24:13 SUCH AS ATOMIC, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL.
• 24:15 AND ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF ATOMIC WEAPONRIES,
• 24:17 IF YOU HAVE A MISSILE WITH MULTI WARHEAD CAPACITY,
• 24:21 ONE MISSILE COULD THEORETICALLY TAKE OUT ALL OF ISRAEL BECAUSE ISRAEL IS SO SMALL.
• 24:25 WHAT I THINK MAY HAPPEN,
• 24:27 AND AGAIN I PRAY TO GOD THAT I'M WRONG ABOUT WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
• 24:30 IS THAT THERE WOULD BE SOME KIND OF AN ESCALATION THAT JUST GETS OUT OF CONTROL.
• 24:35 AND THIS HAS HAPPENED MANY TIMES HERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 24:38 AND WE MIGHT SEE, LIKE I SAID EARLIER IN THE PROGRAM,
• 24:41 A SIMULTANEOUSLY SYNCHRONIZED ATTACK ON ISRAEL FROM THE ARAB SIDE.
• 24:45 BUT I AS A BELIEVER IN GOD BELIEVE THAT WE'RE GONNA WIN.
• 24:49 I'VE HEARD MANY, MANY TESTIMONIES FROM JEWISH PEOPLE IN ISRAEL
• 24:54 IN THE 1948 WAR AND THE 1956 WAR AND THE 1967 WAR
• 24:57 AND EVEN TODAY WHERE BOMBS ARE FALLING, WHERE ROCKS ARE THROWN, WHERE BULLETS ARE SHOT
• 25:04 AND PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT OF IT IN AN UNBELIEVABLE WAY THAT - IT'S A TERRIBLE THING TO SAY -
• 25:12 THAT THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE COME OUT OF IT ALIVE.
• 25:14 AND THEY CAME OUT ALMOST UNSCATHED.
• 25:16 AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT GOD IS SHIELDING HIS PEOPLE UNDER HIS WINGS.
• 25:52 AVI IS A GREAT MAN ON THE GROUND
• 25:54 AND HE GIVES A WINDOW INTO UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE PRESENT WORLD
• 25:57 AND DANIEL FOR MY MONEY DOES MUCH THE SAME.
• 26:00 IN CHAPTER 7 SANDRA WE HAVE AN ANTI-CHRIST WHO EMERGES WHO IS
• 26:04 GIVEN TO PERSECUTING THE SAINTS IN VERSE 25
• 26:08 AND HE LETS LOOSE HELL ON PLANET EARTH.
• 26:10 I FEEL ALMOST IF I WASN'T A BELIEVER I'D REALLY BE AFRAID.
• 26:15 I'D BE REALLY AFRAID. THIS IS NOT GOOD NEWS FOR UNBELIEVERS.
• 26:18 THE GOOD NEWS I LOVE IN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 27
• 26:22 IS THAT IT SAYS,
• 26:30 GOD WINS.
• 26:31 THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF GOD IN HUMAN HISTORY.
• 26:34 IT'S WONDERFUL.
• 26:35 DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING.
• 26:36 AND AS YOU GO, REMEMBER,
• 26:37 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:39 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.