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

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