Mid-East War
About this sermon
In “Mid-East War,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Israel in prophecy, Bible prophecy, faith. Drawing especially from Joel 2, Joel 3, Ezekiel 36, Amos 9, the teaching emphasizes that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone.
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Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Joel 2, Joel 3, Ezekiel 36. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Joel 3, Luke 21, Deuteronomy 18. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that Islamic claims and biblical revelation present incompatible accounts of God and salvation. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Joel 3, Ezekiel 38, Revelation 9. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that Jerusalem is presented as a biblical and prophetic focal point in God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Ezekiel 38. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Amos 9, Revelation 9, Psalm 83. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Ezekiel 38, Revelation 9. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Daniel 9. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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the god of abraham isaac and jacob the one true god the only true god we exalt you in the name you have put above every name the name of jesus and we thank you lord that you came in the form of a man that you died on that cross and shed your blood to give us a way to be forgiven lord we are grateful that you rose from the dead to show that that forgiveness and that relationship with you and that repentance would give us eternal life that you have a plan for us lord beyond this world and lord i'm so glad because this world is a mess and we need we need another another world we need another place lord because this place is headed in a bad direction so we come to you today and we just pray god that you will open our eyes to your word and we pray that you will change our lives and prepare us lord to be a light and a witness in jesus name amen and amen hallelujah got their bibles this morning i hope if you don't go get one we have some on the shelf i want you to see what i'm going to show you this morning hallelujah somebody say hallelujah thank you jesus you know i've battled a little bit this morning with what to share with you because you know of course i've been accused of preaching on end time prophecy too much but the bottom line is it seems that that this seems to be the subject that's getting uh lost people's attention and people that have fallen away from god it's starting to get people's attention because uh so many things are happening in the news and so it i wouldn't be right if i didn't deal with what's in the news and what the lord's been showing me so this morning we're going to look at what's going on what well we're going to talk about what's going on in the world right now with the with gaza and uh israel and the war that is now going on in gaza uh how the egyptians uh may be getting involved in this and and we need to answer the question is where is all this in the bible is all this in the bible well somebody uh i won't name a name but somebody asked that question this week and when they got told yes they rededicated their lives to the lord so let's just put it this way every truth in the bible is good and whether it's there to help you at the moment maybe it's maybe you don't need that particular truth but somebody out there
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does right um i really believe with what's going on in gaza with the palestinians and the israelis and hamas and uh and how that the entire arab world seems to make the palestinian issue uh their little pet peeve that they want to start a world war over anyway i just think that that's a pertinent issue because the bible had a lot to say about this about the these would be the issues in the last days and he names many nations by name that would be problems in the last days that and that they would be at each other that they would be at israel and so you know when when you're out and about in the world when you're at work or you're at school and you you see these news reports you need to know i mean here's here's what's wild is we've got three thousand year old prophecies twenty seven hundred year old prophecies uh talks about gaza being a problem in the last days right i mean who would have thought that i mean gaza goes back thousands of years who would have thought that you know here we are in 2012 and just like the bible said the problem that's about to start world war three has to do with the philistines which is arabic in arabic is a palestinian rather in arabic is philistine that's how they pronounce it philistine sound familiar guess where the philistines lived in the old days in gaza all right now this is not different now are they truly you know uh generational philistines maybe maybe not i don't know i don't think that's the issue but i think the bible talks about people living in those regions and who would be living in those regions in the last days it's that's significant so anyway let's look at some of the scriptures on this because i want you to see we're going to look at what what what does the bible say about gaza about egypt about libya even about some of these nations of what what their place they're going to play and then i'm going to share with you some things about the united states but anyway go to the book of joel we're going to start in the book of joel chapter 3. now the book of joel is clearly talking about the last days matter of fact just back up to chapter two i think we looked at this verse last week in acts chapter two because this is where peter quoted from here but we'll just read acts two fir i mean joel 2 first and then we'll go to joel 3. but joel 2 verse 28 he says and it shall come to pass afterward that i will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and of course when peter wrote this he said in the last days he said i will pour out my spirit on all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions and also upon the servants and upon the
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handmaids in those days i will pour out of my spirit and i will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth blood and fire and pillars of smoke and i we talked about that last week with the nuclear my dream about the nuclear attack and obama doing nothing about it when it comes in verse 31 it says the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the lord come so this is talking about the the last days we'll just read that last verse 32 and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call in the name of the lord shall be delivered for in mount zion and in jerusalem shall be deliverance as the lord has said in the remnant or the small group that's left whom the lord shall call now just wanted you to see the context he's talking about the last days in the great day of the lord and we all know in the context of the end times that there's going to be there's going to be this struggle between israel and between their arab neighbors now here's the thing one of the greatest fulfillments of end time prophecy that's ever come to pass right was israel being restored as a nation in 1948 now that is very significant it's in the book of ezekiel it's in the book of isaiah chapter 11. god said he would restore israel back to their land a second time and literally uses the word ensign meaning they would be a nation again they would have a flag they would be a nation and he would establish them the book of amos chapter 9 says that he would bring israel back to the land again and they will be no more plucked up out of it again so we know that when in 19 really jews have always there's always been a jewish presence in jerusalem always but they were that their majorities were dispersed after 70 a.d when titus and his legions came in and primarily islamic legions came in and destroyed the temple and the jews were dispersed all over the world for 1878 years right but god said i will bring him back to the land and of course in 1948 he did now the end times issues talk about of course 1948 was serious i need to back back up here but what was even more serious was 1967 because the jews had to possess jerusalem again for the end time prophecies to come to pass so of course in 1967 the arabs wanted to go to war again like they did in 1948 and they went to war again and israel ended up taking more land from them this time every time they go to war they seem to lose and israel takes more land from them they could have in 1973 but but through pressure from the united states and
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russia israel backed away from damascus syria backed away from cairo egypt they could have taken over both countries had they been left alone all right um but anyway bottom line is those those are two just whoppers right a fulfilled prophecy um israel becoming a nation again 1948 from ezekiel 36 amos 9 isaiah 11. you need to know these things matter of fact if you don't know where these things are you should right uh israel taking jerusalem back was interesting if you want a reference to that luke 21 he said jesus said that when you see jerusalem surrounded by armies he said know that the desolation thereof is nine that everything that is written by the prophets will be fulfilled now think about that so it had to happen israel had to come back to their land they had to possess jerusalem again because if not why would why would their enemies want to take jerusalem from them if they didn't have it right it's kind of those things just logical thinking right so we've seen the greatest two two of the greatest fulfillments of bible prophecy israel becoming a nation them retaking jerusalem and we're about to see a few more right now i want to show you that right here in the book of joel and this was written about the time i think near the time of isaiah but probably about 750 or so bc give or take joel writes down this prophecy of the last days that's where he talks about god's going to pour out his spirit on all flesh your sons and daughters will prophesy there's going to be blood and fire and pillars of smoke which i believe is prophetic of nuclear war he saw and he said of course the the the sun will finally go dark and the moon not give off its light right before the great and terrible day of the lord comes that's a direct reference to the sixth seal which happens right before the end and right before jesus comes through and comes back physically to the earth but look what he says are some of the issues joel 3 let's start reading there talking about those last days he said behold in those days and in that time i shall bring again the captivity of judah and jerusalem now that literally means to gather them back break you know we king james sometimes is difficult but he says bring back the captivity means bring them basically bring them out of their captivity back um and he said i will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of jehoshaphat now that's another name for the valley of jezreel or the valley of megiddo which is where we get the term armageddon from okay the valley of megiddo is the valley where the battle of armageddon will be fought where jesus will return to fight that battle at his second coming
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