Sword, Famine & Pestilence
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Dean Odle warns that sword, famine, and pestilence are recurring biblical judgments and applies Jeremiah and Amos to the United States. Beginning with Daniel 7’s beasts and his interpretation of modern national symbols, he frames current war, food-system disruption, and public-health planning as signs of a rising global system that will culminate in the fourth beast.
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The opening prayer confesses Jesus as Creator, crucified and risen Lord, and asks for grace to endure the hard events Scripture foretells. Odle balances warnings of judgment with the promise that resurrected saints will inherit the kingdom, the New Jerusalem, and the earth.
Daniel 7 is read from the lion, bear, leopard, and terrible fourth beast through the judgment scene before the Ancient of Days. Odle identifies the Ancient of Days with Jesus and emphasizes that earthly empires are temporary before His everlasting dominion.
The lion with eagle’s wings is interpreted as Britain and the United States, the bear as Russia, and the leopard with wings and heads as Germany and associated European powers. These disputed identifications set up the sermon’s claim that the fourth beast is now consolidating global control.
Odle recounts his 1987 surrender to Christ after the Holy Spirit confronted him with a choice between the world and eternal life. His early ministry to a convert from Satanism becomes testimony that spiritual conflict is real and that Jesus preserves those who obey Him.
Jeremiah 14’s failed wells, scorched ground, and starving animals are applied as a warning of coming famine in the United States. Odle says national backsliding and an unrepentant church have brought the country near a point where ordinary appeals for relief may no longer avert judgment.
Jeremiah’s prophets denied that sword and famine would reach the land, but God declared that those very judgments would consume them and their hearers. The sermon warns pastors against soothing messages that deny consequences while people continue in sin.
Amos 5 describes cities reduced to a remnant and commands Israel to seek God rather than counterfeit worship at Bethel and Gilgal. Odle applies the passage to churches that preserve religious branding while abandoning righteousness, urging repentance before judgment breaks out like fire.
A friend’s dream of a blinding flash, a mushroom cloud, armed Asian soldiers, and a search for food and water is shared as consistent with Odle’s long-standing warnings. He presents the group’s apparent protection as a reason to trust God while still taking practical shortages seriously.
The sermon reviews reports about global preparedness exercises, censorship, agricultural disruption, and scenarios resembling Event 201. Odle alleges that elite institutions are rehearsing food shortages and another public-health emergency; these claims are presented as his interpretation, not independently verified conclusions.
A closing clip about a proposed pandemic treaty, bird flu, vaccines, and livestock culling is connected to the fourth beast’s destructive reach. Odle’s final encouragement is that forewarning allows believers to repent, stop indulging worldly lusts, prepare wisely, and remain faithful to Jesus.
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mighty God creator of heaven and earth the name above every name which is Jesus Christ God manifested in the flesh the one who died on the cross and rose from the dead the one who lived the sinless life the one who gave us the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation we give you glory and praise and honor and thanksgiving this morning you are the mighty one the holy one there is none like you you are the king of kings the Lord of lords the God of all gods the only true creator and the only way to have forgiveness of sins and eternal life you will return to this earth Lord and before that there's a lot of horrible things are going to happen and Lord we are not going to be ignorant of those things we're going to be prepared to follow you and endure to the end that we might be saved and we pray that today in Jesus name everybody said amen amen you may be seated this morning welcome everyone to fire and grace church welcome those watching listening ah good to praise the Lord amen heaven's gonna be good we're gonna have some great worship services up there we're on some great ones down here you know the kingdom Jesus gonna set up the kingdom on earth but the resurrected saints the glorified saints that get the body like Jesus has at the resurrection when he returns we get heaven we get new Jerusalem and we get to inherit the earth and rule the earth we get everything I say this we got a home in heaven then we get a city home and then we get a country home we'll have it all and I love that scripture in Luke where God says it fear not little flock it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom think about that Lord's like I'm gonna give it all to you it's all yours and then he tells us that things haven't he minute into our hearts things that he's prepared for us so what he's told us it's just a little sliver of information but I hate to say this before that we are headed into the worst time that the world has ever seen and it is closely now upon us I'm gonna say this that I think really things are going to drastically change starting in probably toward the end of 2024 definitely 2025 2026 and things are going to spiral even further out of our control into the control of the world government now I want to put up something there's a lot of scripture I want to go to today I'm trying to piece it all together for you I do have a lot of videos and a lot of things that I want to share with you but I want you
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to go go to the book of Daniel first I'm trying to find stuff to save my spots all right let's go to the book of Daniel chapter 7 this ought to be a familiar passage to our guys gals in this place but Daniel 7 will get there because the beast is coming and let's just read this we'll go from verse 1 you already I hope y'all ready to go we got we we we gonna cover a lot today he says in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed and then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters and Daniel spake and said I sawed my vision by night and behold the four winds of the heavens strove upon the great sea and four great beasts came up from the sea diverse one from another the first was like a lion and had Eagle's wings and I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon the feet as a man and a man's heart was given into it and I be and behold another beast a second like to a bear and it raised itself up on one side and it had three ribs in mouth of it between the teeth of it and they said thus unto it arise and devour much flesh after this I beheld and lo another like a leopard which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl the beast had also four heads and Dominion was given into it and after this I sawed the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth and it devoured and breaking pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns and I considered the horns and behold there came up among them another little horn before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots and behold in this horn were the eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouse speaking great things and I beheld till the thrones were cast down in the ancient of days God Almighty the Lord Jesus Christ whose garment was white as snow and his hair like pure wool now who is this this is the vision of Jesus that John had in Revelation so Jesus is God Almighty he is God in the flesh and he is this ancient of days we said I beheld these thrones were cast down and the ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and his hair of his head like the pure wool and his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as a burning fire and a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him thousands thousands ministered
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unto him and ten thousands time ten thousand stood before him the judgment was set and the books were open and I beheld then because of the voice of the great words of which the horn spake and I beheld even till the the beast was slain and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame and concerning the rest of the beast they had their dominion taken away yet their lives were prolonged for a season and I saw in the night visions behold one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples and nations and languages should serve him and his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed now remember this little part right here he says I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body and the visions of my head troubled me and I came near unto one of them that stood by and asked him the truth of all this so he told me and made me to know the interpretation of the things he said these great beasts which are four are four kings which shall arise out of the earth give me a favor and pull up these the four beasts the the PowerPoint with these beasts on I'm just gonna run through these in just a second give you a little visual he says these great beasts which are four are four kings somebody say which shall arise see the traditional teaching is that the lion with the eagle's wings Babylon and the bear is media Persia and so forth and that the the leopard with the foreheads was Greece and then when it was divided into four after Alexander the Great was killed and then of course the fourth beast we know was the end-time kingdom but that's not the proper interpretation this never has been he didn't say that these were beasts that did exist he said these are four beasts which shall arise meaning at the time Daniel's writing this these four beasts did not exist okay meaning that these the lion with the eagle's wings being plucked out of it the bear the leopard with the four wings and then this great beast these were different than what we've been taught and look even Daniel said about his prophecy that these things were hidden and concealed until the time of the end so anybody that really tried to figure it out until now had no idea what he was talking about but a lot again a lot of traditional teachings are incorrect now let's if you got it let's pull this up you go ahead and pull it up and I'll go ahead and read the rest of this alright and y'all can just follow along with me if they get that up there but it anyway it goes on to explain it again since these great beasts which are four are four kings which shall arise out of the earth but the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever even forever and ever then I would know the truth of the fourth beast which was diverse from all the others exceedingly dreadful whose teeth where's the teeth of iron and his nails of brass which devoured and breaking pieces and stamped the residue with his feet and of the ten horns that were in his head and of the other which
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came up before whom three fell even of that horn that had the eyes and the mouth expect very great things and whose look was more stout than his fellows and I beheld and the same horn that little horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them now I want to get right here when I want to point this out you put the scripture up real quick this scripture this little horn this this final beast system with the ten horns right the seven heads of the ten horns and this little horn that comes up it says gonna make war with the saints and prevail now this is what your kingdom now seven mountain-mandate Dominion nonsense teachings out there about the church is gonna take over the world system and make it a better and better place take over the political system take over media take over all this nonsense is not what in time prophecy says in time prophecy says both here in Daniel and Revelation 13 says that this Antichrist this beast this man who will lead a world government system this man will make war with the Saints that's with Christians folks that's with the true born-again Christians I'm not talking about the Luke one warm ones down the road they'll be at peace with him they'll join up with him I'm talking about the true Christians who know the Word of God and refuse to bow refuse to submit to this thing now he said this and there's a reason I'm going through this he says that this horn this is the Antichrist will make war with the Saints and prevail against them and I love it in my King James Bible here there's a semicolon meaning this thoughts not finished but he'll prevail until the ancient of days came and judgment was given to the Saints of the most high and the time came that the Saints possessed the kingdom and thus he said the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms and it shall devour the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it into pieces and the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise and another shall rise after them and he shall be diverse from the first and he shall subdue three kings he shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the saints of the most high and think to change times and laws and they shall be given into his hand until a times and a time and dividing a time meaning the Saints of the most high he will be allowed to wear out the Saints and the Saints will be given into his hand to prevail against them for a time times and a dividing of time that's three and a half years okay not the full seven it's the last three and a half it's going to be the worst that's when he will have full power in this world government will have for full power he says here but verse 26 but the judgment shall sit and they shall take
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