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holy ghost fire and power and passion boldness the longing for you lord and not for this world the longing god for your holiness and righteousness lord rather than the sins and the lust of this world lord we pray god that you'll just draw us draw us closer and lord you promised lord if we would draw near to you you would draw near to us lord and god you promised that by the blood of jesus that we could draw near to you lord we could draw near have our sins washed away lord you just ask that we confess you just ask that we repent you just ask if we come you are merciful you are loving you are forgiving you are holy you are just we know god that you will judge sin you will judge those who won't repent you will judge those who choose to reject your ways but even in that lord you are you are still the merciful true god jehovah yahweh the god and father of our lord jesus christ we worship you this morning we need your holy spirit we need the spirit of jesus christ to fill us and anoint us a afresh and you do a new thing in us lord put in a a new heart a new passion a new zeal a new fire got a new desire to know you and to be with you and to worship you a new desire lord to to live the word of god to live the truth to to walk it and not just talk it but also lord the holy anointing god to be a witness to be a light to this world to speak the truth or whether it offends them whether it makes them angry whether it makes them hate us lord the truth of your word that will set the captives free lord there are people out there who will hear who will listen in these last days they will hear and turn and be saved lord we believe god that in the midst of things getting darker and darker that there's also going to be a move of the holy ghost bringing people to repentance and faith in the lord jesus christ lord we thank you for the cross we thank you that you died in our place on that cross that you lived a holy righteous sinless life you died on that cross for our sins you bore our sins in your body lord jesus and we thank you that you rose from the dead on the third day that you are alive forevermore that you have the keys of hell and death that you are the soon coming king that you will one day bring down this this evil corrupt world system and their world government everything else that's coming you will bring it down and establish your kingdom and your people with you forever and forever lord we worship you the king of kings and the lord of lords we exalt you jesus the only way the only truth and the only
life we thank you by virtue of your blood that we can have eternal life in heaven if we'll but turn from sin and make you lord oh lord i praise you today i praise you today praise you lord hallelujah you may be seated this morning you know before i get into this message this morning i was just thinking as we were singing that song a minute ago i started this journey with the lord in april of 1979 and a little baptist church called northside baptist church over in opalia cabal down from opelika high school and it was a powerful experience i had then with the presence of of jesus even though i got away from god in my teenage years through a lot of different things that happened in my family and though i ran from god and did what i wanted to do for a season no one could ever tell me that he wasn't real you know jesus so revealed himself to me when i was born again at 11 years old that you know i mean me you know richard almost got in a fight because he tried to argue with me about it one time when we were in school because you know i knew i knew two things after that touch from god in that church i knew that jesus was really who he said he was i knew he was the only way to heaven i knew i was headed to hell if i didn't turn to him and the presence of god so enveloped me as an 11 year old boy there's nothing you could do or say to change my mind nothing and i was just thinking you know uh in june you know of course in june of 1987 god got a hold of me to get my life right to get out of my drugs and alcohol and immorality and just to finally give up my sinful lifestyle and and follow him completely and i thank god i made that decision to do that and uh that'll be 26 years this june and i'm going to tell you i'm as hungry and thirsty for him today as i was back then amen ain't nothing better folks nothing better than to know the presence of jesus and the truth of
jesus the truth of god's word down deep in your soul to know him not just know about him but to know him intimately and powerfully and to be walking with him in in righteousness and in uh just in his in his love there is nothing better to know the peace and the presence of god and you don't get that by sitting on your your tail doing nothing you have to you have to seek him you have to pursue him amen you have to want him you have to long for him it makes me sad that most of this world they don't and what's even worse is most christians or people who call themselves christians are so lukewarm now they've lost that that they've lost that loving feeling haven't they they really don't love god like they did when they were saved when they were first saved it was all new the world's got a hold of them sins got a hold of them the lies of the devil's gotten a hold of them and it's sad to see you know and i'm not condemning them because you know i pray god every one of them come home amen i pray i pray to god every prodigal that strayed from home will come home i was one you know when i went through my divorce and my whole world fell apart i strayed a bit myself i got lukewarm myself even even when i believed i never would i thought it wouldn't happen to me but it happened but you know what i thank god for his mercy that he will protect us that he will draw us that he will keep us alive when he really shouldn't and he'll give us a chance after chance after chance um man are we blessed to have to have had the opportunities that we have and and even still have some i'm just in all but you know um the days uh the days are getting shorter you know before i go into this i want everybody just turn to matthew 24 this morning you know i want to share something that happened i remember i came back to the lord in june of 1987 out in eureka springs arkansas where i was working for the summer full intentions on returning to troy that was my plan uh you know i wanted to walk on and play football at troy and do some other things but it just wasn't uh god's plan for me but i was out there working in eureka springs for the summer and uh i know i've shared the story with y'all but god got a hold of me and convicted me of my sin and used the guy that i was working for he was only 24 years old and i was 19. it was just powerful god came flooding back into my life well that was in june and then in october i and and from june to october i just spent pretty much every day in prayer and reading the bible if i wasn't at work i was praying and studying the bible or reading a
christian book or some type christian article i remember back in those days i read a lot of david wilkerson's stuff a lot of keith green you know that was back when we had good preachers out there that were big and popular that preached it you know leonard ravenhill you know that's what i cut my teeth on the good stuff i think most of this generation that a lot of them don't even know who those people are um but in october of 1987 before i left and came back here of course you all know the story that i had led a girl to the lord who was a satanist and she was um you know pretty pretty deep in all that but one night i was up praying and um it was probably about three four in the morning and there was one little lamp on in the room over there i'm way over here so it's mostly dark in the room and so the the lamps over there and maybe i say i'm praying right here and over here in this corner it was like the room began to open up it was like a hole began to open up like in the wall basically the light over here got brighter than any light that was in the room and basically what happened was i began to have an open vision of jesus of heaven it was one of the most powerful experiences i ever had i literally saw the heavens open up i saw jesus standing in heaven and seemingly at a distance i could see him standing there i could see him beside the glory of the father and i saw as i watched the the wings all i could see was the wings because the light was so bright in the center i could see just the wings like dove's wings the holy spirit coming down and hovering over jesus um the power of god and the presence of god was so strong in that vision and that time with god that i actually believed in my head i'm thinking that the presence of god is so powerful and so strong that jesus must be coming right now that's how powerful it was and then after it continued for about 10 minutes i thought my physical body cannot handle this much longer it was so powerful but not painful it was the most glorious intense love and sheer power that i have ever experienced in my life i mean it was just i i just i there's no way to put it into words but of course this is where the lord began to speak to me and he called me to be a prophet at this time and and part of being a prophet is having visions from god so this was kind of the beginning of that calling and those gifts beginning to operate my life but one of
the things the lord spoke to me in that very very strongly he said these words to me as i watched him there he said waste no time for you have little time left to spare i am coming and i knew that the call or part of the calling on my life from that point on was to study and prepare people for the things that would transpire before the second coming of jesus and would lead up to the second coming of jesus and so i am you know i've been criticized and attacked and all called all kind of things for obeying this call but then i found out yesterday i was listening to a guy who was a some message from the from the 90s at some point and he talked about a a survey or a poll that was taken back in the 1970s of all these different seminary students who were getting prepared to go out into the ministry of every denomination it was a big poll that was taken about how many of them actually believed in the literal second coming of jesus christ to the earth to establish his kingdom on the earth for a thousand years and it came out this that 98 of the seminary students did not believe in the literal physical second coming of jesus christ to this earth now think for a minute those guys are now the pastors of the largest churches in america and that's why they don't preach on it they don't teach on it and that's why they even try to malign people who do and most of them are going to fall in line with the antichrist and the false prophet when they come because they are so blinded by their prideful theological um ideas that aren't based on scripture a lot of them based their stuff on roman catholic theology about end times and uh of course we know that's screwed up this morning though i feel like even though this is some subjects that we've covered a little bit i just felt the lord real strongly say i want you to look at this this morning especially with events that have been transpiring in the last few days with israel and syria and we are so close to a prophesied war uh and i'll show you the scriptures we're gonna get into it and call it the sixth trumpet war you can call it the gog magog war some people gonna call it world war three but we are very close to a prophesied ward i know a lot of people
think well that's been talked about a long time but again you have to pay you have to pay specific attention to what the bible says and not just generalize things okay the bible said there were some specifics that would let us know when that war was approaching but this uh of course thursday israel well israel in the last few months had warned syria assad of syria the president assad of syria that if the his forces tried to transfer weapons sophisticated weapons long-range missiles chemical weapons you know any of those things that if he tried to transfer those to hezbollah which is the radical terrorist group that's positioned in southern lebanon right on israel's border funded by iran right if they if that if damascus and assad tried to transfer any type of sophisticated weapons to these uh enemies of israel that israel would attack and stop those tran the transfer of those weapons okay of course assad in a desperate situation that he's in and with iran's provoking and i imagine a few other issues going on in the last few weeks they've been trying to transfer long-range missiles to hezbollah so israel hit them hard a few weeks ago then they hit them again really hard on thursday well after the thursday strike that destroyed a military base and killed around 300 both iranian and hezbollah soldiers some high-ranking soldiers syria assad began to say that he was contemplating declaring war on israel russia also chimed in and said that it looks like that israel is about to destabilize the entire region of course russia is on syria side and iran's side which is exactly what the bible said would happen 2600 years ago okay now why again one of the reasons i want to say this that i share on these things is because i don't expect you to get it if when i talk about it one time first of all and number two these are powerful witnessing tools to share with people who don't believe the bible and boy are we ever in a war about is the bible the word of god is the bible true is it uh is it is it something we should pay attention to you know i just read if this morning just looking at cnn and and debka file was like reading matthew 24. i mean there was a cnn article that i just posted this morning about the growing hatred toward christians over the homosexual issue but how many people know that's a prophecy that jesus gave in matthew 24 then you will be hated of all nations for my name's sake and in the same chapter he warned like it was
in the days of lot so will it be in the days of the coming of the son of man what was the problem in the days of lot rampant militant homosexuality and trying to basically overthrow lot's household and lot was the only righteous man and the only only righteous man left in sodom and they wanted to come in and rape angels in his house and and even rape him and this is where we've come we've we it's gotten out of hand now to the point they're going to make it illegal to speak against homosexuality you you mark my words that that's coming okay but just like jesus said it would be it would be a sign of the end in the same chapter i mean and in the same chapter uh we have jesus talking about like it was in the days of noah and we might read that a minute he said he's talked about the violence of men and men and men and he talked about the angels the fallen angels with with human women and creating the race of giants so so demons and human beings coming together and here a guy this past week walks into the houston airport talking about he's got monster inside himself trying to tell him to kill a bunch of people and he manages to shoot himself in the head and kill himself first you know what that man needed that man needed some demons cast out of him he needed deliverance folks we are living in the last days there is no question about it matthew 24 let's just read from verse 3 a few verses we're not going to cover it all this morning but i want you to see these things it's important you know a lot of people say why do you preach on these things it produces fear it's doom and gloom and i say this you know what why did jesus preach on why did paul preach on why did peter preach on if they preach these things then so should i so should we and tell you the truth the reason i preach on it as frequently as i do is because so many other preachers don't and i want to tell you something what's amazing to me is that since i have been obeying god to do this and preach on these things i've gone from like 100 hits on our facebook pages to 2 000 and something in a week last night i looked at we had something like uh we have people looking at the the facebook pages and the web pages from egypt the united arab emirates i mean i i guess because i posted some ufo stuff i had 20 something hits from roswell new mexico i'm getting hits from government websites i'm talking about saudi arabia egypt what were the ones last night i couldn't even remember kuwait i mean it's amazing and i'm talking about that we had like a hundred hits from australia 300
from the united kingdom i mean it's blowing my mind there are people out there who are hungry for the truth amen even some muslims they paying attention right let's read it verse 3 and as he that is jesus said upon the mount of olives the disciples came unto him privately saying tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world and jesus answered and said to them take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying i am christ or i am anointed and shall deceive many and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of war see that ye be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places all these are the beginning of sorrows then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and they shall kill you and you should be hated of all nations for my name's sake and then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another and many false prophets shall rise and deceive many and because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax coal but listen to this here's the good news here but he that shall endure unto the end that means god's going to give his people that are determined to endure god's going to give grace and help to to those who endure to the end but he said but he that shall endure to the end the same shall be saved and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come and this is what i love the gospel of jesus christ will be preached through this entire mess that's coming amen economic collapse that's coming to the united states in the world the mark of the beast the one world money system the whole thing world war three and other wars that will come and this six trumpet war we're going to look at all these things it says that the gospel will be preached all the way through amen and let me just say this the gospel of jesus christ according to romans 1 16 is the power of god unto salvation amen i believe and when he says this gospel i'm talking about the gospel that declares jesus christ is the only way the only truth and the only life that he is god in the flesh this gospel not another gospel not a watered down gospel a gospel that says you must repent turn from your sins walk in faith walk with god walk in obedience that's the gospel this gospel of the kingdom amen the gospel that pat that cast out demons that heals the sick that raises the dead that sees miraculous deliverance from enemies listen i know they're gonna come after us y'all i know that okay look we've just been blessed in america and we don't really understand that the persecution is rising now in america and when there is a collapse
the persecution of christians will increase but guess what some god's going to allow some to be persecuted others he's going to deliver i don't know why he just does things like that you know herod took james and killed the apostle james with the edge of the sword he took peter and threw him in prison was going to do the same thing with him but the church prayed and angels came and got peter out of prison and then an angel went and killed herod i mean we're going to see some of these supernatural things happen amen i know that there's guillotines secretly stored in america on army bases getting ready for martial law and public executions i could really freak y'all out okay but what the bible say revelation 20 says i saw those who were beheaded because they would not receive the mark of the beast or worship the beast beheaded it doesn't just mean in saudi arabia folks there's some stuff coming down the line but we need to know what the bible has to say about this now i'll call this here the sixth trumpet war and of course we just read this and we'll move on with that the sixth trumpet war is mentioned in revelation nine matter of fact why don't you just turn to revelation nine this is all very important revelation chapter nine and i don't have time to of course get into this this morning but i believe that five of the seven uh trumpets judgments of god have already been blown and that doesn't mean i believe that we're in the tribulation already again those are assumptions right we'll deal with that in a minute but the bible prophesies a war and i believe we'll just call it the sixth trumpet war it's world war three but let me just say this some people are going to get this confused because they're going to think when this war happens that this is armageddon because it's going to be so bad but armageddon does not happen until the end of the last seven years and at the at armageddon it is a battle in jerusalem and it's going to be so bad that it looks like jerusalem will be completely destroyed and then jesus will return the battle of armageddon is different than the sixth trumpet war okay we need to understand that because there are a lot of people gonna think when this six trumpet war happens that's armageddon and when this man comes up and and and brings a peace treaty between israel and the arabs and saves the world from annihilation many are going to call that the second coming of christ in a man in this man who will be a world leader and many christians are going to follow him they're going to follow it because they're going to think oh you know they're going to believe the new age lies the buddhist lies that you know it's just jesus was just he wasn't special he was just a man who had the
spirit of christ come in him and any of us can have that so they're going to look at the second coming of jesus as something that's just a spiritual event and not a real physical return of the same jesus who died on the cross rose from the dead physically and has flesh and blown bone and still has the nail prints in his hands and his feet amen that jesus is coming back remember when he ascended in acts chapter 1 when he ascended to heaven the angels were standing there and they said why are you looking up this same jesus right will so come in like manners you've seen him go the same jesus is coming back y'all revelation 9 and it's a good thing jesus needs to come back this world's not getting better folks i don't agree with kingdom now dominion theology it's a farce the world is not getting better and better the state of the world is not getting better better the church is not going to take over the governments and everything else and make everything better do you know there's actually preachers and christians teaching this like rick joyner like the roman catholic church they teach this foolishness no the bible doesn't tell me it's going to get better and better matter of fact paul said in in second timothy three he said deceivers and and and evil men are going to get worse and worse deceiving and being deceived i don't know how they get better out of worse and worse right all right anyway let's read this revelation 9 i'm fired up this morning revelation 9 go down to oh let's see where we're going to start here ah yes verse 13. let's go to verse 13 here i guess i should have just went to my next slide all right look at verse 13 let's read it and the sixth angel sounded and i heard the voice of the four horns of the golden altar which is before god saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet loose the four angels which are bound in the great river euphrates and the four angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour a day a month and a year for to slay the third part of men and the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand or two hundred million and i heard the number of them and thus i saw the horses in the vision and them that sat on them having breastplates of fire and jack neath and brimstone and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone and by these three was the third part of men killed by the fire by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouth for their power is in their mouth and in their tails for their tails were like the serpents and they had heads with them and they do hurt and this is what amazes me that even after this war listen to this and the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands let that they should not worship
devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which can neither see nor hear nor walk neither repented they of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornication nor of their thefts it's amazing it's the stubbornness of mankind even after this horrific event and we're going to go on now down to here um what's interesting about this prophecy that was given by the apostle john jesus gave it to him directly by a vision in about a.d 95 80 96 he gave him this and he said there were going to be four angels loosed in the great river euphrates to bring about a war that will kill one-third of mankind by fire did we just read that all right now that's a horrific thought to imagine that but here's something that's interesting about the euphrates river all right let's look at this the euphrates river begins in the country of turkey or actually the land that we will call gomer the old name the bible name is gomer the house of togarmah the euphrates river begins there look where it runs through it runs through the entire length across the country of syria not interesting it runs all the way through iraq and it touches iran about 50 miles there on its border touches iran as it empties into the persian gulf did y'all count that turkey syria iraq iran four nations what the angels when he's talking about four angels loosed in the great river euphrates i believe those are fallen angels the bible tells us in in second peter and tells us in jude that many of the fallen angels were chained until the day of judgment because god couldn't let all of them run crazy because they would just destroy everything but it says that they will be loosed so these are ancient fallen angels that were chained or kept from doing things held back by god until the end until the time of judgment you can check me out on that all right but anyway i find it interesting because see i believe that there's demonic principalities set up over every nation that each nation has its prince we learned that from the book of daniel that when babylon was getting ready to fall he said oh the prince of persia has come but then the prince of grecia will come and he was talking about the demon forces that michael and gabriel will have in the fight but when those princes change over a nation so does the leadership change or so does something serious happens that takes place all right so anyway i wanted you to see that in your freight east river now here's what's interesting this also is a prophecy of the basically the rise of islam because one thing that these four countries have in common is that they are all 95 to 98 percent
islamic so god was telling us a long time ago that there's going to be something loose in this region here a demonic spirit that's going to start world war three either out of turkey syria iraq or iran now i want to tell you right now the two forces that are working together to about to start world war three is iran pursuing nuclear weapons and israel saying we're going to stop that and syria now in a civil war and trying to transfer weapons down here to lebanon and israel says we're not going to allow that now the problem is you have another problem up here in the north and that is russia is with syria and iran and turkey now here's what's even even wild about even more wild about that the bible foretold that russia would be involved and see this is the key this is why we know this is different russia has never been in allegiance with iran ever even though ezekiel 38 39 prophesied this would happen 2600 plus years ago it's never happened until about the last 10 years russia started making some arms deal selling arms to iran to syria and then of course it is fully russia's fault that iran has the nuclear technology and capability that they were able to build nuclear power plants and to produce nuclear fuel to produce nuclear weapons it's on russia's head so really if you want to look back all of this has really been aggravated and pressed forward by russia or gog as we'll say and i can prove that russia's gone but let's look i want you to see this israel said this was in april of 2010 in april 2010 an unidentified israeli minister was quoted in london sunday times as saying we will return syria to the stone age by crippling its power stations ports fuel storage and every bit of strategic infrastructure if hezbollah dares to launch ballistic missiles against us this has been going on for a few years then he said in a message sent earlier this month israel made it clear that it now regards hezbollah the faction in lebanon as a division of the syrian army and that reprisal against syria will be fast and devastating now israel has been extremely patient but i can tell you this that israel will defend herself against iran and syria
and make no mistake about it iran and syria are fast allies and they are working together just this past week i read an article that iran has has shipped a bunch of troops into syria and they are positioning themselves on the israeli border israel knows this so israel moved troops into southern lebanon i'm telling y'all it's about to explode so thursday israel gets intelligence that assad is trying to move sophisticated missiles and weapons to hezbollah to these iranian fighters in southern lebanon so israel strikes them israel knows everything they're about to do they know where they eat lunch and they just blew the place to smithereens so now syria says we're going to declare war but see here's the thing israel could handle syria israel can it'd be tough they could handle syria they could probably handle iran they could probably handle egypt but if russia gets involved helping those nations this is why this will turn nuclear all right now let's show you just show you the headlines from this morning debka file is the israeli mossad they warned i said israel has warned syria not to transfer these weapons to hezbollah fighters and this is what syria said this morning israeli attack equals declaration of war iron dorm domes have been moved to haifa safed which is in northern israel i've been to haifa beautiful place here's another one this is from this morning what's funny is uh i shouldn't say funny it's it's it's going to be bad but of course thursday israel stops this first shipment of weapons blows it to smithereens syria threatens to declare war for thursday's attacks and so this morning israel hits them again and it's pounding hard so i guess if they were thinking about toying with the idea of declaring war they probably will declare war if they declare war then iran will declare war and then egypt will probably join them and i got some bad news for these people the prophecy in ezekiel 38 says that everyone that joins this coalition to come against israel in this war only one six of them will be left when it's over with matter of fact there's a prophecy in ezekiel like 28 29 30 in that range those chapters it talks about egypt being made desolate so that no man can walk through it for 40 years what's that sound like i wanted you to see that it's just not me making this up there's a prophecy i want you to turn to isaiah 17. because this is why this is so very significant talked about this a lot but there's a
prophecy in isaiah 17 has never come to pass isaiah 17 talks about damascus syria being turned into a heap of ruins in one day by the children of israel this has never happened so this means this is a prophecy waiting to be fulfilled i can assure you one thing that if all the nations around israel attack them simultaneously israel will have no choice and israel has already admitted that they will use what they call the samson option you know what the samson option means samson option means we will not go down alone if we go down we're taking all of you with us just like samson israel has approximately 300 to 400 nobody really knows for sure nuclear weapons on jericho ii missiles they can pretty well reach anywhere they want to reach it's about to get ugly can i tell you this a lot of people don't know this but but israel more than likely can reach moscow if they need to better think a little bit here isaiah 17. let's read this prophecy and if you you want to look up in wikipedia you can find out something about damascus syria it's the longest continuously inhabited city in the history of the world so this total destruction has never happened to this city so it can't be a prophecy that's already happened look at verse one the burden of damascus behold damascus is taken away from being a city and it shall be a ruinous heap do you see that let's keep reading the cities of aurora or whatever that is are forsaken they shall be for flocks which shall lie down none shall make them afraid the fortress also shall cease from ephraim and the kingdom from damascus and the remnant of syria they shall be as the glory of the children of israel saith the lord of hosts and in that day it shall come to pass that the glory of israel shall be made thin and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean and now what i want to say is this is when israel does this the whole world is going to turn against israel there will probably be u.n sanctions there'll be all kind of problems that's why you will see the temple mount taken over by probably the u.n and some kind of international assembly there will be a forced peace treaty upon israel there will be four sanctions israel may even but by force by world force u.n force and the nations of the world may be even forced to
disarm nuclear get rid of their nuclear weapons i don't know but the bottom line is israel is going to be in a pinch when they have to do this the world already hates them listen that's one thing about about israel i love the jews i've been to israel i spent a month there i've i love jewish people i know many of them don't understand that jesus is the messiah many of them are very anti-jesus very antichrist but god loves them he has not forsaken those his people that he foreknew that's what paul said he paul said even the the gospels for the jew first and then the gentile i mean i didn't even make me mad or jealous you know what god wants us to love them but i can tell you this much god fulfilled a prophecy one of the biggest prophecies in the bible of the last days when he brought israel back to being a nation and he said exactly all of this was going to happen to me it ought to amaze people about the bible but let's keep going look down he says when this happens when when damascus syria will be turned into a heap of ruins look at where verse 7 says and that day shall be then at that day shall a man look to his maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy one of israel do you see that right there this is what's going to happen folks just like 911 except on a much larger scale 911 happened we get hit 3000 people die americans what they do the churches fill up for the next few weeks that lasted for just about two or three months and then all those people just went back to their lives as usual a lot of people will look to their maker doesn't mean they're going to repent some will see some are going to come there's going to be a harvest of souls but the majority won't and that's just the way it is but he tells us that man will look to his maker many people will and let's go on down i want to i don't want to read the whole thing oh let's see and this is where he tells he says look at this he said when this happens verse 12 woe to the multitude of many people which make a noise like the noise of the seas and to the rushing of nations that that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters the nation shall rush like the rushing of many waters but god will rebuke them why does it say the nations will rush when this war happens the nations are going to rush together to try to stop this this is when they're going to create their world government and this is where they're going to start forcing certain things on on all nations of the world but god is going to rebuke this because that's not god's will or god's plan that's going to be satan's evil plan god's going to rebuke it but look at what it says in verse 14 and behold it even tied trouble and before morning he is not boy that right there tells you right there in the evening there's a warning of trouble by morning it's finished pretty seriously
when i say here's damascus i don't know if anybody's ever looked at damascus but it's a big city now look at ezekiel just look up here at this ezekiel 38 talks about persia ethiopia all them was shielded helmet ezekiel 38 5. um basically what this is it talks about the the war of of gog and magog we'll get there in a second but look at zechariah 11 1 it says open thy doors o lebanon that the fire may devour thy cedars see lebanon is going to catch it for what's what they're about to do there's prophecies about lebanon also in the book of amos well okay yeah it kind of and go ahead matter of fact why don't we just go ahead and turn to ezekiel 38 and 39 y'all with me still are y'all bored i hope not ezekiel 38 39 goodness i got to get there myself ezekiel 38. we'll start there but this is what i want you to see about russia's involvement of course i got china and russia up here but we won't get into china this morning but when all of this began to go down and iran began to pursue these nuclear weapons while they're threatening to annihilate israel you have to understand when a country is trying to produce nuclear weapons while they're talking about going annihilating another country we ought to be concerned i guarantee you israel is concerned right as they well should be um but russia and china refused and this is back in 2011 refused to back obama as they stay silent over iran nuclear bomb threat matter of fact in the united nations uh they would uh actually veto any actions from the u.n on this matter russia warns that iran attack would be a catastrophe why because they're gonna get involved that's what that little threat is right there it says uk urges tougher serious sanctions russia issues warning russia has been involved in this from the get-go now let's look at something here that a lot of people don't know they say well you talk about russia being in the bible israel talked about that and this was from is the israeli national news they talked about that israel warns that world war iii may be the biblical war of gog and magog so even israel
is acknowledging this president bush even made a mention of this war he said a nuclear iran would mean world war three israeli news cast featured gog and magog maps of likely alignment of nations in that potential conflict so folks this is like we're we're watching the news media even and world leaders talk about the war of gog and magog from ezekiel and world war three so it's not just us end-time prophecy preachers that talk about this stuff it's in the news if it wasn't in the news if it wasn't getting so close there almost would be no point in talking about it but we need to know this is going to happen and we need to share with people now let me show you something about about how we know that israel is god let's read ezekiel 38 for a second here verse 1 and the word of the lord came unto me saying son of man set thy face against gog the land of magog the chief prince of meshech and tubal and prophesy against him and say thus saith the lord god behold i am against thee oh god the chief prince of meshech and tubal i will turn thee back and put hooks into thy jaws and i will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and horsemen all of them clothed with all sorts of armor even a great company with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords persia which is iran ethiopia northern africa libya with them all of them with shield and helmet gomer and the house of togarmah turkey and the north quarters now listen to this the north quarters in all his bands so north of israel we already showed you is lebanon in syria so he's talking about turkey lebanon syria here in this past he's talking about this gog and magog now i want to show you something here i want you to see that this right here that you see right here this little jut out here there's grease that means this right here is turkey right here now of course one time persia had all of this here but back way back a long time ago there was a group of people who migrated out of this area up into here and they were called the citians all right now these are historic people this is uh these are facts here these scythians what land is this up here now it's russia so the the russians are the descendants of the ancient citians they were a brutal and barbaric people here's what's an interesting fact they are somehow related to the iranians the ancient persians okay which is interesting that now they're hooking back up again something about blood man i'm telling you all right so this is a this is an ancient map of that area now i'm going to give you some references to show you that the scythians are the russians here's an old map now this is an 1874 map and even on this 1874 map is still
the old names the bible names of these places look here meshech and tubal here togarmah what is this now this is turkey gomer here north turkey right part of europe there now but magog up here gog and magog remember magog is the chief prince okay so what he's saying is gog is this country up here the chief prince is magog i'm going to tell you magog is vladimir putin i'm just going to say it real plain that man is evil and he has evil intent all right but up here magog and gog is russia all right this 1874 map now let's look at some of these things here let me show you how do we know that russia is gog and mega well the roman historian josephus from the early 2nd century gives us an important clue in his 20 volume classic antiquities of the jews he wrote of the descendants of noah and this is what he said quote after they were dispersed abroad on account of their languages they went out by colonies everywhere and each colony took possession of that land unto which god led them magog founded those that from him were named maggites or mega gates or whatever but who are by the greeks called obsidians you see this so an ancient first century jewish historian tells us that the magogites or magog or the ancient syrian the encyclopedia britannica says that obsidian is a member of a nomadic people originally of iranian stock who migrated from central asia to southern russia in the 8th and 7th centuries bc scythians founded a rich powerful empire that survived for several centuries now let's go to this next one this truth was also confirmed by new york times best-selling author joel c rosenberg when he was in russia in 2004 he was doing research for his book the ezekiel option he wrote so while we were in moscow we toured the state historical museum sure enough as we spent several hours walking through the floors of the enormous red brick building facing red square we found in glass case after glass case numerous scythian artifacts dug up by russian archaeologists and anthropologists and all on display in the russian equivalent of our smithsonian not only was the russian city and heritage real as we learned but the russian government was proud to let the whole world know so we know clearly that in ezekiel 38 and 39 gog and magog is the ancient scythians which is the russians okay so it tells us here that gog and magog will join with persia iran
now remember never in the history of these two nations had they ever worked together until now are you letting that sink in about where we are now here's what happens let's keep reading he talks about persia ethiopia libya verse five all of them with shield and helmet gomer and all his bands the house of togarm of the north quarters turkey all his bands and many people with the be thou prepared and prepare thyself and all thy company that are assembled unto thee and be thou a guard unto them now look at he tells us here verse 8 after many days thou shalt be visited in the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword and is gathered out of many people against the mountains of israel which have been always waste but it is brought forth out of the nations and they shall dwell safely so he tells us here exactly in the latter days which is in the hebrew the last days you will come he says you will come into the land that's been brought back so he's talking about israel being brought back from their captivity from their disbursement in 70 a.d and he says you're going to be brought against the the land of israel and this is what is amazing look what he says about this army this great army that will come 2600 years ago before airplanes he says you shall ascend and come like a storm you shall be like the clouds to cover the land you and all your bands and many people with you thus saith the lord god it shall also come to pass that at that time shall things come into your mind and you shall think an evil thought and then they go to israel to attack now verse 39 i mean chapter 39 in verse 2 he says this well let's read verse 1 and 2 therefore thou son of man prophesy against gog and say thus saith the lord god behold i am against thee oh gog and the chief prince of meshech and tubal and i will turn thee back and leave but a sixth of thee and will cause thee to come up from the north parts and bring thee upon the mountains of israel now like i've told y'all if you don't have a bible that says that leave a sixth part then you have a you have a bible that's not complete you need to get one that has this part so he says here and this is in the ancient manuscripts and what's amazing to me it's in five over five thousand of the ancient manuscripts there's like 40 something that it's not in the modern translations took from these 40 and try to say that it's not in there when 5 000 plus say that it is so it's not even an argument theologically speaking
um that this is in there so he says he's going to leave but a sixth so folks what does that mean what does that mean we're getting closer and closer here's what i've said before and here's what i'm going to say again i'm hoping that the one-third of mankind talked about being killed in the sixth trumpet war sometimes the bible talks about just in a region though that language in revelation 9 sounds like it's mankind can hope that it's just talking about that region and the people involved in in that region but i don't think so we are we're getting close so you say well why does this even matter i don't want to hear this well here let's say it is one third of mankind's about to be killed in a massive nuclear war if you knew that if you believe that see i don't know i wonder if people didn't believe this but if you believe that that means one in every three go on not another chance to get saved not another chance to hear the gospel not another chance to repent not another chance wouldn't that uh motivate you to not waste your time to reach out to people maybe you haven't reached out to to share the gospel to overcome your fears and worry about what people think about you and to share with somebody else you know the bible makes a very clear statement i know this may be tough but back up in ezekiel 33 which is interesting because it's right before all this and hear what god says are you there yet ezekiel 33 verse 1 and again the word of the lord came unto me saying son of man speak to the children of thy people and say to them when i bring the sword upon the land if the people of the land take a man to
their coasts and set him for their watchmen god has said watchmen the sword has been called for y'all it's coming if when he seeth the sword come upon the land and he blow the trumpet and warn the people then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning if the sword come and take him away his blood shall be upon his own head he heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his blood shall be upon him but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul hear what the word of god is saying we must give these people warning whether they listen or whether they don't listen we must give them warning trust me some will listen when you show them here's what it said in the bible 2600 years ago 2 000 years ago here's what jesus said here's what the prophet said here's what the book of revelation says here's it happening in the news something bad and big is about to happen you need to turn from your sin and you need to get ready to know jesus as your savior you need to know jesus your savior so you're ready for whatever may happen amen i don't understand we christians we talk about love but if we love people we would be concerned that they're lost amen keep let's keep reading verse 6 but if the watchmen see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take away any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity or his sin but his blood will i require at the watchman's hand so thou o son of man i have set thee a watchman unto the house of israel therefore thou shalt hear the word of my mouth and warn them from me when i say unto the wicked o wicked man thou shalt surely die if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way that the wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will i require at your hand nevertheless if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it if he does not turn from his way he shall die in his iniquity but you have delivered your soul see here listen folks we get all caught up in stuff and don't really realize that we're going to give an account for what we do with our christian lives and some people are going to stand before god hear me remember jesus told the parable matthew 25 he told this parable he said i had three servants to one i gave five talents the one i gave two to one i gave one people get all caught up and that's money or that's or that some talent to play the piano
that's not what he's talking about what jesus was talking about he said i gave them what they needed to make it into the kingdom because he goes away the parable the the lord goes away and it says after a long time he comes back to take account of those servants right and he goes to the one that had the five and then and he brings he said i went and traded and gained other five i went and did something lord with what you gave me and i bore fruit and what does the lord say well done good and faithful servant enter into the joy of thy lord right this is about doing something with what you've been given this next servant comes he said lord i took your your two talents and i went and i traded and i gained two more and he says well done good and faithful servant i gave you what you needed you bore fruit it wasn't about whether he bore five or he bore two he took what jesus gave him the grace jesus gave him the faith jesus gave him the forgiveness jesus gave him the truth of the word of god this written book that's a the gift from god that we have to know the truth i went out and did something with it and i bore fruit but he said then the one came and said lord here's your talent back he said i knew that you were a hard man reaping where you have not sown gathering where you have not straw i knew you meant what you said i knew and what's interesting says his lord jesus called this man his servant this man called jesus his lord this is a christian folks this is a saved person he said lord i was afraid afraid of what afraid of what people would think if you speak out against homosexuality and call it a sin and call people to repentance if you te if you talk about the judgment of god that's coming in the wrath of god that's coming in the tribulation that's come if you talk about things you know what people are going to be offended people aren't going to like you that's why i got lots of people that don't like me lots of people right you don't get death threats and get shot at because everyone loves you okay but he said i took the one talent jesus gave him what he wanted so guess what he didn't even expect that man to do as much as the man he gave five talents because he talked about too much has given much is required he he he doesn't expect everybody to do what i'm gonna do or me to do what you know reinhard bunkey might do going to the nations of the world he that's his calling i have a different calling we have different call but we all have the calling to take what jesus has given us the gospel his grace his mercy his forgiveness his truth his message of repentance his salvation redemption the deliverance from demons the healing power we're
supposed to take that and do something with it and bear some fruit you might not bear as much fruit as me i might not bear as much fruit as you but we should bear some fruit [Music] right [Music] i don't understand there's a there are so many christians right now burying their talent in the earth the article that i read this morning cnn talking about christians being hated about the homosexuality issue it's talking about there's a new group of christians these closet christians that won't speak out because they're afraid of being called a bigot or or hate speech accused of hate speech notice the man in matthew 25 that took the talent he took what jesus gave him didn't do anything with it out of fear i was afraid listen to me fear will stop you or you will stop fear listen sometimes i'm still nervous going out and speaking to people sometimes i'm nervous when i get up to preach even here some you know i preach to 20 000 in one service i think sometimes i'm more nervous with three than 20 000. but you know what i decided a long time ago that i wasn't gonna bury my town and listen to what he said to the the one who buried his talent in fear bore no fruit even though jesus gave him everything he needed to make it to heaven and listen this parable is about making it to heaven i don't care what the once saved always saying preachers the hyper extreme grace preached i don't care what they say this parable is about making it to heaven three of jesus servants all called him lord he called them servants he gave them all what they needed to make it to heaven two made it in and one he said what take him take from him what he has give it to him that has ten talents and cast ye this unprofitable servant this wicked lazy servant cast him into outer darkness where there should be weeping and gnashing of teeth that's not going to heaven my friend even though you were given by jesus everything you needed to go there even though you knew what he expected this is serious business i refuse to let fear cover my hands with blood i refuse with some preachers listen to me y'all there's some preachers that are going to bust hell wide open on judgment day they're going to hear the words you didn't give them warning you didn't warn them about sin you didn't warn them about judgment you didn't warn them about my wrath you only talked about love you said they were okay while they were in adultery while
they were in pornography while they were in fornication while they were in homosexuality you wouldn't speak the truth you wouldn't talk about the coming war and the coming destruction you wouldn't talk about the coming persecution you wouldn't warn people you wouldn't show them the prophets of the bible you wouldn't demand that jesus was the only way no matter what how the world ridiculed you see this is what this is about y'all there is a war that satan is waging to get us to get in fear and hide our talent to hide the gospel to hide the truth to not do it to not live it out i refuse and i've been refusing for a long time i am not going to let fear rule my life i have three daughters i can't tell you that i'm not concerned about my children and what may happen in the days ahead but you know what i could let that fear stop me from speaking out against islam against the world government is coming against our government that's turning against its own people and trashing the constitution i could just not speak out and maybe maybe they would leave me alone i think it's too late for me though i have videos and books and things so so you're gonna let fear stop you are you well show people what's go what's coming don't let this just be in church on sunday morning i don't care if they go hey man that's a little heavy it's a little negative well you know what if jesus didn't want us to preach on it now i don't know why he put so much of it in the bible i think one time i started going through just in my head you all know that end time prophecy is in genesis exodus it's in all of the prophets psalms isaiah jeremiah ezekiel amos joel micah i think the only book maybe philemon actually that doesn't talk about the last days the judgments of god the second coming of jesus what do you think about it daniel
i mean you just go matthew mark luke john romans first corinthians second corinthians first and second timothy first and second thessalonians galatians first john can you imagine all of those talk about the end time the second coming of jesus the final judgments of god the great deception that's going to be in the world i mean peter even tells us that people are going to mock say where is the promise of his coming why are you talking about that all things are going to continue just like they are i mean we're even told what they're going to say it's on us amen this preacher is blowing the trumpet as loud as he can time's running out y'all is running out i want everybody to stand this morning let's let's pray and let's ask god this morning for the grace and the power to be a light to people around us amen don't get distracted with the things of this world don't get caught up in laziness don't get caught up in fear don't get caught up in trying to the approval of men trying to have everybody like you you're going to offend some people and guess what you're going to offend people who say they're christians for standing for the truth i offend more christians than i do unsaved people but i can tell you it's out of love they don't call it love because they think love is human emotions and gushiness but god's love is always with truth always even if that truth hurts even if that truth scares the hell out of you god tells you the truth amen let's pray father in heaven we just thank you lord we thank you god that we can know by these prophecies coming to pass that your word is true that we can be warned god had not caught by surprise you you said behold i've told you before so that when these things come to pass you might believe i think a lot of people a lot of christians faith who's wavering and waning is going to be shaken as these things begin to come to pass they're going to be looking for people who have some answers what is happening
in the world what is going on what do i need to do oh there's so many god that are not even equipped to preach the gospel to somebody to tell them they got to turn from their sins and make jesus lord and be born again i mean a lot of people don't even know what to tell people and lord we just we've got to get ready we've got to reach out we've got to overcome fear so lord i pray in jesus name for my brothers and sisters this morning for myself lord as we prayed those prayers about being filled with a holy fire that we can't contain so that we can share it with somebody else the bible says jesus said that they were he said i'm to baptize you in the holy spirit you're going to be filled with the holy spirit to be my witnesses power to be my witnesses in this world where i pray i pray in jesus name to be filled with power we're going to sing that song that we did said a father we're going to sing that set a fire song before we leave this morning because that's our uh that's our theme song today ask god as you sing this to set you on fire