Wars & Rumors of War
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Dean Odle connects the restoration of Israel and the escalating wars around it with Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38–39, Revelation 9, and Jeremiah 49. He argues that the return of Jewish people from many nations fulfills the prophets’ promised regathering and establishes the setting for a Russian-led Gog-Magog coalition to attack Israel in the latter years. Reading Revelation’s four angels at the Euphrates alongside modern geography and nuclear weapons, he presents a later conflict capable of killing a third of humanity as a literal future war rather than a purely symbolic event.
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The service opens with worship and a gospel appeal grounded in Christ’s sinless sacrifice and forgiveness for those who repent. Odle then defends modern Israel’s prophetic significance, citing the promised regathering from many nations rather than treating political actors as the ultimate cause.
Psalm 83 is read as a coalition of surrounding peoples seeking to erase Israel as a nation. Odle maps the ancient names to modern regions and presents their hostility as part of a continuing prophetic pattern.
Ezekiel 38 is introduced as a last-days invasion of a restored Israel by Gog, Magog, Persia, and allied nations. Odle identifies Magog with peoples who migrated into Russia and argues that the attack comes like a storm against the land.
Revelation 9’s four angels bound at the Euphrates are connected to the river’s course through Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and near Iran. The sermon interprets the fire, smoke, and death of a third of humanity as a nuclear war rather than symbolic language detached from history.
Odle surveys the destructive power and worldwide testing of nuclear weapons before returning to God’s judgment on the invaders in Ezekiel 38. The prophecy is presented as a long-standing witness that will make the nations recognize the Lord when the foretold events occur.
Ezekiel 39’s seven years of burning weapons are used to place this Gog-Magog war near the beginning of the final seven years. Odle distinguishes it from Armageddon and from Satan’s post-millennial rebellion, emphasizing that those passages have different survivors and outcomes.
Jeremiah 49’s oracle against Elam is located in the region of modern southwestern Iran. Odle argues that attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities could scatter people from that region and fulfill the passage, while presenting the connection as his prophetic interpretation.
Odle says biblical prophecy is meant to lead people to Jesus and demonstrate Scripture’s divine inspiration. He warns pastors that silence about approaching danger leaves hearers unprepared and compares faithful preaching to a watchman giving advance notice.
The message distinguishes paralyzing fear from the healthy fear of God that produces obedience when judgment approaches. It rejects a quiet first-century fulfillment of the Second Coming, insisting that Christ’s return will be visible, glorious, and unmistakable.
The sermon closes by calling believers to remain faithful as wickedness increases and to expect Jesus literally to return. Final worship exalts Christ as unrivaled King before whom every knee will bow and whose enemies will be judged.
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Lord, we worship you, God almighty, King of kings and Lord of lords, we worship you.
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We thank you for your death on the cross, Lord. You laid down your life, nobody took it from you. You laid it down, Lord, your sinless life, your sinless blood to be the sacrifice, Lord, the atonement, the payment for our sins. And Lord, anyone can come to you and say, Lord, forgive me, wash me clean, forgive my sins, I give you my life, I repent, and Lord, you will forgive and you will save. And Lord, we pray that people will do that, Lord. Even those watching right now that have not been born again, that have not surrendered their life to you as Lord and Savior, as their God and Creator, that they will bow the knee and say, Jesus, forgive me, I am a sinner. I need your forgiveness. I need your blood to wash my sins away. I want to be saved. I want to walk with you. I want a relationship with you or I want to go to heaven. I don't want to pay the penalty for my sins, which is eternal damnation. I want to take the price you paid for me and apply it. I hope people do that this morning, Lord. I ask you, Holy Spirit, move upon the lost ones. Move upon, Lord, the ones that have fallen away. Lord, open our eyes because the hour is late. We pray this in Jesus name and everybody said, amen. All right. You may be seated. Hallelujah. Now, let's let you guys know up there. We're going to be going back and forth between the PowerPoint and some scriptures, so get ready to be shifting back and forth a little bit. It's kind of crazy. All the crazy stuff that's going on, but, you know, as the news came out, I think it was yesterday about the attack on Israel, you know, somebody asked me, said, what do you think is going on? I said, well, you know, these attacks from Gaza, from Hamas, from Hezbollah, from, you know, really proxies for Iran and, you know, these things have been going on, you know, just for decades and decades. In fact, I was in Israel in 1988 during the first infant of the uprising of the Palestinians and that little skirmish. And I would hear gunshots and people. I think one night we were in the old city of Jerusalem and like 11 people were shot that night. I was in the bus station in Jerusalem about to get on a bus and ran into police yellow police tape and a bomb guy fully dressed in the bomb was carried a bomb right in front of me, like showing it to me. Like it was a pie and walked into the bomb truck. I mean, that's that's Israel, OK? And that's the battle they're in. Now, I know there's people out there. I'm going to say this before we get into this this morning. There's people out there that don't even believe
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that the nation of Israel is the real nation of Israel, the nation of Israel right now that exists. I'm just going to tell you what that is. That's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs right there. OK. We got people. In fact, I have a lady, God bless her heart, but I have a lady trying to convince me that America is really Israel geographically and historically and in every way. And I'm just like, oh, Lord, help us. You know, Israel is Israel and the prophecies fulfilled 1948 when Israel became a nation. That was a prophecy fulfilled. Now, people want to tell me all the time. Well, the Rothschilds were involved in that. You know what? I don't care if Nebuchadnezzar was involved in. God said it was going to happen. And it happened. Right. And I don't care who he uses to do it. Remember the donkey? Yeah. All right. God can use whoever he wants. And the nation of Israel was brought back. And in fact, when I went there in 1988, I was on a plane full. I mean, I flew from Atlanta to Paris, France and and got on an Israeli airline plane from Paris. I want to tell you, me and my brother were the only non Jews on that airplane. And when we got off that airplane in Tel Aviv, Israel, I saw them Jews that had never, never been to their homeland who were going home for the first time from Europe kneeling down and kissing the ground. And people say, well, there's no real Jews in Israel. Well, you're an idiot because you obviously don't know history with all the Ashkenazi Jews are not real Jews. First of all, let me tell you, there's Mizrahi Jews, the Sephardic Jews. There's Ethiopian Jews. And you guess what? You don't have to be an ethnic Jew to be a Jew. You can be a convert to to become a Jew. Right. There are real Jews in Israel. And they came from every direction to fulfill the prophecy in Ezekiel, to fulfill the prophecy in Jeremiah, to fulfill those prophecies that God will bring his people home. And in fact, Isaiah 11 says that they would be exiled twice and brought back to their land twice. Well, guess what? The first time was under Nebuchadnezzar's invasion, and they went into captivity for 70 years and they came home. And then it happened again after Jesus came. And guess what? They were. Yeah, they were exiled from the land. The land was no man's land for 1700 and something years. I can't remember that until God decided it's time for them to come back home. Now, do we know that all of Israel that is Israel? Like, do we know everybody that's a Jew or not? No, I'll tell you the truth.
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We probably won't know because the ten tribes were scattered abroad. Right. We don't know. We may be surprised. Some of us in here might be a lot Jewish and we don't know. We don't even know it. But here's the thing. Don't sit there and tell me that the nation of Israel, when God said I'm going to he was going to establish them. In fact, it says in Isaiah 11 when he said they're going to come back two times. He says I'm going to make them an inside, which if you look up the word inside, it means a nation with a flag. You know, their flag to wasn't supposed to be the Star of David, which is really the Star of Rempen, but it was really supposed to be the olive tree. OK, but just like our our government has been infiltrated by New World Order Luciferians, their government's been infiltrated by New World Order Luciferians. I mean, so we can sit here and point fingers all day long. But God said he did not forsake his people, which he foreknew. And he said he would gather them back to the land. Many will die in the war that's coming. He said there will be a remnant, though, of Jews, true Jews in the land of Israel in the last days who will turn to Jesus as their Messiah. Finally, their eyes will be open. Now, this is Bible. This is not your favorite little YouTube teacher. You know, Paul said you have 10,000. You may have 10,000 in 10,000 instructors in Jesus, but not many fathers, right? Fathers are people who actually been in this thing long enough to see through this foolishness that's out here. And I'm going to tell you, there's tons of foolishness. But all of this that we're watching is prophesied. And the reason I'm talking about this this morning is because something feels different this time about. It just feels different. And we can go ahead. I'm just going to call this this morning, the wars and rumors of wars. And let's just go through some scriptures here and we're going to talk about the Gog and Magog war, which is probably about to happen now. It's also called the six Trumpet war. It's not the same as Armageddon. And there's another Gog Magog incident that happened a thousand years later after the millennial right. They're not the same thing. But let's go go on here to the next one here. I guess I need the clicker, don't I? I guess I could do it myself, but turn this on. There we go. So let's read this Matthew 24. We're just going to read verses three through nine here. It says here, as he set upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately to Jesus, saying, tell us, when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of that coming of the end of the world? And Jesus answered, said them, take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ and shall deceive many.
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