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There’s a time coming upon the earth when man will be able to destroy man from off the face of the earth. And unless God intervenes, man will not allate this world. No flesh will be left alive. Are we at the place in this world where that is possible? We’re always wondering if some little nut, somewhere is going to mash a button and there you go. And we’re going to see a mushroom cloud above some city in America or some country.

or some country. One day it will happen. God says so. And he talks about in the book of Zechariah in chapter 12, and this shall be the play where will God will smite those nations that came against Israel. And while they stand upon their feet, their eyes shall consume away, and their holes in their tongue will consume away out of their mouthsxb and their flesh will melt right off their bodies. Now what kind of a war is that? Bozzan arrows?

And all the green grass will be burned. So you can cut any way you want, but bad times are coming up on this earth. That’s why we’re told to look for the blessed hope, because we are not of this period of time. We are children of the day. These are children of the night. We’re not of this period of time. Totally different. And I don’t care who tells you anything different. different. Any preacher anywhere and I don’t care how much Greek he knows, how much Hebrew he knows, he doesn’t know the Bible if you disagree with what I’m telling you right now.

I’ve studied this just as much as any other man I know and I believe that I’m right. If I didn’t think I was right, I wouldn’t teach it because I know I’ve got to give an account to God for whatever I teach and I believe the Bible. And I have taught the book of Matthew a number of times and I have taught the book of Revelation a number of times and the book of Daniel. I’ve only been teaching it for 55 years.

But anyway, what I want you to see here is that he says there was no flesh be left alive. So this is a period of time that is coming upon the face of the earth. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Ezekiel. Go back to the book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel chapter 44. Ezekiel 44. In view of what we’ve already said. Remember every once in a while you’ll come across a verse that will just kind of knock upside the head and give just a little bit of light.

Did you see this? Did you see this? Here in Ezekiel in chapter 44, I’ve been to Israel eight times, I think. After a while it doesn’t really matter. I think Hank Lindstrom had been about 15 times. I’ve still got a number times to go. I don’t know if I’m going to live that long, but anyway. In Ezekiel chapter 44, look in verse 1, then He brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looked toward the east, and it was shut.

Then said the Lord unto me, this gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it, because the Lord, Elohar di, caps, Jehovah, the God of Israel, and Yoda on the line, these Jewish words, hath entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut.” Now, I’ve been to Israel and I’ve stood on the Mount of Olives, and I have looked down into the valley and up to that eastern wall, and all these gates around the wall of the whole city of Israel, it is sealed.

It’s the only one that is sealed, and it’s the only one that faces the Mount of follows. 7 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 19 18 19 18 18 It faces east, just like the Bible says. And the reason it was sealed is because the Lord had entered in by it. So that means if that gate is sealed, it’s because God, in the person of Jesus Christ, has already been here. Just like He said. And this is only written about 500 something years before Christ came to the earth.

And over there in Israel, there’s these walls, and there’s a gate. it shut. When I first went over there in 1985, I happened to be a guest along with Hank Lindstrom. And so I have an enquiring mind. Hank has an enquiring mind too. And I says, Hank, I’ll see you later. He says, where are you going? I says, I’m going to the Eastern Gate. He says, you’re not supposed to go up there. He says, all these, the cemetery, the Muslims got cemeteries all around them.

And I And I said, I’m not going to be bothering him. And I said, I’m going to do it. So anyway, we went to that gate. I just had to go up to it, and I want to touch it. I’m going to touch that wall. And I did all of it. Because I know somewhere through here, Jesus went through here. If he stood here, I’d be like, he stood here. I didn’t know what. Man, I was walking all over the place.

You said, you wouldn’t do that. I did do. Of course, I was younger then. I wouldn’t do that now. I’m smarter, more intelligent. and all that. Now, look in verse three, it is for the prince, the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord, he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and it’s going to happen again. Jesus is coming back. You see everything he says is gonna happen happened just like he said.

Now, turn in your Bible to the book of Ezekiel chapter 38, just go back a couple pages. He’s Ezekiel chapter 38. Now you will find, we’ll just start looking at a couple verses here in chapter 37. In chapter 37 he makes a statement here in verse 11, then he said, And to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say our bones are dried and our hope is lost. We are cut off from our parts, therefore prophesy and say to them, thus saith the Lord God, be whole eye, oh my people, I will open your graves.

That means from other nations. And cause you to come up out of your graves, come out of those other nations. And bring you into the land of Israel, Jewish people. In other words, in the last days, he says, I’m going to resurrect you. He says, and you’re like a valley of dead men’s bones. and you’re like coming out of the graves because of their rejection of the Messiah. They said, let his blood be upon us and upon our children.

They got their wish and the Jews have been hated all over this country, all over the world. And he says, you’re going to come back to the land. And God says, you’re going to put some flesh on you. He’s going to make you live again in Israel in May 1948 Israel become the nation. After almost 2,000 years out of the land, has that ever happened to any other nation? No. But this is just a coincidence. This was just a lucky guess.

Or is it possible that God knows the future? Now look what else he says. He says in verse 13, he says, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I I am the Lord. When I have opened your graze, all my people and brought you out of your graze. And shall put my spirit in you and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land.”

So he’s talking about the children of Israel that’s not in their own land, going back to their own land. God works behind the saints, and I believe in the providence of God. And Israel has become a nation, but he says something else that I’m gonna do. Because you see, back in Christ’s day, because of the sin of Solomon, remember, you see, would Israel ever pay a price for Solomon having all those women? Remember, he had 700 wives and 300 porcupines.

Okay, concubines. And when he chose and took all these women to marry, well, they slowly turned his heart against God. And God says, I’m not gonna do it in your lifetime. I’m gonna do it when you die. I’m gonna split the kingdom. And the kingdom was divided. So you had Israel, the Northern Kingdom, and they had their kings. And you had the southern two tribes, Jude and Benjamin. And that’s where the Judah, Jews came, Jews, Israelites. And so they were taken into Assyria, About 100 years later you have Bible on.

And they came, never can measure, and they took them into captivity. And so the nation has been divided. But God says, in the last days, I’m going to bring you back. And I’m going to take these two sticks and make you one stick. Look what He says here in verse 19. Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the land of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel, this fellow, and will put them with him even with the stick of…

Judah and make them one stick and they shall be one in my hand. One nation, once again there’ll be one nation and there’s no lost tribes. Then no lost tribes. Well there’s some people teach, well America is the lost tribes of Israel. It is not. Don’t fall for that junk and that heresy that you hear. Go buy the book. Don’t try to interpret the Bible by what’s going on in the world. You just believe the book and then you use that to see what’s going on in the world.

People get it wrong, getting away looking verse 21 and saying to them, thus saith the Lord God behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whether they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land. Did he say he’s going to do it? And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel. One king shall be king to them all and they shall be no more two nations, Neither shall they be divided into the kingdom anymore at all.

The day will come when the Lord Jesus Christ is going to come back to the earth. Israel will see their Messiah and they’re going to accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah. And going to set up upon this earth and that will be the Davidic kingdom that God had promised to Israel way back there. God’s going to keep his word. And the promises that he made to Israel are going to be fulfilled. You see, we are a different breed. We are talking about always going to heaven.

We have heavenly promises. We are seated in the heavenlies in Christ. And so we are looking for our Lord to come and take us out of here. Now he’s the head of the church, but he’s the king of Israel, but many times we talk to him as our king. Because we’re going to rule and reign with Christ upon the year. You see, the church is the bride of Christ. Now get this. God, the Father, He took Israel as his wife.

And after the law was given, thou shalt, thou shalt not, brought it down to the people. And Israel said, all that He had asked us, we will do is the same as saying, I do. And God says, I do, and they were married. And so God, the Father, and Israel, the woman, had a son. You know, they got married, they had a kid. And they only count this one kid. When you read Revelation chapter 12, it talks about this son that was to be born.

And when the child was born, the mother rejected her child. Israel rejected the Son of God. And so that son was caught up into heaven and the sons coming back and the mama is going to recognize her son and accept him and they’re going to go into the kingdom. But the church that’s the bride of Christ. You see if Jesus Christ is a perfect son of God then if he’s going to get married He has to have a perfect wife.

I had a man here, came to church. And one day he, well he didn’t do it one time, he did it about ten times. He says, Plasm, pray for me. I says, what do you want me to pray for? He says, pray that I can find the perfect wife. I says, I will not. And he was a little shocked. He says, why not? I says, because you wouldn’t be the perfect husband. If I can find the perfect woman, I’d want her to have a perfect man.

and you ain’t it. So how do you know? He’s already tried three times before. I’m not a… well no part of that. So Jesus Christ the Son, if He’s going to get married, He has to have a perfect wife. We see all of us are sinners, but when we trusted Christ as our Savior, God gave us a new birth. The new birth is perfect. The new birth doesn’t have a sinful nature. So when the Yankee dies, my old sinful nature is in my body.

It dies, y’all are weep for about five minutes and they get on with your life. But my new birth is born of God, it is perfect. So all of us who trusted Christ as Savior, we formed the body of Christ. we are the church with a bride of Christ. So we’re going to have the marriage supper of the lamb, where the lamb is going to get married. So the next time I get married, I’ll be the bride. I know that don’t sound good, but he’s going to have a perfect wife.

And we are the bride. So you see, God, the Father, had Israel as his wife. But Israel was a bad wife. She’d never obey her husband. She was disobedient. who kicked her out of the house for 2,000 years. She slowly coming back, but she ain’t back in belief. She’s not honoring God Jehovah. But one day she’s going to, by the time this tribulation period is over, God’s going to use these nations of the world to chasten the nation of Israel.

And every nation will gather against Israel in the last days. Right now there’s only a couple of nations in favor of Israel even existing. Most of the nations want them to be totally annihilated. And if it wasn’t for the grace of God, Israel could not even exist. They just keep existing by little miracles. But one day the Antichrist is going to have all-out war on trying to annihilate the Jew. And that’s why the tribulation is so bad. It’s where God is going to chasten his people with the nations of the earth.

And it’s going to be a wake up call to Israel because they’ll know that if they don’t turn to Jehovah himself, they have no hope. And that’s why the Battle of Armageddon is the Battle of all the nations coming together. And I’ve been in the plains of Jezreel, and I’ve been there, and I’ve seen where the battle is supposed to take place, where the blood is supposed to be as high as the horse is bridal. And I was going to be for about 200 miles, flowing all the way down probably into Jerusalem, into the Kidron Valley.

But whenever you go and you see where this last great battle is going to be, the Bible says Christ comes back and He takes care of that. And He whoops the nations. That the nations of the world may know there’s a God in Israel. Now, very quickly, I want you to see this in chapter 38. 8, the equal 38, you’re right there. There is a nation that lies north of Israel. Now it could be Syria or Assyria, which many don’t believe existing more, but the same area, Turkey, and then on north is Moscow and Tumal, talking about Russia.

So you see there in verse 2, Son of Man said, thy face against God in the land of Magal, the chief prince of Myshek and Tumal, many believe as much down to us. Anyway, he says, I’m going to put hooks in your jaws and I’m going to bring you down against my land. And this is because Israel is going to have this peace treaty made. And they’re going to believe they’re going to have peace. So he says to Russia, whenever they have peace, shall you not know it?

And notice in verse 5, Persia, these are the one that are the allies of Russia. Persian, as Iraq and Iran, Ethiopia, Libya, and so forth. And in Gomer and in Togamas, which I believe is Turkey and Syria. These are the same nations that are with Russia today. That’s just a coincidence, right? I mean, that’s just an accident. How they can guess this battle here has never been fought. This is a description of a battle that has not taken place.

Now look in verse 14. Therefore Son of Man prophesy and say unto God, Thus saith the Lord God in that day, when my people of Israel dwell up safely, shall thou not know it, and thou shalt come from thy place out of the north part, northeast, south of west, land of Israel. He says in verse 16, and thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land. He shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me when I shall be sanctified in the O God before their eyes.

Now, when this happens, He describes now some terrible things that’s going to happen during this tribulation period. Because this is a great move on trying to destroy the nation of Israel, to wipe them off the face of the map. And I believe there’s a good possibility Russia could be involved in this, in Syria, and Turkey, and Libya and so forth. There’s a couple of countries that doesn’t mention, which is like even Egypt and Jordan. They have nothing to do with this.

But anyway, look there in verse 19. the last part of verse 19, surely in that day there should be a great shaking in the land of Israel. And some of the things that are going to take place so that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the earth shall shake it thy present, my present, and the mountain shall be thrown down, the deep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the ground.

And I will call for a sword against him again throughout all my mountains. Say, the Lord God, every man, swords you to be against the every against his brother. All these are things that are going to happen. Nobody can trust anybody. And then the last part of verse 22. And overflowing rain and great hell stones and fire and brimstone. All these things and reason he says that I want the heathen to know that I’m God. You see, people who live today, nothing’s happened, nothing’s going on yet.

and the world just lived and they see no sudden tomorrow was gone. Nothing’s happening, nothing’s gonna take place and all of that and there’s a flood. Nothing’s happening, nothing’s going on, nothing exciting. Four hundred years, no word from God now all of a sudden, here comes Jesus and Jerusalem and everything changes. Two thousand years later some of the greatest events of all time is right ahead of us. We are living at the most exciting time in all of human history I am so glad to be living right here.

Why? Because I’m alive. If I lived right there, I would be dead. And I like being alive. I like the possibilities of living when Jesus Christ comes back for me in the air. And I believe that day is coming. Now, when you read some of these other chapters in here, it’ll confuse you a little bit, but that’s why you need to study the book of Revelation. You ought to take my Daniel in a revelation class. I think you’d enjoy it.

Even though I do nothing more than just stir up your mind and make it mad. And you see some things that I didn’t know that was in the Bible. I didn’t know that was in the Bible. Knowing this stuff, prophecy is motivating because it lets you know everything isn’t just playing a little game. Every day is exciting because it’s another day closer to fulfillment of prophecy. We are right here. Is the world lining up just like God said it would?

Is Israel going back to the land just like God said it would? All these things just like God promised. And here we are. Nothing going on. What a boring life. And all of a sudden the raptor takes place. Some of you are going to be late for the rapture. You’re not going to be Lord, wait a minute. I got to pack my bags. No, it’s come as you are, party. Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, if you trust in Christ is Savior, you’re out of here.

And it can happen this morning. But it may not happen for another two, three, four, five. How do I give when it happens? I want to live every day believing that I’m living at the most exciting of time, of all time. And I want to be found faithfully. If he came today, I don’t want to be some place I shouldn’t be or doing something I shouldn’t do or saying something I shouldn’t say. Because you see, it is a motivating, a purifying hope, a joyful anticipation of something that you know that’s true and Christ is coming.

Look at this hand representing you and me. This is sin. We all have sin on us. Now God loves us. Now he hates our sin, but he loves us. And for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from God in hell. But God loves us once to go to heaven. And to go to heaven, well, we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We’re not good to go.

And so we could die at any time. So God says you cannot save yourself. It’s not by your words. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. It was prophesied in the Old Testament. The Messiah is coming. Well, God will come into the world and take it on flesh. Remember this, Jesus has always been from all eternity. But when He was born into this world, it’s where they divine took upon humanity. And Jesus became the perfect God and the perfect man.

The perfect God man. and he became a man in order that he might die because God can’t die. But as a man who lived a perfect life, never committed one sin didn’t have to die. He owed no debt, but we all do. So Jesus Christ took all the sin of all the world and paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead and said, the only thing he wanted us to do to go to heaven is believe he did it for us.

So when you believe he did it for you, he gives you as a free gift everlasting life. And he’ll never cast you out and never lose you. That’s the best news I’ve ever heard in my life. That’s pretty showy. Every head bound, every eye closed, no one looking around. If you are here this morning, and maybe you don’t believe the Bible is true, maybe you don’t believe in God. I don’t know. But I hope that something that I’ve said, or some verses that I’ve read, would help you to see that God is real, and he knows what’s going on.

We’re not left in the dark. But the most important thing is for you to believe what God said, not just to believe what there is in God. But I want you to believe God. God says that He loves you. He really loves you. I want you to go to heaven. He wants you to be in His presence for all eternity. But you need to trust Christ as your Savior. You need to believe that when Christ died, He died in your place to pay for your sins.

And if you’ll believe that, He’ll give you as a free gift ever lasting life. And if it’s everlasting life, means it lasts forever. If it lasts forever, and all your sins are paid, where would you go when you die? You go to heaven. So I’m gonna ask you in just a moment if what I said made sense to you. And I’m gonna ask you in just a moment to raise your hand, not right now, but in just a moment.

Raising your hand will not save you. It’s just to let me know that what I said made sense to you and I want to know. And I want to know if you trust Christ as Savior because I want to rejoice with you. And I’d like to have a word of prayer for you. But I do it with heads, bow, knives, clothes so that you’re not embarrassed. Remember, it’s not to get you forward. It’s not to get any money out of you.

It’s not to get you to join the church. It’s just to do one thing. I want to know if what I said made sense to you. If you’re watching by internet, right where you are, all that you have to do is trust Christ as your Savior. But right on the screen, it says, yes, I’ll trust Christ. Let us know. So in this moment, with his by nice clothes, is there anyone at all say, preacher, that made sense to me?

And I want to know for sure that I’m going to heaven when I die. And I believe that when Christ died, I believe He died from me, paid for my sins. And friend, if you’ll believe He did it for you, He said, that He would save you from hell, give you eternal life, and you can know that you’re going to heaven. Will you trust Him? When He came back from the dead, He says, will you believe I did that for you?

Would you believe He did it for you? If you will, trust Christ today, right now at this moment. Would you let me know by just slipping ahead of very quickly and put it right back down? Say it one at all. Just let me know, just slip it up real quick, put it right back down. Yes, God bless you, sir. Anyone else before we close? He brings it that made sense to me, I want to be certain of going to heaven too.

Our Father, we are thankful so much for all you’ve done for us. We’re thankful for the privilege we have to live in this world at this time to be able to hear the gospel, trust Christ’s Savior, to know we’re going to heaven, and perhaps be in that number that we’ll never see death. We change in a moment the twinkling of an eye. And Father, we’re also thankful to the individual who indicated by Nepali to the hand that they would trust your Savior.

If I do it in so, you’re guaranteed to be eternal life, that you’ll never cast them out and never lose them. They can know they’re going to heaven. Only because of what you did for them. You paid for our sins. Not because of our good words. It’s a blessed one for being here. Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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