· Revelation 6 – False peace and the four horsemen of the Apocalypse
· UN to declare the Palestinian State on Sept 23. What does this mean for Israel and the movement towards the covenant of Daniel 9.27?
· The Towers are falling (Isaiah 30.25) – literally as high rise buildings collapse in China and figuratively in the coming crisis in the global financial system.
· Droughts and floods. Iran running out of water, the Euphrates dries up. Danger of great dams falling in China and drowning millions.
· The signs are there – is anyone noticing? Only the return of the Lord Jesus can save us.
Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.
Revelation 1:19
Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.
Revelation 1:19
#Israel #jesus #Messiah #palestine #revelation #salvation #SignsOfTheTimes #UnitedNations
https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/video/this-month-in-prophecy-august-2025/
· UN to declare the Palestinian State on Sept 23. What does this mean for Israel and the movement towards the covenant of Daniel 9.27?
· The Towers are falling (Isaiah 30.25) – literally as high rise buildings collapse in China and figuratively in the coming crisis in the global financial system.
· Droughts and floods. Iran running out of water, the Euphrates dries up. Danger of great dams falling in China and drowning millions.
· The signs are there – is anyone noticing? Only the return of the Lord Jesus can save us.
Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.
Revelation 1:19
Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.
Revelation 1:19
#Israel #jesus #Messiah #palestine #revelation #salvation #SignsOfTheTimes #UnitedNations
https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/video/this-month-in-prophecy-august-2025/
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00:00:00In the book of Revelation, there is a verse in the first chapter, chapter 1, verse 19,
00:00:07which gives you a kind of outline on how to understand Revelation.
00:00:12It says, write the things which you have seen, the things which are,
00:00:16and the things which will take place after this.
00:00:19So John gets some instructions on what to do.
00:00:22He's told to write these things down, things which you have seen,
00:00:25things which are, and things which will take place after this.
00:00:30So the question is, what's he seen?
00:00:32Well, he's seen a vision of the glorified Lord.
00:00:34He's seen a revelation of the Lord.
00:00:37We often hear of the word apocalypse.
00:00:39Apocalypse actually means unveiling.
00:00:41And in some way, the book of Revelation is the unveiling of the glory of the Lord
00:00:46with this picture or vision which John has of the Lord in heaven.
00:00:55And it explains also why Jesus came.
00:00:58In verse 4, it says,
00:00:59grace to you and peace from him who was, is, and was, and who is to come,
00:01:03from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
00:01:06and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead,
00:01:10and the ruler over the kings of the earth,
00:01:12to him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his blown blood,
00:01:16and has made us kings and priests to his God and his Father,
00:01:19to him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
00:01:21Amen.
00:01:22Behold, he's coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him,
00:01:25even those who pierced him,
00:01:27and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him.
00:01:30Even so, amen.
00:01:32I'm the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord,
00:01:35who is and was and is to come,
00:01:38the Almighty.
00:01:39So it tells you who Jesus is, why he came the first time.
00:01:43He came the first time to redeem us,
00:01:45so that we could be washed in his blood.
00:01:48He's coming again the second time to judge the world in righteousness,
00:01:51and to take up his realm as the Messiah,
00:01:55king ruling over the kings of the earth,
00:01:58the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
00:02:02It tells us also that he is all-powerful.
00:02:05He's the one who was dead and is now alive.
00:02:08He's the resurrection and the life.
00:02:10He's the one who has the keys of Hades,
00:02:12which is the place of the dead and of death.
00:02:15So that's who Jesus is.
00:02:17So he's telling you the things you have seen.
00:02:19It's what John saw in heaven.
00:02:21He also tells you about the things which are,
00:02:23which is the messages to the seven churches.
00:02:26They were real churches,
00:02:27so he has seven messages to seven real churches,
00:02:30which are also representative churches of the whole age,
00:02:33from the day of Pentecost right through to the end of this church age.
00:02:39And each representative church has a message to the church
00:02:42throughout the ages, throughout this era.
00:02:45Then he speaks about the things which happen after this,
00:02:49which is an interesting expression.
00:02:50What happens after this?
00:02:53Things which will happen after this.
00:02:55It's a phrase which is used here in chapter 1,
00:02:58but also in chapter 4, verse 1.
00:03:02Chapter 4, verse 1 of Revelation,
00:03:04you find that a door is opened into heaven,
00:03:06and John is told to come up here,
00:03:08and I will show you the things which will happen after this.
00:03:11So John is supernaturally taken up into heaven,
00:03:14and he has a vision of heaven,
00:03:16and he is told while he's in heaven
00:03:17the things which are going to happen after this.
00:03:21What does it mean by after this?
00:03:24And it's a special revelation which is given to John,
00:03:28and as a result of this being a special revelation
00:03:30which is given to John and revealed to him
00:03:31and written down in the book of Revelation,
00:03:34this is a special blessing to those who read it.
00:03:36So we should pay attention to what John has to say.
00:03:39And while he's in heaven,
00:03:40he's given a revelation of the Lord in glory,
00:03:45but also he sees the glorified Jesus coming
00:03:49and opening the seven seals in chapter 5.
00:03:54And as he opens the seven seals,
00:03:57then he's told in opening the seven seals
00:04:00what's then going to happen in the after this period on the earth.
00:04:04And the after this period on the earth
00:04:05is the passage of Revelation
00:04:07which goes from chapter 6 through to chapter 18,
00:04:10which describes the opening of the seven seals,
00:04:13the period of the Great Tribulation,
00:04:16a seven-year period divided into two halves,
00:04:18which are three and a half years each long.
00:04:22And then in chapter 19,
00:04:24it speaks about the return of the Messiah,
00:04:26Jesus to the earth,
00:04:28the thousand-year reign of the Messiah on the earth,
00:04:30and in chapter 21 and 22,
00:04:32the new heavens and the new earth.
00:04:34So the after this question is interesting
00:04:37because that phrase after this,
00:04:39which is also used in the phrase after these things,
00:04:43happens seven times after chapter 4.
00:04:48And you have a pattern of sevens in the book of Revelation,
00:04:51so it's kind of significant it happens seven times.
00:04:53So you have to ask yourself, after what?
00:04:56So after John is caught up into heaven,
00:04:59he then receives the revelation,
00:05:01then he comes back to earth
00:05:02and he writes down the revelation.
00:05:04And what he writes down is what happens after this,
00:05:07after the end of chapter 3,
00:05:10which is the end of the revelation to the church.
00:05:13Now on this basis,
00:05:15some people, including myself,
00:05:17see the after this section
00:05:18as all that happens on the earth
00:05:20after the rapture of the church.
00:05:22The church is taken up into heaven,
00:05:24and then on the earth,
00:05:26the revelation of what happens in chapter 6 through to 19
00:05:29takes place.
00:05:31Some people would say,
00:05:32no, that's not correct,
00:05:33it's all going to happen after the rapture,
00:05:36it's going to happen after the tribulation.
00:05:38But if you take the pre-tribulation view,
00:05:39everything which is said after this
00:05:41is what happens after the rapture of the church.
00:05:45And now God is dealing with things
00:05:47that take place on the earth.
00:05:49And when you come to chapter 6,
00:05:51which you're going to read now,
00:05:52we see that something very specific
00:05:54takes place after this.
00:05:56So this is the first part of the revelation,
00:05:59if you like,
00:06:00of the time of the great tribulation,
00:06:02which is given to John,
00:06:04and which is part of the unveiling of the seven seals,
00:06:08and the events which take place on the earth
00:06:10at the beginning of the great tribulation,
00:06:12in fact, right through to the end in chapter 6.
00:06:16So let's read through chapter 6 of Revelation.
00:06:18Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals,
00:06:22and I heard one of the four living creatures
00:06:24saying with a loud voice,
00:06:26like thunder, come and see.
00:06:28And I looked, and behold, a white horse,
00:06:29he who sat on it had a bow,
00:06:31and a crown was given to him,
00:06:33and he went out conquering and to conquer.
00:06:36When he opened the second seal,
00:06:37I heard the second living creature saying,
00:06:39come and see.
00:06:40Another horse, fiery red, went out,
00:06:42and it was granted to the one who sat on it
00:06:44to take peace from the earth,
00:06:45and the people should kill one another,
00:06:47and there was given to him a great sword.
00:06:50When he opened the third seal,
00:06:52I heard the third living creature say,
00:06:53come and see.
00:06:54And so I looked, and behold, a black horse,
00:06:56and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.
00:06:59And I heard a voice in the midst
00:07:01of the four living creatures saying,
00:07:02a quart of wheat for a denarius,
00:07:04and three quarts of barley for a denarius,
00:07:06and do not harm the oil and the wine.
00:07:09When he opened the fourth seal,
00:07:11I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying,
00:07:14come and see.
00:07:15So I looked, and behold, a pale horse,
00:07:18and the name of him who sat on it was Death,
00:07:20and Hades followed after him.
00:07:23And power was given to them
00:07:24over a fourth part of the earth
00:07:26to kill with the sword,
00:07:27with hunger, with death,
00:07:29and by the beasts of the earth.
00:07:31When he opened the fifth seal,
00:07:32I saw under the altar the souls
00:07:33of those who had been slain
00:07:35for the word of God
00:07:36and for the testimony which they held.
00:07:39And they cried with a loud voice saying,
00:07:41how long, O Lord, holy and true,
00:07:42until you judge and avenge our blood
00:07:45on those who dwell on the earth.
00:07:47Then a white robe was given to each of them,
00:07:49and it was said to them
00:07:50that they should rest a little while longer
00:07:52until both the number of their fellow servants
00:07:54and their brethren,
00:07:55who would be killed as they were,
00:07:57was completed.
00:07:58I looked, and when he opened the sixth seal,
00:08:01and behold, there was a great earthquake,
00:08:02and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
00:08:05and the moon became like blood,
00:08:07and the stars of heaven fell from the earth
00:08:09as a fig tree drops its late figs
00:08:12when it is shaken by a mighty wind.
00:08:14Then the sky receded as a scroll
00:08:16when it is rolled up,
00:08:17and every mountain and island
00:08:18was moved out of its place,
00:08:20and the kings of the earth,
00:08:21the great men, the rich men,
00:08:22the commanders, the mighty men,
00:08:24and every slave and every free man
00:08:26hid themselves in the caves
00:08:27and in the rocks of the mountains
00:08:29and said to the mountains and rocks,
00:08:31Fall on us and hide us
00:08:33from the face of him who sits on the throne
00:08:35and from the wrath of the Lamb.
00:08:37For the great day of his wrath has come,
00:08:39and who is able to stand?
00:08:42So that's what happens after this.
00:08:45The after this and these,
00:08:46after these section of the Revelation
00:08:48records what will happen then
00:08:50in the seven-year period of great tribulation,
00:08:54beginning with the four horsemen
00:08:55of the apocalypse,
00:08:56in chapter six,
00:08:58ending with the second coming of Jesus
00:08:59as the king of kings
00:09:00and lord of lords
00:09:01in chapter 19.
00:09:04If you follow this closely,
00:09:06you see that in both cases
00:09:07you have a rider on a white horse.
00:09:11In chapter six, verse two,
00:09:13and in chapter 19, verse 11.
00:09:17And one of the things
00:09:18we're going to ask the question is,
00:09:19who is the rider on the white horse?
00:09:22In chapter 19,
00:09:23there's no doubt who it is.
00:09:24It's the Lord Jesus coming back
00:09:26as king of kings and lord of lords
00:09:28with all the power of God at his disposal
00:09:30to bring an end to this age
00:09:32and to destroy the works of the Antichrist
00:09:35and the false prophet,
00:09:36throw the devil into the abyss,
00:09:38and then take up his reign for a thousand years
00:09:40in the time which we call the millennium.
00:09:42When you come to chapter six,
00:09:45it's a bit of a different question.
00:09:47A lot of people say,
00:09:48yes, it's about Jesus riding out,
00:09:51preaching the gospel,
00:09:52going forth, conquering,
00:09:53and to conquer with the gospel.
00:09:56So a few people already shaking their heads.
00:09:59If that's the case,
00:09:59then you do have a bit of a problem
00:10:01because there seems to be a connection
00:10:02between the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
00:10:04The white horse leads to the red horse,
00:10:07which brings war and trouble.
00:10:09The red horse leads to the black horse,
00:10:12which brings famine and disaster.
00:10:14And the pale horse brings about mass death.
00:10:19So in that case,
00:10:21preaching the gospel brings about war,
00:10:23famine, and death.
00:10:25No.
00:10:26The alternative then is that
00:10:27the rider on the white horse is not Jesus.
00:10:30It's another one
00:10:31who is actually the false messiah
00:10:33who's coming out,
00:10:35riding on a white horse,
00:10:37bringing a message
00:10:38which is a false peace
00:10:39and a false gospel.
00:10:42He's riding on the white horse.
00:10:43He has a bow,
00:10:44but he has no arrows.
00:10:46He may be promising peace and safety,
00:10:48but it's not real peace.
00:10:50And according to Thessalonians,
00:10:51when someone comes promising peace and safety,
00:10:54it'll be followed by sudden destruction,
00:10:56which is what you see happening
00:10:57in the rest of this passage.
00:11:00Both of them have crowns,
00:11:02but there are different words in the Greek.
00:11:04In the passage in the book of,
00:11:06in chapter 19,
00:11:08the crown which is on the head of the Messiah,
00:11:11who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
00:11:13is the Greek word from which we have the word diadem.
00:11:18And it means a crown which is given by authority,
00:11:21with authority,
00:11:22from one who is above,
00:11:23who is God.
00:11:24So God is giving his crown of authority
00:11:26to Jesus as he comes as King of Kings
00:11:28and Lord of Lords with the diadem crown.
00:11:31The one who writes out in the chapter six
00:11:33has the different word.
00:11:34It's called the word which is Stephanos.
00:11:37And Stephanos is the kind of crown
00:11:38which is given to somebody
00:11:39who's kind of a victor in the games
00:11:41or a one who's crowned as a great one
00:11:44or a leader of men.
00:11:47In fact, given from below, if you like,
00:11:49given by acclamation from below.
00:11:53In which case,
00:11:53it could be speaking not of the Lord giving him the crown,
00:11:56but the people giving him the crown.
00:11:58And if people are giving him the crown,
00:11:59they may be giving the crown
00:12:00to the one who doesn't deserve it,
00:12:02who's actually a false Messiah
00:12:04coming to bring the wrong message.
00:12:09And so if that's the case,
00:12:12then it actually makes more sense of this passage
00:12:14because if he comes bringing a false peace,
00:12:16it's then followed by war and destruction,
00:12:20followed by famine, food shortages,
00:12:23and followed by mass death.
00:12:25And as we see also,
00:12:26it speaks about the martyrdom
00:12:27of the tribulation saints
00:12:29and then about the second coming to the earth
00:12:31at the end of chapter six
00:12:33with the great day of wrath,
00:12:35of the wrath of the Lamb coming,
00:12:37which corresponds to the second coming
00:12:39of Jesus the Messiah.
00:12:42One of the things you also need to know
00:12:43about the book of Revelation
00:12:44is it goes up to the end,
00:12:45then it goes back again,
00:12:46then it goes to the end,
00:12:46then it goes back again,
00:12:47then it goes to the end,
00:12:48and then it goes back again.
00:12:49And on the third time,
00:12:50that's the end,
00:12:51and it goes into the new heavens
00:12:52and the new earth eventually
00:12:53through the thousand year reign of the Messiah.
00:12:57So the fact that it ends
00:12:58with what appears to be
00:12:59the second coming of Jesus
00:13:00doesn't mean that it then
00:13:01everything which follows
00:13:02goes after chapter six.
00:13:04You go back again to the beginning.
00:13:06That's just a little bit of correction there.
00:13:09But it's the beginning
00:13:09of the great tribulation period
00:13:11right through the second coming
00:13:13to the earth.
00:13:17So we then have to ask the question,
00:13:18if this is the case,
00:13:22are we moving towards this event taking place?
00:13:27There are a number of things
00:13:28I've mentioned already
00:13:29which could be in the frame.
00:13:31One is actually
00:13:32the rapture of the church.
00:13:34Controversial subject,
00:13:35but it's there in the Bible,
00:13:37and we need to be aware
00:13:37that that is something
00:13:38which is going to take place
00:13:39at some point.
00:13:40At some point,
00:13:41those who are believers in Jesus
00:13:42are going to be supernaturally
00:13:43taken out of this world
00:13:44to be with Jesus
00:13:45and going to have
00:13:46a life-changing,
00:13:48or even more than a life-changing,
00:13:50an eternity-changing experience,
00:13:52being called up to meet the Lord
00:13:53as he comes in the air.
00:13:56Also, the Bible tells us
00:13:59there's going to come a time
00:14:00of the great tribulation
00:14:01which will bring false peace,
00:14:03war, famine, and mass death.
00:14:06Is it possible that we're moving
00:14:07in that direction in the world today?
00:14:09Are there things which are being set
00:14:11in motion right now
00:14:12which could bring about
00:14:13the fulfillment of that on the earth?
00:14:16So whether you believe in the rapture,
00:14:17pre-tribulation, or post-tribulation,
00:14:19we can see that there are
00:14:20very many possibilities today
00:14:22that we have a sequence of events
00:14:24just as we have here in Revelation
00:14:26of a false peace
00:14:27followed by war,
00:14:29followed by famine,
00:14:31followed by mass death
00:14:32which will then lead up
00:14:33to the second coming
00:14:34of Jesus the Messiah.
00:14:38So if that's the case,
00:14:40we're living in end-time days.
00:14:43Let's see what we can see
00:14:43what's happening in the world today.
00:14:46We do have a lot of talk about peace,
00:14:49a lot of talk about war as well.
00:14:54Donald Trump claims to have stopped
00:14:57six or maybe even seven wars
00:14:59in the last six months
00:15:01and therefore he claims
00:15:03that he qualifies
00:15:05for the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:15:08He also says he's trying to broker
00:15:09an end to the Russia-Ukraine war
00:15:11and he's been highlighting
00:15:13his track record
00:15:14in peace negotiations
00:15:15since starting his second term in office.
00:15:19And on August the 19th,
00:15:22he did claim
00:15:22he's ended seven wars.
00:15:26He's also said that
00:15:27on the basis of this,
00:15:28he should qualify
00:15:28for the Nobel Peace Prize
00:15:30as he is a peacemaker-in-chief.
00:15:34He also listed the wars
00:15:35he's supposed to have ended.
00:15:37Wars are Iran and Israel,
00:15:39Pakistan and India,
00:15:41Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Kondo,
00:15:43Thailand and Cambodia,
00:15:45Armenia and Azerbaijan,
00:15:47Egypt and Ethiopia,
00:15:48Serbia and Kosovo.
00:15:52Some people question
00:15:53whether that's really the case.
00:15:54I think the Armenia and Azerbaijan ones
00:15:56he definitely did have a factor in.
00:15:58Apparently India is quite indignant
00:16:00that he didn't really have much factor
00:16:01in the India-Pakistan one.
00:16:04And certainly Israel and Iran
00:16:05are not at peace at this present time.
00:16:08But now he's looking at Ukraine and Russia.
00:16:11Critics of Trump are saying
00:16:13that he is actually helping Russia
00:16:15to get what it wants.
00:16:17And it may not be so much peace
00:16:18as surrender.
00:16:20And this is one of the things
00:16:21which you see about a false peace.
00:16:22But if your peace actually involves
00:16:24you submitting to somebody
00:16:26who has an agenda
00:16:28which is not right,
00:16:29then you're not going to end up with peace.
00:16:31You're going to end up with the opposite.
00:16:33And people are afraid
00:16:35that he's going to encourage
00:16:35other hostile states like China
00:16:37to continue with aggressive policies.
00:16:40And some people say
00:16:41that he was taken for a ride
00:16:42at the Great Summit in Alaska.
00:16:46Certainly, I say I felt pretty sick
00:16:49when he gave all that celebration
00:16:51to Putin with the red carpet,
00:16:54talked about my friend Vladimir,
00:16:56gave him a free ride in the Cadillac,
00:16:58which is also known as the Beast.
00:17:03When really he should have been
00:17:04treating Putin as what he is,
00:17:07a war criminal who has launched
00:17:09an illegal invasion on Ukraine
00:17:11and should have been
00:17:13putting sanctions on him
00:17:14to bring Russia to its knees
00:17:15economically and force an end
00:17:17to the war.
00:17:18Otherwise, he's rewarding
00:17:20aggression and war crimes.
00:17:24So you have a peace program,
00:17:25but it's not really peace.
00:17:29Then you have Russia.
00:17:32Where's Russia going to ignore this?
00:17:36Now, if you look at the Ukraine war,
00:17:37Putin actually wants to recreate
00:17:39the USSR, Soviet Union.
00:17:43He described its fall in 1991
00:17:45as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe
00:17:49of the 20th century.
00:17:52At that time, Ukraine was part
00:17:54of the Soviet Union,
00:17:55which was essentially one country.
00:17:58Afterwards, it wanted to break away
00:18:00from control from Moscow
00:18:02and move towards the West,
00:18:04along with other former Soviet countries
00:18:08like the Baltics
00:18:09and satellites like Poland
00:18:12and East European countries.
00:18:15It's interesting that
00:18:16at the summit in Alaska,
00:18:21Putin's deputy,
00:18:22who's a man called Lavrov,
00:18:25turned up wearing a T-shirt
00:18:26which had CCP on it.
00:18:29You can see him there.
00:18:31He's the foreign minister
00:18:32and he has this T-shirt
00:18:33which says CCCP.
00:18:36Maybe you don't think
00:18:38that's significant.
00:18:39If you knew Russian,
00:18:41you might realize
00:18:42that it does actually mean something.
00:18:44Russia, the letter C
00:18:45corresponds to S,
00:18:47the letter P
00:18:47corresponds to R.
00:18:49So you have CCCP,
00:18:51which is
00:18:51Soyuz Soetsky
00:18:53Socialistiki Republici,
00:18:55which means
00:18:56the Union of Soviet
00:18:57Socialist Republics.
00:18:59So he turns up
00:19:00at a conference,
00:19:02supposedly for peace
00:19:03in Ukraine,
00:19:06wearing a T-shirt
00:19:06saying
00:19:07the Union of Soviet
00:19:08Socialist Republics.
00:19:10So that strike
00:19:11you as a little bit strange.
00:19:16So really,
00:19:17the USSR,
00:19:18the old Soviet Union,
00:19:19was actually a form
00:19:20of Russian imperialism
00:19:21in which Russia
00:19:22took control
00:19:22over all the countries
00:19:23around about it,
00:19:24including the countries
00:19:25of Eastern Europe
00:19:25in the Warsaw Pact
00:19:27before the fall of communism
00:19:28and the Soviet Union.
00:19:31And now,
00:19:32Russia wants to
00:19:32regain
00:19:33some of that influence.
00:19:35It wants to regain Ukraine,
00:19:36bring it back
00:19:37into its orbit.
00:19:38Putin wants to recreate
00:19:39the Soviet Union.
00:19:42And so he starts
00:19:43the illegal invasion
00:19:44of Ukraine.
00:19:46And his ultimate aim
00:19:47is to bring
00:19:47the whole of Ukraine
00:19:48under Russian control.
00:19:50And
00:19:51Trump seems to be
00:19:52a little bit
00:19:53dim on this,
00:19:54perhaps.
00:19:55Says he's the master
00:19:56of the deal,
00:19:57but people question
00:19:58whether he really
00:19:58knows the facts
00:19:59and whether he's
00:19:59actually being taken
00:20:00for a ride
00:20:01by Putin.
00:20:03Whatever,
00:20:03we have a peace
00:20:04program,
00:20:05but it's not
00:20:06heading towards peace.
00:20:09Another interesting fact
00:20:10which I found out
00:20:11was that
00:20:11after the
00:20:12Alaska
00:20:14situation,
00:20:16Trump did an interview
00:20:17on his motivation
00:20:18for peace.
00:20:19Said again,
00:20:20he wants to win
00:20:20the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:20:22But he also says
00:20:23he wants to earn
00:20:24his way to heaven.
00:20:26He said that
00:20:26he realizes
00:20:27he's done some
00:20:27bad things
00:20:28in his life
00:20:29and he said
00:20:30that if I can do
00:20:31some good things
00:20:31and save a few
00:20:33thousand lives,
00:20:34then maybe I'll
00:20:35find a way
00:20:35to get to heaven.
00:20:38He also quoted
00:20:39a man called
00:20:39Norman Vincent Peale
00:20:41as one of his
00:20:42people who've been
00:20:43influential upon him.
00:20:45Some people are
00:20:46saying,
00:20:46oh no.
00:20:48Some people
00:20:48don't know
00:20:49who Norman Vincent Peale
00:20:50is,
00:20:50so I'll tell you.
00:20:51He was a
00:20:51former minister
00:20:53of some kind
00:20:55of Protestant
00:20:55denomination.
00:20:56I think he was
00:20:56a Methodist
00:20:57in America.
00:20:59He also wrote
00:21:00a book on,
00:21:01what was the title
00:21:02of it?
00:21:03Self-help
00:21:04of some sort.
00:21:06Yeah,
00:21:06The Power of Positive
00:21:07Thinking.
00:21:07That was it.
00:21:08Power of Positive
00:21:09Thinking.
00:21:11And he was also
00:21:12a 33 degree
00:21:13Freemason.
00:21:15If you know
00:21:15anything about
00:21:16Freemason,
00:21:16Freemasonry is
00:21:17actually a
00:21:18counterfeit
00:21:19religious system
00:21:20which teaches
00:21:20that all gods
00:21:21are equal,
00:21:22all roads lead
00:21:23to God,
00:21:23that you can
00:21:24save yourself
00:21:24by your own
00:21:25effort.
00:21:26And it's a
00:21:26kind of self-help,
00:21:27self-motivation
00:21:28thing in which
00:21:29you do good
00:21:30and you make
00:21:30yourself into
00:21:31a better person
00:21:32and therefore
00:21:33you are able
00:21:33to earn
00:21:34your reward
00:21:35in some way.
00:21:37It denies
00:21:38the central
00:21:38problem which
00:21:39the Bible
00:21:39teaches about
00:21:40which is that
00:21:40we are sinners
00:21:41and we need
00:21:41redemption
00:21:42through repentance
00:21:43and faith
00:21:43in Jesus
00:21:44the Messiah.
00:21:46So fundamentally
00:21:46it's deceptive
00:21:47and it's
00:21:47anti-Christian.
00:21:49So that's
00:21:49one of the
00:21:49influences
00:21:50upon Donald
00:21:51Trump.
00:21:53He's now
00:21:54under the
00:21:54influence
00:21:54of a lady
00:21:54called
00:21:55Paula White
00:21:55who is
00:21:57another
00:21:57signs and
00:21:59wonders
00:21:59teacher
00:21:59who believes
00:22:00in the
00:22:00great revival
00:22:01which we're
00:22:01going to
00:22:02Christianize
00:22:03the world
00:22:03through some
00:22:05great revival
00:22:06which are
00:22:06going to
00:22:06change the
00:22:07world.
00:22:07So you've
00:22:07got a number
00:22:08of influences
00:22:08upon him
00:22:09which are
00:22:10we would
00:22:10say
00:22:11contrary to
00:22:12what the
00:22:12Bible says.
00:22:14So any
00:22:15kind of peace
00:22:15which is
00:22:15coming this
00:22:16way is
00:22:16not in
00:22:17the right
00:22:18form.
00:22:19What about
00:22:20Putin?
00:22:21Putin wants
00:22:21to recreate
00:22:22the Soviet
00:22:22Union.
00:22:24He's also
00:22:24got the
00:22:25Russian Orthodox
00:22:27Church on
00:22:27side in
00:22:29his program
00:22:29and he's
00:22:30become quite
00:22:30religious.
00:22:31In fact
00:22:31there's a
00:22:31picture of
00:22:32him crossing
00:22:33himself at
00:22:33some religious
00:22:34ceremony
00:22:34and proclaiming
00:22:35that he's a
00:22:36believer in
00:22:37Christianity
00:22:38through the
00:22:39Orthodox Church
00:22:40and he's
00:22:40hoping that
00:22:41through
00:22:41Orthodox
00:22:42Christianity
00:22:42he will
00:22:43prevail in
00:22:44the war
00:22:45in Ukraine.
00:22:46In fact
00:22:46the patriarch
00:22:47of the
00:22:47Orthodox
00:22:48Church told
00:22:49the Russians
00:22:49when they go
00:22:49into Ukraine
00:22:50if they die
00:22:50in the battle
00:22:51they'll go
00:22:52straight to
00:22:52heaven because
00:22:53their sins
00:22:53will be
00:22:53forgiven and
00:22:54they'll go
00:22:54straight to
00:22:55heaven.
00:22:56Another total
00:22:56deception.
00:22:58So it
00:22:58occurred to
00:22:58me you've
00:22:58got two
00:22:59men negotiating
00:23:00both with
00:23:01some kind of
00:23:02Christian
00:23:03connection but
00:23:03both of them
00:23:04under a
00:23:04deception.
00:23:06And this it
00:23:06seems to me
00:23:07is part of
00:23:07the Antichrist
00:23:09program.
00:23:10You have
00:23:11what may
00:23:11appear to be
00:23:12Christian it
00:23:13may appear
00:23:13to be going
00:23:14in the right
00:23:14direction but
00:23:15underneath it
00:23:16if you
00:23:16discern it
00:23:17there is an
00:23:18Antichrist
00:23:18agenda taking
00:23:19place.
00:23:20So it
00:23:20becomes peace
00:23:21peace where
00:23:21there is no
00:23:22peace and
00:23:23a false
00:23:23peace leading
00:23:24to the
00:23:25opposite and
00:23:27is fundamentally
00:23:28Antichristian.
00:23:30Okay so
00:23:30enough of
00:23:31Russia and
00:23:32Ukraine and
00:23:33America let's
00:23:34move on to
00:23:34the Middle
00:23:34East.
00:23:36As you
00:23:36probably know
00:23:37there is a
00:23:38well maybe you
00:23:39don't know but
00:23:40there's a lot of
00:23:41talk at the
00:23:41present time about
00:23:42creating a
00:23:43Palestinian state
00:23:44and there's
00:23:47going to be a
00:23:48conference at
00:23:49the UN General
00:23:49Assembly next
00:23:51month the end
00:23:53of September.
00:23:55France, Britain,
00:23:56Canada and
00:23:56Australia have
00:23:57all said they
00:23:57will recognize
00:23:58the Palestinian
00:23:58state next
00:23:59month at the
00:24:00annual meeting
00:24:00of the UN
00:24:01General Assembly.
00:24:03147 UN
00:24:04member states
00:24:05already recognize
00:24:06the state of
00:24:06Palestine.
00:24:08Many countries
00:24:09are wanting to
00:24:09make some kind
00:24:10of a covenant
00:24:11over Israel
00:24:11and Palestine
00:24:13which they
00:24:14call the
00:24:14two-state
00:24:14solution.
00:24:17So that would
00:24:17be a good
00:24:18idea wouldn't
00:24:18it to have a
00:24:18two-state
00:24:19solution.
00:24:19Divide up the
00:24:20land, make
00:24:21peace between
00:24:21Israel and
00:24:22the Palestinians.
00:24:23Israelis get
00:24:23one part, the
00:24:24Arabs get one
00:24:25part and then
00:24:25they live in
00:24:26peace alongside
00:24:27each other.
00:24:29Interestingly the
00:24:29dateline for
00:24:30this is actually
00:24:31September the
00:24:3123rd to the
00:24:3324th.
00:24:35So it happens
00:24:36that this is the
00:24:37same time as
00:24:38the Jewish New
00:24:38Year, Rosh
00:24:39Shoshanna, the
00:24:40Feast of
00:24:40Trumpets which
00:24:41begins on the
00:24:41sunset of
00:24:42September the
00:24:4322nd to
00:24:44September the
00:24:4524th.
00:24:46So September
00:24:47the 23rd is
00:24:48bang in the
00:24:48middle of it.
00:24:50Now some
00:24:51people have made
00:24:52a connection
00:24:52with this with
00:24:53the book of
00:24:53Daniel chapter
00:24:549 verse 27
00:24:55which says that
00:24:56he who they
00:24:58take to be the
00:24:59Antichrist shall
00:25:00confirm a covenant
00:25:00with many for
00:25:01one week, in
00:25:02other words a
00:25:02seven-year period.
00:25:04It has something to
00:25:05do with the
00:25:05beginning of the
00:25:06seven-year period
00:25:06which would lead to
00:25:07the great
00:25:08tribulation.
00:25:10So this covenant
00:25:11with Israel and
00:25:12with Palestine
00:25:13would set off the
00:25:14final seven-year
00:25:15period which will
00:25:16begin with a
00:25:17false peace followed
00:25:18by a seven-year
00:25:19period of
00:25:19tribulation.
00:25:21If you take the
00:25:22pre-tribulation view
00:25:23it also coincides
00:25:24with the rapture of
00:25:25the church and
00:25:26there is a paper
00:25:27going around right
00:25:28now saying that
00:25:29the rapture of
00:25:29the church is
00:25:30going to happen
00:25:30on the 23rd of
00:25:31September because
00:25:32of this.
00:25:34Now I'm not
00:25:34telling you that
00:25:35that's going to
00:25:35happen.
00:25:36I've actually read
00:25:36it and he
00:25:38actually puts
00:25:39together some
00:25:39pretty interesting
00:25:40pits relating to
00:25:41the book of
00:25:42Daniel which I
00:25:43may share with
00:25:43you next week.
00:25:45I'm not saying
00:25:45it's going to
00:25:45happen on the
00:25:4623rd of September
00:25:47but the connection
00:25:48clearly is there
00:25:49between this
00:25:50covenant which
00:25:51will take place
00:25:52and the
00:25:54fulfillment of
00:25:54Daniel 9 27
00:25:55and if Daniel 9
00:25:5727 kicks off the
00:25:58seven-year period
00:25:58of the tribulation
00:25:59if you take the
00:26:00pre-tribulation view
00:26:01that means that
00:26:01that is imminent
00:26:02for the rapture
00:26:04of the church.
00:26:05So I see a few
00:26:06people shaking
00:26:06their heads
00:26:07a few people
00:26:07looking puzzled
00:26:08but just keep
00:26:09that in your
00:26:10head because
00:26:10it's another
00:26:11sign that people
00:26:12are looking in
00:26:13these events for
00:26:14the fulfillment of
00:26:15Bible prophecy and
00:26:16for the second
00:26:17coming of Jesus
00:26:18the Messiah.
00:26:19Now Jesus actually
00:26:20said we don't know
00:26:21the day or the
00:26:21hour and it's
00:26:22dangerous actually
00:26:23to make predictions
00:26:24on the actual
00:26:25date but there
00:26:26are reasons why
00:26:27they're saying it
00:26:28and I'll share with
00:26:29you some of them
00:26:29next week because
00:26:30they are quite
00:26:31interesting and I'll
00:26:32share with you what
00:26:32Daniel 9.27 actually
00:26:34does say and imply
00:26:35and how it does fit
00:26:36in with this whole
00:26:37program which you
00:26:38can see taking place
00:26:39right now.
00:26:41It would take me
00:26:41too long to go
00:26:42into it so I
00:26:43won't go into it
00:26:44in great detail.
00:26:46But coming back to
00:26:47the actual political
00:26:48situation on the
00:26:49ground, right now
00:26:51you've got a lot of
00:26:52pressure on Israel
00:26:52to make a ceasefire
00:26:53and the nations
00:26:57would say to
00:26:58withdraw from Gaza
00:26:59and to move towards
00:27:01a Palestinian state.
00:27:02present Prime
00:27:04Minister Etanyahu
00:27:05says no.
00:27:07We have to say that
00:27:07Israel is in a very
00:27:08difficult position at
00:27:09this present time.
00:27:11It's very difficult
00:27:11not only for Israel
00:27:12but also for those
00:27:13who support Israel
00:27:14like us.
00:27:16Hamas is using the
00:27:17situation to create
00:27:17very bad press for
00:27:18Israel, a very
00:27:20cynical program
00:27:21actually.
00:27:22They used the
00:27:23October the 7th
00:27:24attack to bring
00:27:26tremendous harm to
00:27:27Israel, really a
00:27:29pogrom which was
00:27:30the worst attack on
00:27:31Jewish people since
00:27:32the Holocaust.
00:27:33They knew that
00:27:34Israel would then
00:27:35respond, would go
00:27:37into Gaza and as
00:27:39Israel goes into
00:27:40Gaza they're going
00:27:40to have to take
00:27:41actions which are
00:27:42going to harm the
00:27:43citizens of Gaza
00:27:45especially as Hamas
00:27:47has built all these
00:27:49tunnels under Gaza,
00:27:51put all their weapons
00:27:51under these tunnels
00:27:53under Gaza, holding
00:27:56hostages probably in
00:27:57these tunnels as
00:27:58well and so it's
00:28:00going to cause Israel
00:28:00to go into this
00:28:01place and cause a
00:28:02lot of destruction
00:28:03of homes, even of
00:28:05hospitals and cause
00:28:07casualty events of
00:28:08civilians which would
00:28:09be very bad press for
00:28:11Israel.
00:28:12As you get all this
00:28:13bad press for Israel
00:28:14then people are going
00:28:14to say well Israel is
00:28:15a bad place, we
00:28:16should be against
00:28:17Israel, we should not
00:28:18support the state of
00:28:19Israel and we should
00:28:20work for some kind of
00:28:23settlement which will
00:28:24bring Israel into
00:28:25submission to the rule
00:28:26of the world
00:28:27community which is
00:28:29what's happening at
00:28:29this present time.
00:28:33Now we have to say
00:28:34that Hamas doesn't
00:28:35care about the
00:28:36suffering of the
00:28:36Palestinians, they're
00:28:38quite happy to use
00:28:38them and just as
00:28:42Putin started the war
00:28:43in Ukraine and is
00:28:44responsible for all
00:28:45the suffering on both
00:28:46sides of the
00:28:47conflict so Hamas
00:28:48started the war by
00:28:50the October the
00:28:507th action and is
00:28:52taking Israeli
00:28:53hostages and is
00:28:55also responsible for
00:28:56the suffering of the
00:28:58people on both sides.
00:28:59They could end it
00:28:59immediately by letting
00:29:00the hostages go, they
00:29:02could stop stockpiling
00:29:03missiles aimed at
00:29:04Israel's destruction,
00:29:06they could stop its
00:29:07charter which calls for
00:29:07the elimination of the
00:29:08Jewish state and they
00:29:10could basically allow
00:29:13the recreation of Gaza
00:29:14under a new
00:29:15administration.
00:29:17They use the pictures
00:29:18of the suffering
00:29:19Palestinians to create
00:29:20sympathy for their
00:29:22cause but even more
00:29:23they're interested in
00:29:24creating a world
00:29:24hatred of Israel.
00:29:27They've been stealing
00:29:28the aid, they've been
00:29:30creating conflicts at
00:29:30the distribution
00:29:31centres and then the
00:29:33world blames Israel for
00:29:34genocide and starvation
00:29:35and generally the media
00:29:37and the politicians in
00:29:39our part of the world
00:29:40are prejudiced against
00:29:41Israel.
00:29:43Now the present time the
00:29:44Prime Minister of Israel
00:29:45Benjamin Netanyahu has
00:29:46rejected the ceasefire
00:29:47proposal and he sent in
00:29:50the military to attack
00:29:51Hamas in its last
00:29:53strongholds in Gaza Strip
00:29:55and this is creating
00:29:57even more criticism.
00:30:00He said that no nation
00:30:01can accept a genocidal
00:30:02terrorist organisation
00:30:03committed to its
00:30:04annihilation a stone's
00:30:06throw from its citizens
00:30:07and he set out his five
00:30:10principles for the day
00:30:11after the war.
00:30:12One is that Hamas is
00:30:13disarmed, second that all
00:30:14hostages are freed,
00:30:16third that Gaza is
00:30:17demilitarised, fourth that
00:30:18Israel has overriding
00:30:19security control and five
00:30:22that non-Israeli peaceful
00:30:23administration is set up.
00:30:27Now it's very difficult
00:30:28to achieve these goals.
00:30:30Some would say it's
00:30:31almost impossible and one
00:30:33has to say that many
00:30:34Israelis have had enough.
00:30:36There are Israelis, the
00:30:37reservists who are actually
00:30:39reluctant to heed the
00:30:40call for the call up.
00:30:44Many of them just want to
00:30:45have a peace and to get
00:30:46out of Gaza but I talked
00:30:48to a Jewish friend who's
00:30:49actually also in a trade,
00:30:51he's been in the IDF
00:30:52last week.
00:30:54He said that Hamas is
00:30:55virtually finished
00:30:55militarily, they've got
00:30:56no arms left, Israel
00:30:57should stop the war and
00:30:59just get out and let them
00:31:00get on with it.
00:31:01Which I think is probably
00:31:02the attitude of a lot of
00:31:03Jewish people and a lot
00:31:04of Israelis.
00:31:06And you can see it's got
00:31:07a lot of reason for
00:31:08saying that.
00:31:09The problem is that then
00:31:10if you work for peace
00:31:11would it be peace with no
00:31:12peace and then lead to
00:31:13a continuation of the war
00:31:15at a later date with Hamas
00:31:17back in control.
00:31:19Now all these things are
00:31:20actually causing the world
00:31:21to turn against Israel
00:31:22and increasing calls for
00:31:26the recognition of
00:31:27Palestine at the UN
00:31:28General Assembly
00:31:29and as I've already said
00:31:33I'm working for the
00:31:34two-state solution.
00:31:36Now does the two-state
00:31:37solution have any
00:31:38biblical significance?
00:31:40I think it does.
00:31:42If you look in the Bible
00:31:43there are certain
00:31:44prophecies which speak about
00:31:45the end of days which
00:31:46said that there's going
00:31:47to be a restoration of
00:31:48Israel.
00:31:49There's going to be a
00:31:49focus on Israel as the
00:31:50center point of world
00:31:52trouble.
00:31:53There are passages like
00:31:54in Joel chapter 3 which
00:31:56speak about a division of
00:31:58the land by the nations
00:31:59which God will not be
00:32:00happy about.
00:32:02Zechariah chapter 12
00:32:03speaks about Jerusalem
00:32:04being the focal point of
00:32:05world tension.
00:32:06It says it's going to be a
00:32:07burdensome stone burdening
00:32:08all nations.
00:32:10Daniel chapter 9 as we've
00:32:12seen speaks about a
00:32:13strong confirming a strong
00:32:15covenant with many and
00:32:17Isaiah chapter 28 says
00:32:19that that turn out to be a
00:32:20covenant with death if God
00:32:22did not intervene.
00:32:23So you can see a number of
00:32:24things which the Bible says
00:32:25are going to happen in the
00:32:26last days which are being
00:32:27fulfilled by what's taking
00:32:28place right now.
00:32:30And so should there be a
00:32:33Palestinian state?
00:32:36Well our government thinks
00:32:38they should.
00:32:39France thinks they should.
00:32:40And increasingly the nations
00:32:41of the world think they
00:32:42should.
00:32:43And on September the 23rd
00:32:45they're going to vote on it
00:32:46and most likely the UN will
00:32:48say that we should now have a
00:32:50Palestinian state.
00:32:51I have to say that just
00:32:52making that vote at the UN
00:32:53does not in itself create a
00:32:56Palestinian state.
00:32:57According to the Oslo
00:32:59Accords the Palestinian state
00:33:01actually has to be settled by
00:33:03negotiations between Israel
00:33:05and the Palestinian
00:33:05authority with borders set up
00:33:08and with administration set up
00:33:10and all kinds of things which
00:33:11don't exist at the present
00:33:12time.
00:33:13In fact according to even UN
00:33:15lines Palestine does not
00:33:19really exist as a
00:33:21recognisable state.
00:33:22It doesn't have recognised
00:33:24borders, doesn't have a
00:33:25functioning government either
00:33:27in Gaza or really in the
00:33:29West Bank either.
00:33:31And also in the UN if a
00:33:33state is set up it should be
00:33:34willing to live in peace with
00:33:35its neighbours.
00:33:37And now there's no question
00:33:38that a Palestinian state as it
00:33:40if it's constituted in the
00:33:41present form would really want
00:33:43to live in peace with its
00:33:44neighbours.
00:33:46In fact if you look at
00:33:47history you'll find that
00:33:48Israel has offered the
00:33:48Palestinians a state on
00:33:50several occasions particularly
00:33:53in 2000, 2001, 2008 and each
00:33:57time the Palestinians have
00:33:58rejected it partly because
00:34:00one of the conditions is that
00:34:02they lay down their arms and
00:34:03live in peace with Israel.
00:34:05And they don't want to do
00:34:06this.
00:34:07In fact after Arafat rejected
00:34:08the first one he had launched
00:34:09the second intifada which
00:34:11brought terrorism and
00:34:12violence against Israel.
00:34:15And so there is an issue
00:34:18which is one which they're
00:34:21looking for peace but there's
00:34:22no peace.
00:34:23There's no real desire for
00:34:24peace.
00:34:25And it's peace, peace where
00:34:26there is no peace because
00:34:27the Palestinians actually
00:34:28don't want peace.
00:34:29They want a peace of Israel
00:34:31first of all and then the
00:34:32whole of Israel.
00:34:33They want to use whatever
00:34:34part they can get from
00:34:36Israel to destroy the rest
00:34:37of Israel.
00:34:39In fact if you go back to the
00:34:40Oslo Accords, Yasser Arafat
00:34:43which when he made it with
00:34:44Yitzhak Rabin back in 1993
00:34:46he actually said that this
00:34:50Palestinian state was the
00:34:52first stage in the ultimate
00:34:54objective which would be the
00:34:55elimination of Israel.
00:34:58When he signed the Oslo
00:34:59Accords in 1993 he said that
00:35:01this agreement was only
00:35:02intended to serve as a
00:35:03temporary solution.
00:35:05The two state solution was to
00:35:07have served as the first
00:35:08stage in a wider plan to use
00:35:10territory Israel withdrew from
00:35:11as a base from which to attack
00:35:13Israel and bring an end to it.
00:35:15He compared the agreement to
00:35:18the Muslim story of the truce
00:35:20of Hudabaya which was signed
00:35:23by Muhammad allegedly which
00:35:26caused him to make a ten-year
00:35:27truce between Muhammad and the
00:35:30Quresh tribe in Mecca which
00:35:32Muhammad broke two years later
00:35:33when he attacked them and
00:35:35conquered Mecca.
00:35:36The idea of that truce was that
00:35:38when your enemy is stronger than
00:35:39you are you make a truce with
00:35:40him and then you build up your
00:35:43forces until you're stronger than
00:35:44they are and then you can break
00:35:45the agreement and destroy your
00:35:47enemy.
00:35:48So Arafat said that what
00:35:50Muhammad did back in the
00:35:52beginnings of the Islamic
00:35:53conquest is what we're going to
00:35:54do with Israel meaning that it
00:35:56was a false peace.
00:36:00So if you come to the
00:36:01conclusion any agreement which
00:36:02comes along these lines is in
00:36:04line with a white horse of false
00:36:06peace in Revelation which will
00:36:08lead ultimately to the red horse
00:36:10of war.
00:36:10people and that's what our
00:36:12government is supporting.
00:36:15In the end if you understand it
00:36:16it's the plan for genocide of the
00:36:18Jewish people and the end of the
00:36:20Jewish state of Israel.
00:36:22Because God actually means to
00:36:23intend to preserve the state of
00:36:25Israel and preserve Israel until
00:36:28the second coming of Jesus when
00:36:29Jesus will take up the reign and
00:36:30rule over the world from Israel.
00:36:33God is going to preserve Israel but
00:36:34there's going to be a time of
00:36:35trouble which again the Bible says
00:36:37it's going to happen the time of
00:36:39Jacob's trouble which will come at
00:36:40the end of days.
00:36:42If you follow through what's
00:36:43happening you have this issue
00:36:45which is before us right now
00:36:46which is a peace peace where there
00:36:48is no peace leading to the second
00:36:51coming of Yeshua the Messiah.
00:36:56And whether anything will happen
00:36:58significantly on September the 23rd
00:37:00remains to be seen.
00:37:02I think it's almost certain that the
00:37:03UN will pass the resolution to
00:37:05recognize the Palestinian state and
00:37:09we'll see what comes out of that.
00:37:12I'm not going to speculate on
00:37:13whether that will be also the
00:37:14rapture of the church but there are
00:37:15reasons to believe that there is a
00:37:17connection between what's taking
00:37:18place developing towards the
00:37:21fulfillment of Daniel chapter 9
00:37:23verse 27 which is in the Bible and
00:37:26which does mean a measure of peace
00:37:28of false peace before the time of
00:37:30sudden destruction coming and the
00:37:32time of tribulation coming.
00:37:33So watch this space I'm not giving
00:37:36you definite dates but you're seeing
00:37:39things happening right now in all
00:37:42these different situations in the
00:37:43world which line up with what the
00:37:45Bible says is going to happen in the
00:37:47last days.
00:37:47How long we have remains to be seen.
00:37:50Could happen quite soon or it could
00:37:51happen in some time to come but it's
00:37:56going to happen because it says so in
00:37:59the Bible.
00:38:00We pray Lord that there will be some
00:38:01at least holding back of war and
00:38:04violence but we pray also for the
00:38:06preservation particularly of your
00:38:08people Israel in these latter days
00:38:11and that you bless your people and
00:38:14the government of Israel and guide them
00:38:16in the way that they should go.
00:38:18In Jesus name.
00:38:19Amen.
00:38:20So if you follow through in the book
00:38:21of Revelation you'll find that the
00:38:23rider and the white horse is followed
00:38:26by the rider and the red horse
00:38:27followed by the black horse followed
00:38:29by the pale horse and followed by a
00:38:33whole section of passages which speak
00:38:35about really great disasters happening
00:38:38in the world.
00:38:40And one of the words which has been in
00:38:42my mind came from the book of Isaiah
00:38:44which says there will be on every high
00:38:47mountain every high hill rivers and
00:38:50streams of water in the day of great
00:38:52slaughter when the towers fall.
00:38:54I have this word when the towers fall.
00:38:58I watched a few videos which were
00:39:00from China and we're going to look at
00:39:04some of those things later on.
00:39:05But it showed great towers in China
00:39:08falling down.
00:39:10And pictures of this seem to be a
00:39:14picture of the whole economic
00:39:16commercial system in the world
00:39:17vulnerable and about to fall down.
00:39:21So coming back to the false peace.
00:39:24False peace will lead to sudden
00:39:26destruction.
00:39:27And here we have the great towers of
00:39:29Canary Wharf and the word when the
00:39:33towers fall.
00:39:36And in the book of Revelation you have
00:39:37this series of disasters which bring
00:39:38down the global economic and political
00:39:41system.
00:39:44And the seeds of destruction are already
00:39:45there.
00:39:45And you have a picture of this economy
00:39:50falling.
00:39:52So if you look in the book of Isaiah you
00:39:54have this prophecy of Isaiah which has a
00:39:56number of references to towers falling
00:39:59in connection with apocalyptic events
00:40:02and the day of the Lord.
00:40:04In Isaiah 23 verse 13 it says,
00:40:06Behold the land of the Chaldeans, this
00:40:09people which was not Assyria founded it for
00:40:11the wild beasts of the desert.
00:40:12They set up its towers and raised up its
00:40:15palaces and brought it to ruin.
00:40:18They set up its towers and they brought
00:40:20it to ruin.
00:40:22And in chapter 30 there will be on every
00:40:24high mountain, every high hill, rivers
00:40:26and streams of water in the day of great
00:40:29slaughter when the towers fall.
00:40:31Moreover the light of the moon will be as
00:40:33the light of the sun and the light of
00:40:34the sun will be sevenfold as the light
00:40:36of seven days in the light that the Lord
00:40:38binds up the bruise of his people and
00:40:40heals the stroke of her wound.
00:40:43So Isaiah speaks about a day of judgment
00:40:45coming upon every high hill, rivers and
00:40:47streams of waters when the towers fall.
00:40:51Now if you know about the picture of
00:40:54towers in the Bible you've got one very
00:40:55famous tower, the Tower of Babel.
00:41:00And you can say that in modern times the
00:41:02building of great towers, skycrapers have
00:41:05become a feature of cities around the
00:41:07world symbolizing power and wealth and
00:41:10pride and reminiscence of the power of
00:41:12Babel where men said, come let us build
00:41:15ourselves a city whose top is in the
00:41:17heavens.
00:41:18Let us make a name for ourselves.
00:41:20Let's be scattered abroad over the face of
00:41:22the whole earth.
00:41:24Let's make a name for ourselves.
00:41:26Let's build this great tower.
00:41:28Build ourselves some sort of tower which
00:41:30will give us security.
00:41:31And God's response at the Tower of Babel was
00:41:35to confuse their language, scatter them,
00:41:37bring an end to the tower that they were
00:41:39building.
00:41:40And God said, indeed the people are one,
00:41:42they all have one language.
00:41:43This is what they begin to do.
00:41:45Now nothing that they propose to do will be
00:41:47withheld from them.
00:41:48Come let us go down and there confuse their
00:41:50language that they may not understand one
00:41:52another's speech.
00:41:53So the Lord scattered them abroad from there
00:41:55over the face of all the earth and they
00:41:57ceased building the city.
00:42:00I've got a talk on the Tower of Babel I want
00:42:02to give some time later, but just briefly
00:42:04what the Lord says there is that the people
00:42:06are one.
00:42:09They now, what they propose to do will be,
00:42:11nothing they propose to do will be withheld
00:42:13from them.
00:42:14So they have a huge potential.
00:42:17If you look at our world today, you see
00:42:18that the people are coming together as one.
00:42:20You have a increasingly one world system,
00:42:22although it's divided into different factions
00:42:25fighting for control of it, but you have
00:42:27a system based on technology, on computers,
00:42:30on artificial intelligence and all these
00:42:32kind of things, which is interlinking all
00:42:35the economies of the world and it has a
00:42:37huge potential for human, for developing
00:42:41something which would be considered to be
00:42:44very wealthy, very powerful and also very
00:42:47controlling of the people of the earth.
00:42:49So they're beginning to get this technology
00:42:51together and it's increasing all the time
00:42:54and the question is where it's going to go to.
00:42:58And God says, I'm going to scatter them
00:42:59and divide them so that the machine,
00:43:02so that the towers will fall.
00:43:05If you look at the latest light from last days,
00:43:07I had an article there called
00:43:08When the Machine Stops.
00:43:11And you can see that there is a certain
00:43:12amount of activity today of bringing the world
00:43:16together in this highly developed technological
00:43:18system symbolised by the great towers of our cities
00:43:22and yet it's going to fall.
00:43:25And you can see it has its seed to its own destruction.
00:43:29Picture before of London's Canary Wharf and the city
00:43:32with its great towers projecting the power of
00:43:34wealth of the city of London as a world hub of
00:43:37global capitalism.
00:43:38But it's now in decline.
00:43:41In fact, businesses are moving abroad.
00:43:44And London's actually, economy is falling.
00:43:49I don't know if you know that.
00:43:50London contributes a huge amount of percentage
00:43:53to the UK economy.
00:43:55And if this goes down, the UK economy is going to be
00:43:58in serious trouble.
00:44:00And to be honest, the policies of the present government,
00:44:03in my opinion, are fairly disastrous.
00:44:04And bringing in an economic decline which will render
00:44:08these hubs of wealth and power shadows of their
00:44:11former selves.
00:44:13Meanwhile, you have businesses and factories closing
00:44:15across the land.
00:44:17You've got large numbers of young people, particularly
00:44:19not in education, employment or training,
00:44:22on benefits, mental health issues,
00:44:25and not being set up for a lifetime of work,
00:44:29but just a lifetime of dependence upon the system.
00:44:32And it actually can't work.
00:44:33It can't continue like this.
00:44:35The future is very bleak.
00:44:37There's an article in The Telegraph recently which
00:44:38spoke of the government may have to go to the IMF
00:44:40for a loan, as they did in the 1970s.
00:44:44If you can remember the 1970s, during the economic crisis,
00:44:46what happened then was actually a sign of a collapsing economy
00:44:50and had serious consequences for the future.
00:44:53And that's part of the fall, part of the towers are falling.
00:45:02Go to the United States.
00:45:05We know that Donald Trump is a big fan of towers.
00:45:07He's got his Trump Towers, which he wants to build all over the place.
00:45:10And he wants to project US wealth and power and make America great again,
00:45:15trying to rescue America from what he calls being ripped off
00:45:19by the rest of the world.
00:45:20He wants it not to depend on the collapsing world system,
00:45:23and he's using his tariffs to shore up the US against the rest of the world.
00:45:29But there are many who say that he's actually creating more and more problems
00:45:32for the United States.
00:45:34The United States has a massive debt,
00:45:36which is actually growing by $3 million every minute.
00:45:40It's now up to $37 trillion.
00:45:42And if you look on the website,
00:45:44there's a website which shows you this thing spinning around every second,
00:45:48getting more and more.
00:45:51And people in the United States are also in an economic crisis,
00:45:55as they are here,
00:45:56especially a crisis over the cost of living,
00:45:58cost of housing, cost of food,
00:46:00growing national debt, as well as personal debt.
00:46:04Now, one of the things about the United States
00:46:05is it's held sway over the world system
00:46:07by its status as what we call the world reserve currency.
00:46:10Also, the petrodollar system,
00:46:13which means that other countries have to convert their money into dollars
00:46:17before they make big purchases.
00:46:20That's now being contested,
00:46:22particularly by Russia and China,
00:46:24what they call the BRICS alliance,
00:46:27which is aiming to try and make a multipolar world
00:46:30which will break US supremacy and break US power.
00:46:35If they do that,
00:46:35then the United States economy could be in serious trouble.
00:46:38Trump actually said that if the dollar goes down,
00:46:42it would be like losing a third world war.
00:46:47And you have the BRICS alliance,
00:46:48which is involved with more and more countries,
00:46:51including Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa,
00:46:54plus now Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia, Arab Emirates,
00:47:00possibly Saudi Arabia are going to join,
00:47:02which could make a serious threat to the US supremacy in the world.
00:47:08So wherever you look in the world,
00:47:09there's a kind of sense of coming collapse.
00:47:13I'm going to show you in a minute
00:47:14that China is not in a good state either.
00:47:17Some of it is caused by environmental problems,
00:47:19some by the failure of the economic system,
00:47:21some by bad government,
00:47:23whether capitalist or communist.
00:47:24And many economists and commentators,
00:47:27including prophecy teachers,
00:47:29are talking about a coming economic crisis.
00:47:32I read an article which compared the global economy
00:47:35to a kind of Ponzi scheme
00:47:36or a house built on the sand.
00:47:39If you don't know what a Ponzi scheme is,
00:47:41I quote here for what it says,
00:47:43it's a fraudulent investor scam
00:47:44that generates returns for earlier investors
00:47:48with money taken from later investors
00:47:50rather than from any legitimate profit.
00:47:52The scheme relies on a constant flow of new money
00:47:56to continue eventually collapsing
00:47:57when this new investment dries up
00:47:59and early investors cannot be paid.
00:48:02If you follow through with that,
00:48:03what it means?
00:48:04It means that they're continually borrowing money
00:48:07from one to another
00:48:08and there comes a point
00:48:09when there's no more money going into it
00:48:11so all the investments go flat.
00:48:14And the people are afraid
00:48:15that this is what could happen
00:48:16to the whole world economy.
00:48:19Now some are saying
00:48:19that there are powers behind the scenes
00:48:21who are actually actively creating chaos
00:48:23and out of the chaos
00:48:25they want to create a new world order
00:48:27with a controlled society
00:48:29to use technology for digital ID cards
00:48:32which can then control our ability
00:48:34to buy and sell,
00:48:36take over the money system
00:48:37and remove cash
00:48:39and create central blank digital currencies.
00:48:43I said Blair.
00:48:45Tony Blair is one of the people
00:48:46who's now pushing for the ID cards
00:48:48and has got a schema already in program.
00:48:51I think somebody who's part
00:48:52of this globalist alliance.
00:48:55If you follow this through,
00:48:55this could be part of the 666 system
00:48:57which is coming out of the present situation.
00:49:00It can also be seen as a judgment of God
00:49:02on the pride that imagines
00:49:05that nothing they propose to do
00:49:07will be withheld from them
00:49:08and will lead to the fulfillment
00:49:10of the prophecy and revelation
00:49:11of the fall of Babylon
00:49:12in Revelation chapter 18.
00:49:16But what about China?
00:49:19Now China is billed
00:49:20as one of the great success stories.
00:49:23China, which was formerly
00:49:24a rather backward communist dictatorship
00:49:28under Mao Zedong,
00:49:29has now become this second
00:49:31most important economy in the world.
00:49:34You have these great towers here in Shanghai
00:49:36symbolizing the new wealth of China.
00:49:40Go to the next one, Janie.
00:49:41And here you've got a picture of China
00:49:44and its incredible development.
00:49:46And you can see over the last 10 to 15 years
00:49:48this incredible spread of building,
00:49:52of high-rise buildings,
00:49:53of motorways, of dams,
00:49:56and all kinds of things
00:49:56building up this huge technological power
00:49:59in China.
00:50:01And I watched a film about China
00:50:03showing the massive tower blocks
00:50:04they built projecting the power
00:50:06and pride of the Chinese Communist Party
00:50:08and its dramatic rise
00:50:10to become the world's
00:50:11second largest economy
00:50:12in the last few years.
00:50:15And even today,
00:50:17you may or may not be aware of this,
00:50:19but world leaders are gathering in China.
00:50:22They're creating a union of nations
00:50:24to challenge the supremacy
00:50:26of the West and the USA.
00:50:28You've got 20 world leaders
00:50:30gathering in China
00:50:30for a summit of the
00:50:31Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
00:50:33So along with the BRICS,
00:50:36this is another challenge
00:50:37to the U.S. supremacy
00:50:39and the U.S. alliance.
00:50:42And its ultimate goal,
00:50:43backed by China and Russia,
00:50:46is to repress,
00:50:47replace the U.S.
00:50:48as supreme
00:50:49in the global economic system.
00:50:51And so you've got China
00:50:54developing as the world's
00:50:56second strongest economy,
00:50:58developing its technology,
00:50:59its trade and global reach
00:51:00throughout the world,
00:51:02has something called
00:51:02the Belt and Road Initiative,
00:51:04which is gaining power
00:51:05and influence
00:51:06right across the world
00:51:07in Africa,
00:51:09South America,
00:51:10Middle East
00:51:10and all over the world.
00:51:13So is China going to take over?
00:51:17Maybe not.
00:51:18Because although China's got
00:51:20this amazing economic miracle,
00:51:22it's now in sharp decline.
00:51:24Its factories are closing.
00:51:26Young people,
00:51:27dragglers can't get jobs.
00:51:29Many are just giving up.
00:51:31The U.S. has a debt
00:51:31of $37 trillion.
00:51:33According to an article I read,
00:51:34China's debt is 300% higher.
00:51:37It has national and personal debt.
00:51:42And the potential
00:51:44for an economic crisis
00:51:45to hit China,
00:51:46which will affect
00:51:47the whole world,
00:51:47is pretty strong.
00:51:49Also, even China's
00:51:50physical towers are falling.
00:51:54Here you've got
00:51:54a scheme,
00:51:57a housing scheme,
00:51:58which has been built up.
00:52:00They built these towers.
00:52:02People tried to live in them.
00:52:05Then they ran out of money
00:52:06and they couldn't complete them.
00:52:08And now it's a great scandal
00:52:10because these towers
00:52:11are actually falling down.
00:52:13Some of them are actually
00:52:14being brought down
00:52:15by controlled demolition.
00:52:16They're unfinished.
00:52:18No one wants to live in them
00:52:19and the money's run out
00:52:21to complete them.
00:52:23And as a result of this
00:52:24is a loss to the economy
00:52:25which runs into trillions.
00:52:27And people have lost
00:52:28their life savings
00:52:29in failed building projects.
00:52:32Banks loan mortgages
00:52:33for the purchase
00:52:34of these properties
00:52:34which are either unfinished
00:52:35or have fallen down.
00:52:37And so the banks
00:52:38have lost their money as well.
00:52:40And these mortgages
00:52:41cannot be repaid
00:52:41because the properties
00:52:42bought no longer exist.
00:52:44But the film also showed
00:52:46huge tower blocks
00:52:47in big Chinese cities
00:52:48like Nanjing and Shanghai
00:52:50which are being used
00:52:51and are completed
00:52:52and which are collapsing
00:52:53because they've been poorly built.
00:52:57It spoke about cracks
00:52:58appearing across the ceilings,
00:52:59doors that weren't shut,
00:53:00lifts that stop functioning
00:53:01as the buildings are moving.
00:53:04It blamed poor construction,
00:53:06building massive heavy buildings
00:53:07on soft soil
00:53:08without strong foundations.
00:53:10And it said that
00:53:11once it begins to shift,
00:53:12if these buildings begin to shift
00:53:13then nothing can be done
00:53:14to stop it.
00:53:16One case I saw this film
00:53:17in which a public address system
00:53:19gave an urgent message
00:53:21to the people
00:53:22to evacuate immediately.
00:53:24Don't go back
00:53:25and take your possessions.
00:53:26Get out as soon as you can.
00:53:27This was a building
00:53:2840 stories high
00:53:29with I don't know
00:53:31how many hundreds
00:53:31of people living in it.
00:53:33And as the people got out
00:53:34the next thing which happened
00:53:35it fell down
00:53:36and those who lived there
00:53:37lost everything.
00:53:39Apparently things like this
00:53:40are happening right across China.
00:53:41they built these buildings
00:53:43and they're either badly built
00:53:45or they're crumbling
00:53:46or they have even fallen down.
00:53:49Same happens for bridges
00:53:50that are falling down
00:53:50and all kinds of infrastructure projects
00:53:53across China
00:53:53are actually crumbling.
00:53:55So interestingly
00:53:56the bridges
00:53:56the towers are falling.
00:54:01Also China's built huge dams
00:54:04including this one
00:54:05the Three Gorges Dam
00:54:06which are being built
00:54:08for hydroelectricity
00:54:09and control of the water flow.
00:54:11recently was hit
00:54:13with torrential rains
00:54:14which have been causing
00:54:15dams to break.
00:54:16Not this one
00:54:17but in other places.
00:54:19And there's been
00:54:19a spate of natural disasters
00:54:22taking place in China
00:54:22including very severe
00:54:25weather events
00:54:26which have caused
00:54:28bridges to collapse
00:54:29dams to break
00:54:30and flood defences
00:54:31to fall
00:54:32fail
00:54:32with entire towns
00:54:33going under water
00:54:35including the northern part
00:54:36of Beijing.
00:54:37I saw a film
00:54:38of a massive hailstorm
00:54:40over Beijing.
00:54:41It was quite incredible.
00:54:43I wish I'd got it
00:54:44to show you
00:54:45but it had
00:54:46hailstones
00:54:48the size of
00:54:49tennis balls
00:54:50falling down
00:54:51on this city
00:54:51and causing
00:54:52massive damage
00:54:53all over the place.
00:54:55And it's reminded me
00:54:56of passages
00:54:57in the book of Revelation
00:54:58looking at this.
00:54:58And
00:55:02this dam itself
00:55:05here
00:55:05is a source
00:55:06of incredible danger.
00:55:08The Three Gorges Dam
00:55:10it was built
00:55:10over the Yangtze River
00:55:11it holds back
00:55:13trillions of tons
00:55:14of water
00:55:14it fuels
00:55:16a hydroelectric
00:55:17project
00:55:18driving China's industry
00:55:19but there are fears
00:55:21about its stability.
00:55:24They had to move
00:55:24about a million people
00:55:25out of their homes
00:55:26in order to build it
00:55:27because
00:55:28the valley
00:55:29which was there
00:55:29before is now
00:55:30underwater
00:55:31with this
00:55:31great lake
00:55:32behind it.
00:55:34The lake has
00:55:34water which weighs
00:55:35trillions of tons
00:55:37which is now
00:55:38on the surface
00:55:39of the earth
00:55:39which was not
00:55:40used to having
00:55:41that kind of
00:55:41earth weight on it
00:55:42which causes
00:55:43earthquakes
00:55:44and instability
00:55:45in the area.
00:55:48And when there
00:55:49was a great flood
00:55:50it nearly came
00:55:51to overflowing it.
00:55:53If this dam
00:55:54were to collapse
00:55:55in an earthquake
00:55:56or being overflown
00:55:57it would flood
00:55:59the whole
00:56:00of the Yangtze River
00:56:01valley
00:56:02through major cities
00:56:04like Wuhan
00:56:05and Shanghai
00:56:05it would drown
00:56:07about 400 million
00:56:07people
00:56:08400 million
00:56:09people I said
00:56:10there.
00:56:12Cities of Shanghai
00:56:12and Wuhan
00:56:14would be obliterated
00:56:15and much of the
00:56:16farming area
00:56:17in the area
00:56:18would be destroyed
00:56:19as well.
00:56:21Now there are some
00:56:21who are saying
00:56:22that climate change
00:56:23is responsible
00:56:24others saying
00:56:25that it's part
00:56:26of the bad
00:56:26construction
00:56:27but there is a
00:56:28real danger
00:56:29that this could
00:56:29happen
00:56:30and right across
00:56:30China
00:56:31you've got
00:56:31a number
00:56:32of disasters
00:56:32taking place
00:56:33especially as they're
00:56:35building dams
00:56:36all over the place
00:56:36and some of these
00:56:38dams are broken
00:56:38just recently.
00:56:40They've also been
00:56:40building dams
00:56:41in the Himalayas
00:56:42on the border
00:56:44with India
00:56:45and with countries
00:56:46downstream.
00:56:48These dams
00:56:49that's the river
00:56:50on the left
00:56:51is the Brahmaputra River
00:56:52goes down into
00:56:53Bangladesh
00:56:53from China
00:56:54into India
00:56:55the one on the right
00:56:57is the Mekong River
00:56:57which goes down
00:56:58through Laos
00:57:00Thailand
00:57:00into Vietnam
00:57:01and flows out
00:57:03into the sea
00:57:03in the Mekong Delta
00:57:04in Vietnam.
00:57:06As they're building
00:57:07these dams
00:57:08it's affecting
00:57:08the flow of water
00:57:09and it's affecting
00:57:11the flow of water
00:57:11downstream.
00:57:13which affects
00:57:14the
00:57:14ultimately
00:57:15could affect
00:57:16the viability
00:57:16of Bangladesh
00:57:17itself
00:57:18and it's affecting
00:57:20the viability
00:57:21of agriculture
00:57:23downstream
00:57:23in the Mekong Delta.
00:57:25Shall we
00:57:25show you the next slide
00:57:26Jenny?
00:57:27There's farming
00:57:28in the Mekong Delta
00:57:29in Vietnam
00:57:30and as the waters
00:57:32are flowing down
00:57:32that's what it looks
00:57:33like now.
00:57:35So we're seeing
00:57:35waters being
00:57:36restricted
00:57:37and affecting
00:57:38areas downstream
00:57:39because of the dams
00:57:41which China's building.
00:57:42this is a phenomenon
00:57:44which is happening
00:57:45in other places
00:57:45as well.
00:57:46We're going to show
00:57:46you in a minute
00:57:47Euphrates
00:57:47and what's happening
00:57:49in Iran
00:57:50also Ethiopia
00:57:52has built a dam
00:57:52which is going to
00:57:53affect the flow
00:57:54of river
00:57:54into Egypt
00:57:55and you have
00:57:56a whole lot
00:57:56of situations
00:57:57in the world
00:57:57where these great
00:57:59engineering projects
00:57:59are affecting
00:58:00countries downstream.
00:58:06Mentioned Iran.
00:58:09Probably the worst
00:58:11drought in the world
00:58:12is affecting
00:58:13the land of Iran.
00:58:15they've had a heat
00:58:17wave with water
00:58:18shortages
00:58:19which have
00:58:19paralysed
00:58:20public life
00:58:20in Iran.
00:58:21Temperatures have
00:58:22been as high
00:58:22as 50 degrees
00:58:23Celsius
00:58:24in Tehran
00:58:26and the president
00:58:28Masoud Pejeshkian
00:58:30has warned
00:58:31that the dams
00:58:32supplying Tehran
00:58:33could soon dry up
00:58:34unless water consumption
00:58:35is curbed.
00:58:37In fact,
00:58:37they're talking about
00:58:37the end of September.
00:58:39It doesn't rain
00:58:40significantly
00:58:41in Iran.
00:58:42There may be no
00:58:43water for Tehran
00:58:44by the end of September.
00:58:46Tehran's a city
00:58:47of 9 million people.
00:58:48That's what's
00:58:52happening now.
00:58:54In recent months
00:58:55water has been
00:58:56turned off
00:58:57for up to 48 hours
00:58:58in several Iranian cities.
00:59:00Power outages
00:59:00lasting hours
00:59:01are regular occurrence
00:59:02which is almost
00:59:03unbearable burden
00:59:04for many people.
00:59:06Also in Iran's
00:59:07eastern district
00:59:08which is
00:59:10borders with
00:59:10Afghanistan
00:59:11is watered
00:59:12by a river
00:59:13called the river
00:59:14Helmand
00:59:14that rises in
00:59:16Afghanistan
00:59:16in the Hindu
00:59:17Kush mountains.
00:59:19Afghanistan's
00:59:19been building
00:59:20dams
00:59:20and diverting
00:59:21this water
00:59:22and it's not
00:59:23reaching Iran
00:59:23and it showed
00:59:24on this film
00:59:25it showed
00:59:25a whole area
00:59:26of Iran
00:59:27in the eastern part
00:59:28where the
00:59:29water's dried up
00:59:30and the people
00:59:30are having to
00:59:31leave their homes
00:59:31because there's
00:59:32just no agriculture
00:59:33and the water's
00:59:35dried up.
00:59:36So you have
00:59:36a massive problem
00:59:37in the land of Iran.
00:59:39Now some could say
00:59:40this is actually
00:59:41part of God's judgment
00:59:42on the Iranian government
00:59:43because they've been
00:59:44incredibly negligent
00:59:45and incredibly bad
00:59:46in their use of water
00:59:47their agriculture
00:59:49their infrastructure
00:59:51and of course
00:59:52they've been terrible
00:59:53in their behaviour
00:59:54towards Christians
00:59:55and towards Israel.
00:59:58So you can say
00:59:58there is an element
00:59:59of judgment
01:00:00coming upon them
01:00:00but we should also
01:00:02be concerned
01:00:03for the people
01:00:03of Iran
01:00:04who are really
01:00:05in big trouble
01:00:06at this present time
01:00:07could even lead
01:00:09to some kind
01:00:10of unrest
01:00:11in the country.
01:00:12In fact
01:00:13if the government
01:00:13didn't have
01:00:14control of the guns
01:00:15and the people
01:00:16weren't afraid
01:00:17of rising up
01:00:18they would certainly
01:00:18be overthrown
01:00:19at the present time.
01:00:21But you should pray
01:00:21for Iran
01:00:22and pray particularly
01:00:23for the number
01:00:24of Christians
01:00:24that are in Iran.
01:00:26And many of the Iranians
01:00:27actually hate the government
01:00:28most of the Iranians
01:00:29hate their government
01:00:29and they don't want it
01:00:30to be doing
01:00:32what it's doing
01:00:32against Israel
01:00:33and using all their
01:00:34money for weapons
01:00:36and destruction
01:00:37when they should be
01:00:38fixing this problem
01:00:39and they're not.
01:00:42So that's Iran.
01:00:44Last bit of
01:00:46environmental news
01:00:48the River Euphrates
01:00:49You've heard
01:00:52of the River Euphrates
01:00:53the longest river
01:00:55in Western Asia
01:00:571,700 miles long
01:00:59rises in Turkey
01:01:01goes through Syria
01:01:01into Iraq
01:01:03joined by the Tigris River
01:01:05which for thousands
01:01:06of years
01:01:07supported civilization
01:01:08in the great cities
01:01:09of Babylon
01:01:09and Assyria
01:01:11in Mesopotamia
01:01:13which meant the land
01:01:14between the two rivers
01:01:15produced a fertile
01:01:17productive region
01:01:18which gave birth
01:01:20to cities
01:01:20and civilizations
01:01:21in the earliest days
01:01:23Abraham came
01:01:25from Ur of the Chaldeans
01:01:26in the south of Iraq
01:01:27where the rivers meet
01:01:29Babylon
01:01:30Bavel
01:01:31was city
01:01:32in
01:01:33between the rivers
01:01:34and that's the only
01:01:36significant source
01:01:38of fresh river
01:01:39in this arid region
01:01:40where water
01:01:41is scarce
01:01:41scarce
01:01:42but now
01:01:43the water levels
01:01:44have ceased
01:01:44it's dropped
01:01:45you can see the picture
01:01:46on the right hand side
01:01:47there
01:01:47that's the River Euphrates
01:01:48part of the reason
01:01:53there has been
01:01:53dam construction
01:01:54in Syria
01:01:55and Turkey
01:01:56also climate change
01:01:57and mismanagement
01:01:58there were agreements
01:02:00to share the water
01:02:01with Iraq
01:02:02which have been broken
01:02:03and also
01:02:05rising temperatures
01:02:06and climate change
01:02:07are causing
01:02:08this problem
01:02:09with the river
01:02:09drying up
01:02:10some have speculated
01:02:12that by 2040
01:02:13the river could
01:02:13disappear completely
01:02:14rainfalls
01:02:16fallen drastically
01:02:17temperatures have risen
01:02:18it's now damaging
01:02:20the soil
01:02:20crops are failing
01:02:21in the fertile plains
01:02:23of Iraq
01:02:23creating food shortages
01:02:25people are heading
01:02:26for the cities
01:02:27which can't absorb them
01:02:28pollution levels
01:02:29are rising
01:02:30and disease
01:02:31and livestock
01:02:31are dying
01:02:32it's a potential
01:02:34humanitarian disaster
01:02:36and the consequences
01:02:39could be irreversible
01:02:40this sort of thing
01:02:42is happening
01:02:42not just there
01:02:44but also in other
01:02:44parts of the world
01:02:45now does anybody
01:02:47know that there
01:02:48is a scripture
01:02:48which tells you
01:02:49something about
01:02:50this happening
01:02:50in the book
01:02:52of Revelation
01:02:53it says
01:02:54and the sixth
01:02:55angel poured out
01:02:55his bowl
01:02:56on the great river
01:02:57Euphrates
01:02:57and its water
01:02:58was dried up
01:02:59so that the way
01:03:00of the kings
01:03:00from the east
01:03:01might be prepared
01:03:01so when you see
01:03:04something like this
01:03:04happening in
01:03:05the river Euphrates
01:03:07take note
01:03:09it's got something
01:03:10to do with
01:03:10what's going to
01:03:10take place
01:03:11in the bible
01:03:11it's all there
01:03:12God gave us
01:03:14a warning
01:03:14about these things
01:03:15and you've got
01:03:17droughts and floods
01:03:18taking place
01:03:18around the world
01:03:19an increase
01:03:20in natural disasters
01:03:21climate change
01:03:22weak infrastructure
01:03:24bad government
01:03:25increase of large
01:03:26earthquakes as well
01:03:27for all factors
01:03:28how much it is
01:03:30climate change
01:03:31I think we have
01:03:31to recognise
01:03:32there is climate
01:03:32change taking place
01:03:33whether it's
01:03:34because we're
01:03:35burning fossil fuels
01:03:35or other reasons
01:03:36we can discuss
01:03:37but it is happening
01:03:39happening even here
01:03:41we've had very little
01:03:42rain in this part
01:03:43of the world
01:03:44can have not a very
01:03:45good harvest I think
01:03:46but you can also
01:03:48see that behind
01:03:48these things
01:03:49there is the
01:03:49judgement of God
01:03:50and some of the
01:03:52places where the
01:03:53worst things are
01:03:53happening are the
01:03:54nations which are
01:03:54shaking their fist
01:03:55at the living God
01:03:57including Iran
01:03:58including China
01:03:59including Russia
01:04:01and we can see
01:04:02that there is an
01:04:03element of God's
01:04:04judgement taking
01:04:04place
01:04:05and because of
01:04:06the pride of man
01:04:07all these things
01:04:09are under the
01:04:11judgement of God
01:04:11and we see the
01:04:12signs of the
01:04:13approaching apocalypse
01:04:14Revelation chapter
01:04:1616 it says
01:04:17men were scorched
01:04:18with great heat
01:04:18as they blasphemed
01:04:19the name of God
01:04:20who has power
01:04:21over these plagues
01:04:22and they did not
01:04:23repent and give
01:04:23him the glory
01:04:24well God's saying
01:04:26that we should
01:04:27repent and
01:04:28believe in him
01:04:28and be ready
01:04:29for his return
01:04:30all of these
01:04:32things taking
01:04:32place I believe
01:04:33are signs of
01:04:34the second
01:04:34coming of Jesus
01:04:35a whole lot
01:04:36more I could
01:04:37have told you
01:04:37but time's
01:04:39going on
01:04:39so we'll just
01:04:40close with a
01:04:41couple of
01:04:41scriptures which
01:04:42tell us that
01:04:42these things are
01:04:43going to happen
01:04:43sadly I don't
01:04:46think we can
01:04:47stop these
01:04:47things from
01:04:47happening
01:04:48process has
01:04:50been set in
01:04:50motion which
01:04:51cannot be
01:04:51reversed
01:04:52all these
01:04:53things happening
01:04:54are the birth
01:04:55pangs of the
01:04:56end of days
01:04:56scenario and
01:04:58they're leading
01:04:58up to what
01:04:59the Bible says
01:04:59is going to
01:04:59happen in the
01:05:01book of
01:05:01Revelation and
01:05:02in other
01:05:02passages some
01:05:04in the Old
01:05:04Testament some
01:05:05in the New
01:05:05Testament and
01:05:06Jesus word in
01:05:08the Olivet
01:05:09discourse in
01:05:09Matthew 24 and
01:05:11Luke 21 and
01:05:13in Luke 21
01:05:14Jesus says
01:05:14there'll be
01:05:14signs in the
01:05:15sun in the
01:05:16moon and on
01:05:16the stars and
01:05:17on the earth
01:05:17distress of
01:05:18nations with
01:05:18perplexity the
01:05:20sea and the
01:05:20waves roaring
01:05:21men's hearts
01:05:22fading them
01:05:23from fear and
01:05:24the expectation
01:05:24of those things
01:05:25which are coming
01:05:25on the earth
01:05:26for the powers
01:05:27of the heavens
01:05:28will be shaken
01:05:28then they will
01:05:29see the son of
01:05:30man coming in a
01:05:31cloud with power
01:05:31and great glory
01:05:32now when these
01:05:33things begin to
01:05:34happen look up
01:05:34and lift up your
01:05:35heads because your
01:05:36redemption draws
01:05:37near men's hearts
01:05:39will be fading them
01:05:40for fear and
01:05:41expectation of the
01:05:42things which are
01:05:42coming on the
01:05:43earth and I
01:05:44believe people
01:05:45already in that
01:05:46state and we
01:05:48actually need to
01:05:48use that to get
01:05:49out the gospel to
01:05:50them
01:05:50I've had some
01:05:52really good
01:05:52opportunities in
01:05:53the last week
01:05:54one with a
01:05:55Jewish man I've
01:05:55known for a
01:05:56while just to
01:05:57share the whole
01:05:58situation with him
01:05:59he says what
01:05:59should I do
01:06:00about it
01:06:00he's actually very
01:06:03secular but he
01:06:04said I don't
01:06:04know what can I
01:06:05do what's the
01:06:06prospect for me
01:06:06and I told him
01:06:07the whole works
01:06:08and he said
01:06:09I'll talk to you
01:06:11about this again
01:06:12and we have a
01:06:16whole lot of
01:06:16people out there
01:06:17who are afraid
01:06:19of what's
01:06:19happening
01:06:19rightly so
01:06:20and we can't
01:06:22actually give
01:06:23them a
01:06:24humanistic answer
01:06:25because we know
01:06:26that there is no
01:06:27longer a humanistic
01:06:27answer
01:06:28the human race
01:06:29has actually gone
01:06:30too far in
01:06:30provoking God
01:06:31we've done too
01:06:32much damage to
01:06:33the earth already
01:06:33and the only
01:06:34solution is going
01:06:35to be Jesus
01:06:36coming back with
01:06:37power and great
01:06:38glory and in this
01:06:40passage he talks
01:06:40about the distress
01:06:41of nations with
01:06:42perplexity and the
01:06:43word used in Greek
01:06:44there is a
01:06:44which means a
01:06:46crisis with no
01:06:47way out
01:06:47I would say the
01:06:48human race is now
01:06:49in a period of
01:06:50crisis which there
01:06:52is no way out
01:06:53of we're not
01:06:54going to solve
01:06:54it that may be
01:06:56pessimistic and
01:06:56people may say
01:06:57you're being
01:06:57defeatist but I
01:06:59got one email
01:07:00from somebody who
01:07:00said that that
01:07:01mentality is
01:07:02actually satanic
01:07:03because we've got
01:07:04to rise up and
01:07:04save the world
01:07:05and we've got to
01:07:06get all the
01:07:07Christians together
01:07:07and bring about
01:07:08this great
01:07:09Christian world
01:07:10order and save
01:07:11the world because
01:07:12we're the only
01:07:12people who can
01:07:13do it well
01:07:14in a sense we
01:07:16are the only
01:07:17people who can
01:07:17do it but not
01:07:18us Jesus and
01:07:20in fellowship
01:07:22with him yeah
01:07:24when Jesus
01:07:24returns we can
01:07:25actually bring
01:07:26about a good
01:07:27new world order
01:07:28in which there
01:07:29will be peace
01:07:29and justice and
01:07:30the earth will
01:07:30be full of the
01:07:31knowledge of the
01:07:31Lord and the
01:07:32rivers will flow
01:07:33even in the
01:07:33desert and there
01:07:34will be peace
01:07:35and justice all
01:07:36over the earth
01:07:36that's what it
01:07:37says in the
01:07:37book of Isaiah
01:07:38and other passages
01:07:39and we can look
01:07:40forward to that
01:07:41so there is no
01:07:43way out on a
01:07:43human level
01:07:44but there is a
01:07:44way out on
01:07:45God's level
01:07:46and that's to
01:07:47believe in Yeshua
01:07:48the Messiah
01:07:49and in this
01:07:51time of distress
01:07:52at some point
01:07:54there's going to
01:07:55be an event
01:07:55which is described
01:07:56in the book of
01:07:57Thessalonians
01:07:57where Paul says
01:07:59in 1 Thessalonians
01:08:02chapter 4 verse
01:08:0213
01:08:03I do not want
01:08:04you to be
01:08:04ignorant brethren
01:08:05concerning those
01:08:06who have fallen
01:08:06asleep lest you
01:08:07sorrow as others
01:08:08who have no
01:08:08hope if we
01:08:10believe that Jesus
01:08:10died and rose
01:08:11again even so
01:08:12God will bring
01:08:13with him
01:08:13those who sleep
01:08:14in Jesus
01:08:15with this we
01:08:16say to you
01:08:17by the word
01:08:17of the Lord
01:08:17that we
01:08:18who are alive
01:08:18and remain
01:08:19until the
01:08:19coming of the
01:08:20Lord will
01:08:20by no means
01:08:21precede those
01:08:21who are asleep
01:08:22for the Lord
01:08:23himself will
01:08:24descend from
01:08:24heaven with
01:08:24a shout
01:08:25with the
01:08:26voice of an
01:08:26archangel
01:08:27with the
01:08:28trumpet of
01:08:28God
01:08:28and the
01:08:29dead in
01:08:29Christ
01:08:29will rise
01:08:30first
01:08:30then we
01:08:31who are
01:08:31alive
01:08:31and remain
01:08:32shall be
01:08:32caught up
01:08:33together
01:08:33with them
01:08:33in the
01:08:34clouds
01:08:34to meet
01:08:34the
01:08:35Lord
01:08:35in the
01:08:35air
01:08:35thus we
01:08:36should
01:08:36also
01:08:37be
01:08:37always
01:08:37be
01:08:38with
01:08:38the
01:08:38Lord
01:08:39therefore
01:08:40comfort
01:08:40one another
01:08:40with these
01:08:41words
01:08:42whatever you
01:08:43believe about
01:08:44the timing of
01:08:44that event
01:08:44it's going to
01:08:45happen
01:08:45and there's
01:08:47going to be a
01:08:47time when
01:08:48those who
01:08:48believe in
01:08:48Jesus are
01:08:49going to be
01:08:49supernaturally
01:08:50caught up
01:08:50to meet
01:08:51with him
01:08:51as he
01:08:51comes
01:08:52in the
01:08:52air
01:08:52and the
01:08:54word to
01:08:54us now
01:08:54is to be
01:08:55ready for
01:08:55it to
01:08:55happen
01:08:55to be
01:08:56ready by
01:08:57being in
01:08:58a right
01:08:58relationship
01:08:58with God
01:08:59through
01:09:00putting our
01:09:00lives right
01:09:01with God
01:09:01asking him
01:09:02to forgive
01:09:02our sins
01:09:03to come
01:09:03into our
01:09:04lives
01:09:04and be
01:09:05present with
01:09:05us by
01:09:06the Holy
01:09:06Spirit
01:09:06and looking
01:09:08up because
01:09:08our redemption
01:09:08draws near
01:09:09and Jesus
01:09:10is coming
01:09:10and he
01:09:13says comfort
01:09:13one another
01:09:14with these
01:09:14words
01:09:15because it's
01:09:16the only
01:09:16thing which
01:09:17is going
01:09:17to give
01:09:17you any
01:09:17comfort
01:09:18any hope
01:09:18is the
01:09:19hope that
01:09:19Jesus is
01:09:20coming
01:09:20if you
01:09:21believe that
01:09:21you're
01:09:22going to
01:09:22be with
01:09:22him
01:09:22forever
01:09:23we'll
01:09:24always be
01:09:24with the
01:09:24Lord
01:09:25so once
01:09:26it happens
01:09:27we're going
01:09:28to be
01:09:28with the
01:09:28Lord
01:09:29and never
01:09:29be separated
01:09:30from him
01:09:30again
01:09:30so you
01:09:32have a
01:09:32great
01:09:32future
01:09:33and a
01:09:33great
01:09:33hope
01:09:33if you
01:09:34believe
01:09:34in Jesus
01:09:35I've
01:09:36told you
01:09:36a whole
01:09:36lot of
01:09:36things about
01:09:37the future
01:09:37of the
01:09:38world
01:09:38which are
01:09:38not too
01:09:39good
01:09:40to put it
01:09:41mildly
01:09:41but if
01:09:42you're a
01:09:42believer in
01:09:43Jesus
01:09:43your future
01:09:46is amazing
01:09:46it's beyond
01:09:48anyone's
01:09:48ability to
01:09:49believe
01:09:50to describe
01:09:51what is
01:09:51going to
01:09:51happen
01:09:52and
01:09:53it's
01:09:55also
01:09:55assured
01:09:55because
01:09:56it's
01:09:57written
01:09:57not in
01:09:58human
01:09:59speculation
01:09:59but in
01:09:59the word
01:10:00of God
01:10:00revealed by
01:10:01the Holy
01:10:01Spirit
01:10:02to the
01:10:03prophets
01:10:03to the
01:10:04apostles
01:10:04and through
01:10:05the Lord
01:10:05Jesus
01:10:06himself
01:10:06and his
01:10:07word is
01:10:08going to be
01:10:08true and
01:10:09it can't be
01:10:10changed
01:10:10so believe
01:10:12on the Lord
01:10:12Jesus
01:10:12Yeshua
01:10:13Hamashiach
01:10:14and you
01:10:14shall be
01:10:14saved
01:10:15to the
01:10:20of God
01:10:20to be
01:10:20to the
01:10:21Lord
01:10:21to the
01:10:22God
01:10:23He
01:10:23to the
01:10:24Lord
01:10:25Into
01:10:25the
01:10:27Lord
01:10:27and you
01:10:28in
01:10:28Son
01:10:29of God
01:10:29to be
01:10:30as
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