Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of understanding the 150 chapters in the Bible that pertain to the End Times, arguing that familiarity with these scriptures is crucial for believers to avoid fear, offense, and deception as crises increase. He highlights that the beauty of Jesus is intricately connected to God's end-time plan, suggesting that recognizing this beauty can transform our perspective on the challenges ahead. Bickle encourages the next generation to engage deeply with these biblical narratives to ensure they are equipped to respond faithfully to the unfolding events of the last days.

Okay, in a couple of announcements-ish, and then we'll start in a moment. How many of you were here Sunday morning? You heard my Sunday morning message. Raise your hand. Raise your hand. Let's kind of catch it. Okay, a bunch of you did, a bunch of you didn't. Okay, this Friday night, I'm beginning a series where I'm taking the 150 chapters that are in the Scripture on the End Times. You heard it Sunday, but this is a point you need to hear over and over. There are 150 chapters in the Bible of which the primary subject is the generation the Lord returns. 150. Now, to put that in perspective, if you add up the four Gospels, that's 89 chapters. That's like 90 chapters for Jesus' first coming, 150 related to His plan to take over the planet. And it's really important because most of the body of Christ is not aware of those 150 chapters. I've been talking about the number 150 for about 10 or 12 years, and telling folks we've got to get a hold of it because the logic is that if we don't know the biblical narrative, the biblical storyline, by default, believers will take the secular storyline when the crisis increases. They'll take the secular storyline right from the media or just right from others. The only reliable response and interpretation is those 150 chapters. And Jesus said if you don't have those clarity, not that you have to be an expert on all 150 chapters, but to know the main storyline causes us to respond in a very different way as the pressure increases. And if you don't know them, you take the secular one. Jesus said you'll be tempted or you'll be vulnerable to be overcome with fear. And if you get fearful, you make really bad choices. Secondly, He goes, you'll be overcome with offense. And thirdly, you'll be overcome with deception because you won't get what's going on. And so it's critical that we understand that storyline. Now, my problem is that most the body of Christ is unfamiliar with those 150 chapters. When I was 20 years old, in my early 20s, I'm in my 60s now, when I was in my 20s and I was pastoring, the 60-year-old guys handed me the baton in the 70s and they basically said, we're going to be raptured any minute, so you don't need to know the 150 chapters, it doesn't matter. So we didn't study it. Or the other guys said, well, it's so confusing, nobody agrees with it anyway, don't study it, nobody can understand it. So almost my entire generation, 40 years ago, we just didn't even think about it. That's the reason your generation hasn't heard nothing about it because my generation, for 40 years, we ignored it because the fathers told us it wasn't important. Well, your generation, the 20-somethings right now, you're left in a precarious position because we have to know that biblical narrative because we have to pass it down to the ones coming up. If we don't, again, people are going to respond in fear, offense, and the offense is offense towards the Lord because they're going to say, Lord, this increased crisis, this isn't the Bible I grew up with, this isn't the God I heard about when I was a kid. Maybe the Bible's not even real and they'll get offended at God or they'll get deceived, they'll take the wrong storyline and go the wrong direction. And so I'd just been thinking about this for some time, but I just decided some months ago, I said, I'm going to start a program on Friday nights because my class used to always be Friday night. And I said, no, I'm going to do it different. I'm going to shift my class to Wednesday. It's the first time in my 18 years of IHOP I've had an evening class like this. This is kind of my first experience here. I've never taught a class at IHOPU. That's why I was asking, how we check in? How come the doors, how come the lines are so long? You know, where's this, where's that? They said, hey, man, you've got to get with it. You've been here 18 years. But I've never done this before because I've done everything over at FCF on the Friday nights and Saturday nights. We had Friday and Saturday nights for years. And that's where our Bible school, our ministry school was there for some years. And so I just stayed there when we came over here, you know, and kept my classes on Friday and Saturday. Well, I'm doing something this very aggressive. I've never done anything. It's the most aggressive thing I've ever taken on besides the 24-7 mandate. That's the most aggressive thing by far. But this is the second one. I'm going to take these 150 chapters over the next three years, and we're going to try to cover every single one of them and break them down. And so, you know, that's a pretty aggressive thing. And it's an IHOPU class, and it's an IHOPU class that will be an elective. Now, we're just starting because we don't have it in place for this semester. But in the future semesters, we're going to have electives. We're not going to have all core classes, but some of your credits are going to come from electives. And Friday nights will be an elective. And so you can be involved in that and take it. So even now, if you want to take it now, it will count as an elective in a year or two if you're wanting to get a diploma from this place. But I'm much more interested in people knowing the subject versus—I appreciate the diploma and the degree, I mean, the credit, etc. But I care about people knowing it. But on Saturday morning, this is the point I really am energized about. Because some of you, about half of you, haven't heard this and we're beginning it this week. Saturday morning, we're beginning a mentoring program, a small group mentoring program, where we're taking the passage. The 150 chapters, it's going to take us three years, it's going to be six semesters. And so, you know, we're going to do it at the IHOPU semester calendar, and it's going to take three years to do that. But on Saturday mornings, we're breaking down in groups of 10 or 20. We've got a bunch of groups. We're aiming for 100, but we have about 200 who are going to be doing this. And we're going to be studying it in a number of different ways and having a lot more involvement around that passage. And already your life is too busy, but there's a few of you right now that says, I didn't know anything about that. This is brand new information for me. I want to tap into that Friday night thing. I mean, they're all going to be archived and recorded. So it's not like if you miss it, you can't ever see it. But that Saturday morning mentoring thing, we're actually full, but for IHOPU students, if you said, I just really, really want to do it, then, I don't know, Andy, how do we sign up? I don't have my TA guy, he doesn't have any papers back there to sign up. No, how would we do that, Dave? No, being serious, I was joking about that. If a handful of them said, just come Saturday morning. Right, and we'll take it, hopefully it's not more than five or six of you. But I just want to offer it to you because to me, I'm not trying to get more people, we're already twice as many as we wanted, actually. But I think this is so critical, these 150 chapters, and to get mentored in it. And we're offering a certification for people who go through all six semesters, or all six modules, even if they leave here, go home and do the rest of them online. And we want to give a certification that says they have completed a rigorous study of these 150 chapters. Because we got people from all around the world asking us, do you have people who know this stuff, who we can talk to, or we can interface with, or we can interact and learn from. And so, we want to say, we have this certification program of people that we believe have studied it in a rigorous way. And so, that's our plan. And we plan to do this for many, many years. And so, it's not the sort of thing, you got to do it this Friday, or you're going to miss it. It's not that kind of deal. But some of you, yes, Dave, go ahead. If you think you're interested in the Saturday morning thing, and it's the first time you've heard it, raise your hand. Okay, yeah, that's the five or six. Okay, good. And it could be a few more, and that's fine too. But it's a small number, and that's what we're happy about. Because we're already twice as big. Because I wanted to only do 100. I wanted to cap it at 100. But, you know, this, oh, I got to, I got to. Then 120. 130. 140. See, I got grandchildren, so I'm kind of a soft touch, you know. If you're in your 20s, and you got a girl voice, I just never turn down my granddaughter and say, Okay, Poppy, come here. Yes. And so, anyway, it just kept inching up, 150, 160. And they were saying, Stop! I go, I'm trying, I'm trying. I'm not good at stop. If people are hungry for God, I go, I'm just not good at that. So, anyway, the 5 or 10 or 15 of you come, and you can come on Friday nights, and not do Saturday morning, and take it and get, and we'll have tests and some homework assignments. If you do it, it will be counted as an elective that you can use in your future. If you're here for a couple years, those electives will matter for your core credits, etc. Or your overall credit system. Okay. So, that's that. So, because we're launching this thing on Friday, this beauty of class, I'm still in my introduction. So, I hope you're not taping this. My taper guy. So, if you are, okay, no, I'm not telling her. Because I tape all my classes and put them on the internet and do things with them. And so, that's why we're in this, we got this room and the cameras and all this. But, my final announcement is that the beauty of God is such an exciting subject. I mean, I'm more excited about this subject than even the Friday night. Although, you're going to find out in a minute it is kind of the same subject. But the beauty of God grabs me. Like, there's nothing more exhilarating than this topic. And I'm trusting that in this semester, you're going to be marked by the Lord and it's going to be something that's going to get in you and it's going to be part of your voice. But, typically, I have a direction I would have taken tonight. I'm going to do week one next week. And so, I'm calling this week one. I was going to do this one later. But, since we're launching this end time thing and the end time narrative is deeply connected to the beauty of Jesus. Now, that's a new idea to some folks because they don't think of beauty in end times. But, it is. So, I'm just kind of redoing my order just because this Friday night thing we're launching this 150 chapters thing on this Friday night. Okay, so tonight I'm going to have no comments during what I'm sharing this. But, at the end and you're free to leave we'll have a Q&A and we'll go for a little while because I did this with our worship leaders just the other day and we had questions that kept going on and on our main worship leaders and they're really invigorated by this subject of what I'm going to share tonight. So, we'll have a Q&A afterwards but in the following weeks I want to share some and then let you be able to say wait, now how does that work and that doesn't make sense and how do I apply that so we can have a bit of a dialogue in the room instead of just a teaching session because I like it that way and I plan as a rule to hang around a little bit afterwards just to be able to pray with some of you or just talk to you or ask some questions afterwards I'm not interested in just darting right out and so I just want to have a chance to be able to say hi to some of you after these classes as well Okay, let's pray and Misty, I appreciate you being here you come here and do the worship and I love it, I love it, I love it because I know how busy you are and you say I want to take this class and I want to do the worship for you and there you go, it's amazing okay, Father we thank you in the name of Jesus and Lord I ask you for the revelation of the beauty of Jesus that you would mark my heart Lord even as I'm preparing and studying in this semester you'd mark the hearts of those that hear and even as they share little portions of it with other people mark them Lord grab us with the beauty of who you are and we thank you in Jesus name Amen Well this session one I'm going to talk about the beauty of Jesus related to the overview of God's end time plan now what I want to do tonight I'm going to try to do this I've not really done this before I'm going to try to tell you as much of the overall plan without proving the points biblically though one of my big points is I don't want you to accept anything that you cannot see with your eyes and your Bible, that's not just this class that's every place in this missions base and I encourage you to maintain that standard wherever you go don't accept anything that you can't that a Bible teacher says that you can't see with your own eyes and your own Bible, I want to urge you to not have a wrong spirit about it but to challenge everything but tonight what I want to do is something I've never done before is that I want to try to tell as much of the big picture story without breaking down all the verses, I've got some verses here for you but I'm going to try not to read as many verses as I can I'm such a, my nature is a teacher and I want to go, look at that verse and we'll look at a few of them but most of the verses are on the notes just for you to look at later, I want you to get the big picture and there's many events of the end times, they're part of Jesus' planning I mean this brilliant man planned this and I look at these events I look at these trends the positive and the negative ones the negative ones he's allowing to happen or I'm looking at the development of various systems or the development of different structures or institutions that like the harlot Babylon religion those are like structures or systems so whether it's events, whether it's trends or whether it's structures that are developed, all of them are connected to his mind, he thought them up, it was a blank white board and it's his plan like the book of Revelation is the plan and I like to tell people but let's get fascinated with the man behind the plan and then we will interpret the plan very differently because what a lot of people do is they just look at the plan, the raw data and they don't interact with the mind and the heart behind the plan I want to know the man I want to know why did you think that that's a weird idea that that's in your plan to cleanse the earth, but I know you're right and I'm wrong, but I want to know why you're allowing this in your master plan and so if you were making a puzzle what you would do, you would put all the pieces on the table and then you would look at the picture on the front cover of the puzzle, right? you take the blue piece so what I want to do is I want to give you a big picture and then as you study the 150 chapters whether in this season of your life or another, the details will fit in the overall picture if you know the bigger picture but the problem is the big picture is really big, so Lord, help me not to be detailed on this, I just want to give the picture so you can put the details in later ok, paragraph B Isaiah, this is interesting, he emphasized the beauty of the Messiah in context to his end time leadership I have three verses here, you can read them on your own, but the point Isaiah is saying is the Messiah will be seen in his beauty in context to the end time storyline and again, a lot of folks think of the end time storyline as ugh, you know this ominous story, Isaiah said no, that's where the beauty of Jesus is manifest openly in the earth like no time in history, so I just want you to have that paradigm, paragraph C now Psalm 45 is really one of the favorites Psalm 45 is one of the favorites of IHOP but if you read Hebrews 1, it's the father talking about Jesus in Psalm 45, it's the father talking about the son, and when you see it that way, then Psalm 45 it feels a little bit different when we see that the father is talking about it sorry about that ok, let's look at this he writes in verse 1, my heart is overflowing and I recite my composition concerning Jesus the king now this is the father talking he says to him, you are more beautiful than all of the human race, when he says the sons of many he means the whole human race and then the father in verse 3 commissions him to gird his sword and this is in context to the Armageddon campaign, because the Armageddon is not a battle it's a campaign, it's a three and a half year campaign that has many battles in it but Armageddon is the staging area where the armies of the earth gather in northern Israel but when the father says in verse 3, gird your sword he's telling Jesus go to action and go to war because the end time storyline is in context to a military conflict around the city of Jerusalem, I'm going to say that again the end time storyline is about a military conflict, it's not only that but if you don't get the military conflict around the city of Jerusalem, you're going to miss so much of the end time storyline but in verse 2, the father says you're beautiful verse 3, when you're active in the plan to cleanse the earth of evil so he's appealing to the Armageddon context, and in verse 4 when he says ride in majesty prosperously, or another translation says in great victory he's actually talking to Jesus that as he journeys across the earth and his return go in victory and fill the earth with righteousness, that's what he's actually talking about, it's related to the second coming, then he says your arrows are sharp, and the nations, when it says the people it means the nations, the nations are falling under you, meaning the hostile nations are Jesus is overcoming them and defeating them in a military capacity at the second coming, this is where the beauty of Jesus in Psalm 45 is, paragraph D, now Revelation 19 is the parallel passage of Psalm 45, the passage we just looked at you are more beautiful than the sons of men, gird your swords and slay the nations, like what? Revelation 19 gives us the other dimension, it's the same story but John gives us a little bit more ideas about it, it says the kings of the earth, and all their armies, they're going to gather together in context around the city of Jerusalem and they're going to go to war against Jesus and Jesus is going to come back he's going to cast the antichrist into the lake of fire now look at verse 21, he's going to slay the kings of the earth and their armies with his sword, he's going to do Psalm 45, but the bigger thing I want you to see is that it's the beauty dimension it's the beauty dimension of Psalm 45 that we have to grasp and we really have to have a handle on this now, a key picture to this, is that when, I mean a key idea when we're losing when we don't see beauty in the end time storyline that means we're out of focus if we look at the end time storyline and we mostly think fear or doom and gloom, it's like the Holy Spirit saying, recalibrate recalibrate, no if you're understanding it the way God intended it, you would see beauty in this man in his leadership, and so that to me is the litmus test when I'm reading any of these 150 chapters if I can't see glimpses of beauty I don't have the right read yet and so I'm using Psalm 45 as my grid there ok, paragraph E, now of course the coming of the Lord is our great and glorious hope there's going to be great pressures but the result is amazing because the earth will be filled with the glory of God the end time storyline is about the earth being filled with the glory of God evil being driven off the planet, and love and humility dominating the earth that's what the end time storyline, that's what the book of Revelation is about and if you don't have a beauty of God grid, the book of Revelation is like, oh no, how scary I go, no, no because the judgments in the book of Revelation are against the anti-Christ, the greatest most perverse evil oppressor of human history this is God's zeal against this oppressor because this oppressor is afflicting his bride and he's coming to action to drive him off the earth once and for all and to create an environment that he will live together forever with his bride and fill the earth with the glory of God, that's the end time storyline to fill the earth with the glory of God look at paragraph E, Jesus will establish the optimum environment for love to flourish, he is creating the optimum environment, the optimum environment means allowing evil forces to play their hand to walk out their evil because it's creating a context of pressure and choices where people have the ability to choose love at a whole deeper level and one thing you can be confident of in that however intense the Lord allows it to be because part of the end time storyline the Lord's allowing the intensity he's allowing evil to express itself but for reasons that he sees that are going to produce love or he is manifesting his power against evil in a very very violent and strong way but you can be sure of this, he will always use and this is a phrase I'd love you to get the bottom paragraph E he will use the least severe means, I mean they are severe but they're the least severe to reach the greatest number at the deepest level of love Jesus saying I've got a plan, I won't make it one degree more intense than it has to be to bring righteousness and fill the earth with it and to allow people to really operate in free choice in good or evil. Paragraph F the book of Revelation is about the glory of Jesus, I mean Revelation 1 1 says it is a revelation of Jesus, it's his plan to transition the earth to the age to come, it's not a doomsday prophecy but it's a glorious love story, Jesus is ushering a new world order into the earth, it describes the end of the dark night of Satan's oppression of the human race and the dawning of a new day where Jesus returns to the earth to rule all the nations but he wants to rule them with you in love and righteousness destroy the antichrist empire drive evil off the planet forever and eventually the father's throne is coming down to the earth, that's what this storyline is all about ok, top of page 2 now to understand to grasp the storyline these 150 chapters again, not all of you are going to master those chapters, but some of you really, really are, this is really part of your calling, not just as a preacher, but as a singer, musician writer, artist to capture this storyline because messengers are going to make the message known through all kinds of media mediums and all kinds of outlets that some we can't even imagine that haven't been even invented yet in the next 10, 20, 30 years but the message has to go out in many different ways but in order to grasp the storyline and to see the beauty of the Lord displayed it's essential that we grasp I mean that we understand there's three prophetic time frames related to the last seven years of natural history there's three prophetic time frames if you don't get these three time frames then all of these details, it's like again, it's like the puzzle but you're not looking at the picture on the cover of the box you don't know where the puzzle piece fits it's just kind of hanging out in mid air, you've got to get the narrative and it starts kind of like the skeletal structure of this storyline that everything connects to is these three time frames and they are number one and they're all in one generation by the way, they're all in the course of one generation first it's the beginning of birth pangs then the second is worldwide a counterfeit worldwide peace and safety and it's going to deceive a lot of people because they're going to think this worldwide peace and safety is the real thing but it's being driven by evil it's got an evil agenda and a lot of believers are even going to rejoice in it and say, well it's justice, it's unity it's love, it's good and we need to know where this thing is going and be clear about it and then the third time frame is the great tribulation itself and again, all three of these time frames are in context of one generation now, in my opinion we're in that generation and if I had to guess when that generation started I would say 1948 when Israel became a nation Israel is for 2,000 years is out of the land, the covenant nation the nation that covenant with God is out of the land, they're in the nations and against all odds Israel is back in the land, I mean I don't think even bible teachers believed it was going to happen after 2,000 years because the bible teachers would read it, the prophecies and Israel has to be in the land and they'd say, well obviously that's symbolic, because Israel there wasn't a chance of Israel getting in the land 1948 they're in the land, against all odds the second date I actually like the second date better if I had to pick would be 1967 and that's when Jerusalem came under the control of the Jewish government the Jewish leadership, because the end time storyline actually is Jerusalem centric meaning it's much more about Jerusalem than it is the nation itself it's the city because Jesus said, Jerusalem is the city of the great king, I'm the great king, that's my city and I'm bringing the new Jerusalem down to connect with it and the new Jerusalem and the earthly Jerusalem are going to be together forever, and so it's really Jerusalem end time prophecy is clear has to be under the control of the Jewish government and in 1967 that took place and so in my opinion the divine calendar began to go forward in that final generation in 1948 or 1967, I could be wrong but I can't imagine any event more monumentous politically the geopolitical miracle of Israel becoming a nation there's never been anything like it in history I mean there's never been another nation in history that's been out of it's homeland for 40 years and ever survived as an identity, they never returned and they never had a national identity Israel's out for 2000 years and they have a national identity, they return to their native land and they return to their native language nothing like that in history, it's impossible for that to happen God was flexing his muscles long time, thousands of years ago when he said watch, watch and so when I look at those two days 48, Israel became a nation and I think even more important 67, 20 years later when Jerusalem came under the control of the Jewish government I think that is the beginning of that generation, the beginning of the birth patents, again that's my opinion that's not a prophecy, but I'm pretty strong about that opinion now a biblical generation could go a hundred years, just so you know Genesis 15, God talked to Abraham about, he said four generations or 400 years so you know, you don't really quite know where you're at and so that's kind of just kind of give a little bit of a perspective possibly of a time frame, I don't know that I'll see it fulfilled in my lifetime but I think my children and grandchildren will or certainly their children will and so that's why I'm so energized about these 150 chapters, we have to give a responsible biblical answer for this biblical narrative to the next generation with clarity we can't give them what the fathers gave the guys in my generation, which is like you're not going to get it anyway, you're going to be raptured so who cares, it's like how completely irresponsible 40 years later I look back and I go, why didn't I think it through myself and go study it well, here we are today okay, let's look at the first time frame the beginning of birth pangs now this birth pangs period this could go on 30, 40, 50, 60 years, 70 years I mean it could go, you know, a generation could be 100 years this beginning of birth pangs is some decades leading up to the final 7 years, and we don't know how long that beginning of birth pangs how long it goes because it could go 30, 40, 50, 60 years 70 or 80 or who knows Jesus identified 12 different negative trends in society and so just picture these trends while we're watching them right now and he identified one positive trend, and that was the great harvest, a great harvest of souls coming in, not that it would all happen in the beginning of the birth pangs, but the greatest soul winning in history is happening right now in the nations, I mean it's staggering the numbers of people that are coming to the Lord in the last 10 years around the earth it's really remarkable but we're at the beginning of that but when it talks about false Christ or false prophets you can use either one, Christ's word is anointed, and prophets they're messengers, meaning the false prophets in our culture are pretty cool, sophisticated, dignified, really intelligent, well spoken people so don't think of somebody with horns, just look at the social media, or just the media, not just social media there are so many dignified, cool, intellectual voices coming and many of them are creating a false narrative, and the church is echoing them, and it's getting louder and louder and louder because they're thinking the false prophets have horns on, they're really cool looking people, and they're really fun to be with kind of people but the narrative they're promoting is very opposite of the biblical narrative and there's wars, and there's racism is breaking forth, ethnic conflict, economic problems and pestilence, and famines and troubles, and all these things turmoil and uncertainty is in the culture, and so I stop and I ask the beautiful man why? Because he didn't create all of these pressures but he's allowing them and what he's doing is he's allowing these pressures and they're going to escalate Beloved, what's ever happening now is going to be more intense in 10 years I mean there's going to be breakthroughs but all of the things in the lips of Jesus are going to increase and increase like birth pangs, what's ever happening in this 10 years, the next 10 years is going to be more intense, more intense that's why they're called birth pangs or birth pains because they intensify in their strength and the interval between them gets smaller and then the intensity gets stronger, and so the gap in between is shorter and so that's what's happening and what I think the Lord's saying is I'm causing the whole earth to have to reevaluate their life and what they trust in I'm allowing everything the human race is trusting in to be shaken because they can't take with them anything except for what's in obedience to me you know we're only on this earth for 70, 80 years or whatever and you only take with you for billions of years what was in obedience to him and yet a lot of believers they're living, they're spending their time and energy on things that they're not going to take with them and the Lord says I love them so much I'm going to help them a little bit because the pressures in society God number one is shaking the earth, the devil number two has rage and he's trying to destroy and humans have sin and they're wanting to walk out their lust and their desires so it's man's sin Satan's rage and the father's loving zeal to shake, to awaken the nations they're all combined together in the turbulence that's going on that's going forward in the earth ok, paragraph C now during this beginning of birth pangs and again I think we're in it right now and I don't know how far we're in it and I don't know for sure that it's 1948 or 1967 is when the timing of that would come but I think it's a real reasonable observation to look at it that way paragraph C, now there's five political and religious developments that are happening right now that are in the book they're in the book and they're mentioned a number of times in these 150 chapters and the reason they're mentioned because all five of them are negative now these are developments in society like they're structures or institutions and they're more than just events they're more than just negative trends in the culture they're kind of developments they're national developments that kind of thing, now there's five of them I'm mentioning here because we don't have time to grasp everything and here's the idea that the Lord wants you to know when you see them emerge don't be shocked by them and then become fearful and don't be impressed by them to where you embrace them those are the two messages don't be shocked and be fearful and go oh no and like starting to draw back in confusion but don't be impressed either and don't embrace them and promote them and they're just awestruck by him and there's probably power encounters when they're involved in this probably like seances something happens, they get false prophecies they have feelings, they cry but the earth is consumed with this worship and again they're not just out in a field worshipping him by themselves having their quiet time, I'm imagining that there's an organized because there's a mark of the beast system that the false prophet puts in place that without it you can't by yourself and if you take the mark you have to go to those worship sanctuaries you have to show yourself as a worshipper and so the false prophet has tremendous, tremendous power, he makes this image to look like it breathes and speaks here's this image this statue, it's breathing and speaking and it's creating policy, meaning the statue causes it says the statue does or the image causes people to be put to death who will not worship the antichrist so this image is making government policies, establishing it because he has this artificial intelligence with demon power or whatever I don't have a clue how that works but all I know it's really, really bad but it's like the Jews and the Nazi Germany had to wear the yellow star so everyone knew if you were or were not and the mark is on the forehead or the hand, so it's public so every meeting you go to every gas station, every place you go in public, they know instantly, how come you don't have the mark well where's your mark are you against this guy, he's bringing world peace, a new world order why they would think about you like you would think about somebody against Jesus you'd say, why are you against Jesus, he's amazing, he's beautiful they go, why don't you just go get the mark just go down next Monday and get it no, I'm not taking the mark, why what harm can it do it's a little mark and it's powerful when you go in the sanctuaries no, the guy's a demon and he's going to the lake of fire really so you think I'm going to the lake of fire too well yeah, actually I do because now that you mention it Uncle Bill you are I mean the mark thing is going to be unbelievably intense but in terms of it will purify the church nobody will be in the church except for real the church will be on fire filled with power, the glory of God the greatest revivals breaking forth signs, wonders, miracles and I believe that though there will be a resistance against the buying and selling Moses' number one miracle the most common was food and water being produced supernaturally for 40 years it happened every day for 40 years I mean they had almost 3 million people out in the wilderness do you know how much water it would take for 3 million people in livestock I mean it's not a little drinking fountain and they're all standing in line, you know, checking into class before they came, it's not one of those deals it's 3 million people I mean it's a river it's the Mississippi River coming out of a rock out in the desert for 40 years and manna came from heaven Jesus did more miracles of multiplying food not just the same story retold but the number of times on 3 occasions he multiplied food he was saying that's what we do, Elijah did it and I think there's going to be a supernatural provision it's like the Lord says I know all this stuff I got you covered, the church is going to prevail and going to succeed ok, paragraph E he wars against Satan up in the heavenly places he wars against Satan this war has not happened yet and he throws Satan and however many billion of demons, you know, I don't know some billions, I guess all of them come to the earth the entire demonic host comes to the earth now that's good and bad it's good in the sense that now there's an open heaven over the church, meaning angels are hindered when we speak the intercession they respond to our intercession angels do, it tells us in Daniel 10, demons stop them and the angel is getting through and if you stay with the prayer, the angel told Daniel, stay with it stay with it, stay with it, use the name of Jesus stay with it, don't back down, more angels are coming if you keep praying beloved, what's it going to be like when there's zero resistance in the heavens no angels are stopped prayers, I mean our prayers get through it's not a matter if our prayers don't get through but the angelic literally have opposition in the demonic realm they won't be any the answers to prayers, the miracles the prophetic dreams the dream life of the planet for good and the dream life for the planet for evil there'll be more demons on the earth now when demons are on the earth demons, they want to get in people, they want to get in people or animals that's why when demons come out Jesus said they look for, you know, they're looking for someone to inhabit because they have a greater expression if they dwell in an animal or a person and so there'll be more demonized people with nightmares and horrible dreams and sexual perversion beyond anything we can imagine but there's an open heaven to the people of Jesus more bride of Christ new Jerusalem, glory of Jesus man, at night, the dreams I think the dream life of the planet is going to go real intense in two different directions at that time so all the demons are down on the earth so that's trouble for individuals on the earth but it's a glorious thing in terms of the prayer ministry and the activity of angels so at this time, paragraph F, keep your eye on the 144,000 there's going to be 144,000 Jewish people that have an anointing to sing they're going to be prophetic singers, they're singing the songs from heaven that nobody else knows they're anointed singers and then we got the two prophets that are tremendous power these prophets, they can stop the rain they can turn the water into blood look what it says here in Revelation chapter 11 they strike the earth with plagues they can stop the rain, they can start the rain, they have power over waters, release the strike, the earth with plagues, etc. Now these 144,000 singer musician types, I don't know if they're musicians I kind of add that on to them because it says that they sing, but I'm guessing they're musicians as well it says they're marked, God marks them, and the reason they're marked is that the judgments of God won't touch them, but neither can Satan's rage so they have a certain protection and some people say, are they the only ones marked? No, I don't believe they are but I believe the fact that so many are marked, gives us the knowledge God is in the business of marking people, and in Revelation chapter 9 verse 6, or verse 8 it talks about those the indication of others that are receiving this mark as well okay, so let's look at Roman numeral 6 so now, Jesus is getting ready to return to the earth, it's at the end of the tribulation, the end of the tribulation, now this is one of the most beautiful parts of the end time storyline it's what I call Jesus' royal procession and when you put the verses together, to me it's really clear the broad strokes of this and it's a, Jesus is making a royal procession from the Father's throne to the Jerusalem, to His throne to be coronated or to be received at least, I mean the Father's already coronated Him in Heaven, but to be received by the Jewish leaders as their King but He's not just gonna like, zip go from Heaven there, He goes, no, no, I've been waiting for a long time for this, and we're gonna do this thing really right, and so His royal procession, it has three different stages stage one is His procession across the sky and every single eye will see Him number two, it's His procession through the land He lands down, He touches earth somewhere in the Middle East I don't know, you don't know where but He lands somewhere and He marches into Jerusalem the marching into Jerusalem is very very clear that He does that, we don't know where He lands and then His third part of His procession is when He comes up through the land is part two, it's when He actually enters the city itself and the Jewish nation receives Him as their King and it's the most remarkable reality so let's just look at this just for a moment, this first one, He's going across the sky every single eye will see Him, now I don't know if you've ever thought about that, I've thought about this a lot because I've taught on this a handful of times and every time I teach on it, I just say, man, I wanna I'm gonna fill in the gaps and I don't think we'll ever fill in all the gaps, and here's what most people say, I just completely dismiss this answer, completely dismiss it, and I hear it all the time well, I go, how will the people in New Zealand and the people in Greenland and London see Him, and almost everyone I say that to, they go, technology, I go if you got Genesis 1 on your resume, you're really gonna use Bill Gates' technology are you serious? You really think if you could do Genesis 1 you're gonna do technology at the most glorious time of the coronation of the King entering Jerusalem, you're gonna use Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, right? Well, I don't know No, I promise you it's not technology, this is the most glorious moment of human history, are you kidding me? And so Jesus comes, and He makes a global procession around the earth, every single eye sees Him I mean, this is real, not just believers believers see Him, and they're raptured but unbelievers, because they mourn when they see Him, they go oh, no wrong King that we chose but it's serious, they're going we were told all along, He was the false one, our guy who's killing us, we don't worship Him, He's and He comes, it says every eye, it says it three times in the Bible, every eye will see Him and it says they will mourn when they see Him how are the people in the northern hemisphere the southern hemisphere, every longitude and latitude of every village, every single person, He has to be going slow enough and low enough where people can see Him and know enough to mourn if it's like, zoop I think that was Him well, you know my Aunt Susie told me, yeah, I think that was Him no no, they're going to mourn, they're going to go it is Him and I've made a horrible decision and so He's going to be moving slow enough and low enough where people will register it and respond in repentance and that's a big thing now when He comes across the sky at that stage, it's the most remarkable procession, it's a royal procession, don't think of it as a zip and it's over, think of it as the great King is making His procession and the whole earth is going to participate in it and He's going to end walking into the city of Jerusalem all the saints will be there the dead ones will come alive and the live ones will right up to heaven in a resurrected body there they are, a couple billion up there going, this is intense, they're all standing in the air all the saints, all the angels it says will be there, billions of angels billions of saints, it says that He will come at that time with flaming fire, I mean flaming fire, so it's not a little zip a lightning, because they say that one verse about the lightning east to the west or thinking of it, He comes in a flash and it's over, and the lightning thing actually means something more than it's a flash and it's over, He comes in flaming fire the glory of the Father, the shout of God, the shout of the archangel, trumpets all the graves, I mean all the believers who died are coming up, the sun is darkened, the moon is darkened because the Lord's turning the lights off on the planet, so when the King comes, everybody sees Him, because all the lights have been turned off and by the Father saying, My Son is coming to the earth, nobody is going to miss this, nobody's going to miss it and so it's His glory and brightness that comes, so now He lands on the earth somewhere again, let's go to paragraph C here, He lands on the earth, we don't know where but it's somewhere close to Israel or in Israel or Jerusalem and there's 30 days left, and I'm not going to break that down right now but it's pretty clear, it's pretty easy to follow as well, but I don't want to do that right now because the church was was persecuted 42 months the church, Israel in the wilderness was protected 42 months and the two witnesses prophesied 42 months but the abomination of desolation goes on for 43 months, it goes on for one month longer than the two witnesses prophesied Israel was protected in the wilderness and the provision of God was taken, there's a another 30 day period, there's a 43rd month and the Antichrist is still in power, after the church has been raptured and Jesus is marching up into Jerusalem and He's landed I don't know how long it's taken Him to go around the world it's more than a second for every single human being on the earth to see Him, so He lands, now He's making His way up to Jerusalem, but remember in the Armageddon campaign all of the armies of the earth have gathered together so tens of millions I guess I mean, I don't know how many all the armies of the earth are, there's 200 nations, it says all the kings will gather and their armies, so it's you know, it's millions, but remember there's billions of people, so the whole earth isn't there, just the armies, they're surrounding Jerusalem and it's what I refer to and others do as well, the Armageddon campaign it's a three and a half year campaign, many battles involved, the armies are spread out all through the land of Israel the staging area, the military staging area is up north in Megiddo where they get the name Armageddon, it's up north, that's the staging area of the armies but the real battle is down south in Jerusalem, it's really the battle for Jerusalem if you had to pick a city that's what the whole intensity is about but so there's tens of millions I guess, I don't know the name I mean the number, of soldiers from all the nations everywhere around Jesus is marching up through the land and remember we started with Psalm 45, when the father said, gird your sword on your thigh mighty one, and you go after them, and then we read the verse here, look at Isaiah chapter 63, Isaiah he describes it Isaiah asks the question who is this man, it's Jesus the Messiah, Isaiah sees him ahead of time he's coming from Edom Edom is modern day Jordan it's the city of Basra, if you read the whole thing, it's 75 miles from Jerusalem, Jesus is 75 miles from Jerusalem, marching to Jerusalem, at least 75 miles out, and I don't know it could be further, and Isaiah 700 years before Jesus came, you know, as a man he says he's traveling and the greatness of his strength his power, I mean he's moving, because I believe at this point in time, he's releasing the seven bulls, he's releasing the bulls of judgment against the end time Pharaoh which is the Antichrist, because the bulls of judgment, the seven bulls are very similar to the ten plagues of Egypt they are very similar to the plagues that Moses released on the Antichrist I mean, on Moses released on Pharaoh, Jesus is releasing them as the greater Moses on the Antichrist and upon his systems around the world, I mean the 100 pound hill stone, they're crashing I mean, he's bombing out I mean, the infrastructures of the Antichrist empire, he's absolutely destroying it, and he's marching up to the land, and then Isaiah look at here, Isaiah 63 verse 2, he goes why, I don't understand, you're very powerful, why do you have red on your garment? And he said, because I'm trampling the winepress, and the blood of the people I'm trampling got on my garments and Isaiah goes, what? and what is happening is that the next passage, look at Isaiah Revelation 19, we looked at that when we first started, that Revelation 19, it's like the passage with Psalm 45, you know more lovely than the sons of men, gird your sword on your thigh, oh mighty one for the nations fall under your sword and release your sword well here we see Jesus, in Revelation 19, he's in that winepress mode again, he's marching up to Jerusalem, now what is this winepress, this is kind of a very interesting thing there's a, about a nearly 200 miles, it's 185 miles from Revelation 14, but call it near 200 miles there's like a wine that's 200 miles in direction from the heavenly perspective, and the Lord has said, I'm going to call all the kings of the earth, the only time in history, all the kings of the earth came to one city at the same time, I'm going to call them to Jerusalem, they're going to be in that wine vat, that 200 mile wine vat, and all other armies, and I'm going to call them there to destroy them, in one sweep, I'm going to remove all of the evil leadership in the earth in one day, because I'm king and I can do it, now the antichrist and the devil is seducing all the kings to come, to defeat God's purpose, so the devil is deceiving them, saying hey come, and we'll get rid of Jesus forever, and Jesus is calling them to come very different motives, but they're calling them there, and so because Jesus wants to trample the wine press, meaning literally a resurrected man in a physical body, Jesus he's the greater Moses releasing the plagues of Egypt, called the seven bowls, he's the greater David, fighting the Goliath in the land, he's the greater Joshua, driving out the enemies from Israel, he's the greater Elijah, destroying the false prophets of Baal he's every one of those as a real physical man marching up into the land, and all whatever number, 5, 10, 20 30 million, whatever it is, they are all killed in one period of time, and it says look at Revelation 14, the blood comes up to the horse's bridle, which is about 4 feet for 185 miles, which is the whole length of Israel it's the whole land of Israel, because that's where the armies are, they've gathered all over the world because it's Jesus' wine press, now they don't know that, but he knows it, he's going to rid the earth of evil leadership in one day, I mean nobody, I mean who could conceive of this, and it says, I've heard people say 185 miles 4 feet of blood no way, yeah, yeah, yeah, actually there is a way, here's how it happens the land of Israel is valleys and hills and ravines, right it's all like this, and the two witnesses have been, it says they've stopped the rain in Israel for the year for the three and a half years they're prophesying, so the earth is parched, it's been in a drought that's the false prophet, I mean that's the two witnesses troubling the anti-christ army by not having a water supply, it's a judgment of God against them, it's like, there's no water here, and they go, yeah I know we're tormenting you with this so the land has been in a drought, the land is parched but when you read Ezekiel 38 verse 22 I don't have the notes there, it says that when the Lord comes marching up, it says a, I want to get the exact, a heavy torrential rain, oh no a flooding rain comes down, so all of a sudden it rains, I'll just make up the number 10, 20, 30 inches, I mean I don't know but a flooding rain comes suddenly, Jesus is killing, literally killing the armies of the anti-christ and the rain is coming, so there's water with blood in it all over this parched land in ravines and hills, it really is 185 miles of a flood zone with blood all through the water, so it's not thick coagulated blood everywhere, you know 4 feet deep, that's what people imagine, but if you put the whole story line together it's to me, it's a flood zone and Jesus is marching through it in a day, and he calls it he removes the evil leadership so in one day he actually cleanses the earth of the evil leadership and he's going to put his own people that have resurrected bodies into positions of leadership I mean he's going to flip it in a day it says in Isaiah 66 can a nation be born in a day in Isaiah 66, we'll get to this passage next, I think May, yeah it's at the very end of May, 150 chapters but it says in Isaiah 66 can the earth be born in a day and it's talking about this hour right here, yes, Israel can be born in a day, the Lord says you like that? yeah, Israel became a nation in one day May 14th, 1948 one day Israel became a nation, wow well that's a good wow but you wait until the earth gets new leadership entirely in one day you wait and see what that's going to be like and it's going to be faithful saints with resurrected bodies, people faithful in this age who stood true in the face of affliction and all kinds of things so now Jesus comes, I know we're out of time but I'm going to go a little bit longer here because this is such a great story so Jesus, he comes marching up into Jerusalem and look at paragraph I or 1, he's marching up in Jerusalem, now here's what some people tell me wait, Jesus doesn't land somewhere and march to Jerusalem he lands on the Mount of Olives no, you're not paying attention to the details real carefully, because there's a reason a lot of people say that at the rapture or at the second coming, he lands on the Mount of Olives, well that's not exactly it he lands outside the land, marches into the land has this winepress of destroying all the leaders, now he's coming up to Jerusalem, look at verse of Zechariah chapter 14 he says, now this is the Lord says I will gather all the nations to battle, I'm going to gather all the kings, the Lord says, and the devil's gathering all the kings too, both of them are gathering all the kings, but very different reasons he says verse 3, the Lord will fight against the nations, Jesus the son of David, the greater David the warrior is going to take on the global end time Goliath the anti-Christ and all of his armies, he's going to take them on, he's going to fight against them, verse 4 his feet will touch the Mount of Olives but look at what happens, the very different story when he touches the Mount of Olives, Israel doesn't go, yay, the Messiah the Mount of Olives splits verse 5 and then the fleeing Israeli army runs through the valley that's created and they kind of run and go, who was that guy up there split that mountain, we'll get back to you later and they take off they don't bow down and worship him, they run away from the anti-Christ because there's great turbulence going on and look at verse 5 again, it says they will flee through that valley this newly created valley and then Zechariah goes, I know you didn't believe what I just said, he goes, yes, you will flee and it's in context to the second coming so what happens, the anti-Christ armies some group of them has a whole battalion or a whole group of them against the wall they're against the mountain it's just like Moses was against the Red Sea and Pharaoh's armies and Moses split the Red Sea, Jesus comes down he splits the mountain and they escape through it just like they did in the days of Moses incidentally, that's the very mountain in Matthew chapter Mark chapter 11 where Jesus said and you will speak to this mountain and it will depart because Jesus knew he was going to speak to that mountain 2000 years later he pointed to the mountain that he's going to split, that's in Zechariah 4 and all the other guys go, wow, that's amazing he goes, no, it's literal, and so what happens, then he stage 3, he's coming into Jerusalem, now he's at the gates of Jerusalem he's already split the mountain, they fled he's wiping out the armies of the anti-Christ and he looks at the anti-Christ nobody can touch the anti-Christ he has so much supernatural power it says that Jesus looks at him, it says he looks at him, no man can touch the anti-Christ because of the power and just the uniqueness of who he is, I don't think a man would dare touch him Jesus looks at him all the armies are lined up and it says in 2 Thessalonians 2 it says, by the breath of his mouth and the gaze of his face he destroys him he looks at him and he goes and the most powerful man is frozen because he doesn't die, because they throw him alive in a lake of fire, but he's completely immobilized when Jesus breathes on him, you know like in the Garden of Gethsemane in John 18 when the Roman armies came up to get Jesus you know when Judas kissed him and all that and Jesus said, I am he John 18 verse 6 and all the army fell over under the power of God well that's, Jesus is going to release that power and the anti-Christ is going to be immobilized by the gaze of Jesus, thrown into the lake of fire alive, now Jesus is going up to the gates of Jerusalem look at this, Psalm 27 lift up your heads oh ye gates, talking about Jerusalem specifically the king of glory shall come in, that's the guys on the outside hey people barricaded because they've been in this siege, the anti-Christ has had a siege around Jerusalem for three years or so, lift up the gates and the guys on the inside goes, no what's going on out there the mountains split, the water's flowing, people are screaming what's going on out there the king of glory is coming they said, who is the king of glory it's the Lord strong, mighty in battle the Jesus of Armageddon and Israel opens the gate and their Messiah comes in and they say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord and Jesus could say, I told you two thousand years ago you would not see me till with your lips you declared I was sent from God and all of Israel gets saved and then the millennial kingdom begins there, Satan's thrown in prison the anti-Christ is like a fire the new Jerusalem comes down you get resurrected bodies the saints are set on thrones and the glory of God covers the earth and we didn't get to the new Jerusalem I was going to do a millennium but we're out of time ok, now what we didn't tell you is that today was a quiz, so I'm going to pick a guy on row 8 and ask you for the 10 main points I just made I couldn't even tell you the 10 main points to be honest, without my notes no what I'm really saying is that was too much to digest in one setting, you're like what, what, what, what and so I get that, ok so what we're going to do now, I'm going to pray for a minute and then we're going to have a Q&A time where you can and typically we're not going to do it again, just do it this way but I want to get all this information throw it out to you and then have you go wait, wait, wait, where did you get that and I feel very confident, I mean I might have said an off sentence here or there for sure because I'm weak and human and dumb sometimes but the main points I can in time I will point them all out to you from the Bible because my big contention is don't accept anything you can't get a Bible verse that you don't see with your own eyes and I feel that way strongly so every key point I've made here, I've stared it down pretty strong and had a lot of kickback the last 15 years with opposing views and we've teased this out, not, there's so much we don't understand, we need the whole body of Christ in this story line together we want to learn from ministries all over the earth that are showing us blind spots and gaps in our thinking and we want to help them, them help us and I think there's thousands of ministries that are going to be in this dialogue in the next decades to come and I just want to make sure that you're in that dialogue with people across the nations and growing in this in the years to come as well Father here we are before you, we say we love you, you are the beautiful God, you are the beautiful God Jesus the Jesus of Armageddon the God who does all things well, that you're you're creating the ultimate environment for love to grow on this planet and Lord we say thank you and we say we love your leadership now Lord just come and touch us right now Lord I ask that you would just create a spirit of revelation, or not create you would release the spirit of revelation on the heart that hearts that are stirred that you would make sense of this in the days and weeks ahead connect the dots in a way that makes sense to every individual the way they process Lord I ask you to do that, in the name of Jesus Lord I ask you to do that Amen and Amen