This sermon focuses on the return of God's presence to Mount Carmel, with Jews and Arabs turning to the Lord, communities being transformed, and the anticipation of significant events in the Jezreel Valley. It delves into the importance of understanding God's work in Israel and the nations, especially in the context of end times prophecy, emphasizing the need for prayer, revival, and standing with Israel.

We're on the top of Mount Carmel where Elijah the prophet called down the fire and the people fell on their face and said, the Lord he is God, the Lord he is God. Well the fire is starting to fall on Mount Carmel again. The presence of God is returning to Israel and Mount Carmel. Jews and Arabs are turning to the Lord here more than any time since the book of Acts. Communities, residential communities of Jews and Arabs coming off of life-controlling problems. Women in shelter for refugees and for battered women. Jews and Arabs together. Yes, the fire is falling again. The valley behind me here, awesome things are about to happen there too. This is the Jezreel Valley. Megiddo is around the corner and most Bible scholars believe this is where there's about to be a tremendous battle of armies coming against Israel. Armies from the nations. The Lord will intervene. It will impact all the nations, particularly Europe and Germany. So it's most important that we know what God is doing in Israel now and what he's about to do. So join me now, if you will, in a series of messages on Israel, the nations, and the end times. We lift up the meeting on Mount Carmel going on right now. We pray, Lord, send the fire. Send the fire once again. Come down in power, Lord. Save Jews, save Arabs, save everybody in the place. Release your spirit, Lord. Hallelujah. And Lord, anoint us here today. Open our ears, open our hearts to see what the Spirit would say to the church about Israel in the end times. Where we are. Where we're going. Thank you, Lord. We bless you. We praise you. We give you glory. In Jesus' wonderful name, amen. Please be seated. My wife and I have been in Israel for 21 years. We were sent out by Times Square Church. We were the first ones to be sent. And David Wilkerson prophesied over us on that memorable day that the gospel is to the Jew first. The church has lost its way in that regard. And that we were being sent to Israel as the first fruits. And because Times Square Church would bless Israel, they would send people to the ends of the earth. And that's what's happened. Now they have missionaries all over the world. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. I'd like to read from Matthew chapter 24. Matthew 24, when Jesus is talking about the end times on the Mount of Olives with his disciples, it's been called the spine or the backbone of biblical prophecy. If you want to know what's going to happen in the end times, there's no better source than Jesus himself, as well as the prophets. Amen. So in Matthew 24, when they asked him about the sign of his coming, they were on the Mount of Olives. And he told them three times, do not be deceived. One of the signs of the coming of Jesus is deception in the church. Do not be deceived. He said many false prophets will come and will deceive many. We need to be so close to Jesus, so walking in the Spirit, so anchored in the Word of God, that we don't get deceived. And he also says lawlessness will abound in verse 12. And lawlessness, he's not talking about you driving through a red light in downtown Cork. He's talking about people that willingly and knowingly break the Word of God. It's happening all over the church. So make sure that you're lined up and obeying the Word of God. Lawlessness will abound and the love of many, the agape love, that means love that only those that know Jesus can have will grow cold. The love of many will grow cold. We see it right in the beginning of Revelations, the Ephesian church, that great revival of Jews and Arabs in Ephesus that turned that whole part of Asia upside down. They had left the first love. And the Lord came back and told John. So don't be deceived. Make sure you're not practicing lawlessness or following people that are lawless or that are breaking the Word of God. And make sure that Jesus is first in everything and you're falling in love with him day after day after day and he's the center of your life. Amen? Now these are some of the things that are going to happen. He talks about earthquakes and tsunamis and all the rest of the things that we see happening. But it's interesting when you look at the book of Matthew, who was written by a Jew. Jesus is a Jew. He's the lion of the tribe of Judah. He was talking to Jews. He was in Jewish Jerusalem when he was giving this prophecy. But there were no chapters that were written. Matthew didn't put chapters there. Some editors did later. So if you go back to the end of Matthew 23, you'll see it's all part of the same flow. And you'll see in verse 37, Jesus is weeping over Jerusalem. He's personifying Jerusalem as the Jewish people. And he's weeping, Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. And he prophesied, See, your house is left to you desolate. The Romans would come in 70 AD and destroy the temple. Two-thirds of the Jews would be killed or taken into slavery. Jesus prophesied this was going to happen. The Romans crucified 90,000 Jews. And they stopped because they ran out of wood. So these terrible destructions came upon Jerusalem, just as Jesus said, Not one stone will be left upon stone in the temple. But then he says this, verse 39, For I say to you, you shall see me no more until you say, Baruch haba b'shem Adonai. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. We just sang it. Who's he talking to? Look at the context. When you study the Bible, look at the who is talking to whom. Who's speaking and who is he talking to? He's talking to Jewish Jerusalem. He's talking to his own people after the flesh. And he says, I'm not coming back until you, Jerusalem, meaning Israel, will say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. The gospel, if you look over in verse 14, This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to the nations and then the end will come. The two major issues of the end times to usher in, to hasten the return of the Lord, is the gospel going to all the nations, a witness in every nation, a powerful witness in church in every nation, and the Jews turning to Jesus. And we're going to see, I don't know if I'm going to get there today, I'm going to talk about the Old Testament today. Monday I'll teach from the New Testament. We're going to see that when the Jews come in, it will be life from the dead and it will be the greatest revival the world has ever seen. And then he's coming back. Hallelujah. That's why it's so important for the church to pray for Israel and for the Jews. And one of the reasons it's so difficult for Jews like this Jew to come to the Lord is the history of so-called Christian anti-semitism. And the church is mostly just ignorant of it. No one's taught them and they don't realize it. You know what the church did, people that called themselves Christian in Europe, I mean it's centuries of persecuting the Jews, hounding them, chasing them, exiling them, slaughtering them. The Crusaders marched across Europe and killed every Jew they could find, holding up crosses. Instead of praying, Lord save the Jews, let the Jews turn to you, take away the veil you put over them. They came to Jerusalem, they took all the Jews, they put them in the synagogue, they burned them to death, and they walked around, Europeans walked around with crosses singing Christ we adore thee. The Jews know their history. The church doesn't in many ways. A lot of it started in England, some of it started in different parts of Europe, it started in the Ukraine, and it's still going on. And all these lies about the Jews, that they killed children on Passover and take their blood and make matzah, ritual murders, that was taught all over Europe for centuries. Christians went out and killed Jews, burned their synagogue. It's a lie, but now it has been translated and sent into books all over the Islamic world, and a whole generation of Muslims believes it. All those lies that came from so-called Christian Europe. So it is so important in the end times that the church gets a hold of the truth of what the Bible says about the Jews and Israel in the last days. Not what BBC or NBC or any other seesays, but what does the Bible say? And will the church, as the anti-semitism is rising again in Europe, you can feel it, you can see it, it's on television, the Jews are afraid to walk the streets of London and Paris once again. I'm not exaggerating. I've been taken to a synagogue in Germany where the police have 24-hour protection with machine guns so the terrorists won't go in there and kill the Jews. In Germany, where the Holocaust happened. So it's essential that the church is not silent again. That the church will take a stand for what the Word says. And hopefully during this conference we'll get a real grasp of what the Word of God says. That doesn't mean the nation of Israel is doing everything right. The nation of Israel makes all kinds of mistakes like your government. They need to get saved. But what does the Lord say about the Jews and about the nation of Israel in the end times? That's where we need to pray and that's what we need to understand. Now let's go all the way back to the beginning. Good place to begin is at the beginning, amen? Let's go to Genesis chapter 12 while my wife brings me a drink of water. That's in Matthew 25. Yeah now he'll say, well done good and faithful Jewish servant. I was thirsty and you gave me a drink. Genesis chapter 12. The world was a mess in those days. Pretty messy today too. And these people in Babylon they built a town you know a tower and they were going to try to get to God on their own and the Lord didn't like it and that's why you speak Scottish and Hebrew and English and German and Irish and we can't understand one another. The only place in the British Isles where I go where I need a translator is where? Where do you think? Not Dublin, not Cork, Liverpool. I'm just kidding I love Liverpool. We had some powerful meetings there recently. They've got some good footballers. In fact the pastor there was a footballer before he got hurt. Okay because the world was such a mess. God knew it was going to be a mess. He always had a plan and his plan is usually a man. Amen? So the plan was here it is in chapter 12 verse 1. When God looked at the Tower of Babylon and dispersed the nations and changed all their languages. He finds this man named Abram. Now the Lord had said to Abram get out of your country from your family and from your father's house. This has been the call for millions of missionaries ever since. It was our call to move to Israel. Leave everything and go to the land I'll show you. To leave New York and go to Israel. From your father's house to a land. A land he's talking about that I will show you and I will make you a great nation. The great Abrahamic covenant that we're looking at. He's going to make a covenant with Abraham about this. One it's about land that he will show him. Two it's about a nation a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing and I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you. You see that? It's a principle all through the Bible. You curse the Jewish people. You come against them. You're in trouble with God. He judges them. He throws them out of the land. He disciplines them and he says and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So this great Abrahamic covenant that he's about to make with this name man named Abraham. It's about a land. It's about a nation and it's about all the nations and it was God's plan for the redemption of the world. It always has been and it always will be and he's going to fulfill it because God watches over his word to perform it and he is performing it. Hallelujah. So the principles are here are clear. If you bless Israel that doesn't mean you agree with everything and an ungodly unsaved government does. We're not talking about politics. We're talking about what is God doing in the earth with the Jewish people and the nation of Israel and how does it relate to the other nations and the church as we all become one in the one new man of Jew and Gentile being built together a dwelling place for God in the spirit. That was always his purpose. He called this insignificant people. He told Abraham exactly what was going to happen. They would be in in slavery for 400 years then he would bring them out and he did it exactly the way he said and he took them into the desert. They were a nation of slaves. They didn't know anything about democracy or voting or anything. They were slaves and then he appears on Sinai and he gives them the Torah and down through the years the principles of the Ten Commandments, the Torah, the Judeo Christian heritage. It is what Europe lives as why Europe thrived. It all came from Abraham from Abraham then to Moses came and the Lord came down and the Torah or the teaching of God has gone all over the world. Love your enemies. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery and so we have this great responsibility to the Jews. They're the keepers of the oracles of God. The first time I went up to Jerusalem I went to the Western Wall which is the retaining wall of the Second Temple of Herod's Temple and all these Jews were reading the Psalms and I said this is amazing. They're reading my Psalms and the Lord rebuked me and said you got it backwards. I'm reading their Psalms. Thank you that David wrote them. Hallelujah. The Bible came from the Jews. The Lord gave all these promises to the Jews so that they would go to be a light to the nations so they would not only have their own nation where all this was unfolding but it would transform the world by going to all the other nations. So in Genesis chapter 15 let's look at the Abrahamic Covenant. Verse 6 and he believed in the Lord and he accounted it to him for righteousness. We heard it last night. Abraham is the father of faith. God gave him all these promises. I believe you're going to give us the land. I believe we're going to have a nation. I don't have any children. I'm 99 years old. I don't know how you're going to do it but you're going to do it. Sarah's too old to have babies but you said you're going to do it and I believe you're going to do it. He's the father of our faith. Can you imagine Sarah walking around that tent camp with the belly like this and all those people going my god how did that happen? She's 90 years old looking at Abraham. What kind of man is he? But he believed. He's the father of our faith and the Lord accounted it to him for right. We're saved by faith, by grace, hallelujah. So was Abraham. So he goes on and he says, verse 7, he's about to make this covenant with him. Then he said to him, I am the Lord who brought you out of the Ur of the Chaldeans. You know where Ur of the Chaldeans is? Iraq. You know that Abraham was an Iraqi before? Well he wasn't called Iraq in those days. It was Babylon. That's where he came from. He brought this idol worshiper who was trying to evidently trying to find the true God when they're worshipping all these idols and all these gods and he brings him into this land that he will give him and he says this land I give to you to inherit. He puts Abraham asleep. The Lord comes down. They cut up these animals. They're these dead animal parts over here and over here and when you made a covenant in the East. Let's say I'm going to make a covenant with my neighbor that I won't steal his sheep and he won't steal my goats and if somebody comes against this we covenant together that we will fight together and we cut these animals in this blood and we stand there and we covenant together. If I break covenant may what's happened to these animals happen to me. That's what a covenant was in those days. It was a blood covenant. An animal had to be sacrificed. So these animals were killed. Abraham is asleep. That means God initiated this and God did it. Abraham had nothing to do with it except he fell asleep and the Lord comes down. It's a theophany I believe of Jesus. He's burnished you know boots and so on though the way he looks in Revelations chapter 1 and he's walking through the pieces making covenant with this sleeping Abraham saying I am making an everlasting covenant with you about this land about the nation and to go that the that faith will rise out of this nation and you and go to the ends of the earth to all the other nations. It was his battle plan. It was his purpose from the beginning and it's the prophetic word that we need to know. Peter would say we have this prophetic word made more sure. This is the word of God. This isn't the word of Quranic scholars. Jerusalem is in the Bible almost 800 times. It is not in the Quran. The battle for Jerusalem is the battle for the truth. If East Jerusalem goes to the Muslims Jesus is not coming back to a Muslim Mount of Olives. That's where it's in East Jerusalem. That's what the battle is over. The battle is over the word of God. What does the word say and will the church in these last days stand on the word of God and I want to tell you it's going to get more difficult to do it because of all the deception and all the media and all the academics and all the movies and all the other stuff. The lies that are going out. Lie after lie after lie after lie. And so in verse 16 of this great covenant we see in the fourth generation they will shall return here. There's a print they were going to go to into slavery but they would return. There's a principle all through the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Jews the people that were chosen to get a revelation of God to have the scriptures and to get them to the whole world. When they were disobedient to the law they would be thrown out of the land and he says over and over I threw you out but I'm bringing you back. I'm bringing you back. So here it is here. He's telling Abraham way back centuries before. Then he makes the same promise to Isaac. The covenant will come through Isaac. The Muslims say that that the promises come through Ishmael the father of the Arabic people. Listen to me. Abraham sacrificed Isaac. If you go up to the Temple Mount and you walk into that golden doing shrine that you have to take your shoes off the Allah you go with a prayer team and be prayed up as my advice to you. You go into that place and there is a big rock that's been uncovered there and there's a plaque on it that says on this stone Abraham offered up Ishmael. It's a lie. It's a lie. The battle for Jerusalem is the battle for the truth. Above it says Allah is the only God. He has no son and and Muhammad is his prophet. Allah is not Elohim the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Our God has a son. I debated a famous Muslim on television in London about this very issue. Can't be the same God because I have and you have if you only knew him. Our God has a son who died for your sins. So the battle is over the Bible. The battle is over what the word of God says. The church needs to know what it says. you