Mike Bickle emphasizes the critical importance of standing with Israel during the end times, highlighting the spiritual and physical battles surrounding Jerusalem. He explains that the church's obedience to God's purpose for Israel is essential, especially as nations rise against it. Bickle warns of a coming time of great trouble for Israel, which will ultimately lead to their purification and the return of Jesus as King. He stresses that the church must actively engage in prayer and support for Israel, as this will be pivotal in the fulfillment of God's plans and the establishment of His kingdom on earth.

Well, for those that have been here for a while, the first page or so will be a bit of overview and review. I mean, a bit of review. But for those that are new, I want you to hear some of these sayings and check out some of the verses and have some time of dialogue and see if these things are true. And in the Word of God, I always encourage people that when you hear teaching, whether here or anywhere, always make sure, it's what the Word says, check it out with the Word, back it up with the Word and see if the things are be so as the Bereans did. Roman numeral one, the battle for Jerusalem. The battle for Jerusalem is the most significant battlefront in the spirit today. It is central, it's the central issue to the Armageddon campaign. And the battle for Jerusalem culminates with Jesus' second coming to reign as king over all the earth. The battle for Jerusalem is something that we talk about quite a bit here. It's a physical and a spiritual battle for control over the city of Jerusalem. The church must understand this battle. We're not going to go into it into depth tonight. If you're around a while, you'll hear it on a number of occasions. The church must understand this battle in order to effectively engage in it. And it's really important because much of the church is completely unaware of the existence of the conflict around the city of Jerusalem. It's not just a natural conflict, it's a spiritual conflict, it's both. Paragraph B. So just for those that are new, just alert yourself. Battle for Jerusalem. Hmm, I'm going to pay attention. Most significant battlefront in the spirit today. Okay. Hmm. Again, I don't want to take an hour and develop it. Paragraph B. God's word insists that the church stand with his purpose for Israel. It's not optional. It's the litmus test for the church's obedience, especially in the end times. We must stand with Israel, who's coming under great pressure by all the nations of the earth are going to stand against Israel. And God requires the end time church to take a stand in obedience to Jesus. It's about obedience to Jesus. I have more about that on B, but I'll move on. Paragraph C. The battle for Jerusalem is the key issue, is a key issue, I'd rather say, to the perfecting of the end time church. The end time church is going to be spotless and without blemish. Have you ever asked yourself how that's going to happen? It's not going to happen just by more time because we have 2000 years and the church is in one of its, in some ways, in its worst condition. In some ways, it's growing and in parts of the world, it's lively and fiery. But in the West, the church is on the threshold of a massive falling away right now. How is this spotless and pure bride going to happen? Is the Lord just going to wave his hand over us one Monday afternoon and then by Monday evening, the whole church of a billion has no compromise. And that's not how it's going to happen. It's going to happen with real, real, real experiences on the earth. Now, it's going to happen by the spirit, but there's going to be a natural dimension to it as well. And it's going to be the most glorious, but the most troubling time in all of human history and the most glorious. Paragraph D. Jesus is going to rule. He's going to return. And when he returns, that's a big subject here. This is, we have several handouts on just this paragraph D and I'm only giving you the summation when he returns to the earth, the second coming, he's going to rule the whole earth from Jerusalem. But when he comes, he's only going to come after, after he's invited by the Jewish leadership. Jesus said in Matthew 23, at the end there of paragraph D, he said, I will not come. You will never see me again until you say to me, blessed as you comes in the name of the Lord. Until the leadership of Israel says about Jesus of Nazareth, you are blessed of God. You are of God. You are God, unless they call him of God, the historical Jesus. He said, until you say that you will never see me again, I will not come back to this city. Paragraph E. Satan wants to exploit a loophole in that prophecy because if Jesus cannot come back and he won't come back until the leadership of Israel invites him back of their own free will. That was a, well, God's God, so it's not risky for God, but that was bold. That, that is one of the most surprising statements that the nation that hates Jesus the most of any nation of the earth is the nation that must officially receive him or the second coming will not, will not happen and come to its complete purpose. It won't take place. He will not return to Jerusalem until this happens. It's the most hostile nation in the world towards Jesus. And the father would say, don't worry, I have a plan. They will say this and my son will return. But Satan's loophole that he's trying to exploit is if there is no nation of Israel, they cannot invite him back. And if Jesus doesn't come back, Satan is not thrown into prison because one of the most significant things that Jesus does when he comes back, you find it in Revelation 20. We have it in the verse there. When Jesus comes back, Satan is locked into prison for a thousand years, but it's only when Jesus comes back to Jerusalem. Now you can be sure what's on Satan's mind is to keep Jesus from Jerusalem. And the only way he's going to keep him from Jerusalem, he's not going to have the power to stop Jesus because he has no power over Jesus. Jesus bound himself only to return if the people on the earth in real time and space in Israel in government invite him back to be their king, their Messiah. So Satan has purposed, I have in paragraph E, to stop Israel from receiving Jesus as king. That's the number one thing on his mind because what's the number one thing on his mind is not going to prison. Sometimes we think the number one thing on Satan's mind is to keep people out of heaven. That's not the number one thing on his mind. The number one thing, he didn't like people getting right with God, but that's not the main thing on his mind. The main thing on his mind is not going to prison. His focus is very different than our focus and he understands the justice of which God employs by committing himself to only return on these terms. So Satan's desire is to control the city of Jerusalem, effectively to control it, so that he could more effectively, number one, deceive Israel into taking the mark of the beast. He wants to control the city of Jerusalem and bring as many of Israel into a relationship where they are more than apostate. Their hearts are hardened and it cannot be reversed, to take the mark of the beast, to be reprobate because a reprobate nation cannot invite Jesus back as their Messiah. He wants to get into Jerusalem and that's heavy on his mind. The second thing he wants to do is to kill off the rest of the human of the Jewish race that does not reprobate. He is serious about this. He wants to exterminate the entire Jewish race so they cannot invite Jesus to Jerusalem because until Jesus comes to Jerusalem, Satan is not going to prison. He is free to roam. He has limitations, but he can roam the earth and move in the realm of the Spirit in all these things he's doing. And the third thing on his mind, if he can't get them to take the mark of the beast where they reprobate, if he can't kill them, he wants to so offend the nation of Israel, they're so offended at Jesus they will never ever receive him. And critical to this program, I mean to this plan, is the control of the city of Jerusalem is critical to Satan's strategy to effect this. Now again, Satan hates people getting saved, but I assure you that's not the number one thing on his mind. He's way, way more self-absorbed than to have his number one concern be about you or me. Terrorist bombers are not blowing up megachurches, they're blowing up the city of Jerusalem because demonic spirits are focused on that. I mean again, he hates the church. Have no confusion about that. Satan knows he'll not be cast into prison until Jesus is received and in leadership as a man. He's fully God. Always has been, always will be. But it's as a man, as a Jewish man, ruling the city of Jerusalem. This is what God the Father has ordained for the purpose of God to break forth in its full way. Paragraph F, when Jesus right now he's king in the New Jerusalem. He has a throne in the New Jerusalem. The Father's king as well. Jesus is king of the New Jerusalem, the heavenly realm, but he's ordained to be king of the millennial Jerusalem, the earthly realm. And when he brings those two Jerusalems together, when that convergence, that joining of those two cities come together and the New Jerusalem descends, that's one of the great, it's one of the great expressions of spiritual authority. A man on the earth is going to use the keys of the kingdom to lock Satan into prison. A man is going to lock Satan into prison. A real man with power with God is going to lock Satan into prison. And a real man is going to call forth the New Jerusalem to come. Talking about an open heaven, beloved the New Jerusalem is going to descend to the earth to the place of the earthly Jerusalem. There's going to be a divine convergence of those two cities and the blessing of God is going to break forth in Jerusalem and it's going to more than ripple, but think of a dropping a rock and the ripple effect is going to ripple out throughout the entire earth called the millennial kingdom. But the key point, the open heaven point is the two Jerusalems and the key to that is Jesus being king of Jerusalem in the natural, not just in the spirit, it's both and. And the key to that is the nation of Israel inviting him back and that is what's on Satan's mind to stop the entire program. And the great harvest is going to be won as we are purified and as we stand with God's purpose. The very standing with Israel in the future trouble will purify the church and it will explode in power far beyond the book of Acts. There will be no such thing as a compromising church on the earth when the Lord returns. There will be no compromise in the church. He's coming for a church that's spotless without any blemish, no compromise at all. Let's go to Roman number two. So that first 10 minutes was review. We've gone through that many times for those that have been around for a while and far more depth than a number of teachers. Wes Hall has his brilliant stuff on this as does Stuart Greaves and many others. That's critical. This is part of our message. This is part of the, actually this is part of the gospel of the kingdom. I don't have it on the notes here, but when Jesus said this in Matthew 24, you know Matthew 24 is about? It's about the second coming. The whole chapter is about the second coming. I mean there's some, you know, some other subjects as well. That's the main theme of the chapter. I'll just say it that way. Second coming and Jesus said when this gospel, when the gospel of Matthew 24 is preached, the gospel of the kingdom, then the end will come. The gospel of the kingdom is more than the gospel that offers forgiveness without repentance. Most of the church in the west preaches the gospel of forgiveness without repentance and they say we got to get that message to all the nations. That's not where the end comes. The end comes when the gospel of the kingdom is preached to all nations. The gospel of the kingdom is more than the fact there's a spiritual kingdom in men's hearts. The gospel of the kingdom is this. There is a king, Jesus, who's coming to the earth in context to a military conflict, the Armageddon campaign. You know Jesus is just coming to the sky, catch us all and go back. He's returning in context to a military conflict. There's a clash. There's a worldwide collision of kingdoms and our message is a Jewish king is returning to completely overthrow the antichrist empire which has its roots in the nations of the earth, established powerfully in the majority of the nations of the earth. It will have its tentacles in all nations but it will have a firm foundation in many of the nations of the earth. Our message is another man is coming on a white horse with angels with a host of saints to confront this king to overthrow his kingdom and to re-establish government in every nation of the earth. It is the message of a clash to establishing of a kingdom and if you want to be a part of this kingdom, repent, get forgiveness and get in the middle of this clashing of kingdoms because there's a takeover that's coming. That's the message of the kingdom that's going to fill the earth right now. Hardly ever, I'm sure it happens thousands of times but not millions and millions and millions. Hardly ever is the gospel of the kingdom being preached. It's mostly the gospel of forgiveness which is the entry into the kingdom which is critical but it's mostly the gospel of forgiveness even without repentance and there is no forgiveness without repentance. There's no such thing. That is no gospel at all. It's a concoction of western humanism with a little bit of Jesus language kind of sprinkled through it. It's a human concoction. It is no gospel at all but the gospel of the kingdom will be preached to all nations but intrinsic in that message is a conflict and the great tribulation is the great clashing of the kingdoms. It comes to a pinnacle like no time in history and the power of God is with us. Many of us will lose our lives. We will overcome the antichrist. We will overcome satan because we are fearless and fully in faith even when our life is being extinguished. He will overcome many saints physically and in that very act we overcome him spiritually is what the book of revelations says. Many will be delivered physically as well but we don't overcome satan when we escape his tactics against his physical. That's a victory for sure. I like those victories. I believe in them. That's why we want to see healing and power. Those victories are important but the way we overcome satan is when we're unmoved in the face of all of his threats. As Keith Green said, I've pledged my head to heaven already. I've already pledged my head to the eternal kingdom. Well, Roman numeral two talks about the great trouble that's coming and I was talking earlier about great trouble coming. Daniel 12 is one of the great passages about the coming trouble. An angel reveals Israel's great trouble in the end times to the prophet Daniel and it's this trouble. Here's why this trouble is important to know. The conflict of the kingdom is related to this trouble. I mean the message of the kingdom is in the midst of a true collision of empires and this collision isn't just ideology. It's not just ideas colliding. Lives and kingdoms and military armies are colliding. The antichrist kingdom is real. He's establishing it throughout the whole world. Let's read here in Daniel chapter 12. At that time, Michael the archangel shall stand up. He will be actively involved in the battle, the spiritual battle. He'll stand up. The passage I have here in Revelation 12, I have in the italics. Revelation 12 talks about Satan, I mean Michael, taking on Satan and casting him from his place of effectiveness in the heavens. In Revelation 12, it says Michael and his angels go to war against Satan and cast him to the earth because Satan is far more effective in heavenly places. And when he is cast to the earth, he loses his optimum position of effectiveness that he has in this age. Even in his limitations, even in the fact he's been defeated by the cross, he has a certain sphere of effectiveness he operates in until the name of Jesus is enforced upon him by believing saints on the earth. But the prayer movement is on the earth crying out in unity with the prayer movement in heaven. We're all in unison together crying out and Michael breaks forth and casts Satan from his place. Michael arises in this hour. He stands up. Now this is an angel telling all of this to Daniel. And he's called the great prince. It's the Michael the archangel. He's the one who stands watch over the nation of Israel. As demonic powers are assigned to nations and we call them principalities and powers, demonic powers are assigned to regions. Beloved, angels are also assigned to nations and regions and churches and ministries and individuals. There's a whole hierarchy of darkness, a demonic hierarchy and an entire hierarchy of the angelic that has their assignments related to the different geographic parts of the earth and those and the angels of the demons move related to the prayer movement. The angels are far more active when the church prays and less active when the church is prayerless. The demons are driven out of their position of of effectiveness whatever of their optimum effectiveness whatever that is. It's different for every demon. They all have different spheres of authority. When we pray and obey, they are less effective. Their strongholds are disrupted. Well at the end, this is kind of like a very dynamic thing. Michael actually is released the full-on confrontation with Satan face to face. It's because of the prayer movement on the earth and it's centered around the conflict in Israel by the way. When Michael the great warring angel is dispatched in this final way, beloved we are just moments away from the end. Well technically three and a half years away but it's moments and Michael's only going to stand up and be dispatched in that way in relationship to the praying saints and the conflict is around the war for the city of Jerusalem and there's going to be a hundred million plus gentile believers. We're all engaged in this. We're prophesying and praying and fasting and we're all working together with this great onslaught of which Michael takes on Satan in the heavenly realm and he's cast to the ground and then the angel tells Daniel and there will be a time of trouble when this happens when Satan's on the earth. You can read it right there in Revelation 12. I got the verse there in the italics because when Satan comes to the earth he will have so much anger when he comes to the earth. That's actually Revelation 12. I don't have that on the notes there but just keep reading Revelation 12 and you'll see it and there's so much trouble because Satan is so angry when he's grounded. He's bound to the earth. He's far less effective but he's far more angry. He's so angry. There'll be a time of trouble the angel tells John such as never was since there was a nation even to that time. He goes but at that time there's good news and I'm skipping a bunch of things. He tells the angel tells Daniel at that time Israel will be delivered at this time as well. Beloved, Israel ultimately will be delivered and God will anoint them to give leadership to the whole world in the millennial kingdom and we will be we'll fully rejoice in God's choice of this grand plan through history to raise up a nation for such a role as this. Verse 7 now look at this. Verse 7 is one of the heaviest passages. This is the verse that was in my mind when I was speaking about great trouble a few minutes ago. I was giving the testimony. Then I heard this is Daniel speaking a man clothed in linen. It's the angel that had shown up previously and lots of times in the bible angels are referred to as the man in linen with a shining sword but he's flying through the sky. In this case this man in linen is uh oh I took it out of the deal because I didn't have enough space. He was standing over the waters over the river. He's standing in midair. It's very clear it's an angel that he sees. This man clothed in linen Daniel said I saw him and he swore by God who lives forever that for three and a half years and the phrase here is time time and half a times. A time is a year. Time that's one year. Times that's two years and half a time that's a half a year and the bible makes it really clear it's a three and a half year period if you put a bunch of verses together. If that's a new idea you might say well how do you know that? Well you compare scripture to scripture it's unmistakable that's what it's talking about. That's universally agreed upon through by uh by bible uh teachers through throughout church history. So the angel raises his hand and he swears by God who lives forever. He says I swear to you this that it will only last for three and a half years this horrible time but he said here's the bad news it won't be over until the power here this is so heavy the power of Israel is completely shattered. Beloved people do not like this message believers gentile or jewish but the angel swore he said this horrible season unsurpassed in history will only last I swear before God three and a half years and I swear that within the three and a half years God will complete his purposes this nation of Israel will be completely shattered in its own strength. It will have absolutely no hope in its military and no hope in its political processes absolutely none. It will have no hope except for from heaven. That's the point of it being completely shattered then all these things will be finished when I talk to my friends many friends that are involved in the nation of Israel some of them don't like this verse I go listen this is good news and bad news it's bad news for you but trust me the prophetic church is going to be with you in it every step of the way it's not good news for us either for an obedient praying fasting prophetic believer this is we are dynamically a part of this that's the negative side but the positive side is God is going to release power and he's going to reveal himself he's going to glorify himself in the midst of his people with a power second to no time in history that's the good news then verse 8 Daniel said my lord talking to that same angel what shall be the purpose of these things this is the end or the outcome what is the purpose of this shattering my my lord the shattering are you sure it's necessary what is the purpose what's the end result of this verse 10 this is for Israel for Jewish and Gentile believers in Yeshua or Jesus verse 10 this is the many will be purified through this process many will be made white many will be refined but the wicked will send more wickedly than they've ever done before the wicked will go exactly in the opposite direction I mean many wicked will get saved but talk about those those that refuse the grace of God they will be steeped into wickedness beyond any time in history but the wise the people of God will understand the wisdom of all that's going on beloved right now the church of Jesus Christ I mean legally by the blood of Jesus were pure in God's sight in that sense that we're not going to be held guilty in the sense of being kept out of the eternal city but in terms of our actual character I think of the church in the west we are far from purified purified refined and made white but the lord is going to see to it that the church as well as the nation of Israel all that survive this great calamity in Israel they will be purified and they will love Jesus and have nothing else upon their minds except for obeying him and pleasing him and then he's going to come it's going to be king of the city he's going to join the two cities together and when those two cities come together there is going to be like you know I just think of it like a big funnel an open heaven and the power of God will come through Jerusalem and go out and it will ripple effect all nations of the earth through the millennial kingdom I realize I've been around the kingdom of God to know that if you haven't studied the end times this last 30 minutes has been bizarre for you I do realize you're going what on earth is going on here to Jerusalem's man on the earth cast into hell the prison Satan he didn't he's not against the church because he doesn't care people can say what I understand it's confusing again he doesn't want that anybody getting saved but that's not the main thing on his mind there's a kingdom that's coming it's coming to the earth we're not going away the kingdom's coming to the earth with resurrected bodies and angels we're going to be on the earth forever the new Jerusalem's coming down to the earth forever this is where we're going to be forever on the earth in reality it's exciting or it's going to be a real kingdom we're not all going to be on the earth on a separate cloud floating with a harp we're going to be on the earth reigning and ruling and cultivating the earth into its full inheritance paragraph c as I gave uh this test I gave the testimony I I mentioned that Zechariah 12 to 14 I said the book of Zechariah is is the is one of the most important places where the great trouble is described and if you want to study a passage of scripture Zechariah 12 13 and 14 there's none like it I mean it has so much of the elements of the end time conflict of the end time clash of kingdoms I really urge you to study Zechariah 12 13 and 14 the same with Daniel 12 those are classic chapters these are really big ones in terms of understanding what's going on here's what Zechariah 12 says one of the prominent points about Zechariah 12 to 14 one of the main themes it's repeated several times all the nations of the earth are going to gather around the city of Jerusalem all the nations of the earth are gathering around Jerusalem in a hostile way now I'm I'm asking the lord that that word all means most and it really might there might be exceptions there really might be because with prayer and fasting you never know what might happen because the god has that mysterious perhaps well with prayer and fasting this is all nations of the earth I'm saying lord raise up some nations of the 210 nations on the earth raise up some that stand but I don't know but I'm praying for this nation and other nations that there'll be such an overwhelming breaking in of righteousness but we'll leave that to the lord but the scripture says all nations here's what God said about Jerusalem now this is starting to happen right now we're the early days of it's going to build up to a crescendo you have to know this to not know what I'm going to say in the next couple of minutes is to be nearly illiterate about the end times if you don't know these points I'm meaning I'm at my point isn't to insult you my point is to say it's to highlight how absolutely fundamental and prominent these next ideas are to the end time scenario and so if they're new to you say well they're new to me today but by this time next week they're going to be old to me just jump in and learn them and get your mind around here's what God says behold I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the nations around it when they lay siege against Judah in Jerusalem whoa what a sentence I'm going to make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness now here's what it means when these it's not just going to be Islamic but right now it's mostly Islamic when these Islamic nations it's already beginning to take place when they touch Jerusalem they are intoxicated with rage and a dark spirit they become drunk and I don't mean drunk in the physical sense of drunk they are enraged they are it is completely irrational what is on their mind the fact that you've seen the videos is you law these Islamic terrorist groups the 10 year olds on the video I want to grow up and I want to be a martyr for Allah I want to blow up I want to blow up those that are against Allah praise be to Allah beloved that is called drunk when a generation of children believe this is wisdom this they're drunk and God says I'm going to arrange things in such a way when the nations touch Jerusalem it will be like an intoxicating delusion that comes over them they will be they will be irrational they will be in a complete different way of thinking when they touch this nation in a wrong way I'll make it a cup of drunkenness that's what it means the impact upon the nations that buy into this is so bad it completely disorients them from reality I mean spiritual reality we're already watching that right now that's insane it is absolutely insane what some of these nations are doing the cup of drunkenness is operating even now verse 3 I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all peoples a heavy stone a burden in Jerusalem the issue of Jerusalem will be a burden for believers unbelievers Africans Asians Europeans wherever the Americas north and south Jerusalem is going to be an issue that will be a heavy stone for all the peoples of the earth in other words no nation will escape this vortex that's bringing everybody into the center of what this thing is about the distant nations I mean the 56 nations in Africa every single one of them will be I mean on a local level they will be grappling with the issues of Jerusalem every nation in South America will be grappling with the issues of their government saying yes or no terrorist bombers economy the oil resources everything is going to be wrapped up in this God said this I want to say it clear I have made Jerusalem thus says the Lord at the end of the age the heavy stone that every people group of the earth will run into this issue and have to answer it one way or the other but everybody will be troubled by it including the body of Christ we will have to stand we will have to risk our lives to stand as ambassadors of God a number of us will go to the death camps with them we will lose our lives beloved Jerusalem will be a heavy stone to all peoples there will be no neighborhood of the earth that will be immune from this war because whether it touches them with the with the uh downline effects of you know like when 9-1-1 happened the economy was shaken for a few moments people far away their economies were shaken it was a burden beloved 9-1-1 was a whole lot about a lot more about Israel than a lot of people understand not only about Israel but certainly about Israel when the when the when the stakes go higher the oil the economies just the the coming and going of neighborhoods of the earth will be affected by the downline impact the dominoes will go down every person I want you to understand this God said I am going to make issue Israel a heavy stone I personally will make it the issue that will burden every people group of the earth but in this great vortex the vortex is this power that draws everything into its center he says I will purify my church I will win the great harvest and I will save the nation of Israel and I will judge the wicked without ever violating my justice all over the issue of one city what this I've been written in Zechariah 12 every line is loaded now he goes on and gives another statement he goes and by the way those people who want to heave it away you know the president of Iran I want to drive them into the sea the many of the uh Islamic I mean not uh Islamic they are Islamic but not not all Islam was like I'm talking about terrorists militant terrorists we want to drive them to the sea here's what God says he goes there's about 10 really powerful I will statements and they're all different if you read it fast you think he's saying the same thing over and over no no every one of them is a book in itself these are all divine decrees from heaven I will make it a cup of drunkenness that's very different than I will make it a heavy stone now he's talking on this another this other mandate he says every nation or every group some of these terrorist groups that want to heave Jerusalem into the sea when they touch it they will be cut into pieces because they touch it it'll be like a rock it's a burden but a rock filled with laden with razor blades it will slice them into pieces when they want to move Israel to the sea they will find it will it will uh uh cut them into pieces it will be like laser razor blades touching them and every nation that touches Israel they find themselves lacerated at the end of it it's absolutely horrible God promised he would do this he says all that would heave it away surely they'll be cut to pieces even though all the nations of the earth are gathered together around it because some great uh powerful man will stand up and say wait wait God can't win we got everybody on our team God says I don't care get everybody on your team you touch Israel it will lacerate you it will cut you to pieces like picking up a heavy stone that's got razor blades all the way around it everywhere you touch it will lacerate you does it matter how big your armies are how many nations in unity it cut all of you I mean the Lord will say to them on the last day I gave every one of you I gave every one of you a due warning I gave every one of you due process you all had reason to know this was trouble if you did not listen to me but rather you got drunk in your fixation to destroy Israel the Nazi regime was lacerated into pieces every nation that's ever tried to heave them into the sea has been cut into pieces all through history but it's going to come to a crescendo verse nine in that day I'm just barely touching these these are glorious passages I mean terrible terrible glorious glorious terrible I mean I tremble when I read these but I go oh God there's a my spirit is alive with these truths when I read them I go this is our history this is our I mean this is our future ahead of us we're getting ready we're being watchful we're praying we're fasting we're engaged in the battle of Jerusalem we're going for this thing at the end of the age we're burning our bridges there's no escape hatch there's no second plan there's no no other uh escape hatch at all we're in it till the end and that's called being an overcomer it says in verse nine but in that day I will destroy all the nations I will destroy all of them there will not be one nation standing at the end of the war wow verse 10 then I'll pour my spirit out I'll pour the spirit of God out now the spirit's being poured out on on Israel right now I mean it's small measure but there's more people being saved in Israel than any time in history more people being saved right now I mean I mean there's thousands of them that are being saved Israel I'm talking about throughout the nations there are more Jews getting saved now than any time in history more than the book of acts right now pre-revival it's building right now I'm talking about on a global level there are more Jews saved than there were here in the early in the early church clearly and the outpouring hasn't come yet but because I mean it's a I mean the big obvious signs and wonders outpouring but it's happening right now chapter 13 verse 1 a fountain will be opened and God's going to cleanse them with power whoa that's exciting paragraph d let's just read it the verse Zechariah 13 8 in the land two-thirds of the Jews will be cut off and they will die they will be killed two-thirds will be killed and there's a debate in the commentaries because the word land and the word earth is exact same word it's used hundreds of times and a whole bunch of times I mean hundreds of times when it says this this uh Hebrew noun it's they translated earth and the other hundreds of times they translated land and so nobody knows for sure and my guess is it means in all the earth I'm not hoping that's what it means but that's what I believe it means because the angel told Daniel this will be the most severe time of any time in history it will surpass any other time in history and severity two-thirds of the Jews of Europe were exterminated by the Nazi regime two-thirds of all of Europe died Jews and this thing will be far more extreme than any other period in history far beyond the man the man leading the charge will be far more powerful than Adolf Hitler but it might be two-thirds of the but anyway it goes two-thirds is a serious amount but one-third will become born again they will not just be saved physically they will be saved and delivered physically but they will be saved they'll call upon name they'll be fully born again millions at the end of this process paragraph e half of the city of Jerusalem will be taken into captivity says in Zechariah 14 I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem it says it several times beloved that for chapter 14 verse 2 here in paragraph e is such a terrifying statement it didn't say the devil is gathering all the nations God said I will gather all the nations I'm going to bring them to Israel and I'm going to destroy them in Israel and I'm going to glorify my son in the sight of Israel in their own land God's bringing them they will come in power they will come in pomp and circumstance they will come in confidence but they will be slaughtered in the land and Jesus will be magnified in the eyes of all that remain in Israel as the delivering king the far greater Moses in their midst what Moses did was awesome with three million Jews in Egypt and the mightiest empire in history up to that time but what Jesus is going to do is far surpassing what Moses did paragraph f talks about many verses there's twice as many as I have there that when Jesus comes he's setting people free from prison camps again more than twice as many verses on that the condition of which Jesus returns many Jews are in prison and he sets he opens prison doors at his second coming literally he does it's one of the most emphasized features of the new testament in the bible we take all the bible and you take the top 10 issues that are emphasized in the bible about the Jesus second coming Jesus liberating Jews from prison camps is like the third or fourth most prominent of all the prophecies yet it's almost completely ignored when we talk about the second coming Jesus is coming to go away he's coming to take over and to liberate all the camps and to heal all the people in them as Jesus of Nazareth the anointed of God on the earth to set up his kingdom now the the the uh glorious and terrible part of this is not just that they're in prison camps the body of Christ is God the father's first line of defense for the nation of Israel in terms of the human sense it's the church prophesying healing the sick doing miracles and walking even into the jaws of death fearlessly being purified this is where history is going nobody can steer in a different direction the devil can't make it go different all the kings of the earth can't make it go different we are going into the greatest conflict of all human history and the greatest outpouring of power we've ever seen paragraph g then we're all but done i'll just give you just a minute on the last page or two the last page or two is just more for you to to read later just but i'll mention a point or two and then the church must act in sacrificial love to obey Jesus in standing with Israel and persecution one of the key mission of the church is to make Israel jealous to have Jesus one of our the key mandate of the end time church is to provoke Israel to jealousy to make them jealous to have Jesus Israel will jealously desire what gentile believers possess spiritually this will happen as we risk our lives to provide refuge for Jews in flight it will be illegal to provide refuge for them God will will supernaturally protect many gentile believers making provision and many gentile believers will go into the camps with the Jews like Corey Timboon did and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and uh Neimuller and those different guys that are famous through history and in this context of this great fire we will multiply the food and heal the sick and prophesy and angels will direct and open prison doors and the Jews in flight will go this we've never seen anything like this this is like our guys this is like Elijah and Moses and we're gonna say we're a part of what your guys did it's the tree of Abraham that we've been grafted into it is your guys we've just been grafted into it they're gonna say what do you mean aren't you Christians yes Jesus of Nazareth is the full answer to what your guys were hoping for they're gonna say no no no no we haven't been that wrong for 2 000 years yes yes he's the Jewish king that's who he is and we operate in his name beloved it's in that collision it's in that not that collision that con that conflict that the one new man the Jew and Gentile would be bonded together in a bond of love that will that will be nothing short of supernatural but it will also be in context to actually walking in love in this in this heaviness paragraph i mean row number three there's two new factors that increase the danger right now i mean two new factors in the last three four months beloved that that's why this works on our signs of the time uh course two new factors and and i want i'm putting a few terms in here that i'm assuming that a handful of you are completely unfamiliar with these terms there's two or three terms you get them you'll be able to understand your newspaper when you're reading it they're really they're quite simple two new factors that have happened on the world scene that Israel is really aware of i mean really aware of and these two factors are not just trouble for Israel these two factors are in place and these are in a string of events that is going to lead to a a complete uh uh conflict across the world of which only the antichrist himself will answer it with a false peace the stage is being set factor number one the sudden emergence of iran's terrorist president don't uh ask me to pronounce his name brother president or whatever you know whatever they call him over there they have some name like i don't know exactly what it is but i'll stay away from that but uh the terrorist he's a terrorist president he got elected in october out of nowhere wasn't on the horizon he wasn't like the you know the guy 10 years ago you know the most likely to succeed in iran he just suddenly got into power absolutely shocking to the world of course iran iran is persia from the ancient day it's daniel 10 the prince of persia is raising up again to strike israel and all that will stand with israel this is really serious because this president is developing a nuclear program aggressively i've read a number of different sources i've been uh you know to be honest i doubled and tripled my reading in the last because you know i'm gonna meet with the ambassador just in case i haven't talked to him you know i still ask brinstein i'll go get me everything on the internet possible you can find all this i gotta get educated between now and tomorrow you know i tell you don't do that pop quiz thing stay up all night because a forerunner needs to get prepared ahead of time well i was unprepared on some of this information and so i just talked to even a bunch of them over there and really uh got a lot of uh things clear of what the hour that we're living in and president bush is addressing these real straightforward in the news and paragraph b oh no no the second thing is the unexpected victory of hamas which is a political party it's a political party in the palestinian parliament right there in israel the it's a political party the hamas they're a terrorist party they're they're a rogue uh terrorist party and it's as shocking as the they are now in power this is these are like really dangerous man and they won a landslide election a week ago on january 25th so what is a week ago shock them they were not expecting nobody expected it came out of nowhere matter of fact they're criticizing the israeli government because their intelligence couldn't see it was coming this is like if it was in germany the nazis are now in power the hamas they are uh if you talk to them they would describe themselves as as religious zealots but they're uh because they will die for the cause they are terrorists everybody they know they're terrorists they've said over the years we want to exterminate israel and now they're in power how did this happen how did this iranian man get in power in october and the hamas get in power a week ago two new power bases are right now in the middle east and they're both public i mean they say it loud they don't care who hears it they publish it they're proud of it and their goal is to not remove israel from the land to exterminate them from the earth here's what paragraph b we'll just look at the iranian president in october 2005 a few months ago when he got elected a week or two after he got elected paragraph b he made a radical stand uh stand he took a stand in one of his first speeches in october after the election he proclaimed the annihilation of israel must happen we're talking about a 21st century president of one of the most powerful nations in the earth it's a mighty nation iran is here's what he said let's read this this will terrify you in the natural it'll excite you in the spirit you can kind of sort it out in your e-12 group okay he called for israel to be wiped off the map of the world he did this publicly he continued by proclaiming that with the help of allah of god almighty with the help of allah islam he said islam will experience a world without america or israel which is zionism he goes he went on to say he assured them that a world without america existing and without israel is feasible and possible even now in this generation and the islamic nations many of them were terrified and many of them of the extremists applauded fanatically that'll be just at a meeting many applauded the meeting but i'm talking about throughout the lands he said america it is possible to completely remove them if we bond together that's his cry not just israel america as well he's absolutely serious about this paragraph c what it's saying is they're on an aggressive program to finish i mean to develop a nuclear program and several different authorities different nations they're terrified by this in the political sense because they're expected to have the final stages of their nuclear program to where the where the nuclear weapons work by the end of 2006 russia is helping them aggressively russia is helping them right now president bush is very alarmed by this israel is really alarmed by this they said they will have nuclear weapons by 2006 by the end of let's say they're off a year okay it's 2007 and a minute later a nation that believes israel has no right to exist will have nuclear weapons in their hands russia is helping them right now the hamas the government right there in the land we'll look at that in a moment again i'm working to cover it real depth just barely touch it on the back of the page for they're right there in israel i mean in the gaza strip right there just a few miles from jerusalem you know just about a half an inch on the map or less i mean that far away they're right there in the land saying we want to exterminate israel and we're and they're working oh they're working with iran they're working together says hey we got territory now you can put some of your stuff in this is our geographic area the gaza strips ours nobody can invade it you can come and set up some of your operations and let's help each other paragraph d iran's president just recently has openly announced he will use the full degree of violence necessary to reach islam's highest goal of jihad holy war his highest goal is holy war against united states which is big satan and israel's small satan he said we will use the full degree of violence to engage in full jihad a holy war to completely eliminate these nations now obviously america's got a lot of weapons it's a big statement my point isn't that this statement is going to happen it's not going to happen my statement is there's going to be a lot of trouble because nations are going to move in these directions paragraph on number one under d think of the mass destruction let's fast forward let's not worry about 2006 and 7 you know some of these authorities say let's just say it's 10 more years i mean just put another minute later 10 years we'll be here in a minute either way it goes think about the political landscape what's happening in the middle east a couple of these nations get nuclear capabilities remember remember iran it's a prince it's a demon it's a powerful demon breathing on this man's mind it's like i think of like a dragon with hot fire breathing on his mind to inspire his spirit and evil it's not just a man with logic he's already drunk because he's touched jerusalem he's drunk right now there's no logic think about a couple of these nations getting together and it's not airplanes into the world trade center it's three or four cities have a nuclear weapon strike all in the same hour it's not four airplanes you know three made it one hit the ground it's not four airplanes hitting a target within an hour or two or three what if it's three or four nuclear warheads one hitting dc one hitting new york jerusalem london frankfurt what if it's three or four major cities all in one day just like the other like the 9-1-1 but at a far higher level the chaos to the planet again jerusalem this will be about jerusalem they will god will make jerusalem a heavy stone the economies in all the countries of the earth will be disrupted by this issue of jerusalem e israel fills the pressure right now you know they were talking about a lot you know last day or two but they have been for the last weeks but i mean everybody that i talked to in dc which is very few people i mean there's some millions there i talked to a couple of them but the buzz is what is going to happen and there's the pressure that israel feels to make a pre-emptive strike is just intense they have they right now if the un can't make sense with these guys israel has no other option in their natural thinking but a pre-emptive strike to send a missile to there before iran sends a missile to them now you'll remember in the 80s they did this with a man named saddam hussein they had a pre-emptive strike because they thought he was developing nuclear weapons and he was they blew up the stuff everybody got really mad at israel well 20 years later we go israel couldn't move that guy turned it out that guy turned out really mean back then we didn't know he was mean we were mad at you 20 years later imagine the gulf war with nuclear warheads in saddam hussein's hands iran's a year away maybe two maybe three you know what did they get delayed beloved that's a minute either way it goes it's a minute israel has done this they've done these pre-emptive strikes if israel does a pre-emptive strike and right now that's on the minds of many lots of debate about it lots of conflict they're saying the one camp if we don't do this they are going to annihilate us we won't have the morning after to strike them back and then the other camp even within israel says if you do do this the whole world will turn against us that we sent a nuclear we're the first nation well 1945 america did it first with the atomic bomb but we're the first nation in these days to to do this us israel no we can't israel says yes israel we can israel says no we can't and there's great turmoil and the heat is building i'm not talking about in 20 years i'm talking about right now the debates are going on right now what would the islamic nations what would they do if israel even the ones that are kind of like kind of settled down look they hate israel but they're coming you know we got other other things on our mind like our other our national economies we hate you but you know we're doing other things israel hit a pre-emptive strike it would so galvanize it would so unify the islamic nations and russia would be there in a heartbeat and and beloved there we are we are minutes away from this sort of thing happening this is not i mean what happened in october when this man became president and i ran and hamas a week ago got into power the world scene is different in terms of the dropping the match on the on on the on the dry wood it's it's set up i mean it was always there in spirit but i'm telling you the situation is right now ready to act on turn the page over paragraph g the second factor the hamas party i just laid out a few terms there there's two main parties you can read that on your own i don't want to go through that i just wanted to point it out to you the fatah and the hamas parties are the two parties in in and the palestinian authority right there in the land of israel the palestinians they got about a million 1.2 million palestinians over there on the in the gaza strip area and they got an authority structure over them and they got authority structure to the land one group is is is uh well they all hate israel but one group's far more conservative and secular and nationalistic another group is religious fanatics and uh uh zealous terrorists and they're the ones that are now in power for the first time as of a week ago they're in power and they're talking to iran they're buddies i mean that's a strange way to say it but they have a history of working together they're now in power and things are heating up beloved and we have come into the kingdom i'm gonna end with that let's