Lord, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for this time, Lord, that we can come together and worship you, Lord, for who you are. We thank you so much, Lord, for sustaining us this past week, Lord. And Holy Spirit, would you speak to us this morning as pastor delivers the word, Lord? Would you give us understanding where needed, bring clarity to our hearts and minds, Lord. We ask this in Your mighty name, Jesus we pray, Amen. Amen and Amen. Good morning and welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here. Those of you online, so glad that you are. Trust that you'll all be blessed that you did. Before we get started though, I want to give you a quick update on our ongoing Maui mission support. and let you know that I hope you know that we came alongside and are coming alongside Calvary Chapel Westside there in Lahaina and we were able to help with providing another truck for someone who desperately needed a truck for work. His truck burned in the fire. And we were able to provide a vehicle for a single mom who has an autistic daughter and desperately needed a car. And we were able to help with that this last week. Also, as I mentioned on Thursday night, please pray for wisdom for Pastor Steve Santos concerning an amazing opportunity that only the Lord could make happen for Calvary Chapel West Side. The Lord knows the details. Just please pray and also please pray for us because we're continuing to vet ministries in Israel who are actively providing immediate needs for both Jews and Arabs And as of right now, there are serious security concerns that are making the logistics of doing this significantly more complicated. So again, we covet your prayers, but God is able and there's nothing too hard or complicated for Him. So please pray to this end. So we have two services on Sunday morning, the first of which is the weekly Bible Prophecy Update. We've been doing this for a number of years. Second service, which will be live stream at 11 15 a.m. Hawaii time, is actually the sermon. It's a verse by verse study. We're currently in second John. Today's text will be verses four through six in chapter one, and there's only one chapter. in the letter, which someone called a postcard. Anyway, what we're going to do is answer the question of, am I going in the right direction? And we're going to do so by presenting a test. Actually, you're going to be tested today. You have to come second service and you have to join a second service. I prepared a test. I feel like I'm back in school, but it's a test from the text so as to discern whether or not I'm walking in the truth, in love and obedience. And that's going to answer this question of am I going in the right direction? Also, for those of you that are joining us by way of YouTube or Facebook, We would really encourage you to go directly to the website at JDFarag.org. And the reason for that is you will find there the uncensored and uninterrupted entirety of today's update, especially today's update. So the first part is only streamed on YouTube and Facebook and those platforms. But then we go directly to the website where it's contiguous. So you might want to go there now. All right. So today's update is one for which those with ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church are more likely to receive. And this because I will speak the truth in love and because of love, And this after spending time with the Lord in His Word, specifically in the aforementioned second letter of John. For the benefit of those who haven't been with us for our verse by verse study through second John, what we're finding is that it's all about the truth in love. Last week we tackled the first three verses of 2nd John chapter one, and I want you to listen to what John wrote by the Holy Spirit in verse three, 2nd John chapter one. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son will be with us in truth and love. I point this out because John, who's affectionately referred to as the apostle of love due to him writing about love more than any other New Testament author, could also be referred to as the apostle of truth as well. And this by virtue of the fact that he uses the word truth more than any other New Testament author. One has noted that John uses the word truth no less than 20 times in the Gospel of John, nine times in First John, five times in Second John, and five more times in Third John. Now this begs the question of why? And for that answer, we need look no further than the Scriptures, which are replete with passage after passage concerning the truth in love. And this for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that to speak truth without love Well, that makes one harsh. And conversely, to have love without speaking truth, well, that makes one dishonest. It's for this reason that truth is not truth without love, and neither is love love without truth. Thus the paramount importance of speaking the truth in love, perhaps more importantly because of love. Isn't it true that we will speak the truth to those whom we love? If we don't love them, why would we bother speaking truth to them? The wounds of a friend are faithful when they speak the hard truth to you because they love you. Contrasted in the Proverbs with the enemy who just multiplies kisses. In other words, only tells you what you want to hear, which is not the truth. But they don't want to tell you the truth. And they are no friend, by the way. In fact, they're your enemy. If you're really my friend and you really love me, you'll speak truth to me. If you don't love me or care about me, then you're not going to bother to speak the truth to me, because you love yourself more. So you want me to still like you, so you're just going to tell me what my ears are itching to hear. It is a friend who will speak the truth in love. The Apostle Paul echoes this in Ephesians 4 15 where he writes, speaking the truth in love, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him who is the head, that is Christ. So this speaking the truth in love and because of love would then stand to reason that it would comport with Bible passages and Bible prophecies concerning Jesus. Imagine that, the Bible being about Jesus. Not only being the spirit of truth, which is why we must worship Him in spirit and truth. But so too is Jesus, the spirit of prophecy. You know where I'm going with this, right? Can I read John 4 verses 23 and 24? Here's John, much earlier, younger in his life, inspired by the Holy Spirit to record and write and author the gospel. Verse 23, But the hour is coming, and now is, when true worshipers will worship the Father, and here it is, in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. Revelation 19 verses 9 and 10. By the way, same author, a lot older now. This is John writing, inspired by the Holy Spirit. When he receives the revelation there on the island of Patmos, he writes, Then the angel said to me, Write, Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb. Can't wait. And he added, These are the true words, true words of God. At this I fell at His feet to worship Him, but He said to me, Do not do it. I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to, listen, the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Are you still with me? I hope so because we have a problem. The problem is, we have a problem. And the problem we have is, when we attempt to speak the truth in love, More often than not, it's rejected. And in large part, it's because of the perfect storm of spiritual pride, cognitive dissonance, and demonic deception. May I just parenthetically say and humbly ask that you just hear my heart. please, because I just want to share my heart with you, if you'll kindly allow me to. I want to expound on this with this list of six reasons as to why the truth in love is rejected, with the seventh on the list being the only hope of the truth in love. being accepted. I'll go through these briefly if you'll again kindly just hear me out. Number one, any presentation of documentation contrary to one's long held beliefs is likely to serve as a reinforcement of a deep seated bias and fuel an already present cognitive dissonance. Number two, any effort to persist in speaking the truth in love, will usually be met with a policing of that which is said under the banner of spiritual pride, which fancies oneself as being the final arbiter of truth. Number three, any extensive research proving said truth presented in love won't matter. Because the fact of the matter is, it doesn't matter to the one who has already made up their mind. Number four, any continued defense, hang on to that word, in speaking the truth in love has the propensity to trap you in the fear of men as you find yourself having to defend yourself, trapping you by always having to answer to them. Because after all now they are the ones that you dance to the beat of their drum, because they put you on the defensive. posturing themselves as the final arbiter of truth, they'll decide. And now you have to defend yourself and you have to answer to them. That's called the fear of man, and that's the trap. Number five, any resolve, as sanctified as it may be, in your unwillingness to ever water down the truth or ever soften up the truth will oftentimes be met with a vile viciousness and vitriol. Number six, any attempt to appease and please man will in the end displease God. And conversely, a God pleaser will never be a man pleaser. And by the way, you will never please man. However, you can please God. Lastly, thankfully, number seven, any hope of anyone having ears to hear and eyes to see requires that the Holy Spirit do the work of changing their heart and mind. You're not going to change their mind. You're not going to change their heart. The Holy Spirit can do that. You can argue as much as you want. You could present as much documentation as you want. You can prove it beyond any doubt, not reasonable, any doubt. But in the end, it is only the Holy Spirit that leads us into all truth. The Holy Spirit does that. Well, this brings me to what is one of the best examples of this. And you'll forgive me, but it comes by way of an old movie from back in the 1950s. Pictured here is the first of a handful of screenshots from the original movie titled Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's from back in 1956. It should be noted that there was a remake of this movie bearing the same title with Donald Sutherland 22 years later in 1978, both of which are predictive programming films to prepare people for this demonic deception of the last days. The plots are both about aliens abducting humans, then duplicating and inhabiting their bodies. I want to draw your attention to a few excerpts from the transcript of the original 1956 film, which, by the way, you can watch in its entirety. Don't eat popcorn. It's a weird movie, and I won't ruin the ending. I'll try not to. But I'm sharing this with you for reasons that I hope you'll understand. shortly. In this scene, the main character, who has not been captured and inhabited by aliens, says of those who had, their bodies were now hosts harboring an alien form of life, a cosmic form which to survive must take over every human man. As he runs away from those trying to capture and abduct him, he runs into traffic and starts yelling, help me, please stop, stop. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen. More people are coming after me. They're not human. Listen to me. We're in danger. The people he tries so desperately to warn about the danger they're in respond by saying, come on, get out of here. Go on, get off the street. Get out. Come on. What's the matter with you? He then manages to get a truck to stop. So he climbs up to the cab trying to warn the truck driver who responds by yelling, come on, you're drunk. Hmm. These men are drunk. You're drunk. Get out of here. Get out of the street. In this scene, close to the end of the film, he's in a psychiatric ward and he says, he tries to explain it. And he realizes and says, you don't believe a word of this, do you? Sure, it's fantastic, but it happened. Don't just sit there measuring me for a straitjacket. Do something. Get on the phone. Call for help. And when he realizes that they think he's crazy, he then puts his head down in his hands and says, Oh, what's the use? Here's what's interesting. In this earlier scene, which takes place back when he's running into the middle of traffic to warn people, none of whom would believe him. Those chasing him, who, by the way, could have caught him and abducted him, but stopped. Which is interesting. Why they stopped? They could have got him, but they let him go. Here's why. Just let him go. They'll never believe him. Well, no, it's the truth. And he wants to warn people. Obviously he cares about these people who have not yet been abducted and inhabited by these alien demonic forces. How's this for a movie review? You're looking at me going, I thought I came for a prophecy update, not a movie review. You actually got both. No extra charge, two for one. Bonus. Thank you. Can you connect the dots with me please? You've got a guy here. This is so crazy. This is so outlandish. It's so unbelievable, but it's the truth. And he wants to warn people because it's coming. It's already here. And he wants to warn them because he cares about them and nobody will believe him. And they know nobody will believe him, which is why they let him go. No, they're going to think he's crazy. Come on, who's going to believe him? Just let him go. They're not going to. Come on, think about it. Aliens are going to abduct humans and inhabit their bodies and take over the human race so they're no longer human. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, but what if it's the truth? Here's where I'm going with this. In the spirit of truth, and spirit of prophecy, I have to speak the truth in love. And I do so with the understanding that the onus of you believing is not on me, as I'm broadcasting the seed of God's prophetic Word of truth. The onus is not on me, it's on you, upon the soil of one's heart, being both supple and fertile for the seed of God's Word of truth to germinate, sprout and bear fruit. Think parable of the sower as we affectionately refer to it that Jesus taught. The farmer broadcast the seed upon which soil the seed falls is not on the farmer broadcasting the seed, it's on the soil. And there's only one soil that is supple and fertile when the seed is broadcast on it and to it that it's able to take root, germinate, sprout and bear fruit. I only say that because of what follows. Again, as I mentioned at the beginning, I hope it doesn't come off wrong. Again, I hope you know my heart. The Lord knows my heart when I say this. This is not for those that do not have ears to hear. If you have itching ears to hear only that which you want to hear, then I say this in love, you went to the wrong church today. You're tuning into the wrong live stream today. The good news for those who have itching ears to hear only what they want to hear. The good news is you've got a, I mean plethora, a smorgasbord of churches that are at the ready to accommodate and scratch your itching ears. So what follows is the truth in love as a warning of not only what's going to happen, but what's already now beginning to happen. So at this time, we'll go ahead and end the live stream on YouTube and Facebook. redirect you to the website if you're not already there. In the interest of time, for the sake of brevity, I'll provide you with just three, all of which our amazing team has provided links to the original sources of for you to do your own research and also for you to be like the Bereans were and search the Scriptures to see if what I am speaking is the truth. Don't take my word for it. Number one, all the nations on earth have been, are now, and will continue to be deceived by this pharmaceutical final solution. Revelation 18.23, again a prophecy about the fall of Babylon. John is told to write, the light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. for your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery, pharmakia, pharmaceutical, pharmacy, all the nations were deceived. Every nation on earth was deceived by this pharmaceutical. That's the truth. And it's happening now. And I'm running into the middle of the street and I'm screaming, stop, listen to me, listen to me. It's happening. Sadly, but perhaps not surprisingly, the nation of Israel has been at the top of the list of nations vis a vis one Benjamin Netanyahu. And here's why. Satan, starting with Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis, has failed in all of his attempts to thwart Christ's coming, both first in the Old Testament and second in the New Testament. Let me explain. See, Satan is not all knowing, omniscient. He's limited in his knowledge. So he doesn't know all. He's not all knowing. So when the curse is pronounced, and the proto evangelical announced, Genesis 3 15, that there would be enmity put between the seed of the woman, that's the virgin birth, because the woman does not have the seed, the man does. She has the egg the seed of the woman and the seed of Satan, be it enmity. And the seed from the woman is going, you're going to bruise his heel, crucifixion, but he going to crush your head, second coming. That's the proto evangelical. By the way, the very first prophecy in the Bible. Genesis 3 15, Bible prophecy. Now, Satan right out of the chute has a problem because he knows that this seed, the lineage is going to come from Eve. Is it going to be Abel? Well, I'm going to possess Cain to murder Abel. It wasn't Abel, it was Seth. Failed attempt. Fast forward. I won't give you the whole rundown. We'll be here till two. So I won't do that to you. Brief synopsis. Okay. Fast forward to Egypt. Every Hebrew boy is cast into the Nile to their certain death, save one, Moses, a type, a picture of Jesus as the deliverer. who would deliver the Israelites out of Egypt. Satan demonically possessed Pharaoh to try and kill every single male child to exterminate the seed of the woman. Failed again. Fast forward to the Book of Esther. I'm missing a couple in here. But anyway, This is the Reader's Digest version. Only the older people know what that means. So the Book of Esther, fascinating book, by the way. You know the account, right? Esther, Mordecai, Haman, demonically possessed, gets the king to issue an irreversible edict to exterminate, eliminate, terminate all of the Jews. Why? Because if Satan could have, would never have. But if he could have exterminated the Jews, he could have thwarted the first coming of Jesus the Christ. Why? Because shocking, I know, Jesus is a Jew. Okay, so he fails. You know how that went down. Let's go to, Oh, there's so many more. Let's go to the New Testament. Herod. Let's go from Haman to Herod. Don't try to figure out which one. There were so many of them. You'll go insane trying to figure out which Herod it was. But this is a Herod. He learns that a king was born, a threat to him, when the wise men, as they're affectionately referred to, tell him that they came from the east following the star, by the way. And he, with this ruse, says, well, let me know where he is so that I may come and worship him. Yeah, right. You want to kill him. So what does he do? It's so graphic. It's recorded in our Bibles for us. He has all of the Jewish boys butchered, two years of age and younger, which would have been about the age of the birth of the Messiah. Satan failed again. Let's fast forward to the last century. Hitler They all start with H. I'm not saying anything. Haman, Herod, Hitler, demon possessed to exterminate, eliminate the Jews. Why? Because he failed in thwarting the first coming of Jesus. But he now is going to try and will try again. His last failed attempt will be during the seven year tribulation. He will not succeed. by way of the Antichrist, he will try to exterminate the Jews for the last time during the seven year tribulation. Why is he so hell bent quite literally on exterminating the Jews? Because if he could succeed, he would never succeed. But if he could succeed, he could thwart the second coming of Jesus Christ, not the rapture. Why the second coming? Because the Jews, if they're here, and they will be, have to call upon the one whom they pierced. And Satan knows the Bible pretty well, way better than you and I will ever know it. So he tries to exterminate them because if there's no Jews here, then Jesus cannot come back. He couldn't have come the first time if he would have succeeded. He cannot come back the second time if he were to succeed, which He never will. So why did I go into all of that? Because we're seeing it now. Again, picture your pastor. I don't think this is a hard stretch. Just picture your pastor running into the middle of traffic, screaming. It's happening. Jesus is coming. The rapture is going to happen. Get out of here. You're drunk. Now, It's important, please don't miss this, because these are demonic entities that use flesh and blood humans, deceiving them into believing that his final plan will succeed. Satan, the master deceiver, has deceived human beings, flesh and blood, and they actually believe in His plan for man that it will succeed. What is His plan? His plan is to ultimately destroy man while promising selected humans, for whom He has their soul, who by His lie have believed and are deceived that they can have eternal life, live forever through Him via transhumanism. Same lie, new wrapping paper. Adam, Eve, God knows that in the day that you eat, Your eyes will be open and you will be like God and live forever. He's just had to update the software on the lie from the garden. Same lie. It's just been updated. You can live forever. See, He's the master counterfeiter too. He's not just the master deceiver. He's the master counterfeiter. Satan creates nothing. He counterfeits everything. Let me preface this. I take no delight in referencing this again as I have prior. I do so not because I delight in it, but because it's the truth. And I'll be as loving as I can. But this is damning. It's a damning interview of Benjamin Netanyahu by one Jordan Peterson, which, by the way, was self censored by Peterson and edited out for what I would hope would be deemed obvious reasons. Because in it, Netanyahu not only admits this, but actually boasts about this deal with the devil in entering into an agreement with Pfizer and providing Pfizer with Israel's DNA database for these deadly injections. Just this last Tuesday, The Defender, which is a children's health defense publication, posted a heartbreaking article about how an eight-year-old Israeli boy, who they dubbed the poster child for COVID vaccines, died suddenly of a cardiac arrest. I'll only quote the subheading because this precious little boy reminds me so much of my second born son, Levi, when he was that age. Quoting 8-year-old Yonatan Moshe Ehrlichman, who was featured in a 2020 Israeli commercial promoting COVID-19 vaccinations for children, died last month of sudden cardiac arrest. Israel, a lab for Pfizer, showed a significant myocarditis safety signal soon after introducing the shots. Here's the truth in love. Donald Trump, by his own admission, in his own words, stated on Fox News that he is the quote father of the vaccine. The truth is that Donald Trump is a deceiver. We don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but demonic entities. And God has given us the ability to discern the spirits. It's with the spiritual discernment that I would just ask you to consider just one of no less than 13 quotes from Trump. Quote, this was on Marie Bartomero's program. I'm probably butchering her last name on Fox News. April 29, 2001, quoting Donald Trump, quote, I guess in a certain way, I'm the father of the vaccine because I was the one that pushed it. To get it done in less than nine months was a miracle." Close quote. This brings me to the third one that I want to spend the remainder of our time on together today, which is that of the recent developments in Israel after the horrific Hamas attack against Israel. In the spirit of truth, speaking the truth in love, I would be grossly remiss were I not to say that this involves Trump and Netanyahu as a duo. And that's the truth. Here's how I get there. the end game is a two state solution slash final solution. This is not peace with Israel. This is for the destruction of Israel. But it's packaged as the two state solution with Jews. And we talked about this at ad infinitum last week, so called Palestinians, who are Arabs, living side by side in key words, peace and security. Here's the truth, in love. This is a demonic deception. This is a powerful delusion for which we have numerous last days prophecies recorded for us in our Bible, starting with First Thessalonians 5, 3. For when they say, while they're saying two specific words, peace and security, some of your translations render it safety, asphalia in the Greek, same word translated security, safety. while they're saying those two specific words, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, greater intensity and frequency, and they shall not escape. Second Thessalonians 2 chapter 2 verses 9 through 12. This is a chapter we've spent a lot of time in. Beginning in verse nine, the coming of a lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refuse to, watch this, love the truth. Love the truth in love. They rejected it. They refused it. They refused to love the truth and so be saved. And for this reason, verse 11, God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie. and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth, truth, but have delighted in wickedness. Well, now wait a minute. That doesn't seem fair. No, no, no, it is. They've already made up their mind. They've already sealed their faith. They've already hardened their heart. God's just saying, okay, I'm not going to violate your will. I've given you free will. You've already made your choice. You've chosen the lie and not the truth. Who's the truth? Jesus is the truth. Jesus saves. You've rejected Jesus and are not going to be saved. You're going to perish because you believe the lie. So you've already made up your mind. I'm just going to give you over to that which you've already decided. I'm not going to fight you on it. The Spirit of God is not going to strive with man forever. Your mind's made up. Fine. Daniel 9 27, very detailed prophecy again, one that we've covered in depth. He, speaking of the Antichrist, will confirm, it could be in the Hebrew, my same, same word in my native tongue of Arabic, make stronger, enforced, spectacular, greater, confirm, enforce a covenant with many. In other words, it's already there. It just needs to be enforced. It's already on the table. With many for one seven, that's the seven years. in the middle of the seven, three and a half year mark. He will put an end to sacrifice and offering, and at the temple, which means the temple has to be rebuilt at the midpoint of the seven year tribulation, we'll come to that. And by the way, Second Thessalonians two that we just read, it fills in some blanks because the Apostle Paul in that prophecy, inspired by the Holy Spirit, says that the Antichrist will set himself up in the temple of God declaring that He is God and demanding to be worshiped as God in the temple of God. So at the midpoint, the 3.5 year mark, He will set up an abomination that causes desolation. Matthew 24, Jesus refers to this specific prophecy of Daniel, as Daniel wrote concerning the abomination that causes desolation. That's when He will defile the temple. There's speculation on exactly how he will do it, but it will be at the midpoint when the Jewish people, God's people will realize this is not our Messiah. Our Messiah would never do this. And then they'll realize, their eyes will be opened, the blinders no longer there, and they'll realize this is not our Christ. and they will flee to the place prepared for them, both in Matthew and Revelation is described and prophesied. They will flee to the place prepared for them, where for the last 3.5 years of the seven year tribulation, God will protect them from the Antichrist who's tried to exterminate them like the many times before. Many believe, present company included, that that place is modern day, in modern day Jordan, a place called Petra. So He causes this desolation by setting up this abomination until the end that is decreed is poured out on Him. Daniel 8, nobody really talks about this one. To me, it is actually, I don't want to compare. It's not a fair comparison. But with Daniel 9, 27, you almost have to have Daniel 8, 24 and 25. because in it we're told that the Antichrist, I want you to listen very carefully, will destroy wonderfully. Does that sound like an oxymoron? Destroy wonderfully? Wait, which is it? Is it going to be wonderful or is he going to destroy? No, both. Understand in the original language, this word wonderfully carries with it the idea of extraordinary annihilation. Sound familiar? He's going to destroy with an extraordinary, he's going to annihilate And hang on to this word, prosper. And through his policy, that sounds like a political figure, his peace policy. And through his policy also he shall cause deceit to, here's that word again, hang on to it, prosper in his hand. And he shall magnify himself in his heart and by peace, not war. Peace shall destroy many. Peace and prosperity. Hmm. Can you just hang on to those for a minute? We'll come back to it. Zechariah 12 verses one through three. By the way, this is in real time right now at breakneck speed. This prophecy here is happening now. Again, do I need to run out in the middle of traffic again and scream? Listen to me. Listen to me. The burden of the Word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone, boundary stone, burdensome stone for all peoples and all who would heave it away, give it away, divide it away, cut it away. will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. I ask you, is the world today obsessed with and intoxicated by Jerusalem? Yes, it is. exactly as God said it would be. What's the, what's the problem? Well, we need to kind of divide it up so that everybody gets their fair share. So we got, we got to, we got to give, you know, a divided par. We're going to cut up the cake, the pie. We're going to give a piece to the Palestinians, so called. We're going to give a piece to the Jews. Well, the Muslims, come on in, you guys, come on in, because we all worship the same God after all. Well, Joel 3.2, very interesting. I will gather all nations, all nations, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My inheritance, My people Israel. Why? For they scattered My people among the nations and divided up My land. You're cutting it up. I have the title deed to that land, and I gave it to the Jew, not you. You can't do that. No, but they're doing it. You're going to cut it up. I'm going to cut you up. How about that? I know that's not very loving. It's the truth though. This dividing up God's land specific to Jerusalem was set in motion back in the year 2020. What a year 2020. and by extension also set in motion other intersecting Bible prophecies of profound significance. You know what I'm speaking of, right? I'm speaking of what's been dubbed the deal of the century by one Donald Trump back in January of 2020. And curiously, notice the title of this plan, this deal. Peace to prosperity. Come on. That's Daniel 8. It sets the table for the dividing of Jerusalem, Zechariah 12, 1 through 3, in concert with the confirming of a seven year covenant and the rebuilding of the Jewish temple, Daniel 9, 27. So you got Daniel 8, 24, 25, Zechariah 12, 1 through 3, and Daniel 9, 27, just to mention a few. Oh, come on, Pastor. I heard somebody say this does not divide Jerusalem. Okay. Okay. May I just humbly speak the truth in love by quoting verbatim, page 38 under section 21. The heading is, and I'm quoting verbatim, end of claims, end of conflict. Wait, end of claims. Wait, so the Jews have to end their claims on Jerusalem if they want to end the conflict. Exactly. No, but Jerusalem belongs to the Jew. they have a legitimate claim to Jerusalem. God chose Jerusalem to put His name on. We talked about that a couple, three weeks ago. So now we've got to bring that to an end and no longer, because we've got to make everybody happy here. Because see, basically this is written in such an insidious way so as to imply that Israel must comply with the agreement and end all their claims in order to end the conflict. And this is wrong on every level. Fast forward to September 2020. and Trump's Abraham Accords Peace Agreement. A couple of quotes again verbatim from page one, quoting, determined to ensure lasting peace, stability, security, and prosperity for both their states and to develop and enhance their dynamic and innovative economies. recognizing that, still quoting, the Arab and Jewish peoples are descendants of a common ancestor, Abraham, and inspired in that spirit. to foster in the Middle East a reality in which Muslims, Jews, Christians, and peoples of all faiths, denominations, beliefs, and nationalities live in and are committed to a spirit of coexistence, mutual understanding, and mutual respect. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and there is no way to the Father except through Me. Not Muhammad. There is no other God. We don't coexist. Jehovah and Allah are not synonymous. Allah is a false god, Islam a false religion, and Muhammad a false prophet. There is only one true God. the God of Israel. But this is exactly what we're told in the Book of Revelation will happen during the seven year tribulation, right? There will be a one world religion. And it's happening. I'm back in the street again. Can we just, can we get me out of the middle of traffic, please? Here's a quote from page two under paragraph four titled, and I'm quoting verbatim, Peace and Stability. The party shall attach profound importance to mutual understanding, cooperation and coordination between them in the spheres of peace and stability, peace and security. Wow, Lord, You said when they're saying these words that sudden destruction is going to come upon them, not us, and they, not us, will not escape. cool. Because there's a distinction between they and we. They will not escape, but we who are alive and remain will escape. The rapture has been referred to as the great escape. I love it. Well, I don't love it. I'm getting more militant as I get older. When someone says, you pre-trib rapture people, you just want to escape. I'm like, you don't? Now to the question of how all of this applies to the recent developments in Israel after the horrific Hamas attack against Israel. I know I run the risk of an oversimplification, but just let me say this way that this is the textbook way to obtain peace. What do you mean? you want to obtain peace, start a preplanned war. Let me say the same thing in a different way. We want peace. Well, how are we going to get peace? Let's start a war. They'll be crying for peace, and the man of peace, as he's called. I'm going to leave that one right there. This is why what's happening is happening. And as Bible prophecy tells us, so too is this why it's going in the direction it's going. It's happening now. Let me borrow a football metaphor. The field is Israel, the end zone is Jerusalem, and the goalposts in the end zone is the Temple Mount. So it's just a matter of time before the opponent reaches the end zone. with their sole goal of a false peace via the false Christ. When, not if, that happens, and it's now about to happen, the seven-year tribulation will commence with the seven-year peace agreement prophesied in Daniel 9, 27. Here's the good news. The rapture of the church has to happen before the Antichrist is revealed and the seven-year tribulation begins. Then, when, not if, when this happens, and it's now about to happen, the third temple will be rebuilt. They're already ready, already ready, at the ready, and it will be ready for the midpoint. Then, when, not if, when that happens, and that will happen at the three and a half year mark, the Antichrist will commit the abomination causing desolation, as we just read. One last comment. We'll bring it in for a close. Please hear my heart again. I will never play it safe. I will never play it safe. And I'm coming to the place in this privileged call that God has on my life. I will preach every time I'm privileged to like it's the last time I ever will. And I am telling you that it is happening now. Oh, you're taking a risk. You're going to be called a date setter. Stand in line, pick a number. Don't pick a date though, pick a number. Lord knows my heart. I'm riding, I'm in the middle of the streets. Last time, and I'm out of the traffic. Okay. I'm in the middle of the streets. It's happening now. Jesus is coming. The rapture is going to happen now. No, this guy over here, nobody's going to believe him. Come on. Get out of the middle of the road, you crazy drunk. No, it's happening. It's really happening. It's happening. Please listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Now, I heard this other guy say, you know, we might have another 50 years. 50 years? What? Maybe I could just say this, and maybe this is just better said. Anytime anyone says anything that lends itself to yours and my Master delaying His coming. They're wrong. Matthew 24. No, we got time. No hurry. They're wrong. They're wrong. What makes you so sure it's now? That'll be part two. There's no way. I mean, that's a 58 week series on just that one alone. I will never play it safe because all they're trying to do is cover themselves. Oh, that's all they're doing. It's self preservation. They're trying to play it safe because, see, when a guy like me, as crazy as I am, and I am crazy for Christ, just so you know. a guy like me, as crazy as I am, I would rather stand up here again, as is my privilege to every week and say to you, it's going to happen now, not 10, 50 years from now. I would rather stand up here and tell you that because I know I'm being true to the Word of God. That's the truth in love. See, I don't want anyone to ever say to me, to say nothing of Jesus Himself saying to me, why didn't you say something? Oh, you played it safe. You played it safe. No, man, this guy, he's, I think I believe him as crazy as he is. He's banging on my window and crawling up on my cab, on my truck. And I think he's He's right. I believe Him. And there's going to be a lot of those truck drivers in heaven, because someone dared with a sanctified strength and a holy boldness to speak the truth in love. Here's the bottom line. All that I shared with you from Bible prophecy today is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth in love. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life. That's the good news of salvation in the person of Jesus Christ. That's the gospel, the gospel of Jesus Christ. The ABCs of salvation is just a tool to share the gospel. Should the Lord ever grant you the grace and the profound privilege again to share Jesus with somebody? And if there was ever a time with the urgency of the hour in which we're living to get Jesus to people and people to Jesus, that time is now, now. The A is for admit or acknowledge. Because why would you need a Savior if you don't acknowledge that you're a sinner? What's the point? Romans 3 10 says there is no one righteous, not even one. And Romans 3 23 tells us why. It's because all have sinned, all, and fall short of the glory of God. We were all born sinners, which is why we must be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven. Romans 6 23 sort of packages the bad news first with the good news. What's the bad news? Well, there's a cost. The wages of sin is death. It's the death penalty. That's the bad news. Here's the good news. The gift of God, good news, is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. We've all sinned. We were all born sinners, but Jesus was born to die so that we could be born again to live. That's the A. Here's the B, very central. Believe in your heart, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, which we're going to see next. Believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord. Romans 10, 9 and 10 says, if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved. Again, John 3, 16, we know it backwards and forwards, right? For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever would go through a 12 week Bible study, fill out an application, make sure they qualify and are worthy enough. No, believe. Believe, and to see again out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, calling upon the Lord, or confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. Romans 10, 13 says, all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. Very simple, childlike simple. Well, today's But God Testimony is actually a testimony that I was given permission to share from Dee Mangan, one of our amazing transcribers who I had quoted last week. But first I have to share with you an email that I received that really started this whole thing. It's from Don Gerald, and it was in response to my mentioning of Matt and Dee. Here's what she wrote. Hi Pastor JD. Greetings from Massachusetts. I heard you talk about Dee and Matt Manning today. I am so blown away that you had mentioned them because I had shared the gospel with Dee when we were working together at Barnes and Noble back in the early 2000s. Oh, it gets better. This is so cool. She and Matt started coming to our home fellowship where we would watch VHS video teachings from Times Square Church. We miss them tremendously when they left for Key West, then to Hawaii, as Matt was in the Coast Guard. I know she was very involved with Operation Christmas Child, but to hear that she transcribes your messages, which are part of a worldwide ministry, just amazes me. If I hadn't been obedient, listen to what she says, if I hadn't been obedient the day we met, who knows what would have happened. God is so amazing. My husband and I love your teaching. We also love your passion and sense of humor. I love you too. And then she ends by saying how apropos, thank you for sharing the truth through the Word. May God bless you richly, Don Gerald. Well, anyway, I get this email. I'm forwarding it. Dee, here's her response. Aloha JD. That is so sweet that Dawn wrote that. Thank you for passing that on. She and her husband Mark are amazing people. The way God saved me and used Dawn was so cool. I can't count the O's. Here's a quick synopsis of my testimony of God saving me and how He used Don to God be the glory. He saved even someone like me who was listening to demonic voices, thinking it was my conscience speaking. Thank you again for your faithfulness to speak the truth. They did not know that I was going to be talking about this today. The truth of God each week. Much love in Christ. D. Here's your testimony. As I look back, I can see the many ways the Holy Spirit was working in my life to draw me to Jesus Christ. For the sake of time, I'll fast forward to the year 2000. I was living in Massachusetts, just graduated from college and had been pondering the question, what's going to happen to me after I die? This question troubled me greatly. One day out of desperation, I sincerely asked something like the following out loud, God, if you're real and you can hear me, could you reveal yourself to me and let me know who you are? Within a day or two, I was with some of my roommates grocery shopping. While in the frozen food aisle, a young lady walked up to me and invited me to a Bible study being held at a local coffee shop. She gave me her information and left. I was stunned because she only came up to me and not my friends. When I got home, I talked to my roommates about this. They all warned me not to go. It's probably a cult, they said. So I didn't go. But I held on to her info and continued thinking about going. a few weeks went by, and finally I purposed to my heart that I was going to go to the Bible study. When I went to retrieve the paper with the young lady's info, I couldn't find it anywhere. I was devastated. Out of desperation, I once again spoke out loud to God. God, I know I blew the chance You gave me. Please send someone else to me, and I promise I won't mess up this time. sometime had passed, one to two months. During that time, I was dabbling here and there, reading spiritual books. I managed to get my hands on a Bible. I read some of Romans, and things were literally jumping off the page. And it really made sense. I was so freaked out, I shut the Bible. In the meantime, I started a part time job at Barnes and Nobles, One morning I was putting my till in the register and getting ready for the store to open that day. I saw another employee coming with her till and placing it in the register on the opposite end of the checkout counter. I later found out her name was Dawn. A voice spoke to me and clearly told me not to speak to that woman because she was evil. I thought this was my conscience talking to me. So I purposed to my heart that I was going to stay away from her. Well, This is where things get weird. My brain blanks out. I remember agreeing with the voice that I would not go near that evil lady. But what seemed like a second later, I found myself standing by Dawn's register, speaking with her and asking her all kinds of questions about God and the Bible. I don't know how I got to her register. I don't remember walking over there. I don't remember how we got talking. And the funny thing is, Dawn doesn't remember either. So all I can say is God did something supernatural. After talking to Dawn, I knew without a doubt that the God of the Bible is the only God. Well, it turned out that Dawn and her husband were in a Christian band, and they had worship and Bible study at their house every Friday night. I started attending, was born again, and committed my life to Jesus Christ in their living room. Their small circle of believers discipled me until I moved out of the area three years later. Only God can do that. Come on up. Come on up. Why don't you go ahead and stand. We'll close in prayer and song. Once again, I appreciate your patience. Thank You, Lord. Lord, thank You that You are the truth Thank You that You are love. Not have love, but You are love and You are the truth. Lord, thank You that we have the truth to anchor ourselves to and test everything by. Lord, thank You for that, that foundation of truth. from which to build upon and to test the spirits. Lord, You've spoken the truth to us in advance about what's going to happen at the time of the end, and it's happening now. So we know this is the truth, and we know Your return draws ever so nigh. So Lord, for anyone who might be here in this church or watching online, that has never called upon You. I pray, O God, that the Holy Spirit would so deeply move them and lead them to You, the truth, Jesus, that today would be the day of their salvation. And for those of us that are saved and have been walking with You for some of us many years, Lord, we are so weary and we want to go home, because this world is not our home. We've long overstated our welcome in this world, which we were never welcomed in to begin with. So Lord, please, Jesus, will You come and come quickly, we pray, Maranatha, in Jesus' name, Amen.