Prophecy Focus Global Update. And we're going to go right into the first concept, which is about Israel strikes Iran. Now, folks, we talked a little bit about this, I think, Sunday morning or night, I can't remember which. And here's the deal. Israel did a massive attack on Iran. And they took out several of their key leaders, specifically of of Hamas and Hezbollah, they've been taking out their leadership. Iran finally said, all right, you came on strong with us, we're gonna retaliate. So then Iran puts out some 210 ballistic missiles towards Israel, and about 180 of them got through into Israel's face, and then through the numerous different, if you will, anti-ballistic type weaponry that Israel has, much of it supplied by the United States by the way, so we're doing something right to help Israel, took down those missiles without casualties. So the bottom line is Israel then says, okay, even though you didn't have any casualties, you didn't kill our folks, you can't be shooting 180 rockets into our territory or missiles into our territory. So now we gotta come after you. Well, we've been waiting for some time to see what was going to take place, and nothing has been happening. Well, something finally happened. You know the story if you've been watching it. Israel brings 140 IAF, Israel Air Force planes, into Iran. Now this was the thing, and I forget which, again, which group it was I was talking to here. but my mind has always been programmed to think I ran as a massive superpower that could, I mean, just cause massive destruction. This has been in the news for, I talked to one person, which I won't say, but one person, and he's like, I've been hearing this since I was in grade school, and so have I. I mean, the fear, they've been doing a great job of brainwashing us. Israel flies into Iran's airspace and takes out all of their, if you will, systems that are supposed to detect what was coming in. Out of 140 Air Force planes from Israel, do you know how many were shot down? Zero. Zero. massive damage that was inflicted upon Iran. Of course, they're denying everything. It's like, no, you know, they couldn't, they didn't hit anything. They didn't damage anything. Oh yes, they did. Now Israel, now think about this from the prophetic scenario of Ezekiel 38 and 39. Does Iran play a major part in the prophetic future? Ezekiel 38, now the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, Ezekiel, oh, look at that, Ezekiel 38, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and prophesy against them, and say, thus says the Lord God, behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal. Now, don't lose heart, we're gonna tell you exactly what those countries were and now are. So stay tuned, even though it doesn't make any sense yet. Verse four, I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and lead you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet. Gomer and all its troops, the house of Tegarmah from the far north and all its troops, many people are with you." When you go through those countries and you look at the maps as they existed back during the time when Ezekiel was written, what are we talking about? And we have several slides we're going to show you to document this. We're looking at Russia from the north being the leader of the anti-Israeli nations, the anti-Israeli coalition that is going to come up against Israel. When you look at the green, the ones that are in green are ones that were just mentioned in the text. We're talking about what was Asia Minor is now modern day Turkey. We're talking about Iran. We're talking about Sudan. We're talking about Libya and other places. When you look at current things that are taking place and treaties that are on the table, Lebanon, of course, how's Lebanon fitting into this right now? I mean, Hezbollah is where? Lebanon. Are they getting the fire pounded out of them? The United Arab Emirates, kind of a non-entity right now, but they were part of what? The Abraham Accords issue. Saudi Arabia, Egypt. All of these players are part of the prophetic scenario. All right, so here's the simplicity of what everything stands for. Gog is the leader. Now, based on who you listen to and which scholar you want to go with, Rosh is either the chief individual that's going to be over this coalition, or there's other prophecy teachers that believe Rosh is Russia. In your Bibles, it talks about the chief, and that's actually what the word means, but some put Russia there. The majority of scholars believe that Magog is actually Russia, all right, or the subsidiaries immediately to the south of Russia in that area. All right, what about Meshach, Tubal, Gomer, and Tagarmah? We read those names. That is all part of modern day Turkey. Ever hear about Turkey in the news? How about Tayyip Erdogan? Hear that name? the head of that coalition, if you will, in Turkey. Things are not going well with him, by the way, even though he's been a major player against Israel. Libya is still Libya. All right. Now, here's where we get into the countries that you're familiar with. When we're talking about Persia, we're talking about Afghanistan. Have they been in the news lately? Think about the debacle issue. Pakistan. What's the next one? Iran. Is Iran in the news? Or are they ever in the news? Big time. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, all part of what was ancient Persia. Then we talk about Ethiopia, which today includes Somalia, Sudan, and modern day Ethiopia. So when we're looking at what's taking place, when we look at this and we go back to our story, when we're looking at Israel striking Iran. A couple of things to think about from a prophetic standpoint. Can Israel wipe Iran off the face of the earth now? No. You say, well why not? Ezekiel 38 is why not. Can Iran or Hezbollah or Hamas or the Houthis or anyone else and any other terrorist group, can they wipe Israel off the face of the earth? Yeah, they're gonna try. Can they do it? Uh-uh. Have they tried in the past? 1948, War of Independence, they tried and lost. 1967, Six-Day War, they tried and lost. 1973, the Yom Kippur War, they tried and lost. October 7th, 2023, they tried and lost. Hamas under Gaza, Houthis under Yemen, Hezbollah under Lebanon and parts of Syria, Iran, the big head of all the terrorist group. They are trying and they are losing. Now, can Israel be damaged? Absolutely. 1967 they were damaged 1973 they were damaged 1948 they were damaged 2023 horribly damaged And they're gonna keep trying but God said You may inflict some damage and God may allow Israel to suffer some more but the bottom line is When Messiah comes back and we just talked about it The tribulation's coming and Israel is going to suffer like they've never suffered before. Catch that. People are talking about God is going to protect and there's truth but there's also a horrible false doctrine that's permeating in Christian churches right now and from even prophecy teachers. One of the most well-known and respected prophecy teachers on an international basis is begging Jewish people to come back to Israel because that's where they belong. And he's a Jew, and many of you know who I'm talking about. And I'm like, okay, brother, that actually is what's going to happen. God is going to regather the Jewish people. But you forgot to tell him what's going to happen. You see, right after the rapture, the church, Zechariah 13, eight and nine is gonna come to pass where two thirds of all the Jewish people are gonna die. God's gonna allow the worst Holocaust that's ever going to happen in the history of the world has yet to take place. So all those Jewish people and it's sad and it's horrifying and it's just heartbreaking. God, just like we did in Ezekiel. Why do you think Ezekiel was written? Why do you think when God warned the people for 586 BC, that's not the end of the story? The worst Holocaust is yet to come. You say, well, wait a minute. Six million Jewish people died in the Holocaust under, if you will, Hitler's regime and others that took part. Are you telling me that over six million people are gonna die in the tribulation? Yes. You say, well, how do you know that? Well, based on the numbers. Right now, there's about 15 million Jewish people in the world, the world, which isn't a lot of Jews. That's a small number, but it's 15 million. Now you take Zechariah 13, eight, what is two thirds? And the numbers are real easy to calculate here. I can even do it. What is two thirds of 15 million? 10 million Jews, based on the current statistics, according to scripture, will die in the tribulation period. Zechariah 13, nine tells us that one third of the Jewish people will survive. They'll be brought through the fire. That is the one third that will have the national revival, according to Romans nine through 11 and Revelation chapter 12. So folks, I want us to think biblically. I want us to be biblically literate. God is doing a marvelous, miraculous work with the Jewish people as we speak. And I believe that with all my heart. But God also knows, and we know if we read the scriptures and are biblically literate, that the worst is yet to come for the Jewish people. And you say, well, why? They're his chosen people, they're his special people. The reason why is because of what we just read in Ezekiel. You see, the exact same scenario that we read in Ezekiel, which is why I love going through that book, is telling us the exact same scenario that's going to happen after me and you are gone at the rapture. The Jews are gonna turn against God, yet, well, you say, wait a minute. Aren't they gonna build the third temple? Yep, they are. Aren't they gonna start the sacrificial system again? Yes, they are. But who do they leave out of it? Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Messiah. They go back to the Old Testament ways, they go back to their liturgy, they go back to their 613 commandments, and they refuse to accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah, and they will pay a horrific price for their rebellion against Christ. It's just the way it is, folks. It's sad. It's horrifying as to what's going to take place. But listen, that is God's message to the people of America and the people of the world today. If you do not turn to Jesus today and you die today and your breath is taken away, there's no second chance. It's over. Does it get any clearer? I know you said no. Anyway, think about it. The world rejects everything I just said because it's all about God's love. God loves anybody. God loves everybody. You can pick whatever methodology you want to get to heaven. You can be a Buddhist, you can be a Hindu, you can be a Muslim, you can be a Shintoist, you can be a Christian, you can be a whatever. And God says, and you know where I'm going, John 14, six. Jesus said, wait a minute. I am the singular, the way, the truth, the life. No one comes to the Father but through me. So here's what's going to be taking place after the rapture of the church. The coalition of anti-Israeli nations will rise up. One thing they all have in common is they are all Muslim. The Muslim nations will rise up. They will attack Israel. In Ezekiel 39, it tells us that they will all be burned up as they come up over the top of the mountains of Israel. God will vindicate the Jewish people and not allow them to destroy them. Why? Because we know from Genesis 15, That one day, that red border that you see, I'm gonna step off camera for a minute here. You see where Israel is right over in that little teeny area over there? I can't get over to it. That's current Israel. The red is the borders that Israel's going to have when we get into the millennial kingdom. 90% expanded. Prophecy will be fulfilled All right far be it for me to talk about this subject vote I You say which poll do you think is the most accurate the one that we've never seen The polls are all over the place And I you just don't know who to believe when in 2016 The rule was there is no way on this earth that Donald Trump was going to be president. Who was president in 2016? Hillary Clinton, watching on the monitors, went into a literal panic meltdown as they watched the statistics come in. The party that they were holding all of a sudden turned to a time of mourning. And all of a sudden, the votes came in, that nobody, I'm gonna tell you this, whether you believe me or not, it's your choice. I 100% believed Trump was gonna win in 2016. I just did. Now, I'm not a prophet, the son of a prophet, but I just watched everything. It's like, there's no way that this guy can lose. Well, he came close, but he made it. Now, whether you like him or not, This is not a political statement, but he got in. Now listen, you've got right now, if that's right, which nobody knows, supposedly the Republicans are ahead on the electoral votes right now, but nobody knows for sure. It's that tight. So here's the issues. And I know the majority of you, you've either voted or you're, you're locked in with what you're going to do. For anybody watching on the internet that's undecided, here's what we're voting for. Number one, I'm not voting for a pastor. I'm not voting for somebody that I'm going to go listen to on Sunday and get my Bible reading from. What I'm voting for is somebody who is going to allow me to be here next Sunday. I'm voting for somebody, the somebody that I believe will make sure that our First Amendment rights, and you see I bolded that one. If we lose our freedom of religion, If we lose our freedom to peaceably assemble, if we lose the ability to practice our, and I hate the word, but it's the one the constitution use, if we lose the freedom to practice our religion, in other words, Christianity, we gotta go first century and go underground. It's not a good way to win folks to Christ and move the gospel forward. So we need to take advantage of it. How about the economy? Who's going to do, and don't listen to the commercials. There are not one out there that's telling the truth. And I don't want to say both sides, but you investigate the issues. Don't listen to the nonsense on the commercials. The economy, the rule of law, who's going to make sure the laws on the books are going to stay on the books? Who's going to protect your society? Which president is going to enforce the constitution and the rule of law? How about national security? And I heard one dear lady, God bless her, she goes to a church I used to attend a long time ago, and a wonderful lady, her heart is right, I know her heart is right. And she made this statement, listen, if God's people were doing the right thing, we'd all go down to the border, we'd bring a bunch of food with us, and we would help those dear folks come in and we'd love on them and we'd give them whatever they need and take care of them. And I said, you know, from a social gospel perspective, that sounds really nice. But it's not national security. You see, you can be nice to people. I'll be happy to go to Mexico any day of the year and hand out Bibles and do vacation Bible schools and send missionaries. I'll be happy to send folks to Venezuela or to any other place where terrorists are coming in from. But if you want to come into a country, you have to come in legally. And unfortunately, a particular administration has changed the concept of what legal means. We've got to go back to the rule of law. Or someday, somebody's going to be squatting in your house, and they're going to tell you you can't enter your own home, like happened in New York. When a politician and a news anchor were silly enough to make the statement, well it's only a handful of hotels and apartment buildings they've taken over. Wait a minute. You see how we can spin things? How about if it was your apartment that you got booted out of because some terrorist decided to put a gun in your face and say, out, this is my house now. No, again, being a Christian doesn't mean being dumb. The rule of law, national security. Folks, I'm telling you, and I wrote Fox News the other day, and of course they're not gonna listen to me. I said, why in the world aren't you guys telling the truth about the terrorist cells that are in America right now? Like, you guys will talk about all this stuff, you put all these things out there, why aren't you talking about it? And I used my former credentials, told them who I was, told them what I had been involved in terrorism task force and it's like we all know it but you're not saying it. Would you stand up and let the American people know? Well they forgot to answer me. Former credentials are useless in today's society. Doesn't work. And I get it. Globalism. You want to be run by a World Economic Forum or the World Health Organization or any of the other major global entities that will tell every country This is the way it's going to be done. One administration is locked into every single world organization you can imagine. One administration was not and will not follow that. You choose. Massive infiltration of non-citizens. Folks, again, we just brushing under because we're in Union Grove. Nobody messes with Union Grove. Let me tell you one last story before I Five minutes left here. So most of you don't know her, but I have a daughter named Tiffany. She lives out in Columbus, Wisconsin. She's in a store last week, and she's shopping like anybody else does. A lady came up to my daughter, my daughter, who's married, four kids, and they said, My daughter accidentally bumped into another lady. And she said, ah, and she felt, Tiffany's a very kinesthetic kind of person. She don't want to offend anybody. And she accidentally bumped this lady and said, oh, I'm so sorry, ma'am. I wasn't watching what I was doing and I'm afraid I bumped into you and I'm so sorry. And she says, oh, that's okay, honey. She said, is that your husband? She's like, no, my husband isn't here. Why? He's been filming you since you walked in the store. Now, not to be unkind, but it wasn't a national individual. I'll just leave it at that. Folks, do you know the amount of human trafficking that's taking place? Now, my daughter looks like she's 16, even though she's pushing 40. Very skinny, cute little thing. Perfect. That'd be perfect for sales. You say, Pastor, that's disgusting. Well, no kidding. Hundreds of thousands of young people have entered into this country in the last four years, and they are being put on the market for, and I'm just gonna say it, they're put on the market for sex trade. That's not funny. That's disgusting. And our country is failing young people left and right. And it's going on underneath our noses and we just go can't see it. But everybody knows it's there. Listen when all of a sudden your son or daughter is missing your little grandchild all of a sudden is missing. You find out about parents that have lost their children and all of a sudden it's like, this is no joke. No, it's no joke, folks. Listen, if we don't get our country back, if we don't put our borders up the way they belong, every single one of us is at risk. Now, if you feel bad about humanitarian aid, Well, you just give every dime you got to a mission organization and they'll make sure that the gospel gets to them. And if they are hungry and need food, they will do their best to feed them. But when they're using and I'm just going to be this is my last rant for about out of time when it comes to the election. But if you want to give them your Social Security, if you want to give them your Medicare that you work for, if you want to give them the things that you worked hard for, and think that's being a good Christian, you go for it. I don't particularly agree with that opinion. And I know most of you don't. So if you don't work, you know what? That's Bible. You want to work? Come on in naturally. Get your citizenship. We'll make sure that you get the best possible job that you can get. I'm all for that. I don't care about a person's color of their skin or their nationality. Just come in legally. Not so hard, is it? Oh, it is horribly hard. That's why you must, oh yeah, vote. Yeah, well, you know why I left abortion out? Who said that, by the way? Okay, here's the issue, and I will breach it, and I'll close with this. I'm disappointed. Neither party is taking a stand now. One party is way over there, and one party is just squeaking by, trying to avoid the issue. And you know which is which. The Democrats are running on abortion. That is one of their key issues. Now, most of you know I did commentary for VCY as a little news reporter for the Republican and the Democratic National Conventions. Virtually every speaker that came up at the Democratic Convention, bam. And they don't, of course, they don't call it abortion. What do they call it? reproductive rights or freedom or health. All right, Jeremiah 1.5, God says, I knew you before you were created. You say, pastor, do you take a stand on abortion? Well, I don't need to take one, God took one, and I support what God said. And God loves every single child before they were even thought about, it tells us in the book of Psalms. So of course I can't support abortion They're all God's little children. And it is wrong to do that. And if you've done it, and again, I always say this, if you've, in your past, have had an abortion, does God forgive? Of course He does. And there's so many ladies in today's society that have done that. It's, of course, I don't agree with it, but I don't want you to destroy your life over it. It happened. God will forgive it. You move forward. Here's the admonition, don't do it again. It's that simple, and that's the best we can say in a couple of minutes. So what have the Republicans done? Again, the Democrats are pro-abortion, pro-all nonsense, kill as many babies as you possibly can. The Republicans had to figure out how to overcome that issue. Well, they came up with a brand new way of addressing it, and how did they do it? President Trump again, right or wrong, you make the decision, did push the Supreme Court on the issue of Roe versus Wade. So they got rid of the quote-unquote federal protection for abortion rights, alleged rights. Great. It's off the federal slate. The Democrats, and again, you're making the decision, not me. The Democrats said, wait a minute, we want federal protection for abortion because we can't trust the states to do the right thing. In other words, if you've got a conservative state, are they pro-abortion? No, they're pro-life. So the pro-abortion folks are like, no, we can't leave it up to the states, because we have still too many states where they are pro-life, and we can't tolerate that. That's inhumane. We've got to be able to kill our children. Can you believe that? So what do you do? So the Trump administration said, listen, and here's been their mantra, they've dummied down the abortion issue. and here's how they've done it. What do you mean the abortion issue has nothing whatsoever to do with federal government? When Roe versus Wade went away, now it's up to the states where it should be controlled, by the states and not by the federal government. You've heard J.D. Mance's position on it. You've heard President Trump will not address the issue except by saying it's a state issue, not a federal issue. even though he has made it clear that late term abortions he's against. All right. So from a Christian standpoint, and I've gone over what's new. From a Christian standpoint, if your whole issue is going to be abortion, there's no winner. It just isn't. So, and that's why I say I'm disappointed because Before, if you will, the conservative Republican groups took a much stronger stand, but now they basically said, ah, we managed to get rid of that issue. It's not my problem anymore. Now it's a Tony Evers problem in Wisconsin. And it is his problem, by the way. And, uh, me and you are not going to side with his position. We're just not. So outside of that issue, which to me, no matter who you vote for, it's a loser. You're not going to win on that issue. It's a dead issue as far as doing the right thing. But one thing I can say is if you vote for the one that is way over to the left, you're guaranteed that group is going to try and get federal abortion reinstated. The other group will not. And I'm fairly convinced of that. So if that's a deciding factor, it's like, Guaranteed abortion at a federal level or To being dismissive of it which still is kind of a weak argument, but it's better than I'm pro abortion your choice All right, we're gonna quit at the back table on your way out are multiple different pieces of resource and They go through the various candidates, what they believe in. It's bipartisan stuff. There's three different things sitting out there. If you're not sure about where to go or who's doing what, please feel free. Take the stuff. It's all free. They just, I mean, everybody and their brother sending us stuff. And if it doesn't appear to be partisan on, especially on one side, did I say that? It's out there. So I appreciate your attention. We'll take a look at those surveys and we'll get to you, but it's tough. And I do, my heart is broken that our country, that when this dear man said, what about the abortion issue? And it's like, brother, it just sickens me. And we don't have anybody that's taken a stand, Cheryl. To what? The conservative, all the conservative candidates, they would stand up and pass out tires 25. Okay. Which helped like a lot of us. Yeah. And they didn't know for some of the positions we were the conservatives. All right, well, we're, no, that's fine. Yeah, what Cheryl is saying is, with all that literature, which again, it just simply goes through the positions, if somebody's willing to stand out and hand them out, you're welcome to do it. You're welcome to do it on the church property, because we want people to vote. We want them to vote the right way. And again, if they don't agree with us, it's America. We'd have freedom. But if you believe in a conservative biblical worldview, I think the choice is our Very obvious from President on down through Congress, Senate, local people. We're in a world of hurt, folks. All right, I'm going to close there. Next time we meet, I'm going to start out with what we'll either do Ezekiel first or Prophecy Focus first based on the surveys. You'll find that out. And we're going to start talking a bit about the woke culture and what's taking place. We're going to be looking at the shutting down, if you will, of the human population according to multiple agencies that are trying to reduce our population. So I'll be giving you a lot of things from open source information, World Health Organization, World Economic Forum, other major groups, national groups that are trying to kill us. Poetic pause. And it's informative. And these things are important, folks, because as God's people, the elections are important and what people hear and learn are dramatically important for such a time as this. Father, thank you for your love for us. Thank you for these dear folks that are here tonight. And Father, yes, there's certain things, regardless of who gets voted in, as conservative Christians, we're not going to be happy. but for the issues that the parties are significantly divided on, specifically those things that involve our religious freedom and biblical morality and a biblical worldview. Father, again, we wish that both of these individuals were hardcore Bible-believing Christians. I don't know if who is and who isn't a Christian that's running throughout from the president on down through the lowest level of government today. Only you know the heart. But Father, I pray that we would vote for those individuals that we believe will protect our freedoms, will protect our First Amendment rights. And Lord, we just throw ourself at your mercy. We cannot, in our opinion, at least keep going in the same direction. And we beg for your intervention Father, I pray that you'd help us to do what we can to inform others that are willing to listen, not to be obnoxious, but to speak the truth in love, just to put the things on the table. And then Father, we beg you in Jesus' name, would you please give us a government, not just the president, but all of our governmental workers that are willing to take a biblical stance. Father, that's a big, big order in today's world, but we can't stop asking. So Father, help us to do our part. Thank you for what's taking place in this building tonight. Thank you for any young folks or teens that put their faith in Jesus tonight. Thank you that the gospel makes it so simple that we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. But Jesus Christ, God's son, came down from heaven, died on the cross for our sins, was buried, in three days rose from the dead, proving he was God. And we're so thankful that we go to heaven, not because of what we did, but because of what Jesus has done through his death, burial, and resurrection. Help us to be faithful, to do the most important thing we can do as God's people, which is to share the gospel. And then you, as the Holy Spirit, can change the heart and help him do the right thing. Father, we commit tonight to you. Pray that you watch over us this week. Bring us back on Sunday as we come together to enjoy fellowship, to hear messages from the word of God, and to sing songs that honor you. And we'll give you praise, the honor, and glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Have a great night, folks. Thanks for being here.