What do we do with Israel? part 5 (Pastor Jeff Shipley)

Now I want you to pay attention. It wasn't anything in Israel wasn't their military. Next Sunday, I'm really excited. Not in contrast to but in addition to our regular praise music. I'm excited about All three songs we're going to sing next Sunday or original songs written by the members of this church.

And so I'm very excited. Christian pastor Christian played one for me in My office and I sat there. If I was a girl, I would have cried I was sweating testosterone from my eyes profusely because it was just so.

Absolutely beautiful absolutely beautiful guys. This is the fifth part the last part of my sermon series on Israel and I'll be honest with you I've probably preached to you maybe 20 of what I actually have studied and written out.

There's just no way it would take me a year to go over 2 ,500 years of history now. I want to just now. I know some of you hate it when I do this, but I just just for clarity sakes. Contextual sakes and for our honest hermeneutics.

I just want to give you a.

Brief brief.

Summary of where we are. Okay starting back in 2 ,100 BC. That was a joke brief and I'm gonna go through 4 ,000 years. Never mind y 'all catch up later. God told Abraham. Hey, man, go to this land. I'm gonna give it to you and your descendants forever.

Whoever blesses you will be blessed and whoever curses you will be cursed. And so it just went through this big thing and you had Moses you had, you know, David and Goliath David king of Israel Solomon blah blah blah blah blah.

And Israel was constantly rebelling against God and God was constantly judging them. And he kept saying hey y 'all keep messing up. I'm gonna scatter you all over the earth. By the way, Israel the Jew is the most dispersed Population culture in the history of the world so things that make you go.

Right, so they're everywhere in 586 BC. They ceased to be a nation at that point with the Babylonian captivity. They did come back and rebuild the temple, but that was eventually Degradated as well. You got Greece.

You got all this stuff and then Rome took over and that's who was in power at the time of Jesus. Jerusalem was controlled by the room Roman Empire. And there was this dude named Herod who was a real good friend with a cat named Octavius who was the first Roman Emperor.

He was put in charge of Jerusalem. And so he built this fabulous temple. He started in about 20 BC 15 20 years before Jesus was born and he built this fabulous temple this Fabulous temple and in 70 AD it was destroyed.

The Jews said man We're not going to take this anymore. Right on and they rebelled and Rome came in and whooped him to death you fast-forward Rome or Israel was renamed. They had no nation no city. They had nothing in their name.

They didn't have Any identify any identification marks as a culture except for this unwavering belief in God and God's promises that one day he would restore them again as a nation in 1948 yes only 70 something years ago Israel for the first time and all of those thousands of years was reformed as a nation.

That's never happened in the history of mankind and Jews from all over the world. Just like scripture says I will bring back my people to their homeland. That has been happening for the last 70 years now.

This is all historical fact. This is not a sermon that I'm telling you facts. Absolute truth you can choose to believe it or not. But for some of you under the age of 30 you're going to have to go to Wikipedia.

But I promise you Wikipedia will back this up as well, so we fast-forward when we talked about the 1948 war of independence and how all these nations came against a nation the size of New Jersey and Millions of people were against them and they won in 1967 we talked about that war of five different nations supported by the Soviet Union with State-of-the-art weaponry once again attacked Jerusalem and in six days Jerusalem quadrupled its land defeated every enemy and on the seventh day they rested again in 1972 the Yom Kippur War again the Arab nations tried to Eradicate the state of Israel with the stated purpose not of just taking over But literally wiping Israel from the face of the earth.

They failed again and in a few months Israel was victorious again time and time again Israel has been surrounded and they've been attacked and they have not ever been defeated. Once again things that make you go, huh?

It'd be like Millington fighting Everybody in the state of Tennessee and winning you know and that's amazing because I don't know how they would read the road signs. To figure out where to go, but anyways.

The Future of Israel and the Temple in Matthew 24

So here's where we are now pastor. How do we know the future of Israel? Well the same place we know all the promises of God in Scripture for Israel. We're going to read some of those about the future from here on out.

Jesus is his last time in The temple complex right before he died. Now. This is that temple that Herod built it was magnificent and He sits there in Matthew chapter 24. And it says as Jesus left and was going out of the temple complex his disciples came up.

Called his attention to the temple buildings. Then he replied to him. Do you see all these things? I assure you not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down now. Here's what's really cool.

This is a modern-day picture and once again, you can go to Google Earth or something. But this is part of the temple complex and here's what you're going to notice see all these blocks down here some of these blocks.

There's their solid rock. Some of them are 40 feet long by 12 feet thick by 12 feet high. They're Massive stones, but if you'll notice up here see these smaller stones. This was actually built this part was added to the original wall that Herod built.

These are the actual stones that were there when Jesus said this. But anyways these up here that you see were added on by the Arabs. The Muslims who in the 600s took over the Holy Lands and in fact in 692 ad that's when they built the the dome of the rock that sits on the side of The temple now we we think but anyways, here's my question reads again read chapter 24 verse 1 Jesus is walking out of there and as he's walking out of the temple complex.

He says this. Not one of these stones will be left upon another. So what's that tell you? Burnett's help out the blondes. What's that tell you if Jesus said not one stone will be left on another and They're still there in 2023.

What's that tell you?

I.

Hadn't been fulfilled yet.

In other words, there's a future for the nation of Israel and a future for the church that may be intertwined. But they are distinct in their predictions. Let's let me explain to you what happened. So Jesus is sitting here and I don't know if I can hold this steady enough.

That wall that you just looked at is this section right here. This little thing is a ramp that actually went up. This is on something called Mount Moriah. Mount Moriah. Yes, that's what the street is named for.

Mount Moriah is right here. This is Mount Zion down here but here's Mount Moriah right here and people would walk up this ramp and Gentiles or non-jews could hang out here and could hang out here. Remember when Jesus cleansed the temple.

This is where it happened right there. You can walk those same steps today. Anyways, that wailing wall is right there. The Muslim temple is right here. And then there's a Muslim Seminary right here. But anyways, Jesus is sitting here and he says hey boys.

See all this stuff not one stone will be left on another and then they walked out this gate. This is called the beautiful gate. They walked out this gate on the east side Of old Jerusalem and this is called the Kidron Valley.

The Kidron Valley and they walked up here and they walked up to Mount Olives verse 24 verse 3 of chapter 24 as he sat on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately saying tell us when these things will be and what will be the sign of your coming and the End of the age.

Jesus just sat there and told 12 Jews. Hey guys, see all this stuff. It's going to get torn down. Well immediately the Jews said.

What.

Wait, what do you mean? It's good. Hey, no one gonna tear this down. What are you talking about? But as they were walking along Jesus this mild path that they walked. No one really wanted to ask him and so they're sitting there going you asking Peter.

No, man, you asking James John. You're the favorite you asking now I'm gonna ask him and so they get up on the Mount of Olives and you gotta remember there's hundreds of people following. So they kind of pulled Jesus aside Privately and that's why it says they're asked him privately because I don't know if you know this but there are some people who claim to be Christians who pretend they know a lot more than they say that they know because They want to actually put their salvation in the hands of their knowledge rather than the hands of Christ.

Well, that's what the disciples were doing. We don't want anybody to know how dumb we are. So hey Jesus. Come here, man. Yo spill the tea. What is the sign of your coming now notice these questions? Notice these questions tell us when these things will happen ie when's the temple getting torn down?

Number two, they asked what is the sign of your coming and in number three? They asked what is the end of the age? So they asked three questions. They said man, when is the temple getting torn down? When are you gonna come in your kingdom and number three?

When's the end of the world happen as we know it? Holly y 'all are asleep today. I. This is Jesus's answer. What is the future of Israel? What is the future for the rest of this chapter. Jesus is going to answer those three questions.

Now this is not just found in Matthew. We could have gone to Revelation. We could have gone all over the place, but Matthew 24. It's called the Olivet discourse because Jesus sits down and goes. Okay, boys.

Here's what it's gonna be and we're gonna get in some cool things in a second. But watch this Jesus said Watch out that no one deceives you for many will come in my name saying I am The Messiah and they will deceive many.

You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed because these things must take place now. I didn't graduate high school, but must take place time frame is the Future that's all right.

Go ahead and say it Farley future. Very good. But the end is not yet. So there's a logical time stamp and when he says something in the future is going to happen. But even when that thing transpires, that's not the end.

Are you following me? Who's from Mississippi in here? Are you following me? Okay good, then everybody will get it. So for nation will rise up against nation in kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines earthquakes in various places.

All these events are the Beginning of birth pains. Now, here's where I and a lot of other pastors disagree. They'll sit there and go see see see there's gonna be a bunch of wars. Well, man, let's be honest for a second.

I mean, can we be honest for a second name me a time in human history where there hadn't been a war. You know what I'm saying? We've been thumping each other's skulls for 6 ,000 years now and we ain't really stopped.

There's going to be earthquakes. We've always been earthquakes, right? There's going to be famines. There's always going to be famines, especially in Pastor Josiah goes to Golden Crow. It is a famine right after he goes through.

So what's the logic here? Well, there are some things that are pretty cool. This is a list of all of the wars in Which were the greatest death toll. See and you have a great spectrum here. You have the Iberian Spain Portugal taking over the Americans killing all the Native Americans from about 1492 to 1600 about half a million people were killed.

Sorry revisionist history. But anyways, the two biggest ones are right here. World War one and its sequel World War two. Okay, yeah, man, that's a lot of people you got Combined there. You got about 80 million people that were killed.

But I mean.

It's still kind of subjective. You know what I mean? I mean, can we be honest for a second? You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Okay, so a lot of people died. Mmm, that's not definitive enough for me.

Let's look at this. These are the earthquakes Recorded from 1900 to 2019. 1900 to 2019. Now it is without a shadow of a doubt that starting right about here It started increasing Exponentially, okay at for you Arkansas folks.

That means Really a bunch. Okay Exponentially it started now, you know, what's cool is In that time frame right there is the exact Time frame that Israel became a nation again in 1948. The earthquakes started going bigger and bigger and bigger.

What's really wild. Did y 'all know this? I didn't know this till I did research there were 1 .3 million earthquakes in nine years from 2010 to 2019.

1 .3.

Million I ain't hearing about it, right? But I have some friends that live out in California and said oh, yeah, we get them all the time. Some of them wake us up in the morning like, you know, it's no big deal to them if I feel an earthquake.

I'm like, holy moly, you know, oh my god, I'm diving under tables and stuff, but out there it's no big deal. But once again, can I be honest with you? You know what I'm saying? It's just not the smoke and gun for me because I'll be honest with you you say all in the history of the world.

No one recorded every earthquake that has happened since the time of Jesus to now. It's like when I hear people sit there and go well the earth's getting warmer. It's been getting warmer and warmer since well, what do you do with the two little ice ages as we've had, you know I mean and dude, where's the guy for the North American weather?

Meteorological service that was recording back in 1432 all of what the temperature was man. This is how they told the temperature. Hands a little warm. It's hot today. It's gonna rain today. I mean they didn't have satellites back in the 1500s to tell us all this stuff so using this as an absolute proof of Earthquakes and the fulfillment of Matthew 24 in my opinion is just a little weak.

Well, let's keep going verse 9 then that don't miss this. Don't miss this that word then is tatto. It literally means a transition of time. So you have the ends not come yet. These are the beginning of birth pains, but then.

Then they will hand you over for persecution and they will kill you. You will be hated by nations because of my name then many will take offense. Betray one another hate one another many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

Because lawlessness will multiply and the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered this is the good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all of the world as a testimony to all nations and Then the end will come.

Okay.

Okay a little bit more definitive, but can y 'all name me a time when the love of many wasn't already cold. I mean seriously I Mean go back to the hippies. Where's Melanie. Melanie is a great hippie. Karina great hippie, okay?

Even in hippie land The love of many has always been cold. You know what I mean. I watched a video.

Not.

For this sermon, but as I was researching of four kids in protest against the George Floyd murders for black kids. Kidnapped a mentally retarded white kid and tortured him for like 70 hours 70 hours laughing.

Videoing it and putting it on Facebook, and I'm like in my mind going dude. I used to be a cold-hearted, dude.

I.

Couldn't do that.

You know I mean mama's throwing their babies away drowning them in cars. You know. But tell me a time in human history That that hadn't happened. Are y 'all with me. Are y 'all with me? Hmm so far we have seen people will be deceived.

Well, that's all the time. Go look to any election in the United States in the last 30 years. Many false prophets come in the name of Jesus. Well, yeah, we got Joel stain. Okay. Wars and rumors of wars.

Well. Yeah, that's happened. Oops. Sorry. Conflict between nations.

Duh.

Famines. Okay. And earthquakes, so yes. These are signs Jesus gave but you have to understand the credits aren't rolling yet.

Okay.

He said that these would be the beginning of birth pains and then that time frame would end and then Something else would happen. Then he said this verse 15 when you see the abomination of desolation.

Spoken by the prophet Daniel. Write this down if you want. Daniel chapter 9. Daniel chapter 11 talks about this. And that's what Jesus is referring to. Standing in the holy place. Let the reader understand.

And then those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house and let the one who is in the field not turn back and take his cloak.

And Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days. Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath for then there will be a great tribulations as not.

Sorry such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now. No, will it will ever be?

Now, you know, what are the key?

Things about this passage that no one really ever pays attention to is this phrase right here. Let the reader understand. Now, let me explain this to you now that you're gonna have to put your thinking caps on just for a second.

Jesus was talking to his disciples on that Mount of Olives about 32 AD. Matthew wrote this in about 54 55 AD. Yes, we know that for out with a shadow of a doubt. Let me give you just a little side bit of history on this.

I have in my office. You can come up there and look at them. I have in my office 30 books written by 60 different people that were all pastors. Right after the time of Jesus. I have all their sermon notes.

Okay, not all of them, but a bunch of them. I could reproduce all of scripture From those pastors alone not to mention the 26 ,000 copies we have of parts of scripture. Oh, and by the way They all match.

They all match. Okay, so let that bake in your noodle for a second. But watch this Matthew wrote this 20 years after it happened 20 years after it's happened. He's saying I'm writing down everything that Jesus said and Then it says this let the reader Understand in his mind.

There was a future group of people Somewhere down the road that this was going to apply to he knew Focus he knew it was not his generation. It was a future generation. Now you may say to me. Okay, which generation is it?

It's the one who's going to experience these things now. We're about to discuss these things. But I want you to understand that through the sovereignty of God in Ephesians chapter 1. It says grace be unto you in peace from God our Father to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Or it says to the Saints who are in Ephesus and the faithful. Everywhere, you know, what's so beautiful about that? That's addressed to Jeff Shipley. That's addressed to pastor Josiah that's addressed to miss Gwynn.

That's addressed to all of us in this room that are faithful. This was not speaking to the disciples all of it. Specifically to them because Matthew wrote about it later and he was talking let the reader who reads this later on who?

Understands the times that they're living in that this Applies to you now. I want you to just for a second think of two things. Number one is I want to just bring to Fact that line that says then let those in verse 16.

Let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. People say well, this has already happened in 70 AD. Okay, let me explain just for a second I'm gonna nerd out history just for a minute. Okay? Relax, it's gonna be okay.

I promise you. I just have so many people always tell me pastor. I hate history. I know you do I get it. Trust me. Okay, I smoked my way through the 11th grade. I understand. Okay. But here's what's so cool.

When.

Israel or particularly Jerusalem rebelled against the Roman Empire starting in 67 AD. It went through 73 AD but in 70 AD Rome came and surrounded Jerusalem. Surrounded it and They took three months and they killed everybody because they was home.

Now. I want you to think of second Jesus is God. He can tell the future if you're surrounded. What great military advice is it to say leave the safety of Jerusalem and flee to the mountains where the Romans are camped out?

That ain't good advice. Are y 'all with me? Am I going too fast or the civil servants understanding this? Okay. It doesn't make no sense, so it can't be talking about that, but then it gives this qualification in the beginning it says when the abomination of Desolation happens.

All right, here comes the chart. You ready? And this is the I've tried. I hate these charts. I really do because they're so prolific and they're just they're overdone. But let's be honest here. We are in 2023.

This is the present church age. This is what's going on right now.

We are right here.

But at some point in the near future the rapture of the church is going to happen now for those you don't know what that is. Basically, it's all true believers. Not all church people. Not all church people all true believers will be taken up to God in heaven.

D. The old evangelistic pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church once said if the rapture happened today 80 of you would still be sitting here. I would like to think Witten has a little bit higher percentage.

But I promise you this if the rapture happened right now before I finish this next sentence There would still be people sitting in this room. Because you've asked Jesus Christ in your heart to be your Lord and Savior and he's never been either.

You have sat there and walked down an aisle and gotten baptized or say I believe in God, but even demons believe in God. You have never truly Understood what it means to die to yourself and follow Christ.

Okay? Some of you are still gonna be sitting here and when it happens, you're gonna turn into super Christians. He will because you're gonna remember the words coming from my mouth. You're gonna remember the scripture and you're gonna go Oh God, and why everyone else in the world is coming up with a plausible deniability of why this happened.

You're gonna know in your heart. Oh crap. This is that time? Okay, and you're gonna be left here for seven years and it's gonna stink really bad. But we'll get to that in a second the rapture is coming where God calls his people home now as soon as that happens for some reason in these seven years and you can go back again to Daniel 9 or Daniel 11 or Revelation 20 or it's written all over the place for these seven years.

Right here. It's going to be under the power of a guy named the Antichrist now. Who is the Antichrist and what does he do? This is what he does. He is a stud Peacemaker, let's find two people that just absolutely can't stand each other.

LSU well, Tennessee. No, where's a Bama fan? Oh Mercedes. Oh, yeah, all you guys back there. I am The University of Tennessee. Okay, right. You're going to hell. I love the University of Tennessee. You love those inbreds in Alabama, okay.

Now there is no way that I'm ever gonna cheer for Bama and there is no way they're ever gonna cheer for Tennessee.

But what happens?

Pastor Jeremiah stand up. I don't mean to disturb your breakfast, but. Here we are. What if someone could come and take me? All smoky and get that fat. Overweight needs Jenny Craig elephant and get those things two things together and we're best buddies now.

Would that not be awesome? This person right here would be a stud. How many times have you heard the news in the last three months and going dude? Yeah, especially you younger people in here that are on social media on Israel is the aggressor.

Israel's the bad person. Israel's a poo-poo head. Israel's whatever. That's usually from people who still have spots haven't hit puberty and have no idea what they're talking about outside the realm of human history.

Past October 7th. Okay. It's a little bit bigger than Bartlett. Okay. It's just a little bit bigger than tick-tock. All right. But the reality is there's gonna be a day Where someone's gonna go hey you Jews boy, come here.

Hey you Palestinians come here. Hey guys, can't we just get along and here's what we're gonna do and he's gonna come up with this plan and Everybody's gonna go. Man, why didn't we say that before?

Dude, that's a great idea. Hey, man, dude, what's up?

And they're gonna be singing and dancing in the streets and for three and a half years. It's gonna be absolute Pax Romana all over it's gonna be peace all over the place and people the Economies are gonna go up.

Everything is gonna be great for three and a half years and in that three and a half years. Here's one thing Israel's gonna do in the future. They're gonna rebuild That temple now the reason they haven't done it yet is because this big mosque Sits there and in case you didn't wonder if a Jew went up there with a chisel and a hammer and started taking down that Mosque, it's gonna be a really bad day for them.

Okay, but somehow some way That and personally I believe that the mosque the Dome of the Rock is gonna stay there. There is increasing evidence that Solomon's Temple is actually south of that mosque. And I think it's gonna be a beautiful picture in peace John.

You know linen kind of world where they're gonna have that temple sitting there. And then they're gonna have the mosque sitting there and everybody's gonna be like dude. It's so awesome free weed for everybody.

It's it's all peace love and joy hippie, right? Some of y 'all smiled way too much when I said that put the giant down, okay, and they're gonna be absolutely happy. And this dude now, I don't know if you know this or not, but human beings.

Once people keep coming up and going man, you're awesome, man. You're the greatest. Here's what happens their head starts getting bigger. Let me see an example of this Hollywood.

Hollywood.

Y 'all know they have over 200 award ceremonies for themselves every year and some of you idiots actually watch it on TV the.

Most.

Self-congratulatory Arrogant self-centered pigs actually have 200 different ceremonies to celebrate themselves. I'm gonna have the first annual Witten pastors awards like we'd have to have something definitive and Objective like who's the funniest pastor.

Thank you for saying that. Oh, we have a scientific study on that. Who won that? That's right. That's right, because I don't tell stupid dad jokes actually tell funny jokes. But anyways, I Won the Grammy for the funniest pastor of the year award, okay.

Here's what's gonna happen this Antichrist who brought all this together. By the way, Jimmy Carter. Ronald Reagan Nixon.

Obama.

Every president has tried to do this over and over yet. The Oslo Accords the Camp David Accords the P you have all this stuff. They've won Nobel Peace Prizes for stopping the fighting. There's a guy coming who's going to stop it.

For three and a half years, but then he's going to get such a big head of himself. That temple is going to be rebuilt and in three and a half years later. This is what he's going to do. I have brought peace and stability to the whole world.

Man, you're paying 69 cents a gallon for gas. Dude, a loaf of bread is like it was back in the 1970s. They're not killing each other. Remington firearms is going out of business again because no one's buying bullets.

No more. Everything is super cool, man. Everything is great. Y 'all need to worship me. And he's gonna walk in to that Holy of Holies and he's gonna put up a statue of himself. Painting a picture. I don't know maybe a whole diorama, you know.

And he's gonna say you people need to worship me and people are going to do it. You say no, that's an impossible. That'll never happen Taylor Swift if I have to watch one more stinking football game with that teeny bopper little Jerk, and so I don't care that she's dating.

I don't care. I want to see smack mouth football. That's why I turned it on. I don't really care who he's dating. You know, she's dating somebody hit somebody, right? Robert De Niro.

I mean you name it.

Anybody because of human nature of which God's Word says we are all sinful. We are all prideful. Isn't it funny how every human being you know after God's Word says that is the very thing that they struggle with.

Pastor Josiah preached such a great sermon yesterday at the funeral in which he said you have no understanding or no realization that you need a Savior because you do not realize how deep in sin you are and Until you understand the depths of your sin, you'll never understand the richness of grace and that's where humankind is right now.

Guys, this guy's gonna elevate himself to Godhood. And when he does in that three and a half years, it ain't gonna be happy no more because the Orthodox Jews.

Will lose their ever.

Loving minds all those. Really really far-right extremist Muslims. They're not gonna be happy again. And the Christians those that are actually left. Those kind of Christians they're gonna be saying well, this isn't quite right.

We don't need to sing down sing kumbaya speak in tongues and pass the communion cup and. They're out and this is what's gonna happen. Everybody's gonna start fighting again except this time now. This cat is in charge.

He is large and in charge, you know how you unite common enemies. You give them a common enemy. You give them a common enemy and a common enemy of all those groups of people. Are gonna be the true believers in Jesus Christ.

You see right now as some of you sleep and some of you are like, oh god. When is this gonna be over or this has nothing to do with me or whatever is running through your stupid little minds. You're sitting there and you are going to be the exact mental composition of what they're gonna be then.

You see the same sin that condemns us now the same sin that condemned them and the same grace that save us now is the same Grace that's going to save them. But the difference between the two is right now Jesus will cost you some of your friends.

It'll cost you some of your wants and desires. But at that time it's gonna cost you your life one of the most damaging. Heartbreaking things for me is this is Revelation speaks of this time and it says this you will have to have a mark to buy or sell or trade.

You will have to have a mark to get medical care and I want you just for a second. How many of you mamas have ever had a kid Ayesha? Ayesha has had two of the most beautiful children in the whole world far surpassing both the intellectual and beauty of their parents, but I remember I remember when Alina was a little baby and Alina got a little sick and she got a little fever and brother Pastor Jeremiah was like she's fine.

Don't worry about it. Where did I should go? To the hospital because that's our first baby and it sniffled. We're going to the stinking Hospital Le Bonheur. We're gonna have in the we're gonna fly in from MIT the best therapist in the world.

You know, what's gonna be horrible is if you want to follow Christ, you're gonna have to watch your children starve. You're gonna have to watch your kids with a broken arm get it amputated. Because for you to go to any government service controlled by the Antichrist you will have to deny Christ.

And you will have to follow him. You say that's not possible. Dude. It's happened so many times in history. It's not funny. Let me give you some examples from this time. There was a guy his name was Christus not Christos Christus and he was serving as a centurion in the Roman Guard and He became a Christian and one of the ceremonies they did is they burned incense to the statue of Commodus and they said hey if you burn incense to this guy.

You're okay. If you claim this Jesus guy, we're gonna kill you and He refused to do it and they tortured him to death in front of everybody as an example. Guys you can choose to follow Jesus now or you can choose with greater pain to follow him then.

But either way, it's gonna cost you your life. Guys, I got to ask you a question. Just one simple question. Where are you today? And where are you with the last five Sundays? We have proven time and time again through scriptures that the entire history that's being played out right now Was already told about in Scripture, you know what prophecy is it's nothing but pre-written history.