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Welcome to Tomorrow's World.
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The United States elected
Donald Trump to be its
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47th President in a
landslide victory.
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Many see Mr. Trump as a messiah figure, a savior of the
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country that has gone astray.
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What might we expect over
the next four years?
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It would do us well to remember two biblical proverbs.
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The first one is from
Proverbs 16 and verse 9...
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"A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps."
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Yes, a man may have his own agenda, but that is not
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always the way his
future turns out.
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Often a leader is remembered not for what he planned, but for
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how he handled circumstances
out of his control.
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This is further spelled
out in Proverbs 19:21...
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"There are many plans in a man's heart, nevertheless the Lord's
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counsel--that will stand."
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About 75 percent of Americans believed that the country
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was going in the wrong direction, and that
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was reflected in the
outcome of the election.
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So what can Americans, and
citizens of this world,
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expect for 2025 and
the years following?
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Can we know?
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There are many prognosticators predicting what's ahead for
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the coming year and beyond.
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Some base their
predictions on
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their understanding
of geopolitics.
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Others look into
crystal balls.
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Some claim a spook in
the night revealed the
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future to them.
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And of course, there's Nostradamus, but a
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close look at his predictions,
and that of other famous
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psychics, shows that they
are vague and are more
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backward-looking interpretations by his fervent followers than
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true predictions.
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Let me give an example:
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Some enthusiasts say his,
that is Nostradamus',
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mention of: "the great man will be struck down in the day by
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a thunderbolt" refers to the moon landing, [now that's
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quite a stretch I would
say, it's] a significant
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milestone in human achievement.
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People find it easy to
understand humans
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reaching for the stars; therefore, fans love
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to talk about this."
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Then there are wild
interpretations of
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biblical scriptures.
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Yet, it is from this very source--the book known as
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the Bible--that we here at Tomorrow's World turn to know
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the future course of our world.
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On this program, I'll give
you three trends to watch
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for in 2025 and beyond--
straight from the pages
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of the Bible.
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I'll also be offering you an absolutely free resource
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titled--The Middle East in Prophecy--that expounds
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on trends to watch, so stay tuned as I'll be back in
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five seconds.
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♪
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Once again, a warm welcome to all of you, from all of us
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here at Tomorrow's World.
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On today's program, we'll look to the Bible for what it
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tells us about our near future.
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While we cannot know the exact timing of most Bible prophecies,
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we can know the general timeframe of what is ahead.
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And, there are a few prophecies that do give specific time
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markers and I'll refer to one
of them on today's program.
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But first, let me address
a common misunderstanding.
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Some people erroneously conclude that we can have no idea when
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Christ will return.
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They claim that He could come
at any time--tonight or a
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thousand years from now.
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So, let's look at Matthew 24:36 and explore the context in which
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this scripture is given...
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"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels
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of heaven, but My Father only."
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This statement is true, but
what is the context in which
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it is found?
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Is it not detailed signs that lead up to the end of the
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age and Christ's second coming?
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Notice the beginning of
this Olivet Prophecy--
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Matthew 24:3...
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"Now as He sat on the Mount
of Olives, the disciples
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came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these
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things be [that is the destruction of the
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Temple in Jerusalem]?
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And what will be the sign
of Your coming, and of
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the end of the age?"
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Jesus then went on to give
signs that would lead up
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to His return.
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The idea that we must throw up our hands and have no idea
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regarding the timing of His return contradicts the
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context of this chapter.
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Jesus said there would be definite indicators of
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the end of the age.
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Let's notice what follows, beginning in verses 4 and 5...
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"And Jesus answered
and said to them:
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"Take heed that no
one deceives you.
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For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,'
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and will deceive many."
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A counterfeit Christianity
is the first sign that He
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gave, and I'll come back to that in a few minutes, but let's
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read further from verse 6...
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"And you will hear of wars
and rumors of wars...
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For nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom
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against kingdom.
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And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes
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in various places.
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All these are the
beginning of sorrows."
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The 20th Century saw two
world wars that killed
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literally tens of millions
of precious lives.
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It also saw a pandemic in 1918 that killed somewhere between
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50 and 100 million people.
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That was a plague
that paled Covid.
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And there have been
many famines, floods,
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and earthquakes.
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But notice what I left
out of verse 6...
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"See that you are not troubled; for all these things must
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come to pass, but the
end is not yet."
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Luke's parallel account of
this Olivet Prophecy says it
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this way in chapter 21,
and verse 9...
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"But when you hear of wars
and commotions, do not be
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terrified; for these things must come to pass first, but the
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end will not come immediately."
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As any reader of history
knows, the last 2,000
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years, and even before that, were filled with wars and
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natural disasters, so what are we to make of these signs?
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The book of Revelation is also focused on the end of the
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age and lays out a framework
of end-time events.
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There we read of a scroll
sealed with seven seals that,
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according to Revelation 5:3-5, only the Lamb of God--
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that is Jesus Christ--
can open...
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"And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was
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able to open the scroll,
or to look at it.
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So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and
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read the scroll,
or to look at it.
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But one of the elders said
to me, "Do not weep.
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Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has
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prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals."
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When He opens the first four seals, we find the famous
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four horsemen.
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The second, third, and fourth riders are easily discerned,
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and they match up with what Jesus revealed in the
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Olivet Prophecy.
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They represent war, famine,
and pestilence,
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or disease epidemics.
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But what of the first?
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Let's read it in Revelation
the 6 chapter...
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"Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard
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one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like
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thunder, "Come and see."
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And I looked, and behold,
a white horse.
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He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and
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he went out conquering
and to conquer."
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Most commentaries say this
rider represents Christ,
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or His followers
conquering for Christ.
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They usually link this rider with the returning
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Christ that we read of in Revelation the 19th chapter...
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"Now I saw heaven opened,
and behold, a white horse.
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And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True....
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Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it
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He should strike the nations.…
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And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:
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KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS."
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But notice that the weapons wielded by these horsemen
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are different.
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The King of kings has a figurative sharp sword
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coming out of His mouth,
but the rider in chapter 6
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has a bow in his hand.
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Why the difference?
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And what does that have to
do with what is ahead for
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mankind in 2025 and beyond?
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Before the break, I said I would explain the significance of the
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differences between the two riders on white horses,
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the we read of in the book
of Revelation, and show
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you what they have to do with the future of our world and
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why you need to be concerned.
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I also said I would give
you the first trend to
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watch in 2025 and beyond.
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So here it is:
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Trend #1: Watch for a
worldwide revival in
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counterfeit Christianity.
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Why?
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The two riders in the book of Revelation look alike,
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but they have different weapons.
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One carries a bow--the
other, a sharp sword.
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This is significant.
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Leading up to the opening
of the seven seals, we learn
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from chapter 5 and verses 3-5 that only the Lamb of God--
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Jesus Christ--can
open the seals.
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Each of the four horsemen
of Revelation is easy to
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discern, except the first
one--though it appears on
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the surface to be easy to understand--and that's the rub.
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Is that rider Christ?
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Or is he a close
counterfeit?
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How can we know?
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The answer is simple: only
Christ, the Lamb of God
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can open the seals, and when we look to the words of Christ
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spoken elsewhere,
we have the answer.
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Remember the first sign
Jesus gave that leads up
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to His return?
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Read it again in
Matthew 24:4-5...
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"Take heed that no
one deceives you.
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For many will come in My
name [that is, claiming
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His authority], saying, 'I
am the Christ,' [telling
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people that Jesus is the Christ] and will deceive many."
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Now notice the comparison between Revelation 6
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and Matthew 24:
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In Revelation 6 we read of
a rider on a white horse,
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but in Matthew 24 the first
sign that Jesus gave is
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Christian deception.
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Revelation 6 speaks of a rider who takes peace from the earth.
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Matthew next talks about
wars and rumors of war.
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Revelation 6 a rider on a
black horse of famine.
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And Matthew 24 speaks
of famines.
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In Revelation 6 the last
rider is one on a pale
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horse of pestilence.
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Matthew 24 next speaks
of pestilences.
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Now it should be obvious from this that the first rider in
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Revelation 6 is a counterfeit Christianity and that is why
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our first trend to watch is
the revival of a counterfeit
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Christianity that will take
hold of much of the world.
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This great false prophet is spoken of in a number of
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scriptures, but notice this passage in Revelation the
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13th chapter, and verses
11 and 13:..
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"Then I saw another beast
coming up out of the earth,
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and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon....
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He performs great signs, so
that he even makes fire come
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down from heaven on the earth
in the sight of men."
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A counterfeit Christianity
is not new, but since the
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four horsemen reflect end-time events, look for a
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charismatic leader to perform deceptive miracles.
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He'll look like he represents Christ, but he will in fact
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represent Satan the devil.
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He will bring about a revival of apostate Christianity--not
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new in doctrine, but he will confuse the whole Christian
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world with enthusiasm,
emotion, and deception.
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Don't think it can't
happen because it will.
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So, our first trend to
watch going forward is:
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Trend #1: Watch for a
worldwide revival in
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counterfeit Christianity.
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The first Trump administration was able to do something no
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one thought possible.
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It actually looked like peace would break out in the
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Middle East due to the Abraham Accords--a series of
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agreements to normalize relations between Israel,
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the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco.
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This was the start of a process that continued in the Biden
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administration, and it looked as though Saudi Arabia and Israel
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were on the verge of
normalizing relations.
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But then came the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel
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by Hamas terrorists.
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Can the new U.S. President
bring peace to that region?
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The answer is no--not
according to Bible prophecy.
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The prophet Zechariah speaks
of the opposite of peace,
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foretelling our very time today when there would be a Jewish
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state in the area of Jerusalem and they would be surrounded
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by hostile neighbors.
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Notice how remarkably accurate these prophecies are,
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Zechariah the 12th chapter...
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"Behold, I will make
Jerusalem a cup of
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drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples,
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when they lay siege against
Judah [that is the Jews]
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and Jerusalem.
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"And it shall happen in that
day that I will make Jerusalem
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a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would
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heave it away will surely
be cut in pieces, though all
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nations of the earth are gathered against it."
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But how will the Jews fare with enemies on every side?
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What does the Bible tell us, that we can see with our
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own eyes in our daily news?
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Verse 6...
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"In that day I will make
the governors of Judah
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like a fire pan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the
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sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on
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the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be
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inhabited again in her own place--Jerusalem."
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In a moment, I'll show you
a couple other prophecies
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about the State of Israel-- prophecies that literally
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leap out of the Bible and onto our news feeds--but first
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Twice in the last century America tried to stay
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away from European entanglements, but twice
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it was drawn into world wars.
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And let us not forget 9/11
when terrorists from the
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Middle East changed a
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I'll give you more scriptures that describe what you can see
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On today's program, I'm giving you three trends to watch
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in 2025 and the immediate
years that follow.
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Before the break I said
I would give you more
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Biblical prophecies that
you can see currently
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playing out in the Middle East.
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I left off in Zechariah 12 where we saw that the Jews would
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have a country in the Middle East controlling Jerusalem.
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This was not the case from
135 AD until 1948, and
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they did not control all of Jerusalem until 1967.
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That makes Zechariah's prophecies, given 2,500 years
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ago, absolutely remarkable.
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I'll come back to Zechariah in a moment, but notice a prophecy
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that is even more ancient,
but precisely accurate.
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The patriarch Jacob, whose
name was changed to Israel,
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had 12 sons.
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At the end of his life, he foretold what would become
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of each one as they grew
into tribes and nations--
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not at that time, but more
than 3,500 years in the
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future--at the time of
the end of the age.
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Notice it in Genesis the 49th chapter, and verse 1...
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And Jacob called his sons
and said, "Gather together,
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that I may tell you what shall
befall you in the last days."
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Were these prophecies the result of a hallucinating old man?
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Or were they given under
the inspiration of God?
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Let's read what he said about Judah, the father of the Jews,
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in the last days,
and you be the judge.
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Verses 8 and 9...
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"Your hand shall be on the
neck of your enemies;
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Your father's children shall
bow down before you.
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Judah is a lion's whelp;
From the prey, my son,
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you have gone up.
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He bows down, he lies down
as a lion; And as a lion,
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who shall rouse him?"
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Dear friends, is this not exactly what we see?
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Here's another prophecy about the Jews in the book of Isaiah.
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The prophecy is addressed to Ariel, and while there is
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controversy over what the
word means, virtually all
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scholars agree that it is
a prophecy regarding the
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house of Judah [that is
the Jews] and Jerusalem.
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The early fulfillment was during the time of Assyrian king
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Sennacherib, but there is clearly an end-time fulfillment.
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Note how the Jews' enemies
anticipate victory only to
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wake up and realize
that it's a dream.
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Isaiah 29:7-8...
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"The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel,
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Even all who fight against
her and her fortress,
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And distress her, Shall be as
a dream of a night vision.
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It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, And look--
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he eats; But he awakes,
and his soul is still empty;
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Or as when a thirsty man dreams, And look--he drinks; But he
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awakes, and indeed he is faint, And his soul still craves:
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So the multitude of all
the nations shall be,
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Who fight against Mount Zion."
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Time and again Israel's enemies see victory slip away from them.
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However, Zechariah reveals
that there is a time in the
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future when the Jews will be overthrown and the Messiah,
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Jesus Christ, will have to
come back and save them.
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We read of this in
Zechariah 14:2-4...
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"For I will gather all
the nations to battle
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against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses
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rifled, And the women ravished.
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Half of the city [indicating it's a divided city] shall
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go into captivity, But the remnant of the people
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shall not be cut off
from the city.
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Then the LORD will go forth
And fight against those nations,
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As He fights in the
day of battle.
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And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
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Which faces Jerusalem
on the east."
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No, there will be no peace
in that part of the world
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no matter who is
the U.S. President.
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There may be exuberance over what appears to be peace,
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but it will not end well,
as Paul wrote about the
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time of the end in
1 Thessalonians 5:3...
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"For when they say,
'Peace and safety!'
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then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains
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upon a pregnant woman.
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And they shall not escape."
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Our second trend
to watch is:
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There will be continuing conflict in the Middle
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East that will lead
to Christ's return.
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There's a third trend to
watch, and it's easy to
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understand and will be obvious to all who have eyes to see.
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I'll give it to you after
reminding you again of
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What happens halfway around the world may not seem important
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at the moment, but no part of the world will be untouched
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by what happens there.
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Our world is in for a rough time, but there is good news
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in the end.
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It is to the Mount of Olives that Jesus Christ will return
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and that mountain (some would say large hill) is the location
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from which most panoramic pictures of Jerusalem are taken.
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Welcome back.
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So far I've given you two
trends to watch in 2025
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and the next few years.
25:17.115 --> 25:21.086
We cannot know the specific time of these biblical prophecies,
25:21.152 --> 25:24.756
although as we have seen,
easy to understand prophecies
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regarding the Jews and Jerusalem, given 2,000 and even
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3,500 years ago are taking place right now for anyone to see.
25:35.333 --> 25:38.837
But I want to give you a third trend to watch, because this
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one could literally
begin at any time.
25:42.540 --> 25:46.578
We find a countdown to the time of Christ's return in the
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12th chapter of Daniel.
25:48.713 --> 25:52.350
The prophet wanted to know
when the end would come
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and was told that the visions were sealed until the time
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of the end.
25:56.421 --> 25:59.257
He was then told this
in verse 11...
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"And from the time that the
daily sacrifice is taken
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away, and the abomination
of desolation is set up,
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there shall be one thousand
two hundred and ninety days."
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That's three years
and seven months.
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I don't have time to explain the abomination of desolation on
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this program, but for now,
let's focus on what is
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easy to understand.
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For sacrifices to be cut off, they must first begin, and
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daily sacrifices have not been offered in Jerusalem for the
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better part of 2,000 years.
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Therefore, Trend #3 is: Watch for daily sacrifices to begin
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in Jerusalem.
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This will be a big deal once they begin, because when they
26:44.035 --> 26:49.107
are stopped, that will begin a countdown of 1,290 days before
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Christ steps in to save mankind from self-annihilation.
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So watch for these three
trends in 2025 and beyond:
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Trend #1: Watch for a
worldwide revival in
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counterfeit Christianity.
27:04.723 --> 27:08.526
Trend #2: There will be continuing conflict in
27:08.593 --> 27:11.896
the Middle East that will
lead to Christ's return.
27:11.963 --> 27:16.601
And Trend #3: Watch for
daily sacrifices to begin
27:16.668 --> 27:18.103
in Jerusalem.
27:18.169 --> 27:21.072
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