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BUILDING A REVELATION

PART 1

JANUARY 2009

THIS MESSAGE WAS PREACHED IN MARCH 2004, BUT WE FEEL THAT IT IS A MESSAGE THAT NEEDS TO GO OUT TO THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH AS GENTILE TIME IS CLOSING OUT.

I want to explain a little bit here, because I am changing the title of my message from this point on, to “Building a Revelation.” First off I want to read to you from the dictionary what a revelation really is. It is “to reveal or to disclose something that has been hidden, but made known. In Christian theology God discloses or reveals to man of Himself, or something that He allows man to see that has not previously been known.” I want to put that in a modern way of thinking. A revelation is to be able to understand something that has been hidden from our understanding, just like the Lord told Daniel in chapter 12, verse 9, when the angel of the Lord had been speaking concerning something pertaining to these last days, and especially the 70^th week of Daniel, the last half being the tribulation period. If you read the 7^th and 8^th verses prior to that, Daniel is just begging the Lord, but what about this, and what about this? Then in the 9^th verse we see this, “And he said, Go thy way Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” Then verse 10 says, “Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: (Is that not what we are seeing day by day the world over?) and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” I like this. Ask yourself a simple question, Who are these wise He speaks of? Is that some professor of theology in a seminary somewhere? Not at all. We everyone know better than that. It is not a book learned preacher that thinks he knows it all. In God’s Bride Church on earth today, is where you are going to find those wise people this speaks of. When we look at the apostle Paul, he was a Jew of the Sanhedrein order. His own testimony was, as touching the Law, he was blameless, but touching the Christian faith, he persecuted it daily. Then, when God took him out into the Arabian desert and began to speak to him concerning his ministry and his calling in this great plan of God, Paul testifies that in that period of time he learned from the only source that kind of learning can come from. He learned by the leading of the Spirit of God, how to take the scriptures in the Old Testament and put them together and come out with a picture of the plan of the Creator. In that, he could see that God was going to deal mercifully with the Gentiles and that it would not be on the basis of the Law. He was the first one that began to use this revelation he has had presented to him, and he calls it like this, God made known to him the mystery of His will, which is actually that He let him understand the Old Testament scriptures, especially all that pertain to the dispensation of Grace. We have it in the Roman letter, we have it in the Colossian letter, we have it in the Ephesian letter. Paul refers to it over and over as a mystery, but notice how the Lord closes the dispensation. When we come to Revelation 10, even the Lord uses Paul’s own term, “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets. My point is this, When you determine to build something, you should know what you are hoping to obtain, so when it comes to a scriptural revelation, you are hoping to obtain a finished picture, so you look for a product which is composed of many scriptures. It is just like a man that is going to build a house, if he does not have a blue print to go by, and there are trucks that bring two by four’s and two by sixes, and this and that onto the lot, if he has no plan, nothing to go by, do you just start nailing two by four’s together because they are there? Nine times out of ten you will not even wind up with anything you would want to use as a dog house if you do. In other words you would just simply wind up with a mess, and a terrible waste of good lumber. Therefore I say to you this morning, We have many scriptures to look at in these last days. Behind me, is a chart we use to more clearly illustrate what we are presenting to you. We have used it in many ways, but I want to point out to you this morning, that from this point right here, to this point over here, we have enlarged that span, because that shows the week of Daniel in a large, more easy to read form. Back through here, we show the age of Grace for all who believe and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ, all the way back to 33 A.D., because all the scriptures in the Bible give you and me a little insight, like, what is to be, and especially what is to take place here in the end time of that grace period. Through the years I have heard preachers say, When the time comes, the antichrist is going to make a covenant with Israel for a week. The antichrist will allow Israel to build the temple and so forth. That is just the way they put it. They just assume that everybody ought to understand it. Brothers and Sisters: you cannot show me one verse of scripture in the Bible where the antichrist does that. He is not the one that allows Israel to build the temple. However we do have to realize, that all scriptures pertaining to this subject have to be brought into the picture in order to get the picture right. The best way I can think of to deal with this is to go to the end of the picture, where we can begin to see the picture as it is in the end time, and then take it and go backward until we have covered it all.

THE JEWISH TEMPLE OF THE FUTURE

If you have your Bibles, open up with me to Revelation 11. At this time John is on the Isle of Patmos and is being dealt with in the Spirit, and God is giving him this insight by visions. The Jewish temple that John grew up to know has already been laying in demolished ruins for about twenty six years. No doubt that caused John many times to think, What is the possibility of the temple ever being rebuilt? Where, when, and how, he might have thought? So here he is in the 11^th chapter, just think, the Jewish temple was in ruins at this time, the Jews have been scattered here and yon. In Verse 1, we read these words of John. “And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.” So he is being given a picture of something that is to be built in the future. If he can measure it, we have to realize it is going to be a fact that the temple will be built. Verse 2, “But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; (The court covers about thirty one acres) for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.” Well brothers and sisters, that is the last half of the week, beginning right here and onward. (Pointing to middle of the seventieth week on the chart). In the 3^rd verse we read, “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.” You will find this in Zechariah the 4^th chapter. Now verse 5, “And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.”I want to say at this time, It is utterly impossible for anybody to believe, that just because Bro. Branham said there are three and one half years left to the Jews, that this is all that is left of that seventieth week. It is absolutely impossible for you to fit all that is left to be fulfilled, into just three and one half years. The first three and a half years are when the Jews will hear the two prophets prophesying in the streets of Jerusalem. That is when their revival takes place. Those Jewish prophets are absolutely going to prophesy for three and one half years with no obstruction. Then they are killed and the other three and a half years are going to be a time of great tribulation. When will the Jews have their revival? In the first half of that week of years. It is then in the middle of the week that the antichrist rises up and breaks this covenant agreement, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the building of the temple. It is a monetary and peace thing that he has made an agreement with many nations about. I will say this also, There are a lot of people today, saying that Jesus can come at any time. That is as wrong as wrong can be. He can come for me personally tonight, but it will be in death: He is not coming for you in the rapture until everything in this Bible is fulfilled right on up the line to that point. Verse 6, “These (the two prophets) have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.” That is not going to take place over here in the last part of the week, because in the last part of the week is when the antichrist is in charge. He breaks this overall covenant period, right here, (in the middle of the week) he kills the two prophets at that time right in the middle of the week. Then he enters the temple and breaks the covenant and the sacrifice. For three and one half years or forty two months, he is going to make the world worship him as a god. Therefore there is no possible way you can take all this and wrap it all up in only three and one half years. “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. ⁸And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” This is not the United Nations. This United Nations is nothing but a decoy. It is an instrument of the devil to blind people and mislead them, taking them completely away from scriptural reality. Last night, I woke up about one o’clock and realized I was not going to go back to sleep. I went into the other room and turned on the Fox News. There was a program on, which was all about the Muslim terrorists in America right now. A senator from the state of Colorado was being interviewed. A man and his wife that live along the Mexican border on a ranch, told what has been going on for the past number of years. They even showed the camera with infrared lens, watching people cross over a fence and go through the brush. The man that owns this land said, They cross my property, but if I was to take a gun and shoot them, they would have me in jail. Then the senator from Colorado said they are in this country by the thousands and so far there seems to be nothing we can do about it. I am saying that to say this, America itself, and this includes Canada, and Mexico, has sold out to the devil. We are having a raging hell going on here, and politicians and educators do not even realize why, or what to do about it.

FACING THE REALITY OF THIS AGE OF EVIL

For the past number of years certain ones have wanted to change this new world into a multi-cultural society. They have introduced all kinds of evil into our institutions, preparing and setting the stage. We are no longer that great land of the free and home of the brave that we once were. We are fast becoming a land that is being sold out to the evil forces of hell. You cannot raise your voice in dissent against it without subscribing to trouble you do not want. If you express yourself against all this, they accuse you of propagating hate. We have a society here in America right now, that no longer have the morals and decent principals our former generation stood for. They grow up in our institutions of learning without ever learning anything about common decency and politeness. They cannot say thank you. They have no principals left. They cannot say Excuse me, sir; It is just dog eat dog and hog eat hog. They live like the devil and act like their way is the only way. Where is the old principal of the American person, those whose word is as good as a signed contract? They do not exist any more. When our modern world of education and leadership are doing what they are doing, do you not realize how that fits right into the scriptures? This sets the stage for the coming of the Lord, as we read in Revelation 19 and 20 where it plainly tells you there, the heavens were opened and there is the sign of His coming, with His Bride and all the saints riding white horses; and then what follows. Down here on earth, here is the beast, the false prophet, and here are the kings of the earth, every last one of them, because they do not want to believe in a God of supernatural power and authority. You know this is true, and you know why. It is because the Christian voice has been shut up. We used to have people in the F. B. I. forty years ago, that at least many of them were men with moral standards of decency. I have read the testimony of many of them, how they have resigned from the force because they refuse to tell lies and make cover ups for things that were going on. Do you think anyone today, is going to believe me just because I said it. No. I am just a little unimportant person down here in this huge society, but I will say this, They have shut up the voice of the Christian people in America, but they are not going to shut God up when He is ready to move upon the scene. From Europe to America, in every political place, in every institution of learning, all that is on most mind’s any more, is materialism, science, fiction, evolution, socialism. If that devilish system called the United Nations was allowed to take over and run this world for the next forty years, this world would be run by a dictatorial bureaucracy. Nothing but reprobates from the forces of hell would run it and operate it. The citizens would only be puppets to support a regime that has lost all principals. When I listened to this certain program last night, the senator from Colorado testified how the Mexican people are here by the thousands, but we don’t know where they are because our immigration officials have been under orders for the past number of years now, according to this new U.N. idea, we want to make America a multi-cultural nation, so we bring in the Hindu, the Muslim and so forth. When you let that Muslim spirit in, you bring in the traitors that are going to blow you out of your bed one morning, and you politicians should know that. Don’t you think you can let them in here by the thousands because their motto is, There will be no atheist where they are. You do not find atheists in Saudi Arabia. How many realize that? There was none in Iraq either. But this western world is running over with them, simply because we are setting the stage for the fulfillment of scriptures and the coming of the Lord. It had to be this way. Then they turn right around and say this Bible is a myth? Is it? Then why are they demonstrating today for same sex marriage? That is Sodom and Gomorrah coming right out of hell. America was not that way forty years ago and you know it. Let me get back to my main subject though. I am reading to you the end picture of what is supposed to happen in the nation of Israel when the week of Daniel is set in motion. Until then, something has to come along to set it in motion, force it, and compel it to become an absolute. Therefore I am saying this morning, We have to read and analyze every scripture that is in the Bible pertaining to that time and ask, Where does this one go: where does this one fit into the picture? You just simply cannot throw these scriptures around anywhere you might think they fit. You cannot use Revelation 11 and Revelation 7, and 1^st Thessalonians the 4^th chapter, then 2^nd Thessalonians, and Daniel 9:27, and say this is how the Lord is coming. That is child’s play. It fits the religious world out there, but it does not fit into a revelation revealed by the Spirit of God. You turn to the programs on television today, here is this minister and his wife, they are both talking backwards and forwards, how much do they pay for that half hour, saying, We have a ministry of healing marital problems. Like my foot they do! Then who is this well known TV evangelist, I forget the name, now he is advertising and he has already sold ten thousand tapes, because he is telling the people, if they have ever had a pet that has died, don’t worry about it, you are going to see it in heaven. Yes he has sold ten thousand tapes dealing with this. If that is all this modern world of religion has got to talk about, that proves to you we are at the end. We have a society today, that does not want to know the truth. They do not want to be told, Pack your clothes! (That is just a term I will use), because the coming of the Lord is drawing nigh. Everything we see taking place in this world is preparing the stage of human society, putting everything in place for that great event. Therefore if this seventieth week is to start by the two prophets prophesying to the Jews in Israel, then something has got to take place in this world to initiate that era of time, that week. It is not coming from the pope of Rome. We cannot say it does without ignoring other scriptures. John has already been shown the end picture, that the temple will be in the process of being built, and will be measured. But the court without will be left out for a period of time. There is a reason for that. Turn with me to Daniel 9:27. It is a very familiar scripture. “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: (Notice that “he” is with a small letter, not a capital letter. But in verses 25 and 26 when it is talking about the Prince of Peace, that is in a capital letter. He shall confirm the covenant with many. Is that “many” individual people? No. It is many nations. For how long? For one week.) and in the midst of the week he (not the Prince of Peace, but it is he, the false prince) shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” Should we just say, Yes there is going to be a temple built, so the antichrist comes along, and he is going to make a covenant, but who all does this involve? A better question is Why? Does every nation stick their hand out and sign this? I hardly think so. Number one, the temple cannot be built until something comes along that initiates a period of time that necessitates there to be an agreement involved. Yes, the antichrist will initiate this covenant period. But keep in mind that this building of the temple requires that there be something set in motion before that. What will that be? Turn with me to Micah. It is a little prophecy. This is the sad part, I have heard many preachers preach it from their natural interpretation, just like they have Ezekiel 38. When we came home from the war, it was not long until we heard preachers began to preach, because Russia stood out in the picture at the closing of WW2, they were saying, Russia is in the largest horse breeding program they have ever been in, because it says in Ezekiel 38 and 39, how that great armada of Russia will come with many horses. Do you mean to tell me that a massive army like that is going to come down the road toward Israel on about ten thousand horses? Some of these automatic controlled airplanes with a few rockets would blow something like that all to pieces. Think seriously now brothers and sisters, as you read these scriptures. What the Old Testament prophet spoke of, you have got to realize, today when that military means is transferred into modern language, it is horsepower, modern technological horsepower. Here, is a scripture that goes along with this about building the temple. Micah 7 has been laying here for centuries, and preachers did not even look at it. They treated it as though it was not relevant. We will start in the 11^th verse. “In the day (That means, that period of time.) that thy walls (What walls? Any old walls? No. It is the walls of the temple and the city. I am talking about both. They have got to go on at the same time because this is also a picture in the scriptures.) are to be built, (there is a specific time in the plan of God) in that day shall the decree be far removed.” That decree is recorded in Deuteronomy 28. God told the children of Israel long before they ever came into the land, when the day comes that you turn away from my word, my commandments, I will send chastisement upon you and I will drive you to the four corners of the earth. (That is how I read it.) And the day will come, you will say in these isolated places, Would to God it was night. Then when night comes, you will say, Would to God it was day. Because you will live in fear. You will be persecuted. You will be tossed about. Amos 9, plainly says this, I will sift the house of Israel through all nations as a corn is sifted through a sieve. All sinners will fall by the sword. But there are those elected ones, He intends those of that generation of the end time, they are going to be the ones He will bring back home to fulfill the scriptures. Alright, “In that day also he shall come (meaning the Jew) even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.” In other words, no matter where he is on this globe, He is going to come back to Israel. Well we can say this, Since WW2, since the Jewish holocaust, there has been thousands of Jews from different parts of the world that have come back to Israel, but there are multitudes out there yet today, that are the final ones to come back; and they are the descendants of the house of David. They are the ones to live in Jerusalem. That is why it is referred to as the city of David. It is just not any Jew that lives in old Jerusalem. About two thirds of Jerusalem right now, is occupied by the Arabs. There is one Jewish quarter. Now look what our politicians are doing. They are saying, Guarantee them a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. The Bible never prophesied that, so you see, That is anti-scripture. That fits right into the New World Order philosophy. I will finish reading here now. We are definitely looking at a specific era of time that God has set in His mind to do something. Therefore He says, In that period of time He will come. Notice the 13^th verse, it speaks of those that have made the land desolate and waste through all the centuries. “Notwithstanding (however) the land shall be desolate (unoccupied) because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.” That has been the Palestinian Arabs for hundreds and hundreds of years. Now the prophecy really starts, so notice Verse 14, “Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, (They are not there today, but they will be.) as in the days of old.” That time is coming. Well, Bro. Jackson, that will take many years. It does not take God half as long as you may think. Look what He did in the Six Day War of 1967. Did it take six weeks or six months? No. He did it in six days. Did He not? Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, the Israeli army literally wiped them up. As I read all this to you, try to keep in mind, we are not talking about some era of time that is going to constitute fifteen or twenty years, because it is not Gentiles that is going to do this: It is God using the Israeli people. You talk to some of these preachers about this and you hear, Oh no, that is all irrelevant to time. It is not irrelevant! God is going to show this modern world how wise He is, and how He can use the children of Israel to bring their wisdom to naught. Yes saints, just notice how God compares this era of time, when it starts. “According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt (He refers them back to a former deliverance.) will I shew unto him (meaning Israel) marvellous things. The nations (That literally means all the educated, scientific, modern nations that have all their rockets to boast of and all their play toys on Mars. Our scientists with their long hair, want our president to give them eight billion more dollars to play up there with. What good does it do you and me? It has never put an ounce of bread on anybody’s table yet. Tell me what good it has done. Since WW2, we have run a race with the enemy of nations, but it is all scientific. It has not done anybody on this planet one ounce of good. None of that will ever sweep the dirt out of your house, and neither will it heat your house in the winter time when it is cold outside. None of this will ever put any bread on your table to feed your children: It just gives a bunch of long haired scientists an opportunity to take your tax dollar and spend it to play with something out in space. Listen to this, The nations...) shall see.” I want you to think about this, When the spies came into Jericho and talked to Rahab, what did she tell those spies? When we heard that you people had crossed the Red Sea, our hearts did melt within us. It has been a long time since anybody in this world has seen something like that, but I am going to say this and you can write it down, If you live until the rapture, you are going to see the hand of God use Israel to surprise a bunch of educated people that think they can run anything and everything their own way. For the last fifty years, as God began to take His hand off the American society, what has happened? Out went prayer, out went the name of Jesus, out went the Bible from the vocabulary of the American people. America is no longer a Christian oriented nation. There are people within the nation that are Christians, but that does not make the government or educators Christians. America has become just like much of the rest of the world, science, fiction, socialistic and materialistic. That is why I say, Let the United Nations run another forty years, and this whole world society would wind up under a bureaucratic dictatorialship, not by one man, but by a system. To show you how the enemy works, Last night they said our coast guard ships in the Caribbean stopped a boat from Peru South America and confiscated two hundred and forty million dollars worth of cocaine. Peru and Columbia South America are the two largest dope exporters to the United States. If we had a government like we had back in the 1930's when some made illegal liquor, it would be different: They stopped all of that, because they went about to make an end to it, and they did exactly that. Now we have a bunch of judges and lawyers that have to feed their pocketbooks by taking payoffs. Well God says through this prophet, and think of it, this was seven hundred years before the advent of Christ, but this prophet was made to look down through time and see what God would do in this era of time. He compares it to the days of Joshua. The nations, America, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Germany, France, Italy, all the rest of them. When the gospel left Jerusalem two thousand years ago, it came into Asia, which was Turkey. Look what Turkey is today, Muslim. Then it came into the Grecian area, then through Mesopotamia, finally it lands in Europe. Europe became the main embracer of Christianity. It has went through every nation over there and now they have sold out to the devil just like the rest. America is the last major, western, national power, and we have done the same thing. You cannot get a politician to discuss the subject. They do not believe in it. Oh we have a president who knows how to pray to Jesus. That is religion. If he really had a heart felt taste of what they refer to as religion, I say he would have to raise his voice more and more about some of these prophetic things in the scriptures. He would never even dare to point the finger and say, Sharon, you adopt the road to peace plan. I believe he would have Sharon come over here and talk about the Bible. Those poor Jews today, are suffering because of the blindness of their leaders. I know we have some Jewish listeners over the internet, so allow me to say these things, I will never say anything negative about you poor innocent people that want to see peace in your land, but remember your forefathers that were carried out of Jerusalem almost six hundred years before the advent of Christ, were taken to Babylon and treated like slaves, and worked along the river cleaning brush and debris. It was not the average Jew: it was the politicians that were responsible. It is the same way today. It is the politicians that want to make friends with all the rest of the world politicians and try to make the world a better place. There is no such thing as any of us being able to do anything to make the world a better place. The only time the Bible says there will be peace on this earth is when Jesus Christ is ruling and reigning for one thousand years. Peace is not going to be brought by President Bush or any other politician. I am a Christian. I believe what the Bible says. We are Christians, we do not carry guns, we do not carry dynamite, bombs, or anything like that. Our only effective weapon is our prayers. One of these days our prayers are going to pay off. Therefore I will say to the politicians, You politicians in Washington D.C., you are going to tremble at what is ahead. Not because of me, but because the God we serve is going to shake all things. He plainly says right here, “The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: (Oh, look what we have got. Yes.) they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth.” (Keep in mind saints, This is not holes in the ground, that this is referring to: It is holes of humiliation, because God is going to humiliate them to the last degree. He is going to put all of them down. That is God’s promise. They shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth.) they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee.” I will never forget 1967, in the month of June, while we were in the process of finishing up this building. Bro. Mayfield carried a little radio with him, and he sat it there on the corner, so we could hear the war News from Israel. On the last day of that war, all of a sudden they broke in on the regular program saying, We break into this program to bring you this News from the Middle East. The Arabs have sent word that they now surrender to Israel. You know saints, for a week after that, all you could hear was politicians and diplomats of the higher rank, more than one, saying, on the radio, that it had to be an act of God, because Israel was out-manned, out-gunned, out-planed, out-tanked and everything. This modern world today, think God has gone to sleep. I assure you, He has not gone to sleep. He has just let this world, for the last fifty years, have their own way. He is letting them fulfill the scriptures. Then, when God does reach down and strike with His awesome hand, that is when they are going to wake up and realize God still rules from the heavens. It tells us right here in this Bible, there is going to be an era of time when God is going to see that Israel does something to bring about the opportunity for the temple and the city of Jerusalem to be rebuilt. It is not going to be any little old six day war. God intends for this thing to be of such a magnitude that it causes nations the world over, to stop in their tracks and realize what has happened. Right now they are planning on doing this and that, but when God does what He has said He will do, there is going to be a short period of time when they are all going to do exactly what God wants done. That is why I can say to you today, We have got to get every scripture in its rightful place. We just do not nail these prophecies up anywhere we want them: God has His exact time for each one to be fulfilled. During this seventieth week of Daniel, there will be no wars fought by Israel. Israel will fight no wars beyond that week of Daniel in the Millennium either. All wars the Bible mentions that are to be fought concerning this period, has to take place before the last week of Daniel’s prophecy opens up. Well Bro. Jackson, all of that will surely involve a long period of time. No, it will not. Look what Israel did in six days, back in 1967. She is going to do it again in a greater magnitude. That is what the Bible says. You may say, Well I don’t see how she can do that again. Well if God lets you live until the rapture, you will have seen it. Now God says right here, As it was in the days when He brought them out of Egypt, you read it in Joshua, it tells you what happened. So God is going to do it again. This is the preparation stage to get things ready for there to be a time period initiated for the building of the temple. In order to do that, we have to realize God is going to make some changes. When you look at all the Arab, Islamic world right now, you see Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, all of that, and Syria, every bit of which is Muslim. I want you to know, this concerns a scripture that plainly tells us there cannot be any building of a temple as long as you have Saudi Arabia sitting right down there secretly dictating certain things to a lot of espionage dedicated Muslims. First off, I have heard some Jews say, when we were over there, Well some of the people are praying that God will drop a new temple out of heaven. Isn’t that some way to pray? That is just like the weak minded politicians, their way of looking at things. He did not do that for the first one, nor that way when it was time for the second one; and I can assure you, It will not be done that way when it is time for the next one to be built. He is not going to do anything different concerning this third temple than what He has recorded right here in our Bibles. Our Bible, if we look at the scripture right, gives you in detail, the picture of what will take place in that time. It plainly tells you in Micah that in the days leading up to when the walls are to be built, that is when God will show His miraculous power, but what does that involve? It involves some warfare, and it is not going to have the United States hooked into it. It is going to be strictly an Israeli affair. They can handle this one without any help from the United states of America.

GOD’S DESIGN FOR THE END TIME

Open your Bibles with me, to Zechariah 12. This brings us to the trouble that constitutes this entire thing. This prophecy has been laying here for many, many centuries. People have read it, preachers have ignored it, but if we want to know what to look for, we need to pay attention to all that God has had His prophets write for this last day wrap up. Most of those who have read this scripture have treated it like it is irrelevant. I just want to say this, When we looked at the end picture this morning, in Revelation 11 and you put the 7^th chapter with that, God is going to seal those Jews there with an outpouring of His Spirit. That is what the seal is all about. Right? Well this picture I am going to draw you here, speaks about the same thing. There cannot be two or three different eras of God pouring out His Spirit in this way. It has got to point to one particular period of time. Each one has to fall in the order that it is designated for. If there is eventually going to be a building of walls, something has got to arise prior to that, to initiate the condition for it to be done. That is what we are reading here. In the 2^nd verse we will read, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about.” Now all the people round about does not refer to the nations: It points to the Arabs. It is the Arab, Muslim world that is causing the Jewish people a problem. Every last one of them are against the Jew having Jerusalem back. A few weeks ago our President, George Bush, committed himself to a statement of something he wants to accomplish while in office. He is in hopes that he can help eventually, to establish a democracy in every Arab country in the Middle East. I saw this on Fox News. Egypt takes that up with Saudi Arabia. They discuss this with the rest of the Arab world. All the Arab world rejects this idea. They will not allow their societies to become a democracy. They have said it, but let us just see how God looks at it. We every one know, that He knows how to do things the average man cannot do. Let us not sit back and say, Well, and scratch our heads and say, It could be, it is possible. In that day, what day? 1500? 1600? 1700? 1800? No, it is a specific day, a period of time the prophecy points to, as God said, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling. What has been going on for the last three years in Jerusalem. Anti-Semitism from Europe and everywhere. The whole Arab world is against Jerusalem being back in the hands of the Jews. They will say, Give it to the Palestinians. They are all for that, but God said, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all them round about. That is the Muslim world. They are against the idea of Jerusalem ever belonging to the Jews. I want to say to the Jews that would be listening. You are living in a day when this cup of trembling is not going to last too much longer. Let me finish the verse, “when they shall be in the siege (This is not a military siege: it is a political, a diplomatic setup. That is what you have been seeing in the past number of years.) both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day (the same period of time) will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: (Now this points to the nations. America, Europe, all the nations that involve themselves with this situation.) all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” Diplomatically, politically, not militarily. This lets us know the whole world has got to get involved and speak their piece about it. They have all done it. Well let us just see what God does about it. “In that day, (the same period of time) saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, (Oh, so there is going to be horses used? That is the old military language. This was prophesied some five hundred years before Christ. Therefore we have to transpose this military image to a modern day setting. He said, I will smite every horse with astonishment, so in other words, every military horse of the enemy, I will make him mad. When that happens, a horse gets scared. You cannot control it. He rears up. He is bent on one thing, getting rid of his rider and heading for tall timber because he is afraid.) and his rider with madness: (Now transpose that to tanks and enemy airplanes.) and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, (There comes a specific time when God will not let President Bush, Clinton, or any other politician dictate the terms of Israel’s position. God is going to point the finger the way He wants to do it. ) and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.” This lets us know, God guarantees the enemy will become as nothing. Some might say, Well, I do not see how that can be possible. Well, you just stick around a while and you will see. Did you know, in 1973 when Syria and Egypt struck Israel again on the day of atonement, by a surprise, our guide told us when we were over there, the Syrians came out of their area catching Israel, because Israel had turned most all their armament against the Egyptians. The Syrian tanks proceeded across and was coming down this certain highway towards Jerusalem. The commander of this armored outfit suddenly stopped, because he met no opposition. He said, I fear we are moving into a trap. He gave the order to reverse, and back home they went. Now I will say this. It takes more than a President Bush to do that. God can do that, Right?“And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, (This doesn’t sound like Sharon talking, does it? ) The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God.” In other words, somewhere, God is going to put upon the heart of the leaders, what to do and when to do it. They are going to stop playing politics with anyone and do what is to be done. They are going to begin to say, When we put Jerusalem first and the restoration of Jerusalem to the inhabitants of the Jews, God will fight for us. That starts it. “In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an heart of fire among the wood, (Oh my, this is just the opposite of what Sharon has been. Like a hearth of fire. Wow! I would like to see that! When every word they say catches fire and the enemy begins to pay. It has not been that way for a long time now. That lets us know God has a way of changing the minds of politicians. He has a plan and a purpose, and a time appointed for every purpose. It is going to be fulfilled regardless of whether President Bush or anyone else agrees with it.) and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, (All the Arabs. Oh Bro. Jackson, I cannot see a war like that ever taking place. Well, stick around. I am going to point the finger and say, What did I tell you! They shall devour all the people round about, and that is Arabs.) on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.” By who? Jews. How can you prove that? You have to go to Isaiah 49. It plainly tells you they will come from the north and the south, the east and the west. Zion said, Where are my children? But in that day when they come by the masses, it plainly tells you in that 49^th chapter of Isaiah, they will come into Gilead. Well, that is across the river, and there is no place found, meaning there are no dwellings. I have to say, When God does this thing, you just sit back and watch. God is not going to take fifteen or twenty years to do what we Gentiles have politically wasted our time and money trying to do. What does all this lead to, Bro. Jackson? As all of this is constituted and Jerusalem is cleared away from the Palestinians, and the Jew are able to come back to live in it, then the 10^th verse is the end of the picture. “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications.” That takes you right into the seventieth week of Daniel. There it is (drawn out on this chart) right in here. From right in here somewhere, is a short period of time before that, when God is going to cause the Jews to do all that we have been talking about. We have got people today sitting back in their easy chairs, playing tapes, reading books, just waiting for the rapture to come. Well I am too, but I have sense enough to know the rapture is not going to precede everything else we are talking about. God has a time and a way it is going to come about. So as it says in the 10^th verse, God is going to pour out His Spirit. When? Where? Not until in the first half of that week. That lines up with the 11^th chapter, does it not? Then, when you read the 49^th chapter of Isaiah, it tells about the Jews coming by mass numbers, and it plainly tells you there, concerning the geological spot, which is Jerusalem. Twice, it says that in the 49^th chapter, and they, (They is a plural word.), that made thee waste, or desolate, shall be far removed. What does that tell you? All those Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians, all of them are going to be shipped out of there, back across the river to where their ancient forefathers came from. There never was a Palestinian state. There was a Philistine state, but not a Palestinian state. How many realize that? There is a difference. As we look at this in front of us, just be aware of the fact that God is going to change the order one of these days soon, of how things are going to start clicking together. Here it tells how the governors of Judah are going to be like a torch of fire. But let us endeavor to see that in operation. Let us be prepared to see all of it in action.

HOW GOD LED THE ISRAELI FLYERS IN THE SIX DAY WAR

Go with me now, to Zephaniah 2. This is going to be a miracle war of such proportion, it is literally going to shake the societies of the western world and all the way into the Orients. God has a purpose in it and a reason. I have never forgotten how these great men after the Six Day War, for days after that they just commented, and stated empathically, that God was in it. God was in it; We all know that, but six months later, they had just about all shut up and never said anymore about God doing anything. Well saints, I talked to some of those Jewish soldiers that were in that Six Day War. They remembered it well. When we went over there in 1968, two of them were our guides. They said, You know, when the Egyptian army was coming up through the Judaean mountains in the desert, the Israeli aircraft, as they would leave the airports in Israel, those pilots would go out over the Mediterranean real low, down below where radar would be able to pick them up. Then they would go west to Cairo, and come up and back over the Egyptian fortifications, bombing their airstrips and everything as they went, then they headed back up through the Sinai where the highways were filled with Egyptian troops that were going toward the front. When they captured some of those Egyptian soldiers, the Egyptian soldiers told them, that even though they were traveling in brand new Russian military trucks, as the Israeli airplanes would come up behind them, something happened to all those trucks. All the ignitions on those new trucks went dead. The truck drivers did not have time to take them off the road or anything. They stopped right in the middle of the road. They had to bail out and flee from the bombing of their trucks. Those planes came in there and sprayed those trucks setting all of them on fire. That is how come the Israeli army was able to capture a lot of the Egyptian soldiers. Those Egyptian soldiers began to have testimonies about how, as they would surround certain Jews in certain spots, some of them saw angelic beings standing in the midst of Jewish soldiers. One testimony was, that as the Egyptian soldiers watched at a distance, they saw this angel standing there, looking out at the Egyptian enemy, and there were just a few Israeli soldiers right around him. He would drop his hand, and it was like a streak of fire would go off the end of it toward the Egyptians. Again he would do the same thing, until before long, the Egyptian soldiers would throw their hands up in the air and surrender. I am just telling you what I heard. I will never forget, We talked to a Rabbi in October 1968, and he said, Gentlemen, in the synagogue where I go, there was an old Jewish man that stood up one Sabbath morning and said, Gentlemen, our nation is going to war and it will be over in six days. In exactly six days it was over. You would think that the Israeli government would publicize all this, but did they? No! I am saying all of this to say, If there are some of those students in the Hebrew University listening to me, just know this, When God does this, no politician is going to be able to keep it quiet, because the way He will publicize it, the whole world is going to see it. God is going to make the politicians realize, I am still sovereign and in control of all these things, I will exalt and I will abase, I will put up and I will put down. He has a time frame for it all. He is going to see that every scripture in the Bible is fulfilled precisely. When we look at Zephaniah, the 2^nd chapter, it plainly tells you what is ahead. Israel, for the past few weeks, has been talking about giving up the settlements in the Gaza area. A lot of the conflict has been in the Gaza area. They talk like they want to get out of the Gaza area completely, and turn it over to the Palestinians. But when we read this 2^nd chapter, which I am only going to read the first part of, because it is an introduction to a time period, we are able to get the picture. “Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger come upon you. Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, (This is a universal warning, Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth.) which have wrought (or seen) his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger. (Because this era of time that God does this, He is going to show some anger through using Israel to execute a very devastating blow to the Middle East.) For Gaza (that is the Gaza Strip) shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon (This is an ancient city of the Gaza Strip.) a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. (It will not take Israel long to do it.) Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. (In other words, there has always been flocks of goats and sheep there in the past number of years by the Arabs, but the Jews are not going to take it over and just let all this stuff stay there. They are going to move in with their own possessions. That is how we have to read the scriptures here.) And the coast (that is the whole Gaza area) shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the Lord their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.” Now that is a military blow by the Israeli army in the Gaza strip. I will say this, They will not be one whole day doing it. You have already seen what they have done in the Gaza Strip in a few short hours. This time, when they go in, they are going in to clean house and it will be theirs forever. Now God’s prophecy points across the river where these Palestinians all came from in ancient times. “I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, (That is Israel.) and magnified themselves against their border. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, (In other words, Israel is going to go across the Jordan River.) even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.” Now let me say this before I read the 11^th verse. A lot of people think this is just going to be some small military action. God has something in mind; and the time is getting close. That is why I say. When we see the stage set in this world for the eventual building of the temple and the Jews coming back, it constitutes God doing something with this military ability to open the eyes of many people. I will say this also, That temple is not all going to be built by Jews. No. Let us look at this 11^th verse. “The Lord will be terrible unto them: for He will famish (famish means to dry up) all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship Him, every one from his place, even all the isles (or the borders) of the heathen.” Which means Gentiles. Therefore when this military strike starts, God has an objective to obtain in it all. It is going to be conducted in such a way that the world will know God is with Israel. Just look at the day when the television is forecasting the News around the world from country to country. When God begins to show His might with a little army of people called the Jews, it will be just like the Jews were back in the days when they marched around the walls of Jericho with Joshua. That was a small contingent of people, but look what God did. If God is going to do the same thing, He will take a little nation of people, the Jews, and when He starts them across that river, every prophecy that has ever been written of old as to what God would do to this and that and so forth, in that day it will go into motion. This is the beginning of the death stroke that God will use Israel, with her military stroke, to hit the whole Islamic, Arab world. God will use that to kill that Islamic spirit. Well, I don’t see it that way Bro. Jackson. Stick around then. You evidently do not even believe what you read in the Bible. Not only when Israel crosses over does she do that to Jordan, she is then going to turn south to Egypt. When we read this, In that day Egypt will become like women and the governors of Judah shall be a terror to them in that, insomuch that one city in Egypt will be called the city of destruction, I think that pretty well describes what is ahead. When God does turn Israel loose in that period of time, they are going to fight and take land just about as fast as a tank can drive. There is going to be divine intervention by angelic beings that will come upon the scene and as it says in Daniel 12, In that day Michael will stand up, the prince of my people. Every one whose names is written in the book shall be delivered. You never see Michael, except when he is involved in warfare. You have never seen a war of this nature. The Six Day War was just a little foretaste, but this one will be one that caps the stone. In the far lands of the Orient, I can see Hindu students, Buddha students, Chinese, Japanese, that are going to college somewhere to get a better education on how to be a constructive engineer in building. When they look at the television and see the hand of God using a little nation of people, to do what looks so impossible that God could even do it, it is going to change a lot of minds. All those satellites will be zeroed in on this episode. College students who never knew a thing about Israel in ancient times, when this thing is over, and they begin to hear the Jews are ready to build their temple, here will come newly educated ex-Hindus, and ex-Buddhists, all out of nations that never had diplomatic relationship with Israel at all. It says in Isaiah 60, And the sons of strangers, notice, Sons of strangers, totally in the past, un-recognizable by Israel, but they are going to see this and want to help the Jews build their temple. Israel will not have to pass the hat and take up a collection. We have plenty of scriptures to prove this. Israel will not pass a hat from kings to magistrates. For a small period of time, God is going to let this world shudder. He says He will milk the breasts of the Gentiles and they will minister to Israel. When? For the rebuilding. And the sons of strangers will come from many places, saying, I want to help. Keep in mind, the temple that is to be built in this hour is going to be the Millennial temple, and the Lord Himself will sit in it, so why should the whole world not want a part in it? I assure you, they will. As we are reading from Zephaniah the 2^nd chapter, we need to remember that when this conflict starts, with Israel dealing with the Palestinians, I want to say, Just try to imagine, that this is not going to be some kind of conventional war. It is going to be a miracle setting from beginning to end. When you read after the politicians of today, they say they are going to strike the terrorist movement. I ask you, Are they really going to do that? Do they not realize every bit of this terrorism has come from the Muslim religions? They have been planing for the last number of years to set this thing in motion, so they are well organized and all have one goal, which is to destroy as much as they can of this nation and its population. They exalt their Mohammad. Who was this Mohammad? He was a descendant of the Midians. Who were they? They were descendants of one of the sons of Keturah, Genesis 25, where it tells that Abraham took another wife. All those sons were born of her. When Abraham began to designate his wealth and his possessions, he sent every one of these eastward. That meant across the Jordan River and from there on into Saudi Arabia. That Muslim religion today, no matter what the politicians tell you, is not a peaceful religion. Of course there can be individuals within it that have no violent intentions in their heart, but they are of the minority element. They are not the ones that control it nor motivate it. It is all motivated strictly by aggressive elements of leadership. Every bit of this started in Saudi Arabia many years ago. Slowly but surely they have moved into every area of the ancient world where Christendom first started. When Christendom began to go into apostasy, Mohammad’s religion moved in and took over. That is why Turkey today is strictly Muslim. Then it moved on into Bosnia. This conflict that was going on over there and has been going on for many years, was between the Muslims and Eastern Orthodox people. It is solely a religious setting. Our politicians of the western world may think they are smart. I could give them credit if they would only acknowledge that God is the author of the Bible. Even many of those who will acknowledge that, have no real concept of what these prophecies point to.

GETTING A PREVIEW OF WHAT IS AHEAD

It is not my purpose to offend anyone tonight, but I have to say, God knew every bit of this evil we have been hearing and reading about was coming to the forefront in these last days. That is why He let His prophets in ancient times, pick up the binoculars that could look on down into the future tense and begin to see the conditions that would develop in the last days. They wrote and said, Thus saith the Lord, such and such and such. Look at our western world today from Europe to America, how things are. America was the last nation on earth that ever had access to the gospel, and the leadership professed their faith and belief in the Creator and our Savior Jesus the Christ. Little by little they died off and a new bunch took over. The new ones today want nothing to do with what our ancient fathers that founded this nation, America, years ago, had. They are strictly an element of unbelievers, scientific minded people in important places any more, that have no need of a supernatural God, they think. I have nothing against a person that wants a decent education, but our professors of education today, God has His finger pointed right at them. When I read this morning from the 7^th chapter of Micah, what did it say? In that day, that is a designated period of time that God has ordained. It stipulates, as it was in the days when He brought them out of Egypt, so again God said He would show Israel great and marvelous things. Verses 15-17, "According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him marvelous things. ¹⁶The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. ¹⁷They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.¹⁶The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.¹⁷They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.” I must keep these scriptures before you, because they are soon to be fulfilled. For hundreds of years men have read about it. They have anticipated and wondered, What can that be like? God said plainly in His written word, what He will do in that day. Look at this, in Zephaniah 2:11, “The LORD will be terrible unto them: for He will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship Him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. When God speaks of heathen, He is not referring to the bunch out there in the south sea islands, nor the interior jungles of Africa. It is this Wall Street bunch that think they are so smart. Many of them sit in Washington D.C. They sit in our high courts and our places of learning. They will come crawling out of their holes with their hands over their mouth’s, marveled, astonished at what is taking place. Now if the prophet, that far back, could see this day, then I have to begin to realize when this era starts, it will not need to last six months or a year. God will not straggle it out like that. He has every intention of killing that Muslim spirit and wiping it off the face of the earth. We are going to study from the scriptures and see how this is going to come about. In Zephaniah 2, it says how Israel will start to clean house. I read it this morning. I am just referring back to it. They start first with the Gaza Strip. I watched the News awhile ago; and today, in the city of Ashdod, which Jews are in control of, two Muslim suicide bombers set bombs off that killed eleven and injured about twenty. Sharon had plans of meeting the Prime Minister of the Palestinians at a certain time, but now he has canceled it. I want to say to the Jews that might be listening over in Israel, It is a shame that your political leaders are strictly unbelievers. They may believe in the Torah, but they do not get the entire picture from the Torah. That is only five books of the Jewish Bible. However there is something in the Torah also, so that if your political leaders really believed in it, they would stop trying to be politicians and begin to put their trust in the God that was their father Abraham’s God. This war will be a miraculous war that is going to cause Dan Rather and all the News Media to have lock jaw. That is the best I can describe what I see ahead. I hope they have a bad case of it. I get so tired of hearing them comment about world problems today, knowing they do not know their foot from a hole in the ground. They think the mentally learned man is going to do this and that and everything will turn out OK. His education is not enough: I want to take you back to WW2, for an example. There were some miracles that took place in WW2, but did the government substantiate it? No, they did not, because they cannot prove it.

WW2 MIRACLES NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE AUTHORITIES

Out in the Pacific, in the later months of WW2, a squadron of navy bombers left an aircraft carrier and took their payload and dropped it on a Japanese island. The Japanese retaliated. One of those bombers suffered a lot of injury in the wing and the tail and also the motor. The story goes, that on the way back to their aircraft carrier, the pilot of this plane began to tell his buddies on either side, I am having a problem, my motor seems to be losing power. Remember, they were not jet planes, they were prop planes. They said, well come along as far as you can. To cut the story short, he kept the communication line open with them all the way, but he could feel the plane begin to lose its power and its altitude. He told them, I fear I am going to have to ditch it. They didn’t wait for him any longer, they went on toward the aircraft carrier. They said, when you reach a point that you have to ditch it, radio us and let us know directions and everything. Those were the last words he had with them. He stayed with the plane until he knew he would have to let it go and bail out. He stayed with it until he was a little above two thousand feet, then he radioed and told his exact location. To show you the miracle, he bailed out at two thousand feet. Back then, they did not carry a life jacket, they just wore a life belt around their waist. The purpose was, on the way down there was a little button they pressed. Immediately the vest was inflated. He pulled the rip chord but his chute did not open. Fear gripped him. Two thousand feet and looking down at the blue water of the Pacific. He pressed the button, but he felt like he would be killed when he hit the water. Yes, hitting the water from two thousand feet is like hitting concrete. That is the normal reaction. He hit the Pacific Ocean and when he came back up, he was still conscious. In just a few minute time the aircraft carrier came into sight. They dipped him out of the water. When they put him in the hospital and x-rayed his legs, the only analysis the doctor had was, It has to be a miracle. When he hit the water feet first, it brought his legs up like that against this belt and that broke each leg. It has never been known that a man fell two thousand feet into water and survived. So God is a miracle God whether a lot of people acknowledge it or not. I am saying these things because when we talk about the miracle war described here in these scriptures I am going to read, it is not a one man episode. The whole world is going to be able to see it. God said so. Why? He is getting fed up with these professors of ignorance teaching our young generation that there is no God. God is going to make fools out of everyone of them. There was another miraculous episode that came from the Pacific. This came from a sailor on an American submarine. They had been under surface for several hours. It was getting late in the evening when they came to surface to recharge their batteries and to give their sailors a chance to go up on deck. The story goes, that they were all on deck that were supposed to be, when all of a sudden there was a strange sound of a Japanese airplane in the distance. Suddenly the word came through, All hands below deck. There was one boy, the one that had charge of the hatch. Down they all went into the hold. Between the top hatch and the floor of the hatch, there is another door. That is to stay open just so long to give him a chance to close the top hatch and then he goes through. But for some reason as he pulled the hatch shut, something would not let these little fingers that come out engage. They were catching on the edge and holding it open. He worked with the wheel and did everything he knew to do. He cried, Oh God, not here, Please. By that time they are under the water, the water is gushing in and hitting him in the face. The ones underneath shut the bottom hatch. Here he is trying his best to fight this wheel while the water was gushing in all around him, filling the hatch area. He cries out, Oh God, not now. An audible voice said, Turn the wheel one more time. He did and it went shut. Then he was able to signal below, everything is alright. Does the government substantiate these things? No, they are just personal testimonies. Our government today, does not want to belittle their knowledge and leadership. It was not that way with our founding fathers, but the more education they get today, the more ignorant they become, and the harder their heart’s become. It is hard for them to believe in anything they cannot find in their books of education. They believe in their science and their toys on Mars and all that junk, but not in a supernatural God of miracles. What good are they going to do up there on some other planet? Do they put bread on a man’s table down here? You know they do not. It is my personal opinion, that nothing has ever come out of the space program worth one pitiful dime to our society. It just gives a bunch of long haired fellows something to play with, and our tax dollars pay for it. In 1968 when we were going to Israel for the first time, we were on an El Al flight out of New York to Tel Aviv. We were sitting there talking about what we expected to see once we got to the land of Israel. We did not know it but there was a man sitting behind us that heard us talking. After awhile he got up and sat down in the seat behind us and said gentlemen, I don’t mean to interrupt your conversation, but I could not help but overhear what you were talking about. He then said, I am a Jew, I am a military man. I was the commander of an armored division that helped drive the Egyptians through the Sinai back across the Suez. He said, I will say the God of the Bible was on our side in that way. He said also, Once the Lord turned the Egyptians around and they were fleeing down through the Sinai desert, we could hardly keep up with them with our tanks. Every once in awhile we would find an opportunity to stop and fire our guns. Many times we would fire our tank guns at the enemy fleeing and we knew we were firing at extreme range, but something gave us the impression that there was an angel up there somewhere taking those projectiles and directing them right to their target. Every one would hit a tank and blow it to pieces. Now gentlemen tell me, How long are you going to be in Israel? We told him. He then said, Well I live in the northern part of Israel. When he was not a commander in the military, he was president of a bank. He said, I invite you to come and see me there. When our tour began to work that way, we contacted him by phone and let him know where we were. He met us at our hotel. We went into the restaurant and had a meal together. He said, I enjoy talking with you gentlemen because I want you to know, the Six Day War we just fought, God was on our side. There were many miracles that took place, insomuch that we knew the God of the scriptures was on our side, like, When we did turn our guns and tanks against the Syrians, we did not stop until we were on the Golan Heights. He said, Much to my surprise, a few months after that, I got a call from a man in Damascus, a Syrian man. He had a large sum of money. This Syrian sat in this man’s presence at his bank and said, We know that your God was on your side, and the day is coming when He is going to fulfill everything for you Jewish people that is promised in your book. He then said, I have brought my wealth and I want to deposit it in your bank, because I want it to be somewhere where it will do somebody some good. That is one kind of miracle, is it not? Nevertheless it was never recorded in government documents. Then during that war there was one Israeli fighter pilot, as they made their bombing run over Egypt, his plane took quite a bit of flack flying back up over the Suez Desert area. He radioed his wing men and said, I am losing altitude, I am going to have to ditch it. So as they flew on, they said when you get ready to ditch it, notify us of your position. But just about that time, he had lost altitude enough that he was ready to ditch the plane. He looked out on his right wing and could see a little fellow sitting there, smiling at him. He did not say anything: he just smiled and motioned to go on. He looked a few times to make sure of what he was looking at, but all that little fellow would do was smile and motion him to go on. All of a sudden, he felt his plane regain its power and he began to take courage. He radioed the base and told them, You may think I am a fool, but I am coming in with a passenger. They already knew he was supposed to ditch the plane. Well he just kept going, and every time he would look at that little fellow, he would only smile and motion for him to go on. Is this recorded in government documents? No. It is an individual’s testimony. That is the way it has been for many centuries. When the pilot radioed the base, that he had a passenger, here came the News Media. They were all out on the runway, getting ready to photograph him and take an interview. You know how the News Media are: they want to know everything. He came in for his landing and taxied down the runway. One minute he looked and the little fellow was there, but the next time he looked, the little fellow was gone. He taxied up and shut the motor off. Here came the crowd. Well I am sorry, he said to them, but my passenger is no longer with me. The miracle is, that he made it home safely. That is one way to talk about miracles. You cannot put that in a story book though, because, who would believe it? First off, if officials in authority will not recognize it, then neither will the News Media. They say they cannot afford to get involved in such mythical happenings. They are supposed to be able to scientifically prove everything. God knows every bit of it from every standpoint. The Bible gives us a description of what is going to take place in the end time, even though it does not tell exactly who is going to shoot who or what, it does say enough to let you know God is looking at that Muslim spirit on that terrorist element, and He is going to get enough of their abuse and killing one day soon. I say to the Jews that might be listening, If you Jewish people would stop reading just your Torah and start reading the entire Old Testament, especially what your prophets have spoken and recorded, you would begin to see something that is up ahead. The God of Abraham is going to be your God in these last days. Everything that has been spoken in the past by His prophets, He is going to fulfill it to the letter. He has let us Gentiles have the gospel of Jesus Christ for two thousand years, but now the Gentile nations have pushed Him in the background to please a lot of godless protesters. They want nothing to do with a sovereign God anymore. The voice of Christendom is fading from our society. We have a society of an arrogant attitude of unbelief, and all the world leaders, including those of Israel, which at present is Sharon, have fallen right into step with that spirit. I have to say to the Jewish people, It is a shame that Sharon, a military man knowing how to fight wars, would trade your innocent people like they are chips on the international gambling table of politics. You everyone know he treats your people just like that. He only ups the ante instead of reading his Old Testament and finding out what God says about it all; and then saying, God help us! That is why I read this morning out of Zechariah 12, where it says, “I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.” That literally means there is a time coming up in front of us, when God has had enough of world politics dominating everything, and then He is going to show the world what He thinks about it all. I know there are some that do not like to hear me talk like this, but in the not to distant future, there will be a miracle war that will cause Diane Sawyer, Dan Rather and all the rest of the high flying News Media, to sit with their mouth open in awe. What will really be so hard on them, is because they are not going to be able to ask any questions while it is going on. They are going to have to look at the mighty works of a God most of them have tried to abolish from world events. I want to start from here, with the scripture in Zephaniah the 2^nd chapter. Yes, there is a starting point of this conflict. It may not look at first like a miraculous thing in the making, but as the fighting forces of Israel sweep the Gaza Strip and clean it up, that begins to tell the Palestinians of Jerusalem that something has gone wrong with their plans. As I said this morning, When you read that 49^th chapter of Isaiah, it tells you twice in there, “They that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.” Those that made thee waste, are those Palestinians that made Jerusalem look like a run down slum city for hundreds of years. Something has got to happen, in order for that scripture to be fulfilled. Right now, President Bush and all the rest, think of nothing else other than, Well we want a Palestinian state by the year 2005, with Jerusalem the capital. That is against the word of God, so I am telling you, God will intervene when the time is right. Our president says he believes in Jesus, but his very way of going about things tell me he does not believe in Jesus. He only has a religious thought. If he really believed that Jesus Christ was the Savior of mankind, he would not be willing to go to bed with all these other religions that are enemies of the true and living God. Neither would America be opened up to all of them. As Israel cleans up the Gaza Strip, the next thing they will go after is that bunch of people across the river, which are those of Jordan. Let me say this, In ancient biblical times, there never was such a country called Jordan, because Israel owned part of that over there. In the northern part, Gilead and such places, that belonged to the ten tribes of Israel. It plainly tells you in Zechariah, I believe the 10^th chapter, that they will come back, they will settle in Lebanon, that is the southern part, that belongs to Israel, in Gilead, so it is not only the Golan Heights, there is coming a time when they are going to come by the thousands. Why? There is a miraculous event taking place and they cannot stay out. I will say this tonight, The world has never seen a miracle war like the one I am talking about. There have been a few individuals that have seen certain miracles within a war, like what we have read about Sargent York in WW1.

WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH ONE INDIVIDUAL

Sargent York was a young man; and was a Christian believer. He did not believe in wars, yet when he was drafted he answered the call, but he would have debates with some of the officers of his outfit about his belief. He always seemed to be able to bring them to a standstill. However when you see Sgt. York in France, and his first encounter with the Germans, almost all of his outfit was knocked out, all but about three of them, yet those three wound up almost wiping out a whole German outfit. When the Germans would be sitting out there in the brush, Sgt. York would be giving out with a wild turkey sound. They would stick their heads up and he would shoot them. It sounds funny I know, but the point is, it worked for them. After a few episodes like this, his officers began to realize there was something going on with this man. I have read the book written about him. They sent him to different outfits, and the purpose was, they figured his testimony would put courage in the minds of other soldiers. I have only told this to exalt the Lord. Why would He let an outfit be knocked out completely, except for about three men? I do not remember how many dozens of Germans were captured. They were scared. It has been a long time since the world has seen something of this nature. That is why I have to say, When this starts, it is not going to last into years: God is going to wrap this up in a few short weeks, but it is going to startle the western, diplomatic, political, intellectual world. It is supposed to, because God wants the whole world to see it. That is going to take place right in here, before that week of Daniel starts. It is how God, with His hand outstretched in a miraculous way, uses the Israeli army to wipe up this Muslim world. The Arabian Muslims that are left alive will turn to the God of the Jews. The Bible shows that. What Israel does, is going to create a universal, global picture. That is God’s way of showing young people walking the streets without any real purpose, what He can do. Right now the devil is driving them insane. They are going to college to get an education, but it turns out to be an education in ignorance. They may learn all about science in these colleges of today, but they learn nothing about the power and authority of a sovereign God. They may learn all about the rocks on the moon, but they have no reason to say, Thank you God, because they are constantly being led away from any knowledge of God.

Continued next issue.