Uh Welcome to Prophecy Today. I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr. Along with my brother Rick, we examine current events in the light of God's prophetic word. Wow, what a time to be alive. You know what?
I am so thankful that God gave us His word, that He communicated to us what's going to be happening in the last days. God is omniscient, He knows everything actual and possible. God is also eternal. Psalm 90, verse 2: As the eternal, omniscient God, He has lived our yesterdays, our todays, and our tomorrows, the past, present, and future. God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
Revelation 21:6. On today's program, we have Ken Timmerman, David Dolan, Inamar Marcus with Palestinian Media Watch, Paul Scharf, of course, Dr. Jimmy DeYoung in the Legacy series. And Rick and I will try to wrap it all up at the very end of the program. Rick, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get started with our first Ken Timmerman.
Well, that's right, Jimmy. I have Ken Timmerman. Timmerman with us. He is our expert on geopolitical affairs. He's an author and an analyst.
You can find out more about him by going to his website at kentimerman.com. Ken, thanks for being with us today. Thanks for having me on, Derek. It's always a pleasure.
Okay, and the big news of the week is obviously the Trump-Putin summit. Can you tell us about it?
Well, what we know, Rick, is that this was a long time in coming, and Putin was not going to come to the table until the president really upped the pressure. We talked about this last week, the threat of a secondary boycott. In other words, the U.S. increasing sanctions and tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, mainly China and India. That is what got Putin to the table.
So it's been, you know, seven months now, eight months. Trump is quite frustrated. He's been trying to get Putin to the table. He thought that he could do it in 24 hours to solve this war. Obviously, that's not been the case.
So they met at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, which is Alaska's largest military base. It's kind of a combination, if you wish, of the Air Force, Elmendorf Air Force Base, and Fort Richardson, which is an Army facility. I think they were there. pretty simply to control security and also to control access to the media. Trump did not want to be facing any kind of public protest over Putin's presence, which could have happened had they met someplace else in the United States, or even if they had met in some neutral country, say South Korea.
There could have been protests on the streets.
So this gave him an opportunity to completely control the environment. Look, I think we know what the basic outlines of a ceasefire are going to be. All right. And people are going to debate this, and they're going to come out of the summit and they're going to say, well, it's not this, it's not that. But here are the basic outlines, and they've been doing for some time.
Russia is going to keep Crimea. They had a referendum there in 2014 after they seized it during the Obama administration, and we did nothing. People in the West say that referendum was bogus, but there were actually international observers to it. In fact, one of my former colleagues was an observer. He was there with the International Republican Institute from Washington, and he said there was nothing out of the ordinary.
So, Russia is going to keep Crimea. Second of all, Russia is going to keep the Donbass, which is this eastern region of Ukraine, about 100 miles inside the current border. That's what Russia, the Russian army, occupies today. They're going to keep that. Why?
Because it's all Russian-speaking and basically Russian nationals who live there. The issue is going to be that Putin is demanding more territory that his army has not yet been able to seize. And, you know, there's a lot of hand-wringing this week, Rick. Zelensky went to Berlin on Wednesday to meet with. With the German Chancellor Mertz and have phone calls with President Trump and other European leaders, there's been a lot of anxiety and hand-rigging that President Trump was going to give away Ukrainian territory.
And Trump has made very clear he's not there to negotiate on behalf of the Ukrainians. He's not there to negotiate a territorial deal. He is there to get a ceasefire and to get the process moving forward.
So that's what this is about. It is a process summit. He wants to have some form of ceasefire. It could be a ceasefire in the air war, for example, where Putin pledges to stop attacks on Kiev and the Ukrainians pledge to stop attacks on Moscow and other Russian facilities. But President Trump clearly wants progress.
He wants something to show for this. And the results may not be immediately apparent.
Well, one final question on this summit. We look at this entire situation, and I'm asking you to take off your reporter hat right now. And, like you said, we may not know the effect of the results of the summit for quite some time. But when you're looking at this situation, what do we want? What would be a good resolution here?
One thing that I would somewhat be worried about is Vladimir Putin being rewarded for his aggression. But then again, you've talked about the issues with Ukraine. What would be a good resolution to this situation?
Well, at this point, I don't think there is a good resolution. Putin is going to be rewarded in one way or another. Let's not forget he was the one who started the war. He is the one who sent his troops across the border in 2022 and opened hostilities with Ukraine.
Now, he has all kinds of excuses for why he did it, but none of those hold up. None of those hold up. Putin started the war, and he is going to win territory as a result of that war. That's a fact. It is not a very pleasant fact.
It is not a good solution. It's not a good result, but it's real politic. It's what's going to happen. Without that territorial concession to Russia, there will not be an end to the war. Putin has signaled very clearly he's willing to continue fighting.
His troops continue to make advances further into Ukrainian territory in the Donbass. They don't yet control the whole region. The Ukrainians are putting up quite a fight, and they have a whole series of defensive Cities, if you wish, of forts that are protecting the interior and hampering the further advance of Russian troops.
So the Russians are willing to fight for a long time. And if the Europeans and the United States and the Ukrainians, who, by the way, in a recent poll at 65% said they were fed up with the war, if all of us want this war to end, There will be concessions on the ground made to Russia, like it or not.
Well, Ken, we'll await the results of this summit, and I'm sure that's something that we will talk about next week. But let's move on in the time we have left and talk about Iran. Your latest book, The Iran House, talks about essentially the inner workings of what goes on in Iran. You look at the situation in that country right now with the defeat at the Twelve Day War.
Now Iran is basically at an inflection point. What do they do? Do they continue to be defiant or do they work on diplomacy? Where is Iran headed right now?
Well, look, I think the Supreme Leader Khamenei faces a dilemma, this strategic dilemma that you mentioned. Do they continue nuclear diplomacy at the risk of a fracture inside the governing coalition, or do they continue their nuclear program and risk perhaps another Israeli airstrike or U.S. airstrikes along with Israel? I happen to think that when the regime is given a choice, Between regime survival and getting hit, they would rather get hit than risk the regime.
So I suspect that they are going to try to restart their nuclear weapons program. They are going to, they're already burrowing into Furdo, trying to get down there. I think that's going to take them quite some time. But I think they're going to basically thumb their noses at the international community and keep the regime together. The hardliners inside, the revolutionary guards, as well as the hardline Mullers.
You have the president, Masood Pazeshkin, who is on the other side of this. And he said just last week that resuming talks with the United States, quote, does not mean we intend to surrender. And he said that nuclear diplomacy after the war is a good thing. You don't want to talk, he said. What do you want to do?
Do you want to go back to war? This is a direct quote from Pozeshkin.
Well, He's in the minority, and he is also, I think, on the losing side of this argument. Because if they talk to the United States now, it will be in a position of weakness. And when the Iranian people see that their leadership is in a position of weakness, I think that will embolden the people to take action against the regime. Final question for you, Ken, and I know that this is something that is very important to you. When we talk about what happened in Iran since the Twelve Day War, one thing we do know that is happening is persecution of Christians that's been stepped up since the end of the Twelve Day War, and that's something that is being replicated around the Islamic world.
Can you talk about Christian persecution, especially in the Middle East and the Islamic world today?
Well, the Iranians have been going after house churches for years, and Khamenei himself, already in 2010, called Christian house churches a critical threat to the regime. Ahmedi Dijad, the former president, also said he was going to shut down house churches across the country. And they're a critical threat because they reach deep inside the regime itself, they reach into the revolutionary guards.
So, among the tens of thousands of people who've been arrested since the 12-day war, there's a widespread crackdown trying to find Israeli spies and others. That includes 43 Christians arrested not so much as spies, but because of their Christian faith and their involvement in the house church movement. But Iran, ironically, here is not the worst defender. I mean, there was a new report that came out earlier this year from a number of Christian groups, including Open Doors, on the status of Christian persecution worldwide. And, you know, it's sub-Saharan Africa, Rick, where things are Are just abysmal.
They're unbelievable. 150,000 people have been killed by jihadis, jihadi groups over the past 10 years. And we're talking about Nigeria, we're talking about Congo, we're talking about Sudan as well. It is all over the place. 16 million Christians have been displaced, driven from their homes across the region.
I will say this: that the State Department under Marco Rubio is paying a lot more attention to this than either the Biden administration or the Obama administration. And I expect you will see some real significant initiatives from the U.S. to put pressure on those countries, Nigeria, Congo in particular, but also southern Sudan, to stop the persecution of Christians. The president hasn't yet gotten to that.
Okay, he's now eight months into his presidency or almost eight months into his presidency, but he'll get there. I'm pretty convinced he will. He will get there. He cares about this. He said so publicly.
He will get to this, and you will see something significant coming from the White House as a benefit to those Christians who are being persecuted. Ken Timmerman reporting for Prophecy Today. Ken, as always, we appreciate your insight. Look forward to talking to you again soon. Thanks so much, Rick.
God bless. Great job as always, Ken. Don't go anywhere because we have David Dolan coming up with our Middle East news update right here on Prophecy Today weekend. I'm Ms. Kramer with Mission Network News.
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Well, this is the portion of our program. We call it our Middle East news update. We look at news coming out of the Middle East in general, but Israel in particular. To do that, we have with us journalist Dave Dolan. Dave, thanks for being with us today.
Blessed to be with you, Rick.
Well, Dave, as you do every week, you give us an update on what has happened in the past week. What's the latest?
Well, Rick, this weekend marks exactly 20 years since Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip. 8,000 Jewish residents evacuated, many of them forcefully by the army. And of course, communities were abandoned, 18. And the Palestinian Authority went in the next week, this coming week, 20 years ago, and bulldozed all of those Israeli communities, didn't use the housing, destroyed all the agriculture, et cetera. But Ariel Shrone said, we've got to do this.
The White House wants it. That was President George W. Bush at the time. And uh there was of course great controversy in Israel over it. I covered all that as a journalist.
And this week in Gaza we still had action going on. The Israelis are back, not because obviously they wanted to be. It only lasted eighteen years before they had to go back in. And the war has been going on now for nearly two years. The IDF announced Friday it had sealed a four-mile tunnel in Beit Hanoun.
Now that's a suburb of Gaza City, where they intend to go in and capture the entire city beginning after the Jewish holidays in October. That of course is if there's no accord with Hamas or ceasefire with Hamas. And by the way, those talks resume this week, Rick. As I said last week, the Israeli announcement that it was going to take over the entire Gaza Strip was really meant to put additional pressure on Hamas to come back to the negotiating table. They now say they are interested in doing that.
Israel sent a delegation. Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad and others to Qatar during the week to resume talks.
Meanwhile, there were more airdrops of aid, food, and medicines into Gaza, and a seventh country joined that. The little country of Singapore in South Asia joined three European countries and three Arab countries in doing these airdrops. That, of course, is all coordinated with the IDF and Israeli authorities. The main story in Israel itself during the week, Rick, was the announcement by Finance Minister Basil El Shmotrik on Wednesday that over 3,000 new home units will be built between Jerusalem proper and Male Adumin. You know that well.
In Hebrew, it means the red ascent, or it can even mean the blood ascent, and that's because when you're coming up from the Dead Sea, all of the soil there is very red, and it's been called that for Centuries basically. This is the E1 plan that Smotrick was talking about.
Now, that's been on the books since the mid-70s, Rick. And we had in the 80s, the Likud government, after they came to power, tried to build this area up between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adoumin, which, by the way, today has 38,000 residents. It's technically an Israeli quote settlement, but it's a big suburb of Jerusalem. And of course, Israel extended Highway 1, the main highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, over the north end of Jerusalem and built a tunnel in the Mount of Olives, the northern end of the Mount of Olives, to connect Maalay Adoumin with the city. It's just a quick drive in and out.
But it's all unbuilt in between. And Smotrick said, we will build there. We have a right to do that. And he admitted that this would, quote, bury the Palestinian state proposal because it would eliminate the last. Land bridge between Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, where of course the Palestinian Authority is headquartered, and the areas that control south of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, that whole area.
So it would effectively block the route between the two Arab areas. And of course, that's why it's very controversial. And European leaders condemned it, and Germany condemned it, and the UN condemned it, etc. But it seems to have a lot of support in Israel. And of course, it would strengthen Jewish control over East Jerusalem, and it would isolate the Arabs living in East Jerusalem from other areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
So there's a lot of screaming going on about that. And finally, to the north, Rick, we had action in Lebanon again on Friday, major IDF bombardments in the Nabata area, not far from the Israeli border, as Hezbollah has been recreating its control of the area. They're not supposed to be doing That and that's after their leader said during the week that they would not hand over their arms to the Lebanese authorities, the Lebanese government and army, which, of course, the President Aoun of Lebanon last week demanded that they do that.
So we have that going on. And meanwhile, on Wednesday, Turkey signed a military cooperation pact with Syria, the new Syrian regime, headed by an ex-Muslim militant, as we know. He says he's ex-buttoned. Of course, Turkey itself is rather radical in its support of Hamas, etc. And they also Turkey said they would send troops in to help the Syrians learn how to run the new military equipment they plan to provide to Syria.
So that alliance is strengthening and the Israelis, of course, are very concerned about that. All that to say, the war is not over and more trouble seems to be ahead. It certainly does.
Well, David, lots to follow up on there. But one of the things that I want to talk about, one of the reasons we have you on this program, is you were an eyewitness to history. You spent so much time in Israel, and you were certainly there during the Gaza handover, as it were, you said 20 years ago. If you could, could you talk about your thoughts, your recollections at that time, and can you talk about how you felt this was going to work out and if you saw something like October 7th in the future?
Well, Rick, we all knew that the Palestinian Authority, of course, that was created out of the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993, headed by Yasser Arafat. We knew that it was weak. We knew that Hamas, which was founded just as I went to work for CBS in 1988, they issued their charter in late 87 calling for Israel's complete destruction. Muslims cannot be ruled by Jews. There must not be a Jewish state and land that Islam is ruled, etc., all in their charter, that they were very popular.
And when they won the 2006 parliamentary elections, which is the last time that they were held, Rick, they were supposed to be every four years. That hasn't happened. We knew that Hamas won that handily. And it won in Gaza as well. And of course, the next year, they Threw the PA out, actually threw some of the PA leaders off the top floors of buildings and killed them that way.
Dozens were killed in that coup, and they've run it ever since.
Well, that's exactly what Bibi Netanyahu, he was then not prime minister. It was Ariel Sharon who made the decision to agree to the U.S. basic demand that Gaza be handed over to the Palestinians. And Sharon said they can have it. It will be their state, and we love it.
We grow a lot of our food there in the south end of the Gaza Strip, but we can do it elsewhere. And the neighboring communities, Rick, were all for it. The peaceniks, we call them, the kibbutzim, the ones that were attacked on October 7th. And yes, it was predictable. Netanyahu said it will be Hamastan before too long.
He said that in 2005. He was very strongly opposed to the withdrawal. As were many Israelis, especially the Likud party and its followers on the right. And the religious parties, too, for the most part, were against it because Gaza is listed in the Bible as part of biblical Israel, as part of the land that God promised to the Jewish people. And there was a Jewish community in Gaza City until 1948, when, of course, the Arabs declared war on the nascent Jewish state.
They kicked all the Jews out of the area. And here we are, these many years later, 20 years later, and we're at full war. We've had six, I think, skirmishes over the years with Hamas, an Islamic jihad founded by Iran, throwing rockets into Israel periodically. We've had incursions by the IDF, but never staying very long just to kind of clean out the nests of resistance. But we saw what Hamas did: took most of the aid money they were getting from Qatar and other places to build an underground network of tunnels.
And we think of a tunnel as something you pass through, but of course, there's rooms down there, there's kitchens, there's electricity, air conditioning, et cetera. Of course, the hostages are mostly the remaining few, maybe 20, are in actual tunnels and being hardly fed.
So that's the reality of it. It was a disaster. Hamas has to disappear, but they are still, the polls show, strongly supported by a majority of the Palestinians.
So they're not so easy to get rid of, as it were. But at least if they're not militarily controlling that border, Gaza Strip border area, Israel will be a little bit safer. But Hezbollah is still in the north, and we had a couple more rockets from Yemen from the Houthis during the week, missiles aimed at Israel, and we have Iran again threatening Israel.
So as I said earlier, the war is definitely not over. Dave Dolan, keeping us updated on what is going on in Israel. Dave, as always, we appreciate your insight from a political, historical, but also a biblical perspective. Dave, thanks so much. Look forward to talking to you again soon.
Well, you know, I'm glad to do it, Rick. God bless. Great job, as always, David. We've got to take a break. And when we come back, Intermar Marcus with Palestinian Media Watch, what the Palestinians are saying.
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Welcome back to Prophecy Today. I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr., along with my brother Rick, we're examining current events in the light of God's prophetic word. Itemar Marcus, a good friend of Prophecy Today, we did a program with him for Israel Under Fire with John Akerberg and my father, Dr. Jimmy DeYoung. And Idamar with Palestinian Media Watch, you're telling us what the Palestinians are saying.
You're keeping an eye on for it. Welcome back to the program today. Thank you very much for inviting me, Rick.
Well, Idomar, we were chatting before you came on air, and you wanted me to make sure that our listeners know that most of what you do at palwatch.org involves the Palestinian Authority and what comes out of their official outlets. There's a difference between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. They are both Palestinian entities, but if you could just explain the difference between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Yes, the Palestinian Authority is the government that officially was supposed to be running both Judea, Samaria, what they call West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. They had a civil war.
Hamas took over Gaza already in 2006. The Palestinian Authority is the one that the world Believes I should say, deludes themselves into believing that they're moderate. And it's the one that the international community would like to have take over the Gaza Strip. After they destroyed Hamas. And one of the things that we sh point out regularly in PMW.
Is that There really is no fundamental difference. Neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority would like to have Israel exist, and they're both seeking Israel's destruction. It even goes so far as to claim that Israel is responsible for the Israelis that were killed on october the seventh and also equates uh Israeli prisoners that have been arrested for terrorism with the hostages that were kidnapped, most of them out of their homes in the kibbutz surrounding Gaza and at that music festival. Can you talk a little bit about how they are using propaganda to blame Israel for october seventh? Yes, what they're saying is that Israel was so evil for seventy-seven years.
That Palestinians had a right. to attack Israel. Hamas had a right to attack Israel on October 7th.
Now, this isn't Hamas saying this. This is the Palestinian Authority. There was an interview just a week ago with a person named Mohammed Shhtayah. He used to be, he was the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority on October 7th. And he described that there was a meeting of the Palestinian leadership on October seventh when they realized what had happened and they saw the dead bodies and they saw the people being kidnapped into Gaza.
Everybody knew what was going on. He said, We made a decision. Made a decision to say that this was an act of self-defense.
So that the Palestinian Authority was defending Hamas, defending the raping of people, defending the taking of civilian hostages as an act of self-defense. And they said, why? Because of Israel's existence, according to the Palestinian Authority, Israel has no right to exist. And until they destroy Israel, any Israelis who they killed is an act of self-defense. This is the Palestinian Authority.
Now, the outrageous thing is there's going to be a UN, a UN meeting in September, the end of September, second half of September. And at this UN meeting, Democratic countries are going to be announcing that they recognize the Palestinian Authority as a state, which is unbelievable. They were recognizing a terror. Entity, an organization that supported October 7th, they're going to recognize them as a state. We're talking about, like I said, Jibril Rajub saying this.
We're talking about many, many Palestinian leaders are talking about the government's decision to say that everything that we have done is self-defense. And these are the people who the Western countries are going to recognize as statehood. It's like It's like giving Iran. statehood today. Everybody knows what Iran is today.
We had a choice to take away their statehood and lower their status and create a different country altogether. Of course, the whole world would want to do it. But why would you want to create another Iran? It's not going to be as strong, but it has the identical ideology. One might be Shia, one might be Sunni, but they have identical ideology in terms of using terror to impose their own national goals.
I'm speaking with Itamar Markes from Palestinian Media Watch. You can find out more about him by going to his website at palwatch.org. Itemar, as we look at this situation, not only are they attacking Christians, not only are they attacking the Jewish people, but they are looking at the Jewish religion. They are saying that it is in the Torah. You are commanded by the Torah to kill.
They are essentially taking all kinds of things and attacking the nation of Israel, the Jewish people. It doesn't make sense, but they continue to do that. I know you were on Israeli Channel 14 recently talking about this anti-Semitic ideology. Can you tell us a little bit about how it permeates the whole Palestinian situation? Yes, it's very important because the Palestinian Authority Is trying to create a total hatred of Jews and Israelis.
And the way they do that is they say, first of all, two things. One, they say it's inherent. To the Jewish personality, the evil of the Jew is inherent. They'll say things like: Jews are Satan. And when I say they, I'm talking about senior Palestinian Authority officials, Mahmoud al-Abbas, who's Abbas's advisor, the advisor to the head of the Palestinian Authority, to the chairman.
He has said that. Satan can be in human form, and he was talking about Jews. Satan can be in human form.
So the Jews are Satan.
So the Jewish people are inherently a problem because we are Satan or Satan's partner in doing evil in the world. And then what they attack is the Torah itself. Uh and and the Bible and they say that the the the Jewish traditions from the Torah demand the murder of. non-Jews, et cetera. It just sort of so happens that you know, at a time when foreigners around the world and in different countries were treated as total, total outcasts.
When I say total outcasts, I mean they you could the worst thing to be would to be an immigrant, a foreigner. I mean, look what Look at the status in Rome and Greece years later. Look at the Colosseum where they put. non-Romans in to to fight each other to the death. Judaism in the Torah, and this is, of course, part of Christian tradition, also.
The Torah. in thirty six different places tells Commands. That we welcome the immigrant, what they call the stranger, the immigrant, the non-Jew who's living amongst us. 30 says, Other nations didn't care about them. And here it actually, one of the commandments is you should love them like you love yourself.
So, this is Judaism is not telling you by any means to go out and murder and kill, but the Palestinian Authority tells its people, tells its people that this is what Judaism is about.
So, what they say is the Jewish person is inherently evil, connected to Satan. His personality is just to do evil. The Jewish religion, likewise, is doing evil, meaning there is no way of fixing the Jews. That's their message. Therefore, It's justified on behalf of not only Palestinians, but on behalf of all of humanity.
It's justified in killing Jews. And I just want to add one more note on this. When I say that the conclusion is that it justified killing Jews, seven times in the last year, They're religious leaders on Palestinian TV. has said the following quote Count the Jews or count the Zionists one by one. Kill them one by one, don't leave even one.
Literally, call for it for the extermination of Jews. Not once, seven times.
Some of these people are people who have very senior positions in the Palestinian Authority religious establishment. They're presenting. The extermination of Jews as a religious, as a religious goal. For Palestinians and for Muslims in general.
So, what we're having here is the Palestinian Authority is telling their people that they have the obligation to kill Jews.
So what do they do? And then they tell their people, why should you be killing them? Because they have in their Torah that they're going to kill you, which of course is the lie.
So they create the lie, which is the justification for murder, and then they say, Let's go out and let's exterminate the Jews. Idamar Marcus from Palestinian Media Watch. My final question for you, Idamar. As I said earlier, Israel is certainly winning the war on the ground. They are doing everything they can to achieve their objectives of eliminating Hamas and getting the hostages back.
They're doing what they can, but they are losing the war. Quote unquote, the propaganda war. And then this is a question that I have for you. In your opinion, despite all the evidence to the contrary, why is the world so willing to accept this Palestinian propaganda? What do you think, especially in Europe, but even here in the United States as well, we have our own influencers and politicians that are going against Israel?
Thankfully, we have a few that stand for Israel's right to exist and essentially stand for truth, because that's what we're talking about here. But why do you think the world is so willing to accept this propaganda against the Jewish people? It's hard to understand why. Um why people are uh motivated to hate. hate Jews.
It's been a question that Jews have been struggling with for centuries, unfortunately. And it could be that this is just another manifestation. There were periods, you know, the last century, there was the, in Europe, it was the racial issue. The Jewish race is terrible. The Jewish race is infecting the wonderful European race.
Therefore, you know, we have to purify a race by exterminating the Jews. And so it initiated with the Nazis, but the Poles are involved. I mean, French were involved. I don't really have to go through all the countries that were, you know, some of them passively involved, some very, you know, some of them actively involved. Many Jews actually were Killed in their countries when they went back there after the war, not necessarily, not by Germany.
So, you know, and then and then there was sort of like this. Respite we had for, you know, a couple of decades where anti-Semitism, you know, people understood how. Evil the crematory was, and what had happened there. Um that the uh that that anti-Semitism had a bad name. And people said, okay, we can't.
But all of a sudden, the Palestinian issue. and the ability to present Israel as murderers. Woke these people up. Or woke these sentiments up, and they say, Oh, hey, now we have a good reason to hate them. Look what they're doing.
They're doing a Holocaust against Palestinians. They're doing a genocide. What was done to them, they're doing to others.
So, this was this was not. Um It's not a conclusion that they're making, but it's an excuse that is enabling this hatred that I fear unfortunately might have been there just under the surface all along, because, like I said, historically it's been under the surface and this is just an excuse for it to come out again. That's certainly one of the contentions that we had on this program that it was lying dormant. And this is, as you said, an excuse to bring it out again as we look at anti-Semitism around the world.
Well, Itamar Marcus from Palestinian Media Watch, as I said, you can go to the website palwatch.org, find out more about what Itimar does to kind of keep the world informed about how the Palestinian media is portraying this situation to their own people. Itemar, thanks for being with us. We look forward to talking to you again soon. Thank you very much. Itemar Marcus, great job, Itamar.
We sure appreciate you being on the program, and we encourage everyone to go to palwatch.org to see what the Palestinians are saying because you don't always get that in the media. Rick and I are always encouraging folks to have a worldview and to have a biblical worldview. I think that's something that is so very important as believers. We need to know what's happening in the end times and what's happening in the last days, which we are. Living right now.
We started out the program today talking about the times in which we're living, the historic times in which we're living, how God knows all. But what I would say is that what we're seeing is. What I refer to in a conference as the times of the Gentiles. I thought it would be good to get my good friend Paul Scharf back on the program. Paul, welcome to the program today.
Thank you, Jimmy. Great to be back with you. Yes, sir. And Paul is a Friends of Israel church ministries representative with the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministries. Last week we finished up our conversation, Paul.
We were talking about the times of the Gentiles. And I wanted to have you back to explain that.
Now, in Luke chapter 21, verse 24, Jesus speaks of future events, including the destruction of Jerusalem and his return. He says that Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
So let's talk about the times of the Gentiles. What are the times of the Gentiles?
Well, Jimmy, the times of the Gentiles are the times during which Gentile nations are dominating the world and more particularly dominating Israel and Jerusalem. They're having dominion over Jerusalem in fulfillment of God's prophetic plan. as Jesus described it here in his Elevat discourse. And he is talking about the fact that Jerusalem. Will be overtaken by these Gentile nations.
Which nations are they?
Well, they are foretold in the book of Daniel. Chapter two in Nebuchadnezzar's Dream And chapter seven in the vision that Daniel received, which covers the very Uh same time frame and the very same nations, Gentile nations, And of course, you and I know, Jimmy, those are Babylon, Medo Persia, Greece and Rome. And they're going to be in dominion over Jerusalem But we praise the Lord not forever, but we have that blessed word until. until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. We know they'll be fulfilled at the coming kingdom when Christ returns.
And that stone cut without hands in Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel chapter 2. In other words, it's not of human origin, it comes directly from heaven and it smashes. all the earthly kingdoms, And it rules forever.
So, the definition for times of the Gentiles is any time the Gentile world is in control of the Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem. And that began with the Babylonians coming in and taken into captivity and destroying the temple in the city of Jerusalem. First started at 605, then 586. Nebuchadnezzar comes in. And when we talk about those beasts that you mentioned, well, you talked about that's in Daniel chapter 7, the statue in Daniel chapter 2.
That one last, in fact, which we keep our eyes on is the ten toes of iron and clay, that mixture, and that terrible beast in Daniel chapter 7, which is still yet to come, correct? And Jimmy, as Daniel the prophet is explaining Nebuchadnezzar's dream to him about these precious metals that he saw that represent the kingdoms of the Gentile world that would trample upon Israel and Jerusalem, as you said, from six o five and five hundred eighty six down to the end of the tribulation and the establishment of Christ's kingdom. Daniel explains to Nebuchadnezzar That he He himself and Babylon were the head of gold. They're represented by this. This head of gold.
And Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar, You, O king, are a king of kings. And he says, You are this head of gold. That's Daniel 2:37 and 38. But then. He shares a thought that Nebuchadnezzar Would never have thought before.
He says, after you. After you shall arise another kingdom. Nebuchadnezzar says, After me, there will never be a kingdom. After me, that's why he builds. an entire statue of gold in Daniel chapter three to show that he and his kingdom he believed would last forever.
But these four kingdoms, which looks so incredible, so wonderful. Shining in the sun from man's perspective, from our earthly perspective, from Nebuchadnezzar's worldly perspective. In Daniel seven, the Lord God gives Daniel a vision of the heavenly perspective of these same kingdoms. And of course, as you said this time there, Horrible. uh grotesque Beasts.
a lion with wings, a bear raised up on one side, A leopard with four wings and four heads, and then finally that indescribably horrible beast that represents Rome. And it reminds us of Peter's words. in Second Peter chapter two, verse twelve, and this is a different context, but it's applicable, I think, to the beasts we see here in Daniel seven. They're like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed. And they're just these horrendous, horrendous, horrific animals, wild animals.
that Jimmy represents From God's perspective, the depravity of man, The tyranny that man seeks in rising to power to take control over the world. That'll all culminate in the final world ruler, the Antichrist. who is the pr the coming prince of the same people that destroyed Israel, In Jerusalem in AD 70. And we know that from Gabriel's explanation to Daniel. of the vision of the seventy weeks That Daniel received, and that's in Daniel chapter 9, 26 and 27.
It was the people of the prince who was to come. who destroyed were to destroy Jerusalem in 80-70. The people that destroyed Jerusalem were, of course, the Romans. The Romans will be returning in the revived final phase of the Roman Empire. during the coming tribulation.
So, as we look at this, and this really does help us, Paul, in several different ways. I mean, it helps you. Understanding Daniel really helps you, and that's the skeleton as to which we hang all the other prophecies in the Bible: Ezekiel, Revelation, Zechariah. You have to get Daniel correct in order to be able to understand Bible prophecy.
So, this helps us. It's amazing that Daniel could see and. You know, was given this information way before the Roman Empire, before the Grecian Empire, before the Medes and the Persians. And so, I mean, again, this validates, and I love how you take it to Rome when they were in charge in AD 70 of the city of Jerusalem, bringing down the temple, the destruction, the people.
So, this really answers a lot of questions for us that we have.
So, I really appreciate all of that. And, of course, the little horn is going to come on that terrible beast. The little horn is one of the 27 names for the Antichrist that we've talked about often on this program. And, you know, again, all of these are still yet, that the iron, the mixture, the feet of the statue of iron and clay, the ten toes, and that terrible beast in the future, those are all still yet to come. And we understand that as we read through, having the, you know, the ability to look back over.
Time to understand Bible prophecy, but Daniel just wrote down the things that he understood, and he could look down the road.
So we have the ability to look back. Daniel was looking forward and giving us all this information.
So let's put it in today's terms. Looking again at Luke chapter 21, we see that Jesus mentions a time in which Jerusalem is under the dominion of Gentile authority, and that is still happening today, correct? That's right, Jimmy. You know, one amazing truth about all of this, we find in Daniel 7:12 that as the The beasts disappear, their dominion is taken away, yet their lives are prolonged. Verse 12 of Daniel 7 says, for a season and a time.
That's why when John the apostle in the book of Revelation says, Sees the final Antichrist in Revelation 13, it has the characteristics of all the nations that have come before. It was like a leopard, and feet like a bear, and a mouth like a lion.
So, So, the legacy of each of these nations lives on in their successors. When Jesus and his apostles were here on the earth, they were, of course, Living in the Roman Empire, walking on Roman roads, but speaking the Greek language. and this influence has continued all the way down through history and will reemerge fiercely in the coming tribulation of course, as you said in that final Roman ruler.
Well, let's take it to the New Testament and one of the themes of Romans chapter eleven. That's an amazing truth, Jimmy, that coincides with all of this. is we know that currently and for the last two thousand years nearly, the people of Israel have been in their dispersion And uh they're Partially and temporarily blinded and hardened from the gospel. And Paul teaches this clearly. In Romans 11, again, that wonderful word until that Jesus used with regard to the times of the Gentiles.
It's only until those times are fulfilled. And he uses the same word, Paul uses, the same word that Jesus used. When he talks about the fact that it's only until Something happens that the people of Israel are temporarily and partially blinded from the gospel. It's only until Romans 11:25 the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
So there's something similar, not the same, But coinciding in part with the times of the Gentiles is the fullness of the Gentiles, we might say the time of the fullness of the Gentiles. That's the time in which God has been working in the church age primarily among Gentile people And I know that includes me, Jimmy, and I'm thankful to be included. Yes, sir. And we here in America have been blessed as America for the last four centuries has been really the center of the Christian world in terms of world missions and Christian ministry. That's not because, of course, we're going to bring in the kingdom or because certainly not because we've replaced Israel.
But God has blessed us even as a Gentile nation, as Gentile people. And he has given us these incredible blessings during this time. But, Jimmy, Paul says to us Gentiles: don't be haughty, don't be proud, don't be arrogant, don't be boastful. Because beware of this. There will be a day when the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
And God will turn his Focus from the Gentile world again back to the people of Israel. And the blessed thing for us, of course, is that that time will end with the blessed hope, the rapture of the church. will be in heaven with Christ. And then God will resume working primarily again through the people of Israel. And there will still be Gentile people saved in the tribulation.
That's, of course, another whole story. But God will pour out his grace upon the people of Israel, who I believe are coming back today to their land in preparation for future events to unfold when God restores the people of Israel and returns his focus to the nation of Israel once again. Yes, when the time is right, God will restore the entire nation of Israel and will come to faith in him once again, ending the times of the Gentiles. And, you know, when you look at it, we've been talking about dispensationalism, the dispensations, the time periods, and we really haven't even looked at the different time periods of world history from the beginning, Genesis chapter 1. But the day of the Lord is a time period when the Jewish people.
The nation of Israel will be restored again, and the times of the Gentiles will come to an end during that seven-year period of time.
Well, thank you so much, Paul. Thank you again, and we're going to have to have you back because I do think it's important. We really need to look at Daniel chapter 9. I know you talked about it today, but in the future, I want to talk about why the tribulation period is for the Jewish people. And we're giving that understanding in the 70th week of Daniel in Daniel chapter 9.
And we'll have you back to talk about that in the future: how God will again bring and restore the entire nation of Israel to Himself. Thank you, Paul, for joining with us today. I really appreciate your understanding of scripture. And you can go to, again, where can folks find your information and listen to your sermons and your vignettes and the things that you do. Thank you, Jimmy.
They can always go to sermonaudio.com/slash P Sharf. That's P-S-C-H-A-R-F. They'll find all my material. They can contact me there. And it's all about all the work that I'm involved in with the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, which I'm so privileged to be involved with and to serve the Lord through this wonderful means.
And I thank you, Jimmy, for this great opportunity today. Thank you, Paul.
Well, we're going to take a break, and when we come back, the Legacy Series with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung as we're exploring. God's plan for the ages. Right here on Prophecy Today weekend. Welcome back to Prophecy Today.
I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr. Along with my brother Rick, we examine current events in the light of God's prophetic word. Today on the program, we're talking about the time of Jacob's trouble. It's a phrase that comes from Jeremiah 30. Verse 7, which says, Alas, for the day is great, so that none is like it.
It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. That is future. It is our view that the time of Jacob's trouble corresponds to that seven-year tribulation period of the end times. First mentioned in Daniel chapter nine, again mentioned in Matthew chapter twenty-four. Luke chapter 21, Revelation chapter 6 to Revelation chapter 19, all the time of Jacob's trouble.
And it's all there because God is getting the Jewish people to a place where they will recognize that He is God, that His Son Jesus Christ was sent to this earth to die for mankind. How do I know all of that?
Well, Dr. Jimmy DeYoung, my father, wrote some commentaries. He taught me everything I know, but he also wrote some commentaries that you can have access to. It's Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation. Just go to our website, prophecytoday.com.
Well, we're starting a study today, and I thought it would be good to see the plan that was developed by Satan to kill all the Jews on the earth with a terrible Holocaust. And I'm not talking about the Holocaust of World War II, but a worse Holocaust yet to come. The Apostle John in the book of Revelation reveals Satan's plan to kill every Jew. You see, if that happens, then God will not be able to fulfill his promise to the Jewish people. Satan will be the winner.
However, that will not happen. Satan will lose in the end. And this is our study for this week. Please take your Bible and go to the Book of Revelation, Chapter twelve. Dr.
Jimmy DeYoung and the Legacy Series. Go to the book of Revelation. The book of Revelation, the rapture of the church. Jesus shouts, archangel shouts, trumpet God sounds, and pfft. We're out of here to be with him.
The rapture of the next activity to take place. And then, after that, it's going to be a seven-year period of time. Seven years of terrible Holocaust. Hello, Holocaust on the face of the earth. Half of the earth's population, 3.5 billion people, are going to be killed, plus many, many more will come to death.
The Bible talks about in the book of Zechariah, chapter 13 and verse 8. Two out of every three Jews will be killed. Listen, the worst Holocaust yet to take place on the earth happened 65 years ago in World War II, when Adolf Hitler killed 6 million people, 6 Jewish million people. Because he was trying to set up a king. Kingdom.
False doctrine leading to that. By the way, that was one-third of the Earth's Jewish population at that time. In World War II, there were 18 million Jews. He killed 6 million of them, that left 12 million. We have today approximately 12.5 million Jews upon the earth.
The next Holocaust will kill two out of every three. That's eight million plus Jews yet to be killed. And it's all the result. And what happens from that flood activity? The retribution from the flood.
Evil angels. Playing a key role to kill Jewish people. Go over here to Revelation chapter 12 with me first. Chapter 12, and let me set the stage for chapter 9. Chapter 12.
Chapter 12 is at the midway point of the tribulation. The first three and a half years have been completed. The church, a false church in Rome, was established, chapter 17. There were two witnesses that would preach for three and a half years, 1,260 days. The text says that's chapter 11 of the book of Revelation.
Then we come to chapter 12 of the book of Revelation, starting in verse 7. Chapter 12 and verse 7. And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels. They prevailed not, neither was their place found anymore in heaven.
And that great dragon, by the way, apocalyptic literature, who's the dragon? We're going to get the definition right now in verse 9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, that old serpent that appeared. To Adam and Eve in Genesis chapter 3. He was deceiveth the whole world.
He was cast out onto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Look at verse 12. Therefore, rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe unto the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea. For the devil has come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth he hath but a short time.
Look at verse 13. What's the purpose of these evil angels when they come to earth? And when the dragon saw that he was cast onto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man-child. That's apocalyptic literature defined earlier in chapter 12 as the Jewish people, the one who would bring that Messiah. Genesis chapter 3, verse 15.
Skip to verse 17. And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keepeth the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. And so when Satan and his evil angels are thrown out of heaven down to the earth, They're gonna attack the Jewish people. They're gonna try to wipe out the Jewish people. That's only the first stage.
Go to chapter 9. By the way, the book of Revelation. Listen to me, folks. The book of Revelation, you do not study it numerically. You must study it chronologically if you're going to understand it.
Not numerically, chapter 1 to 22, chronologically. I just talk from chapter 12. That's the midway point of the tribulation. And then in the last three and a half years, the seven trumpet judgments and the seven vile judgments unfold. We're now coming to the fifth of the trumpet judgments, chapter nine and verse one.
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven. That's not a star like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. That's a star like Michael Jordan as a basketball star. And I saw a star fall from heaven. Here's how I know what it's talking about.
Unto the earth, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit to Satan. The star was given the key to the bottomless pit. Verse 2, and he opened the bottomless pit. And there arose a smoke out of the pit as the smoke of the great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened by the reason of the smoke of the pit.
This pit, the abyss, the Tetaurus, the bottomless pit, in the heavenly someplace. I believe a black hole. You can argue about that all day if you want to. But it has evidence that it was in the heavens. How do I know?
Because when the door was opened, the smoke in it covered the sun. And it said it covered the air. That word air used here in chapter 9 is the same word used in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 when it says, And we shall be caught up to meet him in the air.
Someplace in the air, this Tetaurus, where these evil angels have been held in prison, and they're released. You know what they are? Unidentified flying objects, UFOs. Alien creatures. Yeah, I believe in UFOs.
I believe in alien creatures. He called them locusts. It's not like any locus I've ever seen. Hopper grasshoppers, you know? Look here, verse 7.
Let's see what these locust grasshoppers looked like. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads was, as it were, crowns of gold. And their faces were the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of a woman.
And their teeth was the teeth of lions. And they had a breastplate, as it were, breastplates of iron. Look at verse 10. And they had tails like unto scorpions. You ever seen a grasshopper like that?
Looks like a horse going to battle, a face of a man, hair of a woman, teeth of a lion, breastplate of a soldier going to war, and a scorpion's tail? I've never seen a grasshopper like that. That's an unidentified flying object. That's an alien creature coming in from outer space. In the abyss.
where they are coming to attack. and kill one-third of the Earth's population. I'll get to it in just a moment. Yeah, I do believe in identified flying objects and aliens. What they are.
are evil Angels. taking on the form of whatever they want to. Maybe even looking like a Saucer. Flying. Saucer.
It's evil. Angels. They're evil. Angels. No other planet.
No other place in all of creation. except the earth which was to be inhabited. Isaiah 48. And so it is these evil angels attack the earth. Look here.
Go to the sixth trumpet judgment. Show you how many it's going to be. The number, verse 16 of chapter 9. The number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000,000. That's 200 million.
Evil angels. Somebody say, Hey, wait a minute, man. It's two hundred million. Ah, that has to be the militia in red China. No, it doesn't.
Because that's the sixth File Judgment, Chapter 16. This is the sixth You got a lot of judgments to go. And besides, what did these locusts look like? Horsemen. ready to battle.
200 million of them. are released. and they kill. One-third, notice here verse eighteen. By these three was the third part of the men killed.
That's 1.5 billion. The fourth sealed judgment, one-fourth of the earth is killed. At six billion people, that would be 1.5 billion, leaving three quarters. You take another third away, that leaves half. That's 1.5 billion killed in the fourth seal judgment, in the sixth trumpet judgment, another 1.5 billion.
Half the earth is destroyed. And most of them Jews. Why? Satan realizes I will!
Well, be equal with God. I want will be worshipped in Jerusalem. We talked about the war in the heavens. That takes place. The aggressiveness of this angelic activity takes place, but listen to me.
Evil angels. are at work right now. Daniel chapter 11, verses 13 and 20. In verse 13, it talks about the evil angel. The evil angel of Persia.
You know who that was? Heyman! In the book? of Esther. The evil angel.
This is talking about evil angels taking control of human bodies. Dispatched by Satan. What did Haman want to do? Kill all the Jews! He had the king of Hazarias write the law of the means and the Persians.
Give me the right, I'll kill every Jew. Oh, then in verse 20, it talks about the evil angel taking control of Greece.
Well, who is that? Antiochus Epiphanes of Daniel chapter 11. Antiochus Epiphanes comes along, desecrates the temple, the first abomination of desolation, and then wants to kill off the Jews. Evil angels. Taking control.
How do I know that happens?
Well, I read Ephesians 6, verse 12. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but we wrestle against principalities, powers of darkness, evil in the heavenlies, world rulers. Who's the king of this world now? Satan, dispatching evil angels to take control of human world leaders. I stood in front of Yasser Arafat.
I am not a psychic. I'm not a mind reader. But I looked at Yasser Arafat right in his eyes. I knew he was evil. Completely.
Controlled, demonically controlled, and killing. That's an evil man. Satanically control. Adolf Hitler satanically control. Do some study about Adolf Hitler.
Man, he was into the occult, to witchcraft. He never made a decision without having a seance with a witch. He was demonically controlled and gave the order to kill six million Jews. It's happening. But it's not only happening in Political activities.
It's happening in the pulpit. 2 Corinthians. Chapter 11. What? No you not?
That the devil? Is an angel? of light, read the rest of it. and his ministers of righteousness. Better check him out.
Check me out. Make sure I'm conforming to that book. I don't care who it is. Hold the same standard high. Because the pulpit will be controlled by evil angels.
In the last days. To do what? Wipe. Out the Jews. A holocaust.
to cause plans of God. not to be fulfilled.
So Satan takes control. That was the reason for the flood. That's what happened before. Wha what did Jesus say? As it was.
In the days of Noah.
So it shall be in the days of the coming. of a son of man. We're here. Stage is set. All the actors in place.
Curtain's about to go up. on his second coming. Yeah. Indeed. The stage is set, but for the final drama to be played out.
everything that must be set in place for this final act to begin is in place. I pray that this study has alerted you to the plans of Satan. This study is a reminder of the events of the last days after the rapture of the church. Please use this information to warn others of what is coming.
Next week on the broadcast, we begin a brand new study on the city of Babylon, the literal city of Babylon. A city that will play a key role in the last date. Dr. Jimmy DeYoung and the Legacy Series. You know, Dr.
DeYoung wanted people to study and understand. Bible prophecy in God's Word. We're going to take a break, and when we come back, we'll take a look at the book right here on Prophecy Today Weekend. I'm Ruth Kramer with Mission Network News. Last week, Lebanon's government took another step toward law and order.
Its cabinet approved the objectives, a U.S. proposal that would see Hezbollah disarmed by the end of the year. The Iran-backed militant group declared it will ignore this decision, but war with Israel has largely gutted its leadership and diminished its influence. Nuna with Triumph at Mercy Lebanon. For 40 plus years, nobody could challenge Hezbollah, nobody could say anything.
But the new government this year has taken a stand. Does this mean that everything's good? No. It means that we are expecting now backlash. Nuna expects Hezbollah will eventually have to lay down arms, but it might take a new round of military action to make that happen.
For now, Lebanon's years of struggle have left its Shiite population desperate for true hope. Pray that Triumph at Mercy Lebanon will see much fruit in gospel ministry to them. And more of Mission Aviation Fellowship's missionary pilots and mechanics today are coming from the very communities they serve. David Holston, MAF president and CEO, says. We used to see larger numbers of Western missionaries who were serving in remote parts of the world.
Unfortunately, the number of missionaries that are going to some of those pioneering parts of the world has decreased.
Now, there are national missionaries who are responding to a call that God has placed on their life to reach their own people. MAF's future vision?
So it could be that an Indonesian pilot joins us to serve in Ecuador, or a mechanic from Mexico joins us and they're able to serve in a place like Nigeria. Find your place of the story at missionnews.org. Thanks for listening to Mission Network News, a service of one-way ministries. We're listener-supported by people just like you.
So, by giving to Mission Network News, you enable us to keep the stories of God's kingdom coming. And together, the Great Commission happens. Look for links at missionnews.org. I'm with Kramer. Welcome back to Prophecy Today.
I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr. Along with Rick, we've been examining current events in the light of God's prophetic words. And I have to show my appreciation, I really do, for our broadcast partners: Ken Timmerman, David Dolan, Itamar Marcus, today, over the past, even Dr. Richard Schmidt, R.C. Murrow, Dr.
Don DeYoung, you know, all of our broadcast partners bring something to the table that it helps you, the body of Christ, to understand why the world is acting as it is, what is happening. God is going to keep his promise. He's sovereign. There's so much that we learn from Bible prophecy. And I hope that you appreciate the expertise of each one of these men as they discuss.
the events, what's happening in the world, what's taking place. And I know that I left some out. I forgot about even Israel Madad and how much impact Menno Kelloshier. Yes, I can keep going with all these men and how they help us.
Well, we're very appreciative. Rick and I are very appreciative of each one of those.
Well, let me just. We started out the program today talking about the time of Jacob's trouble. In Jeremiah chapter 30, verses 10 and 11, the Lord references the blessings that will come after the time of Jacob's trouble. I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.
I am with you and will save you, declares the Lord. The Jewish people are returning to the land of Israel. Remember, that's one of the things that we keep our eyes on as a ministry: the Aliyah, the return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel. As part of the deliverance from the time of Jacob's trouble, the Lord says he will destroy the nations who held Judah and Israel in captivity, and he will never again allow Jacob to be completely destroyed. The Lord also describes this as a time of discipline for his people.
He says of Jacob. And that is Israel. Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you, but only with justice. I will not let you go entirely unpunished.
And that is why that's the time of Jacob's trouble, the day of the Lord, the tribulation period. The reason for that period is so that the Jewish people will understand, and he's disciplining them. And God gives us the answer in Daniel chapter 9. Jeremiah chapter 30, verse 7 says, That day is great, so that none is like it. The only time period that fits the description of this period is the tribulation, and this time is unparalleled in history.
Like Jeremiah, Jesus described the tribulation as a unique time of suffering, speaking of great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be equaled again. Matthew 24:21. The Lord also uses some of the same imagery as in Jeremiah. In Matthew chapter 24, verses 6 to 8, he said, The appearance of false Christ, wars, and rumors of wars, famines, and earthquakes are the beginning of birth pains. Paul.
too, describe the tribulation using the same simile of birth pains. I Thessalonians chapter five, verse three says While people are saying peace and safety, destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. This event follows the rapture and the removal of the church in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. These birth pains are described in detail in Revelation chapters 6 through 12. We focused on chapter 12 today with Dr.
Jimmy DeYoung and the legacy series. One purpose of the tribulation, the time of Jacob's trouble, is to bring Israel back to the Lord. That's Jeremiah 30, verse 22. That's Hosea chapter 6, verses 1 and 2. That's Zechariah chapter 12, verse 10.
And we've talked about these passages before. The time of Jacob's trouble. Demonstrates that God keeps his promises. He judges sin and he saved those who trust in Christ. In the end times, God will pour his judgment on a wicked world.
And we know that. And this seven-year tribulation, from Israel's point of view, is the time of Jacob's trouble. I mean, when you look at that as we listen today, half of the world's population that's left after the rapture of the church will be gone. God purges his chosen people of the wicked and unbelieving. But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
For on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord calls. Joel chapter 2, Romans chapter 10. After that time of Jacob's trouble is a time of peace, as the Lord Himself sets up his kingdom on the earth for a thousand years. Revelation chapter 20, Isaiah chapter 11.
So. All of these passages today, we're taking a look at the book. I'm giving you the information so that you can study Bible prophecy.
So that you will understand where we are in God's timetable, why we are here, what brought us here to this point.
Well, at this point, God has sent His Son to die for mankind, and that is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And without that, People that die and go to hell, they die, and they haven't accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. They will spend eternity in hell. If you accept Christ, you're in heaven. And we go at the rapture.
What happens after that is a purging. It's a time where God brings judgment on this earth for those people that rejected him and to help the Jewish people to understand why this world is acting as it is and that it is God's world. And the same God that I worship, they will be worshiping. The same Messiah that I worship, they will be worshiping. And that's a time of peace and safety in the future.
Those Jewish people that come back that are living after the tribulation period. And again, that's not guaranteed, as we heard from Dr. Jimmy D. Young today.
Well, I hope that all of this helps you. And Rick, thank you so much for doing all the hard work today and our interviews, helping us to understand where we are, helping people to hear the events. And remember, all of these events are setting up for events that happen, prophecies that are fulfilled after the rapture of the church. If we're so close to these events, That are listed in the book of Revelation. If we're so close to that, how much closer are we to the rapture of the church?
Let's keep looking up. Until. Thank you so much for joining us today. This is Jay Johnson inviting you to join us again next week for more of Prophecy Today.
