Welcome to Prophecy Today. I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr., and along with my brother Rick, we examine current events in the light of God's prophetic word. This is a program that looks at Bible prophecy and it ties events that are happening in our world today. Into God's program that he has for the future. We look at the groups of people that will be a part of Bible prophecy.
We look at the nations that will be a part of Bible prophecy. And, Rick, one of the nations that is not a part of Bible prophecy is the United States of America. And that is the number one question: where is the USA in Bible prophecy? It is, Jimmy. God established America with a purpose in mind to have the prophetic scenario of God's word come to fulfillment.
But the United States, as we established in previous DVDs, is not mentioned in Bible prophecy. Since America is not mentioned in Bible prophecy, we must ask a question: how does America disappear? How does America disappear? And that's the question we're going to answer on today's program. But I do want people to understand God's plan for the future according to Bible prophecy and God's plan of salvation for all of mankind.
On today's program, Ken Timmerman, David Dolan, and we'll be looking at the role of America in Bible prophecy. Rick, let's get started with our first Ken Timmerman.
Well, that's right, Jimmy. I have Ken Timmerman with me. He's our expert in geopolitical affairs. He's an author and an analyst. You can find out more about him.
Sign up for his newsletter by going to his website at kentimmerman.com. Ken, thanks for being with us today. Thanks for having me on, Rick. It's always a pleasure.
Okay, and I'm going to finish up this interview by talking about America at 250. But before I do that, I want to get an update on things that are taking place around the world. We'll start in Russia, where you have been reporting that it seems like Vladimir Putin is slowly losing his grip, and that continued this week, didn't it? It did indeed. I think that Putin is increasingly on the ropes.
There's signs that he's having problems with his military. There are signs that he's having problems with the economy. He's losing over 1,000 soldiers a day, 30,000 per month. He can only draft about 25,000 replacements per month. It got even worse last month in June.
The Russians lost 40,000 dead in a single month, trying to capture just a couple of dozen square miles of Ukrainian territory. That Russian advance petered out without success. There are rumors also that his yacht, the Graceful, has come out of hiding after three or four years, perhaps to keep it from Ukrainian drones so it doesn't get hit. It's been spotted off the coast of Denmark and the high seas. There are other reports that he's fled to a bunker or is going in between different bunkers, again, to keep him from Ukrainian drone attacks.
On Thursday night, after the Ukrainians had hit refineries in Russia and done a lot of damage, the Russians counterattacked with a pretty bloody attack on Kiev, the capital city. 21 people were killed. Not the largest attack of the war, but still pretty important. Ukrainians just don't have enough patriots to take out the Russian missiles. They're getting the drones.
They're getting around 96% of the drones, but only two-thirds of the missiles. They don't have enough Patriots, and those missiles are deadly. Back in Russia, you've got gasoline queues. People are lining up in their cars for miles. To buy gasoline.
And Putin admits this. He says we've got a small problem, maybe a five percent shortage, but it certainly looks a lot more than that. Ukrainians have been just incredibly successful, Rick, in hitting the refineries and storage points. And here you have a country that was a gigantic gas station with nukes before this war that now is running out of gas. Certainly is interesting, Kennon.
We've found this out in Iran as well. The kinetic action, the missiles, the drones, that's one thing. But the economic pressure is just as much of a factor, isn't it?
Well, it's true. And Putin is now starting to feel the punch. And ironically, he's looking for salvation to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have said this past week that they're going to refocus on Russia. The Iran talks aren't going very well, so they're going to maybe have some talks with the Russians. They say we don't want to photo op, but we want to really move the ball forward.
This would be a great irony to see that it's Witkoff that saves Putin from losing the war. This is all going on against the backdrop of the upcoming NATO summit, and President Trump, as he has been in the past, was critical of NATO. Can you talk about that? Trump has never forgiven the NATO so-called allies for not helping us at all in the Iran war. They couldn't send minesweepers.
They couldn't send anything, patriots, nothing. And I guarantee you, those talks were going on behind the scenes. On Thursday, he posted a chart to his Truth Social account displaying NATO spending. And it showed the United States spending vastly more than any of the other allies, ten times more than the next state. We're spending over $965 billion a year.
The next is the UK spending around $90.5 billion. France is at $66 billion. Italy, $48. Poland, $44 billion. Trump is really upset.
He wants the NATO allies to know that next week, all 32 of them, when they get together in Turkey. I think it's going to be a spicy summit, Rick.
Well, Ken, we're going to follow up on that next week. But let's move to the Middle East and let's talk about Iran. They are holding a funeral, a long delayed funeral, for their Ayatollah. Can you talk about that? Right, well, here we are months after he was killed on February 28th.
The funeral started yesterday in Tehran. It's going to last for seven days. They move after a couple days in Tehran down to Home, which is the heart of the seminaries, if you wish, the Shiite seminaries in Iran. And then they go into Iraq, to Najaf and Kerbala.
Now, that's kind of interesting, and most people probably don't know this, but those two cities are actually venerated by Iranian Shias, and many of Iran's top clerics are actually born in Najaf and Kerbala in Iraq.
So they're going to move over the border into Iraq and commemorate the death of Khamenei with Iraqi clerics as well. And finally, he'll be buried on Friday, next Friday, at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, on the border with Afghanistan. That's where Hamenei was born, but it's also the largest Shiite shrine in the world and host to probably the largest Shiite. Private endowment in the world, something like $600 billion.
So, if people think the Iranians don't have money, they should just go to Mashhad.
Well, very interesting. And there was also another participant that wasn't even expected to be there. Can you talk about that? Yeah, well, so the Pakistanis, the Turks, and a whole bunch of others sent senior people. Not many presidents came, but the Saudis, the Saudis actually sent a deputy foreign minister for the opening ceremonies, at least.
It was a surprise visit. But look, Rick, Saudi Arabia and Iran are neighbors. They are always going to be neighbors. Geography trumps politics.
So the Saudis, even though they've been at war with Iran during this recent conflict and Iran has been bombing them, they want to have a door open. They want to have a dialogue because they know Iran is always going to be there. Here is the real big kicker to this funeral, though, Rick. Guess who's not going to be there? Mushtaba, the new supreme leader, same as the old supreme leader.
There are increasing rumors inside Iran that he is dead, dead, dead. And all of those statements that have been put out by Khali Baf, their negotiator, or Pajeshkian, the president, seem to have been fabricated in the basement of the Supreme National Council on National Security in Tehran. Mushtaba seems to be dead. He's not lifting his head up. It's extremely unusual for him not to come to the funeral of his own father and his own relatives whose bodies are going to be displayed in Tehran.
I'm speaking with Ken Timmerman for Prophecy Today. Ken, in the time that I have left, I'd like to talk to you about this July 4th, 250 anniversary celebration of the United States of America. You've been reporting, especially on American foreign policy, for most of your adult life here. If you could give us your thoughts on the role that America has historically played in the world.
Well, Rick, let me just give you a personal anecdote. As somebody who's lived overseas for almost 40 years of my life, it teaches you who you are as an American. Not everybody has that experience. I met a lot of expats who do not understand what it is to be an American. They have fled America.
But I have found that living outside of our country teaches you the values that hold us together, the values that made America strong. And it's not just personal freedom, although that is so, so terribly important. Those freedoms don't exist in Europe. Young entrepreneurs in France, for example, many of them go to Britain or, if they can, to the United States because they have a greater opportunity there to do something. Fantastic.
Look at Elon Musk. You never could have done that in South Africa. There's no Elon Musk in France or Germany or Italy. Those societies are too sclerotic. America is an open society that allows anybody to succeed.
And by the way, I can also tell you this from personal experience. My wife is a A Swedish origin US citizen. She's a naturalized US citizen. She's just as American as I am, and I'm 10th generation. That is what is special, and what has made America special in the past as well?
Well, let's talk about the present, and we look at the role that President Trump and his personality and what he has decided to do. And we see him at NATO now, but he's not going to be there forever. And if we can kind of mix the present with the future, we don't know who's coming next. We've got elections this fall, we've got presidential elections in a couple of years. Can you talk about the role America is playing now and your maybe your hope, but also maybe your concerns for the future?
Well, I think President Trump is trying to change things structurally in the way the government works, in the way the presidency works, and the way the Congress works, and the way the courts work. I think he's trying to put in place a system where, for example, a left-wing judge cannot block a whole immigration program as he can do today. I think he's trying to put in place a system where the deep state cannot sabotage a sitting president. It happened to him for four years between 2016 and 2021, five years actually. I think he's trying to change the way America is seen by our allies overseas.
He's asserting power in ways that hasn't been asserted by his predecessors. And he's making our foreign allies and our foreign wannabe allies understand that friendship as America is a wonderful thing, but it's not free. It's not free. They need to contribute something as well. And it's not necessarily money, but they need to contribute something.
To an alliance, if they want to be members of alliance.
So I think the president is trying to reset the table, and I also believe that he will have a tremendous impact, probably as great as Ronald Reagan's impact, that will stretch on for many years, no matter who comes after him, Democrat or Republican. Absolutely. As they say, God bless America.
Well, Ken, thanks so much. Look forward to talking to you again soon. Thank you, Rick. God bless. Great job, as always, Ken.
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Well, this is the portion of the 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 author and journalist Dave Dolan. Dave, thanks for being with us today. Always glad to be with you, Rick.
Well, David, typically you give us an update letting us know what has happened in this past week. What's the latest?
Well, the weekend Friday evening with some good news for a change in Israel. It was already the Sabbath there. When a signing ceremony took place in Washington, DC between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors. To the U.S., with Marco Rubio at the ceremony, behind them, standing behind them, and other officials. And Rick, what they signed is a framework agreement For a peace treaty, basically, between the two countries.
And as I've mentioned, they had one in 1983 that Hezbollah wrecked. Half a year later, by all of its violence and attacks on U. S. forces and different things.
So they're trying to start that back up again and get a full treaty. But what this agreement says is that there will be two pilot areas set up One north of the Latani River and one south of it, both where Idea forces are stationed. They'll pull out of those areas, and the Lebanese army will immediately. Come in. And Israel will clean those areas, if you will, of Hezbollah fighters first, so there will be no resistance.
that the Lebanese army has to deal with. And if it works, then more withdrawals will take place And of course, the goal of the Israelis is not to occupy Lebanon or kill the Lebanese people as The BBC puts it all the time, but to stop the Hezbollah attacks, stop this group. From attacking them.
So that was signed, but it was immediately condemned by the leading Hezbollah spokesman in their parliament, the Lebanese parliament. They have, I think, 10 or 12 parliament members in there. And he denounced it strongly. He said we shouldn't be talking directly with the Zionist enemy. They have no right to say anything about us, et cetera.
So they're not going along with it. And Rick, on Thursday, we had the head of the Al-Quds force, the Revolutionary Guards force in Iran. A call for the IDF to immediately leave, or they'll be pushed out, he said. We will make sure you're out of there completely.
Well, Rick, the report said that at these talks in Washington, the tensions were very, very high because both sides were angry at not Marco Rubio, but at President Trump, basically, for including Lebanon in the Memorandum of Understanding that, by the way, polls showed this week in Israel eighty six percent Of the Israeli Jewish people oppose it. As I said to you before we went on air, you can't get eighty six percent of Israelis to agree on anything usually.
So that's quite remarkable, showing how unpopular it is. But they both felt that was a big mistake to put Lebanon in there, and it's a a big concession to Iran. Of course, the criticism of the understanding agreement between Iran and the US goes much deeper than that. There was fighting continuing, Rick, all week in Lebanon. We had more Israeli soldiers wounded.
We had two killed earlier. We had more Hezbollah fighters killed. They attacked an Israeli position on Friday, and there was response to that. And on Thursday evening, the Prime Minister Netanyahu had another emergency cabinet meeting, and the press report said several of his ministers were angry because they'd gotten phone calls from soldiers in Lebanon saying our actions are being severely restricted and we're in danger now. We're sitting ducks.
One of them quoted one of the soldiers as saying, The Prime Minister and the Defence Minister Katz both denied that. They said the IDF has full. ability to respond to any attacks or whatever. They're not being limited in any way. But of course, Rick, otherwise, they are just kind of sitting there.
They've discontinued their offensive against Hezbollah discontinued pushing them further to the north To get them out of drone range of Israel, and that of course was at the insistence of the White House.
So there's a lot of confusion, a lot of upset feelings there.
Well, David, I want to follow up on the situation in the north between Israel and Lebanon. And Israel does not have territorial ambitions there. They just want security. Does this agreement that you've talked about make them more secure? What would make them more secure is if this agreement with Lebanon succeeds.
and the Lebanese government can disarm through its army This rogue militia force. Rick, I don't know of any other country in the world where the government Has to put up with a rogue militia inside of its borders. That isn't at all under its control and that is waging war against a neighboring country without the Lebanese government's approval of that, and in fact, a disapproval. As I've shared before, almost all of the Christians, the Maronite Christians, are about 35 to 40 percent of the population oppose Hezbollah being there and doing what they're doing, and a good portion of the Sunni Muslims do. And only about half the polls show of the Shiite Muslims, and they're about 32% of the population support the group being there.
So it's a minority group from a minority of the country. that uh has the country by the throat. And leads to these periodic wars and bombings, and Beirut gets bombed, and people die, and you know, it's a terrible war is war.
So, if they can get an agreement with Lebanon, and if it can be carried out, But Rick, the fear is that the apparent resurgence of Iran, the fact that they survived the war, the kinetic part of it, at least so far, the fact that they're speaking the way they are every day, we had a very insulting Post yesterday from the chief negotiator against President Trump saying, no, you're not going to use our funds to buy American products. We'll use our funds the way we want to. We don't want your trash. basically he said, are your trash talk. And your scientifically engineered soybeans and some other things like that.
they're getting nastier and nastier every day, frankly, and the Gulf states are worried about this. The reports say too, they're concerned that there could be more attacks. And they're even discussing, according to the reports on Friday, some of them at least Qatar and Bahrain, whether to host. U. S.
military bases in the future because that made them the target of attack. in this war.
So it didn't bring them security, it made them less secure, they're saying.
So, Israel wants peace with Lebanon. They have no gripes with them. They signed an accord in 83. This foreignly sponsored group. in their country wrecked it And they're trying to do it again.
And the Israelis are going to have to take action. And the military knows that. The commanders are. are very alert. And the Prime Minister said again this week, we won't pull out our forces until we're sure that Hezville is disarmed or is disarming Are being disarmed, and we can safely turn our attention back to our country.
They're willing and ready to do that, Rick. There's not a a guy or a gal up there from Israel that wants to be in Lebanon. I can tell you that. I I've talked to many of them over the years when they were there the first time, and that's not where they want to be. They don't want to be in Gaza.
They don't want to be in Iran. They want to just be home and have everyone leave them alone. But we know this is a jihad, a spiritual war 2 coming against them from. Their actual enemy, Satan, their eternal enemy, and uh, you know, they gotta fight to uh to stay around basically. That's the fact of the region.
David, in the minute or so we have left, we look at all these events taking place. What's going on in the north? What's going on in Iran? And there are certain things that we want to happen because we feel for the nation of Israel. But on the other side of the equation, these things are taking place that are negative for Israel but are setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled, aren't they?
Well, they are, Rick. And you and I discussed it the very first week of this war in early March. That Iran is listed. I mentioned it last week, and you've mentioned it many times in Ezekiel. thirty eight and thirty nine as one of the opponents of Israel that will come against it in a major military attack, and God will intervene and save Israel, and it's a wonderful outcome.
But so I said from the beginning, this it's dubious that they're going to overthrow this regime. They're deeply embedded, they're deeply committed to their cause, and they have their tentacles everywhere. And you know, so now it looks Indeed, like we're going to have this anti-Israel Regime still there until the end, and that is setting the stage for that prophecy to be fulfilled. But, yes. It is difficult as a lover of Israel, as a resident there for thirty three years, and you've been there so many times.
Difficult to watch the process, and especially when it comes from our own leaders, the United States.
some of the statements, the statement last week by the Vice President that America's Israel's only friend left. The prime minister apparently clipped to one of his aides. Didn't he know that the Prime Minister of India was just here as our guest? a country nearly four times the size of America.
So Israel still has many friends, but it's dwindling. And of course, that is what the scripture says would happen in the very last days before the Lord returns and restores Israel fully.
So that's the end of the story, the good news. Dave Dolan for Prophecy Today. Dave, as always we appreciate your insight. Look forward to talking to you again soon. Aye as well, Rick.
God bless. David Dolan, great job, David. And the idea of another potential peace treaty on the table. The Israeli ambassador to Washington at the beginning of those meetings said that this was a train wreck, it was not going to happen. But at the time at the end of the talks, he said that it looks like the train is back on the tracks with a final destination of peace between the neighboring countries.
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Uh Welcome back to Prophecy Today. I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr., and along with Rick, we have been looking at current events in the light of God's prophetic word. Man, when you talk about Ken Timmerman and looking at geopolitical events around the world, when you look at what's taking place, what the world is talking about, then when you look at Dave Dolan and you listen to what he says, Rick, it's really interesting to see how close that we are getting to the very last days. And today, we're coming to this portion of the program where we would like to preview. Destiny of America.
That's right, Jimmy, and we're excited to do this. This was, like I said, our final project with our dad, but we feel it's very timely because we're looking at the subject of what is America's role in Bible prophecy. We talked about that in the previous videos. And we say, what is happening to America?
Well, we can see what is happening to America. That is also what is taking place in the world today.
So many things aligning, coming together that are pointing towards the rapture of the church. That's one of the reasons why we focused on this. Let me remind you that this video was shot just about 2020 as COVID was coming into place and we went into lockdown. We've been working on it over these years, and it's very interesting, timely, how the very topics that we're covering are the very topics of what's very important in the future here in the days in which we're living now, correct, Rick? That's right.
We look at some of the unrest that's taking place in America.
Some of the, I guess I would call it, anti-God behavior that's taking place in America. We talk about that and how that could lead to America's demise potentially. We also talk about the threats, external threats from Russia and China. Of course, these things have not changed, even though these topics are continuing to be very pertinent. Yes.
Well, today's preview of this DVD project that will be out, that will be available, is something that you can use to pass to other people. And we do give a clear presentation at the end of the DVD, looking at prophecy, where the rapture came from, the second coming, and how people can come to know the Lord.
So it would be a great. Project for you. We have a special offer for you at the end of today's program for you to get this DVD and help our ministry up.
Well, without further delay, let's get into the preview of the destiny of America. God established America with a purpose in mind. To have the prophetic scenario of God's word come to fulfillment. But the United States is not mentioned in Bible prophecy. Since America is not mentioned in Bible prophecy, We must ask a question.
How does it disappear? The Communist Party dissolved in Russia. but that effort to weaken America did not. When I go and travel and speak, I ask the question: how many of you have heard that Islam is a religion of peace? Everybody raises their hand.
We are in the midst of a spiritual war. We only have one hope, and that is through Christ today. The Lord used a principle. That he laid out through the Apostle John in Revelation chapter 17, where he said, the Lord will put into the hearts and minds political leaders to make decisions. that will set in place the prophetic scenario for the end times.
Having established that the United States is not in Bible prophecy, we had to say, well, Where is the United States or how does it disappear? The first possibility of an internal threat could be insurrection. A violent uprising against authority. Or government. The United States of America is unraveling for all the world to see as race riots leave many of the nation's biggest cities burning in almost unimaginable scenes.
In the summer of 2020, we had all of these riots and looting and burning after George Floyd death. People have a constitutional right to demonstrate. They have a constitutional right to speak. Their opinion, their views, even if they're not popular, and even if they're hateful. What we have today with Black Lives Matter and Antifa, as many politicians have said, this is not demonstrations.
This is anarchy. And in fact, what many of them are involved in is treason, subversion. Because what they're trying to do is overthrow our government, our form of government, a constitutional republic based on the law of the divine, private property, private ownership. and move us to a Marxist or socialist system of big government where government is in charge of everything and government becomes the God of the people. And if we had a FBI that wasn't as corrupt as the people on the street, They would be prosecuting these people under the federal law.
But sadly, now we have the CIA, the FBI, the DHS, many of these agencies themselves are involved in treason, subversion, lawlessness.
So instead of pitting people against each other over economics, what they started to do is pit each other over people groups.
So now we're going to make everybody that's a Christian or a capitalist or embraces a Judeo-Christian worldview out to be a racist. What they have done is they have taken race and they've weaponized race. As Christians, we believe the Bible says in Acts that we are of one blood. There's only one race, the human race. There are many people groups, but only one race, the human race.
Black lives matter, of course they do. But if you say all lives matter, we're now supposedly being a racist. And who wants to be called a racist?
So, if you are for national sovereignty, borders, then what they'll say is: well, you want to keep brown people out. The fact is, the women and children at the border are not a security threat. They are a humanitarian challenge, a challenge that President Trump's own cruel and counterproductive policies have only deepened. These are basically lies, supported more than anything else by prejudice, namely racism and xenophobia.
So everything they do, they couch in race so that people will sit down and shut up. And that's how communism always takes over. The American people know. These names have to go. These names are white supremacist that Said terrible things about our country.
This is like over 100 years after World War II. The majority have been intimidated into silence. And the only way to stop that. is to fight back with the truth. Truth is the kryptonite to the brainwashing operation, the psychological warfare, the disinformation.
People have to get where they don't care what's said about them. If you can't stand up to words and insults, How are you going to stand up to what's coming? According to our experts, America could collapse through infiltration. And there are two major subversive threats to America. That would be Russia.
and China. First we'll look at Russian. Could Russia overthrow America? Russia is the only country militarily.
somewhat on a par with America today. This is purely because the Russians have nuclear weapons. What we've seen is a steady advance. Of Russian influence in the Middle East.
Now, remember, if you go back to the 80s, Russia was there, right? Russia was in Syria, Russia was in Iraq, Russia was in Libya. They had allies all across the Middle East. Russia was in bed with all of those regimes that were opposing Israel. and they were opposing the United States.
But they lost that with the collapse of the Soviet Union. And over the past, I'd say, again, five to six years, they have been building back. The war in Syria has been tremendously important. For Russia to test new military capabilities, which they had been doing steadily. We see weapons being deployed to Syria.
To put them on field trial, essentially.
So Russia is using the Middle East to test its military, to develop new weapons, and to test them, and to expand its political influence. Eastern Europe is free. The Soviet Union itself is no more. This is a victory for democracy and freedom. The Soviet Union collapsed, and the Russians, perhaps somewhat to their surprise, Discovered that the captive peoples and the captive republics of the Soviet Empire didn't particularly like them.
So, they've had a hard time rebuilding any kind of Soviet empire. Look at the tension between Ukraine, their nearest neighbor, and Russia.
So, they've not been able to rebuild the Soviet empire, which is one reason why I don't think they will challenge the United States. They're too small. And their population is shrinking, it's aging, and it's shrinking. And they do not have this enormous hinterland that they used to have. They don't have these buffer zones that they used to have.
What I think Putin is trying to do. is to build back the Russian economy. Through arms sales and through natural resource sales, oil and gas in particular, and to re-cement political alliances in places like Syria, Egypt. He's moved into Egypt, surprisingly. Putin is a slavophile.
He is somebody who believes in a kind of Slavic empire. And it's never been the Chinese that threaten that, it is always the Western European powers or the United States. Under Putin's authoritarian reign, they have spent $650 billion restoring and renewing their conventional military forces as well as their nuclear forces.
So they have a military capability today. To wage utter war against America, should they choose. I just don't believe that Russia's leaders. Want to do that? They don't need to.
They need America to become weaker. Than America is today. They need America's alliances to be frayed at the edges. They need America to doubt in its own power and its own legitimacy. And by the way, The Russians have been working at this, the Soviets have been working at this for 70 years.
Their covert intelligence operations against us began in the 20s. Uh we're aimed at at a long-term effort. It began as a Russian communist party effort to weaken America. to make Americans doubt their system to make Americans doubt our freedoms. to make Americans doubt the legitimacy of our government.
They infiltrated the school systems. First the universities, then the high schools, and then the primary schools. and we are seeing the results of it today in a whole generation of young people who've been brought up To reject America and the American ideal, who do not understand that the Constitution of the United States is the greatest. document of freedom. and governance ever written in the history of the world.
They believe it's a document of oppression and of slavery. That was the KGB view, and unfortunately, it's become the view of the teachers' unions in the United States of America. The strategy of choice and competition is a strategy of winners and losers. We need to make all kids winners. Strategy of choice and competition works in the private sector, but not for the public schools.
American Federation of Teachers President Randy Whitegarten, thank you for that perspective. Many intelligence agencies tell us that China is the number one threat to America, that is communist China. What part does communism actually play in the collapse of the United States? The Chinese Communist Party has openly declared that they believe. They have the Right.
and the destiny to become the world's hegemon. That's the term they use. The world's hegemon. By 2049. In other words, 100 years after the Chinese Communist Revolution.
They believe it's almost a divine right that they have. They have ambitions to take over the world. And at this rate, they will do that unless we reverse. course. In response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial recent trip, The Chinese government fired off 11 weaponized ballistic missiles toward Taiwan.
Four of them went right over the top of the island into the sea. They want to take Taiwan. They believe Hong Kong is part of China. They believe the south part of China Sea are Chinese territorial waters. They have rapidly advanced their capability.
They exceed the United States on three fronts: naval forces, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles, air defense systems.
However, for China to militarily overthrow the United States at this point is unlikely at this point. They do not need to attack us militarily. I don't believe they want to attack us militarily. It's way too expensive and it doesn't go along with their philosophy. If you go back to Sun Tzu, you do not engage.
An enemy. militarily if you can defeat them. with other means. China's unconventional warfare takes all the levers of power of a country, so biologically, ideologically, economically, to try to cripple to overcome the United States. China may also have an edge when it comes to how wars are fought in the 21st century.
The Chinese literally have a full scope Assault with the goal of taking everything they can possibly take from us. Their ability to manipulate the marketplace has been very, very effective. What the Chinese have done over the last number of decades is that they've attracted a lot of American jobs. And they've also used their access to our research and development, science and technology, our university systems research. to vacuum up.
Expertise that we have in this country, send it over there, turn it into products and then sell it to us. They came in and took pictures and measurements of all the equipment that is used to fabricate that and actually sent that back to China is what I found. And one was built in in Rupong's old lab. Is that ethical? It sounds like theft to me, I don't know.
One of the most significant things I think President Trump did was actually in his final days of office when he put out an executive order That forbade investment by Americans in. Chinese military companies.
Now you say, well, why would we want to do that?
Well, because the Chinese military companies are masquerading, in many cases, as civilian aerospace companies. And if Boeing and Lockheed Martin and other companies want to do business in China, they've got to invest in these Chinese aerospace companies.
Well, in fact, they're Chinese military companies. President Trump. forbade that. He said, no, you can't do that anymore. One of the first things Joe Biden did as president was to reverse that order.
The Chinese are also raising money on our stock exchange, and they've been doing this for 25 years, since Bill Clinton. I warned about this 25 years ago. And now you see, it's not just Alibaba, it's not just Baidu or others. There's hundreds of Chinese companies on the stock exchanges here in the United States getting access to our capital markets without. submitting themselves to the type of transparency that makes our markets more secure than those in other countries.
So the Chinese economic clout has grown. over the past two to three decades. And they are trying to use it for their strategic purpose.
Nowhere do we see this more than in the emphasis on 5G. And so the Chinese are using 5G to gain a backdoor access into all communications in the United States and in the West. It's tremendously dangerous. And under President Biden, they have an open door. will confront China's economic abuses.
counter its aggressive, coercive action to push back. on China's attack on human rights, intellectual property, and global governance. But we are ready to work with Beijing. when it's in America's interest to do so. The Chinese are pervasive in this culture.
Uh if you immigrate from China the chances are that you are going to either directly or indirectly spy for the Chinese communists. In the past couple of years, we've gone over there to Beijing and people in my office. And when we come back, we basically discard all our electronics. Because we figure that they are They are compromised. They manipulate our country through an education establishment.
If you go back in the history of the American education system, John Dewey back in the 1930s, he brought over in 1933, 34 what's called the Frankfurt School. They were all communist ideologues. And so, where did he place them? He placed them in the Princetons, the Yales, the Harvards, and of course in Hollywood. Hollywood has bowed to the communist Chinese in terms of censorship because they make more money in China than they do in the United States and the Western world.
The Hollywood studios want access to 1.4 billion people.
So they censor out anything that the Communist Chinese don't want. in a movie or a television broadcast and the like. Arguably, COVID-19 was weaponized by President Qi back in January of 2020 and was applied in a very effective way against the United States. This woman apparently being taken against her will by China's mutely deployed quarantine squads. A man also pulled from the apartment, forcibly taken down the stairs.
Biological warfare is something that has really shown the kinks in our armor. Right now, in the United States, the situation still is a low risk for the American public. But then again, that could change, and that's the thing we have to keep our eye out for. The Chinese knew. that COVID was transmissible.
And it could be deadly by the end of December 2019. They kept that secret and lied to the WHO and to the United States for six weeks. They kept on telling the WHO, we can see that in tweets from the WHO up until the end of January, COVID is not transmissible human to human. That's what the Chinese are telling us. They knew that was a lie.
Now why did they do that? I believe they did it because they realized if they kept COVID Inside China, by closing their borders and dealing with the pandemic there, it was a Chinese problem. But if COVID escaped to the rest of the world, It became the world's problem and China could be part of the solution. And in addition to that, We have responded. in a manner to destroy, to self-destruct.
Our economy. in many cases our society. Left-wing leaders shut down the schools. Do you think that helps the United States? Is that a Chinese goal?
Is that what they sought to do actively? I don't know. But it definitely, objectively, serves their interest. Forcing 300,000 of the city's 1.1 million students back to online learning full-time. And I want to emphasize to parents, to educators, to staff, to kids that we intend to come back and come back as quickly as possible.
What the Chinese communists truly want is a one-party ruled United States. and the Democratic Party is well on the way to doing that. We'll be a nation. of unity. of hope.
of optimism. Not a nation of anger, violence, hatred, and division. Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans have made their choice. You have well-known Democratic Party members in Washington, D.C. that have been compromised.
Everybody knows about President Biden's son and how he's been compromised through not only his relationships in Ukraine, but especially in China. The analysis found millions of dollars flowing to Hunter Biden and his company. A big chunk of it came from Chinese partners. Was it appropriate to bury the Hunter Biden story? You're talking about the press doing that?
He's saying that's what they did, and that is what they did. They buried the Hunter Biden story before the election because they were like. We can't risk having the election thrown to Trump. We'll tell them after the election. And we know for a fact that that's what they did?
Of course, you know, but I was saying. You know for a fact that that's what they did. I don't know what they did. I know, because you only watch MSNB's. No, that's not true.
You know about people on the Hill and local officials all over the nation that are in the pocket of the communist Chinese. Uh Chinese have infiltrated the United States uh Probably isn't. Deep as possible. We have tens of thousands of Chinese spies here. We have them in the Confucius Institutes in hundreds of universities.
And basically they are a spy network there. the Trump administration Emptied out a consulate in Houston because it was a spy haven. being used to suck up Intellectual material, but really the center of mass of Chinese spying is either here in Washington or in San Francisco. Diane Feinstein had a Chinese spy driving her for 20 years. Representative Swalwell was sleeping with a Chinese spy.
And they certainly helped finance his campaign. And of course, Nancy Pelosi has allowed him to continue to serve in the highly sensitive intelligence committee in the House of Representatives. Russia and China and others, they don't like us to a certain degree because we represent democratic values, human rights. Religious freedom, the very values that a Marxist government cannot. Embrace.
Shi Bang Xiang Jiang Kai. If you only share it all. Communism originates, of course, from Marxism. Marxism first calls for the embracement of socialism, and socialism is on the track to communism.
Socialism is where the government owns all property, the government makes all the decisions for you. And then communism happens because socialism denies private property and people don't tolerate that. They want civil liberties, and so the government has to step in and enforce and take away private property from individuals.
Now, The only reason that Communist China has survived is because they began to embrace aspects of capitalism. Capitalism says if you invest and make a profit, you get to keep some of that. But the Chinese Communist Party will not tolerate Anything other than complete obedience. And so, you know, though they have certain sectors of modern day. uh communist China that are prosperous.
Many of those are owned by government. And those that are not owned by a government, the people that own those companies are subservient to what the Communist Chinese Party has in mind. These people want to dictate every aspect of one's existence: your job, your education, how many children you have. what you believe, what you don't believe. Every aspect is what they have every intention of doing.
They say that in their own literature. Why don't we believe them? In a freedom-loving country, you don't want to think the worst. you better start thinking the worst. These people want to defeat the United States.
They'll destroy everything they possibly can in order to take over. If you think what is going on with the Uyghurs, re-education camps. massive rape and torture, they would do precisely that to this country. They hate us. They hate people of conscience.
They hate Christians especially. We have documented over 1600 Churches with their crosses were being burnt, destroyed. and destructed.
Well, that was a clip from our latest video, The Destiny of America. It's a very timely video. It's something that we want to get out to as many people as possible. And in order to do so, what we'd like to do is offer this DVD/slash Blu-ray combo package for a gift of any amount if you call us at 423. 825-6247, and we'd send you this video for a donation or gift of any amount.
Well, that's a great offer, Rick, and I sure do appreciate the fact that people will support us through this, and this is a way of sharing the gospel message with others, using Bible prophecy to help people to understand the times in which we're living.
Well, it's time to take a break, and when we come back, our legacy series with Dr. Jimmy D. Young. Our teaching this week refers to where is the United States in Bible prophecy? And that question is always asked whenever we go, whatever prophecy conference we're doing, whatever QA session we're doing.
That question is asked: Where is the United States in Bible prophecy? Dr. Jimmy DeYoung on the Legacy series will answer that. That's coming up after the break, right here on Prophecy Today weekend. Yeah.
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. Rick, this week we're previewing our DVD. The destiny of America.
I'm so excited about it. We answer the question, how does America disappear? Rick, we've got a special offer this week for those that are listening to the program today. We certainly do, Jimmy. If you go to our website, prophecytoday.com, we have this DVD on our bookstore.
You can purchase it there. But for listeners of this program today, if you call in, we really just want to get this information out. If you call 423-825-6247, you can get this video for a donation of any amount. The important thing to us is that we get this information into your hands. Yes, and I think, Rick, why don't we offer also Presidents, Politics and Prophecy and Is the United States in Bible Prophecy?
Make sure you call on the weekend and we'll get it out to you. On our legacy series today, we begin a brand new series that will answer the question, where is the United States in Bible prophecy? We'll begin our study in the book of Genesis, chapter 10. Dr. Jimmy DeYoung and the Legacy Series.
But when I open up the floor for Bible prophecy questions, I'm always asked. Where is the United States in Bible prophecy? Where is the United States? The other day, I was in a meeting down south, and I opened up for prophecy QA. And somebody asked that question, and before I could give the answer, a guy in the back said, Hey, I know.
I normally do not give you know, any leeway for anybody in the audience to respond to the question. But this guy was rather overbearing.
So I just said, okay, sir, where do you think the United States is in Bible prophecy? He said, I don't think, sonny, I know. I said, okay, where is it? Jerusalem. I said, sir, the question is: where is the United States?
Hey, I know the question, sonny. The answer is Jerusalem. I said, how do you get that, sir? He said, it's very simple. J E R U S A L A N And I laughed just like you did, but that is the answer.
That is the answer. If the United States is in Bible prophecy, it has a relationship with Jerusalem. I'll get to that in a few moments. Let's take our Bibles, though, and go to the book of Genesis, because I want to look this morning with you at the origins of states, the origins of nations. You know, the first 12 chapters of the book of Genesis is key to our understanding of not only the entire Word of God, but Bible prophecy.
The book of Genesis is a foundation for Bible prophecy. Everything in the first 12 chapters that is laid out there is the Genesis of understanding all of Bible prophecy. Genesis, the first 12 chapters, goes like this: Genesis 1 is creation. Genesis 2, the special effects or details of creation. Genesis 3 is the fall of man.
Genesis 4 is the story of Cain and Abel. Genesis 5 is a genealogy from Adam to Noah. Genesis 6, 7, and 8 is Noah and the flood. Genesis 9 is Noah after the flood. Genesis 10, another genealogy.
Genesis chapter 11 is the Tower of Babel. And chapter 12, call of Abraham out of Ur the Chaldees. And in those 12 chapters, you have 2,000 years of history. 2,000 years from Genesis 1 to Genesis 12. It lays out the foundation of all of Bible prophecy.
Now, remember, I said Genesis chapters 6, 7, and 8 would be Noah and the flood. Genesis chapter 9 is Noah and the flood. Noah, after the flood. Look at chapter 9 just a moment with me, and let me show you what God says to Noah and his three sons and their four wives after the flood is over. They've landed on the mountains of Ararat, which would be eastern Turkey, right over near the Russian border.
And here's what the Lord says to Noah, chapter 9 and verse 1. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and he said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. Replenish the earth, or repeople the earth. There are approximately, those who make up these statistics, approximately 1 billion people on the earth from the time of creation until the time of Noah's flood. One billion people were killed with the exception of eight souls, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Jepeth, his three sons, and their four wives.
Those are the only eight souls remaining after this great judgment of a worldwide flood.
Now the Lord tells Noah and his sons and their wives, be fruitful, multiply, and repeople the earth. Chapter 10 is the beginning of at least the obedience of these men having relations with their women and moving forward to do exactly what the Lord said, repeople the earth. Chapter 10 and verse 1.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Jepeth. And unto them were sons born after the flood.
Now, here are the sons of Jepeth. I'm not going to read them all, but let me just highlight a couple of them. The sons of Jepeth, Gomer, Magog, skip a couple, Tubal, Meshech, look at the last one in verse 3, Tagarmah.
Now, wait a minute, I just told you that all of Bible prophecy has its foundation in the book of Genesis. In a moment or two, we're going to be looking at Ezekiel chapter 38. I have just given you the names of the personalities in Ezekiel 38 and are the nations that will be involved in that alignment of nations coming against the Jewish state of Israel in the beginning of the tribulation period. Their names come from the sons of Noah, excuse me, sons of Jepeth, grandsons of Noah, and they are the ones who established the nations that we'll be talking about. Look what I'm talking about here.
Look at verse 5 of chapter 10. By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided into their lands, everyone after his tongue, after their families, and in their nations.
Now, what happened over in chapter 11 of the book of Genesis is that the people, all of the earth, was speaking one language. Because of that, Nimrod was able to go into the face of God, and instead of doing what the Lord had told him to do in chapter 9 and verse 1, be fruitful, multiply, repeople the earth, he instead said, no, we're not going to fill this earth with people. We're going to build a great city. It will be the beginning of my kingdom. I'm going to set everything in place.
And the whole world followed him and got in line behind him. Because of that, then God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit came down. Chapter 11, confused the languages.
Now we're looking at a world with so many different languages, nobody's really able to understand each other until they start finding those who are speaking a common language and start coming together to establish a settlement of some type. Once they have done that, then they are going to have children.
Some of them, they'll teach the children a language, and then they'll move to a location to establish a nation speaking that language.
Now, that is the beginning of all nations. Look again at verse 5: By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided into their lands, everyone after his tongue. And so they started learning the language that the Lord had given to them at that place in Babel. After his tongue, after their families, they started raising families in their nations. They established nations.
Let's think about this just a moment. You can go to any historical geographical textbook on biblical lands, and you can look up Magog, Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, and Tagarmah. When you do that, you're going to see that Magog went to the north of the Caspian and Black Sea with his family, teaching them a language. North of the Caspian and Black Sea, if you know anything about geography, would be what we know as modern-day Russia. Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, and Tagarmah went south of the Caspian and Black Sea, and that would be in the geographical area that we know today as modern-day Turkey.
In fact, I was in Turkey doing some television not too long ago, picked up an ancient Turkish map, and that Turkish map was relating to me that during Biblical times, Turkey was divided into four parts. Those four parts, Meshach, Tubal, Gomer, and Tagarmah. And so we see that the sons of Jepeth, grandsons of Noah, took their families, taught them a language, and went to a geographical location and established a nation.
Now let's look at verse 6. This is the next son. This would be Ham. And the sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizrom, and Put, and Cana.
Now let me just think through with you who these people are. When you come to Cush, Cush is what we know today as the area of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. Mizoram is modern day Egypt, Put is modern day Libya, and Cana is modern day Israel. And so we see now that additional nations are coming into existence as well, and this is laying out for us a very interesting concept. Right now, here in chapter 10, we're 262 years away from Abraham ever coming on the scene.
Hear what I just said? Right now, in this passage of scripture, I got the number from the genealogies. Don't throw away genealogies. There's some great truth in genealogies. There's a genealogy in chapter 5 that sets up for the reason Noah was able to escape the flood and his family.
A genealogy in chapter 10 laying out for us where these peoples go to establish nations. Chapter 11, a genealogy bringing us to Abraham. And if you look at chapter 10 with Ham having these boys, Cush, Mizoram, and Put, and Cana, you'll have to realize that Abraham's not on the scene. It's 260 years plus before he's ever kind of come on the scene. And by the way, listen to me.
That's going to be a number of years before Ishmael ever comes on the scene. Here's my point. Ishmael did not father the Arab world. I just established that Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan. Egypt, the most populated Arab nation in the world, and Libya.
Are involved as sons of Ham, grandsons of Noah, establishing nations. How do I know they established nations? Look here in verse 20. These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, in their nations. One I didn't throw in, Cush has a son named Nimrod, and verse 10 of chapter 10 says the beginning of his king was Babel in the plains of Shinar.
That's the area of Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia, the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. The plains of Shinar would be what we know as modern-day Iraq, another Arab country. Let's just take a moment and go to the book of Genesis, chapter 16, with me. The book of Genesis, chapter 16. In chapter 16, we see what is going to happen as it relates to the birth of Ishmael.
Again, if we're going to understand the nations, we've got to understand who they really are. Ishmael did not father the Arab world. Abraham did not father the Arab world. They did father one nation. Let me tell you who they are.
Chapter 16 and verse 1.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children, and she had a handmaiden, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said unto Abraham, Behold, now the Lord hath restrained me from bearing. I pray thee, go in unto my maiden, and it may be that I may obtain children by her. And so Abram hearkened unto the voice of his wife, Sarah. He goes in unto Hagar.
He impregnates her. They are going to have a son. His name is going to be Ishmael. Oh, by the way, where was Hagar from? Oh, the first verse says she was an Egyptian.
That verse right there should show you that, hey, Ishmael did not father the Arab world. Unless, now I have a PhD doctorate, I don't have an MD. But I think if there's an MD in the audience, you could probably confirm this. It's impossible for a man to father his mother. I think that's correct.
And if that be the case, Ishmael couldn't father Hagar, an Egyptian.
So Ishmael certainly didn't establish the Egyptian people. Look what it says over here. The Lord does meet with Jesus Christ, I'm talking about, and a pre-incarnate appearance does meet with Hagar. Look at verse 8. And he said unto Hagar, Sarah has a maiden, whence camest thou?
And he was asking what she was concerned about. And then he said unto her in verse 10, And the angel of the Lord said, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly. By the way, the angel of the Lord is a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ, and that you shall be numbered for a multitude. And the angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord hath heard thine affliction. And he will be a wild man.
His hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all of his brethren. There's a character analysis of what Ishmael is going to be like: a wild man raising his hand against every man, every man's hand against him. But indeed, he's going to father a nation. It didn't say nations, a nation. What it says here in verse 20 of chapter 17.
The Lord Jesus again appears to Abraham. He's had this son, Ishmael, and here's what he tells him: verse 20, and as for Ishmael, I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him, and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he begot, and I will make him a great nation. One nation.
Ishmael became the father of one nation. not the many nations of the Arab world. This is key to understanding Bible prophecy.
Next week we'll see which nation was fathered by Ishmael as we continue to answer the question, where is the United States in Bible prophecy? Dr. Jimmy D. Young and the Legacy Series. We're going to take a break, and when we come back, Rick and I will take a look at the book right here on Prophecy Today Weekend.
I'm Ruth Kramer with Mission Network News. We'll begin today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where hundreds of Christians are killed each month. Todd Nettleton with the Voice of the Martyrs USA says Islamic State Central Africa Province or ISCAP recently beheaded 14 Christians in a series of attacks. There is an element of wanting to inspire fear. Nettleton says that's why the attacks are so gruesome and violent.
As the Islamic State expands its presence, the areas it controls become places of persecution. Nettleton says one hallmark of persecution in the DRC is how suddenly it strikes. A local leader shared the story of two men stopped and asked about the religion. One of the men said, I'm a Christian. He was shot right there instantaneously.
Tragedies like that leave deep trauma, yet believers continue to endure in faith. Pray that the Lord will strengthen and heal Congolese believers. Pray that persecutors will turn to Christ through dreams, visions, and bold testimonies they witness. And U.S. President Donald Trump aims for a new Guinness World Record with his fireworks display at the National Mall.
Typical Fourth of July shows last about 20 minutes. President Donald Trump's will go twice as long. Civic displays throughout the U.S. will likely follow suit, honoring America's 250th year of independence. Marty Johnson of Warriors Set Free says: for some veterans, if there's an event like what we're talking about that Is it going to be twice the amount of sound and twice the amount of everything that could very well trigger somebody right back?
Not all veterans struggle, but fireworks usually pose a challenge to combat vets. Warriors Set Free helps veterans and first responders heal from the trauma incurred in the line of duty. Thanks for listening to Mission Network News, a service of one-way ministries. We're listeners supported by people just like you. 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 Ruth Kramer. Welcome back to Prophecy Today. I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr.
Along with my brother Rick, we have been examining current events in the light of God's prophetic word. Today, as we previewed a little bit and we're telling folks, we want to tell others about our newest DVD, the last one that we did with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung, our father Rick, the destiny of America. When we came up with the title of this DVD, we were thinking initially we were going to call it the demise of America, weren't we? We sure were, Jimmy, but we weren't necessarily looking at the demise of America.
We were looking at is America in Bible prophecy? We've talked about that. And we didn't see it there, so we were trying to determine what happened to America. Yes.
The main verse of this D V D Revelation 17:17. For God has put into the hearts of men to fulfill his purpose, to be of one mind and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled. That's Revelation 17:17. In the future, God is using, and even today, he's using world leaders to accomplish his will. And our broadcast partners, if you will, they all give.
Answers to the insurrection. Could that be? The destiny of America, infiltration, China, Russia, and Islam. We focus on those nations every week with our broadcast partners. And of course, the imminent event of the rapture, which is what we talk about all the time when we do this program.
And I think as we look at this, Rick, we're really excited about getting this information out to people. We sure are, Jimmy. And of course, our dad, Dr. DeYoung, passed away in 2021. And so this video was recorded.
pre-2021, which seems like it's a few years ago now. But when you look at it, Jimmy, it stands the test of time. The things that we were talking about in this video, we are certainly seeing being played out on the media and the news in the world right now. Yes, which is why, in our conference this last weekend, I stressed to folks: we understand why the world is doing what it's doing because we understand and we read God's Word, we study Bible prophecy, and so it doesn't take very much once you understand what is taking place, why the world is acting as the way it is today.
So, this has been a labor of love in our ministry. Today, we're going to finish out the program, Rick, with a special salvation message that we conclude the DVD with. Here's the conclusion of Destiny of America. As an American, you could very easily lose your hope. The Bible clearly says it's going to get worse and worse and worse.
But that is not a doom and gloom message. Because I understand this isn't all running out of control. It's actually. Like a script. And things are going prophetically as they have been foretold to happen.
So, this is a great exciting time to be alive, and my hope is in the fact that. Jesus is our great hope. I finally get to be with Jesus Christ. I finally get to go to heaven. No more pain, no more sorrow, no more death.
If we die and we go into the grave, that is not the end. We have a hope, a hope of forgiven sin and eternal life, free from the presence and the power of sin. We have the only hope for the world. In spite of all the threats and the persecution and the horrendous things based on men's sin. We have the answer, and we ought to tell the world about that.
Unashamedly, we ought to be out there declaring the truth of Christ in a world that doesn't want to hear it. You know, keep in mind this is a spiritual war. What Satan and his demons do is they use lies, intimidations, and manipulations. They try to embarrass us into not saying anything. They try to manipulate our thoughts.
You know, we are sinful, and we have to recognize where we've come from, but we have to keep our eyes on where we're going. And so, yes, there's great hope. But that hope's not here. That hope is in heaven. And we need to share that good news with those that are lost.
And there are a lot of lost people out there. God is sovereign. God is still on his throne. Every nation is going to be seated at his footstool. He still has the iron scepter that he is going to still rule nations with.
And we have to remember that even though we have a period of suffering, That that period is short-lived. The Bible promises that as we're entering into these last days, into these final days, into these days of Noah, that at the end of that time, the Lord is going to return his saints. with him to rule and reign on this planet. Our hope is in our gospel message. When the word is preached, It brings life.
It brings hope. The hope centers of America are us, the Christians. Jesus is returning soon.
So ultimately, The enemy will be defeated. Ultimately, these things will be broken, and Jesus is coming to rule and reign as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. But in the meantime, Let's gather, let's be bold to share with people, with Muslims, with non-Muslims, with anybody. They need to hear the truth. The truth will set them free.
God is still victorious. We will not lose. We can stand on that solid ground, which is the Word of God. That Jesus Christ is Lord, is Savior. He rescued me 22 years ago.
He can rescue you or anybody who calls on His name to be saved. That blessed hope. is based upon our relationship with God. That relationship is not a religion. That hope is based upon the fact that you do know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
which is as simple as ABC. A, you need to admit that you're a sinner. I did when I was 11 years old. And I trusted in Jesus Christ, but my first step was to admit that I was a sinner who needed a safety. B To believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
He came, he lived a perfect life, crucified, buried, three days and three nights later, resurrected from the dead. We believe that. That's the gospel. The gospel is the promise of the death, burial, and resurrection, and that for the purpose of giving us eternal life.
So you have A admit. B believe, and then C. Call upon the name of the Lord. Book of Romans chapter 10, verse 13 says that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. You can call upon the Lord right now.
In fact, as you're watching this documentary, you can bow your head, admit you're a sinner. Believe that Jesus died to take away our sin. and call upon him. to give you eternal life. I want him to find me living pure.
But in addition to that, I need to be productive. Until he does come. come to take us up. to be with him. Forevermore.
Oh. If you have decided to make that decision today, we would love to hear from you. That was Dr. Jimmy D. Young and our new video, The Destiny of America.
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.
