The. 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. As you watch the world and what is happening, we understand from Bible prophecy events today are leading up to those events in the future.
On today's program, Ken Timmerman, David Dolan, Bill Federer, and R.C. Merle, plus the Legacy Series with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung and Rick and I will try to wrap this all up at the end and make. Sense of it all, 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 with us. He's an author and an analyst. He comes to us every week to explain to us what is going on geopolitically in the world. You can find out more about Ken by going to his website at kentimmerman dot com.
Ken, thanks for being with us today. Thanks for having me on, Rick. It's always a pleasure.
Okay, and never a shortage of things to talk to you about. But we'll start where we started last week, and that is with these riots in France. Could you give us an update? What's going on there?
Well, the riots are getting deeper. They're getting more profound. They're getting darker. More Palestinian flags, more Antifa presence, the Black Bloc, and the presence also of far left leader Jean Luc Mélenchon. People in this country.
Probably don't know who he is. He's a former Trotskyist. He was then a communist, a member of the Communist Party for years and years. He now leads what is appears to be, by the polls, the second largest political party in France, called La France Insoumise, or in English, they call it France Unbowed. It is a hard left party, and as I said last week, he's trying to position himself to get elected president this coming May in the elections.
For years, Rick, this guy has never made any bones about his desire to fundamentally transform France.
Sound familiar? There are 751 no-go zones in France. These are places, primarily in the suburbs of big cities, where the police can no longer access. They're controlled by predominantly Muslim gangs. Women have to wear veils.
You see this in the in the demonstrations. Veiled women in the demonstration. You see it with these kids wearing Palestinian keffiyes, the headscarfs. There's open support for Islamic terrorism in these riots. He's talking about a quote, "great replacement" of the native French population with a new demographic from the Muslim world, from North Africa and elsewhere.
He's calling for a new France. Rick, these kids have been brainwashed at schools into believing France is evil. It's white, it's racist, colonialist, and should be replaced. That's what happens when communists educate your children. It's the indoctrination, stupid.
Okay, and you explaining to us what is going on in France. But if we look at the bigger picture, could this instability that is taking place in France be a kind of an early warning of sorts to what could potentially be a threat to other Western democracies in the world?
Well, we're seeing it in Sweden, and you have environmentalists. I mean, this is crazy. Environmentalists in in France are issuing fatwas, so-called Islamic decrees against. Get this. Air conditioning, air conditioning is is a is you know decadent.
It's it's something that's emblematic of the West of the United States. Their issuing fought was against air conditioning. This is a republic that no longer believes in itself. We're seeing a Europe that no longer believes in itself. Sweden is going to have a re-election apparently for some of these seats.
We talked about that last week as well. But the same thing is happening in Germany. It's happening in Spain. It's happening. In Britain, there is a deep, dark malaise all through Europe.
It is sparked invariably by the far left and by these pro-Islamic factions. But there is some good news. You know, I've been living in the south of France, or I have a house in the south of France, and been there for 25 years. There is a France profonde, a deep France. We would call it the silent majority here in the United States.
That's very real. I think that's. What is going to remanifest itself in those presidential elections this coming May? I'm not so sure it's the it's the same in Britain, in Germany, and in Spain. But in France, it certainly is true.
The French majority, I think, will reassert itself ultimately. Very quickly, Ken. Any lessons that we can take as we have upcoming elections here in the United States as well? As our old friend Smokey the Bear said, "Only you can prevent communism." Well, that is true.
Well, let's move on. Let's talk about Russia and Ukraine. President Trump has reportedly criticized Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities. Can you talk about that?
Well, the president had a remarkable interview with Newsmax on Thursday. He told Rob Finerty that. Zelensky was a disgrace. He talked very specifically about those attacks on diesel refineries, on oil refineries, on in Russia. He said he had told Zelensky to stop it, and obviously Zelensky has not.
So the two leaders are at a point. I would say close to a breaking point right now. Trump said quite openly, he said Zelensky and Putin they hate each other, and he says it's very difficult to have some kind of negotiation when the two leaders have that personal venom towards each other. Trump is calling for elections in Ukraine. Zelensky has said, well, we need a twenty, a two month ceasefire if we're going to have elections, which obviously he's not going to be able to deliver.
And the Russians probably won't agree to it either. But look, I think what it comes down to is very simple. Trump has had it with Zelensky. He knows that Zelensky was helping the Democrats during the 2020 election, very clear, crystal clear. And in 2016, the Ukrainians were helping them as well.
They haven't yet reached the breaking point, but I think they're getting very close, Rick. It certainly seems like President Trump has a certain amount of distrust for both sides. Not not that he's pro-Russian, not that he's pro-Putin, but he he just wants this to end, doesn't he? You know, Trump was asked about this whether he trusted Zelensky, whether he trusted Putin, and he said, "No, I don't trust anybody." He's going into this very Clear-eyed Rick, I think he's being a realist. He realizes that these two leaders hate each other.
It's going to be very difficult to make peace, but he's looking for the leverage that he can apply on both of them. With Zelensky, the leverage appears to be a call for elections. With Putin. Not so clear what that leverage is any longer. We've tried sanctions; they haven't worked.
Now he's trying to let Russia export more diesel, which has a positive impact here in the United States and on world markets because the price of diesel is controlled by world markets, is not controlled by our own production.
So I think he's trying to give Putin a glimpse of what the world would be like if Putin would just play ball and end this war, because everybody knows. Putin started it. Trump knows that Putin started it. Putin has to decide to end it, but he has to have a reason to end it, and so far he doesn't. Do you have reason for optimism that he he might come to that conclusion?
Look, I can't read into Putin's mind. You know, we we used to have Kremlin watchers at the CIA all during the Cold War. They were wrong every single time. They misread the Russians. They misread the Soviets.
So I'm not going to hazard to read into his mind. But what Putin has shown is that he. Is a Russian nationalist, and he sees himself as defending the Russian minority in Ukraine that has been suppressed, has been oppressed by Kiev. And he says, "Look, we want some form. We want autonomy for that Russian minority.
We want their rights protected. Their language right. Their right to educate their children protected. And and those are things that I think he sincerely does believe in.
Now." How that transforms politically is another story. It's been a military affair for the past four and a half years, and it's been a disaster.
Well, Ken, let's move from that conflict to let's go to the Middle East, and we'll talk about Saudi Arabia. And they are now encouraging the Houthis to escalate the attacks on Saudi Arabia. Gee, what a surprise that the Iranians might be working with the Houthis. What's surprising is that you have a senior government official in Saudi Arabia talking about this publicly. That I suppose is a little bit surprising.
The Saudis tend to be very quiet in public and very loud when it comes to sending bombs on top of the Houthis. Look, what we learned this week was that the Saudis had asked for a meeting with top Houthi officials. In July, they wanted them to come to Oman neutral territory to discuss some kind of ceasefire. And the Iranians intervened and basically told the Houthis, "No way, you're not going to negotiate with the Saudis." And days. Later, the Houthis seized territory along the Red Sea coast, and now, in recent days, they've been hitting Riyadh, oil refineries, and the airport.
So, Iran clearly has its finger in this. The Iranians see the Houthi war not just as a proxy, but as a way of putting pressure on the Saudis to put pressure on us to diminish our military and economic pressure on Iran.
Well, can we talk about these things every week? And today we've talked about the unrest in France. We've talked about the war involving Russia and Ukraine, and escalating tensions in the Middle East. All these things work together as we finish up our interview here. Can you talk about the the way these are all interconnected and how President Trump is dealing with each one of these issues?
Yeah, it's having five balls up in the air at the same time. You know, he was asked also in this interview, would he use nuclear weapons on? Iran. He said, "We don't have to. We've got the Moab, the mother of all bombs, the massive ordnance air blast bomb.
There's talk of using that against Khe Khe Lang, which is this secret nuclear site that most of the media calls Pickaxe Mountain. Look, Rick, they're all interconnected. The Russians are helping Iran. Iran is helping Russia. North Korea is sending soldiers to the front lines to fight on behalf of Russia.
Iran is building drones, building a drone." Factory in Russia, the Chinese are helping Iran with drone parts, with solid fuel for their ballistic missiles, and other technologies. They're sending military equipment to Russia as well. They are all working together. I have called this for years, Rick. Rogues hanging together, and this is why the economic war being fought by Scotty B.
Scott Bessent, our amazing Treasury Secretary, is so important. It is vastly more far-reaching. Than anyone knows, he's hitting not just the banks, not just correspondent accounts, but intermediaries in distant countries. He's hitting shipping. He's even going after cryptocurrency wallets and draining them.
Our satellites are being disabled. Chinese satellites have been disabled by space force. The U.S. is cutting off China from cheap oil from Iran. They'll still get oil, but it's going to be at market prices.
Look for Trump and. Scotty B. Rick, this is all hands on deck, and remember, all is fair in love and war. Ken Timberman for Prophecy Today. Ken, as always, we appreciate you coming on, helping us to explain what is going on in the world.
Thanks so much. Look forward to talking to you again soon. Thanks so much, Rick. God bless. Great job, Ken.
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Well, this is the part 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 journalist Dave Dolan. Dave, thanks for being with us today. As always, Rick, it's a blessing.
Well, Dave, not a big news week, but still a lot going on in Israel. Can you give us the latest?
Well, of course. Again, the regional conflict was the major theme of the week throughout. It's fortunately not directly involving Israel with Iran at the moment, but everybody's aware that could. Take place at any time, and there are two proxies on Israel's borders: Hamas in the south in Gaza, and Hezbollah on the north. There was action on both fronts during the week.
Another senior Hamas commander was targeted by the Israelis. He was very much involved in capturing one of the kibbutz communities down there in the October 7th attack of 2023, and another man that also was involved. And then we. We had the head of the board of peace, who's a European diplomat, acknowledge that Hamas has been once again taking food that's coming into the Strip from various donors around the country and the world, and they've been commandeering it and then selling it or taking it to their own forces. Etc.
So he condemned that, and that came after he said he got a letter from the Israeli coordinator of government activities saying that Israel would no longer coordinate with those deliveries either, as long as Hamas is stealing this food and is not curbed in that.
So we'll see what happens there. We had again warnings of a fuller war in both places. A new report said Hezbollah is stepping up its rearming in Lebanon, doing various things, rebuilding sites, just as we're hearing Iran, of course, is doing inside of, of Iran. Then we had another attack on Friday in the Persian Gulf of a tanker. That was the thirteenth wreck for the week.
That's a record high of this war, and an indication the Israelis believe, and American officials are thinking the same. Apparently, that the Revolutionary Guards have decided to go back to full war and are going to try. To disrupt the Israeli-American elections as much as they can, and in the case of America, at least to send the price of oil again back up, which these attacks this week have done, of course, and that along with the Houthi attacks on the Saudis, more action there during the week, and we had on Friday President Trump say that Israel is helping the Saudis in their war against the Houthis. He didn't give any details. The Israeli press, Rick, is saying that Israel's been sharing intelligence that it gets not directly with the Saudis, but with CENTCOM, the American, of course, command there in the region, and then they've been passing it on to the Saudis where it's helpful.
And the Saudis are very thankful for that. The president said, and he said, as a result of that, that he thinks the Abraham Accords. Have a good chance of including the Saudis when everything dies down, if it dies down again. Of course, Rick, we remember that that was the trigger for the October seventh, Hamas, Iranian-backed attack in the first place. They were just weeks away then.
The Saudis signing on to the accords when that took place and derailed the whole thing. And finally, Rick, we have the elections in Israel nearing in two weeks. We had a lot of campaigning. Latest polls show that the prime minister is about even. His supporters, the right wing camp, they call it, with the left center, and that it may be an Arab party or two that decides.
Who actually forms the government?
Now they're not going to back Netanyahu, but they might. They said one of their leaders said they might back Gadi Eisenkot if he emerges as the candidate. But they wouldn't join his government. They would just not vote to bring it down.
So they would be outside supporters basically of it. And Rick, the prime minister, on Friday reacted to former President Obama's. Very controversial comments on a Tuesday in Northern Ireland, where he basically said that Israel is a occupying force, and he didn't state it that bluntly. But you know, the questions about the legitimacy of Jews being there was in the background. He said they were persecuted, etc.
But he also said they quote took land off of people, and they were excessive. And then he said a few minutes later, "Those people said that this is injustice, and I want my land back." Well, the prime minister on Friday said, "This isn't injustice. This isn't anybody else's historic land, but ours." He pointed out the Arabs have 22 countries, et cetera, and they're all around. He said we're not the Dutch in Indonesia. We're not a colonial power.
We're not like Belgium taking over the Congo. And of course, he could have listed a whole series of Britain taking over India and China, et cetera, et cetera. People that went places they had never been historically or had any connection with the Dutch in South Africa, et cetera, et cetera.
So basically, he's saying any set. This in his statement, we are Jews. We come from Judea. This is Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem.
So he said we're not, you know, being excessive. We're trying to just, you know, have a homeland, only one. He said in the world, and we're going to protect it and defend it. Certainly, very interesting comments by former President Obama. But let's go back to those elections.
Those elections are about ten days away now. As we look at this situation, is there going to be a big November or October surprise, as they call it, when it comes to the Israeli elections?
Well, Rick, as several politicians, the foreign minister said it, and others, the defense minister said it. In recent days, the elections may not even be held if Israel is once again attacked by Iran. You can't have people going out to polling stations, public gatherings. Campaign rallies, all of that sort of thing. If the country is under physical, ballistic missile attack, that's just a pretty obvious thing to say.
You know, they can't derail the U.S. elections. It doesn't seem they are obviously hoping to weaken the president's party's hold on power to the point where the Democrats will rule Congress and therefore stop the war, stop the financing of the war. That's what they're hoping. They're Well, David.
Before I let you go, I want to give you a chance to respond to former President Obama's claim that Israel does not have a legitimate claim to the land. There, can you talk about this?
Well, first of all, it's it's incorrect. Israel is a result of the first the League of Nations, first the British mandate under the League of Nations. After the British government said it would support the establishment of some sort of a Jewish state there, as long as the Arabs weren't pushed out, that was the arrangement. The Jewish leaders at the time said, "That's what we'll do. We're not intending to push." The Arabs out.
We just need a state, any state, and of course then we had the World War II. A lot in between, we had the Jews kicked out of Hebron, of Gaza, and of other places Jews were in the 1920s and 30s in the Arab riots, and no Arab land was taken by any Jews in any of that period. Rick, it was bought, it was purchased. In some areas where it was allowed, and some Arabs were killed for selling land to the Jews, it was only after the War of Independence that was started not by Israel but by its Arab neighbors all around, announcing in April of '48 that they would annihilate this nascent Jewish state. It would not.
Come into fruition, it would be stillborn. And they launched a war. And in that war, yes, Arab land did pass into Jewish hands. There's no question about that. That isn't stolen, though.
And the same with the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula. These were all taken in a war of aggression by Israel's enemies. And then Israel immediately said, "Its leaders, we will hand all this back, everything." And we had the famous Arab four nos: no negotiations, no peace, no Israel. And so, basically, the prime minister was pointing out yesterday, Rick, that we have been trying the Oslo Accords, the Camp David Accords. We've been trying to have a real peace with our neighbors.
And he said, "It. They don't want us here." And that's based on their religious beliefs that a Jewish state cannot rule over Muslims, Jews cannot rule over Muslims, which is stated in the Quran.
So they're not making that up, and that that is the ultimate problem, and the ultimate reason that there is no peace now. It's not because the Israelis are taking land. Yes, you have had some of that, but very little of that. And it's mostly been for road building, and just like states do around the world, they sometimes expropriate land for public purposes. But otherwise, that's just so exaggerated.
And like you said, it's the standard line now of the left. Not only the United States, but in the world. But it was sad to hear this elder statesman of the Democratic Party and a former two-term president, the first black president historically, say such things in a foreign land. You know, if he wants to say that, he should come to Israel and say it, and we'll see what response he'd get there. Dave Dolan for Prophecy Today.
Dave, as always, we appreciate your insight. Look forward to talking to you again soon. Glad to do it, Rick. God bless. Well, we're going to have to take a break right now, but when we come back, we're going to talk to Bill Federer of AmericanMinute dot com.
We're going to talk about globalism. He's always a very insightful interview, and of course, R C. Murrow as well. That's all right ahead, right here on Prophecy Today Weekend. As in the days of Noah, this is Ken Ham, author, speaker, and blogger on why we can trust the Bible.
When Jesus talked about creation, Adam and Eve, Lot, and more, he always treated them as real people and real events. And when he spoke of the flood, he compared the reality of this past judgment to the reality of his coming judgment on sin. Jesus said, "As in the days of Noah, so it will be when the Son of Man comes." But if the flood was just a local flood, as some Christians argue, how can Jesus compare the two? The coming judgment isn't just a local. Jesus will judge the wickedness of man, just as He did at the time of Noah.
The comparison only works because Genesis is history, and the flood, well, it was global. Sign up for free daily email insights from Ken Ham when you go to AnswersRadio.com, or view a transcript of this episode at AnswersRadio.com. 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.
Did you know that in the first three chapters of the Bible, there was a theocracy in the world? The last three chapters of the Bible there will also be a theocracy when Jesus Christ rules and reigns from the earth, and He comes back physically to the earth. In between, Satan's plan is to dominate. And use human government to dominate the world. Globalization is the act extending an influence to all parts of the world.
It involves the emergence of a single world market, or deregulation, resulting in internationalization. At first blush, globalization doesn't seem all that bad. Globalization seems to hold an answer to the world's financial troubles, among other things.
However, careful consideration and research reveals disturbing historical precedents. The final empire will be a true global government ruled by the man known as the Antichrist, also called the Beast and the Lawless One. He will have authority over every tribe, people. Language and nation, and he, along with the false prophet, will force all people to take his mark. The future global leader will control all financial transactions and all religious observance.
Refusal to worship the antichrist means death. Acquiescence means eternal punishment from God.
Well, in the next half hour, we're going to talk to Bill Federer and R.C. Merle about. This issue of globalization.
Well, that's right, Jimmy. I have Bill Federer from AmericanMinute dot com with us. Bill, thanks for joining us today. Great to be with you.
Well, Bill, we love to have you on the program. You provide not only a Christian perspective but a historical perspective as well on many topics that we face in the world today, including socialism. We talk about politics. We talk about the Christian legacy in the world today. What I want to talk to you about, and I know that you've written books about this subject, you've given lectures, is globalism.
I think that is something that, as believers, we need to have a Christian worldview on. We need to understand. Can you talk to us about globalism in the world today?
So Adam Eve sinned, and selfishness came into the human DNA, and Cain killed Abel, and one king takes a kingdom from another king, and then you have gang leaders. The default setting for human government is gangs, and a gang leader with enough weapons we call a king. And it's a hierarchical system. If you're friends with the gang leader king, you're more equal. If you're not their friend, you're less equal.
If you're their enemy, you're dead. It's called treason, or you're a slave. And as the centuries go on, the kingdoms get bigger because with the latest military advancements, they can kill more people.
So the first gang leader king in the Bible is Nimrod, Tower of Babel. And Josephus, the Jewish commentator, said Nimrod wanted to build his tower so high. That if God destroyed the world again with a flood, he could survive on top, and he made everybody in town bake bricks and bring them, or he would kill them. Defined against God, oppressive over man, and since the population of the world is centered there in the Mesopotamian Valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, just down the mountain from Erekat, where Noah's Ark landed, since the population of the world is centered there, he wanted to control it through fear. In a sense, Nimrod was the first globalist.
He was the first one-world government guy. Here's the population of the world, and he wants to control it through fear. God comes down, confuses the languages, and the people scatter into language groups that turn into nations. Lo and behold, nations were God's invention to postpone a one-world government. But every generation, you had some Nimrod, Pharaoh, Caesar, Kaiser, Sultan, Tsar that wants to what?
Conquer other nations. And if left unchecked, they'd be happy to conquer them all. And so, in that sense, death is a blessing because these dictators die off, and the devil has to start from scratch with the next generation. But he has the latest military and technological advancements. And so, you go from Cain killing Abel with a stone to them killing with bronze weapons, iron weapons.
Big long phalanx spears the Greeks had, scimitar swords the Muslims had, gunpowder the Chinese invented. Even Augustus Caesar wanted a worldwide tracking system called a census, tax enrollment. If he could had access to 5G and cell phones and facial recognition software, I'd bet he'd been tempted to use that.
Well, these empires keep getting bigger and bigger until the king of England had the biggest, and the American founders decided they didn't like globalist kings telling us what to do, so they broke away and flipped it and made the people the king with the republic.
So America is a an experiment of a polarity change in the flow of power. It's a top down through a globalist king. The sun never set on the British Empire. It's bottom up. We the people.
And and they got their idea from ancient Israel that first 400 years out of Egypt before Israel got a king, but anybody that can plot on a graph sees that at some point it's going to max out on a global level. All right, we keep having military advancements and and technological AI advancements, and I tell people the obvious thing is more power is concentrating into the hands of fewer people globally. God's counterbalance is to get more people involved locally.
So again, fewer people globally, more people locally.
So that's why it's so important for people to get out in a republic and to vote and to express their will—a bottom-up form of government.
Now, Trump is not a globalist. For all of his personal idiosyncrasies, he is not a globalist. He wants to make America great again. He's not in the same camp as the Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and so forth.
So three things people try to say: Well, Christian nationalism. You know, the first observation is nationalism is the opposite of globalism. There are people who are globalists. One is Brock Chisholm. He was the first director of the World Health Organization.
Have you heard of that group? And Brock Chisholm said, "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their national patriotism." So here's first director, World Health Organization. Brock Chisholm: To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their national patriotism.
So globalists do not like people that want to preserve their nation. And you have a quote from George Soros in 2006. He said the main obstacle to a stable and just world is the United States. And so here's George Soros saying we got to get rid of the United States. It's standing in the way of their globalist agenda.
Klaus Schwab with his Great Reset, and Michael Rechtenwall wrote an infamous magazine in 2021. He says Klaus Schwab writes. That if the past five centuries have taught us anything, it's that acute crises contribute to boosting the power of the state. And so here you have Klaus Schwab, right? By 2030, you'll own nothing and be happy.
You'll own nothing.
Well, how do you get there? You have to have acute crises, and then people will panic and surrender their their freedoms and their money and their possessions to the state. Very similar to Karl Marx. Who said that the theory of communism may be summed up in a single sentence: abolition of private property?
So here's Karl Marx: communism wants to abolish private property. Klaus Schwab says you won't have any private property and you'll be happy. Michael Reckenwald goes on. He says that the Great Reset is a two-tiered economy with profitable monopolies and the state on top, and socialism for the majority below. It's like, yeah, you got the ruling class, and they're the globalists, and they control everything.
So, number one, nationalism is the opposite of globalism. Number two, nationalism is good or bad depending on the nation. If it's a socialist nation, like the National Socialist Workers Party Nazi, nationalism is bad. Because they kill Jews and they take away rights of individuals. If it's the USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, nationalism is bad because the USSR doesn't believe in creator given rights.
Well, if it's a country that's dedicated to rights from a creator, the government's job is to guarantee to you your creator given rights. And this creator is not a respecter of persons, so everybody's equal. Those are sort of good qualities, right? We have rights from a creator. The government's supposed to guarantee our rights, and and we're all equal because the creator is not a respecter of persons.
So nationalism in a country that wants to guarantee to you your creator given rights, that's a good thing, right?
So nationalism is the opposite of globalism. Nationalism is good or bad depending on the nation. And number three, did you know Christian nationalism used to be called Christian patriotism? The word nationalism is not even in Noah Webster's 1820 dictionary. It's not there.
There is no nationalism. That was a 19th century invention word. And so Noah Webster's 1820 dictionary does have the word patriotism. Patriotism is the characteristic of a good citizen, love of one's country.
So the thought is. Why does the mainstream media call pro-life people anti-abortion? There's no pro-life group that puts a sign on their building "anti-abortion group." They call themselves pro-life, but why does every single major news media call pro-life people anti-abortion? Negative word association. Why do they call Christian Patriots, Christian nationalists?
Negative word association. Right, and so if you look at the patriotism word, George Washington, May second, seventeen seventy eight, said to the distinguished character of patriot, "It should be our highest glory to laud the more distinguished character of Christian." So Washington saw no problem with Christian and patriot. Lincoln's inaugural address, March fourth, eighteen sixty one, he said, "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity." And a firm reliance on Him are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. Lincoln mentions patriotism and Christianity right next to each other in his inaugural. Teddy Roosevelt.
You had the Democrats in the Deep South starting the KKK and doing lynchings, and you had Lincoln Republican freeing the slaves, and Teddy Roosevelt Republican having the first black man in the White House for a dinner as an honor. His name was Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt said in December third, nineteen o eight, the mob lynches a Negro. Every Christian patriot in America needs to lift up his voice in loud and eternal protest against the mob spirit.
So here he's saying, look, Christian patriots need to stand against these Democrat lynching policies. And then you have Franklin Roosevelt, and he passes out Gideon's New Testaments and Book of Psalms by the millions to the soldiers in World War II. And he says, as commander in chief, I take pleasure in commanding the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States. He sees no problem with reading the Bible and defending our nation. And then Eisenhower, in 1954, said, any group that awakens us is a dedicated patriotic group that can well take the Bible in one hand and the flag in the other and march ahead.
And so, in 1965, 93% of Americans identified as Christian. 1965, 93% of Americans identified as Christian. That's 69% Protestant, 24% Catholic, and then there were 3% Jewish, and something like 0.05% Muslim. But it was a Clearly, Judeo-Christian country that, at its very lowest common denominator, believes there is a creator, and this creator gives us rights. Therefore, the purpose of the government is to guarantee to us our creator-given rights.
And this creator is not a respecter of persons, so we are all equal. And so, the idea is that globalists want to stop people who want to preserve their nation. And they want to malign them, call them all kinds of names, infiltrate. Matter of fact, there is Megan Basham did a book, you know, Shepherds for Sale, and but she wrote an article called "Follow the Money to the After Party." So the Rockefellers are bankrolling a Bible study program called After Party, trying to say that if you're really a Christian, you won't be involved in politics. Yet she goes on to explain the same group is promoting rural LGBTQ plus people to get involved in politics.
So here's the same globalists. Giving money to left-wing rhino seminaries, saying teach your Christians not to get involved. Yet they're giving money to LGBT groups, saying get your people involved.
So, so a lot of this stuff I write in a book. It's called the rise of the tyrant, but it shows how globally they want to create crises, healthcare crises, climate crises, every kind of crises, because then people will panic and knee-jerk reactions surrender their freedoms to a government and ultimately a global government. And once you give up these freedoms. And they'll always have something like, "Oh, we want to, you know, make sure that you know nothing's bad on the internet, so we're going to track everybody, and we're going to have, you know." But we see in Europe, they're using that to censor voices. I was with a probably Calvin Robinson.
He's an Anglican minister who was in London and doing debates at Oxford, and now he's in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And I talked to him. He says, "I can't go back to England." I go, "Why?" He goes, "Censorship laws. Sixteen thousand people are in prison today in England.
Some for as little as liking a post or forwarding a tweet." That's today. That's what these globalists want to do. They want to censor, so you can't have radio programs like this anymore.
So we need to be involved. We, we the people in a republic, are the king. The word citizen implies co-king. We need to be involved in preserving our nation to push back against globalism. History reminds us, Bill, that empires rise and fall.
But the Scripture tells us that the kingdoms of this world will ultimately give away to the kingdom of Jesus Christ. What should Christians be watching for today, and how can we remain faithful without becoming fearful? Yeah, well, it's exciting. I think that at least men, anyway, boys, you're you're made for competition, and this is happens to be the biggest. And this is for eternal stakes.
It's people's eternal souls that we need to be involved.
Some people say, "I'm not going to do anything. I'm just going to wait for Jesus to come back." I said, "Okay." Who do you think you are going to meet when you get to heaven? Jesus. I have a question. Does Jesus love the little children?
Oh yes, Jesus loves little children. You think he might wonder why you didn't do anything to protect them? Why you were silent when they were murdering kids? When they were mutilating little eight-year-old girls doing hysterectomies? And it's like if if you know that he loves the children.
And you know that he taught in Matthew 19, he who made the at the beginning made a male and female. If you know what Jesus loves and you know what Jesus taught, and you're silent, you're actually giving your consent. To the evil, it's called the rule of tacit admission. It's in a wedding ceremony. If you're silent at a wedding ceremony, you're giving your consent, right?
The pastor says, "Whoever is against this, you know, marriage, speak now or forever hold your peace." If you're holding your peace, you're giving your consent. It's called the rule of tacit admission.
So if there's sins, if they're killing babies, and you're silent, you're you're Nero in the Colosseum with your thumb down, saying, "Kill the baby." I give my consent to you killing the baby, and. And so we need to try to turn it, and even if we can't turn it around, shouldn't we at least try? You know, Acts 22, the Apostle Paul's talking to the Lord. He says, "And when they shed the blood of thy martyr Stephen, I stood there silent, consenting to his death." Paul didn't say a word. He just stood there, but he knew he was guilty because he was silent.
Proverbs twenty four says, "Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death. Don't stand back and let them die. Don't try to disclaim responsibility by saying you didn't know about it. For God, who knows all hearts, knows yours, and He knows you knew, and He's going to hold you accountable." So on earth, people say God knows my heart. Yes, He does, and He wants to hear some words out of your mouth and see some actions.
He knew what was in Abraham's heart, but He still wanted to see him do something. Take his son Isaac to the top of Mount Moriah. It's it's like a you know guys watching football and the wife's there and you say hey when was the last time you told your wife you love her and he's like I can't remember but she knows my heart it's like okay when was the last time you did anything to show your wife you love her it's like I can't remember but she knows my heart it's like dude we need to have a little marriage counseling here people say God God knows my heart yes He does and He wants to hear some words out of your mouth and see some actions. And if you're not going to play a good offense, at least play a good defense. If you're not taking serious win in the world for Christ, at least don't keep your mouth shut when they want to mutilate little children.
Bill Federer from the AmericanMinute.com. As always, you've given us some great admonitions and a charge for our our people to develop Christian worldviews about you know all the different aspects that we see in the world today. And you do a great job of that. We're going to have you again on the program soon. Thanks so much.
Look forward to talking to you then. Bless you. One of the things that we're covering on today's program is what. The global agenda is, and the potential for other people that are going to get involved, or as our good friend R. C.
Merle used to say, items that cast a shadow backwards. And I think this is one of those things. Hey, R. C., welcome back to the program. Thank you, Jimmy.
It's great to be back with you and Rick again. Yes, sir. R. C., you sent me an article titled "Elon Musk Makes a Move on the Banks." What is Elon up to now, Jimmy? We know.
So, whatever Elon gets involved in starts quietly and over time becomes the biggest, most colossal money-making business ever. In October 2022, Twitter was facing significant financial operation struggles before Elon bought it. Today, X functions as a primary digital town square for breaking news, live events, sports updates, public discourse, and Jimmy. It won't be long before he's going to handle our money. Yesterday, new.
News broke of Elon's flying car with thrusters doing backflips. Practically broke the internet. Yeah, and you can't make that up, can you? I saw that, and yes, he probably will be handling our money. What is the name of the new money platform?
Well, it's called X Money. What else? According to the Zero Head's website, Elon has had more in mind, which is pretty normal for him. He explained at the outset that he wanted to turn X into the everything app. Yeah, I I needed everything app, but Archie, what is the everything app?
I mean, the everything app is being rolled out gradually to premium members under the new content creators payout program. People are paid within the app and invited to use the service for transferring money. Any more benefits to this membership? Oh, I've looked at them and they are impressive. First, quicker payout of cash through digital wallets.
Transfers will be cheap and efficient. Second, even dormant accounts earn interest now. Most brokerages offer money markets with two tiers for active and inactive accounts. Third annual yield of six percent for premium share classes. Most brokerage share classes range between three point six eight and four point two.
Jimmy, that's a seventy percent increase by my math. Fourth, X money is digital. Digital money is programmable, and that's going to be a topic for another day because we've been talking about that for five years. Fifth, three percent cash back.
Now, if I do that math, three plus six comes out to. Every time nine percent, it's going to attract. It's going to attract a lot of money. Sixth, peer-to-peer transfers at zero cost.
Now, most brokers firms will charge one and a half to one and three quarters for that. But here's the clincher. Here's the the biggie. Zero Hedge says X money will become the innovator of a new form of money and a monet and monetary services that eventually replaces paper money. And drum roll.
Even the dollar. Wow, now that is getting interesting from a prophetic point of view, Jimmy. You and I and your late dad, we we've had many discussions about digital money through central banks over the last five or six years.
So I so I asked this question: What if? And this is a big what if. What if Elon can bypass central banks with X money? As the future world's global currency, Jimmy, I call digital money the infrastructure for the final government that will be enforced by the false prophet, second in command to the Antichrist, according to Revelation 13, 16, 17. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his Wow!
So, are you saying that Elon Musk could be the false prophet? Yeah, no, I did a lot of thinking on that, and I don't think so. Since the false prophet is most likely a powerful global religious leader, and Elon identifies as a cultural Christian raised in the Anglican Church, and he doesn't follow his faith very closely.
However, If you remember the fictional Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye, there was a very powerful international financier named Jonathan Stoneagle, who controlled the world's largest financial institutions, was the wealthiest man in history.
Sounds familiar? Who financed the Antichrist, and with that, we just may have a fit with good old Elon. Tim, hey, must be smiling, RC.
So when you look at the characteristics of the Antichrist, we know politically is going to be a political, somewhat global leader, genius, shrewd strategist with his ability for military power, spiritual deception and blasphemy, persecution and control. Because once it gets to a point, if you don't have the mark of the beast. He will be heavily involved in those that don't have, and I believe as I think you and I have talked about this before, AI is very much going to be involved in who doesn't have the mark of the beast, and something else that that Elon Musk has been very much involved with is AI.
So I think you might be onto something here. At least it's a foreshadow of some of a person to come. But so far, who's going to be richer than Elon? Musk in history, right? In history, past, present, or the future.
There's nobody close, and and you know with these new constant innovations going on, and with these tech centers and tech, he wants to launch them into outer space. I mean, there just seems to be no limit to what this man has been working on. And yeah, it seems to point a finger towards a future generation when the antichrist comes on the scene. There's going to need to be a tremendous amount of money supporting that entire global regime. No kidding!
No kidding! You're absolutely right. And one of those things that we add is from Revelation 13. As you read, the Antichrist will be controlling all the money and all the world. And I mean, yeah, certainly something for us to keep an eye on.
RC, you have a new Bible study on prophecy tracker on the four judgments. Tell us about it. Yeah, Jimmy, a friend of mine who leads a small group of men asked me to clarify the four judgments, as most denominations really don't teach them. They they really don't anymore, RC, and that's because it's so ambiguous, right? Anything about Bible prophecy, eschatology, the study of the end times.
A lot of churches are shy and away from it, and they have stopped teaching them because it. Frankly, most pastors don't understand what they are teaching.
So I, you know, a lot of churches are not teaching, and denominations do not teach about a rapture or a literal one thousand year rule and reign of Christ on the earth. It's it's right. Most uh most of the people that I come into contact with, everybody thinks they're going to stand before the judgment seat. That seems like the great white throne seems to be something that everyone will go through. And there are three other judgments.
The great white throne is the most horrifying one of them all because that is the one that is the judgment of the lost. Yeah. And so we, I did this paper for that group, and I put it up on the website. It's been getting a lot of activity, and I just thought it might be a Good idea for your readers.
So the study is on prophecytracker.org homepage. There's a red bar in the middle of the page that has the study. You can click on it right there and take a look at it. Excellent, RC. Excellent.
Thank you so much, RC. Thank you. We haven't had you on in a while, but I knew that you had something, and you're covering something every week. We encourage people to go to your website, ProphecyTracker.org, and thank you again. Looking forward to the next time that we have you on.
Thank you for having me back, Jimmy. It's great to be with you guys. What a great half hour with Bill Federer of AmericanMinute.com and RC Merle from Prophecy. Tracker. dot org.
It's never a better time than right now to study Bible prophecy and to understand what the future holds for this world and what God's plan is for the future. We've got to take a break when we come back. Dr. Jimmy DeYoung and the Legacy Series, right here on Prophecy Today Weekend. Welcome back to Prophecy Today.
I'm Jimmy Young Jr. Along with my brother Rick, we've been examining current events in the light of God's prophetic word. Rick, on today's program, we have been focusing on world leaders making decisions and trying to put and establish governments in place, whether it be the United States, the European Union, Russia, China, Iran. Israel, they're all trying to establish themselves as world leaders, and it would be interesting if we had a place to get a good book on. What presidents have done in the past to make decisions to advance a narrative of Bible prophecy?
It certainly would. Funny that you mentioned that, Jimmy, good friend of ours, Doctor Rich Smith. You call him America's Pastor. He's been a good friend of our program. He wrote a book in conjunction with us based on some series that Dad did called "Presidents, Politics, and Prophecy." It's a great book.
We'll offer it in this week if you call in four two three eight two five six two four seven. You can get it for a donation. Of any amount, or it'll be up on our bookstore if you want to go there. But we do highly recommend that book if you want to see how God uses world leaders to bring about His will. Yes, and it takes a look at the decisions that the last eight presidents have made and how it has advanced the narrative of Bible prophecy.
Today on the Legacy Series, we're going to study the fastest growing religion in the world, and we'll show how the Muslim faith plays a key role. In the end time scenario that can be found in Bible prophecy, as we list the nations that will form a coalition to try and destroy the Jewish state, you will see that the lowest common denominator is their Islamic faith. The psalmist wrote thousands of years ago that these nations would pledge to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and that her name be forgotten forever. That's where we'll start our study today in the prophecy found in Psalm eighty. Eighty-three, Doctor Jimmy DeYoung, and the Legacy Series.
Psalm eighty-three is a psalmist prayer, praying that the Lord would intercede in the time of great trouble for the Jewish people. Let me just read a little bit of Psalm eighty-three to you. Verse one: Keep not thou silence, O God; hold not thy peace; be not still, O God, for lo, thine enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up thy head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones. In other words, here is this enemy of yours, God, who are coming up against us, the Jewish people, your chosen people.
They've gone into meetings. They have crafty counsel coming together. They're going to come out of the meeting. Here's what they're going to say, verse four. And they have said, "Come and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance." Now.
That's almost a direct quote from Hamadenejad on July the ninth. July the ninth, he stood in Tehran, Iran, among four thousand Islamic radical leaders. He said, "We must wipe Israel off the face of the earth, and her name be forgotten forever." That was the ninth. On the twelfth, Hezbollah attacked from southern Lebanon, attacking northern Israel. And there ensued a sixty-day war.
It did not break into a full Middle Eastern war, but they were trying to move Hezbollah. Are the surrogates put in southern Lebanon in nineteen eighty-two by Ayatollah Khomeini? They're the ones that killed two hundred and fifty-two Marines in the barracks there in Lebanon. They have a desire, one desire, to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. I could stay here for probably the next couple of hours telling you how the Iranian influence is taking over the entire Middle East.
What has happened in Egypt is now they have renewed ties with Iran, and they're following the Iranian pattern for a purpose of setting up an Islamic republic. They have sent all kind of Grad missiles. The Katyusha rockets are coming into Israel. But I've seen personally, stood and touched Grad missiles with the name manufactured in Iran from the Gaza Strip into modern day Israel. They have an influence in what's happening in Lebanon.
Sheikh Nasrallah, who is head of Hezbollah. This terrorist organization, sponsored, paid for, equipped by Iran and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Nasrallah has taken control of the country of Lebanon. They are no longer a sovereign state. Read the news; it's there in the news, as plain as the nose on your face. These nations are moving to take control.
Notice here two states that are going to be included, in addition to the states I've already talked about. Notice here in verse six, it says, "And the Ishmaelites." Now, where did Ishmael go to live? I told you, Arabia.
So he establishes Saudi Arabia. They'll be a part of this mix of this coalition of nations. I look here at the last one in verse seven. In the land of Tyre, that's modern-day Lebanon, and so now we see the picture: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia. These nations form a coalition to come to wipe out the Jews.
Let us wipe them out, that their name be forgotten forever. Go back to chapter thirty-eight of the book of Ezekiel, just a moment. Chapter thirty-eight of the book of Ezekiel. In chapter thirty-eight. It tells us the time when they're going to attack.
Look at verse eight. And after many days, thou shalt be visited in the latter years. Thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword and is gathered out of many people against the mountains of Israel, which have always been waste, but is brought forth out of the nations. That's talking about the Jewish people out of a hundred and eight nations of the world. Over the last one hundred years, Jews have come to live in the land of Israel.
Now, notice what it says: and they are going to come, and they're going to dwell safely. All of them in the land. Look up here in verse eleven, and thou shall say, "I will go up to the land of unwarred villages. I will go up to them that are at rest, that dwell safely. All of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates." That's a military terminology.
The land are the cities of unwalled villages. You see, when Ezekiel wrote this book, he didn't know anything about F sixteen fighter jets. He didn't know anything about the Mark V tank, the most sophisticated tank in the world. He didn't know anything about the Apache attack helicopter that could maneuver unbelievably anyplace in a war zone. Ezekiel didn't understand that.
He knew that the only defense the Jewish people had was a wall around the city.
So all he could say was, "When they live in unwalled villages, they've laid down their defenses. They no longer are defending themselves. When is that?
Well, I told you last time we got together. The rapture takes place. The antichrist appears, and he confirms a peace treaty. The Jewish people, duped by the devil, believe." He's their Messiah. Peace has come.
The kingdom is in place. They lay down their weapons. They live in unwalled villages, and these nations attack. They attack. Joel chapter two and verse three says the mightiest militia to ever be formed on the face of the earth comes to.
Jerusalem to wipe them out because that worldwide caliphate must be set up in Jerusalem. The Mahdi, most likely the twelfth Imam, Hamadanijad, says he's alive. He's about to appear. We're living in the apocalyptic age. I am the forerunner.
I am the one leading the way for the Mahdi, Mahdi, Arabic Messiah. He will appear. He will bring all the world together and go to Jerusalem, not Mecca and Medina, Jerusalem, to set up the worldwide caliphate. This militia, the largest one ever on the face of the earth, can only be formed by one people—the 1.5 billion Islamic people, who, if they are dictated to by their Koran and the Hadith, their holy books, must wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. The House of Islam requires it.
Nobody can live in that land. Except Muslims, what happens? Go back to Ezekiel thirty-eight. Let me close with this, starting in verse eighteen. Notice what it says, Ezekiel thirty-eight, verse eighteen.
And it shall come to pass in that same time when God shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and the fire of my wrath have I spoken. Look here in verse twenty-one, and I will call for a sword against him throughout all of the mountains, saith the Lord God. Look at verse twenty-two, and I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood, and I will rain upon him and upon his bands and upon the many people that are with him upon his bands. That's including.
All of the people that live in their home countries. The military operation is going to be there in the Middle East to take out the nation of Israel. But all of his bands is referring to all of their nation from which they come. I notice he said, "I'll rain hell fire and brimstone upon them." Chapter thirty nine, verse one. Therefore, thou son of God, prophesy against Gog and say, "Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I am against the old Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal." Now I'm reading from the King James Bible.
If you have another translation, you may not have this. But here's what the King James says in the Hebrew word: Look it up. And I will turn thee back and leave but a sixth part of thee. Turn thee back and wipe out five, six of all these people. Let's just keep reading.
Rest of verse two, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel. And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause the arrows to fall out of thy right hand, and thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel. Thou and all of thy bands and the people that is with thee, and I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beast of the field to devour all of these nations. Syria, Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Russia—they all come against Israel, and they're wiped out by five-six. They're wiped out.
They're rendered inoperative, and the Muslim world has no longer that power on the world. Thus, God's planned prophetic scenario unfolds with the Antichrist ruling over a false religion in Rome. Islam must be wiped out because Islam is an exclusive religion. Nine Eleven was the beginning of the end. It started to unravel up to the Rapture.
Islam. Major player in this world, Rapture, Islam continues on until they form the coalition and go against God's people, and they are wiped out. It's never in the history of the world. It's never been just like this. Stages set, every actor, our nation.
In place to attack the Jewish state, curtain is about to go up on the final drama, as foretold in God's prophetic word. One thing holds the fulfillment of these prophecies back: one thing, the rapture of the church, and then these prophecies are fulfilled. That's where we are in history. This moment. How do we deal with it?
How then ought we to live, Father? Thank you again for this divine description of the days of destiny, seemingly describing the days in which we are living. It's unbelievable to simply open the pages of Bible prophecy, read from the text, and. Allow ourselves to see this prophetic passage as a spotlight on current events. Doctor Wallford used to say, "This is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled." Let us realize where we are in your time.
Allow this to make an impact on our lives, so then we can live expectingly for you to come in the urgency of the moment. Thank you for what you're going to do, because we've studied your word this day. My precious name, we pray with thanksgiving. Amen. Indeed, a study of the prophetic scenario found in God's word for the last days reveals that an alignment of nations will form a coalition to go to Israel with the intent to wipe the Jewish state off the face of the earth.
Current events indicate that the stage is set for these prophecies given by the ancient Jewish prophets to be fulfilled. Fulfilled and seemingly in the very near future, the Islamic faith is the fastest-growing religion in our world today, and its holy book, the Quran, does call for a holy war in the future. The world today seems ready for these prophecies to be fulfilled. Dr. Jimmy DeYoung and the Legacy Series.
We'll take a break and we'll come back and wrap up the program right here on Prophecy Today Weekend. I'm Ruth Kramer with Mission Network News in Lebanon. Putting food on the table is becoming a daily struggle. A new UNICEF report says in recent weeks, one in five families had their kids go to bed hungry. Roughly 770,000 children have suffered psychological distress in the past six months.
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I'm News Kramer. Welcome back to Prophecy Today. I'm Jimmy Young Jr. Along with Rick, we've been examining current events in the light of God's prophetic word. Rick.
So here's what we know. We do know that Revelation 17:17 says that God will use world leaders to accomplish His will. We do know that. We do know that as our guys spoke today, that you know we are looking at events that are taking place that include. A world leader who's taking really the bull by the horns.
He's he's moving ahead quickly. A weak Europe and Russia, who is also now in in the mix. When we look at Israel, we look at things that are happening there. Always, we keep our eyes on the Jewish people, and then as we look back into world history or the U.S. history, and then forward, we're seeing how.
Now there are executive orders that are being put down that seem on on the level to be following God's plan or being God honoring, and I think that we, as we open up the program, we talked about that. That the first truth is that the will of God permeates and supersedes every aspect of life.
So as you look at this, Rick. Let's just talk about what. Where are we in the light of the end times?
Well, Jimmy, and that's what we talk about on this program all the time. You know, looking at current events in the light of Bible prophecy.
Now, you know, there's always been that correlation. You've always seen kind of things moving in specific directions. But of course, you know, the rapture hasn't happened. We're still here, so the stage is still being set. this This end time scenario has not began yet.
But you you look at The way that all these things are falling together, and we're in order to do this, we're following politics. We're looking at President Trump, him coming into office, all the things that he's doing, both on a local level, because we are concerned citizens, and we are supposed to be. Not it doesn't over, it doesn't supersede our life as a Christian, but it certainly is. We are certainly to be involved, to be conscientious citizens, to vote the way. We believe in the closest possible way would reflect our Christian worldview, you know.
So as we look at these politics, we don't want to get so immersed in them that we forget again our priority as Christians. But we look at these politics, and boy, I mean, everything is just lining up from Russia and China, Iran, which is Persia from Ezekiel thirty-eight, and the European Union and Certainly, it looks like they're maybe very slowly, but being looks like they're being awakened out of their slumber and and and finding a need to become a a rearm themselves, as they say, become a military power, which again fits right into what God says is going to take place.
So we're following these politics. We're looking at these politics, not necessarily as concerned citizens, and also as a sign of where. We are in God's end time scenario, God's timeline of events. Yes, and when you do that, you know we do realize that God's will takes precedence over everything and everyone. And I like what you said.
You know, let's not let's not let the government do our job. I think one of the things that you know, as we talk to each of our broadcast partners off the air before we went on. You know, we were talking about looking at the the little things. It's the little things that we look at, decisions that are being made, executive orders that are being, you know, put implemented.
So sometimes those are good, and we keep our eyes on them, and you know, it does help us, like you say, we do understand where we are on God's timetable. But then at the same time, I think the danger is. Is is that we start to think of you know? There's a leader that's in place that is looking. To himself as establishing, you know, so much and accomplishing so much, and we are reminded that in Daniel chapter two, it's the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men, and gives them to any one he wishes, and we do see that, no matter which leader is in charge, and when you look at the book of Daniel, we do see an example of Nebuchadnezzar who.
Was a very proud man that God brought down and humbled.
So, as you know, we look at this, we need to realize that second government is not the remedy for all our social ills. We are not saved through politics. Only God can save, and He provides the answer to society's problems. Certainly does, Jimmy, and I'm reminded of a message that my pastor gave. I can't remember if it was 2020 and that momentous election or this most recent one, but he said, "By all means, vote." And he talked about all the different reasons, things that we should base our vote on.
And he said, "By all means, vote." And it doesn't matter whether you vote as a Democrat, whether you vote as a Republican, do what you feel is right and most reflects your Christian worldview.
Now we. Could have all kinds of topics on that conversation, but what he mainly said was, "Listen, do what you need to do, but that's not going to save you. That is not what we are here to be. We are not here to be Republicans. We are not here to, you know, be acolytes for Donald Trump.
Even though we do feel, and you could, it's reflected on this program that he's done quite a few good things, especially for the nation of Israel, and we certainly appreciate that based. On how we look at Israel and its kind of and its and its role that it's going to play in in the end times.
So, but you know that is not what we're supposed to do. We need to kind of make sure that we are keeping our focus on the main thing, as Dad always used to say: keep the main thing, the main thing, and the main thing is the good news of the gospel of saving grace of Jesus Christ and the fact that we, as students of Bible prophecy, understand what is going to happen in the future and where. We are, and that that rapture could take place at any time. Yes, the government has its purpose, and so does the church. And our primary mission lies not in changing the nation through political reform, but in changing hearts through the Word of God.
Rick, thank you so much for doing the hard work today on the program. We do this to keep the body of Christ educated. We edify the body of Christ through our program. We try to keep people aware of where we are. In the end times, and how close that we are, and you know, as we look at these events, we do know that the rapture of the church can be very close, and that's what we need to keep our eyes on, right, Rick?
Absolutely, Jimmy. Folks, with the things that we have seen, and we again emphasize this so heartily to you: make sure you find out what God wants you to do and do it. Be busy about the Lord's work, not for man but for God, and keep in mind eternity. Keep eternity's value in view. With all that we have seen.
The rapture of the church cannot be far away. 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.
