I'm delighted to introduce my new and exciting sermon series,
Allah and America.
In this series, there are three sermons.
The first, Allah and America.
The second, Islam and Israel.
The third, Israel and the Church.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September the 11th,
American politicians have tripped over themselves
to affirm that the vast majority of Muslims living in the United States
are just ordinary people.
Is this true?
Here are some basic points about Islam made in this sermon series.
First, the 19 hijackers who flew two planes into the World Trade Center
and another into the Pentagon were not Southern Baptist.
19 out of 19 were Islamic.
Second, the Muslim population in this country is somewhere between 6 and 8 million people.
In 19 of 21 Islamic governments around the world,
the government is a violent religious dictatorship.
Fact, there are two versions of the Quran.
The American version is milder, more moderate.
The Arabic version is totally militant, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic.
Question, are the Muslims in America loyal to America?
In June 1991, a black convert to Islam was invited to pray
before the US House of Representatives.
He had been given the highest honors by the American Muslim community.
A year later, addressing an audience of New Jersey Muslims,
this same convert said, quote,
if only Muslims were more clever politically,
they could take over the United States
and replace its constitutional government with Islamic leadership.
Questions we will answer in this sermon series.
What is the goal of Islam for America?
Is Islam a sister faith to Christianity?
A brief history of Islam?
Islam as a sponsor of international terrorism?
Islam versus the Bible?
What the Bible says versus the Quran?
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Will you please stand for the reading of God's Word,
turning your Bibles to Ezekiel the 38th chapter, verses 8,
as we begin today a prophetic sermon series
that dares to look at the future of America and the world.
As we begin this series, America is on the verge of war with Iraq.
Hostilities have not yet begun.
I do not believe that this war with Iraq is going to be a cakewalk.
We are living in dark and dangerous times as a nation.
Because of our overwhelming military advantage,
Saddam must rely on unconventional warfare,
weapons such as biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction.
If Saddam Hussein murdered 5,000 of his own people, being the Kurds,
with poison gas, he will not hesitate to use weapons of mass destruction
on U.S. troops or in U.S. cities.
Terrorist alerts are now at their very highest level.
Airports are being patrolled by the U.S. military.
Duct tape and plastic sheets are disappearing from store shelves in America.
Osama bin Laden is appearing on worldwide television by audio tape.
North Korea has brazenly announced that they have reopened
their plutonium processing plant, and they threaten America
with saber-rattling rhetoric, saying,
We can strike California at any time we wish with our nuclear warheads.
The war between America and Iraq, I believe, is the gateway to the apocalypse.
It makes no difference how long the war lasts,
whether it is two months or two years.
I believe that it is going to destabilize the Middle East.
I believe that it will produce an Islamic army of millions
dedicated to the death in a massive all-out holy war against Israel in the near future.
Islamic terrorist cells in America, concealed in secrecy for years,
who share Saddam Hussein's demonic hatred for America and for Israel,
may soon unleash that same suicide horror in the United States
that Israel has endured for the past 30 months.
Bill Gertz, one of Washington's most prolific and accurate intelligence reporters,
has released a story this week saying,
Our radical Islamic enemies are planning a mass casualty attack
to rival September the 11th.
Fortunately, arrests have been made across Europe,
and recently in the past few days the CIA arrested Khalid Mohammed,
which can turn that around, and I pray to God it has.
Millions of prominent people in America have been planned
to demoralize the American people.
The FBI continues to search for thousands of illegal Iraqi immigrants
who are missing here in the United States.
The Associated Press carried the story several months ago
of 300 Iraqis who infiltrated the United States at El Paso
under the code name of Operation Eastern Star.
Not one of those men has been found.
Who are they? Where are they? What are they planning?
In 1990 I preached a prophetic series before the first Gulf War.
The things that I predicted to come to pass did come to pass
in Operation Desert Storm.
No, I do not have a crystal ball, but Bible prophecy is absolutely correct.
God knows the future, and He has revealed it in great detail
to those who understand the mysteries of the Word of God.
Now, 13 years later, on the eve of the second Gulf War,
I want to take the Word of God and give you for the next three weeks
a guided tour into the future.
This prophetic series will have three sermons,
today the final war, bracing for the apocalypse.
I'm going to tell you why we got in this war with Iraq,
America and the Iraqi war, what's going to happen in America,
what's going to happen in the Middle East when this war is over,
why it is important to you.
The second message, which is next week, the final dictator,
the rise of the Antichrist, I have him painted to look like the devil
because the Bible introduces him as the son of perdition,
which translates in Greek, the chief son of the devil.
It will be a time in which the world is going to know a dictatorship
like never before.
You are seeing on the front pages of your newspaper
and in television that France and Germany is now attacking
the United States in the UN.
Simply stated, the existing format of world government
is now collapsing, and there is soon going to be another.
It will spring out of Europe,
and the Antichrist is going to be the head of it.
And the final message will be the final warning,
the coming crash and the new world order.
There is going to be an economic collapse.
The Bible tells you how, and the Bible tells you exactly
what's going to happen.
I want you to hear that in the Bible
because it is the absolute truth.
Read with me, please, Ezekiel 38, 8 and 9.
Ready?
And after many days you will be visited.
In the latter years you will come into the land
of those brought back from the sword
and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel,
which had been long desolate.
There they brought out the nations,
and now all of them dwell safely.
You will ascend, coming like a storm,
covering the land like a cloud,
you and all your troops and many people with you.
Thus saith the Lord God on that day,
it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind
and you will make an evil plan.
This is God speaking to the Russian government,
Gog, the King of the North,
saying that you are going to bring your Islamic hordes to Israel
as a cloud to cover the land to crush them,
and you're going to make an evil plan.
This is a battle that's about to take place in the Middle East,
and I believe that what's going to happen in Iraq
is going to precipitate its coming,
hence I have called this the final war
bracing for the apocalypse.
Father, may the Word of God today bless us, encourage us,
to know that God Almighty has known the future
from the beginning of time,
and we can live in confidence knowing
that everything's going to be all right
because we are God and God belongs to us as Savior and Lord.
In Jesus' name we pray and ask it,
and all of God's children said praise the Lord.
You may be seated.
Let's begin with something that's very critical.
How did America arrive in this crisis of a second Gulf War?
You don't get to a place like this overnight.
It takes at least, in our case, a decade.
We're now paying the wages of the 1990s,
which is being called America's holiday from history.
During this decade, every major challenge to America was deferred.
The chief aim of the Clinton administration
was to make sure that nothing terrible happened on its watch.
Accordingly, every international problem was postponed.
Consider Iraq.
Saddam Hussein continued defying America and the world,
building up his arsenal of weapons.
Finally, he became so brazen he kicked out the UN inspectors,
and there was not a word of protest from America
and the Clinton administration.
Then consider North Korea.
When it threatened to go nuclear in 1993,
Bill Clinton managed to put off the day of reckoning
with an agreement to freeze North Korea's program
if we would give them billions of dollars in foreign aid.
We gave them billions of dollars in foreign aid,
but surprise, the agreement was an absolute fraud.
All the time, the North Koreans were secretly enriching their uranium,
and now they're in full nuclear production, launching missiles again.
Consider terrorism.
The first World Trade Center attack occurred in 1993.
How many of you remember that?
And then that was followed by the blowing up of US embassies in Africa.
We did absolutely nothing.
And then there was the attack of the USS Cole by the terrorist boat.
How many of you remember that?
You remember also that absolutely nothing was done
but a lot of political rhetoric and hot air.
Well, something was done.
Bill Clinton did fire off a few cruise missiles
into a deserted terrorist camp to get his sexual exploits
with Monica Lewinsky off the front pages of America, our hero.
Listen to this.
Osama bin Laden was offered to the United States by Sudan in 1996,
and the Clinton administration turned him loose for lack of legal justification.
This is how you act when stupidity is treated as a virtue.
Mortal enemies are dealt with not as enemies of the state
but as the oppressed and as the abused.
Bill Clinton flattered himself as looking beyond such mundane problems
to the grander global vision of global warming and migration of spotted owls
and gays in the military, because that was important to him.
On 9-11, the politically correct illusions of America were shattered
as our stupidity cost us the lives of 3,000 American citizens
in the Twin Towers in New York City in the Pentagon.
Now we recognize that the central problem of the 21st century
is international terrorism, not just international terrorism,
but international terrorism that has the ability to make nuclear weapons.
Weapons of mass destruction are not new.
What is new is that the knowledge required to make them is now common knowledge.
If you have a good education, a reasonable education,
in physics, chemistry, or biology, you can make a bomb.
Doomsday has been guaranteed.
In human history, no weapon of mass destruction has ever been invented
that has not been used.
Iran is in the nuclear race.
America has recently discovered two secret Iranian nuclear complexes.
Benjamin Netanyahu told me when he was here last,
Russian scientists are helping Iran build long-range nuclear missiles,
and those long-range nuclear missiles can reach London, Jerusalem, and New York City.
Simply stated, America and the Western world is in a race against time
with these terrorist nations possessing nuclear capability.
The nuclear holocaust is on the horizon.
What is the probability that civilization will not destroy itself
when it contains the very intelligence of mass destruction?
I believe that there will be a nuclear exchange in the next ten years,
and the Bible says that that nuclear exchange is going to happen in the Middle East.
It's recorded in Zechariah the 14th chapter and the 12th verse.
And this is the plague.
Zechariah saw it in a vision, and he didn't know what to call it, so he called it a plague.
And this is the plague which the Lord shall strike the people who fight against Jerusalem.
That would be in the Middle East.
Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet,
and their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
and their tongue shall dissolve in their mouths before the body can hit the ground.
That is a perfect description of a nuclear blast.
An H-bomb reaches 150 million degrees Fahrenheit in a millisecond.
That's how your flesh can cook off of your bones before your bones can hit the ground.
Zechariah couldn't describe that any more accurately
than if he'd attended the scientific colleges of Harvard.
In Matthew 24, the disciples ask Jesus, what shall be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?
The question before America is very large and very simple.
Can we and will we, as a civilized humanity, disarm the barbarians who are at the gate
and take the nuclear weapons away from them before they destroy humanity,
before they destroy America and destroy Israel?
Within months, we're going to have a good idea whether the answer is yes or no.
President George W. Bush is heroically standing against the world, trying to disarm these barbarians.
And I say to you, President Bush, God bless you.
You have our prayers and you have our support.
I want to give you seven principles that the mass media
and the United Nations are feeding America over the liberal airways of America.
I call them the foundations of fear for America.
Should we attack or should we wait?
Right now, our president is half supported and half obstructed by a parade of politicians.
I believe half the senators in Washington are running for president.
I think they all get up in the morning, shave and sing Hail to the Chief as they shave.
I want to tell you, Jesus Christ couldn't be president of the United States right now.
The first argument is, yes, Saddam Hussein is evil.
Hitler of the Middle East, he is the butcher of Baghdad.
But should we take action and remove him?
Why can't we remain neutral? That's the question.
Let me tell you something, if history proves anything,
it proves that we've learned absolutely nothing from history.
That's true.
Our nation remained neutral following Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland until 1941.
By then, Hitler had occupied most of Europe.
He had invaded Africa and North and Russia.
And the Nazi murder of six million Jews was well underway.
Do you remember Neville Chamberlain?
He was the Prime Minister of England.
He said, we can make peace with Hitler.
And he went to make peace with Hitler and Hitler said, give me Czechoslovakia and I'll be happy.
They gave him Czechoslovakia.
It was like throwing a piece of raw meat to a ravenous lion.
As soon as he got Czechoslovakia, he then invaded the rest of Europe.
And Neville Chamberlain all of the time was saying, we have peace in our times, peace in our times.
What nonsense.
The point is that history has taught us a lesson that we have paid for in a river of blood.
That hesitating to remove an evil dictator only leads to a greater war and greater bloodshed.
Signing a peace treaty with a tyrant and a thug like Yasser Arafat or Saddam Hussein only leads to a greater war.
If we hesitate, if we postpone, if we delay and Saddam Hussein gets a dirty bomb into New York or into San Francisco or into Chicago or into Dallas,
the American deaths could be in the millions making what happened on 9-11 a mere minor event.
Then all of America will scream, why did we wait?
Psalms 97-10 says, you who love the Lord hate the evil thing.
Let me tell you something, from a biblical perspective, Saddam Hussein is evil.
He is a murderer. He is a monster.
God bless the American military forces as they go to crush this Nebuchadnezzar of the 21st century.
The second argument being presented to the American people from the liberal media is, quote, we can't attack because we do not have the approval of the United Nations.
Let me set the record straight.
On 9-11, the U.S. was attacked by 19 Islamic fanatics killing 3,000 Americans in New York City's Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
We watched in horror as Americans leaped to their death on national television to escape the flames.
We watched heroic firemen and policemen run into those flaming buildings to protect and serve as they gave their lives in the Twin Towers in New York.
I want you to hear this. We, the United States of America, were attacked on our soil by terrorists.
We are a free and sovereign nation.
We do not need the United Nations to raise their hands and give us permission to defend ourselves.
If we do not use our freedom to defend our freedom, we will lose our freedom.
I'm glad to say America is not a globalist nation.
We are the people of the United States, one nation under God, indivisible, united in the service of each other.
This is the third mantra that the media is feeding the American people. Why don't we wait until we have the support of France and Germany?
Going to war with France is like going bear hunting with an accordion.
The accordion folds under the slightest pressure and makes a lot of ungodly racket in the process.
Had it not been for the blood of brave American soldiers in World War II, the French would be goose-stepping and speaking German right now.
Today the French Bowl announced they would not help us remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq. Duh.
They didn't help us remove Hitler from France. We don't need their help.
I encourage all Americans to join me in boycotting anything from France.
I don't drink their beverages, drive their cars, wear their clothes. I'd go to Poteet on a bicycle before I'd go to Paris.
I no longer order French fries. I call them freedom fries. God bless America.
And what about Germany? The verbal cyanide coming out of Germany is from the mouth of their foreign minister, Joschka Fischer.
I have done some research on Mr. Fischer. Columnist Michael Kelly researched Germany's foreign minister and this is what he found out.
In 2001, Stern Magazine, which is prominent in Germany, published five photos of Mr. Fischer, Germany's foreign minister,
taken in 1973 wearing a black motorcycle helmet and inflicting a gruesome beating on a German police officer in Frankfurt.
One photo shows the officer trying to protect himself on the ground while Mr. Fischer and his comrades are kicking him.
In 1969, Fischer, and I'm talking about Germany's present foreign minister, went to a PLO meeting that vowed to make the destruction of Israel its ultimate aim.
Do you get the point here? Mr. Fischer is a neo-Nazi. We do not need his help and we do not need his approval to defend the United States of America.
They are not our friends.
The fourth argument given to the American people, let's give Saddam Hussein more time to disarm. My question is, more time for what?
He's had 12 years. He has defied 17 UN Security Council resolutions to disarm.
He's lied, he's deceived, he's manipulated, and now he's playing the United Nations like a harp. His time is up. It's time for him to go.
A fifth argument pouring out of the United Nations is, why not wait until the inspectors find a smoking gun before we take action?
Israeli intelligence, which is really intelligent by the way. Sometimes our intelligence is not intelligent.
Israeli intelligence, which is simply the best in the world, has told us that Saddam Hussein moved his weapons to another country before these inspections ever started.
US and British intelligence believe Saddam Hussein could be hiding his weapons of mass destruction at sea.
US and British intelligence services are tracking three huge cargo ships right now, 40,000 ton ships that have been at sea for months and are suspected of carrying Iraqi weapons smuggled out through Syria and Jordan.
All three ships in violation of maritime law are maintaining complete radio silence. This is according to the London newspaper, The Evening Standard.
The sixth argument that's being offered is, why don't we wait to attack Iraq when the political image of George Bush improves in Europe?
According to the Washington Post and other sources, US embassies across the world are reporting that in their host countries, President Bush is seen as a greater threat to world peace than Saddam Hussein.
Think about that. Now, why? Why? And then the media lists this.
Some analysis suggests that the President's direct speaking style and hand gestures do not play well in Western Europe.
He actually points while he's speaking. Can you imagine such a horrible tactic as that?
Others suggest that they're envious of us because we are a superpower and they resent that.
But virtually every European commentator says this, Europeans particularly don't like the President's religious references in his speeches and don't understand why Americans are still clinging to religion in their political process.
My friends, faith in God has become the dividing line within Western civilization. In the United States, faith in God still means something.
Western Europe has a big problem. Western Europe has a big problem and it isn't with the United States and it's not with George Bush.
It is a crisis of faith. Europe's churches are empty and their mosques are full.
President Bush in recent weeks has repeatedly said the following,
Liberty is not a gift from the United States to the world. It's a gift from God to mankind. God bless the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
Let me make a statement that will very likely come true in the near future.
It is entirely possible that we will see Liberty come to Iraq soon, but disappear in Europe in our lifetime.
For very soon the Antichrist is going to appear in Europe, promising peace and prosperity.
And he's going to bring Europe into an iron-fisted slavery that will make the era of Adolf Hitler like a walk in the park by comparison.
I'm going to be talking about that next Sunday.
The seventh argument is, if we end Saddam's reign in terror, won't it bring Christians, Jews, and fundamentalist Islamists more together?
Please understand, there are Islamists that are for peace, but there are hordes of Islamic preachers that are preaching hate.
And when you preach hate, you do not reap peace.
We have captured on hidden camera Islamic preachers in their mosque preaching hate.
You listen and you decide.
The criminal Bush has turned Jerusalem into the capital of Israel.
Everyone must know that the most honorable death is martyrdom for the sake of Allah.
Whoever can fight them with his weapons should go out to the battle.
Whoever can fight them with a machine gun should go out.
Whoever can fight them with a sword or a knife should go out.
Whoever can fight them with his hands should go out.
This is our destiny.
The Jews have exposed their fangs.
Nothing will deter them except the color of their filthy people's blood.
Who are you, O Bush, you little dwarf, to threaten Mohammed and the sons of Mohammed?
We challenge you with our words even before our weapons.
What is needed now is clinging to Allah and for the masses of suicide martyrs to get ready to enter Paradise.
Paradise is open now. Anyone who wants to be admitted to Paradise instead of staying in its entrance need only martyr himself.
In Paradise, 70 black-eyed women will receive him, not only one bride.
I wish to be a martyr for the sake of Allah and to kill some of the Jews and infidels who worship other gods next to Allah and his prophet
and follow the religion that Allah did not permit and which is not mentioned in the Quran.
I am 12 years old and I memorize the Quran.
May Allah protect you and make you a jihad fighter for the sake of Allah.
Allah, avenge us and do not take vengeance upon us.
Allah, wreak vengeance on the Jews and the Americans.
I wish that they would suckle their children on such words just as they suckle them on breast milk.
They must stop telling them about Tom and Jerry and Muna and Gula.
Rather stories such as these like who the Jews are and why we hate them and how the prophet arrived and how the Muslims arrived.
Stories that will sow hatred and loathing of the Jews in the hearts of the new generations.
Blessings to whoever put a belt of explosives on his body or on his sons
and plunged into the midst of the Jews crying Allah Akbar, praise to Allah.
There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.
Just as the wedding hall building collapsed over the Jews and their sinful dancing floor.
I pray to Allah that this oppressive Knesset will collapse over the heads of the Jews.
Allah, forgive us our sins. Allah, show us a black day for the Jews.
We have over one hour of this kind of hate rhetoric.
I would like to encourage the Islamic ministers of this country
if you do stand for peace.
Let the most prestigious of your number get on national television
and publicly denounce the 19 terrorists that flew into the towers in New York
and killed 3,000 United States citizens.
Do that.
Not one of you have, not one of you have even objected to what has happened.
The silence of the Islamic leadership is deafening.
The big story with Fox News and John Gibson,
here we're talking about FBI agents who are Islamic,
who will not wear a wire, meaning a recording device,
when they are, when they are going out to speak to suspected terrorists.
Mr. Gibson says, you know one of the things I think Carl Cameron reported today
is that they had to wait a long time to bring a case against Al-Aran,
a suspected terrorist, because Muslim FBI agents refused to wear a wire,
a recording device, when they went to see Mr. Al-Aran,
and said this is being alleged today by an FBI agent in Washington
who said that Muslims don't record Muslims
if the Muslims don't know in advance that they're coming.
How are we going to fight a war on terror using Arab Muslim FBI agents
if they actually won't go after the very people we're after?
A very good question.
You decide.
Let me change the tenor now.
Why this second Gulf War will eventually lead to World War III,
which will begin in the Middle East.
If the war lasts two months or two years, it makes no difference.
The gates of hell are being opened.
This is why I say we are bracing for the apocalypse.
Islamic hordes welded together by their intense hatred for Israel
and the Jewish people will unite under Russian leadership who will attack Israel.
This is not my opinion.
This is clearly stated in the Word of God as given through the prophet Ezekiel.
The war Ezekiel describes is in chapters 38 and 39.
It is the war of Islam versus Israel.
In the Bible there are four kings and kingdoms that are mentioned.
If I had an hour, several maps, and you had the time,
I could prove to you beyond any shadow of a doubt that the king of the north is Russia,
that the king of the south is the Arab Islamic forces,
that the king of the east is China and the Asiatic powers,
and that the king of the west is the European common market as it exists today.
The fact is that all directions in scripture are given as they relate to the state of Israel.
In the mind of God, Israel is the center of the universe and Jerusalem is the city of God.
Ezekiel gives this prophecy when he is in Babylon.
Please understand that Babylon is ancient Iraq.
He was ruled by Nebuchadnezzar.
Nebuchadnezzar invaded Israel twice, the first time he took with him 70,000.
Among them were Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
so that they would help him run his kingdom.
Saddam Hussein wants to be Nebuchadnezzar II.
Babylon means confusion.
The Bible says God is not the author of confusion.
Babylon is the birthplace of man's rebellion against God with the Tower of Babel.
They said we do not need God.
We will build a tower where we can approach God on our own terms.
And then Babylon was the birthplace of the mother-child cult.
It is the birthplace of the worldwide religious system that exists to this day called Babylonianism,
where you are saved by sacraments, not the blood of Jesus Christ,
where you are saved by works, what you do, and not the grace of Christ,
where you are saved from hell by indulgences,
where there was created the Feast of Ishtar, which became known as the Feast of Easter,
and they gave a colored egg in the celebration of it.
I want you to understand that on the resurrection Sunday morning,
we do not celebrate a colored egg.
We celebrate the risen victorious Christ, who is the victor over death, hell, and the grave.
This worldwide false religious system began in ancient Babylon, which is Iraq,
and God says in the book of Revelation chapter 17
that this worldwide false religious system is going to be destroyed by the hand of God Himself.
God sent Ezekiel to the Jewish people in captivity
to remind them that God would restore Israel.
This is recorded in Ezekiel 36 verses 7 through 11.
God gave the promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and their descendants that Israel would be a nation forever.
And now that these Jewish people are in captivity,
they want to know what about Israel's future.
God said through Ezekiel, Israel will be reestablished.
God then promises the Jewish people that He will regather
the chosen people from the nations of the earth and bring them back to Israel.
This is recorded in Ezekiel 36, 24 through 26.
Now as chapter 37 opens, God took Ezekiel in a vision to a great valley full of dry bones.
Listen very closely. Ezekiel 37 and 2 states,
the bones were very dry, meaning that they had been dead for a long time.
God is speaking of the nation of Israel because Israel had ceased to be a nation for 2,000 years.
How do you know God is talking about Israel?
Because the Word of God plainly says so.
In Ezekiel 37, 11 the Bible says,
And then the Lord said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.
It's not rocket science. It's just reading what's in the book.
God asked Ezekiel to do a strange thing in chapter 37, verse 4.
He said, prophesy unto these dry bones and say unto them,
O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
And then Ezekiel asked God a very difficult question.
Can these bones live?
Pastors for thousands of years have been standing before congregations
and asking themselves that same question.
Can these bones live?
God promised the Jewish people in 37, 12,
Behold O my people, I will open your graves and bring you out of the Gentile nations
and bring you back to the land of Israel.
When my father in the middle 40 stood in his assemblies of God pulpit
and said Jesus Christ cannot come back to earth
until the state of Israel is reborn,
he was denounced as a heretic by half of his people
because when you weren't preaching on hell back then,
you were preaching on the rapture.
And the idea that Christ would not come until Israel became a state
was an unthinkable thought.
But he said, and it is true,
every Old Testament prophet said Israel would become a nation.
And therefore on May the 15th, 1948,
this miracle of the ages became reality.
The state of Israel was reborn just like Bible prophecy said it would happen.
Every Jewish people who goes back to live in Israel fulfills Bible prophecy.
I'm happy to announce that this congregation
and those of you that watch by national television through Exodus 2
have brought back more than 4000 Russian Jews
to Israel to fulfill Bible prophecy.
God bless you for your sacrifice and making it happen.
Now we close this message with Ezekiel 38
which is where we are today in Bible prophecy.
God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against Gog
and the land of Magog, the chief priest of Meshech and Tubal.
The man is Gog, the kingdom is Magog,
the word chief as a proper noun in Hebrew is translated Rush
from which we get the word Russia, the king of the north.
God says in chapter 38 verse 4,
I will put hooks in your jaw and bring your army against Israel.
God is saying I'm going to drag you to the mountains of Israel.
Russia wants the oil rich Persian Gulf so it can become a superpower again.
They also want a warm water port for which they have been searching for 50 years
and Russia will say to the Islamic nations,
we will give you the military guidance, you give us the foot soldiers,
you can have Jerusalem as a holy city
and we want the oil rich Persian Gulf and the warm water port.
The nations that are coming with Russia as the allies to fight Israel
are listed in verses 5 and 6.
It's Persia, which is Iran.
It's Ethiopia, which is on the Arabian peninsula, which is Islamic.
It's Libya, now under the control of Colonel Gaddafi.
It's Gomer, which is Armenia, which is Islamic.
And then Togamara, which is eastern Turkey.
All of this represents the Islamic hordes that will come against Israel.
Ezekiel is saying this, that Russia that presently has four states controlled
by Islamists will lead an Islamic army against Israel.
Now when is this going to happen?
Chapter 38, 8 says, in the latter years.
Say that with me, in the latter years.
When is that? When Israel is reborn.
In the latter years means in the latter part of the tribulation
when the church has been raptured.
Now focus on this.
The war between America and Iraq, let's say it starts in a month
and that it lasts two or three months and it's over
and our forces come home victorious and the nation is jubilant.
Months later, because of the hatred and the hostility
that has been generated by this crushing of Iraq,
the Islamic nations will come together and say,
let's go and devour Israel.
And when that army starts moving toward the nation of Israel,
the prophet Ezekiel said in the 38th chapter
that the church of Jesus Christ will be gone
in the twinkling of an eye.
Raptured to meet the Lord in all of his glory.
This Islamic force is going to be mighty.
Ezekiel 38 and 9 says you will ascend
and come against Israel like a storm,
covering the land like a cloud.
You and all your troops and the mighty people with you.
Ezekiel clearly states in chapter 38 and 39
an Islamic horde will come against Israel
for the purpose of trying to wipe the Jewish people
off the face of the earth.
It will be the mother of all holy wars and its coming.
That's why what's happening in Iraq in the near future
is bracing for the apocalypse.
But there is a problem.
Listen closely. Listen closely.
There is a problem in Ezekiel 38.
God gets mad. God becomes furious.
He says in Ezekiel 38, 18 and 19,
my fury, my rage will show in my face,
for in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath
have I spoken.
God Almighty says he's going to war on the side of Israel.
David said he that keepeth Israel
neither slumbers nor sleeps.
God who is merciful and just,
who is merciful and mighty says it's enough.
I am furious with the terrorism.
I am furious with human bombers
murdering innocent women and children in synagogues.
I am furious with the abuse Israel has had to endure
from the nations of the earth.
The wrath of God is poured out.
And in Ezekiel 39 and 2, God says,
I will leave but a sixth part of thee.
That's another way of saying I'm going to kill 82% of that army
to demonstrate to the nations of the world
that I am God, saith the Lord.
Hallelujah.
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God has written that message very clearly
in Ezekiel 39 and 7.
So I will make my holy name known
in the midst of my people Israel.
The heathen, that means the Gentiles,
shall know that I am the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel.
The result, what is going to be the result of that war?
It will take Israel seven months to bury the dead people.
It will take them seven years to burn the weapons of war.
God's word says that.
Now listen to God's message to the Jewish people
in the closing stanza of Ezekiel 39, verse 22.
So the house of Israel shall know
that I am the Lord their God from that day forward.
Verse 25, thus saith the Lord God,
I will have mercy upon the whole house of Israel
and will be jealous for my holy name.
Verse 29, neither will I hide my face
anymore from them, the Jewish people,
for I have poured out my wrath on,
I will have, I have poured out my spirit
on the house of Israel.
Why is this message important to the Jewish people
who are watching around America
and the nations of the world?
This message is important for this reason.
For thousands of years you have been an oppressed people
and the nations of the earth have attacked you without reason.
God himself is saying your long night of suffering
is almost over.
God himself is going to defend you
and destroy your enemies and you will see them no more.
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God.
Why is this message important to Christians?
Listen as I close.
This message is important to Christians
because the church will be raptured
before that battle happens.
Look at what's happening in the world.
We already have over 200,000 men deployed to go to action
and by the time this is shown on national television
we may be at war.
When that war is over
and America's troops are home
watch for the reaction of the Islamic nations.
It may take months
but when it starts to develop
pray up, pack up, and look up.
We're going up in the twinkling of an eye.
Are you ready for His coming?
The Bible says when you see these things
lift up your head and rejoice
because your redemption draweth nigh.
This world is not our home.
Heaven is our home.
Jesus is our Lord.
That's our kingdom and we're going there.
Look deeply in your soul
if there's anything that would keep you
from making the rapture when Christ appears
in the clouds of heaven to take you from this earth.
If there's unconfessed sin there
confess it today
because we could be in heaven
before sun sets tonight.
We're that close.
Will you stand?
Bow your heads in the presence of the Lord.
How many of you in this building can say,
Pastor, there are things in my life
that I know that I must get right with God
before I stand before Him.
There are unconfessed sins
and I'm asking the Lord today
to forgive me of those sins
and to cleanse me
and to write my name in the Lamb's Book of Life.
If that describes you,
would you slip your hand up right where you are?
God bless you and you and you and you and you
and you and you.
Dozens raising your hand.
Raise it high on the lower floor
and let me see your hand.
Many more. Many more.
As they sing,
I want those of you who are raising your hand,
I want you to come
and stand right here
and we're going to pray a prayer
and Christ is going to forgive you.
Angels are going to write your name
in the Lamb's Book of Life
and you're going to be ready
for the meeting in the air
when the King of Glory
shall come in all of His power.
As they sing, will you come immediately?
He's coming soon.
With joy
will welcome His return.
He'll make me whole.
He'll make me like your name.
He's coming soon.
With joy
will welcome His return.
He'll make me whole.
He'll make me like your name.
He's coming soon.
We have just a few more coming.
I want to give them the time.
The greatest decision in life is this one.
Your relationship with Jesus Christ.
Those of you that are watching by television
around the world
in whatever language
can pray this prayer with us.
I want you to do that
because until you've received Jesus Christ
you're not ready to be a part
of heaven's celestial body.
I want you today to simply pray this prayer.
It's a prayer of redemption.
It's a prayer of forgiveness.
And God will forgive you.
And today you can become a child of God.
Those of you that are here, pray this prayer.
Join us around the nations of the world.
Lord Jesus Christ
I ask you to forgive me of my sin.
Cleanse me from all unrighteousness.
Today wash me whiter than snow
through the blood of the cross.
Write my name in the Lamb's Book of Life
because from this day forward
I will serve the Lord.
He will be my Lord and Savior
and I will be His servant.
I will read and obey the Word of God.
And now because of Jesus
and the blood of His cross
my sins are forgiven.
I'm saved.
My name is in the Lamb's Book of Life.
I'm in the family of God.
I'm on my way to heaven.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Lift your hands and thank the Lord.
Just rejoice.
Just rejoice in the day of salvation.
Now raise your hand for the blessing.
Now may the Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make His face to shine upon you.
May the Lord be gracious unto you
and give you His peace.
May the Lord's angels go before you
to prepare your way
and behind you to be your rear guard.
I ask you Father today
that the precious ones
that are in the house of God today
let this week be filled with peace
and joy and confidence
that God is with them
and everything is going to be all right.
In Jesus' name we pray and ask it.
All of God's children say Amen.
Give the Lord a mighty shout of praise
in the house of God.
God bless you.
We'll see you.
Amen.