Watch “Understanding Biblical Prophesy” Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.
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hello and welcome to Kingdom connection
as many of you know I’m not a gloom and
doom preacher but I do believe in Bible
prophecy I believe Jesus is coming again
and that we’re living in amazing times
and I’ve got good news to share today
about the subject of prophecy what the
Bible teaches and I want you to see it
with me so get your Bibles open let’s go
into the Word of God and listen to this
message let it speak to your heart and
I’m going to come back and pray with you
in just a few moments
look with me in second Peter chapter
three I’m speaking today on where we are
in Bible prophecy or I guess you could
call it understanding Bible prophecy the
bottom line is I want to know what does
the Bible teach about the foundational
things concerning prophecy and what we
need to know in our children and our
families need to know and in 2nd Peter
chapter 3 it says one of the sure signs
of the coming of the Lord is people
don’t want to hear about the coming of
the Lord in verse 3 knowing this first
scoffers will come in the last days
walking according to their own lust
saying where is the promise of his
coming verse 8 but beloved do not forget
the one thing that with the Lord one day
is as a thousand years and a thousand
years as one day the Lord is not slack
concerning his promise but the reason he
hasn’t fulfilled the promise of coming
again is he’s loan suffering toward us
not willing that any should perish but
that all should come to repentance but
the day of the Lord will come as a thief
in the night in which the heavens will
pass away with a great noise and the
elements were melt with fervent heat but
the earth and the works that are in it
will be burned up therefore since all of
these things will be dissolved what
manner of persons ought you to be in
holy conduct and godliness looking for
and hastening the coming of the day of
God because of which the heavens will be
dissolved being on fire and the elements
will melt with a fervent Heat
nevertheless we according to his promise
look for new heavens and new earth in
which righteousness dwells so he said
basically in that scripture you should
live your life as though Jesus Christ
could come any day I tell young people
planned for 50 years planned for a
hundred years dream and and go after
life get your education get
everything but we should live our condom
is addressed in these texts that we
should live as though he could come
today
so be godly in your conduct be godly in
your lifestyle and in your heart and in
your life so there are three directions
that I want to give you quickly this
morning number one if you want to
understand Bible prophecy you have to
look to the east according to the
scripture
revelation 16 said that the kings of the
east will come down to the Middle East a
direct reference to China Hudson Taylor
the son our the missionary in perhaps
the most famous missionary ever in China
used to pray and it was quoted the Sun
has not risen one day in 40 years over
China without finding him on his knees
in prayer and this great missionary in
his lifetime he’s going to be with the
Lord in communist China the underground
church raised up 1,000 missionaries
personally and 1,100 nationals who went
all out into the nation of communist
China and very much with a threat to
their life they planted churches by the
thousands and there are 1.3 billion
people in the world’s most populous
nation China and it is estimated and
they think it’s a conservative
estimation that because of that
missionary movement that that man
started that today 10 percent of China
has become Christian converts that would
be around 130 million blood washed
spirit-filled Chinese that have been
saved jesus said I will build my church
and the gates of Hell shall not prevail
against it why do I say look to China
why do we need to keep our eye on China
according to the Bible well in 1964 they
detonated their first nuclear bomb
shockwaves were felled around the world
the dragon was awakened and then major
magazine put a
picture of a clock with five minutes to
midnight they understood that the world
would never be the same again in 1974
they perfected a and and and tested a
thousand Megaton bomb if it exploded
over the West it would destroy listen to
this three states at one time to give
you some perspective of how big a
thousand Megaton bomb is and it is now
ready that the Chinese have it when
America dropped the bomb on Japan and
killed 250,000 people it was a two and a
half Megaton bomb but they now have
ready a thousand ton thousand Megaton
bomb and can you imagine the devastation
it could have CBS News did a simulated
atomic attack over Omaha Nebraska you
can look at this on the web if you
desire to the reason they did Omaha
Nebraska is because that’s where our
silos are that most of our nuclear
weapons are stored in caves and silos
there so it certainly would be a first
strike target according to defense
experts using sophisticated computer
technology they simulated
what would happen if a 16 Megaton bomb
hit America and hit in that area they
said that it would not only devastate
and kill millions of people but it was
it would generate wind storms that would
travel up to a thousand miles per hour
now Katrina in Louisiana when that storm
came through it had winds of a hundred
and 50 miles per hour but can you
imagine a storm generated by a nuclear
warfare that could cause 1,000 mile per
hour winds
they said 40 story skyscrapers would
fall quote like a house of cards
it would also generate a firestorm so
intense that the heat would incinerate
anyone within a 5 mile distance of these
fire storms that would be generated
America by the way
enough bombs that size that I just
described nuclear weapons to drop on her
enemies everyday for the next 300 years
it used to have enough to do it for 600
years but because of disarmament we we
have enough to drop a bomb every day for
300 years on our enemies and by the way
our enemies could return the favor
we’re living in a dangerous dangerous
world does the Bible speak of atomic
warfare yes I believe it does in
Zechariah chapter 14 and verse 12 this
was written by an Old Testament prophet
who the only kind of warfare that he was
used to was bows and arrows and horses
and chariots and yet he gives with
astonishing accuracy the description of
of nuclear warfare listen to what he
says he says and this shall be the
plague of the people who fight against
notice the location Jerusalem and here
it comes their flesh shall consume while
they stand upon their feet their eyes
shall consume away in their sockets
their tongue shall decay and melt in
their mouths the Chinese children are
taught three great hates in school
number one they’re taught in schools
from beginning of school all the way up
hate God for he is a lie
number two hate religion for it is the
opium of the people and number three
hate Western capitalism it will corrupt
in influence and then they’re taught
about the great war the great war that
will be fought between the East and the
West they believe that 1/6 of the
Chinese because they are the largest
population again in the world and they
believe by sheer numbers gained that one
six they teach this and they ingrain it
into the mentality and psyche of every
generation of Chinese for generations
that one six will survive and populate
the world after nuclear war happens and
they will raise up a new world of
socialism and communism the world’s most
populous nation is found in Bible
prophecy in Revelation chapter 16 and
verse 12 where is China it says the
great
kings of the East will come down they
will be drawn down into the middle east
it goes on to say in verses four and
five that that that there talks about in
Revelation six it talks about the Red
Horse and many believe that is a
reference but it also talks about the
great Euphrates River will dry up I
believe that’s verse 14 in verse 12 the
great you freed reef rady’s River was
dried up now this is astonishing and you
can check this out
the Chinese have built dams because the
area that it would take to invade the
Middle East from China the direction
that the armies would have to come is
such an hostile environment meaning it’s
it’s it’s not able you’re not able to
get there you’ve seen the pictures of
Afghanistan we couldn’t get in there
with our troops is such a tough area to
try to go into and they said the only
way that you could get to the Middle
East from that area in that direction in
a massive way with the kind of army that
they have two hundred million man army
would be to not only airfare but through
the Euphrates River and so they have
dammed up they have dams that they could
cut off and it would stop the flow of
the water of the Euphrates River in 24
hours they said that riverbed would be
dried up and that has happened in our
lifetime a direct fulfillment of that
prophecy those inhospitable areas now
they can get through them and you can
see the pathway to the valley of the arm
of Armageddon and then it talks about
the kings of the earth of the whole
world will gather with them and then in
says that these nations and kings will
come and they will do war against the
nation of Israel keep your eye on China
all I’m saying to you is keep when you
watch the news when you hear when you
see China and its economy exploding and
doing so well and America being
diminished and and the enemies of Israel
being greatly greater and greater
fluency in the world keep your eye on
China they’re a major player in end
times events secondly if you want to
understand Bible prophecy you must turn
to the North Ezekiel 38 and 39 describes
the power and influence of the North
there in Ezekiel 38 and 39 these are
known as the Russian chapters of the
Bible now I want to make a big point God
is not against the Russian people God is
not against the Chinese people God is
not against the Arab people he loves us
all the same Jew Gentile Greek he loves
us all the same when I talk about these
groups of people in these nations I’m
not talking about the precious people he
loves those people what I’m talking
about is the systems of this world the
governments of this world and the evil
wicked leaders that that are corrupting
and so make sure you understand that and
watch the north and I’d like for you
don’t like to encourage you to open your
Bible zekiel 38 I want you to go there
with me it’s important to see it now the
word of the Lord came to me saying verse
2 son of man set your face against GOG
and the land of Magog listen to these
words the Prince of a rush Meshach and
tubal and prophesy against him and say
thus says the Lord I am against you O
GOG the Prince of Rusch Meshach and
tubal God says I will turn you around
and put hooks in your jaws and lead you
out with all of your armies notice who
is going to come with them Persia
everybody say Persia well who is Persia
ancient Persia is Iran and Iraq the
Ayatollah of Iran gave a speech and he
kept saying in it death to America now
we’re negotiating a contract with them
trying to stop them from getting nuclear
weapons and while we’re doing it their
leader their supreme leader is chanting
death to America and he one of their
prime ministers the former one got up at
the United Nations and said we want to
drive Israel into the sea and wipe them
off of the face of the earth just like
when you play chess and you control the
pawns on the chess board
God has men and nations and leaders and
they don’t even know why they’re doing
it and he’s moving things right in
alignment with his holy word well why
are they going to invade why would they
want to invade Israel pastor Franklin I
don’t understand but he said they’re
gonna come down to make a spoil a spoil
everybody say spoil artless pellet SP
aren’t you’ve already missed the first
two letters so if you get the last three
I’m still gonna give you a hundred on
this spelling bee are you ready the last
three letters are SP Oh al what does
that spell it’s oil so why would Russia
why would China the Bible said they were
thinking evil fault this is in Ezekiel
38 they will think an evil thought
they’ll come up with a treacherous plan
and what does the evil thought 100% of
Japan’s spoil still comes from the
Middle East eighty-five percent of the
European nations but oil still comes
from the Middle East fifty percent of
America’s oil still comes from the
Middle East if you wanted to ground our
planes and tanks to a halt if you wanted
to sever the economic jugular vein of of
America and wipe out our economy what
would you do you would think an evil
thought you would have a wicked strategy
and they’re going to come down to the
Middle East and they’re going to take
the oil and the only obstacle between
them and that all the strongest military
in the Middle East is a little nation
called Israel they have the fourth
largest military in the world and the
only thing that they have to do to get
their hands on all of that all is get
the little speed bump out of the way
named Israel and so they will come down
with force they’ll surround Israel
they’ll gather in the valley of Megiddo
is a huge I’ve stood there and you can
see forever just exactly where the Bible
predicts it will happen Jerusalem is the
center
the bullseye draw a circle around
Jerusalem and anytime you see activity
there know that something is going on
now the Bible has two prophecies about
the Israelites now listen to me
carefully
number one Deuteronomy 28 64 they will
be scattered over all the nations of the
earth they will be scattered 70 years
after Christ ascended to heaven Titus
and his Roman armies came in and leveled
and wiped out the city of Jerusalem and
those who were left were scattered as
slaves all over the world and they were
people who were but were no more
existent as a nation so the scripture
was fulfilled that they would be
scattered Hitler came along and the
death camps and liquidated by fire six
million of the Jewish people the Prophet
said in verse 1 of Ezekiel chapter 37 he
said and the Spirit of the Lord took me
out and put me in a valley of dry bones
and the Spirit of God said to me son of
man can these bones live the millions of
Jews laying in the valley in the bones
their bones and death and God takes
Ezekiel and puts him in what he called a
valley of dry bones a ditch and he says
can be spawns live and he said Lord only
you know and then God said prophesy to
the wind and prophesied that life will
come back to these dry bones and
suddenly when he prophesized the bones
come to life and stand up and life and
flesh comes on them and that which was
dead and everybody said is over comes
back to life the Bible put it like this
an exceeding great and mighty army then
God sums it up by saying this is the
house of Israel Oh easy kiyul and that
is exactly what God did in 1948 it
looked like it was over but God raised
up the dead bones and field that nation
life and they became a people and a
force in the earth again and one day
when they invite me to speak at the
United Nations and I’m expecting that
invitation any day now
I’m gonna get behind the same pulpit
that that Iranian president said will
wipe them off of the face of the earth
and I’m gonna read my text I already
know what I’m gonna preach Amos chapter
9 and verse 14 and he said and I will
bring again the captivity of my people
of Israel and I will build the way
cities and in they will inhabit they
will plant vineyards they would drink
wine thereof they will also make gardens
and eat the fruit of them watch this God
said I’m gonna plant them in their land
and they will never be pulled out again
don’t care what the politicians try to
do they will be pulled out of their land
they’ll never be pulled out of their
land which I will give them saith this
book is the oldest real estate contract
in the world and God said they’ll never
be poured out of that land again
hallelujah I’m almost through it talks
about how that see these things come to
pass is it not high time that we awaken
from our sleep for now is our salvation
nearer than what we believe look at the
next part the night is far spent the day
is at hand let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness and put on the armor
of light let us not let us walk honestly
as in the day not in rioting drunkenness
not in chambering and wantonness not in
strife not in envy look at it but put ye
on the Lord Jesus Christ make no
provision for the flesh to fulfill the
lusts thereof he’s saying three things
in those verses he’s saying if you see
that you’re near the coming of the Lord
here’s the first instruction
that I get number one he said wake up
come on look at somebody and say wake up
shout at church wake up wake up because
the church is going to sleep and many
Christians are asleep and he said the
big thing is it’s high time to wake up
and then did you catch what he said he
said and watch out for the flesh watch
out for drunkenness watch out for the
spirit of the world and he said don’t
just wake up but clean up everybody
shout clean up get clean and your
thoughts get clean in your lifestyle get
clean in your private life get clean in
your morality get clean get clean this
is no time to be defiled this is no time
to be compromising this is no time to be
drunk this is no time to be in the flesh
this is a time to wake up and clean up
and lastly look up come on shout it look
up for your redemption draws near you
know when I gave the altar call it free
chop after preaching this message on
prophecy and on wakeup and clean up and
look up it became very obvious that the
Lord was using it to win the loss
because people begin to pour down the
aisles to give their heart to Jesus
Christ many of you right now feel that
Awakening pray with me right now the
most important thing that you can do is
to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior
and be ready when Jesus comes again pray
this prayer Lord Jesus I surrender my
life to you say those words and today I
confess you as Lord I don’t just want to
talk it I want to experience a brand new
life salvation through the blood of the
Cross and I receive you today as my
savior in Jesus name say that name in
Jesus name there’s power in that name
whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord
shall be saved so thank you for doing
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life and our closing moments together I
want to talk to you right out of my
heart I believe one of the greatest
things that we’ve ever done as a
ministry we’re right in the middle of
and that’s building an incredible church
right in the heart of Jerusalem the holy
city the city where Jesus was crucified
died and rose again we’re building a
congregation actually nine congregations
a place to assemble and preach the
gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jewish
population of Israel will you help me
we’ve made a sizable commitment to this
project and I need your help God
speaking to some of you too so a
thousand maybe more others 500 100
whatever you can do everything that you
give we will take and use on this
project to make a difference and see
lives saved and changed not only in
Jerusalem but around the world through
this telecast and I want to thank you
for your support you see there’s a
blessing that comes on people who link
with Israel when you make that Jewish
connection there’s times in the Bible
where God even said I’m going to bless
them because of what they’ve done for it
for the people of Israel as a matter of
fact Cornelius the Bible said he gave
much arms he was a Gentile it was on a
Jew but he gave much to the poor people
and he blessed the nation of Israel and
the Bible said God blessed his house in
that something
it’s another occasion when a man was his
servant was healed simply because the
Bible said the disciple said he builds
many synagogues he builds churches for
our people will you bless him and Jesus
blessed him I’m saying to you today that
what Genesis said is true God will bless
those that bless Israel and he’ll bless
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you do I know he’s going to speak to you
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