The End Times Scenario - Session 3 - Chuck Missler

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I want to welcome you to the third

session of the day and uh on our review

here. And in this session, we're going

to talk about what I call pre-rapture

events. That's probably a misnomer

because different people, good scholars

have different views. But these are

events that I personally suspect will u

uh occur could could occur before the

rapture because they're not determinate

in terms of violating eminency. And yet

I suspect they occur prior to the 70th

week of Daniel. And so uh it may be the

best nomenclature we use there. And then

we will of course explore the main

thrust of the session will be the 70th

week. We've talked about all the rest of

it, but we'll get into that, how it's

defined and this peculiar event called

the abomination of desolation, what

that's all about. And then, of course,

the Antichrist and realize the

Antichrist is not one guy, it's a

couple, a duet between the first beast

of Revelation 13 and the second beast of

Revelation 13. And we'll talk about the

mark of the beast. There's so much

misinformation floating around that. And

there may be a surprise hidden behind it

all. So, we'll take a look at that in

this session. So, the Mog invasion and u

most of you that have studied Ezekiel 38

and 39 are familiar with this and uh you

wonder why the strange names Mog and all

of that and that's of course our fault

because we keep changing the names of

things. You see there was a place called

Petrorad for many years and they changed

the name to St. Petersburg and then it

became Melenrad and now it is St.

Petersburg again. My friends in Russia

remind me that in Russia even the past

is uncertain. They redefine things.

Bzantium was a capital of the world for

a while and then they called it

Constantinople.

The the Muslims took it over and now

it's it's Danbola, but it's we keep

changing the names of things. And uh

Cape Canaveral, remember Cape Canaveral

that came close to being called,

you know, it's called Cape Kennedy and

came awfully close to being Cape Hillary

if we weren't careful. But anyway, um,

so the Mog invasion, it's well known

among Bible, many Christians are

surprised there are other chapters in

Ezekiel, too. Everybody studied 38 and

39. But be that as it may, it it's well

known among Bible scholars for two

reasons. The first is it's the occasion

which God himself intervenes

to quell an ill- fated attempt to invade

Israel by a group of people called Mog

and the allies.

And u the allies are listed there in the

p P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P

Persia, Kush, put Libya, Gomer, Tagarma,

Messik, and Tubal and so forth. And uh

the second reason it's so well known by

so many is it appears to allude to the

use of nuclear weapons. And we'll take a

quick look at some of that. But to cut

to cut through a lot of the identities,

what happens? There's a group called

Magog, one of the sons of Japheth and

his descendants. And they um a group of

peoples by their ancient names are and

you have a map in there that attempts to

highlight some of those, but they align

themselves in a in an attempt to invade

Israel. And that attempt is thwarted by

hailstones of fire and all kinds of

exciting things. Sheba and Dan are on

the sidelines saying, "What are you guys

doing?" They're not participants nor

defenders. They're on the sidelines.

Strange situation here. And so

Ezekiel 38 implies that the Israel is at

peace and without walls.

Well, if you're really strict in your

scripture, you got a problem with that

because they're not really at peace. And

they certainly have walls. Um, we know

they're major walls in history. There,

of course, the Chinese wall, which was

writ

out of China, by the way, if you get

into the background. Um, the Berlin Wall

we're all familiar with in our recent

history. Well, in Israel today, there's

a 430 mile wall 25 ft high. You can't

escape that as a part of the news. So

how can you call it in a land of

unwalled villages? It doesn't quite he

gives a someone that's strict a little

discomfort if you will. There certainly

are preparatory steps going on. The

Arab-Israeli conflict of course is

overlaying all this sort of thing.

Clearly Iran is emerging as a nuclear

power here shortly and that's becoming a

a a daybyday source of intelligence

information. There were oil discoveries

in the Caspian Sea between Russia and

Iran, but perhaps even more than that,

they're huge trillions of dollars of

discoveries uh just off the shore of

Israel today. So, it's it's starting to

look as an attractive target. But all

these are preparatory steps perhaps in

advance of what may be ultimately the

big show.

But there's a question that we need to

put right in front of us as we get

enthusiastic about Ezekiel 38 and 39.

There are good scholars and I'll use Hal

Lindseay as as an exemplar here that

argue that the Ezekiel 3839 is part of

the Armageddon scenario as is summarized

in Daniel 11. That's their view and

that's fine. There's a group of us that

suspect that Ezekiel 38 may be preceded

to the 70th week of Daniel which is one

reason I'm throwing it in here right

now.

The problem is the missing nations.

The Mog invasion deals with peoples that

are distant from Israel, a large outer

circle of nations. And so, okay, what

about the immediate neighbors? And uh so

where are the Palestinians?

Where are the Lebanese? Where are the

Syrians? Where is Iraq?

And where is the where are the

Jordanians to the east of Israel? Where

are the Egyptians? They're noticeably

absent in the Mog invasion. And so, and

where are the Saudi Arabians in Ezekiel

38? They're on the sidelines. Why? Why?

Why aren't they in the picture somehow?

Well, as we look at this, we have the

nations that are surrounding Israel

immediately the subject of another

passage. And uh and we have the uh the

displaced Arab refugees, I can call them

that, which we call the Palestinians.

And so

there's another subtlety I'll put in our

thoughts in Ezekiel 37. You may prior to

Ezekiel 38 and39 there's the famous dry

bones vision where the where where the

Israel uh is reathered as a people and

it says so I prophesied as he commanded

me and the breath came into them and

they lived and they stood up on their

feet and exceedingly great army that in

that passage the word exceedingly is an

adverb not an adjective

it's an exceedingly great mind which

implies it becomes ultimately it isn't

yet they have a great defense defensive

army, but they're not a conquest kind of

army. And yet, this implies something

else that may be part of the coloration

here. There are three steps in Ezekiel

37. They were scattered, then they came

together with flesh and skin and the

idiom of the vision there and uh then

they came to life and so forth. So, the

exceedingly great army is an interesting

phrase there.

The the and of course the proud um the

elite of the services in Israel are the

tank corps by the way. But anyway, let's

get take a look at a psalm that is

widely overlooked among students of

prophecy. It's coming more in the four

in in the recent last couple of years

and that's Psalm 83. So, I want to pause

and take a look at this a little more

closely. And I suspect that this is a

scenario that's more immediate on our

horizon and may be an essential prelude

to Ezekiel 38 and39. So, let's take a

look at it. And so it's a it's one of

the it's the last of the ASAP psalms.

The psalmist says, "Keep not thou

silence, oh God. Hold not thy peace and

be not still, oh God." So it's a call to

God for action, if you will. And the

Psalmist says, "For lo, thine enemies

make a tumult. They that hate thee have

lifted up the head." Wow. And so this is

a last of the ASAP psalms, and it's a

puzzling one. It has a number of phrases

in it that raise some issues. Whoever

these enemies are,

the psalmist is calling God's attention

to is they've lifted up their head. What

does that mean? Well, let's go on here.

They have taken crafty counsel against

thy people

and consulted against thy hidden ones.

Now, the lingering mystery behind this

psalm that haunts me still is who are

these hidden ones? Psalmist is calling

God's attention to the fact that the

people of Israel are in jeopardy and

we'll get to that. But he also alludes

this and consulted against thy hidden

ones who are at this point God's hidden

ones

wouldn't be the angels for a lot of

reasons. Who would it be?

One of my conjectures,

the word hidden ones by mean it means

the Hebrew word means the hidden

treasured ones. They're they're they're

a prize, if you will, sort of. And uh

who are the hidden ones? My candidate

possibility

maybe they're this is after the rapture

and these are the raptured saints that

are absent from the earth at that time.

If that's true, it has huge implications

for us. But let's just table that for

the moment and go on and see what the

psalmist says here. They have said,

"Come,

let us cut them off from being a nation

that the name of Israel may be no more."

in remembrance. In other words, the

enemies of God

have aligned themselves and said, "Come,

let us cut them off." That is Israel

from being a nation that the name of

Israel may be no more in remembrance.

That's the plea of the enemies of God

that's going on that the psalmist is

calling God's attention to this. For

they have consulted together with one

consent. They are confederate against

thee, God.

Get the picture here? The enemies of

Israel have aligned themselves with one

objective

to wipe Israel off the map. Not to take

spoil.

See, Ezekiel 38:39, they take they go to

take the assembly against uh Israel in

Ezekiel 38 is take spoil. Cattle and

goods, gold and silver. They're going

for spoil. Not here. They're going to

wipe them out. You see the difference?

Fundamental.

The very commitment of Islam is to wipe

Israel off the face of the map. That's

exactly what the psalmist is calling

God's attention to.

Are you going to let that happen? Is in

effect what he's saying to God. And he

goes on here, see the primary basis of

the confederation of these enemies of

Israel

is to wipe them off. Okay? And we know

about some people who articulate this

rather vehemently in recent years. of

course, Akmadenad.

And uh

and here are the people that are

involved. He lists them in the psalm.

The tabernacles of Edom and the

Ishelites of Moab and the Hagarines,

Gabal and Ammon and Amalecch and the

Philistines with the inhabitants of Ty

and Usher also has joined with them and

they have opened the children of Lot.

Well, the tabernacles of Edom, who are

they? Now, there's a whole another study

that I really commend you to get into,

and that's who are the today.

And you'll be in for some huge

surprises. And I don't want to use up

our time chasing that one. I'm just

going to aver for our purposes today

that Edom is of course among the

traditional enemies of Israel. And they

are singled out by uh by the the Old

Testament for special judgment and so

forth. We'll talk more about them as we

go. probably the tents of Edom I'm going

to suggest are the Palestinian refugees

and the southern Judanians and let's

just leave that without proof at the

moment because it gets into some side

studies that we'll use up our time on

and but the tents of Edom I'll show you

pictures of the tents of Edom today and

these are traditional ones and perhaps

the most astonishing one is one of

96,000 people in southern Lebanon the

Palestinian refugee camps and they're

not limited to but The

are among them. And the are a

special mentioned by Jesus in two of the

letters of the seven churches.

In Revelation 2:9 and Revelation 3:9,

those that say they are Jews and are

not, but are the synagogue of Satan are

objects of Christ's comments. And we'll

talk about that a separate issue. But

let's go on here. Of all these guys, the

Ishelites, of course, are pretty

straightforward. Many people don't

realize that the sons of Edom were also

Ishraelites because Genesis tells he'll

be a wide man. His hands shall be

against every man, every man's hand

against him. The Israelites are

impossible having peace even among

themselves. If we look at the sons of

Abraham, under Sarah, of course, it's

Isaac. Under Hagar, it was Ishmael. And

under some others, it was Coutura. Now,

what's interesting, of course, is Isaac

has two sons, Esau and Jacob. And they

started fighting each other when they

were still in the womb.

And Esau of course gets outsmarted by

Jacob, loses his birthright. And so he's

really teed off for that whole

chicainery and he deliberately marries

into a um wife of the of Neboth and

which is an Ishelite. In Genesis 20, he

deliberately marries an Ishelite to

upset his parents. And that means then

his descendants are Ishelites. They are

what the press typically calls Arabs.

Many of them have nothing to do with

Arabia particularly, but that's just the

label the press uses out of their

illiteracy. But the sons of Esau and the

sons of Ishmael are indistinguishable

because they didn't keep separate

records for what it's worth. And uh so

there are no tribal distinctions were

maintained. We have then also the

Moabites

anyway. So Moab of course is attend the

descendant of Lot and the Palestinian

refugees in central Jordan would be

included by that label. And so we have

the Hagarines, sons of Hagar were

Egyptians. That's a way of referring to

Egypt, the sons of Hagar, if you will.

And so they were Egyptians. And so and

then we have Gabal, which is the

northern Lebanese.

And then we have Ammon, which is the

Palestinian refugees and the northern

Jordan Jeranians. The capital of Jordan

is Amman after Emon if you will. And so

then we have

Amalcch, if you will. Uh Arab south of

Israel, if you will. Aag was the king of

the Amalachites. And you remember Hmon

of Esther was an Amalachite. And so

we're familiar with those groups. And

then we have the Philistines. And uh the

obviously the Hamas and the Gaza the

Gaza Strip is in that region. And then

we have the inhabitants of Ty which are

the Hezbollah and the southern Lebanese.

And we also have Asher

which is joined with them. And that's of

course Assyria. And uh then we have

Syria and northern Iraq. And then we

have the word hope in the King James is

a really means been an armed to. That's

a word out of not our normal English

today. So I I threw that in here for to

to edify if you will the King James. And

so um and then we have the children of

Lot which of course is Moab and Ammon.

So these are the circular these are the

immediate neighbors of Israel here. And

so then the the psalmist says do unto

them and then he draws a bunch of

examples from the book of Judges 4 and 5

and what have you. do unto them as unto

the Midianites, as to Syria, and as to

Jab and the brook of Kison, and which

perished at Endor, and they became as

dung for the earth. And so, uh, um, so

why wouldn't God judge them in the

future as he did in the past? Sort of

the implied question by the psalmist

here. And so, so God hasn't changed. And

so, the psalmist is saying, do unto

these guys what you did back in the book

of Judges. That's in effect what he's

saying here. And uh so so this is

impressive for a lot of reasons. The

Midionites, of course, they're the

tribes from the fourth son of Abram by

Cura and so on. And this is all he's

alluding to history here, so we don't

have to hammer it that hard. But in the

book of Judges, we can read how God

judged those nations back there. In

Judges 4 and five, we have those

histories. And that's what's making

illusion here. I won't take the time to

go through all that here. And so, of

course, Endor is a well-known spot for a

variety of reasons, but we'll just move

on here for this purpose. and make their

nobles like Orb and Zeb. Yay. All their

princes, Zeba and Zelmuna. Now, don't

have to track down each one of these for

this purpose. The Orurab and Zeb were

the prince generals of Midian. Zeba and

Zelmuna were the kings. So, it's their

kings and their military leaders. That's

summary that God dealt with here who

said, "Let make ourselves houses of God

in possession." And of course, God

really he they're defeated by Gideon.

And uh the men of Ephraim intercepted

the Midionites and there was a big

slaughter back in Judges 7 and 8. And so

these are illusions the psalmist using

to history. Do to our enemies today what

you did back then is what he's saying in

effect. Oh God, make them like a wheel,

like stubble before the wind. As the

fire burneth the wood and the flames

setth the mountains on fire, so

persecute them in thy tempest, and make

them afraid with thy storm. This is the

plea of the psalmist to God. Fill their

faces with shame that they may seek thy

name, oh God. I think that's kind of

interesting. There's a name for God that

they're unifying under.

And I suggest that might be Allah.

But then he goes on here. He says, "Let

them be confounded and troubled forever.

Yay, let them be put to shame and perish

that men may know that thou whose name

alone is Yhovah as the most high over

all the earth."

Wow.

I think that's rather interesting

that men may know that thou whose name

alone is Yhovah or however you want to

pronounce it art the most high over all

the earth. Most of the rabbis won't

pronounce the name. They'll just

pronounce the letters yo y vave or in

the in yehovah if you use the German j

and so anyway

in contrast to Allah the moon god that

these people apparently are confederated

under. Does this sound like today's news

clip? It's astonishing as you look at

the more you look at this, the more it

sounds like it could happen next week.

The world is getting ready for it. The

the the there's a huge huge tension

brewing. It's about to boil over the

Middle East. And it could be viewed as

fitting Psalm 83,

which if that's correct, Psalm 83

implies a huge victory for Israel

where those enemies are wiped out.

And one of my private suspicions is if

if Obama

wipes out Iraq's nuclear weapon, nuclear

capability, Netanyahu could

simultaneously take his tank andor wipe

out the Hezbollah to the north and the

Hamas of the south and just reestablish

the orders the borders of Israel and let

the world scream and shout and rumble

and ignore them up yours world and get

on with it. That's a possibility. And if

it happens and that leads to an enormous

prosperity for Israel, it could set the

stage for Ezekiel 38 where the outer

ring nations come in to take spoil and

God intervenes and doesn't let them.

See, apparently, according to Psalm 83,

it would seem this is the only way the

world is going to know that God is God

is for him to move in judgment. That's

the flavor of this psalm.

Now, getting back to verse three, who

are these treasured ones?

that it makes illusion to. I don't know.

I've gone through every conceivable

conjecture and none of them fit. The one

possibility, and it's just a conjecture,

maybe this psalm is a postrapture event,

and the holy treasured ones are the

departed saints in God's bosom.

Well, that puts us in a very weird

position

because if Psalm 83 is after the rapture

and Psalm 83 is about to happen this

week, next month, who knows?

Wow.

We may not have long between us and the

rapture if that conjecture is correct.

Boy, that makes the agenda of this

weekend zero right in on session six

because we want to build a chart not

happens on the earth during this the 70

weeks and all that. If there's a rapture

beforehand and God brings them with him

at the second coming, what's going on in

heaven?

There are a couple of things we're going

to focus on in session six and they're

going to be the most important agenda

that you and I are going to carry away

from this weekend. Interestingly enough,

we have an opportunity to cram for the

final. Okay, so let's judgement. When

you get to Ezekiel,

there's seven nations listed that Jesus

is going to wipe out when he comes back.

Did you know that he's coming back as a

warrior? Remember in Isaiah 61 verse1

and two he he reads his mandate in the

at the synagogue in Nazareth but he

stops at a comma closes the book and

says this day is fulfilled the part he

doesn't read is deferred and the day of

vengeance of our God and we'll be

looking at that here shortly but we have

Ammon Moab Edomistia Ty siden these

seven

are clobbered by the Lord when he comes

back and each of the judgments are

detailed in Ezekiel

They are all Muslims.

Very interesting. They're all Muslims.

So, there is a war going on.

Now, the enemies at the present time,

they're surrounded. Israel is surrounded

by their immediate neighbors that are

committed to wiping them off the map.

And it's misleading to represent them as

Arabs. No, they're Muslims. The Persians

resent being called Arabs, but they're

Muslims.

It would appear that a pre-erequisite

victory for Israel will set the stage

for subsequent

ill- fated event of Ezekiel 38-39.

Seeking spoils, gold and silver, cattle

and goods and so forth.

The order events is reathered in land.

Ancient cities are rebuilt and

inhabited. They meet the uh Muslim

resistance. They establish an army for

defense. Adjacent Muslim nations

confederate as we saw here. And the

Confederacy is committed to the

destruction of Israel. As we've seen

here, war starts between the Confederacy

and Israel. Title is regained. My people

Israel is reestablished after Hosea

chapter 1 and all that. Israel's

decisively defeats the Confederacy. And

the scripture is full of those

references. Israel has become an

exceedingly great army after Ezekiel 37.

Israel takes prisoners of war.

Fascinating. In Jeremiah and Zephaniah,

and the region is reshaped. That's where

Isaiah 17:1 may be part of the picture.

Who knows? Israel expand its borders as

that's alluded to by Oadiah, Jeremiah,

and Isaiah. And then of course, Israel

dwells securely in the land, which is a

precondition for Ezekiel 38.

And the segment of God's plans to be

fulfilled, and then maybe the ill- fated

Mog invasion attempt will be ready. And

so that's that's a that's a that's a uh

projection.

But in any case, that having all been

said, now let's focus on what our real

topic is, and that's the 70th week.

We've had the preceded conditions prior

to the 70th week in front of us. And uh

so we're going to have it's defined by a

covenant being enforced by a coming

world leader. And the last half that

splits the week, this event, it splits

the week into two halves. And the Lord

himself labels the second half the great

tribulation. And uh so each half is the

most documented period of time in the

entire Bible. It's called the middle of

the week. Half of three half of seven is

three and a half years. It's labeled as

42 months each half. It's labeled 1260

days each half. The Holy Spirit's done

everything but put it in nanconds for

you. In other words, it is cross-cheed

so many different ways that you can't

allegorize it. It's half of a seven-year

period. It's 42 months long in the

front, 42 months in the second half, and

30, you know, uh, 1260 days in each

part, and so forth. In some of the

labels to this are a little cryptic.

One, it said time, times, and half a

time or splitting of time, the dividing

of time. The word times is um a dual,

not a plural. That's strange. In our in

our in English you have a single

singular and a plural. Plural is more

than one. That's unique to English.

Hebrew and Aramaic had a single a dual

and a plural. And that to me that's very

interesting. You want to understand

this.

In Genesis

Barah Elohim. In the beginning God

created heaven and the earth. The word

for God there is Elohim. Now you may not

realize it. You know enough Hebrew

already to know that that's a m that's a

masculine plural noun.

Elohim is plural. Cherubim is plural for

cherub. Saraphim is plural for serif.

See the I am ending is a plural for a

masculine noun. So you know Elohim is

plural, but it's always used as if it

was a singular. When Elohim appears in

Hebrew grammar, it's wrong. It's a

plural used as a singular noun. Well, we

smile at that because Elohim is God,

right? There's a little fact about

Hebrew grammar when I realized it blew

me away. In Hebrew, a plural is three,

not two.

Elohim is three. A trinity. My grammar

in the first verse

and in the in the shama means unified is

one in the sense of becoming a plurality

becoming unity. So anyway, but anyway,

times is a in the Hebrew and in Aramaic,

a duel. The only place we have a duel in

English. If I told you that all my

friends came over last night, both of

them, you laugh because I'm saying

there's only two of them. See that both

is a dual. It's the only place in

English I'm aware of it. We have

singular plurals, if you will. Well, in

in both Hebrew and Aramaic, you have

times a duel. So if you have time,

times, and the dividing time, it's a way

of saying three and a half. That's not

obvious when it's translated into the

English, but it's obvious in the Hebrew

or the Aramaic. And it's so is that way

in Daniel 7 and Daniel 12 and Revelation

12. And so, so it's three and a half

years in Daniel 9 and 12. And it's 42

months in Revelation 11 and 13. It's

1260 days in Revelation 11:3 and in

Daniel 12:6. In other words, in both the

Old and New Testament, these terms are

used consistently.

Okay? It's half a week in Daniel 9:27

and so on. Okay? Okay. The great

tribulation is defined there in Matthew

24:20. For then shall be great

tribulations, such as was not since the

beginning of the world to this time, nor

ever shall be. And except those days

should be shortened, there should no

flesh be saved. But for the elect's

sake, those days shall be shortened. So

this is that period that Jeremiah calls

the time of Jacob's trouble. It's going

to climax in the day of the Lord. And uh

so again uh and Revelation 6 through

from chapter 6 through19 is a detailing

of this period of time that's called the

70th week of Daniel 9. Jeremiah uh in in

Daniel 12 it reads and at that time

shall Michael stand up the great prince

which standeth for the children of thy

people. And there shall be a time of

trouble such as never was since there

was a nation even to that same time. And

at that time thy people shall be

delivered. Everyone that shall be found

in the written of the book. Not all of

them, but the ones that are in the book

of life obviously. But it's that phrase

where Jesus seems to quote it. Uh and uh

but then also I think it's very relevant

to Hosea 5:15. I will go and return to

my place until they acknowledge their

offense and seek my face in their

affliction. They will seek me earnestly.

So this leads us to the topic itself of

the great tribulation. And the question

that lurks behind our thoughts is does

the church go through it? That's a big

debate among many. And there are

alternative views as we've reviewed them

in the past. The post, the mid, and the

prrath are all deny eminence. We lean to

a pre-trib position, but you should be

on your own alert and come to your own

conclusions on that. And but notice that

the pre-trib position implies a interval

between that rapture and the beginning

of the 70th week. And with that, a lot

of other mysteries get

the fog lifts. And we talked about the

doctrine of eminency. The next

expectation, we've covered this already.

This is a review, if you will. And so,

believers are taught to expect the

savior from heaven at any moment. We've

been through this. This is by way of

review. And, uh, it also is constructive

from a personal walk point of view. And

so, Paul seemed to include himself, of

course, among those that looked for his

return. And Timothy was obnish

converts in in the epistle of Hebrews,

uh, same thing. So this is a really a

review of what we've talked about

before.

So there are two extremes that we've

talked about rapturitis and rapture that

that is the paralysis from over

overdwelling on it and rapture mania

where you try to set set dates and the

70th week is defined by the covenant

enforced by coming world leader not the

rapture. The great tribulation is the

only last half. It's three and a half

years not seven years and the leader

cannot be revealed until after the

rapture. So that tends to put everything

else in focus. And we took this out of

Daniel chapter, excuse me, 2

Thessalonians chapter 2. The apostasy

will they will come except there'll be a

falling away in apostasy first. Then

shall the restrainer be removed in the

sense that he's the he is the sealer, if

you will, of the of the church. And so

he'll that'll be removed. He'll be taken

out of the way. He comes back to

there'll be more people most scholars

believe there'll be more people saved

after the rapture than before. The Holy

Spirit's very active, but not in the

sense of sealing and and dwelling and so

forth. That's unique to the church. But

any case, after he's removed, then shall

the wicked one be revealed. The key idea

here is the man of sin is revealed after

the after the rapture. It's a

prerequisite condition. That's why Satan

has to Satan's got a plan. He's got to

it can't discharge it till after the

rapture. So, but he doesn't know where

the rapture is. So, he has to be ready

all along. And so, so we've had this

diagram before. As I indicated, from

your hermeneutics, I can predict your

esquetology.

Okay. Well, let's get at the prince that

shall come. That's one of 33 titles of

this coming world leader. He's the seed

of the serpent. In Genesis 3:15, there

are two seeds mentioned. The seed of the

woman is a title of the Messiah, where

the woman is Israel,

and there's also a seed of the serpent.

Both are mentioned there and that's one

of his 33 titles in the Old Testament.

And uh Daniel 9:27 it says and he that

is the prince that shall come shall

enforce the covenant with the many for

one week and in the midst of the week he

shall cause the sacrifice and the

oblation to cease and for the

overspreading of abominations he shall

make it desolate even until the

consummation and that determined shall

be poured upon the desolate. Now the

covenant is enforced with the many.

That's an idiom for Israel. He the he is

the the preceded the pronoun first to

last mentioned noun which was the prince

that shall come. He shall enforce the

covenant. Doesn't sign a treaty. He

enforces a covenant. He might sign a

treaty or he might simply enforce

the covenant of of Israel to to to the

land. Could be that simple. And in the

midst of the week, see apparently makes

a covenant for a week.

He apparently grants them permission for

whatever. And that's why most scholars

assume that that includes, among other

things, the rebuilding of their temple.

He lets them do that. But in the middle

of the week, he breaks his word.

In the middle of in the midst of the

week, he shall cause the sacrifice and

the oblation to cease. That's why we

think it's not limited to, but it

includes the temple somehow in the in

the covenant. In the midst of the week,

he shall cause the sacrifice and the

obl. They've actually restarted the

animal sacrifices

in a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. We

don't know when it's going to be built.

We know it'll be in place by the middle

of the week because Jesus, Paul, and

John all make reference to it.

Jesus makes reference to it in Matthew

24:15.

And Paul makes reference to it in 2

Thessalonians chapter 2.

And John makes reference to it uh among

other places in Revelation 11,

first two verses.

He shall cause a sacrifice in the place

of cease and for the overspreading of

abominations he shall make it desolate.

The abomination of desolation that

requires some definitions here. The word

abomination in the Bible by used by God

refers to idol worship. Anything other

than the worshiping anything other than

God himself is an abomination.

The abomination that make us desolate is

to not only worship an idol but to put

that idol in the most insulting place

possible

which is in Jerusalem in the temple in

fact in the holy of holies and the

reason we so we know so much about it is

it happened in p in the past it happened

in 167 BC by a guy by the name of

Antiochus Epiphanies it'll come up in

some charts here anyway so you don't

have to worry about it it's in your

charts but the point is that that is The

Jesus makes reference to a historical

event that is yet future. In other

words, it happened once before. What's

going to happen again will be just like

that? You get the picture? So that's

that's why we're so comfortable in our

definition of the abomination of

desolation because it happened once

before and we know a lot about that in

detail and it's very parallel. and ts

Epiphanies made made a deal with

Jerusalem and in the middle of his

contrary period he violated it and set

himself up to be worshiped and he put a

Greek idol in the holy of holies and

that precipitated the Meccabian revolt

which they succeeded in throwing off the

yoke of the Greek empire it leads to a

period of time called the Hasminians a

period of time where they were free to

do that and so on so so it's part of

history a lot about it so the

abomination of desolation

if we are nominally at about the time of

Christ. So sometimes say about 32 AD

roughly in the middle of the in in the

part of the Roman Empire. Prior to that

was the Greek Empire and prior to that

was the Persian Empire. It was in the

Greek Empire at 167 BC that the

Antiochus Epiphanies did exactly that.

Put an an a idol to Zeus in the Holy of

Holies. Among other things, he made the

having the Torah against the law. He

slaughtered a a pig on the sacred altar.

Everything you could imag He

deliberately did everything he could as

to inflame the Jewish community and they

rebelled.

And Judeas Mcabeas

and his had five sons and they one's one

was called the hammer uh and Mcabe and

so that became the label for the revolt

and they succeeded in throwing off the

the Greek empire. And it took him three

years to do that and cleanse the temple

from all the desecration. And they

celebrate that to this day. It's called

Hanukkah.

Set aside the colorful legends about the

holiday. The primary thing is they're

celebrating the rededication of the

temple after six after cleansing it from

the ravi ravages of Antioch's epiphies.

And so so he's an interesting character.

He's the eighth king of the Syrian

dynasty, the infamous brother of

Cleopatra.

The word Epiphies means illustrious. The

children on the street called him

Epimenes, which means the madman. And uh

so Pias the

had the five sons. And one of them was

Judas Mcus, an amazing military genius.

And he established the rule of the

Hasminian priest rulers for the next

century. That was until the Romans

conquered it and became part of the

Roman Empire. But they had quite a

distinguished era there. Antioxus

Epiphanies made the Torah reading

punishable by death. Slaughtered a sa on

the altar, erected idol to Zeus and the

holy of holies which is called the

abomination of desolation in the past

and is also yet going to happen again in

the future and that led to the Makabian

revolt. In three years they threw off

the Seucid Empire and rededicated the

temple which is celebrated as Han. Did

you know that Hanukkah is alluded to in

the New Testament? Most people don't

realize it. In John 10:22, there's an

illusion to Hanukkah. And why is it in

there? Because the Holy Spirit wants you

to under even though it's not one of the

feasts of Moses, it is a feast that has

huge implication for the Christian to

understand what Hanukkah is really all

about. The rededication of the temple.

And that's a little side study of its

own, but you can dig it out pretty

quickly easily on your own. And uh it's

kind of interesting to discover

that there are several times in history

where a leader tried to do the same

thing and was interrupted.

Um

it was um

Claudius I think anyway one of the um

Roman emperors ordered his general

Petronus to put an image of him in the

holy of holies and Petronius wouldn't do

it because he knew that would lead again

to a Makabian kind of revolt so he

didn't do it

and

the emperor dies and by a mixup of

messages the message of his death got to

Judea before the command to put the idol

in the holy of holies. So it became null

and void because the emperor had died.

So he didn't do it. Caligula was

Caligula was the the guy that uh was at

fault here. But it fascinates me that

attempts to do that were intervened by

God. Why? Because there's an event

that's going to be a milestone for all

of us yet future when that happens. The

emerging world leader, there are 33

different titles for him in the Old

Testament.

among the more well-known ones, the seed

of the serpent in Genesis 3. He's the

idol shepherd of Zechariah 11. That's

the only physical description of the

Antichrist in the Bible, and it is

there. Um, he's the little horn of

Daniel 7 and Daniel 8. He's represent a

horn is a is a ancient symbol of

authority. Um, he's the prince that

shall come, as I've mentioned before.

He's called the willful king in Daniel

11. And these are all in your notes, of

course. And in the New Testament,

there's 13 titles there. Uh he's the

beast of Revelation 11 and 13. He's

called the false prophet in Revelation

13. The second of the two guys. The word

Antichrist is a strange label. By the

way, we call that's the one that sticks.

That's the one we say. Antichrist. We

all think we know what we're talking

about. It's a little weird because that

word is only used by John and it's not

used of him.

John uses the term in his letters to

represent a spirit a spirit of

antichrist. It's not he's not really

talking about an individual per se. The

word antichrist doesn't mean against

Christ technically. It means in in the

place of Christ. A pseudo Christrist is

more precise. And Christos in the Greek

isn't what it sounds like to us.

Obviously is against Christ, but the

word really means he's in the place of

Christ. That's why there's all this talk

about the pope and all that sort of

stuff. But in any case, what's

interesting is John, who's the only guy

that uses that term in a different

context

in the entire book of Revelation doesn't

use the term Antichrist. He uses several

other terms, by the way. But

nevertheless, that's the label that has

stuck, if you will, in modern usage. So,

I won't fight that. Just be aware of the

fact it's a strange inversion here. He's

called the lawless one in 2

Thessalonians 2. He's called the man of

sin in 2 Thessalonians 2. Jesus calls

him the one who comes in his own name. I

come in my father's name, you receive me

not. Another comes in his own name, and

him you will receive. That's why many of

the experts believe he'll be Jewish. We

don't know that. We know he's accepted

by Israel for some weird reason, but

whatever. Okay, so that's and he's

called the son of predition in 2

Thessalonians 2. And uh is he a Jew or

Gentile? There are good scholars that

take both sides. Some say he'll be the

leader will be the son of Satan. That's

clearly from the scripture. Some believe

the leader will be a Jew. And there's a

whole bunch of arguments for that. And u

uh also there's some believe he'll be a

gentile and there's a whole bunch of

arguments for that. So you can take your

pick. But let's when we get into those

arguments, remember there's two guys.

We're not talking about a single guy.

There's a single political leader, but

he has a religious priest promoting his

worship called the false prophet as a

second title of him, if you will. And so

becoming a world leader, the term that I

would use if I was writing in this area

is I'd call him Mr. Bigmouth because

it's interesting in Daniel 7 and Daniel

11, in Psalm 52, in 2 Thessalonians 2,

he is always shooting off his mouth.

He's making arrogant claims. That's one

of his characteristics.

So if you want a title for him, I'd call

him Mr. Bigmouth. Six times in the

scripture, he's called that. He will be

a son of Satan in some sense and u he'll

be an intellectual genius obviously a

brilliant guy. The guy that's coming is

going to be fantastic. He is going to be

the most attractive guy the world has

ever seen.

We'll know better by the Holy Spirit.

But the world won't see that. They're

going to see a guy with the answers,

with a plan to help the world out of its

mess.

He'll be an ortorial genius. I don't

think he needs teleprompterss. Okay. He

will be a political genius.

He'll be a commercial genius. He will be

a military genius. He does he comes to

power by peacemaking, not by military.

But he becomes so powerful that he will

be militarily very very able. He'd be a

governmental genius. He'll be a

religious genius. He's he's all of these

things. The scripture supports every one

of these. And there's a bunch of other

passages in your notes you can take a

look at if you're trying to get up to

speed on on who this guy is. And so

Isaiah 10 gives us some identities here.

Thus, therefore, thus sayeth the Lord

God of hosts, oh my people that dwellest

in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian.

That's interesting. He shall smite thee

with a rod, and he shall lift up his

staff against thee after the manner of

Egypt. And yet a very little while and

the indignation shall cease and mine

anger in their destruction. This is

Isaiah talking Isaiah 10. Look at Isaiah

15. That I will break the Assyrian in my

land upon my mountains tread him

underfoot. Then shall his yoke depart

from off of them and his burden depart

from off their shoulders. This is the

purpose that is purposed upon the whole

earth. And this is the hand that is

stretched out upon all the nations. This

world leader was originally Nimrod who

was an Assyrian.

The first world leader was a Nimro was

Nimrod the Assyrian. The last world

leader on the planet earth will be an

Assyrian. It's interesting the symmetry

I think is very provocative and then

will I break the Assyrian uh in my land

and so forth.

The Lord shall cause his glorious voice

to be heard. He shall show the lightning

down from his of his arm with the

indignation of his anger and with a

flame of the devouring fire and with

scattering the tempest and the

hailstones. For through the voice of the

Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down

which smoke. See, I want you to not get

into the details, but you see the term

Assyrians all through Micah and all

through Isaiah as an identity here. And

uh Micah 5. And this man shall be the

peace when the Assyrians shall come into

our land. And he shall tread in our pa

palaces, and we rise against him with

seven shepherds and eight principal men.

And they shall waste the land of Assyria

with the sword, and the land of Nimrod

in the entrances thereof. Thus shall he

deliver us from the Assyrian when he

cometh into our land when he treadth

within our borders. And again, we have

the Assyrian, the Nimrod, even again,

and Assyrian. So there's more homework

to be done.

Is he Muslim? Very likely. But that's

not his defining characteristic. He's

and the people of the prince prince that

shall the reason there's a whole mis

misunderstanding. In Daniel 9 26 it says

the people of the prince that shall come

shall destroy the city and the

sanctuary.

They were the Roman legions. But Roman

legions were not necessarily European.

The legions of Rome were conscripts.

The 10th legion, which is the one that

brought the temple down, were cohorts

and auxiliaries from a number of

cohorts that are all Assyrians.

So the people of the prince that shall

come were the ones that destroyed this.

That's that that linkage is what's

caused many writers to presume that

somehow it's a eur it's a western Europe

player in the the uh the end times. But

let's shift and talk about the mark of

the beast. People who know nothing about

the antichrist all know about the 666.

That's a very po there are books written

that totally miss the point. Let's go at

this. Revelation 13. And he causes both

uh he causes all both small and great,

rich and poor, free and bond to receive

a mark in their right hand or in their

foreheads

that no man might buy or sell save he

that hath the mark or the name of the

beast or the number of his name. These

people take a sign of allegiance to the

leader and for some reason they have it

in their right hand and on their

foreheads. And there's a couple of

possibilities about that. But understand

the the number isn't the person's

number. It's his number. They're taking

his identity as a sign of allegiance.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath

understanding count the number of the

beast. For it is the number of a man,

and his number is 63 score and six. And

around that books have been written that

talk about barcodes and inserting

inserting things and all that sort of

stuff. It turns out the 6003 score and

six is an inference from the Greek

letters. There are three Greek letters

there in the original text. Uh and these

three Greek letters have numerical

values of 600 60 and six. So those three

letters can be construed geometrically

as a number 666. If that is correct,

it's the only place in the Bible that

the text leans on Gimitria,

the numerical value of the letters. The

fact that the letters have numerical

value is very interesting from a number

of points of view, but it's not used by

the Holy Spirit to communicate directly

unless this is one of them. Now, these

three uh letters have names. The first

and last is the is the first and last

letters of the word Christos. But you

put this little serpent thing between

the two and you get a symbol that seems

appropriate from the antichrist. So

that's that is played upon by some

writers and that's okay. No problem. The

antichrist or pseudoc will is symbolized

by those three letters and those three

letters h apparently have the number

666. So that's the subject of a lot of

uh conjectures.

But whose number are we talking about?

We're not talking about our number.

We're talking about his number.

insertable chips, RFID, barcodes, that

has to do with my number. If I have a

credit card or something, that's not the

issue. It's his number that I want an

identity with. They're different. See,

they missed the point. And it's his

number and name that are critical

identity issues. Now, in Greek alpha

numeric, okay, those three letters have

the value 666 as I've just shown you.

And so, it is whatever it's worth.

People say, "Well, that's gamtria." No,

wait a minute, guys. Wait a minute. When

you say gemmetria, what gemmetry are you

talking about? There's the normal form

of geometria. There are ones where you

take the number the values plus the

number of letters. Another one you take

small values 10. There are all kinds of

games you can play with geometria.

And um this is one of those places where

I suggest to you, you remember that if

you torture the data long enough, it'll

confess to anything. You can fool around

with these numbers to prove anything you

like. So I wouldn't try to prove

anything with gemetria. There are

aspects of that that are worth studying.

It's kind of fascinating, but don't you

don't put doctrine on it. That's naive.

There is a passage in Zechariah 11,

which is the only physical description

of the antichrist I'm aware of in the

Bible. Woe to the idol shepherd. That's

not not lazy. That's the false worship

kind of idol. Woe to the idol shepherd

that leaveth the flock. A sword shall be

upon his arm and upon his right eye. His

arm shall be cleaned right up and his

right eye shall be utterly darkened.

This leads to a conjecture that the

Antichrist who apparently suffers from a

head wound is thought to be dead and

comes back to life, but he may

apparently has an impaired arm, his

right arm. Apparently,

um swords will be upon his arm. don't

know if it's right or left. And his

right eye shall be utterly darkened.

He's blind in one eye. And it's not

Mosha Dian. That was the wrong eye. He

was a left eye. But anyway, the point is

um um maybe the identity of his

followers reflects that by having

something on their forehead and the

right arm to claim an identity. That's a

possibility. There's even a more

provocative possibility. We'll come to

in a minute, but that's one possibility

I want you aware of, to be aware of. the

666.

While each Shabbat was watching a movie

called the Kingdom of Heaven, it's a

movie about the crusader period. But

they really did the research and all the

tribes that are fighting there in the

movie, it reminded Wally of something he

knew as a kid growing up that in Islam,

if you're at war, it's traditional to

have a headband with Allah on it and on

the right arm.

And they did that in the movie that

reminded Wid something he had forgotten

the the shaded shad they it's a it's a

declaration of allegiance to Allah and

Muhammad that's worn by millions on

their forehead or their right arm and

when he saw that in the movie it

reminded him of that and he remembered

the passage in Revelation 13 and uh the

Greek it's the right arm of the right

side that's an issue here and it's a

badge of servitude and and so forth. So

now he went back and took a closer look

at Revelation 13:18. Here's wisdom. Let

him that hath understanding count the

number of the beast for the it is a

number of a man and his number is 63

score and six. And here is wisdom. Well,

that's pretty straightforward. We know

what wisdom broad and full of

intelligence and all that sort of stuff.

That's good. U the word count is

actually the word reckon or decide by

voting.

Really not counting like numerically. is

attributing and uh it is the word number

is arithmos in the Greek and that word

in Greek can mean one of two things it

can mean an indefinite multitude a

number of people came over some number

some group see it's used as an

indefinite multitude or it also is used

for a precise number like 13 or 17 see

so it says a it is the number of a beast

now it can be now the word number here

occurs three times. And that word in the

Greek can mean an indefinite thing or a

very precise thing. Your choice from

context. Okay. So man is pretty

straightforward as anthropos being a

human a man. And his number is 6003

score and six. But it turns out that's

not in the text.

There are three letters in the text. And

here's where it gets pretty interesting.

Let's take a look at this. If we look at

the papyrie and look at it more closely

and you look at this, you'll discover

there are three letters there that

people presume are Greek. If it's Greek,

it goes from left to right and you've

got those three letters. Um and uh so

this is this is a um

you know fragmentaryary late third

fourth century papyrie

and uh so you have those three letters

there

but it's a presumption that they're in

Greek.

In the book of Revelation it says John

wrote down what he saw all through that

he wrote down what he heard or wrote

down what he saw. Here he wrote down

what he saw. What did he see? He saw

those three things. Okay, he's doing

this by the way

six centuries before Muhammad.

Okay, let's keep this in mind. If we

take a closer look at those things from

Codex Vaticanis 3 350 AD,

it turns out upon examining these things

more closely, there's some subtleties

here that suggest maybe it's not Greek

in the first place.

John wrote what he saw. Now, if it's

Arabic, it flows from the right to the

left, not from the left to the right.

And this is, of course, many centuries

before Muhammad. And it turns out that

if you know Arabic, that those first two

letters say in the name of Allah.

And uh it's written as an slightly

upward angle. The two swords that follow

it are the traditional symbol of Islam.

those that's not an X, it's two swords

is in the view as a conjecture. We're

not sure, but it's a possibility. But it

has some very very interesting

implications if that is Arabic

because if you look at Arabic, that word

can lay on its side. It can be at

angles. It's on an angle on the flag of

Iraq itself, by the way. So that's kind

of fun. So that's the word Allah. So

this is an alternative translation of

Revelation 13:18 that Wally suggests is

a possibility. He's not selling it. He's

just highlighting from his scholastic

background in Arabic and Islam to

recognize this translation as

legitimate. I'm going to show you here

is wisdom. Let him that hath

understanding decide who the multitude

of the beast is.

For it is the multitude of a man, in

other words, Muhammad.

and his multitude are in the name of

Allah.

Wow.

It's possible he's right. We don't know.

But it's a it is a whole another

complexion, especially for there's lots

of other reasons that people are

increasingly becoming to the realization

that Islam is emerging as the primary

warfare against the God of the Bible.

You got to beware of all the deceit

that's prevalent in the press and in our

culture.

Allah is not the Arabic name for God.

That's a lie they promote. Allah is a

specific god. When you translate the

Quran into French or German or whatever,

that's a word you don't translate. It's

the name of the god they worship and it

happens to be the moon god as

exemplified by a lot of reasons in the

history and the rest of it. No. It is

not a

a religion of peace. The Quran is a

warrior code.

There are hundreds of commands to kill

Jews and Christians throughout the

Quran.

It is a it is the goal of Islam is to

force itself on the entire world by

force if necessary. In Islam, it's

encouraged to lie if it's in the

interest of Islam.

the the the the

celebrate an event by Muhammad. He made

a treaty with the his own tribe, the

Kuresh tribe of peace. But as soon as he

was strong enough, he wiped them out.

And that's not just a point of history

of something they celebrate in Islam as

a victory. And when Yaser Arafat would

make speeches and the English had never

matched them, the Arabic

um if you had people that knew Arabic

and saw the speech, the English release

was nothing. bore no resemblance. And he

would tell his followers, "Don't worry

about my peaceful things." That's a

there's a name in in Quran for that

deceit that they that Muhammad uses. And

uh Yasfet used to brag that he was doing

the same thing Muhammad did. It's to lie

in the interest of Islam until we're

strong enough to swap them. See? And so

the point is most of what you've heard

about Islam hides the real truth. So,

one of the uh things you you're faced

with is doing some homework to really

understand the sinister nature of Islam

and its power.

And so, so obviously uh Wally Shabbat

argues that the antichrist will may

prove to be a Muslim. And Joel

Richardson and some other very good

scholars and good articulate writers are

really picking up that uh that theme.

It's it's very very clear that the

adversary to Christian both not just

Jews but Christians they teach the kids

a little what we call a nursery rhyme

today Friday then Saturday then Sunday

what they mean today Friday is their

holy day

Saturday is the Jewish holy day and

Sunday the Christians holy day they take

them in that order but their goal is the

is the subjugation of the entire world

under Sharia law and so it is what it

So, we're not that far from our

appointed time. Surprise, surprise. So,

let's have a closing word of prayer and

then we have a little bit of Q&A, if you

will. Father, we thank you for your

word. And we do pray, Father, that

through your Holy Spirit and through

your word, you will give us guidance,

Father, that we might better understand

what you would have of us in the days

that remain as we commit ourselves to

you,

the Yote Vave, the the God of Abra

Abraach, and Yakov, the the son of whom

gave himself that we might have life.

We thank you, Father, for your word. We

thank you for your spirit. And we thank

you for your presence here this weekend.

We pray, Father, that you would indeed

receive us

as committed without any reservation

whatsoever into your hands in the name

of Yeshua,

our coming king indeed. Amen.

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