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Oct. 26, 2015 - Jim Bakker Show
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Persecution Purifies the Church
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Russia's War Preview 00:02:19
We're talking about Russia during this same time Russia has declared war and people are saying that really Russia and the United States are at war.
We're in the same country with our planes and with no air controllers.
Isn't that interesting?
Our fighter planes are there and all.
And it says it's a preview of World War III, a headline.
Russia is putting on a display of firepower that is shocking the world.
What's going on there?
Russia is a big part of Bible history.
Gog Magog, of course.
But Russia is moving towards the Mideast.
God spoke to me the 31 things.
Watch Russia.
What do you think is going on?
Well, if you want an expert on Bible prophecy, you need to invite somebody else, not me.
I'm a journalist.
I'm a newsman.
But I think that looking at it from my perspective, we've got to report what's going on.
So, for example, the stuff that you're talking about going on in Israel, we need to know about because things are happening.
But there have been people that have prophesied that Mussolini was the Antichrist, that Hitler was the Antichrist, and so on and so forth.
So it's hard to be cut and dried about a lot of these things.
We really don't understand.
We've got to be like the sons of Issachar and discern the times and look at what's going on and try to understand and ask the Holy Spirit to help us.
Now, in the church, people swing from one extreme to the other.
Either they're way over here and everything is a conspiracy.
Do you remember Y2K?
Some of these young people don't even, but that was a big deal.
Remember that?
We didn't know if everything was just going to shut down.
And I saw some preachers that talked about how Y2K was going to be horrible, and of course it turned out not to be horrible, thankfully.
But it wasn't so much that they saw that prophetically, but it backed up their theological statement and would have made them look good.
Can't Fulfill Prophecies Differently 00:01:55
Now, I may be over-exaggerating, but you understand a lot of times we almost want people to, we want things to happen because it backs up what we say.
I think that God's plans and purposes are bigger than anything we can understand.
And Jesus is coming back.
But if you remember, when Jesus came the first time, didn't he fulfill the prophecies?
But wasn't it different than what the Jews were looking for?
That's right.
So much so that most Jews, even today, don't recognize Yeshua as their Messiah.
I believe that when Jesus comes back, that it's going to fulfill all the prophecies.
But it's probably going to be different than we think.
And we can't, this is my personal opinion.
We can't be so rigid and in our rut that we can't realize that God may fulfill these prophecies differently than our pet opinions.
Right.
Come, Lord Jesus.
But then we can't do the other extreme, which is to say we can't understand everything's going to be fine.
That's polyanish thinking.
That is.
And we have to realize that the time, we're speeding towards something.
We sure are.
And it's almost at warped speed.
Something's going to happen.
You better believe.
And it is.
You can't be a lukewarm Christian anymore.
You cannot.
For a long time.
Listen.
You are not.
I live in the South.
Yeah.
With the big churches with the white columns, and people belong to the church because it was good for business.
Hello?
Yes.
Okay.
They were cultural Christians.
Now, and it wasn't just the South.
That's what I grew up around and saw it.
But more and more in Mauritius.
You're either really out or you're really in.
That's it.
And if you're a Christian, you can't just go to church when you want to and be a Christian if you want to.
I mean, there's persecution coming, a lot of things.
So the good thing is that persecution purifies the church.
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