Jim Bakker Show - Don't Jump the Gun - Pastor Mark Biltz on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-08-15
Duration: 03:28


=== Bridge Out Warning (03:28) ===

[00:00:00]  And we're a people in the last days.
[00:00:03]  And here, the United Nations this year announced the date of September 21st is the day of peace and safety to the world.
[00:00:18]  Pastor, you know, you bring this word.
[00:00:21]  What can we expect during this time?
[00:00:24]  As the body of Christ, as the church, what can we do during this time?
[00:00:29]  I'm not saying anything is going to happen on that day other than the solar eclipse.
[00:00:33]  What I'm saying is just like when the bridge is out, you get the warning ahead of the time before you get to the bridge.
[00:00:39]  So I really believe this is for God's covenant nation to giving us time to repent.
[00:00:45]  Just like Lot had a little bit of time, a little window to get out of there.
[00:00:51]  In his case, the destruction came.
[00:00:54]  But I really believe that what we're to be doing, it is a sign to the body of Christ that we're supposed to be praying and interceding for our nation like Abraham, being aware of what's going on.
[00:01:04]  He says that in Isaiah, he was looking for an intercessor and he couldn't find one.
[00:01:08]  God's looking for intercessors.
[00:01:09]  That's what he really wants.
[00:01:11]  And who knows, of all the viewers that are here from all over the United States, they're watching everywhere.
[00:01:16]  How many people would it take in your county or your city to mitigate the disaster that's coming?
[00:01:22]  So for me, I think believers all over need to pool with other believers in their city and their county and be praying for their city, for their county, for their state.
[00:01:31]  And who knows if maybe the disaster might not be mitigated in their particular area.
[00:01:36]  So for me, it's all about intercession.
[00:01:38]  And God wants to know where his praying church is.
[00:01:41]  All right.
[00:01:44]  The day you were talking about there was an eclipse that set off.
[00:01:50]  Was it the First World War or Second World War?
[00:01:53]  First World War at the beginning of the First World War.
[00:01:56]  In August of 1914, there was a total solar eclipse going over Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
[00:02:02]  And it speaks of judgment and what happened.
[00:02:04]  World War I, the Ottoman Empire was destroyed.
[00:02:06]  Then there was another one at the end of World War I that patterns exactly this way.
[00:02:11]  And how long?
[00:02:12]  How long was World War I?
[00:02:13]  Anybody know?
[00:02:14]  Four years.
[00:02:15]  Okay.
[00:02:16]  Roughly, 1914 to 1918.
[00:02:19]  Could it be these signs are like the gun going off on a race or on an evangelist?
[00:02:28]  I love that example.
[00:02:29]  I love that example.
[00:02:31]  Because, you know, in high school, I would go to a lot of track meets and different things.
[00:02:35]  And if you remember, there'd be people in the stands watching, and then you have the runners getting ready, and they would all have to get on their mark.
[00:02:40]  They'd get their fingers down on the line.
[00:02:42]  They got their rear up in the air.
[00:02:44]  They're ready to go, you know.
[00:02:46]  But they can't jump the gun.
[00:02:48]  Oh, boy.
[00:02:48]  If they jump the gun, okay, come back.
[00:02:50]  You do it more than once.
[00:02:51]  You're out of the race.
[00:02:53]  Well, Hebrews says we're in a race.
[00:02:55]  Okay?
[00:02:56]  And I believe right now our fingers should be on the line.
[00:03:00]  But you have to wait for the gun to go off.
[00:03:03]  You can't jump the gun.
[00:03:05]  And so this is why I'm not saying that this eclipse is the gun going off.
[00:03:10]  I'm just saying this is the countdown to the gun going off.
[00:03:13]  And we have to be careful that we don't jump the gun and we don't say this is it or anything like that.
[00:03:19]  But we need to be prepared and watching.
[00:03:22]  It says in Luke, look up.
[00:03:24]  Your redemption draws nigh.
[00:03:26]  What are we looking at?
[00:03:26]  The signs in the heavens.
[00:03:28]  That's right.