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July 9, 2024 - Jim Bakker Show
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Jim Bakker Sermon 20: Woman, Child & Dragon
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The Messiah's Temple 00:09:43
In our last lesson in Revelation 11, 19, we read these words.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament, and there was lightning and voices and thunderings and an earthquake and great hell.
Well, this last chapter began with the temple on earth being restored and then destroyed, and with God's temple in heaven being open.
I believe that literally the Antichrist is going to assist the Jews in building the last temple.
I believe he is going to be so clever, so anointed by Satan that he has this ability to bring the two factions together, and we're going to see the temple built on the temple mount.
How many know that every real true Jewish man and woman, their desire is to see the temple rebuilt?
How many know that?
Do you know that?
I have a paper from a rabbi, and this is Rabbi Richmond.
And he was asked this question.
It says, please take a look and see if Jesus was the Messiah.
And they asked him, and he gave him a brochure.
Don't give a Jewish person a brochure.
You've got to love them to Christ.
But it says, why don't you accept Jesus as the Messiah?
And he writes a whole paper, and so much of this is on internet that you could find so much information if you want to study.
He says, we do not accept the notion that scripture foretells that God would rob himself or robe himself in flesh.
And it says, the reason why Jews like myself do not accept Jesus as the Messiah is a very basic one.
We do not see that he fulfilled any of the requirements for the job.
If he never qualified, it is not even a question of rejection.
God outlined these requirements in the Bible.
Don't you think that when the Messiah arrives, it should be necessary for his identity to be the subject to debate?
For the world should be so drastically changed for the better.
He goes on to say, it should be absolutely incontestable.
Why should it be necessary to prove him at all?
If the Messiah has come, why should anyone have doubt?
According to the prophets of the Bible, among the most basic missions of the Messiah are to cause all the world to return to God and his teachings, to restore the royal dynasty to the descendants of David, to oversee the rebuilding of Jerusalem,
including the temple, in the event that it has not yet been rebuilt, to gather the Jewish people from all over the world and bring them home to the land of Israel, to re-establish the Sanhedrin, to restore the sacrificial system, as well as the sabbatical year and Jubilee.
I'm just reading highlights.
I'm going quickly.
But for Jews, if the Bible's description of the Messiah has not been fulfilled, then for authentic Jews, there can only be one explanation.
He has not yet come.
They're still looking for their Messiah.
I believe with complete faith in the coming of the Messiah, this rabbi says.
And though he may tarry, I shall wait for him every day.
Let me read what he says next.
This is why the Jews will accept the Antichrist.
Listen.
We have already written in these pages that we believe the Messiah sent by God Almighty is not God, but a human being.
But the greatest leader and wisest teacher who ever lived.
They believe the Messiah will not be divine, but he'll be a human being, the greatest leader, wisest teacher who ever lived.
He will put his extraordinary talents to use to precipitate a worldwide revolution which will bring perfect justice and harmony to humanity.
Is that not a setup?
Is that not a setup for Antichrist?
They're looking for a man who has all the answers and can speak to the world.
Isaiah 53, have you ever read it?
This is the description.
This is what the Jews believe the Messiah will be.
It says he is despised, rejected of men, a man of sorrow.
He bore our griefs, carried our sorrows.
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God in affliction, wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities.
Chastisement of our peace was upon him.
By his stripes, we are healed.
Brought as a lamb to the slaughter, taken from prison and from judgment.
He has his grave with the wicked and with the rich in death.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, make his soul an offering for sin.
This is Isaiah.
I'm just reading the highlights of it.
You know it.
We feel that this describes Jesus Christ.
But yet somehow the Jews have been blinded to the Messiah.
If you would like to know what's going on in the rebuilding of the temple, there is a website that you would find very, very interesting.
There's so many of them.
There's just hundreds.
But the Temple Institute would be very interesting for you to go online and see.
It's www.templeinstitute.org, O-R-G, because some are.com.
This is.org.
And they will show you all the things that are happening.
The Temple Institute have rebuilt almost all of the elements of worship.
The menorah has been rebuilt.
The showbread table has been rebuilt.
All of these elements have been rebuilt.
He says, for many, the anticipation towards the building of the Holy Temple is linked to the arrival of the Messiah.
This is from the Temple Institute.
These are Jewish people who are getting ready to build the temple.
While we're all studying prosperity and how to get rich, the prophetic word is marching on.
The world, the whole table is set for the last days to take place.
And most Christians don't even know it because they're off on things that are antichrist and opposite of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Here's what it says.
I'm reading from Jewish paperwork, not Christian stuff.
In the book of Daniel, he is described as the one who arrives with the clouds of heaven.
I saw in the night vision, and behold, one like a son of man came with the clouds of heaven, Daniel 7:13.
However, in Zachariah 9:9, the Messiah is described as lowly, riding upon an ass.
Our sages understand this seeming contradiction to indicate that both visions are essentially correct and that anything is possible.
Perhaps when the Messiah arrives, with grandeur and splendor, it will accompany his appearance.
Alternatively, perhaps he will come in a quiet and unassuming fashion.
The Talmud indicates that much of this depends upon Israel.
If they are deemed worthy and deserving, he will arrive in a grand manner to befit his stature.
But if not, the opposite is true.
And so here is this word.
The Jews are looking for a Messiah and they say he could come riding on a donkey or he could come in the clouds in the air and he's doing both.
Is that right?
Jesus already came on a donkey, the Messiah, and he's coming back in a cloud.
It says, it stands to reason that the third temple could be rebuilt today in Jerusalem even before the Messiah arrives.
This would concur precisely with the opinion of the sages of Israel recorded in the Jerusalem Talmud.
The Holy Temple will be in the future be re-established before the establishment of the kingdom of David.
In the future, the Messiah king will arrive and build the temple, and all the laws will be reinstated as in the former days.
Sacrifices will be brought and the sabbatical and jubilee years recorded will be adhered to as specified in the Torah.
And he will see to it that all of Israel follow these laws.
Three and a half years, this will go on in the tribulation time, in the earth, the first three and a half years.
The temple will be rebuilt.
And the Jews will have worship.
They will make sacrifices.
For they still believe in the Old Testament form.
Oh, I would, Zachariah 9, 10 and Daniel 9, or Daniel 7, 13 and 14 talks about the Messiah in the Old Testament.
And here is the Temple Institute.
Why build another temple?
The Torah teaches the positive commandment to build the temple was given by God to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai.
The Creator commanded us to erect a chosen house for his service.
The Sacred Vessels Ready 00:02:41
The purpose of the commandment of building the temple is in order to offer the sacrifices and is a perpetual commandment that is binding upon every successive generation.
The vessels of the temple are part, an intrinsic part of the commandment and constitutes a portion of the temple structure.
And all the units separate and together are considered as one precept.
The Temple Institute, it says its major focus of the Institute is an effort towards the beginning of the actual rebuilding of the Holy Temple.
Towards this end, the Institute has begun to restore and construct the sacred vessels for the service of the Holy Temple.
These vessels which God commanded Israel to create can be seen today at our headquarters in Jerusalem.
And if you look up on your screen, you're going to see the actual vessels of the temple that are now built ready for the temple to open.
They are made according to the exact specifications of the Bible and have been constructed from the original source materials such as gold, copper, silver, and wood.
These are authentic, accurate vessels, not merely replicas or models.
All of these items are fit and ready for use in service of the Holy Temple.
Among the many items found in the exhibit are musical instruments played by the Levitical choir, the golden crown of the high priest, and gold in several vessels used in the incense and the sacrificial service.
After many efforts and toil, the Institute has just recently completed the three most important central vessels of the divine service, the seven-branch candelabra, the menorah made of pure gold, the golden incense altar, and the golden table of showbread.
These are ready to go, folks.
And guess what?
They tell us they know where the Ark of the Covenant is right now.
They know it's in a chamber.
They know where it was hidden.
And they said the location is recorded in our sources.
And today, there are those who know exactly where this chamber is.
And we know that the ark is still there, undisturbed, and waiting for the day when it will be revealed.
Digging Under Calvary 00:04:07
Any attempt was made, an attempt was made several years ago to excavate towards the direction of the chamber under the Temple Mount.
I want to tell you a little secret.
I was in that chamber.
It was boarded up, but God gave me favor years ago.
And I went under the Temple Mount and I saw they had placed a menorah on the wall where the Holies of Holy just it is so awesome what God has let me see.
Our little team, something I've never been able to talk about publicly, but we sponsored a dig under the Temple Mount or under the Galgotha under Calvary.
I've been down in those tunnels also.
We found what we believed to be the cross holes where Jesus Christ was crucified.
The very spot I studied with the Jews there in Jerusalem, with the university, and they told me where crucifixion would have taken place and it's at Calvary's Gordon's Calvary, they call it and at the foot of the crosses.
Where they were, it was the old rock quarry area and it's just solid rock and in the rock is the holes where crosses were put in for people to be crucified.
And at that bottom part of the dig we found pottery dated exactly to the time of Christ.
We found coins with the dates on them of the time of Christ.
And when I lost PTL, all of that material was stolen and I don't have it today.
I don't know who has it.
All I know is somebody has some things that are very very, very important.
But there in Israel is the conflict of the ages.
Things are happening.
How many know about the red heifer?
The red heifer is an important part.
They have not been able to find one for generations.
The red heifer is the purification that must be.
They have found the red heifer.
The red heifer are now being raised in Jerusalem.
If you want to read about the red heifer, go to Numbers, chapter 19.
It says, speak unto the children of Israel and then bring thee a red heifer without spot, where there is no blemish.
They had to find a red heifer with no blemish, no spot, and they had to slay this and and and the whole thing.
It's a whole chapter.
I'm not going into it, but the red heifer Has been found.
Everything is ready for the building of the last temple for the coming of the Lord.
Let's go to Revelation chapter 12.
Now we must understand as we study Revelation that there is flashbacks where John reviews things.
He goes back, and that's why you don't understand Revelation.
You keep saying, well, I think it's the same thing happening over again.
I think that, and it is.
John gives us an overview, and then he goes back and he fills in the details.
And right now he's filling in the details of the tribulation.
This is flashback number one, Revelation chapter 12.
John brings us to the seventh trumpet, and then his narrative returns to give us important information and details of the tribulation.
Revelation's Great Sign 00:03:08
Now, John will get back on track exactly where we were, the rapture taking place, and we go right up to it again in Revelation 14, 14.
But from Revelation 12 to Revelation 14, 14, John gives us a review.
He's teaching just like a teacher would.
And he's filling in the details for us.
And if you understand it, Revelation does not have to be such a mystery to you.
God is the revealer of mysteries.
John begins his flashback.
Revelation 12:1.
And there appeared a great wonder, or in the Greek, it's wondrous sign, a great sign in heaven.
A woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet.
Upon her head, a crown of 12 stars.
This is a great sign.
And the word sign tells me that this is a highly symbolic figure.
This is not some real woman sitting up there.
This is symbolism.
The woman is no doubt Israel.
No question about it.
This woman is God speaking of Israel.
And the 12 stars would be the 12 sons of Jacob, the 12 tribes.
Joseph and his 11 brothers.
Remember Joseph's dream, Genesis 37, 9.
If you want to look at that, it says, Then he had another dream and he told it to his brothers.
Listen, he said, I've had another dream.
And this time the sun and the moon and 11 stars were bowing down to me.
You see, he makes the 12th star.
This is the 12 tribes of Israel.
The sun is Jesus, who is the what?
The sun, S-U-N, of righteousness shining on her.
The moon is reflected glory.
The moon under her feet, I believe, pictures a dominion, the royal nation above all.
I don't understand why God loves Israel so much, but he does.
So get over it.
This is God's place.
Jerusalem is God's city.
And it's his place.
Malachi 4:2, it says, But unto you that fear my name shall the Son of righteousness arrive with healing in his wings.
Jesus is the son of righteousness.
I believe Jesus is shining on Israel, it says.
Back to Revelation 12, 2.
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth in pain to be delivered.
Even now, Israel cries out for deliverance.
Great Red Dragon Appears 00:15:31
Every day Israel cries.
Every day Israel cries for the Messiah.
Every day Israel goes to the wailing wall to pray for the rebuilding of the temple.
They long for this temple.
Is it any wonder they will accept someone who helps them rebuild the temple?
Is it any wonder an antichrist will fool them?
But enter the dragon.
Verse 3, Revelation 12, 3.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold, a great red dragon.
Having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his head.
This is symbolism, folks.
It's a vision that God is giving to John.
There's no guessing who the dragon is.
John tells us in verse 9.
See, if you read the whole Bible, most of the, I mean, the Bible is interpreted by itself.
You just simply, if you read the whole Bible, you'll find it's like a mystery book.
The clues are all over the Bible.
And so John says the serpent called the devil.
Verse 9, that's who he is.
This old serpent, the dragon.
I think Satan was a dragon in the Garden of Eden.
He was a dinosaur.
He was the most beautiful animal ever made and cursed to flow down on his stomach.
We won't go there anymore, but there is my theory.
The seven heads and ten horns we're going to deal with in chapter 13.
I'm not going to deal with it right now because we are going to see this Antichrist.
We are going to find out this devilish devil, just literally possessed person.
They deal with his reign and he claimed to rule the world.
His crowns are all self-anointed and appointed.
We're going to learn about him next week.
Verse 4.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and he cast them to the earth.
Satan took angels with him.
He took this percentage of the angels when he fell.
He took a crowd with him.
So his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth.
And the dragon, Satan, stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, this woman Israel, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
That's Jesus.
Right?
Of course it is.
Matthew 2, 13.
And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy it.
The devil tried to kill Jesus at his birth.
Revelation 12, 5.
And she brought forth a man-child.
What is his name?
Jesus.
To rule all nations with a rod of iron.
And her child was caught up unto God and to his throne.
That's Jesus.
Look at Revelation 19, 13.
Just slip back over there.
And it says, he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood.
And his name is called the Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations.
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron.
And he treadeth the winepress in the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
What does he do?
He rules them with a rod of iron.
What does it say here?
And she brought forth a man-child Jesus to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
So we have no question about who this is.
This is Jesus.
The Old Testament in Psalms 2:9 says, Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
The Old Testament is coordinated with the New Testament.
The New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the New Testament is revealed out, you know, as the revelation of the old.
And the New Testament is all wrapped up in the Old Testament.
It's just one marvelous book with harmony.
Well, back to Revelation 12:6.
And the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared of God, and they should feed her there 1,203 score days.
How long is that?
How long is that?
Three and a half years.
Three and a half years.
This is the second half of the tribulation, seven-year period.
The Jews will be deceived for three and a half years.
But this old dragon, the devil, literally, we're going to find out what happens.
Let's just read on and find out what happens.
Back to Revelation 12:6.
The woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared of God that they should feed her there 1,200 and three score days.
I don't even want to go into it, but I mean, people are hidden Bibles and materials and all kinds of things where they believe the Jews are going to be.
I mean, people have already prepared, and I don't have time to go there.
And there was war in heaven.
Michael, who's Michael?
The archangel.
Daniel 12:1 in the Old Testament.
Here's what it says about Michael.
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, every one that shall be found written in the book.
There's Michael being talked about in Daniel chapter 12 in the Old Testament.
There was a war in heaven.
Michael and his angels, God's angels, fought against the dragon, the devil.
Amen.
And the dragon fought and his angels.
There's a battle coming in the heavenlies with Michael and the devil.
A lot of churches don't talk about this.
This is so fascinating because I'm telling you, some of you may be alive during this period of time.
And you better understand, all hell is going to break loose.
After this three and a half years of the deception of the Antichrist, the natural things are going crazy in that three and a half years, and the terrible things are happening on earth.
But this Antichrist has the answers.
How do you know that an Antichrist would come when everything is falling apart and somebody comes with the answers to put it back together again?
Watch out.
Antichrist is on the way.
And that's why all of this terrorism, I believe with all of my heart that we haven't even seen the beginning of terrorism in the United States of America alone.
We have a stage set.
I mean, we have never lived in an hour like this.
We have never lived in a day where revelation is taking place in front of our eyes.
But yet we're so busy with the things of the world.
God warns us that we would be overcome with surfeiting, with pleasures, and with the things of the world.
And people, we've got to be careful that that day will come upon us and we won't be aware of it.
There has to be terrible things.
That's why there's going to be earthquakes.
That's why these fires in California even are, you know, when insurance companies can no longer handle things.
What happens if the great earthquake hits Los Angeles right now at the same time?
I'm not saying it's going to happen.
I'm just saying, what if, when because the remember when he started Revelation, it says when these things start to happen, they're going to go bam, bam, bam!
They're going to happen quickly and suddenly.
It's going to overwhelm us.
And that's why we must all be founded in Jesus Christ.
He's going to take care of us.
He's going to have a plan for us.
We have eternity with him.
You're eternal.
If they fit a bullet in your head, that's better than dying in a hospital for six months.
Get it over with.
Well, I die slowly and painfully, right?
I'll tell you what, you'll have a martyr's crown in heaven if you die for Jesus anyhow.
I believe this Bible.
I needed five years of prison to even believe it more.
Because I've studied every word in it almost, and not like I should.
I want more.
I just wish there was more time.
If I get some more people to help me, I stop waiting tables and start.
And I'm using that as a scriptural term.
I don't actually wait the tables here.
That's why I always love looking at our waitresses because I think, man, they're doing what God said to do.
He said, wait tables so the preachers can preach and study.
I want to know more.
I'm so hungry.
I'll sit 16 hours studying the word.
I just want to know more and more and more.
And I just trace things in the Bible and it's more.
It's terrible to be that.
You know, people say that's really square.
I'm telling you, it's the greatest adventure of my lifetime to follow the word of God.
So here we have a war in the heavenlies.
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, the devil, and the dragon fought in his angels and prevailed not.
Neither was their place found anymore in heaven.
You hear me?
There's not a place for Satan.
See, listen to me.
Everybody thinks Satan got kicked out, and he did thousands of years ago when he was cast out.
I got news for you.
Satan is the prince of the power of the air.
And he has been going back and forth into the throne room of God and talks with God.
But in this battle, it's over.
He's no more coming to accuse the saints.
He's no more.
He's being cast down to earth.
And I'm telling you, Christians, that's when hell begins on this earth.
And the angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought his angels, and prevailed not.
Neither was their place found anymore in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil.
And Satan, which deceives the whole world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Go over to Ephesians 6:12.
It says, For we wrestle not what?
Against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against power, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now has come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down.
They're excited in heaven.
Because that, oh, I almost called him a bastard.
He, that's what he is.
Satan is a bastard.
He is an illegitimate imitation Christ.
If you ever want to call somebody a bastard, call the devil one.
The Bible says we are bastards if we are not chastened by God.
I'm using a Bible term.
Get over it.
If I had teenagers around, they'd be shouting right now.
They just get in with us.
You know, they like reality.
They're tired of this religious stuff.
Look at, listen to this.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now has come salvation, verse 10, and strength and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren.
This is heaven talking about you and me.
And for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accuse them before our God day and night.
Do you hear me?
That stinking devil's been talking about you.
And he's going right to God trying to get you in trouble.
But God sees you through the blood of Jesus Christ.
The devil now, at this point, is no longer the prince of the power of the air.
He's cast to earth.
Now look at Job 1:6.
If you don't understand what I'm trying to tell you, go to Job.
Go there.
I know I go too fast, but I want you to go there.
I want you to see it.
Job chapter 1.
It's in the Old Testament.
J-O-B, James Orson Baker.
That's my initial.
Listen to this.
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?
Then Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth, from walking up and down in it.
Satan has been able to go up and down from the earth to heaven.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God and screweth evil?
Oh my.
The devil has been going to the throne.
The Blood of the Lamb Overcame Them 00:03:12
You see, I don't believe it.
Well, it's in the Bible.
You better believe it.
You've been taught a lot of stuff that's not in the Bible.
Why don't you start believing the stuff that's in the Bible?
You know what shook me up in prison when I found out there was at least seven places where the Bible says the sun and the moon will be dark before Jesus comes back.
And no one has ever, ever, ever preached that to me in my lifetime.
I've had million preachers almost tell me in the last days God's going to pour out his spirit upon all flesh.
That's what we built the assemblies of God on.
And all church of God, all the Pentecostal.
In the last days, God's going to pour out his spirit.
And then two verses later, and the sun and the moon will be darkened before the day of the light.
How can we ignore it?
Do we have a right to cut scriptures apart and take what we want?
That's why we have another gospel being preached.
This love of money.
God says a pastor is not to be greedy of filthy lucre.
That's what God, Jesus, calls money filthy lucre.
All right.
I won't go there.
Revelation 12:11.
And they overcame him, Satan, by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimonies.
And they loved not their lives unto the death.
Martyrs, it means in the Greek.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb.
That's how we overcome.
And by the word of their testimonies.
Oh, I love the power of a testimony.
You know, a sinner can look at you and say, I don't believe in your God.
I say, well, he delivered me out of prison.
He healed my body.
That's why Lori gives her testimony because women are set free by the power of her testimony and the blood of the Lamb.
Don't knock the testimony.
We don't live in the past.
We live in the glory.
We recite.
All David did was recite the past.
The psalmist, that's what he was doing.
He always recited.
That's how he encouraged himself.
So thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord, for what you did.
Heaven rejoices.
Amen.
Verse 12.
Therefore, rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.
But look the next verse.
Next word: Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, for the devil has come down unto you.
Woe To The Inhabitants 00:06:58
He's banned from heaven now.
He's banned.
He can't even go to the throne room and do his stuff anymore.
But he's down on earth for a short time.
Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, for the devil has come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.
Heaven rejoices, but earth is now home of the devil.
These last three and a half years of the tribulation are going to be hell on earth.
Short time for Satan.
Wrath has come.
And verse 13: And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman.
Who is the woman?
Israel, which brought forth the man-child Jesus.
So here it is.
This dragon, Satan, he cons Israel for three and a half years, and then he turns, and they realize what they've done.
And they receive Jesus.
And to the woman were given two wings.
Verse 14, are you there?
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness.
I remember reading many years ago when Jews started to return in mass to Israel.
A group of Jews.
You know, there's Jews in every part of the world.
And a group of Jews, and I think they were from Africa.
Hiram is Jewish.
A Jewish boy from Cuba.
Can you believe that?
Full-blooded Jewish boy right here.
But from Ethiopia.
And these Jews were not, they had never even seen an airplane.
They were in tribes way back in the wilderness.
And so some folks sponsored them to come home.
And they saw this big airplane.
Can you imagine these humble, broken people, these people that didn't know, never even seen an airplane?
And they got on an airplane.
And you know, someone asked them, he said, weren't you afraid?
And they said, no, the scripture says we will mount up as wings of eagles.
So here's what it says.
And when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, he persecuted the woman Israel, which brought forth the man-child, Jesus.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness.
It could be an airlift.
I don't know.
But I do know what it means.
It means whatever it is, God is going to take care of his people.
God has prepared a place.
I think whenever we read about the eagle and God's care, we read about it in the Old Testament, it's a sign that God says, I'm going to just take care of him.
And that's a sign to the Jew.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and a half a time.
That's three and a half years.
Thank you, King James.
From the face of the serpent.
What good is the Bible?
You say, oh, the King James is so beautiful.
Well, it's wonderful and it's beautiful.
But if you don't understand it, what good is it?
That's what we must study.
Amen.
Exodus 19:4 says, I carried you on eagle's wing and brought you to myself.
And that was when he brought them out of Egypt.
They didn't fly literally on eagle's wings.
It was the wings of God carried them.
It was a pillar of fire by night, a cloud by day.
And they left, and the Red Sea opened up for them.
That's supernatural.
And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there's not going to be some supernatural events taking place to protect the Jews in this situation.
Some believe this place of safety is Petra, I believe it's called, or Petra.
How do you say it?
Is it Petra?
Petra.
Petra, meaning stone, rock.
Is that good?
Petra.
Petra.
This is in Edom.
It's a fortress.
It means rock, doesn't it?
Actually, rock, a rock, rock fortress.
And I got to studying this, and I found out there's Bibles and scriptures and everything hidden there already.
Groups have put them in there.
Look at Daniel 11:40.
Then at the time of the end, the king of the south will attack him, and the king of the north will storm out against him with chariots, cavalry, and a vast navy.
He will invade various lands and sweep through them like a flood.
He will enter the glorious land of Israel.
By the way, these chariots, when we get to the harlot of Revelation, it talks about all the things of the world that she's about.
And as you study that in the Greek, it's fascinating because the word chariot is the four-wheeled vehicle.
Just automobiles, that's all.
Jeeps.
But he will invade various lands and sweep through them like a flood.
He will enter the glorious land of Israel and many nations will fall, but Moab, Edom, Petra, and the best part of Armon, Jordan, will escape.
God said it.
There's a whole blueprint for everything in the last days.
God has a place for Israel.
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God has a place for his people.
Isaiah 26:20.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee.
Hide thyselves, if it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpassed.
For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain.
Look at Isaiah 27, verse 27.
In that day, the Lord, with his sore and great and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan.
Anybody been in my Leviathan classes?
Well, you ought to study Leviathan.
Leviathan is a prophetic word for now.
Over in Job, it's all about, there's a whole chapter on Leviathan, a twisted serpent.
Talks all about the devil, this great, he makes things bigger than they are.
He makes a lie.
He twists your words.
The Leviathan spirit is in the world right now.
Can you understand it?
You may say something and somebody hears something else and comes back like all fury at you.
What is that?
That's the Leviathan spirit.
It's a twisting spirit.
It's an evil spirit.
It's a perverted spirit that turns good into evil.
And that spirit's alive right now.
That's a spirit that's trying to affect your marriage and your home to make you fight over nothingness.
It's a twisted spirit.
That's Leviathan.
In that day, the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan, the piercing serpent.
Even Leviathan, that crooked serpent.
And he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
I've got to close.
Hurry.
Go back to Revelation 12:15.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman.
Who's the woman?
So the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood.
Now, water in the Bible is usually means people.
Prophetically, in a dream, it usually means a lot of people and a multitude.
So this could be that armies go after Israel when they go to hide.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood.
I mean, he's a lying devil.
So out of his mouth would be a flood of lies as well.
So it's probably, I figure it's probably both.
It's probably armies and lies because he'll keep on lying until he's dead or down in the pit forever.
Revelation 12, 15.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
And the earth helped the woman.
And the earth opened her mouth.
Could this be an earthquake?
And swallowed up the flood, which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
So even if armies chase Israel as she's going to this hiding place, the earth will open up and swallow the armies.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, with Israel, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, those left, those who were born again, those who were the 144,000, those who the witnesses were out there preaching to, those evangelists we've already talked about in our other lessons.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
You tell me Jews aren't going to be saved?
That is as clear as clear can be right there.
The Antichrist turns now his anger on Christians, on the church.
The earth has opened its mouth before, folks.
You know, Numbers 16, 28.
So there's precedent for everything in the book of Revelation.
That's why Revelation is no longer a mystery to me.
It's still an awesome mystery kind of book, but I'm telling you, it's all clear.
You know, as you study, there's other parts of the Bible to find out, you know, as we just go back and forth.
And then, you know, the most wonderful compliment somebody gave me last week.
It said, Jim, you've made Revelation understandable to me.
And I hope so.
Study it.
Study to show yourself approval.
Even if you think I'm wrong, that should drive you more to study the word, okay?
Numbers 16:28.
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own mind.
If these men die, the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me.
But if the Lord maketh a new thing and the earth open her mouth, it's already happened before and swallow them up with all that appertains unto them, and they go down quick into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
I love that.
And it came to pass.
If the earth opens up and swallows them, you know God's man.
Get the picture?
That's what it says.
And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground cleaved asunder.
Oh, that's good, King James.
The ground opened up.
And as the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their gods, they all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the congregation.
And all Israel that were around about them fled at the cry of them, for they said, lest the earth swallow us up also.
And there came out a fire from the Lord and consumed the 250 men that offered incense.
God got mad.
You think God's mad there?
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Our next lesson, we're going to meet the beast, the devil, the Antichrist.
I did a study on the Antichrist two years ago, and God said, don't teach it.
I was ready.
I was preaching on the, when God gave me 31 things that were going to happen in the last days, and he showed me 9-11, showed me two years before it happened, showed me the explosion in New York, the explosion in D.C., and I preached it.
It's on record.
It's on tape.
It's written down.
And showed me all these things that are about to happen on the earth.
And on the third lesson, see, I believe the Antichrist is alive right now.
And God showed me revolutionary things about the Antichrist.
I just took every word about the Antichrist and studied it.
And a lot of what's being taught by the Antichrist, I can't figure out where these preachers are getting it from.
You know, and we have quite a study coming up next week.
I believe you better know who he is, not by name, but what he's all about.
You need to study it.
The Bible's given us a clear pattern of these things.
And what he does, he will be the most brilliant, charming, charismatic leader the world has ever known.
You think of the most charming person, the Ronald Reagan.
He was charming.
You think of all, think of, and just multiply it a hundred times.
Thinking of men who can charm people.
You know, somebody said, Clinton.
He's going to, he's, you know, President Clinton is a schoolboy compared to the Antichrist.
You aren't charmed by President Clinton, I got to tell.
Just when I mentioned his name, you weren't charmed.
And so, sure, he's charming, but this Antichrist is brilliant.
He brings peace and safety.
He'll put people together that hate each other.
I believe he will cause the Jew and the Arab to unite to allow the temple to be built next to the dome of the rock.
And we studied that earlier last week, and it's pretty clear.
Add the power then when this big fight takes place in the heavenlies, we just studied.
Satan comes to earth.
How many know Satan doesn't have a body?
Angels and demons, you know, demons go in to possess you because they don't have a body.
Satan, when he's cast down to earth, he's looking for a body.
He enters the Antichrist.
So you take the most charming man that man has ever seen, ever heard, silver-tongued orator, and then you add all the powers of Satan.
You add his ability to do wonders inside.
There's satanic powers.
Don't play with the devil.
Don't give him any place.
Have you ever heard a demon talk through somebody?
It's real.
The Bible warns that in the last day there will be devils working miracles.
This man will work miracles.
And then he's going to die.
I don't want to get in the next week.
I'm stopping now.
But he dies and comes back to life.
What do you think that will do?
All the charismatics are going to believe in the Antichrist, probably.
Because we're set up to love miracles.
We love miracles more than we love Jesus.
I know people that go to miracle meetings and they don't know God from a being.
They don't know nothing about God.
All they want is healing.
All they want is signs and wonders.
All they want is miracles.
I'm telling you, the devil is going to give you all the miracles that you can handle.
We must fall in love with Jesus.
Not with man, not with miracles, not with signs and wonders.
I believe today many churches are more ready for the Antichrist than they are Jesus Christ.
Because he will be a man of the flesh, and we have been preaching lust in flesh and the things of the world in our pulpits.
And we've got to get back to humility and brokenness.
The only way we're going to survive is the true body of Christ loving one another.
And I mean, when this happens, what we just talked about, the devil is going to tear things up.
And when the devil tears things up, you better know all about the Bible, all about the sure word.
And you have that sure foundation.
Father, bless everyone that's heard this message today, I pray.
In the name of Jesus.
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