REACTION: Pastor John Hagee Reveals: Why Study Biblical Prophecy?

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Hello everyone, I'm James Lasher with Charisma Media, and today we're doing something a little

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different than what we usually do, you know, making a video giving you the news.

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Today we are going to react to one of the most influential and just spirit-filled pro-Israel

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pastors of the last century.

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We're going to be taking a look at Pastor John Hagee and why biblical prophecy is so

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important.

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He is part of Pastor Jensen's Signs of the Times series, which they started this before

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the massacre occurred in Israel, having no idea what was going to take place in the middle

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of this series, which eventually led to revival services kicking off at Free Chapel in Gainesville,

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Georgia, with evangelist Perry Stone, who was closing out the Signs of the Times series.

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And with the war going on in Israel, everything that's happening in America within the church,

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the apostasy that's going on, the coming to fruition of the words of Jesus in Matthew

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24, the book of Revelation, the book of Ezekiel, now you've got so many people around the world

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talking about Gog and Magog with Russia up north.

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Few sources are as trustworthy as Pastor John Hagee.

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So I'm going to play a clip from his sermon on the Signs of the Times where he addresses

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just why biblical prophecy is so important, especially for the days that we live in.

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So let's take a look at what Pastor Hagee has to say.

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The question is asked, Pastor Hagee, why should I study prophecy?

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First, approximately one-fourth of the Bible was prophetic when it was written.

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The God of heaven wanted you to know something about this subject.

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It certainly behooves every believer to study it to know exactly what God has planned for

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our future.

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It was written by the Holy Spirit, so obviously He knows more than we.

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Secondly, we should study prophecy because the word of God declares that Bible prophecy

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is absolutely accurate.

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The text confirms the absolute accuracy of prophecy.

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Focus on the phrase, we have a more sure word of prophecy.

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More sure than what?

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Peter is saying we were eyewitnesses of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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In the court of law, the eyewitness is the highest standard of accuracy possible.

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So St. Peter is saying we the disciples are the eyewitnesses of the resurrection of Jesus

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Christ, we were not deceived by fables, but we saw Him.

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We are eyewitnesses of it.

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So we have a more sure word of prophecy, which is greater in accuracy than the eyewitness

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account.

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Peter continues saying the prophetic word is the light that shines in a dark place.

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A dark place is a place where you can't clearly see the future.

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And he's exactly right here.

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We're going to just pause a moment, this is a react video.

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And so many people are confused about what's going on in the world.

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You've got Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Hamas, Hezbollah, the US, France, the UK.

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In case you didn't know, those countries have warships in the Mediterranean as well.

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Healthy rebels in Yemen.

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So many countries in the world to include Russia and China.

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People don't know what's going on.

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That is, Pastor Hagee said the word of God is accurate, infinitely so.

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When you want to understand what is happening in today's world to give you the most in-depth

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and accurate context about what is taking place.

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And bear in mind, the focus of the end times is Israel.

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And if you want to kind of narrow it down even further than that, look towards Jerusalem,

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the city of David.

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And he is 100% correct if you are confused, if you're fearful, if you're anxious, if you

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just want to know, God, just put on my heart, tell me what is happening.

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He's told us, he has told us already what is going to happen and what to look for.

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Look for the signs of the times of the return of Jesus Christ.

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And it's in the Bible.

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Let's continue.

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No one can see the future for America.

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We are stumbling in the darkness.

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We have lost our moral compass.

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A dark place is a place of moral corruption and political corruption.

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And brother, that's the beat of the American heart right now.

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Never in the history of our great nation have we had such absolute immoral corruption in

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our government combined with pathetic and incompetent leadership.

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Amen to that.

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And if you are of the belief that says pastors should not get political, well, Pastor Hagee

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is proving you wrong right now.

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What he said really isn't even political.

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It is calling out the moral corruption, the moral bankruptcy of America, which did not

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start with the current administration.

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This has been going on for decades.

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If you even want to go back as far as when they removed the Ten Commandments from schools,

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they removed prayer from schools, they removed God from government, and it has only gotten

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worse progressively worse over the decades.

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This is what he is.

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And in calling out the current administration for their moral failings, their failings of

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being the leadership in America, that is the job of a pastor.

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Do you know why we're in the situation we're in?

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Because pastors haven't been doing it, they've been playing it safe.

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They've been trying to appease everyone.

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Well guess what?

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The Word of God says the world is going to hate you when you preach the name of Jesus,

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but that it hated Jesus first.

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So you're going to make enemies.

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They don't have to be your enemies, but people are going to hate you.

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And you obviously as Christians, we are not to hate them back.

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We're supposed to love them with the love that is only possible by when we accept Jesus

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Christ and we have the Holy Spirit living in us and the fruit of the Spirit is made

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manifest in us.

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But what Pastor John Hagee is doing is necessary.

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We need Christians active in all arenas of society.

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When we don't, we get the situation that we're in where conservative voices, Christian voices,

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many voices that run counter to the Marxist narrative, which isn't in and of itself an

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anti-God narrative because Karl Marx himself was an avowed atheist who had no respect for

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religion and that is the very foundation of what these Marxist ideologies such as socialism

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and communism are, is you have to remove and destroy the religious foundation of a culture

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and instead replace it with the government and government run institutions, which is

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exactly what America is going through right now.

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Let's see what else he has to say.

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And I'll join that break for pause, Pastor Hagee.

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Incompetent is never have roving gangs of anarchists burned down our cities.

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Never have policemen been mocked, shot and murdered in our streets.

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Never have the public school systems abandoned the Ten Commandments while socialist teachers

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unions are brainwashing your children with the madness that they can become a transsexual

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person.

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Yep.

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That's exactly what they're doing.

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Look at education.

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Tick tock.

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It is a cesspool.

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Let me say it clearly.

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When you were born, you were born to be a man or a woman.

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That's it.

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Binary, not fluid.

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Anything else is demonized madness and we the people should stand up and demand morality

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in our government.

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That is a great call to action for all Christians.

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We can't be passive anymore.

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We need to act out.

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In the history of this nation, have we had a president and his son who were under the

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influence of a foreign country committed to America's destruction?

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Our forefathers called this treason.

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We have a hard time in Washington these days saying plain words.

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Treason.

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I don't believe any politician can save America.

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There must be a return to righteousness before this nation will be saved.

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And it starts with repentance as a nation.

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The Bible says righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

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The Bible says let God arise and let his enemies be scattered.

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Some Christians have been intimidated by the people who run the media because they don't

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want to be offensive.

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They don't want to be attacked.

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They don't want to be questioned.

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They'd just rather quietly sneak off in the corner and worship Jesus.

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It's time for the church to roar like a lion.

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We are the church victorious in Jesus' name.

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I just feel like when you look at how the American church specifically, I'm going to

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address the American church, we've lost that.

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We act cowardly at times and we look to appease man, which goes completely contrary to what

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the word of God says.

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We are to appease and worship and praise and obey the tenets of God, not man.

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When we react in fear and we, oh, we don't want to offend you, forget that.

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You're going to be not offended, but people will be convicted by the Holy Spirit when

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they are confronted with their sin.

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Case in point, and this is not exactly a Christian organization that did it, but look at what

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the social media platform Libs of TikTok did.

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All they did was hold up videos and put a mirror in front of what the radical left is

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doing.

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And it has one, it's, they've built a huge platform of it because people are seeing the

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hypocrisy and the evil that has flooded a lot of into the public school system, into

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the government, into our culture.

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And that's all they do.

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They post videos that leftists are posting themselves and they reshare it.

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And it has driven the left mad.

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They have gotten death threats.

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They have been labeled radicals.

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Why?

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They're just showing you or they're showing the public what these people actually believe.

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And it is an anti-God, as Pastor Hagee said, demonically driven agenda.

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It is not of God.

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And so if it's not of God, what is of the world and who is the ruler of the world in

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this day and age?

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Satan.

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So take that for what it is, but we need not just pastors, but ministry leaders, Christians,

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Christian leaders, or just all Christians, not just the leadership to have this boldness

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that Pastor Hagee has that I just love listening to.

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We need that boldness back, the boldness that Jesus displayed going into a town he knew

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would crucify him, the boldness of Paul to go out into all the world knowing that he

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was going to be persecuted and did endure that persecution almost unto death.

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We need that boldness back and to preach it in love.

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This isn't preaching to own the libs or put people in the...

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It's to share the saving knowledge and grace of Jesus Christ.

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If these people are having an identity crisis about their gender or their sexuality or who

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they are, their identity is found in Jesus and only Jesus Christ.

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I love me some Pastor John Hagee.

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We should study Bible prophecy because it reveals the power and the wisdom of God to

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absolutely control the future.

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Consider the birth of the nation of Israel.

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A major prophet in the Old Testament prophesied that God was going to bring Israel back, but

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then there's a prophet that did even further than that.

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Israel is God's prophetic clock.

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When the Jewish people are in Israel, the clock is running.

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When the Jewish people are out of Israel, the clock is stopped.

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So historically, let me phrase that.

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When the Roman army under General Titus surrounded Jerusalem in 70 AD, they besieged the city

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of Jerusalem and one million people starved to death.

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In addition, Titus took 70,000 Jewish men as slaves to Rome to build the Colosseum where

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gladiators fought for their lives and Christians were devoured by lions.

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The prophetic clock stopped and did not start again until May 14, 1948 when the nation Israel

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was reborn in a day, fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah in chapter 66 saying, a nation shall

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be born in one day.

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That nation was Israel.

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It was the greatest miracle since the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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And what has happened since the rebirth, if you will, even though Israel was never destroyed,

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it was displaced.

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The people of Israel were never destroyed.

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They were never wiped off the face of the earth.

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And what has happened since the Lord restored his people?

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They have been under nothing but constant threat and constant attack.

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Each and every decade, they are still being, the forces surrounding them are trying to

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eradicate the Israeli people, the Israeli nation, because this war is not just about

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the land, the promised land given to Israel in the Abrahamic covenant, given between God

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and Abraham saying where his descendants would grow and prosper, this is a spiritual war.

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This is, some would call it a religious war, Judaism and Christianity kind of on the same

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side together, even though I know some of the more ultra-orthodox Jews don't view it

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that way and we understand, versus Islam.

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Judaism versus Islam, but it's more than that.

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It's deeper than that.

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It is a spiritual war taking place with principalities like the Prince of Persia in that area seeking

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the destruction of Israel.

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But the prophet Hosea gives a prophecy that has specific dimension that you need to know.

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Hosea writes to the Jewish people in Hosea 6, come, let us return to the Lord, for he

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has torn us and he will heal us.

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Keep that phrase in mind.

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He has stricken us, but he will bind us up.

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And after two days, he will revive us and on the third day, listen, he will raise us

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up and we will live in his sight.

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If he lives in your sight, it means he's there.

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So put these prophecies together.

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The Bible says the day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as

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a day.

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So day one, starting from ADBC, AD from zero to a thousand, thousand years is day one.

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God disciplined Israel.

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The prophet said he has torn us.

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So what did God do to Israel in day one?

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They experienced the crusades.

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The Pope called for eight different crusades.

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A hundred thousand crusaders marched from Europe to Jerusalem with spears and seals

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and swords.

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And they killed Jews from Europe to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem back to Europe.

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Seven of those crusades.

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The first time they went into Jerusalem, they surrounded the synagogue, filled it with Jewish

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women and children and men, set it on fire.

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And while it was burning and they were screaming for their lives, the crusaders were singing

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Christ, we adore thee.

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It's history Christians don't know, but the Jews know it like John 3 16.

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So when you go to them and you tell them you want to tell them about Jesus, they look at

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you like you've got a deadly disease.

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That's why.

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Rightly so.

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The Bible says that a day with the Lord is a thousand years and as a thousand years is

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as the day with the Lord.

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He said on day two, he will revive us.

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So that takes us from 1000 to 2000.

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We get to 1470 with the Spanish Inquisition where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella kicked

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the Jewish people out of Spain that had been their home for a thousand years, but they

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kicked them out of Spain.

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They confiscated their properties and put that money in the coffers of the Roman church.

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32,000 died, being tortured because they would not convert to Catholicism.

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Then came the day of days in 1948 in the second day late in the afternoon Israel was reborn.

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Ben Gurion announced to the world that Israel after almost 2000 years had been reborn.

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On the third day, the prophet says we will live in his sight.

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On the third day, Christ has returned.

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The third day began at midnight on the year 2000.

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We are 23 years into the third day.

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I'm telling you very biblically factual that we are going to see Jesus face to face in

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the third day.

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Jesus will return and he could return before this day ends.

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Give the Lord praise in the house.

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I don't know about you, but that is just some in-depth analysis of biblical prophecy that

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you really don't get unless it's from somebody who has studied the Word of God as long and

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as faithfully as somebody like Pastor John Hagee has.

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Our days are quickening.

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All you have to do is read the Bible and then look at what is taking place in Israel through

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biblical context.

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They are surrounded by their enemies again, but this time is different.

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This isn't the 1930s and 40s in Germany.

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This isn't the Crusades where there wasn't a nation Israel.

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This isn't even the times of the Spanish acquisition where they were kicked out of Spain like Pastor

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Hagee shared to us.

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They are in their land.

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Just like during the time of King David, they are fighting to protect Israel in the land

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that God promised for them.

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So when you see these headlines, and many of them are very anti-Semitic, remember the

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New York Times published a story saying Israel had bombed a hospital which took them two

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weeks to recant that, look at it through the eyes of the Bible and realize there are forces

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out there who have a propaganda war going on against Israel as well.

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And this information is spreading at an incredible rate in this information age where the war

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is almost being live streamed across social media channels.

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To really understand what we are living in these days prior to Jesus' return, look at

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the words of Ezekiel.

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Look at the words of Jesus in Matthew 24.

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Read the book of Revelation.

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Read every book of the Bible, but there's only so many minutes of the day that you can't.

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But read these things and gain that understanding that only comes from reading the Word of God

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that was inspired by the Holy Spirit, and let the Holy Spirit teach you as you're gaining

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knowledge and wisdom of spending time in the Word of just what is God doing in this day

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and age?

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What is being prepared?

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I mean, there are groups who already have preparations for the third temple to be built

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in Jerusalem.

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The red heifers are starting to come of age.

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That's why people are putting so much emphasis and so much intrigue into, well, what's going

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on with these little cows that are going on?

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It's part of the biblical prophecy.

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Not a prophecy of today or anything.

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It's biblical prophecy.

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And Pastor Hagee just did an amazing job.

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We could do a whole series on what he spoke in one sermon of the importance of reading

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this biblical prophecy about the end times that we're in the preparation before the tribulation

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is going on.

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So many Christian leaders are trying to warn us.

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They're trying to say, read the Bible, read the scripture, prepare yourselves for what

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is coming, and equip yourselves with biblical knowledge and understanding because of what

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the Word says, this is coming to pass.

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And we're seeing it in our culture here in America.

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We're seeing it in Israel, and we're seeing it around the world.

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So please, take the time, make the time to have some time with God, and read the Word.

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You will only be better off for it.

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I'm James Lasher with Charisma Media.

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Have a blessed day.