Earth’s Final Days Arrive

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Matthew 24, this is the context of everything this week. This week is the big stuff, the prophetic stuff, the future. But how do we know God wants us to know the future? How do we know God has told us about the future? God is very precise. He spends 25 chapters describing the tabernacle. The tabernacle. Every board and socket and curtain and curtain hanger. And God goes through immense detail about creation and the flood and all those sacrifices. God is a God of precision and of detail. He does the same thing with the ending of the world. He gives us the most detailed account. So, Matthew 24 says this, then Jesus went out and departed from the temple and His disciples came to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them… Now isn’t this a great teacher lead in question? Jesus says to them, He asked a question as if He didn’t know the answer, but see He wanted them to start wondering. And so, He said to them, do you not see all these things? Assuredly I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down. That shocked, horrified, confounded His 12 disciples. In their day, there was nothing more amazing than Herod’s Temple. It’s still an engineering marvel, just the foundation of it.

And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, verse 3, His disciples came to Him privately. See, they, most people don’t want to appear to be dumb in public. And so, they didn’t want to ask that when anybody else was around. And they, when he was just, it was a private consultation. They said, tell us when will these things be and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the End of the Age? That is the question of this week. When is all that stuff going to happen and how will we know it’s happening and how will we know when the end is coming? And do You want us to know all that stuff? And Jesus launches into His second longest sermon. His first longest sermon was at the beginning of His ministry, and it was how to get into the Kingdom of God. We know it as the Sermon on the Mount. His second longest and final big sermon is about the end of the world. And what I wrote here, Earth’s final days arrive. And that’s all from the promises and prophecies of Christ that we’re going to see totally connect the Legos we talked about last week. They connect together with the book of Revelation.

But let’s pray. Dear Father, I pray that this hour will stir our hearts with what You, Lord Jesus, stirred in the disciples hearts. They just were shocked that You knew what they couldn’t even comprehend and You do know that and You do want us to know and I pray You’d help us along, that stirring of our hearts to Your handling of the future and explaining it to us. In Jesus name, amen.

Oh, here we go. Now this is what Jesus explained. I just read to you. What will be the sign? But then as soon as they asked, what will be the sign? What’s the first sign Jesus gives? It’s the biggest sign of the end of the world. It’s verse 4. Take heed that no one deceives you. That is the prime characteristic of the end of the world. And Jesus, what He gives is…

Basically I would describe Matthew 24 as someone with a drone following Jesus as He’s descending at the Second Coming. And they’re taking their drone and they’re going like this and they’re looking, what does the Earth look like as Jesus returns? That’s what Matthew 24 is. It’s a drone view of what’s going on the Earth as the king returns. And so, Jesus explains all that to us. He ties together all these different parts of the Bible.

Basically this, after this beginning list of signs, all of these are the beginning of sorrows. The Greek word odin, which means birth pains. Verse 33. So, you also, He’s talking to His disciples, when you see all these things know that it is near. What is near? The end of the world is near. At the door. It’s so close. It’s just outside. We have nice glass doors, and I can see all those cars out there and I can see skateboards and everything else from you all and they’re at the door. I can see them. That’s what He’s saying. Now look at verse 34. Assuredly, I say to you, this generation. What generation? The generation that sees verse 33, all these things will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Now look at all these things.

Now this is what’s so amazing. On the left side is the Olivet discourse. That’s what theologians call, and Bible teachers call Matthew Chapter 24, Olivet discourse. Look at the order. There’ll be false Christ. There’ll be war. There’ll be famine. There’ll be death. There’ll be martyrdom. There’ll be signs is added in Luke 21. Now look on the right. That’s Revelation, where we’re going this morning. What is the order of all the events coming in Revelation? First the white horse, which is the deception, which is the false christ, which is the rise of the beast, the rise of the Anti-christ. Then the red horse, which is war. The black horse, which is starvation, like famine. The pale horse, remember, Clorox, green, like gangrene. That’s death. Then martyrdom, which is what Jesus talked about. We see them in the fifth seal, the martyrs under the throne. And then what Jesus said in the same sermon in Luke 21, we see in the sixth seal.

What’s amazing is the book of Matthew, where Jesus introduces His plan for the kingdom, and what He says right in the middle of it, the Sermon on the Mount is Matthew 5, 6, and 7. What does He say in chapter 6? What are we supposed to pray constantly? Thy kingdom come. Now, Martin Luther, I told you that last week called that the terrible petition because it’s an invitation for God to come and rule, not just the world, but me. And if God has enough power to rule the whole world, just think what he can do with me. So, Jesus introduced the future with the Thy kingdom come stuff. Then He outlines it. In Matthew 24, that I just read to you all these signs, but you know what everyone likes? They like the pictures. The pictures are in Revelation. The illustration of everything Jesus taught about, it’s illustrated in Revelation’s seven key events we’ve been looking at.

Now if I was to summarize everything Jesus said, it would be all the stuff in the white. This is the drone view of the end of the world. And basically, what we have is deception. I told you that was first and all those white references are about deception. Lawlessness, war, and murder, that’s another characteristic. Food scarcity and water scarcity, another characteristic. It’s fascinating right now in the biggest growing countries in the world to increase crops and to reduce pest damage, locusts and ants and larva they’ve got genetically modified seeds. And what those seeds are, they produce things that bugs don’t like. They produce these vibrant, very productive plants that don’t get eaten up by worms and caterpillars and bugs and everything. But guess what? In the genetic modifications, you can’t plant the seed from the crop you had to have another crop. It’s a marketing thing. You must buy new seeds every year from Monsanto or whoever made your seeds. Now that’s really good because it’s increasing everybody’s crops. The same acre grows a third or a half more crop than ever before, but you have to buy your seed from me, the seller, every year. Guess what that means? If there’s ever one hitch in the supply train, what happens to next year’s crops if you can’t get this year’s seeds from your own crop, you got to buy them. What if there’s any disruption like going on right now in the Red Sea where the Houthis are stopping all those boats, and they have to go all the way around the bottom of Africa and up all the way around. They can’t, or they have to go all the way, there, they have to go either way around Africa. They can’t go through the Suez and that’s disrupting everything. It’s adding five weeks to every shipment or six weeks. More than that, it’s adding $5,000 or $6,000 per, big semi load, the container. So basically what this is shaping up to is part of our food scarcity. There’s something that happens during the Tribulation where food can’t be grown, and people start starving. And just one thing that we see right now would be all those seeds to not get sent out.

Water scarcity, you all know about that, you read about it. Pandemics, I mean we had a four year lesson in pandemics, okay. How many people died in COVID? 1. 1 million people died in COVID. Do any of you remember COVID? Did it affect the world? Did it affect you? In fact, I’ve heard you’re the first group, that you were what, freshman in high school when COVID started in 2020. Demographically, you’re very special. God already thought you were special, but sociologists think you’re special too. So, you’re special. But guess what? 1. 1 million. How many died during the Tribulation? 4. 4 billion. Think of everything you remember about COVID and multiply it 4,400 times. That means every dollar’s $4,400. That’s a lot. Every dollar in your pocket, if I multiply it by 4,400, it’s $4,400. Every person that died in Covid, 4,400 times more will die in the Tribulation. It’s big. And when Jesus said pandemics, He meant pandemics.

Universal, here’s the fifth one, universal hatred of God and His people. Quakes and seismic activity. Global fires. Did you remember the fires in Australia two years ago where 3 billion animals were driven out of the…, it was horrible seeing all those kangaroos running for their lives, and from the wildfires. It’s not just going to be in Australia. It’s going to be global fires, global smoke. Were any of you living anywhere where the Canadian smoke hit? Where we lived in Colorado, the sky turned orange, the air turned brown because it was burning in, I don’t even know the provinces of Canada, there’s British Columbia and then I think it’s Saskatchewan then, I don’t know, Manitoba, I don’t know them, but Alberta is up there somewhere, but up there it was burning and it was coming right down to Colorado, what’s up there. [Student sharing the smoke was visible in the air in Florida] All the way in Florida. So, any of you that were here, you saw it. The whole world is going to be smoky. So that when you look up at the sun, it looks black. When you look at the moon, it’s going to look red, and it’s going to be a perpetual gloomy time. Then there’s going to be solar flares and Near Earth Objects. That’s what they call asteroids hitting us and everything. Weather disasters, ocean death, hurricanes. Ah, now that’s something Florida knows about. Hurricanes are coming and typhoons. And then not mentioned in the Gospels are the demonic alien invaders. We’ll see those this morning, the last hour and the rise of the dragon, the beast and the prophet.

Now all of that is given to us in the Bible in the context of seven events. And this is the kind of the framework of the book of Revelation and of this course. Last week we saw the Church on Earth, chapters 1-3. Then we ended last week with the Church in Heaven, chapters 4 and 5 and the first 10 verses of chapter 19. Now this morning we’re looking at that big red block the Tribulation, which by the way, do you know what it’s called in the Old Testament? The times of Jacob’s troubles. That’s a weird name. Jacob who? You know what I mean? Jacob as in, aka Israel. Remember Jacob was renamed by God from Jacob the deceiver, to Israel. The promise of God the promised one of God. So, Jacob becomes Israel and it’s the time of Jacob or Israel’s troubles. The whole Tribulation is about Israel. Armageddon is completely about Israel. The goal of the Anti-christ is to exterminate Israel.

Guess what? The protests, this morning, at Columbia University in New York, at Yale University, at every university almost in the country, all of those protests are against whom? Israel. We now have almost, everybody your age is marching in protest of Israel. Get used to it. The Bible says it’s not going to be the 19 year olds. It’s going to be everyone. That’s Satan’s goal, to get everyone to hate Israel. Do you think he’s succeeding? The largest rally in history, in January of this year, was in Washington, DC. They only counted 400,000 people. There were many more protesting the existence of Israel. In Washington D. C. this year, they’ve never seen a crowd like that. It scared the establishment how deeply this is in the hearts of people.

Christ returns. That’s the middle, the white. That He reigns on Earth for a thousand years, that’s called the Millennium. The return of Christ is called the Return of the King. There’s a rebellion. The Great White Throne, that’s the sixth one. And then the yellow is Heaven.

So basically, when Jesus described in Matthew 24 the end, He called it birth pains. What does that mean? Birth pains are more visible, more frequent, more intense, and with deeper impact. That’s what a birth pain idea is. So basically, what’s going to happen?

Deception is going to get more believable. Diseases are going to get more lethal. Naegleria fowleri. You ever heard of it? It’s what a man in Tampa, Florida, last year during this class, taken a shower, went like this, and let the water come on. The water went, and he went like this, and he washed his eyelashes, then he washed his nose, and the water went up his nose, and with the water went, naegleria fowleri. What’s that? It’s called the brain, eating amoeba. That’s Tampa. Do you know where Tampa is? There in the water of Tampa? At that moment, that amoeba was residing, and he got it up his nose. It was last year it was scaring everybody this year. Nobody remembers it. That was what? Last year.

Pandemics are going to get more lethal. The disease is global warming. It’s going to get deadlier. Water shortages are going to get wider. If it hadn’t been such a bumper crop, stormy, rainy winter, we would be hearing about California right now, but they were running out of water last year, but now they have too much water. There’s going to be food scarcity.

There’s going to be bigger and deadlier conflicts. Now I don’t even need to describe that. We’re seeing it. Everybody’s tied up with that right now. There’s going to be more hatred for Christ. That’s going to get more personal. You understand pretty soon they’re going to not only be opposed to Israel, but to anybody that thinks there’s anything good about Israel. And guess what? Just think of our predicament. Where are we going? What’s Heaven called? What does God call Heaven? The new, what? Jerusalem. What are the twelve gates? The only way to get into Jerusalem? The twelve tribes of Israel. Every book in the Bible you’re holding was written by a Jewish person. Except for a little tiny bit written by Nebuchadnezzar, and a little tiny bit, written by a few other people that are quoted, but all the rest of it were written by Jewish people. So, you believe in a Jewish authored Bible. Even the apostles were Jewish. What’s worse than that? Who are you trusting in to save you? The King of the Jews. The son of David. Jesus, what’s His second name? Christ. What does that mean? Messiah. That’s Jewish.

You understand, pretty soon all the people that are rioting right now at Columbia and Yale and every other school, Harvard and everywhere else, in New York this morning the NYPD, a hundred of them, ran in with zip ties on their wrists, zip tying all the protesters that were protesting Israel. So, New York is arresting them, saying you can’t protest Israel violently. Guess what? The tide is going to turn and it’s no longer going to be arrestable. Everyone’s going to be protesting Israel. Then they’re going to say, you’re a Jew lover. You have a Jewish holy book. You want to go to New Jerusalem. You understand what I mean? The connection? Jesus said, they hate Me, they’re going to hate you too. And that’s what we see. Global hatred for Christ is going to get more personal because Christians are little Christs and that’s what you and I are going to be guilty of, being little Christ’s and global tracking is going to get more complete.

So, let’s talk about some of the trends. The only Old Testament prophet Jesus quotes by name when He’s talking about the future is Daniel. What did Daniel say about the future? I’ll read it to you. But you, Daniel, shut up the Word, seal the book to the end. Time of the End. What’s the Time of the End going to be like? Look at the red. Many shall run to and fro. Wow. Let’s talk about that.

3,000 years ago, Jonah got into a boat that was wooden, had a sail, and it went by wind power. 2,000 years later, Paul got on a similar boat and did all of his missionary travels. 500 years ago, Christopher Columbus did the same thing, very similar boat. 250 years ago, Ben Franklin got on exactly the same kind of boat. A wooden boat with sails. Not much change for 3,000 years. And then 200 years ago, the steam engine was developed greatly in New York, by the way. Then quickly, in 100 years, we went from steam engines, to cars, to planes, to rockets. And last year, 4 billion people flew. Isn’t that unbelievable? Do you know how the Bible describes that? Many will run to and fro. Right now, you can get a scheduled flight to almost any place on the planet. They’ve started service to Antarctica. Can you believe it if any of you want to go there? They’re actually, they built an airstrip, and big jets can land in Antarctica. So, you can add that to your bucket list.

The second thing Daniel said is, the sign at the end is, knowledge shall increase. Now I love this. I carry a wonderful technological marvel in my pocket. This is the description. By the way, this is the 14, not whatever we’re on now. My phone, as Apple describes it, has a camera. I’m only talking about that part right there. That little square on the back. A camera powered by a chip with 11.8 billion transistors in a 16 core neural engine capable, now here’s the key, of 11 trillion operations per second. Do you know what that’s called in technical terms? Teraflops. That’s the term, a teraflop. That’s a trillion operations per second. So, I’ve got 11 teraflops. From my perspective, just for you to understand, just about when you were born, what happens with just this part of my iPhone took something half the size of this auditorium, a computer. It was called, institutional computing. And by the way it was only done by building size government funded computers in Japan, the USA, and the EU. They’re the only ones that could do teraflop calculations. That’s what they did so they didn’t have to explode atomic bombs. They did a computer model of the explosion. That’s what they do for weather forecasting. It just is huge computing. Now that we’ve got teraflop architecture in our phones, look what we can do.

Here’s an article from the Washington Post, AI hustlers stole women’s faces and put them in ads and the law can’t help them. Now here’s the article, I put it in yellow. With just a few seconds of footage, scammers can now combine video and audio using tools from companies like HeyGen and Eleven Labs to generate a synthetic version of a real person’s voice They swap out the sound on an existing video. So, they just get any seconds of anybody they want in video. They swap the sound out with what they want, and they can animate the speaker’s lips. Now, that’s easy, that’s been around for quite a while. They use it to correct, in fact they use it to correct my mistakes. You know I’ll get excited, and I’ll be thinking about the next point and say, in John 3:18, What did I mean? John 3 what? 16. But I’m thinking of something else. So with just a simple program, it’s called Descript, you can type into the manuscript the transcription of me saying 18, just erase it and write 16, and that program generates an AI voice that says 16, and it moves my mouth to say 16 instead of 18. You understand? That’s simple and it’s a free program.

So look what happens. They can make doctored results look absolutely believable. Now what they’re doing is they’re taking all the known recordings of famous people and they’re animating them, and they can have those famous people say almost anything. They’re already doing it with Narendra Modi. You guys know the president of the largest democracy in the world. Modi, head of India. Of course, you know Modi. Do you know what? They just made an AI generated political ad of him saying exactly what his opposition wants him to say. And it’s becoming, because they’re right in the middle of an election, the largest election on Earth going on right now. And it’s causing… it’s terrible. Look what the Bible says, Matthew 24:24, total deception is coming to the world.

How will you like it when you can’t believe anything on television or on the Internet? You already probably have a suspicion. How would you like it when you don’t know whether anybody says anything they’re saying because you can see them, you can see videos of them, you can listen to audios of them, but you don’t know if HeyGen, and Eleven Labs has altered and doctored and synthesized their voice. It’s very interesting to think what’s coming.

This is what Jesus said is coming, false christ and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. When you add the current AI deception with Satan’s powers, what can Satan do? He’s called the prince of the power of the what? Air. Any of you know that? That’s a verse Paul said in Ephesians. Prince of the power of the air. What does he do in the book of Job? He can make lightning hit specific people and burn them up. In the book of Job, he burns up… Satan, burns up Job’s flocks and the ones tending his flock. Now that’s pretty powerful if you can call down fire from Heaven, that’s what lightning is, fire. Guess what the Anti-christ’s false prophet can do? The false prophet proves the Anti-christ is the real Christ, stands next to him, so there’s the Anti-christ, here’s his false prophet, and he says, watch. And he goes like that, and as he goes like that, it’s like Thor. Remember with his hammer and the lightning and everything?

Only it’s not in a Marvel studio. The false prophet can at will call down lightning from Heaven. At will, whenever you ask. Now is that convincing or what? Very convincing. What else could Satan do? All of Job’s kids, his 10 children, were in one of their houses, having a dinner with the family. Satan sent a tornado out of the wilderness and completely killed them by smashing the house on top of them and twisting it around and destroyed all of Job’s children. Satan can control the weather. He can control lightning. That’s just one dimension as, what’s he called? The God of this world. See we don’t even think about that. In fact, you’ll think a lot more about that in two hours. When we go through angels and demons.

He’s not worried about lightning and everybody and tornadoing everybody. He’s interested, look at 24:24 that on the right, total deception. He’s going to get false teachers, false prophets, and he’s going to empower them to convince the world away from the Bible, away from God, and to him. What did Paul say in Acts 17:11? The only thing you can trust are the Scriptures. These were more fair, these are the Bereans, than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word of God with all readiness and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether those things were right. What did Paul say in 21? Test all things. Hold fast to that, which is good.

The third thing is there’s going to be an explosion of global weather gone wild. Look what Jesus said in the red. On the earth, distress of nations, perplexity, the sea and the waves are going to be roaring, and people’s hearts are going to fail them from fear and expectation of everything coming.

This is the NOAA, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States, which keeps track. America has trillions of dollars at work all over the world and they have weather stations everywhere in America and all over the world, too. And they’re measuring weather everywhere, from the top of, and bottom, and they analyze everybody’s weather. In February, if you can see that, Europe, the Arctic, North America, the contiguous U. S., Australia, Oceania, all of the areas of the world, experienced either the first, second, or third highest in recorded history. What’s recorded history? Since 1850. We didn’t start keeping records of weather, daily records, till 1850. We’ve blown all of those right now.

Here’s what the NOAA satellite saw. Now watch this. This is just one storm. Bonnie and I drove through it. We were on our way to a Word of Life board meeting, and we were coming from Colorado, and that storm was just in front of us, and it went from Nebraska, Iowa, into Illinois and went up and swept up into Michigan. And you know what it did? Millions of acres of corn and soybeans across central Iowa and the rest. That was one little storm. The sparkly stuff are lightning strikes. Now just wait until you’re on your phone, and you’re seeing basically, a day after tomorrow end of the world video, and it’s happening. And you’re seeing tidal waves and tsunamis and this kind of stuff. That’s what Jesus said the end of the world is going to be like. People are going to see it, and it’s going to scare them. Actually, the Greek word in Luke 21 is their hearts failing them from fear. The Greek word is apopsycho. Apo is a preposition that means out of. Psycho is like psychology and psychiatry and all that stuff. It means the life force within someone. Psyche. The psyche, their life, pops out of them. You know what we call that? Heart failure because of the weather.

Number four, explosion of global communications. It says in Revelation 11, which we’ll cover Lord willing tomorrow. Those from all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations are going to see. Those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see the dead bodies of the two witnesses. They’ll see them. Really. When that was written by John in the Roman Empire, the Roman emperor died and the people that lived on the furthest fringes of the empire didn’t know about it for three to six months. The emperor died. They didn’t know about it, why? Because news traveled at the speed of horse, or the speed of wind, or the speed of paddle, or the speed of walking. That’s how fast news went. Now, it says in the, Revelation 11, people will see it. How are they going to see it?

Look at this. You’re the only generation that’s ever known something like this. This was yesterday afternoon at 4:30 PM. You can go to Facebook and there’s a map they generate of everyone that’s broadcasting Facebook live and everybody that’s watching the broadcast of Facebook live. All of the green ones are the broadcasters, and the purple ones are the watchers. That’s just about everybody. That’s 3 billion people. Wow.

Now look what’s added to that. The headlines call them terrifying. Those moving dots are the current 6,800 Starlink satellites that Elon Musk has launched. Within the next five years, that’s going to 42,000 satellites. They are cell tower replacement satellites. Your cell phone will work every day. Anywhere on a boat, skiing on top of Mount Everest, Kalahari Desert, you don’t need a cell tower anymore when he gets done. You talk about explosion of communications.

Now, pandemics, the Bible in Luke 21 calls it pestilences. There’s our bad guy, naegleria fowleri, and that was on March 2nd, 2023. The poor man died from getting water up his nose. It was actually, it was in Fort Myers, so it wasn’t Tampa. Sorry. Fort Myers. And it ate his brain. And I think 24 people have already gotten it this year, but you don’t hear much about it.

I bet you haven’t heard about this, bird flu researchers sound the alarm that the new pandemic could be a hundred times worse than COVID, what is it? It’s an avian influenza that has gone from avians, that’s birds, to mammals, that’s cows. And guess what? The person taking care of the cows got it from the cows. That’s what the right hand article is about. It’s the first time in history of humanity that a human got the bird flu from a mammal. Now people over in China get it from the ducks that work in the poultry farms. They get the avian, that’s what the whole avian flu thing is. They’ve never had a mammal transmitted to a mammal.

Basically, pandemics have been mapped. These are all the pandemics from the Antonine Plague in 165 A. D. And the size of the little pathogen shows how many people died. And look there, I added, see the yellow with the arrow? That’s COVID compared to all the other deaths. Look at the big one on the left. The Black Death from the, you’ve all heard of the bubonic plague, 1347 to 1351, killed 200 million people, 200 times more than COVID, but look under death tolls. Tribulation death tolls will be 20 times the Black Death toll, which decimated Europe by the way, and 4,000 plus times COVID’s death rate, wow.

How about the explosion? This is something else that Jesus tells us that the Anti-christ causes all both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave to receive a mark on the right hand or their foreheads. And no one can buy or sell except the one who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number. You know what everybody’s focused on since I was a little boy. I remember when Tim, Left Behind LaHaye and what was his name that wrote The Late Great Planet Earth? Hal Lindsey, there we go. Thanks John. Hal Lindsey wrote that, and people started really getting saved because they realized that the Bible was coming true. Israel was born as a nation, and all the wars were happening. I remember when they started talking about, is this going to be a barcode on their foreheads or here? No, it’s going to be an implanted microchip. No, it’s going to be their social security number. Do you know what I saw in this whole verse is the last red word? To make this work, something has to happen to our money. This is my wallet where I keep my Gospel tracts. It also has this archaic paper with ink on it that I can trade for anything called money. As long as I have this in my pocket, I’m very free. But when I can only deal with money digitally, whoever controls the digital usage of the money is going to control the world. You’re the only generation that money has been digitalized. There is not paper money for America’s, what are we up to? $30, $40 trillion, $50 trillion, $100 trillion dollars? $100 trillion dollars would stretch to the moon and back I don’t know how many times. Not end to end, I mean stacked up this way. Trillions are big numbers. There’s no paper money for all the wealth of America, it’s all digital. The wealthiest people have very little cash. It’s all digital money that’s zeros and commas and dots, whoever controls that, controls the world.

Think about what 666 is. On their right hand are their foreheads. Look at this. This is what’s coming to every airport near you. A scanner that looks at your forehead, your eyes, your face, your… we’re all different! And facial recognition is unbelievable! You don’t even have to get a DNA sample. There’s such uniqueness. And if you use an algorithm, especially with AI, you can identify anybody.

That brings the business people into there. This is a satellite capable of spying on your every move. It’s set to launch in 2025. That satellite created by the startup company, Albedo, is so high quality it can zoom in on people, their license plates from space. It raises privacy concern among experts that it will create a big brother state always watching you. Albedo claims they will not have facial recognition on their satellite, and they will refrain from invading your privacy. Aren’t you comforted by them telling us that, right? Revelation 13 already tells us that the time is coming when no one can buy or sell, except having the mark of the beast.

The seventh trend that the drone is going to see at the return of Christ that Jesus wrote in Matthew 24. This is what He said, for then there will be great tribulation, such as not been since the beginning of the world up to this time, nor ever will be, and unless those days were shortened, look at this, no flesh would be saved. That means nobody would live. Think about when Jesus said that. How did you kill people back then? If they didn’t die of heart attacks or disease, you had to use a sword, however long swords are, and you had to get close enough to them to use the sword on them, and hope they would stand still so you could use the sword on them. Or, a spear. It’s longer, but it’s harder, if they’re moving, to get them. Or an arrow. But, have you ever even tried to get a deer with an arrow? Can you imagine a crowd? Or a slingshot. You understand what I mean? Or you’d catapult a boulder, but all they have to do is move, and the boulder would miss them. You understand, in Jesus time, it was very hard to kill people. Most people survived. They ran away, if they were smart. Jesus said there’s a time coming when no one would survive. We call that weapons of mass destruction.

Just look at this map, and it’s already old. These are the people that have the thermonuclear explosive atomic bombs. And they have a lot of them. These numbers are quite low. America, 6,550. We actually, America and Russia have about 30,000 each, but we’ve decommissioned them. That means they pulled out the firing pin. And guess what? You can put it back in.

We’re looking at events. I like this. It says the six events to World War III. Israel overreacts to what’s going on. The war spills into Lebanon, which, yesterday, Hezbollah launched 35 more missiles and injured some Israelis. So, Israel is saying they’re going to invade Lebanon. Syria and Russia team up against Israel. Iran kicks off another fight. So, the U S and the UK enter as combatants in the fight and Saudi Arabia is forced to come in. You have WWIII. Shaping up right there. But the right hand side is what’s really more interesting. At any moment, there are thousands of container ships on the surface of the Earth. They’re floating. It’s got all the food, and the toys, and the cars, and all the junk we buy are all in container ships.

Every container is the right size to have a single launchable missile. And there are millions and millions of these containers. And if you just have one ship that had one container put on top of the pile, that has a movable roof and a missile launcher in it, all you have to do is what you see there, launch. And Russia has a gazillion of these, and so does North Korea, and so does China, and so is Iran rapidly trying to get them, of course we have them too, in America, but one missile that’s launched to 200 miles, that has a, an atomic, low yield atomic bomb, just a few thousand kilotons, would make an electromagnetic pulse that would make your phone stop for at least six months, if not six years. That’s what it would do to America’s infrastructure. One of them. It’s the most deadly attack on America. You don’t have to blow everybody up. All you have to do is destroy the electric grid, the computers. That means all of your medical records, all the title deeds to everything, all of your money, all of your communication, just gone. Boy, would that cause heart attacks.

So that causes us to wonder, where is America in prophecy? If you really read the Bible, you don’t see the USA in any prophetic event in the future. So, what happens? Either we align into Anti-christ revived Roman Empire of the West, that’s most likely. The Roman Empire spread out, the last version of it was the British Empire and the U. S. is a piece of the British Empire. Or we implode financially. Are you reading about our national debt? The $34 trillion dollar debt bomb? Or we explode because Russia stops threatening and actually launches some of those Sarmat missiles at us. Most likely, we fade out under an EMP blackout strike from China, who would do it in a second. North Korea wants to do it. Russia could do it any time and threaten. Or Iran wishes they could do it. Or we just dry out and that drought that came two years ago, comes back.

Number eight, the global explosion of peace, prosperity, and materialism. Remember what Anti-christ comes in on, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, when they say peace and safety. Do you know, the Anti-christ comes, he doesn’t blow up the world, he brings peace. That’s why this whole thing going on with Iran and Israel is so interesting. Because it’s an intractable situation, it’s unsolvable by any way anybody can think, but the Anti-christ solves it.

One way he does is, you saw this on Google, this was a headline, Google AI is going to write news. Well, Satan is always there wanting to deceive. He’s got artificial intelligence now as another tool he can use for global deception.

And this is the whole world, the hundred trillion dollar world economy. America has about a third of it, and China has 20 percent of it, and everybody else has got the rest. But the right hand side says, if anything happens with that global debt America has, it’s going to shock the whole world. And most of the world is poor.

The richest 1 percent have half of everything. The next 19%, that’s basically Western Europe, and America, and the wealthies of Asia. That’s… one fifth of the world have 95 percent of all the money. And then the other 80 percent of the world, the other 6 point some billion, have only 5 percent of all the wealth. So, there’s going to be a great clamoring for wealth.

How about the explosion? Jesus said, on that day I’ll make Jerusalem a heavy stone. All the nations of the Earth will gather against it. That’s the rally in Washington DC in January. That’s 400,000 people, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protestors.

This is what the British paper, this is what they published. They said we’re on the edge of all-out war over this whole anti-Israeli thing.

The good news is, look how Jesus gives us the good news. And the Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. Jesus said in Mark 13:10 the Gospel will first be preached to all the nations.

This is the IMB map of the world you all seen this international mission board, Southern Baptist missions All the red dots are the unreached people groups Unreached means that they don’t have a Bible in their language, and there’s no one that speaks their language that knows Christ personally that can share the Gospel with them And so the IMB is commissioning everybody they can get their hands on working with Wycliffe and Franklin Graham and a lot of other missions and Word of Life’s involved, getting the Gospel to every one of those red dots. We know next hour, Lord willing, when we get there, the greatest evangelism event of all, it’s coming in Revelation 7, and we’ll talk about that.

But Jesus said, I want you to have hope because Earth’s final days arrive just when I planned them. And I have a purpose for you right now. And I’m going to keep you from the hour that’s going to trouble the whole world. But while you’re here, I want you to go into all the world and share the Gospel with everyone. And then you’re all going to get to come and stand in front of Me one by one, and I’m going to ask you, what did you do with your one and only very precious life I gave you? How did you invest that for Me? And that’s what prophecy teaches us.

Oh. We’re done. We’re not quite done. Two minutes early. Did I say anything so fast some of you are troubled and you want to ask a question? There we go. Yes ma’am. Doesn’t mean you’re troubled, if you have a question. [Student asked for a copy of the PowerPoint] Yes. There’s a website, it’s called DTBMA. It’s Discover the Book Ministry Academy, and every class not only has all the PowerPoints there, but there’s a transcript of everything I say. Do you ever notice I talk faster, and faster, and faster the closer it gets to the bell? Did any of you notice that? None of you notice that? I talk really fast. It’s all transcribed. Yeah, it’s DTBMA. com. You can find it. And all the slides are there, but they’re put with the transcript. So that when I talk about, Albedo or naegleria fowleri, you can actually see how it’s spelled. It’s right there. I used to send them to Word of Life, but by the time, I had to convert them to I don’t know what, to get them into your I don’t know what, and then they were like a hundred and billion gigabyte things, and so it took an hour, and Bonnie and I usually are in very remote places. One time it took a whole day to upload half of the slides but they’re at the Academy.