Critical Crucial Times

And when the time came, and people were really beginning to talk about maybe we're living in the end times, but actually what people were really saying, especially the five foolish virgins was back in Matthew 24, my Lord delays his coming. And hence they think, well, you know, when things get bad enough, I'm going to turn to God. If things get bad enough, and if I can see some of the things that I've read in the Bible or have heard various ministers talk about, then maybe I will turn to God. So they took their lamps and they went out to meet the bridegroom. Five were wise and five were foolish. The wise took oil in their vessels, but the foolish did not take oil in their vessels. And you know once again that the form is the same. The form is the same. They all had lamps. They all went out to meet the bridegroom. But then you find that five had oil in their vessels and five did not. Then at the midnight hour when it was right time when the bridegroom was ready to knock on the door, maybe he's knocking on the door, the five rose up, all of them rose up and trimmed their lamps. But there was a big difference here. The foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there not be enough for both of us. So you'll have to go into the marketplace of life, into the arena of life, and you'll have to buy this oil for yourself. And so when they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. So while they're out trying to get ready, they should have been prepared, but while they're out trying to get ready and to get their lamps filled with oil, the bridegroom comes. And afterward came all the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Barely I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore and pray, for you don't know the day or the hour wherein the Son of Man comes. Also, we look at Revelation 9, and in there, even after the trumpet plagues began to be poured out, what did the people do? By these, these trumpet plagues, this particular one, the third part of men were killed by the fire and by the smoke, by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths for their powers in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails were like under serpents and had heads. And with them they do hurt.

You would turn to Revelation 9, verses 20 and 21. In Revelation 9, verses 20 and 21. What we're showing here is that once things began to unfold, and people who are like one foot on the dock and one foot in the boat and think, well, when things get bad enough, then I'm going to do what I need to do. And in Revelation 9, verses 20 and 21. And the rest of the men, which were not killed by these plagues, yet repited not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and of wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk, neither repited they of their murders nor their sorceries nor their fornication nor of their thefts. So we see here the message is to discern the times. So each one of us could ask ourselves this afternoon, what about us? Are we discerning the times? Or will we turn a deaf ear? God says to all of us today, who hath an ear to hear? Let him hear.

Trends in Bible prophecy. So how do the trends of the day reflect prophecies for the end times?

It seems that so many things are coming together that indeed we can say what Christ says here in Matthew 24, 32, 34. Now learn a parable of the fig tree when his branch is yet tender and puts forth leaves. You know that summer is nice. So likewise, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near even at the doors, verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away till all these things be fulfilled. So our purpose here today is encourage you to research all of these trends, and all you have to do is write down the key titles or keywords, and then search the Bible, surf the Internet, these various topics. You'll find numerous scriptures, articles, you'll find editorials and blogs on nearly all of these major topics that we mentioned here today. Watch and pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that come upon the earth and stand before the Son of Man. That's Luke 21, 36. The disciples' questions. This is Matthew chapter 24. This is this period of time in between when Jesus Christ came into Jerusalem, riding on the donkey, and they hailed Him as King of the Jews on what some call Palm Sunday, but it was actually Palm Sabbath, which is another sermon. In that period of time between that Palm Sabbath and when He was crucified on Wednesday evening and put in the tomb, He went out in and out of Jerusalem during that period of time, and He taught at the temple. Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came to Him to show Him the buildings of the temple, and Jesus said unto them, See you not all these things, verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down. Basically, you go there to the temple mount today. There is a wall around the temple mount. That original wall, the stones there at the whaling wall, which we'll show later on, are perhaps some of the very original stones that were there. It says, There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down. And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him, saying privately, Tell us when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of your coming and the end of the age? Of course, there are two different Greek words, especially, that are translated for a world. One is cosmos, the order of things. The other is Aeon, having to do with the age. In this case, the end of this present evil age. Then Christ gave some definite signs, beginning in Matthew 24, verse 6, and continuing for the next three or four verses. Definite signs, false Christ, wars and rumors of war. We have heard about more wars and rumors of war in recent years, and probably any other time in the history of humankind. Wars are raging today. Coalition forces have 60,000-plus forces in Afghanistan. We still have somewhere between 150 and 250,000 in Iraq. It's exactly difficult to know exactly how many. Nation rising against nation, kingdom against kingdom, famines, pestimences, earthquakes. So do some of the trends that today reflect the prophecies, the answers that Christ gave to the disciples' questions, of what is the sign of your coming and when will these things be?

So we look briefly at the world with regard to drought and famine. The countries that make up two-thirds of the world's agricultural output are experiencing severe drought. Two-thirds of the countries that produce the food for this world are experiencing severe drought. So whether you watch a drought map of China, Australia, Africa, South Africa, North America, the scene will be the same. Misery, ruling crops, dying cattle. And here, in the darkest red, it looks brown on this map, you have drought. And then the next shade would be extreme drought. And then you see historic drought. You see North America, you see Australia especially. Even Alaska, if there's interesting to notice, Alaska up here, and then all of this green here in Canada, and then the U.S. where much of the United States is in drought, 70% of Texas we'll see. We'll see up in here this vast area of China. And we'll look at these countries individually. China, the worst in 50 years, it's worsening.

They have livestock dying because of water shortage, scarcity of rain especially in the north-central provinces. Some of it is the worst in recorded history. Australia is definitely experiencing the worst drought on record there, so severe that rivers have dried up, stopped flowing, and you've read about the many wildfires that they've had in Australia. In California, California is facing the worst drought in recorded history. Governor Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency. Citizens have been encouraged to cut back on water by 20%.

Texas, reaching historic proportions, are saying at least 70% of Texas is experiencing rather severe drought. And I'm amazed that even in these coastal areas where we live here, it's really dry.

Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, this area is also experiencing severe drought. They've gotten a little bit of relief this winter, but it's still continuing and rainfall is down quite a lot. Florida has been hit hard by the drought this winter. Argentina, the worst drought in half a century, has turned the fertile ground to dust. Argentina's food production is set to go down by at least 50%.

Brazil.

Brazil is the world's second biggest exporter of soybeans, the third largest exporter of corn. They, too, are experiencing severe drought. The Horn of Africa, that part that juts out the Atlantic, lack of water to grow plants.

It faces food shortages and famine. I just read this morning up in the Sudan, they're expecting a million people to die this coming year in the Middle East. I heard a newscast yesterday where the Sea of Galilee, in fact, you on direct television, if you have direct TV from 7.30 to 8 o'clock in the morning, there's an Israeli newscast on Channel 367. Channel 367, directly the men who do the cast, they'll have on the Yarmulke. And quite an interesting program most of the time, the news directly from Israel. The Sea of Galilee is down almost 6 feet from where it was this time last year. And it's already a very dry area if you've ever been there. Major reservoirs in Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq, at all-time low levels, requiring restrictions on usage. Given the severity of crop losses in the region, a major shortage of planting seed for the 2010 crop is expected. Global food supply is near the breaking point. The world is now eating more food than farmers produce. We used to talk about all these great surpluses, especially of wheat and corn, soybeans and rice, the various staples of life without which the peoples of the world would starve. But rising population, water shortages, and also difficulty by some farmers in getting the money, the fertilizer, the feed, the seed necessary to plant their crops. Do you notice this bottom one down here?

Well, we went to the other where the oceans used to be teeming with fish, and that is no longer the case because many of the areas, for example, the Black Sea, is practically dead. It's down here. Thirty years the oceans were teeming with fish, but today more people rely on farmers to produce their food than ever before.

Other factors leading to food shortage, lack of credit, commodity prices too low to offset inflation, food stockpiles are already dangerously low, and the food production worldwide will fall 20 to 40 percent in 2009. These are the trends that are being projected. Earthquakes. What about earthquakes? Now, you go to... you put earthquakes into your search engine, and you'll find a disparity here. And some say that earthquakes have not increased. And they say it's because we have so many more reporting stations around the world, but I do not think that is the reason why there are so many more earthquakes. Here are the earthquakes that, you say, really matter, magnitude of 6.99 at least. And you'll notice there, from 1863 to 1900, these are in 38-year blocks, as you can see. I need to go back there. 38-year blocks. 12 from 1863 to 1900. 53 in the next 38-year block. 71 in the next 38-year block. In 1977 to 2014, 136 have already occurred, and they predict by 2014 there will be 180.

Bible prophecy and leadership. What about leadership? Obviously, the world and the times in which we live is crying out for leadership. Isaiah 3, 12, as for my people, children are their oppressors. Women rule over them, O my people, they which lead you cause you to err and destroy the way of your paths. We talk about that in a sermon recently, how that many of the men have abdicated their responsibilities and their God-ordained positions of leadership in the family, and therefore the women, by default, have had to assume leadership and then because Satan and his agents and the spirit of the times has created the generation gap, we now have a situation in which so many families are held hostage by their own children. Then you couple that with the drug-drenched sex-oriented culture of the day, and you find our youth are swimming in a virtual sea of degeneration, which is so difficult for them to navigate. This is what the Bible says. I mean, you can go to other sources, of course, but that's what the Bible says. And the question for us is, will we stand in the gap? As Ezekiel talks about it, Ezekiel 22, verses 30 through 31, I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, go back, please, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. That must not be written about us. Therefore, have I poured out my indignation upon them, I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath, their own way of recompense on their heads, says the Lord Eternal. Your calling, have you come to the kingdom for such a time as this. America's Top Ten Heroes A recent poll within recent weeks, a Harris Poll reported by Chicago newspaper, The Top Ten Heroes of Our Day.

You see, go back, I keep confusing the laser with a trigger. Chicago, February 20, 2016, The 2600 Adults Chicago Sun Times The number one hero, Barack Obama The second, Jesus Christ The third, Martin Luther King Ronald Reagan George Bush I was amazed at George Bush. It was number five in this survey. Abraham Lincoln John McCain More amazed with John McCain. John F. Kennedy Chesley Sullenberger who landed the plane and Mother Teresa.

In 2001 in a Harris Poll, Jesus Christ was the hero mentioned most often, followed by Martin Luther King, Colin Powell, John F. Kennedy, and Mother Teresa. The world is looking for a leadership and is looking to Obama right now, the leader of what we call the free world, the leader of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth. And some think that the administration of the 44th president might set the final stage for the New World Order. And Henry Kissinger, who has worked feverishly from the Nixon administration to the present day, in the background and sometimes in the forefront of trying to establish the so-called New World Order, has proclaimed that Obama is prime to create a New World Order.

This past week, the Prime Minister of Britain, Gordon Brown, and his wife, Sarah, visited Washington, D.C. and spent some time with the Obamas. Before he came, Brown held a big conference in the United Kingdom in Britain, and he called for the U.S. and for the U.K. for Britain to forge a partnership and to lead in a new deal, a global new deal, to lift the world out of recession. And he is here to persuade American political leaders to sign on to bold aims for the G20 Summit of Industrial and Leading Developing Nations to be held in London next month.

There's Gordon Brown on the left, Barack Obama on the right, that particular sign I don't like.

Here we see Michelle Obama and Sarah Brown getting to know each other, a meeting they had. They talked about an hour.

A lot of the papers reported that the Brits were not too pleased with the way things went. They thought that they were slighted in some ways.

When President Obama, he presented Gordon Brown with 25 CDs of classical movies. It's reported that Brown doesn't care much for classical movies, but maybe he would be excited about that. But it's doubtful. So the leader of the world's richest country gave the Prime Minister a box set of 25 classic American films, a gift about as exciting as a pair of socks.

Brown's gift to Obama, the Prime Minister gave Mr. Obama an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slaveship HSM Gannett.

Here they are in conference, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, and President Obama in their meeting.

Economic crisis threatens the idea of one Europe. The leaders of the European Union gathered last Sunday in Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, in urgent discussions in a summit designed to tap down the centrifugal forces unleashed by the global economic crisis that threatened to spin the bloc in its single currency, a park. Europe has a tremendous bank shortage, reported to be around $2 trillion. They face a tremendous funding gap, just like the United States does. And you'll notice here the... if you've never heard of this, the an acronym is BIS, the Bank for International Settlements, would be good to put that in your search engine and to educate yourself what it's all about. It's encouraging the Bank of International Settlements, of course, as wanting all of the banks of the world to be reorganized and to get on firm footing. The European Union, as we know, is not a nation. It is a confederation of, see, 27 different countries with different economic histories make up the European Union.

And when it comes to a period of time like this in which people are beginning to line up for unemployment benefits, when food gets scarcer, then people turn more nationalistic than they do toward a federation of nations. So it'd be interesting to see what comes out of this in the next year or two.

Some are suggesting that a new iron curtain will take place because the countries in Eastern Europe, those Eastern European countries, were behind the iron curtain. The iron curtain extended all the way, splitting Germany. You had West Germany and East Germany, and so that iron curtain has been removed. But it's not been all that long. It was during the Reagan administration when the so-called iron wall came tumbling down. So those Eastern European countries have a long way to go when it comes to being able to sustain the kind of lifestyle that the West has with their economies.

Now we go to the U.S. indebtedness to China.

American capitalism has been the world's biggest debtor for more than two decades. The biggest lender is China. The size of the figures are important. China is almost 2,000 billion in foreign exchange reserves ahead of the U.S. Most of these reserves are being directed to purchase U.S. Treasuries. According to the estimates of Brad Seltzer, the real figure is near 23,000 billion, or equivalent to 1,600 dollars to every Chinese citizen.

U.S. and China's symbiotic relationship, symbiotic means that they feed off each other. China needs the U.S. market to sustain, to buy their goods that they are producing, and at the same time, the U.S. needs China to buy its Treasuries, to buy its debt. And so, this quote here is so very interesting, where we see that Liu Ping, the Director of General, Director General at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, says, quote, You don't hold Japanese government bonds or U.K. bonds. U.S. Treasuries are the safe haven. For everyone, including China, it is the only option, according to Liu Ping.

This, in my view, is the tragedy of China's power. This is the author of this article. The tragedy of China's power elite presiding over a capitalist economy that has shed all pretenses of being socialist. So, the Judgment Day is this THE Judgment Day, but Judgment Day is coming.

We know what the Bible says, Deuteronomy 28, 43 through 44. The stranger that is within you shall get up above you very high. You shall come down very low. He shall lend to you. You shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. Moreover, all these curses shall come upon you and shall pursue you, overtake you, till you be destroyed, because you listen not into the voice of the Eternal, your God, to keep his commandments and statues which he commanded you.

And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your seed forever. So, the blessings and cursings described in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26 are surely here today. World leaders call for world unity. Return to Babel, to Babel.

Let's all get together, and let's solve these problems. When times become harder and challenges greater across the world, the countries must show vision, leadership, courage. And while we can do it great nationally, we can do even more working together internationally. So now is the time, they say, for leaders of every country in the world to work together to agree the action that will see us through the current crisis and ensure we come out stronger. Here are the strategies for developing New World Order. Of course, this is not an exhaustive list by any means. But it is some of the main things.

Create a World Food Bank, which there's been a World Food Bank through the United Nations for many years. Provide for international control of all sources and supplies. That's a frightful one. International control of all sources and supplies. You get X amount based on certain factors. Internationalized commodity markets. Soybeans, corn, wheat, oil. The various commodities will trade at a certain level established by some kind of international index. Establish international control over the wealth of the oceans and the deep sea beds.

Now, the United States has refused to sign that sea treaty up to the present time. And I'm not sure. I know that it was a pending thing in the last few months of President Bush's administration. Whether or not he signed it. I don't know for sure whether he did or not. But you can rest assured that it will be coming up again. Provide for international control of the weather at human command. The drought has been so severe in China that they have been seeding clouds and trying to make it rain through man-made efforts.

They have been successful to a very small degree, but it's been very, very small. Hasn't really made any kind of impact. Rewrite the rules of trade and investment, which they're currently doing. Create a world currency. Create a world police to keep the peace when it's threatened and restore the peace when it's broken. And provide special programs to teach the benefits of a new order in each of the six categories of American institutions, namely business, corporations, labor unions, nonprofit enterprises, communications media, educational systems, and government agencies. In other words, tell people how wonderful it would be. And we look forward to the wonderful world tomorrow when we talk about the world will be at one and will be at peace.

But can human beings create such a world without there being a change in human nature? That now, N.O.W. stands for a New World Order Plan. Representatives with the United States, European Union signed a new transatlantic economic partnership at a recent summit in Washington, D.C. This is Angela Merkel, president of the European Union. President Bush agreed to set up an economic council to move ahead with regulatory convergence in some 40 areas.

And it includes some of those areas there, intellectual property, financial services, business takeovers, open skies, the ability to fly to airports anywhere in Europe, and America without the need of passports. There is President Bush and Prime Minister Merkel at their meeting in recent times. The CFR advocate advocates an international currency. And a recent issue, and you can go online and you can... I gave a sermon back in the 1970s about the Council on Foreign Relations, and I was accused of being a conspiracy hound or whatever, because very few people even admitted that it existed.

Now, they're on television, they're interviewed on the various news programs, and their publications are openly quoted in all of that. Foreign Affairs magazine. You could put in Foreign Affairs on your search engine, Foreign Affairs magazine, and you could look at this article in its totality. Ben Steele, director of international economics at the CFR, advocated the globalization of all currencies. In his article titled, The End of National Currency, he said, International currency continued, the last paragraph, he continued to say, In order to globalize safely, countries should abandon monetary nationalism, abolish unwanted currencies, the source of much of today's instability.

He went on to say, monetary nationalism is simply incompatible with globalism. The Club of Rome promotes the European Union. Founded in 1968, of course, in the 1950s, before the European Union, you had what was called the European Community. It was a trading bloc initially of five nations. Now it's been expanded to 27. In 1972, the Club of Rome issued a booklet.

It's not a long booklet. It's titled, The Limits of Growth. It served as a blueprint for gusty new political, economic, and military union. And the Club of Rome has divided the world into ten political, economic regions.

Some have said they are target date for achieving a New World Order 2010. That remains to be seen. I doubt it, but that's what some of the trends say. The ten regions that they propose, North America, European Union, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, Pacific Islands, Eastern Europe, including Russia, Latin America, Central, South America, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, and China. The Constitution for the Federation of Earth, the Club of Rome developed a constitution in which they openly called for this kind of administration, that is an administrative body that would administer the earth over these regions. And some twenty nations ratified that constitution, twenty-five countries.

Another thing that we face, and one of the great trends, of course, is the moral crisis that grips the nations, and especially the United States. If there were no other issues that the United States had to deal with, if the current moral scene continues to go the way that it is going, for no other cause than that, the United States would not last all that long, at least as we know it. As in the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be, for as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark. Matthew 24, 37, 38.

Here's an astounding statistic. Moral crisis. Prison USA.

One in every thirty-one US adults is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation, supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter of a century ago, according to a report released on Monday by the Pew Center on the States. One in every thirty-one Americans is in the criminal justice system, far more than any other nation on the face of the earth.

And then, with the moral crisis, is the gay agenda. Of course, you could put several scriptures from Leviticus, from Romans 1, but this one is very direct in that if you are in this category, the Bible declares you will not be in the kingdom of God. That's about as plain as it can be. The gays seek normalization.

Pat Buchanan writes here, what they really want is to be accepted. It's like the Isaiah 5, woe unto those who call evil good, and woe unto those who call good evil. And so, in today's world, if you don't normalize, if you don't accept, if you don't tolerate, if you don't, in fact, they want you to celebrate the gay agenda.

Gays seek freedom while preaching conformity. This quote here is interesting. In a free society, writes this person, everyone will be gay. Alan Young, a pioneer of the Gay Liberation Movement, History of Sexuality in America, page 322. The gay feminists have waged their war with impunity by asserting their victim status. And, what's happening now, heterosexuals, you'll find that even the bold tiger, as he claims he is, Bill O'Reilly, he backs off when it comes to the homosexual question. Oh, he'll skirt around it a bit, talk about it some. But almost no one, almost no one will directly confront it in a personal way because it is career and political suicide. They go against them in the upper echelons today in America.

So, as this says here, heterosexuals can't even defend their own sexuality for fear of accusations of homophobia and sexism. These days, anyone who doesn't want to be gay is labeled homophobic. And, of course, this is being taught to the children in schools. Then, the financial crisis. The Trends Research Institute forecasts the greatest depression ever. And they forecast that well before Wall Street or Washington would acknowledge it. I had the, that pronunciation or that trend by Gerald Salente in the news items in the Bulletin. I think it was week before last, might have been last week, but I think it was week before last. He says, and this is the Trends Institute saying this, there will be no turnaround in the second quarter of 2009 or 2010 or 2011. American much of the world has entered the great or the greatest depression.

Salente forecasts expect massive bank failures, runs on banks, and bank holidays. Even if deposits are FDIC insured, quick access to money is by no means insured. Whether you know it or not, on Thursday and Friday, and I don't know if it passed yesterday or not, but they were debating whether or not the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, would be given, it was either $400 or $500 billion. So just because we have our money in the bank and it's FDIC insured, there's really no guarantee these banks really start to fall like dominoes that you're going to get your money. TrendPost, this once again is from the Trends Institute, when the ship is sinking, there are very few options, lifeboats, life rafts, life preservers, and for the late to act, possibly a few pieces of floating debris to cling to. One of the greatest differences between these times and the times of the 1930s, in the 1930s, still over half of the people lived in rural areas, and you could basically sustain yourself if you had a little plot of ground. But today, 90% of the people live in urban areas.

Cash crisis, bank, hoard, stimulus funds. You keep hearing, what about the credit markets? They have not loosened the credit markets. The credit's not flowing, so people cannot start their businesses, they can't start construction. People can't buy houses, they can't buy automobiles, and you have the whole circle.

He who owns the gold makes the rules, but most of the world's currencies are not backed by gold. Franklin Delano Roosevelt lowered the amount of gold that was backing the dollar, and then, during the Nixon administration, gold was removed entirely as a backup currency. Federal Reserve controls the money supply. U.S. Treasury prints Treasury notes for the Federal Reserve. You'll notice on your currency, your paper money, it is, say, a U.S. Treasury note. It's a promissory note, a promise to pay X amount. It's not real money in the sense, if you think about real money or a real asset. The government borrows the Treasury notes from the Federal Reserve. Now, the incredible thing is that our Treasury Department prints the notes, they send them to the Federal Reserve, then we borrow back from the Federal Reserve with interest that which we printed. Then the U.S. government sells their debt in the form of bonds to, you know, some people in the U.S. buy U.S. Treasury bonds. 30-year, 30-year bonds and 20-year bonds and all that. Then they sell these to other countries. China and Japan hold billions and billions in U.S. currencies, paper currencies. This current system is based on credit and usury. God condemns usury, interest. Exodus 22, 25, If you lend money to any of your people that is poor by you, you shall not be to him as a usurer. Neither shall you lay upon him usury. You don't charge him interest. Leviticus 25, 36, Take you no usury of him or increase, but fear your God that your brother may live with you. Leviticus 25, 37, You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase. Now, there is one place where it says that people who are not of the nation of Israel could be charged usury. But this debt credit system I believe God hates. And of course, in God's economic system, you had the seven-year cycle. And then upon the Jubilee, seven-sevenths on the 50th year, the land returned to its rightful owner, so that you did not have this perpetual continuation of the poverty cycle by various families. If the U.S. economy totally collapses, so do the economies of other nations. Likewise, if the economies of major nations collapse, so does the economy of the U.S. It is a global economy. Money flow is critical to the world's economy. You consider this. The workforce, the factories, the natural resources are the same as before the financial crisis. There's still the same amount of oil on the face of the earth, or any manufactured product you want to name, or any natural resource you want to name. That hasn't changed. What's changed is the monetary system.

Because credit and or money supplies been shut down, the results are loss of jobs, decreased production, loss of profits, bankruptcies ad infinitum. We're beginning to have what's called Boston Tea Parties around the world. People around the globe are organizing demonstrations and revolts against the government because of these policies. Bible prophecy has a lot to say about the disparaging difference between the rich and the poor. Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, your garments are moth-eaten, your gold and silver is kinkered, and the rest of them shall be a witness against you. And you shall eat your flesh as it were fired. You have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold the hire of the laborers. I don't... It just depends on how much latitude that God will give Satan at this particular time. Does God have far more for His people to do before they cannot do anything as an organized entity? I don't know the answer to that. Neither do you, neither does anyone else. I don't think in the flesh knows that.

But eventually, the oppression that is found in this world of the starving masses and the different peoples, as they cry out for deliverance. This is what the Bible says. This is not the liberal view by CNN. It's not the conservative view by Fox. It's what the Bible says. The hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is a view kept back by fraud, cries. And the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the eternal of Siboa. God hears! He sees that little child in Sudan today, emaciated hulk of bones, flies crawling on his face, crawling up his nose, and all the various horrors that you could describe as you go on. If you wanted to describe it graphically, of course you could. The cries of them which are reaped are entered into the ears of the eternal of Siboa. If you have lived in pleasure on the earth, have been wanting, you have nourished your hearts as in the day of slaughter, you have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you. Be patient, therefore, brethren unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, a husband, and wait for the precious fruit of the earth. Have long patience for it until he receives the early and latter rain. Be you also patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draws nigh. The only way that the peoples of the world are going to really get relief and true peace and prosperity is going to rain is through the kingdom that God sets up through Jesus Christ and the saints. Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the judge stands before the door. Take my brethren the prophet, who has spoken in the name of the Lord, for example, of suffering and affliction and of patience. Behold, we count them happy, which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Greek word there for end as telo, which means outcome result. The result of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy. There's an article here I'm not going to spend any time with. It's a very interesting article. It appeared in Forbes magazine. Forbes magazine, as you know, is a very well-known magazine. I'll just briefly summarize this. In which, in some of the Muslim prophecies, there is promised a warrior who would come and help bring the hidden iman, the hidden iman of Shiite Muslims, help lead them to conquer the world. Iran is a Shiite republic. It is the only Shiite republic on the face of the earth. That means that church and state are combined. Ayatollah Khomeini is the unequaled and uncontested ruler. His word is the final law and say. There are a group of people in Iran, and among them, people think that Iran is going to back off. We'll have another thought. Because this to them is a matter of life and death. Just as we are hoping and praying for the return of Jesus Christ and the setting up of the kingdom of God, they too are hoping and praying for this 12th iman to come and to deliver them. This article is talking about this prophecy and whether or not this one promise to come is President Obama, which I sincerely doubt. But anyhow, it's an interesting article. In a curious coincidence, Obama's first and second names, Barack Hussein, means the blessing of Hussein in Arabic and Persian. His family name Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, means Obama, which means he is with us. The magic formula in Majelisi's tradition. Mystical reasons aside, the Comenius establishment sees Obama's rise as another sign of the West's decline in the triumph of Islam. Obama's promise to seek unconditional talks with the Islamic Republic is cited as a sign that the U.S. is ready to admit defeat. Obama has promised to attend a summit of Arab nations of 100 nations or so and to give them a report of what they can expect from the U.S. in the first 90 days of his presidency.

Iran vows to destroy Israel. Here are some of the things that Ahmadinejad has said. Israel is a sinking or stinking corpse. Ahmadinejad, Israel, is about to die. He predicts Israel will be swept away. Iran and nuclear weapons. Here we have Admiral Mike Mullen, U.S. military officer, set on Sunday. It's the first time that a United States military officer made such an assessment that Iran does have enough fissionable material to develop a nuclear weapon. The Israel situation. There is the flag of Israel and the six-pointed star, which is a study and a sermon and a lot of other things from in itself.

Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, says that Iran is the greatest threat to Israel. He's a hardcore hardliner. He is against the two-state solution that the Quartet of Four are suggesting for the Middle East. The Quartet of Four consists of Russia, the European Union, the United States, along with Russia, the European Union, the U.S. and the U.N. There is Benjamin Netanyahu.

Here's an interesting thing, the Supreme Court building in Israel. I would encourage you to put Israel's Supreme Court building into your search engine and just see what it says. Look at that thing. Look at the various symbols. All of these symbols have symbolic meaning. Most symbols do. The pyramid with the all-seeing eye, just like the one on the American dollar bill, sits in a circle to the left. The larger circle you see at the bottom of the picture is an inverted cross designed to walk on it. It's the only religious emblem designed to be trampled on underfoot. At the top of the picture is a Muslim gravesite. Just out of view to the right is an Egyptian obelisk.

Israel prepares attack plans, various options on the table, depending on how whether or not diplomacy will work. The abomination of desolation, Matthew 22.15 introduces the Great Tribulation. Matthew 24, verse 21. Then shall be Great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world, nor ever shall be, and except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved alive. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.

The six major religions in the world are looking for a Messiah to come and lead the world into a time of peace and prosperity. The Buddhists are looking for the fifth Buddha. The Hindus are looking for Christian. The Islamic world is looking for this great Eman to come on the scene. The New Agers are looking for Maitreya. The Jews are looking for the return of the Messiah coming the first time. And the Christian world is looking for the return of Jesus Christ. So the world is ripe for deception. False Christ and religious deception will be very much what will be taking place during the Tribulation. If any man say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there is Christ, believe it not, there will arise false Christ, false prophet. Show great signs and wonders, insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Satan, of course, is behind this when all is said and done with regard to bringing all the nations together, deceiving the world into worshipping him. In his great temptation of Christ, in Matthew 4, If you will fall down and worship me, I will give you the kingdoms of the world. And Christ said, Get you hence, Satan, for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.

Satan's system fakes the return of Christ, or the beast's system, described in Thessalonians 2, Thessalonians 2, verses 1-4. You'll notice here that, Who opposes, exalts himself all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he is God, sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. He desperately craves this worship, and eventually he'll deceive the peoples of the world. Everyone whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life will worship that system. They'll do great and mighty works, deceive a lot of people, and especially those who receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this cause shall God send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie. God sends them strong delusion. See, if you're trying to play this game of, I will wait till I can really see, I'm going to go my way as long as I possibly can, and then if I see the, yeah, that's the way it's going, it might be too late.

Deception continued, Revelation chapter 13. You'll notice that the dragon, and the dragon is identified in Revelation 12.9 as that old serpent, the devil, the dragon gave him his power and his seat.

And notice here, they worshiped the dragon which gave the power under the beast, and they worshiped the beast. So it's about worship.

He's given him to make war with the saints to overcome them. Power was given in him over all kindreds, tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear to hear, let him hear. And then the deception by the false prophet, and the false prophet through miracles and signs and wonders. And if you don't worship the image of the beast that is created, that as many as should not worship the image of the beast, should be killed. The beast system in the mark. You cannot buy or sell unless you get the mark of the beast. But it seems the world is headed toward a cashless society of some kind. The slaves of Babylon control the money supply, conquer the world without firing a shot. Writing a check today. They really don't want you to write a check. We tried to buy, well, we bought a little table down in a furniture store in Alvin. And I started writing a check. She said, oh, you're going to write a check. I said, yes. Said, well, we'll have to hold this furniture until this check clears. I said, I just pay for it with a credit card. They're happy. Slaves to debt. Look at this. As long as you continue to believe in the money, it's not the money that you should focus on. It's the debt, stupid. This is one of their quotes from one of the leading bankers of the world. We have enslaved all generations in the future to the servicing thereof. The servicing of what? The debt. Create money out of thin air. Remember that? Will credit cards fail? Susie Orman says they're really going to tighten that. We got a notice from Discover last week or so that they can charge you up to 29.9%. Good thing if you can, pay off your credit cards. Don't use them. If they won't accept your card, what are you going to do? Might be good to stash a little cash.

Homeland Security is talking about now what's called the Enhanced Driver's License. The Enhanced Driver's License, they say, gives confidence that the person holding a card is a person who is supposed to be holding a card. It's less elaborate than real ID. Oh, really?

Enhanced Driver's License have a built-in radio chip providing an identifying number of information that can be accessed by remote reading. While the licensing is held inside a wallet or a purse. Now, notice this. The technology has already been implemented in Washington State where it is promoted as an alternative. You don't have to get it to a passport for traveling to Canada. So far, the program is optional.

Michigan State Representative Paul Oppsomer said, We're close to the point now that if you don't want RFID, that's this chip, radio frequency chip, in any of your documents that you may not be able to leave the country.

Middle East is going to increasingly become the focal point. That little piece of real estate right there, yellow, Israel. Jordan right there, that area right there. A little bit larger view there of Israel in the blue. Jordan here, Syria up here, Lebanon here, Egypt down here. And here, Babiel prophesies the nations are going to cry down Jerusalem 1260 days. Right now, the Temple Mount is in East Jerusalem. It's under Arab control. The Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque currently stand on the Temple Mount. So the Jews want to build a temple there, and we think perhaps there will be a temple built there, and sacrifice is restored. Here you're looking down on the Temple Mount. That's the Dome of the Rock right there. And here you're up on the Mount of Olives, and you're looking down on the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives is east of the old city there. Here are people at the Wailing Wall. The Jews go there every day. I suppose there's someone there 24-7, praying. That's as close as they can get to the area right now. It's unbelievable. In the 67th War, Israel gained control of all of Jerusalem, but for some reason let the Arabs remain in control of the Temple Mount. This two-state solution is heralded as the way to go. Hillary Clinton was just there, heralding the two-state solution behind the Palestinian organization flag.

Divide the Land has been one of the main things the Bible talks about dividing the land. The King will do according to his will. He will not worship the God of his Father, shall magnify himself above all. He'll be greeted by Simone Peres, the President of Israel. The President is not nearly as powerful as the Prime Minister. Here she lays a wreath of Hall of Remembrance at the Holocaust Museum. Divide the Land continued in his estate, but in his estate shall he honor. That's at Willful King in verse 37. The God of forces whom his Father knew not, he shall honor with gold and silver. Thus shall he do in his strong holes with a strange God, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory, and he shall rue cause him to rule over many, and shall divide the Land for gain. Of course, the Orthodox Jews were against dividing the Land. So how does the prelude to this showdown unfold? How does the Beast System come to power initially? Is it through wars? Is it through deception and corrupt promises? The pining out of the east and the north trouble him. Therefore he goes with great fury. Eventually the Beast power plants his headquarters in Jerusalem, and none shall come and help him. Of course, God is going to intervene and bring him to his end. I heard a loud voice saying, In heaven now comes salvation and strength in the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ. For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuses them before our God day and night. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony. They love not their lives unto the death. See, this is how a formula for overcoming.

Revelation 12, 10-11. Overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony. They love not their lives unto the death.

In view of this, are we ready? Watch therefore and pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things, that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man.