FOT Bible Study / Today's Headlines vs. Tomorrow's Headlines

You and I live in a world that's full of bad news. There's a lot of bad news. And the world has changed. And, you know, human beings tend to be negative anyways. And we've had a privilege. We have lived through one of the best times in human history. The last 40 years in this country has been one of the best times in human history. Human history has been very ugly. And we've lived through this time, and now we realize, changing back in 2019, the world's changed. And it's never going back. And no one knows what's going to be... things are going to be like six months from now, or a year from now, as chaos begins to just happen throughout the world. And so, we get this renewed interest in prophecy, and we go to the Sermon on the Mount, or not Sermon on the Mount, but all that prophecy, Jesus, all that prophecy. We go there. We go to the Book of Revelation. We go to the Book of Daniel. We talk about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the Great Tribulation. And we talk about all this bad news. But, you know, this week, we haven't heard any bad news. What's been really interesting about this week is that the descriptions and all the messages about what it's going to be like on Christ's returns. It's been a long time since I've heard every message as a description. Every message has been a description of some aspect of what it's going to be like when Christ returns. I want to continue that theme. I'm going to take a lot of the things that have been said over the last few days, and it's going to continue over the next couple of days. And I want to sort of summarize that into a way of thinking that we can start to maybe visualize what that's going to be like. Let's go to Zechariah 14. This was read here, I think twice already, Zechariah 14.

And let's start in verse 1. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, and your soil will be divided in your midst, and I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. Zechariah lived in a very interesting time, and he was writing to the Jews who had come out of captivity. And they had been through their sort of day of the Lord because they had been punished, and they'd come back out of captivity. And he was telling them there's another day of the Lord coming, and it's a big one. This was going to involve the entire world. And all the nations will be gathered to fight at Jerusalem. And the city shall be taken, the house is rifled, and the women ravished, half the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as he fights in the day of battle. And in that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and out of olives shall be split in two from east to west, making a very large valley, and half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half towards the south. Now, when we look at this, and it's already been mentioned, we understand that this is a prophecy of Jesus Christ as the Lord. He returns to the Mount of Olives in his Second Coming, the first time he came as a weak human being, as Savior, as Passover Lamb. He's coming back as King of Kings and Lord of Lords in power and glory, and all the nations will gather to meet him. And that's sort of some bad news. When you look at the seven trumpets and the plagues of the book of Revelation, when God pours out His wrath on humanity, it's bad news. But the whole point is to get through all this bad news down to what God's actual focal plan is, which is what we're celebrating in the Feast of Tabernacles, but even more important, on that eighth day, that last great day. That's actually His focal point. It's not the end. It's the end of the book of the Bible, Revelation 21-22. It is not the end of the story. It's the end of the first chapter. That's all it is. It's the end of the first chapter. So here we are looking at the good news. Now, what I want to do is compare the good news with the bad news. Okay? The good news with the bad news.

Think of some of the things that's going to happen. Christ comes back. One of the things that happened is Satan is removed from being the God of this world. Paul said he's the God of this world. He has all of humanity deceived. In fact, humanity has become—we're made in the image of God, but we become so influenced by Satan that all of us are just mired images of God. I mean, we've become distorted images of God. He's going to come back, and Satan's removed so that human beings can actually have some free will because Christ will reveal himself to them, and he will reveal the Father to them. Now, I have a news feed that I—every day when I get on my computer—so I can look at the headlines, what's going on in the world. And I have to be careful because I'll start reading them, and I'll find out it's a half hour, 45 minutes later, and I'm just still reading news. So I try to sort through there, pick out some—what I need to read for the morning, and I'll do it at night, too. What's going on? And I have—the way I have it set up, it comes from different sources, not only all through the United States, but from all over the world. What are some of the headlines that I look at? And these are the headlines that you look at. Let's look at this first slide. What are some of the headlines you read about, you see—I can't see them up here, I can see them on this monitor. So I'm moving over here. Suicide rates skyrocketing. The collapse of the mental health in this country is amazing, but it's not just here. It's happening all over the world. People are breaking down under the stress. People have asked me sometimes, what we're going through right now, is this the beginning of the tribulation? And my answer is always, I hope so, because this is a whole lot better than I thought the tribulation will be. This isn't the tribulation. This is the good times compared to that. Now that's not to give you the bad news. That's saying, this will only get worse, these headlines. Where you and I, how we survive spiritually in this is going to depend on understanding the difference between the headlines now and the headlines we're going to have when we, someone turns on their computer and the headlines pop up after Christ's return. Man who opened fire with a gun in a flea market has declared mentally unfit to stand trial. All over the world, there's these shootings. People go into schools and shoot children. It's so depraved, it's hard to imagine. It happens all the time. Safe zone set up in universities because students suffer from anxiety.

Okay. Christ comes back. I want a little flight of fantasy here because I'm going to make up headlines. I can't tell you exactly what's going to be happening, but let's sort of skip ahead. It's four years after Christ comes back. He's come back. He's established Jerusalem as the headquarters. It's his main city of the whole world. It's his capital city of the world. But as has been mentioned a couple of times this week, it's not all just fixed. You don't just fix human beings overnight. Even with Satan gone. All the different religions, all the different governmental systems. Plus, remember this world is going to be so devastated that Jesus said in the Olivet prophecy, if he doesn't come back at that moment, nobody, no living thing will survive.

Huge amounts of humanity will be gone. People will be left in devastated states of sickness, of diseases, of just ravages of war. The breakdown. You say, oh good. The first thing I want to do in the kingdom, I mean when Christ comes back, is I want to go teach people about baptism. You will have to feed them first. You have to give them running water first. Do you realize what this world is going to be? So what will the headlines be? And in four years, Jesus has been on earth for four years. Okay. Let's look at the next slide, number two. Satan removed, people healed, severe mental illness down 99%. That may be a little high. It's going to take a while to work through that. But without Satan and the demons around to plague our minds. Now, I mean, there's all kinds of reason for mental illness. But a lot of mental illness is caused by human beings, dysfunctional human beings doing what? Hurting other dysfunctional human beings, especially as children. And those children grow up as dysfunctional human beings. It is passed on and on and on. That cycle has to be broken. And the first thing to do to break that cycle is remove Satan. Plus, mental illness can be caused by organic problems, right? We have diseased minds. God did not intend us to go through this. I noticed, you know, I'm getting to the age. I forget things. I can't multitask anymore. Not like I used to. I used to be able to do three things at the same time. Now I can do one, if my wife helps me.

But why? The physical brain starts to break down. God never intended that to happen. That's what happened when we got kicked out of Eden. Okay? Once that happened, this is the result of that. Well, for that to be healed, the first thing that has to happen is Satan has to be removed. Now think about it's four years after the Great Tribulation. Next headline. Millions suffering from Great Tribulation, PTSD, receiving mental and spiritual care. All these people will be mentally crushed. After, you know, we go through all that bad news of those end time events. Imagine what it's like to survive that. They're just mentally destroyed. How long does it take to help them heal? To help them learn? To help them even trust somebody? Secular mental health workers looking for new careers. Once you start healing people spiritually and you start helping them have a clean, proper environment, there's not going to be much need for psychologists and psychiatrists. Because, well, there just won't be any need for them.

People will be healed because of Christ and because of the way of God being taught. How long will that take? Maybe some generations? This job is tremendous what God is going to do to heal humanity. So, we're four years ahead. You think, well, why did I pick four years ahead? Well, let's just go here to verses 16 through 18. Zechariah 14. All as part of the same prophecy here. So, the Lord comes, He stands on the Mount of Olives, He takes Jerusalem, He makes it His capital city, and from there He begins to heal the world. He resurrects the saints. All the saints who have lived throughout history are resurrected, and those saints are to help Him do that. And those saints are to help Him do that. By the way, I know there's sometimes, I remember when I was younger in the church, it's like, well, what happens to me? I'm 12 years old. Well, you're going to have a lot of work to do too.

There's people, they're going to have to help people. Well, if my parents are changed into spirit beings, well, I'll be all alone. Children worry about that sometimes. No, you won't. We heard that in the sermonette today. No, you won't. They'll be there, they'll talk to you, they'll interact with you, or she won't get away with much.

For the whole world, it is hard to imagine the state they'll be in. What we learn from these verses are very interesting. It will come the past that everyone who has left, this is verse 16, of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and keep the Feast of Tabernacles. So when Christ comes back, yes, the Passover, Pentecost, these Tabernacles, the whole world will be learning to observe these days. And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth who do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, on them there will be no rain. You mean some won't come? Yeah. Some people won't believe it. Some people won't trust anybody. Some people won't be holding on to whatever it is. They're old religion. They're old way of life. I think a lot of people will be living in almost stone age situations, so while scattered throughout the world. They won't trust anybody or anything. He says, if the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain. And they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And this shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. So I'm just skipping ahead, skipping ahead a little bit, looking for years in the future. Now let's look at this third slide. These are, we read these all the time, right? Egypt moving towards radical Islamic rule, or Iraq or Iran that's already there. Governments collapse, dictators get killed. The Nation of Israel preparing for war with Arab neighbors all the time. There's somebody fighting somebody. Syria's got a civil war going on. The Middle East is always in turmoil. Hindus and Muslims fighting in India. You know, that's not the only place wars are taking place, obviously. They're all over the place. We also forget there's religious wars going on. Right now, even the war between Russia and Ukraine has a religious element because the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, or the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, have condemned each other. And they're stirring up their troops by condemning each other. In fact, the Russian Patriarch of Moscow has said that NATO is the beast power and they need to organize to fight the beast power. And the United States is part of the beast power. There's always these religious elements that are always happening. What happens four years later? Let's go to the next slide. Four years later. Mayor of Jerusalem preparing for a much larger crowd at the feast of Tabernacles, because guess what? They've gone a long time without rain and everybody's saying, I guess we better go. I guess we better go. Egypt selecting representatives for this year's feast in Jerusalem. We better send some people there and figure out what we're supposed to do next. Now, I'm making this up, but you understand these are the kind of things that are going to be happening. Because they have to happen for that prophecy to be fulfilled. Because we know it doesn't go on and on and on, because during this millennial reign of Christ, the whole world comes under one world government, one religion. And we just have a piece of it now. You know, one of the things that's going to be hard for all of us too is we're going to think, we're going to find out after Christ comes back, we're going to learn certain things and say, oh, we weren't always right.

He's going to change the world. And you have the opportunity to do that. Renewed rains in Egypt, desert blooming. I mean, if they've gone without rain for years, it doesn't take much for Egypt to be encroached with the desert, right? So what happens? It starts to bloom. They start to be able to grow food. People don't realize that if you lived back in the time of the Roman Empire, Egypt was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. It grew that much grain. They haven't done that for 1,500 years or longer. It's going to rain there again. And they'll start coming to the Feast of Tabernacles. Micah 4. Micah 4.

One of them, another one of the minor prophets. I always find the minor prophets so interesting because they're dealing with very real situations in their own time, but they also contain all kinds of prophecies for the future. But Micah 4. Verse 1. Now shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house, now there's a government, and that's just typical Hebrew poetic wording, the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains. This shall be exalted above the hills and people shall flow to it. Many nations shall come and say, come and let us go to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His pass, for out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. We will have a way of life that's better than what we've lived through. As they begin to get over the shock and the fact that they've lived such devastating times, as time goes on and little children begin to not live every day in absolute fear. Or one of the things Jesus is going to have to do, because when He says the mountain of olives, waters go out and heal the world. Do you realize the state the world's going to be in? He's got to heal the whole world. I can't imagine what it is to live in a South Seas island, and because of the tribulations, you've been cut off. You don't even know what's going on in the world. You're living in poverty. You're living without food, and suddenly the oceans are healed, and fish start jumping out all over the place because you read what's going to happen. Most of the fish will have died. Trees suddenly are okay. Suddenly there's rain coming down. It's not acid rain caused from all the things that have happened during the tribulation. And these people are starting to see this happen, and people, others show up. Some of them are not people anymore. They look like people, but they're not. And they'll show up, and they'll say, let me explain how this happened. Well, we don't know, because we haven't had internet for two years. Well, let me tell you how this has happened. What's our headlines now? Next slide. United Nations meet to deal with climate change. Well, there won't be much climate at the end of the tribulation. The Earth will be devastated. EU meets to deal with the war, with economic downturn. They're meeting now about every week. I mean, China's economy is collapsing. We're watching the world crumble. OPEC meets to discuss oil prices. They just did this again. I wrote this up before this last meeting. These are easy, because they just repeat over and over and over again. Four years after Jesus Christ came back, what did they look like? Next slide. A representative from Jerusalem announced that Buddhism and Hinduism have been eradicated. There's one religion. Tithing. New worldwide tax system. You talk about a nice clean tax system.

Tithing. The biblical laws of tithing. And not where taxes are used to enhance those who do the taxing.

Local leaders from around the globe meet in Jerusalem to discuss the Ten Commandments. It's four years down the line, and there's people in different areas of the world saying, you know what, we've got to get more information about this Ten Commandments, okay? We've got to get more information about the Bible. And guess what's happening? They're being brought in to Jerusalem to be taught so they can go back and teach their people, but they won't go back alone. They're those who go with them, both spirit beings and physical people, physical people who go back with them. You know what's one of the interesting things? Israel, ancient Israel, ancient Judah failed over and over and over again. That's their history, failure before God. What happens when Christ comes back? He resurrects the saints, which are people from all languages and all ethnic backgrounds and all races that are in the church, but then he takes the physical descendants of Abraham, brings them back into the Middle East. He gathers them. They're scattered throughout the world. He brings them back in the Middle East, and what's he tell them? Now you're going to do what you were supposed to do and failed over and over and over again. You're going to represent me, and you're going to help teach people about me. That's what they failed to do. So he brings them back. They don't even know who they are. They'll gather them from around the world and bring them back. So the church is doing one thing, and actually the physical descendants of Abraham are doing one thing. They'll have to learn that it's not about them, it's about God. See, we figured that out. It's not about us, it's about God. They'll finally figure that out. And then, Christ launches massive rebuilding programs. There's bridges, buildings, simple houses, water, electricity. It's all gone! Much of the world has nothing.

And that's going to have to be done. You know, I get a little nervous when I think about, man, then I think, no, no, because you know what? Christ knows what He's doing. All I have to do is say, yes, boss. That's it. That's one of the great things you'll learn in life. When you realize this is all this is, it's us saying, yes, boss. He knows how to fix this, but it isn't going to be easy. It's hurting cats. Millions and millions and millions of people that have been traumatized and abused, facing death and devastation, driven to the point of almost being animals.

And they're going to be told, you were made in the image of God. Verse 3, He shall judge between many peoples and rebuke strong nations afar off. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning horns, or hooks, I'm sorry. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation. Needeth shall they learn war any more.

What's our headlines right now? What's our headlines right now? Let's look at slide number seven. South Korea wants nuclear weapons so that they can fight North Korea if they fire their nuclear weapons. In other words, they've asked for them. Why? Well, if they're going to blow us up, we want to be able to blow them up just as bad as they blow us up.

The death toll in the Russian-Ukrainian war just continues to go up and up and up and up. We haven't had a European war, a real European war, since 1945. European wars are fought with industry and technology that changes. Every side keeps changing and changing and changing. That's why European warriors tend to kill tens and tens of millions. It's warfare at industrial level. This is just the beginning. This is just the beginning. China planning to invade Taiwan. I mean, we've heard these things over and over, but you can just start. The headlines are all over the place. Japan fears that they're going to have to create an army and a navy because their constitution doesn't allow them to have much of an army and a navy. They're going to build one. They have to survive. I heard the chancellor of Germany give a speech and very calmly say, this was two weeks ago, we don't want to be a military power, but because of the threat of Russia and because our allies have asked us to be, we will be the most powerful military in all of Europe. And they will. Turkey and Greece are fighting, as they do on a regular basis, over little islands. There's little wars all the time, but this isn't going to stop. It's going to get worse and worse. Wars all over the place. As globalism collapses, this is what happens. Chaos happens. What is going to be like four years after Christ comes back? Next slide. Ecological problem remains junkyards of old war equipment. Okay. We got a problem. We've got all these junkyards. Scrap metal. You need scrap metal? Come get it.

I just went a little silly, but I couldn't help but make it up. War breaks out on the border of China and Mongolia. Okay. The government of God hasn't gotten out completely on those edges of the world yet. Represented this from Jerusalem. Show up in one second. Two warlords injured.

He just beat up on the guys in charge and the war stops. You know, that's it.

Startup companies turning APCs into farm equipment. I sort of like that one. Some guys get together and think, you know what? We could take some of this war equipment and we could turn it into farm equipment. This alone, the junk in the world, is going to be enormous. The junk cities that have collapsed because of the great jubilation. There's a lot to do. But this is what it's going to be like. And we know it's not going to fail because the prophecy tells us it's not going to fail. Jesus Christ is going to do this. Now, I want you to start doing something while we're sitting here. We've got a little bit more to go. But what I want to do is if you have a headline in your mind that you think, yeah, I could see a headline like that four years or five years into the millennium, write it down, and then I'm going to have the ushers collected here in a little bit and I'm going to read them. Come up with some headlines, especially maybe if there's younger people here. Because you know what? Part of the dream of young people is to change the world. You know, part of the problem with young people today in society is they have no aspirations to achieve greatness. You know, I still have that. I grew up in the hippie era and you know, at least the hippies wanted to change the world. I mean, peace and love is pretty stupid when it's drugs and you know, free sex. But the idea was somehow they could change the world. Of course they couldn't. They just made it worse. Young people today, what's your aspirations? Well, Jesus Christ is calling you to change the world. That's what you're called to do. In a little way now, by your influence on other people, by being a disciple of Jesus Christ, by being an example so that people can find hope. Yes, even at age 10 or 12 or 15 or 20 or 30. But it's also there's a future. There's a future that you can help change the world. So I want you to write some down. We'll see if anybody comes up with any. In the meantime, let's go to Zechariah 8. Back to Zechariah, which once again, these prophecies, it's very interesting. First part of Zechariah is basically written to the Jews who had come back out of captivity. And then he goes on and tells him about the future in a way that says, this even gets fixed beyond you. It goes on because they were trying to rebuild the temple, and they were having difficulties, and people were trying to keep them from rebuilding the temple. Remember, this is hundreds of years before Jesus comes along. And they were just trying to rebuild Judah. And then his message shifts, and it's all about this in the future, when Jerusalem is the center of where the Messiah reigns. And here in Zechariah 8, let's look at verse 1, and we'll go on from here. Again, the word of the Lord of hosts came saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, I am zealous for Zion, Zion was mentioned today, with great zeal, with great fervor, I am zealous for her. Thus says the Lord, I will return to Zion and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called the city of truth, the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. And thus says the Lord of hosts. And he tells us a little, gives us a little insight into society, the society that's going to have to be built over time.

Because it's going to take a lot to teach this to people who have been through what they've been through. Old men and old women shall sit again in the streets of Jerusalem, each one with his staff and his hand because of great age. In other words, no one's afraid. No one that's older is going to be afraid that you walk down the street and someone comes up and snatches your purse, or beats you up and robs you. Nobody has to fear that.

This is the kind of society that's going to be built by Jesus Christ. The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets. No drive-by shootings. This is the society. This is the society that we have to learn now. We learn it now in the midst of this human experiment with Satan in charge.

Where, you know what humanity experiments with is their own lives. And in this experiment, they fail. They always fail. We always fail until God comes along and God gives us something to live for by forgiving us and changing us and converting us and turning us into His children. And then we start to understand it. And then we live by a different society. We live by a different set of values. That's why living by those values now is so important.

It's not like, well, I'll live by those values when Christ comes back. No, we have to learn and live by them now in our marriages and our families and our honesty and everything that we do. Let's look at the next slide here. How many times you read this one or hear this one or see it on the news?

Another mass shooting at a grade school. Crime up people, prisoners in their own homes. Right? People are afraid to leave their own homes. People are afraid to drive because in some places in the country. Now, I'm not saying that you and I have to live in fear all the time because there are places in the world where the crime is a whole lot worse than what you and I live in.

But in Little Murfreesboro, Tennessee of, I don't know, 120,000 people, we have about 60, 65 people in the church there. Last month, we had one woman robbed, her car broke it into while she was at the park. Another person had someone to try to break into their house. And another older couple were outside the city, out in the country, sitting in their living room, reading, heard a voice and looked. And there's a man standing there with a knife saying, give me the keys to your car. And he stole their car and they got it back weeks later after he'd driven across three states committing crime after crime after crime.

I talked to some of the teachers. We have one teacher who works in an inner city school down in Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, right? That could be a bad place to live. He says a good day sometimes is when he gets half the students to simply write a sentence or two and show some vague understanding of the lesson that they covered that day. He said most of them can't read past the sixth grade. And he's in upper level. He said most of them can't get a job. And then you'll hear them talk about their home lives.

And they live in violence and they're abandoned, drug abuse at a very early age. And they're all afraid. They're angry and they're afraid. That's the world we live in. How about, it's my body, abortion is a fundamental right. Interesting argument. It's my body. The other person deserves to die.

Interesting, isn't it? Of course, Russia and China are very real problems, especially China. For 40 years they had legalized abortion. In fact, you're only allowed to have one child. So people had one child. Now they realize within another 10 years they won't have enough workers to hold down jobs to even feed the upper population because the older population so out numbers now the younger population. So now they're telling everybody, have children, have children. Well, they're not used to having children, so people aren't having children.

Besides, if they did, it's 20 years before, right? It's 20 years before they'll have enough children to fill in the gaps. This is where human reasoning, what we think are going to answer or fix problems, they had to get their population under control and now they're looking at population collapse. And they have another problem. Males were more valuable in people's minds than females, so they killed the little girls, maybe girls, and now they have a whole lot more males than females.

That is not normal. Any society that's the top-heavy in males really breaks down. We get really aggressive when we're competing for everything. You know, when there's five guys competing for one girl, it's going to get real bad.

Next slide. Four or five years, four years into Jesus being here. New worldwide school system based on the Bible. Old world's leading evolutionist. Boy, did we have it wrong. Nuclear family reestablished as bedrock of society, birth rates up. You know why most people aren't having more children today? I just read an interesting interview with large numbers of, oh good, we got, whoa! That's good. Oh, we got another one here. In the United States. Now, they're fighting the same problem in parts of Europe. The reason the birth rates are down is it cramps everybody's style. Having children keeps me from doing what I want. When it used to be, thank you, having children was one of the purposes of life, to bring other human beings into life where you could love them and you could take care of them and share life with them. And that's not the way it is anymore. We're not going to be able to read all these tonight, but we'll get to some of them. You know, people have a reason to have children.

A safe, wonderful society. Everybody has meaningful work. Everybody's, there's no competition, destructive competition. There's no wars.

Having children in that kind of environment is a blessing, and it's going to go up.

In fact, there's going to be a population explosion because the setting will be right. Worldwide crime down 92%. Christ tells saints, we still have a lot of work to do. You're going to change human nature overnight. That's probably a little bit of a, you know, it's probably not going to be that high. Probably not going to be that high. As everybody deals with, they're still, they're human nature. Corrupt human nature won't go away just because Satan went away. Everybody will still have their same corrupt human nature. And we're going to have to deal with that. And dishonesty will be normal because it was normal before Christ came, and they have to learn, no, that's not normal. And they're going to be taught that.

So there's the work it's going to have to do, but this will begin to become the normal over time. Amos chapter 9. Amos chapter 9.

Verse 11.

On that day, and when you see that time of term on that day, that usually means at the coming of the Messiah. On that day, I will raise up the tabernacle of David. So this has to do with Christ coming back and sitting on the throne of David, which has fallen down, the repairest damages. And I will raise up his ruins and behold, as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Eden and all the Gentiles who were called by my name, says the Lord who does this thing. What's amazing about so many of the prophecies about the return of Jesus Christ, as we understand in the New Testament, some of these prophecies are always so clear that the Messiah comes twice. There are some that show that. But so many of these that like this one here has to do with the second coming. But they always talk about all the nations, all the people, every human being as value to God, every human being. Nobody's left out of that. And we have to remember that, how He sees every human being.

He says, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when the plowmen shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes, him who sow seed, and the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. Now, this is a poetic, this is typical Hebrew poetic form. And what it means is, you can't even imagine what this earth can produce when it's healed. That's the point of this. You can't even imagine what it's going to be like. Like, my wife, she has developed this unique talent from when I first met her. When I first met her, when we first got married, I called her the killer of plants.

Boy, anything she grew died. But now, I don't know what happened, but she can grow things, you know? And it's fun to watch her grow things, and she's figured it out somehow. We have no idea what it's like. You can't pick everything.

That the earth can produce so much, the people can't eat everything. And everything will be good for you. We eat so much pseudo food. We don't know what's good for us, what's not good for us. That food is going to be good for you and beings. It's going to be the way God created it. Christ is going to go about recreating the Garden of Eden over the whole world.

Because the Garden of Eden was perfect for human beings. That's why we had a message that talked about the changing of the nature of animals. Yes, they'll be changed. I don't know. We may have some very special problems. I don't know what you do with, you know, 500,000 buffalo that decide to stampede down the middle of the main street. There's going to have to be some control, okay, because you can't have what this earth can produce unchecked. So he told them to tend the Garden. We're going to have to tend the world. We're going to have to tend the world. It's going to have to be controlled. It can produce more than what human beings can handle. So what do the headlines look like now? Let's look at these last couple slides. This next slide. Severe drought devastating farms in the western half of the U.S. Have you been watching how Lake Mead is drying up? But that's just that's just one problem. They're all these problems are all over the world. We get so centered in on what's happening here that we we forget what's happening in India or what's happening in Pakistan or what's happening in Central Africa. What's happening in parts of South America? I mean, Mr. Nance talked about inflation. Understand we see how bad inflation here is. Compared to most places in the world, we're really got it good right now. Inflation in Turkey is almost 90 percent.

Yeah, that's why they sell arms to Russia and Ukraine. Because they got to keep money coming in somehow.

So and I'm simplifying that problem, but they're that's part of the reason they're doing it. I mean, understand China needs Walmart. We need Walmart and they need Walmart. Right? Because you know why? If they manufacture all that stuff for Walmart, they don't have the consumers there that can buy it. So guess what happens there, economy? It's all a mess.

Grain shortages will cause hunger for millions. Russia's number one exporter of wheat or certain grains. Ukraine's number four. A lot of that's not going to get grown. Ukraine can't grow food. They're just getting bombed. They'll get some, but they won't get much out. People will starve in other parts of the world because of what's happening between Russia and Ukraine. Supply chain breakdown causing scarcity of food. This supply chain started to break down long before COVID. COVID just pushed it over the edge. And now you go to the store and what? You go to the store and what? There's things that we're all used to. I'm used to living in Tennessee and buying avocados out of season. Do you realize in the history of the world how strange that is? We're so used to it, we don't realize that throughout history, unless you happen to be a Roman emperor or something, you didn't get avocados out of season in, you know, especially if you were in Constantinople or someplace, you didn't get all these different kinds of foods unless you were very rich. We're used to it. And the supply chains are going to break down more and more. What's it going to be like when crisis has been unrolling for four or five years? Okay, our last slide. Christ heals the earth, pollution disappearing, crop yields not seen since the Garden of Eden on a massive scale.

If you starve to death, it's because you refuse to eat, because there's going to be enough food for everybody.

Since Jesus became king, no earthquakes, hurricanes or tornadoes, temperatures, normal.

Everything will be okay. He says he's not going to let those things happen after he comes. I mean, under the rule of Jesus Christ, you're not going to have an earthquake kill 10,000 people. It's not going to happen. He's not going to let that happen. He heals the earth, he heals the earth.

I don't mean there's not going to be bad storms and different things. I mean, but it's not going to be destructive. Those things are going to disappear. The temperature is going to be normal for wherever they're supposed to be. Certain places will be warmer than other places. Certain other places will be colder than other places. Certain places will have snow, and some places won't have snow. How do I know that? Because you can tell the earth is designed that way. That's the way God made it. You don't have palm trees. We used to live in Wisconsin. We lived in Texas. We had palm trees. You don't have palm trees in Wisconsin. Couldn't grow there. They don't have cheese curds in Texas either. Some of you know what that is. Okay. Supply chain problems. Stores. Overstocked. Won't that be great when we see that headline? Problem. Warehouse is filled. Please come get food. Jerusalem expands. Now, this is really important. Jerusalem expands laws giving all people land ownership. Land Sabbath and the Jubilee year taught. You know, one of the things that God taught ancient Israel, and of course we're not ancient Israel. We're the church, so we don't, you know, this isn't something that we can institute. Everybody owned land. Do you know how different it is when everybody owns land? We talk about equality and even playing field. What happens when everybody is a landowner? Everybody's going to own land. Everybody's going to get their place, and their place can grow, and their place can produce, and their place will be as wonderful as they're willing to work to make it. It's just how much effort you're willing to put into this, because you can do whatever you want with what God's going to give you.

I can't even imagine what machinery will have. Whatever it is, it'll work right. It won't pollute.

I can't imagine what electronics will have. Whatever it is, I guarantee you there'll be no porn on it. Right? I guarantee you that, yes, there'll be games. You know how I know there'll be games? Because every culture creates games. We love playing sports and games. That must be something God put in us. Now, we messed them up, right? There won't be any video games that create endorphin rushes that make people addicted to them, which is what happens. Won't happen. Whatever games we play, be good for us. I used to wonder, we can't all be absolutely perfect when we're changed into spirit beings. I mean, this is my little weird thinking here. There's a couple reasons why. I love jazz trumpet. I always thought, I want to play the best jazz trumpet in the universe. And I thought, no, I don't. I do want to be able to listen for the bit because if we're all the best in the universe, it doesn't mean anything. There'll be somebody that can really play the jazz trumpet, okay? And it's not the shofar, I can tell you that. You can't play jazz on a shofar. I've tried.

And I've thought about, you know, like baseball. If you had the guy that could throw the perfect pitch, everything was strikes, and he had the perfect hitter that everything was a home run, I don't know what would happen. Something like Big Bang and the universe would explode. I mean, you can't have those two things at the same time. So we all aren't going to be exactly the same. That's part of what God's going to make. Every individual has their own talents, our own abilities, and our own... and those personalities, our character will be perfect because Jesus Christ will be in us forever, right? He's all in all. That's not left the chance. But our personalities will be all be different. We'll all be... some of us will still strike out a lot.

And we'll still love playing games. And human beings on this earth will play games. But I guarantee you, there'll be no NFL, NBA. It'll be fun. It'll be fun. Children will play games. And everybody owns land. Jubilee Year cancels debts. It's amazing what's going to happen when this is set up. This is what Christ is going to do. See, we talk about it. We talk about it. When you start breaking it down to headlines compared to the headlines you and I read every day, it's hard to even imagine. And you've been hearing this. We've been hearing this all feast. Okay. Now... I don't know how many of these I can get through. We'll get through a few here.

Okay. The weather channel scrambles to find weather to scare people.

Yankee still lose to Astros. Okay. Well, I'm going to go just in.

Snakes and spiders breathe sigh of relief, finally seeing as God's cuddly creation instead of the symbols of ultimate evil. I don't know. Snakes. I still find... I mean, I've picked them up before. The kid, I killed everyone I've saw. There's still something about snakes I find creepy. Police suffering from unemployment.

Women realize the importance of staying home and caring for their children. Children are a great blessing from God. Well, in the kind of environment that's going to be there, it's going to be happening. Women and men will be working, but the family will be the center. The family will be the center. And you won't be taught the lie that a woman who spends her energy in her love and her time raising children is less of a woman. They will know she's more of a child of God. That lie bothers me. It degrades women.

Hospitals see 90 degrees decrease in business. Consider closing doors.

Fiat Money Outlaw, the only gold and silver, used a new monetary system. I don't know what the monetary system will be, but it's not going to be the one we have. Your American dollars are going to be worthless. Well, you can start cooking fires with them or something like that. The world has given a new energy source that is free and doesn't pollute. I figure, now this is my idea. Okay, I always say when it's my strange ideas. I think what we have works. It has to work the right way. We don't know how to make it work. God, He'll know how to make this work. Christ will make this stuff work. I mean, He made it, but we don't know how to make it work. We always mess it up. So yeah, we'll have clean energy because we'll know what to do with what He's given us. And whatever it is, it'll be beyond our little brains right now. No more health. Hospitals closed because no more sickness. See, that's beyond our imagination.

Oh, men won't be locked out of their own their homes because there's no need of locks. Some guy out there needs some counseling. I'll be available afterwards.

Yeah, all right. We won't need locks because no one's going to try to break in. Gardeners are an increased... Oh, gardeners see an increase in honeybees. Yeah, because they're dying off, you know.

You just wonder, but the environment works the way it's supposed to. What's that like? What's that like? Drug companies go out of business.

I'll add. Insurance companies also. Okay.

Education system begins drastic changes of improvement. Yeah, it's got to be overhauled entirely. Lion showing up on people's lawns to rest.

Big headline. Leaders now can define what a woman is.

Oh, I guess children no longer get upset with parents because they're boys and girls. I think that was the intent of that.

Teens say no to drugs and go home and obey parents. Now, that's going to take a while. Not saying no to drugs because they're not going to be available, but obeying parents, that's just human nature. That's going to take a while.

Oh, today kids are acting like animals in school. Yeah, it's tough.

Fish are increasing in the clean waters of the earth.

Oh, and they're not using unhealthy fish to create health aids. So, you know, they use all kinds of oysters and stuff to create things. They're supposed to help our health. So they're going out of business. Do a few more.

Our Father has been revealed. See, that's another thing too. God the Father, what's Christ always do? He always reveals the Father. I mean, that's He always points us towards the Father. Our Father has been revealed. The family unit has been restored. The poor are fed. The fatherless sought out. The fatherless sought out. That's a nice headline right there. We're finding out those who have lost their parents. We're finding out those who are homeless. We're finding out those, and we are, they're all going to be helped. Everybody gets helped. And everybody not only then just becomes a ward of the state, everybody learns how to reap the blessings that Christ has brought. They learn how to be part of society, and their minds are healed. Their bodies are healed.

Hammers once sold to military for $250 are now given away free. Yep. Without a military. Yeah.

A lead Santa sightings reduced to zero.

Thousands baptized in the Jordan River celebrate new life under the rule of Jesus Christ, their Savior. New. I'm not sure what that one is.

Starvation completely eradicated. Major traffic jam. Reason drivers being too nice. You've been driving through Branson, I see.

Yeah. Families each have a piece of property, and they're taught how to take care of it. Farmers being taught how to build up soils and farm organically to produce healthy crops. Once that once that soil is healed, taking care of it gets a whole lot easier. Once it's is what and then every year refurbishing and taking care of it.

Contest announced. School children to decide what to do with former zoos. Yeah, see all the animals are tame. You don't need zoos. Massive earthquake rises mountain from ocean floor, re-cloiting, relocating water over the ravished lands.

Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna bring water where there is no water today. Oh, the true New World Order has been accomplished. Yeah, it is a New World Order this coming.

Some of these are the same.

Recent headlines about children and what happens to them in these mass killings. Children safe. Yeah, just that headline, children safe. That's no divorce. Yeah, the divorce will actually be illegal. That's hard to imagine.

Physics understanding increases as a result of spirit beings. Everything's going to increase because the whole understanding of the physical world is going to just explode. Cancer eliminated.

A Muslim, a Hindu, and a Buddhist walk into a bar. It's not what you think. Buy each other a drink and share their stories of finding God. I like that one. Red Lobster changes name to Finns and Scales.

Yeah, that's good.

Some of these tell your age.

Yeah, no loudspeakers in cars.

You're over 60.

Children learning to be children and mothers learning to be mothers. Children learning to be children. Childhood is not what it's supposed to be for so many children. Well, just a couple more here. Planned Parenthood is now really Planned Parenthood.

Locksmiths and safe companies obsolete. Who needs a safe? Yeah, I hadn't thought about safes before. Who needs a safe?

Yeah, grand opening. A museum teaches children what wards are because they won't even understand, but they'll need to learn something. You're going to need to learn what evil is to a certain...I mean, you can't...you teach good. Converting all those people is going to be a real job. No more abortions. Children are now declared a blessing from God.

Facial injuries on the rise due to so much smiling.

The king and Zion proves to be what the world always needed, but didn't know it. That's a good one.

Parents upset because children bringing home large animals.

Well, those were some good ones. I'm going to keep those. But you get the idea now. I mean, I don't even know if we can understand entirely, but we have all these bits and pieces. Jesus Christ is coming back, and there is a job that's going to take a thousand years. You know what happens after the thousand years? Oh, yeah. The second resurrection. It takes a thousand years to prepare for that. But that's not that. But that's another story. We'll talk about that on the eighth day. Thank you for coming out tonight.