Satan’s Failing Strategy To Stop Prophecy | Signs of the Times | Perry Stone

((applause)) ((music playing)) it's uh it's an honor to be here it's a bit overwhelming because I have said there's three there's actually Four churches that when I know I'm going to I'm just so thrilled to come and I have said publicly in other places that this is the top it's the number one it really is and out there is two of our ((applause)) you really know who your friends are when you need them because they come through with you and uh it's good to have I call her I call her my side kick and that's an affectionate term for my wife 42 years but I think she kicks me more than I kick her okay so I may be her sidekick thank you honey for being here you can be seated I I I'm so uh I get a little overwhelmed sometimes s when I see when I'm honored thank you for that uh I want to get right into the word we did not I apologize for this we did not bring any product with us normally we do but uh a pastor had invited me to be here in the morning but I wanted to stay married because my wife had planned an Alabama Tennessee football game in her hometown her hometown in Tuscaloosa which we were there yesterday in a booth with some partners and uh I'm going to tell you a true story they have a restroom in the booth right you know it's sub private every time I went to the restroom Alabama scored am I telling the truth baby every time and the there's 25 people up there said would you just go to the bathroom and stay please would you just go to the bathroom and stay I was cracking up because it literally happened anyway thank you for the honor and thank you for being here tonight I'm going to begin and I'm going to do something a little bit different and I think if you've never seen this in the scripture it's going to open up your understanding to something very different I'm going to deal with the subject of Satan's failing strategy to stop prophecy does anybody know where the very first Prophecy in the Bible is found oh since you don't know I'm going to tell you God gave the very first Prophecy in the Bible in Genesis chapter 15 right at the time of the fall of Adam and Eve when he said these words I will put enity between you and the woman between her her seed and thy seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel that is the prophecy of the coming Messiah the second greatest prophecy is not found in the Book of Genesis but it is it is recorded by Jude in Jude verse 14 Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied of these sayings behold the Lord is coming with 10 thousands of his Saints to execute judgment on the earth and against the ungodly and it's interesting that jod prophesied I'm sorry eni prophesied that the Messiah was coming to Earth to rule before he was ever born so how do you figure that that's the inspiration of Prophecy and so if you look at the Bible and you look into the scripture I did a little research in fact my wife assisted me with this through Google the Bible does have 66 books written over 1600 year period of time by 40 men who were prophets and they were inspired of the Holy Spirit according to Peter there's 1,817 prophecies in 8,352 verses in your Bible which makes makes the Bible 27% prophecy or has some suggested one out of every four verses in scripture has some form of Prophecy now that doesn't mean it's an end time prophecy about the Messiah it can be about Christ first appearing it can be a prophecy which was given to Israel it could be a prophecy was given to the church for example but out of all of those predictions that are in the Bible out of the 18 1,8 87 one/ half of them have already been fulfilled so someone asked me one time what is your definition of prophecy as it relates to the Bible there's different ways you can word it but it is a specific prediction inspired by the Lord given to holy men of God in advance revealing what would happen in the future and don't ask me to repeat that because that's a long statement but it is when God pre-write writes the headlines and the amazing thing to me is that there are predictions that are thousands of years old that when they were written made no sense whatsoever like how can you put a mark on your hand or forehead and buy or sell there was no way in John's day that would have ever happened it's now done through computers and this is just one example how could every eye see the Messiah when he returns you know that's impossible until you have a satellite and you have smartphones and cell phon phon and smart TVs and now through a satellite we can watch a War take place while it's happening so every eye will see him those are just a few examples we could give but my question I want to pose to you as we introduce this tonight is why is Bible prophecy so important and we're not going to spend a lot of time on these but we want to give you just a reason a oneline reason number one Bible prophecy is important because it reveals to you the complete plan of God from the time of restoration of The Prophecy of the Messiah in Genesis 3:15 to when the New Jerusalem comes down on the new Earth it gives you a complete plan of God through world history all the way to the very end number two prophecy proves that Jesus is the Messiah and that's one of the exciting ones there's Josh McDow once said that there were 39 Old Testament prophecies that specifically were fulfilled through Jesus but if you take the ones about John the Baptist coming in the Book of Malachi and all the others there's well over 300 of the Old Testament that just deal with his Jesus coming for the very first time you remember at the resurrection of Jesus there were two disciples on the road to Emmas and they didn't recognize him he was resurrected and he began to according to Luke explain to them from Moses and the prophets now what does Moses mean that's the five books of the Bible called the Torah Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers in Deuteronomy that Moses wrote in the wilderness Jesus began to expound from those five books and then take the prophetic writings which is such as Isaiah where it says he was wounded for our transgressions bruised for our iniquities he made his grave in a in a rich man's tomb he took those prophecies and expounded to them that he was the Messiah and then their eyes were open and they knew him so you have to understand that the Bible is so Inspire that it predicts events about Christ's first coming and that's how we can prove he was the true Messiah and not someone Faking It number three the Bible prophecy gives proof that the Bible is the absolute true word of God now this is what makes it different than Islam different than Buddhism is different than any other religion in the world because the Bible is the one book The One religious book if you want to call up that the one holy book we call it the word of God that will tell you events that are going going to happen in the future that is lacking this is important you understand that that is lacking in practically every other religion in the world you show me one that tries to make the predictions and you see you got to understand something that the Jews use the Old Testament and the prophets they're using the same Bible we do so when the rabbis give a prophecy they're doing it from the same scriptures that we use you may not be aware of this but even in Islam Islam believes in the Torah the five books taught this their founder taught this the five books of Moses Genesis X Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy they also believe in the Psalms that David wrote and they believe in the four gospels but the difference is the Jews and the Christians would believe that they are totally inspired those books the Muslims have in the Quran verses that are from the Bible but they're changed for example Abraham didn't offer isek he offered Ishmael so when you ask him about a contradiction which I have most of the time they will say that the Christians and the Jews changed it to read what they wanted but my point is that all three monotheistic religions that consider Abraham their father it's Christianity Judaism and Islam that consider Jerusalem to be a sacred place it's Christianity Islam and Judaism that consider the Temple Mount to be holy Christians do because of Mount Mariah is in the area Jews do because Abraham offered Isaac on Mount Mariah and the Muslims do based on an alleged dream uh I'm sorry the night Journey that allegedly Muhammad back made to Jerusalem and we won't get into all that but the Bible everybody say this with me the Bible is the true word of God so how can we boast that because of the Fulfillment of the prophecies happening Even in our time that's how we can prove it number four and this is where we're at right now it it reveals to us what will occur in what is called the last days Daniel uses the term latter days some talk about prophets talk about the time of the end Jesus talks about signs of the times so there's about five terms used to indicate what will happen What will be fulfilled during a specific generation and these are called the Prophecies of the Bible now Timothy we won't we won't get into this but there's something called personal prophecy of which someone like Paul went to Timothy and gave him a prophe IC word that he should go Pastor a church and when he got to the church the older people didn't like him because they thought he was too young and Paul wrote him a letter and it's it's in the book of Timothy and he says this with the prophecies that went before you War a good Warfare he was saying don't let them discourage you but the word that God has given you how many have ever had to fight with a word that God gave you he gave you a he spoke to your spirit so there is that level but we will not be in discussing that today now here's what I've got to tell you lord lord lord how does the devil know my God Revelation 12 and 12 for Satan has come down with great wrath knowing that he has but a short time how does the enemy know his time is running out and the answer is when he sees things happening in Israel let me I'm about to wax in the Holy Ghost in just a minute y'all bear with me because we this is the introduction we haven't gotten to the meat yet okay this is just helping to lay out a foundation let me just show you something I'm going to show you how right before God does something big that is a fulfillment of something he spoke to a prophet watch how the enemy steps into to disrupt it okay before Christ's birth right remember that what happens Herod comes in and hears a baby's been born and sends in soldiers in a 10 mile Radiance of a place called Rama and has every child and your Bible says under two years of age slain hoping to kill Christ notice this before Christ Ministry publicly where is he at Matthew 4 Luke 4 he's in the Jude and Wilderness being tempted of the devil for 40 days and he say tempts him to Bow before him and he he's going to give him all the kingdoms of the world so before this great ministry began he has three temptations that if he'd have yielded to one of them would have totally destroyed everything God planned then we find another example the other example is at Christ crucifixion boy I wish I had time to get into this it says that in Luke that he went into Agony and the Greek word is agonia and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood when you read the book of Hebrews it says that he cried out to God this is a weird verse not weird I'm sorry it's Unique when you understand it when he cried out to God that God would save him from death and he heard him and I thought wait a minute Jesus cried out to God but he didn't save him from Death he died of crucifixion and I start studying the verse and it was referring to the Garden of Gethsemane where his sweat became his blood and he was about to literally die and he had to cry out for God's will to be done and God spared him from a premature death in the garden if Satan could have killed him in the garden he could have stopped the crucifixion then we go to the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2 but we find out that before Simon Peter stands up and preaches that great message on Pentecost what did the enemy do he tried to attack him Jesus said in Luke 22 Satan has desired you that he may shift you with sweet but I prayed for you that that your faith would not fail he tried to take the man of God Down and Out discourage him Peter denied the Lord went out and wept bitterly thought he'd lost the ministry thought that it was over but I'm telling you something it's not over when Jesus has already prayed for you God don't let me preach that right there the intercession was already made before the devil ever got there before the trouble ever came before hell ever broke out Jesus said don't worry about it I've already talked to the father everything's going to be all right oh Lord you may not be aware of this but according to the early fathers there was a man by the name of the Apostle John who was boiled in oil they wanted to remove him they wanted to kill him and Dom missan arrested John and put him in a pot of oil and guess what happened that hot pot of oil did not kill him and when it didn't kill him they took him out of that pot and took him to to the aisle of patmas he was the last of the TW Apostles do you do you understand the attack here Satan says let me get rid of the last man but it's hard to kill a man that's under an assignment from God God Almighty you better look out this may go how I feel the anointing coming on me because it was Jesus that said to him there's somebody standing here that will not die till they see the kingdom and they thought that it meant that somebody would be living when the coming of the Lord took place and caught him up to heaven that's not what it was guess who saw the kingdom it was John who wrote the Book of Revelation that's how he saw the kingdom he saw it in a vision and you can't kill a man on an island you can't bite him with a snake and you can't even threaten to chop his head off and you can't put him in a pot of oil cuz when God says I'm not done with you oil can't kill you snake bites can't take you out car wrecks can't mess you up airplanes fight with your assignment fight with your assignment let's go into modern times one more and that is in the in the nation of before before the nation of Israel is ever born before it's ever birth before anyone ever thought there would be a nation of Israel there was a seven-year Holocaust there was 6 million Jews annihilated 1.5 million children and it lasted for seven years Satan tried to prevent the nation of Israel from being fulfilled by destroying the Jewish people before they could ever form a nation but in on May 14th 1948 Satan too bad so sad because it didn't work now God I want to say this to you because I believe what I'm about to say and I'm gonna I'm G to break this down real practical for a minute every time that you get a word from the Lord that you know is a word from God you will usually engage in Warfare ready personal prophecy attracts attack God tells Pastor I'm going to do something I'm going to build something the Lord's told us we're going to do this to and when you when you announce it but you know what it shouldn't frighten you because the greater the battle the bigger the blessing and that's true that's not just a cliche that's really true the bigger the battle you you will come out of it and find out the bigger the blessing but here's what the enemy wants to do this is the goal of of hassatan the Fallen Angel that has the kingdom of darkness that we battle in these last days he wants to prevent the Fulfillment of Prophecy and he wants to stop the Fulfillment of a promise that God gives so I'm going to give you four strange strategies that he attempted this is going to be fun you just stay with me I'm I'm going to give you four strategies that he attempted that had he been successful would have altered the course of history and likely this building would not be here none of us would be here today the first thing is this let's go um for example in Genesis chapter 14 and you don't have to put this up I'll just explain it'll be fine whatever you want to do there but Genesis 4 171 17 Verses 4 and five God chooses a man by the name of Abram that's his original name and then tells him I'm going to raise I'm going to give you a son then he says now out of the sun will come a nation then he says Out Of The Sun Will Come many nations then he says out of the sun all the nations all the nations of the Earth would be blessed now how can we be blessed by the Seed of Abraham because Christ is the Seed of Abraham and the nations of the world have been serving him for 1900 years in place to Christians have in every nation that's how we've been blessed but notice this so Abraham or let's just call I'm going to call him Abraham and Sarah instead of their first names which is Abram and Sarah so they come out of the land of Earth which is somewhere in the country of Iraq today and they head toward the promised land now there is and before I tell you what happened with this there is a scroll in a Dead Sea scroll that was discovered that described Sarah and from when Sarah was 65 to 90 years of age she was one of the most beautiful women walking the planet you don't believe it a 90-year-old woman could be that kind of a knockout let's just tell you what happened now watch this is the enemy trying to stop the plan Abraham comes into the land he goes down because there's a famine in the promised land he goes down to Egypt Genesis chter 12 pharaoh and Pharaoh's servants see her and they say hey Pharaoh there's this dark-headed woman just came over the Border you got to check her out so Abraham becomes afraid and Abraham says uh to to pharaoh who is the woman with you so instead of saying my wife he was afraid that they would kill him and take her so he says my sister now that's the dumbest thing cuz think about this okay if I say she's my wife he'll kill me if I say she's my sister he'll take her so you have two choices lose your wife or die okay I mean the whole the whole thing is okay you didn't get it I man it went over your head it's okay so you know the story that he was going to bring her into the Herm and then he is warned warned by God and he says what are you doing why did you lie he said well I I didn't really lie because we have different fathers but the same mother something of that nature so uh look I look can I tell you something just be careful in the Old Testament of not trying to practice what they did CU can I tell you some there's some verses I'd leave out help me there there's some strange things there you know we're under the New Covenant new test praise God grace mercy glory to God you know I mean I mean I mean back in that day you you'd get stoned for everything and I ain't talking about Stone getting drunk either I mean anyway let me get off of that I'll get side I get on these rabbit trails and I get off subject so watch this so then God plagues pharaoh to prevent him from taking Sarah and then 86 years of age God said to Abraham uh and and he they've been waiting when he's 75 you're going to have a son so he's 85 years of age 10 years has gone by Sarah has a handmaiden she got out of Egypt named Hagar you know the story and she says to Abraham well it's very obvious that I am not the woman that's going to have this baby because I just keep getting older and you're going to be too old to have one before long and so I tell you what I'm going to do I'm going to legally allow you to uh take my handmaiden and you can take her for a wife and you can go in under her now you must understand that she Hagar was much younger than Sarah and I don't know of no woman that would say take the girlfriend and have a baby I don't care I mean it's like that's one of those thingses in the Bible I just don't get you know Pam gonna say go yeah Perry get take a girlfriend or and I'm not going to look at Pam say yeah go go take some guy if you want to have another baby you know you don't do stuff like that help me preach somebody y'all looking at me like what where I thought you preaching on Prophecy yeah I'm preaching on Prophecy you just need to get through this part you'll understand what I'm saying and and I want to show you a nugget here so he does go into Hagar one year later at age 86 has a baby named Ishmael which mean go means God hears here's what's strange about that did you notice that from the time ishmail is born to the time ishmail is 13 years of age God hid something from Abraham circumcision he never revealed circumcision for 13 years Isaac is born ishmail is 13 which in Judaism would be a bar midfoot which means that he is now responsible for his own sins and God waits till Ishmael becomes a man on his own before he reveals circumcision why didn't God reveal circumcision to Abraham way back in the beginning because had he circumcised ishmail at 8 days old he would have been the Covenant child because circumcision was the sign of the Covenant with God so God hid it now see God even knows watch out now in your mistakes how to get you out of your mess cuz he hit something he actually hit it to protect the plan now here's the third example okay third example now I'm telling you I don't know what Sarah looked like but she must she I mean she must look at these guys they go down into to the Gaza gath and Gaza area and there's a king by the name of ailec by the way this is Genesis chter 20 and he sees Sarah and they say take her into the herum and Abraham says well she's my sister for a man of Faith he is so afraid of this wife situation I can't get it God's man of faith and power you know Abraham walk with God man of Faith man father of the faith and ailec has a dream and God says you're a dead man because that man's a prophet and if you try to have a child through her see here's what the here's what's happening pay attention to what's happening Satan is attempting to stop the birth of what would be Israel because Israel had to come through Abraham not another man it had to be Seed of Abraham the promise of the nation is given to Abraham so what does he do he's not going to attack Abraham except through Hagar situation which by the way that Ishmael uh Isaac thing has CAU caus wars in the Middle East for thousands of years I mean honestly it just has that's that's C that's you know brothers fighting and they'll even tell you that in some Arab countries we Brothers we have fought for many years but my point is notice who he goes after he goes after Sarah knowing that whatever this plan is of God if he can get Sarah out of Abraham's hands then she's the one the promise was given to have a child through another king if literally disrupts the entire plan that God has anybody see that say yes if you see what I'm saying all right so you know you know uh Abraham is 100 Sarah I gotta tell you this real quick Sarah is 90 Isaac is born do you realize that Sarah is 127 years of age when she finally dies somebody add up a baby coming at 90 then you die at 127 and tell me how old Isaac was when Sarah died I'm getting 37 is that right 38 37 38 I'm not going to I'm not going to use the number I wrote down because I'm dyslexic with numbers and I'm I'm always wrong okay let's try it again real quick she dies at 127 Isaac is born at 90 so how old roughly would he have been say it real loud 37 you're great you're Geniuses now I want to tell you something about this boy mama would not let him out of the tent you ready God had to take Sarah in order to get Isaac married now I can prove it to you don't get me on this we'll go on another Rabbit Trail here but it says that they went and found a bride for him brought the woman back and he went into he Isaac went into his mother's tent to consummate the marriage to be comforted of his mother's death if Sarah had not died the boy would have been a hundred and not been married come on somebody she's he's a he's a bad mama's boy so so sometimes don't get me on that sometimes God got to do some different things to get things moving Hallelujah okay here we go now that was plot one so here we go we're going to we're going to go with plot Number Two the plan to prevent Israel from coming into the promised land now I'm going to read this verse to you this is in the Book of Genesis chapter 15 and I'm sorry guys I didn't write the verse number down but chapter 15 God said to Abram know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs and they will serve them and they will afflict them for 400 years and also that Nation whom they serve I will judge afterward they shall come out with great possessions now this is a prophecy that Israel would go to Egypt we now know what the prophecy meant and they would be separated from the promised land for 400 years when you count the time that Joseph was there it totals according to Exodus 430 years total now in that time Moses is uh uh found in the bull rushes you know the story raised in by Pharaoh's daughter in the palace and for 40 years becomes a part of Pharaoh's household kills an Egyptian who's attacking a Hebrew has to go on the run and live in the desert for 40 years till everybody who knows about him has died God Appears to him watch this now at 80 years of age says now go tell Pharaoh let my people go What's Happening Here Is God is now going to fulfill the promise that he gave to Abraham that the 430 years are now up it's now time for them to leave Egypt and go back and repossess the promised land and here's the reason why because the promised land is where the Messiah would come from the prom the Messiah had to be born in a certain location and preach in Israel so they couldn't stay in Egypt the rest of their life you know the story 10 plagues had to come after the 10 plagues come according to Exodus 12 600,000 men not counting women and children Scholars say 1.8 to 2.5 million people they come out of Egypt in Exodus chapter 32 32 Moses there Israel's at the base of the mountain Moses goes on top of Mount Si God writes The Ten Commandments with the fingers of his hand Moses at the end of 40 days brings those Commandments down sees them worshiping a gold cow now the reason they worshiped a gold cow is in Egypt there was Aus or Aus who was a bull deity it really was it was a bull and they made a gold bull broke the earrings off and Aaron's so crazy like like like Moses is going to believe this where' the cow come from well they broke their earrings off I through the golden the cow jumped out that's what he said a cow jumped out of the fire really okay sure so that got Aaron judged for that statement because that wasn't true but the point I want to make is that he broke the Commandment Stones right you remember that then what a man he returns back up on the mountain to talk to God and I want you to listen to what God said this is the most important statement God ever made to Moses because had Moses said do it everything in world history would have been altered God says to Moses I'm mad at him they won't listen they're stiff necked in Rebellion I will consume them all and make a great nation of your seed or out of your seed Exodus chapter 32:10 now you think about this statement for a moment Moses said to God you better remember Abraham Isaac and Jacob because you got a covenant and you can't go back on it and it said God repented it's in your Bible God repented what does that mean does mean he said that God repented of sin it means that God said I changed my mind you've caused me to change my mind now let me talk I was reading this the other day and I saw something what if Moses out of his frustration would have said do it what if Moses would have said kill them all use me I'm fine with it I can't take these people through here I'm he got so tired read it he said kill me he told God one time just kill me I'm so tired of it I can't put up with it anymore think about this you had Abraham that's one man he has Isaac that's two men Isaac has Jacob that's three Jacob has 12 sons that's 12 men plus the others but it took 430 years to get 600,000 men Moses at that time is 80 years of age he's going to live to be 120 years of age according to the book of Deuteronomy then he's going to die and God's going to bury him at the base of Mount Nebo now how many how many babies could one man produce in 40 years with two wives did you say two wives yes Believe It or Not Moses had two wives oh I'm messing with you now here's who they were he married a he married an Egyptian princess when he had a war with Egypt and Josephus tells you he was married to a darkskinned egyp uh I'm sorry not I'm sorry Ethiopian woman he married an Ethiopian wife when he left remember he killed the Egyptian and he ran she didn't go with him she stayed in Egypt she didn't see him in 40 years he comes back to get the children of Israel she sees the plagues and she said I'm going with you how can I can I prove it the Ethiopian wife was in the wilderness because Mariam mocked his Ethiopian wife and Mariam got leprosy for it how many know what I'm saying now but wait a minute when he went into the Wilderness with Jethro he married Jethro's daughter Jethro was a priest that's two different women I don't have time to explain it to you but both of those were in his life let's assume that Moses has two wives it takes nine months to have a baby then another nine months to have a baby he lives to be 40 years I've total he could he could have about 80 kids how long would it take for a nation to be redone to get it back up to 600,000 men the same amount of time it took before it would take hundreds of years and it would have messed up the davidic Kingdom well let me just tell you this way if Moses would have said yes there would have never been a five books of Moses written there would have never been a Torah are you understand he wrote that in the wilderness for 40 years number two there would have never been a tabernacle built if there had never been a tabernacle built there would never be the Levites it never been the Levites there'd be no sacrificial system if there had never been a Torah there would have never been types and shadows of the Messiah to prove that Jesus is the Messiah based on Genesis 22 Abraham offering Isaac on Mount Mariah based on what Moses wrote about the ashes of the red hepher based on what Moses wrote of the brast serpent hanging on a pole that was a type of the Messiah you understand Jesus could have never said I am in the law because there would be no law I am in the Torah because there'd be no Torah had they all been killed some of the prophets would have never been born my God are you hearing what I'm saying Not only would the Bible not have been written The Way It Was Not only would there not have been a tabernacle there not have been a priesthood there not have been a law there'd be no sacrifices everything would have got messed up but the Bible said Moses was the meekest man on the earth and when God said I'm going to kill them all he said you kill me and God said well if I kill you I ain't got nobody left so God changed his mind and Moses wrote the book and built the Tabernacle got the priesthood going and said there's a messiah coming Hallelujah so you can't you can never say that one man's obedience is not important m ((music playing)) ready for the third one here's the third thing he tried to stop and this is important he tried to prevent the birth and the lineage of the Messiah God was so strict with the Israelites if you've ever noticed there were laws there were judgments there were statutes uh there were so many things that God said you have to among the Jews you need to marry a Jew and people say why was God so strict because God was strict in order to keep a certain bloodline trackable in the Bible to prove that Jesus was the Messiah the blood M was important now if you've never noticed this in Matthew chapter 1 there is there's a lineage of and my wife has this very unique study she got caught and I'm not going to get into it honey by the way but she got into a very unique study I did a Bible commentary on the geneologies and I said you just told me something I did not know and Jensen I'll tell you in shice later what what she said honestly you'd get so hung up on it tonight that you wouldn't miss the rest of the message but it's amazing Matthew chapter 1 the genealogy of Jesus starts with Abraham and goes forward to Joseph and that's the kingly lineage from the House of David in Luke 3 it starts with Jesus and it goes backwards to Adam which is the servant or the human lineage of Jesus Matthew 1 represents Joseph's house or the seat of Joseph house let me say house of David that leads to Joseph and Luke 3 is Mary's lineage okay and that's all I'm going to tell you because the rest of it would get really that lineage had to be in the Bible but I want to show you something I'm going to give you I'm going to give you four things real quick and I want you to kind of keep this in mind one of these would be very long to teach and I don't have the time to do it but there's four ways that Satan attempted to dis totally disrupt the lineage of the Messiah and corrupt it and and the only way he could corrupt it was the Jewish people who were actual Seed of Abraham Levites who were actual Levites marrying Gentiles and intermingling a bloodline from other nations because God said no you have to keep Abraham Isaac Jacob you got to keep that all the way through to the Messiah so let me give you the four in the Genesis chapter 6 and verse4 there there was Giants in the earth Before the Flood when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and bore for them Mighty Men of old I don't have time to teach this please just believe me when I tell you that I've studied this for several hundred hours according to Jewish history according to the early fathers According to second Peter 2 and4 and also the book of Jude God sent down angels in the form of men before there was a Torah to teach them how to live for God when they took upon themselves human flesh which was possible read Genesis 19 the two strangers that were angels that came to to Sodom they looked human the men thought they were human they thought they were men when they took upon themselves the form of Flesh they could do what flesh could do and they became enamored with the daughters of men they went into them sexually and they produced a race of Giants and it would take me I promise you two hours to prove it from history in the Bible but it's there now what is that watch the verse I will put enity between you and he's talking to Satan but remember Satan came in the form of a serpent right I'll put imity or Strife between you and the woman between her seed and your seed the seed of Satan was the Giants Goliath isbon off saf the Giant from gath the there were five giants in David's day he took out the whole race he and his mighty men they were anywhere between 12 10 no nine and a half to 12 feet tall and they were vicious and they were known as Demag Gods now let me say this to you when you see History Channel talk about Ancient Aliens and how the aliens came down and they give you all these quotes from ancient Samaria ancient Babylon it's not aliens it's fallen angels and your Bible talks about does that make sense to everybody so there was a race of fallen angels all right that was the first Corruption of Satan trying to corrupt the seed what God did he sent the flood to wipe out all the Giants and then he later according to Jewish history and even to the Bible Fallen Angels God took them off the Earth and bound them in tardus which is the lowest Hill underneath the Earth and there they are where they can't do that again Exodus 12: 28 a mixed multitude came out of Egypt what does that mean they were not all Hebrew people that were coming out they had married Egyptians there was an Egyptian boy that blasphemed God's name and was stoned in the wilderness and so in other words God said and God knew that the mixed multitude it says this the mixed multitude fell austing so in other words when Israel was wanting the foods of Egypt it was the Egyptians they had married that said we want the cucumbers and the leak and the garlic and we want the fish and the Melons I'm going tell you onions and leaks and garlic will give you bad breath and diarrhea okay so what are these people wanting anyway so what was happening was the intermingling of the seed was causing a division in the Hebrew faith that was another temp Daniel I'm sorry Deuteronomy 7 verse1 there were seven tribes there was the hivites the amorites the moabites the edites the oh I'm sorry that wasn't in the Bible I've met them then I've met a few idiotes come on there's a few idiotes in the church and God said to Israel he said you going to have to you're going to have to displace these seven tribes if you don't displace them they're going to be scorn thorns in your eyes and scourges in your side and the idolatry is what God didn't want it didn't God didn't hate people but God said they are Idol worshippers they're going to corrup corupt you so there's another example of Satan trying to corrupt the sea in the day of Nehemiah the priest had married Babylonian wives and Nehemiah went to all those priest and said you got one or two choices stay in the priesthood and get rid of the wife and you're going to have to stay single the rest of your life or either if you want to stay married to the wife you're going to have to get out of the priesthood completely okay you can stay in it if you leave her if you don't leave her you got to leave and that's where the one married one of the priests married San ballet's daughter San ballot was the governor of Samaria and they built this is all in Jewish writings they built the temple on Mount gazim in Samaria that the woman at the well told Jesus we worship on this mountain and you Worship in Jerusalem which one is right and that was a split that actually happened in the time of Nehemiah and Ezra now don't miss my point here the Bible tells you that the Messiah has to be born in Israel numbers 24:17 he has to come from the tribe of Judah Micah 5 and2 he has to be born in Bethlehem Micah 5 and2 he must be born in the House of David through the lineage of Ruth and Boaz which is recorded in Ruth 4:21 and22 and Isaiah 22 and verse two so what I want to share with you is this the Reason God was so strict is there was an attempt to mess up this lineage but if you go to Matthew 1 and if you go to Luke 3 I don't know how he did it but somehow God was able to PR preserve the seed from Abraham all the way through to Joseph and he was able to preserve the seed of the House of David all the way to the time of Christ and we know that Jesus is the Messiah because the lineage of the Bible Praises it back come on somebody give the Lord a praise for that so now this takes me to where we are right now this is where this is where I wanted to get to for just if you'll give me about about give me another six or seven minutes and I'll get this out to you because I want to I want to tell you what's happening in the Middle East and I'm going to explain it to you quickly without going into the major details that would take a lot of people don't understand this whole conflict and they especially don't understand the issue of Hamas being a terrorist organization Hezbollah being a terrorist organization Isis being a terrorist organization and they can't quite figure out what is happening one country is behind all of that one one country called Persia better known as Iran you're now hearing it on the news how they provided weapons from North Korea and got them shipped in and they provide they provide the weapons they provide the money they're Persians now let me stop and say some of the sweetest people I've met in all the Earth in the United States are Iranian people many of them are Christians by the way Iran now has the greatest underground movement of God I ask a man I I probably must I'm need to be careful with this um let give me before I say it because I know this is just coming out on the internet let me just say this the greatest underground movement Church in the church world is in Iran and it's being led by young women under 30 years of age that's all I'm going to say and there are hundreds of thousands of secret Christians okay so don't think all the Iranian people are bad they are not in fact there many of them are good people but they're leaders which is 20% radical but let me explain why everybody say this with me apocalyptic Islam three religions have oh I feel the Holy Ghost now I'm we can I have a little bit more time Pastor because I feel the Holy Ghost has really want me to get this who you going to give me will you let me have a little bit of time you really you really need this is going to explain the whole thing okay when when Muhammad who was the founder of Islam died the religion split between two of his followers one was his son-in-law and one was his first convert the first convert took one branch of Islam and the son-in-law took the other branch of Islam and they became known as Shia and some would say Shiite and it's different pronunciations in the west and sunnis the sunnis are about 80% maybe more the Shia are probably about 20% if we total up all the other countries now here's where it gets interesting and I'm going to really reduced boy we could get into this so deep and so heavy it' kind of blow your mind but Judaism has prophecies rabinal prophecies Christianity has the Bible with hundreds of prophecies but what a lot of people don't know is Islam has its own predictions of what they believe they are supposed to see at the time of the end all right some of these are based on not statements in the Quran they're based on the Hadith they're based on Traditions that were handed down by the their khif and their leaders the Persians believe the Iranians believe and this is what you'll this is going to make sense to you the Iranians believe that they must produce an end time war between the East and the West they must produce it because there is a man coming called Al Al Al mahadi I hear him talking about Mah mahadi al- mahadi comes riding on a white horse appears with a white horse appears with Jesus makes a seven-year treaty I I had a Persian girl teach me this 25 years ago from Persia okay I was preaching from Revelation 13 the Antichrist and the false prophet she said we need to talk all right she was a Christian girl they will be over the gold and silver they will take over Egypt liia and Ethiopia they will have they must they must have a huge war in Syria and they must take over Israel they believe now now just think about this for a moment so you're in Iran and you believe that you must create the biggest war that's ever happened and that you're Hamas and Hezbollah give them all these missiles and eventually you will destroy Israel and get that land back and they don't I'm going to say this I'm going to say it because I know I have th well no I won't say thousands I've met thousands I have hundreds of friends who call themselves Palestinian and most of them are very good people most of them are Israeli citizens they're isra Arabs and even in one town they've told me if we said this they'd kill us we would rather have the Israelis controlling us because they don't have the corruption that our leaders have okay so Hamas is a terrorist organization hisbah there's a there's a political and military branch of all of these but it's the it's the it's the military branch that's doing all the wars so watch listen to this this is so heavy so if they can win in Gaza and if they can take over Israel it means that their religion is true are you getting it I'm talking about Persia if though Israel survives defeats Hamas defeats Hezbollah if they do then what that means is what they have been teaching their people can't be true ((applause)) this is a religious battle it is not political everybody's making it political it's religious and nobody's talking about that and where it's going I a pastor's probably shared with you because he knows prophetic things as well I believe he's probably shared this with you this war could go not immediately but if it goes bad for Persia they will reorganize and you will have turkey and Persia and all those nations in Ezekiel 38 coming together at the war of Gog and Magog and I've been preaching about that war how long J in 40 years and I said here's what's going to happen to get it here and we're now seeing the early stages of what could happen to get here and here's the thing that you need to know in that battle it happens in the northern part of Israel near the Lebanese border that's called the Bashan the Golden Heights that's in your Bible it happens on the East pot part of the Dead Sea which is the country of geia Jord and it also it's going to Gaza Gaza is not even mentioned in those passages which makes me think they're going to whip Hamas because God is not mentioned in the Ezekiel it's all North now it's all Hezbollah it's all North it's all the north but here's what I want to tell you do not worry about Israel can can I tell you why because they have in Daniel chapter 12 the Archangel Michael who is their Defender Michael is the defender of the nation of Israel and I've already read in Revelation he can whip the devil and he's going to cast Satan Out of Heaven in the middle of the tribulation ((applause)) and God says God says in the prophecy my wrath will come up and the world will know I am God the bottom line is the Bible is true prophecy the bi the Bible is the word of God and this is the book you look to if you want to know the future don't go to a crystal ball one psychic one psychic big psychic from California went to get a MRI and lost her power TR story in Modesto California and sued the hospital for taking the MRI and losing her power I would love to have that case as a loyer I could have said you're a psychic yes what you you know the future yes well if you knew the future how come you didn't know when they did the MRI you were going to lose your case closed I want you to know something though I believe this we're getting emails and I'm going to wrap this up here in just a moment but we're getting emails right now from people who say I'm scared because I'm not saved I've had people I've had people writing say I've been backslid for years and I've watched 911 I've watched everything but when I saw this it's like the spirit of God came back to me and said to me pay attention I'm getting your attention and there's going to be a massive number of people people that when the Lord does come it's going to go with him but there going to be people who've overcome they're going to be people who watch and pray people who look for him the Bible said he shall appear so here's what your mind needs to be on because A lot's going to happen real the next couple months is going to get crazy all over but watch this number one the gospel must be preached around the world then the end would come help get the gospel out that's your that's Prim that's that's number one whatever you got to do to get it out number two the the holy spirit's going to be poured out on Sons and Daughters we're bring we're I know Jensen Jensen has a big youth thing every year we're bringing Warrior Fest our big Warrior Fest back to Cleveland and did you pre you preached a couple times there in the first of April so we're getting back into this because if God's going to pour out this his Spirit on Sons and Daughters I want to make a place and Jensen does too for them to be here ain't that right pastor and that's that's the second thing that you have to keep in mind and the third thing that you have to keep in mind and I'm going to say this to everybody watching me and those of you that's here is you have to keep a repentant Spirit when my boy was on drugs and he was on alcohol and he was I'm just going to say it he met he was so messed up it scared me I walked in I said I'm G tell you something son I want you to remember this I said you might not be interested in trying to serve the Lord now because of your your situation and I know that and you know that because you've told me that but I want you to do this if you ever feel like you're about to go you you just call out to God ain't that terrible to have to tell your kids that just call out to God because the thief on the cross you know the thief on the cross didn't even say a sinner's prayer did he remember me okay Jesus said okay we you I got you brother two words remember me it doesn't take forever to get right with the Lord h it just takes a sincere heart but two things three things the gospel the outpouring of the spirit and doing everything you can to follow the lord keeping you know keeping your eyes on the prize bow your head with me I feel led to do this right now thank you father in Jesus name Lord I want to thank you for this word I just feel like this is the time Lord to give the people the opportunity to pray Jesus blessed be the name of the Lord would everybody just lift your hand with me for a moment We Worship You Jesus we worship you Jesus we worship you Jesus we worship you take this message Lord that I have preached please and let people believe it with all their heart because whatever we do if it's helping people if it's serving if it's studying if it's ministering we have a set time to do that and actually we have probably a limited time to do that all of us