This is a message I am preaching basically to try to address the Jewish people. Our Contender paper is going into Israel now, so many of them will get this message, if we eventually print it. I want to say to the Jewish people that might somehow hear this on audio tape, Gentiles have been the keepers of your book, the Bible. Some might question a Gentile's mind, of having the ability to know anything about the prophetic picture in the Bible, but I am not preaching this to try to persuade them that I know anything. However if I can convince them that God, by His grace, back in 1993 showed me in a dream one night, that there would be certain prophetic scriptures that would line up to a certain definite end, I believe that might be of a help to them. When those scriptures begin to really line up, I can see a perfect picture related to the time we are living in, and how we can look for the soon coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am fully aware that not every Jew has accepted Jesus Christ as their Messiah, so I am not preaching this to try to bring conversion to anyone, but rather to show them that I am basically interested in helping them realize that a Gentile has been privileged to see some things that are soon to come to pass. There are a lot of doctors of divinity in the Gentile world who are putting together various pictures from the prophecies in the Bible. They have even sent videos to me from time to time. I appreciate the things that some have sent, but I have to believe that God, in His love and mercy, has let me see something that overrides all the ideas of the doctors of divinity. I am not an educated person according to the standards of the world: therefore I am even more grateful to God, because I know He can take a human mind that may not have been given to a lot of intellectual learning, and can deal with him in a way that he can see things that many times will confuse the ordinary religious mind. Last Sunday we preached two messages, morning and night, dealing in relationship to these scriptures I have listed on this chart. I want to say at this time, I will quote the dream I had, at the end of this message, (which will not be today) along with another dream that the Lord gave me back at the beginning of the year, which taken together lets me know we are moving that much more rapidly in time toward the end. As for the chart we are using, if you compare it to last Sunday's chart, let me remind you that would see both of them, we have taken off the previous things we had on there and added this which you see now, which shows from 33 A.D. to somewhere over here when the seventieth week of Daniel is in effect. This represents the seventieth week, which is a period of seven years, three and one half in each part. We are showing the seventieth week of Daniel enlarged. When we realize Hosea 6:2-3 gives us a yardstick to measure time by, we have to ask ourselves the question, Why did God put a prophetic scripture in the Bible that you can plainly see is a yardstick? In Hosea 6:2, which was written almost eight hundred years before Christ, even before the destruction of Jerusalem the first time, when the Babylonians came and tore down Jerusalem and the temple, and took the two southern tribes off into captivity, we see this, "After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight." Even before the ten tribes were carried off into captivity, Obadiah gave a prophecy stating what would happen to the children of Israel, the Jewish people, in the time the Babylonians would come. That prophecy has two aspects to it. Through Obadiah, God warns Edom that they should not have looked upon God's people as they did, and should not have been pleased as they were. The later part of the prophecy tells us what God is going to do to the Edomites here in the end time. I want to say to the young people that are still going to school, You will not find these things related to you in your secular histories of today. I have some old history books that were used back at the turn of the century, when a lot of Bible related history was studied in our schools. You can understand today, why they do not want you studying any of that. They do not want you to see anything that is related to the Bible, because they really do not believe the Bible is a true book. As for myself, I have to believe the Bible is more true than all the history books man has ever put together, because it is a known fact that man will try to change history, a little here, a little there, from what the original writers would have had in mind. With all of that is mind, we are dealing with this subject trying to show that we are approaching a short span of time in which God is going to show this world just how great He is. In one sense of the word, He is going to do it basically, to show the Israelite people that have been brought home from dispersion, that He is still their God, and that He is fulfilling everything He ever promised them, and that He is getting ready to show other things, in the way He will bring the children of Israel back and the way they will reclaim all the land that was given to their father Abraham. From the United Nations agenda, (which we have a copy of) it is a fact that they, (the United Nations) if they are left to have their way, there will be no such thing as Israel ever being able to reclaim all their borderland. Nevertheless the Bible promises that God will establish Israel back in their land according to her former estates, meaning according to her former geographical boundaries. God gave Abraham a lot more land than what the Jewish people have in their possession right now; and He is going to see that they get all of it back.

If we were to say today, that the U.N. is going to have its way, we would actually be saying God will not fulfill all that we find written in our Bibles. God has allowed the UN to have its way up until now, but when the time comes that their agenda stands in the way of God fulfilling his word to the children of Israel, He will rip that thing to pieces. Keep in mind, God has a plan in His word and no earthly man, no matter how big a politician he may be, or what kind of political leader he may be, when it comes time for Him to watch over His word and fulfill it, He will let, or cause something to go amiss, to start the event. Then there will be political upheaval come into play that will open up the way for whatever God has in mind. Once political upheaval starts, it seems as though politicians and world leaders will begin to disagree with each other, and that is because God puts it in their hearts to do whatever it requires for His plan to be manifested. In the 17^th chapter of Revelation, we find these words written, (verse17) "For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled." That pertains to the leaders of western Europe, which form the ten horns of the beast system of Rome here again in the last days, and God says He will put in their heart's whatever it takes to fulfill His word. To me, that is a fact: not just a maybe. That is why I say there is no such thing as the United Nations outweighing what God has purposed to do. I have said this for a good while now, Many may think the U.N. is the world's beast, but I assure you , it is not It is a decoy, to lead people astray, especially world leaders, along with a lot of preachers who are not reading the Bible right. I have read in the last two or three years, where, out of the Catholic Church comes prophecies they have dug into their old archives and found, where soothsayers and individuals like Nostradamus have prophesied various things. Some of those men spoke things that actually came to pass, but let me say this, It does not matter if you had a hundred men of that type prophesying, and if they have a hundred prophecies yet to be fulfilled, when it comes time for this Book to be fulfilled, all of that other stuff will go amiss. It just goes to show, we have preachers today trying to put together a prophetic picture without having a revelation of the plan of God. They are going altogether on what Nostradamus and those type men have said, rather than what the Bible says. I have to say, God forbid that we should have such a negative attitude about what God's word says. It is my desire, and yes, my prayer, to be able to show from the Bible, that what we are saying is shortly to come to pass, because there is a picture being formed right before our eyes in this hour of time. In the political leadership of the nation of Israel, they know that the Arab world, all the way from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, all the Arab world is eventually going to get tired of waiting for Israel to give up all this occupied land that they took in the Six Day War. They want them to give back all the land to a certain boundary line. That is what the U.N. says, and the Arab leaders are going to hold Israel to that: At least that is what they think. That will act as a decoy until God has the stage set for the real plan to go into effect. I have to say this, Not even the Gentile religious world will see it. They will only see certain fragments of it. I have to say though, The people that make up the Bride of Christ, are going to see this thing come together and they will understand what is happening.

I want to show you, since we have changed the chart we are using, that this line here, actually starts in 33 A.D. That is approximately when Christ was crucified. We have already figured that out. However since there maybe some Jewish people hearing this message that did not hear the other messages let me say to them, I personally figured this out by the decree in 445 B.C., in the month of March, which is seventy three days short of a full calendar year, according to Roman calendar time. That is when the decree went into effect, that the Jews were to go back, rebuild Jerusalem and get it ready for the coming of the Messiah. Now from the decree that was given, to the time of the birth of Christ, you have 442 years and 203 days of time. When we look at this line, this is the calendar time, and it comes right on through time. This brown line marks the death of King Herod. Histories in ancient times were written much of the time according to the death of the kings of the nation. You had no universal historians in the B.C. period. You had men like Herodotus and those, which were the only men that put together in generality certain fragments of different historical events that took place. In order to put together a more meaningful picture, you have to collect the main data from the major histories, like the history of Babylon, the history of the Romans, and the history of the Greeks and so forth. You have to go to them to get the full picture. Nobody ever actually took the whole thing and condensed it and put it together, but you can find the separate accounts. As for B.C. time, according to our chronologies since the advent of Christ, it was not until way over here in the advent period, that the Catholic Church with the historians of that time, decided to change the writings of history, how it was recorded, because according to the histories of Rome, they went ahead recording and writing them in conjunction with the death of Caesar Tiberias, the death of this one and that one. Each one reigned so many years and died. Well the Catholic Church decided, after time was way on over here, that they should began to calculate and record history in relationship to the birth of the greatest King that has ever lived. That of course is the birth of Jesus the Christ, taking into account His crucifixion, and then let everything from that time on be dated and related to the advent of Christ. All other histories were related to earthly kings, how long they reigned, when they died, and then they started again with the next king. To see how they did that, turn to the book of Kings in your Bible. You will see exactly how the Jews recorded it in the B.C. period: King so and so lived so long and died. Another man took his place. That is the way all histories were written back then. On the other hand, if we can see that Christ, according to corrected calendar time, now in the advent period, we have a better way of pinpointing events of history. We have a couple of copies of that. I took one set of information from a Jewish history book that covers the period of time from right here, when the Jews were in Babylon, all through these years of the rebirth of the nation, coming back and rebuilding Jerusalem, and it carries them right on over into the era of the Roman Empire, and the time when Christ was crucified. In that Jewish history book they say that Jesus, the son of Joseph, was executed in 33 C.E. (Christian Era) because of political reasons. It is all in the book. Well about ten years ago, we were passing through Oklahoma and I bought a Newspaper. To my surprise, there was a large article about this very thing. Two British scientists claiming to be Christians, using computers, had analyzed this time factor, and they stated in their article that Jesus was crucified in the year 33. Here, is the scientists' account that was taken out of the Newspaper, and here, is the page from the Jewish history book: They both have the same date. When I read that, I thought to myself, I am going to stop reading these books where other writers disagree on everything: When you have men that disagree, you can never come to a fixed conclusion on anything. I feel comfortable using one Jewish and one Gentile calculation that agree with each other. The important thing is, the two recordings agree. I am saying all that to try to give people a clear proximity of what we are looking at. I know God did not put a yardstick of prophecy in the Bible, if He did not intend to fulfill His word exactly according to the yardstick, simply because, if the first sixty nine weeks of the seventy weeks of Daniel were fulfilled precisely to the hour of time when Christ was crucified, the last week will be fulfilled exactly as the measurement of time and events declare it will. Christ was born in this period (chart) and He actually was two years and eighty nine days of age before the death of King Herod. He was not yet three years old, but He had passed the two years of age. That is why, when the wise men came from the east to see Him, they did not come to see a little baby. Herod asked the wise men, How long have you been seeing this star? They told him. When they followed that star, it took them to the house where the young child was. The Bible speaks of the young child, not the babe in the manger. Nevertheless the world is overrun with religious systems that are full of tradition, and that is because of what the Catholic Church has done; or at least a lot of it is. When we actually break this whole thing down, this is the number of days in the first sixty nine weeks, and it terminates right there, (pointing to death of Christ as shown on the chart) but this shows how many days and years Christ was born before the death of King Herod, and the death of King Herod ended this period of B.C., and A.D. started. Some people get confused, and say, Bro. Jackson, there is a blank there. That is what the blank is. How many realize that? A.D. does not mean after death: It more accurately means, after the advent. The Dictionary defines it as pertaining to an ancient Latin term, (Anno Domini) which points to a specified year of the Christian era. It points to right there. (Chart) Jesus Christ was crucified in the year 33 A.D., but we realize this, He was 33 ½ years old, which means He was cut off in middle of the 34^th year of His life. We covered certain scriptures last Sunday morning and night, that I will not go back into at this time.

The world today, is not aware that there is a war getting ready to break out in the Middle East; and it will be a Bible war. It will be won in a way that will shock most of the inhabitants of this planet. It will shake nations: It will totally shake political systems, because the world of politics does not know, and they are not even trying to understand what is written in the Bible, that will absolutely come to pass. They are sound asleep spiritually. They are busy putting together their political agendas, trying to make this fit here and something else over here, trying to make their plan supercede the plan of God. That is why they are all getting together the way they are. They get up there in the U.N. assembly and will debate, argue, fuss, vote, cancel and carry on for weeks at a time, trying to get one little thing straightened out according to their agenda. I am going to read to you how God looks at this war. It has been right here in the Bible for centuries of time. God does not view with favor, those that have been enemies to Israel. When we hear so much about the Palestinian Arab today, I want all the young people to realize, many of these are descendants of the people we are going to read about. When the Jewish nation was led away from their homeland in 69 A.D. and scattered throughout the Roman world, this left the Holy Land in a vacuum and Arabs soon began to move in. We know also, that through the first few centuries, Christendom had a hard struggle existing. Then coming to the tenth century, out of Europe came volunteer armies, entire families, children and all, that the Catholic Church put together trying to send enough force to the Holy Land to free Jerusalem from the Moslem, Islamic religion. They had already built a mosque over the place of the altar of sacrifice, where the Jews offered their animal sacrifices to God. In almost three hundred years of the Crusader period, many European lives were lost, both on the journey, as well as in the fight after they got there. Yet there was a period of time they existed there. If you go there, you can find certain traces of the times when they did live there, but after the fighting with the Crusaders, the Arab, Islam forces drove them out. The Arabs more and more began to come out of the desert countries, infiltrating the land. Keep in mind, the trade routes have changed drastically over time. The trade routes that once crossed the desert countries have changed, and had come to the sea coast at various points, to meet the maritime merchants that brought the commerce from Europe and those places. This brought about a dramatic change in the Holy Land. The Arabs that came there, came to be close to this way of commerce because it brought a different lifestyle. They wanted to enjoy some of the benefits. Man still does that today. I say all that to acquaint the young people with what we are going to say. The Arabs that live there today are called Palestinians. They want to be called that because they want to take the name of the land. There are very few of the actual Palestinian line that lived in the day of King David that are alive any more. They have assimilated themselves among the Arab world. Anyhow here is the prophecy in the 63^rd chapter of Isaiah. I will say to the Jewish people, I realize a lot of Jewish people spend very little time reading from their prophets. They have more interest in reading the Torah than reading from the prophets. The Torah of course, is the first five books of the Bible we all use, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The first prophecy about this event that is going to take place, is in the book of Numbers, the 24^th chapter. We will read that later. Right here though, is a mystery. I have read it and wondered, What is the Lord talking about? It was not until this whole chain of events began to line up, that I could see what God was actually speaking of. It starts with the question, "Who is this that cometh from Edom, (Notice the primary tribe is Edom. That are the descendants of Esau, Jacob's brother.) with dyed garments from Bozrah? (That is one of the old settlements.) this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. (I know now it is the Lord. It is the Lord in a theophany form, to show Himself as taking command. Now the viewer asked the question.) Wherefore (or why) art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? (Now He replies) I have trodden the winepress alone: and of the people there was none with me: (Now let me read that according to the way it fits the twentieth century. I alone have trodden the winepress, and there is not a nation that stands up for me.) for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, (That is how they come to have the color.) and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed (that is the Jewish people) is come. And I looked, and there was none to help; (This tells you the United States, which has given to Israel for the past fifty years, money, money, money, military equipment and other things, but she is going to be in a bad situation when this develops. America is somehow going to be wrapped up in some kind of conflict that will keep her from being able to help.) and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth." That is the first scripture I have chosen to read, mainly because it lets us know, that when the hour comes for it to begin to fulfill itself, God will not be waiting on any earthly politician to agree with Him. This lets me know that what the Bible has in it, yet to be fulfilled, is so accurate you can rest assured it will all come to pass. Now I will ask you to go with me, as we take the next stepping stone to this great event, the greatest war that Israel will ever have been involved in.

Let us go to Ezekiel 25:12. In this chapter, God prophesies the end of all these people, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Edomites, all of which are across the Jordan River. We will pick up right here, about Edom, in this 25^th chapter. Keep in mind now, This is yet to be fulfilled. I was talking to a friend of mine, reminding him about this scripture in Numbers 24, what was prophesied by Balaam way before the writing prophets ever came on the scene, and do you know what kind of answer he said he had gotten from a Gentile doctor of divinity? He said to him, Oh that has already been fulfilled. Well I say, Then why in the name of common sense did it say, IN THE LATTER DAYS? That is why I say, You can put about as much confidence in these doctors of divinity, certainly no more, as you would a child in the first grade of school. Oh sure, they are educated, but they have educated themselves until they are completely blind, as far as being able to know what these prophecies apply to. What I am going to read to you has never been fulfilled. Just imagine when it starts, God is going to be the leader of the entire episode. "Thus saith the Lord God: Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; (That is exactly what they did six hundred years before Christ, when the Babylonian army came upon them under the leadership of Nebuchadnezzar and tore down. the city. The Edomites stood on the other side jumping up and down with glee. Read the first part of Obadiah. The Lord reminds them, you did thus and so back then, but now you are going to be paid back.) THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; I WILL ALSO STRETCH OUT MINE HAND UPON EDOM, AND WILL CUT OFF MAN AND BEAST FROM IT; AND I WILL MAKE IT DESOLATE FROM TEMAN; (That is one of their cities) AND THEY OF DEDAN SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD." If we had a map up here we could show you the extent of this great sweep God is going to bring upon all these people across the river Jordan, in the land of what we call Jordan today. Remember, In ancient times, there was no such country as Jordan. It was the land of the Moabites back then. Also it was the land of the Edomites and the Ammonites. The other parts were divided among some of the ten tribes of northern Israel. Now God prophesies, and they of Dedan, this swings way down into Saudi Arabia. Get a Bible map and you can see where Dedan is located. This lets me know, when God starts moving Israel they will hit the Middle East with such a devastating strike, from a military standpoint, they will hardly know what is happening. I want to say this, A man sent me a video tape on Islam, just for my information. It seems that from many of the colleges of the United States today, we hear reports of how a lot of the Moslems from wealthy parts of the world send their sons over here to go to our colleges. What do they do? They walk around the corridors, boasting and bragging of who they are, what they are, and what the Islamic religion is going to do to the west. They do not know what God thinks about them. Wait until He says something. Keep in mind, it is in the country of Saudi Arabia that you find Dedan; and that is where Mohammad rose up. He started that religion. It became a militant believing religion. They took everything, conversion was by force or blood. They have been that way ever since. That is why the whole Arab world went under, or into it. We can see from reading here, that when God starts judging Edom for their part, for what they did in ancient times to the Jewish nation, and then how they sacked Jerusalem for what was left, He makes a clean sweep. God built up a hatred for them that will remain until the end. These prophecies have been laying here in the word of God, like they are sound asleep. A lot of people have thought they were irrelevant. They are not irrelevant. They are just now coming to the forefront. God does not get in a hurry. Let us just listen to the wording of these prophecies as they are read. (Verse 14) "And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom (They are the first ones mentioned.) by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God." That is putting the 63^rd chapter of Isaiah together, where He says His raiment is mired by the blood of these people. Here though, He tells that it is Israel that will bear the sword that will do all of this. The Edomites will be some of the first ones. This lets me know, if you could see a map of the world and the position of Israel, Saudi Arabia, the Edomites, the Moabites, the Ammonites, you see that makes up all the country of Jordan of today. I want to show you right here from the Bible, and not from some Gentile theological book, that these scriptures all go together a certain way. I have said this, Back years ago when I would study certain things about prophecy, of course we could always see certain verses of scriptures, of prophecy, and quite frequently we would see this one because it is so big. You can immediately say, God is going to do this and that, but now we must keep in mind, that there are all these little minor prophecies that have been laying here almost concealed, almost hidden, and we cannot overlook them anymore because they are very important to our understanding of the entire end time picture. They help make up the little pieces of this great puzzle. When you are putting together a puzzle that really has a lot of dimensions, scenery and all, you have to look for every one of these little pieces that has something on it, maybe just a color, but you have to figure out where and what it matches, in order to know where it goes. You cannot just go by the shape of it, because there are so many that look the same. When it really is put together right though, you have such a beautiful picture of art. I have to say, We are dealing with a beautiful picture of prophecy right here in the Bible, once we get it put together right. It formulates in your mind, by the yardstick God has given us, that certain things have got to come to fulfillment within a certain time factor. As we said last Sunday, These two thousand years, or two days, that we see in Hosea 6:2, where is says that after two days He, meaning the Lord, will revive us, have just about run their course. When we compare it to calendar time, that takes us to 2004 ½, which is actually the middle of 2005. The time figures out like this, when you take calendar time and convert it to prophetic time, based upon the Roman calendar we all use.Well that is not much more than five years away, assuming that this calendar is accurate, but we should always allow for the fact that this calendar has been reworked a few times, and still may not be exactly accurate right to the day. That is why we just say it the way we do, that this is approximately the end of that two days. Bro. Jackson: Do you mean to say that the Lord is coming in five years? No. I am not telling you He is coming in exactly five years, but when five years have gone by, you are going to see enough going on in this world, that you are going to know we are at the threshold of a great event. No man knows the day or hour. You need not argue with me about that, but you can know the season by looking at the picture that is developing before your very eyes. That is why you should be ready at all times. He is coming as a thief, YES, but it will not be like that to the Bride because she will be ready and expecting Him: His coming as a thief will be to the un-expecting, unbelieving, could-not-care-less people of the world. In the meanwhile, let us pay attention to one of the things that must precede His coming. Israel is going to be the arm of God that reaches out to strike her enemies, so how is she going to strike? And what is her main objective? I have a video tape from a Jewish military man: He is still in the military, but in 1997 he was here in the United States on leave. He says this, We know by our intelligence, that we are one day going to have to fight the whole Arab world on four fronts, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. Do you know what that does? If you knew how many tanks Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Jordan have, and how many tanks Israel has, you would have to say, Oh my, I feel sorry for Israel. That is because she has such a small number of them. It is the same with the planes she has. What we must remember though, is that you do not look at the numbers: you just look at what God has said. He told them in olden times, how one would put so many to flight. He also specified that ten would put so many more to flight. God just multiplies the ability of each one. He gives the Jewish man, the fighter, an intelligence that comes right direct from the mind of God. When they go into combat, somehow or other they are able to outsmart their opponent. God seems to give them a brilliant mind to know how to outsmart their opponent regardless of how they are outnumbered. Knowing that when this time comes for Israel to fight that great mass, they are not alone, is a very comforting thought. The natural minded Jew that does not believe yet, is one reason why this has to be as it will be. I have been privileged to talk to some of the younger Jews over there, and it is sad to say, but many of the younger Jews that are in college and higher schools of learning are just like a great percentage of the Gentile youth: they have caught the same unbelieving spirit that is on Gentile youth, that there is no God, and that all such teaching is just a myth. God will do this great miracle to open the understand of many of them: that He is still the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is going to show them, I am the ONE that promised to bring you back and establish you in your own land. As I have cursed you and done you wrong, I will heal you and do good to you. Open your Bibles with me now to Zephaniah. This is a small prophecy, but it is not to be overlooked. We now know that God, when the time comes, will be in this war and that He will use Israel exclusively. She will be the one that will carry God's sword. That will be all the modern technology in weaponry that she has been able to acquire from the United States, as well as anywhere else she could get it. In the 4^th verse, we are dealing with what Israel did in the Six Day War, when she took the whole land of the Philistines. "For Gaza (That is the Gaza Strip. That is the part that is in the great debate now, that is holding off this peace process, because Israel refuses to agree to give up so much percentage of it.) shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon (That is one of the old cities of Gaza, of the ancient times of the Philistines.) a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod (the inhabitants of the ancient city of the Philistines) at the noon day, and Ekron (That is another ancient Philistine city in the Gaza Strip.) shall be rooted up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, (This is an ancient Canaanite tribe that lived along the Mediterranean going toward Egypt.) the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant." Meaning that when this is really carried out to the fullest extent, there will be no Palestinian Arab living anywhere in this whole area. It will not be a case of the Jew giving up and letting them move in. "And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks." That means it will be for all Jews that want to take up the agricultural line. But now we see the enlargement of this conflict when it really goes in motion. "And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the Lord their God shall visit them and turn away their captivity." Meaning no more will they have to be obedient to the dictates of other national leaders. They will be on their own sovereignty. Then as we come on down, this reminds us of what God is going to do, and why. "I have heard the reproach of Moab, (God is looking backwards, but He is looking backwards in the present tense day of time.) and the revilings of the children of Ammon, (That is the ones the capital is named after, the Ammonites. The capital of Jordan is Ammon. It gets the name from the Ammonite people.) whereby they have reproached my people, (That is why, in the Six Day War of 1967 many of the Palestinian Arabs did not stay in this land: they left and went across the Jordan River to take up refuge in the land of Jordan, because they really are Jordanians that had immigrated there in centuries past.) and magnified themselves against their border. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, (That tells you what God thinks of that bunch of people across the river.) and the remnant of my people shall possess them. This shall they have for their pride, (This lets me know God does not think much of them.) because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts." Why? Because God is in the process of bringing them back, establishing them in the land, and according to the U.N., I have used this illustration, God does not intend to have seven million Jews living in a quart jar. How does that sound? No, God is going to bring His people back and establish them in all their former borders. That is the ultimate reason why this conflict has to be addressed. Some of you could say, Well, I don't believe in violence, I just say to you, Wake up! Violence is not going to be done away with until Jesus comes to rule and reign on earth. "The Lord will be terrible unto them." I say to the Jewish people that might hear this message, Today, in this very hour of time, from Iran, from Libya, Ethiopia, and the Sudan, the Islamic religion is mounting a psychological war. They want to put Israel to death and declare war on the west. They do not know what God has said in His written word so long ago. They do not know what God thinks about that type of talk, so let us see what God says about it, and I will tell you why He says it like this. "The Lord will be terrible unto them: for He will famish (Look up that word in the dictionary, and you will find that it means to dry up, wither away and so forth.) all the gods of the earth." That is a plural term, that is not talking about one geological spot on earth. The Six Day War was an eye opener to a lot of the western people. I had to watch it. I am thankful that when I was in the army I did not have to fight in an era when the leaders hands were tied. Casualties were high many times, but when the Korean War, and the Vietnam Wars were fought, the poor soldiers had to go out there and fight, risking their lives to carry on a war that politicians designed in Washington D.C. That was a pitiful, a very pathetic set of circumstances. They ought to have been taken out and given a dose of their own medicine, for declaring such a thing and asking their constituents to go fight their dirty political wars. When we were faced with the armada of Iraqi troops in the desert, they had already fought the Iranians for several years. They were used to desert warfare. From the natural standpoint it did look bad for us, to put enough troops out in the desert and be able to do enough to turn the tide. It was evident, that when you put four hundred thousand troops out in a desert setting, that are faced with such a great number of Iraqis that are already dug in, sitting in concrete bunkers, that you do not have an easy task before you. Our troops could not take concrete bunkers with them: They had to depend on the tanks and things of that nature. When you can see our planes going in to drop a bomb or rocket, and see that thing heading right for the front door, you can be sure they have help some of them may not have recognized. There in Baghdad, they dropped one right down an elevator shaft of a building. I have to say, That is accuracy. Sure there was a lot of inaccuracy at times: you just have to understand that there usually is, in the line of warfare. The fact that the land part only lasted one hundred hours, and we only had a hundred and some odd casualties, and part of them had been lost in maneuvers before the conflict had even started, was evidence of God's intervention. I have to believe the God of the American soldier was going to make Saddam Hussein sorry that he had ever said, We will make you wallow in your own blood. They were preparing body bags and graves in the desert for five thousand casualties. Yet we only had one hundred and some. You do not fight modern warfare with the kill power that each side had, and have the kill efficiency so outweighing what was expected without intervention from the God of heaven. I have to say, There was an architect, the General of all wars, right out there directing the entire operation. Sitting at the heads of our colleges and universities today, are doctors of psychology, professors of all kinds of studies, that would like to purge out of you the very knowledge of God. I have to say, The world is going to get their chance to see Him, as He demonstrates His power on the battlefield of the Middle East. That is God's old battleground. From the time war was ever fought, there is where it started. An awful lot of these professors are going to get so shocked, so shook up, by the time they get through looking at the TV and seeing the hand of God at work in the Middle East, disrupting the whole political affairs of earthly man, and giving victory to His chosen people, that I will just have to jump up and down and say, Praise God! He is showing the world how real He is. "For He will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship Him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen." When we find the word heathen in these prophecies we have to realize, God is not speaking of bush people in Africa: He is speaking of these educated, unbelieving Gentiles and all such as want to rid the world of any knowledge of a Creator, and of any knowledge or belief of a God that is in control of all things. To Him, all such are regarded as heathen, regardless of their stature in society. Those who deny God, and all who say, We don't need Him, are to Him as same as heathen. You who think you do not need Him, the hour is coming when He will let you see just how badly you do need Him. What is the purpose of God famishing all other gods? I want to explain this to the Jewish readers, whoever they may be. For God to say, in such a little prophecy, that He will famish all the gods of the earth, He had to have a very definite reason. What is His purpose in it? To the Jewish people in that land I say, Look around you over there. What surrounds you? Islamic, blood thirsty Arabs. They have threatened death to Israel and they have threatened death to the west, because we stand with Israel. Up to a point, that is their aim, but I have to say, God has an aim also. He has a plan whereby He will remove every obstacle that now prevents the children of Israel from inhabiting all of their land. We should just let Him bring His plan to completion. First He says in the 25^th chapter of Ezekiel, He will use Israel, because she will carry the sword, but what about this Islamic god, Allah, that all those surrounding the people of Israel have sold out to? The very fact that they are all around Israel lets us know Israel is sitting in the midst of a hornet's nest. When it comes to God, that does not matter one bit: He can handle them. Turn in your Bibles to the 11^th chapter of Isaiah. We are going to pick up this conflict in progress. Israel has crossed the Jordan River. She has taken the land of the Moabites. She has taken the land of the Ammonites. She is hitting Edom with such a devastating blow that the effects of it go all the way down into Saudi Arabia. That is where Islam started. This prophecy is strung out over a long period of time. It is progressive. It starts in the 13^th verse of the 11^th chapter and goes on. "The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah and Judah shall not vex Ephraim." Meaning that is the way it was in ancient times, when the nation became divided. The ten tribes in the north were referred to many times as Ephraim or Israel. But the two southern tribes were Judah. Therefore God says, as He brings them back, The envy, the hatred, the animosity they have had one toward the other, will be gone, and they will be one. After God has completed this unity, the uniting of these tribes, what is the end effect of it? "But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: (That is crossing the river.) they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them." There is absolutely no way world politicians can change this picture. He has already said who He will use, and He has already shown Himself as being the Master of it all, so I just have to say, God is the greatest General that there has ever been anywhere. That is the picture of what the country of modern Jordan is headed for.

Let us hold what we have learned from the other scriptures we have considered and go right to the 19^th chapter of Isaiah, where it tells about Egypt. We see Israel launching out, reclaiming their rightful heritage and the effects of such an event, so notice, as we look further into the consequences. We are starting with the (16^th verse.)"In that day shall Egypt be like unto women." Under Mubarak, which has already stated along with Yasser Arafat, That one day they would have to take care of Israel, is the man in Egypt to watch. Did they really say that? Yes, they said that in Cairo a few weeks back, but when God does this great thing on behalf of Israel, just imagine Egypt down here, but up there in the land of Jordan across the Red Sea, all of a sudden they hear what Israel is doing in Edom, Moab, and Ammon. They just sweep through there to lay the land desolate. They will even go down into Dedan, (in Saudi Arabia) to fulfill that which is written concerning them, so you can imagine the effect all of this is having on the people of Egypt. Let us finish this 16^th verse. "In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it." Now may I say this, Anglo Saxon, western oriented people, like to boast in their scientific achievements. I can remember when we did not have an automatic washing machine to wash clothes. Some of you older ones sitting here know what I am talking about. What we used, had a cradle in the bottom of it where you put your clothes, poured the water in, and mother always put in some lye soap. It was my job to take this cradle and move it backwards and forwards. I had to put enough pressure on it to rub those clothes. That was back in the early 1930's. I will never forget, when the old Maytag Manufacturers came out with the little gasoline engine on their washer. Maytag did a good job for the rural people, because only city people could have the electric washing machines. But every Monday morning, everybody that had a Maytag washing machine with a gasoline motor, you could hear that motor start up and put put until all the washing was finished. The Maytag agent would come down the road asking, Would you like to swap a cow for a washing machine? Those who had them, would swap a cow, a hog, anything for a Maytag washing machine. I knew some in our neighborhood that would swap a cow for the Maytag. My point in saying this is, We are living in the day when the western world says, Look what we have done! From the old propeller airplane, we have gone to the jet. You can now go to Europe at speeds over 600 miles per hour. In the military you can exceed that twice. My point in saying that is to illustrate, Israel is crossing the Jordan River, she has laid the land of Jordan waste. Now she has turned and is heading for Egypt. I want to read that again, and I want you to try to visualize what is happening. The great hand of almighty God has intervened on behalf of His people Israel, and those that are aware of what is happening are scared half to death when they become aware that they could be next. "In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it (Egypt) shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He shaketh over it. And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, (That is not make believe. That is not a myth or a fantasy: It is as sure as daylight and darkness. Judah, that little bunch of people that took the Six Day War and turned it into a miracle, because she is the lion-like tribe of the whole nation. She is the war tribe.) every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which He hath determined against it." This lets me know, that in 1998, 1999, and the year 2000, God is not thinking much about any of that Middle East. Why? They have all given themselves over to that Islamic religion. God is going to wash that mess right out of there, even if He has to use blood. If it is hard for you to understand why I say God, by some miraculous means of displaying His power and sovereignty in that part of the world, is going to do all of this, here is how you can read the outcome of all of that. It is not going to take God ten years for this to be accomplished. No, it is just a matter of a few days and weeks. Look what is going to happen in Egypt when this takes place. "In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan." It is spoken of in the finished sense, but I am going to tell you what causes it to be like that. God will so display His favor on Israel in enabling them to do all that His written word says they will do in the last days, that those left alive after it is over will want to worship that same God. It goes to show, that when God shows Himself with this Israelite people that are coming to destroy the military makeup of this Egyptian nation, He is doing it for two basic reasons. First, He is judging them. Then, He gets their attention. When you read the rest of this chapter, God plainly tells you He will wound them, He will strike them, then turn right around and heal them, but when He heals them, it is not for them to go right on praying to Allah: It is to cause them to want to pray to the God of Israel. Therefore we can say this is a prophecy that has a progressive affect. Once this miraculous thing takes place, and when the Egyptian people have to stand back and watch that Israeli army come through their land, devastating it, laying everything in ruins, those people will say, Now we know that the God of the Jews is greater than our god, Allah. They could have realized this in the Six Day War of 1967, but they at that time, did not have sense enough to wake up and accept the fact of what they had witnessed. When you read this entire prophecy, you can see Israel's army so miraculously empowered by God, to rain such a devastating blow against the Egyptian nation, that they have to wake up. One minute they have all kinds of military equipment. The next minute everything is in a state of desolation. The Egyptian people become afraid. They are ready to surrender, and ready to say, Never have we seen the power of the Jewish God like we have seen it in all of this. That is the purpose of it. When God does something to people to cause them to change their mind, do you think it takes forty years of psychological training, and psychiatrists counseling the people, for them to know what they need to do? No. He just shows His mighty hand on behalf of Israel. That is why, when this conflict is over, it is going to leave Egypt very shaken. They will immediately begin to say, I am going to change my religion; and and from now on my God will be the God of the Jews. That is why many of the Egyptians will say, I want to speak the language of Canaan. No. It will not be the old Canaanite dialect, but the language of the people that now live in the land of Canaan. They are going to say, I want to speak the Hebrew dialect. I want to speak the same language, and pray to God just like the Jews. When you read the rest of it you will see that they will build an altar for their worship. Where? In the midst of Egypt. What is that for? It goes to show, they are not going to sacrifice to Allah or Islam any more. They are going to sacrifice to the God of Israel; and because of the distance involved in the geographical location, the nation will say, Now we will build a memorial on the border. This is our token, O God of Israel, Elohim! We are going to build a memorial. Lord, take a look at us. We believe you were in all of this and we want to worship you. They will build that memorial. When you read the rest of that chapter, you see what God is going to do also, because from the Assyrian, that is Syria today, the same thing is going to happen. We will go ahead and print a few verses for the benefit of those who may not be able to pick up a Bible and read this account. This will allow you to see an outline of this event. (Isaiah 19:17-25) "And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which He hath determined against it. 18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. 19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and He shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and He shall deliver them. 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: He shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and He shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them. 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: (Isa 19:25) Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance." The outcome of the miraculous military accomplishments, from Syria to Egypt, all through that, God has literally stripped that part of the world of their belief in Islam. Why? Because from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, He stripped them of their belief in Allah. They see for the first time in hundreds of years, that the God of Israel is the only God that is worth praying to. We do not know exactly when this will all take place, but we do know we are approaching the season for it. I want to put this little story on the end of this part of our message. In 1968, when I was privileged to go to the Holy Land for the first time, we were on an El Al Airline. As we were talking, there was a Jewish man sitting behind us, that we eventually had a chance to talk to. We came to find out through our conversation with him, that he was a Jewish army commander. He told us he was one of the commanders of the Jewish armored outfit that went through the Sinai to the Red Sea. His name was General Meirvar (spelling?) He lived in a northern town Safed (spelling?) In civilian life he was the president of a bank there. He told us of many things that caused the Jewish soldiers to believe that God was with them in that war. He said, that after the war was over and they were allowed to return to their occupations, one day a wealthy Syrian came to their city. Just imagine, a wealthy Syrian from Damascus coming there. He came to the city and to the bank where this man was president. He said to this man, Meirvar, (spelling) we know that your God is with you, because of what we have experienced in this war. I have here so much money. I am bringing it from my bank and want to invest it in your bank, because I know it will be safe here. This looked like they, or he realized Allah could not look after it anymore: that only the God of the Jews could do that. I just have to say, Saints, the world is getting ready for a shaking like it has never experienced before. If we think the stock markets are crumbling now, just wait until this happens. When God famishes all the false gods of the earth, He is doing it for a very specific reason. Therefore the Lord is willing, we want to continue on and find out what that reason is. One of these days, on the TV tube, you will watch how God uses Israel to do all of this. Then you will see the News completely changed, when they start to tell about how, out of Saudi Arabia, the land of Islam, camel caravans loaded with incense and gold are on their way to Israel. What for? It is going to Israel to beautify the rebuilding of the temple, and to offer incense upon the altar. There is no way right now, that out of the Arab world you are going to get one dime for anything that is taking place in Israel. All of that will change immediately, when God gets through with what He is getting ready to do by and through His people Israel. Many are going to be very surprised, even shocked to see what begins to unfold in the Middle East one day soon. You will be very surprised also, at what begins to happen around this world in areas that are under Hinduism and Buddhism. Since this temple is going to be a temple known to the ends of the earth during the Millennium, then I have to say, God will use some of the wealth and technology from the ends of the earth, just like He did in the days of King Solomon. CONTINUED.