WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:10.880 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Think of a knot, think of the 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.720 world and a knot, and nobody can do anything about it. In fact at a time like 4 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:20.440 this Jesus warned that the world would see all of its problems with no way 5 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:25.520 out the word means and then comes this man. He's gonna untie the knots of the 6 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:30.760 world's problems, and the world's gonna love this guy! 7 00:00:32.040 --> 00:00:38.440 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:38.440 --> 00:00:43.800 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 9 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:48.680 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 10 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:54.240 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:59.680 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 12 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:07.600 Your Bible scholars differ, but it doesn't matter. 27 to 33% of the Bible is 13 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:14.240 prophetic in nature. That discipline is called eschatology. The study of the future 14 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:19.440 things of God revealed in the Bible. You need to know that over a quarter of the 15 00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:24.840 Bible deals with future events that have yet to take place. Why is that 16 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:30.040 important? The Bible tells us an old and new testament, God announces. I've told 17 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:35.920 you things in advance that when they happen you will know that I'm God. And all 18 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:39.680 of the religions of the world by the way cannot do that. Most of them don't even 19 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:45.720 try. A few of them have some false prophecies, but most stay out of it because 20 00:01:45.960 --> 00:01:50.280 it's something. Listen, you don't need to doubt the word of God if you study Bible 21 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:55.120 prophecy. God gave us, as our friend Dr. Ed Heinsen told us, God gave us Bible 22 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:00.520 prophecy not to scare us, but to prepare us. You're to know this. Sure, I don't want to 23 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:05.520 know this stuff. No, no, don't fall. That's a Satanic trick. He doesn't want you to 24 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:09.760 know. In fact, listen, that's what the enemy cannot do. The Bible is very clear 25 00:02:09.760 --> 00:02:16.640 about prophets of God and false prophets, isn't it? And Jesus warms in the last 26 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:22.000 days before he returns and establishes his kingdom. And the church age for the 27 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:27.120 last 2,000 years has been warned. Peter warned us that men from among their own 28 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:32.280 selves will rise up and deceive others. That deception, false teaching, false 29 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:37.920 prophets is something that you need to be equipped to recognize. Listen, or you'll 30 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:44.840 be deceived by them. You'll be swept away and you won't even know it. So a little 31 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:50.400 bit of background, when Paul went to Thessalonica on one of his mission journeys and 32 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:55.160 by the way, you can go there today. And it's one of the oldest cities in the 33 00:02:55.160 --> 00:03:00.680 world. And when he went there, he started a Bible study. You know, Paul did that. 34 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:05.120 He showed up in town. He started preaching. He was awesome. He always did it at a 35 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:09.080 synagogue. He went to us. What makes total sense? He went, he said, what did he 36 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:14.880 disrupt the synagogue? Excuse me. He went to set straight the synagogue. He showed 37 00:03:14.880 --> 00:03:19.560 up at a synagogue and began to teach. Remember, there was no New Testament then. He 38 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:23.200 opened up the Old Testament and taught Jesus. He taught the cross. He taught the 39 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:27.240 resurrected from the Old Testament. He would interpret the Scriptures and then 40 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:32.520 they would throw them out. They didn't want to hear about it. They had their 41 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:37.320 system set up. They had their religion intact. And then Paul comes along and says, wait a 42 00:03:37.320 --> 00:03:41.440 minute. This is the one that Zechariah spoke about. This is the one that Ezekiel spoke 43 00:03:41.440 --> 00:03:45.640 about. This is the one that Isaiah spoke about. And Micah spoke about. And the Solma spoke 44 00:03:45.640 --> 00:03:51.360 about. This is the one that got himself through Moses in chapter 3 of Genesis, verse 15, 45 00:03:51.360 --> 00:04:00.360 said, would be the one that would come up against Satan for the souls of men. And so he 46 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:06.520 would show up in a synagogue. He shows up and he preaches the gospel. And in Thessalonica, 47 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:12.720 Jews got saved. And then Gentiles got saved. And Paul gave them first Thessalonians. 48 00:04:12.720 --> 00:04:18.520 You ought to read it. Five chapters. And all five chapters, there's a verse in each 49 00:04:18.520 --> 00:04:23.720 of the chapters promising the rapture of the church to those who would be waiting and 50 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:33.160 watching for when Christ returned. All five chapters. And then when Paul left, some goobers 51 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:39.640 came along and said, well, Paul was mistaken. And we're going to prove Paul was mistaken. 52 00:04:39.640 --> 00:04:44.080 And they began to say this. Listen, they said, have you guys noticed the rise of persecution 53 00:04:44.080 --> 00:04:49.080 on the Roman Empire? Yeah. That's because we're in the tribulation period. They told the 54 00:04:49.080 --> 00:04:56.680 people. Christ, listen, you missed that opportunity. We're in it. And this is the way it's 55 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:03.520 going to be. And they were troubled. And Paul heard about it. And he wrote them second 56 00:05:03.520 --> 00:05:13.000 Thessalonians to comb them down. And he gave them incredible doctrine about the last days. 57 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:18.080 And he did this 2,000 years ago. You say, I don't know, church I came from, never talked 58 00:05:18.080 --> 00:05:23.080 about this stuff. Why not? The church talked about it 2,000 years ago. We're to be talking 59 00:05:23.080 --> 00:05:31.480 about it now. We're closer now than they were then. Very amazing. And I know we use the 60 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:37.360 term antichrist. We'll talk about this in a moment. But there's over 100 references of 61 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:46.440 the antichrist in the last days in the New Testament. But rarely is he called the antichrist. 62 00:05:46.440 --> 00:05:52.440 It's reserved to the Apostle John. John calls him the antichrist. But don't be bothered 63 00:05:52.440 --> 00:05:56.880 by that. He's throughout scripture, Older New Testament. He's revealed in the Bible 64 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:01.360 as the beast. I don't think that comes to a surprise to many of you. He's known in 65 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:06.840 the Bible as the beast. By the way, this is how God sees. This is kind of cool. Write it 66 00:06:06.840 --> 00:06:15.200 down the beast. This is how God sees global characters from the book of Daniel to the book 67 00:06:15.200 --> 00:06:19.960 of Revelation. You want to know something. When God looks down from heaven and then speaks 68 00:06:19.960 --> 00:06:29.400 to mankind about what God sees, he sees mankind in its leadership roles as animals. He calls 69 00:06:29.400 --> 00:06:35.880 them leopards. He calls them bears. He calls them, you hear what I'm saying? And this one, 70 00:06:35.880 --> 00:06:43.200 the Bible says, God calls him the beast. Now, from earth's perspective, for example, 71 00:06:43.200 --> 00:06:50.280 in the book of Daniel, Alexander the Great is referred to as a leopard. Alexander the 72 00:06:50.280 --> 00:06:56.200 Great was viewed as Alexander the Great. He's one of the great warring heroes of antiquity. 73 00:06:56.200 --> 00:07:01.920 That's how human see him. That's not how God sees them. God sees human empires differently. 74 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:06.680 Boy, don't you wonder how God sees America? We can kind of get an idea with our start as 75 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:12.760 a nation. But how did a nation start the way we did and wind up the way that we are? 76 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:20.000 We've abandoned God. So God says, this is a beast. And the Bible calls them a beast. Revelation 11, verse 77 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:26.240 seven says, when they, that's the two witnesses that you read about in your Bible. You can read 78 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:32.600 about them. They're two Jewish witnesses. One is absolutely Elijah. The other one we don't know. 79 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:38.400 God causes them to appear on the earth during the tribulation period, two of these fiery 80 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:44.160 prophets. And the Bible says that when their testimony is over, they, listen, they speak for 81 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:50.520 three and a half years. And the Bible says, the beast or the Antichrist that ascends out of the 82 00:07:50.520 --> 00:07:56.840 bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them and kill them. You can read that more 83 00:07:56.840 --> 00:08:02.080 in the book of Revelation. It is absolutely awesome. The beast, watch, you see, Jack, I thought 84 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:06.800 you said the beast is the Antichrist, but it says that he comes up out of the bottomless pit. 85 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:12.560 Yeah, listen to this. Think of a glove and a hand going into a glove. The glove is the beast, 86 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:20.160 and the hand going into the glove is Satan himself. A man who will be absolutely Satanically possessed by 87 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:31.280 the actual personification of Satan. Satan will take on flesh in this man called the Antichrist, 88 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:38.000 or in this case, the beast. And he's referred to many different symbols in Scripture, but it's 89 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:44.320 crystal clear as to who he is. Revelation chapter 13, verse 1, Revelation 13, 1, 90 00:08:45.520 --> 00:08:51.440 then I, it's John speaking, stood on the sand of the sea. If you're a Bible, what's known as 91 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:58.160 eschatologist or a student of Bible prophecy, the sea is a reference to humanity always. 92 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:07.600 When it's put in a prophetic setting like a diamond, what is the context in time scenario? 93 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:16.080 Who are the players in time persons or personalities? John says, I'm standing as it were on the shore, 94 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:24.560 and I see this thing happening in the sea. What did I see? He says a beast rising up out of the sea, 95 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:32.320 having seven heads and ten horns. Seven heads speak of seven authorities, ten horns. You can 96 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:37.200 take the word horn. And by the way, if you're Jewish, you already know what I'm going to say, 97 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:45.360 because in the Old Testament, a horn is a king. Ten kings, and there's seven dominant authorities 98 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:51.680 out of the ten kings. What's really amazing right now, you guys, is that the world is starting to 99 00:09:51.680 --> 00:09:58.560 fragment up. Watch this. The world is starting to break up into parts. There's no longer any 100 00:09:58.560 --> 00:10:06.080 global superpower. That's over. Wake up. It's over. The United States is not the world's superpower. 101 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:14.000 We are now one among many. And the Bible says that there's going to be a division of ten nations 102 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:21.200 or ten kings, horns that will rule over the earth in the last days. And on his horns, 103 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:27.680 ten crowns, and on his heads, a blasphemous name, verse two. Now, the beast which I saw was like a 104 00:10:27.680 --> 00:10:35.120 leopard. His feet were like that, the feet of a bear, and his mouth, like the mouth of a lion. Look 105 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:43.680 at this. The dragon, we don't have to guess who this is, gave him his power, his throne, and great 106 00:10:43.680 --> 00:10:54.320 authority. So the beast and the dragon get together. One is human, one is not. And I saw one of his 107 00:10:54.320 --> 00:11:01.360 heads as it had been mortally wounded. Remember this everybody. And his deadly wound was healed. 108 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:08.400 And all the world marveled and followed the beast. So they worshiped the dragon. Is that interesting? 109 00:11:09.760 --> 00:11:17.200 You think there would ever be a rise in satanic worship? Who gave authority to the beast? And they 110 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:22.000 worshiped the beast saying, who was like the beast? Who was able to make war with him? 111 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.720 The Bible says there's going to be a leader that comes under the world scene. Now, very quickly, 112 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:34.080 we'll get into this more later, but watch this. You're going to hear in future studies from the 113 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:38.400 book of Daniel and the book of Revelation. By the way, you'll never understand the book of 114 00:11:38.400 --> 00:11:43.360 Revelation unless you read the book of Daniel. When somebody says, I don't get it. I don't 115 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.440 understand the book of Revelation. Well, it's because you didn't read the book of Daniel. That's why. 116 00:11:49.760 --> 00:11:55.200 You're going to hear about this guy who is this beast, but he doesn't apparently start out that 117 00:11:55.760 --> 00:12:01.840 way. The Bible says that there's 10 kings or 10 horns, but there's an 11th horn. It's a little horn. 118 00:12:03.760 --> 00:12:09.760 Maybe he's an undersecretary of. We don't know. He's somebody insignificant. We know that for 119 00:12:09.760 --> 00:12:14.560 a fact. He somehow associated with the power group, but he's not well known. 120 00:12:16.160 --> 00:12:22.720 Something's going to happen that is going to move him up in a very quick period of time. We're 121 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:31.200 talking about a time frame that could easily, listen, that could easily commence any time now in our 122 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:37.760 current world because this guy will advance, will advance on the global scene until he has an idea. 123 00:12:37.760 --> 00:12:46.000 And the Bible tells us what his idea is. So watch this. Look around the world right now and look 124 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:53.840 at nations and look how stable they are or unstable they are. Look how leaderless the world is at 125 00:12:53.840 --> 00:13:00.320 this moment. Look at the things that are going on in the Middle East, mostly specifically Israel. 126 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:08.800 Look at what's happened in the United States as it wanes in power and off the world scene of 127 00:13:08.800 --> 00:13:14.880 influence. We've abandoned the Middle East. We've abandoned so much and others have stepped in. There's 128 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:20.080 a great global shift taking place right now. But my point is this, when he's the little horn 129 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:25.200 insignificant, you and I should know something about this by way of example. Let's be honest. 130 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:34.560 In 2004, none of you knew who Barack Obama was. Not a single one of you knew who Barack Obama was. 131 00:13:35.040 --> 00:13:44.000 And then he becomes a senator. He goes from a community organizer, seriously, to a senator. 132 00:13:47.040 --> 00:13:55.040 And was a senator for about nine months and becomes a president. Unheard of. 133 00:13:56.640 --> 00:14:02.480 My point is this, if it can happen in the US of A, imagine what's going to happen when all 134 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:08.880 of the stars so to speak a line. There's just the right crises. There's just the right economics. 135 00:14:08.880 --> 00:14:14.000 There's just the right issues are fear of war and somebody's got an idea. 136 00:14:15.520 --> 00:14:21.120 This world will catapult that person forward. In fact, the Bible tells us that out of the 10, 137 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:27.840 the 11th horn will arise amongst them and he will subdue the major spokesperson of them or the 138 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:34.240 leaders. He'll put down three and take over completely. The little horn, Daniel chapter 7, verse 8. 139 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:44.400 I was considering the horns, Daniel said. By the way, it's 10 of them, just like John, 10 of them. 140 00:14:45.680 --> 00:14:51.760 And there was another horn, a little one. Isn't this some kind of cute? He did the little one. 141 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:58.960 Coming up among them. You ever seen like a weed coming up in your beautiful garden? 142 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:08.080 Before whom three of the kings were plucked out by the roots, he destroys three of those 10 leaders. 143 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:16.720 And there in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, like a human. 144 00:15:17.280 --> 00:15:23.840 And a mouth speaking, pompous words. It's very eerie. He's got eyes like a human because he is a human, 145 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:31.840 but it implies that his words are not human. But listen to this. Daniel chapter 8, verse 23, 146 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:37.280 tells us that he's not only a little horn, but he's the king of fierce countenance. This is kind of 147 00:15:37.280 --> 00:15:45.360 an amazing thing. The Bible gives us details about this anti-Christ individual. He has a fierce 148 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:54.160 countenance. The Bible says, Daniel 8, 23, and in the latter time of their kingdom. 149 00:15:55.360 --> 00:16:02.880 During the reign of the 10, when the transgressors, listen to this, have reached their fullness, 150 00:16:02.880 --> 00:16:08.880 that is an amazing statement. So what does that mean? It means when sin has reached its full level, 151 00:16:08.880 --> 00:16:17.440 full mark. Imagine a beaker, remember in science class, lab, the beaker. Imagine God is looking 152 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:22.480 at this beaker and sin is going up. And when it reaches a certain point, God says, that's it. 153 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:33.840 Imagine, look at the world, look at the world. What's happening in the area of evil? And now evil, 154 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:40.560 evil is shouting at you, as though it's a virtue. Evil is saying, you're wrong. We're right, you're 155 00:16:40.560 --> 00:16:47.120 wrong. If you stand up and say, hey, that's wrong, you shouldn't castrate a little child like that. 156 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:53.760 You are evil for thinking that. They'll blame you for being a weirdo. That's how sick things have 157 00:16:53.760 --> 00:17:04.000 gotten. Listen, it's not personal. People write me, people tell me, boy, if I find you in an alley 158 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:13.280 some night, I'm going to listen, here's the deal. I feel like it's not personal. 159 00:17:20.800 --> 00:17:27.280 The people that are doing insane demonic things are actually doing the doctrines of demons 160 00:17:28.080 --> 00:17:31.920 and spiritual deception right now. You're living it. You're seeing it in the news paper every day. 161 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:36.720 It's being debated. It's on the radio. Don't miss it. The tendency for us to be humans. We're so lame, 162 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:42.720 we miss so much all the time. Listen, I'll quote that verse again because I interrupted myself. 163 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:50.320 And in the latter time of their kingdom, Daniel 823, when the transgressors have reached their 164 00:17:50.320 --> 00:17:58.720 fullness, a king shall arise, having a fierce countenance who understands sinister schemes. 165 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:04.960 That's a terrifying word. It means that there's nothing that he cannot unpack. Think of a not. 166 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:10.640 Think of the world and a not. And nobody can do anything about it. In fact, at a time like this, 167 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:16.960 Jesus warned that the world would see all of its problems with no way out the word means. 168 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:23.440 And then comes this man. Notice out of the ten nation confederacy of leaders that are 169 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:31.280 assumed to take up residence in the world, this world. Someone's going to have a good idea. 170 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:40.880 And they're going to solve a problem. And they're going to go up a little notch, just a little horn. 171 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:49.600 But he's got a fierce countenance. The word fierce countenance means that he has a strong mighty, 172 00:18:49.600 --> 00:18:55.120 rough look, it's arrogant, brazen, it's intimidating. When this man comes on this scene, 173 00:18:55.120 --> 00:18:59.360 he's going to untie the knots of the world's problems, and the world's going to love this guy. 174 00:19:01.120 --> 00:19:03.760 And he's going to go up. That little horn is getting bigger. 175 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:12.880 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcasts outreach opportunities, are 176 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:17.360 listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 177 00:19:18.080 --> 00:19:23.680 Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.