WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.640 real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:16.320 truth equip the saints and impact our culture because God has given you and 3 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:19.860 I his Bible he expects us to know this book there's no excuse for us to not 4 00:00:19.860 --> 00:00:23.880 know this not one of us he's who I don't like reading well that's because of 5 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:28.160 laziness let's be honest the reason why you may not like read what I can't 6 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:32.560 read as fast as anybody he didn't ask you to take the Evelyn Woods speed reading 7 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:41.120 course you don't get to read it you can get the outlines of this podcast by 8 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:47.880 going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast today if this podcast lifts you up and 9 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:52.080 encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave 10 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:58.040 us one of those five star ratings to us that's like saying amen or yes then 11 00:00:58.040 --> 00:01:02.680 that rating will encourage others to listen now open your hearts to what God's 12 00:01:02.680 --> 00:01:09.680 word has to say to you here is Jack Hibbs. Friends Bible prophecy matters and Jesus 13 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:15.400 said I hold you accountable to know that day and you didn't know it so now your 14 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:19.560 peace is taken from you so when God's word says what it says we want to pay 15 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:24.000 close attention to it and God gives us these things that we might be people who 16 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:31.400 are at peace and that we know what's coming we don't have to worry and 17 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:35.680 bite our nails like the rest of the world especially in times like these God 18 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:39.560 wants to communicate to you is truth and you need to make a decision of what 19 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:45.400 you're gonna listen to I hope you look at it this way if any of you have been in 20 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:50.160 war combat what the first things that you do is you get intel intelligence on 21 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:54.720 your enemy or for the mission and you know what the first thing is the first 22 00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:59.340 thing it is that you do you figure out how do you take out their communications I 23 00:01:59.340 --> 00:02:02.880 don't care how big the army is I don't care how big the nation is you want to 24 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:07.040 you want to mess up take out communications by the way we're really good at that as 25 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:12.240 as a nation as a war machine is that we usually go in a few days in advance and 26 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:17.880 we always take out their communication systems do it by stealth nowadays you 27 00:02:17.880 --> 00:02:22.040 don't even need stealth United States and Israel both are pretty famous for 28 00:02:22.040 --> 00:02:27.920 just going going into a computer and sending information that completely 29 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:31.920 disconnects the communications of the enemy when communications is not clear 30 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:37.840 people get confused okay and that's what's listen that's what happens in war in 31 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:45.280 you and I right here are at war it's not for any territory it's not for any 32 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:52.320 booty or any loot or any glory it's for souls that's what we're living for 33 00:02:52.320 --> 00:02:56.480 you and I as believers we're living for the souls of men and women and boys and 34 00:02:56.480 --> 00:03:02.680 girls you see that's creepy not creepy at all listen we are Jesus's ambassadors 35 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:06.640 is the Bible we're deployed all around the world as believers in the fact of 36 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:09.800 the matter is this we're trying to share the gospel with people we're trying to 37 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:14.280 communicate the truth and the enemy wants to mess that up constantly with false 38 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:20.800 teaching false prophets false faith and to confuse someone's ability to come to 39 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.760 the knowledge of Christ that Jesus is the way the truth in the life the enemy 40 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:29.520 hates that Jesus died on the cross for our sins to set us free the enemy hates 41 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:39.280 that that's why he floods you with allurements and lust and pride and desire 42 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:43.920 it's those are not cute things are things that you can hold in your breast for a 43 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:49.080 moment and not be burned they are demonically driven by a world of darkness 44 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:54.040 invisible to our eyes that want to seek your soul and pull you into the pit why 45 00:03:54.040 --> 00:04:03.120 is that important that's how much Satan hates you and God you're the prize and 46 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:08.840 thus Bible prophecy makes it's claims to us and it's awesome and comforting don't 47 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.760 need to belabor it last time together we argue this that regarding what we know 48 00:04:12.760 --> 00:04:18.600 for sure is that the world now is being turned to all eyes on God people are 49 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:24.160 waking up around the world at this time to consider God people are tuning in 50 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:28.600 people are reading their Bibles the biggest download of Christian data as I've 51 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:32.920 been telling you over and over again during the year 2020 has been the nation of 52 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:39.720 Iran Persia gospel going all over the world billions of people reading Bible 53 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:43.920 online what's up something's happening and God has delivered this opportunity at 54 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:50.080 an age like this where technology can be used we're living in a miracle right 55 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:56.080 now and I don't want you to miss the day of your visitation this is an epic 56 00:04:56.080 --> 00:05:00.160 moment you want to get on board you want to find out God what do you want to do 57 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:04.120 next God please don't do it without me but you want to hit don't you want to 58 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.080 pray that prayer God what are you going to do I don't care just don't do it 59 00:05:07.080 --> 00:05:11.100 without me don't you want that wouldn't it be bummer if God said well I 60 00:05:11.100 --> 00:05:14.220 would have used you but you didn't recognize the day of your visitation so I 61 00:05:14.220 --> 00:05:21.120 went down the street oh my goodness I break my heart and then we saw last time 62 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:26.760 this did not go over big I could tell by the mail I got in the comments the 63 00:05:26.760 --> 00:05:33.580 second thing is what do we know for sure all eyes off America oh I'm just 64 00:05:33.580 --> 00:05:38.740 getting started listen you can't you can insult the God of heaven in the 65 00:05:38.740 --> 00:05:42.380 United States and expect them to hang around he's not a punching bag you can't 66 00:05:42.380 --> 00:05:45.100 throw him out of college you can't throw him out of core you can't throw him 67 00:05:45.100 --> 00:05:48.460 out of school you can't throw God out of the public square you can't throw God 68 00:05:48.460 --> 00:05:52.060 out of the textbooks and then expect them to send rain or to make our 69 00:05:52.060 --> 00:05:58.860 economy work it's not gonna happen he's patient he's been patient for decades but 70 00:05:58.860 --> 00:06:04.780 it is very evident times up the United States of America listen has been 71 00:06:04.780 --> 00:06:10.340 that stalwart friend of Israel in more ways than one and God blessed us as a 72 00:06:10.340 --> 00:06:15.660 nation when we stood for Israel but I want to make this very clear the prerequisite 73 00:06:15.660 --> 00:06:20.020 to blessing according to the Bible God says bless Israel and I'll bless you he 74 00:06:20.020 --> 00:06:24.900 said wouldn't you ask me to bless Israel yep I'm not saying everything Israel 75 00:06:24.900 --> 00:06:30.060 does is right God didn't ask us about that I'm not saying I'm not saying just you 76 00:06:30.060 --> 00:06:34.780 know just because somebody's Jewish that you're supposed to love on them like 77 00:06:34.780 --> 00:06:40.260 that I'm not saying that God makes it very clear that he says I will bless the 78 00:06:40.260 --> 00:06:45.740 nations that bless my people look you're not you're not sinless isn't it 79 00:06:45.740 --> 00:06:50.380 sweet to know that God would say I want I want you to be a blessing to my friend 80 00:06:50.380 --> 00:06:54.340 fill in your name I want you to be a blessing to fill in your name you say oh 81 00:06:54.340 --> 00:06:58.980 that's nice I like that well the same God says be a blessing to my people is 82 00:06:58.980 --> 00:07:02.460 or I've chosen them but God there are difficult people I know that's why I chose 83 00:07:02.460 --> 00:07:07.780 them did you know that that's what he says he says I chose them he said to them 84 00:07:07.780 --> 00:07:10.580 book a Deuteronomy he said don't think I picked you because you're better than 85 00:07:10.580 --> 00:07:15.500 anybody else he said I picked you because you're stubborn he said I picked you 86 00:07:15.500 --> 00:07:19.640 because you are stiff neck people you know what that means if he can save a 87 00:07:19.640 --> 00:07:26.600 Jew he can save a Jew right it's true I love the Jewish people they're 88 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:31.480 fantastic if if you ever get in the conversation with the Jewish friends it's 89 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.600 amazing because they'll argue with you for an hour and then at the end they'll 90 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.560 say I believed everything you did I just wanted to listen to you argue your 91 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:45.120 point they never stop and God says those are the ones that I'm gonna pick 92 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.720 they're my chosen people they drive everybody else up the wall they will be 93 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:57.040 instruments of my grace and my mercy and God picked them and you can't say 94 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:03.520 anything about it I don't like it too bad he didn't ask you by the way there's a 95 00:08:03.520 --> 00:08:08.080 reason why the Jews are the most hated people on the planet because of God he 96 00:08:08.080 --> 00:08:13.960 picked them I think Satan hates them think about it God has promised and never 97 00:08:13.960 --> 00:08:18.040 lasting covenant with the Jewish people he has to keep it you think a little 98 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:22.080 Satan can read the Bible if he can break that if he can mess that up then he 99 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:28.240 thwarts the plan of God happily it ain't gonna happen but listen as as a nation 100 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.880 as a nation we need to get back to God and I don't know what's going on in 101 00:08:33.880 --> 00:08:40.120 our country don't be fooled nobody else knows either that is both terrifying 102 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:47.920 and maybe great but one of the things is this showed on the screen you guys in 103 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:53.280 in the US the client of Christianity continues at a rapid pace that doesn't 104 00:08:53.280 --> 00:08:56.720 bother me don't let that bother you if you read the entire article by the way it 105 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:04.880 is huge article it goes on to say that rapidly drastically membership from 106 00:09:04.880 --> 00:09:11.080 Baptist Southern Baptist Lutheran Methodist Catholic assembly of God 107 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:18.920 Presbyterian they're all losing people that's not a bad thing that's not a 108 00:09:18.920 --> 00:09:23.700 bad thing because those entities are almost fully departed from the authoritative 109 00:09:23.700 --> 00:09:28.720 word of God they departed from the Bible why why wouldn't God call us people out 110 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:32.920 God is saying to some churches or to the people in those churches hey come out 111 00:09:32.920 --> 00:09:39.720 and be separate from them can you believe that he does that Jesus said in the 112 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:44.840 book of Revelation come out from among them don't hang out in a false church 113 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:49.960 where Christ is not glorified his word is not taught and that you're not trained 114 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:53.760 in the things of God that you might go out into the world and make a difference 115 00:09:53.760 --> 00:09:59.320 church is not a club it's not to meet any standards that the world sets down as 116 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:03.160 what is acceptable and not acceptable the church is a living breathing 117 00:10:03.160 --> 00:10:08.360 entity deposited to us from heaven it was created by the Holy Spirit it was 118 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:12.720 bought by the blood of Christ it doesn't beat some earthly or governmental 119 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:18.640 requirements it is the church of the living God and now you can see in our age 120 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:24.520 how the church will be pitted against godless governments and godless leaders 121 00:10:24.520 --> 00:10:31.160 we're rapidly moving toward that even at this time but it's a very powerful 122 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:36.160 truth the third thing is this is where we pick it up the third thing is all 123 00:10:36.160 --> 00:10:40.840 eyes on Israel five times and are reading a moment ago you read the word 124 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:44.640 Israel that is fascinating friends let me remind you reading the book of 125 00:10:44.640 --> 00:10:51.240 Ezekiel you're looking at a 25 26 hundred year old prophecy and you read it 126 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:56.600 out loud I heard you say it you said it five times the name is real it's been 127 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:03.040 in there since Ezekiel gave it or I should say God gave it to Ezekiel I can 128 00:11:03.040 --> 00:11:06.040 ask you to put your eyes to the screens in a moment to watch something but I 129 00:11:06.040 --> 00:11:12.000 want to set it up Israel you want to know why it's a big deal number one 130 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:15.480 nation talked about in the Bible of course it's the only nation in the Bible only 131 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:20.240 nation in the Bible where God has established with them an ever lasting covenant 132 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:25.720 Israel Israel special it is the only nation in the world where the scripture 133 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:30.160 tells us that listen listen that they will be a nation and then because of their 134 00:11:30.160 --> 00:11:35.560 rebellion against God they will not be a nation and they'll be thrust into 135 00:11:35.560 --> 00:11:40.200 exile because of their disobedience then the Bible tells us that just before 136 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:45.800 Christ comes back listen just before Christ comes back he will regather his 137 00:11:45.800 --> 00:11:52.280 nation from all the corners of the earth listen back into their own land that's 138 00:11:52.280 --> 00:11:56.480 a funny thing because two thousand years later these people walking around the 139 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.760 world they don't know that that's their own land they've never been there 140 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:07.320 before so what God does he sets up the country so the people can move are you 141 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:11.920 with me nobody's moving right now to Mars because it's not been set up for you 142 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:18.600 to move to well God sets up Israel first so his people can move to it and they 143 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:27.960 move to it coming or going home to home they've never been and they have and they 144 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:33.040 do and they will what's going on and how could this have ever happened that a 145 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:40.600 nation who was then wasn't becomes again what evidence do we have that God's 146 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:47.440 word is true on this point put your eyes to the screen how do you respond to 147 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:54.240 people who excel you in invention creativity and wealth do you envy them do you 148 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:59.920 feel their success somehow diminishes you or do you admire what they've 149 00:12:59.920 --> 00:13:06.560 achieved and try to emulate it these questions sum up what I call the Israel 150 00:13:06.560 --> 00:13:13.600 tests in the 1880s European Jews settled in mandate Palestine and brought an 151 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:19.520 agricultural miracle in that desolate territory then sparsely populated by a 152 00:13:19.520 --> 00:13:25.680 few score thousand Jews and a couple hundred thousand Arabs the Jewish settlers 153 00:13:25.680 --> 00:13:33.200 drained malaria swamps leached salt from the soils terrorists the barren hills 154 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:39.160 and planted millions of trees they massively expanded the capacity of the land 155 00:13:39.160 --> 00:13:46.360 and enabled it to support a substantial Arab population in the two decades 156 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:52.720 between 1921 and 1943 Jews quadrupled the number of enterprises 157 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:58.160 multiplied the number of jobs by a factor of 10 and increased the level of 158 00:13:58.160 --> 00:14:04.880 capital investment a hundredfold far from displacing Arabs they provided 159 00:14:04.880 --> 00:14:11.600 the capital for a major expansion of Arab farms and enabled a seven-fold rise 160 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:19.280 in Arab population by 1948 to a level of 1.35 million the largest in the 161 00:14:19.280 --> 00:14:25.360 long history of Palestine in other words the Arabs came to what would soon be 162 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:33.280 the state of Israel because of the Jews by comparison trans Jordan now 163 00:14:33.280 --> 00:14:38.720 known as Jordan with the same geological endowment and four times the land 164 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:47.440 but no Jews was able to sustain a population density only one tenth of the 165 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:53.360 population density of Palestine crucial to Israel's accomplishments were 166 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:57.920 world-leading technological advances in the recovery of water through 167 00:14:57.920 --> 00:15:06.160 desalinization drip irrigation and sewage recycling over the past 50 years 168 00:15:06.160 --> 00:15:13.920 Israel has increased its population tenfold its agricultural production 16fold 169 00:15:13.920 --> 00:15:21.360 and its industrial production 50fold while actually reducing net water 170 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:28.480 consumption by 10 percent since 1948 this huge expansion of effective water 171 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:36.720 resources enabled the land to support not only more Jews but also millions more 172 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:42.360 Arabs today the state of Israel with its astonishing achievements in computer 173 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:48.360 science and other high-tech fields distills both the genius of the Jews and 174 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:55.240 the misdirected anger of the failed states that surround the great divide in 175 00:15:55.240 --> 00:16:00.440 the Middle East is not between Arab and Jew but between admiration of the 176 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:06.440 achievement along with the desire to replicate it and envy accompanied by violent 177 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:13.080 resentment people who admire success who pass the Israel test tend to be wealthy 178 00:16:13.160 --> 00:16:18.360 and peaceful people who reside achievement who fail the Israel test tend to 179 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:25.000 become poorer and violent so again how do you respond to people who excel you 180 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:31.880 in invention creativity and wealth do you envy them do you feel their success 181 00:16:31.880 --> 00:16:37.480 somehow diminishes you or do you admire what they've achieved and try to 182 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:43.960 emulate it the Israel test is the central divide in the world today how you 183 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:50.360 answer it as an individual and ultimately how we answer it as a nation as a test 184 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:59.320 of our own will to triumph over enemies who hate us as they hate Israel for what 185 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:07.000 is best within us I'm George Gilder a non Jew who has passed the 186 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:22.600 Israel test all of that presentation secular scientific evidence of a 187 00:17:22.600 --> 00:17:29.480 nation the size of New Jersey being incredibly resourceful now granted 188 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.320 there's tremendous trouble coming to the nation of Israel during the 189 00:17:32.320 --> 00:17:36.640 tribulation period the Bible talks about that too but it's the only nation on 190 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:40.240 earth that God has a covenantal agreement with and if you doubt that look to 191 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:43.840 the screen now this is kind of a quirky looking graphic but it's because the 192 00:17:43.840 --> 00:17:48.320 t-shirt had to be stretched out and that picture taken of it this is a t-shirt 193 00:17:48.320 --> 00:17:52.400 you can buy it says civilizations nations and empires that have tried to 194 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:58.320 destroy the Jewish people nation ancient Egypt status gone 195 00:17:58.320 --> 00:18:05.520 Philistines nation status gone you haven't bumped into Philistine lately 196 00:18:05.520 --> 00:18:13.600 a Syrian Empire gone Babylonian Empire gone Persian Empire gone Greek Empire gone Roman 197 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:21.600 Empire gone Byzantine Empire gone Crusader period gone Spanish Empire gone Nazi 198 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:30.880 Germany gone Soviet Union gone Iran maybe tomorrow's news Iran you never go 199 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:37.200 against Israel without going against the God of the Bible you need to know that 200 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:43.280 you go against Israel and you're gonna get yourself in trouble how do we know 201 00:18:43.280 --> 00:18:47.720 Genesis chapter 12 verse 1 says now the Lord had said to Abram get out of 202 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.240 your country imagine that he's just living his own life doesn't know 203 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:55.720 nothing about nothing that God speaks to his name leave your country leave 204 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:01.600 your family father's house and go to a land that I will show you I will make 205 00:19:01.600 --> 00:19:05.800 you a great nation I will bless you make your name great and you shall be a 206 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:10.960 blessing here it is I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who 207 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:17.120 curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed all the 208 00:19:17.120 --> 00:19:23.480 families of the earth shall be blessed if we bless Abraham's descendants Bible says 209 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:30.560 that his descendants are none other than the Hebrew people this is a this is a 210 00:19:30.560 --> 00:19:34.440 verse that the Bible lays out flat doesn't ask you for your opinion it doesn't 211 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:40.840 apologize for it just says it you don't believe it that's okay but do some study 212 00:19:40.840 --> 00:19:49.680 as to how do nations fair when they go against Israel it doesn't go well 213 00:19:52.040 --> 00:19:56.920 this Jack Gibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 214 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:01.560 listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift 215 00:20:01.560 --> 00:20:08.560 go to jackhids.com to learn more and stay connected