Future Revival in Jerusalem - Part 1

Praise the Lord. It's wonderful to be with you here this morning just to bring the Word of God. You know, I believe that's one of the greatest privileges for a Christian, to open up and bring the Word of God. There's no greater privilege than that. Spurgeon in this city said, if God calls me to preach the Word of God, I wouldn't stoop to be the King of England. And I want to assure you, there's no greater calling in an hour of confusion and darkness and apostasy than to shine the clarity and the power of God's Word into the midst of that. This is a very evil and a dark generation. And if you have any wisdom at all, you'll want to rise up and run to the light of the truth of God. There's only one place to walk in this hour. You will get confused in this hour. Deception is going to increase in this hour. And the only place of refuge is in the person of Christ. He is the Word of God. And when he speaks, he'll always bring us to the written scriptures. Just so wonderful to be with you again. We had a wonderful time one year ago dealing with the sons of Issachar. I really felt that was somewhat prophetic for us. I want to deal with something slightly different this year, and I'm going to make you think. I hope that's okay. Just wonderful friends in this room. So thank Sister Sally. Really appreciate her heart and spirit and the desire to want to bring God's Word to God's people and to have preachers who will preach the Word of God. That's very precious. And I really appreciate her sister and others here. Wonderful friends in this room, and just good to see Pastor Charles again. Pastor Steve, we're up with you. Last year, Pastor Wintersmith, we were trying to work out, was it 12 years? I think it was maybe 14 years ago in Australia. Haven't seen him since then, but I really thank God that there's people in this room who have stood, who desire truth. I know what the battle is in this hour. I know the battle is hard, but what an hour to stand and preach the truth. I've got wonderful friends here, David and Sal. They're just like family to us. These friendships are very precious, very real. Saints of God, I want to apologize before I even begin to preach, and I know you'll understand. I buried my wife three months ago. Five weeks, I let the young brothers preach. I preached the past two months. I've hit a point of utter tiredness. I can't even make my brain function. So, I apologize. I don't even know how this is going to come out. I really mean that. I've been in a great struggle this week, and I'm just being honest because you're friends, and I haven't even been able to concentrate or think logically. So, I've got a burden here this morning. I've got a very clear burden from the Lord. I know the scriptures are clear, but I want you to bear witness with me the weakness of this human vessel. I thought this way. I thought, boy, Lord, what have you done, or what have I done? I've got myself in a jam here going to preach, but I'm going to trust the Lord here, and I know we're going to agree together. So, please, if you want clarity, go listen to my old messages. There's plenty of clarity, plenty of substance there, but I'm here this morning in the will of God, and I believe that. I'm a broken man. My heart is torn out of me. To stand here takes all the grace of God, but I want to tell you there's something greater than my mind, my emotions, and having lost my best friend in this world. There's something greater than that. It's the souls of men. You know Candice, when she got diagnosed with cancer, she stood up in our church and she said, this is not about Candice. Don't make me the focus of this. This is about revival and the souls of men. Me having this cancer, that's what it's all about. Out of this is going to come the winning of souls. She said that right to the very end. We were on her bed when she could hardly get off that bed, pleading, wrestling, praying for revival, for reviving of an apathetic church and for the winning of souls. This is our entire life. I don't know what else to do than preach. You know why? This is reality. This isn't ministry. This isn't churchianity. I rose up from my wife's deathbed when she'd breathed her last breath, went out into the presence of the Lord, and I immediately went to that church and led them round the Lord's table to remember His sacrifice, His precious blood of His provision of Calvary. I go, this is life, saints of God. You may be hurting. I don't know what's going on with your life. I want to tell you, you better get up out of whatever you're fighting and say, I'm going to reach a soul for the Lord Jesus Christ. You may be in confusion of mind. Your thoughts might be everywhere, but there's a soul to reach for Jesus Christ. Here this morning, I want you to turn with me to Ezekiel chapter 37. We've got two messages here, and I'm going to start with Ezekiel 37. This is the title and the substance of my two messages, future revival in Jerusalem, future revival in Jerusalem. Reading from Ezekiel chapter 37 and verse 1, I'm going to read the first 10 or 11 verses. The hand of the Lord was upon me and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of booms, and caused me to pass by them round about, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and lo, they were very dry. He said unto me, Son of man, can these booms live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest, what a wise man. Again he said unto me, prophesy unto these booms and say unto them, O ye booms, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these booms, behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live, and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a shaking, and the booms came together, boom to his boom, and when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skins covered them above, but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding mighty army. Then listen to this last verse here, then he said unto me, Son of man, these booms are the whole house of Israel. Let's pray together. Father, I thank you for the Word of God. It's alive, Lord God. It's living, it's life-changing. Lord God, it raises men from the dead. It stirs the church and the body of Christ, and Father, we pray in this dark and evil hour, Lord God, will you intervene and revive and stir hearts again and give us a burden here this morning. Lord God, for the souls of men, Lord God, that we have beseeched men to turn from their sins, and Lord God, to turn unto salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. We love you this morning. There's nowhere else we'd rather be than in your presence with our eyes single upon you, lifting our voice to you. Lord God, enter into your throne of grace. We love you with all of our heart in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. We are reading here in Ezekiel 37, a prophecy given from the Lord concerning the nation of Israel 2,600 years ago, about events that have been happening, are about to happen, and willfully come to pass very shortly to fulfillment and completion in our world. You will never understand Ezekiel 37, or 36, or 38, or 39, unless you understand what I'm about to say next. Seventy-two times in the book of Ezekiel, and through these prophecies, a certain statement is given. Listen carefully what it is. Quote, and they shall know that I am the Lord. Speaking about the nation of Israel and the heathen nations of the Gentiles. In other words, the nations of the world. Time and time again in Ezekiel, he prophesies something, predicts something, or is given a vision. Then he says, I, the Lord, I'm going to do this, that you may know that I am the Lord. You've got to be gripped by that as we come to this. Every prophecy that is given, every prediction that is made, every foretelling of the events of politics and of nations, and of the movements of everything in our world, it is that God may be revealed. I want to tell you Ezekiel's war in chapter 38 and 39, what is it about? Why is it predicted in detail? Why are nations mentioned by name and specifics given? For one reason, that you, the heathen nations of the world, are going to know that I am God. That you, Israel, are going to know that I am God. In other words, in the world events happening in our world right now, that have been happening, and are going to happen, God is saying, I'm doing this. I told you 2,600 years ago, in actual detail for this one reason, you are going to know that I am God. We're talking about events happening pre-tribulation, before the end of time, while we are here. Certain things have to happen. They're going to come to pass, and it's for this reason that you are going to know that I am God. No one will be able to deny it. What a real thing that we have here. When we begin to read chapters 36 to chapter 39, we read about the regathering, the restoration, and the resurrection of the little nation of Israel, before it is even dispersed into all the nations of the world. In fact, this goes way back before much of the history of Israel. He is predicting a thing before it even comes to pass, and given the details. We also read in these chapters about the spiritual reviving of the nation of Israel. In other words, their conversion. They're being brought into the new covenant of grace, that they have rejected for 2,000 years. And so we read in these chapters about a literal return of Israel, scattered into every nation, a literal return to the land. We read about a literal war. Then we read about a literal revival. And all this is concerning a literal Israel. I hope by now you realize I believe in interpreting prophecy literally. I believe God still has a plan for the nation of Israel, and that the great works of God are not finished in the world. If you say God isn't going to send revival again, and God isn't going to do miracles again, and God's work is finished in our nations, I've got a serious problem with you this morning. I'd have to say I've got the Bible on my side, and you're standing way outside the borders of Scripture here this morning. And so as we have read about the valley of dry bones, all through my lifetime, Christian preachers have preached from Ezekiel 37 to bring forth a message about revival for the church. And I have done it, and I will do it again. It is right to preach about revival and a work of the Spirit of God from Ezekiel 37. How the prophet is put in the valley of dry bones, he's to prophesy to them, and then the winds of the four heavens come and revive that great army. It's a wonderful chapter to preach about revival for the church. But I don't want you to miss something. That is not the exact correct interpretation and application of Ezekiel 37. Ezekiel 37 is about a revival that is yet to take place in the little nation of Israel, a revival that has never yet happened, a revival that is yet future, a revival that is going to come to a nation that is literally restored to their land, literally invaded by a great northern army, and a nation that is literally fruitful in the midst of our generation. If you believe all that, and yet you don't emphasize a spiritual revival, you have stopped halfway. You only believe in a portion of the prophecy. Here, what we have in Ezekiel 37 is an amazing vision of a spiritual revival that begins in the city of Jerusalem, and it's not too far in the future, I believe. When you begin to read from Ezekiel 37 and verse 11, the Lord gives the explanation of this vision of the dry bones very, very clearly. He gives it to us. It is about the physical restitution before the spiritual restoration of Israel. Look with me at verse 11. It says, these bones are the whole house of Israel. It's speaking about the bones that get restored to the land. Who are the bones? It is the nation of Israel. He goes further in verse 11. He says, they say, speaking about the bones. In other words, these bones scattered everywhere have a voice, have a mind. They have questions. Look what they're actually saying. They say our bones are dried. They're speaking about themselves. This is before the restore to the nation. This is being scattered to every single nation in the world. We are dried. The word dried means to be ashamed, confused, disappointed. They are dried up and they are withered. I want you to look at the condition of the bones when God begins to deal with them. He goes further, and they say our bones are dried and our hope is lost. The word hope there means their expectation is lost. Their future hope is gone. They have no future. Look at these scattered, dead, dry bones, all separate, and they're in a terrible condition. I'm leading you somewhere, which is to a spiritual revival of Israel, but this is where it begins. Oh yes, it can be applied to the church in every generation and has been, but there is a common revival that has never yet happened. It all began with the dry bones of people who had no hope. It says we are cut off from our parts. It means destroyed or divided asunder from one another. Verse 12, it says that they were very, sorry, totally, wholly, absolutely. There was such a multitude of them. You can't imagine. They are so dry you can't imagine. Do you know God starts working in very dry places, very dead places, very scattered. You know I'm not discouraged about the church in this hour. If I look at the church I am, if I look at the bones I am, but you know what? When I know who this God is, when I know his mighty deeds, no man's going to get the glory for what God does in this hour. It is remarkable. In verse 12 it talks about the graves where these bones are. They're all scattered in graves. What are the graves? They are the nations of the world. He says, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel. This is where God began here in Ezekiel in these chapters. Where is he beginning? The vision of Ezekiel 37. It covers the full spectrum of these chapters from when they're scattered in all nations before they returned to the land in 1948. That's what chapter 36 is about. Here is a barren land. I'm going to begin gathering you. Only once in Israel's history of 4,000 years was Israel ever scattered in every single nation. There were other captivities in Assyria and in Egypt and elsewhere, but never, only once in their history, and that was over the 1,900 years following AD 70. The only time in their history that they were scattered to every single nation on the face of the earth. Ezekiel prophesied 2,600 years ago, I'm going to gather them from all nations. It's a specific time. It's a specific thing happening. It's a new beginning, and they represent the bones that are being gathered from their graves in each of those nations. What a remarkable prophecy we have that in this vision of the bones being revived, it began in 1948, but verse 14 talks about, I will put my spirit in you. That's regeneration. That's an internal work of the spirit. Notice God when he gives the vision of the dry bones, he begins by saying, I'm going to put my spirit in you. Then he talks about the sinews and the flesh and the coming together. When he begins to prophesy them, you get it in reverse order. You get the sinews coming together, and then you have it all together. I mean, it's all practically, physically together, but there's one thing missing. Do you know what we have in Israel today? They've come together politically, militarily, scientifically, socially, economically. Everything is in place. Then the prophet looks and said, there's one thing missing from this amazing body that has been brought back into the nation. You know what it was? The spirit has yet to blow upon that body. It is dead. It is lifeless. It's got its political institution. It's got its military institution. Everything is in place. He commands Ezekiel, prophesy to the four winds. The four winds always speaks about the Holy Spirit of God, the work of God's Holy Spirit. He began to prophesy concerning the spirit of God blowing on this valley of dry bones. You know what we have? We have this last work of God to raise up an exceeding mighty army. So with Ezekiel 37, the entire vision, it began in 1948, and it continues all the way through until there's a spiritual reviving of Israel. Saints of God, it's never happened in Jerusalem or in Israel since the early church. There is something predicted by Ezekiel that is so clear that has never, never yet happened. You know what this prophecy of the regathering of Israel, it is from all nations. When you begin to look at the prophecies, it's remarkable. In Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel prophesy on about this hour when Israel is regathered from all nations. Nations are mentioned, especially the Arabic nations. It goes through a whole list of Arab Muslim nations where Israel is going to come out of. Did it happen? Yes, since 1948. We have about half of the Jews in the world are now back in the nation, maybe about 45% or 47%. 50% of Israel are still out of the land. Most of them you're going to find in America today. Something is going to happen. You've got about a million in Europe. Something is going to happen. You've still got about a million or two million in Russia. Something is going to happen, and there's going to be a final restoration of this people. But what's going to happen? Here we are at this point in our history. Israel is back in the nation. Chapter 36 has been fulfilled. Now we're looking at chapter 37. How is this final restoration going to come? How is a spiritual revival going to come? There are many thoughts in the church. I'm going to make you think today. I'm going to leave you with a problem today if I can help it. I'm going to stir you up and challenge you. You don't need to agree with what I'm going to say throughout all of today. You don't need to be convinced today, but I'm going to give you such a problem you're going to have to go back to your scripture. I'm going to quote scripture after scripture and show you something that you're going to have to go away and begin to digest, because I believe it's something literally untouched in this generation. We talk about Israel. We talk the legs off the restoration of Israel. We've been encouraged by it and blessed by it and convinced of it, but we have not dealt with the spiritual restoration of Israel. And yet I believe it's explicitly taught, predicted in several different books of the Bible. A time is given. Events are given so we can begin to understand what is going on. And I get excited when I begin to see that there are things that are about to happen. Saints of God, after chapter 37, listen carefully, comes chapter 38 and chapter 39 of Ezekiel. It's called Ezekiel's War. Well, that's how we knew it. There are many preachers today. They minister on Ezekiel's War. They talk about Ezekiel's War, and I listen very carefully. But do you know what every single one of them neglects to tell you is what happens at the end of Ezekiel's War. Every single one of them that I've ever heard have actually taught things that the text does not say. They say it's going to initiate tribulation. Really? The Bible doesn't say that. They say certain things are going to happen just before Ezekiel's War or just after. The text doesn't say that. They try to put it in the midst of the tribulation or at the end of the tribulation. The text doesn't say that. I'm going to show you here that Ezekiel's War is placed in chapter 36 and 37 and 38 and 39 very precisely. In fact, you cannot understand Ezekiel 38 and 39 unless you acknowledge Ezekiel 37. Why is there a chapter on revival, a reviving, a spiritual reviving of Israel? Then you immediately go to a war, an invasion of the nation of Israel. I'm going to show you. I'm not going to teach on Ezekiel's War. I've done that before. You can go and see it online. You can hear other men teach that. But what I'm going to teach is what Ezekiel's War initiates. How does Ezekiel's War fit into Ezekiel 37 and this prophesied revival? You see, there's been many invasions of Israel. That's why such detail is given in Ezekiel 38 and 39. The names are given. The order is given. The sequence is given. All the information, even where they're going to fall. You know, where the Palestinians are now, that's going to become a graveyard. They've disputed over it. I'm going to tell you, this army is going to fall on the very place they fought over and contested. You see, it's got to be exact and detailed. But you know, this is the war connected to Ezekiel 37 and the spiritual revival of Israel. Why does it give such detail? Because there's been so many wars, so much conflict, so many enemies, so many nations coming against them, that he's got to give you the details. Look at 1948, for example. You had a nation burst in one day in a remarkable way. On the 15th of May, it was announced the birth of Israel. On the very next day, the 16th of May, my birthday, Arab nations declared war upon Israel. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invade. Notice Syria is involved in every single war since 1948, but they're not mentioned in Ezekiel's war. That nation is absent from it for the first time. They've attacked Israel every single time and been at the forefront of it, but they're not going to be with Ezekiel's war. I wonder why. That nation, for some reason, is going to be moved aside and not invade with a military army. It's very significant, all of these things. In 1948, 40 million soldiers, a trained army, united from different nations, attacked the little Jewish state with its population of 640,000 people. Listen, 40 million soldiers attack a population of just over half a million. Who is going to win this great war, this great battle? It was extraordinary what happened over the next 10 months as even volunteers came from Yemen, Morocco, Sudan, Pakistan to fight against Israel. Everybody was joining together. You know what I think is going to happen with Ezekiel's war? An awful lot of radical Muslims from London are going to book a Ryanair flight, if it flies there, to somewhere in the Middle East to say, we are going to be a part of the greatest victory against Israel. What radical Muslim would miss out on this? You know something coming the like of which you could never possibly imagine. We know that it was an extraordinary onslaught against Israel in a dynamic way, and yet the nation survived, defeated its enemies, and arose in that. You had 1968 when Nasser of Egypt began to stir up radical Islam against Israel. There were 37 terrorist attacks, and then a six-day war broke out with a large army invading. Egypt sent 280,000 soldiers. Jordan sent 55,000. Syria sent 75,000. Aircraft came from Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia. The Soviet army armed them and prepared the way. I could keep you here all night telling you of war, after war, after war, after war invasion. Why do you think in Ezekiel 38 we're given the names, we're given the nations, we're given the alignment? You know why? Because he says, I don't want you to confuse this with all these different wars. I want you to see what is happening. You've got to know the specific war that's going to trigger a spiritual revival in Israel again, because this war won't be like the others. It won't bring back more ground. It won't bring back your nationality. It won't establish you militarily or economically. I'm going to fulfill a vision, and it's going to be this war, it's going to be these nations, and it's going to be this time. It's an extraordinary thing happening. When we go to Ezekiel chapter 38, we again get the mention of the nations. Remember why all of this is. The Jew, the heathen nations, the Jew Israel might know that I'm God. You are going to know that Ezekiel prophesied right 2,600 years ago. I'm predicting the nations. I'm predicting everything that is going to happen. When we begin to go into Ezekiel's war, you know very well he talks about Gog of Magog. The name Gog is the name for being a top general, the commander in chief, or the leader of their military force. He's Gog of Magog. He comes from the nation of Magog. I believe that is Russia. I'm fully convinced of it. Remember all the prophecies of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, and he said, my people aren't going to be known as those brought out of Egypt, but from the north country. They're going to be known as coming out of that northern region. You know the Bible predicts this very clearly in Jeremiah chapter 16, that from the land of the north and from all the lands, whether he has driven them, I will bring them again into their land and give them unto their fathers. That land of the north, when you come to Ezekiel 38, we're told an army's coming from the extreme north. Three times we're told about. Not just the north. It's not Turkey. It's extreme of them. It is further than Armenia that this army is going to come from. And listen to what it actually shows us. Until 1990, the largest population of Jews in the world, guess where it was? In Russia. Until 1990, the biggest population, far bigger than America, Russia had the biggest population. When I was a boy, most of the Jews are held. You know, when we were growing up, weren't we praying for Russia and the Jews to get out and for the church to stop being persecuted? Remarkable things have happened in our generation. From 1990, you had a mass exodus of millions of Jews escaping and returning, and now there's about a million and a half Jews only left there. The majority of the Jewish immigrants in Israel in my lifetime have come from the north, the former Soviet Union. Between 1989 and the year 2006, one point in a period of just seven years, 1.6 million Soviet Jews, and in just one journey, 71,000 of them landed immediately. Today in Israel, one million of the six million Jews are from Russia. In fact, the Russian language is the third language of the nation of Israel. I've been told you go to Tel Aviv, one out of every two people can speak in Russian. You'll hear it on the streets of Tel Aviv. Don't tell me my Bible misses the mark. You know why God has given these prophecies? You're going to know that I'm God. This ought to create a fear of God, an awesome awareness of the fear and the presence of God. And so we have prophecies that show from the far north in this hour that this population from the north within Israel, they are Russian-speaking, Russian-born, and then what does Ezekiel's war, what are we told? We're told about Gog of Magog. Magog is ancient Scythia, or Scythia, where the very heartland of the Russian people, that is ancient Magog. We have a prophecy 2,600 years ago from this man of God, and in his day, Magog was the Scythians in that hour and generation. And he talks about Magog, the leader of it, the general who is born in Russia, and you know what he's the general of? Meshak and Tobol. Meshak and Tobol and Gomor are three different regions of present-day Turkey. And so we have a general from Russia, a leader of armies, having governance over the Turkish army, and you have an allegiance, an alliance of certain nations that are going to invade Israel. Israel has to be back in the land. Israel has to be a strong nation again. Israel is being rebuilt, but you know what? The work isn't fulfilled, and this war has to happen before spiritual revival comes. The revival doesn't come before this invasion. The revival actually comes after this invasion in a remarkable way. When you read Ezekiel's prophecy and the list of specific nations that invade, first of all, you have Magog, Russia. Second of all, you have Meshak and Tobol, Turkey. Third of all, you have Persia, which is present-day Iran. These first three are the three mentioned by Ezekiel. Let me say it again. 2,600 years ago. That's going to roll in your brain. 2,600 years ago. And do you know what? It was in November 2017, five years ago, that for the first time, Russia, Turkey, and Iran signed an allegiance, an agreement to unify themselves because of Syria, because of what happens in Syria, and that they're going to align themselves in the Middle East to work together. They often have trouble, were suspicious of each other, even until the summer of 2017. But events happen to make them align. Every year they meet together. I believe that one of the last times was at the beginning of this year. Turkey, Iran, Russia, they sat together, their leaders, and they talked about what they're going to do in Syria. Do you know in this list, you've got Libya as well. Libya is a desolation at the minute. Guess where these three nations want to make the next Syria? Libya. They've got plans for it. They said, after we settle Syria, we are going to move into Libya and begin to prepare Libya. You know what? The alignment is happening. Syria is out of the picture. The nations are lining up. Everything is getting into place. Saints of God, I'm excited because I know what's going to happen. It's predicted in detail. It is prophesied concerning what is coming in the nations at this time. I'm just laying foundations. I hope you don't mind me laying this foundation before I really get into preaching here this morning. I'm just preparing you. Maybe I'm setting you up a little bit. But Saints of God, I want to challenge you to think. It's time for the church to think. You know why? This is a very dark hour. If you've got any understand the Bible prophecy, this is the darkest hour. You're seeing the formation of the technology that's going to bring about the mark of the beast. We have seen over the past three years, things which are utterly remarkable. Our world is not the same. Right now, this year, as we sit here, the button is paused. Not out there in politics. They're working towards their agenda. You've got your freedom. You don't need to wear your masks. You can get on a plane. I got on a plane to get here. I couldn't do that last year. So we got on a car. I didn't even have to get swabbed or anything else. I went, they're not going to do that to my nose. They're not going to stick anything up this nose of mine. So we drove over. By the time we stayed a few days long enough here, we managed to drive back through Northern Ireland. We didn't need to do it. God just changed the legislation so we didn't need to do it. So praise God. But you know what? They stopped being able to travel in planes. Right now, you can't even get into America unless you're an American citizen. Don't think this is over. You haven't seen anything yet. You know what? This is a dark hour. You know the church. If you've lived through this generation of the church, the apostasy, the mocking of the gospel, the turning from truth, the compromise, the false prophets, the false revivals, all of this, Matthew 24, I warn you about the false prophetic ministry with signs and wonders. And it interests me Christ didn't warn about the evangelists or the pastors or the teachers or the apostles. It was the prophets. There is going to come false prophets. Matthew 24 is the lead in to last days. And you know what? He says that ministry in the church is going to be the most deceptive thing of that hour. It is going to be the vessel used by Satan internally in the church. Those come on doing miracles. I believe in miracles. I believe in healing. I believe in the power of God. I believe in prophecy. I believe in the true ministry of a genuine God-given prophet. But I want to tell you, I'm against all that confusion, utterly against it. Do you know why we need to understand prophecies like this? Because this is a dark and a gloomy hour. Most of the church has given up on the hope of revival. They said we're in the day of Laodicea. The Lord said it would get darker and darker, more deceptive. There's only going to be a little harvest. Have you heard it? Have you said it? Have you thought it? Have you believed it? It's going to get darker and darker. It's going to get worse and worse. Less is going to happen. No revival, no souls. Our churches are going to shrink away. What an optimist you are. I want to tell you, do you know what? That's only half of the truth. Do you realize everywhere that you get one of those statements? And I preached on it. I've studied it out. Every time you get, but men will become worse and worse. They'll get wax worse. It says, but every single time, Old Testament, New Testament, I can show you. Every time you get one of those predictions of deepening deception, you get a but of God's glory in the church and what he's going to do. Darkness and gross darkness will cover the nations. But my glory, I could go through them all. The books of scripture are very, very powerful. And so I believe in this hour when we realize where we're at. You know what? You need to realize where we're building the wards. Yes. I know antichrist is coming. Yes. I know deception is coming. Yes. I know the political system has changed. Yes. I know that hijacked the medical system. Yes. I know that hijacked the news media. I know all of that, but I want to tell you there is coming a spiritual move of God. Our God is going to be revealed as not everyone's going to believe. I want to tell you, there's going to be other opposition, but God is going to show himself just like he did in 1948. You know, in 1948, everyone didn't repent and believe. Everyone didn't fall down. And yet, what a prophecy that has affected our world that the Lord is coming. Let me just give you this before I close. So let me jump over Ezekiel's war, just set it to the side. We could go in depth on that, but that is my subject. We've just seen Ezekiel's war. It's going to happen. It's prepared now. It's very close. What happens? What's the purpose of Ezekiel's war? God is behind this. I will stick a hook in Magog's nose. You know, when Russia goes down into the Middle East, they've got no intention of invading Israel. That is not their plan. When they're down there, God says, you know what? I'm going to stick a hook and I'm going to put thoughts in your mind. Like the 10 world leaders who arise, it says that he puts in their minds to give their part of the beast. Who's in control here? Can I ask you? We think it's all out of control. God is not working. Are you kidding? Are you kidding me? This Bible shows us the hand of a sovereign God in this hour. He is absolutely in control. He is going to give men what they want, but it's to glorify his name. He will arise supreme. Thank God Jesus is coming again. This isn't my world. This isn't my home. My eyes are on the Lord Jesus Christ, but why does he let Ezekiel's war come to pass? Do you know what happens at the end of Ezekiel's war? Five out of six of that army fall on the mountains of Israel within their border on the ancient mountains of Israel or what's called Palestinia, Palestine. God says, I'm going to give you a party, all right? You want that land? I'll make it a grave so deep you can imagine. It'll take seven months to bury the dead. Then this nation of Israel is going to take their weapons and heat their homes for the next seven years, just off the weapons that you've gathered and brought down to the mountains of Israel. What an extraordinary prophecy that we have. We have the decimation of Russia. We have the decimation of Islam. Islam is not going to be the world religion of antichrist. It's going to get decimated at the end of Ezekiel's war. For a brief time moment, you're going to have Roman Catholicism, the predominant, most visible institution in religion worldwide. Islam is going to fall aside. But do you know what? Islam is going to be wide open to the gospel for one moment at a time. Look at chapter 39 with me, verse 27. When I have brought them again from the people, do you know what happens? There's one last thing gathered. Ezekiel's war comes to gather that last 50% of Jews in. They're going to come home. Ezekiel's war is going to make every Jew return home. You know why? It's one of the greatest victories. Who wouldn't want to live in Israel when Russia has just fallen and Islam has just fallen? When I brought my people again and gathered them out of their enemies' lands and sanctified them in the sight of many nations. In other words, nations are going to look at Israel at that time. Nations, Gentiles across the world. And Israel, because of what's just happened, they're going to be sanctified in the eyes of the nation. Then, notice that word, then, verse 28. Then shall they know. Who? The nations, the Gentiles. When this great army falls, then shall the Gentile nations know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen. But I have gathered them unto their own land and have left none of them anymore there. This is the last in-gathering of Jews to their own nation. It's going to happen right at the end of Ezekiel's war. God's going to do an extraordinary regathering. But there's more. Look at verse 29. And this is my verse. Nobody ever preaches on this verse. What happens at the end of Ezekiel's war in Jerusalem? What happens in Israel? All these enemies fall. Look at it. Read it with me. Because all the preachers are preaching Ezekiel's war. They begin to predict what's going to happen. There's the beginning of tribulation. There's the middle of tribulation. This is going to happen. The rapture will happen before it. The rapture will... Hold on. What does the Bible say about Ezekiel's war? Never attach things to Ezekiel's war that the Bible doesn't say. Ezekiel chapter 39, 29. Neither will I hide my face any more from them. For I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord. Do you realize that's what happens at the end of Ezekiel's war? I pour my spirit out at the end of Ezekiel's war. There's this regathering. Let me prove it again from texts within these chapters. In Ezekiel 36, 24. It's talking about God's plan to restore the nation. For I will take you from among the heathen to restore. Begin in 1948. I will take you from the heathen. Why? And gather you out of all countries. So it had to be this season and time. And I will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you. And you shall be clean from all your filthiness. And from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you. A new spirit will I put within you. And I'll take away the stony heart out of your flesh. I will give you a heart of flesh. And listen, and I will put my spirit within you. And cause you to walk in my statutes. And ye shall keep my judgments. And do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And ye shall be my people. And I will be your God. Do you know what this is? This conversion. This is the new covenant. This is forgiveness of sins. You know why he's bringing them back to the land? Because spiritually he's going to restore them. It is not God's will merely to have them back in the land. That's only a small part in preparation. If you stop there outside of praying for an outpouring and a conversion and a revival. You know all these ministries used to take the Jews back to the nations and we won't evangelize them. You don't even understand what you're doing. You're grieving the Holy Spirit. Oh, we're fulfilling Bible prophecy. Yes. And you're denying the gospel. You're going to preach the gospel to them. Oh, don't get on our boats. Fine. Sink your boats. You're after the souls of men. So the purpose to be back in the land is this. Look at chapter 38, 23. Notice where it's coming in the midst of the prophecy and Ezekiel's war. Look at the purpose for the annihilation of this army. 38, 23. Thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself and I will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the Lord. Why do I destroy Russia on the mountains of Israel? Why did I destroy Iran? Why did I destroy Turkey and Sudan and Algeria? Why did I destroy all of these armies? You know why? I'm going to be sanctified. They are going to know I'm God. I know lots won't believe me. I know multitudes who are going to go into terrible judgments and wrath. Do you know our population has just, I think it's the past week, clicked to 8 billion people. 8 billion. When you go to the book of Revelation, at least a third of them are going to be annihilated briefly in a short period of time. Billions of people are going to die on their sins through famine and chaos, through judgments, through terrible things happening. Billions of people are going to die. Do you know what God always does before judgment and before wrath? He always sends a merciful act of intervention to give people one last chance. I can prove it with American civil war. I can prove it with revivals in Britain and revivals in Europe just before the walls. God's spirit came to show mercy to young men before they marched out on the battlefields. I do not believe God is going to pour his wrath out without showing mercy one last time in our generation, briefly, suddenly. But look at this chapter 39 verse 7. I got told we're here to 12. Is there anyone else using this building? I was only trying to scare them. Okay. Listen, chapter 39, 7. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people, Israel, and I will not let them pollute my name anymore. And the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy one of Israel. Or chapter 39 verse 21. And I will set my glory among the heathen and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them so that the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord, their God from that day forth. Verse 29 is the sum total of Ezekiel's war. Neither will I hide my face anymore from them for I poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord. I believe, and I'm going to show you in part two. I just showed you a verse that people do not preach because it doesn't fit their eschatology or they're trying to mishmash different parts of scripture. Don't do that. Just believe the word of God. If you can't reconcile, fine, but just hold the truth of God, preach it as it is, believe it as it is, and let God show you how it all fits together. But don't reject certain things or twist it or change it because it doesn't fit into your thinking or understand. Don't do that. I've showed you that at the end of Ezekiel's war, God's going to pour out his spirit. And you know what his desire is, is that the heathen might know he is pouring out his Holy Spirit upon a people. He is going to restore the nation of Israel. I believe conversion is coming. The new covenant is coming. The blood of the lamb is coming. A move of the spirit of God is coming. It hasn't happened since Acts chapter two, that such a revival and what began then after 2000 years of world history, it's going to come back to Jerusalem again. And in part two, I'm going to take you to other scriptures and prove that this isn't a one-off incidental scripture, but that you have entire chapters that explain about this in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And we're going to look at that. Please friends, you might disagree with me, but I'm going to make you think. You're going to use your brain. I said, I could hardly function with my brain this week. Now you'll say, well, I know why you're like that after hearing this, but I'm going to make you think you're going to use your brain. You're going to go back to your Bible. Because if even part of what I'm saying to you this morning is true, we are on the verge of one of the most dangerous hours, remarkable hours, where God is about to do something that almost all of the real church of Christ isn't prepared for, isn't praying for, isn't looking for because they don't know the Bible and they've ignored these scriptures. Father, bless your word. Help us, encourage us. Lord God, we need souls. We're looking for spiritual souls to be birthed into the kingdom in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.