From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: August 22, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | August 22, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck,,
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- And we live in a world where there are increasingly wars
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- And rumors of war, famine and persecute
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- And corruption at the highest levels.
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- Chaos erupting across the middle east.
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- Everywhere we turn, it seems.
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- The signs are undeniable.
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- We are living in the last of the last days.
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- But in the midst of the turmoil.
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- Where is jesus?
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- How do we make sense
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- Of the prophetic events unfolding before our very eyes?
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- In his powerful new book, jesus revealed in the end times.
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- Doctor robert jeffress uncovers the undeniable biblical truth
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- That jesus is at the center of it all.
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- Through scripture, he reveals that understanding
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- Prophecy doesn't just prepare us for what's ahead.
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- It fills us with bold, unwavering hope.
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- Doctor jeffrey shares how we can trade fear for faith,
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- Replace anxiety with assurance, and stand strong
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- In these tumultuous times.
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- Of course, he's also senior pastor of first baptist dallas.
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- And you can catch him right here on tbn.
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- On the pathway to victory show.
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- Doctor jeffress, great to see you.
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- Congrats on the book.
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- It goes without saying
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- For such a time as this jesus in the end times.
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- And you make this point in the book, doctor jeffress.
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- Many times i think people focus on the wars and rumors of war,
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- And they lose sight that, look, jesus
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- Not only revealed prophecy
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- In the olivet discourse, of course,
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- But he's at the center of it all.
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- And at the end, he's standing as the ultimate victor.
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- Well, that's right.
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- And you know, this book is in a context
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- Of what i wrote last time that we talked about on your show
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- And immediately after the october 7th massacre,
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- Perpetrated by hamas,
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- People really started wondering,
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- Is this the beginning of the end?
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- And i did something i've never done before.
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- I wrote a book in six weeks
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- And had it out called are we living in the end times?
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- And i answered that question.
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- That's a book that dealt with what is happening in the world.
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- What is going to happen next?
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- But this book, jesus revealed in the end times
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- Reflects the who of the end times?
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- Who's in control of the end times?
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- I have found
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- That there are really
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- Two groups of people when it comes to bible prophecy.
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- There are some christians who just love studying prophecy.
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- They've got their charts and diagrams.
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- They're always trying to figure out
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- When the end times are going to be.
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- They're interested in the details,
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- But for other christians, they were actually fearful
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- Of the end times.
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- It creates a lot of anxiety
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- To hear of the things you talked about,
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- The wars and rumors of war, the famines of pestilence.
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- And they're scared about the end times.
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- What the end times
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- Are nothing to be afraid of if you're a christian
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- And the end times really are not about events
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- As much as they are a person, the person of jesus christ.
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- You know, the book of revelation,
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- That word revelation means unveil healing in the end times.
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- We're going to see jesus fully as he is savior, judge,
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- Prophet, friend, and so forth.
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- So this book, our, jesus revealed in the end times,
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- Is a book filled with hope to remind people that,
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- The one who came and died for us also is the one
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- Who holds our future in his hands.
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- Yeah. doctor jeffress, you make the point.
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- That.
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- Look, a lot of times
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- We see obviously, jesus as the suffering servant,
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- But at the end, he's returning as the conquering king.
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- And it seems a lot of times that people see
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- Certain portrayals, maybe on tv, in the media.
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- But again, as you said, jesus is a victor.
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- He's a king of kings and the lord of lords.
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- When the dust. settles.
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- Yeah, he's not this little wimpy rabbi who roamed around
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- The judean countryside saying sweet things to people.
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- That isn't jesus.
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- I wasn't the blond.
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- Hair and blue eyes, even though he's from israel.
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- And, you know, it's interesting you mention that
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- Because in my research for this book,
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- I discovered i should have known it
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- That jesus is the most portrayed human being in human history.
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- Wow. by art move, his television and so forth.
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- People are fascinated with jesus, and yet when we see him
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- Portrayed, it's always as he was in his first coming.
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- This book jesus revealed in the end times is an attempt
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- To show him how he is now and how he will be to us
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- When we see him at his second coming.
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- He is in all of his glory.
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- He's not a wimpy rabbi at all.
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- He is a powerful king, savior, messiah, doctor.
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- Jeffress, why do you think we lose sight of that?
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- So often as believers?
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- Again, you know, we focus on the negative
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- About the end times, obviously, but the book is so encouraging.
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- Jesus revealed the end times. why do people get so hung up?
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- I guess on the wars, the rumors of war,
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- Or the antichrist, for instance.
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- Why do they lose sight
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- That jesus, at the end of the day, he's
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- The answer is at the center of it all.
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- And this has a very happy ending.
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- It does have a happy ending, but i think one reason is
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- People are just ignorant of the topic of bible prophecy.
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- I hear people saying, you've heard this old tripe phrase.
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- Well, i'm not so much a pre millennial list
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- Or a post millennial list.
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- I'm a pan millennial list.
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- I believe it will all pan out in the end.
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- Well, that's cute, but it's idiotic at the same time.
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- God places no premium on ignorance.
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- God wants us to understand the bible.
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- Think about this, erick.
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- For every one prophecy in the old testament
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- About the first coming of christ,
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- There are eight prophecies about the second coming of christ.
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- 25 of the 27 books of the new testament
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- Deal with jesus is coming back again.
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- It is a subject
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- That is talked about on every page of scripture,
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- And yet so many christians are ignorant about it.
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- You know, we've just come
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- Through an inauguration and, i remember a true story
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- About billy graham in january of 1961.
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- Billy was, by the way,
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- A member of our church, first baptist dallas, for 54 years.
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- But anyway, in 1961, after john
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- F kennedy was elected president,
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- Before his inauguration, kennedy asked billy
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- Graham to come to florida to play a round of golf wedding.
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- And people thought that was interesting
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- Because kennedy was well known for his dislike of billy graham.
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- But billy graham came, and during their time together,
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- President kennedy looked at billy graham and said, billy,
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- Do you believe jesus is coming back to earth?
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- One day?
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- And billy graham said, yes, sir, i do.
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- And president kennedy asked,
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- Then why do i hear so little about it today?
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- You know, it's not just president kennedy
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- Or unbelievers who don't hear about it.
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- Many christians
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- Are in churches today
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- Where they hear how to have a great marriage,
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- How to make good decisions, how to manage their money,
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- All of these how to sermons.
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- And they never hear the most
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- Important sermon that jesus christ is coming back again.
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- And we better get ready, doctor jeffress.
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- Well said. and there's more where that came, folks.
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- First of all, jesus revealed in the end times great new book.
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- Secondly, what did jesus say about the end times
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- And what role is israel play in all this?
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- More with doctor robert jeffress after the break.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
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- Tonight we're talking to our good
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- Friend, doctor robert jeffress, host of the pathway
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- To victory show,
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- Seen right here on tbn, senior pastor at first baptist dallas.
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- And of course,
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- Bestselling
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- Author of the brand new book jesus revealed in the end
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- Times doctor jeffress, jesus and the end times.
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- Obviously, the subject of the book
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- I mentioned, matthew 24, the olivet discourse earlier.
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- What exactly did jesus.
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- He's at the center of it all, of course.
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- What exactly did jesus say about the end times?
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- Well, he said, first of all, he promised that
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- He's coming back again.
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- He said, i'm
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- Going to prepare a place for you,
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- But if i go and prepare a place for you,
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- I will come again and take you unto myself.
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- The promise of the second coming is as rock solid
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- As jesus himself.
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- So he promised he was going to come.
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- In the olivet discourse, he told us the events
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- That are going to lead up to the end times.
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- There will be wars and rumors of wars, pestilences, famines,
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- Apostasy, nation rising against nation.
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- But he compared those things as the birth pains
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- That a mother feels before she gives delivery to a child.
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- You know, there's such a thing as false labor,
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- Or sometimes i know my wife experienced this.
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- There are times she thought the baby was about to come.
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- We went to the hospital and did not know.
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- It's not quite yet.
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- But when those labor pains increase in frequency and
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- In intensity, you know something big is going to happen.
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- You know, skeptics say, well, there have always been wars.
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- There's always been earthquakes.
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- There's always been pestilences.
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- And that's true.
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- But something feels different this time.
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- Now, i'm not one to predict the future.
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- It may be next year.
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- It may be a thousand years from now.
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- But there is a sense that it's happening
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- More and more and more.
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- And jesus said,
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- There will be a time
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- When that will give way to the return of jesus christ.
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- Yeah.
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- Doctor jeffress, key point i think two big, big events
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- Or developments have set now apart from other generations
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- Where we had,
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- As you said, wars and rumors of war, pestilence, etc.
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- Would be the rise of technology, artificial intelligence now,
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- And of course, the rebirth of israel.
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- And i wouldn't hit on the third one.
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- Yeah, two words. nuclear weapons.
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- Yes. there's never been that ability to destroy the world
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- Completely as there is right now.
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- So i think that's what makes us different.
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- Great point. today is different.
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- And part of that, of course,
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- Is the reestablishment of israel in 1948.
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- You dig into israel in the book a bit, talk about the relation
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- Not only israel to the end times doctor jeffress,
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- But the relation between jesus and the nation of israel.
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- How did he feel about israel and his people?
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- It seems to me that jesus was a zionist.
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- He was
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- A zionist, and any true biblical is a zionist.
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- Look, let's be clear.
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- Just being,
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- Descendant of abraham, being a jew does not get you to heaven.
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- Jesus talked about that.
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- Who was a jew? paul, who was a jew?
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- The hebrew of the hebrews
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- Says, it's not people
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- Who are physical descendants of abraham alone,
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- But are believing descendants of abraham
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- Have believed in jesus as messiah.
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- But having said that, it's important
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- That we be on the right side of israel.
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- God said to moses or to abraham in genesis 12,
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- I'm going to give you a land.
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- You're going to be a father of a great nation.
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- All the nations of the world are going to be blessed to you.
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- And god promised that israel, unlike any other nation,
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- Including the united states, has the promise of endurance.
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- Nowhere in the bible
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- Is there a promise that america will exist forever.
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- I think can think you can make
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- A pretty good case from scripture
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- That america will be absorbed into the one world government
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- Led by the antichrist, but israel has that
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- Promise of endurance and that promise.
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- Is a test of god's credibility.
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- And that's why every time you see an attack against israel,
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- When you see the barbaric things, demonic things
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- That hamas did, it's obvious this is a spiritual battle.
- 00:11:51.842 --> 00:11:55.846
- Satan has as his objective to destroy the nation of israel
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- And therefore prove that god cannot keep his promises.
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- And that's why it is so important
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- That as america, if we want god's blessing,
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- We need to be
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- On the right side of israel
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- And ultimately the right side of god.
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- Well said, doctor jeffress,
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- And these are eternal promises, number one.
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- Number two, as you said,
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- It's a demonic satanic obsession with destroying israel.
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- We see that with hamas,
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- No matter how tough israel is, and hits them back hard,
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- They just keep coming
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- Because it's just blind demonic rage and hatred.
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- There's no
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- There's no normal explanation for why this nation is so hated.
- 00:12:33.050 --> 00:12:37.254
- Nation filled with kind and gracious and smart and
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- Ingenious people.
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- They bless the. world. they have to bless the world.
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- And it makes no sense except from a spiritual standpoint.
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- When we met with
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- Prime minister netanyahu a few weeks ago,
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- He talked about that seven front war and how israel,
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- Unlike america or any other nation, wakes up
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- Every morning to know that on every side
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- There are enemies who want to wipe
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- You off the face of the earth.
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- Yeah, and yet israel is the size of the state of new jersey.
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- Less than the jewish people are less than
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- 1% of the world's population.
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- How else can we explain this
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- Demonic hatred other than exactly that?
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- As you said, it's a spiritual battle.
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- And when we look at the end times,
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- We're going to see that attempt to destroy israel one more time
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- By the dragon and it's not going to succeed.
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- Yeah. hey, man, it's going to intensify.
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- And the reason it's not going to succeed
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- Is because jesus is on the throne.
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- He's coming back and you break it down
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- In such great fashion in jesus revealed in the end times.
- 00:13:38.749 --> 00:13:41.952
- We're going to break it down
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- A bit more with doctor robert jeffress.
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- Up next, what about god's role for the church and his role
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- For the nation of israel? are the two mutually exclusive?
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- What about this concept of replacement theology?
- 00:13:51.228 --> 00:13:54.197
- What did jesus say about that?
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- More with doctor robert jeffress after the break.
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- Don't move.
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- Don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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- We're talking to our good friend,
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- Doctor robert jeffress, author of the brand new blockbuster
- 00:14:10.678 --> 00:14:14.181
- Jesus revealed in the end times.
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- Hey, we're talking off camera.
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- This is your 32nd book, i believe.
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- I think that's right.
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- You are prolific, my friend, and we love it.
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- One thing that we don't love
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- Is this concept of replacement theology.
- 00:14:28.195 --> 00:14:30.965
- And basically this idea that god's done with israel
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- And the jewish people,
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- All of those promises have been transferred to the church.
- 00:14:35.502 --> 00:14:38.939
- Now god has a great plan for the church.
- 00:14:38.939 --> 00:14:40.474
- The body of christ,
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- But he still has some mighty plans for israel as well.
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- Doctor jeffress, can you talk about
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- Why that replacement theology paradigm is so flawed?
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- Well, it goes back to genesis 12 and the abrahamic covenant.
- 00:14:50.918 --> 00:14:54.955
- That covenant is an eternal promise.
- 00:14:54.955 --> 00:14:57.424
- God said, i'll give this to you
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- Forever, and it's an unconditional covenant.
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- It didn't depend upon israel's beliefs or beliefs.
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- Now god said, if you obey me, i'll bless you.
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- If you disobey me, i'll curse you.
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- But i will not forsake you forever.
- 00:15:12.072 --> 00:15:14.942
- And god signaled abraham.
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- This was unconditional, by the way.
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- That covenant was ratified when he had those animal pieces
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- Cut in two.
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- Normally in the middle east, if two
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- Kings were making a covenant, they would walk
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- Between the animal pieces together, each holding a torch.
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- But when it came time to ratify
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- This covenant, god put abraham to sleep,
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- And god walked through those animal pieces by himself,
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- Signifying that this promise to israel
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- Was dependent upon the faithfulness of god.
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- And here's the deal.
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- So unlike joe biden, here's the deal.
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- Look, if god breaks his covenant to israel,
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- How do i know he wouldn't break his promises to me?
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- Exactly.
- 00:15:54.581 --> 00:15:55.282
- God said, i'm going to save you
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- By trusting in christ as your savior.
- 00:15:56.750 --> 00:15:59.219
- How do i know when i get to heaven?
- 00:15:59.219 --> 00:16:00.754
- God doesn't say, well, i've changed my mind.
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- I think we're going to go by the work system.
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- And guess what, jeffress?
- 00:16:05.859 --> 00:16:07.161
- You don't measure up.
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- No, my salvation depends upon the faithfulness of god,
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- As does israel's endurance forever and ever.
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- Oh, doctor jeffress, such a great point.
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- And by the way, speaking of that,
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- And you write in the book, jesus revealed the end times.
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- It's great and it's encouraging.
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- And you write that look again, we through
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- Christ are the ultimate victors here at the end,
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- It seems to me, doctor jeffress,
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- That should be a motivating factor for believers,
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- To live a more, more blameless life to
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- To walk the walk of faith
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- And strive to do better and be more like christ.
- 00:16:39.126 --> 00:16:42.496
- Let me just say to our audience right now, if bible prophecy
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- Kind of makes your head spin and you can say, like my wife
- 00:16:46.300 --> 00:16:49.903
- Sometimes i've heard this over
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- And over again, i still can't get it straight.
- 00:16:51.138 --> 00:16:53.240
- A lot of people feel that way.
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- Remember that
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- God didn't give us the bible to make us smarter sinners.
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- He gave us all of this information for a reason
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- To give us two things.
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- Number one, our hope.
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- Bible prophecy gives us hope.
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- This world that we live in in general, and in particular
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- Our world. it's not going to be this way forever.
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- There is a day coming when every heartache,
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- Every sadness, every sickness is going to be erased forever.
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- That's the hope we have.
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- History is moving toward
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- A climactic conclusion, and it's great news for christians.
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- So the soon return of jesus ought to fill us with hope.
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- But it also, as you said, ought to fill us with the desire
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- For holiness.
- 00:17:34.948 --> 00:17:36.316
- You know, in second peter 311, the apostle said,
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- After describing the end of the world, he said,
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- Since all of these things are to be burned up in this way,
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- What sort of people are we to be in holy conduct and godliness,
- 00:17:46.293 --> 00:17:51.198
- Looking for and hastening the coming day of the lord?
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- I've got to tell you a funny story, erick.
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- Many people know i
- 00:17:58.305 --> 00:17:59.339
- Work with fox news as a contributor.
- 00:17:59.339 --> 00:18:02.342
- I've been doing it
- 00:18:02.342 --> 00:18:03.377
- For 10 or 12 years, and when i first started,
- 00:18:03.377 --> 00:18:06.046
- One of my very first friends there was the late, liberal host
- 00:18:06.046 --> 00:18:10.517
- Alan combs from hannity and combs,
- 00:18:10.517 --> 00:18:14.221
- And he and i became great friends early on, and he would
- 00:18:14.221 --> 00:18:17.691
- Always had me on my show.
- 00:18:17.691 --> 00:18:18.892
- He'd read me a little bit, but he always would
- 00:18:18.892 --> 00:18:20.861
- Give me a chance to share the gospel.
- 00:18:20.861 --> 00:18:23.363
- And one night on the air for new york city,
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- He said, pastor,
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- Do you believe you're going to be alive
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- To see the return of jesus christ?
- 00:18:29.336 --> 00:18:31.572
- And allen was a jew.
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- He said,
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- Do you believe you're going
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- To see jesus christ return in your lifetime?
- 00:18:34.708 --> 00:18:37.411
- I said, allen, i don't know. but you know what?
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- It doesn't matter.
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- He said, what do you mean it doesn't matter?
- 00:18:40.714 --> 00:18:42.749
- I said, well, i'm 55 years old like you are,
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- And i know in the next 30 years one of two things is happening.
- 00:18:46.386 --> 00:18:50.023
- Either he's coming or i'm going, but the end is close
- 00:18:50.023 --> 00:18:53.760
- For me and for you, and we'd better be ready.
- 00:18:53.760 --> 00:18:57.064
- And that's the message of bible prophecy.
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- We don't know when the end is coming,
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- But we need to be ready.
- 00:19:01.501 --> 00:19:03.203
- Yeah. amen. so encouraging.
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- And doctor jeffress from from a
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- We're sitting in america right now. of course.
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- Just from a us perspective
- 00:19:09.176 --> 00:19:10.611
- For an american viewer who's watching,
- 00:19:10.611 --> 00:19:12.512
- If they're saying, wow,
- 00:19:12.512 --> 00:19:13.647
- Where does the united states play in all this?
- 00:19:13.647 --> 00:19:15.983
- What role do we have a role in all this?
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- I think the main role would be as the body of christ.
- 00:19:18.518 --> 00:19:21.521
- As you just said,
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- We need to be ambassadors for christ
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- No matter where we are, including here in america.
- 00:19:23.957 --> 00:19:26.159
- And it seems right now
- 00:19:26.159 --> 00:19:27.394
- We have a unique window with a new administration in washington
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- To work in the light and advance the gospel like never before.
- 00:19:30.931 --> 00:19:34.468
- Well, that's exactly right.
- 00:19:34.468 --> 00:19:36.003
- And i'm troubled by an attitude among some christians.
- 00:19:36.003 --> 00:19:38.939
- Well, we have president trump elected,
- 00:19:38.939 --> 00:19:40.774
- Which i certainly rejoice in,
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- But they think we don't have to do as much.
- 00:19:43.043 --> 00:19:45.078
- Everything will take care of itself.
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- Listen, this is no time for american christians to let up.
- 00:19:47.180 --> 00:19:51.785
- We need to be doubling down.
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- Yeah, we're doubling down at pathway
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- To victory to get the message out.
- 00:19:55.422 --> 00:19:57.491
- Tbn is doubling down to get the message of christ
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- Spread throughout the world.
- 00:20:01.128 --> 00:20:02.963
- This is a window of opportunity that will not always be open.
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- Yeah. wow.
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- What a key point.
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- We have to keep the foot on the gas.
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- Yeah, essentially about 30 seconds before the break.
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- Doctor jeffress, we're going to break.
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- Bring it back to close us out in prayer.
- 00:20:15.042 --> 00:20:19.346
- At the end of the day, this is an exciting time
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- For believers, right?
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- I mean,
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- It is a tumultuous time, but, man, keep jesus at the center.
- 00:20:24.718 --> 00:20:27.954
- As you write in, jesus revealed the end times
- 00:20:27.954 --> 00:20:30.490
- And your life will be pretty good.
- 00:20:30.490 --> 00:20:33.060
- Everything works out in the end because in the end,
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- It's all about him. amen.
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- Well said.
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- As always folks, after the break,
- 00:20:39.833 --> 00:20:41.568
- The one and only doctor robert
- 00:20:41.568 --> 00:20:42.969
- Jeffress, will close us out in prayer.
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- You will not want to miss that. stick around.
- 00:20:45.305 --> 00:20:53.005
- You will not want to miss that. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
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- Tonight we are wrapping up our great conversation,
- 00:20:58.015 --> 00:21:00.284
- As always with doctor robert jeffress.
- 00:21:00.284 --> 00:21:02.252
- The book is called jesus revealed in the end times.
- 00:21:02.252 --> 00:21:05.356
- Doctor robert jeffress uncovers the undeniable biblical truth
- 00:21:05.356 --> 00:21:09.493
- That jesus is at the center of it all.
- 00:21:09.493 --> 00:21:12.596
- It's great.
- 00:21:12.596 --> 00:21:13.597
- It is a must read. some good stuff coming up.
- 00:21:13.597 --> 00:21:16.133
- But in the meantime, doctor
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- Jeffress, some final thoughts and a final prayer.
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- Well, again,
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- The thought of the end times ought to give people hope
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- Because it means the return
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- Of the one we've loved and given our lives to jesus christ.
- 00:21:27.411 --> 00:21:31.215
- But we may be talking to somebody today
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- Who is apprehensive about the end times,
- 00:21:33.250 --> 00:21:36.320
- Or maybe just about their own, in their own death.
- 00:21:36.320 --> 00:21:39.223
- That is inevitable.
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- The best thing you can do to be prepared for
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- The end is to know god will accept you into his presence.
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- Know that your sins have been forgiven.
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- I don't think it's an accident.
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- Some of you have tuned into this program.
- 00:21:51.802 --> 00:21:54.204
- God wants to give you that assurance.
- 00:21:54.204 --> 00:21:56.507
- He wants to give you a future filled with hope.
- 00:21:56.507 --> 00:21:59.476
- And the only way to experience that is by trusting
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- In jesus to save you from your sins.
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- That's why he came as messiah to forgive you of your sins.
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- And if you'd like to
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- Receive that free gift of god's forgiveness,
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- I want to invite you, wherever you are,
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- To close your eyes and just pray this simple prayer with me.
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- Dear god, thank you for loving me.
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- I know
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- I have failed you in so many ways.
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- And i'm truly sorry for the sins in my life.
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- But i believe that you love me so much.
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- You sent jesus to die on the cross for me,
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- To take the punishment from you.
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- That i deserve to take.
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- And right now, at this very moment, i'm trusting
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- In what jesus did for me, not in my good works,
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- But in what jesus did for me to save me from my sins.
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- Thank you for forgiving me and help me
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- To start living the rest of my life for you.
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- In jesus name.
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- Amen.
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- Doctor jeffress, it was great as always.
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- We will do it again soon.
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- Jesus revealed in the end times, folks, pick it up.
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- Jesus is on the throne.
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- He's coming back. great new book.
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- God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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