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: February 26, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | February 26, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck and we live in a world where
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- There are increasingly wars and rumors of war,
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- Famine and persecution.
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- Corruption at the highest levels.
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- Chaos erupting across the middle east.
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- Everywhere we turn, it seems the signs are undeniable.
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- We are living
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- In the last of the last days, 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, dr.
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- 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. dr.
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- Jeffrey shares how we can trade fear for faith, replace anxiety
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- With assurance, and stand strong 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
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- On tbn on the pathway to victory show. dr.
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- 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, dr.
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- Jeffers, many times
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- 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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- You think of 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 of what i wrote
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- Last time that we talked about on your show immediately
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- After the october 7th massacre perpetrated by hamas.
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- People really started wondering, is this the beginning of
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- 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
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- What is happening in the world, what is going to happen next.
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- But this book, jesus revealed in the end times
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- Reflects not who at the end times who's in control
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- Of the end times.
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- I have found, erick,
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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,
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- They were actually fearful 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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- Where the end times are nothing to be afraid of.
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- 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 unveiling in the end times.
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- We're going to see jesus
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- Fully as he is savior, judge, prophet, friend, and so forth.
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- So this book, our jesus revealed and the end times is a book
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- 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. dr.
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- Jeffrey, you make the point that, 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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- Yeah.
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- He's not this little wimpy rabbi who roamed around the judean
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- Countryside
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- Saying sweet things to people that isn't jesus.
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- That wasn't that.
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- Blond hair and blue eyes, even though he's from israel.
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- And, you know, it's interesting you mention that, because
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- In my research for this book, i discovered i should have known
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- That jesus is the most portrayed human being in human history
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- By art, movies, television and so forth.
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- People are fascinated with jesus.
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- And yet when we see him
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- Portrayed, it's always as he was at his first coming
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- This book, jesus revealed in the end
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- Times, is an attempt to showing how he is now
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- And how he will be to us 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 kings savior messiah.
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- Dr. jeffress, why do you think we lose
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- Sight of that 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 in the end times have folks, by
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- The way, picked up wherever books are sold coming
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- March 4th, you can preorder it right now, amazon.com.
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- But why do people get so hung up, i guess, on the wars,
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- The rumors of war, the anti-christ, 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.
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- 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 trite phrase.
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- Well, i'm not so much a pre millennial
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- Or a post millennial list.
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- I'm a paying 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 through an inauguration.
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- And i remember a true story about billy
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- 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.
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- And during their time together, president
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- Kennedy looked at billy graham and said, billy,
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- Do you believe jesus is coming back to earth 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 are in churches today where they hear
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- How to have a great marriage, how to make good decisions,
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- How to manage their money, 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. dr. jeffress well said.
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- And there's more of 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 does israel play in all of this?
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- More with dr. 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 tonight
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- We're talking to our good friend, dr.
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- Robert jeffress, host of the pathway to victory
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- Show, seen right here on tv and senior
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- Pastor of first baptist dallas, and, of course, bestselling
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- Author of the brand new book, jesus revealed.
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- In the end times, hitting stores march 4th.
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- But you can preorder it, folks, right now.
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- Dr. 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 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 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 home to 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 in the olivet discourse.
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- He told us the events that are going
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- To lead up to the end times.
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- There'll be wars and rumors of wars, pestilence,
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- Famines, 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
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- And in intensive day, you know, something big is
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- 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 pestilence.
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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'll be a time
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- When that will give way to the return of jesus christ.
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- Dr. jeffers, key point, i think two big, big events
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- Or developments that set now apart from other generations
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- Where we had, as you said, wars
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- Or rumors of war, pestilence, etc.,
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- Would be the rise of technology or artificial intelligence now,
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- And of course, the rebirth of israel.
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- And i wanted in the third one.
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- Yeah, two words nuclear weapons. yes.
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- There's never been that ability
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- To destroy the world 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.
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- Talk about the relation not only israel to the end times, dr.
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- Jeffress, but the relation between jesus
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- 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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- Well, 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 says it's not people who are physical
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- Descendants of abraham alone, but are believing.
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- Descendants of abraham 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
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- Abraham in genesis 12, 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
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- Into the one world government led by the antichrist.
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- But israel has that promise of endurance
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- And that promise is a test of god's credibility.
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- And that's why, erick, every time you see
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- 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.
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- 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 on the right side of israel
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- And ultimately the right side of god.
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- Well said, dr. 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 this is blind, demonic rage and hatred.
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- There's no there's no normal explanation
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- For why this nation is so hated, nation filled with kind
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- And gracious and smart and ingenious people.
- 00:12:38.839 --> 00:12:42.409
- They bless the world. they have blessed 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 nine 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. yeah.
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- 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. and 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.
- 00:13:38.865 --> 00:13:42.068
- I'm going to break it down a bit more with dr.
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- 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?
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- What did jesus say about that?
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- More with dr. 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, dr.
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- Robert jeffress, author of the brand new
- 00:14:08.929 --> 00:14:11.031
- Blockbuster jesus revealed in the end times.
- 00:14:11.031 --> 00:14:14.935
- Hey, we're talking off camera.
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- This is your 32nd book, i believe.
- 00:14:16.036 --> 00:14:18.471
- 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
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- 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.
- 00:14:33.753 --> 00:14:37.190
- Now, god has a great plan for the church,
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- The body of christ, but
- 00:14:38.692 --> 00:14:40.060
- He still has some mighty plans for israel as well. dr.
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- 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,
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- And that abraham that covenant
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- That covenant is an eternal promise.
- 00:14:53.206 --> 00:14:55.608
- God said, i'll give this to you forever.
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- And it's an unconditional covenant.
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- It didn't depend upon israel's beliefs or even 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.
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- And god signaled abraham.
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- This was unconditional.
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- By the way, that covenant was ratified
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- When he had those animal pieces cut into.
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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 this covenant, god put abraham
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- To sleep and god walked through those animal pieces by himself,
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- Signifying that this promise to israel was dependent
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- Upon the faithfulness of god.
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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.
- 00:15:48.028 --> 00:15:48.728
- God said, i'm going to save you
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- By trusting in christ as your savior.
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- How do i know when i get to heaven and god
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- 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?
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- Jeffress you don't measure up? no.
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- My salvation depends upon the faithful, myself, god,
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- As does israel's endurance, forever and ever.
- 00:16:06.046 --> 00:16:09.182
- 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, dr.
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- Jeffress,
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- That should be a motivating factor for believers
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- To live a more a more blameless life
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- And to walk the walk of faith
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- And strive to do better and be more like christ.
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- 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,
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- Sometimes i've heard this over and over again,
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- I still can't get it straight.
- 00:16:42.615 --> 00:16:44.284
- 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
- 00:16:51.391 --> 00:16:54.060
- To give us two things.
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- Number one, our hope bible prophecy gives us hope.
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- This world that we live in, in general
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- And in particular,
- 00:17:02.202 --> 00:17:03.269
- 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 auto fill us with hope.
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- But it also, as you said, ought to fill us with a desire
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- For holiness.
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- You know, and second, peter 311 the apostle said after
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- 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 in godliness,
- 00:17:37.337 --> 00:17:42.275
- 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
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- I work with fox news as a contributor.
- 00:17:50.216 --> 00:17:53.319
- I've been doing it for ten or 12 years.
- 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:55.455
- And when i first started,
- 00:17:55.455 --> 00:17:57.090
- One of my very first friends there was the late
- 00:17:57.090 --> 00:18:00.493
- Liberal host allen combs from hannity and combs,
- 00:18:00.493 --> 00:18:05.231
- And he and i became great friends early on, and he would
- 00:18:05.231 --> 00:18:08.735
- Always had me on my show.
- 00:18:08.735 --> 00:18:09.936
- He'd rib me a little bit, but he always would
- 00:18:09.936 --> 00:18:11.905
- Give me a chance to share the gospel.
- 00:18:11.905 --> 00:18:14.407
- And one night on the air from 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?
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- Now, alan was a jew.
- 00:18:22.649 --> 00:18:24.083
- He said, do you believe you're going to see
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- Jesus christ return in your lifetime?
- 00:18:25.952 --> 00:18:28.421
- I said, alan, i don't know. but you know what?
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- It doesn't matter.
- 00:18:30.557 --> 00:18:31.758
- He said, what do you mean, it doesn't matter?
- 00:18:31.758 --> 00:18:33.793
- I said, well, i'm 55 years old like you are.
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- And i know
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- In the next 30 years, one of two things is happening.
- 00:18:38.531 --> 00:18:41.067
- Either he's coming or i'm going.
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- But the end is close for me and for you.
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- And we'd better be ready.
- 00:18:46.372 --> 00:18:48.141
- 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.
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- Yeah. amen. so encouraging.
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- And dr.
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- Jeffers from florida, we're sitting in america
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- Right now, of course, just from a u.s.
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- Perspective, for an american viewer
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- Who's watching
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- As they're saying, wow,
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- Where does the united states play in all of this?
- 00:19:04.624 --> 00:19:07.026
- What role do we have a role in all of this?
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- I think the main role would be as the body of christ,
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- 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.
- 00:19:15.001 --> 00:19:17.170
- And it seems right now
- 00:19:17.170 --> 00:19:18.404
- 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.
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- Well, that's exactly right.
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- And i'm troubled by an attitude among some christians.
- 00:19:27.046 --> 00:19:29.983
- Well, we have president trump elected,
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- Which i certainly rejoice in, but i think we don't have to do
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- As much.
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- Everything will take care of itself.
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- Listen, this is no time for american christians to let up.
- 00:19:38.224 --> 00:19:42.829
- We need to be doubling down.
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- We're doubling down at pathway to victory
- 00:19:44.998 --> 00:19:47.066
- To get the message out to be and is doubling down
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- To get the message of christ spread throughout the world.
- 00:19:50.737 --> 00:19:54.040
- This is a window of opportunity that will not always be open.
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- Yeah, well, 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, dr.
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- Jeffress, we're going to break
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- Bring it back to close us out in prayer.
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- At the end of the day,
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- This is an exciting time for believers, right?
- 00:20:11.924 --> 00:20:14.527
- I mean, it is a tumultuous time, but man, keep
- 00:20:14.527 --> 00:20:17.897
- Jesus at the center as you write in jesus, reveal
- 00:20:17.897 --> 00:20:20.366
- The end times and your life will be pretty good.
- 00:20:20.366 --> 00:20:24.070
- Everything works out in the end because in the end,
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- It's all about him. amen.
- 00:20:27.874 --> 00:20:30.076
- Well said, as always, folks.
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- After the break, the one and only dr.
- 00:20:31.511 --> 00:20:33.680
- Robert jeffress will close us out in prayer.
- 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.316
- You will not want to miss that. stick around.
- 00:20:36.316 --> 00:20:40.999
- You will not want to miss that. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
- 00:20:45.291 --> 00:20:46.292
- Tonight, we are wrapping up our great
- 00:20:46.292 --> 00:20:47.760
- Conversation as always, with dr. robert jeffress.
- 00:20:47.760 --> 00:20:50.530
- The book is called jesus revealed in the end, times
- 00:20:50.530 --> 00:20:53.700
- Comes out march 4th, but folks preorder it right now.
- 00:20:53.700 --> 00:20:57.403
- It is a must read.
- 00:20:57.403 --> 00:20:59.372
- And tomorrow, by the way, dr.
- 00:20:59.372 --> 00:21:01.074
- Jeffress, i will see you at the national
- 00:21:01.074 --> 00:21:02.975
- Religious broadcasters convention,
- 00:21:02.975 --> 00:21:04.544
- The annual nrb convention right here in dallas, texas,
- 00:21:04.544 --> 00:21:08.147
- And will be coming to you from the nrb convention
- 00:21:08.147 --> 00:21:10.350
- With our good friends.
- 00:21:10.350 --> 00:21:11.317
- Steve deace, blaze tv host and nick vujicic.
- 00:21:11.317 --> 00:21:15.021
- Then friday you want to be here, folks.
- 00:21:15.021 --> 00:21:16.389
- We█re joined by our good friends pastor jack hibbs,
- 00:21:16.389 --> 00:21:18.825
- Senior pastor of calvary chapel chino hills.
- 00:21:18.825 --> 00:21:21.194
- And reverend johnnie moore
- 00:21:21.194 --> 00:21:22.362
- Founder of jda worldwide.
- 00:21:22.362 --> 00:21:24.230
- Some good stuff coming up.
- 00:21:24.230 --> 00:21:25.264
- But in the meantime, dr.
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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.
- 00:21:36.576 --> 00:21:40.346
- But we may be talking to somebody today
- 00:21:40.346 --> 00:21:42.382
- Who is apprehensive about the end times
- 00:21:42.382 --> 00:21:45.418
- Or maybe just about their own end, their own death.
- 00:21:45.418 --> 00:21:48.354
- That is inevitable.
- 00:21:48.354 --> 00:21:49.922
- The best thing you can do to be prepared for the end is to know
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- God will accept you
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- Into his presence, know that your sins have been forgiven.
- 00:21:55.661 --> 00:21:59.565
- I don't think it's an accident.
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- Some of you have tuned into this program.
- 00:22:00.933 --> 00:22:03.369
- God wants to give you that assurance.
- 00:22:03.369 --> 00:22:05.605
- He wants to give you a future filled with hope.
- 00:22:05.605 --> 00:22:08.574
- And the only way to experience that is by trusting
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- In jesus to save you from your sins.
- 00:22:11.644 --> 00:22:14.680
- 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.
- 00:22:23.589 --> 00:22:25.758
- They 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 loved 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 that i deserve to take.
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- And right now, at this very moment,
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- I'm trusting in what jesus did for me.
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- Not in my good works, but in what jesus did for me,
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- To save me for 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. dr. jeffress, it was great.
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- As always, we will do it again soon.
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- Jesus revealed to me and times, folks,
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- Pick it up until tomorrow from the nra convention for dr.
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- Robert jeffress. god bless you. we'll see you soon.
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