Understanding Our Place in Prophecy

The signs of the End Times are becoming the signs of our time. Dr. David Jeremiah explores the intersection of today’s headlines and biblical prophecy.
“Is Jesus truly preeminent in your life? Is He number one? If He’s “a good two or three,” there will be nothing victorious about your experience. In this careening culture and in these perilous days, we must say as never before: “All to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely give.”
― Dr. David Jeremiah, Where Do We Go from Here?: How Tomorrow’s Prophecies Foreshadow Today’s Problems

There’s coming a day when there’s going to be a shout and the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God and only believers will hear it.
And the Bible says, all of the graves that have been occupied by those who are Christians will be opened and their bodies will be resurrected and go up to meet the Lord.
And on their way up, all of their bodies will be reformed and remain as a resurrection body.
And as soon as that happens, all of us who are still walking around on planet earth and I plan to be here.
The Lord willing, I think he’s gonna come that soon. I tell everybody, I’m not looking for the undertaker.
I’m looking for the upper taker. Amen.
I want to go up, then we’re gonna be caught up to be with the Lord.
And then the Bible says, together with our loved ones who died before we did, we’re gonna be ushered into the presence of heaven and there we will be forever museums within the walls of these institutions.
The signs of our history are preserved through collections of artistic, cultural and scientific importance, exhibits, chronicle the people places and events that have shaped our world.
There is coming a series of events so apocalyptic, it will put a period behind the world as we know it.
And not one museum will be left standing to memorialize its destruction.
But what if we could visit such a place?
A museum containing the signs of what is to come exhibits and remnants of the end times?
What could we learn? How would have changed the way we live today though?
In truth, a museum of this kind will never be built through the lens of God’s word.
Our imagination can catch a glimpse of not what has happened but will happen.
Come with me on a tour of Bible prophecy and we will discover the signs.
God has laid out in scripture signs that assure us God has a plan for the future and for eternity on today’s program, our tour begins as we consider how today’s headlines and biblical prophecy intersect as the signs of the end times become the signs of our time.
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Now here is Dr Jeremiah with his message, the prophetic times.
I don’t have to tell you that this has been about the strangest year we’ve ever had.
Just about every way you can imagine. We have been reminded that life is uncertain.
Serious people are asking everywhere you go.
If these things are happening today, what will be the future for my Children and my grandchildren?
Well, there’s only one reliable source of information about the future.
Only one that has an astounding record of accuracy. And that’s the Bible.
If you want to know about the future, there’s only one place you can go and find any good information.
Don’t read, the futurists, read the profits. The Bible is filled with information to help us navigate the uncertain course.
That is before us. People say, I don’t believe in prophecy, but they do.
It wasn’t so long ago, was it that you could hardly turn on your television, turn one channel to the next.
And every, every time you turn the channel, here was some psychic person willing to tell you your future.
They even had a network called the psychic network and they went out of business.
You would have thought they would have known. Mhm.
One pastor I know said that he doesn’t ever preach on prophecy because he said prophecy distracts people from the present and astute colleague definitely responded.
Well, then there’s an awful lot of distractions in the Bible.
There are 300 prophecies in the Bible concerning the first coming of Christ, but there are three times that many prophecies in the Bible concerning the second coming of Christ.
If almighty God prophesying his first coming over here and now time has passed and we can trace what happened and we say, you know everything he said, what happened, happened and now he’s prophesying another coming with the same kind of verbiage in the same profits.
What do you think he will do? I think he’ll fulfill them, don’t you?
I think the things that He says will happen will happen.
And all my friends, how many truths there are in the word of God about the days in which we are living and the time which is yet to come.
If you want to know what in the world is going on, you have to turn to the Bible for some answers.
Have you ever asked yourself this question? Why am I on this earth at this particular time?
Did you know that Almighty God could have dropped you down along the landscape of history any place he wanted?
But he put you here, he put you here for now. God wants you here for now.
So don’t complain about not having lived at a different time or wish you could live in some future time.
Embrace the fact that God has given you this time and then find out everything you can about how to live this time in the Holy Spirit power that He wants to give you.
So where are we, what’s happening?
Well, let me just say, first of all, we’re living in the generation of the rebirth of the nation of Israel.
When I was seven years old, something happened in our world that has forever changed the landscape going forward.
It almost happened off the radar screen as far as many people are concerned. It was 1948.
So you do the math and you figure out how old I am.
It was 1948 and the nation of Israel was born and the significance of Israel’s reemergence in her ancient homeland is critical to us because in order for all of the other end time prophecies to happen, Israel has to be at home in her own land.
And so now the beginning of the re gathering of the nation of Israel has happened.
Israel today is exhibit a in the lineup of convincing evidences that the Bible prophecies concerning the future are going to be fulfilled.
Here after all these years is this little nation confounding everyone with their military ability and their commitment to survival.
The little nation of Israel is 1/19, the size of California, not even as big as New Jersey.
And yet here it is God’s special plan.
God’s special place just as God said, it would be arising in the end time to be present so that all the prophecies that surround it could take place.
Not only do you have the rebirth of Israel as a nation, but you have the redistribution of wealth through oil After the 1948 re founding of the nation of Israel in her ancient homeland.
Even Bible believing Christians often wondered what would draw the attention and animosity of the whole world to that little nation.
I remember thinking, you know, I read the Bible and the Bible says it’s all gonna end over there in Israel.
I mean, it doesn’t make any sense this little tiny nation.
And then all of a sudden everybody began to realize it’s the oil.
The Bible says, God is gonna put a hook in the jaws of the nations.
And I believe that hook is the oil. Oil in the Middle East will be like a magnet.
Drawing all of the nations to that focal point for the final war that will take place on this earth.
So we have the rebirth of Israel in our lifetime.
We have the redistribution of wealth in our lifetime and then keep your eyes on Europe, the realignment of Europe as well in Europe.
Today. We are seeing the fulfillment of a prophecy that many folks don’t even know about?
Did you know that in the book of Daniel?
In the second and in the ninth chapter, Daniel saw the opportunity to interpret a couple of dreams.
These two dreams basically are about one thing they’re about the history of the world from Daniel’s time until Almighty God sets up his kingdom on this earth.
Literally what the prophecy is saying, men and women is this that what is happening in Europe today?
This reorganization of Europe, this re connection of all the old nations of the Roman Empire are fulfilling the prophecies of Daniel.
And pretty soon they will have their own president, they already have their own constitution.
They tell us that this is now the most powerful bloc of nations in the world equaling almost the power and dominance of the United States.
You say Pastor Jeremiah, what is the significance of Europe? Why is that important?
It’s important for this reason. The Bible says that in the end time, there is going to be a ruler who comes upon this earth.
He will rule the whole world, he will be the ruler of the whole world.
I thought at one time that would be impossible. It’s becoming more and more possible all the time.
Is it not through all of our technology, through all the things we’re able to do?
The Bible says he will abrogate power to himself and he will rule the whole world Now what the scripture says is this, this world ruler will come out of the reunited European coalition.
In other words, out of the old Roman Empire revived in the last time this ruler will emerge, he will come from there.
He’s not going to come from the United States.
The Bible says that the antichrist will not be revealed until after the rapture.
So if you think you know who he is, you’ve been left behind.
The Bible says that all these things are happening and they’re preparing the way for an event.
Listen to me now that could happen tonight.
The Bible speaks of a moment in time and it’s called the rapture.
The rapture is an event that is yet to happen on this earth and the Bible speaks of it in first Thessalonians chapter four, I do not want you to be ignorant brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope for.
If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those that sleep in Jesus.
For this, we say to you by the word of the Lord that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God and the dead.
And Christ will rise first and we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And thus, we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort, encourage one another with these words.
Now, Paul wrote this to a church in Thessaloniki for one specific reason, listen carefully.
Almost everybody who was there in the church at the time believed that Jesus was coming back.
They had been taught that and they accepted it as true. But what they didn’t understand was this.
They had Godly parents and grandparents and sisters and brothers and some of them Children who also had trusted Christ, but they had died and their bodies had been buried in the ground.
And the Thessalonians wanted to know what about them, what happens to them.
And so Paul begins his little verse by saying, I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep.
You all know that fallen asleep means died. That’s what you say about a Christian who dies, he falls asleep.
Paul addresses this to the ignorant brethren. Somebody said, that’s the largest congregation in the whole world. The ignorant brethren.
I don’t know if that’s true or not, but these brethren were a bit ignorant about what was going to happen to their loved ones.
And so Paul wrote this letter and he said, let me set this all straight for you and he gave them a crystal clear outline first, he said, I want you to know that one day there’s gonna be a return.
One day. The Lord Jesus is gonna come out of the skies and he’s going to come into the heavens.
And the Bible says, he will come with a shout and the voice of an archangel and the Trump of God.
He’s not gonna send his angels. It won’t be the Holy Spirit.
It’s not gonna be John, the Baptist, the Lord himself will return.
And then Paul made this astounding statement. He said, you’re worried about those who have already died.
Don’t worry about them before he said the dead in Christ.
Once again, those are not the people sitting in the third row of your church guys.
I want you to know the dead in Christ are not the people that fall asleep on Sunday.
The dead in Christ are the people who have died and are buried.
And Paul says, now, listen, the Lord is going to come back.
But before he comes after you, he’s gonna get all of those who have already died and they’re gonna rise up from the ground and there’s gonna be a resurrection.
And then he says, after the resurrection happens, after all those who have died in Christ have been raised up and to go up to the heavens with the Lord.
The Bible says, and then those of us who are alive and remain. In other words, we haven’t died.
And the Lord has come back. We’re gonna be caught up together with them to be with the Lord.
And so shall we ever be with him? Listen to me, men and women.
There’s coming a day when there’s going to be a shout and the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God and only believers will hear it.
And the Bible says all of the graves that have been occupied by those who are Christians will be opened and their bodies will be resurrected and go up to meet the Lord.
And on their way up, all of their bodies will be reformed and re remain as a resurrection body.
And as soon as that happens, all of us who are still walking around on planet earth and I plan to be here.
The Lord willing, I think he’s gonna come that soon. I tell everybody, I’m not looking for the undertaker.
I’m looking for the upper taker. Amen to want to go up.
Then we’re going to be caught up to be with the Lord.
And then the Bible says, together with our loved ones who died before we did, we’re gonna be ushered into the presence of heaven and there we will be forever.
That’s what we have to look forward to.
I hope that’s what you have to look forward to.
If you know Jesus Christ, that’s your future plain and simple.
One of these days, the Lord’s coming back and if you know Him, you will be taken to heaven to be with him.
We say we believe this.
But do we, if you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow night, what would your tomorrow look like?
And people say, well, you know, the Bible says he’s coming back. I don’t know what to do.
What should I do? Pastor read the words of prophecy.
First of all, the Bible says, we’re to stay centered on Christ over in Colossians.
It says, since we have been risen with Christ, were to set our affection on things above, not on things below as we wait for Jesus to come back here to set our affection upon him.
And the Bible says, we’re to stay confident in God’s word, committed to it with all of our hearts were to understand that the only thing we have that will help us in these difficult days and prepare us for the time to come is the word of God.
The commitment to the word of God, stay centered in Christ, stay committed to the word.
And here’s what I want to talk about for just a moment.
Stay compassionate toward other people, men and women. These are difficult times.
These are the times that we’re prophesying we would experience before the Lord’s return.
But here is the opportunity for us to shine like we have never shined before.
You know, it grieves me when I come into a city like this city and you don’t have to be in the city very long before you start hearing a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Well, this is, these people aren’t getting along with these people that, you know what the time has come for us to put all that aside.
We are Christians and the, and the body of Christ needs to come together.
Really doesn’t have anything to do with the color of our skin or ethnicity or where we came from or what, how we speak.
It has to do with our faith in Jesus Christ.
And the Bible tells us that in these days before Christ comes back, we need to reach out and join hands with other believers and then we need to spread our hands out wide and help people who need our help.
Let this be the finest hour for the church instead of the hour when people look at us as a bunch of stingy people who close everything around us and try to wait for the storm to pass.
You know what Almighty God has put us where we are at this particular time, as I said at the beginning because he has called us to this time and to this place.
And there are many other things that were told to do were told to stay connected to the church.
Did you know that the Bible says forsake, not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is, but so much the more as you see the day approaching.
What does that mean? It means as you realize Jesus is coming back, you need to get together with God’s people more than you used to.
I lived in a generation where we watched services fall off like broken limbs.
When I was growing up, we had prayer meeting every Wednesday night.
You don’t ever have to see that anywhere anymore. Not in California.
What I do know is the Bible says, this is not a time for us to be scattering as God’s people.
This is the time for us to be gathering as God’s people listen to me.
There are only two times in the New Testament where this expression gathering is used once it’s used for Christians gathering in the church and once it’s used for when we gather together with the Lord in his coming.
And I’m convinced that both are equally important. God is looking forward to the time when we gather with him.
But in the meantime, while we’re waiting for the return of Christ, we need to be gathering with one another.
Let me just give you one last one. I’d like to preach all of them, but I don’t have time.
The Bible says that as we’re looking for the Lord’s return, we should stay calm in our spirit.
There’s not a time for anxiety and panic.
Did you know there was another time in the New Testament when the disciples were filled with anxiety, they began to hear the rumors that Jesus was going to leave them.
Jesus was all they knew. He said he was gonna leave and go to a place and they didn’t know where it was.
And Jesus said, how could he tell him?
And they were filled with fear and filled with anxiety?
And then Jesus said these words to them. He said, let not your hearts be troubled.
You believe in God believe also in me, in my Father’s house are many mansions.
And if it weren’t, so I would have told you, listen, I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there, you may be also the Bible says, you don’t have to be filled with anxiety.
Let your heart be calm. It’s all under control. Almighty God still on the throne.
He’s got his plan all laid out and he’s coming back.
And the best news in that passage of scripture, my friends is this, God loves you and he wants you to be where He is.
He is doing all of this for us. Listen to the verse again. Let not your heart be troubled.
You believe in God believe also in me, in my Father’s house are many mansions if it were not.
So I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you.
I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there, you may be also God is interested in you.
He wants you in heaven and that’s why he’s doing all of this.
You say, well, pastor I’m young and I have lots of plans and I got some things I want to do before this and I’ve got plenty of time.
No, you don’t. You have no guarantee of a tomorrow if you were to die tonight and stand before Almighty God.
And he were to say to you, why should I let you into my heaven? What would you say?
And if you cannot say with certainty, Lord God, I come to your heaven tonight with the assurance that I belong here because I have trusted Jesus Christ, your son as my savior.
If you don’t know that do today, what you’re going to be thankful you’ve done when you stand before the Lord, give your heart to Jesus Christ, you will look back upon this moment as the greatest moment in your life.
It will change you from the inside and make you a new creature.
Dr Jeremiah will return to close today’s program right after this.
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At the end of my message, I listed five ways to defend yourself against the uncertainties of this world.
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