Deciphering the book of Obadiah Prophecies and The Day of The LORD - History Unvieled

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A former Catholic childhood through the gates of atheism and into the embrace of faith, ignited by the undeniable fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

"For thy violence, (Strongs H2555 pronounced HAMAS) against thy brother Jacob SHAME shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever...For the day of the LORD is near upon ALL THE NATIONS: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head."  [Obadian 1-10,15]

"I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the Valley of [b]Jehoshaphat.
Then I will enter into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
And they have divided up My land." [Joel 3:2,9-16]

"And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." [Zechariah 12:3]

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We delve deep into the Book of Obadiah, unpacking the enigmatic verse 15 and its implications on the everlasting covenant with Abraham, as we scrutinize the past and prophesied events that affirm Israel's undeniable claim to the land.

From the ashes of global conflict arose the modern state of Israel, fulfilling prophecies that have echoed through the centuries. Together, we look at the timeline from the Balfour Declaration to the massive Jewish migration back to their ancestral home, pondering the divinely orchestrated events that set the stage for the Day of the Lord. Grasping the reality of Israel as a living testament to prophecy, we underscore the urgency for discernment and readiness as we anticipate the Second Coming of Jesus Christ amidst the ever-shifting sands of Middle Eastern geopolitics.

As we draw our conversation to a close, we discuss how current events might pave the way for the prophesied Obadiah War, examining the return of Sephardic Jews and the predicted territorial expansions post-conflict. I urge believers to hold firm to their faith, stand in solidarity with Israel, and courageously share the message of salvation through Jesus Christ. Reflecting on the steadfastness of God's word, we conclude with a heartfelt invitation for guidance and strength to uphold the eternal truth and bear witness to the world of the promises embodied within the scriptures.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

21st and I'm. This is going to be about the Word of God. Now you can go back, oh yeah, okay, that's fine, you can leave it there, that's fine. In my background, growing up it was from a Catholic background and mostly with my grandparents. And when they get old and stop going to church, I stopped going. There was no root or anything in me about it and stopped going to church. I stopped going. There was no root or anything in me about it and I wandered out and became basically an atheist. I wasn't grounded in anything. I didn't have any belief at all and it was our marriage anniversary in 1974. And my wife's sitting over there.

Speaker 1: 0:40

You got that flyer in the mail mail, remember, about the street meeting two blocks away and she said we want to go. I want to go because it's about Jews and Christians getting together and it's got to be the right religion. That's what she said and I didn't want to go and she wanted to go and it's our anniversary. So I said, right, but if it's terrible I'm going to leave. So she said, okay. So there was a Jewish evangelist there and there was a Jewish music ministry. Do you remember the name of the ministry? It had a real Jewish name. And there was a rabbi, an Orthodox rabbi, who was given a brochure in New York City and it sat in his desk for years and he pulled it out and he read it and it was about the Lord and he ended up giving his heart to the Lord more and he was giving a testimony and he led his whole family to the Lord. So this is all new to me.

Speaker 1: 1:43

I had never read, read the Bible. I didn't know John 3, 16 and what Sam Smuggler was his last name. What he spoke about was Bible prophecy and he spoke about prophecy about Christ's first coming, the second coming. He talked about the Israel and the prophecy about the dispersion of Israel and the restoration of Israel and the combination of the Bible prophecy, thinking how awesome it was. I knew nothing about the Bible, but I knew about Israel for sure. So then he gave a call to receive the Lord and I responded. I think you responded that day too, right, right, yeah, it was the same day, responded. I think you responded that day too, right, right, yeah, it was the same day.

Speaker 1: 2:29

And that August 4th 1974, I could take you to the spot in North Patrick, new York, out in the street. That's where I received Christ as my savior and I never looked back, never went to the right, never to the left, anything. I always went straight with the Lord. But it was Bible prophecy that opened my. How can you deny the nation of Israel and Bible prophecy? We've got a tremendous tool here. This generation, no other generation, except when the Lord walked on the earth, had the reality of Bible prophecy that we have.

Speaker 1: 3:02

So I became really focused on Bible prophecy and I read all the books and I studied the scriptures and all, and the Lord's led me here. I said all I have to say this is we're going to look at a prophetic book today. It's the smallest book in the Bible. It's the book of Obadiah. There's 21 verses in it, but there's one verse in particular verse 15, which really sets Obadiah apart from being well, really makes it important prophetically. Okay, I've got to keep up with you Now.

Speaker 1: 3:42

Prophecy and the Bible. Of course, it's built on God's word and it's built on a covenant that God made 4,000 years ago with Abraham. In fact, there's several places in the scripture where this covenant is referenced. I'm going to show you Genesis 17, 7 and 8 here. But this covenant is made with Abraham and eventually, isaac and Jacob and their seed, the descendants. And the verse starts at 7, here, 17, 7. I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed, thy descendants after thee and their generations. Now notice this it's an everlasting covenant To be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee's. An everlasting covenant to be a god unto thee and to thy seed after thee. Now verse 8 brings the land in and I will give unto thee and to thy seed, your descendants after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their god. Now can is the land, the area today we would call Israel, and it's bigger than that which other scriptures define. But this is very important because it's an everlasting covenant that God made with Abraham. Eventually, isaac, jacob and their descendants, and it is over the land.

Speaker 1: 5:02

There's reasons why God made this covenant, and one is he wanted a people in a land where there'd be a genealogy that you could show the coming of the Messiah. They weren't scattered all over the world, they were in a specific land. The other was the call of the prophets to give us the word of God, and the third is Israel was to be a witness to the nations of the Lord and the Lord, through his word, could prove it through Israel, good or bad, if Israel followed the Lord, they were going to be highly blessed, above all nations. If they didn't follow the Lord, there was curses in there that would come upon them and that's what happened. But God promised that no matter how Israel strayed away from him, he would bring them back into the land. Amen, and that's where we are now, folks, and we are well down the road towards the events like the last days events. The bible calls them the end times events.

Speaker 1: 6:04

But just to show you how unique Israel is in history and this is undeniable it is literally like no other nation, in 600 BC, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar came and literally destroyed the nation, destroyed, destroyed Jerusalem and took most of the survivors captive to Babylon. In history, that would have been an end of a people. They would have been assimilated into that society and they disappeared. But Israel's different. They have that covenant with God. And 70 years later they came back. They ended up rebuilding Jerusalem, rebuilding the temple. They lasted about another 500 years, maybe 600 years, until the Romans came and the same thing happened. They were, they were. The Romans destroyed Israel, they destroyed Jerusalem, they destroyed the temple, and the Jews are dispersed into all the world. Now that should have been the end of it. The second one should have been the end of Israel. And they wandered all throughout the world. They were scattered, just like the scripture said. And then, in fact, in my book I detail it. I give you a nice detail of what happened from when the Romans dispersed Israel through the centuries till we get to the 1900s and God began the process of restoring Israel.

Speaker 1: 7:35

We think of World War I and how huge it was and everything that happened in it. But at the end of World War I, the land there was prepared for the nation of Israel. There was something called the Balfour Declaration and that the Jews were going to be given a certain part of the Middle East there for their nation. Nothing gigantic happened between World War I and World War II. There were Jews coming back Again. I give you the details in my book. Then in World War II, we got the horrors of World War II and at the end of World War II, three years later, israel's a nation. So God prepared the nation, the land, in World War I and then in World War II. He prepared the people. They wanted to come back to Israel. They wanted to, and that started the big movement for what we have today, with Israel as a nation. And, as I'm showing you the scriptures here and everything, I think that Israel is being prepared for World War III, and down the road from World War III is the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. They will be prepared to receive him as their Messiah. Amen. It's a process, folks. You know historians. Look at World War I. This happened and that happened, all these political changes. But from God's point of view, the land was prepared for the nation of Israel. We look at World War II and everything. What happens? Well, three years later, israel was a nation. The horrors of the Nazis really spawned the rebirth of the nation of Israel. So God's prophetic word is here. It's tangible.

Speaker 1: 9:31

I remember someone one day calling me all sorts of names because basically I was saying things like this. He was an anti-Semitic, I guess you could say using the Bible. So I said to him you don't believe in Bible prophecy with the nation of Israel. No, no, no, I said. Well, just get on the plane. I said you can fly to Pennsylvania. I said you can fly out of Philadelphia, end up in Tel Aviv, get out on the land that's known as Israel. I said you can take a bus or a cab up to Jerusalem, which is the capital, and they speak Hebrew and they have shekels for money. I said what more proof do you need for the word of God? Israel is in existence and you won't accept it. I said this is tremendous unbelief. But he would not accept the literal scriptures about the rebirth of the nation of Israel. So it's here Israel is. If people want absolute, tangible proof, I just gave it From the word of God. You can get on a plane, fly into Tel Aviv, get a bus, train oh, not a train, but a cab, go up to Jerusalem.

Speaker 1: 10:45

It's the capital again after the nation being destroyed for 2,000 years. It's once again the capital. They speak Hebrew. Hebrew was an extinct language until the late 1880s. Ben Yehuda was the person that literally resurrected the spoken Hebrew. Before that it was just ceremonial. They have shekels, again for money. Jerusalem's the capital, they speak Hebrew and everything's being set for this end.

Speaker 1: 11:14

Time play and the second coming of the Lord Amen. A tough question. When Jesus Christ, not for the rapture but physically returns now, where is he going to come? To Jerusalem. His feet are going to stand that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east. So we know where this is all going to head and where this is going to end. All right now.

Speaker 1: 11:40

What I want to do now is I want to talk about the day of the Lord and we're going to go right into the book of Obadiah about the day of the Lord. But the day of the Lord is a term in scriptures which, just to encapsulate it is the second coming of Jesus Christ, the events around his second coming, and it also includes his thousand-year reign. If you look at the scriptures like the day of the lord is, we think of it as his coming, which it is, but it goes beyond into his millennial reign. That's all called the day of the lord. Now there's two very important teachings about the day of the lord. The first is the day of the Lord. The first is the day of the Lord comes and that is the second coming of Christ. I'm not really touching upon that today. The second is the day of the Lord is near. This is what we want to look at and it seems to be overlooked at by a lot of Bible preachers and teachers. I'm a little unique in preaching about the day the Lord is near, but it's in there. It's the day the Lord is near. It's for the people that are alive at the time to know something is going to happen. Embrace yourself, get ready, because God's warning he's given us a warning that the second coming of Jesus Christ is near. Amen, and that's what a little book of Obadiah comes into, 21 verses.

Speaker 1: 13:07

Something funny about Obadiah and I shared some of this about how I would debate the Jews and the Muslims and I tangled with arguably one of the top apologetics or apologists for Islam and I forced him to prove that the Koran, that Mohammed, was the greatest prophet and that the Koran was the word of God and you could tell it by prophecy. And he really couldn't do it, because it's a tough chore to find prophet fulfilled prophecy in the Koran. And when it was all over, I said to him I was embarrassed for him. I said look what you presented as the greatest proof for Mohammed being the greatest prophet. I said the prophet Obadiah, with 21 verses in it, has way more than your Koran. That's how powerful Obadiah is, that little book with that, the day the Lord is near in it makes it a tremendous book for our day, and in fact the book was.

Speaker 1: 14:18

Hang on, I'm ahead of myself. Okay, here we go. Yeah, would you go to the next one please? There's two scriptures for you to see about the day the Lord is near and the day the Lord comes. The day of the Lord is from Obadiah and the day of the Lord comes is Zechariah 14.1. And there's the difference you can see it right there with these two verses. One is near and the other is here. Okay, now we're in Obadiah. No, we're not.

Speaker 1: 14:55

I'll give you the four verses about the day the Lord is near, and the first it starts off with Obadiah, and then I show you the verses in Ezekiel, in Zephaniah and the last one. The last warning that the Lord is giving about the day the Lord is near is when the armies for Armageddon are gathering. That's the day the Lord is near, that's the final warning from God. When those armies that the Bible describes are coming from all over the world and they're gathering into the Middle East and they're going to gather in what's called Armageddon, mount Megiddo and the Valley of Jezreel there north of Jerusalem. That is God's final warning that the day of the Lord is near. Okay, that is God's final warning that the day of the Lord is near. Okay, obadiah means servant of God.

Speaker 1: 15:59

Obadiah was a contemporary of Jeremiah, about 600 BC. It was written. The prophecy was written about 600 BC and it has to do in the context you can see. It's involving the Babylonian captivity. The book is divided into two main sections and it's actually a little finer than that, but it's two main sections. Verses 1 through 14 is history, the relationship between Edom, esau and Israel and, what's very interesting, verses 15 through 21 are about prophecy and the nations touching Israel. So when you, if you read commentaries about Obadiah which I don't recommend almost all of them say it's all fulfilled. It's all fulfilled in the past, but what happened is the history of what Edom did to Israel 600 years ago. God uses as a teaching that's verses 1 through 14. And then, when you get to verse 15, it's prophetic and it goes from 600 BC right to today. Obadiah, really it had some moral teaching in it, I guess you could say, but prophetically it couldn't be fulfilled until Israel was a nation again. So 2600 BC, the Babylonians destroying Israel. This prophecy comes all the ways up 2600 years till today, and now it can be fulfilled. And now it's a warning to the nations.

Speaker 1: 17:37

Now, in the first section verses 1 through 9, is the spiritual condition of Edom, which isn't good. God does not have good things to say about Edom. And then verses 10 through 14 is the hatred of Edom for Israel and the final judgment. Edom is going to be judged for its hatred for Israel, what it did to Israel, total judgment. And Obadiah 1.1 says the vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord concerning Edom Edom. So it's structured real nice. It's structured real clear, this little book, if you can understand the way it's divided. And 10 through 14 we're going to look at now, because what god, what edom did to israel 2600 years ago, god takes that and he brings it to today. And he said if the nations do today what they did to edom 2600 years ago, they're going to be judged the same. Amen. That's the warning right there. That's what makes this book so powerful. It brings it right into today.

Speaker 1: 18:52

This is um, the mountains of Edom. If you would did you. I was impressed by it when I came across. I had no idea the geography of what it looked like there and the picture is taken from Israel, looking into Egypt and the water, there is the Gulf of Aqaba, so that's the southern tip of Israel. So when you read about Edom living in the heights and God is saying I'll pull you down out of the heights, it's living in the heights and God is saying I'll pull you down out of the heights. It's living in these mountains and Petra is further north than here, but it's in that mountain range.

Speaker 1: 19:34

Alright, now let's look at Obadiah 1.10 and we'll take these four scriptures and show you what really offended God regarding his covenant people, israel. Obadiah 1.10. For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee and thou shall be cut off forever For the violence they did against Israel. And remember Jacob and Esau. They're brothers, twin brothers, but you could see how the hatred here comes down through time, the treatments and destruction of Jerusalem.

Speaker 1: 20:14

Jerusalem comes into play here. Verse 11 in that day, that's the day of the Babylonians coming in to destroy Jerusalem, and that day thou stoodest on the other side, and the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, that's, carrying the Jews away, and foreigners entered into the gates and cast lot upon Jerusalem. Even thou was one of them. So Edom, piling on, as the Babylonians were destroying Jerusalem, the Edomites piled in. They wanted to be part of it. And today we look at Jerusalem as a well historical.

Speaker 1: 21:02

But back in the day, here, 600 BC, jerusalem was the site of where God was reconciling. The holy God of Israel was reconciling himself with sinful man, and much more than Israel, I mean the nations. And what Edom did was they were showing that they didn't accept well, they were pagans and they didn't accept the reconciliation that God had for the people. In other words, they were pagans and they knew about the Lord and they were rejecting it and they were in with the Babylonians destroying Jerusalem, the Babylonians destroying Jerusalem. So that meant destroying the temple and that meant destroying the whole system and taking the people captive. So Edom was in on it. They wanted to see Jerusalem destroyed and here's a psalm about that, psalm 137.1 by the rivers of Babylon.

Speaker 1: 22:07

There we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion, verse 7. Remember, o Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, we just read that scripture who said raise it, raise it even to the, the foundation thereof. So they were egging the Babylonians on to destroy it, bringing everything down, the temple, everything down, and that was what they did was pushed it over into judgment with the Lord. Now, looking at verse 12 here, they rejoiced at the destruction, they mocked israel and they were speaking proudly against what happened. Verse 12 that thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother and the day that the strength became a stranger, they were exiled. Neither should thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Neither should thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. So you could see it, edom was strutting around and they were really mocking and they were really happy and they were speaking. So we did it. You know we were part of the Babylonians destroying the Jews, destroying the temple. So, god, that's brought up to God's attention for their judgment.

Speaker 1: 23:34

Again, jerusalem. They were unmerciful and looted. Verse 13 thou should have not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor should have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. So they were looking at the calamity. They were standing there looking and they were happy and they were really enjoying it. They were looting whatever the Babylonians didn't get. They were trying to loot and they went in. They went into Jerusalem. There, after it was destroyed, they were part of everything that was happening against the Jews.

Speaker 1: 24:19

Now, the interesting thing about this is Israel was under judgment, but God's judgment was clear. It was the Babylonians that he called Amen. He didn't call Edom, he didn't call anybody else. He called the Babylonians to judge Jerusalem, and they should. They should have been, and this is the way we should be. Isaiah, comfort ye, comfort ye, my people. They should have been, and this is the way we should be. Isaiah, comfort ye, comfort ye, my people. They should have been comforting their brother in the time of affliction. You see it. You see the difference. So God's judging them for this. They were not called into the judgment. The Babylonian God called. In fact, god called Nebuchadnezzar my servant. In Jeremiah. He called him my servant, but he didn't call Edom. So Edom is being severely punished for what they did Verse 14. Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway and cut off those that did escape, neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. So what did they do? They aided the Babylonians by capturing the Jews and to bring them in to be killed and slaughtered. They tried to escape. They blocked their ways as they escaped. They captured them and they brought them to the Babylonians. So they aided in the death of the Jews when they should have been comforting them. So 10 through 14 shows you the mentality of Edom and why God was so angry and what they were doing.

Speaker 1: 26:04

Now, as getting into the day of the Lord is near, when we look at God's blessings and curses regarding Israel, it starts at Genesis 12, 3. I will bless them. This is the call of Abraham. I will bless them. That bless thee and curse them. That curse thee and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. So the blessings and the curse start at the very call of Abraham, amen. But when we get to Obadiah, the day of the Lord is near. Upon all heathen, all unbelievers. As thou has done to Israel, it shall be done unto thee. Thy reward shall be upon thine own head. So Obadiah is telling us that the blessings and the curses that were given at the call of Abraham goes all the way to the day of the Lord. It's a big span of time. It ties it together, the beginning and the end. Really, obadiah ties in with Genesis 12.3. Do you see it? So it's still in effect today. It's still in effect today. And so what happens is now with Obadiah 1.15,.

Speaker 1: 27:20

Let's take a look at this. The day of the Lord is near upon all heathen unbelievers, as thou has done. The context is the Israel. It shall be done unto thee. So what God has done here, he's taken what I, the scripture, just showed you about what Edom did, those fought for verses, and he applies that to the nations at the coming day of the Lord. So his judgment is on the nations that try and destroy Israel, just like it was back in the day. That's why I said it's jumped like 2600 years, no, 2600 years from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, all the ways to today. And God says if you act like Edom did against my people, the same judgment is coming on you. But it also is the blessings are there, amen. So the blessings and the curses are still here today. But here's what it was what brings God's wrath on the nations Jerusalem, jerusalem. There it is, that city, jerusalem being unmerciful to Israel, trying to steal their property, and that goes on today, rejoicing at the suffering, mocking them, boasting and speaking proudly. It goes on today, rejoicing at the suffering, mocking them, boasting and speaking proudly and aiding in the death of the Jews. That's what Edom did and that's what brings judgment on the nations today.

Speaker 1: 29:07

Obadiah 1.16, I'm just going to surmise this. It's about the holy mountain of Mount Zion, there where the temple is. It had been under the control of the Gentiles and it says that they were continually drinking and they shall drink and they shall swallow down. In other words, it's like a drunken stupor over. Jerusalem's been destroyed. Jeremiah parallels this. 2515 says it'll continue for a time. Well, at verse 16, and what it says is and they shall be as though they had been not meaning God is going to wipe them right out of, right off the promised land. They're partying and having a great time and they're cheerful over Jerusalem being destroyed and the Jews aren't there anymore, and then God's going to like that. They're going to be gone. Jeremiah 25, 15 really says the same thing. And they shall drink and be moved and be mad because of the sword that I will send against them. Okay, verse 17.

Speaker 1: 30:19

But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance and there shall be holiness and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. When is holiness coming? When Jesus Christ returns. There will not be holiness there until the Lord returns, and that's when Israel will come on. The real holiness, that's when the Messianic reign is being set up. But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance. That's when the lord returns and there shall be holiness. His presence is there, amen. And israel will be holy because he's there, and the house of jacob shall possess their possessions. But before the deliverance, and holiness obadiah lays out.

Speaker 1: 31:08

Now this is where it critically gets in with the prophecy there's an all-out war coming between the house of Jacob and the house of Edom. And when that all-out war comes which folks I'm going to get into now it is forming right in front of our very eyes. When that war comes, god is going to apply verse 15 to the Palestinians. Edom, that's there. He's going to apply to it because they want Israel destroyed off the face of the earth, they want all the Jews killed, they want Israel gone, they want the name of Israel obliterated. So we're going to see.

Speaker 1: 31:52

Let me read this first and then I'll show you what's happening. Prophetically, the house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble and they shall kindle in them and devour them and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken it. I've been preaching this for many, many, many years and I can remember talking to Jews in Israel about this and they said all of them that I spoke to they couldn't receive it. They were saying I can't picture that we would want to kill all the Palestinians and drive them off the land. They said we can't relate to it. I said, well, it's coming. I said it's not right now, but according to the prophetic word. And he says that's because of you, it's because they won't accept you and they want you killed and off the land because you're a Jew. But it was hard for when I was in Israel for them to receive this teaching and I said, well, this is future yet, but it's coming. So right now, as I speak, what's happening in fact? This is one of the reasons I haven't really spoke this in a long time. I've been waiting for this hour.

Speaker 1: 33:09

But the Middle East in fact the world, but the Middle East we're going to focus on is changing so rapidly that it's completely different now than it was like three months ago. Joe Biden is like Pharaoh when God said and I'm going to say it spiritually he raised up Pharaoh that he might make his mighty power known. And I believe that that's what he's doing with Joe Biden. The reason I'm saying that is he's destroyed the relationship that we have with Saudi Arabia. He's completely destroyed it. And Saudi Arabia now is having diplomatic relations and they're talking about economic relations with Iran.

Speaker 1: 33:59

Well, it wasn't too long ago that Iran was sending missiles and drones from Iran hitting Saudi Arabian oil refineries. Do you remember that? Arabian oil refineries? Do you remember that? And Iran is supplying Yemen, which is I don't have a map of it here Yemen is below Saudi Arabia, on the Arabian Peninsula, right at the bottom. They were supplying the rebels there with long range missiles and drones to attack Saudi Arabia In Yemen. They've been regularly firing them. They've been firing them at the airport, they've been firing them at the oil refineries, and the Saudi Arabians have our missile defense systems and they've been shooting them down.

Speaker 1: 34:44

And all Now they're like this, iran and Saudi Arabia. I've been saying that for a long time. There's huge changes. When you see these huge changes, obadiah is coming in play. Saudi Arabia doesn't trust America anymore. They don't trust us's joe biden's diplomacy. That's what it's done now. Saudi arabia had been at odds with syria. Now they've just joined with syria. Amen. Saudi and jordan had a big break with syria. Right now, as I speak, jordan is now becoming one with with sy. It's all realigning. Iran is really close to Russia, and China has come in. We're out. And the whole Middle East. You see it changing before your very eyes. These nations are going to be lining up against Israel. That's where all this is heading. This is going to be the Obadiah War Not tomorrow, but it's happening so fast is going to be the Obadiah war Not tomorrow, but it's happening so fast it won't be way off in the future. It's coming together Now, mind-boggling Hamas, which is Sunni Muslim, and Hezbollah, which is Shiite Muslim Muslim, and Hezbollah is a surrogate of Iran.

Speaker 1: 36:14

All of a sudden, hezbollah is moved into Lebanon and they're firing missiles. Hamas is firing missiles from the north at Israel. How did that happen? I mean, they hated each other more than they hated the Jews. That's why Saudi Arabia and Iran could never line up, because the Shiites and the Sunnis are mortal enemies. But now they're in bed to each other. So just recently, within the last two weeks. We have Hamas firing missiles from Lebanon into Israel and also Hezbollah now is firing missiles from Syria into Israel and Hamas is firing missiles from Gaza into Israel and Iran is.

Speaker 1: 37:02

I just I have a blog, and in the blog I just posted, where Iran is talking about the death of Israel because they're committing suicide. Israel is tearing at each other since Netanyahu has been elected, so Israel looks extremely weak. In fact, the army, a lot of members in the army, said that they weren't going to listen to Netanyahu as the general of the commander of the army and it's all over reorganizing the Supreme Court in Israel. But these Arab countries, they're looking at it and they're saying now is the time. Iran is saying now is the time Israel can't get their act together. But in the natural it looks really bad for Israel. But remember that covenant, folks. How did thank you? How did Israel get back into the land by that covenant? They were thrown out twice, destroyed twice. Once was almost like 900, 1900 and something years. They're back in the land.

Speaker 1: 38:10

They fought wars I remember more in 1967, the 67 Day War, and you got to be like my age, I guess, to remember it like that. But the news was saying the UN observers have been thrown out by the Egyptian Sadat's in my mind, but it was NASA and that they're all mobilizing their armies and Syria was mobilizing its army and all its planes Assad, that was his name. Assad in Syria. And they expected the big attack to take place the next day. And I went to bed that night and I wasn't a believer in the Lord, but it was all over the news. It was headline news. This war was breaking out in the Middle East and the Egyptians had marshaled their whole army and the Syrians and the Jordanians and the Iraqis had thrown troops were coming. I remember all that. I went to bed and I woke up in the morning and I I figured when I went to bed I'll wake up in the morning and Israel's be all over. So I woke up and I forgot. I remember about the news and my grandmother asked me to go to the store to get something for her. So I pulled in the front of the store and I happened to turn the radio on and here I heard that Israel had destroyed the whole entire Egyptian air force. They destroyed the Syrian air force. Their planes had the whole Egyptian army was in retreat. I went to bed expecting Israel was going to be obliterated. And I woke up the next day and here they destroyed all their enemies.

Speaker 1: 39:55

And then, in the 73 war, which is the Yom Kippur war, israel was caught blindsided, although Nixon told Golda Meir, we knew it was coming, why do you wear that Mort? And they told Golda Meir, you can't tell, you can't warn the nation, because the Russians will know we broke their code and we'll back you. And she said, okay. Well, he ended up not backing her, at least not right away. And on the news you'd see how it was hopeless. Israel had days left. Well, the planes were being shot down, the tanks were being blown up, the Syrians were coming over the Golan Heights, the Egyptians were coming up into Israel and Jordan attacked and all and all of a sudden, the same thing happened. They were resupplied and next thing, you know, the Israeli army had crossed the crossed over the Red Sea and they were heading towards Egypt.

Speaker 1: 40:55

See, god's got that covenant, folks, israel's got that covenant. So, no matter how bleak it looks right now because it does look bleak when you look at the state of Israel and you look at the armies that are gathering and the technical weapons that they have let's look at Zechariah 12 and the technical weapons that they have. Let's look at Zechariah 12 6 and where it says in that day, in in Zechariah 12, 6 in the context of chapter 12 and chapter 14 and all it should be in uh, in the in that day, the day of the Lord is near. I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood and a torch of fire in a sheaf, and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left, and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in their own place, even in Jerusalem. So this all-out war that we're looking at, that's coming, and the end result Israel's going to be left standing folks, all the nations round about. That's because of the Lord.

Speaker 1: 42:01

No natural reason can explain this. It's that covenant and that God made an everlasting covenant that we can see tangibly with Israel and Jerusalem and all. How about the covenant he made with us For everlasting life through Jesus Christ and his shed blood on the cross? Amen, amen tells us after what's happened with this victory here, where the house of Esau is completely destroyed and driven off the land. This is what Israel will look like and they shall.

Speaker 1: 42:41

I'm going to show you a map and they shall possess the possessions of Mount Esau. That today Esau is, or Edom is southern Jordan and even parts of Saudi Arabia, but it's the southern part right here. Oh, when we looked at that map of the mountains, that would be Esau and they have the plain of the Philistines. That means Gaza is going to be all a part of Israel. So we see what's going on. That's going to stop folks. It is going to be all a part of israel. So we see what's going on. That's going to stop folks. It's all going to stop um, they shall possess the fields of ephraim and the fields of samaria. Well, that's, that's the heart of um. The palestinians today, right there, benjamin shall possess gilead.

Speaker 1: 43:33

I'll show you a map on that. That's the east bank of Jordan and all this land that we're discussing here and more was by the covenant that God gave Abraham, isaac and Jacob and their seed. There On the south part is Edom, the middle part is Moab and the top part, scripturally in the Old Testament, is Amman. All of that is coming to Israel at the end of this war. Now, that big, kind of like bigger area there. The Bible says that that's going to be turned into Sodom and Gomorrah because of what they've done to Israel, jordan, the eastern part of Jordan and Saudi Arabia and parts of in fact, that's probably even bigger that's going to be unin as a result of this war. Okay, there's the picture now of what it looks like today and you'll see, on the left hand side it's called the plains of the Philistines. Can you see that Back there was a too small Right along the Mediterranean, that's Gaza. And that's all coming back to Israel. And this is where it says Benjamin shall possess Gilead. When the tribes were given their land allotment, benjamin is north of Jerusalem and east of Benjamin there is the land of Gilead. So when it says, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead, that means that the land that's allotted to Benjamin is going to move east. So you could see, jordan has no future folks, and that's a whole new story. I don't have time to get into Jordan, but Jordan soon is going to be Israel's worst enemy.

Speaker 1: 45:37

Verse 20 in the captivity of the host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even to Zarephath, and I'll show you where Zarephath is. And the captivity of Jerusalem that means the dispersion which is in Zarephath shall possess the cities of the south. Now, let's take a look. I'm going to. Let's go one ahead. Okay, on that map, go back please. On that map you'll see Zarephan, that's Lebanon, and then Israel. Zarephan is the ancient city of Zarephath, which I just showed you, and that whole area right there all belongs to Hezbollah. Right there, that's the stronghold of Hezbollah. So would you go to the next one, please? And you can see, right there is where the Hezbollah army is dispersed and it has all of southern Lebanon.

Speaker 1: 46:44

And the prophet even pinpointed that. He said Israel, when the war is over, is moving up through the area that Hezbollah has now. Isn't that amazing? And Gilead I meant to tell you what Gilead is that Jordan is about 75% Palestinian and that area of Gilead is the concentration of the Palestinians. So it's, and then Gaza is going to be part of Israel. It's like the prophet, 2,600 years ago, was pointing out where all the Palestinian strongholds are today. Isn't that amazing? Every one of them. It's named.

Speaker 1: 47:23

Now would you go back to Israel after the all-out battle? Okay, now it talks about Zarephath there and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Zarephath. The captivity means they've been taken away and they're in the land. This is the, the Spora, shall possess the cities of the south. So God's going to bring a people back at this time and they're going to go into the Negev. That's what the south means and that's where they're going to populate. Look how precise the prophet is. This is in our time, folks. He's talking about this, but it mentions Zarephath.

Speaker 1: 48:06

So I started to do some research on it and in the Hebrew and it was bizarre. I mean, it was actually bizarre, it's only used once. So I have a friend in Israel who is a Hebrew scholar and I contacted him and I said can you give me a handle on this, what this word means? So he called me the next day. Actually, I emailed him and I got a call from him the next day. He was all excited. He said it's only used once.

Speaker 1: 48:39

He said but this is the foundation word, the base word for what we would say Sephardic, the Sephardic Jews, the Sephardic Jews, and so Zepharad is the West Spain. He said this is connected with, like Spain. He said so this is the Jews coming back from the West after this battle. They're coming back and God's, and they're going to be putting them in the Negev building. I don't know, 10 small cities, whatever it is they're going to be building. That's how specific the prophet is. So after this battle, most of the Jews here in America and the West are going to make a quick exit and come back to Israel, according to the prophet. Isn't it amazing how precise this prophecy is. Okay, this prophecy is okay. Alright.

Speaker 1: 49:35

Now this is a little favorite of mine Obadiah 121 and saviors shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau. That means the surviving nations and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. There it is. Obadiah ends with the Lord reigning. Now, the surviving nations and the kingdom shall be the lord's. There it is. There's the end it all. And obadiah ends with the lord reigning. Now.

Speaker 1: 49:55

Um years ago, when I was engaged with the rabbis in a moment of weakness, a rabbi said he wanted to ask me a question. He said I want your take on this. I said sure. He said obadiah. Well, obadiah is like my wheelhouse. I said really. He said yeah. I said okay, what do you want to know? He said in my theology there is no place for saviors. See that, and saviors shall come. He said there is no place for saviors. What your take on it.

Speaker 1: 50:32

And then I went into the saviors is the coming. And I I didn't. I spoke blunt, I mean not ugly or anything, but I said at the second coming of jesus christ, the saints are coming with him. And I gave him zachariah 14, 3 and the lord, and 14, 3 and 5, and the lord, thy god, shall go forth. That's the coming. And then verse 4 the lord's feet is going to stand that day on the mount of olives, which is before jerusalem on the east. There's going to be a gigantic earthquake. Then verse 5 says and the lord, my god, come, and all the saints with thee. I said, all the saints coming are the believers in Jesus Christ that are coming with him. So he said to me very interesting, thank you. That was all he said.

Speaker 1: 51:26

All right, I'm going to quickly tie this with Psalm 83, because Obadiah is the key, because it's involving the land of Israel and it's involved in the events that are going to set up Israel for the tribulation period and the coming of the Lord. I'm going to synopsize this in Psalm 83. 83, 3, 4, and 5 are about a group of people that are coming together and they want to cut off and destroy the nation of Israel, that its name will never be in remembrance. It will be completely destroyed Verse 5, for they have consulted together with one consent and are confederate against God through Israel. So these nations are all organized, and that's what's happening now, folks. They're starting to organize turkey. Just just within the week, uh talked to iran about coordinating together so that they could work together against jerusalem. See, it's there, it's there. They've been talking about it, but now they're. It's starting to all come together. So it's starting to all come together. So it's all. They're going to confederate, they're going to make a confederacy against Israel. It won't be just Jordan attacking, it's going to be them all. This is who's going to be in the attack? The tabernacle of Edom, that's what we just spoke about. Tabernacles is where they live. So they're living. They're in Israel, they're living in Lebanon, in Syria, in Jordan. They're going to be the number one leading in this.

Speaker 1: 53:21

The Ishmaelites, that's the Arabian Peninsula. Moab, that's Jordan. The Hagarenes Hagar was an Egyptian Gebel, that's a mountain location along the coast in Lebanon. Amman, that's northern Jordan. Amalek Amalek's gone, folks, but that's a tough one to pinpoint. The spirit is still here. The Philistines are along the coast. The inhabitants of Tyre, that's up in Lebanon and that's on the coast, asur, that would be modern-day northern Iraq, and the inhabitants of Tyre, again, that's Lebanon, excuse me, I just said. And with the children of Lot. Well, lot is Jordan, ammon and Moab is Jordan.

Speaker 1: 54:09

This is the confederation that's coming and notice, it's all the nations that are directly around Israel, and this is an outline, if you see that yellow well circling there. That is the area that's going to be confederated against Israel in this attack, and the other nations go into Ezekiel 38 and 39. This is separate from Ezekiel 38 and 39. And as a result of this battle, god is going to open the eyes of many people and I believe they will be led. They'll come to christ, probably during the tribulation period. As the fire burneth a wood and as a flame sitteth on the mountains on fire, fill the faces with shame. That they may seek thy name, o God, that men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth. And this is after this confederation is obliterated by the Lord.

Speaker 1: 55:22

Now I'm going to make kind of a bold statement. Now I'm going to make a kind of a bold statement. I believe that this battle that's just been described here by the prophets, that this is going to break the back and obliterate Islam. Islam is about to be smashed to pieces, folks, by the Lord, over Israel and over Jerusalem. They're coming, there's no doubt about it, from the scriptures.

Speaker 1: 55:51

But the religion in the end times and I know there's teachings on it and I know there's books been written on it it's not Islam, it's paganism. Look at Revelation 9.20. And the rest of the men which were killed, not by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should worship devils and idols of gold, silver, brass and stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear, nor walk. If you go to Isaiah, chapter 2, which I have not included here and you drop down towards the end, you'll see the exact same thing about the day of the Lord and that paganism is going to be the religion. The whore of Babylon is going to be the merging of all paganism. The whore is going to be pagan worship. There might be remnants of Islam left, but Islam as we know it is going to be destroyed. It is.

Speaker 1: 56:55

Do I hear an amen, or possibly an amen? Are you thinking about it when you it? Paganism fits, because the Antichrist is going to be worshipped, the beast is going to be worshipped right and his image. Well, the Egyptians worshipped a man, pharaoh. The Romans worship the man, Caesar. The Babylonians worshipped the man, nebuchadnezzar. The Greeks worshipped their gods, were all men, although they didn't have, I don't think, a figure on earth who they worshipped as a god. But classic paganism was man worship amen. So in the end times, the whore of Babylon as we know it is going to be the conglomeration of all of these pagans, like the woke movement we see now. That's really the pagans. They're just missing an idol to worship. That's where it's heading. These religions are going to become more and more and more pagan and that will be the end time religion, not Islam. It's going to be paganism, all right.

Speaker 1: 58:20

So if you wanted to do some more study on this, all right. So if you wanted to do some more study on this, I look at Obadiah as, like the hub and other scriptures, as spikes coming off it. So Psalm 83 is tied to Obadiah. Zephaniah, chapter 2 is the destruction of Jordan for what they've done to the children of Israel, specifically over the boundaries. Isaiah 17 is about Damascus being obliterated. It's going to happen during this war. Ezekiel 29-31 has to do about Egypt and awful things are going to happen to Egypt. The Nile is going to not flow and the people are going to happen to Egypt. The Nile is going to not flow and the people are going to have to flee from Egypt. And Isaiah 13 is about physical Babylon, which is Iraq today. And these scriptures all tied together show us there's a great battle coming that precedes Ezekiel 38 and 39. And I believe it's going to be a part of World War III.

Speaker 1: 59:30

So I've been telling people about watching the world scene that it's not right yet, although what's happening with Russia and Ukraine and NATO and all that certainly could trigger into World War III. And China just this week said that they're ready for war. They broadcasted it and said we're ready for war. I just found out the other two days ago oh, it doesn't matter. I just found out recently that China's also building heavily on the border with India. They're building their army up in India, in the Himalayan mountains, and India is like rushing its army up there to match China. So it looks like China's going to go all the ways when it goes to war.

Speaker 1: 1:00:15

But the Middle East wasn't right yet. You see, I don't look at the Gentile nations like that I look at Israel and the prophecy of Obadiah, I'm watching it and I I'm watching it, and I'm watching what's going on in russia and I'm watching in china and then, like in the last couple weeks, boom, here it is. It's flying together in israel. Well, the middle east is flying together, so it's all coming together. Folks, something is coming soon, really big. Now.

Speaker 1: 1:00:46

I think that us and looking for the Lord ties into all of this. There's not too much time left, folks. Obadiah is looking for the second coming of Jesus to Jerusalem. We're looking for him coming for us in the air. So, if we're here and Obadiah takes place, mort, we got to get, all of us got to get bullhorns and you remember, years ago they used to have those placards and they put them around the front and they'd march in New York City. Repent for the. Remember that, yeah, it's time, folks. Obadiah will tell us. If we're here, obadiah will tell us the day of the Lord is near, all right, so I'll close with this. Obadiah clearly speaks to the hour which we live. As the day of the Lord approaches, there are key indicators which are now falling into place and will be fulfilled.

Speaker 1: 1:01:42

The Jews are back in the land and Israel, once again, is a nation. So most people today take that for granted. Like myself, I was born in 1948, but I remember the 56th war, but so, as a kid growing up, israel was there, but it's not always been there, folks. It was out of existence for 1900 years and then going back to the Babylonians. So Israel is unique and remember it's because of that everlasting covenant. That's why it exists. Israel is a mighty military power. Israel is the size of New Jersey and it's like the fourth, fifth greatest power in the world. It's the size of New Jersey, isn't that amazing? The population of the Jews is like 6 million. I think maybe 7 million now there. How could you be like that? Except it's the Lord's blessing on them for their protection.

Speaker 1: 1:02:39

There is an all-out war, with the Palestinians gathering. This war here has to be all out, because they've got missiles now and Iran's looking to put nuclear weapons on it and they have these drones and all of this. You can't go war after war like this with the technology that's coming. This is their gathering together. This will be the final battle. All the Palestinians, hamas, hezbollah strongholds are destroyed in what's coming. None of the Palestinians survived the war. The war spills over to Jordan, lebanon, syria, egypt, and these nations are destroyed. Islam is destroyed as a world religion. The fuse is now lit to Armageddon. So this war will be the fuse that's lit to Armageddon, but I say even so, come, lord Jesus.

Speaker 1: 1:03:33

So isn't it amazing how the word of God speaks right to today, and not only today? The prophet spoke 2600 years ago, and what he said 2600 years ago, like I said, it comes way over. And we're the generation that can use this, that we can preach this, that we can show this, that we can mourn with it. Amen. It restores Abraham's covenant. Yes, it does. It restores the boundaries of the covenant. That's all coming, yes, yes, yes, it does. That's all coming, yes, yes.

Speaker 1: 1:04:10

All right, let me close in a word of prayer. Father, I thank you for this time together. I thank you for your word. I thank you, lord, that it's awesome word, it's truth and it's your prophetic word. And, lord, we have assurance of eternal life because your word says so, but how much more when we see how you've kept that promise to Abraham.

Speaker 1: 1:04:37

Lord, let us not buckle with what's coming. Let us be strong in you, let us be assured in you, lord, let us be bold witnesses for you, lord. Us be strong in you. Let us be assured in you, lord. Let us be bold witnesses for you, lord. This is the hour it's closing, lord. We can all sense it and feel it. Let us be a bold witness for you, lord. Let us share about eternal life and salvation through Jesus Christ, and to stand with Israel. What's going to happen to these people here in America that have turned viciously against Israel, viciously? The church has no excuse. It's clearly in your word. Those that claim to know you. They have no excuse for not standing with your covenant people, israel. So we praise you and thank you now in Jesus' name.