The Set Time Has Come

Today we open the Word of God and take a look at the world tomorrow. The world is fascinated about the future of planet earth. The rich and the powerful are digging underground cities, looking over their shoulders at the possibility of a nuclear mushroom cloud forming on the horizon.

Will Russia once again become the mighty, USSR? I'll tell you: they're planning on it.

Will Iran attack Israel with new super weapons that have been made possible by the 150-billion-dollar donation made by Barack Obama?

Will there be a major terrorist attack in America by terrorists who are not coming but are already here?

Will Israel be ready for the coming war in the Middle East?

Will North Korea launch an intercontinental ballistic missile targeted for New York city?

Will the global financial markets crash, leaving the world swimming in absolute poverty and chaos?

The Wall Street Journal said the entitlements of our nation guarantees that. Are the Gog/Magog wars about to explode between Israel and Iran? On February 9, 2017, Iran launched a drone from Syria into Israel. When that drone penetrated Israel's air space, it was shot down by an Israeli Apache helicopter. The Israeli electronics followed it from the moment it was launched. Israel responded by sending jets into Syria to destroy the Iran base in Syria that launched that drone. The base was destroyed. One Israeli jet was shot down, the first one in 36 years.

The significance of that is that the Russians were there, because the Arabs haven't shot anything down, ever. Israel launched a counterattack, knocking out four Syrian command posts, eight Iranian command posts, Israel's strongest military response in 30 years. The point is, when Israel is involved in major warfare, pay attention, because the eye of God is on Jerusalem every day. That's the word of God. Why pay attention? Because God has said in his book, "He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps". "Keepeth" is a military term. Israel has a defender sitting in the heavens, watching every army, every missile, every plane, every circumstance.

God has a set time to deal with the nations of the world. And Israel is God's prophetic clock. That clock does not start moving until the Jewish people get in the land. I believe we are watching the birth pains of the Gog/Magog wars of Ezekiel 38. Why should you care? Because the rapture of the church of Jesus Christ happens just before the Gog/Magog wars. Read with me Psalm 102:13. Ready? "You will arise and have mercy on Zion. For the time to favor her, yes, the set time has come". Look at that last verse, "The set time has come".

Father God, we gather today to honor You, to worship You, to read Your Word, and to proclaim it. Now let this congregation and America, and the world, recognize that we are living in the final moments of the dispensation of grace: and that the King of Glory is coming with all of His power and glory. And let us be prepared for the meeting in the air. In Jesus' name, we pray. And all of God's children said, amen.

When he was in office, Donald Trump asked Pastor John Hagee, "Do you think the Arabs will go to war if I recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel"? Because many of his generals did. Pastor answered and said, "No, sir. I think it will be exactly the opposite. I think you're pronouncing that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel will make the cause of peace be advanced. Every time you invite the Palestinians to come to the peace table, they always whine and complain, because they say, "Well Jerusalem is not ours, so we can't do it". "The minute you take Jerusalem off the table: that will suck the oxygen out of the room. They no longer have a problem". He liked that idea. So, Pastor said, "Mr. President, let me share with you a verse from the Bible that perfectly describes the historic moment we're living. God does everything on a set time, and he specially with Israel".

He read to him Leviticus 25:10-11. It says that God measures time in modules of 50 years. And those 50-year modules are called "The year of jubilee". He said, "Mr. President, in the Bible, good things happen in the year of jubilee for Israel. With the understanding that the clock runs when the Jewish people are in the land. Let's go back to 1917, a year of jubilee when the British gave the balfour declaration, giving to Israel this magnificent piece of real estate that God promised them in the book of Genesis".

He said, "That was a jubilee year. Add 50 years to 1917 and you're in 1967. That was the six-day war when Israel defeated five Arab armies who were armed to the teeth by Russia. And they won victoriously in six days. It doubled the size of Israel's land mass. Jerusalem was reunited with the state for the first time since 70 A.D. When Titus and the Roman empire besieged it. 1967 was a war of miracles. It was a jubilee year".