Is the Israel-Hamas War REALLY a Sign of the End Times?
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Is the Israel-Hamas war REALLY a sign of the end times? In this video, Todd Friel shares a framework for interpreting end time signs, and shares his perspective on how we should respond to those signs.
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I’m less concerned about “the end” than I am about my own end. If I’m saved by Jesus then I can face whatever is to come.
Amen to that
You are ordained by God to pray for Israel. (PSALMS122)
Jesus established that "the one who has endured to the end (in loyalty to God, whose name is Jehovah, see Isa 12:2; 26:4, KJV, by exercising faith and not just by believing, John 3:16) will be saved" (Matt 24:13), as the apostle Paul wrote to the Roman Christians, that "everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved".(Rom 10:13; Note: Paul quoted from Joel 2:32)
@@LoganS91 Europe was once the heart of the Christian faith: their churches have become mosques. There is open hostility for Christianity on every continent and islamic groups slaughter them in African nation without a blip on the news. People in the USA now have a tendency to identify as spiritual or even atheists than Christian. And many church building that still retain the name, are social justice clubs beneath the surface.
Amen!! God bless you and your family, bless everyone who reads this comment 🙏🙏🙌🙌☝️☝️
Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus. Trust and obey, for there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.😍
Amen
My mother died last month and we played that song at her funeral. It was her favorite. Praise God she's home with Him now.🙌 🌿✝️🌿🕊
@@terridovey7648condolences
Obey the eternal commands of the Father
I like how Pastor David Jeremiah said it,
“We may not be looking at the End Of The World, but we are definitely looking at the World Of The End.”
What does an understanding of the New Covenant do to the Pretrib Rapture doctrine?
Since the New Covenant is “everlasting” in Hebrews 13:20, how is the New Covenant Church age going to end seven years before the Second Coming of Christ? Why would anyone think God is going back to the Old Covenant system now made “obsolete” by the New Covenant in Hebrews 8:13? We are not come to Mount Sinai in Hebrews 12:18. We are come instead to the New Covenant church of Mount Zion and the blood in Hebrews 12:22-24.
Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, modern Dispensational Theology falls apart, and the pretrib removal of the Church falls with it.
The Capitol "C" Church, as we use the word today, is not found in the entire Book of Revelation. Individual church bodies in ancient Asia Minor are found. In Revelation 12:11 we find those under the blood of the Lamb. A person cannot be under the blood of the Lamb and not be a part of the New Covenant Church of Jesus Christ. Verse 12 of this passage proves at least part of the tribulation period is the wrath of Satan upon the people of God.
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
"It may come as a surprise to most pre-Trib prophecy students that the post-Trib position (in its primitive form) is the oldest point of view."
(The quotation above is from the book "Will You Escape The Tribulation? RAPTURE [Under Attack]", by Tim LaHaye, copyright 1998, Page 197.) Tim LaHaye was co-author of the “Left Behind” books and movies which have convinced millions of modern Christians that the Church age ends seven years before the Second Coming of Christ. Recently, Pastor Matt Furse of Mountain View Baptist Church in Custer, S.D. has written a book titled “Which One Is Right?’, which reveals the recent history of the pretrib rapture doctrine, and the fact it does not agree with what is written in the King James Bible.
The gathering of the Church is described at the end of 1 Thess. Chapter 4, and the timing of the event is found in chapter 5. The word “But” in the first verse of chapter 5 connects the two chapters, and the words “we” and “sleep” in verse 10 of chapter 5 prove the two chapters are connected.
The Greek words for “wrath” and “tribulation” are not the same word, as proven by the verse below.
Rev 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Watch the RUclips video “Pretribulation Paradox” by former pretrib believer skydiver626.
David Jeremiah also said, I’m not waiting for the undertaker. I’m waiting for the upper taker.
@@gregmatz3693
🌿AMEN!🌿 ✝️🕊
@@SpotterVideo The Church and Israel are 2 separate entities. Most Jews won't accept the new covenant which is why the 7 year tribulation is needed. If the bride of Christ(the Church) were to remain for the 7 year tribulation (Jacob's trouble) then there would be none of us left alive.
One weakness of posttribulationism is the clear teaching of Scripture that those who are in Christ are not under condemnation and will never experience the wrath of God (Romans 8:1). While some judgments during the Tribulation specifically target the unsaved, many other judgments, such as the earthquakes, falling stars, and famines, will affect the saved and unsaved equally. Thus, if believers go through the Tribulation, they will experience the wrath of God, in contradiction of Romans 8:1.
Posttribulationists also face a difficulty in explaining the absence of the word church in all biblical passages related to the tribulation. Even in Revelation 4 - 21, the lengthiest description of the tribulation in all of Scripture, the word church never appears. Posttribulationists must assume that the word saints in Revelation 4 - 21 means the church, although a different Greek word is used.
Scripturally, the pretribulational view has much to commend it. For example, the church is not appointed to wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10, 5:9), and believers will not be overtaken by the Day of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 5:1-9).
The church of Philadelphia was promised to be kept from “the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world” (Revelation 3:10). Note that the promise is not preservation through the trial but deliverance from the hour, that is, from the time period of the trial.
There's also the fact that Jesus' words about His return for His bride support a pre-trib view because they were based on Galilean wedding customs in which after the son was told by his father to go get his bride and went through the streets blasting a shofar in the middle of the night, the bride was then carried away( raptured)on a litter to the Father's house BEFORE the wedding feast started where the the doors were then closed behind them for 7 days(7 year tribulation), and no one who was late to the feast was allowed in.
@@gregmatz3693Amen
Thank you for your level headed Biblical reasoning. We need more men like you. Be blessed.
Todd calms my buzzing brain. Sanity, rationality & such faithfulness 🙏
Yes end times in 500 more years you won't be here you will be returned to the ground
Spread the gospel to everyone especially your family and friends
New Covenant Whole Gospel:
What the modern Church needs is a New Covenant Revival (Heb. 9:10) in which members of various denominations are willing to re-examine everything they believe and see if it agrees with the Bible, instead of the traditions of men. We need to be like the Bereans. It will be a battle between our flesh and the Holy Spirit. It will not be easy. If you get mad and upset when someone challenges your man-made Bible doctrines, that is your flesh resisting the truth found in God's Word. Nobody can completely understand the Bible unless they understand the relationship between the Old Covenant given to Moses at Mount Sinai and the New Covenant fulfilled in blood at Calvary. What brings all local churches together into one Body under the blood of Christ? The answer is found below.
Let us now share the Old Testament Gospel found below with the whole world. On the road to Emmaus He said the Old Testament is about Him.
He is the very Word of God in John 1:1, 14. Awaken Church to this truth.
Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1 (Gal. 3:16)? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel (John 1:49)? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? What did Paul say about Genesis 12:3 in Galatians 3:8? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis?
Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, man-made Bible doctrines fall apart.
Let us now learn to preach the whole Gospel until He comes back. The King of Israel is risen from the dead! (John 1:49, Acts 2:36)
We are not come to Mount Sinai in Hebrews 12:18. We are come instead to the New Covenant church of Mount Zion and the blood in Hebrews 12:22-24.
1Jn 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1Jn 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
1Jn 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
The following verses prove the Holy Spirit is the master teacher for those now in the New Covenant.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Mar 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Act 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Watch the RUclips videos “The New Covenant” by David Wilkerson, or Bob George, and David H.J. Gay.
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Please don't bother people with your ridiculous beliefs.
What about the Quran or Hindu bible?
First, I’d like to say God has had me studying eschatology for 9-10 years. I agree with you Todd. There’s however one sign you overlooked. Jesus said the things happening would be like birth pangs. Though a woman, I’ve never had a child, but I was old and when my brothers were born to remember how much the pains sped up the closer to delivery. Today, we call that “convergence”. The signs we’ve been seeing have been coming faster and harder for quite a few years now.
No. We can’t set a date. But we’re told we can understand the season. If we aren’t in that season, we’re darn close!
so you have a good idea of the date due to the season? We know or don't know? It seems like you are saying the same thing.
@@danielkim672we are told to watch and we'd know the hour.
@@danielkim672 That’s a really broad conclusion. No. We cannot set a date. To even speculate is foolish. We will know the season of His coming. Season doesn’t always mean summer or fall. Try researching this one yourself. What’s season mean in Greek?
Almost every generation in history has believed they were in the end times
@@Americanpride555 Excuse me but almost all of the end time signs are centered around a reborn Israel. That hasn't been in play until 1948. And yes even Paul thought and declared they lived in the end times. But we are at the end of the end times.. We are seeing literally all of the signs we were told to watch for happen at a break neck pace even compared to 20 years ago. The moral decline of society like it has never been before, the uniting of humans to be able to communicate world wide, push for globalism, interconnectivity, cashless society right around the corner, Rise of AI and ability to track people worldwide (Rev 13)Israel reborn, Israel's land thriving, Israel's language restored, Easten Gate of Jerusalem still sealed, the rise of the 'me me me' society, the push for t he third temple like never before, the ability to burn the red heifer being months away, Hosea 6 after 2 days prophecy seemingly ready to be fulfilled (timeline) 7 days of creation prophecy (7 thousand years of man - 2 thousand years from crucifixion ). Alliance between Turkey, Iran and Russia sprouted in 2016 (Ezekial 38) theres just so many things that point to time being very very short. Yes Generations have thought they were in the end times, but the times in which we live are much different to those even 100 years ago
our good Shepherd told us Luke 21:28 " Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near "
Exactly!! THANK YOU!! That's why it's inconceivable that it could be another 1-2000 years before Jesus' return, as Todd suggested. How discouraging that would be!! I prefer to believe Jesus' words.
Isn’t Luke 21:7-28 for the Jews during the end times. That is how I interpret it, after the rapture, during the tribulation.
@@christrescuedme2182 How is that discouraging? He's coming we just don't know when? you can also have your own personal rapture before he comes back.... Was paul discouraged even though he thought he was living in the last days?
@@thisprettydisaster Good question. And thanks for trying to encourage. The Bible says the anti-Christ will wear out the saints (Dan. 7:25), and many of us can surely already relate to that. Especially any Christians who are now war-torn. So, like Paul, it helps for us to believe Jesus is coming quickly, whether He delays or not.
The wise virgins in Jesus' parable had this mind-set, whereas the foolish virgins had no motivation to prepare, for they kept thinking they probably had plenty of time left before the coming of the bridegroom.
In that parable Jesus indicated that it would be far better to be over-zealously ready for His return way ahead of time, than to be one day, one hour, one moment too late.
The bringing of the Jews back into a nation after almost 2,000 years is a massive key marker that we're now in the end times, as God promised. We are absolutely now in the end times. It's not right to suggest that Jesus might return in another 10,000 years. We can indeed know the times we are in. Watch Israel and what happens with God's words and promises in mind.
But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. Luke 21:28
Exactly!! THANK YOU!! That's why it's inconceivable that it could be another 1-2000 years before Jesus' return, as Todd suggested. How discouraging that would be!! I prefer to believe Jesus' words.
@@christrescuedme2182 so, over 2,000 years ago, Jesus says "your redemption is drawing NEAR" Two THOUSAND years ago!!!! I think that makes it very conceivable you could wait another 1-2k years. It is time for you to be discouraged!
@@GariSullivan He said it was drawing near because a thousand years is like one day to God (2 Pet. 3:8). So it could be any day now.
What a timely reminder that God is in charge, and Jesus is coming back. Even so, Come Lord Jesus
Maranatha - come quickly Lord Jesus 🙏🏽❤
Maranatha ❤
Wake up. What happen to those Israeli civilians ... is going to happen to all believers in God ... if this is the 7 year tribulation.
Read Mathew 24 an listen to only what Jesus says will happen to Believers .. up to the day He returns.
@@abelincoln8885 Read I Thess 4 and take comfort from the fact the church won't be here. We'll have gone through that "door opened in heaven" mentioned in Rev 4:1. Yes, the Tribulation saints who come to know Christ post-Rapture will suffer, but not his church. This should spur us on to evangelize. Slip some tracts in with the Halloween candy and trust God to work on hearts.
@@abelincoln8885 this isn’t even close to being the 7 year tribulation. The very first year of the 7 years, Israel makes a peace treaty with the antichrist who will betray them 3.5yrs in. Israel has done no such thing yet. It’s very important we understand that the timeline for the great tribulation is clearly laid out and not to be confused with the fact that we are in the end times. Jesus’ return is eminent, that means nothing HAS to happen in order for Jesus to take His people up, which will happen before the Great Tribulation. But the fact that we are in the end times (and have been since Christ went to Heaven) is why His people will be persecuted until His return. If any of the tribulation has to occur before Christ returns to rapture His Church, then His return is not “eminent”, it’s known, which cannot be because He clearly said no one knows the hour or day when He will come for us.
I love your thoughts about not fully understanding until after it happens. 🙏🏼
My older brother recognized this and told me this a few years ago while discussing escatology.. Even John the Baptist while in jail inquired to make sure Jesus was the One, despite knowing all the signs.. Etc.. he wasn't fully certain about prophecy
Thank you for this. So much! I think I’m just so ready for Him to come back that when all of this with Israel came about I was hanging on, searching for and checking off scripture fulfillment. Absolutely I’m praying for Israel, well both sides, I’m not way out there saying “this is it” but, I was hopeful and anxious to meet him…Thank you for helping me remember, reeling me back in…
I'm ready for Jesus to return, I am ready to go home!!!
This Earth is your home. That's why you'll get a resurrected body for a resurrected earth. Heaven is not the final destination!
@@Cinnamonbuns13*new heaven and new earth*
Both are 2 in 1.
@@Minnesota_Central new as in resurrected. All made new, not all brand new.
@@Cinnamonbuns13 regardless the new heaven and new earth are synonymously interchangeable.
Jhn 3:13 shows Christ telling Nicodemus that nobody besides Himself have ever gone to Heaven, or will ever go to Heaven. So for all of the deceived evangelicals out there who think Heaven is their home, Christ shut that down 2000 yrs ago. You can either believe Him or not believe Him. Acts 3:20-21 shows Peter saying Christ is coming to restore God's government in this world, not take ppl away from it!
God is patient. He will come when all those whom he would save are saved.
Real sad to see a number of Christians imply that Israelites are irrelevant due to their eschatology. Been hearing a lot of that from online scenes. When innocent people are suffering it should concern us regardless of the side they’re on.
Yup
That’s one of the problems with systematic theology as opposed to biblical theology. Proponents of systematic theologies have to logically follow the system they are forcing into the text.
Modern day Palestinians (“al-Filasṭīniyyūn / alfilastiniuwn - الفلسطينيون,“ “Fālasṭīnīm - פָלַסְטִינִים,” or Palestinian people “ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī - الشعب الفلسطيني“ in Arabic and Hebrew, a demonym with origins in the toponym “Palaistī́nē - Παλαιστῑ́νη” etymologically related to the Greek term “palaistês - παλαιστής”meaning “wrestler” being a more literal translation of the Hebrew name Israel “Yīsrāʾēl - יִשְׂרָאֵל” meaning “one who wrestles with God”) are just the descendants of culturally Arabized Mizrahi Jews, Samaritans, Druze, Assyrians, Arameans, and other communities local to the region that never left and converted to Christianity or Islam as opposed to the ancient Philistines (a.k.a. “Phulistieím - Φυλιστιείμ,”“al-Flistiun / alflistiun - الفلستيون,“ or “Pəlīštīm / Palishtim - פְּלִשְׁתִּים“) who were the ones in conflict with the Israelites (a.k.a. “Children of Israel - Bənēy Yīsrāʾēl - בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל”) in biblical times but have been destroyed/fully assimilated into surrounding communities with no known cultural trace extant in the modern day, as well as opposed to most modern day Israelis (“Yīśreʾēlīm - יִשְׂרְאֵלִים“) who are mostly Jews (“Yehudim - יְהוּדִים“) from other parts of the diaspora who came back to the Israel-Palestine Region through the Aliyah immigration process, Palestinian Jews who were already there but overtime assimilated into the dominant Israeli society, and those who continue to either be Religious Jews (practitioners of the religion known as Judaism) or Secular Jews (who are cultural Jews that are religiously atheist, agnostic, irreligious, or practitioners of New Age Mysticism/Pagan Spiritualism) with Jewish Christians being a minority who’s Jewishness is always being questioned at the hands of Secular and Religious Jews in the dominant Israeli society and some Palestinian Samaritans, Druze, Assyrians, Arameans, Israeli Arabs, and Armenians of Israel and Palestine who so happen to gain Israeli citizenship although treated as second-class citizens by the dominant society. [In most cases due to this shared ancestry of both Palestinians and the Mizrahi Jews that never left, as well as the rest of the Jews that came back to Israel through Aliyah, they’re all most likely collectively the descendants of the Israelites the difference being their religion and modern cultural background]. Palestinians are generally treated like stateless residents or in some cases second-class citizens by the majority Zionist extremist Secular (a.k.a. Irreligious) and theocratic Religious Jewish leadership in the government of Israel that gives Religious Jews, Secular Jews, Ashkenazi and some Sephardi Jews of the European diaspora preferential treatment at the expense of Christians (both Palestinian and Jewish Christians) , Muslims, Palestinians, Samaritans, Arabs (Arab includes indigenous populations that adopted Arab culture just like the term Latino), Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) of the Horn of Africa diaspora, Armenians of Israel and Palestine, Assyrians, Arameans, Druze, other local communities, as well as Mizrahi and some Sephardi Jews of the Middle Eastern and North African diaspora or those that can’t overtly pass as being part of the European/White branch of the Jewish diaspora.
Hamas started this war with bloodshed of innocent civilians, the have a duty to defend against Hamas this evil demonic people who cut babies head off, wake up and see that there is evil people on earth 🌍 😊and Israel 🇮🇱 has to defend themselves
Sir, I have seen an overwhelming amount of Christians imply that Palestinians are irrelevant
Know what the signs are and be aware this is happening. Just be aware that’s it. Don’t get out of hand and think Jesus will be back tomorrow but don’t brush it off either. That’s my take. God Bless!!
Sorry can't help it,way too excited for the kingdom, Even so come Lord Jesus!
He's a better one! The bible isn't real. The only reason there is a war in that part of the world is because the USA is paying for it. Well, you tax payers are. If the USA didn't fund Isreal, they'd be no war, no end time signs. You must admit, it's an explanation
You hit the nail on the head, brother. Very pastoral. Thank you, Todd.
The best explanation I've seen so far on social media. Thanks Todd.
normally agree with you Tod but...
- we can know the season (that is biblical)
- God gave us such a wealth of prophetic scripture that we may be blessed by it, encouraged by it and we are commanded to "look up".
- there is precedence - note that there were those who correctly understood the OT prophecies and were looking for the first incarnation of Christ - Simeon for example.
all that said - i do think the excited "watchmen" out there need to be very very careful when interpreting scripture and matching it with what we are seeing. I have seen brilliant watchmen and slap dash watchmen. slapdash is shameful.
I agree 100%
Yes
“If you won’t WATCH, I will come upon you as a thief” - Jesus
I think you missed the boat. The season is now. It has always been now. The season will always be now. Even the day after Christ’s ascension, the season was right then…er..for them it was “now”. Today is the day of salvation. THAT is how you can “know the season”. Because it’s is always the season. History repeats itself again and again, yet the Lord tarries, in all His goodness He tarries.
Those in OT that looked forward to Christ’s coming, some are still looking forward to His coming. They missed it. But no one will miss His second coming.
Regardless, the whole of Scripture points either forward to the cross, or backward to the cross. Either way, it has always been, and will always be, about Jesus and His salvation stored up for me and everyone else who calls Him Lord. We need not worry, fear, or even concern ourselves with the days, times, or prophesies of the future that no man can know. Concern yourselves with today. Choose today whom you will serve. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
There are guys that post every day and have been for the least 9-10 year. Reading every eclipse and earthquake as some how evidence that the rapture is happening. I’m not a pretrib guy so I’m less swayed by every news headline. But it’s important to live every day with the expectation that Christ could come back for me (in death) at any moment. So regardless of when the rapture is I should be working while we still have the light!
I appreciate being grounded by this. Sometimes I get so upset and can’t understand why people can’t see what is happening from a Biblical point of view. But some never will. And it’s not my timing, it’s God’s. And we need to have peace in that. Thanks for this !
Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him.
John 3:16
Romans 3:23❤❤❤
Because their blinded 2 Corinthians 4:4
Tod. The voice of reason and common sense.
Tod. The voice of Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons!
Pray for all the humans involved
My heart goes out to Israel. I agree with everything you said Todd.
So do I😊
@@valarielewis9501 I Don`t.
Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him.
John 3:16
Romans 3:23❤😊❤
Does it go out to Palestinians?
@@Kaddywompous that is an ignorant question... ppl don't have to write or say several paragraphs just so you can hear the exact words you'd like to hear... ppls hearts goes out to everyone which is a given...
Totally agree! The main thing to know is that you're ready for Jesus' return at any moment. We're one day closer! 🙌
Amen,Pam
2 Thessalonians 2 actually taught against the immanency of the return and gathering together to Him. But taught that there are things to fulfill first, after which, it becomes imminent. So, we should watch for signs, yes. But, we're only gonna know that each sign passes when it fulfills scripture exactly to where we can say in hindsight "this is that spoken of by the prophet..."
I think the end times being set. His timing is perfect. We are seeing many signs taking place. If the 2nd coming is soon then I think the rapture is sooner than not. Share the gospel to family and friends which is our task as Christians…
People have thought this every time there have been middle east calamities
Thanks, Todd! A most excellent commentary! And completely agree! God doesn't do anything in a silo. Among the things He is doing is awakenings- the nations, the people, etc... of the importance of Israel on the world stage. God will always fight for His chosen. No man knows the hour, but the signs are meant to keep us alert of Jesus' inevitable return.
whatever it takes to get us out there spreading the good news is a good thing. This war may very well get folks doing that. When it first happened I myself was convicted just how fragile this life is and shared the good news within hours upon this news. But I should always be ready to share the good news. Things like this just make it more evident just how fragile life is and how people truly need Jesus.
Thank you for this message as this clears up a lot of questions I have had about the end times. I see many things being fulfilled but I also see things are are still to come. Thank you again for this teaching.
A woman in childbirth. It doesn’t stay the same. Pain, contractions intensity increases. There is a crescendo! And after the birth there is relief and joy! Come Lord Jesus!
We have to pray for the Palestinians too. They were also made in Gods image
That's right! God was merciful to Hagar and Ishmael too.
@@oldegoatee8450I don’t think Palestinians are descendants of Ishmael
Also Todd states we have seen this before...Not so there have never been Russian troops in Syria like we have today. Just this decade we have had more first time never happen before events....
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Exactly!! Even the Puritan John Bunyan (in his book about the Anti-Christ) said that when we start to see things go global, we will know that Jesus is about to return.
@@christrescuedme2182 I wonder if everyone thought the end times where coming during the world wars.
@@ShilohLux.13 The birth pangs began years ago, which means they are now getting closer and closer together (convergence).
NOTHING MEANS N-O-T-H-I-N-G. Don’t worry about anything! God’s got this!😊
Phil like 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
My exact sentiments.....Thank you Brother Todd.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Keep in mind that we're also that last generation. We're the only generation that's seeing the prophetic events happening,with Israel back to its land. So i believe the Lord is coming quickly,,,
Now God add His blessing 🙂🇰🇪🇰🇪
My friends Israel is not to its land. Jews are back to the lands where they were kicked out first in 70 CE by Roman Empire. Their return to that land is no doubt the sign of End Times as per Christian and Islamic belief. The interesting question would be whether the Jews there will be against the Jesus as their ancestors. It is interesting to hear Iran as the nation of either Gog ans Magog and on the other side of world,Western secular nations are considered as Gog and Magog; but, nobody can be sure. In Islamic Belief, Jesus will land at a place in present Syria and in Islamic belief, Muslim joins Jesus in fight against Anti-Christ.
Well-balanced, Todd. Thank you!
Yup Debbie well balanced
Amen and Amen! Be ready and keep your lamps filled with oil....
I love the sound teaching of this channel. No sensationalism, no "you need to watch this if you love Jesus" , no click-bait. Just a God-fearing man speaking biblical truth.
Israel is still rejecting their Messiah. They are still in open rebellion with hard hearts.
Soon and very soon, we are going to see our King!
Thanku! A voice of reason.
While I agree with much of what was said, perhaps you missed the Scripture that says we will know the season of His return. EVERYTHING that Christ warned about in the "last days" is in full convergence. Even the secular world can feel "something" isn't right. Jesus emphasized deception in the Olivette discourse... There is NO TRUTH other than the Word of God that can be trusted. Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus, Come! Hallelujah!!
Exactly!! Even the Puritan John Bunyan (in his book about the Anti-Christ) said that when we start to see things go global, we will know that Jesus is about to return.
Praying forthe people who live in Israel and Palestine and America and Australia and every nation to come to a saving faith in Jesus as Saviour and Lord is what is commanded from the church. Please have mercy on them Heavenly Father.
There is a fine line between awareness of the signs of Christ's return, and falling into prediction of the timing. Yet we are called to 'understand the present time'. Jesus clearly said "see I have told you ahead of time". In 210 chapters in the New Testament, Christ's return is mentioned 318 times! Its an important subject, and I personally feel that 'talking it up' is better than diminishing it with statements like 'but there are always signs". In fact if we err sometimes and fall into speculation about timing, I think that might even be a better error than not considering Christ's return at all. I fully agree that prophecy is only understood in hindsight, but equally I see no harm in identifying possible patterns (Gog, Magog etc) forming in the world today, because though our 'speculation' might prove wrong it still holds the most important New Testament subject at the front of our agenda. I've studied escatology (among many other theological themes) since the mid 1970's, and each time I come back to look at the subject it never fails to warm my heart and put an urgent fire in my belly for Christ....that's what it suposed to do. Maranatha.
So true. The Bible tells us there will always be those who scoff at the signs by taking them too lightly, saying they've always been happening (2 Tim. 3:4).
Use the signs to push you to do His will more fervently rather than to slack off.
Remember, the longer Jesus takes, the more people that can be saved. The more souls will know him before it's too late.
No gospel artists have spoken or even commented nor have we seen a gospel music show just to encourage awareness or pray for both nations
It doesn't matter who you support bcz God is head of these issues 😢
I love your videos. I love how grounded they are and how unsensational you make them. Calm, clear and focused, Amen to you brother!
Oh Lord Jesus you are coming.
"Be Holy, Be Faithful, because God wins". This works if these are the last moments or not.
Agree wholeheartedly, except to be anxious for the Lord's return. Probably could have used another word for that (excited, hopeful, yearning, eager etc.) I'm guessing most people understand what you meant. 🙂
Hi. Anxious has two meanings at least if you check it out in the dictionary, and the word includes all of those more positive connotations that you mention.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus!!
The number of signs converging/coming together only increases by the day (see 2 Peter 3, 1 Timothy 4:1-5, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Romans 1:18-32, Luke 17:20-37, Luke 21:5-36, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Jude, and Revelation 4-22), which are ALL leading up to Jesus' imminent return.
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"Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” (Luke 21:28)
YES!! Convergence is definitely happening globally. Puritan John Bunyan (in his book about the Anti-Christ) said that when we start to see these things go global, we will know that Jesus is about to return.
@@christrescuedme2182 Amen! Personally I felt led to start studying eschatology about 2 years ago now, and so blessed because of that. If you haven't completed a left behind letter (and to even share with friends and loved ones currently), now is definitely the time.
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@@MakeRoomForGod I wrote a whole book for my friends and loved ones. Sadly, they all rejected the gospel and then ended up submitting to the beast system.
We are definitely in "the season."
This is along the lines of what I have been saying, I have been saying we are getting closer to end times, but we don’t know how long this can be. It could be in the next 2,000 years or so.
Thank you...I've been waiting for a word of sober encouragement from one of you my reformed teachers.
Todd, I am incredibly thankful for your leadership right now. The true church needed to hear this balanced and mature perspective.
1Come, and let us return to the Lord;
For He has torn, but He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
2 After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.
Hosea 6
Another excellent video. Thank you to everyone at Wretched!
You are soooo American! Bless you...lots a of love, an Englishman
Thanks Todd- as always- good reminders!!
This guy reminds me of the character “Lincoln Potter” from the show “Son’s of Anarchy”, and “Mayans MC”. The way he talks and acts. Great character.
Todd forgot to mention Question #6: Is God reminding us to rewatch the Left Behind movies staring Kirk Cameron?
They’re so good. Thanks for the reminder though. 😂
If you actually watch it. The movie shows what's happening right now.
I just watched them this past week, it lined up pretty good with the word! Also with world events as of late.
What you are saying makes sense, but some of it is false. Matthew 24 specifically tells us when Jesus Christ is coming back... Immediately after the tribulation.
It’s one interpretation
Nobody keeps a potentially wild and speculative discussion grounded in Scripture quite like Todd. Thank you, Brother.
Going to be sharing this a lot I think.
Dispensationalism is a 19th century invention which corrupts Scrpture.
Acts 1:7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
👍🙏 to be reminded that He is coming back, we don't know when, no one does.
The pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world the Mother and you people
When I started to watch this video I thought I could comment on one point you made, but found I can’t add to anything you said. Your presentation was awesome. I’m going to have to rewatch with pen and paper and take notes.
Regardless of anything going on at any time…Jesus says to always be ready. The doctrine of immanency is blatant all throughout scripture. Also, people should be equally concerned with their own “dead”line if you will...we could die at any moment unannounced so be ready at any time to meet your maker as they say. It’s equally possible that Christ could rapture the church at any moment. God bless.
I thought the gospel had to go out to all the earth first. I follow a ministry that says there are hundreds of people groups still unreached, never heard, no access, no translation in a language they understand.
It's not the least bit possible that a rapture could happen at any moment because the Bible doesn't teach this evangelical falsehood anywhere. Christ explicitly prophesied in Matt. 24 that _the whole world will see His saints being gathered to Him after the Tribulation_ . But just like they do with a lot of things Christ taught, evangelicals ignore His very plain words concerning the Second Coming.
I am not a Christian. I belong to another Abrahamic faith (not Judaism) BUT this guy is level headed and I really appreciate him.
Cant think of the last time I have had so many secular friends coming to me wanting to talk about Biblical prophecy.
The urgency is as real as it has ever been. Evangelism opportunities are throwing themselves at us.
I hope somebodys making sure Ray Comfort is stopping to eat occasionally.
We need to live as if JESUS is coming back any minute But we do not know when
Mr. Friel, I appreciate your comments on this topic. I think your discourse was on point and clearly stated what the Christian perspective should be regarding end times.
When they speak of peace and safety then sudden destruction will come like a woman in travail.
That's what happened! Netanyahu was speaking those very words, then sudden destruction came!! Perhaps there will also be multiple fulfillments of that prophecy.
Too bad I can’t leave CA yet. Don’t have a job and I still live with my family.
This video was EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you Todd (tall guy) Friel and Wretched!
Yes your commence make sense , thank you
I agree with all that you DID say. What about "the generation of the fig tree"?? The restoration of the Israeli nation?
I think that’s why he is saying there is still time and more to come.
@@TheWarriorLV Odd, I was always taught that the Israelites alive in 1948 were that generation - at the "return" of an Israeli nation to Jerusalem. And that the End Times would commence before they all perished. Was that false teaching? Can't be many of them left...
I'll be honest, I really don't like how American evangelicals try to speed up the Apocalypse (as if that's possible) by unconditionally supporting modern Israel and rooting for them to build the 3rd temple. I've been moving away from dispensationalism towards historic premill because it really seems like we've made an idol of the modern Jewish state
The Gospel is power of God unto salvation for Jews and Gentiles. May the Lord be pleased to call many Jews and palestinians to faith in Jesus. He is our peace - peace with God, and peace among ourselves.
1 Thessalonians 5:4
Jesus taught that signs would precede His return, and that they would be like birth pains. Also He said when these things happen lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
We might not know the exact day but every day is one day closer
I think anything that causes pain or fear, whether it be to a nation, town, or a person, is for the sake of asking, “What are we, or am I, to learn from this?” Often it has to do with repentance, but also, for the Christian, it may be for taking inventory to determine if one’s being right with the Lord. Great video, Todd, thank you, brother!!!
My good sr. I honor you so much. Definitely a respected voice for me bro you where one of the first guys I started listening to in the beginning of my walk with the Lord and I just love you very much bro!
You haven't studied the prophecies enough and your hermeneutics is so simplistic like for the 5th graders!
How come you get almost everything correct ?
Love your invaluable content Todd
Todd, I think you're a wise virgin who has fallen asleep. Jesus told us to watch watch watch. That means there are things to watch for.
The Lord also said, If you *don't, I'll come like a thief in the night. Those who are watching *will* know the season. We are in that season.
YES! For those who aren't watching he'll come like a thief. I totally agree with you. There's never been a time that all of the end times signs have converged the way they are now, and the birth pains are right on top of one another. People like to stop reading also where Paul says that the Lord will come like a thief, but we aren't in the dark for that day to overtake us as a thief. I can't imagine people not ready to get out of this evil world. Yes, I want everyone saved, but I think the rapture will be the greatest evangelical movement of all time!
Jesus already built an end times framework for us. He and the apostles believed he would return in “this” generation, meaning in the lifetimes of his contemporaries.
He said other things that validated the time-frame and so did they.
What if we did something crazy, and just believed them?
Amen! Maranatha!🙌
Thank you Todd, some points I had not heard before.
So when stated that "This generation that sees Israel reborn to a nation (like it did in 1948) shall not pass without the coming of the son of man😏
What is the great restrainer that is removed? Before the 7 years of tribulation 🤔
I've heard one pastor say that the great restrainer is the Holy Spirit Himself. I don't know if I agree with that at all but thought I'd share one thing I've heard.
@@ivegotanewhome858yes. This theory that the restrainer is the Holy Spirit who we know is dwelling in believers right now. According to the pre-trib rapture theory, when the Church gets raptured, the Holy Spirit has no one to dwell in so He goes with us. Then comes the Antichrist. I used to subscribe to this theory, but now I don’t know. I believe in the pan-trib theory now. Just keep your focus on Jesus and the Kingdom and it’ll pan out just the way God has it planned.
@@codyb4016 amen
Evangelicals fail to understand who "the restrainer" is because they fail to understand the fact that 2 Thess. 2 concerns the transition from the Philadelphia era to the Laodicean era. They typically read this chapter as apocalyptic text when the context and the language makes it obvious that it concerns God's true Church, not the rest of the world or even the false "Christian" churches of traditional Christianity.
I’ve been thinking the same thing… sometimes when we see end time signs of Jesus return, we begin to speak as if He will come in our time of life when the Bible says, “No one knows the day or the hour when the Son of Man will come.” Only the Father knows when it’s time. Just like he said, the these signs are indicators that Jesus is soon to return, and we need to make sure we are ready for His coming whether we are alive or dead.
The fact that 5 of the 10 prophesied toes of the Dan. 2 statue have already formed in Europe, that clearly means this is the final generation. No one may know the exact moment or day Christ will return, but He clearly told His followers in that generation to WATCH and be aware for the signs that the moment is nearing.
@@theeternalsbeliever1779what parts of Daniel so I can see. I’d like to read more. Thanks 🙏🏼
If you truly believe in a pre-trib rapture, then you won't be around for the "end times." You'll be gone for that.
I am more positive that the end of times are coming closer by the second. I am just glad I accepted Jesus as Lord and Savor when I was a teenager. I don't fear the end. That's a good point, Jesus could come back in 10 seconds or 10,000 years, or longer. I am looking forward to the time when Jesus comes back. I am also hoping it's sooner than later.
Maranatha!!!
Finally. Someone I can agree with. We have been in the end times since Jesus went back to heaven.
Thank you!!
Maranatha!!!