 Welcome everyone to the class may I request somebody to please lead us in prayer and then people get started anybody could lead us in prayer please okay who wants to pray? Salome would you like to pray? Go ahead Prabhakar. Dear Heavenly Father we praise you with all your holy name at this moment we come into your throne of praise Father. Thank you for this wonderful moment and opportunity to learn new things. Bless this class Father. Dear in times of scarlet. Father bless Pastor Anthi so that Father shall be in your way. Father bless today's sessions and bless each and every one of you. This class and this session might be engaging and soon learning and hope to one of you. Thank you and ask this prayer in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you. Alright so we are in the welcome everyone once again we are in the final section of this course which we'll be talking about the signs of the times. What are the indicators to us about you know roughly baby up we had the whole timeline that we went through and basically we said that you know the rapture of the church has to take place before in the beginning of the tribulation at the beginning of the tribulation the man of sin the son of perdition will be revealed and then everything that gets going that's from Revelation chapter 6 verse 1 so we are right you know we are somewhere there very close to the that the rapture of the church the church being taken out of the way so we're trying to understand just by looking at some of the signs you know how close of he and so we are we start we started this section let me go ahead and share it the PDF on the signs of the times so some of the signs that we already looked at last week we talked about Israel being formed as a nation so God had spoken that he would bring Israel back as a nation into their own land and make them one nation and you know it was almost 2500 years before Israel could have their land back for themselves and become a nation the key thing was the Lord Jesus when he was speaking about this he said that one generation will see all these signs come to pass it means this final culmination of these signs will be observed by one generation is what Jesus said and so for us you know of course to determine that one generation you need a starting point and of which particular generation so many people use the fig tree the blossoming of the fig tree as an indicator as a starting point there's nothing wrong with that so we said okay if we do that if that is the Bible doesn't necessarily say that is the starting point but that is a good starting point because we know that the final years has to do with the nation of Israel and so the very fact that Israel became a nation is very significant and so you know you we could do some approximate in calculation again our goal is not to do any predictions but just get an idea where are we so we could either start in 1948 or 1967 and do some calculation based on how long would one generation be and then arrive at some numbers and you know pretty much things are you know around where we are already are and so we are quite close so but please don't you know like I mentioned last week don't go around mentioning a year that's not the intent of this and the intent is just to get some sense of close of me if we use Israel becoming a nation as the starting point as a reference point secondly we also discussed last week about Jerusalem taken by Israel Israel and it becoming a place of conflict or a reason for conflict in the Middle East which has since 1967 you know so it's a became a nation and in 48 1967 the Six Day War they were able to recapture Jerusalem but that became a big problem obviously because it was under Arab occupation for such a long time so anyway Israel made some concession they've returned back East Jerusalem they have access to West Jerusalem and you know somehow things have been going on it's always been a point of conflict between the Palestinians and Israel or the Arabs and the Jews and so that is part of what Bible prophecy speaks of God says in the Jerusalem will become a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding people and it'll become a heavy stone and the nations of the earth will be gathered against it you know that's so things will begin to precipitate and build up towards that and it's very interesting you know when okay we will talk about it a little later when we talk about the dynamics between different nations how they are you know all relating to each other the third sign we talked about or we mentioned last week was the temple mount being ready to be rebuilt and this is also very important because when we the tribulation seven years of tribulation involves the temple especially when we come to the middle of the tribulation and so on let's say in the beginning of tribulation there is a peace treaty sort of covenant of peace that has been put in place by this leader the antichrist and so obviously the offerings the sacrifices are going on but in the middle of that he stops the in the middle that seven years he stops he puts an end to sacrifice and he sets himself up in the temple of God to be worshiped so the for all of those prophecies to be fulfilled there needs to be a temple right so how is that going to happen what we have been what we have been observing is that the Jews are ready to rebuild the temple they've made all the preparations and it's very detailed preparations and getting ready to bring temple worship back so it's not just building a building it's about consuming the sacrificial the sacrifices and the forms of worship that they were used to be ready so we know that this is going to be a very very tense proposition you know to build the temple it's gonna be very very tense I mean in our minds we cannot even it seems impossible now right the because the temple Mount is occupied by the Arabs they have control over it how possibly could there be a temple I mean I'm talking about the Jewish temple on the temple Mount when there's a mosque and it's occupied by the Arabs it's their place right now how is this ever going to be possible it seems impossible but for the word of God to be fulfilled for the prophecy to be fulfilled preparations have already been made on one side on the part of the Jews the question is how and where and when are they going to build the temple that's something to be seen but we are that close is it possible it seems impossible right now but that's where if somebody if a man can come and bring about this kind of solution where he's appeasing both sides he's able to give the Jews what they want the Arabs what they want he's got to be considered a brilliant you know like the world leader the world has been waiting for if there could be somebody who could do this because since the 70s different world leaders have tried they've tried to bring about this peace a peaceful settlement to the problems right there in Israel no one has succeeded no one has succeeded so if a man leader could do this he'll be considered a genius and so that opportunity is there and it's very likely that this antichrist will step in and be able to do that because the Bible talks about him setting in place a covenant of peace so this is interesting to observe that everything is set just that this one step has to happen so we we covered till here now we were talking about the fourth one which is the 10 region confidavism if you will turn with me to Daniel chapter 2 I just want to point out I mean there are many scriptures on this but I want to point out what this denation confidavism is and we will study Daniel the whole all the prophecies in Daniel next year but I want us to understand Daniel chapter 2 and I just look at I'll just pick out and give you the verses that we should read let's see okay let's read please verses 38 to 44 Daniel chapter 2 was 38 to 44 the main part that I want us to focus on of course is towards the end of this passage but could somebody read this Daniel chapter 2 38 to 44 please shall I read go ahead please Daniel chapter 2 verses 38 to 44 and wherever the children of men dwell or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven he has given them into your hands and has made you ruler over them all you are this head of gold but after you shall rise and another kingdom inferior to yours then another a third kingdom of bronze which shall rule over all the earth and the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron in as much as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything and like iron that crushes that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others whereas you saw the feet and toes partly of potter's clay and partly of iron the kingdom shall be divided yet the strength of the iron shall be in it just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay and as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile as you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay they they will mingle with the seed of men and they will not adhere to one another just as iron does not mix with clay and in the days of these things the God of heaven will set up a king a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it shall stand forever So this prophecy Daniel chapter 2 of course it was what Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar's dream which God revealed to Daniel and God Daniel speaks it out and then he interprets it is the framework for all the prophecies that unfold in Daniel the subsequent chapters but this is very powerful just to quickly help us understand this you know Nebuchadnezzar had this dream of this huge image the head was made of gold the breast was made of silver the the waist was made of brass the feet were made of iron the legs the legs were made of iron and then the feet was a mix of iron and clay and it had 10 toes of course there were 10 toes so this becomes a framework of the prophecy that's then further developed in the book of Daniel and so Nebuchadnezzar saw this image and then he saw a huge rock that was not carved by men's hands this huge rock came and it crushed this image and then it became a big mountain that spread all over the earth so that's the that's the dreamy hand so then Daniel interprets the dream he says you know he begins in verse 38 you are the head of gold that means the head of gold represents the Babylonian kingdom so Daniel prophesied about the the empires or the kingdoms to come all the way to the million millennial reign of christ so he said you are the head of gold that is the Babylonian kingdom after you comes you know after him after that came the meads in the Persians they were the chest of silver meads in the Persians and we know it as you know I'm just summarizing it but as you read the prophecies all these details are given then come the the waste of brass that is the Greek empire and after the Greek so he mentions Daniel actually mentions Babylonian that is Nebuchadnezzar then he does mention the meads in the Persians he does mention the Greek empire right so he mentions then the feet of iron represents the roman empire which is which became bigger than all the previous empires so the roman empire extended through all of europe into across the agency into you know what is modern day turkey and iran and persia all the way there in the northern part of Africa so the roman empire extended you know covered a huge it is much bigger than the previous three world empires but Daniel spoke about it he said it's going to defeat of iron but then what will happen is after that comes it's going to be a mix of iron and clay what is that iron represents the roman empire countries or regions that belong to the roman empire clay like he mentions here is they will mingle with verse 43 they will mingle with the seed of men that means there will be other nations mingling so today when we look at europe right what what do we know about europe well much of europe not all but much of europe was part of the roman empire and today what form is it it is in this iron and clay mixture form meaning it's a loosely held conglomeration of so many nations loosely held many of them were part of the roman empire iron and they're also mixed with other nations clay so that's what we find in that so verse 43 is being fulfilled right before our eyes so that's right we look at the european union with a lot of interest because that union is this 43 verse 43 a loosely held mix of iron and clay nations that belonged to the roman empire former roman empire and now there are all the other you know mix the seed of men that just they are there and they're loosely held you know they're not like a bomb height integrated union they're loosely held they're all they all have their independent governments but they are from one union so that's what he describes them 43 and then he talked about 10 toes 10 toes of us now in this in this particular dream the 10 toes are not emphasized they're only mentioned but later on in chapter seven chapter eight the 10 toes become prominent because the 10 toes represent 10 leaders or 10 nations and out of the income 10 horns so 10 nations that are very significant in this loosely held grouping of nations which was a mixture of those who belong to the former former roman empire as well as others now if you look at in the world today there are many of these such you know groupings nato is one of them but nato has uh so you know nato could be one you know what was spoken of in verse 43 the european union could be what was spoken of in 43 because the key that we're looking for is nations that that were made of iron that means nations that belonged to the former roman empire plus other nations right so it could be nato it could be european union and so when we when you look at you know various nations coming together like this is also but that's very interesting because that's what daniel spoke about in verse 43 right a mix of iron and clay but what he went on to see in what we will see as we progress in the book of daniel is he says out of this will come 10 toes 10 major leading nations and out of these 10 toes come 10 horns meaning the leaders the horn always represents the leader right it's out of the 10 toes it's each toe each nation has a horn a leader and there's going to rise up another leader who comes from a country that belonged to the greek empire and that and daniel refers to him in his visions as the small horn so that means he's not a very powerful leader but he emerges from what was part of the former greek empire and he influences three of these 10 leaders and they put this man into prominence and that that that small horn is the antichrist right so all of that is given to us in the book of daniel which we will you know study in detail next year but the point i want to say is over here in daniel chapter two was 44 what else do we see it says here and in the days of these kings what kings the kings that emerge from this loosely held region of the iron and clay so today we have this loosely held region of iron and clay and we can see 10 nations who are the leading nations in that whole association or union and our organization you know and out of them come 10 horns or 10 leaders and he says in verse 44 in the days of these kings the god of heaven will set up a kingdom that is the kingdom of jesus christ so that's how close we are that means look we are seeing this loosely held region of iron and clay it's very evident before our eyes whether you look at it as nato european union you know it could be one of the two we don't want to get zero in you know many think about it as the european union it's okay however you look at it but the criteria is iron and clay are mixed and then you can see okay the possibility of these 10 leaders emerging strong players so we are that close because it says in the days of those kings the god of heaven will set up his kingdom here or not that means that rock that came out of heaven and crushed all of this it just says okay all this is gone there's only going to be one kingdom it's the kingdom of the lord jesus christ and that's what happens in the millennium reign right so that is number four the possibility of these 10 toes emerging whether it comes out of the eu or the nato or some other association it's okay for us you're not you know the bible doesn't specify what kind of what the name of it is what the bible does give us is it's a mix of iron and clay it's a mix of nations who belong to the former roman empire and from other parts other races or other seed of men people it's a mix and we are seeing that happen number five another important part of bible prophecy end time prophecy which we we mentioned and and we see this in evolution 13 years and if you want we can actually break these into two signs you know we can call it a global currency system and a global identification system so you can make it five and six if you want i've just you know combined the two so in revelation 13 for revelation 13 to be fulfilled what do we see in revelation 13 and we we've been through it a couple of weeks back we see that when the first beast that is the antichrist and the second beast which is the false prophet when they come they're going to introduce a system where you cannot buy or sell that is buying and selling has to do with finances currency a financial system all over the world people cannot buy or sell unless they have the mark of the beast so in some way the antichrist is going to control the global financial system so instead of saying currency we could say economic system or we could say financial system i just put currency i probably will change it and call it a financial system something because currency you know people will think in terms of euros or dollars or whatever this is not necessarily having to do with currency in the sense of a particular and form currency dollars euros whatever but it's a financial system you cannot buy or sell you cannot transact so this is an economic system set up global unless you have the mark of the beast now we saw secondly we saw in roman revelation 13 that this mark of the beast or something that was put upon people's hands or four heads so it becomes a very personal individual identification system so these two things are tied together there's a economic system a financial system and there's a id system global and they are tied together in revelation 13 and so what we are saying is hey we are living in a day and a time when this is possible it can happen you know it doesn't take much to make something like this happen in fact um if you look at how you know identification systems are there the kind of identification systems that are there in the world will be amassed and china is one of those nations and you probably know this but china is one of the nations that is putting this identification identification system to use in a big way so um there are entire cities that um i i think china is one of those cities where they have cct tv cameras and they have a they have a complete center where everybody is monitored so every human person in that city is monitored and nothing but just your facial recognition that's all they just uh just facial recognition system they can identify every person in that city so when you're crossing the state and i was just watching some documentary on this you know when you're crossing the street if you cross when you're not supposed to immediately you're recognized because there are cctv there are these cctv cameras everywhere if you cross the street when you're not supposed to you're immediately recognized and there is a display that shames you or that tells you you know you violate or something i don't know if they have uh any penalty on it or something so you know nobody you know there's no need for a police man or something you it's this whole city is monitored so just my facial recognition so that's that's one very powerful identification system and then even uh you know in the ukraine war in the war in ukraine right now uh all that's happening uh i think i forget it's company i think it's a company in ukraine or i might be wrong in this because i forget it but i think it's a company from ukraine several that was that was offering a complete identification system uh where uh to the ukraine government to identify people uh they they basically have taken in images from the internet to identify people and uh and so again using facial recognition so on um where you know when people are injured or killed in in in the battle in war uh at least there's some way to identify who is this person and they offer the system to the ukraine government to help them do this so it's quite amazing when you think about and this is all just facial recognition you know using that technology but when you think about what is possible today in terms of an identification system which has a certain mark that has to be put on your hand or your forehead and you're immediately recognized we can say 100 it can be done same thing with a global financial system if we want to force people to and say that look in order to transact this is how it's going to be done it can be done right so for revelation 13 to be fulfilled we are living in the day and time when it can actually happen so there's that possibility of this being fulfilled another interesting observation is the geopolitical interactions that are going on globally the alignment of various nations with each other because when we get into sql 38 and we can just turn there just point out what we're looking at what what I'm what we are mentioning but with me to sql 38 right and if you could read versus one I think we'll have to go through um one yeah I think we have yeah one through nine is equal 38 one through nine if somebody can read that for us please is equal 38 one through nine is equal 38 was one to nine the word of the Lord came to me plan of man set your face against gawk of the land of may gawk the chief prince of mishuk and tuba prophecy against him and say this is what the sovereign lord says I'm against you oh gawk chief prince of mishuk and tuba I will turn you around put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army your horses your horsemen fully armed and a great heart with large and small shields all of them brandishing their swaths kosher kosh input will be with them all with shields and helmets also gomer with all its troops and beth the gorma from the far north with all its troops the many nations with you get ready be prepared you and all the hopes gathered about you and take command of them after many days you will be called to arms in future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of israel which had long been decimated they had been brought out from the nations and now all of them live in safety you and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up advancing like a stone you will be like a cloud covering the land so it's good very interesting it's good and 39 as basically speaking to us of this final conflict that's going to happen the battle of armageddon the whole build up towards it um and uh as he was mentioning you know names gog may gog prince of rosh otherwise russia michek and tubel tribes in northern or i think it's not western part of russia and he says i'm against you rosh michek and tubel so michek and tubel are these tribes in russia and he says what's going to happen you're going to you know get get get into war war mode and who are going to be with you verse five perjure which is basically iran iraq those Arab nations Ethiopia and Libya where that's verse five are going to be with you and gomer gomer is what people say is a was part of eastern germany gomer all its troops the house of to gorma that is turkey from the far north so it's no north turkey north of israel and many people are with you so other nations also joining together many companies all gathering together and what are you going to do you're going to go against the people this is verse eight who've been gathered from the nations and brought back to the mountains of israel and they're living safely but you're going to ascend and many people's and you're going to come to war against this land this people so so it's very interesting he's saying okay there's russia your references russia he references iraq these these he mentions turkey and he mentions you know other arab nations they are all going to come together and begin to move towards this land israel now of course here we don't have mention of china china comes in you know from revelation uh from the book of revelation think it's um when he talks about the the armies from the east so let me see now yeah where was this revolution 14 i think it was 12 13 how was the revelation no yeah the kings of the east this is the kings of the earth gather revelation 16 and this is revelation 16 12 right kings from the east the way the kings from the east may be prepared so he doesn't mention china but when he says kings from the east we're looking at all the nations from the east of israel which and if you look at the larger nations it would be china so it's interesting then for us to look at you know how is russia relating to china relating to turkey relating to these uh arab nations how are they working right and and it's interesting to see that now china and russia are you know i know china is china is in a very difficult position because what russia is doing but it's just trying to you know don't do anything to rock the boat you know at the same time you just hold hold on you know maintain relationships on both sides of course china has uh uh you know extended its influence around the world it's become very powerful and it's strengthening a tie it's it's has already you know made huge investments in iran which is part of what persia was referenced we saw that russia is strengthening its ties with turkey and recently turkey tried to you know actors of mediator in some way with what's happening between russia and ukraine you know trying to exert its some influence turkey itself is becoming very you know a nationalistic the turkish president so when you look at all these interactions especially in the light of what is equal 38 and revelation 16 has mentioned you know we say like okay so things are aligning themselves in such a way that if israel was going to become this place of conflict where would all of these nations be you know how would they now when you think about it right now right now in fact just yesterday i think it was that the ukrainian president addressed the the israeli or you call it a israeli parliament or the members of parliament and he was he was upset that they were not taking sides now suppose israel took sides with ukraine no no israel is trying to you know be neutral but they're they're not getting you're trying to try to stay out of this but if they are dragged into this in some way and take sides with ukraine i mean immediately they're going to be on the other side of russia meaning russia's going to uh you know okay they're they're not on our side so while all these things are happening it's it's interesting to keep our eyes open and see how are these nations aligning themselves you know what would they do if some conflict took place in israel whose side would they be it is interesting to observe and all i can say is you know we look at israel 38 look at your newspaper now look at israel 38 look at what's going on you know the news and see how things are being aligned but as of the way things are going we are seeing these nations you know just strengthening their relationships so that if one of them decides to go against israel it's very likely they they will have allies in the others and they will drag them all in against israel okay so that's interesting to see and observe because that's part of the fulfillment of israel 38 and revelation 16 okay so number seven let me try to let me try to just begin this and then we can take a break so the next thing is this it's very interesting could somebody read for us joel chapter three verse one and two please for behold in those days and at that time when i break back the copies of juda and Jerusalem i will also gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of jesaphat and i will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people my heritage is i hope they have among the nation they have also divided up my land thank you so in joel saying god is saying you know i will gather all nations and bring them to the valley of jesaphat so this is where the battle of armageddon is going to take place so this is basically revelation 16 12 13 14 right the nations are beginning to move towards israel right and god is going to defend his people right but one of the things he mentions why god is you know why all this is happening is they have also divided up my land so they have divided the land and that's interesting because if you look at like we said you know the problem in israel there are two major things one is should is should you know the land the land that belongs to israel that belongs to jewish state should you know should the land that is now occupied by the palestinians on the west bank and on gaza the gaza strip should it be recognized should the palestinian state be recognized as in a nation an independent state right so that's one problem and of course the second problem is the whole temple mount who's going to have control of the city of jerusalem and the temple mount these are the two major problems in the middle east with israel and palestinia and the arabs and now nobody has forced a solution it's very difficult what israel is doing is it's slowly you know building up its own settlements and taking over the land when the palestinians are palestinians want their own land and every proposal has been trying to encourage israel to say okay why don't you just give the land to the palestinians and let's recognize them as as a separate state you know and of course they're on two parts of they're on either side of israel israel doesn't want to do that refuses to recognize palace the palestinians and so things i just you know left like that but what this was joel 3 verse 2 seems to indicate is that one of the reasons for conflict one of the reasons that all this is going to precipitate is somebody is going to force the division of the land see right now every person trying to make peace is only like the e you like the e you know it's okay the un so the u says look we don't recognize all you know the settlements and what israel is doing there and another arab nation of course will not recognize what israel is doing and so somebody is going to come and say the land has to be divided and that is going to precipitate into a big war one of the things that is going to lead to that they're going to lead to it so says they have also divided up my lands and that will cause the nations to gather so if you want to imagine okay so i i'm just imagining now i'm just imagining so think about the seven year tribulation okay so this is not chapter in verse i'm just imagining how all this might play out i think with the seven year tribulation the antichrist begins as a man of peace he is somewhat brokered some sort of a peace treaty i think between the jews and the arabs and he's been able to get the temple in place the worship is happening the offerings happening the sacrifice happening temple middle of the seven years he the antichrist changes he stops the sacrifices he puts himself up as god and demands him to be worshipped and he probably goes a step further to say i'm going to divide the land so i'm saying probably because this is my this is imagination the bible doesn't say that but he's going to be going to divide the land i'm just saying it based on two or three two right we're going to divide the land it's almost like you know we're going to carve out this land for the uh halestinians and we're going to set them up as a state whatever you know and then is there is going to call on its allies and say come on you got to help us fight we are not going to keep this up so the those nations that back israel are going to come on one side and then the palestinians because they are arabs the arab nations are going to say hey all those who are for us come on we're going to go against israel and they're going to pull you know russia's going to take the lead initially going to come in with turkey and push out around and uh they're going to move in there so nations are going to begin to gather why because they've decided to divide up the land so why is this significant because this is bible prophecy it's all three one and two it's been said this is the reason why the nations are gathering they've decided to divide the land is this possible very much very much so this will precipitate into what we call the battle of what the bible calls the battle of armageddon building up in revelation chapter 16 okay so let me pause here i didn't give you time for questions but when we come back um we will take some time for questions and then we will uh move forward uh everyone is with me so far did you get left out somewhere somewhere in russia toki iran everyone's with me okay great all right let's take a quick break and uh we will come back in 10 minutes okay thank you