To my parents, Jack and Marilyn
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Numbers 19:1-4 “The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: This is a requirement of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke. Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.” According to Bible, the ashes of a pure red heifer are needed to perform the necessary purification and cleaning rituals that are a part of the service of the Temple. But the problem is, since the Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, pure red heifers no longer exist. That is, until now. It started several years ago when all of a sudden red heifers started popping onto the scene. Even though some of the first ones ended up having slight blemishes, and were thus disqualified, it just so happens they’re starting to appear on the scene again after all these years!27 That should get your attention! Then, even if it doesn’t happen naturally, we just happen to be living in the days when for the first time in man’s history, we could create a red heifer artificially through genetic engineering and cloning. But even so, God doesn’t need the hand of man to help him out. Can you guess what was just born one the scene and is now being kept in hiding from the public? A pure red heifer and this one does qualify as this breaking news report reveals: “I was listening to a show that aired today, it’s called Temple Talk. It’s hosted by Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman. They talk about the relationship between the golden calf and the mysterious red heifer, including a dramatic revelation, of a new red heifer alive and well in Israel in an undisclosed location. This is breaking news. Here’s what they said. Because everyone is very interested in the status of the red heifer, people speculate, people remember the excitement of when a red heifer was born, people talk about it. And the reason for that of course, why there’s such excitement anybody mentions a red heifer is because a lot of people know that there is a Jewish tradition, it’s in the Mishna, that there were only nine red heifers throughout the entire history of the Jewish people. The ashes of those nine red heifers were enough to accomplish the process of cleansing or all the generations of the people of Israel. And there is a tradition that the tenth red heifer is the one associated with the rebuilding of the Third Temple. That’s why when there’s a news report about a red heifer being born, people get very very excited. It’s looked upon as some sort of wake up call or something like that. I wanted to share with our listeners far and wide the fact that there is definitely a kosher red heifer here in Israel right now. This is really breaking news. This should be on a scroll on the bottom of CNN or something. We’re not making a lot of noise about it, we’re not taking out all sorts of ads, and we’re certainly not disclosing the location, that’s definitely not prudent and I’m not going to be sharing it with the United States embassy, absolutely not. But you should know that there is definitely, in fact, I think there is more than one, but there is definitely at least one kosher red heifer here in Israel right now. So that is not what is impeding the process at all.”28 What more does God have to do to get our attention? If we see for the first time in 2,000 years the Jewish People having the plans, the priests, the articles, and even the ashes of a red heifer to rebuild the end times Temple right now, then how much close is the 7-year Tribulation which requires the rebuilt Jewish Temple for the antichrist and the Two Witnesses to be a part of? We are so close it’s not even funny, as this Jewish man warns: “In 1981, Indiana Jones made his big-screen debut re-igniting world-wide interest in history’s most hunted relic: the Ark of the Covenant. That same year, two real-life raiders went on their own search for the Ark. There were no Nazis and no snake pits - like the movie. Just two renegade Rabbis on a mission. Their search came to an end in Jerusalem. ‘God signed, like with a pen, the location where the Ark of the Covenant was located. You can see it today even, on the rock,’ said Gershon Salomon, Founder of Temple Mount Faithful. Designed by God, created by Moses, and revered by the Israelites, from the Sinai Desert to the Temple of Solomon, the Ark of the Covenant was the place of meeting between God and man. In 586 B.C., Israel was conquered by the Babylonians. The Temple was raided by Nebuchadnezzar’s army and the Ark disappeared from the pages of history. ‘What happened, why did this most dramatic instrument of God’s glory and power in human history suddenly vanish?’ questioned Joel Rosenberg, Author of Dead Heat. ‘All what we know is legends,’ said Archaeologist Gabriel Barkay who believes the legends are what makes so many people interested in finding the Ark. Those legends stretch all over the ancient world - starting with Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. In Israel, most Rabbis agree that when it comes to the Ark all roads lead back to Jerusalem. They say the Ark never left the city. To them, the so-called ‘Lost Ark’ was never really lost. On June 7, 1967, Israeli troops recaptured Jerusalem in the Six-day War. The Western Wall was in Jewish hands and those hands were ready to dig. Archaeologists exposed parts of the wall that had been buried for 2000 years. Not all of the digging was done legally. In 1981, two of Israel’s highest-ranking Rabbis, Shlomo Goren and Yehuda Getz picked up their pick-axes and started chiseling their way under the Temple Mount. ‘And he knew that at the end of the gate he will come to the secret room where the ark of covenant is located,’ said Salomon, who was also one of the paratroopers who liberated the Western Wall in 1967. Salomon was there fourteen years later the night Rabbi Getz opened a secret passage in the Wall and remembers their conversation. ‘It was after midnight. And he called me and said to me, Gershon, come immediately, don’t wait, your dream is going to be fulfilled.’ ‘What happened?,’ I told him. ‘The Messiah came?’ And he told me, ‘He is coming almost.’” What came next was a subterranean slugfest according to Salomon. ‘Arab demonstrations, you know? The Israelis are coming to build their temple underneath the dome of the rock.’ At the end of the day, the passage to the Temple Mount was permanently sealed by Israeli Police. ‘No doubt, I tell you. No doubt, we needed just two days more to come to the place where the ark of the covenant is located,’ Salomon explained. Scholars may not agree on the fate of the Ark but many of them agree on one thing: it’s discovery could set in motion another event that’s been 2000 years in the making – the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. ‘Perhaps when it’s time to build the third temple, the second temple treasures will be found. Why? Because in Ezra and Nehemiah the Bible indicated that when it was time to build the second temple, God restored the treasures from the first temple which of course have been carted off to Babylon,’ said Rosenberg. ‘When it’s time to build a third temple, the second temple’s treasures would be found. Wouldn’t that be dramatic?’ he concluded. ‘It is soon to come, I tell you, I promise you, and you check me. Test me. It will be in our lifetime,’ added Salomon.”29 The tenth End Time Prophecy concerning The Jewish People is that They’d Have a Relationship with the Antichrist. The first thing we know about the Jewish People’s Relationship with the Antichrist is that They Will Make a Peace Treaty with Him. Daniel 9:20-27 “While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the LORD my God for his holy hill – while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. He instructed me and said to me, ‘Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. As soon as you began to pray, an answer was given, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the message and understand the vision: Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.’” Now, this is the classic passage of Scripture we saw earlier that specifically tells us the exact event that starts the 7-year Tribulation in the Last Days. That event is when the antichrist makes a “peace treaty” or covenant with the Jewish People. But not only that, the specific time frame about this covenant is that it’s going to be specifically for seven years. Furthermore, as we saw earlier, who in the world is everybody right now wanting to make a peace treaty with? Israel! Little bitty tiny Israel! Not Russia. Not China. But little bitty tiny Israel. Why? Because they are fulfilling the prophecy that says one day they will become a source of worldwide conflict and it’s leading to the fulfillment of this prophecy here from Daniel. One day, because of all this conflict, they’re going to strike a relationship with, of all people, the antichrist himself, and seek a peace treaty with him. In fact, to make matters even more interesting, for the first time in 1,600 years we have the rebirth of the Jewish Sanhedrin, just a few years ago.30 So now, we just happen to have the same ruling body once again alive on planet earth that rejected Jesus at His First Coming, to once again possibly make another horrific mistake, this time, a treaty with the actual antichrist himself prior to Jesus Second Coming! So the question is, “Are there any signs the Jewish people are trying to make a peace treaty or covenant with other people around the world? Yes, of course. In fact, let me show you just a few of the attempts people and other governments around the world have attempted to make with Israel in our lifetime exactly like the Bible said would happen in the last days!
Sure looks like somebody’s trying to get a peace treaty going with Israel! Again, you have to understand the significance of this. One of these treaties, or maybe it’s one that’s even being hashed out behind the scenes even now, we don’t know, but one of them is going to be signed with the actual antichrist himself. Unlike all the other failed ones as we just saw, he alone is going to do what others have failed to do. However, it’s not going to lead to peace in the Middle East, rather it’s going to be the planet’s worst nightmare. It’s the very event that starts the 7-year Tribulation! So when you see this happen, Israel making treaties or covenants with other people around the world, you better wake up! It’s a sign you’re living in the Last Days! The second thing we know about the Jewish People’s Relationship with the Antichrist is They Will Place Their Hope in Him.
Unfortunately it looks like the Jewish people are not only showing signs of getting ready to sign a peace treaty with the antichrist himself, but it sure looks to me like their hearts are awfully ripe to receive him as some sort of false messiah too. The point is, the Bible says when you see this happen, you better wake up! It’s a sign you’re living in the Last Days! But that’s not all. The third thing we know about the Jewish People’s Relationship with the Antichrist is He Will Demand Worship as a Man. Revelation 13:11-12,14-15 “Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.” Here we see how the false prophet is actually going to dupe the whole world into worshipping the antichrist. In fact, it says it twice there in that text that people will worship him, a mere man. Then he even adds a little pressure there and says it you don’t do it, you’re going to die! So that’s the question. Do we see any signs of people’s hearts being prepared to worship a man, specifically a political figure of a man because that’s what the antichrist is? Yes! In fact, this has been evidenced in the giant parades and humungous posters of Stalin or Mao Tse-tung being paraded through the streets of their countries as if it were some sort of worship service. Then, even more recently, we had the death of North Korea’s President Kim Jong-il where, if you saw the videos, people were weeping hysterically bowing before his image. It was unbelievable. He was just a man. Yet, we here in America might be tempted to smugly reply, “That’s just those people in communist countries! There’s no way our hearts will ever do something like that! We’d never worship a political figure of a man!” Really? What I’m about to share is not only shocking, but it has nothing to do with politics. Rather, it has everything to do with Bible prophecy. Throughout this book, you’re going to see examples of various Democrats and Republicans along with various leaders from around the world doing some dastardly deeds. So don’t assume I’m picking on one party over another. Truth be told, I think they’re both in it together. Not every single one of them, but a lot of them. However, what I’m about to share with you is proof that yes, even here in America, we too are guilty of worshipping a political figure of a man, and so our hearts too are being prepare to worship the soon coming antichrist. Let’s look at that proof:
“In a new YouTube video produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, dozens of celebrities – television and movie actors, sports heroes, musicians and more – describe how they will pledge to ‘be the change’ and ;be a servant to our president.’ The video opens with a quote from President Truman, ‘They say that the job of the president is the loneliest job in the world,’ something the celebrities plan to alleviate for Obama by pledging to pitch in through several causes. Throughout the video, the celebrities pledge to support local food banks, to smile more, to be better parents, to work with the charity UNICEF, to ‘never give anyone the finger when I’m driving again,’ to help find a cure for Alzheimer’s, to meet neighbors, to use less plastic, to plant 500 trees, to ‘be more green,’ to turn the lights off and to ‘free 1 million people from slavery in the next five years,’ among dozens of other pledges. The purpose of all this pledging is summed up in the video’s grand finale. Actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher begin the closing scene by saying, ‘I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind.’ Then, as the scene pans out, the other celebrities joint the chant: ‘Because together we can, together we are, and together we will be the change that we seek.’ By the end of the mass pledge, the camera has panned back to a mosaic of faces that morphs into a picture of Barack Obama’s face with the words, ‘Be the change.’ And while several of the celebrities attempt to portray heartfelt emotion and others attempt to be funny in their pledges, tattooed celebrity Anthony Kiedis of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers may have been going for the shock effect. While kissing his own biceps, he declares, ‘I pledge to be of service [kiss] to Barack Obama [kiss].’ Near the end of the video, the celebrities took turns looking into the camera and challenging, ‘What’s your pledge?’ Not surprisingly, viewer reaction and comments on the video have been widely mixed. One poster who obviously disagreed posted the correct pledge, ‘I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, for which it stands: one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’
“A newly publicized video shows leaders of a Chicago-based community organizing group called the Gamaliel Foundation held a rally shortly after President Obama’s election and ‘prayed’ to him, seeking his intervention in their difficulties. ‘Hear our Cry Obama. Deliver us Obama,’ the organizers chanted as a single leader recited the organization’s perceived problems, based on the philosophies of Saul Alinsky, the radical father of community organizing. The video explains the event took place at a leadership conference just a few weeks after Obama’s election in November. The ‘leaders’ enter a room chanting, ‘Everybody in, nobody out,’ apparently referring to health care. Then the chanter leads: ‘We are here for the healing of the nation,’ to which the crowd responds, ‘Yes.’ ‘With the prophet Jeremiah we cry out, Is there no balm in Gilead?’ continues the chanter. ‘Is there no physician here. Why then has the health of thy poor people not been restored?’ The crowd responds: ‘Hear our cry Obama.’ The chanter references the ‘prophet Martin Luther King Jr.,’ to which the crowd responds, ‘Hear our cry Obama.’ The chanter then intones: ‘From health care systems and industries that place profit over people,’ and the people respond, ‘Deliver us Obama.’ The chanter then references ‘lobbying efforts’ and ‘greed and fear,’ to which the crowd responds, ‘Deliver us Obama.’”33 Yes, things have changed alright. Our hearts, even here in America, are now showing signs of worshipping a man, specifically a political figure of a man. The Bible says, when you see this take place, you better wake up! It’s a sign you’re living in the Last Days! The fourth thing we know about the Jewish People’s Relationship with the Antichrist is that He Will Demand Worship as a God. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 “Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him, we ask you, brothers, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.” Now again, this is the text where we previously saw that in the Last Days, the antichrist is going to go up into the rebuilt Jewish Temple, halfway into the 7-year Tribulation, and declare himself to be god. But it’s a good thing we don’t see any signs of people worshipping a man as god! I mean, it’s one thing to worship a political figure as a man, but no way would we worship a man as a god, right? Well, I wish I could say no. But unfortunately we do! In fact, there’s a whole bunch of false teachings out there to choose from that actually encourage people to fulfill this particular piece of Bible prophecy. Let’s take a look:
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