What Can a Man Believe

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Short Summary
The discourse reflects on Israel’s historical and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, emphasizing biblical prophecies and God’s covenant with Abraham’s descendants through Isaac. It highlights Israel’s strategic setbacks and advances, the shifting geopolitical dynamics involving Russia and Iran, and the persistent hostility from surrounding nations, suggesting these events align with a divine plan leading to eventual deliverance and the millennial kingdom. Despite Israel’s current blindness to its Messiah, the speaker encourages faithfulness and diligence, noting that global developments may be signaling a gradual fulfillment of prophetic timelines.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Discourse on Middle East Conflict and Biblical Perspective

Recent Israeli Actions & Historical Context
– In June 2025, Israel, with US cooperation, significantly set back Iran’s nuclear program.
– This marks the third major Israeli action against nuclear threats:
– 1981: Israel destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor in Iraq.
– 2007: Israel destroyed a nuclear facility in Syria.
– These actions, initially opposed by US presidents and global opinion, were later acknowledged by leaders like Ronald Reagan and George Bush as benefiting global safety.
– Iran, historically ancient Persia, posed a conventional and potential nuclear threat to Israel and the region.

Biblical View on Middle East Hostility and Israel’s Role
– The discourse questions if current Middle East conflicts are part of God’s plan transitioning toward the millennial kingdom.
– Affirmation that long-term biblical prophecy supports this view.
Isaiah 40:1-2 cited:
> “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem… her iniquity is pardoned… she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”
– This “comfort” refers to the end of divine punishment around 1878 and Israel’s regaining of land.
– However, Psalm 83:1-7 reveals ongoing hostility:
> “They have taken crafty counsel against thy people… Let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”
– This confederation includes Edom, Moab, Ishmaelites, Hagarenes, Ammon, Amalek, Philistines, Tyre—enemies historically hostile to Israel.
– Some believe this was fulfilled when Israel became a nation; others see traces continuing today.

Golda Meir’s Insight on Arab-Israeli Conflict
– Famous quote: “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”
– Peace will come “when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”

Biblical Covenants and Promises
Deuteronomy 10:15: God chose Israel above all peoples to love.
– Abraham was promised:
> “I will make thee a great nation… I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee… and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Genesis 12)
– Promise passes through Isaac, not Ishmael:
– God instructed Abraham to heed Sarah and send Ishmael away (Genesis 21:12).
– Ishmael’s descendants settled in Paran (Genesis 25:18), corresponding to modern Saudi and Transjordan areas.
– Other descendants in the region include Midianites, Edomites, Egyptians (Kush), Assyrians—part of the Middle East ethnic mix.

Middle East Geography and Early Conflicts
– Middle East covers just over 6% of Earth’s landmass, 3.6 million sq miles, with 18 countries.
– Early biblical conflicts (Numbers 20) between Israelites and Canaanites, Ammonites, Edomites, Moabites, etc.
– Moses sought peaceful passage; locals refused, leading to ongoing hostility.
Exodus 23:31-33: God gave Israel boundaries and forbade covenants with inhabitants; they were not to live in the land.

Modern Events: Israeli Land Evacuations (2004-2006)
– Israel handed over Gaza and parts of West Bank to Palestinians, breaking biblical instructions.
– August 2005: Evacuation of Gaza Strip and some West Bank settlements.
– Impact:
– 21 Gaza settlements removed, 9000 Israelis displaced.
– 38 synagogues destroyed.
– Loss of major agricultural exports (tomatoes, herbs, flowers).
– Thousands lost jobs.
– Palestinians increased freedom of movement and political control.
– Jewish refugees expelled from Arab lands (~820,000), often with no compensation.
– Land lost by Jews fleeing Arab countries was equal or greater than Israel’s size.

Population and Demographics
– Middle East population approximately 507 million; Jews about 7 million.
– Muslims in Middle East and North Africa projected at 414 million by 2025.
– Israel’s Jewish population is now the largest globally, surpassing the US.
– Pew Research showed 2/3 of Israeli Jews as secular or atheists.
– Anti-Semitism growing in the West post-October 7, 2023 attacks.
– Jewish world population ~15.8 million, mostly in Israel and the US.

Spiritual Blindness and Messianic Expectation
– Isaiah 53:6:
> “The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
– Jesus fulfilled prophecies but was not accepted by most Israel (John 12:37).
– Israel remains spiritually blind until the church (the “little flock”) is complete.
Isaiah 66:8-10:
> “Can a nation be born in one day? As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her sons… Rejoice with Jerusalem.”
– Pastor Russell’s interpretation: one seed of Abraham—church and Israel both part of God’s blessing plan.
– Reconciliation of Israel through acceptance of Jesus as Messiah will come after the church’s completion.
– Israel’s physical restoration (Isaiah 61:4) is evident but spiritual acceptance is pending.

Geopolitical Developments
– Russia’s growing involvement in Middle East affairs, linked to Ezekiel 38 prophecy about a northern power’s invasion.
– Russian sovereign wealth fund investing heavily in Gulf states.
– Abraham Accords have changed alliances; Jared Kushner played a key role.
– Dubai as a hub for Russian companies relocating from Europe.
– Russia’s presence hints at future prophetic developments.

Reflection and Encouragement
– The speaker sees current events as a gradual unfolding (“creeping Ezekiel 38”).
– Calls for diligence in serving God and studying prophecy.
– Encourages faithfulness and warns against neglecting biblical covenants.
– Acknowledges that the discourse was not meant as a definitive prophetic lecture but to provoke thought and awareness.

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Key Bible Verses Mentioned:

– Isaiah 40:1-2
– Psalm 83:1-7
– Deuteronomy 10:15
– Genesis 12 (God’s promise to Abraham)
– Genesis 21:12 (Isaac chosen as heir)
– Genesis 25:18 (Ishmael’s settlement)
– Exodus 23:31-33 (Boundaries and no covenants)
– Isaiah 53:6 (Jesus bearing iniquity)
– John 12:37 (Israel’s unbelief)
– Isaiah 66:8-10 (Nation born in a day, rejoicing Jerusalem)
– Isaiah 61:4 (Rebuilding ancient ruins)

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This summary captures the discourse’s historical, biblical, and geopolitical analysis of Israel and Middle East conflicts, emphasizing the spiritual blindness of Israel, fulfillment of prophecy, and the unfolding of God’s plan toward the millennial kingdom.

Transcript

Well, I think you probably perceive from that first slide, what do we believe about all the things that we’ve heard in the last couple of months? In June 2025, Israel, and with cooperation in the US destroyed or really set back the Iranian nuclear program, and actually what was missed in this, they did a service for the world a third time. Why do I say that? Because in 1981, some of you remember that Israel destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor in Iraq.

And then in 2007, it did the same to a nuclear reactor and facility in Syria.

Iran, of course, we know as the ancient Persia and the Persian Empire that really put its hold into Israel. At its beginning, Iran was able to do what it did with conventional arms and killing a number of people, and think what it would have been if Iran had been allowed to have a nuclear facility. It’d be a menace globally and a regional menace as well. Interesting things, because in both those cases before the US Presidents opposed them and the tide of public opinion was against them.

But once they made the world safer, of course everybody jumped on. Both Ronald Reagan President and George Bush came to acknowledge that they did the world a favor. It’s something we need to think about when we view the kind of hostility that’s there today. In fact, there’s much chatter about this being a new war beginning in the Middle East. So it’s fair for us to ask, looking at it from a biblical perspective, is this all part of God’s plan of transition to the millennial kingdom?

Of course, over the long term, we say yes. But does it mean something today in In God pushing this forward? This was Time magazine declaring the way out of this mess. The six keys to peace in the Middle East. But it’s not perhaps what you think.

Isaiah says in chapter 40, verses 1 and 2, comfort Israel, comfort my people. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem. His earthly people proclaim to her, her hard service has been completed, her sins been paid for. She has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. We know that that devil ended in 1878, and since then she has really had comfort in regaining its position and land.

But we also know Psalm 83 tells us that their trouble wasn’t really over. The devil was over, and the Lord’s punishment was over, but not their trouble. Psalm 83:1 7. They’ve taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones. They’ve said, come, let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.

And we have this confederation listed Edom Moab, the Ishmaelites, Hagarenes, Gable, Ammon Amalek, the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre, much like it was when Israel first came into the land. So this was trouble still expected once they became a nation. Now there are some brethren feel that this was fulfilled when they became a nation and and really fended off their enemies. But there’s traces. I would challenge you to say there’s still traces of this going on today.

And what we’re seeing in the Middle east, an essential truth still exists. Remember Golda Meyer? She was a fourth Prime Minister of Israel back in 1969. She made this statement. You’ve heard me say this before too.

But she’s the one that take gets the credit. If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel. Well, you know that someday, sometime that’s going to be true that but Israel will never be gone entirely, and she went on to say, peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

Let’s go revisit history a little bit. Deuteronomy 10:15. God says, yet on your fathers did the Lord set his perfection. Moses says this to love them, and he chose their descendants after them.

Even you, above all peoples, as it is this day. That was from Moses, of course. We have the remembrance of Jacob blessing his 12 sons, and Ephraim and Manasseh as part of that. Jacob, Abraham and Isaac. All these dealing with Abraham and his descendants.

But he had told Abraham, get out of your country and from your kindred, and from my father’s house unto the land, and that I will show thee, I will make thee a great nation. That was a promise to Abraham. I’ll bless thee, I’ll be a blessing. I’ll bless them that bless thee, and him that disdaineth thee will I curse.

This is the Rvic translation and thee shall all the families of the land be blessed, brethren. That’s a guarantee that it is through Israel that God is going to bless all the nations.

Those descendants of Abraham who was God’s friend, wouldn’t you love to be called God’s friend? Well, we’re called God’s children. It’s even closer. But that covenant remains. A covenant of promises that was given to him in Genesis 12 doesn’t go away.

His descendants are the heirs. So it’s fair to ask the question. Well, he had two sons, right? He has Israel and he has Ishmael.

So which one is It Isaac, who eventually is translated into Israel. Isn’t Ishmael one of his descendants as well? Is it Isaac and Ishmael both? But God says no. The promise to make you a great nation is going to be fulfilled through your son Isaac.

And instructs Abraham to listen to his wife. Maybe that’s good advice for all of us, right? Listen to his wife and let Ishmael go, and so that’s where we read God says to him, God said unto Abraham, let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad Ishmael and because of thy handmaid and all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice. For an Isaac shall thy seed be called.

I don’t know how many of you may be watching the TV series the Chosen. I won’t ask you to raise your hand, but I. I find it kind of interesting, and it really does a good job as far as it can go. But the role of the women in that series is quite pronounced, and I think about that when I think about Isaac, about Abraham.

He had. He was told to listen to his wife because Ishmael was not to be part of that promise. That promise was to go to Isaac and his descendants. So what happened? Well, Ishmael.

What happened to Ishmael? Ishmael went to Paran. We see that in Genesis 25:18, and who are his descendants? They really are the Bedouins.

Chapter 16, verse 12 talks about the being the leader of the desert people. Now there are others mentioned, like the Midianites who came From Keturah, Abraham’s third wife, Genesis 25, the Edomites that came from Esau, the Egyptians that came from Kush, and then we had the Assyrians that came from Shem, all part of this Middle east project. But the wilderness of Paran, where Ishmael really went is the entire area of Transjordan east as we see it today. That’s where Ishmael settled.

And Genesis 21:21. You can read that it’s the modern Saudi north, Saudi Arabia on the east side of the valley, and this map shows you where that wilderness, the circle where the wilderness of Paran met Ishmael went.

Ishmael’s kingdom. If we compare these maps today, Ishmael’s kingdom. I show you on the right side there is the green, and today you can see it matched up against where the map is today. So you can see that Middle east part really is part of Ishmael’s kingdom.

And these parts that we see.

Let’s take A look at this Middle east area where this conflict is going on. Again, Middle east is about just over 6% of the Earth’s land mass. 3.6 million square miles. 18 countries squeezed into this area, one of the most populous regions of the world.

The first conflict we find in this region between Moses and the people is in numbers 20. This first conflict that takes place. Remember, Moses brings the people out of Egypt, and the occupants of the land that he was to cross and go into were the Canaanites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the Moabites, Midianites, Philistines, Canaanites, Perizzites, Refhaam, all those ones that we just mentioned and talked about, and remember, Moses sent messengers. He said, look, we’ve got this common ended ancestry.

We don’t want to harm you. We just want to cross the land, and they said, no, and God said, don’t do it, because they are to be part and to be blessed as well, but you’re not to go in there and take them out. So they refused to save passage, and they were a perpetual nuisance to Israel.

And even to this day, when you saw where we plotted them on the maps, the land of promise that was given to Abraham, they’re still a perpetual nuisance. The descendants of this group that were part of the inhabitants there in Exodus 23:31, 33, we have the boundaries set aside. I’m not going to talk about the boundaries necessarily, but one of the things that underlined this boundary is one that goes from the Philistines, he says, to the river Euphrates, and exactly where there might be is time for another discussion. But one of the things God told him, when you get this land, you’re not to make any kind of a covenant with anybody.

No agreements. This is your land and you’re to have it. He especially said, they shall not live in your land. Now, that’s the key. I want to focus on today when we talk about what the recent events were and have been in the last really few years, last two years, and especially in the last couple of months, this most recent conflict.

I showed you this cover of Time magazine, but it’s not what you think. Okay? This magazine is dated July 31, 2006. Now, let me ask a question. Why?

Everybody just close your eyes for a minute. Well, Everybody that’s under 30, raise your hand.

Okay. We have quite a few. I’m especially directing this towards those of you that are under 30, because we’ve got to go back to 2004. If you’re under 30. Okay.

You were pretty young at that point and may not remember and even all of us may not remember what was going on at this time that caused this magazine to say the way out and a peace process.

These are some of the pictures from that time. Of course, some of you may recognize this of what was going on in that time. This isn’t 23 to 25 when the Gaza Strip was ripped out. This is 2004, 2005, and what happened in that period of time.

In August 2005, there were transformational events that took place in Israel that went really against the very scripture I gave you that Moses was instructed not to do. Israel handed over all of Gaza and part of the west bank to the Palestinians at that point. It was the first country, first country in our modern history that ever gave up land that was acquired in a defensive war.

There’s an awful lot of facts in here, and I don’t mean to barrage you with these, but I want you to get a sense of what was done at that point point and remind you. The evacuation took place in August of 2004. The West Bank. In September 2004, 100% of the Gaza Strip was evacuated. 300 square miles of the west bank was evacuated.

There are four Israeli settlements there that were uprooted, taken out. You saw some of the pictures. 21 Israeli settlements in Gaza were taken up. 9000 Israelis, 1700 families were removed. 38 synagogues that were in Gaza were destroyed and dismantled.

5000 school age children, 42 daycare centers, 38 kindergartens closed, 7 elementary schools, 3 high schools. Just to get a sense of what was done at that time. That was part of this handing over in the agreements that had been made and the evacuation. At that time, Gush Katif settlement was the second largest dairy farm in Israel. From that area, 60% of the herbs that were exported from Israel came from that area.

$120 million worth of flowers were being exported annually from that area. 10,000 people now were fired and needed new employment coming out of the Gaza strip. It was 60% of Israel’s tomato exports. A thousand acres of greenhouses. 70% of the organic produce was lost.

That was the magnitude of this.

When we looked at the West Bank. 430,000 Palestinians move freely in this area. There are no Israelis left in Gaza dead or alive. 1.2 million Arabs who were illegal citizens of Israel with the right to vote were still in that area. 1.3 million Palestinians lived in Gaza and elected their own leaders.

820,000 Jewish refugees were forced from the Arab lands in 47 and 48 now were expelled with no compensation from these areas. 4 Northern Bank west bank settlements were abandoned and that was two times the size of what had happened in the Gaza area.

Many Forget back in 1948 when the refugees came to Israel after it was made a nation. There is a film very interestingly called the Forgotten Refugees if you’re interested. It’s a very interesting portrayal of what happened in those days. But let’s just take a quick look at it. In 48 they were, those Arabic refugees were encouraged to leave Israel when it was made a nation by leaders who promised to purge the land of the Jews.

68% of those left never saw an Israeli soldier. They left voluntarily. The Jewish refugees were forced out, made to go back from the Arab lands because of persecution and pogroms that were there. So if we estimate the land holding that was lost by the Jews fleeing the Arab lands was equal to or greater than the very state of Israel.

One of the interesting points is that the number of Arab refugees that left Israel exactly matched well close 630,000 and odd match the number of Jews that left the Arab lands and even exchange. So you’d say that was a fulfillment of promise, right? But since the Jewish conquest in the 13th century B.C. the Jews have had a dominion in that area for a thousand years and a presence we know since before the days of Jesus. There’s only 22 years where there is any kind of dominion in that area of Israel during that time.

That was in 635 A.D. now let’s jump forward to 2025. The situation we face today. Population in the Middle east, just the Islam population now in Middle East North Africa is about 4 projected to be 414 million by the end of the year. That was just 382 million in 2010 and makes up 94% of the total population outweighs the Jewish population of nearly what is now 7 million. I put this chart together and I think you can hopefully see it prints big enough.

But this is approximately 6.34% of the world’s population that resides in the Middle East. 507 million people, and that’s the World Population Review. But notice where Israel ranks in the population here. Egypt and this whole line they give you of those lands surrounding them has a bigger population and they’re at 9.5 million.

Just a little bigger than Lebanon, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and the Cyprus. So one of the things you know brethren, when you look at this, this is not about land. It’s not even about place for people because it’s so small in that arena.

Which comes back to the point that I initially wanted to talk about who was to blame for October 7, 2023. The world sentiment has been changing and even saying, you know, Israel brought this on themselves because of their sordid past. But look at what happened back in 2004-2006. Simply not true. We know that Israel is the timepiece for God’s plan.

The re establishment of Israel, the birth of that nation is one of the greatest testimonies we have that God’s word is really true. Less than 600,000 as we said in 1948 to today and now the immigration’s going on means there are now today more Jews in Israel than in any other country prior to 10, 7, 2023. This is prior to the time when all the events happened in 23. The Pew survey showed that 2/3 of the Israelis that were living there were either not religious or convinced atheists. As Bible students we know they have to reach out in faith at some point in order to get the deliverance need.

So some of the things that we see going on I believe is pointing Israel towards getting a better faith in God over what’s going on. Since the war broke out in 10 in 2023 now the sentiment of the world has shifted. It shifted not from those that were slaughtered on October 7, but to the Palestinian cause, and anti Semitism is growing once again in the whole western world. But it’s a different world today from 2004, 2006, 2025.

The world population of Jewish people is estimated at 15.8 million. Very minor part of the 9 billion people we have in the world, and 7.2 million of those are now in Israel and 6.3 million in the US between those two countries now there’s 83% of the Jewish population. That should tell you something about what is going to occur in the future. Because Israel still remains blind to God’s plan for them enough that they would still pledged back in 2004 certainly to give up that land when God said don’t make any covenant with those that are in the land.

So it’s something to think about biblically. Isaiah 53 tells us that one great event centers around the plan of salvation.

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6 we know he’s talking about Jesus. So amid all these prophecies of millennial glory that Isaiah gives to us and the overthrow and destruction of what is called the great Babylon. This one truth stands still, that at some point in the future Jesus will be pointed out as the deliverer.

John 12:37 John writes, But though he had performed so many signs in their sight, they still were not believing in him. If you do read the the Gospels and if you’re a fan watching the shows, like I said, the chosen that’s on now, it’s very obvious that most of Israel did not like Jesus, did not accept him. He could perform miracles. In their view, they still weren’t believing in him to some degree. That’s the problem we have today.

The miracles that God has delivered and rescuing Israel are not being recognized. Oh, by some, I think there are many that do say, we know God has to be there. But gold in my ears statement is still true. It would still happen today unless it were the time when God is ready to deliver Israel. Jesus did everything Isaiah was predicting and still the skeptics stood.

And that’s still true in our day. It is not time for Israel to accept their Messiah.

Isaiah 66, 8 and 10 reads, who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travails, she also brought forth her sons.

Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her. All you who love her, be exceedingly glad with her. All you who mourn over her. Brethren. We know that many of the brethren have been very active in supporting Israel.

And we know from the promises we have that were made to Abraham that they’re standing in a place where they’re intended to be and that they will be there forever, one way or another. But the world is fast turning against them again, just as in the past. So we’re seeing again fulfillment of prophecy as we understand what God is bringing forth. In reprint 5574 Pastor Russell interprets this passage is saying verse eight pictures that are heavenly and Israel as the earthly seeds. Now it’s frankly so that says there’s one seed of Abraham.

But it’s also true that there’s two parts to that. It’s not two seeds. That’s God’s way of blessing the people. One is through the church. Second is through Israel.

It is one seed.

Verse 10 tells us that he says, following the birth of the little flock and the great company comes the reconciliation of Israel in its own land through the acceptance of Jesus as Messiah. The birth of the little flock is the key brethren, and we’re hearing things about that at the convention. Certainly about making your calling an election and what you have to do to do that. Until that’s complete, we’re going to keep seeing this kind of trouble happen in Israel.

But amidst that, God is still regathering this portion of the seed because there has to be one grand display in the end made all the vivid prophecies of the millennial kingdom that we saw in Isaiah, and this is repeat Isaiah does describe that everyone has to recognize that the Lord hath laid on Jesus the iniquity of all sin is, is not just there for the covenant made with Israel, but it’s a lasting sin, even with the covenant that was first made. So here we are. Isaiah 61:4 says, Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, they will raise up former devastations, they will repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. Would any of us say this hasn’t happened?

No. Israel has been rebuilding in ways that many thought were never possible, and many can’t answer because they don’t see those promises that were given in the scripture because. But yet Israel remains blind until the church is complete. That’s a fact that we have from Isaiah’s statement.

And until that happens, they will remain blind.

And I think the land being restored, this current battle is again coming out of Israel because they gave that land away, and I think that will they have to learn that this is their land, and that was the major lesson I think the Lord is giving them through this, and the way things have gone, you can bet that that’s not going to be something that they’re going to be considering again, at least logically. But yet amidst all this, they have the advances in science, technology, all of it’s spilling over to our benefit.

If you’re on some type of drug for a problem, many chances are it was first developed there. If you’re using technology that we have many chances that it was there. So we’re still, we are receiving some of those blessings. But what’s next? What comes before we reach the end of this blindness, before the church is complete or until it’s complete?

There’s been a huge shift, a huge shift in the relationship between Russia, Israel and Iran. We know what’s happened with Iran, but Russia now has significant stakes in what happens in the Middle East. These four dots I lined up, certainly the three big ones that you see here are really interests, the distinct interests of Russia, who we know is part of that prophecy in Ezekiel 38 of building their interests in the Middle east. The Abrahamic Accords. You’ve heard discussions on that, and it was truly a remarkable thing that happened.

But during the Abrahamic Accords, the the head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund. Now sovereign wealth fund is the money that is owned by the government that invests in other lands and other types of things. It’s the government owned funds in their investment, of course, there because of the oil that they’ve had.

And Russia had a pretty large sovereign wealth fund.

He pushed for agreements between the US between them and the US Representative at the time, Jared Kushner, who of course has become a famous name, especially with Donald Trump back into office. The wealthy Russians since 2000 now are major investors in the Gulf. These are just a bit of them, but they have a major interest in all the things that are going on in the Gulf area, and Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Dubai has become the headquarters for the relocation of many Russian companies that formerly were based in Europe, where they are not as welcome anymore. So one thing is very sure, whatever happens in Gaza, Russia is going to be part of this.

So what’s next? Well, I’m reaching the end here. I know I’m leaving. But the question remains, and maybe we get a future time of It Is Ezekiel 38 upon us? Is this a creeping Ezekiel 38?

Well, remember my question at the beginning. Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed to us? Brethren, the arm of the Lord is revealed, and as we see something like this happening, we know that it’s becoming closer and closer.

So let us be diligent in our efforts to serve the Lord and do the things we contracted with him to do. Let us not forsake our covenant. I don’t mean to imply this, that it’s happening today, but these creeping things are just the way it started with some of the older days. So don’t expect a sudden change, but I think we see subtle change going on with what’s happened since October 7th of 2023, and perhaps we’re farther along than what we thought.

Well, I hope it’s been informative for you, brother, and it wasn’t intended to be a great prophetic talk, but to point out things that certainly should make us say, hmm, and that’s the intention. Let us not be shirking our study of these things and realizing that the Lord is working. Let us be more diligent than ever to move forward on the things we’re doing. I pray that it’s been helpful and that the Lord will forgive anything that was said that wasn’t correct.

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