For today's prophecy update, I want for us to focus in on what I would argue is the most significant

prophetic development from just this last week.

What I'm speaking of is the propensity for war to break out suddenly, keyword suddenly,

and when, not if, when it does, I believe it will set in motion the fulfillment of specific prophecies in the Bible.

I want to talk about three key prophecies that I believe are in play today

and as such are beginning to come to pass with greater intensity and frequency so much so

it's the likes of which we have not seen in recent memory.

First though, let me mention that at the conclusion of today's update, I also want to talk about very personally again,

the effect that understanding Bible prophecy can have on our Christian lives. This is something

else the Lord has been ministering to me personally as of late

in concert with the importance of my prayer life, but it's just how much of an impact Bible prophecy

has had in my own life as a Christian. I hope you know I'm a Christian first,

a pastor second, right? I'm just like you. Thank God I don't look like you. I mean you don't

look like me. That totally came out wrong. This is why I try not to

veer off from my notes. I do that and that's why. So the three prophecies, you see them there

on the screen, are, and in the interest of of time I'm just going to provide a summary of sorts

and I'll start with the first one which is Isaiah 17 concerning the destruction of Damascus Syria

it will be so destroyed it will become a ruinous heap and it will be unin destroyed, it will become a ruinous heap, and it will be uninhabitable.

Damascus Syria.

The second one is Zachariah 12 concerning Jerusalem, which is that God, God himself, will make Jerusalem of all the cities, the city which he has chosen to put his name on, literally by the way,

he has made Jerusalem the intoxicating obsession of the entire world, specifically the dividing of Jerusalem,

the moving of the cutting up of those burdensome boundary stones in Jerusalem. And the third is Ezekiel 38 concerning a Russian-Iranian-led alliance of

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