So if you're able to stay for our prophecy update, we'd certainly encourage you to do so.

If not, if you have to leave, we understand.

This is the portion of our Sunday morning service that we set aside to talk about Bible prophecy.

And today I want to talk about what seems to be on the horizon

geopolitically particularly as it relates to Israel usually the prophecy

updates are centered around the Middle East in particular Israel and the reason

for that is we see Israel as God's prophetic

clock. I would argue that the world like never before is being readied, even steadied for peace

that will ultimately lead to war.

Let me say the same thing in a different way.

It does seem that the world today is being prepared or readied for peace.

It'll be a false piece, a pseudo piece.

And this peace will be the catalyst that will lead to sudden destruction in the form of a war and really wars. It will

ultimately lead to war. I'll begin by drawing your attention to two specific Bible prophecies.

One is in the Old Testament, one in the new, and we'll start

with the new. It's in First Thessalonians 5.3, a verse I'm sure you're very familiar with.

The Apostle Paul is writing to the church in Thessalonica, and he says, while people are saying,

peace and safety, or as some translations render it, peace and security, it's the same word in the Greek asphalia that is translated safety or security.

So while people are saying peace and security, destruction will come on them suddenly as labor pains on a pregnant woman and they will not escape.

So in other words, this destruction is going to come in unison with people saying

peace and security and when not if it comes, it will be like these labor pains which come in greater frequency and intensity.

The Old Testament prophecy is in the book of Daniel chapter 8 verse 25.

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