Welcome to Studies with Stearman.

Join us as we look deeper into the Bible.

Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

And now, here's Gary.

If you really get into the rapture of the church to the extent that you feel like it can't

be more than a week away, you began to look for clues and set dates, and you began to get

into a condition that will sooner or later let you drop out the bottom because the Lord didn't

come and you kind of find yourself in a depressed

state. It shouldn't be that way. We need to learn to cultivate a hope that is constant and not based

upon date setting. On the other hand, and this is the balance. We live in a day when we can see it coming. Israel now is a reality.

Israel has been regathered, and just as Isaiah predicted, Israel has been regathered in unbelief.

Ezekiel said the same thing. They are there, but they are not fully open to the faith yet.

The prophesied Magog, Russia, is actively arming the nations of the Middle East.

Persia, Iran, is rising as an armed force in league with Russia.

We can see it all coming, and we now know what the apostles inferred when they

talked about the conditions that would exist in the latter days. It's an absolute certainty

that the tribulation is approaching. It's near. In Revelation chapter 6, the Bible says

that the tribulation will be initiated with nothing short of a global holocaust.

And we're studying the way that unfolds in an effort to understand what's going on in the world today, which I think is a faith builder.

I think it's a motivator.

Almost certainly, almost certainly, the war is going to begin.

The pundits are beginning to say, and I'm talking about conservative pundits, liberal pundits,

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