Iran Will Survive

So the bombings have resumed in Iran and Iran is responding by bombing everybody in the neighborhood and beyond. One thing is certain, the Bible says Iran will survive. That's quite a shocking statement, I know. So, Jack, wait a minute, I thought you are, you love America. I love my country. But we're talking Bible prophecy here, my friends, and Am I praying for a U.S. victory in Iran? Absolutely. Could it happen? Yes, it could. But according to the Bible, it will be short-lived. Well, are you saying that the regime is going to be changed? It could happen. But we know this, that a very hostile anti-Israel Iran at some point in time in the future will prevail. Well, what are you saying about is America going to be defeated? I'm not saying America is going to be defeated. What I am saying is, according to the Bible, Iran must survive. What that means to the United States, I do not know. So if I were God, I know how I would deal with the United States, with how the United States as a nation, not as individuals, but as a nation has treated God over the last hundred years. If I were God, thank God I'm not. You can thank God I'm not. I thank God I'm not. I think too much is given, much is required. And America has certainly in many ways turned its back on God. That said, we do not know how things are going to go for the United States regarding this entanglement with Iran. I am not pro-IRGC. I am not... pro-Islamic. If you know me, I'm the exact opposite. But we do need to know what the Bible says at this particular time, and it's very important. Let me read to you Ezekiel chapter 38. If you are a regular viewer of this podcast, this is no surprise to you. But Ezekiel chapter 38 is an event that has not yet happened. That's not my opinion. It is a future event. The interesting thing about this future event is that it has some prerequisites. It has some very key props that have to be set up for Ezekiel 38 to happen. And one of those, which is probably the key, is that a nation by the name of Israel will have to be in existence. Number two, that nation Israel having to be in existence, they would have to be in their own land, meaning most specifically Jerusalem. They have to be a nation. I don't care about any human being's opinion about the viability of Israel as a nation. Their comments, their opinions are ignorant, according to the Bible. The Bible says Israel will be a nation again in the last days. It is. If you like it or not, it's a nation. I love it because it's Bible prophecy, and I love it because my Jesus, when he returns in the great second coming, he's returning to the nation of Israel. That said... Ezekiel chapter 38 tells us and gives us a window into the future. And it says, now the word of the Lord came to me saying, that is Ezekiel, son of man. That was Ezekiel's name, his title given to him in the Old Testament. Set your face against Gog, G-O-G, and the land of Magog. the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and prophesy against him. We have no doubt at all. We know where this is. We know what Gog, G-O-G. I hope you hear what I'm saying. I've had people tell me, God? What do you mean God? I didn't say God. I said Gog. Gog is a title. It's not a name. Gog is a title that means in Hebrew, a military presidential leader, a despot, actually, a ruler over a nation. In this prophecy, Ezekiel 38.1, Gog, the title of an individual, is a ruler over a nation. who is leader over the land of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal. Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, according to the Table of Nations, found in Genesis chapter 10 and 11, tells you exactly where that is. It's north of Jerusalem, north of the Caucasus Mountains, in a land that we know today as Russia. Meshach, Tubal, Tubal, Russia, the northern regions. Just, in fact, if you keep, we're not going to make it there today in our podcast, but if you keep reading Ezekiel 38, it will also tell you that that land is in the uttermost parts of the north. So this is kind of fun. Get a globe and get some thread in. and put tape on Jerusalem, and go ahead and either put that thread, stretch it out, and put it on either the magnetic North Pole or a true North Pole, because there's a difference. Pilots, navigators, you know what I'm talking about. Either way, that thread will go through Moscow or it will go through Russia's chief military seaport of Murmansk. It's pretty cool. It doesn't matter. It goes through Moscow, Murmansk, Russia. And the Bible says, this enemy will come out of the uttermost parts of the north. What does uttermost parts of the north mean? It means the furthest point of north. This is fun. In a globe... If you leave Antarctica in a plane and you fly north, you will fly for thousands of miles until you hit either true or magnetic north. And then your compass switches and you start hitting south. You can only go south for so long. You can only go north for so long. You can go east indefinitely or west indefinitely. The Bible says the enemy of Israel in the last days with its coalition will come out, being led by its leader, Gog, out of the uttermost parts of the north. That hasn't happened yet. Ezekiel chapter 38, verse 2. Son of man, sit your face against Gog in the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, verse 3, Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I'm against you, O Gog. This despot leader. The prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal. Whoever Gog is, he's the one that has jurisdiction over Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal. He is the leader of Magog. I will turn you around. God is speaking. I will turn you around. Watch how cool this is. I will turn you around and put... hooks into your jaw or jaws, and I will lead you out with all your army and horses and horsemen, all splendidly clothed or arrayed and a great company of bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Verse three, verse four, simply to say this, It appears, mark this down, that there's coming a time when, for whatever reasons we do not know, Gog and the land of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal that he presides over, who has absolute authority, by the way. So he's military leader and he's government leader. He's the boss. There is no Senate. There's no Congress. He's the man. God, G-O-D, says God. Hey, I'm speaking to you. Gog, there's coming a time when I'm going to put hooks into your jaw. What does that mean? Gog is not willing. He doesn't want to for whatever reasons. His back is turned toward the Middle East. He's not involved. His face is looking home. He doesn't want to get entangled in whatever's about to happen. How do you know? That's quite an assumption. It's not an assumption at all. God says, I'm going to hook you in the jaws and I'm going to turn you around. I'm going to pull you down. Down? Yeah, if you're sitting on top of the north, down's the only way you can go. So if he's going to go south, where is he going to go south to? That's a good question. It's a simple question, but some of the greatest questions are simple questions. And he says, next verse, verse 5, Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya... are with him, all of them, with shield and helmet. And he goes on to describe a whole lot more, but that's not what I'm getting into today. The word in verse 5 for Persia is what we call today Iran. If you are an Iranian, by the way, which is fascinating for you to know this, if you don't already know, And Iranian, by far, Iranians, they'll say they're Muslims so they don't get killed. It's no stretch. I'm not going to tell you how I know this, but it's no stretch to suggest that most Iranians are not Muslims. They don't care about Islam. They hate the Khomeinis and the Ayatollahs, the Mullahs. They hate Islam. They hate the Quran. They are the ones and the children of those who existed in Iran up until 1979. Very... Very secular in many ways. If anything, there were a lot of Christians in Iran prior to 79. There were Jews in Iran prior to 79, 1979. There were a lot who practiced Zoroasterism, which is the ancient pagan religion of the Babylonian Medo-Persian empires. Islam, newsflash, folks. I know many of you feel like Islam's been around forever. You guys, Islam's relatively new. It's a relatively new... When you look at Zoroasterism and Babylonianism, and when you look at the religions of the Egyptians, Islam didn't even exist in those days. Islam was created by exactly what Paul the Apostle was warned about by God in Galatians chapter 1, which, Galatians chapter 1, which was totally being read long before Muhammad was ever born. Galatians chapter 1 said, be careful if an angel comes and preaches any other gospel to you, then what has been revealed to you in the scriptures? Because if that angel does, let that angel be damned. And if anybody is preaching a false gospel, let that angel or let that messenger be damned as well. And the early church applied that to Muhammad when he began preaching another gospel. And what did Muhammad say? Look, there's a lot of doubt if Muhammad ever even actually existed. I refer you to scholars such as J. Smith, J-A-Y Smith, J. Smith on YouTube, and others, Islamic experts. There's a lot of doubt that Muhammad himself even existed. But that said, let's assume he did. Everything that surrounds Islam is pre-addressed in scripture. And the only reason why Islam advanced was not because it's true, but because it's bloody. It's the same reason why it's advancing in Europe. The Europeans are terrified of Islam because they've already surrendered. They have no courage because they have no pastors and churches who are courageous. I shouldn't say they don't have any. I know of a church in Oxford that is standing true and strong. Maybe a little remnant, but they are true and they are strong. But why is Islam advancing in America today? Notice that. Notice where Islam is advancing in America today. Very weak. very weak church presence. You say, well, I go to a good church in my town and Islam's taking over. You might have a church that has nice worship and a good Bible study on a Sunday and sweet people, but notice how your church is not affecting the culture. You know who is affecting the culture? Islam. Islam knows how to become school board members. Islam knows how to join the PTA. Muslims know how to run for state assembly. They know how to run for mayor. They know how to run for city council and for county seats. They know how to do it and they are doing it. Why? Because Christians aren't. Christians are unplugged, sucking their thumb, pretending like this is heaven. And Islam is advancing. And if you stand up against them, they're going to threaten you with death. but they can't kill anybody who cannot be killed. Jesus said, don't fear anybody who can take your body, but rather fear God who can take your body and your soul. Do you understand that? If anybody kills me, they only send me to heaven. That's called martyrdom. Charlie Kirk, my buddy, my friend, I don't talk about it much. I'm not going to talk about it much. I don't need to. Charlie was martyred for what he believed. He goes to heaven because he trusted Christ. Friends, listen. The Bible here says in the future, Gog, who is the leader of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, is going to be hooked by God and pulled down into an event that he doesn't want to be involved in. But he's going to have to. That's why there's the hooking of the jaw and the pulling down in. And who is he coming down to? He's coming down to join ranks with God. roughly plus or minus five or so nations mentioned. This is not Armageddon. Don't let that. Armageddon is a international warfare war. or the coalescing of a gathering. That's Armageddon. That's near the end of the book of Revelation, near to the end of the seven-year tribulation period. Ezekiel 38 is not that battle. There's a little one handful of nations involved. All of them hate Israel. But they can't do anything, apparently, unless Gog is involved. And Gog doesn't want to be involved, so God will hook him and pull him into this commitment that he somehow has, either his interest or some sort of peace or war agreement with Iran and Ethiopia and these other Muslim nations. But Iran is going to lead... the group, and they're going to appeal to Gog for some sort of assistance. You say, how do we know that? We know that for sure, because Ezekiel 38 will tell you, you're going to read that later, please. Don't make any comments until you read this later. Okay. It says in Ezekiel 38 that Gog will be a guard to these handful of nations that are coming against Israel. And the word in Hebrew for guard is the word that translates supplier. You will be a supplier to those handful of nations that attack Israel. Amen. Ezekiel 38 and Ezekiel 39 goes on to tell you that they're going to be utterly destroyed. God's going to, in fact, it's the Ezekiel 38 battle that opens the eyes of the Jews and they will begin to believe in Yeshua. They will begin to believe in Yeshua after God intervenes by destroying the invading armies of And they're all going to die, by the way. They're going to be destroyed on the mountains of Israel. They're not even going to get to Jerusalem. They're not even going to make it to Tel Aviv. They're not going to make it to Haifa or the Galilee. This is an important thing for me to bring up. This is why we're having this moment together right now. Make no mistake about it. Here's what I'm hoping for. You ready? Take a deep breath. As I speak to you right now, It is, it should be about, I think about 9 p.m. in Tehran. And at the time of this podcast, the United States has resumed intense bombing and targeted very rapid, very overwhelming, very effective against Iran. And Iran right now is launching strangely, strangely. They're launching into Dubai, into Bahrain, into Kuwait, into Syria. various places of its neighbors, which is a strange approach. But with all of that now, as I speak to you, things change all the time. But as I speak to you now, the Bahrainis, they're getting involved in the warfare in the war with us. The Saudis are involved with us. The Kuwaitis are involved with us. And Just yesterday, Iran, Persia, the IRGC, the Islamic Republican Guard Corps. By the way, some people have been saying this wrong. Some people have been saying the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't you dare say that. That's not their title. That's not their name. They are the Islamic Republican Guard Corps. That's very important because Islam... Islam, for shock factor, because I think I might have shocked you with my opening line, but I'm going to build on it here in a moment. Islam, this is Islam. So you're not going to get this in any class that you attend, I promise, because no one's going to tell you this. Do you see what I'm holding here right now? That's called an umbrella. What a lot of people make a mistake about, they don't understand Islam. Islam, if you allow me in my terrible cartooning, do you see these areas under the umbrella strut? In fact, let me help you. I'm confusing myself. I need to make it more clear. One, two, and three, and four, and around goes the struts. Never forget what I'm about to say. So important. Islam is a geopolitical, theocratic, worldview belief system. It's no different than socialism or Marxism or communism. And you say, yeah, it is, because you said theocratic. Theocratic is God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did make a mistake. Atheism, communism, socialism, it has a God. It's just not overt. The God is whoever's in control. That's why Islam will warm up to an atheist. They will warm up to communists. That's what's happening in New York and in Wisconsin. Is that Islam is. is anything but stupid. Islam sees you as a useful idiot to advance their cause. Newsflash. Islam loves the Democrat Party. They don't believe anything about the Democrats. The Democrats are doing their heavy lifting. They're doing their heavy lifting. The Democrats with their socialism and communism, the Democrat Social Party of America, the AOCs and the Zorn Mandanis and all of the others, they're opening up the door to the destruction of a Judeo-Christian worldview republic. The founding of America. How do you destroy the great Satan? That's what they call us. Well, we can't blow them up. They're too big. Can't defeat the U.S. military. It's too powerful. That's okay. We'll just do what Abraham Lincoln said would probably happen. We'll destroy them from within. We'll take the very tools they have and we will use those tools on them. We will stab them with their own knife. We will shoot them with their own gun. Listen, we will kill them with their own freedoms. That's how we're going to enslave them. We are going to run for office. Once we're elected, oh golly gee, we would never do this while we're campaigning. We would never put our hand on the Quran in a campaign. We'll wait till we win. And then we will, both literally and symbolically, for the record's sake, swear an oath that we are taking the oath of office to, translating those words through a Quranic definition, it comes out of their mouth through the Quran, its definition, and to the hearing of the people. And when they talk about freedom and liberty, it's completely different than what you think of as an American. They're brilliant. Why? Because they're geo-referred. political, their global politic, is to seize whatever government they may be in. Example, parliament in England, other countries, republics. But it doesn't matter. They use the government to gain power. They take the power and they morph it to their agenda. Ever so gently, well, ever so gently, ever so slowly, but Mondani in New York has not been going gently or slowly, has he? He's not only full of himself, he's full. The wind is in his sails and he's going full speed ahead because he can. Good for him. Good for him. The New Yorkers, they gave him that. Every Christian, every Jew gave Mondani the green light. So have it. Enjoy him. That said, this is Islam. I'm even going to do this. Islam is the umbrella. Number one is political infiltration. read the Muslim Brotherhood Charter, things like that. Read that. Number two, those are the financiers. Those are the money dudes. They fund this. They pay for this. They back the candidates. They do the other. We know that they're doing this with candidates in the United States. Listen, a lot of candidates, stupidly, no discernment, boneheads. They might even say they're Christians. Maybe they are Christian. But Mohammed something says, hey, I'm going to give you $10,000 for your campaign. Oh, thank you very much. That's so amazing. Oh, thank you for the $10,000. Do you not know that this dude, there's strings attached to that? The first clue is his name's Abdul. Wake up. He's going to knock on your door someday after you get elected. And he's going to say to you, you want to get reelected? You need my money. Remember how I gave you $10,000? I'll give you $20,000. If you start cutting permits, influencing mayors in your state, you're going to get to issue building contractor permits, building permits to build mosques. I'll make sure you're elected next time around. These are the financiers. Did you see Group 3? Group 3, this is a group that has very short shelf life. Group 3 are the terrorists. They come and go by design. These guys come from particular nations, predominantly Pakistan. Pakistanis... in Islam are the bulk of suicide offerings. And these guys, number two, tell this guy, if you blow yourself up, see these guys? These guys would never blow themselves up. These guys, most of them, if not all of them, they're not even believers in Islam. They just masquerade. Because the moment they get on their Gulfstream G8 or G7, and they head to Paris or London, you should see the clothes. They change their clothes inside the plane. You should see the women changing their clothes out of the burqa into Yahwaladi. Wow. Wow. Where's their Islam? We ditched that at 39,000 feet. By the time they land, it's game on. It's Vegas time, folks. Wow. These guys, they'll never blow themselves up either. Zoran Mandani is never going to blow himself up. He's advancing the cause of Islam, who is a geopolitical, theocratic belief system to conquer the world. That's their goal. view. That's their prophecies. That's their politics. That's their socialism. That's them. This comes in all kinds of flavors. And don't think of somebody adheres to Islam that even believes in God. A lot of them don't. Listen, today in Iran, so many of the Persians don't believe in God. Don't assume they're all Muslims. You'd be wrong. It's just, it sounds, it feels like they're all Muslims. Why? Because the Persians, Ayatollahs in 1979 perfected this, number one, politics. They had a lot of money behind them. They put a bunch of fear in people's hearts and lives. And they wound up establishing rule, holding people under this rule. guise of a religion. It is inaccurate to say that Islam is one of the three great religions of the world. In fact, it's just as awkward to say that. as it is to say that Christianity is one of the three great religions of the world. Because if you knew anything about the definition of Christianity, you would know quickly that Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the only faith group on the planet that, That says God doesn't want your religion. God wants your heart. He wants to live inside of you because he's the only one true living God. And he wants you to open up your heart and life to him. And what he does, he doesn't exist on the outside and never comes in. Because he exists on the outside and because he created you, He wants to redeem you and save you and bring you into his kingdom. And it's personal. Let me ask you. I know the bulk of my audience, quite possibly, has already done this. But there's a lot of people we know from the response we get from people. Not all of you are believers. Some of you watch me because you hate me. That's okay. It's a free world. It's a free country, I should say. That's fine. It doesn't bother me at all. But for those of you who hate me, I want you to hear this. Jesus loves you. Jesus actually came into this world, died on the cross, rose again from the dead. And listen, this is why he did it. He paid the price to get you the ticket of salvation. He holds that ticket. Salvation says you need to repent of your sins, agree with God that you're a sinner, and then recognize that Jesus Christ died to pay your sin debt. Because you know how you have a mortgage or you have a car payment? Yeah. You still owe money on that, so it's not yours. Your house is not yours. That car you're driving, unless you have the pink slip, you don't own that car. The bank owns the car. The bank is loaning it to you. Unless somebody comes in and pays the debt, you're in trouble. Jesus died on the cross, and he's got your ticket. But you need to, it's a gift. He's paid for it. It's a gift. He holds it out. You have to take it. You have to take it from him. I took it from him on June 20th, 1977. I took it. And from that moment on, he's been inside. And I cannot imagine living without him. By the way, that day, I was always looking for something to fill my heart. calendar, so to speak. Hey, what's going on tomorrow? Hey, what's happening this weekend? What are you guys doing? Oh, can I come? Or, hey, you guys come with me. Always looking for action, right? The moment I accepted Christ, one of the most overwhelming shock, shockaroos, was from that moment on, my gosh, so almost 50 years ago, I have never felt alone since that day. Never. I could be so alone from everybody else. I could be in the middle of the Mojave Desert and not be lonely. Never lonely with Jesus. Never have I been lonely since that day. I want you to know that. I want you to experience that for yourself. But friends, Persia, Iran is going to survive. But here's my hope. This is my hope. This is my dream. The United States prevails. The Persian people rise up and go about to establish their previous monarchy. Their Shah, their king, is established like it was prior to 1979. They have religious freedom in those days. You could be a Jew. You could be an atheist. You could be a Muslim. You could be a Christian. You could be a Zoroasterist. It didn't matter. You could be a nothing. It didn't matter. You could go to vacation in Iran. It's a beautiful country. Zagros Mountains. Remarkable. A lot of it. Gorgeous. And then Islam took over. Destroyed it. Messed it all up. My hope is that the Persian people regain control of their country again by going back to what they had before. If that happens, here's what I'm saying. If America prevails, there'll be the rise of the Persian people. If that happens, and they reinstate their monarchy, we don't know how long it's going to last. We don't know how long it's going to last. But we know Persia is going to go bad again. It's going to go bad. It's going to break bad again, according to Ezekiel 38. It's going to once again want to attack Israel. Ezekiel 38. Here's... And I wish I could elaborate. Time does not allow for a lot of reasons. I'm hoping and praying that the U.S. prevails in the short term, knowing that the Bible says Persia, Iran, will be a key component to the Ezekiel battle. America is not mentioned. Between right now and Ezekiel 38, You and I do not know how much time frame we have. What if? What if Islam is put back in its hole in Persia and there is a season of freedom? If I am physically able, my prayer is I am getting on a plane and I am going to Iran And I'm going to preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in a land that is Bible land. That's right, Persia. Persia, did you know that Daniel spoke of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the land of Babylon? Yes. And then Babylon was defeated by who? The Persians! Daniel was still there. The Medes. Daniel was still there. Wow. Bible land. Persia is Bible land. Egypt is Bible land. Think about that. Jordan's Bible land. Syria is Bible land. Nations that are in the Bible. My prayer is the U.S. prevails. The Iranians, the Persians take their country back, put Islam in its hole, We get to go to Iran and preach the gospel to Persians with hopes that they'll come to Christ. During that time, Israel feels very peaceful because Iran is no longer warring against them. There's peace. The gospel's even being preached in Iran. I hope, man, I want to be on the tip of that spear, man. I want to be there for this. And we need to preach fast, long, and hard fast. Because we don't know how long that opportunity, if it comes, how long it will last. And then could you imagine so many tens of thousands, maybe millions of Persians get saved? And the rapture takes place. Sometime after that, the Ezekiel battle unfolds. Because we know this, Israel will believe that it's safe at the time of the invasion of Ezekiel 38. What if Israel feels safe because there's so many Christians in Iran preaching the gospel and there's so many Persians coming to Christ that Israel is like, all right, that's great. That's great for them. That's great for them. And then after there's this great dragnet of souls coming out of Persia and maybe it spills over into other countries, God calls his people up. in the glorious rapture, 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 through 18, John 14, verses 1, 2, and 3, 1 Corinthians 15, verses 50 and 51. And then Ezekiel 38 happens. Wouldn't that be awesome? That's what I'm praying for. But please understand this. Islam, in some way, shape, or form, plays a part in Ezekiel 38. and it's going to be destroyed. Something's gonna happen. Because the Antichrist is now, there's no way the Antichrist is gonna rise with Islam in power. The Jews are not gonna accept a Muslim Messiah. They're only gonna accept the Antichrist who will be a Jewish Messiah. And Islam would never let that happen. Islam would never allow Israel to rebuild a temple. That's got to happen. 2 Thessalonians 2. So somehow Islam is going to suffer a huge blow. I don't know when, I don't know how. But in Ezekiel 38, just read it for yourself. It's going to play, I believe, a great part in that. Something to think about. I'd leave you with this. Would you pray about, because I'm praying about it, would you pray about joining me when that opportunity comes to going to Iran, to Persia, to preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ if in fact the IRGC is destroyed and the Persians get their country back? Will you come with me? Few days, few weeks? I don't know. Would you do that? Would you take vacation time? Would you spend money to get yourself over? We'll teach you. We'll train you. We've done this before in a lot of countries. Could you imagine having one of the most epic, wonderful opportunities for the Lord Jesus to preach the gospel to the Persians? I could almost hear Daniel from heaven saying, I'm sorry. Oh Lord, we pray, here I am, send me. God bless you guys.