When You See These Things

Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Do you know your Bible enough to know that the book of Revelation chapter 17 and 18 says that during the tribulation period there will be government mingled with religion. There will be a one-world government and a one-world religious system. Did you know that? You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. When you look up, by the way, in the Gospels, and for that matter, in the New Testament, there are three prevailing Greek words used for our English word watch. And the first usage of the word means to keep awake. To be watch or watchful literally or in a figurative sense is to be in the state of vigilance. Every believer is to be in a mindset of being vigilant, to be in watchful alert, to keep watch. The Bible tells that of us. If you're a believer in a follower of Jesus Christ today, you know reading your Bible that God's Word commands us to be watchful. And I might submit to you, that's not an easy thing to do. It's hard. The second word used in the Greek language, again only one in English, because our language is so lackluster compared to the Greek or Hebrew. The second meaning used by Jesus and the Apostles is the word to set a guard, or to set as it were a military security post. It means to continue watching, to be on guard or as like a guardian, to keep your eyes open. And I love this. And to keep your eyes on the horizon. The Christian is to be somebody walking and living in this world that has their eyes on the horizon. Imagine that for a moment. Think of that. Place yourself in a moment in that thought that as a believer in school, at work, in this world, at home, whatever we're doing, we are to have the end in sight and the end will appear as it were on the horizon. It's from the point of the horizon that an enemy or friend comes. It's on the horizon. Jesus said, I'm coming back. And in the great second coming, when he returns to earth to stay, he says, I'm going to come like lightning flashes out of the east and to the west. Incredible. And then the third word means to be sleepless. That doesn't mean you never go to sleep. It means that your soul, your spirit, is so primed and so loaded with Bible that you're walking, listen, you're walking with God, you're understanding the days and the age in which you and I live in. We're discerning the times and the seasons. You know the Bible tells us to do that everybody. That as a Christian, the Bible says, we are to be discerning the times and the seasons. And I just want to ask you, there's no need to answer out loud. When you look around the world and you discern the times and the seasons, you come to the conclusion that there is that shaking tremor as it were that's in the globe today. And there's a reason for that. An important reason. All of it can be summed up with three words. Always be waiting. Waiting. When you're waiting, you're watching. When you're waiting, you're scanning the horizon. Think about it. When you're waiting, imagine yourself on the street corner, waiting to be picked up by somebody who's promised to come. You're looking down the street. Are you not? You're listening. You're watching. And the Bible says that regarding the believer, that's how we should be living our lives. Hebrews 9.28 says, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. He said, thought he died for everybody. Oh, he did die for everybody, but not everybody takes advantage of it. So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for him, he will appear a second time, apart from sin for salvation. The term apart from sin for salvation means that when he comes to address whoever these people are who are eagerly waiting for him, sins not the issue. That's already been taken care of at his death. Are you with me? He's coming back for those who are eagerly waiting for him. And my question is, are you eagerly waiting for him? In Philippians chapter 3, verse 20, Philippians 3.20, for our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. You see how this should mark us that we're waiting or watching. We're eager. We can't wait for Christ to return. Listen, check your heart. Take your pulse. If the thought of Jesus coming today for you bothers you, scares you. That's the spirit of God telling you you're not ready. You need to get ready. And I want to make something very clear. You see, Pastor, what if a Christian is not ready when he comes? Does he not get raptured? No, he gets raptured. The Bible says this, that if somebody's not ready when he comes, they will be ashamed of themselves at his appearing. Can you imagine going up, covering your face? Oh, boy. Oh, is it? It's like in sent to the principal's office. No, you want to be excited about us coming. You want to live your life as though we'll be back today. Amen. First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 1, begins by saying, but concerning the times and seasons, brethren, you'll have no need that I should write to you for you yourselves. No, perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. If you stop right there, people will say, I don't study this stuff because he's going to come like a thief in the night. Maybe for you, not for me. See, that's arrogant. No, it's not, because I read verse 4, keep down. Look down, keep going. But you, brethren, are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief. You know when people will, Jesus isn't coming back. You don't know. Don't worry about it. Watch out for those people. The Bible said you'd bump into people like that in the last days. Where is the promise of his coming? The Bible says they're going to say. So having stepped that up people, we want to look at some things that are going on in our world today. When you see these things, number one, regarding a one-world global government. But boy, church, listen up. If you start listening and reading to these globalist speaking, and this is the season for globalists to be speaking, they've got their G20 gatherings, they've got their world economic forum gatherings. Okay, we've got the Pope now meeting with people up at Mount Sinai to create a new Ten Commandments. And he's calling the world to repent and ask for forgiveness of the earth for how we've treated her. We have to have this. Are you kidding me? And all of these world leaders have come together to meet up, to ask the earth to forgive us, for drinking Pepsi out of plastic or whatever. What in the world is going on, ladies and gentlemen? Whatever's happening, there's a global push in all of these various areas. And so I wanted to show you a few things. Number one, Pope calls for global unity ahead of Grand Imam meeting in Bahrain. Now, the grand Imam is the leader of that particular Islamic division of Islam. Islam, the house of Islam is divided into two factions. And this particular Imam will meet up with the Pope and they're calling for global unity. And how are you going to get people with different religious beliefs to unify, create a topic that they can all relate to, whatever you do. Don't get into religion because we'll kill each other. John Kerry spills the beans at UN's COP27 meeting. They want to replace capitalism with a new economic system. There's a call in the world for a one-world global government and it's intermingled with faith. And I want to ask you, do you know your Bible enough to know that the book of Revelation chapter 17 and 18 says that during the tribulation period, there will be government mingled with religion. There will be a one-world government and a one-world religious system. Did you know that? I'm old enough to be so radically impressed by all of this because when I was a young believer, none of this stuff was going on. And now it's national or international news. And then somebody popped up at the G20. You guys know what the G20 is? It was this last week, G20. The 20 big nations that influenced the world. Basically, the G20 is a bunch of leaders from those nations getting together to figure out how to control you, take your money and make sure you're really happy about being broke. Well, they all have your money. And then somebody shows up who's not even a national member. He's not a national leader. Now, you got to turn up the volume, guys, because I don't know. On stage, I can't hear the guy. He's our understand. Listen to this. If you look at also challenges, we can speak about the multi crisis. Multi crisis. Economic, political, social, ecological, and institutional crisis. But actually, what we have to confront is a deep, systemic, and structural restructuring of our world. To fix everything we must have a restructuring of our world. For those of you who know history and Bible prophecy, listen. The Babylonian Empire is recorded in the Bible as being the most powerful, single, despotic, led empire of all time under Nibbikanezza. Anybody know who defeated the Babylonian Empire? The Meads and the Persians defeated the Babylonians. By the way, that's written in the book of Daniel before it ever happened. Do you guys know who defeated the Meads and the Persians? His dad's name was Philip. Alexander the Great. The Greeks. Who defeated the Greeks? Anybody know? The Romans. Who defeated the Romans? Oh, listen to that. Perfect answer. None of you know. Good for you. You can't know. Rome was never defeated. It got so big and so powerful that it broke into two flanks, the East and the West. And then it just dissolved over time. No one ever defeated Rome. That's why the Bible says in the last days, out of the two flanks of Daniel's great image of statue of the world empires, Nibbikanezza's the Head, the Meadow Persian Empire, Alexander the Great in the Greeks, and the Roman Empire, East and West, it says that in the last days when Christ returns to earth, it says there'll be the existence of two feet with ten toes. And the ten toes represent ten kings. And out of the ten kings, the Bible says, listen, it sounds crazy. Ten kings, there'll be one that will arise out of the midst of them which is the eleventh. And the eleventh one will put down three of them and he will take over all of them. And the Bible addresses him as the idol shepherd, the son of perdition. You know him as the Antichrist or Mr. 666. It's never happened before we're waiting so to speak for the toes to pop up. Just know this, that at this time and for most of our lives, for many of us, there has been an attempt to establish originally the USE. The United States of Europe was their initial statement and they drafted a constitution. It was horrific, it was stupid. They all said, you know what, we can have a constitution like America, but we have to leave God out. So they did. It didn't work. Then they decided we have to have our own currency. Remember that? Many of us remember that the Germans had the Deutschmark and then the... Now the British, they went back to the pound or they... I guess the British never went to the euro, did they? They stayed at it because they're smarter than the average bearer. But the European Union's fallen apart. It's not a union. It's a mess. See, what do you bring that up? Because the Roman Empire was based in all of Europe. And the Bible says there's going to be a reconstitution of that ancient empire in the last days. And the book of Daniel says that in the last days of the kings that rule that empire Christ will return. And it gets pretty graphic. It says that he will come as a mountain coming out of the heavens and strikes the image in its feet and crumbles it in all of its pieces. And of his kingdom and of his rule on earth, there will be no end. Next thing, it's the clergy hold a multi-faith climate repentance ceremony as UN summit wraps up in Egypt. Quote, the pyramids were lit up to welcome world leaders to the UN climate summit in Charmel Shake, Egypt. In what almost look like an end of the world trade show, sponsored by Coca-Cola and other big corporations, the COP27 began as all other climate summits with the dire warning that life on earth would end if climate change isn't stopped. The clock is ticking, warned UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, quote, We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing greenhouse gas emissions, keep growing, global temperatures keep rising. We are on a highway to climate hell, he said, with our foot still on the accelerator. Why is the climate argument divided? Why is that camp divided up so much? Listen, if it's such a big deal, why aren't all scientists who study data on the same page? I want to just lay that out to you because the young people right now say, I can't believe you saying that. Will somebody arrest him quick, please? No, no, simple question. Global scientists who study meteorology and history, why aren't they on the same page? The camp is divided into two camps, why? Why? Think about it. Why is man all of a sudden capitalizing on his ancient history that it's really the control people if you can create a crisis? And it's easy to do that if there's no God in the picture. Mark R. Benhoff said, at this last G-20 meeting, every country needs a minister of the future. What in the world does that mean? I tell you why I don't like that kind of talk, but yet it's vividly accurate is way, way back. I'm going to be off, but please search it. Way back, Belgium, Prime Minister Henry Spack said, we are in a leadership crisis at the EU or the League of Nations. We're in a leadership crisis and we need a leader, he said, be it a devil from hell or an angel from heaven, we need a leader. Well, this prayer is about to be answered. These days the Bible spoke about another quote from John Green, economic growth doesn't mean anything unless it's inclusive growth. Do you know what that means? Anybody? Socialism. You're not a think, yeah? Critical thinking. What's he saying? Oneness. When man talks about oneness, only God can do oneness. When man talks about oneness, the guy that's usually talking about it is the guy that's wanting to be number one in the oneness. But they're creating something, but not really, if you know your Bible, it's already done on you. These people are talking about Romans chapter one. That in the last days, man will depart from worshiping God and will worship nature, creation, creeping things on earth, four-footed things, and man. And you see, when you divorce God from your thinking, man becomes the one who calls the shots. And man will eventually seek to deify himself. The Bible says that this one leader that will take possession of Europe and then use it as a base to attempt to take over the world will draw up a peace treaty with Israel for seven years. And the Bible says in the middle of the seven years, on the 1,260th day, he will break that agreement with Israel when he stands in the temple in Jerusalem and declares himself to be God. Jesus said in Matthew 24 that when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken by Daniel the prophet standing in that place, come down from your house top and run. There is a political leader that's coming and he's going to be amazing. Notice again how the world is leaderless today. I'm not saying it's happening next week. I'm not saying it's happening this year or next year. I'm just saying that all of these things that we're just taking pieces of, the Bible has anticipated. That should cause us to sit up and take notice. This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected. You