Iran, Israel, and Bible Prophecy

El Shaddai Ministries founder Mark Blitz unpacks the spiritual and prophetic significance behind today’s Middle East headlines in this 31-minute conversation with Peter Demos. From Iran’s attacks and Red Sea chaos to the June 2024 UN meeting on a two-state solution, Biltz draws direct connections between unfolding events and biblical patterns rooted in the Hebrew calendar.

Peter Demos is the author of On the Duty of Christian Civil Disobedience and the host of Uncommon Sense in Current Times. A Christian business leader from Tennessee, Demos uses his biblical perspective and insight gained from his own struggles to lead others to truth and authenticity in a broken world. To learn more, visit peterdemos.org.

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Hey, folks. Welcome to Uncommon Sense in current times. I’m here today to talk about kind of a lot of the stuff that’s going on in the Middle East. We keep seeing a lot of the things that are happening over there. You know, in the middle of March, U.S. started, started airstrikes, over who to control Yemen.

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We had more recent ones in the beginning of April. Now, like, Iran has pulled out, pulled US military personnel out of Yemen, which is seems to be kind of strange. The the the Houthi, attacks have crippled, Red sea shipping. The traffic has dropped. We were having to put in, some of our or, ships in that area, to help on that.

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Meanwhile, here, you know, we have the signal gate which is creating some confusion on on even and having some impact over there as well. And so you have to ask the question, why do we care? I mean, Yemen is one of those countries that you probably didn’t know. I mean, I still remember the first time I really paid attention to Yemen was actually a friends episode where Chandler goes to Yemen to avoid breaking up with his girlfriend, so.

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So, I mean, I had to go look it up to see exactly where it’s located. Don’t realize the impact on it. So that’s why I’ve asked, Mark built, to come and and join us. He’s the founder of El Shaddai Ministries. It’s a teaching ministry based in Washington state. It focuses on the Jewish roots of Christianity and the prophetic significance of the biblical calendar.

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He’s known internationally for his groundbreaking work on the Blood moons and its alignment with biblical feast. He’s been a frequent guest on a lot of Christian TV networks radio shows. It’s authored several books. His research connects a lot of the current geopolitical events, especially in the Middle East, to biblical prophecy with a focus on Israel, Iran and end times.

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So, pastor builds, I appreciate you being here. Thank you so much for being on the show.

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Well, thank you so much for having me on.

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So I gotta I gotta ask because again, I kind of alluded to this in the introduction. Like, why should we care? Why do we care what’s going on, particularly with Yemen and Iran? Israel like we can we can argue Israel pretty strong and pretty easy. And if you, if you’re a fan of the show, you know that we talk and we’re very pro-Israel here.

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We talk a lot about that. But Yemen and Iran, like, who cares? Why does that even mattered? And the people that are listening to this?

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Well, it matters a lot. From a biblical point of view. God said he would have war with Amalek in every generation. And last century, Hitler was the spirit of Amalek. I’m not sure if you’re aware, but when you know what Hamas did on October 7th and chopping people’s heads off, cutting people apart. The very Hebrew word Amalek means a people who chop off heads.

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Oh, wow. That is what their actual name means. And so we see today this. We are right in the middle of the war with Amalek that God is waging prophetically right now. Okay.

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All right. So so when you talk about that from a prophetic point of view, the, the, the, the events, because obviously, again, we look at it, there was no Iran at that time. It was Persia. You know, there’s and then, you know, and then all the, the, the, the geopolitical lines that, that, that seem to occur in the Middle East just seemed almost been random, like it’s like I’m sure there was some rhyme or reason behind it, but but it doesn’t appear to be so particularly again, when we’re looking at it from a biblical perspective.

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So how does that play? How does like the Iran significance of what’s going on with Hamas, what’s going on in Yemen? What’s going on with Hezbollah? I mean, Iran has its fingers in all of this. So how is that playing into what’s going on right now?

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Well, Iran is kind of like the head of the octopus or the head of the snake. And of course, they’ve always used proxies to attack Israel. Now, in Saudi Arabia, they hate the Yemenis. As far as the Hutus go, way back in the 607 hundreds, when Mohammed was around. Islam got divided into two different sects. There were, the Shiites who felt like his descendants would take over, and the Sunnis felt like his military wing should take over.

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And they absolutely hate each other and want to destroy each other. And this is why Saudi Arabia has been attacking Yemen and Yemen attacking Saudi Arabia. But Yemen and Iran are very close, and they have their goal is to destroy Israel. This is why you cannot make peace with Hamas. You don’t make peace with someone who storms into your house, threatens to kill your children.

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But if you give them a room in your house, the whole thing is just stupid.

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I, I got to talk with years ago through, through it through a series of events that happened. I got to sit down at a at a table and talk with mostly Sharon, who was, Israeli negotiator, pretty, pretty high up with the Israeli government. He was part of the negotiation he negotiated with Arafat. One of the things that he said is a common Islamic or, phrase is lying is the salt of words.

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Exactly.

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And I asked him, I’m like, how do you negotiate with someone that, you know, is lying? Like, like that’s something that they what is better? And, you know, and what he said was, is the only thing that speaks in those areas has to be power.

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Exactly.

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So, so when we’re looking at this and then we watch Iran, that kind of is seems like it’s slightly dissonance itself from Hamas. And it’s definitely like it’s pulled out of Yemen. It almost seems like they, they like, created a monster in Yemen that they can’t control is what it almost feels like. But is there something else is happening that that that we don’t know and can’t recognize?

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Well, right now, as of this morning, I’ve read reports that Iran is jamming all kinds of computer systems because they feel like we are about to attack them. Here we have Netanyahu today in the white House, and they are in the process right now of jamming all electronics in that area. So I think they’re pulling back, because, they fear an attack.

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But I believe we’re going to see terrorist attacks right here on the United States soil because, of course, they’re backed into a corner, and we’re going to see it. We’re going to see, Islamic suicide bombers, I believe, here in the United States this year. Okay. Now.

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When we’re looking at this and we’re seeing all this, it’s happening again. Why do you think that that what do you think is going on with Yemen? Because again, with the Houthis, it again, I have the impression that Iran created them. And now they’re like a rebellious child, like we we believe in your cause, but we don’t want to be controlled by you anymore.

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And that’s why Iran’s like, okay, fine, you want it, you can have it. Do you? Am I correct in that it might or is there what’s is there another reason why Iran wants to pull out of that area?

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Well, I think the one one reason is because Trump is holding them accountable. If the Saudis do any more attacking, on the shipping lanes. And so Iran wants to distance themselves. So they’re not accountable for what the Saudis do, and the United States comes and attacks them. But I’m really hoping and believing that we will attack all of Iran’s nuclear sites and, destroy their economy and their oil production very soon.

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I definitely want to get to the nuclear peace here in a minute, but but I want to kind of stick in this area because they’re attacking in the Red sea. So what is the significance of the Red sea like? What is the commercial shipping in the Red sea? Like, why is it that that’s a big deal for especially for the United States?

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Well, so much trade goes through their economic trade and they’ve been attacking every ship almost. I believe they’re not attacking some of the Russian ships, but for, the for the most part, they are just arbitrarily bombing ships. And that, really raises the insurance rates. It raises the cost of shipping. The people are thinking they have to go around the Horn of Africa, just to get their goods.

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But, even right now, there is, huge turmoil with the tariffs going back and forth with President Trump and the cost of goods rising. And whether that’s good or bad, that’s not my area of expertise. But I do know costs are going through the roof. And people, you know, Trump doesn’t need to have the increasing insured shipping costs and not allow free trade.

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So a lot of people look at the houses and they say it’s more of a grassroots movement. They want they want sovereignty for Yemen. What’s your opinion on that? Where do you fall on that?

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Well, I hope they don’t. And I was we would bomb the hoods, back to the Stone age. I believe there are people in Yemen that probably do want peace. Again. These are terrorist organizations, just like in the Gaza Strip. I mean, they’re like kidnapers. They’re terrorists. And the people have to submit to them, either joyfully or fearfully, but, they’re terrorists, and you just don’t make peace with terrorists.

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Okay? So we have terrorists going on all sides, you know, surrounding it because, again, you got in Yemen, near the Red sea, we obviously have it south of or kind of the southern part of Israel, there with Hamas. You have it on the northern side with Hezbollah. We we see a lot of this terrorists that are all around, now, now tie this in because the Middle East has always been shaky.

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I can’t think of a time, you know, where it really wasn’t. Except maybe, like, during the Ottoman Empire. Or there’s maybe a couple of times like that. There may have been some seasons where it hasn’t been shaky, but for the most part, it has always been, even when you look at it biblically, there’s been times where, it doesn’t seem like it’s ever going to get settled.

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Where do you see this fall within prophecy? Why is this just not a recurrence of what’s always happened?

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Wow. Well, it is both. It is a recurrence of what also happened. Many people don’t realize it repeats itself, in many different ways, but in the Bible, prophetically, God said he’s going to make Jerusalem be a cup of trembling for all nations. And when you look at the United Nations who represent all nations, there is something very prophetic that’s coming up June 2nd.

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You have to mark your calendar for June 2nd of this year. This is when the United Nations is meeting in New York to finally solve the two state solution. Okay. It’s so happens on the biblical calendar that is seven six, the very day Moses ascended Mount Sinai and got the land grant happens to be the very day that the U.N. is saying, no, you don’t have it.

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Okay.

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So there there to to you said solve the two state solution. Obviously they’re the they don’t have authority to, they don’t have authority to make Israel give up land. So let’s say they get up there and they say they, they do it. And Israel says, I don’t really care what you say. You, you, you know, you can’t really enforce it.

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You can’t really do anything about it. Right. So then June 2nd seems to be irrelevant. Then at that point in time, what would I not be correct in that or like or something?

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Maybe it’s just like there’s two sides to everything. There’s the good side and the bad side. It wouldn’t be great. Just like they thumbed their nose at the criminal court if they thumbed their nose at the United Nations. My concern a little bit is if we go with a two state solution, not with Hamas, and Israel, but the United States and Israel, if we end up wanting to own the Gaza Strip like Greenland or something.

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You know, if we take control to solve the problem, I think Israel would love to sell the land to the United States and let that be our problem. But I don’t mind if the United States administers it, but we cannot own it, or that will end up bringing all kinds of problems.

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So historically and any, any country. And again, correct me if I’m wrong, but looking at it from again from a biblical perspective, biblical prophetic perspective, any country that seems to have gotten involved with Israel, has, has been almost destroyed. You look at you look at what Great Britain is, the great example, you know, I mean, as soon as they started, you know, taking over this, they sort of losing everywhere they were.

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The sun doesn’t set on the, on, on, on Great Britain. And then all of a sudden now, you know, they’ve lost everything all around, you know, with it from there, is that the reason why you’re saying that you don’t want the US to own it?

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Yes, exactly. The reason why. Because every nation that’s come against Israel is gone there. You know, out there you are no longer a world leader or they don’t even exist anymore. And when I see what our State Department did in World War two, turning back to Saint Louis, the ship that had a bunch of Jews on it, and they ended up dying in the Holocaust.

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Now, you know, I think President Trump is far better than Kamala Harris could have ever been. But at the at the same time, I know he would love to get the Nobel Peace Prize and salt solving peace in the Middle East. And I just hope, I know almost all of his cabinet is opposing the two state solution, so I hope he agrees with that.

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And he just doesn’t try to solve the Middle East peace problem by taking over the Gaza Strip.

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All right. So now we see where Israel has, eliminated the cease fire. The US is backed them on this, you know, and and Israel is going back after Hamas.

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Yes.

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Where does this fall in all of this? Because Israel, you’re looking at this is coming up in June. Trump’s kind of wanting to be peace in the Middle East, but he’s supporting his friend and and an ally, rightfully so. You know, you know, the conservative part of Israel is saying, hey, we’re going to destroy Hamas at all cost, the more progressive side of Israel saying, well, we just need to get our hostages back.

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It’s not as simple as, hey, we we’re all on the same page. We just need to do this. It’s a very complicated matter. And you listen to all sides and you’re like, oh, that makes sense. That makes sense. But there’s only one truth, which is God’s truth. So how does this apply to in this particular situation with this current event that we’re looking at?

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Well, United States, as you know, is very politically divided between the right and the left. Some people are unaware it’s the same thing in Israel about 50% absolutely hate Netanyahu and want him to go to jail. And the other 50% absolutely love Netanyahu. And so there is a big, big divide just like there is here. And so it’s a nation divided is going to have a hard time sticking together.

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So it’s going to be interesting to see the fallout over the next several months. If they get the hostages back, if they die, I’m the problem and I talk to many Israelis. As a matter of fact. Have you ever been to Israel?

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I have, yes, loved it.

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How many times?

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I’ve only been. One time we went. Well, I took my family there. It was actually the. We were on Temple Mount the first day of Ramadan, right after.

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Oh my goodness.

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They found the boy. The Palestinian boys were burned alive. They had the it was so it was. We left the day that rockets started coming out of Gaza, you know, on a pretty regular basis.

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What year was that?

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Oh my goodness, this would have been probably fifth, 2015, 2016, somewhere right around that area. I don’t remember the exact year of it, but my it.

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Was an A tour or on your own?

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It was on a tour. I went with our church or with our church group on it. I remember being one of the things that was shocking to me was, is that, one morning we were in, we had gone we were in downtown Jerusalem, and the our pastor went around and said, hey, I made certain I talked to your families, let them all know you’re okay.

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And like, why? And the news was reporting all these protests and riots and everything was happening downtown. There was pictures. I looked it up on my phone. We were downtown like we saw street dancers and we went shopping. I mean, I’m like, if that’s rioting, then then we got a lot to teach them because that’s not rioting. But but we saw that and we saw a lot of this chaos that was not real, that was being manufactured in the world around it.

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So that was one of the strikes outside of the it made the Bible come alive a lot more. That was one of the things that I picked up from a political perspective of what was happening in Israel and the lies was being told about Israel.

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Yeah, yeah. And, you know, it’s more dangerous in Chicago than it is in Jerusalem. Most people don’t, realize that, but I, I go to Israel every year, sometimes twice a year. I’m going, in May this year and I’m going in October. And I’ve never had problems here. There’s been some little disruptions here and there, little things.

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But I’ve always felt safe there.

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It’s it’s it’s it’s a wonderful place and and but again, when we were there, you know, there was or at least before we went, there was a fear. And honestly, there was even discussion of what’s going on with Iran at that time. There seems to be that constant, constant worry again from those that are outside of it. But biblically speaking, you go to Israel and you don’t have to, or especially in Jerusalem proper, you don’t have to worry about Iran.

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Why is that? Why is that the case from a biblical perspective?

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Well, I mean, when you look at, it just so you know, I want my last book I wrote was called America at War 2024 through 2026. Now, mind you, I wrote that book in 2023, and I’m the only one that has it in writing. I wrote in 2023 that I ran would attack Israel in April of 2024.

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I wrote that six months before it actually happened, and, it blew people away. But it I had biblical proof that it would happen. And I stated in my book and I was talking to one of the Israeli intelligence military officers in the Knesset, and he was blown away. And what did you get that from? And I said, well, it’s out of your Bible, you know, Daniel, chapter ten.

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But, I’m not sure they’re going to have to worry about Iran too much because, as you know, they knocked all of their bombs out of the sky, and now they’ve totally, destroyed all of their network, as far as their radar to knocking down their planes. And, I just hope Israel finishes the job but not listen to world opinion.

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So Iran’s building nuclear. Iran’s trying to get nuclear capabilities, trying to build nuclear bombs. They really slowed up a little bit during the first Trump term. Only to be brought back. But we’re also seeing that Iran’s currency is struggling. Yes. They’re having a lot more protests that are that are happening. I think a lot of people don’t also realize that Iran was a very strong Western state before the revolution, before the Ayatollah took over some of the pictures of the 60s and 70s of girls and bikinis is just unreal, you know?

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So so what what is the Iranian people? What do they really want? And and then and and is that going to play a role in it. Can Israel use that to their advantage or do the Iranian people hate the Israelis? Israel as well.

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Know many of the, Iranians absolutely love Israel. And that’s what’s so horrible about Israel situation. That’s why we mostly want to detect the, you know, their oil facilities, nuclear facilities. They are many of them hate Iran. They’re already protesting. And, I really believe, even Trump is encouraging them to uprise as well as Netanyahu, to have a change of government.

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So I hope that happens.

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So you look at a lot of things. Obviously you’re looking at it. You have to look at it geopolitically. You’re going to have biases. Just just by the nature of, of of, of being human. But you’re also looking at it from a prophetic insight. How are you able to discern, like, you know, you said, hey, this is what’s going to happen.

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And I can look at it from Daniel chapter ten. How are you able to discern this is a true prophetic insight versus, hey, I need, this is just kind of what I kind of feel is going to happen based off of what I’m seeing and letting like, these outside world and outside influences influence kind of what you see and read from the Bible.

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How do you how do you discern that?

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Well, thank you for asking that, because that is the number one thing I teach on is the biblical calendar. The big problem with the church today? They’re on the wrong calendar. In Genesis 114, God said he created the both the sun and the moon. And they said, let them both determine his calendar. Well, our calendar is based only on the sun.

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The Islamic calendar is based only on the moon. And so we’re not using the one God uses. This is why Easter is sometime a month before Passover. How do we celebrate the resurrection a month before he dies? It’s because we’re using the wrong calendar. And when you put things on the right calendar and we have calendars available that intertwined the Gregorian with the biblical calendar so people can see things.

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There are biblical events that repeat. I’m not sure if you’ve ever heard of the ninth day of the month of of, but there is a prophecy in the Old Testament that that’s going to turn from being a fast day to a feast day. And if you claim to be a prophet and you don’t know the biblical calendar, you’ll never know when it’s fulfilled.

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It was on the, let’s say, July 9th of July. That would be roughly the ninth day of the month of off. That’s when the ten spies brought the bad report because of that, that is the very day Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple, the very day the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., the very day all the Jews were kicked out of England.

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In 1290, the very day all the Jews were kicked out of Spain. In 1492, the very day World War one started, the very day Hitler’s proclamation to kill the Jews came out. And no. But there there’s several biblical days that repeat over and over in history. And so all you have to do is know God’s patterns and then you know what things are going to happen.

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All right. So I’m a skeptic or a new believer. I’m listening to you and I’m saying, okay, wait a second. This seems to be too simple. It seems to be two Nostradamus, you know, Mayan calendar. I mean, you know what I’m saying? I mean, this so. So again, for somebody from the outside who doesn’t understand biblical prophecy, doesn’t understand a lot of this.

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From here, they’re going to look at it and say, okay, either this this guy is crazy and we should discount it, or they’re going to say, hey, this guy is on to something. I need to be afraid. How would you address both of those people?

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Well, what’s amazing is, most people don’t read their Bible or really understand. It’s true. And, I ask Christians, are we supposed to know the times and seasons and they all go? Of course, they go through all the time of the seasons. And so I say, well, what time is it? Oh, I don’t know what season is there, I don’t know.

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And, like in Ecclesiastes, it’s a time to be born and the time to die, a time to plant, a time to pluck. But the church is planning up plucking time and plucking up planning time because they don’t know the times or the seasons. And part of the problems is English. In Genesis 114, when God said he created the sun and the moon, the four seasons, we think winter, spring, summer, fall.

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But the very same Hebrew word there in Leviticus 23 is translated as the word feasts, like the feast of the Lord. When you think of food. So that one Hebrew word, mo eight is translated as winter, spring, summer, and fall. And another place is food. And they’re both wrong. It means a divine appointment, like God has a calendar.

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And he says, on this day, on this time I’m going to meet with you. But you only know that if you’re on his calendar. One real quick example is God, his son was going to die, and the father says, I’m going to determine what day my son is going to die. I’m going to determine what time is going to die.

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I’m never going to determine what songs will be sung at his funeral. So he had King David a thousand years before write the funeral hymn that would be sung the very day, the very hour his son was going to die. And like in the Gospels, it says, they sang a hymn and went over to the mount of Olives.

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I know the words to this song. And so, when you understand what was going on, the Bible all of a sudden becomes full color 3D. It’s amazing.

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All right. So then you get the other side of it, though, of people who are scared, they, they, they see this and it’s like, oh, there’s an earthquake. Oh, this is what’s happening with Iran. This is what’s going on right in the times coming. Oh, you know, this is this is birth pains. The Antichrist is coming.

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I love it.

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I mean, Gorbachev was the Antichrist. I remember one time because the the mark of the beast, I heard, you know, Pope Francis is the Antichrist, or he made the prophet, all this stuff. So, so. But you have that side of it as well, which I think one diminishes. I think true biblical prophecy was actually. But but, but how do you address those people who are afraid?

00:28:11:25 – 00:28:34:12
Oh, sure. Well, the first thing is first Thessalonians five one through four says, you are not in darkness, that that day will overtake you as a thief. Everyone says he comes in the thief, but that’s only to the foolish virgins, to the evil servants, to the sleeping church, to the dead church. When you look at it for me, I’ve almost died so many times.

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I’ve lost count. I’ve had guns at my head twice. And they said, they’re going to kill me. I was almost eaten by lions in South Africa. Okay, I’ve been in major car accidents, plane accidents, you name it. Medical malpractice. And I finally realized it was not my time. It’s not going to happen. And if it is my time, there’s nothing I can do about it.

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So, for me, the Lord has numbered my days, and I just want to make him productive.

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So you’re saying eating gluten free is not going to make your time longer than what’s appointed?

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Well, I’m diabetic, I have sugar.

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But I think people should be afraid at all that I am not here to scare people. I am here to encourage people. You know, a lot of this is simple math, knowing the times and people don’t know the calendar, so they don’t know the math. That’s why they’re afraid. Just like a woman who’s never been pregnant, about to have a baby, she knows a painful time is going to be coming and she can’t run away.

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But she doesn’t mind the pain because she knows what’s coming right.

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And she’s willing to do it again.

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Exactly. Can you believe it?

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Yeah. So? So if I get wracked, I never want that ever happen again. And they say it’s more painful. I don’t know if I can believe that or not, because you choose the second time. I don’t choose the second time.

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Exactly.

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Okay. So so for people to want to learn more about it, they want to kind of dig deeper into it. Obviously your ministries, how should I ministries, where do they go? How can they how can they watch your sermons? Where can they go to find more about the website, understand this, so that they can kind of understand what’s going on.

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Because you’re right. They need to know the times and seasons. So where do they go for that?

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Well, our name is LTI ministries, but we make our website real short, easy aim dot U.S. of course you can get all my books on Amazon. Just put my name in mark belts, not blitz belts. And, they’ll be able to find me on Amazon even if they spell it wrong. But you can go to our, home address esm dot u.s.

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Esm.us. All right. Well, I will definitely put that in the show notes. Mark, I thank you so much for for being on. This has been fascinating conversation. I definitely want to have you back as we kind of talk because as we were saying beforehand, things were happening so fast that there’s going to be a lot that’s coming up.

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So any of these things that you also want to talk about, feel free to reach out and let us know, because we’d love to have you back on.

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Well, thank you so much for having me on. And.