Hi, have you ever heard anyone say, we're living in the last days or the last days are
upon us?
Have you thought lately about what that might mean or why someone might be saying that?
Hi, my name is Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word.
And maybe you've heard these before.
Maybe you've had your pastor teach you these before.
Maybe you've been one of my Bible students in my Bible class, and maybe you've heard
me talk about this before.
If you haven't, I just want to go through some of the major reasons why we know now
more than ever that these are the end times or the last days.
Let's start off with some interesting scripture.
This is 2 Timothy 3, 1 through 5, and this is out of the NIV.
But mark this, there will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient
to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, verse 3, without love, unforgiving, slanderous,
without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers
of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power,
have nothing to do with them.
So come on, Leanne, that's always been going on in society.
We've always had people that were proud or arrogant or disrespectful or whatever.
Okay, maybe so, but I think now we have the internet to teach people how to do it.
You know what I'm saying?
But there's even greater signs than that, and I'm going to leave the greatest sign for
the last one today.
This is out of the NIV, and in the morning, as is from Matthew 16, 3, and in the morning,
today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.
You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you don't know how to interpret
the signs of the times.
You know, we're supposed to be studying our Bibles, and we're supposed to be looking for
those signs.
We're supposed to be watching the news and listening to what's happening in the economy
or globally to think about how that might impact end-time Bible prophecy.
Matthew 24 is a pretty hefty chapter, okay, and it coincides with two other chapters,
and this is Matthew 24, starting in verse 4, and I want to read quite a while.
Bear with me while I read this.
Verse 4 through chapter 14, Jesus answered, watch out that no one deceives you, for many
will come in my name, claiming that I am the Christ, and will deceive many.
Verse 6, you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you're not alarmed.
Such things must happen, but the end will still come.
Okay, we're hearing alarms about war right now, but hasn't there always been alarms and
rumors of war?
Yes, but there's some other reasons we know we're living in the last days.
Verse 7, nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom.
There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Yeah, but there's always been famines and earthquakes.
Now more than ever, we are able to record and keep track of them, and unfortunately,
they are increasing.
Verse 8, it says, all of these are the beginning of birth pains.
Verse 9, then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will
be hated by all nations because of me.
There is certainly a rise of persecution amongst Christians right now, and at that time, many
will turn away from the faith and betray, and they will hate each other.
I don't know about you, but I don't like a lot of the hateful, judgmental things that
Christians say about each other on the web right now.
Verse 11, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
We've seen that certainly lately.
Verse 12, because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
Verse 13, but he who stands firm until the end will be saved.
So there's something to say here about longevity.
Verse 14, I love this verse, and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached to the ends
of the earth.
and then the end shall come.
You know, 20 years ago, I can't remember a worldwide web
that enabled people to preach the gospel freely
all over the world.
You know, when I got on this podcast and I started it out,
I really just thought I was gonna talk
to my former students and my friends and my family,
and I never had any idea that people
would primarily be subscribing from third world countries,
but that's what's happening.
I have an opportunity to speak life into people
I will not see on this side of eternity.
I'll see them in heaven.
Why?
We have the technology now for this gospel
to be preached to the ends of the earth.
All right, so I've got some big reasons,
and I'm gonna leave the biggest ones for last, okay?
All right, so first thing to think about,
we have global communications.
All right, really?
We have the internet, we have satellites,
we have satellite television.
You know, in the book of Revelations,
there's the two witnesses that prophesy,
and halfway through the tribulation,
right when it crosses over into the great tribulation,
these two men are killed,
and their bodies lay dead in the streets for three days,
and then the whole world watches them come back to life.
Have you ever thought about maybe that prophecy
could most definitely be fulfilled right now?
You say, well, why are you paying attention
to all these prophecies?
Because God was faithful to fulfill all the prophecies
in the Old Testament.
How much more is he gonna be faithful
to fulfill the prophecies in the new?
So we watch, we study, we read our Bibles, and we wait.
He's a faithful God, and he's patient,
and he's long-suffering, and he's waiting for everyone
to hear the glorious message of the gospel.
Amen.
So what we're seeing right now,
this is out of Revelations 11, nine through 10.
For three and a half days,
the men from every people, tribe, language, and nation
will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.
Verse 10, the inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them
and will celebrate by sending each other gifts
because the two prophets had tormented
those who lived on the earth.
So not only is the death of these prophets
going to be watched by the whole world,
it's going to be celebrated.
People were so evil and so vile, they didn't wanna hear it.
The next sign, which is kind of interesting,
and this comes out of Jeremiah 31.
For I will restore to my peoples
a pure, clear, clarified language
that they all may call on my name, on the name of the Lord,
to serve him with one accord,
literally a shoulder to shoulder.
That's Zephaniah three, and this is Jeremiah 31, 23.
Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
they shall use this speech in the land of Judah
and in its cities when I bring back their captivity.
The Lord bless you, O home of justice
and the mountain of holiness.
You see, when you get off the plane in Israel
and you walk out in the lobby, everything is in Hebrew.
You get in the buses and you look at the signs
on the internet, it's all in Hebrew.
God said he would use it again,
that it would be restored in the land.
Interesting, huh?
Now, has that ever happened in human history?
Did that happen before World War II?
No, World War I, no.
It's happened now, okay?
Now, we also talked about famines and plagues
out of Revelation six, okay, six verse eight.
I looked and before me there was a pale horse,
its rider was death and Hades,
and followed by these were close behind him
and they were given power over a fourth of the earth
to kill by sword, famine, and plague.
We've seen plague like we've never seen it before.
We have people now manufacturing plague.
Can you believe it?
We now have people trying to stir up problems with famines
because we need fertilizer.
It's just crazy all of the things that are happening.
But I think probably one of the next signs
that's probably really, really interesting for me
besides the global communications, okay,
and besides famine and plague,
is really this system that comes out of Revelation 13.
And I'm sure you've heard about it your whole life
and it's called the Mark of the Beast.
Revelation 13, starting in verse 16.
He forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor,
free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand
and on their forehead, right hand and forehead,
so that no one would be able to buy or sell
unless he had the mark, which was the name of.
the beast or the number of his name.
Now, believe it or not, in my opinion,
I think we're being conditioned for this mark right now,
not because of some sort of a vaccine, that's not it.
We're being conditioned to need some sort of a device
to survive through our cell phones, okay?
And right now they're trying to,
and we know who is doing it,
trying to develop some sort of technology
that will catch this explosion of knowledge
and it will be somehow placed inside your head.
Well, what if your cell phone
were actually like a pair of glasses?
They're developing it.
And these glasses were somehow connected to information.
You look to the left or you look to the right.
I have special education kids who cannot speak or talk,
but they can communicate by moving their eyes, okay?
You're answering your email by looking left.
You're looking at your calendar by looking right.
You're answering your phone by looking down.
It's being developed, okay?
We are being conditioned to need technology and information
and we're becoming more and more dependent upon it.
We want more power.
We want more speed.
We want more convenience.
And it's actually kind of scary,
but you know what also happens during that time?
Well, I'm gonna come back to it.
Hold on.
The next thing that's interesting
actually comes out of Daniel 12.4.
And this is global travel and knowledge.
And then I'm gonna go back to the economic system.
Hang on.
All right, so out of Daniel 12.4.
But you, Daniel, close up and seal the words of the scroll
until the time of the end.
Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.
Who would have ever thought
we would be having Bible studies on Zoom?
Who would have ever thought
we would be able to get on a plane
and fly globally anywhere that we want to?
And with that also comes knowledge.
We're able to communicate globally.
We're able to travel globally.
This explosion of knowledge was prophesied
thousands of years ago.
Did it exist before now?
No.
Did it happen during the time of the Crusaders?
No.
Did it happen during World War II, World War I,
any other war?
No.
It's happening now.
Okay?
Another very interesting sign
is the global economic system.
Now, I don't know about you,
but I've been watching the whole Bitcoin thing happening.
And there is this push
to go to some sort of digital currency.
Have you been following it?
You know, they're wanting to be able to monitor movement
within our bank accounts.
I'm sorry.
I just don't think that information
is necessarily anybody's business.
I like my freedom.
Amen.
All the Americans said, amen.
We want freedom.
I don't want the government in my life.
I want to be able to share the gospel
and preach the word and love people.
But this technology,
this global system of finance is really disturbing
because who's going to control it?
And could that global economic system be the beast?
We don't know,
but it's never existed until now.
There are people, globalists,
who want to control the world economy.
Okay?
You say, well, where is that in the Bible?
Well, I'm back to Revelations 13.
I think I've already read it.
And he also forced everyone, great and small,
poor and free and slave,
to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead
so that no one would be able to buy or sell
unless they had the mark.
Okay.
Why do you think so many people were freaked out
about taking a vaccine?
Is it the mark of the beast?
No.
We're not there yet.
We're not halfway through the tribulation.
On the timeline of when this happens,
it happens three and a half years into the tribulation.
You won't be able to survive.
You won't be able to,
unless you're part of this economic system,
it will be difficult.
The next thing I want to talk about
is probably two of the biggest signs
that have never, ever, ever existed
in human history until now.
And the first one that comes out of Luke 21, verse 24.
And in verse 24, it says,
Jerusalem shall be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles
until the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled.
Now, this is called dispensational theology
and many theologians believe
that when we got to the end of that timeframe,
it was like a shift in human time, in human history.
And I'm not that, you know
scholar when it comes to comparing the Hebrew and the Aramaic and and all of the things that are listed in the book of Daniel,
but when you think about it when Israel was went to war in
1967 and
Jerusalem came back into the hands of the Jews and
The Jews were able to go back up onto the Temple Mount and they were able to establish Jerusalem as their capital
That had not happened ever in human history
That's a big one Donald Trump put the at the American Embassy back in Jerusalem, that was a big deal
That's out of Luke 21 and Luke 21 parallels a lot Matthew 24, okay
It's a sign
It's a sign and the last big one that I
always refer to
That is really significant globally
is
the formation of the nation of Israel
May 16th
1948
Israel came back into the hands of the Jews. I think I have that date, right? If I don't I'll try to fix it down below
And why is that significant?
Because it was prophesied in Isaiah 66 verse 8 starting verse 8 who's ever heard of such a thing
Who has ever seen?
such a thing
Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion and labor than she gives birth to her children
You know
Israel was born in a day
When they passed that legislation when Truman said yes, we're gonna give them their own nation. We're gonna give them a land
When the Holocaust survivors were coming by boatloads from from Europe to re-establish a lane
And you know when they came to the land, not only was that a sign in the wonder of
Bringing the dysphoria from the ends of the earth, but they continue to come back to the land
Which is also Bible prophecy and then what they did in the land how they restored the land how it's blooming. It's flowering
It's growing. It's prospering
It has an army that can stand up to anyone that would try to attack it
This is all Bible prophecy. It's coming to pass
It's never happened in any other human lifetime
It's an exciting time to be alive
It's an exciting time to read your Bible with anticipation and look forward to what is God gonna do next on the earth?
Are you awake? Are you watching what he's doing?
This promise comes out of Psalms 139
Five and six you've gone into my future to prepare the way and in my end in kindness
You follow behind me to spare me from the harm of my past. You've laid your hand on me
This is too wonderful deep and incomprehensible
Your understanding of me brings me wonder and strength
You know God knows you and he knows that you were born for such a time as this
He knows that you're gonna walk into the the blessing of God in the season that you're gonna be a light to other
Believers that you're gonna share the Word of God
You were born for this. So don't don't look at this with dread. Look at this with
Anticipation God is a big God
He's doing big and exciting things in our lives and you get to be a part of it
You know, I love the saying that says
Why watch Bible prophecy when you can be a part of it and
By watching this broadcast
You're you're a part of it. Who knows who's listening to this or where you are. I
Just want to thank you for allowing me to share things that are near and dear to my heart
And I want you to always remember that you were born to live in such a time as this. He's faithful and
It shall come to pass
Have a great day. Thank you for listening
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