"It isn't just your neighbors; the principalities and powers in heavenly places, Satan's angels as well as the elect angels, are all watching us and seeing the manifestation of the manifold wisdom of God according to the eternal purpose He purposed in Christ Jesus," says Jordan. "You're just destroying the wisdom of the Adversary. How do you think that makes them feel?"
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When Bach wrote Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, he incorrectly assumed the “desire of all nations” from Haggai 2:7 was a reference to Jesus Christ.
“Haggai is not talking about Believers. Think about it, what nation has there ever been that desired Him?! Look at John 5 to see what the nations desire. Verse 43 says, ‘I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.’
“Jesus Christ’s saying, ‘I came in my Father’s name, you didn’t want me. Another is going to come in his own name and you know who that is? The Antichrist.’
“You know who the nations really desire? They desire the Lie, not the truth. And when the personification of the Lie, the Antichrist, the 'man of sin,' the 'son of perdition,' shows up as that ‘Wicked,’ what do they do? They receive a lie because they didn’t have a love for the truth. So what the world does is they receive the Antichrist, believing and trusting in him.
“There’s never been a time in human history, in all the world, that the nations of this world have desired the God of the Bible. They desire ‘the god of this world.’
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“You look at what’s going on in our country and in Europe today and it’s such a strange thing; people are always talking about liberty and freedom, but you let somebody do some of these terrorist things and what’s the first thing they want to get rid of? That’s why you can’t have political liberty unless you have some internal integrity inside of people that restrains them from doing such things.
“The internal strength of character that is necessary to be who we have been as a nation is gone. It still exists some in the older generations, but the younger generations, for the most part, while you find little nests of people like us around, when you go out there in the culture . . .
"All the things God puts in a culture to de-savage and discipline it and give people the capacity to be strong, Isaiah 14 says what the Antichrist does is he weakens the nations by taking those things out. That’s what’s going on in Haggai; it’s already happened.
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“In the 1960s there was a national radio guy, Carl MacIntire, who had The Twentieth Century Reformation Hour, and he used to say, ‘Remember, the Communists want peace--a piece of this, a piece of that, until they have it all.’ I used to think, ‘That’s a great saying. They want peace, but they spell it different. When they have it all, then there’s p-e-a-c-e.’ Well, that’s what this crafty guy wants.
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“What you’re seeing is going to happen when the Antichrist arises. There are going to be ten nations in that part of the earth. Only ten, and he’s going to come up and take control; subdue three of them and take over all of them and become the head of the ten, and the verse in Daniel says he’s going to do it peaceably and ‘obtain the kingdom by flatteries.’
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“One of the first things he does, it won’t take but 220 days after he signs that covenant with Israel that their temple worship will be restored.
Here’s an outtake from a study Jordan gave a few years ago (Editor's note: I will have a new article tomorrow):
“You know all that stuff going on in Iraq and Syria and with this ISIS, you understand the Europeans drew up the boundary lines of all those nations at the end of World War I so they could have control.
“After World War II, the agreement was made, ‘Okay, now we’ve wiped out Europe and we’ve wiped out the East; we’ll go back and honor the boundaries that were set up after WW I so we don’t have to have another fight as to where the national borders ought to be.’
*****“What you’re seeing is going to happen when the Antichrist arises. There are going to be ten nations in that part of the earth. Only ten, and he’s going to come up and take control; subdue three of them and take over all of them and become the head of the ten, and the verse in Daniel says he’s going to do it peaceably and ‘obtain the kingdom by flatteries.’
"The Antichrist's going to come in and stop the war, have the answer for peace and flatter everybody into thinking, ‘He's the guy!’ Daniel 11:21-22 says, ‘And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.’
“He’s going to come in, deliver Israel, make them rich and gain their loyalty. Verse 25: ‘And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.’
“The Antichrist's going to go out and there’s going to be another big war and verse 27 says, ‘And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.’
“You look at that and you think, ‘That just sounds like modern American politics,’ but what goes on in America goes on everywhere else. Listen, every country is the same way to one extent or another.
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“Now in the middle of all of that mess, verse 31 says, ‘And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.’
“You see there the daily sacrifice and the sanctuary? He has reestablished Judaism. One of the things the Antichrist does is rebuilds Israel’s temple and lets them have back their Mosaic system.
“Verse 32 says, ‘And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.’
“There are going to be some people who understand what’s going on. Verse 35 says, ‘And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.’
“So there’s going to be some wisdom among some people and they’re going to have an awareness. Where are they going to get the awareness? Out of these books (of the Prophets) that we’re reading!
“And Hosea says, ‘Who is wise? He’s going to understand. Who’s prudent? He’s going to know.’ The way they know it is because God gave it to them in a Book. These books!
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“You see that thing, ‘Who is wise?’ Isaiah 28:9 says, ‘Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.’
“How they’re going to know is they’re going to get it out of God’s Word. The Book of Hosea is the 28th book in the Bible. There’s a strange thing about the Book of Isaiah.
“How many books are in the Bible? 66. How many chapters in Isaiah? 66. Isaiah begins, ‘Earth, earth, earth, hear the word.’ The Bible begins in Genesis with, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.’
“Isaiah 66 ends with a new heaven and a new earth and the lake of fire. The last book in the Bible, Revelation, concludes with a new heaven and a new earth and the lake of fire.
“How many books are in the Old Testament? 39. The first book in the New Testament, the Book of Matthew, quotes Isaiah 40 with, ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ John the Baptist shows up in Isaiah 40 just like he shows up in Matthew. Strange thing. If you read Isaiah, you’ll discover that each chapter in Isaiah, the thought patterns match that chapter of the Bible.
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“It is true of the people who see Israel’s religion re-established, and who’s going to establish that? The Antichrist is. That’s what the book of Hebrews is all about.
“When you see that sacrificial Mosaic system and the temple rebuilt and somebody sitting in that temple professing themselves to be God, run! That’s not God; that’s the enemy!
“One of the first things he does, it won’t take but 220 days after he signs that covenant with Israel that their temple worship will be restored.
“It’s going to be a fast moving thing. When they see that happen, instead of saying, ‘Wow, he’s the Messiah,’ it’s going to be, ‘Ooh, he’s the Wicked one we’re going to have to run from!’ "
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