God told Abraham in Genesis 15, “I’m gonna make a covenant with you. I’m gonna give your seed this land (including the West Bank and Gaza). Walk up and down in it, kick the dust, get acquainted with it, it belongs to you!”
God then says, “But, by the way, your descendants are going to go out of the land for 400 years, into a strange land, and then I’m going to bring them back.”
Jordan explains, “Now if the (Jews) are going to be gone for 400 years, what would that tell Satan? He’s got 400 years to put his people in the land, doesn’t he?
“That’s why when God brought Israel back in under Joshua, He said, ‘Go in there, and those seven nations that have since fortified themselves in that land--sunk their roots in and tried to take that land--that’s your land; go in and wipe them all out!’
“And Israel didn’t do that and the conflict you see over there in the Middle East today is the result of Israel not doing what God told them to do in the Book of Joshua.
“See, Hezbollah didn’t just figure out how to do that! Satan says, ‘Dig your foxholes, make your fortifications, and get ready to hold the land.’ So, when God brings Israel up . . .
“God calls the (enemy) OUTLANDISH people; they’re not supposed to be there, but Jesus Christ is going to come back one day and do the job Himself.
“That’s why in Hebrews 4, referring to Joshua back in the Old Testament, it doesn’t say Joshua; it says Jesus. That name is the Greek form of the word Joshua. Both of them mean Jehovah Savior. Joshua’s a type of the Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned to do what Jesus Christ will ultimately do.”
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“Ultimately, it’s all going back to the Middle East. In Daniel 8, you get some detailed information about the kingdom of the Antichrist in ‘the last days.’ Those kings of the east are going to come and join forces with the Antichrist in fighting against the nation of Israel.
“In those ‘last days’ Revelation is talking about, all the nations of the earth, United States included (but the U.S. will be so insignificant at that point it won’t really matter), will gather themselves against Jerusalem and against Israel. The Antichrist will be ruling that part of the world and gathering the influence of the nations under his rubric to fight against God’s plan and purpose in the earth.
“It won’t matter what forces he gathers together, though, God’s plan will still come through. But the Word of God tells you all about this ahead of time. That’s a fascinating thing.
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“The Antichrist is going to reign, not over the whole planet, but over the Middle East. Daniel 8:8, talking about the kingdom of Greece and how the kingdom is going to spawn the reign of the Antichrist, says, ‘Therefore the he goat (defined in verse 21 as Greece) waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.’
“When Greece was divided up, it was divided up into four divisions that we know today as Greece, Turkey, Syria and Egypt. Verse 9 tells us that ‘little horn’ is the Antichrist. Now where does it say he came from? One of those four divisions in the Greek empire.
“We call them Greece, Turkey, Syria and Egypt. In Daniel 11, he’ll identify two of them—the king of the north (which is Syria) and the king of the south (Egypt). The Syrian, the king of the north, becomes the Antichrist.
“So all of the ideas prophecy preachers have been peddling for years--that the Antichrist is really going to come and take over the European Common Market, and the Antichrist is going to be the pope sitting in Rome reigning from Italy, taking over the Middle East from Italy--you know what that is? That’s idle speculation because the Antichrist doesn’t come from Europe! He doesn’t come from the Greek, or even the Turkey division of the Greek empire.
“By the way, the Roman empire was divided into two sections: one in Europe and then the eastern division of Turkey and Syria. So the part of the Roman Empire that he comes from is not the European division; it’s the Middle East division.”
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