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Hello everyone. Karen, with Prophecy Watchers here for our very first Prophecy Answer man segment. Before we jump into that, I just want to remind everyone that we have an upcoming conference Rapture in the Rockies, June 4th through the 7th. We still have a few in person tickets available and we'd love to have you join us. If not, we do have the on demand and streaming option available. Just go to prophecywatchers.com scroll down to the streaming banner or to the conference banner and sign up. However you'd like to join us. We also have a Cruise coming up August 22nd through the 29th. We are going to Alaska and it is going to be an amazing experience. We do still have a few tickets available for that as well. So lots of opportunities to come, travel the world and to catch up with Prophecy Watchers while you're doing it. And we'd love to have you join us however we can get you. And without further ado, let's jump into our very first segment. Mondo, welcome.
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It is always good to be here.
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Are you ready to wear the Prophecy Answer man hat?
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No, I'm going to try to do my best and not embarrass myself.
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Oh, that will never happen. Well, we do have a wonderful stack of questions today. I don't know how many we'll get into, but just starting with the one off the top here, I have a question from Corby in Oklahoma and they would like to know why did Israel want us in this war? It's a great question.
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That is a great question. It's interesting that it seems a little bit of a loaded question, right? In the sense of we've seen a lot of things in the media about Netanyahu or others, or specifically Netanyahu forcing Trump or into the war with Iran. And I guess what I would say to that is anybody that watches the political scene, can anybody make Trump do anything?
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No. 110%?
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Not exactly. So you're like, oh, wow, that's a little bit, again, kind of a loaded question. But I would say that there's a huge background there in the sense that what we've seen recently is some, and I'm glad this has come out, you see some of these old films or segments of where Trump 20 years ago is talking about Iran and he's talking about the need to remove their threat. So this is kind of gets kind of, I guess it would kind of void out the insinuation that Netanyahu or Israel has gotten into the war. I think the other thing is that for those that are Aware of the history. You know, my undergrad was in Jewish studies, so we studied a lot of modern history, the way that Israel formed, and even the Middle east for a long time. So when you look back at all of that whole scenario, there's no doubt, even in 79, with the Iranian revolution, their goal has been from the beginning, and this isn't news, except maybe for some, that they call the United States the Great Satan and they call Israel the Little Satan. And their goal has always been to, to remove what they feel is evil from the world. And no doubt America and all countries are evil, and we have a lot of evil in our country, but yet there's a lot of good people here too, in the country in the sense of. For sure. But their whole. They're Shiites. Iran is Shiites. So in basically answering the question, I don't think that Israel got us into war, I think that we've come to a point where they recognize the threat of the Iranian terror proxies all around, whether it's in Syria, whether it's in Lebanon and the Hezbollah or Hamas in the Gaza Strip, even going down to the Houthis down in the, in the Gulf. So I think what has happened recently is the, the proximity to finalizing a nuclear weapon. That has been the case. And this is, this is not unusual or it's not a mystery in that when you have nuclear or when you have uranium, to have a peaceful nuclear reactor is 3% enrichment. Well, to have a weapon, you need to have 90%. Well, to get from 3% to 60% is a huge deal. And they're currently at 60%. Well, to go from 63 to 60 and then from 60 to 90 is that second half is very easy to do. It's very, very difficult. It's proportionally more difficult to go from 3 to 60 than the 60 to 90, even though the numbers, you know, you're on 57% or whatever. So the fact that they have 60%, you're rich, enriched uranium, they don't need that. There's no, there's no peaceful civil nuclear reactor necessary to have that level. So that's what's happening right now. They have basically like 1400 pounds of 60% enriched uranium. And that's what got us into the war, not Israel. And so I think the geopolitical instability of the region, and no doubt, you know, you just go back to the way that they have financed terror around the area. So it wasn't that Israel drew us in. Israel just happens to be on the front line. And let's be honest, they're the ones that are getting attacked by Hezbollah. They're getting attacked by Hamas. October 7th was October 7th. Would it, would we be in a war with Iran if October 7th didn't happen?
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I was actually just sitting here wondering that.
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Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, they would have continued their terrorism and their proxyism, so to speak, and they would continue to rich. But when they did that, that changed the whole scene of the Middle East.
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Would it be fair to say that Israel doesn't really go picking fights and looking for war anyway? They just want to dwell safely and peacefully within their borders and they keep getting picked on and so they have to turn around and retaliate. And they're really at defending themselves because they've just constantly been picked on over the years.
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Well, it's. Yeah, if you look at the wars, you go back to 48, they were attacked. If you go back to even the 52 situation, they were attacked. If you go to 67, that was the only one that they, that they preemptively. But they were surrounded by like all the armies. The Egyptian army was moved over there. They were surrounded all around. And they're like that. They're here. You know, you don't move armies to our borders, to the borders if we're going to be attacked.
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Right.
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If you look at the 73 or the 73 war, the Yom Kippur war, same thing. They were at the brink. So 82 invasions, stuff like that. So it is true that especially if you look over the last few years, really since 2005, when they gave up Gaza to Hamas, if you look at all those situations, and even recently, there's a lot of years, there's been skirmishes here and there, but in the sense of gaining more ground, like right now they're fully in Lebanon, up to the Litany River. Why? Well, because of the threat of Hezbollah. So they stay there. And what do you have? Hezbollah came and attacked and captured some soldiers from the north. And they're like, we can't have that anymore. So I think what you said is if they truly, if the surrounding neighbors didn't build underground tunnels, I mean, hundreds and hundreds of kilometers, weren't storing up missiles, hundreds of thousands of missiles. Israel wouldn't, they wouldn't do anything. They would stay there. They don't want to. I'll just. This is a lesson. I say they don't want to annex Lebanon. They don't want to annex even really Judea and Sumeria for the most Part because what's commonly called the west bank, because according to their founding documents, if they annex something, well, they have to provide citizenship. So there's a lot of Israelis, Arab Israelis that have citizenship inside Israel proper. Well, they don't want to do that. If you annex it, you have to provide citizenship. Well, if that's the case now, they're. They're not a Jewish state anymore.
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Oh, interesting.
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So they actually don't want to annex some of these places because that would force. According to the Supreme Court, it would force them to provide that and then those people would vote and it's a democracy.
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Wow, I did not know that. The more you know. Okay, well, thank you, Corby, for that question. Moving on. Lisa Suzanne from Mount Vernon, Washington, wrote in My Seventh Day Adventist friend texted me that the word rapture is nowhere in the Bible and she believes we will have to go through the tribulation period before Jesus Christ's second coming. I know about the word harpazo. Are there other concrete references to the rapture of the church we can stand on? My mom is wondering if we are in the beginning of the tribulation with all the horrific world events and wars happening now. She's almost 90 and the thought of us having to go through the tribulation is frightening to her and her friends. Thank you.
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Well, great question for sure. I would say that, number one, this is often the straw man argument against the idea of the rapture, in that if you look in first Thessalonians 4, 16, in the Latin vulgate, you will see the word rapture. There it comes from the root rapio, which again, through all the different conjugations, rapturo is there. So, yes, if you look in English, it's not there. Of course not, because the word rapture comes from a Latin root. So we have like, we talk about even birds that are like a rapture or a raptor. Like a raptor. A raptor type bird is one that comes down and seizes something by force. Like a hawk or something like that. Well, that's the. Even in English, we say, oh, that's a raptor. It comes from the Latin root. And so in the same way, the reason why you're not going to find that word in English is for that reason. So, but again, if you go to Latin, it's there. So people that say, they're like. I mean, if you. The more you know. Right. If you knew that that's not the case. The second thing I would say is that as it relates to. Are we in the tribulation right now? Absolutely not. 100% guaranteed. Because Jesus describes the tribulation period, as in Matthew 24, as the worst time in history. And I find it interesting that, you know, like, tonight I might go home. I might. Maybe I'll have ice cream. You know, I went out to dinner, like a special dinner last week. I'm having steak. I'm like, wow, this tribulation living is pretty nice.
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Pretty cushy.
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Yeah, it's pretty cushy. I'm having steak, I'm having ice cream. Okay. Or whatever. So when you read Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13, the Olivet discourse passages, and I just encourage people write down all the things that you see and then read Revelation 6 through 18, where you have, you know, half of the world dying. You have pestilence and war, and you have things coming out of the heavens.
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You have waters turning into blood, waters
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turning into blood, ships. The third of the ships. It's like none of that matches what's happening right now. We're still living in the Luke 17 era, which Jesus said that before the time of judgment arrives, people will be buying and selling and planting and, you know, marrying and giving in marriage, relatively normal. There's always trouble around the world. Jesus said in John 16:33, you're always going to have tribulation. That's general, but not the tribulation. So there's no way we're living in that time. I think I wish people could truly grasp what that tribulation period is going to be, because it is beyond what we've ever experienced. And Jesus uses that phraseology that this is never. It is so bad. That has never existed in the history of humanity from all of creation, and it includes the Flood. You think about that language, he said, and it'll never be again. And he said, in fact, it is so bad that if it wasn't limited to seven years, every human would die.
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I really picture it that all of society is just going to fall apart. We're not going to be getting up and going to a 9 to 5. There will not be a McDonald's to drive through and get your, you know, hot hamburger on the way home from work. Everything. There will be a question mark about everything. We will not be planning fun trips or parties or vacations. I just feel like we're going to be living on a moment by moment. Will I be alive this time tomorrow? And how can I get my next meal so that I don't starve because the cabinets are empty and the Grocery stores are empty. That's where I kind of picture the tribulation being.
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And you see this. And I'll just say this last thing. In Amos, chapter five, it says, woe to those who desire the day of the Lord, because you had certain people like, I wish the day of the Lord would come, you know, But God says it's like you're running from the bear and you barely escape into the house, and you're like, oh, oh. And then a snake bites you, right?
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Yeah.
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So he said, there's no escape. And this is what Paul says in Thessalonians first, Thessalonians 5, that when people are saying, oh, peace and safety, sudden destruction comes upon them, and it says, they will not escape. And so we're not in the tribulation. We can take comfort in the rapture. Luke 17, that's my go. Do you want to say what verses? Jesus describes a rescue, and Lot and his family were dragged out by the angels. And the angels said, we cannot bring judgment on Sodom until we bring you out. So that's a rescue. And Jesus says, if you want to know what it's going to be like at the end, the days of the Son of Man, I'm showing you this exact pattern that we will be supernaturally removed before the judgment lands. But when the judgment lands, it'll come upon the people that are unsuspecting. And they're buying and they're selling and they're planning their wedding. Weddings. But then after that, they're not planning weddings, they're planning their next meal.
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay, next question is from Richard in McKinney, Texas. How long? Days, weeks, months, years, do you anticipate between the Rapture and the beginning of the tribulation? It's a great question.
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Yeah, it's a question that we get quite often. And I remember one of the conferences we had a few years ago. We had Bill Salus and LA was up there and Billy Crone, and we were doing a Q and A, and this question came up, and I thought, oh, I want to. You know, I was the moderator. I thought, oh, ask this. And one of the things that was asked at that time was this same question. Can you give specific Bible references? And what you saw in there was, I know Bill Salus, our brother in the Lord. He believes there's kind of a considerable time there. And yet there was. I kind of pressed him because of the question. I said, well, hey, what specific verses? And he goes, well, I don't really have any specific verses to show a Gap. This is typically called the gap. And it was a lot, you know, from his perspective. And again, you know, we love him. He had. He was inferential. And then Billy Crone was like, well, yeah, I mean, people talk about the gap in la, similar things. And then I gave my conclusion, but based on Luke 17, which I just brought up, I don't see a gap at all really. Because in Luke 17, again, Jesus says, if you want to understand the days of the Son of Man, the return plural, that whole period, look at Lot. And it says on the very same day that Lot left is when the judgment landed.
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Oh yeah.
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So you have a rescue there, which doesn't provide. And when in Hebrew, it's a little challenging. In Genesis 7, in a sense, when Noah went on the ark. So the question is, did he go on the. Did he get on the ark and then seven days later the rain came? Or did God say, seven days from now, get on the ark, the rain's coming. So I tend, based on the parallels with Lot, that God gave Noah a seven day warning. Seven days is when it's coming, so get on the ark. And of course it took some time to bring all the animals. So nevertheless, he gets in the ark, the rain comes that very same day when Lot. And we know the story that Genesis 19 is beautiful, that remember, it was so immediate, the rescue that Jesus said, remember Lot's wife, she. She didn't escape. And so the, the judgment was at the, at the moment they barely escaped.
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You know, it was on their heels.
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It was on their heels and they. And then the judgment came. So I think that's very crystal clear in the sense of I have, you know, we have a text that Jesus pointed, if you want to understand. So in that sense, I don't think there's much of a gap at all. I could be wrong. But again, I think that text is pretty strong.
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I don't think it's an essential. Like you can agree on the essentials and disagree on the non essentials. I don't feel like that's an essential question. I always had a very fuzzy question mark. But that is very interesting, the two instances of judgment that, that they were both barely out of there in the nick of time. And that is God's mercy, if you look at it from that perspective, that he wants to wait until the very, very, very last moment so that no one is going to be left behind that doesn't want to choose him first. Beautiful. Okay, next question is from Janice in Bayfield, Colorado. Why will the Jews go Back to offering animal sacrifices during the millennium as taught in Ezekiel chapters 40 to 48. And I see you have notes all over this thing. So you have quite the answer mapped out.
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I'm ready for this one. I put some notes down because this is a absolute great question. It's a question that comes up often because it also, it ultimately comes down to this. She's asking the question and it's like, well, hey, why would the Jews be offering sacrifices? I thought, Jesus is enough, Jesus is sufficient. It's a logical question. So the way I answer it. Let me just read a passage of scripture. I hope people won't mind reading the Bible here in Hebrews chapter 10. He's writing to the Jewish people and he says, for the law having a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never, with these same sacrifices which they offer continually, year by year, make those who approach perfect. So the writer is writing this to the Jews before the temple was destroyed. So you know, Christianity obviously had been established, many Jews got saved. But then you go look at the temple, the temple's still going there, the sacrifices are still being offered from basically 30 AD to 70 AD. So for this 40 year period. So the writer is writing this to the Jewish people in this context, there's the temple, it's not destroyed yet. And he says, for then would they not have ceased to be offered for the worshipers once purified would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices that are happening right over there, there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. So you think, okay, well then if the blood of bulls and goats from that Old Testament system which was prescribed by God, if it didn't take away sins, then why'd they do it? Well, he says it's a shadow of the good things to come. And so how I first answer this question is the sacrifices that begin in the millennial period by the Jewish people in Jerusalem have the same function. Jesus is sufficient. Jesus will always be sufficient. But, well, what's the function? Those sacrifices during that time are function in the same exact way as they did in the Old Testament. Well, what do you mean? Well, they never provided, they never provided in the Old Testament forgiveness or taken away as it says here, that they would take away sins. They're not going to take away sins in the millennium. Well, the reason why they had them is because they pointed forward to what we understand as Jesus sacrifice. Well, in the millennial period, they're going to point backwards to Jesus's sacrifice. And so both of them are not an affront. If those are an affront to Jesus's sacrifice, well, the same way then these would be. They're both memorial type. I wouldn't even call them symbolic because they are real. But they're a shadow of the good things to come. Well, in that sense, they're a shadow of those things that had come, which is Jesus's sacrifice. So what God does, though, is he uses this as always, they same function. They are meant as object lessons. In the Old Testament, they were meant as object lessons. And in the New Covenant, in the millennial period, they'll be there as object lessons as well. Because what you see there, and this will give me an opportunity to share a couple other little details, because what's happening in Ezekiel 40:48? Well, we have a new temple that is there and this, this temple. It's fascinating that when you look at the temple area, like today or even in Jesus's time, the Temple Mount, and the temple was sitting in the middle. 37 acres, 36 acres. According to Ezekiel 40:48, if you read it in a very normal, literal way, it's never been fulfilled in history. It's 640 acres. It's huge. The whole complex, it's a mile square. So right now, if you look, if you're standing at the western wall and you look east across the Temple Mount over to the Mount of Olives, that's like 0.6 miles. So you're like, whoa, how do you get that? The new temple in the millennial period, it's physical, it's literal. There's no reason not to take it. In a very straightforward way, the whole thing has changed. So you're going from the current one over to the Mount of Olives and you're going to go like a half mile that way. And we know in Isaiah chapter 2 that at the time there's all these topographical changes. Zechariah 14 says the same thing, that when Jesus comes back, he's going to stand on the Mount of Olives and it's going to split. So that whole area is going to be raised up to be the highest mountain in the land. And so there you have the temple on top. So there's a lot of changes that happen during the millennial period. And this is where you come to prophecy that these prophecies aren't spiritual, they're not figurative. There's nothing in the text that would show them to be Figurative or spiritual, you go, well, they've never been fulfilled in a literal way. That's why we're going to have a millennium. All these, the wolf laying down with the lamb, the lion eating straw like an ox. Those are normal, literal things that even if you were to try to interpret them spiritually, you go, well, what does that really mean? Oh, it's just peace and harmony. I think when the Bible says what it says, it says again, it talks about the priests, it talks about. I have a whole list of. There's passovers there in Ezekiel 45. But it's different than what we see in Exodus 12. You have daily offerings, you have sin offerings, you have the feast of tabernacles being celebrated. You have the Sabbath offerings, you have the new moon offerings. You have all these because the Jews who are saved by then are going to be the center. And you know, Jesus is going to be there ruling and reigning from Jerusalem, like Psalm 2 and other passages. So I would just say that we don't need to be offended by the fact that there's sacrifices being offered. We just say they're going to be memorial, just like they were. They're going to be a memorial looking back, just like those sacrifices were a memorial looking forward.
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So all the Jews that are going to be in the millennial kingdom, they are of course going to recognize Jesus as Messiah. So they're not doing it out of ignorance 100%.
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Because Jesus is going to be ruling from. He's the king of kings. He's going to be ruling over all nations. But Psalm 2, God says, I will set my king on my holy hill of Zion, which is there again in context, would be Jerusalem. So when Jesus returns and he saves the 1/3 that survive, 1 third Jews that survived during the tribulation period, the time of Jacob's trouble. Zechariah 13:8 says that they will be refined and one third will come through. Romans 11:26 says that all Israel will be saved and he will remove ungodliness from Jacob. So once they go into the kingdom, all the Jews will be saved. And so this is where, again, you have so many literal things that are happening. Where in Matthew 19, Jesus says to the. To the 12 apostles, you will sit on 12 thrones, judging the tribes of Israel in the kingdom. Well, that hasn't happened yet. They're not sitting on 12 thrones anywhere. So if we take it in a straightforward way, there's no offense here, they are not trying to get around Jesus, but Jesus is going to be like, this is what we have. And it's going to be pointing to what I did.
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Yeah, so it's more of like an observance or I'm thinking of like, the Passover. They do the Passover every year. Because it's a reminder.
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It's a reminder.
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So in that same way, the sacrifice is a reminder, and it's pointing back to. To Jesus and what he's done for them.
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100% the same thing it did in the Old Testament. Again, it tells us, never took away sin. The same function in the Old Testament is the same function in there. Just looking back rather than forward.
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Interesting. Okay, this next question is from Carla in Raton, New Mexico. Will we all speak the same language in the millennial kingdom? That is a fascinating question. I'd love to hear the answer. Mondo.
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You know, it kind of goes. There is no specific answer that says we all speak the same language. I can give you my conjecture.
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Okay.
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Some people say, oh, we're all going to speak Hebrew. Which, you know, maybe, but I actually don't think so. The reason why is because, as we just talked about in the previous question, during the millennial period, if people do a study on this, they'll see there's. The nations are at work. Nations. The nations. The goyim. Jesus will be a light to the nations. We see in Zechariah 14 as an example with the feast of Tabernacles, that the nations will have to come to Jerusalem several times a year or at least once to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. So when you look out, God is glorified by the diversity. So when you have the nations over there, we know that Edom is going to come back, Assyria's going to come back, Israel is going to be the head, no doubt. But all the nations are a beautiful thing. And so I don't think that God is going to necessarily force Hebrew on everybody, but if he does, he does. But the different languages are beautiful. Now, for us who are of the church and who are ruling and reigning in our glorified bodies, I think we'll have it all.
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I was hoping you would say that
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we are going to be very multilingual at that time, because we're going to need to be in order to accomplish his purposes. So at the end of the day, don't really know for sure. But my inclination is the nations are gonna have their own cultures, and that brings glory to God. I mean, especially now if you go on a missionary trip and you see people worshiping God in Africa or Mexico, or whatever. You're just like, wow, this is really cool.
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Yeah. It's a unique expression of God's creativity, is all the different uniqueness and cultures and languages and all of that.
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They bring glory. Yep. Yeah.
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Moving right along, we have a question from Jimmy in Greenville, South Carolina. When we get to heaven, will we see the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as one or as three? You guys really brought it with these questions. I would love to know the answer to this one, too.
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I felt the same way. Like, man, these are good. It was really hard, and we're gonna do our best. We have a stack, which is awesome. But to me, from a biblical perspective, there is an answer, I would say, because how do we answer that? Well, we know that God is one for sure, but there's two ways to look at this. One is in. When you look at Daniel chapter 7 as an example, that's a throne room scene. So he's talking about when we get to heaven. In Daniel chapter seven, you see the ancient of days, which is a way to speak about God the Father, you know, sitting on throne. But then you see this other one, like a son of man coming over and he gets a throne. And you're like, oh, wow, look at that now. And so, of course, then you have others that are part of what we understand as the divine council, other angelic beings or whatever, they're on thrones, you know, in the sense of blow. Well, when you get to Revelation 4 and 5, we see. What do we see there? Well, we see this figure on the throne, rainbow colors. You know, it's pretty amazing. And you could tell. I mean, this person is important. But then what else? You see a lamb, as if it was slain. So the lamb is now there, separate from the person on the throne, but yet right there in the midst of the throne. And then you have the seven spirits of God or the sevenfold spirit of God there, right in the midst of the throne. So you have one hub of power, but yet you see a distinction, not a separation, because God can't be separated, but. But you see a distinction between the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit as one God there. So I find it absolutely fascinating. But when you. I feel sorry for some, I would say, you know, maybe even rabbinic Jews today who are very monolithic in their viewpoints, because I think they forget to see some of the Old Testament imagery as it relates to Jesus and even in his pre incarnation, Right? They see God is. In Hebrew, they say God is yahid, an absolute unity, like an Islamic person would. But In Deuteronomy chapter 6, it says that God is echad, which is a composite oneness, which is the same phraseology that's used in Genesis 2:24, referring to marriage, that the two become one. So the two are one. But there's a distinction there. And so in the same way the word echad is used of God and. And they fail to see that because they don't put Jesus in the middle. When you put Jesus in the middle and even the Holy Spirit referenced there. Isaiah 48 is another passage that's helpful where you see the Father speaking to the Messiah, the Son, about sending his Holy Spirit. There's a tri unity there. So I think that when we get to heaven, we're going to see the same thing that John saw in Revelation 4. 5.
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Kind of like it's reminding me of when we receive Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit is within us. So we are connected in a way that I heard the analogy once of putting a tea bag in hot water and the tea and the water are now combined into one. You cannot separate the two.
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So you can distinguish them but not separate.
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Right, right. So when we're in heaven and we're interacting with Father God, we're somehow still interacting with all three, even though we're specifically connecting with Father God in the moment. This trippy way that I don't think our brains can comprehend that yet. But he has it figured out.
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But we see it again, the Lamb, we see the Spirit, and we see this, the person, which in a sense would be the Father and the throne with the rainbow and the sea. So they're all three are represented here.
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Very cool. Okay, the next question is from Brian in Houston. Will there be jails or prisons in the Millennium Kingdom?
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Now this is kind of fun. And again, sometimes I'm sorry, I can't like whip out a Bible verse that speaks about jails. What we do see is in Isaiah 65 and other passages of Scripture when it refers to the millennial period, that there is sin. In the millennial period, we know that Jesus is ruling with a rod of iron. Psalm 2 says that. And Revelation 2 and 3. I'll speak about this. Revelation 19, that he's going to be ruling with a rod of iron, which means that for those believers that survive the seven year tribulation, we're already in our glorified bodies. So sin isn't going to affect us anymore. But when those believers go in, they're going in their normal natural bodies, so they're going to marry. Because again, Luke 20 says that those who attain the resurrection or the glorification, there's no more marriage for them. But those people are still in their natural, normal bodies. So they haven't attained to the resurrection yet. Everybody will eventually, but not during the millennial period. So which means they're going to have kids and Satan is bound, the demons are bound. So any temptations you would have would be internal, not external. So there's going to be at least no supernatural external temptations. You might have a wicked person maybe tempt you. But part of our job as the church and the resurrected saints again are going to be ruling and reigning with Jesus. And we're going to be. We're going to be part of his government. Comes back to the question, don't know exactly. Is there going to be a jail? What we do know, I don't think so. I think that there. I don't think we're going to have to have a whole bunch of jail all these people. Because honestly, it's not that you didn't have prison in ancient times, because you did. But for the most part, judgment was swift and so you would get judged. Whatever. You get your lashes and you'd go home. But it wasn't this idea like today where we're sitting there a burden on society, caring for all these, these things. I don't. That's not going to work that way. But there are going to. There is going to be sin. It's going to be judged. Jesus is going to have a rod of iron. We're going to be part of the implementation of that. And I think people will get their act together. But also I think one of the reasons that God does allow sin during this time, again, everything's changed. Jesus is there ruling there he is the king of kings. Isn't this awesome? The loving Jesus. But yet people still the temptation, the sinfulness of sin. God's like, I want to show you guys that even though I make the world perfect, the wolf again is laying down with the lamb. The child is there at the cobra hole, playing. Nothing will hurt or harm in all my holy mountain. There's something inside the sinfulness of this fleshly existence. God says, man, it just, it's pervasive. It's like Leaven, it just permeates. And so I think for the most part it will be squashed and people will be judged. But I don't think necessarily that there's going to be prisons like we understand them today. Could I be wrong? Yes. But I can't give you a verse.
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A
Well, to me that would make sense that there will be sin, but it won't be running rampant in a way that we just. We can't control, we can't contain. We just have to throw you all into a jail cell and, you know, throw away the key. And especially with Jesus on the throne, like, Jesus is gonna be on the throne. He's gonna have things under control.
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B
So perfect wisdom and power and righteousness and goodness.
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A
Yes, I agree. Okay, last question. We're gonna go over time a little bit, but I really wanna know the answer. So, Beverly in Taos, New Mexico, do we have a guardian angel assigned to us prior or after birth or not at all?
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B
This is great. And again, there's only pretty much one passage that would speak about that. And it's in Matthew 18. And the context here is in reference to children. So in Matthew 18, it says, Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. So is this a child? Which I think that's at least that. Could it. Could it be in reference to someone who is new in their faith? You know, you could be 50 and get saved and they would call you a baby Christian, which is reasonable because you're born again and you're young. But he says, here, take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in heaven, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. For the Son of man has come to seek and save that which was lost. So you think, wait a minute, wait a minute. Their angel, it's in the Greek, it's a possessive. So he says, don't offend one of these, because their possessive angel is always before the face of my Father. So you're like, oh, that's interesting. I didn't know I had my angel who's before the face of the Father. Now, is that only a reference to kids or is it reference to believers? So I think in some ways we know, according to Hebrews 13:2, that we entertain angels unaware. But this would seem to indicate that there is a certain level of assignment. If you wanted to say that. We know Hebrews 1:14 says the same thing, that angels are given an assignment to minister to those who inherit salvation, which again, are believers. So I wish I had more. These are the times when you go, lord, could you given us just one more verse on it? Or something like that? But I find it fascinating that no matter what. Let me just say the other potential negative is that all of a sudden we start talking to our Angel. And I think that's one of the reasons why God would not want us to necessarily have an overabundance. Because instead of talking to him, we would be talking to the angel. Instead of appealing for God's protection, we'd say, hey, Mr. Angel, can you protect me from this? God wants us to focus on him. We see that in Revelation a couple times where John is so overwhelmed that he begins to kind of bow down to the angel and he says, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't. I'm just a fellow servant. Worship him alone. And so I think there's again, God's all wise, but I think that is at least probably one logical reason why God wouldn't want to put too much there. But we do know the angels certainly look into us and they look after us, they minister to us in that way.
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A
This is just my opinion, but I wouldn't think that just as a child we would have that angel and then that angel would be with us. I would, to me, that would make sense that they would be assigned to us, to watch over us and to, you know, they would maybe know us better than other angels. If angels are just constantly coming in and out, you know, you're on shift, you're off shift, you don't know what happened during XYZ time period. So I think that would be very much in line with what that scripture would say. But that's just my opinion. But very, very fascinating. Well, that is all the time that we have today, unfortunately. Thank you all so much for all the questions. They are just making my mind spin and I know they're giving Mondo quite a run for his money to find the answers to all of these. So we are thoroughly enjoying them over here and looking forward to the next segment. Thank you again for joining us and we'll see you here, there or in the air. Thank you so much for joining us today here at Prophecy Watchers. We hope today's program has strengthened your faith in giving you a deeper understanding of God's prophetic word. As you may know, Prophecy Watchers is a viewer supported ministry made possible through the faithful support of friends like you. You can give easily by visiting prophecywatchers.com your generosity helps us keep watch, spread truth and reach even more people with the message of Bible prophecy.