THE MAN WHO SAW THE END OF THE WORLD

➡ The speaker shares a vivid dream he had over 15 years ago, where he witnessed a beautiful night sky that suddenly turned chaotic, causing panic among people. However, he felt a peaceful presence and was lifted up, seeing his wife beside him. They were transported to a beautiful, peaceful place filled with vibrant colors and joyful sounds. Upon asking if this was heaven, a voice welcomed him home. The dream was so real and profound that he hesitated to share it for years, fearing it might fade away.
➡ The speaker shares a profound dream he had years ago with his wife, who then tells him to ask their grandson about a similar dream he had as a child. The grandson’s dream mirrors the speaker’s dream in detail, leading the family to believe that these shared experiences are divine messages. The speaker later shares this story at a conference, where he encounters a stranger who had the same dream, further reinforcing their belief in the spiritual significance of these dreams.
➡ A woman named Veronica approached me at a book signing, visibly upset. She had a dream that she felt was a message from God and believed I could interpret it. The dream mirrored one I had years ago about the Rapture, which I explained to her. This led to a discussion about her recent return to faith and her desire to serve in some form of ministry.
➡ A pastor shares a story about a woman named Veronica who had a dream similar to his and his grandson’s about the Rapture. Veronica, who is from the same Peruvian town where the pastor’s church runs a school, believes this is a sign from God. The pastor encourages people to get right with Jesus Christ, believing we are living in prophetic times. He warns against the dangers of modern societal changes and the misuse of technology, urging people to understand that time is getting short.
➡ The text discusses the rapid advancements in technology, such as genetic editing and artificial intelligence, and their potential for both good and harm. It also highlights the return of Israel and Jerusalem as significant prophetic events, suggesting we are living in the ‘last days’ before the return of Jesus Christ. The author emphasizes that these ‘last days’ should not be feared, but seen as the end of man’s rule and the beginning of Jesus’ reign. Despite the uncertainty of when these events will occur, the author believes they are imminent due to the fast-paced changes in our world.
➡ The speaker believes we are living in the end times due to rapid advancements in technology and global changes. Despite this, he encourages people not to fear but to live their lives fully, planning for the future and enjoying the present. He emphasizes the importance of being ambassadors for the coming kingdom, standing firm in faith, and spreading the message of salvation. He also stresses the need to encourage and equip others during these times.

As amazing as the whole story is, and I think even your audience would agree, by the time I’m finished, they’re going to go, oh my gosh, that’s, that’s unbelievable. And it would be unbelievable except that, as you heard, is so witnessed and verified by people who were there when these things happened to me and people were telling me things. You’ll understand this as soon as I get into the story. But God finally, I mean, I kind of kept it to myself for years until he kept verifying. It was like the Lord saying, carl, you must share this.

My people need to know this. I didn’t give this to you for you to just sit around and bask in. So here’s how it went years ago, and I would have to guess right now, I would say more than 15 years ago, it started. I just, I had. I’m going to just give the short story, bottom line is I had a dream in the middle of the night and. But like the apostle Paul says, I don’t know if I was in the body or out of the body. All I know is I was caught up to paradise.

Well, I’m not claiming it was equal to that, but I’m saying it was more than a dream somehow, because to this day, all these years later, it is so fresh. I can still smell the smells, I can still see the sights. Yes, I could smell smells. I mean, it was unbelievable. It was like I physically was somewhere else. But it wasn’t an out of body experience that I knew I was out of my body. I thought it was a dream until I woke up. And then it was so startlingly real that it took me several years before I shared it with anybody because it kind of freaked me out.

Here’s what happened. So I go to bed, go to sleep. In my dream, vision, whatever. I dreamed that I was standing in a field and it was nighttime and I was looking at the expanse of the sky. I mean, I might have been in big sky country or something. I mean, there’s no mountains, there were no buildings in front of me, just the horizon, the beauty of the heavens. It was breathtaking. Behind me I could hear the sounds of life. I could hear horns honking, people talking, conversations. I couldn’t make out specific words, but like multitudes of people talking, cheering, maybe watching a ball game, heard babies crying.

You know, not in terror or anything, just baby talk and crying and people talking. It was the sounds of life. I never turned around. I had. I don’t know if I was prohibited from doing that. I had no Inkling to do it. I was looking at the expanse of the sky. Beautiful, beautiful night. Hearing all of the sounds behind me of life. Not a care in the world. As I was watching the stars and constellations. And I can remember my dream identifying a couple of the constellations that I know and literally seeing them. And then the next thing I know is that the stars begin to take on colors.

And I see these colors in my dream. And I can remember thinking, not only is this beautiful, but this is very unusual. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen this phenomenon before. And then I would see things streaking across the sky, maybe like a comet or something. But it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen with colors involved in it. And then some of the constellations began to kind of almost swirl. Not like. Like a fan, but I mean, just kind of started moving like that. And then they started shifting positions a little bit. Then I can remember thinking, okay, something supernatural is going on.

Now all this is happening in my mind as I’m watching. I’m still hearing the sounds of life. Then I hear the sounds of life behind me. Getting a little more panicked. It’s like they’re seeing it too, and they don’t know what to make of it. I can remember that I didn’t have a feeling of terror. I had a feeling of awe and wonder and. And thinking, something is happening in the heavens. There’s a shifting, there’s a shattering, there’s something is going on supernatural. And then the stars appeared literally to fall from the sky. Not just fall, but to be zooming towards the earth at the same time that it looked like.

Well, now I know the scriptures that talk about the heavens being rolled up like a scroll. It looked like almost like a dimensional shift that was taking place. And then the streaking coming down. And then the sounds of life behind me. Holy terror. People were shrieking, screaming. You could hear people. Oh my God. And you know, and then sirens were going off and warning sounds, and it was like something cataclysmic was happening. I’m still watching it. It was happening so quickly. And I remember thinking, well, why don’t. I don’t have any fear? I mean, the next thing I know, there is a presence beside me.

I’m not allowed to look, or I didn’t look, but I was aware that I was in the midst the arms of a presence or in. In the midst of a presence, a personal presence. And the next thing I know, I’m just being lifted up and I’m not And I’m not talking about some kind of cheesy movie of the rapture or anything. It’s just. It was real. It was smooth. It was peaceful. I look over to my left, and now the whole time, I hadn’t looked left or right, but now I look my left. My wife is right there, and she’s such a woman of God, and she knew the Lord long before I did.

And she’s looking at me. She’s smiling. And we just had this knowing look. We didn’t even communicate, but we knew what was happening. And we get whisked up, and the next thing I know, it’s like watching a Star wars movie. And warp speed. Everything just went, you know, just into a streak and into a flash of light, and boom. It was like we bursted through another dimension, if you will, A barrier of some sort. No fear, ever. And I’m still aware of this presence, that we were under the control of a benevolent presence. And the next thing I saw was we busted through.

I’m just going to call it a dimensional shift. We busted through another dimension. And before me was the most beautiful. It had to be what the earth looked like when it was first formed by the hand of God. Every. The colors were so vibrant. The smells. The air smelled like potpourri. I can still smell it sometimes. I saw what looked like vill. Beautiful, beautiful little homes. And I could you. Flowers everywhere. You could hear children off in the distance just laughing, having a blast. People. The peace was overwhelming. The sun was just magnificent. And I can remember asking the presence, is this heaven? Is this paradise? And then I heard the voice, and it just said, this is where you will live forever.

Welcome home. And I looked at my wife. She smiled. And I woke up. And like I shared with the congregation, I was. I was furious. I did not want to wake up. I thought, that’s got to be what dying is like for a believer. Once you’re there, you don’t want to go back. I mean, even if there are loved ones behind, you know, somehow it’s all going to be taken care of. You don’t want to go back. Not after smelling and tasting and seeing this. The apostle Paul said that. He said, look, I’m telling you, your mind can’t conceive.

Your ear has never heard, your eyes have never seen. And he was caught up to paradise. He’s the one that said, I don’t know if I was in the body or out of the body, but I went somewhere and I saw things and I heard things that I’m not even permitted to tell at all. So I had something similar to that happen to me. I’m not comparing myself to the apostle Paul. My experience was not near as complete or as detailed as his or John’s or Daniel’s, but that happened to me now. Now it was so real and so profound.

It was unlike anything I thought to myself, before I share this with anybody, if I ever do, I’m going to give it some days and some weeks to see if it kind of goes away. You know how you can have a vivid dream and you think, well, I’ll never forget that, and then three months later, you don’t remember anything, it’s gone, okay? So I just thought, let me just see if that happens. Well, the weeks went by, and all I could do was think about it. Not all I could do, but often I would think about this and just kind of like go into ecstasy.

Just like, just close my eyes. Oh, please let me go back, Please. So I caught myself going to sleep at night saying, lord, could you take me back there? Just take me back there. But it never happened. I never had anything like that before then. I’ve never had anything like that since then. So here’s what I shared with the congregation, because now your viewers are listening. Say, well, that’s pretty cool. But, you know, you could just have bad pizza that night, or you could be lying. You could be making this up. So I know that this is why I didn’t share it.

But here’s what happened some years later, I don’t know, three, four, five years later. My wife and I are very close. We have been since we were married. And we try every afternoon if we’re together. I travel a lot before together, just sit down, have a cup of coffee, just talk for a little an hour, just talk. So we were doing that one day, years after my dream. Several times I started to tell her this dream, but I just. I just hesitated. I just thought, you know, I know my wife would believe me, but it’s so amazing.

How do you describe that? How do you describe that beyond a dream? How do you say it was a dream? But it wasn’t. It was more than that. How do you describe that? I didn’t know how. I didn’t know how to put it in words, so I didn’t. Well, anyway, years later, sitting down, having coffee, my wife is there. And I said, I got to tell you something that happened to me. I said, please don’t think I’m crazy. And she kind of laughed. Well, I already think that you know, we’ve known each other since we were 10.

So, I mean, we’re great buddies. We were having a good time. And I said, so I told her just what I related to you. She’s just spellbound looking at me. She didn’t say a word. And I’m thinking she thinks I’m nuts. But when I finished, these were her words. She said, you need to ask your grandson about his rapture dream. She says. I said, what do you mean? What are you talking about? She says, just, he’s coming this afternoon. And he had it years ago when he was just a little boy. I don’t, like maybe three or four years old, and now he’s much older.

She says, but he’s coming this afternoon to the house. She says, I’m not going to say a word to him. And she said, when he walks in the door, sit him down and just say to him, his name’s Parker. Parker, tell me about your rapture dream. And she said, I want you to just be quiet and listen to him. I said, okay, I didn’t have it. I said, why are you being so mysterious about this? She said, you’re going to love it. You need to ask him. So I’m thinking, well, he’s had something similar, you know, I didn’t know.

So he comes, I ask him, hey, come in. Come in and ask him before we go, I think we’re going to go play a little golf that day or something. I said, before we go, I said, sit down for a minute. I want to talk to you. And so I asked him, I said, he calls his grandmother Gigi. That’s how he was trying to say grandmother when he was one year old, I think. And it just stuck. So he. I said, gigi said to ask you about your rapture dream. Well, he kind of snapped his head around and looked at her like, is it okay if I tell him? And he looked back.

He said, sure. And he said, I’ve never told it to anybody but Gigi. And I said, okay. Well, she told you to tell me because I’ve got something to tell you. And he said, okay. First words out of his mouth. Well, Papa, he said, I was standing in a field and I was looking up into the sky. Basically, he describes everything that happened to me. I mean, seriously. He said, I hear he didn’t call it the sounds of life. He said, I heard people behind me. He said, it sounded like a big city. But he said, I didn’t turn around.

I never saw it. I just heard it. And he said, But I’m looking at the sky. And he said, then the stars started moving. And I thought, how freaky is that? And he said, they started changing colors. And then he describes the whole thing, except he has more detail. He gets it right up to the point where everything’s kind of dimensions are shifting. The sky, it’s like streaks are coming down, like the stars are falling from the heavens. And then he says, but I realized, Papa, that these weren’t stars. These. These were angelic beings. And he says, and we were swept up.

And he said, I was swept up. And he said it was like I was in some kind of like a chariot or something. And he said, and there was an angel that was. Had his arms around the whole thing. He said, I saw him. He said, I talked to him. And he says, and then we were whisked. And he says, and you and Geeky were there, and. And I think he called it a couple other. His mom, dad, people he knew. And he said, I saw their faces, and we’re just going. But he said, but it wasn’t a long trip.

It was instant. And the next thing you know, he says, we’re in. I forgot what he called it. Paradise. I’m going to use the word in this beautiful place. Whatever a small kid would say. And he kind of describes it like me. And then he said, and then I woke up. And I said that. And then my wife’s over there now she’s got tears, and she’s looking. She says, I told you. She says, y’ all had the very same dream. She said, that’s impossible, unless God’s speaking. Well, this story gets more fantastic, as you know, because you heard it.

So I’m listening to all this. I’m celebrating that. I said, have you told your mom and dad? They said no. I said, do you mind if I tell them? He said, no, I don’t mind at this point. So I told them. They were blown away by the whole thing. Okay, so that’s cool. Now it’s a family thing. And of course, we all believe each other. Now, my grandson, when he was just little, I don’t know, three or four, he didn’t know anything about chariots and angels and rapture. But yet that’s the dream he had. And he’s describing it now that he’s older.

He’s saying that’s what happened. He didn’t know anything about mine, so how could he have made up the stars and the colors and the people behind them? And, you know, it’s exactly the same as Mine. So. But now it’s in the family, and we’re kind of glorying in it, celebrating in it, enjoying the peace of it. And we’re all thinking, what does this mean? And I’m. And we all kind of came to the same conclusion, that this God’s revealing stuff. Because you can get on the Internet, read about Jesus visions, that Jews are having Jesus visions, Muslims are having rapture dreams.

Some people are seeing hell, some people are seeing heaven. They die, they come back. It’s all over the place. And it’s just like exploding forward. And people may say, well, maybe people have, in every generation have had this. Yeah. But not every generation has had a thing called the Internet and YouTube and Facebook. And so now it’s everywhere. People are talking about it. So I told my family, I said, I don’t know. I said, I’m a preacher of the Word. We’re a minister’s family. We all have ministries. And through the mouth of a child, see, Psalm says, out of the mouths of babes, I will, you know, give my praise.

Then through the mouth of. I’m going to call myself an old man. You know, a pastor preacher, a grandfather. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will dream dreams. Your old men will have visions. Doesn’t the word of God say that? Old Testament and New Testament. So here’s this little boy, a child, a son, a grandson, who’s prophesying, if you will, Papa, it was the Rapture, okay, I’m an old man. I’m having a vision, dream of something that matches exactly what he has. So we’re just in the family. That’s all we’ve told. Then about five or six years later, we’re just getting on with life.

I’m preaching, I’m doing conferences. My son comes with me. He’s a grown man. You’ve probably seen him or met him. We are at a prophecy conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It’s in the spring. It has snowed that spring. Snow is all over the ground. The people in Minnesota are mad about it. I’m loving it. Having a great time. Conference center, packed out. It’s a big church, and so it’s packed out. It probably held a thousand people, and it was packed. Foyer is huge. They had our table set up for the speakers at the foyer. So I had just finished preaching, and I’m out in the foyer.

And because I had just finished, people were flocked around my table. Not that I’m such a great speaker. It’s just I had just finished. I was like, come out, I go to my table, had written a couple books, and there they are. Boom, they’re just piled in. My son standing over to my left, you know, just like at my book table. I don’t sell books, but I’m there to talk to people, minister to people, pray with them, maybe sign them if they want their books signed. But my son is. He’s handling all the money and the credit cards and everything and answering people’s questions about the books.

So that’s going on at the table. Crowd of people, people right in front are talking to me, hey, can you sign this? And what’s this book about? And you know, so we’re having those conversations and just I’m looking over the crowd. I’m tall like you are. Not as tall as you are, but I’m tall. And so I can see right over the crowd, and I see this young woman making her way through the back of the crowd, kind of snaking her way through, kind of, kind of sweetly pushing people aside, trying to get up front. And I’m thinking, bless her heart, she wants to come up here bad.

But I’m thinking somebody’s going to slap because, I mean, you know, everybody’s trying to get to me. She’s just breaking her head. And I’m thinking, oh, okay, there’s always one in every crowd, right? You know, and so I’m thinking that about her, bless her heart. And I see when she gets closer, she’s crying. Not boohooing yet, but just tears. And her eyes are swelled and I say, oh, bless her heart. She’s got some heart issues here. She’s wanting to talk to the preacher, you know. Well, she got almost down to the front line. She was standing a couple rows back and looking at me, just kind of looking at me like she wanted to engage me.

And then I saw her just kind of get discouraged. And she turned and walked back through. And I’m thinking, oh, gosh, I want it so bad. Said, wait a minute, wait a minute. But I couldn’t because I’m signing books and people were talking, but I’m watching all of this. And she goes out. I watch her go out the foyer to the big front doors, church. And she goes out. And I said, well, I’ll never see her again. I said, lord, I don’t have a clue what that was about. And Brandon said something about, did you see that girl that.

I said, yeah, I saw it. I don’t know what that was about. And he said, yeah, I don’t either. So we’re going on. Well, anyway, after a while, the crowd’s thinning a little bit, but about 15 minutes later, I’m just still looking over the crowd, talking to people. The door is open. I’m seeing people come and go. I see her again, and she comes in and she starts kind of making her way through the crowd again, but it’s much less now. So she’s. It’s a lot easier. And I’m thinking, all right, now this time I’m going to talk to her because obviously something’s on her mind.

She finally gets up, she comes and stands on the side of the table, and I’m signing my last book here. And she’s, pastor, can I talk to you? And she’s still got swollen eyes and tears. She’s wiping tears off her cheek. I said, yes, ma’. Am. I said, what’s your name? She said, my name’s Veronica. And I said, well, what’s on your heart? I took her hand and said, what’s on your heart? I said, something’s bothering you. Brandon still kind of, you know, he’s putting the money in, he’s stacking the books up, but he’s keeping his eye on old pops over here, you know.

She says, while you were preaching, God spoke to me. And she says, God, God. I’ve never heard the voice of God before. And she says, I didn’t hear it in my ears, but I heard it in here. And she said, he told me that I had to talk to you, that you had the answer for me, that you would know the answer to my question. Well, I had no clue where she was going, and so I wanted to be humble about it. I don’t know everything, but if God told you, maybe I will know. And she says, it’s about a dream I had, and God told me that you could interpret it.

Now, remember, this has been years since I’ve had these dreams. I had the dream and taught my sons. I’m not even thinking about that. I mean, it’s been years, five or six, seven years, and all I’m hearing is, I need you to interpret a dream. Well, I know that that’s done. And I know God can give people that gift. And I know it’s in the Bible, but I’ve never advertised or considered myself to be an interpreter of dreams. I don’t even know my own dreams, you know? Now, the Rapture dream is the one dream in my life.

I understand that, but I’ve had other things where I’ve had to just say, you know, I just. I ate something bad tonight. That’s all I could think, you know, I mean, it seems like might be spiritual, but I just can’t figure that out. So I just forget about it. Well, she says, I want you to interpret this dream. God told me you can interpret it. And I’m thinking, all right, either she didn’t hear from God, or God’s getting ready to give me a gift to interpret this girl’s dream. So I’m ready. I said, well, just tell me and I’ll tell you.

I said, now, I’m not going to try to pretend like I know something if I don’t have a clue. I will tell you. And I hope it doesn’t hurt your feelings, but I said, I don’t jerk people’s chains on that if I don’t know what it is. I. She says, okay. She said, I was standing in a field when she said those words. I didn’t know where she was going to go, but my son grabbed my jacket and just kind of like, dad, listen to this now. She says, and I was looking up in the sky, and I was looking at the stars when she said that.

I mean, I’m about to break down, and I’m looking at her, and she’s. And then she starts describing the whole scenario. I hear the people behind me. I hear children. She said I wasn’t allowed to look. And she said, then the stars started moving. Now, my son Brandon, who’s the father of my grandson, who knows all of that, he just says. He grabs my arm again. He says, oh, my gosh, dad. And Veronica stops. She says, do you know what this is about? And Brandon said something like, he’s had the same dream. And she goes, what? And I said, yes, finish what you’re saying.

And she says, well, I’m almost finished. She says, so the stars come and they fall out of the sky. And then she says. And she says, and I just screamed and I got on the ground and covered my head, and then I woke up. And she says, what? What was that? She says, it was so real. This happened to me months ago. And she said, I told my husband. And we came to this conference. She said I would need an answer to this. She said it was so real, I can’t get it out of my mind.

And you’re telling me. She says, you’re telling me you have the same dream? I said, exactly, except my dream went further and I know what it is. And she goes, oh, my gosh, God did speak to me, you know. I said, veronica, I know what the answer is to this dream. And I said, now this is a thousand people in Minneapolis. I’m from Florida. And she describes my dream and my grandson’s dream. And I saw her come and go. And I asked her, I said, why did you leave? She said, well, I just. I got scared.

And then I couldn’t get to you and my husband and my children. She said, I’ve got little children. They’re out in the car. She said, I went out there and just bawled. And my husband said, you must go back in. You must talk to him. God told you to. So she said, I finally got up the courage and came back. And she said, I’m so glad. So she says, what’s the dream? And I said, it was the Rapture. And I said, apparently I need to talk to you about your relationship with the Lord, because apparently you were getting ready to miss it because you were.

And she starts crying. She said, I’ve just given my life to the Lord recently. And she says, yes, I agree. She says, and I need to come back to the Lord. She said, I’ve been so far from the Lord. And she says, and that’s all I can think is that God’s trying to tell me something bad is getting ready to happen if I don’t get right with him. And she said, I feel like I need to be in ministry. She said, I don’t mean preaching or teaching. She said, I just need to be investing my life somehow in the gospel ministry.

And she says. And I said. So I said, well, let me tell you what happens after the stars fall. I said, those are not stars. Those were angelic beings, and it was the Rapture. And we do go up and we bust through dimensions and barriers, like. And I said, and then the next thing you know, you’re in paradise. And she said, oh, my gosh. And I said, let me tell you, I can’t even describe to you what it smells like, what it looks like, what it sounds like. And she says, I knew. I knew. I knew it was.

Probably had something to do with the Rapture. And I said, well, yes, I said, that’s all I can tell you. That’s all I know. But I said, my grandson has had the exact same dream. I’ve had it. My wife, his grandmother, witnessed him telling it to her. Years went by. He tells it to me. I tell it to his mom and dad. We all go over it together, talk about it. And now more years have gone by. You come to me from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and you’re Standing here telling me the same dream and that God told you I knew what it was.

I said, so this is not a coincidence. This is not bad pizza. This is God speaking. And then she said, well, I’m not really Minneapolis. She says, I come from Peru. And I said, peru? This is what makes the story even more fantastic. I said, me and my church have been involved in Peru for 17 years at that point in huge mission work. And we’ve got a school for children that can’t go to school. And we finance the whole thing. We go down there, we do crusades, we take clothing and back. And then they really needed it.

Very poor clothing and medicine. We take medical missionaries. And I said, we’re very attached to the people. I said, I’ve watched little three and four year olds grow up into young men and women and they graduate from our school, some of them get scholarships to college, families are saved. We get them in a church there. And I said, so I’m very attached to Peru. This is amazing, Veronica. I said, where are you from? She says, well, it’s just a place you probably never heard of. It’s Comas, Lima, Peru. I said, that’s where our school is. Our school is in Coma.

She said, what? I said, it’s called the Jack Gofard Christian School, named after an associate pastor of mine that’s passed away who was from Peru. And she says, I just live a few blocks down the street from there. I know people that work there. I said, this is getting freakier by the moment. So we had a conversation. We loved on each other and prayed. And I asked her, I said, can I tell this story? Can I use your name? She says, yes, Pastor, please feel free. Maybe that’s a part of how I can be used for God’s kingdom.

So I’ve shared it with my church privately several times. I say privately, I mean, not on TV or radio or at a conference, just at my church. And every time I do, they’re blown away by it. And then I have people come up to me just privately and say, I didn’t have a dream like that, but I had a rapture dream too, and I can’t get it out of my mind. So even at this conference, I’ve had probably 20 people and there’s hundreds of people here, but I had about 20 people come to my table over the past couple of days saying, I didn’t have that dream, but I had something very similar where I was caught up.

And thank you for sharing that because now I know I’m not Going crazy. See, there’s no telling what God’s speaking to people, his people. But people don’t know how to share it with an unbelieving world. So that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it now. That’s my story witnessed. You know, that’s. Once Veronica told me that, then I knew. It was like the Lord was trying to get me to share it before, I think. But when Veronica came in, Minneapolis, Minnesota, totally unconnected to me, my son is standing right there witnessing it. Then she tells me she’s from Comus.

Then I knew. I mean, God is just saying, would you please share what I gave you? So here at the conference, first time I’ve shared it. I know some people watching this will still not believe it. And I mean, I can’t help it. I can’t care about that, whether they believe it or not. I know what happened. I know what my grandson told me. I know what Veronica told me. Every one of those were witnessed by people. So what does this mean? I don’t set dates. I don’t think that dream necessarily meant it was going to happen in my lifetime, necessarily feels like it did.

But I could be proven wrong on that. I think God’s just getting his church ready. I think he’s just. I’m a preacher, so I’m somebody that would share it. And now I have. Now it’s going to be on YouTube. It’s going to go to the world. So I think all over the world. God is just getting his people ready to understand that time is getting short. Get right with Jesus Christ. If you are not right with the Lord, get right with him. People might be watching. How did I get right with him? Very quickly. Romans 10, 9.

If you would confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. Romans 10:13. And whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord like this shall be saved. Today can be the day of your salvation. Confess with your mouth. Jesus Christ is Lord. I repent of my sin. You were raised from the dead. You died on Calvary’s cross for me. Please save me. And all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. In your opinion, are we living in the end times? Yeah, Keith, thank you for asking me that, because that truly is a major part of my message these days.

Listen, I’ve been a pastor for. I’m going into my 33rd year as a pastor in one church, so a long time. And I preach the whole Word of God. I don’t just major or focus only on prophecy. Yet I also say we are now living in the most prophetic time since the first coming of Jesus Christ. I could take an hour or two and prove that to you. Do. We don’t have that kind of time right now, but we really are. I preach and teach on it all the time and I’ve written books on it. And this prophecy conference I’m doing, I spent an hour and a half talking about why it is and how we know that we are living in the most prophetic times since the first coming of Jesus.

Now, the deal is, I don’t set dates, though, and I don’t pull out charts and graphs and maps and try to line it all out and say, listen, I’ve got the perfect understanding of this. Now, I’m open to looking at charts and graphs and maps. I’m not making fun of that. I’m just saying that there’s so much. Prophecy is so intricate and complicated. Complicated in that it requires context, it requires foundation, it requires connection to the rest of the scripture. You can’t just go in and take one prophetic utterance, pull it out and think that you can.

You’ve got everything in a box. That was the fault of the Pharisees. They had their. Their vision of what Messiah was supposed to look like, who, where he would come from, what he would do, what he would do for them, that he would actually bolster their ministry and elevate them to places of leadership. They had such a box, their charts, their graphs and their maps, that when Messiah was standing right in front of them, not only did they miss him, they hated him. And in the name of God, they crucified the son of God outside the temple of God, thinking they were doing God a favor.

I don’t want to be that guy. And I’m trying to wake up the church. Look, we’re living in very prophetic times. Israel’s back in the land. Jerusalem now belongs to Israel. You know, the Middle east is on fire. Syria has collapsed. Turkey’s collapsing into an Ottoman empire. Russia’s in alignment with Persia, Persia and North Korea. China’s got their first military base out of their nation. I mean, on and on the borders are collapsing. Western cultures being overrun by Islam and political correctness. And, you know, and we don’t know what a marriage is anymore. We don’t know what a gender is.

We don’t know what a little boy or a little girl is. I mean, people, if we can’t see this, then to Think of the technology explosion. And I love technology. I’m a techno geek, so I’m not one of those old guys that say, well, that newfangled stuff, that’s of the devil. Well, but here’s the deal. We have eaten of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. So every technological boom that comes forward. CRISPR Cas9. That’s amazing. Genetic editing. That’s astounding. Can we use it for good? Absolutely. We can bless people’s lives. But is it going to be used only for good? Absolutely not.

In fact, now it’s already perverted and perverse, and we have not yet seen the bottom of that dark hole. Right. Robotics and artificial intelligence, can we use that for good? Oh, my gosh, it would just make the whole world TR transformed in some wonderful ways. But the problem is, we build the robots, we put artificial intelligence, and then the makers of it say, I know what, let’s have sex with it. It’s just the perversion is uncontrollable. Pandora’s box has been opened. So when you put all this stuff together and then you understand that we’re the first generation in humankind to see the convergence of all this stuff since the return of Israel just 70 years ago, just seven years, our historical lifetime, you and I, neither one of us are 70 years old, but you and I both grew up with.

Israel has always been there in our lifetime, but it really hasn’t. It’s just been seven little decades. Seven little decades. It’s been there 2700 years. Before that, there was no Israel. Yet the word of God said, in the last days, I’m bringing it back. And I’m paraphrasing, but God says it in Ezekiel 38, 39, says it in Deuteronomy 4, several other scriptures. In paraphrasing, he says, and when I do this, then the nations will know that I am the Lord, and there is no other. I will bring them back in the sight of the nations. This will be my witness to the nations that I am the Lord.

And I’m going to paraphrase and add this because this is the implication of it and that we are in the last days, when you see Israel return, we’re 70 years. We’re just a few months. The other side of Jerusalem being restored. Another 2,700-year-old prophecy that we’re living in the midst of. And 98% of the pastors in America never mentioned it, and to this day haven’t mentioned it. So, yes, we’re living in the end times and what that means is we’re getting so close to the return of the Lord. Now, I know there’s going to be an Antichrist system, but as horrific as that is, if we understand the Scriptures correctly, that’s just a short period.

I mean, seven years, maybe. That’s what most of the charts and graphs and maps say, if they’re correct, of taking that literally. Seven years. Well, what’s seven years? I remember seven years ago like it was yesterday. I mean, time’s moving and it’s coming like a flood, just like the word of God said. So I know that’s got to happen. But that could happen in our lifetime. And so, you know, and then, well, where’s the Rapture? There’s Rapture. Is it pre trib, mid trib, post trib? Some people say there’s not even a Rapture. I happen to believe the Scripture is very clear.

There is some kind of a protecting, a taking out, a taking away, a catching away. Those words are actually used, as you probably know, in the original languages, and they’re translated into the English. So the bottom line is we’re living in the most prophetic time since the first coming of Jesus Christ, because the next big prophecy prior to his second coming was the return of Israel. Well, we’re there. Then the return of Jerusalem to Israel. Well, we’re there. Then the collapse of Middle Eastern nations, Syria particularly, the joining of Russia and Persia. And you know, all this stuff.

Well, that’s happening. Terror, terrorism, men’s hearts will fail them because of the terror of those days. Well, we’re there. I mean, you could go on and on and on. Christian persecution will be worse than ever before. Jesus said. And I know that when people look at that, they say, well, that’s in the middle of the great tribulation. Maybe so, but all I know is all of the stats, all of the people that collect this information have recorded very, very accurately and faithfully that in our generation there are more Christians put to death every day and every year collectively in the entirety of Christianity before us.

So we are already living in the prophecy of Jesus where he said, in those last days before the return of the Son of Man, you’ll be put to death. You’ll be killed by the sword, yada, yada, yada, and it’ll be worse than anything before. It’ll be. And already it is. Now, people might be screaming at me right now saying, but it’s going to get worse. I think it is. I think you’re right. All I’m saying is already there so you began by asking the question, you know, are we living in the last days? Now, I want to make sure that your audience understands this, and I’m sure most of them do, but you’re always getting new viewers and listeners and new Christians, new people to the word.

When we use the word, the phrase last days or the end of time, you know, or the great day of the Lord, that can be scary to people. But I want people to get the biblical perspective. All that means is, I don’t want to use the word all because that diminishes it. What it means is it’s the last day of man’s wicked rule and reign and the beginning of the reign of Jesus Christ. In fact, the Bible says we should comfort each other with these words. We should pray for the speed of its coming. We should look forward to that day.

We who? We that are under the blood, we that are on the winning side. We that are ambassadors for the kingdom of Jesus Christ. So do I look forward to the end of time? I look forward to the end of man’s time. I want President Jesus on the throne. King Jesus, if you will, you know, Prime Minister Jesus, whatever title you want to give him, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, I want him on the throne. I mean, I’m looking forward to the restitution of all things. I’m looking forward eventually to a new heaven, a new earth.

No more crying, no more pain, no more death like it was in the garden. The restitution all the way back to the original Garden of Eden scenario and all that God’s going to do from that point forward. So when the Bible speaks of last days, and you ask me, are we in the last days? Yes, we are. I’m not setting dates. I don’t know. Antichrist, the return of the Lord, that could happen in our lifetime. It may be 100 years from now, maybe 200 years from now, but I doubt it. And I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

It might be 2,000 more years from now, but I doubt it. Just everything’s coming together so quickly. And I truly believe part of that countdown clock is the return of Israel. And so that’s happened, and we’re 70 years. That’s a prophetic, profound number. You know, I’m not trying to do numerology here, but the Bible speaks heavily. The 70 weeks of Daniel seven. Seven times ten. The Ten Commandments. The number of God’s administration. Seven. Perfection, completion. Seventy years. Yep. The 70 nations. That’s right. Exactly. Not only that, but I forgot where I was going to go with it now.

But the bottom line is without getting into numerology and trying to pre crystal ball kind of numbers lineup, I’m just speaking of God’s biblical numbers. God is a God of math and numbers and intelligence and design. And so the word of God is designed with that intelligence embedded in it. And a lot of it’s wrapped around numbers. And so here we are, we’re 70 years the other side of Israel, just a few months. Oh, I know what I was going to say. And that is. So when Jerusalem was restored, it was restored, it was restored in a year of jubilee.

We’re the only generation to see all of this happening. And it’s basically all. The clock started ticking on all this when Jerusalem was restored. I said this yesterday in my message, I made this point, just think about it. When Israel was restored to the land in 1948, when that happened, people watched it on a grainy black and white television, if you were lucky, because, you know, you had to have an antenna high enough and there were three networks and if you were lucky you got one of them. And if you were in a city, you might have gotten two or three.

But. And that was information systems back then. That was the technology. Now, I mean, we didn’t have a remote control. I mean, 1948 remote control was, hey son, get up, turn the TV up, change the channel. That was a remote control. The children were the remote control. In 1948 we didn’t have anything. But here’s Israel now. Think in 70 little short years, seven little decades, not even a whole lifetime of most humans, look what’s happened. From grainy black and white television, the restoration of Israel technology has exploded. I mean, we’re into quantum computing and genetic editing and CRISPR CAS 9 and instantaneous information communication networks and satellite and cable and 247 news cycle and military machinery and equipment and circumnavigating the globe and nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers and space shuttles and space probes out in deep space beyond our galaxy.

From a black and white TV seven decades ago to this, and it’s still exploding. AI robotics. I mean, it’s unbelievable. And this has only happened in one generation. And all of these things we’ve talked about are coming like this. So ask me again, Do I think we’re in the end times? Yes, absolutely, we are. I don’t think and I know it, I don’t know a day, but we, we are there. We are there. And it’s time for the church to wake up to this fact. Live accordingly. We are ambassadors for the kingdom. Don’t walk around, it says, don’t be anxious about these things.

God’s not given us a spirit of fear. We’re his representatives. He’s chosen us for this time. We’ve been raised up for such a time as this. I’ve only got 70 or 80 years if I’m blessed to do what I do. So I’m going to do it, you know, but. Yeah, but the end of the world could come. Praise God, I hope it does. The end of man’s filth and the beginning of the righteous reign of Jesus Christ. I’m looking forward to it. So in the meantime, you say, well, how do you, how do you live your life? Carl, As I was saying in my presentation, I mow the grass, I pay the bills, I educate the children and I plan for the future.

I plan for my elder years and retirement if the Lord doesn’t come in the midst of that. Because we don’t know the day or the hour. But we know the season. We know, we know where we are. You know, God’s throne knows the day and the hour. We don’t. And there’s no way we can discern it. There’s no way we can figure out the day and the hour. So I don’t worry about that. I just get on with life. Listen, I could, a semi truck could run a stop sign today and my life is done. I report back, we don’t have a guarantee of another day.

You know, I say we only live 70, 80, 90 years. Well, maybe we might not live past a day. So that’s the perspective I’m trying to give the church. Look, just chill. Here’s the times we’re living in. Look what’s happening. It cannot be denied. We are living in the last days. We are living in the end times. But for the blood bought child of God, that’s a good thing. In the meantime, you’re an ambassador for the coming kingdom. So get on with your life. Enjoy your life. Enjoy all the good things, life. But remember much, much better is coming.

And so let’s be an ambassador of that. Let’s stand on the word, let’s stand in the word. Let’s preach and proclaim the name of Jesus. Salvation. Praying that God would bring people to salvation, bring prodigals home and to encourage and equip the saints in these times. That’s my ministry. That’s my heart. Thank you for asking, Sam.
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