Signs of The Times!

Joy listening to the Cross kingcom Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy

this message from Justin Carpenter a couple of weeks. I'm curious anybody noticed things

where it's like, and it almost seems lately like if you can be offended,

you're gonna be offended. So if you've been battling with that, with

the temptation to get offended, I just want to encourage you to get happy

in the same pants you just got offended in and to deal with the spirit

of offense, because you will get offended. If a spirit of offense is

on you, everything's going to offend you because the way you perceive reality is

going to be twisted in complete deception. And part of this is that well

that's a whole other teaching AnyWho, but it's the enemy is scared to death

right now of what the Lord's doing. He and the number one strategy It

says, how can two walk together unless they're an agreement? So he's gonna

bring division. How what's the quickest way to bring division? To get you

to hear something that wasn't true and then start having a conversation with that person

in your own head. Filling in sentences based on something they never said.

We are supposed to be known as a community of people that has this crazy

love being displayed from us. Who's ever thought, Man, sometimes it's I

just like hanging around my unsaved friends more than my save friends. Sometimes you

better get some hands up your liars. All right, Now that I offended

everybody, I'm gonna share gears so the Lord would not let me get away

from this. I think the last time I talked about signs or signs of

the times, it's been probably three years. I think I talked a little

bit about it back in seventeen when lots of things are rumbling and signs are

happening. You had the four blood moons and all of that, and and

I literally was going to talk on characteristics of leadership. And yesterday I got

a phone call in the grocery store from our friends Perry and Wanda. They

live in Austin. They were headed to Lance Walnow's daughter's getting married and they're

friends with him. And anyways, he called me while they're driving and just

to encourage me and encourage me about this region and and and talked about the

fact that this region has been marked it's literally been marked by God, and

I was like, okay, Lord, this was like the third time I

started to move towards do we know what time it is? See, the

sons of Isakar knew the times and seasons in which they were in, And

one of the dangers for us is to not know what season we're in corporately

and then individually, are you with me? And if we don't understand what

season we're in, if God's doing something contrary to the way we think we're

supposed to be aligned to him, then there's going to be a frustration that

comes over us, actually a divine frustration, because He's trying to get our

attention and realign us. Are you with me? So, in other words,

if we're in a season of exposure, of tearing down, of cutting,

of pruning, of separation sound a little familiar, by the way,

If we're in that season and then you're trying to do the polar opposite it,

you're gonna be frustrated. Part of the curse in Deuteronomy was when Israel

didn't know they weren't walking with the Lord, so they weren't aligned with him,

and they didn't know the season they were in it says, you will

wish it was night when it was day, and you wish it was day

when it's night. So there's this lack of peace, this lack of contentment

that you can't get away from because you're actually pushing against the very thing that

God's trying to do. Jeremiah, when it says I've called you to pluck

up, tear down, build up, there's these characteristics of old covenant prophets

of what they were called to do, and and and they would bring signs.

Jesus rebuked the masses, they said, he said, look, you

can look at the sky and say, hey, it's gonna rain tomorrow,

and it's this is gonna happen. You can you can discern these natural things,

but you can't discern any of the spiritual things. In fact, Israel

missed their visitation because they didn't realize who he was. And so it would

behoove us that we make sure that we are in alignment with what the Lord

is doing. And the other thing is we can get so butt hurt over

things not going right that we end up getting so focused on what we don't

have we completely lose sight of everything we do have. And what the Lord's

doing among us, And then we become just like the children of Israel.

We become bitter, resentful, offend easy and pack our legos up and go

home. But it was unbelief that kept Israel out of the Promised Land.

And make no mistake, this region is an Antioch, it is an Apostolic

cub It's been marked for a long time for this, And we have to

make the choice whether or not we're going to go into the Promised Land.

I'm going, Are you with me? I don't care if I don't have

any skin left on behind end, I'm going in. And make no mistake.

This was not offered. This inheritance was offered to other places before us.

And if we don't steward it and press in and steward it, well,

it can just as easily be given to someone else to steward. So

we shouldn't you think too highly of ourselves, as the scripture says you excited

yet March sixteen, seventeen and eighteen. These signs will accompany those who believe

in my name, that will cast out demons. They will speak in new

tongues. They will pick up serpents with their hands and they will drink any

deadly poison, it will not hurt them. I do not recommend worshiping with

snakes nor drinking poisoning on purpose. Just a little side note. They will

lay their hands on the sick and they might recover. Oh y'all are listening.

Yeah, it says they will recover. I have a question. Nowhere

in that March sixteen does it say we're to follow signs, we're not to

chase signs. But yet, in the same perplexity, Jesus said, if

you don't believe me, at least believe the things I'm doing, the signs

I'm performing. If we're aligned with the Holy Spirit correctly, and we're actually

lifting up Jesus, then it comes with a promise he'll draw all men unto

him. Period. It also says that if we follow his commandments, that

comes with the promise he'll manifest himself to us. So if we are actually

walking in the Kingdom preaching the very Gospel of the Kingdom, not the Gospel

of me, not the water down, narcissistic gospel of the United States,

but the actual, pure gospel that starts with the denial of self first and

foremost, and a willingness and an acknowledgement to take up our cross daily,

not just sometimes when it feels right, because feeling is not faithless faith.

Well that's probably another sermon too. But if signs are not following your life,

Jesus is not the problem. If you're not content, I mean,

if you're not if you're not seeing that Heaven is stamping its approval on your

life, something has to change. I don't know about y'all, but I'm

not okay with visiting moments of the kingdom. I want to live a lifestyle

inside of the kingdom. I'm not okay with seeing some deliverances here and then

they walk away with a spirit because I had unbelief. But then I talk

to you and I spiritualize my unbelief, so I look spiritual and they stay

demonized. Instead of us blaming other people's unbelief, let's look at our own

unbelief first and say, Lord, prune me. If you're not happy with

the amount of signs that should be following you, then look into the mirror

and say, Lord, what in me needs to change so that you will

act on my behalf that you, Lord Jesus, will stretch forth your arm

and miracle, signs and wonders. You want to know the increase of that.

It's how you react to being persecuted, because it says, when we

suffer for righteousness, then the spirit of glory rests upon us. But we

don't have a great theological understanding of the sufferings of Christ. But I want

to tell you, not only is the fear of the Lord coming to a

town near you, so is persecution. And I don't care if it hair

lifts the pope. You better get ready because there's days ahead of us.

It's going to be beautiful for the king kingdom, but it's not going to

come without resistance. And this prophetic clock is ticking away. And I promise

you God it speaking. It says he speaks in one way or another,

and yet man does not perceive it. And a dream and a vision of

the night while we slumber on our bed, he instills instruction into us.

And we better start paying attention to his ways because we don't know his ways.

We don't know him. All we are left with is a scholastic knowledge

about him, and that leaves us with a powerless gospel. A sign is

a mark, an object, a quality, or an event whose presence or

occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else. The Hebrew word for

sign is ought. When we track this word through the Old Testament, we

learn that signs are given to warn people, execute divine judgment, and deliver

people from oppression. Hence Israel with Egypt, signs are also given to guide

and mark sacred times. I was reminded when I was putting this together when

Bob Hazlett was here in twenty seventeen and he was with the leadership at Troy

Michelle's house. We had lunch there and he's like, I feel like it's

time the you know, you don't seem like a community that really does any

marketing or signs or anything. And he goes, I feel like it's time

to put up a sign to really let people know you're here. And that

sign's going to become a sign because you've been marked, you've been called to

be a community of signs and wonders. And we were in the midst of

having a sign built by Brian Barnett as he prophesied that, and so I

was giggling, and you know, we gave him confirmation, and but we

have to pay attention to the signs around us. Now, I want to

say something, you're always looking for a sign. If you're always looking for

something to mean something, then nothing means anything. If I'm constantly looking at

them, Oh it's eleven eleven, Well, guess what, folks that hits

twice a day? Are you with me? Oh it's eleven eleven oh one

one one, my beloved son, and whom I woe pleased? Three three

three Jeremiah thirty three three call me. I'll answer you, and I'll show

you great and mighty things you don't know whoa Well, guess what three three

three happens twice a day. Two. But there are moments when God decides

to take those things and you can feel the witness of the Holy Spirit on

them. And it's not when you're constantly looking for something. We don't look

for signs all the time. We're not look you know, we don't read

omens and all of that New Age mess But in Genesis one fourteen, I

call this the principal of first introduction. And God said, let there be

lights in the expanse of the heavens, to separate the day from the night,

and let them be for signs and for season and for days and years.

So why is this here for times, for seasons, for days for

years. We even have signs accompanying covenant, an oath that never destroys the

earth by rain Again, Noah was given a sign. What was the sign?

Rainbow? Right? So what does the rainbow represent? And the seventh

spirits of God Isaiah eleven two. That's what it represents. It does it?

See, if you don't hold your ground to biblical definition and language,

you're going to be in trouble because one of the things the enemy does,

it says in Daniels, he seeks to change the times in the seasons,

and he also is the prince of the power of the air. He loves

to change definition of language. And if we did a survey of how many

people understood that the rainbow was the seven spirits of God and a sign of

a covenant that God made with the earth, guess what. We no longer

live in a culture where you can assume a biblical knowledge because of Sunday school

class or or them being in a backslid and state. We now live in

a culture that has actually been on church from birth with many Genesis nine thirteen.

I've set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign

of the covenant between me and the earth. Abraham, what was the sign

of his covenant God made with him circumcision? You'd rather have a rainbow?

Hey, Hey, The worst thing is the the worst thing that happened was

when they, oh, what was the town there was like, well,

cut covenant with us, and we'll go ahead and give our sister in marriage.

And they and they all, y'all, you have to understand something.

Back then, you didn't go in the hospital and take some anesthesia, get

knocked out, wake back up and go, oh, I'm sore, but

I take some pain medage. Uh huh. There was like flint and no

painkillers. And man, I tell you what, Lord help me. Whoo.

But Genesis seventeen eleven, you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your

foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

Moses and Pharaoh says, take your hand this staff with which you will

do the signs. I'll never forget. When he drops his staff and it

turns into a snake, and the magicians are like, yeah, boom,

they dropped their staff. They turned into snakes. But that snake from Moses,

that staff that turned into a snake ate the other snakes. But the

first time the Lord said put your staff down, it turned into a snake.

And Moses is like running away, exactly what I would do because I

hate snakes, and he's like, now pick it up. I'm like,

no, you pick it up for me. I don't. Uh uh.

Now I need deliverance from a spirit of fear. Noah, I know a

guy Actitus seven three to four. But I will harden Pharaoh's heart. And

though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will

not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring

my hosts, my people, the children of Israel, out of the land

of Egypt, with great acts of judgment. What was the acts of judgment?

It wasn't just on the people. He was bringing judgment on the idols,

the gods that they served, all ten of them. And he let

them know you were nothing because they had been interacting with the fallen Council.

And of course, in the Old Covenant, prophets were always working signs.

Profits were the only ones that got to do the stuff right? Are you

with me? Do you understand if you don't live a life full of power

and authority on earth right now, that you're not giving Jesus the reward of

his sufferings. Every one of these gifts are designed to destroy the works of

the evil One. And we have more theology that talks us out of the

gifts than we do talking us into the gifts. And that has to change.

We have to make war on unbelief. I understand that natural circumstances can

defy what you read in scripture. At times, I've prayed for people to

come back from the dead for lengths of time and I didn't see him come

back. And in that moment, I have a choice. Am I gonna

allow my experience to tell me what to believe about God? Or am I

gonna let his word? And if I let his word tell me what to

believe about resurrection and raising the dead, then it brings me back into a

place of humility, postured to receive revelation from Him, rather than to puff

up with pride, become arrogant, get offended, get angry, and then

create doctrine to justify my unbelief. For Samuel ten. This is where you

see Samuel going to Saul, and he has all these details about Saul's life

and part somewhere around verse fourteen or so, it says in all these signs

came to pass that day, so all the details of that prophetic word were

lumped in all these signs. He told him exactly, this is gonna happen.

You're gonna get a new heart when you turn, are going to meet

the prophets going down the hill. Don't worry about your donkey that have been

found now your father's worried about you. And gives them all these details.

Then fast forward where Samuel is grieving Saul for years because the kingdom had been

ripped from him, but in the natural he was still king, and only

those with discerning his spirits that understood that that kingdom had been taken from him

from the outside. Everybody else thought he still had it going on. And

the Lord says to Samuel, how long are you gonna grieve? How long

are you gonna do this? Get up, clean yourself up, and go

to the house of Jesse, and I will show you who you are to

annoint his king. He shows up there and he has no details, He

has no clue who the king's gonna be. In fact, his dad brings

everybody in but David and marches them one by one in front of Samuel,

and he's like, nope, nope, nope, gets all the way to

the end. I can only imagine maybe he's thinking, well, maybe I

missed this. Do you have another son? By chance? I hope you

do. Oh yeah, he's out. He's outside some suspect, some suspect,

not suspect, some suspect that David was actually an illegitimate child from another

woman. And that's why Jesse didn't bring him in. You know, God's

responses to us aren't always the same as our responses. The disciples come back

and they want to call fire down from heaven, and in our culture today,

we would we would decommission them for a little while and put them back

through some Bible college and some counseling and some deliverance and some inner healing and

every other tool we have, and then say, let's see. And what

was Jesus's response. He turns around, Hey, y'all the other seventy or

seventy two, and he commissions them and sends them out. There are no

clean berths. None of you are perfected. We're not perfected yet. We're

under construction, every one of us. And the problem is we're more consumed

about We're more focused on preserving our life than giving it away. So we

offend very easily when somebody touches their process, rubs up against our process.

And now we got sparks. Time to grow up, folks, it's time

to grow up. It is high time to grow up, because we need

to become unoffendable, unoffendable. And the only way you get there is if

you die. There are things that you've been counseled over, there's things you've

been going through inner healing over. And the problem that it's not out of

your life is because you won't die to your flesh. God's not interested in

counseling your flesh. He crucified. It is not counseling the flesh. Are

you with me? All right? Signs of the last days? Man?

I have so much more time. Second service to go. Thank you Jesus.

The greatest prophetic generation in history. Look around right now, look at

each other and say, you're the greatest generation prophetically. Some days were pathetic,

other days were great but think about this. Do you understand, y'all?

If Moses face was literally radiating light, it wasn't gold dust. He

radiated light. His face radiated light, y'all, with God's glory, and

it says that is an inferior covenant. That is an inferior covenant to the

covenant that every one of us are in. We have a greater glory.

The blood speaks a better word. So why is it that we are living

on a level here when the supernatural life is here? Let me tell you

something. One of the things we're One of the things God's doing in this

season, prophetically, besides separating, exposing, uncovering, is when the light

comes and exposes your idol and you refuse to deal with your idol. He's

answering you according to your idol. It's Jeremiah. You come to me with

the abundance of your idols in your heart, and you and you think you're

going to be inquired of me. No, I'll answer you according to your

idol. You bring an idol into the anointing and you don't allow the Lord

to cut it out and deal with it, then it automatically is going to

get infused with witchcraft, and this is part of the reason why we're in

a mess with the prophetic movement and so desperately need reformation in the prophetic scene,

because men had their ministry as an idol, and they have refused to

allow the Lord to deal with that idol. And then they were even stealing

each other's words in twenty twenty. Because I figured it worked out in twenty

sixteen, let's do it again, Joel too. And it came to pass

afterward that I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your

daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men

shall see visions, even on the male and female servants. In those days,

I will pour out my spirit, and I will show wonders in the

heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The

sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood. Before the great

and awesome day of the Lord comes. And it'll come to pass that everyone

who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved from in Mount Zion

and in Jerusalem. There shall be those who escape, as the Lord has

said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls All of

us are in a generation where we are called to live this life. It

should it should not surprise you to have a dream. It should not.

It should not surprise you if God speaks to you through a vision. Those

things should be normal in your life. It shouldn't surprise us when we that

Jesus is showing up and visitations to Ishmael in the east, in the midst

of the Gaza strip, and people are repenting and giving their lives to the

Lord. That right there shows every one of us we're not that special.

We've been invited into this thing called the Kingdom. We've been invited into this

great commission. You want to know how you judge fruit in the Kingdom.

So many times we think it's because of this or this or this. You

judge maturity by the fruit of the spirit. Period. Your character is the

fruit of the spirit. That's how you judge maturity of a believer. You

judge fruit in the Kingdom, not by a particular ministry growing because of disgruntled

cheap but actually by salvations, by discipleship, by hearts, lives being transformed.

That's Kingdom fruit. That's what we want we want. We want to

go and see souls saved. That is number one. Like ground zero,

it's bringing the lost into the Kingdom first and foremost, and then us individually

taken responsibility for those people. We just led to Jesus and continue to disciple

them. In my old background, my old uh, we were we were

good at preaching the gospel, getting people into the kingdom, but not always

the whole discipleship thing. And I remember so many times out here, Well

they weren't saved, they didn't come back. Well did you check on them?

I mean, hello, people, moms, if you left your baby

out in the street, how that How would that work out for you?

And then would and then would you justify leaving them in the street? All

right? You ready for this? So keep in mind it says that the

sun will turn to darkness the moon to blood. The next total solar eclipse

that will strike across America takes place on April eighth, twenty twenty four on

the Hebrew calendar. This is the first day of the month of Nissan,

which corresponds with April on the Gregorian calendar. At sundown in Israel on April

the eighth, at approximately eleven am Nissan one begins. The eclipse is reported

to be visible as a partial eclipse as it begins its journey across America at

eleven forty two am. It also is a time when Jews will be preparing

for the Passover, a time full of imagery of Jesus's death, resurrection,

and mission. Many people don't pay attention to the Hebrew calendar since we use

the Gregorian calendar, but the Hebrew calendar is God's calendar period. The day

of the eclipse is Nissan one, which is historically the same day that Moses

dedicated the Tabernacle when the people of Israel were in the wilderness after leaving Egypt.

Nissan one is also the ecclessical new year based on God's calendar, the

date from which months and festivals are counted according to the scriptures. It's also

worth mentioning that God took his nation of Israel out of Egypt during the month

of Nissan in twenty seventeen eclipse. The twenty seventeen eclipse crossed America diagonally from

northwest to southwest, but the up and coming eclipse will do the opposite,

creating a criss cross over the land. Essentially marking the nation. The last

letter in the Hebrew alphabet is called a tav. It is a letter that

can also be used as a sign, like a letter X. The Hebrew

alphabet has evolved over the centuries, and back in the time of King David

and Solomon, the letter tob was drawn as an X. The meaning of

tab is mark or completion. Twenty seventeen and twenty four eclipse path creating a

tab. Total solar eclipses were often seen as warnings of apocalypse by ancient cultures,

and Genesis one fourteen again, God says that the Sun and the moon

were created for light and for signs. In Hebrew, it means a signal

or flag. God has clearly said that he intends to give mankind signals using

the sun in the moon. In twenty seventeen, the first Great American Eclipse

happened. It was the first total solar eclipse that was only visible in the

US and no other country since the country was founded in seventeen seventy six.

Why is it called the Great American Solar eclipse? While eclipses of this magnitude

are rare occurrences, scientists tell us that we stood in one place on Earth,

you would have to wait approximately another three hundred and sixty years to see

another total eclipse. Yet here we are getting a sequel just seven years from

the twenty seventeen total eclipse. The proximity of time defies the laws of averages

and would end. I'm sorry, and we should most certainly consider this a

sign to us from the Lord. There's an intersection between this year's eclipse and

the one from twenty seventeen, the meeting of those of the two different paths

across the United States, as if marking the center of a large x.

It is precisely in the very same point in Illinois where the complete eclipse of

the Sun will be repeated for the greatest length of time. According to NASA,

the exact point where the twenty seventeen and twenty twenty four lines of totality

cross is Cedar Lake in Jackson County, just a couple miles south of Carbondale,

Illinois. This exact location is called Little Egypt. Why is southern Illinois

called Little Egypt because the whole flip and states like Egypt. I grew up

there. Sorry, that was a side note. They are, especially Chicago.

There are many reasons for the name Little Egypt. First, there's a

river system that is reminiscent of the Nile Valley. This is also an area

where slavery was in place, despite it being technically illegal in Illinois. There

are several cities in the area name for ancient name from ancient Egyptian places like

Karnak, Cairo, and Thebis. In the eighteen hundreds, there was a

famine in northern Illinois, yet there was a simultaneously a bountiful harvest in the

southern part of Illinois. So the people in the north compared themselves to the

children of Jacob, who, in a time of famine, were forced to

go down to Egypt to seek for food for their families. People from northern

Illinois said the Carbondale regions saved their lives because they provided grain. Thus Carbondale

became known to this day as Little Egypt. Little Egypt speaks to contemporary America

as a notable sign just an ancient Egypt, just as an ancient Egypt did

for the Jews throughout the ages. The unprecedented dual eclipse of this decade represents

a remarkable link between the story of the original exile to Egypt, and the

X marks the spot little Egypt location in Illinois. It gets more interesting.

Keep listening. The number four hundred plays a special role in the relationship between

the sun and the moon, as well as the number of years that were

predicted for the Egyptian exile. We see numbers are recorded in the Bible from

Genesis to Revelation, so will recognize those symbols. The number four hundred is

meant to alert us. The Lord said to Abraham or Abram, you can

be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they

will be oppressed as slaves for four hundred years Genesis fifteen thirteen. Why because

he said that the iniquity of the Amalekites is not yet full. So in

heaven there's these measuring bulls iniquity your prayers Revelation eight. And when your prayers,

the bulls are filled up with your prayers, incense and fires added,

and then it's poured back down to the earth. So the next time you

think your prayers aren't important, go read Revelation eight, and you'll find out

how powerful your prayers are. The faithful, fervent prayer of a righteous man

availeth much scripture says, so a solar eclipse is predicted on that very number.

The Sun, as the Bible told us, is larger than the moon,

and God made the two great luminaries, the large luminary to rule the

day and the small luminary to rule the night Genesis one fifteen. To be

exact, we know that the Sun is four hundred times larger than the moon.

How is it possible for the moon so much smaller to cover the Sun

to our eyes in an eclipse. It is because the Sun is also four

hundred times further from us than the moon. Is a relationship of distance exact

exactly parallel to that of the size. And if you're a flat earther,

I don't want to argue just stating this, let's not start a holy war.

When God created the Sun and the moon and the stars, his primary

purpose was seen in Genesis one fourteen to provide signs for the timing of extraordinary

events, timing of seven appointed feasts of God's calendar, timing of day and

night, and timing of the years. So the luminaries were made for the

sake of time keeping, as if God says, look at them and you'll

understand my times and seasons. Are you all ready for the next section?

This gets better? All right? I was, It's pretty wild. Thus

says the Lord, do not learn the way of the gentiles. Non Jewish

people. Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven. Signs of heaven,

for the Gentiles are dismayed at them. Jeremiah ten to two there will

be eight total and eight partial eclipses over eight locations named Ninevah on April eighth.

Refer to Matthew sixteen that no signs should be given except the sign of

Jonah. Jonah went to Ninevah to tell them God was ready to destroy them,

and they repented, and they responded by repenting. Is that a coincidence

that this total eclipse on April eighth will occur in NINEVA, Texas, NINEVAH,

Missouri, NINEVA Indiana, NINEVAH Ohio, Pennsylvania, NINEVAH Virginia, NINEVA

New York, and will finish in ninev Nova Scotia and Canada. The mark

that is going across America from both the twenty seventeen and twenty four eclipse is

in the exact shape of an ancient Hebrew letter tav. Each Hebrew letter has

a numeric value. Alif the first letter has a number value of one,

bet, the second letter is two, and so on. When it gets

to ten, they go up in tens, ten, twenty thirty, and

so on until they get one hundred, and then they go up in hundreds.

What is the numerical value of this letter Tav? It is four hundred.

Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Each letter in the

Hebrew alphabet has assigned numerical value. This is not rabbidical numerology aka jamatria that

is based on kabbala. We don't engage in that, and if you are

repent. However, in the Hebrew scriptures, the chapters and verses are not

written with numbers, but instead with Hebrew letters. Therefore, the Hebrew letter

tav would indeed biblically signal the representation of the number four hundred. Is the

timing a coincidence. New York City, one of the oldest first international seaports,

is turning four hundred years old in the month of April twenty twenty four.

It was established as a colony in sixteen twenty four by the Dutch.

Does this have your attention yet, y'all. That's got my attention. So

New York four hundredth anniversary is twenty twenty four. Jesus is the the ugh

tongue, the Alpha in the omega, the beginning and the end, the

first and the last, and revelation twenty two, twelve and thirteen. Look

I'm coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay all people according to

their deeds. I am the I am the Alpha and the omega, the

first and the last, the beginning in the end. Could it be that

the Lord has put a signature on this event? Not only do the twenty

seventeen and twenty twenty four eclipses form a tav, the last letter of the

Hebrew alphabet. If you include the last annual solar eclipse that went over America

in October of twenty twenty three and couple that with the seventeen and the twenty

four, now forms Aleth, which is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

This event is marked with Hebrew letters that signify the beginning, in the

end, the alpha and the omega. The Bible says, for I do

not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, that

you should be wise in your own opinion that blindness and part has happened to

Israel, for the fullness of the gentiles has come in Romans eleven twenty five.

Could it be that this gentile nation of America is being marked with the

sign of completion for the purpose of signifying the fullness of the gentiles? Now,

what I did not just say is that I'm prophesying, that I'm asking

questions? Are y all with me? Say? Justin did not just prophesy

that he's asking questions. Someone posted a screenshot of a date calculator that showed

the duration between the date of the first eclipse on August twenty first, twenty

seventeen, and the up and coming one April eighth, twenty twenty four.

Guess what the exact number of days, weeks, months, and years are

between each eclipse? Six days, six weeks, six months, and six

years. It reminds you of anything. Immediately, a Verse in revelation came

to mind. And what's that? This calls for wisdom. Let the person

who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for that is the number

of a man. The number sixty sixty six, Revelation thirteen eighteen. Wisdom

is needed. Here is judgment coming to America. I might say that we've

been under judge already. God's chastening us. Judgment is not as wrath.

Judgment is a loving father who's just kicking up his discipline a little bit out

of love for his kids to wake him up. If you don't think the

Church needs to wake up, you are deceived. There have been plenty of

signs happening in the skies over the last few years. Four blood moons falling

on four feast days of the Lord in a schmeet a year. In twenty

fourteen and twenty fifteen, which was an unprecedented event, the Star of Bethlehem

phenomenon reappearing for the first time since the birth of Jesus. The Star of

Bethlehem appeared for the first time to announce the birth of our King. Is

it appearing this time to announce the coming of our King? Now that we

have the technology and equipment to understand better what is happening up there, we

need to be paying attention. Jesus specifically told us there would be signs in

the sky, in the sun and the moon, and the stars Luke twenty

and he told us to look up as our redemption draws near. Y'all,

the X is over Kerbil, like the X is over Kervill. Kervill is

marked. This region is marked. It's it is absolutely a safe haven in

the last days. It is an Antioch. People are coming to be equipped.

People are gonna come to get equipped, to get healed, and to

be sent out. And I've known this for years and years and years,

and had such divine, divine frustration for so long looking around in the body

of Christ in our region at the lack of equipping and the lack of releasing.

We don't own people. We don't own people. No church owns people.

Your loyalty has to be to the Lord Jesus first and foremost. Every

one of us are going to give an account to the King of kings and

Lord of lords. And I don't care how good you look from the outside.

He tries the heart, He tries the motives of our heart, and

that should bring the fear of the Lord. So what time is it?

Do you understand? What time is it in your life? What season is

What is God doing in your life? Individually? Are are you fighting it?

Are you stiff arming it because you don't want to take up your cross

in that area of your life. You like what you've been doing, because

the truth is you all sometimes we just need to get honest with ourselves and

stop lying to ourselves and say, Lord, I like this sin. And

it's typically not until your pain becomes greater than your coping mechanism that you find

your self positioned into a place of repentance. So what does the Lord do.

He just gives you a little more rope. He lets the enemy turn

the heat up until you're like, Okay, my way's not working. There's

a way that seems right on a man, but in the end it leads

to death. We should not be surprised that when we violate God's structure,

God's ways, that we end up with lawlessness and corruption, and lawlessness Scripture

says, leads to lawlessness. One Thessalonians five five to six. For your

all, children of light, children of the day, we are not of

the night or of the darkness. So so then let us not sleep as

others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. Jesus says,

no one knows the day or the hour. We can know the season Matthew

sixteen two to three. You know the saying, red sky at night means

fair we fair weather tomorrow, red sky in the morning means foul weather all

day. You know how to interpret the weather signs in the sky, but

you do you Lah, help me, Lord, but you don't know how

to interpret these signs of the times. God doesn't want to be ignorant.

He doesn't want us to be ignorant of the signs of the times. If

birth pains are coming closer and closer and closer together, and there's there's less

less time between the shakings, what is that telling you? You don't have

to be Einstein to figure that out, that things are getting closer. When

when a pregnant woman's water breaks, it's on right. We don't need a

sign for that. That was the sign the water hit the ground. But

shakings everything that will be shaken, Everything that can be shaken will be shaken.

Do you understand that Jesus is coming back to inherit the nations? What

do you think your job is right now? It's to co labor with him

to bring these nations to disciple. These nations so they go from goat nations

to sheep nations. We start preaching, we disciple, we preach the gospel,

they get saved, they grow up, they multiply, and then they

in turn preach the gospel, and there's a multiplication effect. Peter stood up

in one day, and three thousand souls came into the Kingdom and one day

and then statistically in America, the average believer never shares the Gospel with anyone.

I don't think God's really impressed with us going into holy huddles and staring

at each other and say, oh, look how bright you are. Oh,

I'm so bright, You're so bright. Meanwhile, meanwhile, we have

no relationship with anybody lost. Where's the fruit in that? God didn't call

you to create safe places. He called you to turn hell upside down.

He called you to take up your cross, lay your life down, preach

the gospel, lift the Lord Jesus up so that all men are drawn unto

him. And it says that if we obey his commandments, it comes with

a promise that He will manifest himself to us. If you're frustrated with the

lack of intimacy with Him and the things happening, the lack of dreams,

visions, and revelation. Maybe it's because you're not moving any place, so

he doesn't need to tell you anything. Or maybe just maybe the last thing

he told you, you're not listening to Acts five. Now, many signs

and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles.

Even Stephen, y'all, he was a waiter, he was a deacon.

Stephen was a man full of the Holy Spirit, full of the power of

God, and went about doing many signs and wonders. Even Stephen's face radiated

like an angel when he was being stoned to death. Listen, I want

you to get stirred this morning with a spiritual hunger that only Jesus can fulfill,

a desire for intimacy that you're not willing to compare the light afflictions that

you're going through in this life to the glory that's going to be revealed to

you one day in Christ. Y'all, we're on the cuffs of the most

amazing harvest ever. But we've got to let the Lord cut We have to

let him cut us deep with his word. We have to let him bring

us into a place of maturation. We have to allow him to point his

finger in our allys so that we can get our little booboos healed up,

so that we get into a place where we're laser focused into what he's called

us to. Every one of you are a part of the body. We

cannot afford to say I don't need this person or I don't need that person.

It's easy to withdraw our spirits from people when conflict comes, but if

we keep our spirits withdrawn from each other, then the enemy is dividing and

conquering. You've been given a kingdom that cannot be shaken, so if something

shaken in your life, it's not the kingdom. So rejoice because his kingdom

can't be shaken. We all need to repent for intercessory whining. All right,

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