Israel’s Future Miraculous Salvation - Part 1

Jim Scudder (0:04)

The Bible predicts in Chapter 6 of Revelation that a quarter of the world will die in these seal judgments. A quarter of the world.

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Welcome to InGrace with Jim Scudder, the senior pastor of Quentin Road Baptist Church in suburban Chicago. He is the author of Raindrops in the Desert, co-author of The Spiritual War Against Israel, and co-author of Evangelism Made Simple.

Jim Scudder (0:38)

Hi, welcome back to InGrace. This is Jim Scudder, and we will continue today to go through our series Armageddon's Dawn. It's a verse by verse study of the Book of Revelation, and we're looking at what the Bible has to say about the end times. Today we'll be in Revelation Chapter 12, and my title is about Israel's future miraculous salvation. And it is amazing to see that the world continues to rise up against Israel and the Jewish people. They are not deserving of this, but they are always the scapegoat. And we as Bible-believing Christians should love them and support them. Even if you don't believe there's a future for Israel, which I do believe there's a future for Israel, as you'll hear today, shouldn't you still be on the side of the family that brought us the Bible and Jesus? And so I think we really have a debt to the Jewish people. And how else can we share the love of Jesus unless we love the Jewish people? And so I think we need to do that. And I hope that today's InGrace episode, as we study the End Times will inspire you to think through this. We also have a chart that will really help you as we go through this series. It's our Armageddon Prophecy Chart, and it's free. We're not even charging you for it. If you don't have it, you can call us to get it. 1-800-78-GRACE. Call right now, 1-800-78-GRACE.

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We are back into our series Armageddon's Dawn. It's a verse by verse look at the Book of Revelation. And we are living in times that seem apocalyptic, but it's also a time that's coming is a time that is truly frightening. Now it seems like today we are living in frightening times.

And we are, but it's nothing compared to what the Bible predicts is coming. We're talking about billions of people dying in the Tribulation. And so when we come to new stories of the day, this pandemic, this global crisis, this economic meltdown, it certainly does wake up people. And we certainly are worried as we look at the future. Here on the prophecy chart, we're finding that the first event that's gonna start off what we call the Tribulation, the first event that's gonna kick that off is going to be called the Rapture of the Church. And although we don't find the name Rapture in the Bible, we do know that the concept is taught. There is a regathering of the Church. Those that are alive and remain will be gathered up into the clouds. The Lord will meet us in the clouds and we will forever be with the Lord. That's not the second coming of Christ. The second coming of Christ is at the end of the Tribulation. Those that were raptured will come back with him and we will rule and reign with Christ. That's the Battle of Armageddon and that is setting up the Kingdom Reign, the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ. So we find ourselves before the Rapture, so we don't know exactly when that will be. No one knows the day or the hour. No one knows when that's gonna come. Nothing has to happen. The Bible doesn't say there's gonna be a global pandemic before the Rapture comes. It can come at any moment. Now, these things that are happening today give us a sense of what is to come. It's like a foreshadowing, but we're not in the Tribulation. I know that for sure because of all these things that we find in our study that we haven't seen yet. So in our review, we're gonna talk about this man, the Antichrist, a seven-year peace treaty, the different judgments, the seal judgments, the trumpet judgments, the midpoint of the Tribulation, and then the bold judgments. We haven't got to the bold judgments, those are becoming, but we're gonna talk about all of this today. In the first chapter of Revelation, what we find is Jesus Christ.