NOTES: Tom suggests Ginger ale and Pecan pie and hang out with an old friend and a fellow servant of the Lord.

Tom reads Psalm 27. It gives us strength and encouragement. Tom thinks generally speaking older believers  that have been waiting a long time see its all there for the rapture, all the ducks are lining up!

Tom says he just saw an article that 40% of adults  believe we are living in the end days. Unbelievers think its the end of the world.

War in Israel, tensions and bombing In Damascus. See Isaiah 17: 1. Says it will cease to be a city, become a ruinous heap. Sounds nuclear. Over 20 times this year bombing the airport, suburbs of Damascus.

3rd temple, the Jews want it, It’s ready to be built, Waited 2,000 years for a Red Heifer to sacrifice. They have at least 4 ready. Matthew 24:15-16, Daniel 9:27 It’s about what happens with this 3rd temple.

Seeing all the lawlessness and protests.

Severe weather events like we haven’t seen before, Earthquakes off the charts. Set up of Biblical wars. Economies on the brink of collapse, talk of a digital system. 100 countries have tested them out. Cashless, one world money system. Cries for peace and security every day. They are mostly aimed at Israel to stop the war. October 7 was very significant.

Have COP 28 right now at United Arab Emerits for Global climate meeting for 2 weeks. The new religion of climate change.

Ai more and more powerful. Many say it could become the image of the beast.

Tom says how much longer could it be until the Father says, Son go get Your Bride?  Jesus comes in the clouds and takes us off to heaven! In Luke 21Jesus talks about end time events. Tom reads Luke 21:28. We are to look up when the signs begin to happen.

News:

Times of Israel: Air strikes in Syria killed 2 and wounded 7 that were associated with Hezbollah.

Insider Paper: Israel’s army said more than 400 targets have been attacked in Gaza in the last 24 hours since the truce ended. They say it’s preparation for extending ground operation into S. Gaza.

Israel striking an upscale residential area in S Gaza where many senior Hamas reside and operate. Tom saw a video where they shot a rocket into the third floor of a high rise where one of the leaders were.

Israel Today: Israel has recalled its negotiators from Qatar.

Last night constant rocket fire in S. Israel.

Amir said Islamic Jihad fired a rocket that landed south of Bethlehem where are mostly Palestinians.

N Korea upset about US saying they may try to disable their spy satellite. N. Korea said they would take it as a declaration of war. Tom says, don’t mess with his toys!

Insider Paper:  At COP 28 meeting with more than 20 nations, including US, called for tripling nuclear energy to drive down emissions.

The Guardian: King Charles at the  COP 28  meeting with more than 120 heads of state to “avoid breaching the global heating limit above 2.7 Fahrenheit.” Tom says they all flew private jets to this and did hundreds of years of damage to the environment! They don’t talk about Russia, China, and N. Korea threatening nuclear war. Instead, let’s talk about cows!

Strong volcanic activity in Italy at Mt. Etna.

Last 24 hours 45 earthquakes above 4.0 and 13 above 5.0.

UN has plans to control social media communication.

Clown world: USA today said Ai can help find gifts for Christmas shoppers. No more need for those Christmas lists! Tom laughs, says artificial shopping, gifts and sentiment!

Comments: If you are a Christian you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven, you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Psalm 62:7 Jesus the King of Kings is coming soon. Praying for Israel, USA, Russia, Ukraine and all nations. All need Jesus.

Tom says even in these last days its ok to have a sense of humor and smile. God gave us sense of humor.

Gospel: Tom says maybe some have heard all this but don’t really know who Jesus is, its time.  All the ducks in a row.

We are waiting right now for the rapture. No time to put off a decision for the Lord. Go in the rapture or be left behind.  Salvation is about believing what Jesus did to save us. Jesus shed His blood to take all our sins. Saved by grace through faith in what He did. Ask forgiveness and believe and be saved, born again sealed in the Holy Spirit, rapture ready. Warns of what is coming. Don’t reject Jesus. Be saved now.

Today’s Scriptures:

Psalm 27:1–14 KJV

[1] The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? [2] When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, They stumbled and fell. [3] Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. [4] One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. [5] For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. [6] And now shall mine head be lifted up, Above mine enemies round about me: Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. [7] Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. [8] When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. [9] Hide not thy face far from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. [10] When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the LORD will take me up. [11] Teach me thy way, O LORD, And lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. [12] Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: For false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. [13] I had fainted, Unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. [14] Wait on the LORD: Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Timestamp: 0:52

Isaiah 17:1 KJV

[1] The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 

Timestamp: 4:52

Matthew 24:15–16 KJV

[15] When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) [16] then let them which be in Judæa flee into the mountains: 

Timestamp: 5:49

Daniel 9:27 KJV

[27] And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Timestamp: 6:12

Psalm 83:1–18 KJV

[1] Keep not thou silence, O God: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. [2] For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. [3] They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, And consulted against thy hidden ones. [4] They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. [5] For they have consulted together with one consent: They are confederate against thee: [6] The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; Of Moab, and the Hagarenes; [7] Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; The Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; [8] Assur also is joined with them: They have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. [9] Do unto them as unto the Midianites; As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: [10] Which perished at Endor: They became as dung for the earth. [11] Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: Yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: [12] Who said, Let us take to ourselves The houses of God in possession. [13] O my God, make them like a wheel; As the stubble before the wind. [14] As the fire burneth a wood, And as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; [15] So persecute them with thy tempest, And make them afraid with thy storm. [16] Fill their faces with shame; That they may seek thy name, O LORD. [17] Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; Yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: [18] That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, Art the Most High over all the earth.

Timestamp: 8:18

Ezekiel 38:1–13 KJV

[1] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, [3] and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [4] and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: [5] Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. [7] Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. [8] After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. [9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. [10] Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: [11] and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, [12] to take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. [13] Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

Timestamp: 8:24

Luke 21:1–37 KJV

[1] And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. [2] And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. [3] And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: [4] for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. [5] And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, [6] As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. [7] And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? [8] And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. [9] But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. [10] Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: [11] and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. [12] But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake. [13] And it shall turn to you for a testimony. [14] Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: [15] for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. [16] And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. [17] And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. [18] But there shall not an hair of your head perish. [19] In your patience possess ye your souls. [20] And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. [21] Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. [22] For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. [23] But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. [24] And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. [25] And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. [29] And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; [30] when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. [31] So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. [32] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. [33] Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. [34] And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. [35] For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. [36] Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. [37] And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives. 

Timestamp: 10:56