The End of the Age Understanding Prophecy Part 1

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The End of the AgeUnderstanding ProphecyPart 1

• The role of Egypt

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Why Study Prophecy?

• How many of you want Revelation in your life?
• How many of you desire to have the Revelation of
  our Messiah in your life?

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Are You Sure?
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The Revelation of Messiah

• Rev 11 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which
  God gave him to show his servants what must soon
  take place. He made it known by sending his angel
  to his servant John, 2 who testifies to
  everything he sawthat is, the word of God and
  the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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The Revelation of Messiah

• Rev 13 Blessed is the one who reads the words
  of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear
  it and take to heart what is written in it,
  because the time is near.

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Why Study Prophecy?

• Barna Research Group 2003-
• only 4 of preachers, and only 2 of church
  members considered Bible prophecy as being a
  significant area of spiritual engagement!

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Why Study Prophecy?

• Understanding prophecy arms the believer against
  false prophets and false doctrine.
• 2 Pet 33 First of all, you must understand
  that in the last days scoffers will come,
  scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4
  They will say, "Where is this coming he
  promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything
  goes on as it has since the beginning of
  creation."

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Why Study Prophecy?

• I only want to learn things that are practical
  to my life.
• 2 Tim 316 All Scripture is God-breathed and is
  useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
  training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of
  God may be thoroughly equipped for every good
  work.

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Why Study Prophecy?

• It validates the scriptures
• 2 Peter 119 And we have the word of the
  prophets made more certain, and you will do well
  to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in
  a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning
  star rises in your hearts.

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Why Study Prophecy?

• Yeshua IS prophecy!
• Rev 1910 At this I fell at his feet to worship
  him. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a
  fellow-servant with you and with your brothers
  who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!
  For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
  prophecy."

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Why Study Prophecy?

• Studying prophecy tends to purify the believer
  and brings out holy living.
• It is easier to resist temptation when you know
  what your actions will bring.

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Why Study Prophecy?

• The ENTIRE BIBLE is about prophecy
• Virtually every historical event, story, parable
  and focus of every book is about the restoration
  of the Kingdom and how to prepare for it.

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Why Study Prophecy?

• Isnt our entire lives as believers built on
  the idea that we are to prepare to meet Him?
• How can we prepare if we dont know how, when,
  where or why He is coming back and the things we
  should be looking for?

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Why Study Prophecy?

• Is 4610 I make known the end from the
  beginning, from ancient times, what is still to
  come. I say My purpose will stand, and I will do
  all that I please.

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Why Study Prophecy?

• 63 times in the Bible, the Lord is quoted using
  the phrase, it shall come to pass.
• 116 times in the Bible, the Lord is quoted using
  the phrase, in that day.
• 2304 times in the Bible, the Lord begins an
  action phrase with the words, I will

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Why Study Prophecy?

• The Bible says over and over again that we
  should not be ignorant of these things.-Romans
  1125 I Thessalonians 413 II Peter 35,8 II
  Corinthians 211

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Why Study Prophecy?

• And the 1 reason to study bible prophecy.
• Because its IN THE BIBLE!

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Part 1-The Role of Egypt
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History of Egypt

• Gen 1210 And there was a famine in the land
  and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there
  for the famine was grievous in the land.
• Egypt at this time was looked at as a place of
  refuge

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History of Egypt

• Then the time of Joseph and the 7 years of
  plenty followed by the 7 years of famine.
• YHWH used Egypt as a refuge and fulcrum point for
  Israel.

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History of Egypt

• Then, hundreds of years later, while the
  Israelites are still in Egypt, Moses is born and
  YHWH uses Egypt against Israel to move them
  toward their destiny.

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History of Egypt

• Egypt started off being a place of food and rest
  and ended up being a place of bondage, starvation
  and slavery.

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History of Egypt

• In 605 BCE Necho of Egypt was defeated by
  Nebuchadnezzar at the battle of Carchemish,
  outside of Egypt.
• This date becomes the pivitol date for the
  prophecy of Daniel chapter 4.

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History of Egypt

• 567 BC, he again defeats Egypt
• 598 BC, he takes Jerusalem and deports many Jews
• 586 BC, he destroys the Temple
• After 70 years of Captivity, King Cyrus became
  king of Babylon and let the Jews go back to
  Jerusalem.

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History of Egypt

• 525 BC, Cyrus son Cambyses defeated Egypt.
• The rulership of King Cyrus would be pivotal in
  understanding the prophecy of Dan 9 concerning
  the first coming of the Messiah.
• 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquers Egypt

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History of Egypt

• 31 BC, Egypt comes under Roman rule
• 642 AD, Arab conquest of Egypt
• 969 Cairo becomes capital
• 1517 AD- absorbed into Ottoman Empire
• 1859-1866- Suez canal is built, which becomes the
  most important trade canal in the world
  connecting the East and the West.

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History of Egypt

• 1882 - British troops take control of Egypt.
• 1914 - Egypt becomes a British protectorate.
• 1922 - Fu'ad I becomes King of Egypt and Egypt
  gains its independence.
• 1928- Muslim Brotherhood is formed (coincidently
  one year before the US great depression)

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History of Egypt

• 1948 - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria attack the
  new state of Israel.
• 1953 June - Egypt is declared a Republic
• 1956 July - Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal to
  fund the Aswan High Dam.
• 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United
  Arab Republic (UAR) in the first step of their
  aim for Arab unity.

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History of Egypt

• 1961 - Syria withdraws from the union with Egypt
  but Egypt remains known as the UAR.
• 1967 June - Six-Day War in which Israel defeats
  forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel takes
  control of Sinai, the Golan Heights, the Gaza
  Strip, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

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History of Egypt

• 1971 - Treaty of Friendship between Egypt and the
  Soviet Union is signed.
• 1971 - Egypt's new constitution is introduced and
  the country is renamed the Arab Republic of
  Egypt.

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History of Egypt

• 1973 October - Egypt and Syria go to war with
  Israel during Israel's celebration of Yom Kippur
  to reclaim the land they lost in 1967. Egypt
  begins negotiations for the return of Sinai after
  the war.
• 1978 September - Camp David Accords for peace
  with Israel are signed.

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History of Egypt

• 1979 March - The peace treaty between Egypt and
  Israel is signed. Egypt is then condemned by
  other Arab nations and excluded from the Arab
  League.
• 1981 A war al-Sadat is assassinated by Jihad
  members.
• 1981 - A National Referendum approves Husni
  Mubarak as the new president.

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History of Egypt

• 1989 Egypt rejoins the Arab League.
• 2005 - Parliamentary polls end with clashes
  between police and supporters of the opposition
  Muslim Brotherhood. The National Democratic Party
  and its allies retain their large parliamentary
  majority. Muslim Brotherhood supporters, elected
  as independents, win a record 20 of seats.

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History of Egypt

• 2006 August - Egypt praises the way the guerrilla
  group Hezbollah held out in the war with Israel
  in Lebanon after earlier questioning its
  judgment.
• 2006- Egypt is 1 of 6 Arab countries developing
  domestic nuclear programs to diversify energy
  sources.

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History of Egypt

• 2008 April - Military courts sentence 25 leading
  Muslim Brotherhood members to jail terms in
  crackdown targeting the organization's funding.
  More than 800 arrested over a month. Brotherhood
  boycotted municipal elections after only 20
  candidates allowed to stand.

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History of Egypt

• 2009 June - US President Barack Obama makes key
  speech in Cairo calling for a new beginning
  between the United States and the Muslim world.
• For the first time ever, the Muslim Brotherhood
  was invited to attend speech. They have been
  banned up until then from any part of the
  political process.

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History of Egypt

• 2010 June - Muslim Brotherhood fails to win any
  seats in electionsalleges vote was rigged.
• 2010 November- Muslim Brotherhood fails to win a
  single seat, though it held a fifth of the places
  in the last parliament.
• 2011 January- over a million protestors force
  President Mubarek to step down.

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History of Egypt

• Mubarek and his government have been the sole
  stumbling block for the Muslim brotherhood in the
  political process.
• Elections are in September.

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Muslim Brotherhood

• It began as a religious, political, and social
  movement with the credo, Allah is our objective
  the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our
  leader Jihad is our way and death for the sake
  of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.-WIKIPE
  DIA

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• The biggest fear is that the Muslim Brotherhood
  will overturn the Israeli/Egyptian agreement of
  1979 achieved under Anwar Sadat.

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Caliphate

• 1st system of govt in Islam
• Khilafa means representative. Man, according to
  Islam is the representative of "people", His
  (God's) vice-regent that is to say, by virtue of
  the powers delegated to him, and within the
  limits prescribed by the Qur'an and the teaching
  of the prophet, the caliph is required to
  exercise Divine authority.-Wikipedia

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World Net Daily Feb.1

• JERUSALEM The Egyptian government has
  information a diplomat at the U.S. embassy in
  Cairo secretly met yesterday with a senior leader
  of the Muslim Brotherhood, the nation's major
  Islamist opposition group, WND has learned. The
  topic of the meeting was the future of Egypt
  following the "fall" of President Hosni Mubarak,
  an Egyptian intelligence official told WND. The
  claim comes amid charges from Cairo that the
  Obama administration has been encouraging the
  protests rocking Egypt and targeting the rule of
  Mubarak, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East.

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WND- Feb 2

• The leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, Hammam
  Saeed, warned that the unrest in Egypt will
  spread across the Mideast until Arabs succeed at
  toppling leaders allied with the United States.
  

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Bible History is Cyclical

• What comes around goes back around

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12 Years of Persecution

• In 597 BCE Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem and
  deported the Jews to Babylon.
• 586 BCE he destroyed the Temple and the siege was
  over.
• 70 years of captivity

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12 Years of Persecution

• Jan. 30, 1933- Hitler rises to power and begins
  to deport the Jews.
• Jan 27, 1945- Auschwitz is liberated

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An Important Date

• The Battle of Carchemish 605 BC
• Nebuchadnezzar defeats Egypt just as the prophecy
  of Ezekiel 2918 says.
• Dan 425 They shall wet you with the dew of
  heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till
  you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom
  of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.

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7 Times

• Can mean 7 years or 7 prophetic years
• Prophetic year-360 years
• 7x3602520 years
• 2520 years from 605 BC is 1915.
• Dan 4 says that after this time the Babylonian
  Empire will be rebuilt (for the purpose of
  bringing about the End of Days). See sheet

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At the Nexus

• 1913, the entire worlds financial system was
  hijacked by the Federal Reserve Banking system,
  which is a privately owned banking firm.
• 1914-1915- World War I begins
• The methods of war invented at this time
  exponentially increased in violence and
  destruction. War was re-invented.

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At the Nexus

• The forming of the Allied forces would set up
  the End Times forces for the final battles and
  wars of the end.
• 1946 the United Nations was formed with its
  headquarters in the US.
• 1948, Israel would be given a state for the first
  time in almost 1900 years.

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At the Nexus

• 1956- Egypt gains its independence and is now
  back on the scene to fulfill prophecy in the last
  days at the King of the South with its
  supporters.
• 1967- War took Jerusalem as its capital and
  expanded its borders.
• 2011- Egypt is moving from being funded and
  controlled by the US to being controlled by the
  Muslim Brotherhood.

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At the Nexus

• 2011- Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan,
  Algeria and elsewhere are erupting down the same
  path as Egypt.

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Ancient Babylon
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US Military Bases in Iraq
Babylon
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US Embassy in France
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US Embassy in Moscow
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US Embassy in London
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US Embassy in Berlin
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US Embassy in Iraq
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LARGER THAN VATICAN CITY!

• Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to
  open in September, is projected to cost 592
  million, with a staff of 1,000 people and
  operating costs totaling 1.2 billion a year. It
  will be a 104-acre complex, which is the size of
  approximately 80 football fields.

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US Military Bases in Iraq
Babylon
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Why does Egypt have to fall?

• Because Israel throughout history has used them
  as a crutch to lean on instead of YHVH.
• Ezekiel 2915-16  It shall be the most lowly of
  the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above
  the nations and I will make them so small that
  they will never again rule over the nations. 16
  And it shall never again be the reliance of the
  house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when
  they turn to them for aid. Then they will know
  that I am the Lord God."

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President of Egypt

• Hosni Mubarek

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Ezekiel 28

• Satan (King of Tyre) is thrown out of Heaven

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Ezekiel 29

• Egypt is overthrown

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Ezekiel 30

• Talks about the Day of the LORD, which is the
  time right before the Messiah

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Ezekiel 33

• Watchman of Israel

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Dan 4