4006 The Jim Bakker Show
Hello and welcome to the JimBakker Show coming to you
during the covid-19 crisis,
Today is our special guest,
is author and expert on Middle East prophecy.
Joel Richardson.
Our co-hosts today or Maricela Woodall.
Lori Krehbiel.
And I'm Tammy Sue Bakker.
And now direct from the Bakker family home in the beautiful
Ozark Mountains.
Here is your host, Mondo De La Vega.
[Mondo] Hello and welcome to the Jim Bakker Show,
we are the Bakker family and my name is Mondo.
My beautiful sister Maricela Woodall,
and my other beautiful sister, Lori Krehbiel.
And we want to thank you for being with us today what an
exciting moment we're in right now,
and you know if it wasn't for your prayers,
if it wasn't for you standing with us, we will not be here,
we feel like we have a mandate from the Lord,
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We feel it is very important for this hour that this program
today will come into your home and minister to you,
and challenge you to go back to the Word or answers.
And we are in probably one of the most prophetic times in our
lifetime, and what a moment to be alive, to be a Christian,
but it sure is challenging to be a Christian in this hour,
and we know for a fact of the family we have felt the
pressure, we have felt the attacks, we have felt,
but in the midst of that, you know what God brings us to the
Scriptures, and I want to encourage it to that before we
get into the program.
I was driving here and I was thinking about all that attacks
that or Ministry or family has experienced,
and what dad had gone through with the stroke in the pressure
and Mom's situation with, but by the way if you're wondering when
Mom and Dad is, with your friend is Pastor Jim and Lori are they
are resting, they are really, it's a time to rest and
sometimes for a man that is a Visionary and a Watchman,
it is hard for him to rest, but I believe God is using this time
to deal with him in a way that prophetically,
he must continue to hear from the Lord,
he's seen things is watching events take place,
and developing sermons to bring to you,
and it's not easy at the way used to be,
it's a little bit harder now that he's gone through the
stroke, but you know what your friend is fighting.
He's fighting for you.
He's fighting for the Word of God.
He's fighting to stay alive on the air,
and with your support in your prayers, we're here today,
but it made me think of this Scripture for you,
for our family, and it's a Scripture that I think every
single one of us have heard.
Whether you been in Sunday school,
or if you just read in passing in the chart somewhere,
it is Psalm 23 and it brought such comfort in to my heart
because when you don't know what else to do, you just stand,
you just wait for the Lord to remind you,
and this is my reminder from God to you, from me, for my dad,
for our family, is this Word, and I want you to hide it in
your heart, because I don't know what you're going through right,
now the world's upside down, and our special guest is going to
give us his perspective, his opinion,
he's concerned about America, and what we're going through
today, and what we're seeing take place in cities in America.
I mean it when you stop and think about what's happening in
California, is devastating.
It's like another sign from God, the earth is crying out right
now, absolutely and it seems like not only the Earth is
crying out, we are crying out for God,
and sometimes the simple things in life is what brings the
perspective back, just like this Scripture.
I know if you read this before, let's read it together Psalms
23, this is going to encourage you,
it encouraged me this morning on my drive here.
And it says this, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want,
he makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside still waters, he restores my soul,
he leads me in paths of righteousness for His namesake.
That right there gives you peace already, even though,
this is for you this is why this grabbed me,
this is where at the beginning of this year,
not only felt but we were going through this moment.
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your rod and your staff they comfort me,
you prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies,
you anoint my head with oil." If I had time I will break this
down in the Hebrew, and let you know that there's more to that
Scripture than just those nice words,
there's something about the anointed has something happened
with the anointing that comes over your life that changes the
trajectory of your circumstance.
Makes me think of my one of my mentors one of dad's inspiration
in prison, RT Kendall.
He used to say don't let your circumstances change the faith
in your life, instead let your faith change their circumstances
of your life.
It says, "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my
enemies, you anoint my head with oil,
my cup runs over." I love this one portion right here,
"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." That
scriptures is for today, so whatever you're going through go
back to the Word, and know one thing in your heart,
though we may walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
we will not fear any evil, and we are going through some of the
most difficult times in America, in this program right here
Maricela, you signed the contract at the beginning of
this year, and let's remind the people what God spoke to you
about, that this year's not over yet,
that I'm still going to keep my promise about the PTL Network,
what did God speak to you, because it's so amazing in the
midst of chaos in the midst of pressure,
in the midst of a attack, God says I'm still going
to keep my promise.
[Maricela] Yeah you know and I really believe,
you know as you guys have walked through the trials, the testing,
the tribulations, you've washed you know Jim and Lori Bakker and
our family, and we have waved through every circumstance that
we've been hit with, but I just have to tell you,
you know when you have government agencies,
government officials, you know that you're battling with in the
court, it's, there was a moment in time where I just you know it
was hard for me to keep the faith,
and I started to feel like.
I began to cry out to God because I said God my faith is
weakening right now in this moment,
because I cannot see beyond the core,
I can't see beyond what is taking place,
and how at the beginning of this year,
when we literally celebrated Pastor Jim's 80th birthday,
there was so much excitement in the air,
we were so excited for what God was going to do in this
ministry, that this would be the year that the voice of the
prophets would be launched, and I remember months later I'm
sitting there, I'm truly crying out to God just asking Him.
"Lord Give Me A Sign show me something Lord,
teach me show me whatever it is that you're trying to teach us
through this difficult time." And in that moment,
I remember feeling like I don't want to look to the Future God.
I don't want I don't know what the future holds,
but the Lord reminded me, he said listen Maricela,
what I have called forth, will go forth,
what I have mandated to go forth,
and for you to do you will accomplish it,
and in that moment the Lord said Don't Stop on what I've called
you guys to do.
I don't want you to look to your right don't look to your left,
I want you to look at me.
I want you to follow me.
I want you to trust me.
And know that I am God, and I have placed my hand on this
ministry and truly in that moment I got my team together,
and I rallied the troops, I really felt the Lord said rally
the troops of God, and I brought that team that helps this
ministry on a daily basis.
And I just spoke to them and I said we will not give
up this fight.
When all hell seems to be breaking loose,
when you seem like you're being trampled on, your dreams.
The Passion of the future seems to be lost,
you cannot see it insight.
We will stand and we will continue to fight for what is
rightfully ours, and we will continue to stand in the
position that the Lord has given us,
and that's what we've done Mondo, and because of that,
you know we sit here today literally announcing that we
have launched the PTL Television Network many of you are watching
for the very first time, you are tuning in.
[Mondo] Listen you have to applaud every victory.
Sure you want to mourn and cry, but the victory.
Listen don't ignore the victories,
and the most unbelievable thing is that God never changes his
Words, that he is the same yesterday today and forever he
said, everything will pass away accept his Word, his promises,
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Los Angeles, people I've had calls already people watching
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and listen is because of you, because of your prayers,
but more than that, your financial support.
I don't understand why people always wanted to skip that part,
without finances we can't preach the Gospel,
without finances without your support we wouldn't be able to
live this miracle that were in right now,
and when Dad felt the urge and the call of God in 1998,
when Mom and him were making the bed,
they felt the call of God once again to build a platform for
the voice of the prophets, a platform that provides a voice
for men and women to deliver a message from God to you about
the future times, and the times that were in right now,
about the Book of Revelation about things that are taking
place, that will be difficult to understand,
in 1998 we never would have think that we will be in 2020
living a time of pressure, a time of where political chaos is
taking place, the war on words is happening right before our
eyes, and in the midst of that is a convergence of events
taking place all at once, earthquakes taking place in
different places, fires are burning the west coast of
California, it almost looks apocalyptic on what's happening
in San Francisco, what is happening in Seattle and
Washington area, in California, and people are wondering what is
God have to say about those events taking place,
well guess what you turned in you tuned into the PTL Network
the voice of the prophets.
Where we gather some of the greatest voices that we have
trusted to come into your home, so you can watch and stay
up-to-date on what is happening in the Middle East,
what is happening with Israel and today we have one of those
voices that is speaking for this hour, for you,
for this generation and someone that is bold,
someone that is not afraid to speak his mind about what God is
sharing with him, and this man has really taken a step beyond
expectations, because I don't think or special guest today
would have ever thought that God was going to use him more than
ever for this hour to help us understand the mysteries of the
Bible, and what a mystery it is in the Bible that God will
reveal His message, to His prophets to His friends to share
with you, to share with us.
And our special guest today Joel Richardson,
is a New York Times bestselling author, a filmmaker,
and a teacher.
He travels globally teaching on subjects such as the Gospel
living with Biblical Hope, and the return of Jesus,
we need more teachers like Joel.
He's the author editor director and producer of several books
and documentaries including his newest book that we're going to
talk about today, you are not going to want to miss today's
program, this book Sinai to Zion the untold story of the
triumphant return of Jesus, he is the host of the popular
Christian program, The Underground,
which by the way you can watch it you can see it, on demand,
on the app.
So please help us welcome our special guest today Joel
Richardson.
All the way from his bunker.
[Joel Richardson] Hey guys it's great to be with you.
It has been a while, it has been a crazy year.
But it is a real blessings be with you all,
and I just want to say that my prayers been with you all with
Pastor Jim and Lori over these past few months,
so it's considered an honor privilege to be able to stand
with you guys during the season.
[Mondo[ We really appreciate it, we love you Joel., we admire you
we, we pray for you, and you know it before we get to your
book what, what do you think is happening in America right now,
what is going on in America?
I mean we're seeing a convergence of events taking
place like never before, we're watching political turmoil,
we're watching almost apocalyptic events taking place
weather-wise, and then in the midst of that we're watching
civil unrest taking place in some of the most unbelievable
cities in America, what do you think is going on?
[Joel Richardson] You know obviously there's a lot going
on, and I actually did in Underground program on this,
I'm going to stay a little over a year ago,
and the title of that was Civil War in America with a ?
And so we can talk about the corona virus that's global,
but the issue I think right now it's taking place is,
and I'm just going to call the work of Satan,
when you look at the Olivet discourse Jesus's sermon on the
last days just before he goes to the Cross,
his disciples asking what are the signs of the end of the age?
And he lays out a whole bunch of things,
you know he talks about the classic signs of the end times
that you think of, earthquakes famines plagues pestilences,
these type things, but then he says hear of a kingdom rising up
against kingdom in nation against nation,
so usually in the English we look at that and we think while
this is talking about wars and rumors of wars,
certainly was talking about those things,
but when you look at the Greek word of their,
"Nation." The Word is ethnos, it is ethnos against ethnos,
and as you all know, I've been working in the Middle East for
the past few decades really, but we've been involved in Syria,
and then I personally watched since 2011,
with the revolution in that really the civil war in Syria,
it's about this, think of these parallels what started out as
protests in the south by some of the Sunni minorities,
that felt as though they were being a oppressed,
they began protesting, it led to riots,
it eventually spread all across the country,
it eventually led not just to riots,
but to full-blown civil war, and eventually what you would say
was a full-blown war, you have foreign troops in Syria,
from China to Russia to Pakistan to Israel to the United States
Germany France Turkey.
I mean you name it all of the powerful nations in the earth
were there with their militaries,
and when it was all said and done,
we've had arguably over a million people dead.
We've had internally millions of people that have had to move
from one city to the other, and then fleeing country,
we've actually had millions of refugees,
and what happens in situations like this is here in the United
States, they say well that happens over there,
you know these are the Muslims, you know Middle Easterns,
and the Arabs, they're they're crazy type thing,
like that could never happen here.
I have been warning for years saying listen,
this Jesus made it very clear, that this is part of Satan's
plan for the last days, is to divide,
an increasingly hostile categories in units,
everything that can be divided Satan will divide it,
right now in the United States politically racially religiously
socioeconomically, you name it, Satan is doing his best to
divide us in every which way that he can,
and unfortunately most of the country is falling for Satan's
trap, we're called to be aware of the wiles,
of the schemes of Satan, we're allowing our self to primarily
defined by political parties, by races, by this by that,
and Satan is winning right now in the United States,
and so there's no question, yes we have to pray for Revival,
but it's not just Revival.
I mean we need a genuine outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
we need discernment as the Church, and we need to be pray,
we need to be praying that we could get through this,
and I'll just say this, you know where in election season,
and that amplifies everything, there's no politician that is
going to save us, there is no politician that can fix this,
there's no political Victory they change these things,
we need to be turn to the Lord wholeheartedly for our nation,
because really I mean, what we've seen right now,
looks horrible but the potential for it to get a lot lot worse
has been demonstrated through out the earth,
and throughout history, and if we think it can't happen here
where we're absolutely delusional.
[Mondo] Wow you know your voice what,
what you just said is so important,
and I hope you're listening to this,
the Bible talks about there will be a time where deception will
be great in in the hour that we may be in right now,
therefore Church, we have to understand that our answer our
voice comes from the Word of God, is being able to come back,
if my people pray, listen God is talking to his Church first,
if you don't understand what's happening right now in the
world, all you have to do is go back to Matthew 24 and
understand one of the most important asks,
one of the most important questions,
and answers that were asking this Word,
was when the disciples asked Jesus,
"What will be the signs of your return?"
And listen if the King is coming back, this needs to happen,
but it's the greatest hour for the Church for the return of
Christ, and later on in this program we're going to show you,
why this could be the greatest hour of the Church,
why is the Book of Revelations so important to understand,
and to open it up and begin to understand that this could be.
I love what you said the other day this could possibly be the
greatest love story ever written to the Church.
Why because we have to celebrate the return of Christ,
and celebrate the events in the midst of this pressure that were
in, in the midst of chaos, sure we're going to have to fight for
the religious freedom rights that were facing right now,
and we have to get out and vote, we have to put our trust in God,
we have to put our trust in the Word of God.
Not on man.
If God chose this man to be in office right now,
we must pray for him, we must pray for every leader,
we must pray for even if it's hard to accept some of his
tweets, even if it's hard to accept some of his behavior,
but what if God chose this man for this hour,
what if God is speaking through events that are taking place in
America right now, for us to turn around and repent and
understand to turn back from our evil ways and be able to pay
attention that without God we can't make it.
We in America are facing a difficult time right now,
and if we don't get out and participate in our earthly duty
to get out and vote, the election can shift one way,
or it can shift in a different way,
for us Christians we have to get out there and be part of what we
believe in, vote your faith is what we've been asking people to
order the buttons to be able to just,
to initiate people to get out and vote, what was the,
the numbers because Joel, you got to understand Joel,
if the Christians are going to have a voice in this fight,
is it our duty to get out and vote Joel?
[Joel Richardson] Yeah, I view it as a simple issue of
stewardship, we are called to steward responsibly everything
that's been given to us, and the right to vote in a democracy,
that's a gift, and we need to steward it properly,
no question about it.
Now with that said, The Bible the New Testament is a book
written by those who were persecuted,
to those who are persecuted, it's a book for the persecuted,
by the persecuted and Christians throughout history been
persecuted, and we're feeling it, we're beginning to feel it,
but brothers and sisters throughout the Middle East,
Nigeria and Northern Africa, all different places are,
they are experiencing legitimate persecution,
we're feeling it right now, we understand what it's like to be
challenged, to be sued, to be silenced.
I will say this, on your behalf, and you have the online network,
you have the app now.
I would encourage your audience, sign up for the app.
When various platforms shut down Christian outlets,
which they will.
Your app is something that your content will be uploaded to,
and they can't shut that down, and so it's good to have
redundancies and backups in this type of thing.
Listen let me be very clear.
I am very conservative politically, morally,
theologically, you name it.
And as such I always vote conservative, that said,
going back to what I said earlier,
it is also every important that we don't just steward our votes
responsibly, we steward the things that we say on social
media, we recognize that despite our variety of political
opinion, we are first and foremost Christians.
And we need to be very careful in terms of how we approach
political discourse, because oftentimes we do,
we hurt other people, we hurt off fellow brothers and sisters
within the body of Christ, by just sort of spewing opinions
online, this type of thinking, we need to be very careful,
we need to put people first, and then go out and vote and pray,
and much more important, even often times than our own
opinions, and for me this is very important,
particully in light of as I said,
all of the division that the nation is feeling right now.
[Mondo] Go and download the app right now on your phone on IOS
or Google Play if you have an android phone.
Do it right now, it is so important that you get this
message in your hands, and stay connected and stay up to date
one what is happening, we have people that will interpret the
times that we are in right now, Just like Joel Richardson,
The Underground program is one of the key program son this
network, to help us understand what is happening in the Middle
East, and Joel let's get right into it,
this question will lead into your book.
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Joel what do you think will happen as Turkey is flexing his
military muscle and tries to form an alliance against Israel?
[Joel Richardson] yeah, we have talked a lot about Turkey on the
show over the years, and in my first book, Islamic Antichrist,
which was written originally back in 2004,
I predicted exactly what we are seeing right now.
I mean precisely which was the islamification,
radicalization in the emergence of Turkey as a regional power,
who would of though just ten years ago, think about this,
Turkey is converted.
The Hagia Sophia, this once was the largest Church in the world.
And it has been a museum for the past 80 plus years.
They converted into a mosque, this is a deliberate cultural
statement, that Turkey is trying to present itself as the leader
of the more radical Muslims throughout the earth.
Well in the midst of all of this,
just the other day we saw a sermon given
in the main mosque in Mecca.
And the emom there was talking about the good relationships
that Mohammed and Muslims down through history have
had with the Jews.
We see many nations that are actually moderating and they're
leaning more toward being friendly with Israel.
We see the UAE Alliance Peace Agreement with Israel.
So we see in some nations we see just the opposite happening,
but in Turkey we see Turkey aligning with more radicals
throughout the region with Hamas,
with the radical Palestinians from Gaza,
with nations such as Qatar, and some of the other Turkish
Central Asian Nations.
So we see in my opinion early stages of the rise quite frankly
of the coming antichrist coalition which Daniel 11 refers
to as the king of the North.
The antichrist is called the king of the North and then we
also see the emerging king of the South coalition of nations.
We see nations like the UAE, even Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
Jordan, other nations that are not Muslim such as
Greece and Armenia that will be more aligned with the
United States and Israel.
So in so many ways we really do see the specific aligning of the
nations, the contours of the geopolitical landscape falling
into line with that which the prophets described in very
specific detail in ways that you could not predict things this
specific thousands of years ahead of time it's falling into
alignment in a profound way in our day so absolutely huge
things happening in the Middle East right now.
[Mondo] In 1999 our father gave a prophetic word in Moravian
Falls with Rick Joyner and he mentioned some key nations
to watch for.
He said, "Watch Russia.
Watch Korea.
Watch China.
Watch the Middle East." But specifically he said,
"watch Turkey." There's something mysterious about
Turkey, Joel, what is it about Turkey that most Americans are
being deceived by?
[Joel Richardson] Well again, back 10-15 years ago as you
listen to commentators and analysts the overwhelming
consensus was that Turkey was turning toward the west.
It was an Islamic democratic model government and we wanted
in terms of American farm policy in terms of the nation and the
model that we wanted to replicate throughout the middle
east and in fact this was actually Obama's effort,
very failed effort, to see the Turkish model replicated
utilizing the Muslim brotherhood,
he thought they would follow that pattern,
but instead the prophet Ezekiel, Ezekiel 38 and 39,
the prophecy of Gog Magog it makes it very clear that in the
last days Turkey would emerge as a regional power and that
essentially the former beast empire,
the satanic stronghold this coalition of nations would be
revived, it would come back in the last days and we would see a
multinational coalition or an empire, an alliance, a league,
whatever you want to refer to it,
they would come together and it would create one of the greatest
military threats that the world has ever faced and we saw,
well certainly Turkey is not as powerful as the United States or
Russia, but what we don't realize is that Turkey does have
a very powerful military, easily as powerful as Israel's for
example, but when Turkey allies and combines their powers with
Iran, with the Central Asian nations,
with Qatar and after they even conquer other Islamic nations
that all of these together with their nuclear weapons,
with all of their capabilities it will be this entity that the
Bible says the peoples of the earth will say,
"Who can make war with the beast?
Who can stand against this thing that we've never seen before?"
so in many ways the nationalism, the Turkish nationalism,
the Islamism it is emerging right before our eyes and it's
not, no years ago the left wing media, they mocked me,
they mocked others that were saying these things,
they mocked Jim Bakker, I was a guest on The Glenn Beck Show
they loved to attack him and they said this is all just
evangelical fanaticism and fear mongering.
Well, the things that I was saying ten years ago are now
mainstream in the media, it's no longer fantasy,
it is happening right in front of us.
When you listen to the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
it sounds like something out of a Christian end time fictional
thriller as he's speaking of going to war with the various
surrounding nations, he's invading Iraq,
he's invading Syria, he's threatening Greece,
he's threatening Armenia, he's threatening the United States
and he's quoting the Quran, he's quoting Islamic scripture and
he's whistling to the Islamists throughout the region and it
really is something that our politicians and the church needs
to be very well aware of.
[Maricela] This is so important as you watch today because we
have to understand the times that we are living in and we are
bringing, I mean just to have Joel here explaining to us,
what is God trying to reveal to us through His scripture?
And Joel, I want to get into your brand new book Sinai to
Zion and I just have to say what an amazing deep revelation that
the Lord has literally downloaded to you has given you.
I have to say just quickly I was so humbled even as I just went
through the introduction I could not contain it,
I couldn't handle really what the Lord was even revealing to
me and it humbled me to read what God is trying to share with
you the believers, His children and before I want you to lay the
foundation for us today Joel, but before I just want to read
one quick thing from the introduction of your book.
This is what you say, "If the biblical prophets,
John the Baptist, Jesus and the Apostles,
and the early church all proclaim the coming of our Lord
then so must the modern church return to doing
so just as vigorously.
I am convinced that if the church will prioritize
meditating, teaching, and emphasizing the hope of Jesus'
return, we will reap tremendous good fruit." And I literally as
I got through the introduction for myself I just sat there and
I just meditated upon the Lord and I said God,
will you show us, prepare our hearts for this great moment,
prepare the church to understand that we are living in the
greatest moment of history and we get to be a part of it.
So Joel, I would like for you to take this time,
can you explain how your new book, Sinai to Zion,
explores the connection between the Exodus and Jesus' return.
[Joel Richardson] Yeah, thank you so much Maricela.
So, I've been on a three year journey and I know some of those
who follow my ministry I haven't been super out there publically
the past three years, but I have been on the most mind blowing
journey that all began with me going to Saudi Arabia and
visiting Jabal al-Lawz, a mountain that I am
wholeheartedly convinced is the real Mount Sinai.
Very controversial, but in the midst of studying this the Lord
had me parked in the Exodus for well over a year and I've been
in the midst of as you said just this download of revelation
unlike anything I've experienced and I say this with no hype at
all, but I am absolutely convinced that Sinai to Zion is
the most important and profound book that I've ever written and
may ever write quite frankly and it's a heavy book,
it's a content rich book, but essentially let me just begin by
beginning of the introduction and get into it more.
But really at the center of it all is this cry that I have for
the church to recover the Maranatha cry of the early
church and what do I mean by that?
Well the church today we have the hallelujah.
Hallelujah means praise the Lord,
we have the hallelujah down really well.
We're great at praise and worship and this type of thing,
but the other cry of the early church was not just hallelujah
it was also Maranatha and that essentially means
come Lord Jesus.
It was really kind of a liturgical statement,
it means He has come, but He is coming again and it was a cry,
come Lord Jesus and to me the Maranatha cry,
it's the critical missing component throughout so much of
the modern church today, we've lost the Maranatha cry of the
early church and to me this is central,
this is at the very heart of the Christian life,
the Christian walk at the heart of the Gospel is this
understanding that revival that political victories,
that any of these things in this life,
none of these things will satisfy us, that the only thing,
I mean the ultimate thing that we're crying out for,
the only thing that will really satisfy our deepest yearnings
and prayers is the return of Jesus,
the establishment of His kingdom here on the earth and until we
as Christians and we as the church recover the centrality of
this we won't be able to navigate the storms that are
already swirling all around us, that that is the anchor of hope
that's going to get us through the storms ahead and so I really
believe this book is an important critical deposit to
help the church recover the Maranatha cry.
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Joel, what are the desert prophecies that you talk about
in your book?
[Joel Richardson] So this is the capstone of the book.
So essentially the book is broken up into
three different parts.
I begin with the covenant at Sinai in the first part,
in the middle I deal with a lot of things that will unfold in
the last days with regard to the restoration and the salvation of
all of Israel, but part three is where I dig
into the desert prophecies.
So the desert prophecies are what I will say some often
overlooked, almost universally overlooked prophecies in the Old
Testament and these are actually the very foundation.
These are the first prophecies in the Bible upon which the
picture, the vision, the story of the return of Jesus as it is
described in the New Testament are built upon.
So the first of these is Deuteronomy 33,
this is the prophecy called The Blessing of Moses and this is
hands down the foundation prophecy for the return of Jesus
in all of the Bible and overwhelmingly what's so
fascinating is that when you read commentaries,
when you read what the scholars say,
they miss the fact that it's talking about the return of
Jesus because they assume it's actually talking
about the exodus.
So this is the point is what I show in the book is that the
return of Jesus is framed, it's patterned after
the biblical exodus.
That the bible casts the return of Jesus,
not as a very simple event, he comes forth from the sky and the
clouds and it's all over.
No, the return of Jesus is the second exodus,
it's the greater exodus, it's the final exodus,
it's ultimate exodus and by understanding,
by gaining this key, we unlock what is unarguably the single
greatest key into the mysteries of understanding the return of
Jesus as you said Mondo in all of its glorious technicolored
detail and these are passages that are found throughout the
Old Testament.
Some of the longest detailed prophecies in the whole Bible
and they are truly beautiful and glorious.
[Lori Krehbiel] And Joel I love how you in your book you pose
this as the most beautiful love story.
So can you tell us how this is the ultimate romance between
God and Israel?
[Joel Richardson] So let's just begin in part one.
So as Christians we look at some of the covenants in the Old
Testament, we think of the Abrahamic covenant as those
Christians that are pro-Israel which I am,
we love to quote Genesis 12, "I will bless those that bless you
and curse those that curse you and this type of thing." We love
the Noahic covenant the Lord put His rainbow in the clouds,
He promised to never destroy the earth again with a flood and
this type of thing.
But we often look to the Mosaic, or the Sinaitic covenant,
the covenant that God made with Israel and we often look
at it negatively.
We say, well that's the old covenant,
the new covenant is better than the new covenant,
which of course it is, but what we don't understand is that the
way the Lord has framed the Sinaitic covenant and not just
the Sinaitic covenant, but the whole exodus itself is
specifically as a betrothal ceremony.
It is a marriage covenant between God and Israel and if we
don't understand this basic principle we will not understand
the return of Jesus.
We will not understand the Torah,
we will not understand its role in the life of Israel and in the
life of believers, we won't understand the marriage supper
of the lamb.
So this really is the foundation and so in the first part of the
book I essentially show that the exodus is a divine romance and I
work through all of the symbols and the motifs.
Now listen, the Jews are well aware of this.
Jewish commentators, rabbis, sages,
they are very familiar with this that the exodus is God's romance
and it leads to and culminates with His betrothal or marriage
ceremony with Israel at Mount Sinai,
but most Christians we don't realize this.
So there's so many elements there,
but just as an example Torah itself from a Jewish or a Hebrew
perspective, Torah is the Ketubah and the Ketubah is the
legal arrangement, the legal document, the agreement,
the covenant between the bride and the bridegroom.
So in modern times we simply refer to this as the marriage
vows, the wedding vows, but of course these are very extensive,
it took them days just to read the whole Torah and this really
is the legal agreement, but now you think about this in modern
terms, you wouldn't say like oh you know Honey this is such a
burden keeping these marriage vows,
keeping all these wedding vows, it's such a burden.
I'm free, I'm free of these things,
and yet this is the way that Christians often do
speak of Torah.
Think of it purely in negative terms, purely as a burden,
purely as a curse and these type of things,
but we have to understand that these are the marriage vows,
again, made between God and Israel.
I don't personally believe that Gentiles are obligated to keep
every component of Torah, I want to be very clear,
but we need to understand it through the lens of beauty that
it's presented in scripture and it's not just a curse,
it's not just a burden, it's actually presented as the
marriage vows and as such it's important that we recover much
of the beauty of these things, but there's so much more there,
there are so many more elements that show and reveal the fact
that this was in fact a romance.
It was a courting process that led to a wedding ceremony and it
will ultimately lead to ultimate marriage supper of the Lamb.
The renewal of this covenant to the final culmination and
establishment of this covenant with God and His bride
once and for all.
But not on Mount Sinai, but rather it will culminate at
Mount Zion and this is again the return of Jesus,
the culmination of the whole glorious story.
[Lori Krehbiel] This is powerful teaching.
[Mondo] Absolutely, you know as you're watching right now I want
to go back to Genesis, I want to go back to Exodus and find out
where, how is it happening?
Where did we miss it as the church?
Where did we miss?
You know where I think we missed it is that we have allowed other
people to read the Word of God for us.
It's time for us to go back to the Word.
It's time for us now that we have been given this time to be
at home and some of you probably are still in quarantine and some
of you are probably still in lockdown and while you're in
lockdown instead of complaining Dad used to say if you complain
you remain, if you whine you stay behind.
Well listen, don't be a whiner, don't be a complainer,
be a reader of the Word of God.
Use this time to go back to Genesis and understand
where we are.
How in the world did God use some magnificent events to point
us to the return of Jesus Christ?
From the beginning God orchestrated throughout His Word
how the return of Christ was going to play out.
You know, God doesn't hide anything from us if we want to
research it, if we want to read His Word.
You know, we have become spoiled brats.
We have allowed other people to teach the word instead of us
reading it for ourselves and having that experience.
America has been so spoiled by preachers and by television,
Christian television that we've been given so much,
but then again we are experiencing a famine of the
Word of God from our pulpits and today the church are wondering
what's happening when we should have known all along that it's
in the Word.
All these events that are taking place that have taken place from
centuries have been already predestined and rewritten in the
Word of God.
But it was up to us to read it.
It was up to us to go back to the Word.
You know Joel, you're going to have to stay for a second show
because we got so much to talk about.
You're going to talk about in the next hour about the Red Sea
and why did the Lord gave no other option to escape.
I want to know more about the Ten Commandments.
I want to know more about this exodus and before we end this
day one can you just talk about how Genesis and Exodus is
related to one another?
[Joel Richardson] Sure, in Genesis the Lord introduces the
Gospel, He introduces the story of redemption and so really the
foundation text is Genesis 3:15.
As soon as the fall happens the Lord introduces the solution and
He looks at the serpent and he says,
from this time forward there's going to be conflict, enmity,
there's going to be war between your children,
not Satan's children, but his spiritual children are those who
follow his ways, and the children or the descendants of
Eve, the righteous children.
There's going to be conflict and this conflict will define all of
human history.
But it's in this prophecy that he basically gives an indication
that someone is coming and he says and he is going to crush
your head Satan.
It says you will merely bruise his heel,
you'll strike his heel, but he is going to crush your head.
So even just in Genesis the Lord has already introduced the
concept of the Messiah of Jesus and his defined and this is so
beautiful, he's defined first and foremost as what?
As the crushing one.
He is the snake crusher and he's not just going to crush Satan's
skull, he's also going to undo all of the impact,
the implications of that deception back in the garden.
All of the things that have come as a result of the fall.
This skull crusher is going to undo all of those things so in
revelation the story of the promised one unfolds,
we later learn that he's also going to be the seed of Abraham,
the seed of Eve is going to be the seed of Abraham at the end
of Genesis 49 we discover he's actually going to be the seed of
Judah, he's going to be the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
So even in the first book of Genesis we already have pretty
well framed out version for who Jesus is,
but then it's in Exodus that the Lord takes it to the next step
and that is when He gives this next major deposit which is the
covenant at Mount Sinai.
It's through understanding the covenant at Mount Sinai,
through understanding the prophecies of Moses that we
understand who this Messiah is, who Jesus is and specifically
what he is going to do when He returns.
So together Genesis and Exodus form really the foundation of
revelation for understanding the return of Jesus and just to give
a sneak peek let me just say this.
the God who came down on the mountain in blazing fire who
descended on the mountain in a thick cloud with a blasting of
trumpets, with a mighty earthquake,
with a voice from heaven, He is going to come back in blazing
fire, in the thick clouds with a mighty earthquake with the
blasting of trumpets with the voice of an archangel and the
God who came down on Mount Sinai the bridegroom God,
Yahweh God Almighty who came down on the mountain,
He is soon coming back.
So this does become clearly the pattern for the return of Jesus
and it opens up so, so much.
[Maricela] Yes, amen.
I just want to say as we wrap up,
this show has gone so quickly, but I just want to say Joel I
truly fell in love with your book.
When I read it and I want to thank you because at the
beginning of this show you said that you have gone through a
mind-blowing journey with the Lord and I just want to tell you
that it comes through your book when I read it I joined you on
that mind blowing journey.
I felt like I was a part of the revelation that the Lord was
giving you and I want to thank you for being obedient.
For taking the time to research and to read through,
what is truly God trying to reveal to His children
in these times?
This is one of the greatest times for the church and for us
it's time for us to go to that next level.
I know this encouraged me, the first thing that I did was I
opened up Genesis and I opened up Exodus and you led me through
the Word of God.
You're constantly aiming us and telling us search it for
yourself, read the Word, know the Word, and revealing to us,
what is God trying to teach us?
But this is powerful.
So for those of you who are watching I just want to tell you
this is, I read a lot of books on this show and this book has
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return of the Lord.
I look forward to it with anticipation in seeing that day
where the Lord will come back for His bride.
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[Mondo] Absolutely.
Join us tomorrow with more with our special guest Joel
Richardson as he unlocks and reveals to us the exodus and the
magnificent events that took place and how it's relating to
the return of Christ.
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