Wayback Wednesday: The Psalm 83 War

Well, Derek, it's my pleasure to be talking with you in this interview, and I'd love to go over some of the prophetic implications of current ministry events today.

There's so much going on.

Absolutely.

Now,

I

know some of our listeners will take for granted that prophecy is an important area of study, but as I mentioned before we started, I grew up in rather liberal denominations that never, never, touched on the prophetic sections of the Bible.

There were whole chunks of the Bible.

It was as though they'd been excised from Scripture, because I don't recall until getting into my 30s ever hearing a pastor teach on Ezekiel, Daniel, Revelation, or the prophetic words of Jesus Christ.

Why should Christians pay attention? Why should we take prophecy in the Bible seriously?

Well, I'm sorry that you didn't get your first prophetic lesson until you were 30, because there's so much importance in Bible prophecy.

Not in church, anyway.

I mean, we did some extracurricular reading.

My dad picked up a copy of Late Great Planet Earth, and that was really the first I'd ever heard of prophecy.

Oh, Hal

Lindsey's book.

That's an excellent book.

Actually, Hal lives out here in the Coachella Valley by me.

I've filled in for him at several times speaking engagements and stuff out here.

But, you know, back to your question, the you know, the prophecy, you've got things talking about, you know, four living creatures flying around the throne with eyes and the front and the back of their heads and four apocalyptic horsemen in Revelation 6, and you've got a beast rising out of the sea in Revelation 13, and unclean spirits like reptilian frogs coming out of the mouths of dragons in Revelation 16.

On the surface, it all sounds like a scary science fiction movie, and But indeed, those are Bible prophecies, and you want to try to understand what they mean, because Bible prophecy is very important to God.

Bible prophecy, it says in Revelation 19.10, the spirit of prophecy is a testimony of Jesus Christ.

So Jesus' very own testimony is intertwined with prophecy, starting back from the very beginning of time, the seed prophecy in Genesis 3, that Eve would have a seed, to rectify the sin issue, all the way through to Revelation, at the end of Revelation, where he talks about him setting up his thousand-year messianic kingdom.

His whole prophetic testimony is about Bible prophecy.

And Bible prophecy, according to J. Barton Payne, occupies about 26.8% of the Bible, and he's the author of the Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy.

Now, that's a conservative estimate.

Well, Derek, it's my pleasure to be talking with you in this interview, and I'd love to go over some of the prophetic implications of current ministry events today.

There's so much going on.

Absolutely.

Now,

I

know some of our listeners will take for granted that prophecy is an important area of study, but as I mentioned before we started, I grew up in rather liberal denominations that never, never, touched on the prophetic sections of the Bible.

There were whole chunks of the Bible.

It was as though they'd been excised from Scripture, because I don't recall until getting into my 30s ever hearing a pastor teach on Ezekiel, Daniel, Revelation, or the prophetic words of Jesus Christ.

Why should Christians pay attention? Why should we take prophecy in the Bible seriously?

Well, I'm sorry that you didn't get your first prophetic lesson until you were 30, because there's so much importance in Bible prophecy.

Not in church, anyway.

I mean, we did some extracurricular reading.

My dad picked up a copy of Late Great Planet Earth, and that was really the first I'd ever heard of prophecy.

Oh, Hal

Lindsey's book.

That's an excellent book.

Actually, Hal lives out here in the Coachella Valley by me.

I've filled in for him at several times speaking engagements and stuff out here.

But, you know, back to your question, the you know, the prophecy, you've got things talking about, you know, four living creatures flying around the throne with eyes and the front and the back of their heads and four apocalyptic horsemen in Revelation 6, and you've got a beast rising out of the sea in Revelation 13, and unclean spirits like reptilian frogs coming out of the mouths of dragons in Revelation 16.

On the surface, it all sounds like a scary science fiction movie, and But indeed, those are Bible prophecies, and you want to try to understand what they mean, because Bible prophecy is very important to God.

Bible prophecy, it says in Revelation 19.10, the spirit of prophecy is a testimony of Jesus Christ.

So Jesus' very own testimony is intertwined with prophecy, starting back from the very beginning of time, the seed prophecy in Genesis 3, that Eve would have a seed, to rectify the sin issue, all the way through to Revelation, at the end of Revelation, where he talks about him setting up his thousand-year messianic kingdom.

His whole prophetic testimony is about Bible prophecy.

And Bible prophecy, according to J. Barton Payne, occupies about 26.8% of the Bible, and he's the author of the Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy.

Now, that's a conservative estimate.