Israel, the Third Temple and the Last Days

12:40 Steve Holcomb: Well, first of all, I'd like to say thank you for having me back on your show, on Daily Faith. It's a pleasure and an honor to be here with you and to be your guest and to teach people about understanding end time prophecies. Thank you. But the nation of Israel, it's prophesied in the Bible that God promised Abraham's descendants, not all the descendants. The descendants from Isaac, that they would have the land.

13:13 Steve Holcomb: Okay. Well, it also prophesied that they was going to be kicked out of their land for two days, which the Bible talks about a day is like 1,000 years. The Lord and 1,000 years is as a day. So a lot of people don't realize what's happening. Now we know, looking back, that Israel was not cast out for 48 hours. But for 2,000 years. And it says after that, He is going to gather them from all the nations, and He's going to bring them back into their land. And that's what we're watching happening right now.

13:47 Steve Holcomb: And a lot of people think that the ethnic Israel that's over there now is not the Israel that God's talking about. But what people miss is there's a spiritual Israel and there's a physical Israel. We, believers in Christ, are the spiritual Israel. We're going to have the promise that was given to Abraham, that they would be blessed. Well, there's also a physical nation that's going to be. And unfortunately, and what a lot of people really need to understand is when God brings them back into their land, there's fixing to be great judgment coming. They have stored up wrath.

14:21 Steve Holcomb: And if anybody hears this and they don't understand that Jesus Christ is the only salvation in this world, there's no other name by which you can be saved other than Jesus Christ. So God has given us warnings in the Bible. Great judgment is coming, and it's actually coming to the nation of Israel and in the whole world. So we need to be prepared, or people need to be prepared for what's fixing to happen. God has laid out a perfect timeline of things, events that's going to happen, and God's chosen people, it's a physical and a spiritual. All of those who have given their life to Christ are the chosen people in Christ.

15:16 Steve Holcomb: But God also chose the nation of Israel to show himself strong in these last days. He said, "I'm going to bring you back into your land. You're going to be able to build your Third Temple." And that's another thing, they already have all the utensils, everything ready for the animal sacrifices. They've already prepared the priest to do the animal sacrifices. All this stuff is already here right now, today, as we speak.

15:50 Philip: Interesting. I was speaking this last weekend at our home church here in Norris, in Clinton, and I was talking about the Babylonian captivity, and the Bible tells us that they took the utensils of the temple. So for the 70 years after Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem, they took all the utensils from the temple into captivity with them. And then when Cyrus liberated them, and he said, "You go back to Jerusalem, and you can build the temple again and rebuild the city," the Bible says it's a 900-mile journey. And they hauled all of the utensils of the temple back 900 miles back up to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.

16:25 Philip: So what we're watching just now, if you understand the end times, they are working as we speak. They've already bred pure red heifers. They are already in place, ironically, from Texas, believe it or not. But they have passed the test for being the red heifers in the temple. So all of these things are coming together. One thing I want to ask you, I believe there are 57 Islamic nations. So, they own all the oil. They are fabulously wealthy, and yet they hate this wee country that would fit between Port Charlotte and Tampa, Florida. You can fit the whole of Israel between Port Charlotte, Florida, and Tampa, Florida. That's how big Israel is.

17:19 Philip: It's a tiny country, yet the whole world is up in arms over Israel. And I've never seen, Steve, in my life such hatred against Israel as we are seeing at this moment. You talk about judgment. They are being judged. Yesterday in Great Britain, our country put a ban on Israeli products. Never been done before. So this almost insane, unreasonable hatred for Israel is taking place right now.

17:52 Steve Holcomb: It's all in the Bible. And what a lot of people don't understand is the promise from Abraham is you got Isaac and Ishmael. Well, Ishmael was promised to be a great nation, too. And that's where all these Arab countries come from. And a lot of people don't realize they had 12 kids, and those 12 tribes are all the Arab tribes. They hate Isaac and the promise to come through Isaac, which is the Jewish lineage and the Israeli people. The 12 patriarchs of Israel, Joseph. So, of Israel, yeah. So, it's going to be a family feud. I mean, they're cousins. I mean, they're all family. People don't understand that. You're talking kinfolk. This is the Hatfields and McCoys of the CEOs with a couple of billion.

18:39 Steve Holcomb: You thought the Hatfields and McCoys was bad. I mean, that's what it is. And both of them think that that promised land belongs to them, and they are not going to stop until Jesus Christ comes back and stands on the Mount of Olives and puts an end to all this stuff. We know, because we got God's word, that that book prophesied that Israel will be the owners of that land. Okay, we also know that there's a lot of judgment fixing to come upon the nation of Israel. God's going to allow them to rebuild their temple, even though we know Jesus Christ was the ultimate sacrifice for all of us. Well, a lot of the Jewish people don't believe that Jesus Christ was the ultimate sacrifice.

19:19 Steve Holcomb: So they think that they got to go back and do the Levitical laws and sacrifice red heifer and do the daily sacrifice and stuff again. And God's going to allow that to happen. But in that temple is where this world leader's going to stand in it, claiming to be the Messiah. He's like, "I put a stop to all these wars." We see all these wars and stuff happening right now, and unfortunately, there's bad news. I mean, according to the Bible, one out of every three people's fixing to die on this earth. That's what the Bible says. We see all of this war escalating and escalating and escalating. It's not going to end.

19:50 Steve Holcomb: The Islamic ideology thinks that they have to destroy Israel for their Messiah to return. There's no option for them. They have got to destroy... [...]

20:41 Steve Holcomb: Now, a lot of people don't understand, they say that the rapture could happen any moment, and Jesus's return. Well, we know Jesus returns at the Battle of Armageddon. Well, all of this stuff had to be set up. Whether you believe that it's seven years prior to the Battle of Armageddon or three and a half years prior to the Battle of Armageddon, the Battle of Armageddon stage had to be there. That point is real. There is no second-guessing at it. That's happened. When Jesus comes back, stands on the Mount of Olives. In the Book of Revelation, it says when he comes back, he said, "Even those who pierced him shall see him."

21:29 Steve Holcomb: Well, what does that mean? Well, who pierced him? Israel. The Jewish people, and Rome. And you know right now, Rome and Israel right now is working together. I mean, there's a picture in the New Testament how Rome and Israel, it took Rome to help crucify Jesus. The Israeli leaders took Jesus in front of the Roman government. But it was Rome that actually put him on the cross, put the spear. So, them two together are going to be together in the end time, and they're going to see, when Jesus returns, those who pierced him is going to see it. Well, they're back now. Israel's back in their land, and they're working with Russia and Rome.

22:02 Philip: What goes through my mind, Steve, is all the elements. I mean, what is Russia going to do with Israel? And suddenly, in the last few weeks, Russia is assisting Iran in targeting. Let me explain. When Iran shoots its missiles, at the moment, Russia and China are both assisting Iran in targeting American forces in Jordan, in trying to get missiles into Israel. They're hitting all the other Arab countries around them, trying to make this into a world war. So, you're seeing these things come to pass, and it's your responsibility to find out and know these things, so when you see them, they don't surprise you.

24:15 Philip: Jesus said, "When you see these things come to pass, don't bury your head in the sand. Lift up your eyes, your redemption draweth near." And so, we are absolutely convinced we're in the last days. We are coming to an end. We've only got a couple minutes left, Steve. Give us a thought. What's the next shoe to fall kind of thing?

24:46 Steve Holcomb: The most important thing that we need to realize, there is a war that's going to come, that's going to kill a third part of mankind. Nobody knows who one out of three people's going to die is. We need to give our life to Jesus Christ. We are playing Russian roulette with our lives right now. Anybody that does not have Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior living in their heart, God has given us all these things so that we are not left in the dark. God told us. He gave us a book, a manual. He's like, "I'm going to tell you these things before they happen so that when they happen, you know I'm faithful and true." So, God has given us this.

25:19 Steve Holcomb: Just like Philip was saying, you can open up the news and watch all this stuff. It's unfolding. But what people don't understand, they don't read the Bible. They don't even know what the Bible says. So, it takes programs like this to point people to, and to show people what God's word has said. So, we always need to understand that we are definitely living in the last days. There's no doubt about it. But are you going to play Russian roulette with your life and not give your life to Christ? Because we don't know when our last moment here on earth is. We could die tonight. We could die in a car wreck today.

25:53 Steve Holcomb: So, God is so loving and so merciful. He is long-suffering, not willing that any should perish, but all come to repentance. So, we need to repent. We need to give our life to Jesus Christ because God says our minds can't even imagine the things that God has in store for those who love him. Hallelujah. It's a free gift. God just wants you to accept him. We all need to admit that we're sinners, and we need a savior, and Jesus Christ is that savior. We call upon him, and all of this stuff that's going on in the world, it's going to be nothing compared to eternity.