it's sunday, 17th of december, we have left only two weeks until the end of the year, and this time we won't do an actual update to the signs of the times, from the period which has gone the last few weeks, but we will try to make a retrospective of everything that happened in 2017, in terms of the signs that foretell the coming of the lord.
bally island in indonesia, before talking about what happened this year, i will read a text from mathew chapter 24, three verses: `even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors. `
`truly i say to you, this generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete. ` `heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end. ` our lord jesus is talking about the fact that at the end of this era of grace, before his coming, there will be some signs that will prevent that we live the ending times, or the last days. that precedes his coming in glory, and even before this, seven years before, his coming for the church. after he counts all of these signs, in all 24 chapter,
at the end he realizes a summary of these signs, and says to his disciples: `even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near,` it's not about seeing a sign or another but all of them together, forming a unitary one, which shows that the lord is very close to come! this year, 2017, was a symbolic year on the prophetic calendar. because many significant dates were fulfilled. first of all, 500 years have passed since the lord's reformation in christianity.
i prefer to say so, it is a better term than the protestant reform or martin luther's reform. all historians believe that martin luther did not have in front of his eyes, this perspective of a generalized reform, of what would happen following his gesture to put the 95 theses, on the door of the cathedral from wittenberg. well, it passed 500 years from the reform from 1517, and a fact less known is that there are also 500 years, from the conquest of jerusalem by the ottomans. realized by the sultan suleyman the first.
the same year the reform took place in germany, and then in all of europe, the same year jerusalem was conquered by the turks, who would have mastered it for 400 years. also in this year 100 years were fulfilled, from the lost of jerusalem to the british. the turks mastered it for 400 years, and after that the british have conquered it, and this year 100 years were fulfilled since jerusalem came again in the hands of christians first,
and then to the jews. this year it was 70 years, just like a generation, for example we know that israel was into the babylonian slavery for 70 years, well this year 70 years have past since israel was proclaimed a state, at the un, through the resolution from 29 of november 1947. the country's plan for the division was voted on, and that has left room for declaring the future jewish state, thing that happened next year which is 1948.
that's why this year 2017, and the next one, in fact from 29 of november until may 14 next year, it is an entire period in which the jews could say that they have reached 70 years, since they are on the territory of the holy land. we will see that this is a very significant thing because it foretells that we are in the time of the end. and even more than this we find ourselves at the end of this special time. this year 50 years from the conquest of jerusalem by the jews in 1967 were fulfilled. in the text that i read, the verse 34 says that:
`this generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.` and i wanted to make sure of the meaning of that expression, because i heard many interpretations, that's why i went to the strong dictionary which is the reference for the greek translation, which gives the closest meaning to the words. well the term in greek for that is `genea` which means generation, not `etnos` which means nation,
or people. the term used here relate to a generation, the translation is not a proper one. `this generation will not come` - the lord talks about a certain generation, that shall not pass until all of these things happens. and this seems to be indicating not the exact date and time of his coming, but he refers to a generation that shall not pass until all of these things will happen therefore, before the lord comes to jerusalem to reign. this term of `genea` is always used by the meaning of generation by people.
`this bad generation, this bad nation...` said the lord several times, and then he was referring not the jew people in its entirety, but that generation during his time. `an evil and false generation is looking for a sign;` he was talking about a generation that was asking for a sign. well, we may ask ourselves how long a generation lasts? according to the psalm 90, the time of a generation lasts between 70-80 years. scriptures must be interpreted with scriptures.
and then we go to find out what a generation means in god's conception: and we see in the psalm 90 that: `the measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years.` therefor it is about a generation, from the ending times that will last between 70-80 years. and if we count, as all the researchers of scriptures do count the years of this generation, starting with 1947, it means that between the years 2017 and 2027, the time of this generation will come to an end. in the following ten years this time comes to an end,
the time that a generation lasts, of which our lord said that it shall not pass. some say that a generation would last 120 years, and objected to this, but this happened in noah's time, and even moses who lived for 120 years, says that a generation during his time, lasted for 70 or 80 years, therefor his case was an exception. during solomon and david's period we can see very clear that a generation lasted for 70 or 80 years. also another objection was brought concerning this interpretation of the text,
that is, it was claimed that this prophecy, was fulfilled in the year 70 after christ, when the romans destroyed the temple, first settled the wilderness of desolation, that is, the roman banners, christians run away and the temple was destroyed. therefor they said: it was about that generation from our lord's time, that generation of jews, and that those things won't pass until jerusalem is not destroyed. and they say that the prophecy was fulfilled, the generation didn't pass,
since the year 33, with approximation, until the year 70, and that exactly year the temple was destroyed. so, that prophecy was fulfilled and it is not expected to fulfill anymore in the future. it is very simple to realize that things are different, because in the text from mathew chapter 24, it is written that the wilderness of desolation will sit in the most holy place, it is about the same wilderness of desolation which the prophet daniel spoke about. and no doubt that this image is the antichrist's image. and it is very clear that antichrist didn't come to reign to jerusalem,
during the generation that came after the death and resurrection of jesus christ. therefor those things couldn't have happened then. also the text from mathew 24 ends with the coming in glory of our lord at jerusalem. and he says: `this generation shall not pass, before all these things happen.` and one of the greatest things is the coming in glory of our lord, `because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the son of man.` well, lord jesus surely didn't come in the year 70, so it is about a future generation. and we have all the reasons to think that this generation is one of the jews that entered again into the promised land,
because this was the key element missing in the fulfillment of the prophecies. in fact, dear ones it is well that we know that since luther's time, they thought they were in the ending times. luther was waiting for the coming of the lord during his time, and because the ottoman empire was standing at the gates of vienna, he thought that it was the empire of the antichrist, so, he was telling everyone that the lord is close to come. after that the waiting grew in time in the next hundreds of years, but in the 1800 they realized that an element was missing,
which was that israel entered again in the promised land. the people from israel had to be in their country and even more to be in jerusalem. because there is where they will see the one they have pierced. it is very simple to realize that this generation is the one that came back in the promised land. and this coming back started with the zionist congress of theodor hertzel, but after that they came back several times, but israel as a nation became a member state of un in 1947 and was declared an independent state in 1948. therefor this years starting with 2017 marks the beginning of the period between 70-80 years,
from this generation. and it is very simple, the year 2017 had to be a very special one. and the question is: was the year 2017 a period that had never been seen in history? of course it is an affirmative answer. this year, 2017 it was a year entirely exceptionally, an unique year. and i will present it by different categories, to see what happened globally, and see if it was something exceptional, or you may simply ask yourself, isn't it that those things happened all the time?
well, they always happened only that this time some records were reached, the normal limit was exceeded, in almost all of the chapters that shows that the lord is coming back. first of all in what concerns the natural cataclysms, we'll talk about hurricanes. this year was an year with the most powerful hurricanes from history. surely it was the year with the greatest economical damages produced by the hurricanes. over 401 billions of dollars. and in the last years the damages produced by the hurricanes kept growing. but that growing was insignificant comparing to this year,
for example in the year 2014, the damages were about 203 millions, in 2015, 730 millions, in 2016 it was 16 billions. and from one year to another has gone from 16 billion, see, first, from millions to billions, but then from 16 billions to 400 billions. do you realize what an unusual growth? it has also been established records in what regards hurricanes. i will only count some of them.
this year the hurricane with the largest amount of rainfall, in history was produced. the hurricane harvey in houston area, practical for 4 days has rained all the time, so that in areas where there is no danger of flooding were covered by the waters. this year was also the year in which three hurricanes having the category 4 or 5, hit the us, it never happened before that three hurricanes having the category 4 or 5 to hit the us. this year was also the year in which there were 10 hurricanes in a row. because from the tropical systems that forms, some dissipate others only reach up to the storm stage,
well, this year were 10 systems at row which transformed in hurricanes. 10 tropical systems transformed not only into a tropical storm, which is an intermediate stadium, but in hurricanes. it was the year with the most rapid development of the hurricanes. from a storm in a category 5 hurricanes in only a matter of hours. it normally takes days to reach that stadium, in one day it is just a system, the second one it is a tropical storm, in the third day category one, the fourth day a category two, and in a week if it continues on worm waters, they reach the fifth category.
well, this year, two hurricanes, harvey and maria, transformed in less than 24 hours from tropical storm, into a category 5 hurricane. another important chapter was that of the vegetation fires. they happened in europe as well as in the us, and had as a result many losses in human lives and many material damages. i will only mention a few, because the list is a very long one, to all of these chapters. i will only talk about a few which we've already talked about the past months.
the fires from california lasted from may to november. with some interruptions. they caused 45 deaths and more than 200 injured, and damages of 13 billion dollars. in total there were 8700 active outbreaks. until the past month, i don't know for sure if those fires continue today. this amid an unprecedented drought. in portugal in june, there were 75 victims,and 45,000 hectares of burned forest, due to lightning caused by a storm without rain.
this storm had no drop of water in it, only lightnings that fired up the forest, and caused 65 victims because there was no time to evacuate the victims. the fires in the iberian peninsula in october, covered several territories in spain and portugal, caused 49 deaths and 54.000 hectares of burned forest. and the effect was intensified by the winds of the hurricane ophelia. which came from the atlantic. there were other fires, in chile resulting in 11 deaths and tens of thousands of hectares burned.
in australia, new zealand and many other countries. the weirdest fire took place in greenland, and that was unprecedented, it never happened before. fire in greenland ... what to burn? glaciers? such a thing doesn't exist. well, the permafrost started to thaw, that layer of soil that should have remained frozen for ever, and the poor vegetation, due to a lack of precipitation, lit up, and of course the guilt was also on global warming.
and especially on president trump because he retreated from the paris agreement. basically, this paris accord foresaw to reduce carbon emissions, which we may call it as a new tax on smoke, especially in moldavia, but also in the romanian country in the middle ages, there was a tax not on the person, but on the chimney. how many houses having chimneys, each of them had to pay an annual tax.
well, with no doubt this is the real purpose, all this story with the global warming, beyond economical benefits, wants to implement an unique tax, at global level, on carbon emissions. there is not time to discuss it in details now. also this year excessive temperatures were recorded. surely in 2017, some of the greatest records were established, and this year was one of the three warmest in history. which are the other 2?
2015, and 2016. see? the last three years, were the warmest in human history, that's why they sustain the theory of the global warming. they won't admit that through this god is announcing a judgment that's coming upon this earth, and that the earth with everything on it will burn. you will never hear such a thing on the news, no one will come there to say: you know all of these fires, and this wave of heat is because god is warning the people and because he plans to judge the world, and this judgment won't be through water as it was in noah's time but through fire.
but god, who is full of mercy never sends a judgment before warning. he delays the judgment so that people may have time to repent. but in all of this time of his everlasting endurance, he is sending warnings in which people may see signs of what is coming to happen. and one of the signs is that of the warming of the entire planet, and the recording of many extremely high temperatures, which have also caused prolonged drought. there are some of those temperature records: 47 degrees in many places from australia,
on february 11. 54 degrees in pakistan, in may. these are temperatures recorded in the shade, underneath must be a green space, and the thermometer must be placed one meter distance from the ground. can you realize what kind of a temperature should have been to sun exposure? if the thermometer would have been placed on the sand it would have probably indicate 60-70 degrees. since in the shadow they had 54 degrees in pakistan. in iran and oman in june over 50 degrees were recorded,
with the absolute record from iran, in the city ahvas on june 24, of 53.7 degrees. also in spain some records were established also in the background of unprecedented drought, in june 46,9 degrees, in cordoba almost 47 degrees, and 45.7 in granada. on this heating background, there were several waves of heat, and one of these took place in the southern europe, which included us and they called it lucifer,
and took place at the end of july, and the beginning of august. affecting a lot of countries including romania. in our country were several red codes repeated, of high temperatures, and i remember that i saw fir the first time the thermometer from my car indicating 44 degrees. of course that many material damages were caused by it, and even human victims. another sign of the end are the earthquakes.
and this year, comparing with the past ones, you could say that it was a very calm year. because in 2017 there weren't such great earthquakes, even if there were quite a lot, the number of them was a big one, but they didn't cause so many human victims as in the precedent years. and many researchers think that this is the calm before the storm. and that the next year will be a year full of strong seismic activity. there are 5 earthquakes, the most important ones from their victims: in iran in november,
took place a 7,3 earthquake, with 540 deaths. it was the most deadly of the earthquakes. in mexico there were 2 strong earthquakes, one on *th of september, a 8,2, and even if it was a great earthquake it had only 98 victims. the grace of god gives to the mexicans a chance to repentance. the second one on 19th of september, of 7,1 produced 370 victims.
the fourth earthquake the one from italy, from january which had 5,7 degrees, caused 34 deaths, and finally the one from china on 8th of august, 6,1 degrees, with 25 deaths. we will see what will happen next year, even the last week was an earthquake in indonesia, also of 6,5 degrees. another sign of the ending times, and i will pass rapidly over them, because we've already discussed them along the year,
another signs of this year is related to the apostasy. or the degradation of faith, for it is a very clear sign that the antichrist will come. the antichrist or the man of the inequity won't come until the degradation from faith comes first, then he will show up. the apostasy was very obvious this year, in the form of world ecumenism. because this year 500 years from the reform were celebrated, this year between 31 october 2016 and 31 of october 2017,
this entire year was called `the year of the ecumenism.` `the reform only divided us`, said the pope, `and after 500 years we have the duty to reunite again.` `let's gather together` in fact that was an international dialogue, an ecumenic dialogue for many decades, but this year everything reached a new level, because this new pope that came to power in an unusual way, through the resignation of the previous pope, this pope called francisco, has a very powerful ecumenic agenda and impels it more than all others before him. pope francisco advanced so much in the process of canceling the reform,
and managed to fool many of the protestants leaders that are already apostates, because the protestants have come to marry gay in their churches, and even ordain them as pastors not to say even women pastors. they are doing so for many decades now. this protestants were fooled by him, and he wanted to bring them into the catholic church. he said that the catholic church also believes in the justification by grace, through the faith in christ. that there is no other justification only by the grace of god, and through the faith in jesus christ.
he said that catholics believe that way, but what he didn't say is that, they also believe in the intercession of the virgin mary and of the saints. this subject was not discussed, he only said a part of the whole truth. and when you only say a part of the truth that means you just said a lie. even at wittenberg, how daring, even at wittenberg they went, in july a common declaration of the catholics was signed, and the world community of reformed churches, representing 80 millions of protestants,
in which they canceled the mutual convictions made 100 years ago. even in wittenberg, `here is where all started, here is all is going to end!` and that was signed by the representatives of the 80 million of protestants, including a great part of the methodist churches. i wonder what would have said wesley if he was still alive to see such things? the way of the ecumenism was opened and is opened firstly for the protestant christianity, already apostate who had denied faith, but also for all the religions of the world. because this year, the pope visited many muslim countries,
or buddhist, as egypt, myanmar, and bangladesh. on 31 of october 2017, day considered to be the one in which the reform started, by displaying the 95 theses of the monk martin luther. a common declaration with the lutheran world federation was signed too, which has 74 million too. i will only quote one paragraph of it, so that you see what is all about. `today, 31 of october 2017,
the last day of the common commemoration of the reform, from that year that we've spoke about, we are very grateful for the spiritual gifts that we've received through it.` and the commemoration, we share it with all our ecumenical associates all over the world.` we also apologize for our failures, for the forms by which christians have injured the lord's body.` and offended them mutually in those past 500 years.` the question we ask is the following one: what the body of the lord means to them?
the body of the lord, dear ones, in the catholic conception, is mother church or the catholic church. and they see all those who have separated as people who departed from the lord's body, and that they try to get back, and if they are the body of the lord, then what are we? well, they will continue trying to get back all of the protestant communities, in the body of the lord, as they say. and after the problem with the protestants is solved, will spread the hand to the islamic and buddhist because they already said we all have the same god. therefor they will also make part of the body of the lord.
in the same declaration was announced that the reformists also signed as i said, in june, and that the anglicans will make it too at westminster, representing another 85 millions of christians. no wonder that a great part of the evangelicals, will adhere to such a thing. the protestants as you see, are representing 80 millions, 75 millions, 85 millions, in this world protestants are 920 millions, catholics are 1,28 millions, orthodox 350 millions. entire parties of the protestantism was already united,
the dialogue with the orthodox church is already done because they have no big doctrinal differences, and it just remains to bring the evangelicals, the problem is that a great part of the evangelicals will adhere and will sign this declaration, to restore the body of the lord. they want to reunite the lord's body, under the pretext that the lord's prayer from john chapter 17, in which he said: `i pray so that all may become one` and that this prayer must be fulfilled now, before his return. that's what they say, and from the most important evangelicals,
at least 2 of them manifested their sympathy toward the pope, openly, they visited and met the pope, it is about rick warren from the baptist church, joel osteen, who is unaffiliated, and kenneth copeland from the charismatic pentecostals. these people already represent tens of thousands of christians, this time evangelicals, not only protestants, who are already in a complete unity with the pope from rome, they have blessed him, and these things happened under our own eyes. this ecumenical agenda will go on,
and as a fact for the next year, because we will discuss about the next year at the end, what will happen, this pope will come in romania, next year. and i will be here to see which of the evangelical christians will be here to meet the pope. to be a man of god means firstly to say the truth, but that is not enough, you have also to expose the lie. and that's why i am here for, to say the truth and to expose the lies. i was thinking about john the baptist, that if he would only have said this:
`repent, repent because he who has the shovel in his hands is coming, and he shall gather his wheat into the grain, and the chaff shall burn it,` if he had only preached the repentance he would have spared his life, but he went to say to irod: `it is not allowed to you to do that.` and i will say to those christian leaders that plan to go there, i will give their names and publicly say that they are not allowed to do that. god doesn't allow them to do that, and that is not the christian way, but only the apostasy, or the faith denial.
the fourth chapter is related to the future technology, and especially about the artificial intelligence and the steps made toward a single universal virtual currency. and this year, no doubt it was the year of the bit coin revolution. the virtual currency most known. this year the currency reached 19.000, more precisely 19.500 dollars, and here is the evolution that this currency had since 2010 when it was launched, it was paid at 0.3 cents, not at 3 cents. and from this infamous value reached 600, 700 dollars,
at the end of 2016, in six years it barely managed to gain a dozens of dollars annual, then some hundreds dollars annual, finally last year it had reached, 600, 700 dollars, and everybody was saying that it was a revolution, that it was something new. well this year the subscription started at $ 800, and ends it with more than 19.000 dollars. probably beyond the level of 2000 dollars. and i said in the majority of the updates,
that it is about the steps taken before a cashless payment form arrives. because the antichrist will rule and will dominate the world through this system. beyond all the systems of controlling the population that he is setting up, will be this one too, because it is written in the scriptures, that people won't be able to buy or to sell without having this sign. which means without having the access to that terminal elecronic payment device. the virtual currency has come to the chicago stock exchange, and is thus recognized as a financial instrument in the global economic community. we don't know what it is going to happen to it,
and many said it was just like a bubble of air, and that at a certain moment it will explode, and those who have invested in it, they may wake up that they have lost millions overnight. this may happen anytime. because it is not sustained in something, not in gold, not in silver, not in other precious things, and not in an economy. it is a currency sustained on nothing more but the trust of those who use it. but as i said the last time, it precedes,
the implementation in every country of a type of a virtual currency. and it is interesting that russia had already said that it has a commission that wants to come up with this, they want to free themselves from making payments in dollars, so that they won't depend on america, especially in what concerns the payment of the oil and natural gases. so, they want to have their own currency, and the virtual one is the best. but after russia, one week ago, venezuela's turn came, which tries to escape from the economical problems that they're facing. i quote: `nicolas maduro, the caracas president,
announced that venezuela will launch the petro crypto currency, to counter the american financial blockade. and in the conditions the country faces a serious economic crisis. the crypto currency would be based on oil, gas, diamond and gold of the country,` added maduro.` it is already another step, a crypto currency, or a virtual currency, which is issued by a national bank, and which is based on the oil deposits,
on gases and gold. it is based on something material. that's why it is a step toward the virtual currency. anyway in venezuela, they put a sign on their hands, so that they may buy, it wasn't the sign of the beast, but with that sign they took their portion of food. this thing is being made since the last year, went a step forward and just think that only to have access to something like that, to a virtual currency, you must have a chip.
whether it is into a credit card, whether it is into your phone or in other devices. the simplest way would be that they implant it, and probably we will get to that too. already conditions have been created, they are not only simple hypotheses. we are talking about some real facts. we have to see what will happen next year, with this electronic payment device, that will be spread globally. also about this type of technology,
that antichrist is going to use, we talk a bit about the artificial intelligence. this was the year in which sophia the robot was launched, representative of the new direction in technology. because it is a robot with a human face, who benefits of an artificial intelligence, bigger than many of the people, and who is able to formulate answers that the majority of people would't be able to give, this robot was officially presented,
at the un as an artificial intelligence bearer robot. when such a thing is made is for the publicity because they want to implement this type of artificial intelligence and to put it in the midst of men, not only in a civil way but in a military way too. in the arabic countries of the gulf it is already talking about the possibility of replacing the police with this type of robots. as in the science fiction movies. also this year it was the first time when a robot received citizenship. and it was considered to be a being, this took place in saudi arabia where are the most serious violations of human rights.
and sophia even declared that she wants to get married and have children. there is where the madness of humans leads to, they want to get humans used to the robots, before you could find them in factories, now you will find them in homes too, it will become something normal to be able to use it, but their purpose is to control through the artificial intelligence, if possible the entire humanity. also in this control of the population, and electronic payments, fits even the launching of the new types of intelligent phones, for example i-phone 10, in september,
which has a facial identification. and when i-phone opens the door, after it there will come other chinese brands, they will also are going to make phones based on a facial recognition. the problem is that when you look to the camera to unlock the phone, somebody sees your faces, no doubt about it. who sees your face? who will be able to control everything? for the moment it is about an artificial intelligence only, but when it is going to reach what it is called as a singularity, then it will be a great problem, and i think that it will be the moment when the antichrist will use that technology.
other events from this year, because we can't speak about all of them, the lord said: `when you will see all of these things happening...` we can't see all of them now, because there's no time for it, and every month i only extracted the most significant ones, i'm only talking about some that i didn't i did not treat them at the time, we may treat them next year. for example, our lord says that there will be diseases or better said epidemics, and there were epidemics of plague, in madagascar,
of cholera in yemen, diseases that were considered to be eradicated, dengue fever in many countries, and zika virus in brazil and south america. there also were tornadoes, very powerful ones, electric storms, large hail, as it happened in the desert where it were a layer of hail as if it had been snowing there, and that even happened. there have been floods and landslides in one part of the world,
on the other side of the world, the ever-increasing drought, and i will mention here california again, and from europe spain, where the images are frightening, because those storage lakes are becoming less and less diminished, maybe somewhere between 20,30% of their capacity, that' s all they have, and that's a very big problem.. also this year, between other signs we count the volcanic activity as well, unprecedented too. one of the years with the most volcanic eruptions, in many areas that usually didn't happen, but also where it already was activity.
last month there was a continue threat in bali island in indonesia, with canceled flights, they were waiting for a volcano to erupt, and in other many places too, i've talked about peru as well, and about other countries in which the volcanic activity is a continue one. the catastrophic events are more and more, and they are getting more obvious as well, and they are more and more different. it's not that we are exaggerating,
or that the population should panic, but we must have our eyes opened to see the signs that indicate that the lord is coming, because he gave them to us, to know and let others know too, that this is the time to get right with god. and of course that our eyes should be fixed on the lord, `but when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near. ` on one hand we have to see them happening not ignore them, but our eyes spiritually talking should be fixed onto the heavens, from where our redemption comes.
this year was a completely exceptional year, in all the signs of natural disasters, or nature manifestations as they call them in the scientific world. another chapter really special is regarding something that the lord mentioned in mathew 24 as well, and that is wars and news of wars. and i will dedicate more time for this chapter, about wars, news of wars and especially israel which is embedded in all this unfolding of things. this is, let's say so, the second part that indicates the coming of the lord. this was the year in which permanently the nuclear crisis in north korea has unfolded.
it all started with the coming at power of donald trump, who wanted to change things with the relation with the regime from phenian, because on one side, obama wasn't interested in that, and they advanced in their nuclear program, and on the other side, trump realized that in a few years they will complete their nuclear arsenal, and that they will become a real threat for the entire surface of the us. that's why he wants to solve this situation, because he haven't got the solution yet, but under this pressure, the north korean leader, kim jong um,
has activated even more his nuclear program, that's why this year was a record in what regards their tests with ballistic rockets. 16 tests were produced until now, the most recent one was in november, when a rocket capable of reaching any point from the us was launched. it was the strongest one, it could even reach the western coast, to fly all over america and arrive to washington, or new york which produced a great concern, because this time they realized that it isn't a game.
and this year they also detonated an atomic bomb, the most powerful experiment of theirs until now, on their own territory under a mountain that they almost broke down. a hydrogen bomb that caused an earthquake of magnitude between 5.6 and 6 degrees on the richter scale. practically it caused the mountain to almost collapse, and because of this they couldn't make another test because they didn't have any other available gallery, it is believed that many people died during this test. anyway they don;t care about people, about christians, and not even about their population who is starving, are malnourished, there are cases of extreme famine and poverty,
and with all this they keep advancing in their nuclear program. us threatened with a preventive attack, and many military maneuvers have taken place, many of them unscheduled, including three simultaneous carriers. but with the newest fighters and nuclear bombers. on this background, the war of statements made us witness a real show. trump threatened in front of the un general assembly in september, with the total destruction of the north korean regime. saying that they will face a fire and a fury as the world has never seen before. the problem is that if this happens,
and this war and zonal conflict will be triggered, the question is where it will expand, because in that area in north korea, is not only korea, but there are powers that sustain this regime, everything is connected and i will give you the branch that supports north korea. the branch is the following: china, russia and iran. they are interconnected, and in the moment that the us decides to launch a preventive attack, against the nuclear installations from north korea, why didn't they do it until now? because if they do it, it may cause a generalized conflict.
we may assist to the beginning of the world war iii. god won't let it happen. things are complicated but they didn't trigger because the us is afraid not knowing how much others can get involved in that. now when they have brought many military equipments in the area, right this month, the chinese brought their military equipments as well, battle vessels, planes, and real-time maneuvers. and the russians brought a considerable number of soldiers to the northern border of korea. and i wonder how things will be next year?
the lord says that you will hear of wars and news of wars, and you can say, well but wars and news of wars were always. but when was the entire world threatened with such a thing? do you realize? in just one day if ballistic rockets are being launched, from north korea, and the us would perceive it to be from russia or china and they would launch a preventive attack as well, in only ten minutes the decision can be taken, and we will assist to the world war three, which will have as we will see immediately a huge number of victims, but god is patient and keeps things in their place. why? because his elect ones, his church, the ones that he loves and redeemed,
are still on earth and the church must leave earth before the great tribulation comes, and the world war as well. the second part of the wars regards syria and the countries involved in syria, on the one hand, on the syrian side are the russians turkey and iran, and on the other hand in opposition to that are the us and european countries. russia in syria and iran on their behalf, proclaimed the past weeks, total victory on the islamic state, they said that they're done with the islamic state, `we've won the fight` even if local outbreaks are still in rural areas. but this year was the year of the approaching between russia, turkey and iran.
why does this interest us? because it is written that in that time, the last days a war will take place, against israel led by three great powers. and that is gog, which is russia, togarma which is turkey and iran which is persia. well this year their relation have been consolidated, it never happened before, it is an unprecedented year. the relations between putin, erdogan and rohani that kept visiting each other. whethet putin went to turkey, whether erdogan went to moscow,
or in iran, they also met at a peace conference held in kazakhstan. parallel to the geneva talks, because the un had a peace meeting on geneva too, led by them, by stephen de mistura, but these have resulted in a lamentable failure. that's why they said that they will make peace. with what price? with the price of establishing their troops and their military bases in syria. why? so that they can be a permanent threat to israel. the russians to may control the route of gases delivery, and iran to reach their purpose.
know that iran doesn't have only an economical purpose, the one to control natural gases, they also have a religious purpose. iran is an islamic theocracy. they don't have a democracy, they are being led by an ayatollah. by a representative of allah on earth. the president it's just a puppet. the ayatollah takes all the decisions and he has a single purpose, to bring their messiah into the world because they have their own messiah that has to come at the end of the days. they have an eschatology. at the ending times, this messiah called mahdi,
will come, and as they say, will install the islam on the entire face of the earth. and in order for this messiah to come, the state made a revolution in iran, and said `we've entered the final days, we must bring mahdi!` the only element missing for their messiah to come, and his reigning on the face of the earth is the conquering of jerusalem. he won't show up until jerusalem is conquered. as for christians is very obvious that the third temple must be built for them it is very clear that the muslims must conquer jerusalem. that's why iran is focused on that so much,
they must conquer jerusalem, jerusalem was in the center of the attention last week, and it will continue to be. and one of the reasons they will invade from the north, will be to conquer jerusalem, so that they may create space fro their muslim messiah to come, their mahdi. well for the russians, they don't have a religious motivation but an economical one, and geopolitical. they want to control the gases that israel owns, and which they may deliver to europe as they already thought. turkey also has a religious reason to conquer jerusalem, because they are also muslims, even if they are sunnis and the others are shiites, they also want to reign in jerusalem.
this erdogan wants to unite the sunnis forces, under his leading. practically the majority if the muslims are sunnis. and the sunnis needed a leader. until then their leader was the kind from saudi arabia, but this time another man stood up in turkey, and this is erdogan. the last week he gathered like 50 muslim leaders, to make a common statement against the recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital.
they met in ankara and said: `we do not accept such a thing,` and they declared under the leading of erdogan, that jerusalem is the capital of palestine. the fight is for jerusalem and the fact that the countries mentioned in ezekiel 38, 39 are involved, indicates to us very clear that we are living the end times. because the bible says it very clear: `in those days...` which is the end times, the time before the lord comes. before he establishes his kingdom. if you read from the 40th chapter on, after chapter 38, 39, after the war,
there is the describing of the 1000 years kingdom in jerusalem. it is about the period before the coming of the lord. iran has settled in syria and lebanon with no intention to leave from there, through hezbollah. they built military bases and tries to develop precision rockets. which the jews periodical destroy them. the last time they destroyed them was some weeks ago, and had to face the russian defense system. and they will continue to face it. russia simulated withdrawal from syria,
they've done it before last year in march, they wanted to retreat but then they changed their minds. someone said they had filmed how the planes and the ships were leaving, and after the filming ended, they turned 180 degrees back. it was only a media show. well, this year they really retreated a part, but on the other hand they have enlarged their military bases from latachia and tartus, naval base and air base. more than this this week, putin,
was invited to go and meet erdogan, as we've talked the last sunday, he was invited there to talk about jerusalem, not only about jerusalem but the delivery of natural gases, but before going to turkey, putin stopped to make a surprise visit in syria. and he did't go to damascus, even if the president assad, prepared to meet him there, but putin landed at a military russian base, sent a military helicopter to assad,
and invited him to come to his military base as if he was the president of syria. they show to the entire world that they are the owners of syria. practically the syrian president is just a puppet. why are they interested in syria? not for their resources but to have control over the natural gases from israel. and this will be the reason for the last and major war from israel, before the coming of the lord. the russian threat this year was for europe too, and for nato as well,
because in ukraine, even if things look to be fine, the conflict goes on. and on this background, russia has deployed most military exercises in belarus, which is situated at the north of ukraine, and it's neighbor with poland. practically the closest outpost to the european union. there they did the greatest military exercises, and they left behind heavy military equipment. they brought their heavy artillery and tanks, and left without them. nato made exactly the same thing, has conducted large military maneuvers,
including on the romanian territory, tens of thousands of people. on this occasion romania decided to buy 36 f16 fighters, worth 16 million dollars, and patriot rockets costing 4 million dollars. this year, it never happened before. why? because the lord said: `you will hear about wars and news of wars.` and we will soon see for the next years's perspective what may come out of this. on this background, israel is surrounded by enemies, and all the initiatives for peace with the palestine look to be a big failure,
president trump had his first year of mandate, and one of his first visits he made was in israel in may, he also met abbas president, was the first american president to officially go to the wall of the complaint, and doing that he already recognized the right of israel on jerusalem. he has appointed two peace negotiators, son-in-law or jared kushner, and high emissary jason greenblatt, to launch a peace offer to the palestinians. this offer wasn't launched yet, it will be next year,
but i don't know if palestine will want to accept it. why? because following the recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel, president abbas said he no longer accepted any role of the us administration in peace talks. `we don't want them to negotiate anymore.` they asked for un to make this negotiations. this is also what scriptures says because the president of america won't be the one to guarantee the peace, but the antichrist who will probably be the leader of the majority of the states, but not from america. as i've said the last week 50 leaders of the muslim's countries met in turkey,
and asked at the un that the palestinian state was voted as a member. to be recognized by the un. and also asked that israel was retreated as a un member. 50 muslim leaders under the leading of erdogan. the president of turkey declared israel as a terrorist state, and malaysia which is a muslim state as well, declared that their army is ready to go to jerusalem, to free it from the jews and give it back to the palestinians. see that's a war declaration practically.
`we are ready to send our army, who wants to join us?` don't you want to join us? even the president of iran made some very serious statements. he was there too. iran was represented at the highest level. hamas has applauded abbas's extremist speech. that's how herod and pilate made peace too. that's how abbas from fatah made peace with haniah from hamas. and they declared the beginning of the third intifada,
this december. until now they weren't that successful, they didn't have enough people to get out in the streets, even if there were some few thousands of people, but not as they expected to happen, they thought that the orient will be in fire, it wasn't so, but that because god's patience is still at work. in the orient and over the entire world. and those from the gaza strip launched many rockets toward israel, like 15 until now, 2 or 3 on a day,
not to begin a new war because they know that they would be destroyed by israel, but just to bother them and keep the red alarm ringing, to make people panic and go into the shelters, eventually no rocket fell into an inhabited area, only one fell into a parking lot, but in rest nothing happened. we have to see what will happen because the last friday in the protests died 4 palestinians, and the jews killed a man who was into a wheelchair,a very big agitator, and this has prompted even more rage, from the palestinians. the situation may become even more difficult, we have to see what is going to happen the next year.
and now, we will talk what may happen next year. i'm nor a predictor or a prophet, i just want from the point of view of the prophecies to see what may happen the year that's coming. in what concern wars and news of wars. first of all in north korea, we don't know if there will be peace, and it won't be probably. meeting the negotiating table is more and more unlikely, and any mistake may trigger the conflict in the area, which we don't know how much will expand.
also there is a problem with iran and with the nuclear agreement. president trump said they did not respect their nuclear agreement but continued to develop nuclear technology, and he's ready to break it. the problem is russia's and the delivery of the gas. because that's the way russia keeps europe as it's hostage, through the gas pipeline. and this was visible that last week because there was an explosion to a gas pipeline from austria, and immediately italy went into crisis. because it is winter and they were left without gas.
there was an explosion, but in that very same day the price of the gas rose to 30, 4-%. and it looks like russia can not be passed over. at least during winter, it can't be done. peace between israel and the palestine probably won't be, the next year i don't think there will be peace, but a surprise offer may be given. someone said there might be a surprise offer from the americans, negotiated with the support of the sunnis, around saudi arabia and the states from the gulf,
which are his allies, and that this surprise offer, may open the way for the construction of the third temple. what may contain this offer? one of the commentators said that the offer may be proposed by the european union, rather than by the us, and the offer will sound like this: jerusalem a city for everyone, of course that israel will be the administrator, but it must be an international city. and on the temple mountain to be built places to worship,
for christians, foe jews and for muslims as well. so that the muslims may worship on friday, the jews on saturday, and the christians on sunday. in fact the one who will do that is the world leader called by the scriptures as the antichrist. he will be able to do that. and it is very simple because the muslims have their sacred day on friday, the jews on saturday and christians on sunday, so that it is place for every one without bothering each other.
this peace treaty will be made only by the antichrist, in syria things won't calm down, because in syria, iran continues building armament factories, the jews said this is the red line, we will go on to bombard. until now, missile factories were in the suburbs of damascus, but they were completely destroyed, every time are hundreds of attack in the last years, made by the jews, and all the factories were destroyed. so they thought, if we can't manage to do it this way, let's move those factories into damascus,
so from the next year they will have their factories in the city. how not to think about the fulfillment of the prophecy from isaiah 17, in which says that damascus will become a heap of demolitions, and won't be inhabited anymore. the jews will continue to bomb, even if they would move it into assad's palace, they will bomb even there. they won't expose so much to the risk of being exterminated, because they know that they were about to be exterminated once, during world war 2, and they said: never again!
we will never give up without fighting! they are decided to attack, and this may be the element that will generate the conflict in that area, the destruction of damascus. will be the year 2018, the year of the beginning of the invasion of gog? in israel? we don't know for sure but that's very possible. the troops are around, the reason is there, and the word of god never remains unfulfilled.
not a single word won't pass without fulfilling. and if the lord says it will be so, it will be. and it is written something beautiful as well, beyond the fact that god will fight for israel, it is written also that in those days the humans will fix their eyes on their maker. even this war will glorify god, because the humans from the entire world, will fix their eyes on god, there will be a revival. we don't know if the church will be on the earth then or not, we don't know for sure, scripture doesn't tell us and there are many opinions regarding that, but what is for sure is that in that period, before, during or after,
the church will have to leave, but i repeat, there will be a period of revival, `in that day a man's heart will be turned to his maker, and his eyes to the holy one of israel.` if we will be here, we won't be making updates every three weeks but we will do it as things are going to happen, and we will show to everyone, look, things are happening! in fact that's what we're doing now too. we say, what has been written is already happening! it is not a history, a fairytale or a simple story, but the reality that we are living in, god is fulfilling his words under our own eyes.
and he shows to us very clear that we are living the end times. i think that the church won't be on earth during the world war 3. i don't know if the war of gog will turn into the world war 3, it is very possible, but there is a war in the book of revelation, in which a quarter of the planet's population will die, and there will be a continuation of this war during the wrath's period, in which one-third will die, altogether, half of the planet's population will die. and i will read what is going to happen in the great tribulation, `and i saw a grey horse, and the name of him who was seated on it was death; and hell came after him. `
`and there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, and by taking away their food, and by death, and by the beasts of the earth. ` `the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, ` which is in war, and any war brings with it famine, and all kind of diseases, for the lack of health care, because there's no clean water the diseases spread, `and by the beasts of the earth.` who will come to eat the bodies that will be on the streets. even if that sounds horrible, that's what happens during a war. it happened in syria and in the conflict areas too. the sixth angel, the second part of the war,
`and at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before god, ` `saying to the sixth angel who had the horn, make free the four angels who are chained at the great river euphrates.` i believe that it is about another war, but it is part of what we call as the world war three, as the world war ii had many battles, so will it be with the third. and a part may be the one with gog, the other the one from the seals and other one the one from the trumpets. with the armies coming from the euphrates, from the east. `and the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day ` see? the armies are prepared by god with precision.
`and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.` a third part of men. `and the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears. ` it is about an army of 200.000.000 people. and if we are to estimate the number of deaths, in the third world war, totally, after a quarter dies, one third of those who have left will die, in total a half of population, the entire population of the planet counts now 7,6 billions, it grows to 8 billions,
but around 4 billion people will die in this conflict. would you like to be here on earth? some think that they will have a chance during the tribulation, how can you know if you're going to be alive then? 4 billion people will die during tribulation. let's not mention those who say that the church will go through this tribulation... how can you escape something like that? god says: `because you have kept my word in quiet strength, i will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth. ` dear ones, there is an escape, these wars are going to take place, i don't know if next year will be the year that will trigger them,
but it will happen in one of these following years. it must happen otherwise god would be as a lier, because he doesn't fulfill his word. but god will fulfill his word. we don't know if the next year but it will be in this period, see the armies are already gathered, people gather war equipment from each of their large countries, russia, america and china, invest in weapons, even romania invests in weapons, how blind to be to not realize that those are the signs of the end? that there are wars and news of wars and that the tribulation is about to begin?
on this background there is an escape. and there is only one, the one the lord spoke about. `but keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the son of man.` you have to pray, it is not that simple, you must have a constant prayer, if you were a christian, you must wake up and stay awake. and for those who are not faithful, they must turn to god! they can't miss their chance to repent! beyond that we don't know what will happen. it's an uncertain ground. there is a chance for repentance now, in this time of grace.
beyond that no one can guarantee that you will be even alive. which are the perspectives for romania, the next year? what will happen from the spiritual point of view in this country? i don't think we will have a war because the russians are being occupied with israel, with the elections, with the football championship, but the question is what is going to happen in this country from the spiritual point of view? will be a revival? will people awake whether from churches whether from those outside the church? are there going to be people who will turn to god before his coming? this is what we're praying for, and this is why we're doing what we're doing.
all this ministry that we have here is with this purpose, the unique purpose is that those who are part of the church wakes up, clean up their clothes so that they may be ready when the lord comes, and those who don't know him must turn to him, come to him, in him there is salvation, there is no other name given to people in which they might be saved. and he is ready to forgive them, to receive them, to heal them and bring freedom from sin, maybe one of this updates will be the last one, to let behind a recording and then the church to leave, maybe this things will end soon, that's why when you hear his voice, then is the right time to make peace with him.
and if you've heard him several times this year and you let those chances to pass you by, don't be sure that you will be able to do it next year too, maybe you will have time, but maybe not! the lord may suddenly disrupt things and events may start. as far as i am concerned, i will continue the work with the help of the lord, both proclaiming the truth and unmasking the lie. in the same time i will do the same as now, every 3-4 weeks i will make an update to the signs of the time, with the help of the lord and with the purpose that many christians may wake up, and that he will bring to salvation many from the outside. i'm also working on the book about the rapture of the church,
probably we'll have it in january or february, and one about the 50 theses on the reform of christianity nowadays. because part of the revival is that we need a reform, 500 years after the reform of luther, especially because we didn't have that, it was something in transylvania, but we as a nation, as a population, the romanians didn't have any reform. and i don't think it is too late for that. as there is grace we still have time to live a true reform,
of christianity, and may the lord make it happen! amen! i want to give thanks to those who have sent encouraging messages, and who support us in prayer, people we have not seen or met, since last week until now i've received dozens of emails. and may the lord bless them all! even if we didn't get to meet each other, we will meet for sure in heavens, may the lord help us to be ready for his coming, and i give thanks to the lord that he is working revival and that he continues to do that,
and in what concern us we are trying to pray for everyone that wrote to us, i don't know if we succeed to pray for all, but we are trying to, so that the lord prepare us all for that day of his soon coming! in the same time we pray that he touches as many hearts as possible in this nation, from the 17 million that are in the country, plus another 3 million or even more who are outside the country, may the lord work with this romanian nation, so that many people will be ready for the day of his coming, and may he have a pure bride from romania too!
may the lord have mercy of our nation! may he prepare us for the times that are coming, and for the unique moment of his coming! amen!
it's sunday, 17th of december, we have left only two weeks until the end of the year, and this time we won't do an actual update to the signs of the times, from the period which has gone the last few weeks, but we will try to make a retrospective of everything that happened in 2017, in terms of the signs that foretell the coming of the lord.
bally island in indonesia, before talking about what happened this year, i will read a text from mathew chapter 24, three verses: `even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors. `
`truly i say to you, this generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete. ` `heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end. ` our lord jesus is talking about the fact that at the end of this era of grace, before his coming, there will be some signs that will prevent that we live the ending times, or the last days. that precedes his coming in glory, and even before this, seven years before, his coming for the church. after he counts all of these signs, in all 24 chapter,
at the end he realizes a summary of these signs, and says to his disciples: `even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near,` it's not about seeing a sign or another but all of them together, forming a unitary one, which shows that the lord is very close to come! this year, 2017, was a symbolic year on the prophetic calendar. because many significant dates were fulfilled. first of all, 500 years have passed since the lord's reformation in christianity.
i prefer to say so, it is a better term than the protestant reform or martin luther's reform. all historians believe that martin luther did not have in front of his eyes, this perspective of a generalized reform, of what would happen following his gesture to put the 95 theses, on the door of the cathedral from wittenberg. well, it passed 500 years from the reform from 1517, and a fact less known is that there are also 500 years, from the conquest of jerusalem by the ottomans. realized by the sultan suleyman the first.
the same year the reform took place in germany, and then in all of europe, the same year jerusalem was conquered by the turks, who would have mastered it for 400 years. also in this year 100 years were fulfilled, from the lost of jerusalem to the british. the turks mastered it for 400 years, and after that the british have conquered it, and this year 100 years were fulfilled since jerusalem came again in the hands of christians first,
and then to the jews. this year it was 70 years, just like a generation, for example we know that israel was into the babylonian slavery for 70 years, well this year 70 years have past since israel was proclaimed a state, at the un, through the resolution from 29 of november 1947. the country's plan for the division was voted on, and that has left room for declaring the future jewish state, thing that happened next year which is 1948.
that's why this year 2017, and the next one, in fact from 29 of november until may 14 next year, it is an entire period in which the jews could say that they have reached 70 years, since they are on the territory of the holy land. we will see that this is a very significant thing because it foretells that we are in the time of the end. and even more than this we find ourselves at the end of this special time. this year 50 years from the conquest of jerusalem by the jews in 1967 were fulfilled. in the text that i read, the verse 34 says that:
`this generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.` and i wanted to make sure of the meaning of that expression, because i heard many interpretations, that's why i went to the strong dictionary which is the reference for the greek translation, which gives the closest meaning to the words. well the term in greek for that is `genea` which means generation, not `etnos` which means nation,
or people. the term used here relate to a generation, the translation is not a proper one. `this generation will not come` - the lord talks about a certain generation, that shall not pass until all of these things happens. and this seems to be indicating not the exact date and time of his coming, but he refers to a generation that shall not pass until all of these things will happen therefore, before the lord comes to jerusalem to reign. this term of `genea` is always used by the meaning of generation by people.
`this bad generation, this bad nation...` said the lord several times, and then he was referring not the jew people in its entirety, but that generation during his time. `an evil and false generation is looking for a sign;` he was talking about a generation that was asking for a sign. well, we may ask ourselves how long a generation lasts? according to the psalm 90, the time of a generation lasts between 70-80 years. scriptures must be interpreted with scriptures.
and then we go to find out what a generation means in god's conception: and we see in the psalm 90 that: `the measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years.` therefor it is about a generation, from the ending times that will last between 70-80 years. and if we count, as all the researchers of scriptures do count the years of this generation, starting with 1947, it means that between the years 2017 and 2027, the time of this generation will come to an end. in the following ten years this time comes to an end,
the time that a generation lasts, of which our lord said that it shall not pass. some say that a generation would last 120 years, and objected to this, but this happened in noah's time, and even moses who lived for 120 years, says that a generation during his time, lasted for 70 or 80 years, therefor his case was an exception. during solomon and david's period we can see very clear that a generation lasted for 70 or 80 years. also another objection was brought concerning this interpretation of the text,
that is, it was claimed that this prophecy, was fulfilled in the year 70 after christ, when the romans destroyed the temple, first settled the wilderness of desolation, that is, the roman banners, christians run away and the temple was destroyed. therefor they said: it was about that generation from our lord's time, that generation of jews, and that those things won't pass until jerusalem is not destroyed. and they say that the prophecy was fulfilled, the generation didn't pass,
since the year 33, with approximation, until the year 70, and that exactly year the temple was destroyed. so, that prophecy was fulfilled and it is not expected to fulfill anymore in the future. it is very simple to realize that things are different, because in the text from mathew chapter 24, it is written that the wilderness of desolation will sit in the most holy place, it is about the same wilderness of desolation which the prophet daniel spoke about. and no doubt that this image is the antichrist's image. and it is very clear that antichrist didn't come to reign to jerusalem,
during the generation that came after the death and resurrection of jesus christ. therefor those things couldn't have happened then. also the text from mathew 24 ends with the coming in glory of our lord at jerusalem. and he says: `this generation shall not pass, before all these things happen.` and one of the greatest things is the coming in glory of our lord, `because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the son of man.` well, lord jesus surely didn't come in the year 70, so it is about a future generation. and we have all the reasons to think that this generation is one of the jews that entered again into the promised land,
because this was the key element missing in the fulfillment of the prophecies. in fact, dear ones it is well that we know that since luther's time, they thought they were in the ending times. luther was waiting for the coming of the lord during his time, and because the ottoman empire was standing at the gates of vienna, he thought that it was the empire of the antichrist, so, he was telling everyone that the lord is close to come. after that the waiting grew in time in the next hundreds of years, but in the 1800 they realized that an element was missing,
which was that israel entered again in the promised land. the people from israel had to be in their country and even more to be in jerusalem. because there is where they will see the one they have pierced. it is very simple to realize that this generation is the one that came back in the promised land. and this coming back started with the zionist congress of theodor hertzel, but after that they came back several times, but israel as a nation became a member state of un in 1947 and was declared an independent state in 1948. therefor this years starting with 2017 marks the beginning of the period between 70-80 years,
from this generation. and it is very simple, the year 2017 had to be a very special one. and the question is: was the year 2017 a period that had never been seen in history? of course it is an affirmative answer. this year, 2017 it was a year entirely exceptionally, an unique year. and i will present it by different categories, to see what happened globally, and see if it was something exceptional, or you may simply ask yourself, isn't it that those things happened all the time?
well, they always happened only that this time some records were reached, the normal limit was exceeded, in almost all of the chapters that shows that the lord is coming back. first of all in what concerns the natural cataclysms, we'll talk about hurricanes. this year was an year with the most powerful hurricanes from history. surely it was the year with the greatest economical damages produced by the hurricanes. over 401 billions of dollars. and in the last years the damages produced by the hurricanes kept growing. but that growing was insignificant comparing to this year,
for example in the year 2014, the damages were about 203 millions, in 2015, 730 millions, in 2016 it was 16 billions. and from one year to another has gone from 16 billion, see, first, from millions to billions, but then from 16 billions to 400 billions. do you realize what an unusual growth? it has also been established records in what regards hurricanes. i will only count some of them.
this year the hurricane with the largest amount of rainfall, in history was produced. the hurricane harvey in houston area, practical for 4 days has rained all the time, so that in areas where there is no danger of flooding were covered by the waters. this year was also the year in which three hurricanes having the category 4 or 5, hit the us, it never happened before that three hurricanes having the category 4 or 5 to hit the us. this year was also the year in which there were 10 hurricanes in a row. because from the tropical systems that forms, some dissipate others only reach up to the storm stage,
well, this year were 10 systems at row which transformed in hurricanes. 10 tropical systems transformed not only into a tropical storm, which is an intermediate stadium, but in hurricanes. it was the year with the most rapid development of the hurricanes. from a storm in a category 5 hurricanes in only a matter of hours. it normally takes days to reach that stadium, in one day it is just a system, the second one it is a tropical storm, in the third day category one, the fourth day a category two, and in a week if it continues on worm waters, they reach the fifth category.
well, this year, two hurricanes, harvey and maria, transformed in less than 24 hours from tropical storm, into a category 5 hurricane. another important chapter was that of the vegetation fires. they happened in europe as well as in the us, and had as a result many losses in human lives and many material damages. i will only mention a few, because the list is a very long one, to all of these chapters. i will only talk about a few which we've already talked about the past months.
the fires from california lasted from may to november. with some interruptions. they caused 45 deaths and more than 200 injured, and damages of 13 billion dollars. in total there were 8700 active outbreaks. until the past month, i don't know for sure if those fires continue today. this amid an unprecedented drought. in portugal in june, there were 75 victims,and 45,000 hectares of burned forest, due to lightning caused by a storm without rain.
this storm had no drop of water in it, only lightnings that fired up the forest, and caused 65 victims because there was no time to evacuate the victims. the fires in the iberian peninsula in october, covered several territories in spain and portugal, caused 49 deaths and 54.000 hectares of burned forest. and the effect was intensified by the winds of the hurricane ophelia. which came from the atlantic. there were other fires, in chile resulting in 11 deaths and tens of thousands of hectares burned.
in australia, new zealand and many other countries. the weirdest fire took place in greenland, and that was unprecedented, it never happened before. fire in greenland ... what to burn? glaciers? such a thing doesn't exist. well, the permafrost started to thaw, that layer of soil that should have remained frozen for ever, and the poor vegetation, due to a lack of precipitation, lit up, and of course the guilt was also on global warming.
and especially on president trump because he retreated from the paris agreement. basically, this paris accord foresaw to reduce carbon emissions, which we may call it as a new tax on smoke, especially in moldavia, but also in the romanian country in the middle ages, there was a tax not on the person, but on the chimney. how many houses having chimneys, each of them had to pay an annual tax.
well, with no doubt this is the real purpose, all this story with the global warming, beyond economical benefits, wants to implement an unique tax, at global level, on carbon emissions. there is not time to discuss it in details now. also this year excessive temperatures were recorded. surely in 2017, some of the greatest records were established, and this year was one of the three warmest in history. which are the other 2?
2015, and 2016. see? the last three years, were the warmest in human history, that's why they sustain the theory of the global warming. they won't admit that through this god is announcing a judgment that's coming upon this earth, and that the earth with everything on it will burn. you will never hear such a thing on the news, no one will come there to say: you know all of these fires, and this wave of heat is because god is warning the people and because he plans to judge the world, and this judgment won't be through water as it was in noah's time but through fire.
but god, who is full of mercy never sends a judgment before warning. he delays the judgment so that people may have time to repent. but in all of this time of his everlasting endurance, he is sending warnings in which people may see signs of what is coming to happen. and one of the signs is that of the warming of the entire planet, and the recording of many extremely high temperatures, which have also caused prolonged drought. there are some of those temperature records: 47 degrees in many places from australia,
on february 11. 54 degrees in pakistan, in may. these are temperatures recorded in the shade, underneath must be a green space, and the thermometer must be placed one meter distance from the ground. can you realize what kind of a temperature should have been to sun exposure? if the thermometer would have been placed on the sand it would have probably indicate 60-70 degrees. since in the shadow they had 54 degrees in pakistan. in iran and oman in june over 50 degrees were recorded,
with the absolute record from iran, in the city ahvas on june 24, of 53.7 degrees. also in spain some records were established also in the background of unprecedented drought, in june 46,9 degrees, in cordoba almost 47 degrees, and 45.7 in granada. on this heating background, there were several waves of heat, and one of these took place in the southern europe, which included us and they called it lucifer,
and took place at the end of july, and the beginning of august. affecting a lot of countries including romania. in our country were several red codes repeated, of high temperatures, and i remember that i saw fir the first time the thermometer from my car indicating 44 degrees. of course that many material damages were caused by it, and even human victims. another sign of the end are the earthquakes.
and this year, comparing with the past ones, you could say that it was a very calm year. because in 2017 there weren't such great earthquakes, even if there were quite a lot, the number of them was a big one, but they didn't cause so many human victims as in the precedent years. and many researchers think that this is the calm before the storm. and that the next year will be a year full of strong seismic activity. there are 5 earthquakes, the most important ones from their victims: in iran in november,
took place a 7,3 earthquake, with 540 deaths. it was the most deadly of the earthquakes. in mexico there were 2 strong earthquakes, one on *th of september, a 8,2, and even if it was a great earthquake it had only 98 victims. the grace of god gives to the mexicans a chance to repentance. the second one on 19th of september, of 7,1 produced 370 victims.
the fourth earthquake the one from italy, from january which had 5,7 degrees, caused 34 deaths, and finally the one from china on 8th of august, 6,1 degrees, with 25 deaths. we will see what will happen next year, even the last week was an earthquake in indonesia, also of 6,5 degrees. another sign of the ending times, and i will pass rapidly over them, because we've already discussed them along the year,
another signs of this year is related to the apostasy. or the degradation of faith, for it is a very clear sign that the antichrist will come. the antichrist or the man of the inequity won't come until the degradation from faith comes first, then he will show up. the apostasy was very obvious this year, in the form of world ecumenism. because this year 500 years from the reform were celebrated, this year between 31 october 2016 and 31 of october 2017,
this entire year was called `the year of the ecumenism.` `the reform only divided us`, said the pope, `and after 500 years we have the duty to reunite again.` `let's gather together` in fact that was an international dialogue, an ecumenic dialogue for many decades, but this year everything reached a new level, because this new pope that came to power in an unusual way, through the resignation of the previous pope, this pope called francisco, has a very powerful ecumenic agenda and impels it more than all others before him. pope francisco advanced so much in the process of canceling the reform,
and managed to fool many of the protestants leaders that are already apostates, because the protestants have come to marry gay in their churches, and even ordain them as pastors not to say even women pastors. they are doing so for many decades now. this protestants were fooled by him, and he wanted to bring them into the catholic church. he said that the catholic church also believes in the justification by grace, through the faith in christ. that there is no other justification only by the grace of god, and through the faith in jesus christ.
he said that catholics believe that way, but what he didn't say is that, they also believe in the intercession of the virgin mary and of the saints. this subject was not discussed, he only said a part of the whole truth. and when you only say a part of the truth that means you just said a lie. even at wittenberg, how daring, even at wittenberg they went, in july a common declaration of the catholics was signed, and the world community of reformed churches, representing 80 millions of protestants,
in which they canceled the mutual convictions made 100 years ago. even in wittenberg, `here is where all started, here is all is going to end!` and that was signed by the representatives of the 80 million of protestants, including a great part of the methodist churches. i wonder what would have said wesley if he was still alive to see such things? the way of the ecumenism was opened and is opened firstly for the protestant christianity, already apostate who had denied faith, but also for all the religions of the world. because this year, the pope visited many muslim countries,
or buddhist, as egypt, myanmar, and bangladesh. on 31 of october 2017, day considered to be the one in which the reform started, by displaying the 95 theses of the monk martin luther. a common declaration with the lutheran world federation was signed too, which has 74 million too. i will only quote one paragraph of it, so that you see what is all about. `today, 31 of october 2017,
the last day of the common commemoration of the reform, from that year that we've spoke about, we are very grateful for the spiritual gifts that we've received through it.` and the commemoration, we share it with all our ecumenical associates all over the world.` we also apologize for our failures, for the forms by which christians have injured the lord's body.` and offended them mutually in those past 500 years.` the question we ask is the following one: what the body of the lord means to them?
the body of the lord, dear ones, in the catholic conception, is mother church or the catholic church. and they see all those who have separated as people who departed from the lord's body, and that they try to get back, and if they are the body of the lord, then what are we? well, they will continue trying to get back all of the protestant communities, in the body of the lord, as they say. and after the problem with the protestants is solved, will spread the hand to the islamic and buddhist because they already said we all have the same god. therefor they will also make part of the body of the lord.
in the same declaration was announced that the reformists also signed as i said, in june, and that the anglicans will make it too at westminster, representing another 85 millions of christians. no wonder that a great part of the evangelicals, will adhere to such a thing. the protestants as you see, are representing 80 millions, 75 millions, 85 millions, in this world protestants are 920 millions, catholics are 1,28 millions, orthodox 350 millions. entire parties of the protestantism was already united,
the dialogue with the orthodox church is already done because they have no big doctrinal differences, and it just remains to bring the evangelicals, the problem is that a great part of the evangelicals will adhere and will sign this declaration, to restore the body of the lord. they want to reunite the lord's body, under the pretext that the lord's prayer from john chapter 17, in which he said: `i pray so that all may become one` and that this prayer must be fulfilled now, before his return. that's what they say, and from the most important evangelicals,
at least 2 of them manifested their sympathy toward the pope, openly, they visited and met the pope, it is about rick warren from the baptist church, joel osteen, who is unaffiliated, and kenneth copeland from the charismatic pentecostals. these people already represent tens of thousands of christians, this time evangelicals, not only protestants, who are already in a complete unity with the pope from rome, they have blessed him, and these things happened under our own eyes. this ecumenical agenda will go on,
and as a fact for the next year, because we will discuss about the next year at the end, what will happen, this pope will come in romania, next year. and i will be here to see which of the evangelical christians will be here to meet the pope. to be a man of god means firstly to say the truth, but that is not enough, you have also to expose the lie. and that's why i am here for, to say the truth and to expose the lies. i was thinking about john the baptist, that if he would only have said this:
`repent, repent because he who has the shovel in his hands is coming, and he shall gather his wheat into the grain, and the chaff shall burn it,` if he had only preached the repentance he would have spared his life, but he went to say to irod: `it is not allowed to you to do that.` and i will say to those christian leaders that plan to go there, i will give their names and publicly say that they are not allowed to do that. god doesn't allow them to do that, and that is not the christian way, but only the apostasy, or the faith denial.
the fourth chapter is related to the future technology, and especially about the artificial intelligence and the steps made toward a single universal virtual currency. and this year, no doubt it was the year of the bit coin revolution. the virtual currency most known. this year the currency reached 19.000, more precisely 19.500 dollars, and here is the evolution that this currency had since 2010 when it was launched, it was paid at 0.3 cents, not at 3 cents. and from this infamous value reached 600, 700 dollars,
at the end of 2016, in six years it barely managed to gain a dozens of dollars annual, then some hundreds dollars annual, finally last year it had reached, 600, 700 dollars, and everybody was saying that it was a revolution, that it was something new. well this year the subscription started at $ 800, and ends it with more than 19.000 dollars. probably beyond the level of 2000 dollars. and i said in the majority of the updates,
that it is about the steps taken before a cashless payment form arrives. because the antichrist will rule and will dominate the world through this system. beyond all the systems of controlling the population that he is setting up, will be this one too, because it is written in the scriptures, that people won't be able to buy or to sell without having this sign. which means without having the access to that terminal elecronic payment device. the virtual currency has come to the chicago stock exchange, and is thus recognized as a financial instrument in the global economic community. we don't know what it is going to happen to it,
and many said it was just like a bubble of air, and that at a certain moment it will explode, and those who have invested in it, they may wake up that they have lost millions overnight. this may happen anytime. because it is not sustained in something, not in gold, not in silver, not in other precious things, and not in an economy. it is a currency sustained on nothing more but the trust of those who use it. but as i said the last time, it precedes,
the implementation in every country of a type of a virtual currency. and it is interesting that russia had already said that it has a commission that wants to come up with this, they want to free themselves from making payments in dollars, so that they won't depend on america, especially in what concerns the payment of the oil and natural gases. so, they want to have their own currency, and the virtual one is the best. but after russia, one week ago, venezuela's turn came, which tries to escape from the economical problems that they're facing. i quote: `nicolas maduro, the caracas president,
announced that venezuela will launch the petro crypto currency, to counter the american financial blockade. and in the conditions the country faces a serious economic crisis. the crypto currency would be based on oil, gas, diamond and gold of the country,` added maduro.` it is already another step, a crypto currency, or a virtual currency, which is issued by a national bank, and which is based on the oil deposits,
on gases and gold. it is based on something material. that's why it is a step toward the virtual currency. anyway in venezuela, they put a sign on their hands, so that they may buy, it wasn't the sign of the beast, but with that sign they took their portion of food. this thing is being made since the last year, went a step forward and just think that only to have access to something like that, to a virtual currency, you must have a chip.
whether it is into a credit card, whether it is into your phone or in other devices. the simplest way would be that they implant it, and probably we will get to that too. already conditions have been created, they are not only simple hypotheses. we are talking about some real facts. we have to see what will happen next year, with this electronic payment device, that will be spread globally. also about this type of technology,
that antichrist is going to use, we talk a bit about the artificial intelligence. this was the year in which sophia the robot was launched, representative of the new direction in technology. because it is a robot with a human face, who benefits of an artificial intelligence, bigger than many of the people, and who is able to formulate answers that the majority of people would't be able to give, this robot was officially presented,
at the un as an artificial intelligence bearer robot. when such a thing is made is for the publicity because they want to implement this type of artificial intelligence and to put it in the midst of men, not only in a civil way but in a military way too. in the arabic countries of the gulf it is already talking about the possibility of replacing the police with this type of robots. as in the science fiction movies. also this year it was the first time when a robot received citizenship. and it was considered to be a being, this took place in saudi arabia where are the most serious violations of human rights.
and sophia even declared that she wants to get married and have children. there is where the madness of humans leads to, they want to get humans used to the robots, before you could find them in factories, now you will find them in homes too, it will become something normal to be able to use it, but their purpose is to control through the artificial intelligence, if possible the entire humanity. also in this control of the population, and electronic payments, fits even the launching of the new types of intelligent phones, for example i-phone 10, in september,
which has a facial identification. and when i-phone opens the door, after it there will come other chinese brands, they will also are going to make phones based on a facial recognition. the problem is that when you look to the camera to unlock the phone, somebody sees your faces, no doubt about it. who sees your face? who will be able to control everything? for the moment it is about an artificial intelligence only, but when it is going to reach what it is called as a singularity, then it will be a great problem, and i think that it will be the moment when the antichrist will use that technology.
other events from this year, because we can't speak about all of them, the lord said: `when you will see all of these things happening...` we can't see all of them now, because there's no time for it, and every month i only extracted the most significant ones, i'm only talking about some that i didn't i did not treat them at the time, we may treat them next year. for example, our lord says that there will be diseases or better said epidemics, and there were epidemics of plague, in madagascar,
of cholera in yemen, diseases that were considered to be eradicated, dengue fever in many countries, and zika virus in brazil and south america. there also were tornadoes, very powerful ones, electric storms, large hail, as it happened in the desert where it were a layer of hail as if it had been snowing there, and that even happened. there have been floods and landslides in one part of the world,
on the other side of the world, the ever-increasing drought, and i will mention here california again, and from europe spain, where the images are frightening, because those storage lakes are becoming less and less diminished, maybe somewhere between 20,30% of their capacity, that' s all they have, and that's a very big problem.. also this year, between other signs we count the volcanic activity as well, unprecedented too. one of the years with the most volcanic eruptions, in many areas that usually didn't happen, but also where it already was activity.
last month there was a continue threat in bali island in indonesia, with canceled flights, they were waiting for a volcano to erupt, and in other many places too, i've talked about peru as well, and about other countries in which the volcanic activity is a continue one. the catastrophic events are more and more, and they are getting more obvious as well, and they are more and more different. it's not that we are exaggerating,
or that the population should panic, but we must have our eyes opened to see the signs that indicate that the lord is coming, because he gave them to us, to know and let others know too, that this is the time to get right with god. and of course that our eyes should be fixed on the lord, `but when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near. ` on one hand we have to see them happening not ignore them, but our eyes spiritually talking should be fixed onto the heavens, from where our redemption comes.
this year was a completely exceptional year, in all the signs of natural disasters, or nature manifestations as they call them in the scientific world. another chapter really special is regarding something that the lord mentioned in mathew 24 as well, and that is wars and news of wars. and i will dedicate more time for this chapter, about wars, news of wars and especially israel which is embedded in all this unfolding of things. this is, let's say so, the second part that indicates the coming of the lord. this was the year in which permanently the nuclear crisis in north korea has unfolded.
it all started with the coming at power of donald trump, who wanted to change things with the relation with the regime from phenian, because on one side, obama wasn't interested in that, and they advanced in their nuclear program, and on the other side, trump realized that in a few years they will complete their nuclear arsenal, and that they will become a real threat for the entire surface of the us. that's why he wants to solve this situation, because he haven't got the solution yet, but under this pressure, the north korean leader, kim jong um,
has activated even more his nuclear program, that's why this year was a record in what regards their tests with ballistic rockets. 16 tests were produced until now, the most recent one was in november, when a rocket capable of reaching any point from the us was launched. it was the strongest one, it could even reach the western coast, to fly all over america and arrive to washington, or new york which produced a great concern, because this time they realized that it isn't a game.
and this year they also detonated an atomic bomb, the most powerful experiment of theirs until now, on their own territory under a mountain that they almost broke down. a hydrogen bomb that caused an earthquake of magnitude between 5.6 and 6 degrees on the richter scale. practically it caused the mountain to almost collapse, and because of this they couldn't make another test because they didn't have any other available gallery, it is believed that many people died during this test. anyway they don;t care about people, about christians, and not even about their population who is starving, are malnourished, there are cases of extreme famine and poverty,
and with all this they keep advancing in their nuclear program. us threatened with a preventive attack, and many military maneuvers have taken place, many of them unscheduled, including three simultaneous carriers. but with the newest fighters and nuclear bombers. on this background, the war of statements made us witness a real show. trump threatened in front of the un general assembly in september, with the total destruction of the north korean regime. saying that they will face a fire and a fury as the world has never seen before. the problem is that if this happens,
and this war and zonal conflict will be triggered, the question is where it will expand, because in that area in north korea, is not only korea, but there are powers that sustain this regime, everything is connected and i will give you the branch that supports north korea. the branch is the following: china, russia and iran. they are interconnected, and in the moment that the us decides to launch a preventive attack, against the nuclear installations from north korea, why didn't they do it until now? because if they do it, it may cause a generalized conflict.
we may assist to the beginning of the world war iii. god won't let it happen. things are complicated but they didn't trigger because the us is afraid not knowing how much others can get involved in that. now when they have brought many military equipments in the area, right this month, the chinese brought their military equipments as well, battle vessels, planes, and real-time maneuvers. and the russians brought a considerable number of soldiers to the northern border of korea. and i wonder how things will be next year?
the lord says that you will hear of wars and news of wars, and you can say, well but wars and news of wars were always. but when was the entire world threatened with such a thing? do you realize? in just one day if ballistic rockets are being launched, from north korea, and the us would perceive it to be from russia or china and they would launch a preventive attack as well, in only ten minutes the decision can be taken, and we will assist to the world war three, which will have as we will see immediately a huge number of victims, but god is patient and keeps things in their place. why? because his elect ones, his church, the ones that he loves and redeemed,
are still on earth and the church must leave earth before the great tribulation comes, and the world war as well. the second part of the wars regards syria and the countries involved in syria, on the one hand, on the syrian side are the russians turkey and iran, and on the other hand in opposition to that are the us and european countries. russia in syria and iran on their behalf, proclaimed the past weeks, total victory on the islamic state, they said that they're done with the islamic state, `we've won the fight` even if local outbreaks are still in rural areas. but this year was the year of the approaching between russia, turkey and iran.
why does this interest us? because it is written that in that time, the last days a war will take place, against israel led by three great powers. and that is gog, which is russia, togarma which is turkey and iran which is persia. well this year their relation have been consolidated, it never happened before, it is an unprecedented year. the relations between putin, erdogan and rohani that kept visiting each other. whethet putin went to turkey, whether erdogan went to moscow,
or in iran, they also met at a peace conference held in kazakhstan. parallel to the geneva talks, because the un had a peace meeting on geneva too, led by them, by stephen de mistura, but these have resulted in a lamentable failure. that's why they said that they will make peace. with what price? with the price of establishing their troops and their military bases in syria. why? so that they can be a permanent threat to israel. the russians to may control the route of gases delivery, and iran to reach their purpose.
know that iran doesn't have only an economical purpose, the one to control natural gases, they also have a religious purpose. iran is an islamic theocracy. they don't have a democracy, they are being led by an ayatollah. by a representative of allah on earth. the president it's just a puppet. the ayatollah takes all the decisions and he has a single purpose, to bring their messiah into the world because they have their own messiah that has to come at the end of the days. they have an eschatology. at the ending times, this messiah called mahdi,
will come, and as they say, will install the islam on the entire face of the earth. and in order for this messiah to come, the state made a revolution in iran, and said `we've entered the final days, we must bring mahdi!` the only element missing for their messiah to come, and his reigning on the face of the earth is the conquering of jerusalem. he won't show up until jerusalem is conquered. as for christians is very obvious that the third temple must be built for them it is very clear that the muslims must conquer jerusalem. that's why iran is focused on that so much,
they must conquer jerusalem, jerusalem was in the center of the attention last week, and it will continue to be. and one of the reasons they will invade from the north, will be to conquer jerusalem, so that they may create space fro their muslim messiah to come, their mahdi. well for the russians, they don't have a religious motivation but an economical one, and geopolitical. they want to control the gases that israel owns, and which they may deliver to europe as they already thought. turkey also has a religious reason to conquer jerusalem, because they are also muslims, even if they are sunnis and the others are shiites, they also want to reign in jerusalem.
this erdogan wants to unite the sunnis forces, under his leading. practically the majority if the muslims are sunnis. and the sunnis needed a leader. until then their leader was the kind from saudi arabia, but this time another man stood up in turkey, and this is erdogan. the last week he gathered like 50 muslim leaders, to make a common statement against the recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital.
they met in ankara and said: `we do not accept such a thing,` and they declared under the leading of erdogan, that jerusalem is the capital of palestine. the fight is for jerusalem and the fact that the countries mentioned in ezekiel 38, 39 are involved, indicates to us very clear that we are living the end times. because the bible says it very clear: `in those days...` which is the end times, the time before the lord comes. before he establishes his kingdom. if you read from the 40th chapter on, after chapter 38, 39, after the war,
there is the describing of the 1000 years kingdom in jerusalem. it is about the period before the coming of the lord. iran has settled in syria and lebanon with no intention to leave from there, through hezbollah. they built military bases and tries to develop precision rockets. which the jews periodical destroy them. the last time they destroyed them was some weeks ago, and had to face the russian defense system. and they will continue to face it. russia simulated withdrawal from syria,
they've done it before last year in march, they wanted to retreat but then they changed their minds. someone said they had filmed how the planes and the ships were leaving, and after the filming ended, they turned 180 degrees back. it was only a media show. well, this year they really retreated a part, but on the other hand they have enlarged their military bases from latachia and tartus, naval base and air base. more than this this week, putin,
was invited to go and meet erdogan, as we've talked the last sunday, he was invited there to talk about jerusalem, not only about jerusalem but the delivery of natural gases, but before going to turkey, putin stopped to make a surprise visit in syria. and he did't go to damascus, even if the president assad, prepared to meet him there, but putin landed at a military russian base, sent a military helicopter to assad,
and invited him to come to his military base as if he was the president of syria. they show to the entire world that they are the owners of syria. practically the syrian president is just a puppet. why are they interested in syria? not for their resources but to have control over the natural gases from israel. and this will be the reason for the last and major war from israel, before the coming of the lord. the russian threat this year was for europe too, and for nato as well,
because in ukraine, even if things look to be fine, the conflict goes on. and on this background, russia has deployed most military exercises in belarus, which is situated at the north of ukraine, and it's neighbor with poland. practically the closest outpost to the european union. there they did the greatest military exercises, and they left behind heavy military equipment. they brought their heavy artillery and tanks, and left without them. nato made exactly the same thing, has conducted large military maneuvers,
including on the romanian territory, tens of thousands of people. on this occasion romania decided to buy 36 f16 fighters, worth 16 million dollars, and patriot rockets costing 4 million dollars. this year, it never happened before. why? because the lord said: `you will hear about wars and news of wars.` and we will soon see for the next years's perspective what may come out of this. on this background, israel is surrounded by enemies, and all the initiatives for peace with the palestine look to be a big failure,
president trump had his first year of mandate, and one of his first visits he made was in israel in may, he also met abbas president, was the first american president to officially go to the wall of the complaint, and doing that he already recognized the right of israel on jerusalem. he has appointed two peace negotiators, son-in-law or jared kushner, and high emissary jason greenblatt, to launch a peace offer to the palestinians. this offer wasn't launched yet, it will be next year,
but i don't know if palestine will want to accept it. why? because following the recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel, president abbas said he no longer accepted any role of the us administration in peace talks. `we don't want them to negotiate anymore.` they asked for un to make this negotiations. this is also what scriptures says because the president of america won't be the one to guarantee the peace, but the antichrist who will probably be the leader of the majority of the states, but not from america. as i've said the last week 50 leaders of the muslim's countries met in turkey,
and asked at the un that the palestinian state was voted as a member. to be recognized by the un. and also asked that israel was retreated as a un member. 50 muslim leaders under the leading of erdogan. the president of turkey declared israel as a terrorist state, and malaysia which is a muslim state as well, declared that their army is ready to go to jerusalem, to free it from the jews and give it back to the palestinians. see that's a war declaration practically.
`we are ready to send our army, who wants to join us?` don't you want to join us? even the president of iran made some very serious statements. he was there too. iran was represented at the highest level. hamas has applauded abbas's extremist speech. that's how herod and pilate made peace too. that's how abbas from fatah made peace with haniah from hamas. and they declared the beginning of the third intifada,
this december. until now they weren't that successful, they didn't have enough people to get out in the streets, even if there were some few thousands of people, but not as they expected to happen, they thought that the orient will be in fire, it wasn't so, but that because god's patience is still at work. in the orient and over the entire world. and those from the gaza strip launched many rockets toward israel, like 15 until now, 2 or 3 on a day,
not to begin a new war because they know that they would be destroyed by israel, but just to bother them and keep the red alarm ringing, to make people panic and go into the shelters, eventually no rocket fell into an inhabited area, only one fell into a parking lot, but in rest nothing happened. we have to see what will happen because the last friday in the protests died 4 palestinians, and the jews killed a man who was into a wheelchair,a very big agitator, and this has prompted even more rage, from the palestinians. the situation may become even more difficult, we have to see what is going to happen the next year.
and now, we will talk what may happen next year. i'm nor a predictor or a prophet, i just want from the point of view of the prophecies to see what may happen the year that's coming. in what concern wars and news of wars. first of all in north korea, we don't know if there will be peace, and it won't be probably. meeting the negotiating table is more and more unlikely, and any mistake may trigger the conflict in the area, which we don't know how much will expand.
also there is a problem with iran and with the nuclear agreement. president trump said they did not respect their nuclear agreement but continued to develop nuclear technology, and he's ready to break it. the problem is russia's and the delivery of the gas. because that's the way russia keeps europe as it's hostage, through the gas pipeline. and this was visible that last week because there was an explosion to a gas pipeline from austria, and immediately italy went into crisis. because it is winter and they were left without gas.
there was an explosion, but in that very same day the price of the gas rose to 30, 4-%. and it looks like russia can not be passed over. at least during winter, it can't be done. peace between israel and the palestine probably won't be, the next year i don't think there will be peace, but a surprise offer may be given. someone said there might be a surprise offer from the americans, negotiated with the support of the sunnis, around saudi arabia and the states from the gulf,
which are his allies, and that this surprise offer, may open the way for the construction of the third temple. what may contain this offer? one of the commentators said that the offer may be proposed by the european union, rather than by the us, and the offer will sound like this: jerusalem a city for everyone, of course that israel will be the administrator, but it must be an international city. and on the temple mountain to be built places to worship,
for christians, foe jews and for muslims as well. so that the muslims may worship on friday, the jews on saturday, and the christians on sunday. in fact the one who will do that is the world leader called by the scriptures as the antichrist. he will be able to do that. and it is very simple because the muslims have their sacred day on friday, the jews on saturday and christians on sunday, so that it is place for every one without bothering each other.
this peace treaty will be made only by the antichrist, in syria things won't calm down, because in syria, iran continues building armament factories, the jews said this is the red line, we will go on to bombard. until now, missile factories were in the suburbs of damascus, but they were completely destroyed, every time are hundreds of attack in the last years, made by the jews, and all the factories were destroyed. so they thought, if we can't manage to do it this way, let's move those factories into damascus,
so from the next year they will have their factories in the city. how not to think about the fulfillment of the prophecy from isaiah 17, in which says that damascus will become a heap of demolitions, and won't be inhabited anymore. the jews will continue to bomb, even if they would move it into assad's palace, they will bomb even there. they won't expose so much to the risk of being exterminated, because they know that they were about to be exterminated once, during world war 2, and they said: never again!
we will never give up without fighting! they are decided to attack, and this may be the element that will generate the conflict in that area, the destruction of damascus. will be the year 2018, the year of the beginning of the invasion of gog? in israel? we don't know for sure but that's very possible. the troops are around, the reason is there, and the word of god never remains unfulfilled.
not a single word won't pass without fulfilling. and if the lord says it will be so, it will be. and it is written something beautiful as well, beyond the fact that god will fight for israel, it is written also that in those days the humans will fix their eyes on their maker. even this war will glorify god, because the humans from the entire world, will fix their eyes on god, there will be a revival. we don't know if the church will be on the earth then or not, we don't know for sure, scripture doesn't tell us and there are many opinions regarding that, but what is for sure is that in that period, before, during or after,
the church will have to leave, but i repeat, there will be a period of revival, `in that day a man's heart will be turned to his maker, and his eyes to the holy one of israel.` if we will be here, we won't be making updates every three weeks but we will do it as things are going to happen, and we will show to everyone, look, things are happening! in fact that's what we're doing now too. we say, what has been written is already happening! it is not a history, a fairytale or a simple story, but the reality that we are living in, god is fulfilling his words under our own eyes.
and he shows to us very clear that we are living the end times. i think that the church won't be on earth during the world war 3. i don't know if the war of gog will turn into the world war 3, it is very possible, but there is a war in the book of revelation, in which a quarter of the planet's population will die, and there will be a continuation of this war during the wrath's period, in which one-third will die, altogether, half of the planet's population will die. and i will read what is going to happen in the great tribulation, `and i saw a grey horse, and the name of him who was seated on it was death; and hell came after him. `
`and there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, and by taking away their food, and by death, and by the beasts of the earth. ` `the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, ` which is in war, and any war brings with it famine, and all kind of diseases, for the lack of health care, because there's no clean water the diseases spread, `and by the beasts of the earth.` who will come to eat the bodies that will be on the streets. even if that sounds horrible, that's what happens during a war. it happened in syria and in the conflict areas too. the sixth angel, the second part of the war,
`and at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before god, ` `saying to the sixth angel who had the horn, make free the four angels who are chained at the great river euphrates.` i believe that it is about another war, but it is part of what we call as the world war three, as the world war ii had many battles, so will it be with the third. and a part may be the one with gog, the other the one from the seals and other one the one from the trumpets. with the armies coming from the euphrates, from the east. `and the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day ` see? the armies are prepared by god with precision.
`and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.` a third part of men. `and the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears. ` it is about an army of 200.000.000 people. and if we are to estimate the number of deaths, in the third world war, totally, after a quarter dies, one third of those who have left will die, in total a half of population, the entire population of the planet counts now 7,6 billions, it grows to 8 billions,
but around 4 billion people will die in this conflict. would you like to be here on earth? some think that they will have a chance during the tribulation, how can you know if you're going to be alive then? 4 billion people will die during tribulation. let's not mention those who say that the church will go through this tribulation... how can you escape something like that? god says: `because you have kept my word in quiet strength, i will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth. ` dear ones, there is an escape, these wars are going to take place, i don't know if next year will be the year that will trigger them,
but it will happen in one of these following years. it must happen otherwise god would be as a lier, because he doesn't fulfill his word. but god will fulfill his word. we don't know if the next year but it will be in this period, see the armies are already gathered, people gather war equipment from each of their large countries, russia, america and china, invest in weapons, even romania invests in weapons, how blind to be to not realize that those are the signs of the end? that there are wars and news of wars and that the tribulation is about to begin?
on this background there is an escape. and there is only one, the one the lord spoke about. `but keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the son of man.` you have to pray, it is not that simple, you must have a constant prayer, if you were a christian, you must wake up and stay awake. and for those who are not faithful, they must turn to god! they can't miss their chance to repent! beyond that we don't know what will happen. it's an uncertain ground. there is a chance for repentance now, in this time of grace.
beyond that no one can guarantee that you will be even alive. which are the perspectives for romania, the next year? what will happen from the spiritual point of view in this country? i don't think we will have a war because the russians are being occupied with israel, with the elections, with the football championship, but the question is what is going to happen in this country from the spiritual point of view? will be a revival? will people awake whether from churches whether from those outside the church? are there going to be people who will turn to god before his coming? this is what we're praying for, and this is why we're doing what we're doing.
all this ministry that we have here is with this purpose, the unique purpose is that those who are part of the church wakes up, clean up their clothes so that they may be ready when the lord comes, and those who don't know him must turn to him, come to him, in him there is salvation, there is no other name given to people in which they might be saved. and he is ready to forgive them, to receive them, to heal them and bring freedom from sin, maybe one of this updates will be the last one, to let behind a recording and then the church to leave, maybe this things will end soon, that's why when you hear his voice, then is the right time to make peace with him.
and if you've heard him several times this year and you let those chances to pass you by, don't be sure that you will be able to do it next year too, maybe you will have time, but maybe not! the lord may suddenly disrupt things and events may start. as far as i am concerned, i will continue the work with the help of the lord, both proclaiming the truth and unmasking the lie. in the same time i will do the same as now, every 3-4 weeks i will make an update to the signs of the time, with the help of the lord and with the purpose that many christians may wake up, and that he will bring to salvation many from the outside. i'm also working on the book about the rapture of the church,
probably we'll have it in january or february, and one about the 50 theses on the reform of christianity nowadays. because part of the revival is that we need a reform, 500 years after the reform of luther, especially because we didn't have that, it was something in transylvania, but we as a nation, as a population, the romanians didn't have any reform. and i don't think it is too late for that. as there is grace we still have time to live a true reform,
of christianity, and may the lord make it happen! amen! i want to give thanks to those who have sent encouraging messages, and who support us in prayer, people we have not seen or met, since last week until now i've received dozens of emails. and may the lord bless them all! even if we didn't get to meet each other, we will meet for sure in heavens, may the lord help us to be ready for his coming, and i give thanks to the lord that he is working revival and that he continues to do that,
and in what concern us we are trying to pray for everyone that wrote to us, i don't know if we succeed to pray for all, but we are trying to, so that the lord prepare us all for that day of his soon coming! in the same time we pray that he touches as many hearts as possible in this nation, from the 17 million that are in the country, plus another 3 million or even more who are outside the country, may the lord work with this romanian nation, so that many people will be ready for the day of his coming, and may he have a pure bride from romania too!
may the lord have mercy of our nation! may he prepare us for the times that are coming, and for the unique moment of his coming! amen!