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- Question: If Russia gets involved in the present Persian Gulf
- situation, could this turn into Ezekiel 38?
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- Answer: Yeah, it could. And the reason for that is this. Turn to
- Ecclesiastes chapter 1. The reason for this thing is, a thing
- will repeat itself. And very often, what you see is a type of
- something that's going to take place later, and then repeats
- itself again. Here's the principle: Ecclesiastes chapter 1.
-
- And there's something else. If you've got a Scofield Bible, you
- may have noticed in your Scofield notes in Daniel, that when he
- gets along into that stuff about "the king of the north" and "the
- king of the south"--remember that stuff over there in Daniel 10
- and 11?--what he's talking about there and applying that,
- Scofield's talking about the kingdoms of the Ptolemies and the
- Seleucids. And the Ptolemies are down in Egypt, and the Seleucids
- are in Syria. So, according to Scofield, the "king of the north"
- is right there--and this one right here. So the bands that come
- out of the north, can come out of there. They don't have to come
- out of Russia.
-
- All right, Ecclesiastes chapter 1, verse 9: "The thing that hath
- been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that
- which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
- All right, two things: The thing that's been in the past, is
- what's going to go on in the future. That is, the lesson of
- history is, if you don't learn the lesson of history, you're
- condemned to repeat it. And that which is done--going on right
- now--is that which shall be done--the future, "and there is no
- new thing under the sun." That is, things repeat themselves.
-
- Now, I'll give you an example of this. Here's Nebuchadnezzar
- coming up against Jerusalem. He comes up three times. And he
- comes up once in 606 and takes a bunch of them off to captivity.
- Then he comes up again in about 596 and takes some more off. Then
- he comes up about 589 and takes the final bunch off. Now that
- thing there is Jehoiakim going to captivity, Jehoiachin going to
- captivity, and Zedekiah going to captivity--three times that bird
- comes in!
-
- Now, Jerusalem is destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 589; that's B.C.
- It's destroyed again in 70 A.D. by Titus. And it will be
- destroyed pretty soon by the Antichrist--off in here. Three
- times. So, when you're talking about the destruction of
- Jerusalem, you find it once at the end of 2 Kings. You find it
- again at the end of 2 Chronicles. And you find it again at the
- end of Jeremiah in Jeremiah chapter 52.
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- Three times.
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- Past, present, future.
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- That thing in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 could take place in the
- middle of the Tribulation, at the end of the Tribulation, and at
- the end of the Millennium. Three shots. It could go three times.
-