Biblical Audio Commentary - Egypt’s Imminent Downfall for Cursing Israel
Israel has a long and storied connection to Egypt. We know the big one from the Old Testament. The most famous revolves around the patriarchs. Because of the jealousy of his brothers, Joseph gets sent to Egypt where he rises to prominence. A major famine in the region brings his entire family down there during the reign of the one Pharaoh, and all goes well. But time passes, another Pharoah rises, and the fear of this growing horde of the people of Israel causes the Egyptians to subject them to slave labor. Moses then delivers God’s people from this fiery furnace.
If you think about it, this is more or less the template of the relations between these two nations. Egypt is a friend of sorts during some periods, while in other eras not so much.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-egypts-imminent-downfall-for-cursing-israel/
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Awaken Biblical Prophecy Commentary – Israel Shouldn’t Accept the Premise
It seems that wherever we turn, someone makes a declaration and the object of that pronouncement is supposed to blindly accept the premise behind the position. Maybe – just maybe – another thought should be given regarding this situation and the premise not accepted.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-biblical-prophecy-commentary-israel-shouldnt-accept-the-premise/
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Biblical Audio Commentary – A Land Restored from War
The timing of the soon-coming War of Gog-Magog is always a fascinating issue. About a year ago I wrote about this with the conclusion that in my opinion it can only occur prior to the Tribulation and more than likely after the Rapture of the true church. The link to that prior Commentary is in the Transcript on my blog page.
In reading through Ezekiel once more I came across the phrase I used for the title of this article. In thinking about it a little more, I think this is one additional piece of evidence for the position that I’ve advanced as to the timing of this upcoming conflict.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-a-land-restored-from-war/
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Awaken Biblical Prophecy Commentary - 2nd Seal Wars, 1st Seal Peacemaker
As the world turns, tensions are escalating dramatically on many fronts. It’s a wonder to many analysts and commentators that any of these regional conflicts haven’t yet set off a hair trigger to initiate a worldwide conflagration. What are these dangerous enemies of each other waiting for to blow everything wide open? What is God waiting for?
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-biblical-prophecy-commentary-2nd-seal-wars-1st-seal-peacemaker/
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Biblical Audio Commentary – The Good Fig Rapture
The Bible is filled with typology. God wants His people to see and understand the deep mysteries of His kingdom, and He’s provided no lack of the means to do so. It’s just that we have to work a little bit to uncover what He wants us to understand. There is nothing in God’s Word that is unintentional, nor is there anything that’s coincidental. Everything we read is put there for a purpose. There are no casual accidents of fate in Scripture.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-the-good-fig-rapture/
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 6-12-24 - Messiah 2030: What to Consider
Is the Tribulation a seven or three-and-a-half year period? Assuming there is a Rapture, is it pre-Trib or post-Trib? In the context of a Tribulation as described in Revelation, how does this time of Judgment impact Israel? How does it affect the church or the rest of the world? Daniel’s 70th week is a significant aspect of any end-times discussions. How does it play into how we view the nature and length of the Tribulation? A key figure in eschatological deliberations is Antichrist. What does he have to do with these considerations? When and how does he come on the prophetic scene?
These questions and more arise in the viewing of the (for now) 3-part, 7-hour presentation titled Messiah 2030.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-6-12-24-messiah-2030-what-to-consider/
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Biblical Audio Commentary - How Do Men of God Miss the Tribulation?
It puzzles me to no end. I listen to or read the works of several commentators who are very astute, one of them is absolutely a man of the God, the others appear so, yet for all they see going on in the world none appear to have read and absorbed the book of Revelation for what it actually says. How is it that men of God can discern the evil in this world and the globalist agenda but seemingly deny the Tribulation as it is described in the Bible?
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-how-do-men-of-god-miss-the-tribulation/
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Awaken Biblical Prophecy Commentary – If the Bible Is a Broken Record, Then So Am I
If you’ve read or listened to any of my many Commentaries, one theme you may have noticed is that I continue to harp on the severity of the coming 7-year Tribulation. The use of the word harp is probably unfortunate but why not? Merriam Webster defines it as: to dwell on or recur to a subject tiresomely or monotonously. So yes, there’s old Gary talking about the Tribulation again. Ho-hum, can’t we just move on?
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-biblical-prophecy-commentary-if-the-bible-is-a-broken-record-then-so-am-i/
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Biblical Audio Commentary – The Prophet’s Call
The Bible clearly shows us how a true prophet of God is called. More than that, it states how God declares when a prophet is His versus one that isn’t of Him. For a number of years in our current day we’ve had many among us who have declared they are prophets and apostles of God. Whether they acknowledge that they are part of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) or not is immaterial – they are. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, the odds are that it’s actually a duck, despite saying it’s an eagle. One such individual is the now very much disgraced Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer – Kansas City, a.k.a. IHOPKC.
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Awaken Biblical Prophecy Commentary – Nobody Expects God to Move to Act to Judge
Won’t it take the world by surprise when God does move, act, and judge? Won’t it shock most of the church in its worldly delusion?
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-biblical-prophecy-commentary-nobody-expects-god-to-move-to-act-to-judge/
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Biblical Audio Commentary – Leftist Betrayal 5-24-24
We keep hearing about how terrible Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is because he won’t do this or that. Because he’s a right-wing, hard-liner, he won’t listen to reason. The latest calumny, i.e. slander, is that he refuses to consider what a post-war Gaza will look like, i.e. who will administer it.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-leftist-betrayal/
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 5-22-24 – 6th Seal Rapture Delusion
Following my Commentary titled Post-Tribber Tribulation Saga, I had an explosion of comments from a reader who has popped up over the years to contest the doctrine of the pre-Seal, pre-Tribulation Rapture with the idea that the Rapture instead occurs at the 6th Seal Judgment. Greg is quite adamant that his view is the only one with Scriptural integrity regardless that literally NO ONE else has ever put forth this idea. In other words, Greg is out on a limb entirely without any other known believers supporting this idea. Only he has gotten the wisdom and insight from God for his position. In fact, Greg has a habit of accusing those of us who believe in the pre-Seal, pre-Tribulation Rapture as having distorted the Words of God and apparently being part of, or closely following, the doctrines of the world’s religion (singular), namely the Catholic church from what I can glean.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-5-22-24-6th-seal-rapture-delusion/
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Biblical Audio Commentary – No Need for God or to Fear Him? – Think Again
The sudden “unexpected” emergence of antisemitism throughout the world has caught people by surprise. Who could have guessed that so many individuals and governments harbored such rabid hatred for the Jews? Whatever happened to “Never Again!”? The answer and reality is that all this goes hand-in-hand with the rejection of God.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-no-need-for-god-or-to-fear-him-think-again/
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Awaken Biblical Prophecy Commentary - Deceptively Normal
Before I get started today on this specific Commentary, I wanted to take a minute to briefly mention something else. The Israel Guys – whom I’ve favorably mentioned at various times for their reporting on the events going on in Israel - have been promoting an Israel conference for a couple months that will take place in Nashville, TN next week beginning May 20. The Israel Summit was scheduled to be held in the Sonesta Hotel in Nashville. However, due to extreme pressure from the pro-Hamas crowd, the Sonesta gave in and canceled their contract with The Israel Guys, leaving the conference without a place for it to be held.
Just this morning, I received an email from The Israel Guys stating that Dave Ramsey has stepped into the breach to host this conference at his HQ event center in Nashville next week. I wanted to simply give a shout out to Dave Ramsey for standing with Israel and enabling the conference to go on as scheduled. Thank you, Dave!
In addition, the conference livestream can also be purchased so that people can watch it online. I urge you to sign up and support this effort so as to also stand with Israel. Links are in the Transcript to this Commentary on my website.
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Biblical Audio Commentary – Post-Tribber Tribulation Saga
What if there was no pre-Trib Rapture?
The wars came as expected; what you didn’t anticipate was that they’d affect you as they did. With all the prepping, you figured you were good for the long haul. You’d hunker down and wait out the Tribulation – what there was of it that you believed would actually happen; after all, most of Revelation was symbolic and not literal – because that’s what you knew God intended. But the lawlessness was worse than you thought. Since you were rural, you were safe. Only you weren’t.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-post-tribber-tribulation-saga/
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Awaken Biblical Prophecy Commentary - “All My Friends Will Be There”
Have you ever had a conversation about the Gospel with an unbeliever, and you’ve gotten to the point of telling them about the consequences of sin and of rejecting Jesus Christ as Savior, then you come to the punchline? What are those consequences? The person who denies Christ, denies God the Father who mercifully sent His Son to shed His blood on the cross and die for us. And when this happens and the person dies, he or she goes to hell.
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Biblical Audio Commentary – Israel Alone
Things are moving along quite nicely toward the eradication of Israel, if you happen to be among one of those many people, groups, or governments dedicated to this cause. Antisemitism, i.e. Jew hatred/Israel hatred, has raised its ugly head and is now prevalent all over the world. German efforts in the 1930s leading to the Holocaust of 6 million Jews had nothing on this movement and where it’s leading. What? Gary, you think that what we’re seeing today is worse than what it was in Nazi Germany? No, not quite yet, although this is a much bigger crusade to kill off God’s Chosen People, and it absolutely will culminate in a much worse end result than that which occurred during World War 2.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 5-1-24 - Engaging the Text; Asking Pertinent Questions
This concept of engaging the text, i.e. the Biblical text, and asking pertinent questions about it has been floating around in my head for the past week or so following my Prophecy Update from last Wednesday in which I commented about House Speaker Mike Johnson. If possible, without directly getting too deep into the one Biblical issue I raise periodically that causes angst and pushback, I hope in this Commentary to suggest a method of examining God’s Word more fully so as to really think about what it says. In fact, I want to make the subject somewhat broader by looking at several Biblical issues that seem to cause people to studiously avoid deeper inspection and understanding.
There are three of these items I want to discuss. They are:
• Gods mentioned in the Bible
• Promises to Israel vs to the church
• If-then consequences in the Old versus New Testaments
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-5-1-24-engaging-the-text-asking-pertinent-questions/
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Biblical Audio Commentary – Worst Nation Status
A friend of ours from Switzerland and I had a spirited email exchange the other day. We were “contesting” to determine which nation has done the worst damage to the world and particularly to Israel, America or Switzerland. How’s that for looking at the world through a Biblical and prophetic lens?
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 4-24-24 – House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Descent into Darkness
When House Speaker Mike Johnson first started acting against his purported Christian and conservative principles, I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. The first couple contrary issues were small, so I thought, “Okay, there may be a good reason for this, so I’ll not condemn rashly.” Now I’m not a crazy political junkie, but I read a wide variety of news sources, primarily alternative and Christian. I also still look at Drudge and Fox News to directly see the faux conservative mindset. It was difficult to miss Johnson’s slide coming at me as it did from every direction. What had been a man widely lauded as principled because of his deep Christian faith had become this political person simply not holding that line. What the heck?
This Commentary is not intended as a hit piece, so I hope it doesn’t come off that way. It is intended to examine what seems to be the real-time downfall of this man purported to have once been a very solid Christian.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-4-24-24-house-speaker-mike-johnsons-descent-into-darkness/
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Biblical Audio Commentary - Russia’s Path to Gog-Magog
Over the last number of years, I’ve spent a fair number of computer bytes discussing how Israel gets from her current situation to the Gog-Magog War of Ezekiel 38-39. I’ve also mentioned various circumstances around Iran’s journey to that seminal place where it collaborates with Russia and Turkey to attack Israel en masse. Turkey I’ve pretty much ignored, although it’s got its own trajectory to this war as well. Today let’s summarize what we have already discussed, where things stand, and then look primarily at Russia.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-russias-path-to-gog-magog/
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 4-17-24 – Satanic Influence & Christian Cessationist Ignorance
There is a large swath of the church that believes in Cessationism. As GotQuestions.org tells us:
Cessationism is the view that the “miracle gifts” of tongues and healing have ceased—that the end of the apostolic age brought about a cessation of the miracles associated with that age. Most cessationists believe that, while God can and still does perform miracles today, the Holy Spirit no longer uses individuals to perform miraculous signs.
The questions I have regarding this belief are: Does this view hold water? Why would so many in the church think this is true? What are the implications in the world if Cessationism has indeed caused miracle gifts to no longer operate?
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-4-17-24-satanic-influence-christian-cessationist-ignorance/
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Biblical Audio Commentary – American Treachery Against Israel & Consequences
Yes, I’m commenting about Israel a lot these days, and with good reason. Israel is at the absolute center - the literal heart - of end-times Bible prophecy. Anyone purporting to teach Bible prophecy should maintain a clear focus on Israel. Failing to do so misses the point as to what God intends to accomplish in this world. It creates an erroneous eschatology which leads to bad theology.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-american-treachery-against-israel-consequences/
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Awaken Biblical Prophecy Commentary - Israel to Annex Ezekiel 39:11 Valley of the Travelers?
Another piece of the end-times puzzle may be falling into place. As the world engages in antisemitic hatred of Israel in its continuing efforts to incur God’s wrath, the Lord’s prophetic Word moves toward its ultimate fulfillment. One of the key upcoming wars that will astound both the people of Israel as well as the rest of the world is that of Gog-Magog, a.k.a. Ezekiel’s War based on Ezekiel 38-39.
We’re not yet at the point for the beginning of this huge and decisive conflict. Israel must complete its current course of action by definitively defeating Hamas. In that process, it is my belief that the Psalm 83 War will be triggered. This means that all the hostile nations surrounding Israel will conspire – by one means or another – to come together in the effort to drive Israel into the sea, i.e. to completely destroy the apple of God’s eye and steal the land which was never intended for them to occupy. They will not succeed.
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/awaken-biblical-prophecy-commentary-israel-to-annex-ezekiel-3911-valley-of-the-travelers/
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Bonus Biblical Commentary – The Nineveh 40-Day Countdown to Judgment for America
It may very well be that nothing significant happens tomorrow April 8, 2024 in the wake of the Great American Eclipse. If that’s the case, won’t the mockers and scoffers have their day?
The transcript for this audio commentary is available at my website blog under the post with the same title: https://garyritter.com/bonus-biblical-commentary-the-nineveh-40-day-countdown-to-judgment-for-america/
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