Posted by Joel on Apr 14, 2013 in Updates | 0 comments
I wanted to encourage everyone who was not able to attend or to watch the One Hope. One Boast. Conference via the web-stream to check out the archives. This was an amazing conference taught by some of my favorite brothers in the whole earth. All sessions are now fully available to watch on the Daniel Training Network website. And while you are there, be sure to browse through their many other resources.
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Posted by Joel on Apr 26, 2013 in Updates | 3 comments
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Bernis of Jewish Voice Today to discuss my latest book Mideast Beast.
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Posted by Joel on Apr 19, 2013 in Updates | 18 comments
Well, surprise, surprise. It has now become quite clear that the two brothers who committed the terrorist attack in Boston this past week were not merely radical Muslims, but Mahdists as well. This is to say that at least part of their worldview was formed by Islamic eschatological expectation concerning the Mahdi. In a video posted on the now deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s YouTube account, we are taught about “The promised emergence of the black flags from the promised land of Khorasan”. The black flags, as I discuss in my book, Islamic Antichrist, are a reference to Muslim armies that are prophesied to come from the region of North-east Iran / Afghanistan / Pakistan under the leadership of the Mahdi. According to the video, these armies are now forming and will soon march to Jerusalem to establish the seat of global Islamic leadership from the Temple Mount. Despite the desperate efforts of the mainstream / left-wing media to downplay the foundational nature of Islam in the Tsarnaez brother’s worldview and murderous acts, what has happened once again on American soil is clear. The Islamists have hit us again. Meanwhile, large portions of the Church are all too determined to believe in conspiratorial syncretistic / improvisational apocalyptic theories, yet the reality of what is coming is right in front of us. Turn on the TV. Radical Islam is not going away. Denying reality or hiding our heads in the sand will not delay the inevitable.
See the video below:
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Posted by Joel on Apr 18, 2013 in Updates | 0 comments
Registration is free. TO RSVP: arabic@ihopkc.org
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Posted by Joel on Apr 17, 2013 in Updates | 0 comments
From Hormuz Shariat: Iran Alive Ministries
The recent arrest of my relative, Saeed Abedini, has brought global attention to the oppressive persecution of Christians in Iran, which you have likely seen via Fox News, CNN, ACLJ and other media.
Saeed is married to my niece, Naghmeh, whom I led to the Lord several years ago. I personally trained them both in ministry and know them very well. Although an American citizen, Saeed was arrested for Christian activity in Iran and sentenced to eight years in prison, as the Iranian government does not recognize foreign citizenship granted to people who were born in Iran. Under Iranian law, they are still citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran and therefore subject to its judicial system.
Click here to donate to Iran Alive Ministries
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Posted by Joel on Apr 11, 2013 in Updates | 0 comments
April 18-20, 2013
Daniel Training Institute Annual Conference
Featured speakers: Joel Richardson, John Harrigan, Jacob Stone, Joshua Hawkins, Hans Kim, Tim M., Bill Scofield, Dave Horsman, Stephen Holmes, Jeremy Johnston, and Richee Parks
Bethany Church
6900 Auto Club Rd.
Bloomington, MN 55438
April 23, 2013
Farsi Intensive(April 22-27)
IHOP KC Multipurpose Room
Red Bridge Road, Kansas City
Featured Speakers April 23: Pastor Hormuz Shariat and Joel Richardson
May 4, 2013
Shalom Hebraic Christian Congregation
The Nathaniel Center
804 Russell Palmer Road
Kingwood, TX 77339
(281) 348-7807
May, 5, 2013
Hinenei Ministries
@ Christ the Servant Lutheran Church
2400 Wilcrest
Houston, Texas 77042
7:30 pm
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Posted by Joel on Apr 6, 2013 in Updates | 10 comments
Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi and Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir have met together to declare bilateral relations between their two countries. You can read about these meetings at Front Page Magazine here. Ahram online also reported on the meeting here. Both leaders rose to power through the support of the Muslim Brotherhood within their respective nations. Why might this be significant as it relates to Biblical prophecy? Well, in Daniel 11:43, we are told that in “the last days”, there would specifically emerge an Egyptian-Sudanese-Libyan alliance. In verse 40, we are told that in the last days, there would be a military clash between the “King of the South” (Egypt) and “the King of the North”. Historically, this refers to the region where Syria, Turkey, and Iraq intersect, but which I believe it refers to modern day Turkey. The Scriptural basis for this first, is the clear emphasis of Ezekiel 38-39 on Asia Minor / Turkey as well as the fact that it was in Turkey that the World witnessed the “fatal head wound” of the seventh beast empire. Revelation 13 and 17 informs us that after the Roman Empire, another empire, a seventh empire, would emerge that would suffer a fatal head wound but that would eventually be revived as the eighth empire. It stands to reason that because it was in the Ottoman Empire that the historical continuum of the Islamic Caliphates suffered a fatal head wound, so also will the Ottoman Empire experience the miraculous revival. And of course, on the ground, all evidence points now to a re-emergent Turkey with growing regional influence and stature. The fact that we are seeing an emerging Turkish power in the North at the same time that we are seeing an emerging assertive Egypt is certainly worth watching. And as the African nations of Egypt and Sudan, two of the nations specifically highlighted by the prophet Daniel begin to publicly identify with one another, then we also must ask if we are drawing closer. While it is too soon to know for sure or to declare these things with clarity, it certainly does seem to be moving in the direction of fulfilling the prophecy of Daniel 11. The return of Jesus very well could be much closer than many think. Let us be about the work of God
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