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Alright. Thomas, why don't you open us in prayer? Okay. You've done such a big thing. You want me to jump first in prayer? Okay. Father in heaven, ask me, Lord, that you might minister tonight, Lord Jesus Christ. Help us not to be hearers of the word, but doers also, Lord. Hallelujah. And that does that means not procrastinating. But, Lord Jesus Christ, we pray, father, regarding the union. Mister Morris. I just thank you, Lord, for his decision not to be in a hurry. Not that doesn't mean he's not gonna do it, but at least he he wants these people not to make rash decisions. I just thank you, Lord. And, Lord Jesus Christ, I pray, father, that you might find ways, Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. We're opening up our thoughts tonight. I just ask you, Lord, that you might open up our hearts, our minds, and souls to receive what you have for us, and it's gonna be good. The bread of life is always good. We just thank you, Lord, for all these things. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Thomas. Thank you. Is no god that god god. No other name worthy of all our praise. The rock of salvation that cannot be moved. He's proven himself to be came from heaven to earth to show the way from the earth to the cross my dead to pay Amen. Will you pray for Lawrence? Yes. Gracious heaven heavenly father, we gather together here, brothers and sisters in Christ, our concern for Lawrence, Lord, We love this man and his desire to be with you and his desire to bring those to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior. Father, this infirmity that has grasped a hold of him, Lord, we know not the reason, but, father, we just pray that your will be done. Lord, if you have him to be used more by you, that you touch him from the crown of his head to the tip of his toes Yes, Lord. Yes. And heal him, father, miraculously, that, father, there would be no other answer but by the blood of Jesus. Hallelujah. And, Lord, also, that you would send him out to witness to others the power of the holy spirit that has come upon him and and healed him, Lord. But, Lord, as well as during that time and before that time, wrap your loving arms around him and keep him as the apple of your eye. Comfort him and strengthen him in the strength that he's not able to have himself. Thank you for Armando and his family, Lord, that have taken him in and are caring for him. And, Lord, just bless them, Lord. Bless them and watch over him in Jesus' precious name. Amen. Lord, we lift up Ronnie. We thank you that her procedure went well today at the hospital. Lord, we pray that you would help her to continue to recuperate and get the rest and just put all that behind her, Lord. We lift up Kathy. Yes. Lord, we pray for her knees that you would bring the swelling down and take away the pain and help her to be able to recuperate, Lord. I know she she's looking so forward to riding bikes and checking out the leaves that are changing, Lord. Just help her help her to be able to bounce back quick, Lord. You're the great physician. And, Lord, we lift up Cora. We pray that you continue to heal her body. Thank you for the miracles that have transpired that have taken place already. And, Lord, we just pray for her and Alan and the family, Lord, that, Lord, that your hedge of protection be about about them all, and they give you the praise, the honor, and the glory for that what you're doing, Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Okay. Anybody else need prayer before we get into the word? Okay. Alrighty. We're in Isaiah chapter two. Isaiah chapter two. Okay. Really enjoying having fellowship with you guys, and just a great time for me as a pastor and as a Christian, you know, to be a part of what God's doing. I'm so blessed by many many people that are refusing the jab. The airline pilots, the flight attendants, the nurses, the doctors, people on the the ferry system. People all in all facets of society right now are saying no to the jab. New York, there are enormous amounts of people you know picketing and and protesting and not gonna do it. And that just really really blesses me. And what it should say to a lot of people is, there's a there's a movie that Alex Jones just came out with called COVID Land. And when you start to watch it, it's going to chronicle. It's a historical from the very start of the COVID crisis, you know, to the present. There's five different parts of it. The first part's an hour and forty minutes. But it'll it'll just blow your mind the lies upon lies upon lies upon lies that have been propagated from the very beginning. And then your governor your governor was asked and he was caught in the state of Washington bumping the numbers up of people that died, you know, in the beginning. And it was totally false. And so what he did was is he said, no, that's coming from conspiracy theorists from the planet of Pluto. He did not say that. He did say that. It's it's in the video. It's in the video. Okay? The video. Now now now, in the beginning, he might be able to get away with that but now he's the one looking like the guy from Pluto. Okay? Because it's doctors, it's nurses. These are people frontline people that have seen it. Right? It's you know, it's pilots who have who have friends that have died from this, know, they got the job already. Robbie's been posting stuff. Everyone's posting things of people that have taken the shot and regret it now. They're telling their stories. And so the jig is up but but still, now they're using the leverage of you'll lose your job if if you don't do that. And so so anyway, we I'm just very very blessed to be around people that recognize what's going on. And I'm also blessed by people that may have taken the shot and we still love you and we wanna encourage you and build you up and strengthen you. And as doctor Sherri Tenpenny says, if you've taken one shot, don't take the second one. You know, repent. Don't don't do it and and try to detox your body. We need to be able to help people think through this this psyop that's taken place and to try and break the back, break the spell, break the you know, the the demonic stronghold that this thing has had you know, over the entire globe you know. And in Australia, whole lot of people are saying no to this. So we got to continue to pray, and we know we fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities of the air. And yet, there's guys like Bill Gates, Melinda Gates. Don't forget about Melinda Gates. She's heavily involved in this too. Don't think that they really divorced or that Epstein's really dead or you know, that sort of stuff. These people are always, you know, trying to get us to look the other way. But there's a whole group of these guys in Revelation chapter 17 of the kings of earth, they come together as one. So it's it's it's very obvious that whether it's Australia or The UK or New Zealand or whatever country you wanna look at, these guys are working in harmony implementing this SIOP upon the rest of us. They want their new reset. So another thing is in Abu Dhabi, an island place in Saudi Arabia where they're gonna build the House of Abraham. House of Abraham is the global religious center where there's going to be an Islamic mosque, a church, and synagogue for Jews. And so it's going to be the one world religious temple if you will. And then there's some rumbling that they're gonna build another one in New York City. So that's very interesting because we know there's gonna be a one world religious system, right? We know there's gonna be a one world economic system, and what are they doing? Trying to bring a reset to a new system. And there's going to be a one world governmental system. So we're watching you know, our form of government which was the most revered and honored and strongest on the planet. We're watching it become imbecilic and the world laughing at us and fraudulent elections, kinda like kinda like a third world country. And so we're watching the demise of America and it breaks my heart. If it's breaking your heart, remember the attitude of Jesus when he looked toward Jerusalem, he wept. He wept because he knew in seventy AD that Titus would destroy the city. Jeremiah the prophet, he prophesied for forty years and he wept. He's the weeping prophet. And you're not weeping, you're not sad for yourself, you're sad at the evil. You're sad at God had such greater intentions for you for the Jerusalem. And as Jesus saying, Jerusalem Jerusalem, you know, how often I would have gathered you together as a mother hen does gather her brood under her wings, you would not. And because of the rejection of Jesus Christ in America, by and large, we're watching the judgment. We're watching the void, that emptiness be filled with such incredible evil. And so, what's the solution? Turn people back to Jesus. That's the solution. Alright. Isaiah chapter two. Father, please open your word to our understanding. Thank you for the hope that's here before us in chapter two as you described the millennium. And thank you Lord for the description thereafter describing why. Why a culture implodes upon itself. Why a culture reaches a place of needing to be judged. Lord, you're long suffering. You don't do it so quickly. You're very long suffering. Jeremiah prophesied for over forty years, you know. And here we have Isaiah prophesying and trying so hard to reach the hearts of the people and awaken them and bring them back unto you, Lord. And we can learn much from this. This is is your own people, the Jews. And so Lord, we tonight as the church, as the bride of Christ, Lord, we desire to be salt and light. We desire to stand for righteousness. We desire to walk by faith. And Lord, us ears to hear. Help us to be able to speak hope, Lord. To speak of of the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior of your soon return. Help us to be able to articulate prophecy when people are just so overwhelmed with what's taken place, and and show them the future the hope that we have that's in you Lord. So bless tonight we pray in Jesus name. Amen. Alright. The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow into it. And many people shall go in and say, come ye, let us go up to the house to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Now, these the same the same text here is found in Micah as when we're studying Micah. Micah chapter four verse one through three. And so, it's it's a description that Revelation eleven fifteen tells us where the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our God. Where Jesus is going to return, and when he returns, he's going to subdue all of his enemies, right? He's going to come. The only way there's gonna be peace is if there's war first, right? The war of Armageddon. And so, except those days be short and no flesh would be saved but for the elect's sake, the Lord Jesus intervenes and the nation of Israel is on the, you know, on the verge of being just completely genocided, you know. So two thirds, Zechariah thirteen eight tells us two thirds, eight and nine tells us two thirds of the Jews as they go through the seventieth seven of Daniel, the time of Jacob's trouble, they're wiped out by the Antichrist and all. There's a one third remnant that survives and except those days be shortened, those people would also be eradicated, wiped out by the Antichrist and his armies that are headed toward Basra, that are headed toward Mount Seir, that are headed towards Southern Jordan, the ancient Moabites. And Jesus intervenes, he returns and the blood is as high as the horses bridle according to Revelation 14. And and then he he there's a 200 mile region area of battlefield Armageddon. And and then Jesus, the antichrist dies. He's destroyed according to second Thessalonians chapter two with the brightness of our Lord's coming and the sword of his mouth, the antichrist, boom dead and laid in the street. Doesn't even get a burial. And so the antichrist and the false prophet, they're put in the lake of fire and then the devil is incarcerated into the abyss. And then Jesus in Matthew 25 does a judgment upon those who survive the tribulation period separating the sheep from the goats. And the goats are gonna be perishing into hell. The sheep are those that said under the Jews, you were naked, we clothed you, you were thirsty, we gave you drink, you're hungry during the tribulation period, we gave you food. When saw we the, you know, naked, in as much as you've done it under the least of these my brethren, you've done it under me. You visit them in the hospital, visit them in prison. And so Jesus are gonna allow a certain segment of the people that make it through, the Gentiles that make it through the tribulation period to go into what's called the what? The millennium. What does the word millennium mean? Thousand years. The kingdom age. And so Jesus is gonna make his victory ascent where? Up the Mount Of Olives. Victory ascent. A triumphal entry of a king, a conquering king into Jerusalem. There's gonna be a seventy five day interval between the Armageddon when he when he returns in the second coming and to when the millennium starts. What's the millennium start with? The marriage supper of the lamb. The marriage supper of the lamb. So in that seventy five day interval, Daniel reminds us in Daniel chapter 12, bless is he that comes to the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day. So Jesus is going to come twelve hundred and sixty days after the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet at the midpoint of the tribulation period. You count twelve hundred and sixty days after that, that's the second coming. The reason I don't believe, one of the reasons I don't believe in a post trib rapture is I'll know when it's gonna happen. Twelve hundred sixty days after abomination desolation, right? So it's imminent. His coming is imminent meaning he can't he he can come at any moment. He can come right now for us his bride. Many many reasons why I don't believe in that but Exactly. So the tribulation period does not start with the rapture. The tribulation starts with the signing of the peace treaty. In order to for there would be a need of a peace treaty, there's gonna first of all be wars. Right? Jesus said wars and rumors of wars. There's earthquakes. You've been hearing about earthquakes today? You've been hearing about volcanoes in the Canary Islands and and also in Hawaii? In Hawaii, right? Things are rumbling, right? Things are Is is there a big is there a big something coming at us from space? What what do they call that? A meteorite? Asteroid. Asteroid? Okay. So there's a lot of things happening that Jesus spoke of that would be that you know. These are birth pangs. When you see these things begin to come to pass, you know that the time of Jacob's trouble, you know the tribulation period is his second coming is near. Well, you know the second coming is near, then you know the rapture is even nearer, right? Because we're not subject unto his wrath. You and I according to first Thessalonians five verse ten and first Thessalonians chapter one verse nine. We've been saved from the wrath to come. We're not appointed under wrath. The tribulation period is a time where God pours out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world. So in that tribulation period, you've got a 144,000 Jews that go with the everlasting gospel all over the planet. They're sealed by the Lord. They're sharing the the gospel. You have an angel going overhead sharing the everlasting gospel. You have what's called tribulation saints who die in chapter six and seven and they're crying out, Oh Lord, how long before you avenge our deaths? We see in Revelation 20 verse four, they died by beheading because they refused what? They refused the jab, right? No. They refused the mark of the beast. Revelation thirteen sixteen and seventeen, every man, every woman, rich and poor are gonna have to receive a mark on their right hand of their forehead to be able to buy or sell. They're gonna be those under the radar, under the optics, you know, the five g that's out there. China has six g. All of the guys that are working on the lines here in Kitsap County, they're going for optics. They're getting rid of the present technology, lucent technology, graphene. They're gonna be able to have information in real time is what they're working for. So fiber optics. Fiber optics in your body, Fiber optics everywhere with the five g then six g. So the surveillance system that the Antichrist wants. And Brandon told us about these statues that are being placed all over the world. Kind of like Nebuchadnezzar did, right? And they're going to be amazing in the way that they can switch and change and give different type of messages and all. And we'll see that in the second part of this chapter, the idolatry, the idolatrous practices. So when you look in Revelation chapter 13, people are going to bow down to the image of the beast. So a return to Satanism, Luciferian idolatry, Paul said the things that the Gentiles offer under their idols, they're actually offering under demons. Demons are behind these these idolatrous practices. And so that's the backdrop. The Lord Jesus gonna return and he's gonna Brenda asked, what's why is it called Jacob's trouble? Time of Jacob's trouble? Because it's the seventy seven of Daniel. It's the seventy seventh period of time. Four hundred and eighty three years pertaining to the to the first coming of Christ. There's a final seven year period of time that God is going to deal with the nation of Israel and it's called the time of Jacob's trouble. It's it's a time Zephaniah that the world's never seen, a time of great darkness, the day of the Lord's another description of it. But it's Zechariah thirteen eight nine, it's a purifying. God's using the fire, the furnace like like you would refine metals. He's gonna bring his people through and Jesus said, you're not gonna see me again until you say, Blessed is he that come in the name of the Lord. So blindness in part has happened unto Israel presently in the church age until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. Romans eleven twenty five. Right? So we're in the church age and the gospel is going forth to Jew, to Gentile, male, female, barbarian, Scythian, bonder, free, whosoever will let them come. So the church age is is happening now. And then there's a point where the Lord's gonna say, you know, come up here. And the rapture of the church, he's gonna come and he's going to catch his church away. The fetching and the Jewish wedding, there's the four phases of it. One is the betrothal. We're betrothed. The nation of Israel is the wife of Jehovah. We're the bride of Christ. And so he's given us the earnest of of his intention and that he's given us the Holy Spirit as an engagement ring. All of us have been given the Holy Spirit. We as the bride of Christ. So that's the betrothal and then after that is the fetching. The fetching is John 14, right? Fourteen one through three, where Jesus said, go to prepare a place for you, right? He's gonna come again for us. He's gonna snatch us away. That's where the marriage ceremony is in heaven, right? That's where the ceremony is. And then you come back to the home. First you go you go to the ceremony, the home of the father. Then you come back to the home of the bride. That's upon earth. That's the marriage supper of the lamb, right? And so in Revelation 19, we see the church coming back with Jesus. He's coming back with the saints. Jude says 10,000 thousands of the saints. We've been raptured. We're there with him the ceremony. He comes back in the second coming and we come to earth with him and we're going to rule and reign with him as kings and priests for a thousand years. At the end of the thousand years, Satan is loosed. Those Gentiles that repopulated the planet during the the millennial age, the kingdom age where the curse was reversed, where King Jesus ruled and reigned from Jerusalem and David his prince and the 12 apostles reigning on thrones also. People are able to see with magnification who God is, you know. And they go each year to Zion. They go each year to Jerusalem and the city is called the City Of Truth or the Holy Mountain, and and King Jesus ruling and reigning from there. And they're able to see that but it doesn't matter because their heart needs to change. There needs to be a transformation to change. And and so God demonstrates with the free will of man that even after people are able to observe, you know, live in a perfect world, so to speak, still the the problem is not the externals. The problem is the internal. Internal heart of man in his fallen nature will continue to rebel against God. And so he demonstrates this by allowing Satan to be loosed. Satan entices the globalists once again, and they try to form a war. They try to form an army to come against Jerusalem and destroy Jesus. And that's what they're gonna do at Armageddon also. The globalists with the help of the Antichrist are gonna stop try to stop Jesus from returning and taking possession of that which he created and that which he redeemed with his own blood. But he's got the title deed to the earth in Revelation five, right? There's nobody can open the scroll and loose the seals except the line of the tribe of Judah and John saw him as a lamb that had been slain, right? Still bearing those scars. So everything is secure. He's on the throne. He's in control. Things are falling into place. This is what has to happen. And so Isaiah, as difficult as it is, as much as it wants what we see happening as judgments come in, as as it makes us so depressed and discouraged and and to watch the attempts of the globalist to come after our children now, to try to say that the children that are growing up in this culture that the state is going to mandate. The state is going to determine they have to be jabbed and all, taking away parental rights and all, these pedophiles and all. As much as that hurts to watch that evil resurface again because it's cyclical, it happens all over the world. And even even here in America, we're watching these people break down our society with their evil. And it hurts. It hurts to watch that. And so what are we to do? We're looking future that one day King Jesus is gonna come back and he's going to deal with his enemies and he's gonna set up his kingdom wherein righteousness dwells. And so the highest mountain is gonna be in Zion in verse two. A mountain of the Lord's house shall be established at the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow into it. If they don't flow into it, we learn they don't get any crops. Right? They don't get any rain and that sort of thing. And so they're gonna flow into it. In Zechariah eight three, it says it's a city of truth. It's described as the holy Mountain And they're gonna learn, they're gonna learn how to walk. And so there's still gonna be a need of doctrine, still in need of teaching, still in need of a teacher. And never a man spake like Jesus has spoken, right? I mean, people were amazed at him because he spoke with authority. And so he's gonna be teaching. He's gonna be instructing people there in Jerusalem. Above the hills, a nation shall flow into it. So there's gonna be a pilgrimage. People are gonna take a pilgrimage to Israel. How many of you have been to Israel? Taking a pilgrimage to Israel. Yep. I had the blessing. And Jerusalem will blow your mind. Now, don't take the jab to get there. You'll get to be there during the millennium, so don't do that. You know, give it up. Give it up. You'll be there during the millennium. And many people shall go and say, come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And so I'll instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, right? And we have the Word of God. We have the Old and the New Testament. The Lord wants to instruct and teach us in the way we should go through His Word, by His Spirit. He's not hidden His ways, right? He's revealed who He is. He's revealed what He requires of us, So Micah six eight, right? What does say in Micah six eight? What does the Lord require of you to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God? There you go. He has shown the old man, what does the Lord require of thee. We can sing that, it's a song, right? And so the Lord hasn't left us in the dark, we're children of light and He wants us walk according to that light. It's a narrow way, few there be that find it. Broad is the way that leads to the destruction and many go in there at. So I'm really blessed that the Lord saved me. I'm really blessed that I'm not lost. I'm really blessed that He's communicating to me and he's saying, Rick, this is the way, walk in it. Rick, this is the way. And it's such a blessing to not be walking in darkness. To know that I have a future and a hope. To know that he's sovereign, he's on the throne. Things don't look right anymore. It's not our America. Crazy. But we know that prior to the Lord returning that these things he promised us, he told us, he warned us that these things would happen. A breakdown of the world, a breakdown of society. And he shall judge among the nations, wouldn't that be great? We've got a supreme court now that's been compromised. We've got justices there that are owned by globalists and don't do the right thing, right? And we've got courts in the state of Washington that are compromised and there's some judges that'll hear the case that Robbie and Paul are putting forth and Inslee and his guys wanna move it to another court, another jurisdiction so that they can have a favorable, you know, in their favor. And we've got fraudulent elections. We've got Joe Biden's brother-in-law who married his sister is a part of Dominion. Dominion voting machines and debold voting machines and and so this thing's so incredibly corrupt it's beyond comprehension. That's why Jay Inslee doesn't have to campaign. That's why he can be from Pluto and not worry about anybody taking his place because it's rigged, it's fixed. They're not going anywhere until the people wake up to the corruption, right? Till the people stop them. They're going as far as they can with their mandates, as far as they can with what they're doing in your face saying stop me if you can. You can't stop me, right? That's what they're doing. They know that that conservatives whine and complain but do nothing. They do nothing. So we wanna just get back to work. We wanna we want to provide for our families. And if we don't work for a week or two, we really fall behind, know. So the economy is such that we wanna work and that's what we do. And we elect these people and we say, you're supposed to be the, you know, the pit bulls. You're supposed to be the ones that pin their ears back. But but they don't, and so there's a breakdown. But Jesus is the judge among the among the nations, and his his judgment is gonna be perfect, more perfect than even Solomon, you know. Solomon, people would come and they they bring their case before King Solomon and his wisdom of Solomon and a greater than Solomon is here, right? So he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people. King Jesus is gonna rebuke many people. Do you like to be rebuked? I don't like to be rebuked but yet I do like to be rebuked. I do. I do. Because Jesus said, As many as I love, I chase and rebuke. If He loves you, He's gonna get you back on track. Right? He's gonna rebuke you. So faith are the wounds of a friend, the kiss of an enemy are deceitful. I don't need somebody. There you go. So he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares. So the swords are used for what? Military? Military. What's the budget for war in the world today? Can't have enough money for war, right? And because we have the de facto global currency, the dollar, we're able to spend more on our military than all the other nations put together. China, Russia, all of them. When we lose the de facto global currency, the dollar, we then are gonna be on a level playing field with the rest of the world, right? We're not gonna be able to spend like we were talking about the school district, how they're always wanting money and and how you know the taxation and such in your community and that it's it's it's not a that it's not a problem of of money, it's a problem of they got 10 principals and 10 administrators when they only need one, right? And they don't give the money to the teachers. Well someone told me, so too in the yard, so too at Bangor, so too at Keyport. Whereas they used to have a shop where the shop used to have one administrator over four shops, now they got one administrator over each shop So they could have 10 administrators. They're top heavy with administration because they have an enormous amount of money coming and they always have to justify expanding the budget. Know, it's it's unlimited, you know. So that kind of corruption is gonna go away and he's gonna be able to take if the world were able to take the amount of money that we spend on military, and we're not in a Pollyanna world, we need a good defense, right? But if they were able to take it, if they were secure and King Jesus reversed the curse and people aren't allowed to invade other countries anymore, you could use that money for what? To feed everybody, right? To feed everybody in an equitable distribution of wealth where everybody would have a house and a fig tree and you know a salmon stream running by and you know fly fishing, surfing, whatever you want man, right? So you'd be able to you'd be able to not have to work anymore if you don't want to. You can you can go to go to Jerusalem because the curse is reversed, part of the curse is having to work. But there'll be there'll be food, plenty of provision, plenty of everything. So they're gonna take their swords and they're gonna beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and so it's an illustration of no more war but plenty of food. There's gonna be prosperity, great prosperity. Nations shall not lift up sword against nations. So no more war. So Jesus is the prince of who? Peace. Prince of peace. And he establishes peace through war. He subdues all of his enemies at Armageddon because you cannot negotiate with terrorists, right? You can't negotiate. You have to subdue them. You have to bring them down. The only thing they understand is brute force. The blood's gonna be as high as the horse's bridle, right? And he, by him, all things consist if he wants to bring forth a neutron bomb, you know, a neutron type of thing where he removes the atoms and the molecules and everything and fire comes, the earth being destroyed with fire to purify the earth before you know even before the millennium. Is that gonna happen? Is he gonna purify part of it? How much fallout from you know from the wars that lead up to this? I don't know. But somehow someway he's gonna bring purifying. And then there's gonna be a new heaven, a new earth later at the end of the millennium and he will destroy the earth with fire and so completely. And nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war anymore. So the War College, how many of you have been to the War College? Right. And so the War College or where we call it Annapolis, would that be one of the places? One of the academies? And so at the war college, what do they teach you? The art of war? You don't study Sun Tzu, do you? Actually, yes. Yes, they do? Okay. So they they study him and they study historically the wars that have taken place throughout history. They study strategy. So if I'm looking at George C Scott, is it accurate to say that he studied Rommel? No. No, he didn't? He didn't. That's what I mean. Patton studied Rommel. He would know what Rommel's moves, strategies. Right? So there there is there anything new under the sun that people are intrigued about America's strategies of war? Is a submarine, a nuke submarine underneath the ocean where Biden doesn't have the nuclear codes. Are those a threat, mutually assured destruction for Beijing and Moscow? Millie's Yeah. Not doesn't have well, I got you there. But yeah, that Millie, he's a woke one, isn't he? Alright. So so we understand an evil world we need we need mutually assured destruction, right? We need to have a big enough military that it causes our enemies, no don't mess with them, right? But in the millennium, they're no longer gonna learn war anymore. So you got Chinese Chinese generals, the Chinese trying to study ways to destroy America. What have they come up with? What have our enemies come up with? What's the best way to destroy America? Within. Within. A Yeah. Trojan horse coming in, right? So the Trojan COVID coming in, the globalist and it's money. They pay off every politician, everybody that's in on their thing. They're being paid off and it and it is it's treason. Okay, Thomas? Yeah, I was gonna say, the way evil will succeed for the righteous to do nothing. Edmund Burke? Something like that. So, help Thomas with that quote from Edmund Burke. In order for evil to triumph, man must do nothing. Right? And do nothing. So we're not Keep in the light. There we go. So they're not gonna learn war anymore. And we appreciate soldiers. We appreciate our military. We thank the Lord for our military that that nobody's been fighting on our soil, know. And that we've had an incredible incredible run. And we thank the Lord. It's not the soldiers that are the problem. It's not the great military that we have. It's not our policemen that are the problem. But these crazy communists wanna make us think that by reducing our police force, you know, in Seattle and all these communities that it's gonna solve crime. And yet, the crime is greater upon Hispanics and blacks since they've done that. There's more murders, far more murders in the last couple years since they've implemented this idiocy than before. So basically, it's crisis reaction solution. The hearts of people aren't changing. Do you know in the Kitsap County, well I better not say that. Better not say what I was gonna say. But in any event, there's a lawlessness that's developing. The hands of the police are being tied in the way that they could deal with criminals and all. And so that's gonna swing, the pendulum's gonna sing swing to a complete totalitarian means of enforcement when they finally get the United Nations and or the National Guard or the military on the streets because, they're purposely wanting to undermine the present system that we have that keeps us safe. They what? It'll swing to tyranny. Yeah. The people demand it when when there's enough. Gavin Newsom's letting the criminals out of the prisons, know. Right? And so they're wanting that's exactly right. She says, O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord. And so the Lord wants us to walk in the light not in the darkness. What we're experiencing with COVID is darkness. Dark, demonic, oppressive lies that are enslaving mankind and it all stems from the devil. What's the solution? Good answers. Prayer. Good answer. Jesus. Good answer. The answer is light. Light. It's demonic. It's dark. It's oppressive. Overwhelming people's minds. It's all based upon darkness, deception, strong delusion. The solution is light. You guys are children of light. When you expose it and you tell people that, hey, the jab kills you or the COVID ninety nine point nine percent recovery, that's light. You're taking light and you're exposing the lie that people are enslaved to that they're so filled with fear. Now, magnify that. More and more people knowing the truth shine the light on the lie and they can't get away with it. Right? But they have a monopoly on information. They keep throwing you off of Facebook and throwing you off of every means of trying to communicate people the truth. They have a monopoly in the colleges and the schools and all this. So, we, even in the church, know, lot of the guys are unwilling to expose the lies. They say, oh, we're not supposed to be involved in politics. We're not supposed to talk about that. Just just give them the gospel. How's that working for you guys? How's that working? Yeah. We're all going into slavery. We're all gonna lose the privilege of sharing the gospel pretty soon if we don't wake up. Alright. Let's look at the importance of the light. I've got some verses for you. Alright. So you guys you guys got your Bibles ready? Got your sword ready? Okay. Romans thirteen twelve through 14. Who wants that? Okay. That's Arthur. Right there's Arthur. How about Ephesians five verse eight? Okay. That's Rob. How about Psalm 8nine 15? Okay. That's Stephen. How about Isaiah fifty ten and eleven? I got it. Okay. That's Marlene. How about Luke one seventy nine? Okay. And Wayne, also want to give you no, you just take that one. Luke twelve thirty five and thirty six. Brandon, Luke twelve thirty five and thirty six. And then, who wants first John one verse seven? Okay. How about Isaiah 61 through three? Okay. That's Robbie. Isaiah sixty nineteen and twenty also for Robbie. And then we're gonna have somebody do Revelation twenty one twenty three through 24. Okay. You want two? You want two? Revelation 21 verses Revelation 21 verses twenty three and twenty four. Do you want that? Sure. Okay. And then I'm gonna finish this up or no I'll start us. I'm gonna start us in first Thessalonians chapter five. If you wanna turn there. First Thessalonians chapter five. I'm sorry I can't give those again. Luke one seventy nine and Luke twelve thirty five and thirty six. What was first Thessalonians? First Thessalonians five, we're gonna go one through 10. Okay. And I'm gonna read it and I want you to pay close attention to the pronouns. Okay? What? The pronouns they and us. They and us. Alright. So but the times of the seasons brethren, you have no need that I read unto you. So Paul's talking to the church of Thessalonica, they're concerned that the rapture has already taken place, it hasn't taken place. They're concerned that people that are dying from persecution that they're already in the tribulation period. No, you're not in the tribulation period. So he says, but the times and the seasons brethren you have no need that I write unto you. You and I are discerning times and seasons. I keep saying this is a great season. Why do I keep saying that? This is a great season to be alive. Some of you say it this way, for such a time as this, right? Right? It's an exciting time because Jesus is coming again, right? Okay. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord, what's the day of the Lord gang? The seventh. May return. It's not the rapture, right? No. That phrase, the day of the Lord always speaks of the seven year tribulation period. Right? For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. Do you see how people could confuse that with the rapture? Coming like a thief in the night? But it's coming like a thief in the night because the people that are on the planet are in darkness. They don't have the sensory apparatus that you have. The spiritual ability to discern the times they're living in, right? They're listening to the demonic Antichrist peace peace where there is no peace, right? They're deluded. God's given them over to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie. He says, for that when they say, who's they? The unbelievers. The unbelievers, those in darkness. For when they say peace and safety, you know these guys from Pluto, then sudden destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape. So peace peace when you see the globalist going peace peace, we've got a peace treaty to sign and we're gonna bring in usher in the millennium, we're gonna usher in the golden age, The fourth Reich is coming. We've got to figure it out, man. Everybody's gonna have plenty of food. It's just food from the laboratory that Bill Gates has patented. Right? And so they're gonna sell them lies. Peace, peace, where there is no peace. And this this childbearing as travail upon a woman with a child they shall not escape. It's gonna happen suddenly. But ye brethren but ye You love that transition there? But you brethren but you brethren are not in darkness that that day, the day of the second coming, right? The day of the tribulation period. We can see, hey, Christmas is up ahead. No matter what Fauci says, we're going to celebrate Christmas. Right? But between now and Christmas, the Rapture might happen. We don't know when the Rapture is going to happen, But if I see Christmas up ahead, I know the rapture is before that, right? So I can see the one world government. I can see the one world economic system. I can see the one world religious system on the horizon which all are gonna take place in the tribulation period. Now the government can be a prelude. It doesn't mean it doesn't mean they can't start the one world government and that's the tribulation period. They can get that started. Do you understand that? They could have war and get that started. We could still be here and see a one world governmental system, right? Do you understand that? And we could see the religious system begin, so to speak, and the economic system can begin. What starts the tribulation period is the peace treaty with the nation of Israel. And so we're not looking for the Antichrist, we're looking for Jesus Christ. But the beast system is being put into place right now. The beast system. But you brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. You're all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others. So you can be a child of light but still be asleep. You you could be living in darkness. You could believe the lies of the wicked one. You could be paralyzed with fear if you're not understanding the times in which you're living. Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober minded. So remember the 10 virgins? Watching, ready, always watching, ready, looking. For they that sleep sleep in the night and they that are drunk are drunk in the night but let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breastplate of faith and of love for a helmet the hope of salvation. We got to learn how to fight. We got to be in a spiritual struggle, spiritual battle, be watching to be ready. We can't settle in to the globalist peace peace peace, you know, baloney. We can't settle in. We've got to constantly be fighting, pushing against the evil, resisting the evil, can't give into it. Can't be like Lot living in Sodom and Gomorrah. His soul being vexed day by day much better to be like Abraham and Sarah. Hope is salvation. For God has not appointed us to wrath, us as believers. His wrath can be poured out during the day of the Lord. But to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him. So whether whether you're alive or whether you're dead you're gonna live together with him because the dead in Christ are gonna rise first. And we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air so shall ever be with the Lord. Right? So we're children of light. Alright. Romans thirteen twelve through 14. Is at hand. So then let us cast off the and put on the armor of white. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. That may be 14,000,000. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires. So we're going to be distinctly different than those who are walking in darkness. We're going to have a lifestyle that's described as a lifestyle of light, right? Living in the light. And our lives are exposed, and we're not trying to do hidden things and secret things and things that defile us and all. And we're gonna look different than those in darkness. We're different than those in the world because we walk in fellowship with the Lord. Ephesians five verse eight. Five eight. For though your hearts were full of darkness, now you are full of light from the Lord and your behavior should show it. There we go. That's what we just said. We were in darkness. We were dead in our sins and trespasses. And when we came to Jesus Christ, now we're a child of light. We're not a child of darkness. Psalm 8nine 15. Psalm 8nine 15, Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound. They shall walk, o Lord, in the light of thy confidence. And 16 says, in thy name shall they rejoice all day, and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. Isaiah fifty ten and eleven. Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servants? Let him let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. But now all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go walk in the light of your fires oh, and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand. You will be down to torment. Draw excuse me. You will lie down in torment. Cool. Alright. Luke one seventy nine. Okay. This context is Zacharias, who had been tongue tied for months, writes out that his son's name is gonna be John and then prophesies out of him. But immediately he starts to speak prophesies. This is what he says about John, that he to give light to them that sit in darkness and sit in the shadow of death to to guide our feet into the way of peace. That's what he said his son John would do. That's what he's prophesying. Okay. Alright. And alright. So first John one seven. But if you're living in the light of God's presence just as Christ is, then we have fellowship with each other and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleansed us from every sin. Praise the Lord. Alright. Luke twelve thirty five through and 36. Like a loin be exerted about and your lights burning. And ye yourselves, like unto men, that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. And then verse the next verse. Yeah. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meet, and will come forth So what prophetically is being said there? What's the picture? Marriage supper of the lamb. So we're up in heaven for the wedding, right? We're coming back to the earth, right? And we're at the millennium, at the marriage supper of the lamb, and Jesus girds himself and he serves us as his bride. You see that? Okay. Let's see here. Isaiah 61 through three. Arise, shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples. But the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising. And then you said nineteen and twenty? Yes. No longer will you have the sun for light by day, nor the brightness will the moon give you light, but you will have the Lord for an everlasting light and your God for your glory. Amen. Your sun will no longer set nor will your moon wane, for you will have the Lord for an everlasting light, and the days of your morning will be over. So you're not gonna the nation of Israel was to be a light unto the nations and a light unto the Gentiles. That light's dimmed out. You know, presently blindness in part has happened to Israel. Israel is not fulfilling it. But the Lord's gonna restore them, and when he restores them in the millennium, they're gonna be a light that the nations are drawn to. They're gonna come to Jerusalem. They're gonna fulfill God's purpose. And then Revelation twenty one twenty three and twenty four. Revelation twenty one twenty three and twenty four. Yep. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it. For the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. And the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor unto him. When God said, let there be light, the light the light came before the making of the sun. Right? So we associate the sun with being light which light emanates from the sun. But the Shekinah glory of God is gonna be that light in the New Jerusalem. Jesus is that light that's gonna shine. No more need of the sun or the moon. The moon reflects that light. When Jesus says to you and I, you're the light of the world, light doesn't emanate with us, doesn't originate with us, we simply reflect the light of Jesus Christ. His countenance, the Holy Spirit from our faces, right? And so when Moses went up to the mount to get the law, you know, his face shone real bright, right? And when the disciples, Peter, James, and John were on the Mount Of Transfiguration, Jesus was a lumen before them and he was transfigured before them and it was brighter. Any fuller soap could make his garment and all that. When we come back in Revelation 19 with him, we're wearing clean white garments. We're reflecting the purity of the light. And so, when we're the light, when he says, you're the light of the world, we're reflecting to those in darkness who he is. And Moses, his face, he covered his face so that the people wouldn't see the fading glory. Right? His face was shining and it's starting to fade. He doesn't want them to realize, hey, it's fading, know? I better wear the mask that Fauci is telling me to wear, you know. And so he wore the mask. But we're not gonna have a fading glory. We're gonna have the glory of the Lord that he gives us, it's it's not gonna fade. Alright. I think we can keep going. It's only seven forty one. Right? Okay. Verse six. Therefore So now he comes to the point of the necessity of humility in the day of the Lord. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves and the children of foreigners. So the pagan practices of foreign nations like the Philistines and all, you've got you've got the psychics, you've got Eastern religions, Eastern mysticism that's permeated and come into the nation. And the soothsayers, the when I go to Paulsbo and I go to make a left hand turn there to head toward Central Market, there's a psychic there. There's a psychic in a little place there. And these are soothsayers. It's Easter mysticism. It's people that wanna use tarot cards or read your your palm line and it's all deception. It's all, you know, kind of emanating from Hinduism and Buddhism and other isms that come from the East and have come to the West here in America and so we're watching the paganism. So I was told that today as I was reading concerning two things that are coming our way to enslave us further. One is the COVID, the other is the climate change. So the climate laws that are in the budget, the present budget that the democrats are putting together, the trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars, there's gonna be a climate taxation, a 15% taxation upon the whole globe to fund to fund the global government. The global religious system that's coming. So they're gonna they're going to carbon tax credits and and the way that you operate, everybody's gonna be taxed, you know, 15%. The other part of that budget is a social engineering experiment to eradicate Christianity from America. So you're gonna watch the federal government ramp up and become bigger and bigger and bigger in the area of healthcare and social workers. The social workers are going to impose upon the planet, impose upon America the Green New Deal. Every aspect of your life, your smart meters on your refrigerators, on your thermostat, everything is gonna be graduated and and metered and watched and your every move with the cameras and all. And the way they're gonna, you know, enforce that is with more and more government entities watching and then and then to the point of artificial intelligence watching everything you do. So in in China today is their experiment place with the cameras, the tracking and tracing, the vaccine certificates, every move you make is what's coming. And so they're gonna return America as much as they can to pagan practices. The thing that's a threat to the globalist is Christianity. God has a solution for that. It's called the rapture. And he'll remove us from them, you know? Pastor, a note to that day, I spoke with two sisters that are good sisters in Christ and neighbors that they said that, you know, they haven't taken the jab, and they were feeling a little under the weather. But I asked them, I said, so did you take the shot? And they said no. And it was less than a minute after I left their house that my phone rang and and was in message about taking the shot. They needed to get the shot. Now this is how we are monitored Oh, yeah. Through these smartphones whether we know it or not. And the word that we speak is going Oh, absolutely. Airways and anything that relates to COVID sickness or anything like that, plus the fact that when I got the flu and went and got tested, now my number is got the information that I was tested positive and that I survived and everything. So, you know, it's they know everything about us by these smartphones. Yep. We talked about fishing. I could get my car and I pull up my Facebook when I get home and there'd be all sorts of ads from sportsmans or wherever about fishing poles, know. If they're listening, it it always shows up. Wait. You can't turn it off. Turn it off your phone and it'll still hear you. Yeah. Really? It is. He's got a bag though. We got a bag. What's our bag? Faraday bag. We got a Faraday bag. Yeah, Faraday a Faraday bag. Okay, Wayne. I'm reminded that the word tells us that the Holy Spirit bears witness of all things in earth. And that the five g and the six g and the up ramping of all the surveillance is kind of the man made counterfeit for the holy spirit, trying to monitor everything. And god gave us that spirit to testify to him what's important. So God's omniscient and he knows everything. Right? And every secret thing, everything people tried to hide one day is gonna be shouted from the rooftops. Right? So at the at the great white throne judgment, the wicked dead are gonna be bodily resurrected from the dead and they're gonna stand before God and they're gonna be given account of what they did while they're in their bodies whether good or bad. God keeps great records and he's gonna say, Gabriel, the film in a person's life. Bill Gates, everything he's ever done is gonna come up on the screen and God's gonna be fully just and the punishment for the evil doer is gonna be based upon knowledge And what did you do with that knowledge? What did you do with the knowledge of Jesus Christ? To much is given, much is required. And so everything that they did in secret is going to be shouted from the rooftops because our God is omniscient. So like Wayne's illustrating or saying is that Satan is a counterfeit. Satan said in Isaiah 14 that I'll be as God. So you have the counterfeit God the Father, you have the counterfeit God the Son in the Antichrist in place of Jesus Christ, Then, you have the counterfeit Holy Spirit in the place of the false prophet. So, that's the unholy trinity. And then, with technology, because Satan can't create, he's not a creator. Satan is a fallen angel. So with transhumanism and the chips and Elon Musk and Bill Gates, they're trying to find a way to put a soul into, you know, these images that they have. But they can't because God breathes the soul, you know, into Adam. So they want to merge machines with human beings and try to put chips and brains and stuff and try and control behavior. So in essence, they're trying to play God but it's going to reach an abysmal failure along the way. And so praise the Lord that we have a God that's on the throne and control. It's kind of scary some of this technology, it's pretty bizarre. But again, there are people in tribulation period that evade detection, that evade having to take the mark of the beast. They get through the seven year tribulation period somehow and Jesus separates them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, right? These Gentiles. And I don't know how they do it, but They're gonna live in the mountain? Caves in Afghanistan. I don't know. I don't know. But Yeah. It's interesting that that the water and blood also bear witness with that spirit. Yeah. So wherever it bears witness, they're always always in them. You've always had water and blood in you, and they will testify your life before God in that day, God could use the three of those witnesses to shield us from detection. Okay. Well, I'm not going to be in the tribulation period, but you can try that. I'm gonna be raptured, buddy. Okay. So here we go, verse seven. Their land also is full of silver and gold, so they're very rich neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of chariots. So this speaks of the military system. There's no end of their military. Some trust in horses, some in chariots, but I'm going to trust in the living God, right? So we trust in God. If any man thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. It'd be a bad day where America would say, We don't need God. We got nukes. We got technology. You know, we we remembered that one of the worst presidents in the history of the planet, Carter, they attempted a rescue and just sand. Sand getting in the helicopters ruined the rescue attempt of people during his era. So just sand, just anything in the you know, water. God can cause it to rain so hard that tanks and everything will just bog down, know. He can cause a dust storm to cause the airplanes to fall out of the sky, it doesn't matter. He can he can do whatever he wants. And and so we want to trust in the living God. And little David, a military guy, he had a laser guided rock that hit Goliath in the only place he didn't have any armament. Right? So And the nation of Israel has fought like David in every single war they've been in. God has intervened and miraculously given them the victory. So you want you want the Lord on your side, right? I want him on my side. Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands that which their own fingers have made. So, do any of you have any idols? Is there any idols in America? Idolatry? How would we in our techno age describe the idolatrous practices of our culture? What do we bow down to worship? What's that? Sports. Sports. Facebook. Money. Money. Money. Our children. Media. Children. Alcohol. Children. Alcohol. Basically, an idol is the place of where the master passion of your life. That which takes second place to God. He doesn't want any idols before me. He wants us to love him with all of our heart, our mind, all of our soul, all of our strength. And some of us will include, so the idols of materialism, the idols of, you know, Jesus said one of the soils that the seed fell upon was the weedy soil. And the cares of the life and the deceitfulness, not riches, but the deceitfulness of riches choked off the seed and it bore no fruit. So what happens in America is in a time of prosperity, Jesus gets the back burner. We're more in love with the stuff. We're more in love with the idol of our technology and our pleasure. They're lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. That's an indicator of idolatry. So there's a sifting going on. There's a purging going on. The Lord's saying, Alright, do you love me? Do you love me more than your stuff? Do you love me more than these, Peter? Know? Wants me Ephesus, one thing I have one thing I have against you, Ephesus, is you've left your first love, right? And Church of Laodicea, you've kicked me out of the church. I'm outside the church knocking on the door, you know, kick Jesus out. So we examine our own heart. Is there any idols in my heart Lord? Is there anything that you know stands in the way? And I like I like that quote again. I've been meditating on it for a couple weeks now of Elizabeth Elliot. And she lost her husband, right? And devastating to lose, you know, at any point in your life, to lose your loved ones like that. And and so, she said that there are many deaths required unto maturity in Christ Jesus. Many letting goes. So during our Christian life, there are many things that come into our life. It could be a child like Isaac. It could be, I've waited so long for this child. I love this child so much. The the tents filled and God says, alright, I want to prove to everybody that you love me more than Isaac. That Isaac's not an idol. So take your son, your only son, you know the story. And Abraham and Sarah, you know, passed the test. And I'm hoping and praying that we in America pass the test that we love Jesus more than we love the stuff. There's many letting goes and when you let go of the stuff then you're a monkey that's free, right? You hold on to the rice, you're going to get caught. Right? So you let go, and you're doing it by faith, and you trust that the Lord has a better job for you, a better whatever. And the other thing is the other thing you need to remember is when you when you don't put down the idols, then you're opening yourself up to bondage. The bondage of taking the jab, the bondage of trying to keep your stuff is, you're going to lose your health. So if you've got a billion dollars, how important is your health? Your health is everything. Without your health, you've got nothing. So don't give up your health. Don't be idolatrous like, I can't let this stuff go. Because the devil is leveraging you. The devil is saying, you know, you love the stuff more than you love Jesus. It's it's a it's it's a test of your faith in Jesus because you know that you know that you know that the jab is evil. You know that this COVID thing is evil. So it's an act of faith. It's a move of faith that you would let go of the job, let go of your kids, let go of everything if need be to do the right thing, and then trust that the Lord will lead you down His path. Arthur? So I know I was speaking to you and I said I couldn't find that passage that they read at place we were at. I found it. Okay. It's Revelations 20 one:eight. Okay. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral sorcerers and idolaters. I won't read the whole thing, but basically it says, but as for the cowardly. Yep. Right? We are to stand up and stand in front of something that we know is wrong. Right. And what would keep us from doing that is that we're idolaters. We're more in love with the stuff, and we think, hey, can go back to normal if I trust Biden, and I do what Gates has want me to do and do what they all want me to, I can go back to normal. You're never going back to normal if you keep giving into them. You're you're never you're never going to be free. So it's not the stuff that is a problem. It's not the money that's a problem. It's the love of that stuff. When you love it more than truth, when you love it more than your relationship with Jesus. That quote from Elizabeth Elliot that you were saying. Okay. If you don't mind, because I think the first part of it is even if we hold tightly to anything given to us, unwilling to allow it to be used as the giver means it to be used, we stump the growth of our soul. What God gives us is not necessarily ours, but only ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of if we want to be our true selves. And then your part, many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ. Many letting goes. There you go. Yeah. That's All those letting goes. Letting Yeah. Goes all along the way. All along the way, I'm being tested and I have to I have to let go. I have to let go. Have to let go. And, you know, it's it's just the Christian life. I mean, don't want to let go of Kathy. I want to let go of my kids. I don't want to let go of my grandkids. Don't want let go of all that stuff that God's brought into my life that I love and cherish and enjoy and all that, you know? But there may be a testing that comes where the Lord says, Rick, you're going to have to let go. As I look back on some of the things that we were forced into letting go, or we chose to let go to maintain our integrity, the answer is, it did help us to grow. It helped us to mature as Christians, you know. Because I described to you last week when I was 25 that I was shaking my fist at God. Well, when you're 55, you shouldn't be like that anymore, right? And so, when the Lord is asking you to let go, you've walked with him thirty five years, forty years, certainly, you can trust him. You're you're maturing to the point that, alright, Lord, you know what you're doing. Now, I want to add one one thing to it. What if you were in a fight with God and you won that fight? What would that be like? No. I'm thinking of something different. I'm thinking of Well fighting with the angel. Jacob wrestled with the angel. But he won because he lost. His hip was dislodged. So that's how he won in Hosea where you get the picture of it. Okay. Now what I'm talking about, you're the children of Israel. God's redeemed you from Egypt. So Egypt's your old life. You come with the Lord and he's giving you manna. He's giving you Jesus. Every day you get Jesus. Every day you get the bread of life. Every day. We in America, we get Jesus. We got the Bible. We got churches that teach the Bible. I got Jesus. Why do so many of us reach a place where we're so incredibly discontented and we act like my life's such a mess when you've got Jesus. Right? So the children of Israel, what they did was, is they took Jesus for granted. They took God for granted. They began to murmur and complain and they said, you know what? I'm sick and tired of this manna. I'm sick and tired of it. I'm sick and tired of eating angels food, the corn of heaven. I'm tired of it. So what did they say? I want meat. I want savory food. I want the leeks, the garlics. I want spicy food, right? So what the Lord do? So God began to send in homers of quail. They're hitting homers. They got the Louis sluggers and they're hitting these quail, right? And they had quail till it came out of their ears, out of their noses, right? They got their request. They got what they demanded of God. Have you ever won that fight with God? God, I've got to have this. I've got to have this. And he says, alright, I'll let you marry that guy. Oh, man. Now what? Now what are going to do? You got a beast. I gave in to you. I gave in to you. I tried to warn you. I tried to say no. Now you got this beast, you know? Right? So they had it coming out of their ears and that says, and the Lord put leanness in their heart. Do you know what that means? You finally got what you thought you had to have and now you can't enjoy it. You're discontented. There's a leanness in Psalm six. There's a leanness in your heart. So Mick Jagger sang it. He sang the song. Right? Can't get it. I tried I tried I tried. You know? He got everything he wanted as a rock star, right? But he's still empty. He's still empty. Right? How many people have sold their souls for rock and roll, Thomas? Right? They sell their soul. I'll give up my soul so that the devil can give me what I gotta have. But there's no satisfaction. There's no contentment. And you and I, we have the bread of life. We have the man that come down from heaven. We have Jesus. Right? And so it's it's a man shall not live by bread alone, by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And so it's not the external material things that bring the satisfaction, it's the internal relationship with the true and living God that brings contentment. Paul said, I've learned to be content. There's a growth that takes place. I've learned to be content whatever state I am, whether I'm abasing or whether I'm abounding. I know the secret of contentment. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Now I like that Paul said, I've learned. That means there was struggle. That means there was struggle along the way. The the circumstances that God allowed in his life, the the path that he was going down at times was overwhelming that he even reached a point of despairing of of life. He wanted death. He was afflicted. He we despaired of life. We reached a point where we couldn't trust in ourselves. It was so overwhelming. So we trusted in God who raises the dead. So when people tell you, oh buddy, he's not gonna give you more than you can handle. That's false. He's gonna give you far more than you can handle. He's gonna give you so much you can't even cope anymore. You're gonna go insane if you don't turn to him, right? So we we learn in that in that crucible, in that trial that the way of escape is Jesus. Not the externals. Hey, the Lord deliver me from this. No Lord, ye though I walk through this valley of the shadow of death, I'm not gonna fear no evil because you're with me in that fiery furnace. Isn't there four in there? We put three and I see a fourth one in there, you know. So you you do as Elizabeth Elliot's illustrating, you do grow deeper in your walking relationship with the Lord as you let go of of the things that propped you up, that kept you going, and and you have only Jesus to rely upon. So when you're in a battle with the Lord, I don't wanna win those fights with the Lord. I wanna surrender. Lord, you know best. Father knows best. I grew up watching Father Knows Best. Ward Cleaver, he knows best. He knows best, Beeve. He knows best. Right? So there you go. Alright. Two, don't you think that sometimes when we give up, the good things come and we don't even always appreciate what comes after them. Amen. I agree. Yeah. There's there's times where we're fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, then we give up. And I've had that happen in my life before. And then the Lord, all along, has been wanting to bless, but he doesn't want to be my debtor. So I was demanding things based upon the law, based upon my performance, based upon I thought I was a good boy. And I'm obligating you. You should bless me because I'm better than that person over there. Well, that's God wants to be gracious. He wants to bless me. But if he gave into that, then from thereafter, my relationship would be cause and effect. It'd be based upon when I crash and burn, then he should take it all away, right? So much better for him to allow me to reach that place where, rather than a temper tantrum that he gives into, allow me to kick and fight and scream until I cry myself out. And then he comes over there and and then, you know, he wipes my nose and change my diaper and give me something to eat and you know, and take care of me that way. Because it's in the heart of it's in his heart to bless. It's in his heart. I know the thoughts that I think towards you, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. So we grow where we trust him. We trust Him more and more and more. So we start out as an infant wearing diapers, and we end up wearing diapers. Know, we trust Him more and more and more as the older as we get, right? We lose our health, we lose our faculties, we reset place again of of great dependency upon him. But in the middle of our life, we think we're gods. As teenagers, we think we're gods, right? We don't need him, we don't need anybody. I can do it, you know? And and we become intoxicated with our own delusion. Alright. So their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands that which their own fingers have made. So stand back. Look at these buildings we built. Look at these look at what we've built. Is this not great Babylon which I have built, Nebbe said. Right? Is is it look at these gardens, the Babylonian gardens, the hanging gardens and all that. And it's barely out of his mouth and he's eating grass like a like an ox. Right? So they're self satisfied. And the mean and the mean man bows down and the great man humbles himself, therefore, forgive them not. And so, they're bowing down to idols. They're not bowing down to the true living God. They need to be confronted. Enter into the rock and hide in the dust for fear of the Lord, for the glory of his majesty. So in the second coming, Revelation six, these guys are going to be hiding in the cracks and the clefts and in their bunkers, their billion dollar bunkers underneath the earth. They're going to hide from the glory of the Lord as he's returning. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. I hate, I hate, I hate Christian celebrity. I hate it. I know it's I know it's a falsehood when when I see people exalting men. The exaltation of men. And I know that it's not good for that guy that you're exalting that if he believes the press clippings, it's gonna cause him to fall, you know. Worms are gonna eat. And eventually, but he he God resists the proud and he gives grace to the humble. Jesus said, won't you when all men speak well of you. And if they've hated me, they're gonna hate you. So when I look at a Christian leader, I look at him in terms of, is he being treated like Jesus was treated? You see what I mean? Because truly Jesus didn't hang out and play golf with all the Pharisees nor the Romans nor invited over for dinner. Jesus hung out with sinners, with tax collectors, with the harlots, with the lepers, with people that were sick. He's the great physician and all. And and it wasn't it wasn't a a love of the world. Be careful when the world likes you. If the world likes you, you might find favor with them for a period of time, that's fine, but there's gonna come a point in time where they turn on you if you truly maintain your integrity. And so be careful. Be careful of selling your soul to be a Christian celebrity. And when when they're all born againers, know, and it's hip and cool, all the politicians will be born againers. When it's not hip and cool anymore, they're going to become pagans, right? They're going to do whatever the majority of the people like. So the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. So Jesus, He's the one. He's the one that all we like sheep have gone astray. Every single one of us. There's none righteous, no not one. The Lord had laid on him the iniquity of us all. So Jesus is the only one to be exalted. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon everyone who is proud and lofty and upon everyone who is lifted up and he shall be brought low. So humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up. We come to the Lord in humility. If we're filled with pride, the pride might keep us from the Lord, so we might find ourselves in the tribulation period, in the day of the Lord. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon everyone who is proud and lofty, and upon everyone who is lifted up and shall be brought low. So Bill Gates, Soros Soros isn't going live much longer. All the globalists, they're going to be brought low. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. And upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the oaks of Bashan, so the proud men, the very proud men, and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, the government's gonna be abased. All these these cities that are built with their names on it and the glory of it and all, the twin towers and all. And upon every high tower and upon every fortified wall, their defenses. And upon all the ships of Tarshish. Look at our fleet. Look at our naval fleet. Look at the ships. I mean, not even God can sink the Titanic, right? Not even God. Ain't that what they said? Right? Hit an iceberg and Alright. So we're dancing on the Titanic, right? Just trying to party. We're trying to get back to football and our parties. The Titanic is going down gang. The ships of Tarshish from England, the area of the merchants, they would bring the goods from Tarshish. So there is a place where people say, you know, hey, America is not in the Bible. They think that we might be the daughters of the sons of those of Tarshish. Tarshish being Britain, they're the merchants, and we are an offspring Australia and, you know, an American and all. So possibly, I don't know. And upon all the pleasant pictures of the arts, think of how much money is spent on the arts, and how much of the budget is going to go into the arts, the filthiness of of of our culture. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low. And the Lord alone So here we go again. The Lord alone, he's going to stand out from everybody else. Everybody else will pretender. And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. Boy, that's I I want that day. That's what I want. And the idol shall He shall utterly abolish. And and they're gonna hear the Verizon commercial. Can you hear me now? Everybody hear me now? And they shall go into the caves of the rock. So here's Revelation six sixteen. They're gonna go into the caves, these rich men. They're gonna try and hide from the wrath of the lamb. They're gonna try and hide from Jesus, from this from the seal, the trumpet, and the bold judgments that are gonna come upon the planet. Where over two thirds of the planet dies in a very short period of time, a good business to be in would be the funeral business. And the idols, he shall utterly abolish and they shall go into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the earth for fear of the Lord. But he's gonna cause some huge earthquakes. Huge earthquakes gonna shake those those places. For fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he rises to shake terribly the earth. In that day, a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold. Where are you gonna store your money? Where are gonna store your wealth? You don't want it stored in paper. The paper's going away. So these guys have tangible assets. China's buying gold as much as they can get a hold of. So too Russia. They want tangible assets. They want farmland. They want things that are going to survive the plunging the the the plunging of the stock market and of the the dollar. And but these guys have the gold, the silver, they have the the titanium and the uranium and the lithium and all their different metals and precious metals and all, which they made one for himself to worship the moles and to the bats. And so they're buried, they're discarded, they're stuffing them stuffing them somewhere, they're dumped. During the depression era, years ago, people used to take a can, a cigar can or a cigar box, and take their money. They didn't trust banks. Take their money, the gold or silver, and they go out in the yard somewhere when nobody's looking and dig a hole. Right? They lay the treasure. They didn't trust banks. You know, banks come along, hey, we'll store your wealth for you. We'll hold it for you, you know, here, you know. And so these guys are going to bury it. They're going to dump it. They're going to go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks for the fear of the Lord and for the glory of His majesty when He arises to shake terribly the earth. I mean, there's going be a whole lot of shaking going on, right? Cece from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of? And so quit trusting in man. We're gonna finish it up with Psalm a 118 a nine. This is one of the things I've been trying to break you from. Not you guys, you guys have already been broken from this. But all you need to do is watch Covidland, the beginning of Covidland and you're gonna be reminded Psalm one eighteen eight nine. We can appreciate people that God raises up who are good leaders. We can appreciate their leadership and thank the Lord for their leadership but they do not take the place of God. And so Psalm a hundred and eighteen eight nine, it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Did you guys feel betrayed after the election? Did you feel betrayed? Did you feel the betrayal of putting your hope and trust in the Republicans and Donald Trump and Pence and all them? Did you go away from there going, what did you just do? What did you guys just do? You didn't lift a finger. You never arrested anybody. What just happened? Right? So don't make the same mistake of the second coming of Trump in 2024. Don't do it. Don't do it. Put your trust in Jesus. Keep your trust in Jesus. Continue to trust in him and and keep a sharp eye on everything they say and do these guys because you're foolish to put your your trust. So basically, the devil wants the people to worship the government rather than Jesus. So a secularization of society. Remove this Christian nation from their faith in Jesus Christ, eradicate the church, and get the people to trust in government. Now the government religion is the opiate of the people. So the devil's system is going to be, again, the devil is, it's going to be Luciferian. So there's going be religiousness. People are going be religious but it's going be Luciferian. They're going to worship the devil. They're going to worship the political figure, the Antichrist. Right? He's gonna come along peace peace where there is no peace. So people are gonna look to him and they're gonna say stuff like, who can make war with him? He's so powerful, you know, and all that. So people are gonna be enamored with the antichrist. God's gonna illustrate with the two witnesses for the first three and a half years of the tribulation period. You know, I know who the two witnesses are. I can't tell you who they are but they're gonna be there in Jerusalem and they're gonna be calling down plagues upon the earth dwellers, know, those upon the earth. And people are gonna be so tormented by them and all. And and then, you know, they're gonna lay in the street for three and a half days and and then be raptured up. But people are gonna give the 10 nations or the 10 kings that are upon the earth in their government. Daniel two, Daniel seven, Revelation thirteen and seventeen. Daniel seven, three of the kings do war against the Antichrist, he defeats them and he becomes the eighth. So you have the sovereignty of the global government given over to the Antichrist and people will be looking to him. And there's gonna be a cup of trembling. God's gonna cause the whole earth to tremble and basically it's gonna be a slaughter. The kings of the earth, these people that think they're so great, the Lord's gonna send carnivorous birds to feast upon their bodies after he deals with them at Armageddon. A complete slaughter is coming for the kings of the earth. So don't put your faith, hope, and trust, you know, in man. Keep your trust, keep your faith in Jesus, and we're going to be secure. We're going to have a peace that surpasses all understanding. You're not going to expect politician to fix all this. Jesus said there's going to be perplexity nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, a place where men's hearts are going to fail them in Luke 21. Why are their hearts going to fail them? The clot shot. The clot shot? No. Yeah. The fear. The fear of man overtaking man. Right? Their their hearts are gonna fail them. They're gonna be so filled with anxiety of the things that are coming upon the earth. And all their plan of utopia, all their plan of the fourth Reich, it's a miserable failure. Complete failure, right? But the Lord in Psalm two, Oh, how the heathen rage imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointed. God holds them in derision. God's laughing at their plan that somehow they're gonna take the place of the true living God and that they're gonna set up their, you know, that they're gonna live forever. They're gonna believe the lie. That people are gonna be given over to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie in second Thessalonians two, right? And so the lie within the garden is you're not going to die. God knows you. You eat of the tree of knowledge and good and evil. You shall surely die. These people are going to believe in transhumanism that the globalists are figuring out a way that we're going to live forever, you know. It's going to be utopia. Don't believe it. Don't buy into it. It's a false gospel. Alright. Let's pray. Father, thank you for the hope that's ours. Thank you for the truth. Thank you for telling us ahead of time of what's going to happen. And Lord, we do. We're looking up. We're watching. We know that our redemption draws nigh. And Lord, we put our complete faith and trust in you. And Lord, we do lift up our political leaders. We lift up Donald Trump and Biden and all these these people that are are elected and Jay Inslee's and these people. Lord, we pray that you bring them to repentance. We pray that you would give bring them to the place where they give the glory that's due your name. That they would have a moment, Lord, an moment, that then they come on the TV and they begin to divulge all the lies they've been a part of. That they would expose the globalist plot and plan and begin to explode. That they would be light and expose the darkness and knowing Lord that they might be executed. But Lord, let them come clean. In Jesus name we pray, amen. Yeah, don't think Donald wants to

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.

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