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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night, Jeremiah 29. Rob's gonna lead us in worship. We've had a nice meal together and a lot of arguments. We figured it all out, so stay tuned. We'll we'll let you know what's really happening. So So let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your love. We pray that you bless this bible study tonight this time as we worship you and fellowship. Thank you for Rob and Vicky opening their home. Thank you for those of us that have been able to show up. Bless those on Facebook who are watching. Bless those who are at home, and and bring healing. So many with upper respiratory problems and things going on, just bring your healing touch and bless. Lord, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright. Thanks, Rob. You're welcome. Very sweet. Alright. Jeremiah 29. The announcements, we got the Christmas spotlight coming up. December 3, we've got the Samaritan's Purse Christmas boxes need to be back this Sunday for those of you that are working on that. There you go. And Vicky's editing some more of the Be Not Deceived podcast. She has Edward Amaya, his two already loaded. And so you can watch those and continue to pray for those in Costa Rica, Ukraine, around the world being sex trafficked. Any of you see we're in Ukraine? It's a $35,000,000,000 business, that of the Ukrainian government, military included, police included, grabbing hold of children using the school ledger, the school, and going to people's homes and taking these children away from their parents, sending them to Europe. It's a $35,000,000,000 enterprise, and the the money going to Ukraine is laundered into Ukraine and then back toward these politicians that we have and that everybody's making money off of all this. And then thirdly, in the article, it said the reason the Hunter Biden laptop can't be made public is because it it extensively documents this sex trafficking of children and the people involved. So it's far, far larger than anything we can fathom and imagine the lust that these globalists and people around the world have for children. And so too down in Costa Rica, the cartels are providing these children to primarily American males who go down to Costa Rica and want children. If the American males, particularly males, had no desire for little boys and little girls, there wouldn't be a business, the generation generating money larger than that of drugs drugs. And so it's a huge, huge lust, enormous, enormous blood lust that that they have, and also not just the sex trafficking aspect of it, but as as Edward pointed out, that of organ harvesting, that various cultures think that if they eat a child's heart, it'll make their heart better and live longer. And so you're able to purchase these children and go about that. So absolutely crazy times that we're living in, and that's just by way of review of Edward Amaya from Far Reach Humanistries coming here. And and so there you go. Protect your children. Another horrendous one. We've I mean, for years, I've been warning people about the pedophilia, the normalization of homosexuality, you know, the normalization of homosexual marriages, if there is such a thing. And then we warned that, hey, the pedophilia things are gonna seek to normalize it. But when you look at Romans one, part of the judgment that God has against this aberrant behavior is that your behavior is a judgment. God will give you over to that behavior, and your behavior will be such that you know you're not normal, that it's aberrant. So the other day, I posted one that I saw. A professor is advocating bestiality, zoophilia, trying to bring the normalization of humans messing around with animals. So this absolutely decadent Sodom and Gomorrah times we're living in, as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. So it won't be long. Won't be long before the Lord Jesus has to intervene, and he will intervene. And that's the hope that we have. So Calvary Chapel Of Bremerton is not a place of escape from reality where you come to church and we stick our heads in the sand and act like none of this is happening. We wanna know what's happening, and we wanna be able to bring hope of the soon return of Jesus Christ to a world that's fast corrupting so fast that there's not much time left. There's just not a whole lot of time left. And we wanna preach the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior Jesus. And when it comes to prophecies, if you'll notice, when Israel was supposedly attacked by surprise, I didn't buy that. I didn't buy that they were surprise attacked. I did I didn't jump in there. Now Amir and all the big boys did. And just like 09:11, they take the bait. And and I've been quiet. I've been quiet, quiet, quiet as everybody's prognosticating. Isaiah 17, Damascus being a ruinous heap. Psalm 83, the rocket war, all the different rockets and different Muslim nations that are gonna and there's a debate there of Psalm 83, whether Amir doesn't agree with that and, you know, Bill Salas and others say it is. And so, anyway, I didn't I didn't jump into the fray, but, boy, everybody and their brother was jumping in there about Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine, Zechariah 12, and, you know, all of it. And and I didn't jump in because I I just didn't wanna get caught up in the whole hysteria of it. I was watching, learning, but the thing that's on my heart is the economy is gonna crash. It is crashing right now, the bond market, your retirements, everything that you have is crashing. And the globalists are have engineered this crash, and that will be far greater than any war we've ever seen, the crash of the dollar, the crash of the global economy. Now to cover that sin, to cover that carnage, they need to go to war. So it's not about Israel. It's about a global war to take America down, to take the whole world down, to usher in this beast system, this reset, which will be a one world government, one world monetary system, and a one world religious system. And that's what's in play. Now on the way there to the signing of the peace treaty, yes, I do believe that when America's out of the way, when America's out of the way, when we are humbled and devastated and, you know, if a Chinese general can buy 200 square miles of land in Texas and Abbott approves it, what does that say? What's coming? If if we're allowing foreign governments to own land, to own businesses, to own our deep water ports like Long Beach Harbor and such, what does that say? What what what what does it say about your government? And so I believe your greatest human government is your own federal government, and, we're being sold out. And once America's out of the way, which means if we go to war, with China over Taiwan, if we go to war with Russia over, Iran and that whole area there as they get it get it going to war, the target is America. The target is to take America down. Once America's down, then I could see Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine where Russia and a coalition of nations, Turkey, Germany, Sudan, and Iran. Then they would be emboldened to go after Israel for the spoil, the Leviathan, the huge natural gas supplies, and and other assets that they have in the in the Dead Sea, minerals and such. And, also, there's a there's a in play, I think I posted it, a Ben Gurion Canal, a canal that would go, to the Mediterranean, and Gaza's in the way. And so it go right through Gaza. You know? That way, you wouldn't have to use Egypt's Suez Canal to move all that energy, to move all that natural gas and all. So if Egypt gets slippy, you know, gets tough and they block the Suez Canal or Hormuz, Israel can have its own canal, but you gotta get all the people out of the way. You know? So that's in play. Talking about that. It's called the Ben Gurion Canal being planned. And so I don't know what's gonna happen, but you know what? Everybody jumped. And then this morning, I heard that they're working toward a ceasefire. You know? So so we I hope there is a ceasefire because in my prayers, it gives us more time to share the gospel and to get our our affairs in order. But what else is in play? Famine. And and again, this is not Revelation six, the seal judgment's opening. This is just devious communists like Stalin who starved his own people. This is Bill Gates out in front of you and nobody stopping him to try and create, you know, mRNA spike protein in every single person. You have to have an ID, and part of it has to do with that technology. And the genocide that's taking place with the COVID jabs, nobody's talking about it anymore. And so this this famine and breakdown of of society in so many different ways is what's in play, and and that will break the backs, break the hearts of people. And most are saying that Americans, if we have some cities that are nuke, tactical nukes, not like not like these big nukes are gonna cover the whole country, but tactical nukes within a 10 mile radius in various cities in America, it'll break the will of the American people. And most people will be on their phones and have no regard for what's happening. They'll be on the Internet. Now if the globalists do a taking down of the Internet, That, I believe, will be the best way to wake America's up. Just shut down your Internet, your phone, everything. And when they do that, remember, they're going to blame Iran, and they're going to blame Russia that they hacked into your retirement accounts. All of your retirement accounts and everything that you own, Iran and Russia hacked in, and the banks, you can't go to the bank, get any your money out. It's all gone. That will make America like Pearl Harbor. Let's go get them. They've just sold you war. You you took the bait, and now you're gonna go to war. So that's that's kind of some of the strategies that are out there that I'm looking at rather than jumping up ahead of of all the different prophecies pertaining to Israel. Because still America, this place called America, I don't think we're gonna get to a 2024 election. And if we do, case in point, Mike Johnson. I got I got emails from Calvary Chapel guys that said this guy's good. He helped us in Pacific Justice Institute. He helped us here. He helped he helped us there with some of the some of this, that, and the other. Well, now he's the same dog and pony show saying there just isn't enough evidence to prosecute the Bidens. That's a dog and pony show right there. Mhmm. How could there I mean, you could go back and you could prosecute Obama and Hillary. There's so much evidence against these criminals. You know? There's never been a lack of evidence. You know? It's it's like overwhelming evidence. You don't you lack the will, you Republicans. You won't do it. You know? So, anyway and number two, he's a part of the NAR, the New Apostolic Reformation. So the NAR, New Apostolic Reformation, believes that we will take over the planet, that we will usher in the kingdom, that Jesus can't come back until we elect the right people and get the right people in there. And so you've got the Mormons working with the Christians, working with the Catholics, working with the different religious groups to try and usher in the kingdom age. And when we get it fixed, then Jesus will come back and run it for us. It's the opposite. We're gonna reach a place of just peril and just no way out, and then Jesus gotta come back. You know? George? Do hear anything about the brain force up there in Silicon Valley who not trying to create a god but create god through AI? Yeah. That's that's in play too. They're they're they're messing around. And occult. The occult with AI, they're they're delving into things that they've never done before, but but there's nothing new under the sun. So they're gonna there's gonna be mass deception as such a when people reject the truth in Thessalonians second Thessalonians two, because they reject the truth, God's gonna give the world over to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie, and the lie is you can be as God. So Silicon Valley, AI technology, transhumanism, all the different technology melded with the occult. They're gonna try and convince people that we have the technology now that you'll never die. And you've all know Harari and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. They're coming out more and more saying, we now have the technology where we're gonna live forever. The problem is people are still dying, and they're gonna die. You know? So the day that they say, alright. Crucify me. Bury me. I'm gonna raise myself from the dead three days later is a day they can get my attention. Then I'll I'll I'll alright. Okay. Alright. But until then, nah. It is just talking. It's a lie, and people love a good lie. Alright. So Jeremiah twenty nine twenty nine eleven, I want you to think about a question I'm gonna ask when we get there. This is a verse you all have memorized. Every single one of you have this verse memorized. Right? If you don't, you will. Mhmm. Okay? I hope you will. You do. Now this verse is a verse throughout your life when things happen that you can't wrap your head around, things that just don't make sense. You go to Romans eight twenty eight, and you go to Jeremiah twenty nine eleven, you go to Romans eight thirty one, you go places where you remind yourself that God loves you, he's on the throne, he's in control, and you tell yourself, am I in God's will? Is this God's will, this tragedy, these these things that are happening to me? Am I in God's will? And when you finally realize you're in God's will, then you look at these verses and you say, some things are gonna work together for good. Right? All things. All. Does all mean all? And so tell me that verse, Romans eight twenty eight. All things work together for good to those that love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose. Okay. So it's qualified. Right? Yeah. Mhmm. That's not all working together for good for people that don't know him. Right? Uh-huh. But for those all things work together for good for qualification number one, who love God. Do you love God? Mhmm. Amen. Have you been called by God? Mhmm. Yes. And for what purpose? His purpose. There you go. It's been working together for good. Right? Since God is for us, Romans eight thirty one. Who can be against us? There you go. Alright. So and can anything separate me from the love of God as I continue Romans eight? No. No. So now, Romans I mean, Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the lord. Thoughts of peace and not of evil to bring you to an expected end or some of your bible say a future and a hope. Right? So the backdrop is you're going into seventy years of captivity. You're going you're going into a time where it's gonna be very, very difficult for you because this trial is gonna be such that Nebuchadnezzar is going to destroy Jerusalem. He's gonna come three different times, but eventually May is gonna destroy it all. Now in 06/2005 and May, he's gonna take a group of people with him at captivity. 10,000 of them are gonna go according to second Kings and also Ezekiel one. 10,000 are gonna go into captivity who include Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego. Right? Nobles, and they're gonna go to Babylon, and they're gonna spend seventy years in Babylon. And Jeremiah is gonna write it here of this inevitability. Daniel in Daniel nine, is going to be reminded. He's almost 100 years old that time. Some say in his nineties, almost 100. And he realizes from the writings of of Jeremiah that time's almost up. It's almost time for Cyrus, you know, to give the decree to let us go back, you know, to let us go back to Jerusalem. So that's the that's the backdrop there. And when we come around to this verse, I'm gonna ask you guys, I'm gonna say, alright. Tell me how this verse, how God used this verse in your life in a time where you felt like you were in captivity, where you were in the fiery furnace, or you're in a trial that you couldn't get out of, but you knew it was God's will? How did God comfort you, lead, guide you? I know the thoughts that I think towards you. Right? He calm me right down. My thoughts are not thoughts of evil, not thoughts of condemnation. This didn't happen to you because, you know, I'm I'm abandoning you. I might be chastening you, nation of Israel. I might be correcting you, but I've got a great future and a whole plan for you. It's like you parents, grandparents with your kids. They disappoint, but you don't give up on them. You you see potential. You see all the things that God's gifted them with and and things that you aspire, things that you want, things that you wanted to do in your life but didn't get the chance to, and you want the very best for them, and you you wanna see them enter into all that God has for them. Right? You don't want anything to hinder or keep them from God's best for their life. And that's the same way your heavenly father looks at you And his thoughts his thoughts concerning you and I, according to Psalm 40 verse five, are innumerable. According to Psalm a hundred and thirty nine seventeen and eighteen, numbered more than all the grains of sand. Now these are not bad thoughts concerning you, good thoughts concerning you. God's looking at you, never taken his eye off you. The seventy years they're there, he's there with you. He's there with you through every trial, everything you go through. He's never ever abandoned you. Jesus said, lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age. Right? Jesus is with us still. Right? He's gonna get us through this. Alright. Jeremiah 29 verse one. Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem under the residue of the elders who were carried away captive to the who were carried away captive and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon. So Daniel one, one and two describes this. Also, second Kings chapter twenty four eight through 17 describes this. Also, in Ezekiel chapter one, a description of 10,000 people taken from and and it's the nobles, the upper echelon. The poor were left behind. You and I'd be left behind, but the poor are rich in faith. Right? So these guys these guys get to go to Babylon, you're gonna see where the lord where Jeremiah reminds them, build houses, get married, have kids. You're gonna be here a while. You're gonna be here seventy years. You know? So now the prophet in the previous chapter, Hananiah, said, you're only gonna be there two years. In two years, everything's gonna go back to normal. Right? And by the end of the chapter, he's dead. Right? So here, Jeremiah is making it real clear. Now is it okay if we call out false prophets? Yes. Does the Bible instruct us to call out false doctrine and false prophets, people that are tricking and deceiving people? Right? So is it unloving? Is it unkind, especially for a pastor to do that because he's concerned about the sheep? Absolutely not. If Jesus did it, if the apostle much of the letters the apostle Paul wrote were, you know, in response to the false prophets who were trying to trick the people, trying to lead them into false doctrine. So Alexander the Coppersmith did me much harm. You know? Paul's naming him. Right? And be careful of this guy when he when you see him. And so I I'm I'm very frustrated, pastor, because I'm watching people get away with it. And it greatly frustrates me to watch not only the politicians get away with their lawlessness, but to watch so called pastors and prophets and dreamers and everybody and their brother getting away with so many lies. Mhmm. And the people don't seem to know it. And if they do know it, they don't hold them accountable. It's mind boggling to me. Absolutely mind boggling to watch this deception, this strong delusion. The greatest time of deception the world's ever seen is upon us, and we're children of light, and we should be able to prove all things and hold fast that which is good. But I'll tell you, it's a very, very difficult time, and I wonder how Jeremiah felt with all the lies circulating, all the people believing the lies, falling into the traps, you know, that these guys are setting. And it's it's ignorance is truly bliss. If you don't know the truth, if you can just watch the news and believe everything, everything's bliss till the point in time it's not. You know? You get to ride the wave and just go along with all their lies hoping that Trump's gonna come and save you. You know? You know, you don't need to be concerned. They've got it under control. But if you know it's a lie, man, oh man, oh man, everybody's falling for it. You know? I mean, guy, bring pence back. You know? Do I mean, come on. So after Jeconiah the king and the queen and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen and the smiths were deported from Jerusalem. So don't I don't know if we have I won't go there. I'll stay away from there. It's kind of funny, but I won't say it. I'm pretty funny guy, but alright. So the most gifted. They're bringing to Babylon the most gifted. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, very gifted. Daniel, extremely gifted. So the wise men of Babylon, the center of the wise men, they pale in comparison to Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. I just love the faith of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. During COVID, I just wanted to teach Christianity one zero one, Sunday school class to all these adults just overwhelmed with fear. I just want it so bad for them to watch VeggieTales. Here's what you need to do. You know? This is real clear here. Okay? Christianity one zero one. Your pastor's taken the money. He's given shots to the babies. They had places I'm here and now where the church has actually said, well, Mark and Shelley Dinsmore. Their church actually sent up tents and places for the children to be jabbed on the island. If you didn't get jabbed, you're ostracized. You know? And people in the church and the church is getting money to stimulate the jab for everybody. Imagine that. You know? I'm mind boggling. And, and you're ostracized if you don't do it. You know? So so the the the very gifted are brought there, and and you're God's very gifted. You guys are gifted with the holy spirit. You're the you're the best this world has to offer because the holy spirit has gifted you with spiritual gifts. And those spiritual gifts are used for the kingdom of God. The devil has his, you know, champions and such, but they're not going anywhere except the hell. Right? They're using they're using them for selfish means, and the success of the world is perishing. You know? But the gifts that you have are being used for the kingdom, and and and God is gonna God is preparing you to rule and reign with him for a thousand years in the millennium. You're his gifted. And, he's give given gifts to each and every believer has at least one gift of the spirit, to be used for the edifying of the body of Christ, for God's glory. And and this world's not your home. When the when the Lord comes for you, you're ready to go. Right? So they depart from Jerusalem. So by the hand of Elisha, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon saying, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all who are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon. So Jeremiah's got a letter, and these guys are reading it. And he says, build yourselves houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them. So Jeremiah sent a letter, this letter's to the captives, and God's telling them, build houses, settle down. You're gonna be here a while. Plant gardens, eat the fruit of them. So God's saying, get comfortable. This isn't gonna end in two years. Don't listen to the false prophets. You're gonna be here a while. And the important thing is, anytime you're in a trial or facing adversity, ask yourself the question, am I in God's will? Is this God's will? If you're in God's will, that's a good place to be. Can I illustrate that? If I'm in a fiery furnace, and it's God's will for me to be in that fiery furnace to glorify him and to demonstrate my faith and to resist evil no matter what, how much they try to give me. How do I know I'm in God's will? Because Jesus is there with me. Do I wanna be outside of God's will and be with Nebbe, or do I wanna be in that fiery trial with Jesus? You're going to be tempted. You're going to hear people say, come down from that cross and save yourself. Save yourself. But if God's ordained for you to be crucified with him to go through a trial, and to remain in that place of suffering for a period of time, we don't know how long, that's the best place for you to be. Because you are experiencing the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death, and you're getting to know him better than you've ever known him because he's a man of sorrows. Right? Paul says in Philippians three ten that I might know him, and the power is resurrection. We want that power of the resurrection. Right? Most of us want the power of the resurrection to deliver us from the trial. But the Lord's saying, I'm gonna give you the power of the resurrection in many cases, not always, but in many cases, the power of the resurrection where you're going to see the the life of the spirit lived out through you as you go through those trials. No longer you living, but Christ living through you. And he's a man of sorrows, and he's acquainted with grief, and people rejected and hid their faces from him, but he's there with you in that sorrow, and you're getting to know him that I might know him. And you're experiencing fellowship, the fellowship of his sufferings. When you're suffering, it's his sufferings. He's suffering. You're filling up his sufferings. When Paul was persecuting the church in Acts nine, how did Jesus address it? Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting them? No. He didn't say that. Why are you persecuting me? You see, he's acquainted with our sufferings. He's there with us in those sufferings. And so don't don't try to go through it alone. Ask yourself, am I in God's will? Is this illness? Is this illness he's allowed in my life? Is it from the Lord? Lord, if it is, I wanna be healed. I wanna be healed right now. If I'm Johnny Erickson Totten, I jump off a little dock and I hit my head and I'm and I'm paralyzed from my neck down, I'm a quadriplegic, and I'm just a teenager, I want a healing. I want to be healed. I got a long life to live. But if the Lord says no, if I'm the apostle Paul and I'm praying, Lord, there's a messenger of Satan that's buffeting me, there's a tent stake going through my head, I'm in pain, and he says no. And I pray three times, and he says, no. No. No. He answered your prayer. He said, no. Now what are you gonna do? Now you have to regain perspective. How am I gonna how am I gonna continue? We walk by faith, not by sight. I've I've gotta I've gotta approach this in faith, trusting that God's good. I've gotta focus on the attributes of God, that he loves me, that he's good, that he never would allow something into my life to destroy me, but he's gonna take all that the enemy's meant for evil, and he's gonna turn it around for good. And though my outward man is perishing, my inward man is being renewed day by day, and his grace is sufficient. Now I'm learning about his sufficient grace because when I'm weak, then I'm strong. Right? So now I learn that when I reach the point where I'm beyond my strength and my ability and my intellect, now that's where God begins to work in my life, that his grace is sufficient for his strength is perfected in my weakness. And not too many of us wanna wanna go there. We want to know the formula. We're looking for a church and a pastor and somebody that'll tell us how I can have my best life now, because that's what we want. Our flesh craves our best life now. Our flesh is screaming when we're going through suffering. Screaming. How do you know you're not dead? Your flesh is screaming. That's right. How can you know you're not living the crucified life? Your flesh is screaming. Dead men don't whine. If you're whining and complaining about your lot in life, it simply means you're not dead. You gotta die. You gotta die. No longer me living, but Christ living through me. I'm crucified with Christ. Are you really? Can you drink this cup? Jesus says. Right? So get ready. Now he's he's letting them know, hey. This can be pretty cool living in Babylon. It's a cosmopolitan city. You know? It's a it's one of the centers of the known world there. And Nebbe's not making you a slave. You get to have houses. You get to have businesses. You get to grow. You get to have children. You know? This can be a good thing if you yield, you know? If you yield to them, pretty good thing. The tragic thing is seventy years later, it was so good, they didn't wanna go back. They they were not spiritual. They were carnal. They enjoyed all the amenities. They enjoyed learning how to be bankers and make money, and they're good at it. They're good at commerce. They're good at technology and all. And why would you wanna go back to Jerusalem and start all over and have to build houses there and, you know, everything's everything's been torn down and destroyed. You know? And in Hosea, you know, he's he's he's saying to him, you guys are building your own houses, but you you have no desire to build the church. You have no desire to build the temple. You know? They didn't have a regard for the spiritual part. Nehemiah did and Ezra the priest, but they only had a small group of people willing to go back with him. It was so good. And when the world is good, the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choke off the spiritual part of our being. So take to yourselves wives and beget sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands that they may bear sons and daughters, that ye may be increased there and not diminished. So I've got a nation to grow. I'm gonna take the 70 and bring them down into Egypt in a time where Joseph's there, and they're gonna leave a year later or four hundred thirty years later in a time where the pharaoh knew not Joseph, right, where we're wanting to throw babies into the Nile, right? But Moses is going to endure. His parents are men and women of faith, Amram and Jochebed. They're not going to throw their babe, Moses, drawn from the water. No, not going to happen. They're going to build an ark. They're gonna put pitch around it, the kaphar, the atonement. They're gonna put that little baby out in a out in an ark into the Nile, and and Miriam's gonna watch from the reeds, and this little baby's gonna go right over to Pharaoh's daughter. Amen. There. Right? I saw it on VeggieTales. Alright. So there are gonna be men and women of faith, and and here, God wants you to be men and women of faith. And when you leave here in seventy years, I want you to leave with more, not diminish, more than when you came in here. I wanna grow a nation. I wanna grow you to grow just like you did when you were in Egypt. And so God's not in favor of population reduction. Never do you see God saying, you know, the planet's not big enough to support all you 8,000,000,000 people. Absolutely ridiculous. There's so much land that we we don't even utilize. Right? The Jews are a very, very good teacher of how you can take land that's abandoned, land that's filled soil with with salt and destroyed, all your trees have been cut down because your enemy hates you, you know, well, place just a, you know, a sewer and swamps. 05/14/1948 to the present day, they've been causing it to bud and grow and blossom and number one producer of fruit and flowers and technology, and they take the they actually take the sand and wash it, becomes prolific prolific sand, prolific soil to grow, and, just amazing. And that's true all over all over the planet. There's places where, you know, one of the things that globalists have done is they've hindered the continent of Africa to be prolific. Qaddafi was working with his people in in water and with irrigation and with planting and growing, and globalists don't want an African nation to rise from the bottom. It's called their land bank. It's their resource bank. They don't want people to be using those resources. Only thing it's good for is lithium for these electric cars that blow up and don't work, you know? And but the continent of Africa is prolific. It has all sorts of natural resources and ability to grow food and and take care of themselves, and so too all over the planet. And so there's no reason for starvation. Absolutely no reason at all. Food production, if we would manage it properly. So he told Adam, be fruitful, multiply. Right? Multiply. Wayne and Brittany are doing a good job of this. You know? Six kids. Heck yeah. So have babies. Today, they're they're sterilizing the kids. They're filling with soy. They have low testosterone counts. They don't want the boys or the girls to grow up to to have children. And if they do, the number one child policy in China so it's it's a it's a hate it's a satanic philosophy satanic design of taking people to hell and control. And the more kids that you have in a Christian home, the greater potential of those kids going to heaven. Amen. You're the ones who are gonna lead them to Christ. Right? So why a one child policy? Why not deposit seven in heaven? You know? Why not your life goal be to get these kids saved? Right? You're the evangelist. And if every family did that, you know, the Wesley family, how many did the Wesley mother have? 15 kids, 12 kids, 13 kids? Yeah. John and Charles Wesley, great evangelists, come out of there. Alright. So get comfortable. Grow like you were in Egypt, verse seven, and seek the peace of the city to which I have caused you to be carried away captives. So I've caused you. I've caused you to be carried away captives. You're in my will, so don't be rebels. And I I like to live with a philosophy of, hey. Live and let live. What's your philosophy? This buds for you. Your best life now. Think of a phrase. What are the world's phrases? Marketing. Sales. What's the phrase that picks you? I mean, if I had a beer in my hand, would all these beautiful girls be around me? You know? That's what they how they sell it. Right? They sell it. Go for the gusto. I don't watch TV anymore. What are their phrases now? I don't know. But the market mind your own business, you won't be minding mine. Is that right? Where's that at? I ain't stopping the bike. Oh, okay. You did that. I know. Well, they're trying to sell their a lifestyle. Uh-huh. So what lifestyle did Jesus sell? You want the other self What's by your philosophy? How how do you live? To look at the Hopefully, certain If you're in captivity for seventy years, what's your philosophy? How are you going to live? Philosophy, lover of wisdom. What wisdom? What what can you learn from Jesus to pattern your life that gets you up in the morning? How do you approach life? Thankfulness. Thankfulness? Upright live uprightly. Uprightly? He has shown thee, oh man, what the Lord does require thee, to do justly and to love mercy Mhmm. And to walk humbly with your God. That's good. What Jesus told the young man, the the greatest commandment, to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, your neighbor as yourself. Yep. That that's a great philosophy, way to live. Great way to live. You're gonna be seeking peace here in Babylon. So you love your neighbor, love your enemy. Good thing. Sermon on the mount. Now the heathen, Kathy says she's watching like Costco. You can't even get a parking spot right now. It looks like people are panicking. People know something's up. Right? Right? So there's a whole lot of people running around. Now Jesus said in Matthew six, and this is where where I get my marching orders. In Matthew six, he says the heathen Mhmm. Are consumed with what am I gonna eat? What am I gonna drink? What am I gonna wear? Just obsessed with it. Right? Obsessed with self. Obsessed with you know? And and these are good things. What am I gonna eat? What am I gonna drink? What am I gonna wear? How am gonna take care of my family? Mhmm. Well, you go all the way to verse 33. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteous, all these other things be added unto you. His illustration is the birds. His illustration is the field, how how he closed the field, and Solomon and all of his glory wasn't arid like that. So if I'm here with these guys in Babylon, I'm gonna take it one day at a time. I can't rush the process to get to the end, the seven year thing. I'm gonna take one day at a time, and I'm because there's enough evil in this day for me to be concerned about. Rick's a big enough sinner in this day, I don't have to worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Right? I'll I'll I'll be a more prolific sinner tomorrow, but today, I got enough sin here. And so I'm gonna seek first. I'm gonna put Jesus first. Priority of life, Jesus first. God first. So I'm Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego. That's how they're living. God first. Not Nebbe. God's glory first. Daniel, God's first. I put God first. I'm gonna prioritize. Jesus is essential. Jay, I'm not shutting down. Not gonna do it. Not for sale. So you're to seek peace of the city to which I have caused. So don't be a rebel. Don't be a problem. You know, don't be causing problems I've caused you to be carried away captive. So you're at work. You're the best worker there. You're a Christian. You're representing Jesus. Whatsoever you do, do it heartily as unto the Lord, not unto men. It's said that the Christians in China are great workers. The Christians in the first couple centuries in the Roman Empire, great workers, hard workers. They don't steal. They show up on time. They're seeking peace. I've caused you to be carried away captives and pray unto you or pray unto the Lord for it for in in its peace shall ye have peace. And so continue to pray, pray for peace, seek the Lord, and but don't rebel. And so, pray unto the Lord for it. Pray for peace. Lord, give us a peaceful coexistence with the Babylonians. Help us, Lord. And then he says, verse eight, for thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, let not your prophets and your diviners who are in the midst of you deceive you. So he's not worried about their politicians. They don't have any politicians anymore. Babylonian king, he's in charge. He's not your politician. You're not gonna fix things in the next election cycle. But the ones you need to worry about are your own prophets, your own diviners, your own your church guys. Right? Let not your prophets and your diviners who are in the midst of you deceive you. So it's a good show there. Be not deceived. Jesus said, take heed that no man deceive you. Right? Over and over again, we're warned to don't be deceived. Don't be deceived. What's the best way to not be deceived? Know what the truth is. Be informed, Rob says. Know what the truth is. Know what the truth is. So Denizak, my friend that does ministry through mystery, he always explains to people like Vicky worked at a bank, the best way to spot a counterfeit is what? Feels like, looks like. Right? So you study the real. Right? So as you study God's word and you know the truth and you know the deity of Christ, when you hear aberrant doctrine, false teaching, you immediately, the Holy Spirit's stirring your heart, red flags go up, and you're reminded of verses in the Bible that expose, shine the light on that heretical teaching. And you're able to remain one that walks in truth. Jesus said, you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free. You won't go into bondage. You won't be deceived. So prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. Test every spirit. Right? Be a Berean. Search the scriptures to see whether those things be so. So you bring everything back to the authority of the absolute truth of God's word. Jesus is truth incarnate. Right? So we he's on the throne. And the reason he's on the throne, the reason he's almighty sovereign, the reason his word is superior is because, again, he's creator, he's redeemer, and he proved it by being crucified, buried, raised himself from the dead. So that's the one that we listen to. There's other philosophers. I was watching a show with Kathy in regard to the Nazis, and they kept they kept quoting Nietzsche. They kept quoting their psychiatrists and their doctors, the philosophers, the ones that got them away from Christianity to a belief system, man centered belief system, the man's superior. And and but those that wanted to find hope were looking for truth. They were looking for truth. They were looking for not the censorship that doesn't allow any other books, any other means of learning. And so there's a brainwashing that takes place in these play a demonic brainwashing. But you and I, with access to God's word, we're able to counteract the lies of the culture in which we live with the truth. So very, very important to wash your family with the word of God, to wash your mind with the word of God, to wash the filth of the world off with the word of God. So be careful of the diviners, neither hearken to your dreams which he cause to be dreamed. So I would say be careful of the YouTube prophets. Be careful of social media, all the different opinions that people have and different things they're prognosticating and all. And, you know, don't don't jump up ahead with them. Don't don't be don't be chasing these rabbit trails everywhere that everybody's saying. On Sunday, I I'd mentioned to you that although I'm a student of prophecy, I'm not gonna jump up ahead and sensationalize and try and get you to think that I'm such a prophet that I'm in such you know, in so good with the Lord that listen to me because this is gonna happen. No. I'm not gonna sense I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna study. I'm gonna look. I'm gonna analyze. I'm gonna pray. Be patient. And if it happens that way, all of us collectively will know, not just pastor Riggs, he predicted it. No. He didn't. No. He didn't. The Bible predicted it. So if Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine happens, guess what? All of us collectively will say, this is that which was spoken by Ezekiel the prophet. Mhmm. Right? You don't need me taking an invasion of Israel, which can happen by surprise. There's no way. Uh-huh. I'm not taking the bait. Something's up. There's a false flag happening. Mhmm. So I'm gonna hold back a little bit. I'm gonna wait for the Lord to manifest his will. If Damascus is bombed to a ruinous heap, uninhabitable ruinous heap, then I'm gonna say, hey. That's Isaiah seventeen one through three. Look at that. Prophecy just happened. But I'm not gonna say, hey. By twelve tomorrow, Damascus has fallen. You know? I mean, there's guys doing that. They're they're telling you what's gonna happen at the next election, and they're getting a lot of people following them of how we're gonna make America great at this next election. How's that working for you? So I don't quite quite understand you. When you look at pictures of Damascus, it's a ruinous heat. But still habited. And there's still people there. Well, I mean, you could I mean It's bombed and bombed and bombed and bombed. I mean, they looked at ground zero for the, you know, the Japanese atomic bomb. I mean, what may it it just seems I mean So read read read Isaiah seventeen one two three for me then. Let's look what words are there. There's still Hamas there and Hetzballah there and terrorist groups there. They live in, like, dust piles. Yeah. Isaiah what? Isaiah 17. Okay. Thank you. The oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city and will become a fallen ruin. The cities of Aurora are forsaken. They will be for flocks to lie down on, and there will be no one to frighten them. The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim and sovereignty from Damascus and the remnant of Aram. They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts. So it hasn't happened yet. It's been bombed and bombed and bombed, but verse two has to do with Moab, which would be Jordan. And and so in July, Israel, the 10 tribes, chapter verse three, like what happened to them, the northern. But Damascus itself is hasn't been taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. So it's still active in its yet future. And what if a tactical nuke hit it? What if a nuke is used? I think then it would be an uninhabitable city. There would be the fallout of the radiation. Nobody's gonna go there. So you can't put it past Israel and The United States and these other countries now going at it. Right now, they're just using basic bombs, but there's new technology. And Zechariah 14 talks about people's eyes melting out of their head and stuff. You know? Men are gonna use different types of nuclear weapons. And what's the one that just melts the skin, but all the all the buildings are left? A neutron bomb. A neutron Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So different types of different types of nukes that are gonna be employed, and they keep emphasizing tactical nukes, tactical nukes, you know, like regional, just in a small area. So if Israel gets tired of these guys, all these terrorist cells there, you know, there's you you can't say they wouldn't they wouldn't put one there or or The US or whatever. So so, anyway, if that happens, I'll say, you know what? That's a fulfillment of Isaiah seventeen three. So as best I can understand, there's still activity in Damascus, one of those ancient cities on the planet. But, yes, Robbie's correct. It has been bombed and bombed and bombed over and over and over again. And okay. So he says so basically, fantasy, and you and I would be in Psalm one. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name. I have not sent them, saith the Lord. So they're prophesying falsely, saying two years, they're wolves, and you could follow these dreamers. I like Psalm one, blessed is the man of Ho Ho, happy is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly. So you're walking. I wanna walk with Jesus, so you're not gonna walk in the counsel of the ungodly. He's not gonna get you to stop and sit, walk in the counsel of the god, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful. So you've been walking. Now you're standing. Now you're sitting. You're sitting there watching these YouTube videos. You're getting sucked in. You know? And you know what I mean? They're bizarre. It's very bizarre. And there's an allegation of verses. I told you about a lot of these guys that are acting like they're Bible scholars, bringing verses from all over the place that don't fit. They're lacking context, but boy, they're they know oh, I heard Ezekiel thirty eight one time, and I heard Isaiah 17. I heard of the you know, I heard of this, and they're trying to bring them all in. Mystery Babylon, you know, and just looking at there's no systematic theology here. There's no order to this. It's just hodgepodge of stuff. And anybody that doesn't have a working knowledge of the scripture say, wow, that's interesting. Wow. You know? So I'd rather, but his delight is in the law of the lord, and his law does he meditate day and night. Right? And he shall be like a tree that's planted by the river. Its leaves shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper, but the ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff, which the wind drives away. So you and I are walking with the Lord. Oh, happy is the guy that rejects the false, focuses on the true, and walks in fellowship, and it takes time for your life to bear fruit. It's gonna happen overnight. Everybody wants it overnight over here. It's gonna take a little while, but you're planted. You're planted in a good place, and you're gonna bear the fruit in its season. Leaf isn't gonna wither. Your life's gonna be fruitful because you're in John 15. You're abiding in Jesus, and his life's flowing through you, and fruit takes time. Be patient for the fruit. The farmer is patient for the for the fruit full season. People want it quick. For they prophesied falsely, verse nine, in my name, and I have not sent them, saith the Lord. For thus saith the Lord, after seventy years, here you go, are accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you. So you guys are going be here for seventy years, false prophets say no, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return even unto this place. So wait for him to come, you know? Jeremiah is sending a letter, and the letter's being read to these captives. And don't be thinking you're gonna you're gonna head back because Hananiah said, yeah, within two years, you know, we're gonna overcome Nebbe and get all you guys back and everything. Jerusalem's gonna be it's gonna be great. You know? So don't fall into that. You're gonna be here for seventy years. And turn to Daniel chapter nine, about May. The first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes. So you got the Medes and the Persians. They in Daniel chapter five, they overcame Belteshazzar, the great grandson of Nebbe. And in one night, the Medes and the Persians overcame the Babylonians. Right? So this is a hundred years before the command goes forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. And so Ahasuerus, the seat of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel so Daniel's about 90 years old at this point. He's been there. We were just reading where the nobles, the princes, these young guys, these Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Daniel are like teenagers. Seventy years later, according to Jeremiah twenty five eleven through 13, Jeremiah twenty nine ten, and 14 we saw, gonna be there seventy years. So he said, I then understood by the books, the number of the years concerning which the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah. So he's reading a letter from Jeremiah. He's in Babylon and he's got a letter, an old letter from Jeremiah, the one that we're reading. Jeremiah is saying you guys are gonna be there for seventy years. The prophet that he would accomplish seventy years in the constellations of Jerusalem. And I set my face under the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. This guy wants to understand. He wants to know the time in which he's living. He wants to know God's timing. He wants to know, hey, God. What do you got cooking here? We've been here, like, seventy years. Now I can now I can really get people excited about fulfillment of prophecy. Right? It's time. So he's praying, fasting, prayer. And I prayed unto the lord, my god, and made my confession and said, oh lord, the great and awesome god keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him and to them that keep his commandments. We have sinned. So he's an intercessor. He's interceding on behalf of the nation right now. We, not just me, we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from the precepts and from thine ordinances. Neither have we hearken unto thy servants, the prophets who spoke in your name to our king and our princes and our fathers and all the people of the land. God's long suffering. Oh Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face as it is this day to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel that are near and that are far off through all the countries to which thou has driven them. So Lord drove the Jews all over the place. There's a group in captivity here, but those in Jerusalem rebelled and they got pressed all over the place. Oh Lord, to us belong confusion of faith in our kings and our princes and our fathers because we have sinned against thee. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him. Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he had set before us by his servants, the prophets. And so he goes on to intercede and and wanna know from the Lord, and the Lord begins to show him some more prophecies in Daniel nine twenty five through 27. Right? Begins to prophesy of Messiah that's gonna come. Right? Jesus is gonna come. And prophesying of the great tribulation period, which we're gonna see next week in Daniel I mean, in Jeremiah chapter 30, the time of Jacob's trouble. So back to where we're at. He says, I'll visit you and perform my good word toward you in in causing you to return even under this place, For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. So you're in a you're in a pickle. You're in a captivity. You're in a you're in a trial. You're in a fiery furnace, and the Lord's saying, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. And he says, now pray like Daniel's doing. Daniel's praying. Daniel's praying. We just read how Daniel continues to pray. Pray. Seek the mind of the Lord. Allow the Lord to speak to you. What's the Lord? What what here's your servant like Samuel. Lord, speak. Here's your servant Samuel. Your servant's listening. You know, speak, and you wait upon the lord. So prayer is not just a monologue you talking. Prayer is also you listening. Lord, speak. Your servant's listening. Speak. Allow god to speak to you. So I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord. Now you don't know God's thoughts. God has to reveal his thoughts to you. He says, as high as the heavens above the earth, so are my ways than your ways, and my ways past finding out. Mhmm. He's god. We're not. We go through a lot of trials. We can't figure out why. We don't know why. That's why we walk by faith, not by sight. We trust the lord. We know he's good. We fall back on these verses. God's good. All things are working together for good. That was the enemy meant for evil. God's working together for good. Right? And we fall back. He's god of love. He loves me. He sent his son to die for me. For god so loved me, he sent his only begotten son. Right? I know that he loved me. Proved it at the cross of Calvary. So I hang on to what I do know, and I have to wait for more information on what I don't know. But if I get to know God, a lot of the answers I'm looking for and the explanation I'm looking for doesn't really matter anymore because I'm getting to know God better through this trial. I'm getting to know him, not knowledge, not not just facts, information, but him. I'm getting to know him and his person, experiential knowledge. I'm getting to know Jesus. And so I told you what we're gonna do, so I'll give you a chance here. How has the Lord brought home this verse in your life, those of you that have meditated on this verse in a time of despair where the enemy is saying, you're going down. You're going down, man. You're not even a Christian. You you committed the impartnable sin. You're condemned. And the devil, even when the Lord is disciplining us, we know in Hebrews 12, whom the Lord loves, he chastens and he scourges every son. If you don't receive chastening, these guys have been disobedient to the Lord. Their captivity is a work of discipline, but God's saying, my discipline in your life is restorative. It's not punitive. I'm not gonna drive you further away from me. I'm here with you, and I'm gonna use this time to restore you. I'm gonna use this time to wean you from your infatuation with idols. I'm gonna give you so many idols in Babylon. You're gonna be so overwhelmed with the very center of Babylonian idolatry that by the time the seven years is up, you're sick and tired of the idols of the heathen. You're gonna come back to me. Right? I shall have no idols. Right? And so you're gonna get to know me better. So anybody wanna share how the Lord has used this verse in your life? I know the thoughts that I think towards you, thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end or a future and a hope? No? Alright. We'll keep going. Well, think about that. Think about how the Lord wants to use this verse in your life. In his thoughts, Psalm 40 verse five, Psalm a hundred and thirty nine seventeen and eighteen, innumerable thoughts in Psalm 40, more than all the stars of heaven, which have been illustrated as there's enough stars that or the sand by the sea. So you go to the beach and you put that sand through your hands, those granules, you look around you, there's sand everywhere. His good thoughts concerning you, the amount of granules of sand, we're told, are equivalent to the amount of stars in the sky, innumerable. And his good thoughts concerning you are numbered more than all the grains of sand or stars in heaven, innumerable. So God is he's busy thinking about you. He hasn't forgotten about you. Well, one one scripture that that is directly related to that that I really relate with is Romans ten nine and ten. Because for I know the plans I have for you, his plans are good. His plan is salvation for me. Yeah. And not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. That's in Christ. There he's quoting this one here. Exactly. Romans. Yeah. Yep. For in those days when you pray, you pray, Lord, if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart. Right. And so Your salvation encompasses that exactly Paul's used in this verse in regard to God's plans for us. Exactly. Exactly. That's good. That's good. Anybody else? George? I don't know if this really fits what you're trying to say. I remember seven years ago when I didn't know if I was gonna make it through the next day or not, but with all my drinking and stuff. In fact, I was so scared. I I wasn't walking with the lord then. I've only been I got I'm the prodigal son that come back here about a year or so ago. But I was so freaking scared that I he wouldn't make got my wheel made out. I wanna get a lot of thing in order because I didn't know if I'm gonna make it wake up the next day or not. I had no idea because I was drinking so much. And I didn't ask him for help. And this is where it it I'm kinda wondering here because I he just he just helped me. And I know that and I look at it now, I know I was going through some real tough times there. But unbeknownst to me, he was giving me hope, and I didn't see it. You understand what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. It was being I mean, I could you keep talking about divorces, though. I thought everything you said, I've checked all the boxes down for forty three years. That's way I was. Yeah. But I think it's just going through my alcohol. And like I said, I didn't I didn't ask him for any help or anything because I I wasn't really walking with him then, but it didn't it didn't dawn on me. You know? But I I think he still helped me through that. No. I know he did. I know he did. So Yeah. Well, what happens is when you're in that situation, like Paul, at the end of Romans seven, he he exclaims, oh, wretched man that I am. Who shall deliver me from this body of death? Yeah. So you're in that situation. You are you're wanting relief. You're wanting to be saved, basically. Romans seven describes a guy that saved his struggle between the flesh and the spirit. O regiment, who shall deliver me from this? And then he says in Romans eight one, there's now therefore no condemnation. So the condemnation that you're feeling of drinking the divorce, all those years, that condemnation upon you, you're the prodigal coming back, and it's the life of the spirit. You're yielding to the spirit now, and the devil wants to condemn. He wants to pounce on you and condemn you and show you hell and get you to give up and destroy your faith, but this verse here helps your faith. I know the thoughts that I think towards you, sayeth the lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil to bring you to a future and hope. So the lord is gonna I would also go to, like, say Philippians one six, like being confident of this very thing that he that has begun a good work in you, that he will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah. And so there's this confidence that we have in the Lord that, Lord, this work you've begun in me, you're gonna complete it. This work you've begun in my daughter, my children, my family, Lord, you're gonna complete it. You're faithful. I may be unfaithful, but you're faithful. And so in your life, now you can testify the faithfulness of God, his patience with you, that he kept you alive in spite of all the disobedience, and he used it to bring you the end of yourself, and you cried out like Rob. In Romans 10, you cried out you cried out unto the Lord, whosoever calls upon the name Lord shall be saved. Now you were saved before, but you're coming back to the lord. Yeah. And these are verses that help us come back and gain a confidence that the devil's a liar, and the devil's been lying to me lying to us. And God's intention all along to bring me to this place that I'm entering into, this future and this hope, this confident expectation in God that he's going to complete this work of salvation that he began long ago. I'm gonna be perfected in him. When I see him, I'm gonna know even as I am known. Right? So that's the I know I'm in. I know I'm in his will now because I really feel Satan is really like I shared with you guys before about my dreams, you know, how he affects me in my dreams and stuff, you know, and everything. So I know I know I'm in the right place. You stay in his word. You keep saying his word. Allow the holy spirit to speak to you. Yeah. You're you're going to grow and grow and grow and grow spiritually, and you're gonna outgrow a lot of those things. And so in the book of Galatians, it says, if any man be overtaken in fault, Galatians chapter six, If any man be overtaken in fault, you, spiritual restore, such one is spirit of meek, thus, you also be tempted. So when we see someone being overtaken by the fault, the objective is to restore that person back to fellowship with God and fellowship with with us. And we do it in meekness knowing that could be me. You know? Not dominating the self righteous, but in meekness knowing that we could fall from the same sort of temptation. So all of us are thankful for God's faithfulness, his faithfulness to get us through life, to get us through these things. And like I've illustrated many times before, the worldly people have the same problems we do. People that don't know Jesus in the world, they go through divorces. They have prodigal kids. They have cancers. They have homosexuals. They have pedophiles. They have all the stuff that we as human beings face. They have storms in life. They have reversals. They have children that die. The difference is for us is on the sea of life, Jesus is in our boat. Amen. He's asleep right there at the helm. There's storms. There's boats being tossed everywhere out on that Sea Of Galilee that night. And, lord, wake up or we perish. You know? Now these other people on those boats, they gotta rely on their gods who are impotent, who can't save them. But our Jesus is there in our boat with us, go helping us through the storm. That's the difference. We have someone to turn to. We have someone to cry out to. We have someone that can help us walk on water, you know, if we have enough faith to step out of the boat. So but there's no guarantee becoming a Christian that we're not gonna face the storms of life. You know? Our faith is gonna grow in the storms. Right? In fact, we're promised storms. Alright. Well, thank you, George. So then shall ye call upon me, verse 12, like Daniel did. Then shall ye call upon me, like George did, like we all do. And ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. So Jesus showed us the privilege of prayer in Matthew seven, ask, seek, not. Keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. Right? Don't give up. Keep asking, seeking, knocking, getting to know him. Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, would you give him a stone? Right? If he asks for a fish, he give him a serpent. He give him a scorpion if he ask for an egg. No. If you being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your heavenly father give the holy spirit to those that ask him? Lord, I need you. Lord, it's you I need. Lord, pour out your holy spirit upon me, Lord. Fill me to overflowing. Fill me with your love. Lord, I need you. Which of you? Your father's not gonna say no to that prayer. Amen. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. He says, and ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart, not half heartedly, all your heart. Daniel's desperate in chapter nine. He's desperate. He knows the nation needs help. It's that desperate prayer. It's that prayer when God has our full attention. Mhmm. How many of us try to pray and our phone goes off or telephone used to ring? I remember years ago, the telephone would ring and kids scream. Something happened. Interrupt your devotional time, time prayer in the word and all. The effectual fervent prayer. Fervent means hot. It's not a lukewarm prayer. You're hot. You're passionate. And I'll be found by you, saith the lord, and I will turn away your captivity, and I'll gather you. So he's saying, I'm gonna bring you out of that captivity. I'm gonna gather you from all nations and from all the places to which I have driven you, saith the Lord, and I'll bring you again into the place from which I caused you to be carried away. So you're gonna come back into the land. Nehemiah and Ezra is gonna rebuild. Zerubbabel's temple is gonna be rebuilt. Time of Christ, you know, Jesus is gonna come back. Herod's great temple, the temple is gonna be there. You guys are still a nation. Then in seventy AD, I'm gonna wipe you out. I'm gonna disperse you all over the globe again because of your disobedience. And then on 05/14/1948, I'm gonna regather you according to Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven. I'm gonna cause a nation that's dead to be born again. I'm gonna put the meat upon the bones. Right? Yeah. And 16,000,000 Jews around the world, about 7,000,000 in Israel, about six and a half million in America, and then some others scattered around. Because you have said, the Lord has raised us up prophets in Babylon, false prophets. Know that thus saith the Lord of the king that sits upon the throne of David and of all the people that dwell in this city and your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity. So here's the difference between us and them. There's some that stayed in Jerusalem. There's some that came into captivity. I like the pronouns in first Thessalonians five one through 11. Turn to first Thessalonians. First Thessalonians chapter five. But of the times of the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you, for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord that's next week, the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord is always the tribulation period. So comes as the thief in the night. For when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as a woman with child, and they shall not escape. The globalist, those in the tribulation period being tricked by the antichrist as a peacemaker, peace, peace, security, peace and security, no. You're being set up for the time of the day of the lord, sudden destruction. But ye, brethren, so you got those in Jerusalem, them, and then you have us us who have been taken, taken captive. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. You're aware. You're students of prophecy. You can see the tribulation period coming. You can see the globalist. You can see the devil. You can see the beast system. You're you're not you're not gonna be overtaken unaware. You're not you're not thinking the tribulation period's gonna be here, and it's gonna be like a a surprise to you. You could see it. It's coming. You see the birth pangs. You're the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others. Whole lot of people sleeping right now. Mhmm. Don't sleep, but let us watch and be sober minded like the 10 virgins. Right? The five wise. 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 and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not appointed us to wrath. We're not going through the tribulation period, gang. We're not appointed under wrath, 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. Wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one another even as you also do. Mhmm. And so the doctrine of the pre trib rapture in the previous chapter verses 15 through 18 is a doctrine of hope, a doctrine of hope that we're going to be taken out before they come under the wrath of god. He says, thus says the lord of hosts before I will send upon them the sword, the famine, the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs that cannot be eaten. They are so bad. Remember Jeremiah 24, the figs, the rotten and the good? You're the good ones. You're the good ones that have been taken. You've been taken out of the world. You've been taken, you know, under the lord. He came to take us. But the ones left behind, they're like rotten figs. And I'll persecute them with the sword and the famine with pestilence and deliver them to be removed to all kingdoms of the earth to be cursed and a horror, a hissing and a reproach among all the nations to which I have driven them. So reality check, the ones that rebelled, the ones that didn't come into captivity, the ones that weren't preserved, they're gonna perish because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the lord, which I sent to them by my servants, the prophets rising up early and sending them, but ye would not hear, sayeth the lord. So willful rebellion, you will not hear. You say you believe in god, you do well. The demons also believe and tremble, and intellectual consent is not a saving faith. What do you do with that knowledge? Does it bring in repentance, or is there an apostasy, a rebellion against God, a rebellion against the truth, a willful rebellion? In John three, they don't like the light. They love darkness. That's why they reject Jesus. They are in love with their darkness. They will not believe. Hear, therefore, the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab, the son of Kaia, and Zedekiah, the son of Messiah, who prophesy a lie unto you. So you've got Ahab who is a really wicked king of Israel. Right? You got Zedekiah who's a really wicked king of Judah, but that's not who these guys are. These are prophets that are named after those guys, false prophets, who prophesy a lie unto my name. Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes. So there's death ahead for these guys. And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah, who are in Babylon saying, the Lord make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire. Nebbe likes to roast people. Yeah. He likes to threaten people. If you don't bow down when the dulcimer and the sackbutt and the music starts playing and worship the 90 foot tall image that I placed there, you're gonna be put into the furnace. And Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, they say, oh, king, we're not careful how we answer you. Our god is able. Right? And he will deliver us. And if if he doesn't deliver us, we're still not gonna bow. And Nebbe's face went into a rage, contorted, heat the fire seven times hotter than ever before. And the guys that grabbed hold of Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, they bound them with ropes, and the guys that threw them in, they burned up. Mhmm. And the ropes burned up in the fire, but Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were free within the fire. Nebbe said, did we not throw in three, and yet there's a fourth? And he says, the son of man. Right? And so he likes to roast these guys. He's gonna curse these guys and roast them in the fire. Now sometimes we're gonna be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and we're gonna be in that fiery trial, and the Lord's gonna be in there with us. And there's other times where we're gonna be like Daniel where we're delivered from the fiery trial. We're gonna be raptured, right, from the tribulation period. But some of us are gonna go through the fiery trials. The nation of Israel is gonna go through the fiery trial, and one third remnants can be purified. They're gonna be purified and come through that fiery trial, and they're gonna come to faith. They're gonna come to faith in Jesus at the end of the tribulation period. Now, turn to Revelation chapter two because we've studied in the Hebrews 11 about the others. We've studied about being a conqueror and being more of a conqueror. Most of us wanna be conquerors. We don't wanna be more than a conqueror. We wanna conquer in this life. We wanna subdue kingdoms. We wanna shut the mouth of lions like Jeremiah I mean, like Daniel did in Daniel six. And we we don't wanna we don't wanna die. We don't wanna die a martyr. We we don't wanna suffer. That goes against our our flesh, our nature, but we see those in Revelation 12, they overcame the beast by the word of their testimony, the blood of the lamb they love not their lives unto death. There's a point where some of us will realize martyrdom, being a witness. Jesus said, be my witnesses, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the outermost parts of the earth. The word witness is a martyr, martyrs. Mhmm. And so being a martyr, dying for Jesus can be a good thing. You get the martyr's crown. You get the crown of life. So verse 12, and to the angel of the church of Pergamos now Pergamos is one of the seven churches, the book of Revelation. You know that. Jesus is the one that's writing. Jesus is the one that's saying this. Write these things, saith he who has the sharp sword with the two edges. I know your works and where you dwell, even where Satan's throne is. And thou hold fast my name and has not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas was my faithful martyr who was slain among you where Satan dwells. This is such an amazing passage of scripture. Debbie's gonna roast these false prophets, but Antipas was roasted in a brass bowl at the Temple Of Zeus. The Temple Of Zeus was there in Pergamos, and there was a brass bowl there. And they took Antipas, a faithful martyr of Jesus, and they put him inside of that brass bowl, and they roasted him. K. Now it's where Satan's throne dwells, where Satan's seat dwells. It was the seat of Satan, this place. K? The Temple Of Zeus. Now Adolf Hitler had an archaeologist that during World War two just prior to World War two, saw that the people there were taking all the marble and everything and stealing all the stuff there in Pergamos where this temple to Zeus was. And so he commissioned this architect excavation, and they took the seat of Satan. They took the Temple Of Zeus back to Nuremberg. And when Hitler made this great big huge stadium that we would have the they would have the Olympics in and all this light that went up and everything and the torches of their soldiers and all that, the place that he would do his speech was from the platform. They removed the brass bowl, but it's the very throne of Satan. Mhmm. Did you know that? Write that one down. Very throne of Satan. And he's given his speeches there, and it gets better. So there's very good YouTube video by the seven hundred Club on YouTube that you can watch. K? A nine minute one and an eighteen minute one. They do a good job of explaining this. But there's one other thing they they leave out. When Barack Hussein Obama ran for president and won the first time you guys already know where I'm going. Mhmm. He asked permission because he was like a rock star when he first won. In Germany, everyone was, like, into this guy till they found out what he's about. And he asked for permission to have his inauguration be at that very place that Hitler was, that seat of Satan, and they wouldn't let him. So do you know what the DNC did? You know who the DNC is. Right? Mhmm. Democratic. They made a Hollywood Yeah. Mock up a Hollywood mock up of the seat of Satan, Pergamus. And I believe it set a sent a message, particularly in the Democratic party, but even in the Republican party and that they don't do anything. They go along with all this. But he's basically sending the message of we don't care about the Judeo Christian ethic of America anymore. We're we serve Lucifer, and we're going to fundamentally transform America and that we're gonna take down Christianity. That's that's what stands in the way is Christianity. And we're gonna trans we're we're we're appealing to Lucifer for the help of demons, for the help of Lucifer, the help of Satan to fundamentally transform America, to break down the very fabric that makes America great. And and very few people caught it. Very few people caught the message of what he's trying to say there with his acceptance speech at the very seat of Satan. Right? Mhmm. Now Nebbe's gonna roast this guy, but Jesus Jesus chronicles Antipas, my faithful martyr who didn't deny my name. You know? That's who you and I are. We're the faithful who are not gonna deny his name no matter how much they try and curse us Amen. No matter how much they try and threaten us that you're gonna go into the bowl. You're gonna be burned. You're gonna you know, it doesn't matter. We're gonna be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. We're gonna be like Antipas and those that have gone before us, and that we're gonna be faithful until he comes for us. Alright. So I'm gonna roast you, you guys. Roast Ahab because they have committed villainy in Israel, and they have committed adultery with their neighbor's wives, and they have spoken lies, words of my name, which I have not commanded them, even I know, and I'm a witness, saith the lord. And so everything's naked and open for the eyes with whom we have to do. These are your guys' sins. This is what you guys have done, and I want justice. I want justice. I want these lawless ones. I want these lawless people to face this kind of justice. You know? There's a few people I know that I like to see roasted in a brass pig, you know, brass bowl, and Nebby's fire. You know? It'd be it'd be it'd be great. As I was describing yesterday, the equalizer, Jesus is the equalizer. You know, these people that are poor people like us that are preyed upon by these rich and these occultists and all that, we have no rights, and the rule of law is broken down, the judges grew up and all. You know, I I I would love for someone like Denzel to go after the head of the snake and put the fear of God in them. Put the fear of God in these people that they bleed just like we do. But they're the untouchables, aren't they? Until Jesus deals with them. Right? And they're doing according to Revelation seventeen seventeen. They're doing God's work. He's putting it in their hearts to set the stage. This wickedness, this evil is necessary from the standpoint of it's the end of humanity in the sense of human rule and government human government, and Jesus is coming again. He's king of kings and lord of lords, and he's the god man, fully god, fully man, and he's gonna rule and reign. We're gonna rule and reign with him, but this human experiment, except those days be short and no flesh should be saved, it's coming to an end. Men hearts failing them for fear of the things that are coming upon the earth. And so verse 24, thus shalt thou also speak. So this is a second letter to Shemaiah that nailed the might saying, thus speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel saying, because thou has sent letters in thy name unto all the people who are at Jerusalem and to Zephaniah, the son of Messiah, the priest, and to all the priests saying so this Shemalei guys has his rebuttal, and he's going to threaten Jeremiah. So this is his rebuttal to Jeremiah's letter. The Lord has made the priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest that you should be officers in the house of the Lord for every man that is mad or, you know, deranged. The these guys are unhinged and make of themself a prophet that thou should put him in prison in the stocks. And so he's basically undermining Jeremiah and saying that take take this Jeremiah from Anathoth and put him in stocks. Put him in prison. Stop him from saying this. And now therefore, why has thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth who makes himself a prophet to you? So you got he's saying you got all these mad prophets. You got all these deranged people. Jeremiah is deranged. He's a conspiracy theorist. He's a he's a birther. He thinks that Obama doesn't have a birth certificate that says he's here in America. You know? He's a nine eleven conspiracy theorist. He's a JFK conspiracy theorist. They always undermine you and marginalize you when you when you are approaching the truth and trying to expose them. So this is what he's doing. He's trying to discredit the messenger that of Jeremiah. So for therefore he sent unto us in Babylon saying this captivity, so Jeremiah's letter to the captives. For therefore he sent unto us Babylon saying this captivity is long. Yeah. Seventy years. Build yourselves houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them. And Zephaniah the priest, he's the high priest, read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. So Jeremiah is in Jerusalem. He's not one of those in captivity. And so this Shemaiah sent this letter back to be read and the high priest is reading it to Jeremiah. Here's Jeremiah's response. Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah saying, send all them of the captivity saying, thus saith the Lord concerning Shemaiah, the Ninelebathite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied unto you and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie, be not deceived. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, behold, I will punish Amaya, the nail of the mite, and his seed, so his whole family's gonna be wiped out. He shall not have a man to dwell among his people, neither shall he behold the good that I do for my people. You're not gonna see the good, saith the Lord, because he has taught rebellion against the lord. So rebellions as the sin of witchcraft. So be not many teachers, James three one says, because the judgment's gonna be, you know, far harsher, and those that have been given much, much is required. Knowledge brings responsibility. You and I are more responsible than people that don't have a bible, don't have a working knowledge of scripture that haven't been taught. We have a greater responsibility. So this so called prophet, he has a greater responsibility because he should know better. Amen. Right? Alright. Well, let's pray. Father, thank you for the time we can spend in your word tonight. Lord, I pray that as you stimulate us, Lord, I pray that we would wanna read more, study more. We'd wanna pray and listen as Daniel's praying and listening and asking you for direction in the times in which he is living. Lord, we're living in a precarious time, and Lord, we thank you for the times in which we're living, so very exciting and knowing that you're coming again. And as all the dots are being connected, Lord, as we're looking up knowing our redemption draws nigh, Lord, we pray that you would do exceedingly, abundantly above all we could ask or think according to your power that works in us, Lord, that we'd see you move and work in such a radical, powerful way in saving the people and saving the lost. Lord, we do pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We pray for your people, but we also pray for those in Iran and in Egypt and the mosque, Hezbollah, all these that are in darkness and a and a doctrine of Islam that keeps people bound and in darkness. We thank you that the glorious gospels permeated that that darkness in Iran, the fastest growing church there is. We thank you where sin abounds, Lord, grace does much more. Lord, we pray for a great awakening in Kitsap County and in the state of Washington, in America, and to the uttermost parts of the earth, Lord, that we could be a part of bringing people to faith, of seeing people call upon you while you're near. Time is short. Lord, help us to redeem the time. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen.

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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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